"What The Cards Were For"
A Card Captor Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rated: PG ( for some
tense stuff)
Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*
Authors Notes: Sorry this one is a little short, I really am trying to make them longer, but this one was hard to write for some reason. ^_^ Also, sorry that this chapter took awhile to post, one of my best beta readers was on vacation.
Chapter 11:
When we last left our heros:
Sakura had just loudly professed her love to Syaoran, much to every ones shock. Yue and Syaoran were trying to keep the Fiery from being pulled back to Sakura, meanwhile the Book of Clow opened on the counter behind them.
Syaoran and Yue tried to dig their feet in and stop their advance toward Sakura, but the best they could do was slow the Fiery down a little. All to soon they couldn't even do that for the Fiery card disappeared into smoke, then into Sakura.
"Sakura!" yelled Syaoran.
She had tried not to cry out, she really had, she knew that it would only worry everyone in the room and they couldn't do anything to help her at this point. So she tried to be quiet, but when she absorbed the Fiery, it was so much more painful than anything she had ever known before, and a small whimpering cry escaped her. Li Syaoran was on the move almost before the card made it to Sakura, and he was seconds behind it.
"Sakura! No!" he threw his arms around her, trying to protect her from the pain even though he knew he couldn't, the pain was coming from inside her where he could not reach. He was confused about what was going on, he had never heard anything about a 'Final Test' for the one who sealed all the cards, except for the judgment, and Sakura had already passed that, so what was going on? Syaoran had learned much about magic in his short life, and he couldn't even imagine a human body absorbing the power of the Clow Cards and surviving the experience. He felt so useless, how could he protect Sakura? His Cherry Blossom, who had just admitted her love for him, how to keep her safe?
When the pain left her Sakura slumped into Syaoran's embrace, gasping for breath, she didn't want to do that *ever* again. But she knew that it would happen again and, if it had saved Syaoran, then she didn't care. She hugged him a little, ~Yes, at least he will be okay.~ she sighed. Suddenly she stiffened as her tattered magic senses told her something she would really rather not know: The Book of Clow was open. She could feel the cards fighting a losing battle to stay in the book. It wouldn't be long now.
"Alright then," said Kero, relief that Sakura was still alive in his voice, "We just have to keep the rest of the cards in the book. If they can't get out, she can't absorb them." Then he turned to the book. "NO!," he yelled when he saw that not only was the book already open, but it was glowing and shaking from strain. Kero assumed that some of this was the cards trying to stay *in* the book, which was ironic all by itself, but he could also sense that the Book of Clow was..... Coming apart at the seams? ~How can that BE?!?!!~ He started to panic again.
"What ARE we going to DO?!?", he zipped around the kitchen, but was stopped by Yue who plucked him out of the air and answered his question, "We are going to close that book and save our Mistress' life!"
"Yes, okay," said Kero, taking deep breaths, "that's what we'll do." They all turned to look at the book, except for Syaoran who just held Sakura closer.
"Okay, how do we close it?", asked Kent.
"Ummm," Kero ventured, "I don't know?"
"Can't we just go shut the cover?" asked Touya.
"We *might* be able to do that, but I don't know if any of us are strong enough to close it against the force keeping it open, which is essentially Sakura's magic, which is stronger than us.", answered Kero.
"Didn't she say she lost her power?" asked Kent.
"Yes, but when she opened the book the first time it took a little of her power to make itself a magical object again, and anchor it to this plain. I had forgotten that." Yue said, ~How can we close it now?~
"I'm getting a headache," muttered a confused Touya.
They all stared at the book some more, at a loss. Then a last hope dropped from the sky, well from the book anyway. The cards had been listening, and they had a solution of their own, it popped out of the book and immediately took it's true form, falling to the floor. When it landed it started to be pulled toward Sakura like the Fiery. But, unlike the Fiery, this card could handle that, to an extent. The card stood to it's full height, which was kinda short, and planted it's feet firmly *in* the hardwood floor. About six inches below the surface. This card had a childlike stature, standing maybe three feet tall. It was dressed in a pink battle outfit that could be described as 'puffy'. On it's cute little face was a not so cute look of determination.
"Which card is that?" asked Kent.
"The Power Card," answered Kero.
"That's Power?!?!?" father and son exclaimed in mutual disbelief.
Power glared at them out of the corner of it's eye for a moment, before turning it's attention back to the book from whence it came. Steeling itself the Power pulled it's right foot from the floor, moved it a step, then slammed it down again, sending wood-chips flying. Then it picked up it's left foot, repeating this procedure, it made it's way back to the book, and away from Sakura. Behind it the card left a double row of mini-craters in the once pristine kitchen floor. Kent sighed at this sight, well it was about time to remodel the kitchen anyway.
After about five minutes the Power made it to it's destination, where it paused as if trying to decide what to do. Finally it braced one hand on the counter next to the book, put the other hand under the open cover and pulled. For awhile it could not be seen if the Power was making any difference, then the cover moved, not much but it did move.
"It's working," Kero said.
The card continued to close the book centimeter by centimeter, straining with all it's might. Eventually the card had to use both hands but it accomplished it's goal, and the Book of Clow slammed shut with a snap. Everyone let out a sigh of relief, and the Power gave a tiny smile of triumph, it's tiny hands keeping the book closed. It seemed that Sakura was safe for the moment. Someone really should have 'knocked on wood' or something. It wasn't over yet.
To Be Continued ^_^