Early in the morning all of class 7-9 was gathered next to the gate of Kiliko Jr. High. Instead of the usual uniform, everyone was wearing tan, button down shirts and light brown cargo shorts. Syaoran pushed through the crowd looking for Sakura, but found Tomoyo instead.
"Daidouji, have you seen Sakura?"
"No, I was looking for her myself. It's not like Sakura to be late for a field trip, and she seemed excited about this one too."
Syaoran thought back to the day before hand. Sakura had seemed exited about their field trip. They were to go to see how archeologists worked at real ruins the next two days. At first Syaoran thought it was because she knew how much he liked history and such things, but she said that there was something particularly special about this trip. He asked what, but she just told him that it would be a surprise.
"Any idea what she meant by that?"
"I have no idea."
Syaoran continued trying to figure it out, but his thoughts were interrupted by another conversation.
"Hey any idea who our chaperone is supposed to be?"
"I heard he's supposed to be a real archeologist who works on the site."
"Your crazy, it's someone's parent. Gotta be."
"Yea, how are they supposed to get a real archeologist?"
"Yea, no kidding."
"Hey, is that them?" one of the boys in the group pointed at a car pulling up next to the school. The car parked next to the gate, and the passenger side door opened, followed by the driver's. A young girl stepped out of the passenger side wearing the same outfit as her class mates.
"There she is." Tomoyo waved at Sakura who smiled as she saw her friends. Syaoran's cheeks turned red when he saw Fujitaka get out with her and lock the car. That was the surprise Sakura had been talking about, her father was the chaperone.
"Morning Syaoran, morning Tomoyo."
"Morning."
"Goon morning. So this is the surprise you were talking about."
With the arrival of the chaperone and the last of the class, the children all gathered onto the bus. Sakura decided to sit with her dad, so Syaoran and Tomoyo had to sit by themselves. Tomoyo noticed how nervous Syaoran was and giggled. "I haven't seen you like this since you were trying to tell Sakura your feelings for her."
"I-I'm not…"
Tomoyo giggled again. "Li, you can relax. Sakura's dad likes you."
"But I wonder if he would feel the same if he knew Sakura and I were…"
"I'm sure he would be fine with it, because that is the kind of person Mr. Kinomoto is."

"Li, did Sakura ever tell you about her mother?"
"Huh? Just that she died a long time ago. Why?"
"My mother told me once, that when Sakura's father married her mother, her entire family was against it. Sakura's mother and my mother were cousins, and no one was against it more than her. But despite this, he was the one she chose, and no amount of complaining and arguing could change that. I'm sure that Mr. Kinomoto would remember this, and not wish to put Sakura through what her mother went through, and would also trust Sakura's judgment. So even if he were to find out, I'm sure it would not make a difference."

When they got to the digging site, the class was sent to find their rooms in a large cabin to put their stuff away. Once everyone was settled in, they were gathered together at this large, sandbox looking pit. They were told to look around until they found a stone tablet. Once they found their tablets they would use these books that had been set out for them to try to decipher what was written on them. They could also have lunch while they did so. Once they were done, they would have to show it to one of the archeologists. It took Sakura a while to find a tablet, but then she managed to find on with not much on it. Sakura looked around and saw Syaoran was already hard at work on his town tablet, and decided to join him. She sat down next to him and saw that his tablet had a lot more on it.
"It must be hard huh?"
"Yea, but I'm used to it."
"You mean from learning Japanese?"
"That, and a lot of my books aren't written in Chinese or Japanese. For instance, a lot of the books Clow left behind were written in English. Not only that, but I've got a lot of other books written in various other languages."
"Amazing, oh but I guess we should get back to work."
"I'm done."
"Already?"
"May I see it then?" Sakura and Syaoran were startled when Fujitaka suddenly appeared behind them. "Syaoran moved like a robot as he handed the stone tablet and the sheet of paper, on which he had written the translation, over to Fujitaka. Fujitaka looked over Syaoran's work carefully, and when he was done, looked at him and smiled. "Correct."
"Amazing! Syaoran, you really are good at these things."
"And how are you doing?"
"Ehe, it's not as easy as it looks."
"I'm sure you can do it. and if you need help, just ask Syaoran here." Syaoran's face got even redder than before. Fujitaka walked away to check on the other students' progress. Syaoran calmed himself down while Sakura got back to work.

It took Sakura a good half hour to finish translating what was written on the stone tablet. The entire time, Sakura noticed, Syaoran seemed kind of detached. She did not know why, but he kept looking over at the ruins. This continued the rest of the night, and kept Sakura from falling asleep. She decided to go into the lobby to see if he was still awake. Sure enough, Syaoran was out on the balcony staring at the ruins.
"Syaoran, is everything alright?"
"Huh? Oh, it's you Sakura."
"You've been staring at them all day, is something wrong?"
"Can't you feel it?"
"Hoe?"
"Ever since this afternoon I've felt a presence coming from the ruins. It feels like the presence the Zodiac Animals had."
"Oh, you're right I do feel it… That reminds me. Kero mentioned the other day how the Dragons were all extinct. We found the other 11 Animals already, so how is it there is another?"
"Hm, it could be that they went into hiding, or maybe there is another animal that has taken the place of the Dragon. What ever it is, it seems to have a connection to those ruins. Why don't you ask your father about it tomorrow? Ask him if they've found anything written about Dragons there."
"Alright, in the mean time, we should try and get some sleep."
"Alright, good night."
"Good night."

The next day, class 7-9 was to take a tour of the ruins. Sakura figured this would be a good time to ask her dad about the Dragons. Sakura pushed her way to the front where her father and the other leaders were.
"Um, dad…"
"Yes Sakura?"
"I was wondering, do you know if anything has been found about dragons?"
"Dragons?"
"Yes."
Fujitaka thought about it a moment, then gave his daughter a thoughtful look. "Tell Syaoran, that if he want's to know, he should come and ask me himself."
"Hoe? B-but… OK." Sakura made her way to the back of the line to where Tomoyo and Syaoran were.
"So what did he say?"
"He said, if you want to know, you should ask him yourself." Syaoran was at a loss. On one hand, he could barely speak when he was in Fujitaka's presence, but on the other, he knew how much this mission meant to Sakura. He was also somewhat curious. Syaoran pushed his way up to where Fujitaka was and fought to keep himself calm.
"U-um…"
"So, you wanted to know about the dragons?"
"Y-yes."
Fujitaka gave Syaoran a thoughtful look. "Would you like to see it?"
"Huh?"
"The room with the dragons."
"Is that alright?"
Fujitaka looked over to one of his teammates and asked if he could take over for him. He agreed and said he would send for them when it was time to leave.

Fujitaka took Syaoran to a room in the ruins that even looked like it was related to dragons. Aside from the usual hieroglyphics, there were stone statues of them everywhere. Fujitaka handed Syaoran a very old looking book.
"Here."
"Huh, what is…"
"If you would, please decipher these hieroglyphics."
"Uh…"
"You wanted to know about the dragons didn't you? My team has'nt gotten around to deciphering this room yet, so if you want to know, you will have to do it yourself."
"But, I'm not…"
"It's alright. I'm sure you can do it."

A couple of hours passed, and finally someone came to let them know that it was time to leave.
"Oh, it's that time already? Sorry Syaoran, it looks like you did not get to finish."
"That's alright. Um, here, thank you."
"That's alright, you can keep it."
"B-but don't you need it?"
"I have another one back home. You can keep that one." Syaoran and Fujitaka went back to the busses to head home. Syaoran joined Sakura and Tomoyo and told them what happened.
"So did you find anything?"
"No, I ran out of time. But there is defiantly a connection between those ruins and the Zodiac Legend. There was also something about a summoning, but I didn't get to find out more."
"Perhaps you are supposed to summon the dragon with the Zodiac Power."
"That's gotta be it! If we can figure out how to summon the Dragon, we can make it so that that woman can't!"
"But the only way we can do that is for Li to finish what he was doing in the ruins."
"Yea, they probably won't let a bunch of kids in. even if we told them why I'm sure they wouldn't believe us."
"That's why, we won't ask."
"Hoe?"
"I take it you have a plan?"
"I do. We'll come back tonight. We can use THE THROUGH card to get in. Sakura's father gave me his book, and it shouldn't take long for me to finish."
"I'll have Kero and Yue come two incase that woman shows up."
"And I'll provide the costume!"
T-Tomoyo."