Chapter Six: Time is everything
Reedington Elementary 10 pm.
"SAKURA WHATCH IT!"
Sakura used the jump card just in time to avoid a greenish-grey blast of magic. She landed on the roof next to Li. They looked up to see three card spirits floating in the air. The one on the left wore a grey cloak that covered it's whole body much like the shadow card but they could see long thin skinny arms coming out the small sleeves attached to the cloak, the one on the right looked exactly the same but had a blue cloak and held in each hand an hour glass and the one in the middle also looked the same as the one on the left but with no hood on the cloak it's face was completely grey, it had no hair on it's head and it's eyes were green and empty.
Sakura looked at them "I wish the others were here to help us capture this card"
"Not card Sakura, Cards" Li said
Sakura turned to look at Li "you mean we have to capture 3 cards at once on our own!?"
"Yeah but don't worry" he said smiling at her "we can do this together"
She smiled back at him "yeah Li!"
Li turned and looked at the cards "Sakura you take the one on the left and right and I'll take the one in the middle since it's the most powerful it'd be better if it was captured first"
"Okay and I've got the perfect card to get them with" she said as she smiled and held up the big card. "Right Sakura lets go WIND COME TO MY AID!" Li's wind elemental attack shot him up and the air and used the strength card elbowing the middle one sending it down into the ground.
Sakura used the fly card and grew wings on her back. She then flew upward and used the big card growing some 60 feet tall and grabbed both the card spirits. She smiled down at Li and Li smiled back, he turned and faced the card which had just got to it's feet and was glaring angrily at Li and was caught off guard as Li used his elemental lightning attack against it. The card saw the attack and smiled evilly, it held it's right hand out and suddenly the lightning stopped right in it's tracks.
"What!?"
The lightning disappeared and the card charged at Li kneeing him in the chin knocking him into the ground. The card saw it's chance and fired a greyish-green energy beam which hit Li in the chest.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
As soon as the attack stopped Li stopped moving, unconscious.
"LI!"
Sakura was so concerned about Li she didn't notice that both the cards had freed their hands from her huge fists and where charging beams of their own but by the time Sakura noticed it was too late. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Their attack wasn't strong enough to knock her out at her size but forced her to stumble backwards into the school causing a huge dent in the wall. The cards.getting bored with fighting them took off heading towards the centre of town, Sakura was about to go after them when she remembered Li she floated down to him and picked him up.
"Li!?"
Li opened his eyes slightly and smiled at her "hey Sakura"
She smiled relieved that Li was all right and hugged the tiny Li.
"Sakura please I can't breathe!?"
She took him away from her chest "sorry Li" she said wiping her tears "but the cards got away"
"We'll get another chance Sakura don't worry"
Li's apartment 10 minutes later.
The big Sakura set Li down on the balcony next to Li's room then used the little card to return her to normal size and landed on the balcony next to him. She hugged him and said that she was sorry that Li didn't get the cards.
Li smiled and hugged her back "don't worry I'll talk to Korano and find out about those cards"
Sakura hugged him tighter "okay Li but."
"But what?"
"Um.do you still feel.you know.left out just because my magic's stronger than yours?"
"A bit I don't want to feel this way but I just do"
"Li if you ever want to talk you could always talk to me you know that"
"I know but what if the stuffed animals right, what if I can't pass Korano's final judgement?"
"Li you can do it I know you can. Now go and get to sleep we'll talk tomorrow okay"
He kissed her lightly on the lips "okay night Sakura"
Sakura's house the next day.
"Sakura! Sakura!"
*What is that voice?* Sakura thought and slowly opened her eyes to see the yellow face of Kero right in front of her.
"Kero?"
"Hey Sakura are you alright you were crying in your sleep just now?"
"I.was?" she looked down at her PJ's to see they were soaked.
"It's about the kid isn't it?"
She looked at him "h-how did you."
"You were crying his name is something up?"
"I guess"
Kero went over to her and sat on her lap "Sakura please talk to me I'm really worried about you, you've been acting very strange recently"
"Well.Li's told me that he feels uncomfortable around me because my magic's stronger than his and he's worried about failing the judgement, he pretends it doesn't hurt him to much but I know that he's hurting but it's not like you care is it Kero"
Kero sighed and looked up at her "to be honest Sakura until you and Li fell in love with each other I never liked him but since you too fell in love I guess the kid is not all that bad and I have to say I don't think he'll fail like with Yue"
Sakura smiled and picked him up "Why Kero it's a miracle you like Li!?"
Kero rubbed the back of his neck "I wouldn't say like but."
She hugged him "don't worry Kero and by the way I might be going to Li's later okay?"
"Okay Sakura"
Li's apartment.
"So your saying that the one in the grey cloak was the slow card, the one in the blue cloak was speed and the one with no hood was the stop that explains why my lightning stopped in it's tracks" "Yeah and these particular three when working together only 3 cards can stop" Senosa said flicking through channels on the T.V.
"Which 3 cards are the only ones that can stop them?" Li asked
"The peace, which you have heard of, the restoration and the destruction" Korano answered "Uh-huh now tell me just how do we beat these cards?"
"Their weakness is that when together they have a great degree of power but apart have less, for example if you took one side of a triangle away it isn't a complete triangle it's the same for these 3 cards"
"So basically we have to keep them apart" Li said
"Yes"
Ding-dong
"I'll get it" Li said getting up from the table, he went over to the front door to see a smiling Sakura.
"S-Sakura"
"Um.Li did you find anything out about the cards?"
"Yeah but you didn't have to come over here just to ask me that Sakura"
"Well there is something I need to talk to you about in your room if you don't mind"
"Sure"
They went into Li's room and sat next to each other on Li's bed, Li told her what Korano said about the cards then he asked her what she wanted to talk to him about.
"Li why don't you want to talk about the way you feel you know about me and."
"SAKURA I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT!"
"But Li." Sakura said.
"SAKURA WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!?"
As soon as Li finished his sentence Sakura broke down crying which made Li feel terrible because whenever he sees Sakura cry it feels like someone has ripped his heart out.
He knelt down next to her and hugged her "I'm sorry Sakura just stop crying please Sakura stop!?"
She looked at him, smiled and hugged him back "sorry Li I'm just really worried about you" *I can never stay mad at Sakura* Li thought *wait a minute the cards are back!*
"Sakura?"
"Yes Li"
"I sense the cards"
10 minutes later Reedington high.
"Li are you sure that we can handle this on our own?"
"Of course Sakura"
"This is strange though how the cards hang around the schools first it was the school we used to go to now it's the school we go to"
"Korano said that these cards like to hang around schools"
"Uh-huh so where are they?"
"Up there" Li said pointing at the roof of the school where the cards were standing smiling at them. "Sakura Korano said as soon as they can't see each other then there contact is broken so same plan as last time only make yourself bigger to increase our chances"
"Alright Li" Sakura said as she pulled out the big card and used it this time growing to around 90 feet. She grabbed the speed and slow cards and wrapped her hands around them so that they couldn't see the stop the stop instantly appeared weaker and clearly was having a hard time standing up and not being able to move helped Li a great deal as he used the lightning card which threw the card back into the wall of the school leaving cracks. Li lost no time in using his elemental fire attack however to his dismay the stop card stopped the fire in it's tracks just like with his lightning. The fire disappeared but the card was so busy silently gloating about the fact it had stopped Li's fire that it didn't notice Li use the wet card. The attack made the card weak enough for Li to capture it easily, he turned to see Sakura kneeling down near him.
"Um Li?"
Li looked up at her "yeah Sakura?"
"The cards in my hands were struggling right up until you captured the stop, do you think they are weaker now that you have captured the stop?"
"I don't know open your hands and see"
Sakura opened her hands and the card spirits of the speed and slow fell onto the ground to weak to move which made it easy work for Li to capture them. Sakura picked Li up and hugged him.
"Sakura please I can't breathe"
Sakura stopped hugging Li "sorry I guess I don't learn my lesson huh Li?"
Li hugged Sakura but it wasn't exactly a hug considering his arms hardly got anywhere around her, she hugged him back but not tightly like last time.
"Sakura don't worry about me I'm fine"
Reedington Elementary 10 pm.
"SAKURA WHATCH IT!"
Sakura used the jump card just in time to avoid a greenish-grey blast of magic. She landed on the roof next to Li. They looked up to see three card spirits floating in the air. The one on the left wore a grey cloak that covered it's whole body much like the shadow card but they could see long thin skinny arms coming out the small sleeves attached to the cloak, the one on the right looked exactly the same but had a blue cloak and held in each hand an hour glass and the one in the middle also looked the same as the one on the left but with no hood on the cloak it's face was completely grey, it had no hair on it's head and it's eyes were green and empty.
Sakura looked at them "I wish the others were here to help us capture this card"
"Not card Sakura, Cards" Li said
Sakura turned to look at Li "you mean we have to capture 3 cards at once on our own!?"
"Yeah but don't worry" he said smiling at her "we can do this together"
She smiled back at him "yeah Li!"
Li turned and looked at the cards "Sakura you take the one on the left and right and I'll take the one in the middle since it's the most powerful it'd be better if it was captured first"
"Okay and I've got the perfect card to get them with" she said as she smiled and held up the big card. "Right Sakura lets go WIND COME TO MY AID!" Li's wind elemental attack shot him up and the air and used the strength card elbowing the middle one sending it down into the ground.
Sakura used the fly card and grew wings on her back. She then flew upward and used the big card growing some 60 feet tall and grabbed both the card spirits. She smiled down at Li and Li smiled back, he turned and faced the card which had just got to it's feet and was glaring angrily at Li and was caught off guard as Li used his elemental lightning attack against it. The card saw the attack and smiled evilly, it held it's right hand out and suddenly the lightning stopped right in it's tracks.
"What!?"
The lightning disappeared and the card charged at Li kneeing him in the chin knocking him into the ground. The card saw it's chance and fired a greyish-green energy beam which hit Li in the chest.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
As soon as the attack stopped Li stopped moving, unconscious.
"LI!"
Sakura was so concerned about Li she didn't notice that both the cards had freed their hands from her huge fists and where charging beams of their own but by the time Sakura noticed it was too late. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Their attack wasn't strong enough to knock her out at her size but forced her to stumble backwards into the school causing a huge dent in the wall. The cards.getting bored with fighting them took off heading towards the centre of town, Sakura was about to go after them when she remembered Li she floated down to him and picked him up.
"Li!?"
Li opened his eyes slightly and smiled at her "hey Sakura"
She smiled relieved that Li was all right and hugged the tiny Li.
"Sakura please I can't breathe!?"
She took him away from her chest "sorry Li" she said wiping her tears "but the cards got away"
"We'll get another chance Sakura don't worry"
Li's apartment 10 minutes later.
The big Sakura set Li down on the balcony next to Li's room then used the little card to return her to normal size and landed on the balcony next to him. She hugged him and said that she was sorry that Li didn't get the cards.
Li smiled and hugged her back "don't worry I'll talk to Korano and find out about those cards"
Sakura hugged him tighter "okay Li but."
"But what?"
"Um.do you still feel.you know.left out just because my magic's stronger than yours?"
"A bit I don't want to feel this way but I just do"
"Li if you ever want to talk you could always talk to me you know that"
"I know but what if the stuffed animals right, what if I can't pass Korano's final judgement?"
"Li you can do it I know you can. Now go and get to sleep we'll talk tomorrow okay"
He kissed her lightly on the lips "okay night Sakura"
Sakura's house the next day.
"Sakura! Sakura!"
*What is that voice?* Sakura thought and slowly opened her eyes to see the yellow face of Kero right in front of her.
"Kero?"
"Hey Sakura are you alright you were crying in your sleep just now?"
"I.was?" she looked down at her PJ's to see they were soaked.
"It's about the kid isn't it?"
She looked at him "h-how did you."
"You were crying his name is something up?"
"I guess"
Kero went over to her and sat on her lap "Sakura please talk to me I'm really worried about you, you've been acting very strange recently"
"Well.Li's told me that he feels uncomfortable around me because my magic's stronger than his and he's worried about failing the judgement, he pretends it doesn't hurt him to much but I know that he's hurting but it's not like you care is it Kero"
Kero sighed and looked up at her "to be honest Sakura until you and Li fell in love with each other I never liked him but since you too fell in love I guess the kid is not all that bad and I have to say I don't think he'll fail like with Yue"
Sakura smiled and picked him up "Why Kero it's a miracle you like Li!?"
Kero rubbed the back of his neck "I wouldn't say like but."
She hugged him "don't worry Kero and by the way I might be going to Li's later okay?"
"Okay Sakura"
Li's apartment.
"So your saying that the one in the grey cloak was the slow card, the one in the blue cloak was speed and the one with no hood was the stop that explains why my lightning stopped in it's tracks" "Yeah and these particular three when working together only 3 cards can stop" Senosa said flicking through channels on the T.V.
"Which 3 cards are the only ones that can stop them?" Li asked
"The peace, which you have heard of, the restoration and the destruction" Korano answered "Uh-huh now tell me just how do we beat these cards?"
"Their weakness is that when together they have a great degree of power but apart have less, for example if you took one side of a triangle away it isn't a complete triangle it's the same for these 3 cards"
"So basically we have to keep them apart" Li said
"Yes"
Ding-dong
"I'll get it" Li said getting up from the table, he went over to the front door to see a smiling Sakura.
"S-Sakura"
"Um.Li did you find anything out about the cards?"
"Yeah but you didn't have to come over here just to ask me that Sakura"
"Well there is something I need to talk to you about in your room if you don't mind"
"Sure"
They went into Li's room and sat next to each other on Li's bed, Li told her what Korano said about the cards then he asked her what she wanted to talk to him about.
"Li why don't you want to talk about the way you feel you know about me and."
"SAKURA I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT!"
"But Li." Sakura said.
"SAKURA WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!?"
As soon as Li finished his sentence Sakura broke down crying which made Li feel terrible because whenever he sees Sakura cry it feels like someone has ripped his heart out.
He knelt down next to her and hugged her "I'm sorry Sakura just stop crying please Sakura stop!?"
She looked at him, smiled and hugged him back "sorry Li I'm just really worried about you" *I can never stay mad at Sakura* Li thought *wait a minute the cards are back!*
"Sakura?"
"Yes Li"
"I sense the cards"
10 minutes later Reedington high.
"Li are you sure that we can handle this on our own?"
"Of course Sakura"
"This is strange though how the cards hang around the schools first it was the school we used to go to now it's the school we go to"
"Korano said that these cards like to hang around schools"
"Uh-huh so where are they?"
"Up there" Li said pointing at the roof of the school where the cards were standing smiling at them. "Sakura Korano said as soon as they can't see each other then there contact is broken so same plan as last time only make yourself bigger to increase our chances"
"Alright Li" Sakura said as she pulled out the big card and used it this time growing to around 90 feet. She grabbed the speed and slow cards and wrapped her hands around them so that they couldn't see the stop the stop instantly appeared weaker and clearly was having a hard time standing up and not being able to move helped Li a great deal as he used the lightning card which threw the card back into the wall of the school leaving cracks. Li lost no time in using his elemental fire attack however to his dismay the stop card stopped the fire in it's tracks just like with his lightning. The fire disappeared but the card was so busy silently gloating about the fact it had stopped Li's fire that it didn't notice Li use the wet card. The attack made the card weak enough for Li to capture it easily, he turned to see Sakura kneeling down near him.
"Um Li?"
Li looked up at her "yeah Sakura?"
"The cards in my hands were struggling right up until you captured the stop, do you think they are weaker now that you have captured the stop?"
"I don't know open your hands and see"
Sakura opened her hands and the card spirits of the speed and slow fell onto the ground to weak to move which made it easy work for Li to capture them. Sakura picked Li up and hugged him.
"Sakura please I can't breathe"
Sakura stopped hugging Li "sorry I guess I don't learn my lesson huh Li?"
Li hugged Sakura but it wasn't exactly a hug considering his arms hardly got anywhere around her, she hugged him back but not tightly like last time.
"Sakura don't worry about me I'm fine"