Seal of Stars: Light of The Zodiac

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Her world was dark.

She laided there on what felt like solid ground but she knew if she looked she would see nothing but vast blackess. She stared into an endless void of nothingness waiting for something but not knowing what she waited for.

However this utter darkness didn't last. She blinked when the familliar object floated out of nowhere, falling in a flutter in front of her. Reaching out Kinomoto Sakura took hold of the lone Sakura Card as it slipped into her hand obediently.

-Windy?- Sakura gave the card a curious look.

More of her cards began to fall around her like pink and gold flower peddels dancing in the wind. Then the world changed as a different scene faded in.

Looking around Sakura found herself lying on the floor of a large room within an ancient yet well maintained looking temple. There were draps and tapestries hanging in the windows and ceiling and a long red carpet stretching from one end of the room to the other. The room was half lit only by the flames of tourches that lined the walls.

Sakura stood up slowly without realizing she made herself do that, her body seemed to be on autopilot in this dream. Though for the most part she lacked control of her body, the sorceress looked around at her surroundings, more so at the walls. She could make out old Geek texts and fading murals. Sadly she couldn't read a word of what was writen, however the pictures showed stories of powerful warring gods, massive armies of young men in armors fighting under each god, and what looked like the world surrounded by the many constillations hovering in the center of it all.

-What is all of this?- the brunette asked herself. -There's noway this could be a regular dream.-

Sakura jumped when two grand gold basins filled with fire suddenly jumped to life. She turned to see standing at the once darkened end of the room was a tall white marble bust of a woman in flowing robes atop a raised platform. In her left hand she held a staff longer than she was tall with a circular bird-like head ornament at the top and her right hand kept a large round sheild that came up to her waist standing strait at her side. At her feet were eighty-eight aesthetic coffers lined in three rising rows; out of seventy-six silver coffers, thirty took up the bottom row, and fourty-six coffers in the middle. At the top row were twelve gold coffers. Each box had pictures of mythical creatures and people engraved in them.

Suddenly, her magical circle flared to life and her Key of Sealing transformed into its wand form. This baffled Sakura to no end seeing as her body had called on her magic without her mind's concent. Her confusion didn't last long as she felt a powerful and consuming presence behind her. Without hesitation, Sakura felt her body whirl around to face the being who snuck up on her. Apperently her body seemed to know what her mind didn't.

Sakura found herself staring up at young man a little older looking than her in a flowing red cloak with a gold mantle decoratng his shoulders. Long red-orange hair fell strait down his back and over his shoulders. Equally red-orange eye stared down coldly in narrowed slits. Sakura could easily see blood-lust and love of battle in the mans eyes.

"You have something I require... Give it to me... " the newcomer ordered and began to reach for her. Sakura stepped back defensively.

Behind her, five of the dormant coffers on the bottom row, the ones that had a pegasus, a dragon, a swan, and woman wrapped in chains, and a phoenix, and the top twelve gold coffers with images of the zodiac began to creak open, bathing the room in pale blue, green, white, magneta, red, and gold respectively.

Before Sakura could see what was inside the boxes or put any thought into what was happening, the world around her blurred back into nothingness.