"What The Cards Were For"
A Card Captor Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rated: PG ( for blood
and other stuff)
Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*
Chapter 6:
After some slight confusion, Yue and Touya carried Syaoran, Kero carried Syaoran's sword, and Kent helped his daughter (his heart aching when he noticed she could hardly walk) into the house.
Sakura felt terrible, and from the worried glances everyone was giving her knew that she must look it as well. But she didn't care, all her attention was drawn to her partner. He *had* to get better.
They carried him into the kitchen and laid him on the table (Kero rushing to sweep away the potato chip crumbs he had left there) so they could look at this back. Once they got a close look under the direct light above the kitchen table, Sakura gasped and thought she might faint again. She saw Touya swallow hard out of the corner of her eye, and she thought it hit the others similarly. Even Kero looked a little green. Yue was the only one who took it in stride, typically.
"How did this happen?" he asked. So Sakura told them about the monsters, how they had been different then the others, stronger and faster, with more intelligence. She told them about the poison and her suspicion that it was magical in origin (She left out the part about the Big Evil something that she had sensed, she'd talk with Kero about it later). While she was explaining how the enemy had gotten past her and Syaoran's guard, she gestured toward her arm as an example. Touya's eyes went wide and he grabbed Sakura's arm pulling it under the light.
"Sakura!" exclaimed Kero, "Why didn't you tell me about your arm over the phone?"
She jerked her arm back, "That's not important right now! Syaoran got more of the poison then I did! We have to help him, he's dying!."
"Alright, Sakura! Calm down and let us look at your arm." Kero said. Sakura glared at him in answer.
"We'll help Li, I promise,"said Kero, waving his little arms in the air, "but we need to look at your arm. You said it was the same poison, it will be easier to determine exactly what it is if we examine your arm. It's umm, less messy."
~Well that's true~, thought Sakura cringing. She tried not to look at Syaoran, it *hurt* her to see him that way. "Okay," she agreed, "Just hurry."
She held out her arm for her guardians to analyze. Yue held it steady while he and Kero bent over it. They both started glowing faintly Kero orange/gold and Yue purple/silver. Suddenly their eyes went all trancy and they closed them at the same time.
"What are they doing?" asked Kent.
"They are probing it with magic, to find out what kind of poison it is, even if they don't recognize the toxin they should be able to get some idea of how to cure it." Sakura replied.
They watched the guardians' trance in silence for a few moments. Sakura was glad Yue was holding her arm up, she didn't think she could have held it out long enough otherwise. She put the end of the Star wand on the floor and leaned on it a little, hoping that she wouldn't have to use it to open a card again tonight. Even if she had the energy to open another one, what had happened with the Float worried her. Would that happen with every card she opened from now on?
Abruptly Kero and Yue pulled out of the trance. "Wow! That stuff is nasty!" Kero said floating toward the table and looking down, "Definitely don't want to look closer at the kid's back." he gave a little shudder. Even Yue seemed a little shaken.
"What did you find?" demanded Sakura, "Can we cure him?"
"We could make a cure if we had a lot of things we are currently lacking. One of those being time." stated Yue.
"Are you guys saying we can't help him!?!" yelled Sakura frantically.
"No, just that we can't make a cure." explained Kero.
"HOW CAN WE CURE HIM WITHOUT ONE!??!" Sakura was nearing the end of her rope, she felt like grabbing the stuffed animal and ringing his fluffy neck until he told her how to make Syaoran better.
"Well there is one thing that usually works in cases like this." Kero clarified.
"WHAT???"
"Fire."
"Oh," blink, ~Well, duh!~ she thought.
"Like matches or something?" asked Touya.
"No, it has to be magical fire." Yue commented.
"Magical fire?" asked Kent.
"I was afraid you'd say that", mumbled Sakura.
"What was that Sakura?" Kero again.
"Is the Fiery Card the only 'magical fire' we have at this point?" she wondered.
"Unless you want me to use my fire-bow," Yue said, "and I can't be precise with that. It's full power, or nothing. With the Fiery you should be able to control it enough to only burn the poison out of the wound, and not harm the flesh around it."
Sakura took a deep breath. It looked like she didn't have a choice *again*. She had to save Syaoran. Oh, and she had to save herself. "Alright, Kero go get the Fiery Card."
"Can't you call it?"
"No, Kero, I can't. We'll be lucky if I can open it," she admitted. She did not, however, share her worries about sealing it again.
"Your that tired? Maybe we *should* let Yue try first."
"No, just go get the card. Better yet, bring down the book, maybe I can use some of it's power."
"Okay, you're the Mistress," he zoomed up the stairs.
"What's going on?", Kent wanted to know.
"Well usually I can call the cards directly to me from the book no matter where I am. But tonight I can't because there was a major drain on my power."
When she said the last part Yue jumped a little, though unperceptively. He knew his Mistress had a vast amount of power that was mostly untapped. How could *anything* have drained that much from her?
"Power?" her father asked.
"Magical power," she clarified.
"But I thought you got your power from those cards."
While Sakura was pondering how to answer, Yue did it for her: "Sakura never could have opened the Book of Clow or used the cards if she didn't have power of her own."
"Where did she get power of her own then?" Kent asked confusedly.
"She was born with it," Yue's eyes flicked to Touya as he continued, "Your family has some interesting abilities."
Kent wanted to ask Yue what he meant by that, but was interrupted by Kero. Who, at that moment, came floating back into the kitchen, the Book of Clow bobbing along behind him.
"Here it is Sakura," he said.
When Kero stopped next to Yue, the book continued to float to Sakura. As it came to a halt in front of her the book opened, revealing the magical cards inside.
"I need the Fiery Card," she told it. She felt a curious sense of sadness and reluctance from the cards, but they obediently rose out of the book and shuffled out the Fiery. Then they settled back in the book before it closed.
Sakura held out her left hand and the Fiery Card came to rest in it. The moment she touched the card she heard it's voice in her mind.
~Please don't do this Mistress~
To Be Continued ^_^