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The Missing Worlds - Middle Earth I
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: This story is set in the uncertain period after Piffle World, but before Recourt; in other words, in the same never-neverland that the second season of the anime mostly took place in. This means that Fai has not yet learned to whistle, Syaoran is still the original Syaoran, and nobody knows anything about Kurogane's childhood.

Summary: Ancient China as it never was.

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More Author's Notes:

The second world they visit is China - or more specifically, "Ancient China as it Never Was," based on the series of books by author Barry Hughart starting with Bridge of Birds.

The colorful character of Li Kao as well as the setting of China and much of the style of storytelling is borrowed from Hughart's books. If you liked Li Kao and would like to read more about him, be sure to check out his and Number Ten Ox's adventures in Bridge of Birds. If you didn't like him… well, read them anyway, because they're much better than my poor attempts at imitation!

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The Missing Worlds - Water World III
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: This story is set in the uncertain period after Piffle World, but before Recourt; in other words, in the same never-neverland that the second season of the anime mostly took place in. This means that Fai has not yet learned to whistle, Syaoran is still the original Syaoran, and nobody knows anything about Kurogane's childhofod.

Summary: The travelers face the evil at the heart of the vortex, and what kind of a lame power is Heart, anyway?

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Author's Notes: Yeah, Princess Tideflower is eighteen; Syaoran just jumped to conclusions about her age. And yes, that means that this version of Sakura is kind of a derp. Well, when you're part fish, you do the best you can.

More translation notes: the word Fai uses is actually a piece of advanced Celesian magical terminology. It refers to a specific concept: that of the magical leakage which occurs when a caster has insufficient control over his spell, with the connotation that the uncontrolled magic may gain a sort of sentience of its own and the implied warning that it may not necessarily be friendly to the caster. But since Mokona didn't have the space to translate that into a single word, and neither Kurogane nor Syaoran's language have an equivalent term, it got translated as 'emanations,' and sounded blurry in Syaoran's ears as he couldn't fully grasp the concept Fai was getting at. 'Manifestations' would have been another possible translation.

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Title: The Heralds of the White God chapter 13 - Things Seen and Unseen
Rating: M
Warnings: Violence this chapter.
Summary: In which Kurogane and Syaoran encounter an ambush in the desert, and Sakura begins to see glimpses of the truth behind the veil.

Author's note: Kendappa's comment about dancing is a passing reference to the legend of Amaterasu, whom she supposedly incarnates. When the sun goddess hid in a cave, plunging the world into darkness, the other gods arranged a massive party outside her cave, including the Kami of Merriment, who performed a raunchy dance on top of a washtub in order to try to lure Amaterasu out again.

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Title: The Heralds of the White God chapter 12 - Homesick
Rating: M
Warnings: Sexual content in this chapter.
Summary: In which Sakura wishes she could return home, and Fai wishes he never had to.

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Title: The Heralds of the White God chapter 11 - The Space Between The Stars
Rating: M
Warnings: A severe lack of Fai in this chapter. Sorry about that.
Summary: In which Kurogane climbs a mountain, Amaterasu is given a warning, and Sakura touches the stars for the first time.

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Title: The Heralds of the White God chapter 10 - Trust My Words
Rating: M
Warnings: An excess of philosophy in the last scene, but not much else.
Summary: In which Kurogane undertakes an unexpected and entirely unwanted journey, and Fei Wong Reed reveals the method to his madness.

Author's Notes: Kozelorug is an entirely made-up word, formed by taking the Belarusian word for "goat" and a Russian compound meaning "unicorn." I didn't really want to call them kirin, which they're not, nor talbuk, even if they totally are.

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Title: The Heralds of the White God chapter 9 - Heir to the Throne of Ceres
Rating: M
Warnings: Angst, argumentation.
Summary: In which Syaoran takes a stand, and Fai is nominated for an unexpected new job.

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The Missing Worlds - Water World part 1
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: This story is set in the uncertain period after Piffle World, but before Recourt; in other words, in the same never-neverland that the second season of the anime mostly took place in. This means that Fai has not yet learned to whistle, Syaoran is still the original Syaoran, and nobody knows anything about Kurogane's childhood.

Summary: Everyone gets very wet, and Syaoran makes a new friend.

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( Human head, neck, arms and shoulders, with a torso patterned with copper-colored scales blending into a long, powerful tail like a dolphin's. )

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Author's Notes:
The water world is modeled on the world of Chelestra, the third world in the Death Gate Cycle. In that world, the entire world was a globe of water (no rock core at all, unlike this world) with floating seasuns and seamoons to provide light and heat and a solid place for people to live. A pocket of air surrounded the seamoons, but the water itself of that world was also breathable. The protagonist of that series, when he got dumped into that world, experienced a moment of OMGWTFBBQ similar to Syaoran's. XD

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This post will host all of my 100 word drabbles in the TRC fandom, since it seems silly to give them each their own post.

( Unhelpful )

Title: Dirty

( Dirty )

( Sunshine )

( Sacrifices )

( Blocks )

( Blessings )

( Synthesis )~end.

Title: Gifts
Word count: 100
Warnings: Crack.

( Thank you for the Christmas gift. )

Sakura

~end.

Title: Objection!
Word count: 100
Author's Notes: This was written for the anonymous kinkmeme. The prompt was "Tomoyo, the maid of honor at Sakura and Shaoran's wedding, shouted "I object!" when it got to the part where the priest asks if there's anyone who has a problem with this union."

( Sakura-chan, how could you break my heart this way? )

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Title: Twisted
Word count: 100
Pairing: Seishirou/Subaru (TRC)

( Closer... almost there... )

~end.

Title: Family Planning
Warnings: Mpreg, black humor
Word Count: 200
Author's Notes: This was based off a dream I had. When i woke up, I found myself wondering: why does this never, ever happen in fanfic?

( Apparently in this world it's common for men to bear the babies. )

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Title: Banter
Warnings: End-of-series spoilers, language
Word Count: 100

( Big words from a little boy. )

~end.

Title: Composure
Warnings: Ceres arc spoilers.
Word Count: 100

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Title: Contract
Warnings: Clow Arc spoilers.
Word Count: 100

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Title: The Missing Worlds - Prologue
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: This story is set in the uncertain period after Piffle World, but before Recourt; in other words, in the same never-neverland that the second season of the anime mostly took place in. This means that Fai has not yet learned to whistle, Syaoran is still the original Syaoran, and nobody knows anything about Kurogane's childhood.
Summary: While searching for Sakura's feathers, the travelers face a dilemma: in order to move on to the next world, they will have to leave one of their companions behind. What will they find in the new worlds now open to them, and what will happen to the one who stays behind and waits…?
Pairing: Although this fic has both Syaoran/Sakura and Kurogane/Fai (in later chapters,) it is not intended to be a pairing-centric fic; although the relationships are part of the story, they are not the main focus of it!

( Did any of you ever wonder why it is that you have never encountered alternate versions of yourselves? )

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Author's Notes:
This chronicle of the worlds that they pass through is referred to as the "missing" worlds for two reasons; because they are a collection of worlds that are 'missing' from the original series, like lost chapters, and also because they are worlds they go through while one or another member of their party is also 'missing.'

This is a fic I have had planned for a while, but other projects always got in the way of actually writing this. I was inspired for this idea this because I was surprised, when reading through fics in the fandom, at how few stories actually have the characters meet alternate versions of themselves in the worlds they travel through. There are a few, but I would have expected more, and most of them use the alter-selves as a plot device rather than exploring them in depth. So I wanted to write a story that plays with the idea of how the characters might have turned out in alternate dimensions, and how the others in the party would react upon meeting them (without the usual 'meeting-myself' awkardness getting in the way!)

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