Well, hello! And Welcome to My Little World of Weirdness!

I state for the record that, despite the fact I really, really wish I did, I don't own any of the characters that will grace this story; it's all CLAMP's! Always has been, always will be!

Also I don't pretend to have any Mastery over the language of Japanese or any clue as to correct grammatical structure. I put it in and hope it gets across the point I'm trying to make!

"Speaking"

*Stress/emphasis*

//Thinking//

Guardian Beast of the Seal, Wimpy, Scaredy Cat.

By Dr Megalomania.

[A/N: I've decided to go Humour with just a touch of Angst. . . I hope it works. . . (crosses fingers) here goes]

Part two: What's wrong with him?!

Sakura was the first respond to the terrified yell, and sprinted into the kitchen. She skidded to a halt when she saw her moon guardian lift Keroberos into his arms. Sakura gasped when she realise what was wrong. Keroberos was unconscious.

Touya poked his head around the door, and calmly instructed Yue to bring Keroberos into the living room.

"What's wrong with him?" Meilin jabbed the sleeping lion in the ribs.

"Don't do that!!" Yue snapped and slapped away her hand. She stared at him in amazement; the stoic guardian rarely displayed that much emotion.

 "What's wrong with you?" She asked Yue. Yue looked up sharply at her and scowled.

"You might be making it worst!"

"Make it worst?! The sponge toy is probably just faking it!!" Meilin cried; "he's just probably doing this because nobody wanted to dry him. Look! I can prove it!!" She jumped up and ran into the kitchen.

When she returned she held a small bowl of pudding in front of her. "See? He won't be able to resist this!"

Meilin thrust the pudding in front of Kero's sleeping features. "Hey! Sponge toy!! Look what I got for you!!"

Kero didn't even bat an eyelid. Sakura knelt beside Meilin and shook Kero's shoulder gently. "Kero? Meilin has some pudding for you? Why don't you wake up and have a taste?"

Still no response, "Kero? Please, you're scaring me. Kero please, wake up, wake up." Her voice started to quiver.

"Keroberos, wake up this instant! You are making our mistress worried!" Yue snapped; his voice betrayed a real fear, under the stern command.

When this failed to rouse the sleeping lion, Tomoyo slipped a thermometer under his heavy lips. Sakura frowned slightly, and reached over to stroke his fur. "Yue? Has this ever happened before?"

Yue stood and folded his arms; he bowed his head and closed his eyes.

"Well?" Snapped Meilin, "Answer her!"

"Let him think," Syaoran clamped a restraining hand on her shoulder.

Tomoyo ignored all of this and turned to Touya, she spoke quietly so Sakura couldn't hear them. "He has a fever; we need to lower his temperature first before we can assess what he really has."

Touya thought about methods they could use. "I'll run a cool bath; we'll use that."

"Good, but make sure we have warm towels to dry him with, it may make him worst if we keep him too wet for long."

"Hai." Touya stood and strode out of the room.

Sakura looked at her friend who was peering at the thermometer. "Is he okay? What's wrong?"

Tomoyo's violet eyes looked at her with concern, "He has a hot fever, Touya's going to run a cold bath, and after we get his fever down, we should be able to tell what he has exactly."

"Fever?" Yue said quietly. He eyes were wide open and staring at the purple haired girl with fear.

She nodded. He paced over quickly and knelt down beside Keroberos. "Are you sure?"

"Why?" Sakura asked, //Maybe this had happened before.// she thought worriedly.

She was shocked to hear Yue's voice suddenly take on a scared tone, he suddenly sound like a child. As he spoke she realised he was speaking with the voice of a child that had never come to terms with a terrible memory.

"Clow Reed died when he got too hot . . . I mean it's one of the first things that happened." Yue hadn't ever really dealt with Clow's death, it had been sudden and just a few years after he and Keroberos had been created. A fever had been among the first symptoms. He had just assumed that Clow could never die, but he did, he had also assumed that he and Keroberos could never fall ill, but now Kero was. He rested a worried hand on Kero's chest; the lion's breaths were fast and uneven. His heart beated twice the normal speed, and the skin, under the fur, was warmer than usual to the touch.

Sakura watched all of these emotions flit over her normally impassive guardian's face. "Has this happened before Yue?" She asked patiently.

Yue nodded silently.

"When?" Asked Tomoyo, "Maybe we could heal him just like the last time."

"This didn't happen to Keroberos." Yue looked at her, "It happened to Clow."

Syaoran knelt beside Meilin; he gazed at the worried guardian. "What did you do to cure Clow then?"

Yue swallowed and returned his gaze to Keroberos' heated body. "We couldn't." He stated in a hushed voice, "He died."

Touya returned and placed a hand on Yue's shoulder, "Don't worry we can help him, we'll do the best we can."

"What if your best isn't good enough?" Yue whispered despondently. He hadn't recovered from Clow's death very well, and in some way depended on Kero's raucous behaviour to keep him distracted. If Kero died, he'd not only loose control of his old demons, but also have to face new ones.

"If that should happen . . ." Touya squeezed the depressed angel's shoulder a little harder. "We'll be there to help you."

Yue looked up at the assembled group and realise that, should the worst ever happen and Kero did leave him, he wouldn't be alone.

Sakura leant over one guardian to grasp the hand of the other, she smiled best she could. Trying to tell him silently that she would try to protect him from the past he feared so. She blinked in surprise when she thought she saw a smile flit across his lips, and when she felt his cool hand squeeze hers back. Sakura turned her attention back to Tomoyo. "What do we need to do now?"

"We need to get him up to the bath, and cool his body and lower his temperature." She said, she looked at Yue, "Can you carry him? Or will he be too heavy?"

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And now it's time for LEAVE IT TO DOCTOR MEGALOMANIA!!

DrM: Konnichiwa!! Temptation to . . . put in . . . Famous quote . . . too much!

Yue: You'll do nothing of the sort!! It doesn't even have proper grammatical structure! I would never say anything like that!!

DrM: Fine! I'll put it in here and then the readers can decide where they want to read it as the last line from the story or not . . .

Yue struggled briefly to lift his brother; his skin seemed hotter than before. Once he had Keroberos' lion form comfortable in the cradle of his arms, he stood and looked down at Tomoyo, "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."

Yue: HOW COULD YOU?!

DrM: Very, very easily. I'm sorry; I just couldn't resist the temptation. I'm sorry!!

Yue: So you damn well should be! Well, that's it for another chapter. And I just like to mention, DrM may or may not update this for a bit. . . [glares at DrM, and shakes head disapprovingly] she's supposed to be "working" on school work. . . 

DrM: [mutters] stupid coursework, why isn't there a Clow card that can take care of English lit coursework. . . [starts to mumble about shooting the author of book that DrM is studying] Please R&R!! it helps make me work faster!!