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The Final Task
--*The Christmas Party*--







Sakura pulled out the newest battle costume Tomoyo made her. It was a long jacket that spread out at the waist, and had a light blue fur collar. There were poms poms as buttons and the shoes had furry poms poms attached to them, and of course, a light blue matching mask with silver stars decorating it.

"I'm all ready to go Kero!" Sakura said, holding her wand and opening the window, sending a huge gust of cold air in. "Brrr! That's cold!"

Sakura flew out of the window with Kero tucked snuggly under her collar.

"We have to hurry Sakura! Or the whole city will be covered in snow!" Kero shouted over the howling wind.

"Hai!" Sakura flew over Penguin Park and past the zoo. "Where is it..." She thought aloud.

"Look over there!" Kero pointed to a glowing source of energy from ontop of a apartment building.

Sakura landed near the edge when she saw someone already there. *Li-kun!*

"Force know my plight! Release the light! Fire!" Syaoran threw a ofadu at the Snow Card.

It countered by sending a blast of snow from it's arm. Syaoran lept out of the way, but barely. "Fire!" He shouted again.

This time it burned the Snow, causing it be angry. It shot a big gust of wind at him.

"Windy! Blow the wind away from him! Release and dispel!" Sakura shouted, jumping into the scene.

Windy appeared, and blew the gust of wind out of the way. The Snow Card started to spin around, causing wind and snow to pick up around Sakura and Syaoran.

Sakura tried her best to not be blown off the roof until...

"AH!!!"

Sakura gasped and turned around to see Syaoran dangling on the edge of the roof of the thirty floor apartment buildling they were on. She crawled her way over there and reached for his hand.

"Take me hand!"

Syaoran looked at Sakura. *Who is she? She seems...familiar...* He took his hand, and Sakura pulled him up.

"I could have gotten back up myself." Syaoran grumbled.

Sakura pretended she didn't hear and ran up to the Snow Card. "Snow Card! Return to your power confined! Clow Card!" Slowly the Snow Card turned back to it's normal form, and the card floated into Sakura's hands.

"Who are you?" Syaoran asked her.

Sakura looked at Syaoran. "Er...I'm just a cardcaptor." She summoned fly and quickly flew home.

*Who are you...?*

"Kero, which one should I wear?" Sakura asked, spinning around the room holding two dresses. "This silver one? Or this red one?"

"If you ask me, I would say the silver one would look cool on you Sakura," Kero replied.

Sakura held the silver dress up to herself, and looked at the mirror. "I think your right Kero! I'll go change!"

She skipped into the bathroom and soon emerged in a dazzling silver dress. It was a sleeveless dress with straps criss crossing at the front. It was right around her waist, framing her perfect figure nicely.

"Lookin' good!"

"Thanks Kero!" Sakura smiled and went to put her hair in her usual style but with silver matching clips.

Kero flew right infront of Sakura's face. "I WANT TO GO TO THE PARTY TO!!!!!"

"Ah!" Sakura fell over anime style. "Kero, you were invited! But I'll bring you home some food alright?"

"Hmpth, fine. Leave the great guardian beast to starve!"

Sakura sweatdropped, "I said I would bring you food. Well, I better get Touya to drive me over to Tomoyo's quick or I'd be late again!" She exclaimed, running down the stairs.

Touya was already opening the front door. "Hurry up squirt."

"Alright already!" Sakura slipped into matching high heels and took her seat in Touya's car.

He started the car and they arrived at Tomoyo's in no time.

"Thanks Touya!" Sakura waved to her brother.

"Have fun squirt," He smirked.

Sakura rang the doorbell and Tomoyo opened it. She was wearing a sparkly lavender dress. "Wow Tomoyo! You look awesome!"

"You look very kerei (pretty) too!" Tomoyo moved out of the way so Sakura could walk in.

Most of her class was already here. Some dancing in the middle of the room, and some eating at the food tables that were set up along the walls of the room.

"Hi Sakura!" Chiharu greeted, Takashi tagging along beside her.

"Hello Chiharu! And Takashi!" Sakura greeted.

"Did you know the first Christmas party ever..." Takashi started.

Chiharu brought her hand to his mouth with a sweatdrop on her head. "Ehehehe! We'll just be going to get some food to stuff in his mouth. See you later Sakura, Tomoyo."

Sakura and Tomoyo giggled. Sakura spotted someone looking at her from the corner of her eye, and she turned to see it was Syaoran who was drinking a cup of punch at the corner of the room.

She was about to walk to him when a boy in her class greeted her.

"May I have this dance?"

Sakura nodded and they started dancing.

Syaoran eyed them from the corner of the room. *She's pretty...Ah! What am I thinking?! She could be that mysterious card captor I always bump into, or worse of all, the soon to be card mistress.* Syaoran shook his head to clear his mind, but the thoughts just flew back in. *Ugh! Why can't I stand seeing her hanging around with other guys?* He placed his cup of punch on the table loudly and walked towards the two dancing.

He coughed, which caused Sakura and the boy she was dancing with to look at him.

"Oh hi Li-kun!" Sakura smiled at him.

He turned a light shade of red. "Would...would...could...will...dancewithme?"

Sakura blinked, "What did you say?"

Syaoran turned even redder, causing Sakura to giggle. "Will you dance with me!!!" He blurted out.

*Him? Asking me to dance? That's not possible!!* Sakura giggled again and nodded.

They started out in a slow dance, both of them looking at their feet and not each other. When the song changed into a faster one, they started picking up speed too.

"Ouch!" Syaoran yelped when Sakura accidentally stepped on his foot.

"Oh! Gomen!!!" Sakura turned red in embarrassment.

Syaoran didn't reply, so they continued to dance.

"Kawaii!!!"

Syaoran and Sakura turned twelve shades of red when Tomoyo lept out of no where with her video camera. "That was the cutest dancing couple in the world!"

Syaoran and Sakura thought that they would burst into flames when someone shouted, "Look! There's a butterfly in the room!"

Everyone turned there attention to the butterfly.

*I sense a Clow Card...* Syaoran thought.

*I sense a Clow Card...* Sakura thought.

Tomoyo looked at Sakura thoughtfully with a 'Is this a clow card' kind of look.

"Excuse, I need to go to the washroom." Syaoran walked off.

Sakura whispered to Tomoyo. "I think I sense a Clow Card."

"Great! Let's get your battle costume! It's in my room!" Tomoyo whispered excitedly while dragging Sakura up the stairs.

Sakura sweatdropped when Tomoyo pulled out the costume from her closet. "I don't think I want to wear that..."

"Oh come on! It'll look so kawaii!"

"Fine..." Sakura stepped into the washroom and came out. "I LOOK LIKE A SNOWMAN!!"

Tomoyo giggled, "But I very cute on indeed! And the mask matches perfetly!"

Sakura sighed and summoned her wand. They went back downstairs and into the room where the party was going on.

"What's wrong with everyone?" Tomoyo asked, waving her hand in front of a nearby girl.

"They all seem to be in a trance..." Sakura commented and looked at the butterly.

Sakura was running down a endless street of Sakura trees. "Where am I?"

"Sakura..."

Sakura turned around. "Mother!"

A women smiled at her with her arms out stretched to Sakura.

"I missed you mother..."

"Sakura! Snap out of it!" Tomoyo clapped her hands in front of Sakura worridly.

Sakura shook her head. "What?! What was that? I saw mother..."

"Er...it just seemed like you were day dreaming...or in a trance," Tomoyo said.

"It's no doubt the dream card."

Sakura and Tomoyo turned to say Syaoran in his green robes.

Tomoyo pretended to have never seen Syaoran wearing that and pretended that she didn't know Sakura. "Whoa! Li-kun! Why are you wearing that? And who are you?!" She pointed to Sakura.

Sakura soon caught on in what Tomoyo was doing. "You don't need to know." She said awkwardly to Tomoyo.

"Daidouji you better get out of here or you'll be in a dream like them," Syaoran pointed to his classmates that were standing there.

Sakura gave Tomoyo a 'go' look. Tomoyo reluctantly left. *Waa! I wanted to tape the capture!!!*

Syaoran mindlessy glanced at the butterfly.

"You failed us XiaoLang! How could you?!" Yelan screamed at Syaoran who stood at the corner of the room.

"Dui bu qi (sorry)...."

Yelan glared at her son. "And for your failure you will be kicked out of the Li-clan! Never show your face in front of me again! Do you hear that?!"

Sakura noticed that Syaoran was acting like all her other classmates. She quickly ran up to him and clapped her hands in front of his eyes.

"Snap out it Sya...I mean person!"

Syaoran blinked, "Wha?"

"That was just a dream," Sakura explained.

"I knew that myself!" Syaoran muttered under his breath. *Or maybe I didn't...*

"Flower card, release and dispel!" Sakura flung the card out and flowers started raining down.

The butterfly flew onto one, and just sat there.

"Dream card! Return to your power confined! Clow card!" Sakura raised her wand and bit by bit the butterfly returned to its true form.

Sakura turned quickly lept out of the room, and noticed that Syaoran was gone to. After she changed back to her normal clothes, she joined her class back at the room.

"What happened?! I don't remember a thing!" Someone exclaimed.

"It was nothing guys! Just return to whatever you were doing!" Tomoyo calmed the group and turned to Sakura. "Did you catch it?"

"Yep! It was quite simple!"



AN: Ok, the ending was cliffhangy, but oh well! In the next chapter, guess who's coming?! ~.^ Everyone's favorite competive, stubborn, yet caring... eh, I'll let it for you to figure out ^.^;;