"What The Cards Were For"

A Card Captor Fanfiction

By: Bekah-chan

Rated PG (For blood

and minor violence)



Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*



Authors Notes: I think I forgot to write that they are in the park. Where else?



Chapter 2:

Sakura looked down at the now useless Thunder Card in her hand. What could she do?

She looked up again quickly, wondering why the monsters hadn't attacked yet. She could barely make out their menacing forms in the darkness, only charting their location by the light of the moon glinting off their claws. They just stood there on the other side of Syaoran's limp body, watching her. They seemed to be waiting for something. And suddenly she had a good guess as to what they were waiting for. Coming towards them and closing fast, Sakura could sense a great evil.

She had never felt anything like this before. Some of the cards had tried to kill her, but they just wanted to stay free. Yue had tried to defeat her, but he was just doing his job in the judgment. Even from the monsters that they had fought in the last few weeks she had not felt such an evil rage. But now that she was looking for it she could sense, in the monsters, the same kind of energy that was coming from the approaching entity. She also felt satisfaction from them, they had done their job, to incapacitate and/or disarm the Mistress of the Cards and her partner, then wait for the boss to arrive to finish them off. Or whatever this mass of boiling evil was planning on doing with her and Syaoran.

Sakura couldn't let that happen, she had to think of something she could do to save them both before the monsters' boss got there.

~Come on, Sakura!~Said a voice in her mind that sounded suspiciously like Li Syaoran, ~Think! What powers do you have without the Star wand?~ She closed her eyes in concentration. Well she could sense things, but she didn't really think that would help in this situation. And she had visions of what would happen sometimes in her dreams, which also didn't help in her current predicament. But she could think of anything else that she could do without her wand...... Wait! Sakura remembered something that Kero had told her a few weeks ago:

"The Star wand is only a physical representation of your power, Sakura. Eventually you should be able to open the Clow Cards *without* the wand."

Could she do it? Was it "Eventually" yet? She opened her eyes and looked down at Syaoran. Only one way to find out.

She closed her eyes again, concentrating as she tried to find the place in her mind that she went to whenever she opened a card. Usually it was an automatic thing for her, holding her Star wand instantly linked her to the pool of magic in her mind. She had never used the full power that was there, she somehow knew that it would be very dangerous to use all that magic at once. And using the Star wand only channeled a small amount. How could she get just enough to open the Thunder Card, and not burn herself out?

Soon she felt the card warm in her hand, but she didn't open her eyes, still concentrating.

~Open, open , open, please give me the power to save Syaoran~ she thought at the card desperately willing the card to obey. Sakura felt the card get warmer, then hot. ~Yes! It's working!~she thought.

Suddenly the weight of the card in her hand was gone. Had it opened? Sakura opened her eyes half expecting to see the Thunder Beast crouching in front of her, but she saw nothing. She looked down at her hand again, the card was gone.

"Where.... Where did it go?", she cried, almost sobbing. Clow Cards didn't just *disappear* did they? She looked around wildly, the Thunder Card was nowhere to be found. And she didn't have time to try and open another card without the Star wand. The evil presence she had sensed was almost there.

Still crying Sakura knelt next to Syaoran, "Come on, wake up Syaoran! We have to get out of here!" She somehow managed to get him to his feet, but he was still mostly unconscious. They broke into a stumbling run, Sakura supporting him with her uninjured arm.

She heard something pursuing them and glanced back. Oh, no! The monsters! They hadn't moved in so long that she had almost forgotten they were there. They weren't standing still now. Instead they were running after the former Card Captors, and the gap was swiftly closing.

Sakura tripped, her tired legs collapsing beneath her. As she tumbled to the ground she took Syaoran down with her, and the monsters were almost upon them. Sakura struggled to her feet and stood defensively in front of Syaoran. They would have to go through her fist (not that she thought it would be very hard at this point). It wasn't a very smart move, but it was all she could do.

~If only the Thunder Card had opened!~ Sakura gasped, the moment she had thought the word 'Thunder' something had sparked in her hands. She looked down to find blue electricity dancing across her palms.

She didn't take time to think just held up her hands palms toward the oncoming danger and yelled: "Thunder!"her voice seemed to echo as crackling bolts of lightning shot out of her hands toward her enemies. The lightning was ten times stronger than that which she had called with the Thunder Card, she could feel the power being drawn directly from the pool of magic in her mind and pouring out through her hands in an electric storm.

She saw the monsters disintegrate with shrill cries from the force of the blast, and tried to turn the power off unsuccessfully. She frantically attempted to close the connection to her magic and stop the lightning. But nothing she tried worked. Her magic just kept bleeding out of her hands like the blood was from her arm. The blackness of the night closed around her as she fainted.

To Be Continued ^_^