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The Final Task
--*Skiing Bliss*--










Sakura groaned when her alarm clock went off. "NOOOOO!!!!!"

"AHHH! What Sakura?!" Kero jumped out of his bed.

"WINTER VACATION IS OVER!!!!!" Sakura wailed.

Kero sweatdropped, "Well, your first day shouldn't be that bad. Remember? Your class is going to that ski trip! That should be fun right?"

Sakura stopped screaming, and blinked. "Oh yeah! I forgot all about the ski trip!" Sakura hugged Kero tightly. "It's going to be so much fun!"

"Er yeah Sakura! Just let me breath!"

Sakura loosened her hug. "The only problem is I don't know how to ski!"

Kero fell over. "Ah, you'll learn! Remember, your a fearless cardcaptor!"

"And I can do anything!" Sakura smiled and changed into her school uniform.

"That's the spirit kiddo!" Kero gave Sakura a big toothy grin.

She quickly went downstairs and was greeted by the smell of pancakes and...

"Good morning squirt!"

"When will you ever stop calling me that?" Sakura moaned and took her seat.

Touya shrugged and bit into his pancake. "Dunno, never."

"Argh!" Sakura stomped on her brother's foot.

"GAH!"

"You two! Just stop it!"

"Sorry dad." They both said in unison.

Fujitaka smiled at them. "So Sakura, ready for your first day of school since winter vacation?"

"Totally! Today's the ski trip! That's why I need to bring ski clothing and mittens and boots!" Sakura lifted the pile of things onto the table. "I'm all set!"

"For once." Touya finished but recieved another stomp on his foot.

Sakura gobbled down her last pancake. "Sayonara!" She buckled her skates and pads and skated hurridly to school, when something struck her. *What if Li-kun knows that I have some of the cards! Did Meiling-chan tell him...?!* She slowed down at the school door, suddenly feeling reluctant to go to school, but she continued to her classroom anyways.

"Ohayo Sakura-chan! Ready for the ski trip?" Naoko asked.

Sakura nodded happily. "Yeah!"

"Sakura!" Tomoyo ran up to her and handed her a pile of clothing. "This is your skiing battle costume made by me! It's extra warm and lots of padding just in case you fall! And I added lots of pom poms! Don't you think pom poms just fit the winter season so well?!"

Sakura sweatdropped and tucked the costume into her bulging back. "Yeah Tomoyo. It looks very neat..."

"I knew you would like it!" Tomoyo beamed.

Just as Tomoyo finished her sentence, the door opened and Meiling stepped into the room with Syaoran behind her. He looked awfully tired, or in other words stressed out. Meiling shot Sakura an odd look and went by next to her so she could whisper to Sakura.

"You better thank me Kinomoto. I didn't tell Syaoran about the card captoring business..yet." Meiling whispered. "But if you interfear then your secret will spill over the top anyways."

Sakura sighed in relief that Syaoran didn't know. But she also felt uneasy about what Meiling had said yesterday. ...then you might not be alive for long. She didn't get what Meiling meant about that.

"What happened to you Li-kun?! You look awful today!" Tomoyo remarked.

Syaoran sighed, "It's because..."

"He had to finish all his homework last night!" Meiling interupted.

Syaoran sighed again and took his seat. Tomoyo and Sakura shrugged and took their seats also just as Mr. Terada was coming into the classroom.

"Welcome back class!" He smiled at the class. "As you all know, today is our ski trip to celebrate our first day of school after our break!"

There were some cheers and moans.

"We will be leaving in about 5 minutes so you can get all your things together." Mr. Terada went through different sheets of paper. "There will be two different buses. Bus A and Bus B."

Mr. Terada started reading out who was on which bus. "Tomoyo and Meiling you two are on bus A. Sakura and Syaoran, you two are on bus B."

"YES!"

Everyone turned to look at Syaoran who turned red in embarrasement. Sakura looked at him.

"I finally can get away from Meiling!" He said out loud. *But...I also get to be in the same bus as Kinomoto-chan...why do I feel so happy about that?!*

Sakura giggled, "Why do you hate Meiling so much?"

"I don't hate her. She's just getting on my nerves!"

Meiling was steaming. "I WILL NOT ALLOW XIAOLANG TO BE ON A BUS ALONE WITH HER!!!" Meilling pointed a figure at Sakura.

"Calm down Miss. Meiling. The seating arrangement is already planned," Mr. Terada said sternly.

Meiling dropped her hand to her side as the class started to leave the classroom to the buses. "You better now try anything Kinomoto!" She muttered to Sakura who sweatdropped.

"Ahhh!!! I can't stop! How do I stop?!" Sakura screamed as she skidded down the slope with her ski poles flying around her.

"Do the pizza Sakura-chan!" Chiharu said while skiing past her and stopping at the end of the slope.

Sakura closed her eyes tightly. "I can't!!!" She opened her eyes to see that she was heading right at the wall of the ski rental lodge. "HOE!!!" She clamped her eyes tightly waiting for the impact.

She waited. But it never came. She felt herself stop.

"Pathetic."

She shot her eyes open and saw Syaoran infront of her. "What happened?!"

"It was so kawaii!" Tomoyo came skiing to them. "Li-kun stopped you from hitting the wall by sticking his ski infront of yours! And you just stopped!"

Sakura sweatdropped, "Er thanks Li-kun!"

He crossed his arms. "You can't even ski. That's just sad."

Sakura frowned, "Hey! That's insulting!"

"Hmpth."

"Syaoran is so right!" Meiling appeared from around the corner of the building. "You can't even ski Kinomoto!" She skied past Sakura. "And your a cardcaptor for god's sake!" She said it so only Sakura heard while she skied past.

Sakura looked down at the ground. *I am pathetic..eh?* She sighed and suddenly shot her head up and stared right at Syaoran who was shocked by her sudden action. "I'll show you that I can ski!" She blurted out.

"Way to go Sakura!" Tomoyo cheered.

Meiling skied back to them, hearing what Sakura had just declared. "Oh really? I bet you can't do this." Meiling threw her ski poles aside and did a cart wheel with skies still on. "Ta da!"

"Impressive," Tomoyo said in awe.

Meiling smiled, and looked over to Syaoran who seemed bored. Sakura pushed off with her skies. *I can do this!* She noticed that she was going down a slope down. *Remember, cross your skies to stop...* Sakura repeated over in her mind. She was speeding down the slope very fast.

"SAKURA!!! STOP!!!! YOU'RE GOING OFF THE EDGE OF A CLIFF!!!!!!!!!!!" Tomoyo screamed at the top of her lungs that it hurt.

Meiling and Syaoran's eyes were wide with shock and fear. "Oh my god! If Kinomoto doesn't stop, she's going to fall to her death!" Meiling exclaimed.

As much as she hated Sakura, she still didn't want to see anyone die. Syaoran was there, frozen with shock.

"Xiaolang! Do something!" Meiling cried.

Tomoyo was pale.

Sakura heard Tomoyo, Syaoran, and Meiling screaming. She looked ahead and was so shocked that she was a few feet away from the edge of a cliff. *I can use the fly card!*

"Fly card!" She took the card out and made sure that Syaoran and Meiling couldn't see. "Release and dispel!" She said softly just as her skies left solid ground.

"OH MY GOD!!!! SAKURA-CHAN!!!!" Tomoyo shrieked, she had completely forgotten about Sakura being a cardcaptor.

"KINOMOTO!" Meilling and Syaoran cried out.

Sakura felt herself falling and falling, and suddenly her skies grew little transparent wings and she flew back up and landed with a backwards summersault.

Tomoyo clapped her hands together, and quickly skied towards her friend.

"Wow Sakura! That was awesome!!" Tomoyo smiled.

Sakura smiled back. "All thanks to the fly card!"

"H...How did she do that?" Syaoran asked to no one.

Meiling looked at her cousin/fiance. "You know, she could be that cardcaptor Auntie Yelan wants us to kill and take the cards from."

"...Hey..how do you know about this?!" Syaoran demanded. "How did you know about what mother told me?"

"...Well...the real reason I came wasn't to spend Christmas with you, but of course, I wanted to! But Auntie Yelan wanted me to help you capture the cards, and get some of the cards that are with the soon to be card mistress when she turns 16."

"I can do this by myself Meiling," Syaoran muttered.

Meiling frowned, "But I want to help you! We're partners!"

"Whatever, we don't even know if we've found the right person."

Meiling could tell there was a hint of hope in his voice. "I have a feeling you're beginning to like this Kinomoto girl Xiaolang!"

"No way!" Syaoran protested.

"Bu yao pein wo! Wo bu si ben de (Don't lie to me! I'm not stupid!)!" Meiling grumbled and skied off to the cafeteria lodge.







AN: Woo-hoo! Another chapter done! I hope you like this story so far, and pelase R+R! This story will twist into a S+S somehow =^-^= But we never know what might happen!