MMG Chapter 11
Yatsi-chan: Another update!! Oh yeah, a note: I made some new cards and modified some… hope anyone doesn't get angry
Disclaimers: I don't own anything… except my stories, my cute dog and my invented cards!
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"This is just because of fatigue" Yelan-sama said while looking concernedly at her son. She placed a wet cloth on his forehead then looked at Sakura. They were in Syaoran's apartment right now. Sakura had called for an ambulance but Yelan said that she can take care of her son more than the doctors at the hospital. After all, the Li matriarch is an expert in magic and herbal medicine. It wouldn't be hard to nurse her son.
"Thank goodness" Sakura sighed to herself, completely relieved. She had thought that Syaoran was keeping a secret about his disease like what usually happens in TV! It's really a blessing that his mother's their teacher. 'But why would he collapse like that? What had he been doing that would take so much energy?'
As if reading her mind, Yelan explained about her son's problem. "He had been trying to train more and more to catch the remaining cards. I may have had a fault there since I always told him that the honor of the clan depends on him." She sighed almost irritably then added, "If I remember correctly, there are only five cards left: the Truth, the Purity, the Return, the Nothing and the Void"
Sakura's head tilted to the right in confusion. "He had been training before but why did he collapse just now?"
"The remaining cards are almost the hardest to catch. The Truth and Purity, though very peaceful cards, will be very hard to find. They don't spread havoc thus they don't show themselves. They only appear when they see someone worthy.
"The main reason why he train so much is the Return. It is one of the most powerful cards and it is predicted that it will appear in two days time, when the night is mastered by the full moon. Syaoran is trying to find out how to seal it"
Yelan and Sakura looked at Syaoran who was silently sleeping on his bed. He was still shivering lightly but he looked less pale and sick now.
There was another question forming on the cherry blossom's mind. "What about the Nothing and Void card? Kero-chan didn't tell me anything about the Nothing and Void"
"Kero-chan?" She looked clueless for some moment but it was replaced with dawning understanding. "Oh… you mean Cerberus? He doesn't know anything about the Nothing and Void. Cerberus only knows about the cards locked inside the Clow book. The Void is the only negative card and because of this, it is as powerful as all positive cards combined. It was not placed inside the Clow book.
"On the other hand, the Nothing is a nameless card of unknown origin. Its existence is not certain but Clow had written that there is such card though he didn't say that he created it. It is still a big mystery" There was a glint in her eyes that nobody but herself understood.
There was silence as the card mistress contemplated about the things the Li matriarch said. She isn't the kind to worry but being the card mistress sometimes means over worrying. What would happen now? Two days from now? How will she be able to catch a card that is more powerful than all the cards combined?
"Sakura…" Syaoran's groan broke her out of her reverie. She looked worriedly at the slightly shivering boy who was muttering some more things she cannot hear.
Yelan-sensei, who was sitting on the chair beside the bed, looked quite surprised. The girl wanted to know why so she gathered all her courage to ask. "What is it, Li-sensei?"
The Li matriarch laughed softly and looked at Sakura with slightly twinkling eyes. "My son calls you by your first name?" Her former look of extreme sadness was slowly being replaced with interest. Did her son really open this much to the Card Mistress?
She nodded simply and innocently, finding nothing wrong with it.
As we may all know, Syaoran (the high and mighty) calls almost everyone with their last name. So if he calls anyone with their first name, that person is obviously special to him. But Yelan decided to keep this little fact from the naive cherry. If her son didn't tell her about this, then she doesn't have any right to say it.
"Oh! Li-sensei, I need to go home now." She said as she took her bag from a chair. Yelan nodded with a small smile. Sakura looked at Yelan and said, "Please tell Syaoran to take care of his self. I'll just help him with his training! Thank you, sensei"
She cheerfully went outside. Everything will be alright, Syaoran-kun.
Syaoran smiled in his sleep, as if hearing what she said.
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It had been days since the incident. Syaoran, after his health was restored, told Sakura that she shouldn't tell what happened to anyone. The cherry is extremely naïve most of the time but she understood him. He is neither the kind to tell others about his weaknesses nor the kind to show his moment of vulnerability.
"We'll just go to the music room, okay?" Tomoyo said to the obviously not-listening Sakura. She winked at Syaoran in an almost suggestive way. He can almost hear her say "Tell her while were gone… or else!"
The Daidouji heiress took hold of Eriol's arm and dragged him to the music room. He was still enjoying the sight of Syaoran blushing as he teased him! That's why she really needed to drag him all the way to the music room just to get him away the lovebirds.
When they arrived at the room, he immediately patted the chair and sat as she took her things from her bag. After getting the lyrics, she sat beside him.
"Before we start, why don't you try playing the song?" he asked her with a small smile. She stared at him, searching his face for his reason. Finding none, she shrugged and nodded. She placed her hands on the piano and started playing the first stanza.
Inwardly smiling, Eriol hoped that the girl would play some notes wrong so that he could touch her hand again…
She smiled as the song ended. "I'm amazing, right Eriol-sensei?" she laughed. Whenever they have a practice, he would teach her some of the notes before she sings the piece so she knows how to play it now by heart.
He chuckled at his cuteness. "Yes, you're quite a fast learner, my dear student"
She smiled and looked at him with smiling eyes. She tilted her head to the side and asked charmingly, "Won't you give your dear student a prize for being so diligent?" She stared at him as if he was Santa Claus and that he just promised a Christmas gift for her.
Oh please, Daidouji-san. Don't do this thing to me. Don't act so innocent and cute all of a sudden… I'm so tempted to do the thing your eyes are persuading me to do. Stop it, or else!
"Stop it? Or else what?" He was thinking too deeply that he didn't even notice that he spoke his last thought aloud.
A quick reddening of his cheeks brought her childishness to a stop. "Oh poor Eriol-kun… Are you being embarrassed?" she asked playfully, pinching his cheeks on the process.
"My dear student, please stop teasing your poor teacher. I'm merely telling you to stop being so pretty so we can start practicing the song" replied Eriol with a hint of light teasing.
"Hai, Eriol-sama" (Yes, master Eriol) she joked as she took the copy of the lyrics and opened it for both of them to see. "Now that you have seen me playing the piano, why don't you give me the pleasure of seeing you sing?"
"But…"
"You can't say No to a Daidouji, Hiiragizawa-san" she warned with her 'proud-of-my-heritage' mode. She really looked like her mother then, so strong and brave.
He sighed exasperatedly, knowing that this is a battle lost even before it started. She won't be the Daidouji heiress if she can't persuade everyone, including him.
"Sure, the Daidouji-hime" he replied with a little smile. It was very amusing for him seeing how a simple human could change the mood of the 'most powerful mage to the second power'.
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Yatsi-chan: I'll make the next one long to make up for this short one. The end is near… and it will be at my birthday! Thank you AngelEmCuti! Please keep reviewing!
Preview: The time for the beauty pageant has come! What will happen? What will happen to Syaoran and Sakura? Eriol and Tomoyo? When will the cards be sealed? And how?
The answers would be revealed in the next (and the other next) episode!
