Holding the Hope

Chapter: 6

Hello everyone:waves happily: Here is chapter six:dances happily!: So read and enjoy! Have a great day! Later:waves happily!:

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Julian started to pick me up, one hand supporting my back and the other supporting me under my legs but my eyes fluttered opened tiredly "I can make it to the bed, don't worry." I said in a hushed tone, but as I stared to walk out of Julian's hug I stared to sway a bit. Julian quickly stepped forward and steadied me up and held onto my shoulder's so that I wouldn't fall to the ground.

"I'll help you to the bed." Julian said softly as he leaned down to help walk me to the bed.

"Okay. I don't feel like arguing right now." I said tiredly as I gazed towards the bed we were walking to.

Julian got me to the bed. I slipped under the covers and Julian tucked me in. I was tired and not really with it, I turned on my side to look at Julian tiredly, the covers pulled to my neck, "Julian..." I said quietly. He bent down to hear what I had to say.

"Thank...y...youu." I finished the last word slowly as I fell back to sleep. Julian stood up and walked to the door, stopped then turned around to the sleeping form of me. "Goodnight, and sweet dreams...Anne." Then he left, quietly shutting the door behind him.

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Eli and the rest of the group had made their way down to Eli's living room. Eli was sitting in an arm chair with a tall back to it, Sakura was sitting on the couch closest to the stairs and Tory sat beside Sakura. So it went Eli, Tory, Sakura.

Julian came down the stairs and made his way over to the couch with Tory and Sakura, he sat on Sakura's right if you were looking at her from behind.

After he got himself seated Tory turned towards Julian and asked him "So, how's she doing?"

Julian sighed and smiled "She's just very tired. I think the attack on Ruby took a toll on her."

Sakura sighed "I'm glad she's getting some rest. I hope...I hope that she won't let Ruby's getting hurt get to her, ya know. She don't know how to use her powers yet. It looks like, sometimes, she misses someone. I see it when she looks at Julian. She looks hurt and then happy, like she had someone and then lost that someone." Tory looked at his sister and Julian blinked.

"Sakura." said Tory like she accomplished something great.

She smiled at her big brother and turned fully to face him "We have to try and be there for her, you know. She's in an unknown place, away from friends,family and her home. WE have to help her through this and be there, as her friends, no one can accomplish something alone. Along the way they get some kind of help from someone."

"Yeah Sakura, your right. We have to help her through this." Julian said as he smiled at Sakura's kind words.

"Julian." Tory voiced to Julian's statement.

"Tory." Julian smiled and said his name gently and softly.

"She needs friend and one's that trust her, and accept her for her." Julian said softly and happily.

Tory sighed, he was out numbered, between his little sister and his best friend, what was he going to do. He rubbed the back of his head with his hand and said "Man, guess I have no choice, since the two of you are ganging together agaist me, I have to help out too. I mean what kind of big brother would I be if I didn't help out my sister's friends..right monster?" Tory winked and rubbed the top of Sakura's head affectionly.

"Thank you...Tory." Julian closed his eyes as he smiled, happy with his best friends decision to help them help Anne.

Eli looked to Julian and Sakura "We need to start her training and I need to release her powers, fully."

Sakura turned to look at Eli confused "Fully?" I thought she already had..."

Eli spoke, with a voice of knowing "She has a bit of her powers but I have to release them the rest of the way and I need yours and Yue's help. Ruby already helped some, now we just have to wake her the rest of the way."

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A week pasted after Eli and Ruby were attacked. It was a Saturday afternoon and the sun was shinning but it was chilly out.

"Anne, you have to let go of your anger and let out your guardian form. You must release yourself." Eli looked down at me, kneeling next to Yue and Sakura, who was on the other side of me. I looked to the ground and then back up at Eli.

I'm...afraid to get mad, it's not the way I am. It scares me." I gripped some of the cold grass and my gripped hands started to shake.

Yue looked down at me. "You weren't afraid when Ruby was hurt. You didn't even sense her pain, how could you, you don't care about her." You said montonely.

I looked up stuned and shocked. I knew Yue wasn't very much a people person but to act like this. I was surprised when he looked down at me and tackled the front of my shirt and then stood up held me at arms length. His grip wasn't tight though, just enough to hold me up. He looked at me seriously.

"You do not even care for our master, Sakura, do you?"

I was getting mad, though I didn't like the feeling, I couldn't help it. He was saying lies and questioning me about my feelings for Ruby and Sakura?

I went limp in his grip and gripped my hands together to form fists which shook with coming anger.

"I...I do like Sakura, and care for her. I care for Ruby, Julian and even Tory, Eli, Spinner, Kero,Night. I care about all my friends here, even you Yue." I sensed a burst of energy and used it and flipped out of Yue's grip and up over his head to land behind him. I stood there, my body standing straight but my head hung down and then my head shot up, mad, and determinded at the same time "I will not give up! I will protect All my friends, Guardian and human alike, because I care and because i cherish life! You have no rightto say I care nothing for Sakura and Ruby...No Right!" I screamed and then I started to glow a light blue color.

"Anne!" Sakura went to run towards me but Eli stopped her.

"Wait, she is waking up."

Wings started to sprout from my back, as gray as shadows. Skaura looked as I transformed.

"What do you mean wake up?"

"She is waking her fighting spirit."

"Fighting spirit." Sakura turned from looking at me and looked at Eli.

"Yes, unlike Yue, Anne has a fighting spirit, she is still Anne when she is in Guardian form but has fighting abilities. Even with her enhanced abilites she still needs training with fighting arts. Like Ruby, she does not have a false form that is seperate from her."

As Eli ended his explination both he and Skaura looked towards me, fully transformed.

Sakura broke out into a smile and started to run towards me.

"Anne!" Sakura jumped up and hugged me around my kneck.

"You did it! You released your fighting spirit." She then dropped from my kneck and laned on the ground. She turned towards Yue.

"Yue, you didn't have to be that mean to her." Skaura said with a stern expression on her face.

He walked up to her and she looked up at him "Mistress, it helped what I said, to release Anne's fighting spirit."

Sakura blinked at him "You mean you did that to release her? You didn't mean it?"

Yue took her chin between his forefinger and thumb "No Mistress." Sakura was happy, she hugged Yue.

Is he blushing? I thought as I watched Sakura hug him.

"And for the untenth time Yue, my name is Sakura not Mistress, when are you going to get it right?" She humphed and put her hands on her hips as she looked at him sternly.

"You are my mistress and..."

Sakura cut him off "Yeah, yeah." She sighed a bit annoyed but still happy.

Yue walked backwards a bit. "I'm transforming back to my borrowed form."

There were white wings that sprouted and covered Yue's body, when they disappeared Julian stood in Yue's place. I had a flash back of when Julian comforted me when Ruby had gotten hurt. I turned around and before I left I turned back to Eli, Sakura, and Julian. "I'm going to check on Ruby."

Sakura smiled and said "Okay. We'll be up."

I smiled back and said "Okay."

I walked to Ruby's balcony door window and decided to test out my new wings "Here we go." I flexed my wings and waited for the wind to pick up a bit more then jumped up and I was off.

I almost missed my target but bent my body down to land. As I landed my wings batted a bit as my feet touched Ruby's balcony floor. I walked to the door, opened it, walked in sideways and walked towards her bed.

"Anne!" Ruby pracically jumped off the bed and tackled me to the ground.

"Uff! Hi Ruby." I smiled as my wings disappeared in a flutter of white feathers that disappeared into the air.

She got up off me and helped me up to my feet. "So..." she said as she walked all the way around me "This is your Fighting Spirit...Cool!" She clasped her hands together and wiggled a bit in excitment. I smiled at her excitement and stopped.

I looked at Ruby and said in a bit of a lower voice and looked worried as I asked "Are you feeling better?"

Ruby smiled, somehow knowing I was worried and hugged me to her gently and said "Don't worry, it'll take more than that to keep Ruby Moon down." and she pulled away and winked at me and I smiled back up at her, glad she was doing better.

"Ruby, uhh does Sakura like Yue, as in love him, you know more than a friend?" Ruby looked at me with a look that said 'I-got-something-up-my-sleve' look.

"So, you noticed, did you."

I smiled "Yes., I did. I was thinking do you want to..."

Ruby finished my sentence for me, "...hook them up." saying this as she winked.

I looked at her, blinked then laughed out loud, "Yes, you read my mind."

Ruby walked up to me and put her arm around my kneck "Great minds think alike."

I smiled at her and replied "They sure do."

Ruby then bent down and smiled wide and got this gleam in her eyes, like she was planning or thinking about planning something.

"And you like a certain someone too. Don't think I haven't noticed you blushing when he's around." she winked as she finished.

I looked to the side and then back at Ruby and blushed "Yes, I do like someone."

"Julian." it was more like a statement than a question.

"Yes, but I dont' want to do or say anything." I said figeting with my hands.

"Why not?" Ruby asked as she placed her hands on her hips in question.

"Well, aren't him and Tory together?" I asked blushing a bit and still figeting with my hands.

Ruby just laughed out loud, hand holding her stomach and shaking as she did so. She stopped laughing and looked up at me.

"They are just good friends. You have no worries there." she winked as she said this.

"Come on, lets head to the kitchen, I'm starving." she said as she rubbed her growling stomach.

I tried to stop her and let her know that the others would be coming up here to check on her but she was out the door before I could say anything. When it came to food Ruby didn't mess around. I smiled and giggled as I followed her out the door and down to the kitchen.

On the way down to the kitchen I said to her "Okay but we're going to work on getting Sakura and Yue together." I said as we got a bit closer to the Kitchen.

Ruby grinned and said "Okay but when we're done Julian and you are next." she stopped half way to the refrigerator.

I stopped and blushed "Ruby!"

She laughed and ran the rest of the way to the Kitchen and through the swinging doors as I ran after her.

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Okay! that is it for chapter six :D I hope you all liked it :) Man! I'm trying to work on like three or four stories here and I have my lazy weeks when I just don't feel like doing nothing and then those are the weeks that I end up drawing all night and then sleeping most of the day away, lol :) So now I'm working on chapter seven for this story. Like always, I promise nothing, I don't know when I'll get chapter seven up, hopfully soon but who knows :shrugs: Have a great day and happy writings :) Toodles:waves happily:D