Clow Tablets 3; Hong Kong
Thieves In The Night & Sex Obsessed Animals
"Are you sure this is the place we should be?"
"Yes, I showed you the picture of the Tiger Balm Gardens. It's exactly the same place. We even checked it out in one of my new travel books."
"Are you sure we're not here because of Li-kun?"
"He has nothing to do with this. Hey! Give me back my bag!" A man had just grabbed her travel bag and was running through the crowd.
"Kero!"
Sakura started to run after the poor sap. It was easier for her because the other guy was forging the passage. She jumped over fallen people in her way. She hurtled over suitcases lying on their sides.
She tackled her opponent to the ground. She jumped up and hauled him with her. She was just about to punch him when he thrust the bag at her, knocking her to the ground.
A young Chinese girl, about 19 years in age, put her hand down to help up the fallen girl. She pushed her long black hair out of her eyes as she pulled.
Sakura looked into the eyes of the girl who helped her up. Kero's head popped out of the travel bag. He looked very angry at being so roughly treated. Noticing the girl with black hair he ducked quickly back in the bag.
"You can come out now Kero."
Kero came out and noticed the girl was still there.
"It's Meilin, Kero."
Kero grumbled something we probably wouldn't want to hear as the two girls embraced. Tomoyo came running up and noticed Meilin.
"It's Meilin!" Tomoyo hugged her too as Daidouji Sonomi walked up to the girls.
"Did you get your bag back? Good! Oh Meilin, where did you come from? I remember Tomoyo had you over for a couple of parties. Why don't you come to lunch with us?"
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In the restaurant of the hotel they were going to stay the night, Meilin was explaining why she was at the airport.
"I was at the airport to drop off Syoaran. He had to go to Japan because of some sort of suicide alarm. Can you believe they picked his building to jump off of? They never did find that guy."
Sakura looked at Tomoyo, Tomoyo looked at Sakura and they burst out laughing. Sonomi-chan chuckled a bit, not really getting it. Meilin thought her friends had finally lost it.
The girls pulled Meilin aside and explained they were on a quest for the Clow tablets. Not going into details they told her they had to get in to the Tiger Balm Gardens tonight.
Meilin, always up for an adventure, especially a Sakura&Tomoyo/Clow adventure, agreed to join in for the fun. She would always do anything for a friend and she considered these girls her friends.
"Mom, do you mind if Meilin spends the night in the Hotel with us? It would be nice to get to spend some time together again."
"Sure, you girls have a nice little slumber party, I'm going to bed early. I'll have to wake up early tomorrow and that's not exactly my forte."
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Dressed all in black three figures crept through the lobby of their hotel. With the bright lights on they were very conspicuous. A group of people reeking of alcohol stumbled through the front door.
One man who was finishing off the last rendition of 'Opps I Did It Again" looked up at them and slurred, "Help we're being robbed."
Chaos ensued, drunken men and women scattered in every direction. One man yelled, "Don't Shoot!" and threw up at their feet. A group of people were hidden behind a tiny potted plant and more were trying to squeeze into the elevator. Tomoyo gleefully taped the scene as she walked out the door.
They all made it outside without laughing and left in a vehicle Meilin had delivered to her from the Li clan's private collection.
Meilin drove them to a field half a kilometer from their destination. They traveled through the fields in the general direction of the gardens.
"Sakura, did you just kick me?"
"No."
"Well something just hit the back of my leg."
"Oh, look it's a rabbit."
"No, that would be a rat."
Screaming, they took off running in to the meadow as swiftly as they could. They arrived at the garden ahead of schedule.
"Do you think there are any g-g-ghosts in there?"
"I don't think so Sakura."
"Good, that light I saw must have been my imagination."
"Light?"
"Sakura, go ahead. We'll be right behind you."
They started to walk one behind the other. Sakura was a couple of steps ahead of Tomoyo and Meilin, for filming purposes. Or so they said.
Suddenly Sakura fell, she quickly got back up. Looking down at the object she tripped over she gasped.
"It's ok everyone. It's just a gnome or something equally as ugly." She picked it back up and put it on its perch. They continued to walk toward the middle of the garden.
"I can sense the magic of the tablet from this area." She bent down and picked up the tablet. A branch cracked from the edge of a grove of trees.
A man came out of the woods. Meilin and Tomoyo looked at each other and yelled, "Ghost!" They ran off and left poor Sakura to fight her number one fear on her own.
The phantom came closer; she started to panic. A little closer it creped, she started to hyperventilate. The tablet shifted in her arms as he took yet another stride towards her. Realizing she had to save the tablet, if not herself, she turned and fled.
The poltergeist caught up with her and tackled he to the ground. Sakura, still clutching the tablet, tried to scramble away. The ghost picked her up. Looking into his eyes, she brought her knee up to strike him and… stopped.
"Li-kun? Holy cow, I came this close to kneeing you." She flung herself in his arms and gave him a big hug. "It's good to see you again."
"Sakura, what are you doing here?" He spotted Tomoyo and Meilin over her shoulder. "What are all of you doing here?"
"We could ask the same of you, Syoaran. What are you doing back so soon? I just dropped you off at the airport this morning."
"It turns out that there was no guy on the roof. Some girl said she spotted him. Why anyone would play such a serious trick, I'll never know." He let go of Sakura and started walking towards the parking lot.
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Syoaran started to take a hissy fit on the way back to the car the girls' had left in the gully.
"You let my Mercedes in a ditch!?"
"If you think he's freaking out now, wait until he hears about suicide boy." Sakura whispered to Tomoyo.
"It's probably been turned into a rat's nest, or a shelter to all the homeless animals in the area. It has probably turned into a love nest for some sex obsessed animals."
"He wishes." Meilin whispered loud enough for them all to hear.
"Shut up Meilin."
"Don't worry girls, he's just cranky because he hasn't gotten any in a while. Of course he's always been cranky; ever since he broke up with…"
"Shut up Meilin!"
"Of course he wasn't getting anything from her either."
"Stop it Meilin, I'm warning you."
"Of course there was that time we caught you christening the back seat of this car."
"MEILIN!" He reached over and clamped a hand over her mouth. Right at that moment the car from the opposite lane swerved right in front of them. Li-kun's quick reflexes saved their lives.
The car got totaled anyway. Syoaran may have managed to avoid hitting a car, only to swerve right into a telephone pole.
They all scrambled out of the car and Meilin burst in to tears. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't been teasing Syoaran we would never have got in this mess."
Sakura walked over and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "It wasn't you fault; that incident would have happened in any case. I think it's nice that you feel comfortable enough to tease your cousin."
Li's grumbling voice echoed through the dark. "Is that where you parked my car?"
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That night Sakura dreamed she was in a forest. She was getting closer to the tablet; it's magic seemed to be beckoning her.
A squirrel scattered its way across her path. She was so intent on watching it, she wasn't watching where she was going. A hand grabbed her arm just before she walked in to a fallen tree
She looked over to see Li-kun with a finger to his mouth, signaling silence. Looking back she saw Tomoyo, Meilin and Eriol.
She awoke from her dream. As usual it had taken the whole night for her to see part of the future.
Syoaran was watching her from a chair.
"So, where to next?"
"I don't know. We were in a forest. You were there and so were… England."
"Why England?"
"Eriol was there."
Tomoyo sat up in her bed. She looked at Syoaran and Sakura and muttered something about her imagination. She then fell back to sleep.
"Do you think she likes him?"
"She woke up with the mention of his name, I'd say it's a good bet."
Sakura started to grin. Her grin turned into a full-fledged smile. She then started to laugh evilly.
Syoaran smirked a bit with her then asked what she was cackling about.
"Well Tomoyo is always teasing me about my love life. It's operation payback, do you want to help?"
His thoughts revolved around the words 'love-life' but he just sat there with the usual stoic expression displayed on his face.
"What are you planning?"
"I have no clue."
Meilin awoke and groggily looked at the alarm clock. Rubbing sleep out of her eyes she squinted at Sakura.
"Why are you up so early? It's not like you at all!" Her eyes started to come in to focus and she noticed what she had previously thought was a chair actually had her cousin in it. "That would be why."
"Come on Meilin, it's not that early; it's already 6:30. We have a big day. You wake Tomoyo up and I'll try to wake up her mother."
Sakura crept next door and tried to wake Sonomi. She shook her a couple of times with no response. Desperately she took a pulse. How very relieved she was when she found one.
Noticing a bottle of pills on the nightstand, she picked them up. Sleeping pills, it was no wonder her mom's best friend was sleeping like the dead.
She went over to Sonomi's bathroom and took a shower; hey it was free and it looked like it might be that way for a while. After her shower she went back in to her room. She noticed Meilin and Tomoyo were back to sleep. Li-kun was sitting in the chair looking blankly at a picture of the Eiffel tower. She stubbed her toe on something right next to the door. Looking down she saw the 2nd tablet. She picked it up and met Syoaran's eyes from across the room.
Never breaking eye contact she brought the tablet over to him. She was lucky he wasn't trying to steal her belongings again or she may have handed it over peacefully. Indicating to a snoring Kero across the room she handed to him.
"Do you think you can read this?"
He looked down and furrowed his eyebrows in concentration. "It's the friendship tablet.
Friends are more precious than money or gold.
For these facts you needn't be told.
The Queen of friendship you should be,
Even if you just have a memory.
I guess you're right about England. It mentioned the Queen and a friend you remember."
"The last one mentioned you, so I guess they are pretty accurate."
"It mentioned me?"
"Yes and this one mentioned Eriol."
Tomoyo sat bolt up in bed. She looked at Sakura and Syoaran. Muttering something about her head playing tricks on her she laid back down. Sakura ran over and shook her friend.
"Come on, it's time to wake up."
"Stuff it, sunshine!"
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They were finally all up and out the door by 9. They had explained that Syoaran had stopped by early to pick up Meilin but had decided to stay with his old friends instead of leaving.
Sakura had already took Sonomi aside and asked if they could go to England next. Sonomi readily agreed and commented on how Sakura's sense of adventure was just as good as her mother's.
Syoaran and Meilin decided to give them a tour of Hong Kong. Down at the port Sakura stopped to tie her shoe. The rest of the gang turned the corner, leaving Sakura alone.
A big burly man came up and stuck a gun in her side.
He snarled at her and recited something out of a bad movie. "Gimme all of your money, woman!"
"I don't have any on me." Sakura started to look for a break in his defenses instead of freaking out.
"Sure you do! You've been with the Li's and everyone knows how loaded they are." He looked at her intently for a moment and smirked. "I don't care if your lying, I think I just found my prize."
As his hand started to grope her she brought her elbow up and hit the gun. It jerked and went off.
Syoaran had just finished asking where Sakura had disappeared to when the gun went off. The area was now eerily quiet as they run to the spot the sound came from. They rounded a corner and came face to face with Sakura and her attacker.
Sakura had just slammed him into a wall and had the gun pressed against his temple.
"That cinches it, I'm coming with you to England!" Syoaran stormed, looking at the delicate cherry blossom with a gun held expertly in her hand.
Sonomi who until that moment was sitting on the ground hyperventilating piped up that she thought it was a great idea to have a man with them.
"I'll go too!" Meilin stated with a stubborn tilt of her head. She wasn't about to be left out.
Tomoyo sauntered up to Li-kun and looked him over.
"He's such a handsome and strong guy too." She waited for him to blush. She was disappointed when he didn't even blink.
Hey everyone! Or konnichiwa minna-sama! I've finally finished chapter 3. I've also updated chapter 5 of my other story; This Is Not My Day, it's about Heero having a bad and amusing day. I also have another CCS story called Shadow Man, The Dawn. If you liked this why don't you read it? I may as well promote my other GW story too; it's called Must I Kill You? and it has to be my best.
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