"What The Cards Were For"
A Card Captor Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rated: PG (for,
foam revenge)
Disclaimer: I don't now, have never, and will never own Card Captors. *sigh*
Thanks, Reviewers!!! =)
Chapter 32:
It took 1 hour, 2 empty fire-extinguishers, and 6 candles that would never be the same, but she had done it. Sakura had managed to light a candle, using nothing but magic.
"You did it, Sakura!" squealed Madison as she stated the obvious. The Card Mistress' friend had entered the room shortly after the demise of the first candle. Since then, she had been determinedly filming events as they unfolded.
"Yes, she did it. Finally!" Kero growled, the Sun Guardian was *not* happy. Looking at him, Sakura could hardly see the original color of his fur, buried under all those layers of soot and flame-retardant foam.
"I'm sorry Kero," she said, wincing when she saw the singed tip of his tail.
*sigh* "It's okay, Sakura. Just help me get this stuff off," he floated off the table and moved toward the bathroom. As she followed him, Sakura noticed that his trajectory was listing a little toward the side where the foam coating him was the heaviest. If Sakura remembered correctly, that was the side that had been facing Syaoran. It seemed Syaoran had been aiming more for Kero, and less for the fires he was supposed to be extinguishing. Not that Sakura minded all that much (except that she was the one who had to help the Guardian clean foam out of his ears) the Fluff-ball had deserved it. Sakura thought of the 'water incident', and smiled.
Sitting In the Bathroom Sink:
The sink was half-way full of warm water. Kero was sitting in the middle of the liquid, grumbling over his folded arms. Around him floated the sooty debris of Syaoran's 'revenge'. They had already drained and filled the sink twice, and the stuff still wasn't off yet! So they trudged on. Sakura was currently washing the foam from behind Kero's ears, with Syaoran's toothbrush. ^_~ Sakura decided that this was the perfect time to ask Kero some questions.
"Kero?"
"Ya?" *grumble, grumble*
"Did Clow Reed have any other visions about me and Syaoran? Like if we can beat the evil this time?" she dove right in.
"If he had any more visions about you, after he made the Cards, he didn't tell me."
"Oh," *sigh*
"Probably because it might have effected the outcome."
"Oh, okay," that was a little better.
"I'm certain he did all he could to insure you two would win this time."
"Right," silence while Sakura switched ears.
"Kero?"
"Ya?"
"About my skin, the glowing thing? Is that permanent?"
"Well, look at it now."
Sakura did as he said, and saw, to her surprise, that the glow had faded. From normal range at least, it still blazed to her magic sight.
"Kero?...... But how?"
"Doing magic. The glow tuned down a little after the water incident in the livingroom, and even more after the fire stuff in the kitchen."
"Will it stay like this?"
"No, after a few hours the glow will come back. And get brighter if you don't do any magic for awhile."
"Will it be like this forever?" Would she be a glow-worm for the rest of her life?
"It should get better, eventually. After your body gets used to all the power. And there are some illusion spells you can try. But it won't ever go away completely."
"N-Never?"
"Never."
"Why?" Why couldn't she be normal?
"You have *a lot* of magic, Sakura. There are side-effects to having that much power in a human body."
Sakura thought about the first 'view' she'd had of her magic, hours before, in her mind. And she could understand what Kero was saying. But understanding didn't stop her from being upset about it. This would change her whole life.
"K-Kero?"
"Ya?"
"What am I gonna do about school?"
"Hey! Don't worry so much Sakura," he gave her a consoling pat on the hand still holding the toothbrush, "We'll help you. We'll *all* get together, when this is over, and figure something out. Okay?" he gave her another little pat.
"Okay," *sniff*
Sakura took a deep breath, and tried to be more cheerful. So what if she glowed like a radioactive corn field? She had people that cared about her. A few more moments passed in silence.
"Okay Kero, your done."
"Yeah!!" Kero, who hated baths, flew out of the water and landed on the counter. Bringing a puddle of water with him. Sakura giggled at his enthusiasm for getting *out* of the water.
"Kero! Careful what you drip on, your sopping wet!"
"I know, where are the towels?"
"It's too bad Syaoran doesn't have a hair-drier," Sakura commented as she turned to get Kero a towel, "What we really need, is a nice gust of wind to come through----"
"Sakura!!! NOOO!!!!" Too late.
"----here," Sakura finished, wondering why Kero was waving his little arms frantically. Then she realized what she'd said, and her hands flew to her mouth to cover a gasp. For endless seconds there was a silence that Sakura likened to the eye of a storm, a complete absence of sound. Then, as quickly as the sound had been sucked out of the space they occupied, it was back, screeching on the heels of the tornado force winds that blew through the room. The wind lasted long enough to knock Sakura off her feet, and Kero against a wall, then died suddenly.
Sakura sat up, pushing mussed hair from her eyes, and tried to assess the damage her mistake had caused, this time. To her surprise, the bathroom was still there. The wind had shuffled toiletries and towels around a bit, but that was all. She couldn't see Kero.
"Sakura!" Syaoran called as he skidded to a stop just past the open bathroom door, "What happened? Are you okay?" he helped her to her feet.
"You want to know what happened?!?" came Kero's irritated voice from beyond the counter, out of sight, "Sakura said "Wind", that's what happened!! Look what she did to my beautiful fur!!!!" he floated back into sight and landed, once again, on the counter.
Sakura immediately put her hands back over her mouth. Not to stifle a gasp this time, but to hold back laughter. Syaoran wasn't so polite.
"New look, Fluff-ball?" he sat abruptly on the ground, and laughed until tears rolled down his face. Sakura decided that it was nice to see him laugh that way, he didn't do it often. And it *was* funny. Sakura couldn't hold back a giggle.
"Hey!! It's NOT FUNNY!!!" Kero protested, now floating above the counter. They could hardly see his eyes, but they could tell they were flashing with justified anger. It only made them laugh harder.
Poor Kero had given a new definition to his hated nick-name: 'Fluff-ball'. He was a bristling ball of fast-dried fur, with wings, and a tail. Which was really all they could see of the Sun Guardian, the rest being hidden by the fluffed exterior.
"I mean it!! IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!!!" They kept laughing, "OOOHHHH!!!!! Someone find me a Brush!!!"
To Be Continued ^_^