The rest of the week went by smoothly, no bad magic was felt and no one attempted to attack the group. It was Friday afternoon, and the group had decided to head to Sakura's house for a little bit. There was a fair at the nearby shrine and they had decided to go together. They gathered outside of the school and walked together the short distance to the Kinomoto household.
When the group arrived at the house, they saw a very angry Nakuru pounding on the front door and shouting, "LET ME IN!"
From inside, they heard Keroberus' voice holler, "Not on your life you annoying, demented, butterfly."
Not noticing her master and friends approaching, she whined back, "but you let Suppi in!"
Surprisingly, they heard Yue's voice shout from the other side of the door, "he isn't nearly as annoying as you are."
That caused Nakuru to start whining, high pitched and annoying to any ears, and she turned and sat down on the front step. She then looked up and saw that Sakura was there and she smiled almost evilly. She stood back up and yelled at the occupants inside the house, "you guys are in trouble now. Your mistress is here and she will make you let me in."
"You can't fool us. She doesn't come home until 3:30." Keroberus hollered back out.
"Um, Kero. It's 3:35." Spinel said to the triumphant looking Keroberus.
Kero's face fell and he looked panicked. He quickly transformed into his smaller form and flew rapidly up the stairs. After some shuffling the front door opened and Yue stood there, Spinel standing just behind him in the narrow front hallway. Nakuru stomped up to Yue and looked up into his eyes and said, "where is that little stuffed animal. I'll rip his tail off."
Yue looked down at her, no emotion showing on his face and said, "I don't know."
Nakuru huffed, folded her arms across her chest, and stomped into the living room. Yue looked out at the group and saw that, along with his mistress, the girl stood about a foot behind her. He glanced at her before looking back at his mistress when she asked, "What is going on?"
"Keroberus shut the door in Nakuru's face and would only let Spinel in." Yue said simply, as if it should have been obvious.
Sakura sighed exasperatedly and walked into the house, the rest of the group following close behind. She motioned for the others to enter the living room while she went upstairs to search for the elusive Keroberus. After a few minutes she came back down empty handed and smirked as she said, in a loud voice, "I guess he doesn't want any of this pudding that I brought him."
"PUDDING!" was heard from somewhere upstairs and a little yellow lion flew down the stairs at high speed.
Sakura snatched him out of the air and dragged him into the living room to be met by the angry stare of Ruby Moon. "Okay Kero, now apologize to Ruby." Sakura demanded, staring intently at the little creature in her hand.
"No way," he squeaked, "She deserved it."
"Kero, do this and you only get a week of no sweets. Don't and you get a whole month without anything sweet."
Kero paled at this and said, in a quiet, whispery voice, "I'm sorry."
Ruby smirked triumphantly and said, "I'm afraid I couldn't hear you that well. What did you say?"
"I'm sorry! All right!" Kero hollered. Sakura let him go and he flew over to the couch and sat on the arm next to Tomoyo.
Yue had made some tea and brought it out for the gang. Sakura thanked him and then asked, "Yue, do you want to go to the fair with us tonight?"
Yue had been acting a little occupied this past week and she really did want him to get out more but she knew that he would say no like always, so she was pleasantly surprised when he answered, "I would like that Sakura. When is it?"
Her chin nearly on the floor, she gaped at him until the question reached her mind and said, "Um, we're leaving at seven." Yue nodded and then made his way upstairs. Sakura turned to face the group and saw that everyone but Celeste was also gaping at the retreating form of her moon guardian.
"That was weird," Shaoran commented, "he never wants to leave the house."
"He probably just wants to stay close to Sakura, what with Soren after us and all." Eriol said.
The rest of the evening was spent talking and laughing about different things. When seven o'clock rolled around, the group prepared to leave and Yue came down the stairs. He wore a white T-shirt with a dark purple, button-up over shirt with the top three buttons undone. The over shirt was untucked in a pair of black jeans that fit perfectly over his narrow hips and reached his feet. There, he wore a pair of white sneaker, streaked with black. His hair was pulled back and tied, the end of which was pulled up and doubled into the band so that it didn't drag the ground.
The group stared at him. He ignored their stares and asked, "Are we leaving now?"
They broke their stares, looking sheepishly at the ground, and finished getting ready to leave. As they walked to the fair, they talked about all of the fun things they wanted to do.
Once they reached the fair, Yue followed his mistress and her friends around and watched them play the different games. Sakura even got him to play an archery game at which he won a stuffed animal for all three of the girls, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Celeste, making Shaoran and Eriol give him dirty looks when he gave the animals to their girlfriends. Celeste just accepted the stuffed animal with a polite bow and a thank you.
The group then decided to listen to the little concert that was playing. Yue, not wanting to be in the middle of the large group gathering in front of the stage, stood off to the side, leaning against a tree on the edge of a nearby forest.
Sakura listened to the music, clinging to the arm of Shaoran, who was as happy as can be at the closeness, and sighed happily. Suddenly, she felt something, like a part of her was just torn away. Shaoran saw her wince and motioned for the others to follow him out of the crowd. Once they got to the edge, he asked her what was wrong.
"Something's wrong. It feels like a part of me has disappeared." Sakura tried to explain, not really sure herself of what was wrong.
"Well, let's find Yue and get out of here." Shaoran said as he looked towards where they had left the moon guardian. He wasn't there. "Hey, where did Yue go?"
They looked around for a few minutes but couldn't find him anywhere. Just then Sakura gasped, "That's it. I can't feel Yue anymore. He isn't using my magic anymore."
Kero stuck his head out of her bag and said, "That's impossible. If he isn't taking magic from you, he must be . . ." He trailed off, not voicing what everyone was by now thinking.
"We have to find him. I'll use the cards to help search for him. We have to find him. He can't be . . ." Sakura's eyes began watering and Shaoran held her close.
"Don't worry Sakura. We'll find him." Shaoran reassured and the group walked into the forest. "Why don't we split up and search. Sakura, Kero, and I will go that way," Shaoran said pointing in a direction, "Spinel and Celeste will go that way," and he pointed in another direction, "and Eriol and Nakuru will go that way. Tomoyo, why don't you go back to Sakura's house and tell her dad that we will be late."
Everyone agreed to Shaoran's plan. Sakura called out the Shadow Card to search for Yue's shadow and the Fly Card to allow her to get an above view while Shaoran ran along the ground, searching beneath the trees. Keroberus and Spinel transformed into their larger forms, ready to battle with anything that came for them. Nakuru transformed into Ruby Moon and Celeste called upon her wings and staff, while Eriol called upon his staff as well. They all set off in search of the elusive Moon Guardian.
Soren stood some ten feet above the ground, floating in mid air. About three feet below him, in a round bubble, the Moon Guardian of the Clow Cards was trapped. Yue was very much aware that the shield around him was blocking the magic that came to him from his mistress. Also, because the moon was only a small sliver in the sky, having just come out of the new moon, he wasn't receiving much energy from that.
He had tried to escape, but that had used up most of the little energy he had. He now had to listen to the ranting of the crazy man above him.
"She will come for you and then I will have her. She will suffer for everything he did and then I will just kill the rest of you and take the power of that little girl you call mistress. The reincarnation of Clow will also give me his power whether he wants to or not. They will all die and you, my little angel, will be the bait."
Soren couldn't hear Yue's reply, as he had made sure that the shield was sound proof as well as unbreakable. No matter what, it could not be broken from the outside and the moon guardian was too weak to break out. Everything was coming together perfectly. All he had to do was be patient and his revenge would soon be complete.