"What The Cards Were For"

A Card Captor Fanfiction

By: Bekah-chan

Rated: PG ( for blood)



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



Authors Notes: Just wanted to remind everyone that Madison supplies Sakura and Kero with the latest in cordless communication.



Chapter 4:

Sakura tried to think through her exhaustion. How would she get Syaoran to her house? After awhile she decided that the first thing she needed to do was find her wand. So she walked back the way they had come, skirting the ashes, and found the Star wand a surprisingly short distance away. They hadn't really gotten very far before she tripped.

She painfully picked up her wand using left hand, her right arm wasn't good for much at this point. As she turned to walk back to Syaoran, a glint caught her eye. She looked closer and noticed that it was Syaoran's sword catching the light. She couldn't just leave that lying around, now could she? So, she somehow managed to carry both the wand and sword back to Syaoran, collapsing beside him again.

Great! How was she going to get him home if she couldn't walk 10 feet herself!?! Sakura took a deep breath, ~I can do this~, she thought, ~I can find a way! I WILL NOT allow Li Syaoran to die on me!~

Okay, options. She had her cell phone, she could call Yukito and have Yue come help her. No, his place was farther from her house than the park was, she needed him to start toward her house so he could help her figure a way to save Syaoran when they got there. She could call Kero, but he used her energy to transform, and she didn't think that would work well right now. Well it looked like the only option was to use a card then, if she even could.

Sakura closed her eyes and looked inward, yes there was just the tiniest bit of magic left. It had stopped draining when she fell unconscious. There was *maybe* enough to open one card, with the Star wand, but that was it. She had to choose well. Let's see, the Fly Card? No, she couldn't carry Syaoran, she could barely carry his sword! The Move Card? Again no, it was to unstable. Then it hit her: The Float Card! Of course!

Now to see if she could open it, first she would have to get it. She concentrated, thinking of the Clow Book at home in her room. She thought of what the card looked like, slowly raised her hand and *willed* it to be there. Her hand started shaking, it had never been this difficult to call a card to her before. She tried harder, it would come! She was the Mistress of the Cards! Just a little more........ almost......... got it!

Sakura opened her eyes to see the Float Card resting peacefully in her outstretched hand. Suddenly she felt faint again, dizzy. She dropped her head to her knees and tried to breath deeply until it passed.

After a few minutes, when she felt a little better, she sat up slowly. Now would come the hard part. She had to open it.

She placed Syaoran's sword beside him, and stood again, unsteadily. She put the wand under her right arm, and held the card with her left hand. Now, how to do this?

"Float Card!" she called. A glowing circle appeared beneath her, it flickered a little, but held. She tossed the card out and the magic circle held it in front of her. She grabbed the Star wand, holding it near the top, above the dried blood. She knew she couldn't spin it though, so she didn't even bother to try.

"Release and Dispel! Float!" She hit it with the Star wand. For a moment she didn't think that it had worked, then the small rectangle turned into a pink smoke that circled around and under Sakura, and Syaoran. As a pink bubble formed, with the partners inside it, Sakura kept the thought of it taking them to her home firmly in her mind. Once she felt the Float raising off the ground and moving toward her house, she sat abruptly on the bottom of the bubble next to Syaoran. The bubble immediately widened to give her more room.

~Thanks~, she thought at it, she didn't really expect an answer, she had never gotten one before from *any* of the cards. But this time it was different somehow.

~You are welcome~, said a voice in her mind, ~I'll get you home safely Mistress.~ Sakura could only describe the voice as, well, 'bubbly'.

Sakura thought of talking to it again, maybe asking it why it had never spoken to her before. But decided against it. She had some calls to make.



Back at Sakura's House:

Kent, Kero, and Touya (who had been awoken when his father had begun to *loudly* demand to know what was going on, and where Sakura was!), were all in the kitchen. Kero had been telling them, a little, about Sakura and her magical after school activities. Touya sat at the table with his father trying to absorb it all. His little sister, the monster, was out killing real monsters? Was it even possible? Of course, a flying stuffed animal with a bottomless stomach wasn't very likely either. Oh, and the stuffed animal, who said his name was Kero, talked too. He could also do all three at the *same* time. Sakura's family watched in amazement as Kero flew to the cupboard grabbed some pretzels, some pudding, some cookies, etc. And proceeded to stuff his face while, even more amazingly, he spoke *clearly* to them. Now that was truly magical!

Kero was in the middle of Sakura's capture of the Fiery Card, and a bag of potato chips, when Kero's phone started ringing (he had brought the phone downstairs with them in case Sakura called and needed help). At the same time that doorbell rang. Touya went to get the door, while Kero dived for the phone in the middle of the table.

Touya came back in the kitchen with Yukito as Kero was asking Sakura what was wrong.

"Why are you here at this time of night?" Sakura's dad asked Yukito, who hadn't even blinked at seeing Kero hovering over the table and yelling: "Sakura what is it?" into a cell phone. But Yukito was like that, the strangest things didn't seem to faze him much.

"Yes Sakura, Yue is here," Kero said, looking up at the new arrival.

"Who's Yue?", asked Yukito.

To Be Continued ^_^