"What The Cards Were For"
A Card Captor Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rated: PG ( for blood
and puss implications)
Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*
Authors Notes: Thank You! to the person who told me about Sakura's Dad's name in the dub, but I've decided I like 'Kent' better. ^_^ Don't you?
Chapter 8:
Kero floated over to the table in the middle of Sakura's kitchen and glanced down at the Li kid. He really wasn't looking that well. His wounds were still bleeding and oozing puss. (AN: Yep, the puss is still there folks;) Syaoran was also flushed with a high fever, and mumbling something about Sakura and needing to protect her from the monsters.
~Looks like the kid really does care about her~, Kero thought. Then he looked closer trying to find the perfect place to bite---- they *did* need to wake him up, didn't they? ^_^
Sakura plucked the Book of Clow out of the air and placed it on the counter. She really didn't know if she could get any useful energy from it, but figured it was worth a shot. She leaned the Star Wand on the counter, and put the Fiery card down next to the book which she then placed her hands over. She winced when she had to move her right arm, but knew she needed both hands to feel the magic sufficiently. As she closed her eyes and focused her inner senses on the book, she felt like she was coming home to an old friend. This book and the magic in it had been with her through so much. She experienced a vague sadness at the thought of what might happen to the book once all the cards where gone. Would it lose all it's power, and just disappear?
Sakura shook off her thoughts and tried to find any magic she could 'borrow' from the book. Well, there was the powerful sealing spell which wasn't really needed anymore, and a strange spell she had some trouble identifying. What was it for? There were some familiar elements, like she could tell it was cast by Clow Reed, and that it was part of every part of the book. Plus, she got the mysterious sense that the spell was like an anchor, holding the book in this plain. She probably shouldn't try to take it off then, who knows what would happen. Okay, the sealing spell then. She carefully dismantled the spell and took the power into herself. It only gave her a small amount of magic since the main part of that spell had been Kero, and he wasn't in the book anymore. The power it did give her was enough to open the Fiery, but how long would it stay open? She decided to ask the card in question. She picked up the Fiery again.
~With the power from the sealing spell, how long will you be able to stay?~ she thought at it.
~Not very long Mistress, sorry. I am one of the most powerful so I won't be able to withstand the pull to join your magic for very long.~
~Oh~, Well that made since..... kind of. Maybe it was like a magnet, the stronger the force (or card) the stronger the pull.
She thought some more, then she remembered how she had caught the Fiery with two of the elemental cards (Windy and Water) working together.
~Fiery, since you're strongest element card do you think you could use power from the other three in order to stay open longer?~
~I think so, but if I drew power from them, when I'm absorbed they might come too.~
Oh, that's just great! There was always something wasn't there?
~Well, we'll just have to risk it. If you need more power to finish healing Syaoran, take it from the other element cards.~
~Yes, Mistress~, the Fiery said reluctantly. Fiery wished that it could talk to one of the guardians about this plan, it had a really bad feeling something was going to go wrong.
"Ahhhhh!" The yell made everyone in the kitchen turn to look at the table where they saw Syaoran had miraculously awoken, sat upright, and was now shaking one arm violently. A closer look at said arm revealed what appeared to be a....... Kero attached to one of his fingers.
"What are you doing! You....... Stupid......... Stuffed....... Animal?!?!?" the last for words Syaoran spoke were annunciated by sharp jerks of the Kerberos bearing hand. But this failed to have the desired effect, for the 'stuffed animal' stayed firmly adhered to the end of Syaoran's finger until he stopped shaking his arm and collapsed sideways from exhaustion. Which didn't take long-- he *was* injured you know.
"Oh! Syaoran! Are you okay?" Sakura hurried, stumbled, fell across the kitchen to his side. While she was helping Syaoran sit up again, Sakura glared at Kero, who had fled to the relative safety of her father's shoulder. ~Ohhh! Fine! Run to the only parent in the room! I'll get you later!~ Sakura didn't think Kero had heard her threat, but he still looked a little 'shaken'.
"Sakura!", Syaoran gasped, drawing her attention back to him. "Your safe!", he put his arms around her and pulled her close, burying his face in her neck. "I almost lost you that time, didn't I?"
"I came closer to losing you," she whispered into his hair, holding him as tightly as she could with one arm. ~And it's not over yet~, she thought to herself.
She looked at the other people in the room, they had a wide variety of expressions. Her father had a look that said: 'That's my daughter?' Touya definitely had a look of: 'What's that gaki doing with his arms around my little sister?!?' Yue just looked tolerant. But Kero's expression was the oddest, he looked like Madison did when she caught Sakura and Syaoran in what Madison had dubbed a CCCM (triple 'c'/m) = Cute Cuddly Couple Moment. Sakura hadn't known that Kero was a sap at heart.(AN: We knew, didn't we? *giggle* :)
Sakura again looked down at Syaoran stroking her hand through his hair. In her mind she reaffirmed the determination that this person, who was so precious to her (even if he didn't know it), *would not* die; would not leave this world, without her.
To Be Continued ^_^