Note: This is not my first attempt at fan fiction. I came up with this story in elementary school, and it finally came to me write a fan fiction.

Chapter 1

Sakura walked down the hall of the old house. She had told Li it was bad idea to sneak in here, but did he ever listen? Not really.

Stubborn, as usual. Sakura thought with a sigh, turning on her flashlight. If we're caught, we're in so much trouble. But he said he sensed something here… I might as well look.

"Li, where are you?" she called up the stairs. There was no answer. "Seriously, Li, this place is creeping me out!"

"Gosh, Sakura, could you be anymore of a wimp?" Li called from upstairs after a moment. "Come up here. I sense something around here, but I can't locate it."

Sakura gulped, and walked slowly up the stairs. They creaked as she stepped, sending a shiver down her spine. Once she reached the top, she saw Li slipping into one of the rooms. "Um… I'll check in here." Sakura called to him, walking into one of the other rooms.

There were a few candles scattered across the room, some old dusty books, etcetera… The place looked like some old history museum that recently was hit by a hurricane. Sakura sighed, and tried to focus. The sense was coming from in here… She smiled, knowing she had sensed it before Li had.

But where was it coming from, exactly? She looked around every corner of the room, looked at all the walls for secret passages, and flipped through almost all the books. Was it on the roof, maybe? No, it was coming from this exact room… She could feel it.

"Li, I sensed it in here." Sakura finally called to him, surrendering to the fact she needed help searching. Li peeked through the door.

"Hush." he urged, and looked away as if making sure there was nothing there. "Did you not hear that?"

Sakura gulped. "H-hear what?" she stammered as he ran off. She stood up, walking out of the room and looking down to the first floor. There was nothing there.

"Sakura, did you check down here earlier?" Li asked from downstairs.

"I thought I did." Sakura replied, running down the stairs to join him. The sense suddenly grew stronger… As if it had recently moved down here. "That wasn't here before." she whispered.

"Do you think it's a card?" Li asked, and Sakura detected a hint of excitement in his voice. Li was never excited about anything, she had thought.

"No, I don't think so. I would have a clearer sense of it. It's definitely different…" Her voice trailed off as she looked around the room. It was completely empty apart from a stand on the far side. And on the stand was a book in a glass case.

"That wasn't there before." Li and Sakura both whispered.

"Sakura, you look at it." Li said, turning around to look at her.

Since when does Li let me do anything? Sakura wondered, looking at him suspiciously. Li had definitely been acting weird ever since they got in here… Maybe it was something about the house. Maybe he was excited because they were soon going to leave, and he just didn't want to know what was with the book.

"Okay." Sakura answered at last, and she stepped forward. As she past, Li almost reached out as if to grab her. But he seemed to resist the powerful urge to do it himself and took a step back, looking away.

Sakura wondered when the book had gotten here during their time here. She hadn't been upstairs for more than twenty minutes before Li had seen something.

Had she? What time was it, anyways? Sakura couldn't remember, but she knew she had to hurry before her brother found out she was gone.

She took more cautious steps toward the glass case, staring at the book inside. As she approached, she realized there was a star on the cover, but nothing more. This couldn't be related to the cards, could it? Yet again, who knew?

Sakura sighed, taking the final step of approach. She stared at the book for a minute before reaching out to grab the case.

The case dissolved into thin air.

Li just watched from behind her. Sakura stared for another moment, still confused. Her arms were out in front of her, reaching, instinctively, for the book. She closed her hands into fists and stood there, looking nervously back at Li for some form of reassurance. He was staring there, looking like Li.

Here goes nothing. Sakura thought.

She put one arm back in place at her side, and reached out to open the book. She flipped the cover over, and the first page was blank. She flipped the page impatiently to see a title, "The Star." It sounded like a card, but Kero had never mentioned anything about a card called "The Star." So she flipped the title page.

There was a card there, with a picture of a girl. Sakura looked at it for a moment and blinked, confused.

The card began to glow. Li gasped from behind her, and she was suddenly blown across the room.

"Sakura…!" Li shouted as Sakura passed, flying toward the stairs. He reached out as if trying to stop her, but she had been blown away too fast. He tripped, and the light engulfed the room.

Sakura couldn't see into the room, and she hit the rail of the stairs with a hard thud. "Ah!" she shrieked, before falling to the floor. "Li!" she screamed.

"Are you okay?" he asked, emerging from the light, looking up at her. He had crawled out. The light was beginning to dim, and they both looked back.

There, standing in the room in front of the stand, the card on the floor ahead of her, was a girl. She had two braided strands of hair in front, short brown hair tucked carefully behind her ears. She slowly opened her eyes; they were a dark green. She was wearing a white dress that went past her feet, and she looked very confused at where she was.

"Who… Who is that?" Sakura managed to stutter to Li.

"A card…?" Li said, dumbfounded. He looked at Sakura, but she just shrugged and he turned back to the girl.

The girl went from confused to frightened the instant she saw them sitting there. "Where am I?" she asked, panicked. "Who are you people?"

Li sat up, staring at the girl. Sakura crawled up beside him. Did she come from the card? she wondered.

"Who are we? A better question would be, who are you?"

The girl looked at him, fear in her eyes. She spoke one word then, and Sakura knew instantly that she had just changed all of their lives. The three of them were suddenly thrown together, as if forced together, as if it was destined to be. The one word, her name, had something about it that Sakura found confusing, and at the same time made her know that something had led to this. She just wasn't sure what.

"Star." she replied quietly.

And Li knew it, too. Sakura looked at him, and saw a look on his face… A face that told her he knew. And this girl, Star, knew it, too. Something had forced her together.

Li suddenly smiled strangely.

Someone, not something, had forced them together. He looked at Sakura with that smile on his face. It was his smile to show he was better.

Sakura knew then. She had forced them together. Li was rubbing it in her face.

Something bad would come out of this.