"What The Cards Were For"

A Card Captor Fanfiction

By: Bekah-chan

Rated: PG (for yet more

blood n' stuff)



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



Authors Notes: Hi, just wanted to explain something. The name I will be using for Sakura's father is: Kent. The reason for this is that I can't remember the dub name, and the original is to hard to spell. ^_^ I picked the name Kent at random, but if someone can tell me his name in the dub I'll be happy to change it. Have Fun! =)



Chapter 3:



Sakura's father had been very worried about her recently. She had seemed so tired the last few weeks, her exhaustion showing in her movements. He wondered why she wasn't getting the sleep she needed. The thought that drugs might be involved had briefly crossed his mind, but he couldn't believe it of Sakura, she had always been a good kid. So why wasn't she sleeping?

Kent climbed slowly up the stairs, he had been finishing up some work and now it was very late, past midnight. He decided to check on Sakura, maybe she was having nightmares about her mother again. For months after his beloved wife's death, his daughter had been plagued with terrible dreams of her mother dying over and over again. She would then wake-up screaming and it would take him hours to get her calmed down. As she got older Sakura's nightmares had slowly become less frequent. But maybe they had started up again.

Kent slowly walked down the hall to Sakura's room and opened her door. He tried to be quiet, if she was asleep he didn't want to wake her, she needed the rest. He eased open the door, and the light from the hall feel onto Sakura's bed...... Sakura's *empty* bed! Where was she!?!



Meanwhile the current occupant of the room had also been worried about Sakura. She had been gone over 2 hours, after all, and she only had that baka kid, Li to protect her. Kero was sure something had gone wrong. So, when the door to Sakura's room opened, he shot up in the air and started talking. Without checking to see who it was, or remembering that she usually came in through the window after late night battles like this one.

"Sakura! Your Back! I was so worried! You shouldn't make me worry like that, I couldn't concentrate on my game at all! Was it another monster? Did you kill it? Where's the kid?"

He paused in his triad to let Sakura answer his questions, and noticed something different about her. For one thing she was a lot taller. For another, and he couldn't see this very clearly since the light was shining from behind Sakura, but her shoulders seemed a bit broader than they should be. Plus the figure was making these strange gaspy noises. It suddenly occurred to Kero that this might *not* be Sakura.

"Umm," he mumbled, "Your not Sakura, are you?"

"No I'm not", answered the figure as it keeled over backwards in a dead faint. (AN: Like father, Like daughter, no? ^_^)

Kero looked at Sakura's dad sprawled on the hallway carpet. Well, he would have had to find out sooner or later, right? Right! That was the story he was sticking to.



Somewhere in Penguin Park:

Sakura moaned as she awakened, she felt *terrible*! What had happened to her to make her feel this bad? She thought a moment. Oh, ya! The monsters. Were they gone? She sat up painfully trying to be alert. All that was left of their foes were a piles of ashes. Good, she had remembered that part right. But why hadn't her and Syaoran been torn to shreds, or whatever, by the monsters' 'boss'? She remembered sensing it very close before her consciousness went out like a light.

She tried to stretch her magical senses out to search for it. She could not sense it anywhere nearby, but her range was severely lessened by the draining of her magic. Which reminded her.

Sakura looked down at her hands. They seemed remarkably alright, except for a few scorch marks, for hands that had flung lightning a few hours before. Had it been a few hours? It felt like it. She looked at her watch, barely able to make out the numbers in the dark. Yes they had been here for hours, they had left her house at 10:30pm and it was now almost 2am. That was a long time, Kero was probably worried.

She stood on wobbly legs using her injured hands gingerly to help push her off the ground. It was then that she noticed the surprising lack of pain from her right arm. It couldn't be better already, could it? Looking down at the damaged limb she saw that no, it wasn't any better, it was worse. In the hour or more that she had been out of it, the bleeding had stopped, mostly. But more worrying was the sickly greenish cast of the skin surrounding the injury. She distantly decided that the poison, or whatever, from the monsters claws, must have numbed some of the nerves in her arm, and that the numbness was spreading up her arm. How much of the poison was already in her system? She thought it might be deadly, she was feeling really sick. And if this little (well little, comparatively) scratch could be this bad in such a short period of time, what about Syaoran?!

Frantically Sakura looked around for Li Syaoran. Where? There he was! She hurried over to him. Before she even collapsed beside him she could tell he was in bad shape. His breathing was shallow and ragged, his skin was burning to the touch, and the wounds going all the way down his back were still oozing blood and (AN: Eeeewww!) puss.

She had to get him out of here! But where to take him? The hospital was out Sakura was sure that the toxin was magical in origin. She would have to take him to her house. She hoped that her dad and brother would be asleep when they got there, but she didn't have a choice! They had to go somewhere and Kero was the only 'person' she could think of who might know the nature of this poison and how to threat it.

Okay, so she was taking Syaoran to her house. Now, how to get him there?

To Be Continued ^_^