I got this chapter while I was asleep in Chemistry... I must say that I have pretty good dreams... XP Kehe!

Disclaimer: Well, CCS isn't mine... I'm not going to put this up anymore... it's too depressing...


Syaoran had a feeling that something was wrong with Kero-chan. He decided to discuss it during lunch at school to Sakura.

"What's wrong, Syaoran?"Sakura asked, concered. They were seated in a deserted part of the school compound. The girl had tied her hair with ribbons that day. 'Wow... she's so cute... Pink and white ribbons look really nice in her hair...'Syaoran thought dreamily. Sakura waved her hand in front of his face when he stopped responding. "Syaoran!"she called. The boy blinked. "Oh, Sakura... Sorry. I was.. uh.. distracted,"Syaoran mumbled, his cheeks tinged with red from embarrassment. Sakura giggled. "I can see that. So, what did you want to speak to me about?"she asked.

Syaoran bit his lip. "Um... Did something happen? While he was staying with you? Was he acting weird?"he asked. Sakura thought about it before shaking her head. "Nope! If anything's weird, his appetite grew! But other than that, he was normal... though his snores are definitely unusual! Why do you ask?"she said. Syaoran sighed.

"I don't know. Ever since he got the portion of his powers back, he stopped playing my games, meditates all the time and he even stopped eating snacks around the clock! Now he only eats them after he meditates for hours! I can't help but think that something's wrong with him! I thought he would be happy and boast about his powers to me all the time now that he's got some back, but he's even quieter than before!"Syaoran ranted.

He stopped in his tracks when Sakura laughed. "Why are you laughing?"he asked, confused. Sakura smiled up at him. "You don't show it much... but in truth, you really care about Kero-chan, don't you? It's so sweet!"she giggles. Syaoran turned even redder. "N-no! It-it's not like I care! I'm just worried that if something happens to him, I'm the one that's going to be responsible! S-so.."he stammered. Sakura merely raised her eyebrows at him. "I see. Okay,"she chuckled. Syaoran scowled.

~At Syaoran's apartment~

"Kero-chan, I came over to play!"Sakura exclaimed, entering Syaoran's room. The plush toy, who was hovering a few feet in the air above Syaoran's desk , glowing, turned around. "Sakura! Hey, it's good to see you. It's nearly been a week. How many cards have you collected since then, my second candidate?"Kero-chan said cheerfully, flying over to the pair, seated on Syaoran's bed. Sakura smiled at him. "Well, three: Song, Big and Cloud,"Sakura told him. Kero-chan looked impressed. "Wow... how did you get them?"he asked. Sakura rubbed the back of her neck. "I sealed Song when I was staying back late after school and I heard someone singing. It took me four tries though; it disappeared every time it heard me. Big, I got him at home. I used Firey to capture Cloud,"she explained.

"You're progressing real good, Sakura. Syaoran got four new cards too! Thunder, Freeze, Sand and Lock,"Kero-chan informed the astonished girl, who looked at Syaoran. "Woah, you didn't tell me that,"she said, impressed. Syaoran shrugged. He had known whenever Sakura got new cards because she always told him. Then Kero-chan caught his eye. The plush toy looked grim and sad again. Sakura seemes to have seen this as well and the pair exchanged worried glances.

"You noticed it, right?"Syaoran asked. The boy was walking her home. Sakura nodded. "But I'm sure if Kero-chan wanted us to know, he would've said. That's the kind of personality he has. So let's just wait until he comes out and tells us what's bothering him, okay?"she asked. Syaoran smiled at her gently. "Ah. I got it."

Suddenly, a presence hit their consciousness hard. A CLOW Card was near! And it was a really strong presence too. Syaoran and Sakura sprinted towards the presence's direction.

But the pair didn't get far as the ground rocked beneath their feet, endangering their run. "What's happening? An earthquake?"Sakura cried as she fell to the ground. Syaoran couldn't go to her due to the violent tremors. "No! It's the Earthy card!"he shouted. As the words left his lips, large, woody and pointed things shot up from the ground in various places of the town. They looked like giant roots of a tree, except for the fact that they were pointing upwards and ridiculously large.

"Why is it Kero-chan isn't here when we need him?"Sakura exclaimed as the ground beneath them rocked so hard that even Syaoran fell. Suddenly, a large wood bird thing shot up from the ground, a few feet away from Sakura. Syaoran gave a cry of alarm and reached for his sword. "RELEASE! FLOAT!"he heard her call. Sakura rose above the ground, sitting on top of a cushion-like balloon structure. Syaoran summoned Fly and flew up to her.

"Sakura, are you hurt?"he asked urgently as Sakura shook her head. "I'm fine. But what do we do about the CLOW Card? It doesn't look like we can use Windy or Watery to capture it. And I think using Firey might do more damage than good,"Sakura observed. Syaoran frowned at the scene. "Yes. And besides, you can't use an offensive card to defeat Earthy. But if we don't stop it soon, it's going to destroy the whole town!"he exclaimed.

The card then started to dive into the ground and shoot up so suddenly. There was no predicting where it would turn up next. Then it shot up near Sakura and Syaoran, who were forced to fly to different directions. The card seemed to be after Syaoran. Sakura floated slightly higher, clutching to her staff. Then, something hit her. She realised that there was no disturbances whatsoever near the trees. They were all safe. Quickly, she flew to Syaoran who was flying and dodging the card's attacks.

"Syaoran! I'll distract it! Use Wood!"Sakura shouted as she created a small disturabance and the card diverted it's attention on her. Syaoran hovered in the air anxiously. "Wood? Why?"he muttered. Then he came to the same conclusion as the girl. "I got it, Sakura,"he whispered and flew just behind the card's main body, which was still distrated by Sakura small attacks using Firey. He watched as Earthy shot missiles towards the small girl after she used Firey, watching her use the Shield card when the missiles nearly hit her.

Whipping out a card and his sword, he took a deep breath, hoping that his girl was right. "Trees, grow out your greens and come to my aid! WOOD!"he shouted. A circle of magic appeared in front of the bird-like structure's beak and branches came out of it, stretching and coiling around the card's main body. The card roared a little but soon stiffened. Sakura floated over to where Syaoran was and landed on the ground beside him. "Did you get it?"she asked breathlessly as they looked up hopefully. The large structure groaned and started to glow. Sakura quickly raised her staff.

"Return to the guise you were meant to be in! CLOW CARD!"she shouted and swung down the sword. Soon, the structure disappeared and Earthy flew towards them. Both Sakura and Syaoran caught it. They laughed. Syaoran gazed at her in relief. She was fine. He'd been afraid when the card got aggressive towards her. He pushed the card to into her hand. "Sakura, you can keep it. We both have 2 cards of the main elements now!"he said, grinning. Sakura looked abit surprised but smiled back. "Yep!"

They started to go back together but as they passed the park, something zipped towards them and hit Syaoran in the face so hard that the bay fell backwards. "Syaoran!"Sakura cried as she bent down to help him up. "Baka kozo! You guy's should've called me to come! You faced Earthy without me!"shouted the glowing creature in front of them. "Kerberos.. you.."Syaoran groaned as he stood up and glared at the glowing thing angrily. Sakura stared in horror. "Kero-chan, are you okay?"she gasped. Syaoran shot her a strange look. "Why aren't you asking me?"he muttered but a small smile pulled up at the corner of his lips.

The floating creature looked down at himself. "What, this? I'm fine. I just got back my full powers, that's all. I can now show you my cool true form!"he announced just as a magic circle appeared on the ground beneath him. Wings too large for him sprouted on Kero-chan's back and it closed up around him. Soon the wings opened back up to reveal a large lion wearing some sort of... armour, was it? He had this metal-like... thing covering the top of his head, a large ruby on his forehead.

Syaoran recognised the lion as Kerberos from his books on magic but still couldn't believe that it was the same glutton, loud-complainer of a plush toy in front of him. "Who... are you?"Sakura asked blankly. Kero-chan nearly slipped. "It's me! Kerberos!"he exclaimed. Sakura gasped, as though she couldn't believe it either. "EEEHHH? Kero-chan?"she half-shouted in surprise. The lion nodded. "Ah. It's thanks to you two,"he was saying but Sakura was distracted. "What's wrong?"Syaoran asked. At the same time, Kero-chan asked,"What is it?" Sakura was staring towards the park. Slowly she raised her arm and pointed. "Look. Isn't that Eriol?"she asked.

Eriol was lying face-down on the hard ground. He appeared to be unconscious as Sakura, Syaoran and Kero-chan ran over to him. "Eriol? Eriol, wake up!"Syaoran said, shaking his friend by the shoulders. "Maybe he's hurt somewhere,"Sakura suggested. Suddenly, the skies darkened and a strong gust of wind blew through the park. Sakura and Syaoran fought against the wind just to stay on the ground, forcing Syaoran to release the boy. Eriol started to glow and floated in the air as Syaoran and Sakura stared. "What's happening?"Sakura shouted against the strong wind. Syaoran's eyes widened as a magic circle and large wings appeared and closed around the unconscious boy.

"Could it be?"he gasped. As the wings reopened, the wind slowly died down. It revealed a teenager, around Toya's age perhaps, with silvery, long white hair wearing ceremonial white and light blue robes. He had silver eyes. Syaoran squared his shoulders and stared hard at the man. "Yue,"both Syaoran and Kerberos said grimly. Sakura stared in disbelief. "Yue? The Judge representing the Moon? The one you told me about? This is Yue? Eriol... is Yue?"Sakura whispered, her eyes fixed on the man in white.


Lol, cliche here. Vampires have gold eyes, this guy has silver eyes, so maybe I should create my own character with bronze eyes just for the fun of it! Oh, wait, that's Edward Cullen. ~disappointed~ But don't worry, vampire-haters, I won't have any vampires in this fanfic. I'm not such a huge fan of vampires myself, I just happen to find it really cute, this little fact. Anyhoo, I'll end this chapter here. Look forward to the next one if you want to know who becomes the true owner/Master or Mistress of the CLOW Cards. And maybe in the next chapter, I'll put up who currently holds what card, in case any of you are curious. Hopefully, I might be able to update the next chapter by the end of next week.