"What The Cards Were For"

A Card Captor Fanfiction

By: Bekah-chan

Rated: PG (for

panicking)



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



Authors Note: If Syaoran seems a little OOC (Out Of Character) in this chapter, Sorry! ^_^



Chapter 15:

And now, it's time for Major-Kerberos-Freak-Out-Number-Four:

"We're toast! What are we gonna DO??!!", he squeaked. Syaoran quickly grabbed him *before* he started zipping about.

"You will NOT freak-out again Fluff-ball, we need you, understood?"

Kero nodded his understanding, his itty-bitty nose twitching in distress. "Okay, I'm okay," he said, taking a deep breath. "So, what are we gonna do?"

"I have come to a sudden and very logical decision," explained Li Syaoran, letting go of Kero.

"And what is that?" asked Yue.

"We are going to, calmly, get everyone together and...... Run Away!"

"Is that all?" asked Kero "Shouldn't there be something more to this plan?"

"We are going to run away..... Very Quickly!"

"Sounds good to me", declared Kero.

"Will it be fun?" questioned Sakura.

"Um, where will we be running to?", asked the voice-of-reason, otherwise known as Kent.

"Good question," said Touya, from the floor where he had regained consciousness only moments after Yue.

Everyone thought about that, they needed a place they could stay long enough for Sakura to get her memories, and her magic, back. Where would that be?

"My place?" suggested Yue.

"No, it would only take a little longer to find us there," deduced Syaoran.

"The Park?" asked Kero.

"That's where we came from, Fluff-Ball! It probably started tracking us from there!" Syaoran shot down that plan also.

"The skating rink?" said Touya.

Everyone stopped thinking to look at Touya oddly. Syaoran wasn't sure such a suggestion deserved a response.

"How did you come up with that?!" asked Kero.

"Um," Touya thought a moment, "Head injury?"

"Does anyone have a viable suggestion?!" Syaoran was practically yelling now, the stress was really getting to him.

"Well, you haven't suggested anything!!" Kero yelled back.

"Well..... I came up with the plan!!"

"Some plan! We don't even have a destination!!"

"Have *you* got a better plan?!!"

"No!!"

"Then shut-up and help me think of a safe place to flee-in-terror to!"

Everyone was quiet as they thought some more.

"Okay," Kent finally said, "Let's break it down. What are we looking for?"

"Well, it needs to be safe." Kero said, everyone nodded.

"And in a place that the danger can't find, at least not for awhile." added Syaoran, "We need to be safe long enough for Sakura to get her memories back."

"So you think her memories will come back?" Kent asked him.

"I hope so. If not, there is a spell I can try, but it's risky, and it would take awhile. We would need a safe place to do that too."

"What spell is this?" Kero asked skeptically.

"What do you mean by 'get her memories back'? What can't she remember?" asked Touya, they all ignored him.

"We don't have time for me to explain the spell right now, Kero!" said Syaoran.

"How long will the spell take?" asked Kent.

"Anywhere from 3 to 12 hours, it depends."

"Okay, so we need a place to hide for up to 12 hours?"

"I guess," said Syaoran.

"No, longer than that," Kero contradicted, "She used-up all her magic remember? It will take her at least 24 hours to re-charge."

"Oh, right."

They all thought some more.

"Windy says that it is coming faster," Sakura reported into the silence a few moments later, "Maybe an hour and a half now."

Still more thinking.

"Well, since this 'Windy' knows so much, why don't we ask it where to hide?" said Touya. Making up for his earlier suggestion by proposing a workable one.

"That's a good idea. Sakura?" Syaoran said, "Can you ask Windy that?"

"Sure!" Sakura got that 'I'm-talking-with-a-Magic-Card-inside-my-head' look, which Syaoran was becoming familiar with, he decided it was cute. So, he silently added this new expression to many others he kept in his heart, he never tired of looking at his Cheery Blossom.

"Windy doesn't know of a place that will be completely safe from this darkness," Sakura relaid, "But it wants to know why you don't use the Guardian Barrier of Protection spell."

"Well," said Kero, "That would be an option, except both Yue and I would have to be in our true forms to cast it. And I can't get to my true form unless I get a boost of magic from Sakura."

They all sighed, so much for that idea. They thought some more.

"I was wondering," said Kent, "Yue is in his true form, right?"

Kero and Yue nodded.

"But, since Sakura doesn't have magic to spare right now, Yue isn't using Sakura's magic to stay in his true form?"

More nods all around.

"So, where is Yue getting the energy from?"

"Well, he's kind of getting it from me," Touya admitted.

"You have magic too?" Kent asked, not sure if he would be surprised at this point if both of his offspring were Great-and-Powerful sorcerers.

"No, it's not magic exactly," Touya clarified, "I had the ability to see... well... ghosts and stuff."

"Had?"

"Well, now that Yue is using that energy to live, I don't have it anymore, so no more ghosts."

"Oh. Can't Kero use someone else's energy to transform also?"

"Maybe, except I have a much closer tie to the Card Mistress than Yue, it might not work." Kero said.

"Could we try it though?" asked Kent.

"Hmmm," Kero thought, "Well, I couldn't use Touya's energy, Yue's doing that. And Syaoran needs to save his energy for the spell to help Sakura, and to defend us if that thing does find us. So, who else is there?"

"Me," said Kent.

"You? But you are not magical at all! I would have sensed it by now."

"Well, I don't have any 'magic' magic, that's true. But I see ghosts all the time!"

It's got to be painful to face-vault from four feet in the air. Let's just be grateful that Kero is 'stuffed with fluff'.**

To Be Continued ^_^

**No I don't own Winnie-the-Pooh either.