Cerberus was snoring again.
Most of the other cards didn't mind too much, but I think that was because most of them had been left further down in the book. I was stuck as the top card and when Cerberus started snoring I was the one who heard it the loudest.
I poked my sister, Watery, in the back, trying to wake her up enough for her to threaten the Guardian Beast.
"Honestly, Windy, why don't you just ask Silent to shut him up?" Watery rolled over again and added a few snores out of spite.
Hrumph.
She has obviously never tried to ask Silent to do anything. If you wake Silent for any reason she gets peevish and tries to send you away. I can understand doing that to humans, but a fellow card? It was rude.
Then a thought struck me. The next potential candidate for our master/mistress already possessed the cards. Everything was in place and ready, otherwise Yue wouldn't have left already. (Another event that Cerberus and most of the other cards had slept through. Jeez! Was I the only one that paid attention to anything?)
I turned to my best friend, Fly. "Want to see something…interesting?"
The bird arched an eyebrow at me. "Cerberus will bite your head off if you try anything."
"He's been fast asleep and snoring in my ear for ages! Besides, if he does then I won't have to listen to that awful noise any more! Ugh!"
"Sure, sure, let's see what you have in mind."
I grinned and used a tiny bit of my power to amplify the horrible snoring sound…and directed it right at the daughter. I could now tell that she was home alone and would be scared out of her wits by the strange sound. Fly and I giggled.
The daughter of course came to investigate, and she found the book easily. I stopped amplifying the snores as soon as she was in view, but she had found the book anyway. I realized that I may have messed things up…wasn't the son supposed to be the new master? I couldn't remember.
Still, there were ways that this might work out. I kept my fingers crossed. The girl looked at the seal and it popped open. Oh no. If this wasn't how it was meant to be I would be in a lot of trouble. Yue and Cerberus would give me the death glare…and that may not seem like much to some, but I was a delicate soul. Especially when it came to Yue. Maybe the girl would grow up to be really pretty, she would fall in love with Yue and he would fall in love with her and he'd forgive me.
Like that would happen.
Then the girl grabbed me and began sounding out my name. I shrugged. It sounded like an invocation to me! I winked one last time at Fly and then released my power. Within seconds the book was empty and all the other cards were scattered who knows where. Those selfish brats were probably still asleep anyway. They'd wake up Clow only knows where and be all alone without Windy to protect them from the huge horrible noises of the world. I was tired of being a buffer so Silent could get her "beauty sleep" anyway.
I tried to blow myself away too, but the girl had a death grip on me! I thought she would bend my card permanently! How embarrassing that would have been!
Cerberus woke up. Well, no, he was woken up by the power of Clow's book actually. Picked up by the base of the wings and then set down roughly. It was what he deserved for snoring in my ear all this time.
I listened to Cerberus and the new mistress, Sakura, talk for a bit. Yes, he accepted her without question. She had opened the seal after all, and that seemed to be enough magic for him. I rolled my eyes…that stuffed toy wannabe was so lazy!
I decided to shrug it off though. It wasn't my problem anymore unless the Mistress asked me to do something. For the first time ever I had the book all to myself. It was quiet. It was peaceful. I had room to stretch out if I wanted.
I fell into the best sleep ever, and that's all that matters about that day, really.