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All her friends were in what appeared to be panels of glass. They all had their hands up to the glass, as if they were frozen there.
"Do you wish to save your friends?" a voice said.
"Yes. I will save them!" She held her staff in the air. "Sword card, release!" Her staff changed into a sword as she held it up about to cut Kero free from the prison he was in. She sliced and Kero fell limp to the ground.
"No cheating now." All of the tall glass mirrors began to disappear.
"No! Meilin! Madison!" She aimed for Li, and sliced. He too fell to the ground, next to Kero.
"I thought I said no cheating. Now I will have to send you back to your world and capture more people you love, and that card while I'm at it." The staff returned to its normal form.
"Fly!" Sakura yelled as she made contact with her staff and the Fly Card. Suddenly, the staff's wings grew and she grabbed Li and Kero, who were near consciousness, and flew up. She saw a bit of light and flew toward it as fast as she could.
"Sakura! What happened? Where are we?"
"Kero! We have to get put of here! Get in my bag, quick!" Kero got in her bag as she flew faster toward the light. "Li, it's gonna be ok, I'll get us out of here, I promise. If you can hear me, I made a promise, and I am gonna keep it!" When she finally reached the light, she was soaked with sweat. She looks around only to see that she was in the old well where all of the trouble last time started. She passed out soon after she got out of what was left of the well.
Sakura awoke soon after that. Li was next to her and Kero was pounding on her bag trying to get out.
"Hey! Sakura! Wake up and let me out!"
"Ok Kero, I'm coming." She reached around her back to get her bag when she saw Li move. She quickly released Kero and got up and walked to Li. "Li! You ok? Li, talk to me, come on please."
"Sa-Sakura? What, what happened? Where's Meilin?" Li managed to say, weakly.
"I don't know. What do you remember last?"
"I was in the living room with you and Madison, Meilin and Kero too. But then there was a great flash of light and then, I was here."
"LI!" She fell into Li's arms. "They are there! Madison and Meilin. They are still in those glass mirrors. I couldn't save them, I'm so sorry." She started to cry into his shoulder.
"Sakura." Li was in shock. He lost some of his memory and she was rambling on about losing Meilin and Madison. He did the only thing he knew to do, put his arm around her and comforted her. She still cried in his arms and he held her close, trying to calm her. "Sakura, it's alright. We'll get them back. Check the book to see if any more cards are missing." She stopped crying long enough to get out her book and check.
"I'm missing Sword and a bunch of others!" Sakura started to try again, but held herself back.
"Sakura, we have to get the others back. Let's go back to my house, it's not too far from here, OK?" Sakura nodded her head and Li helped her up. They started to walk away when a voice came from the ruins of the well.
"You will return to me! You will if you want to get your friends back, Sakura!" then the voice disappeared.
"That's was the voice! That's was the voice that took Madison and Meilin."
"Its ok Sakura, we will get them back. Remember, the promise? We work as a team."
"Right Li, thank you."
"Hey! What about me! Does anyone care to know if got hurt!" They both looked back at Kero, who had a hurt look in his eyes.
"Sorry Kero, are you ok?
"Yea, thanks for asking! How many cards do you still have?" Kero asked.
"Not sure yet."
"We can find out when get back to my house, okay Kero? Can't you see that Sakura is freaked enough? Lay off for now?"
"Look who's talking!"
"Just stop it!" Sakura pulled away from Li and stared at them both. "Just stop it. I can't take much more! I just want Madison and Meilin back, that's all." The two stopped talking and they all made their way to Li's house, only to be greeted by Li's sisters.
"Hi Li, Sakura!" They all said in unison.
"Where's mom?"
"She is in the study." They made a way for them all to pass. When they walked into the study, Li's mom had a book in her lap.
"What happened to you three?" She asked in concern.
"They're gone! Madison and Meilin, they are both gone! The card took them and I couldn't stop it!" Sakura hit her knees, her eyes filled with tears, though she shed none.
"Sakura, it will be alright, where did you go?"
"I climbed out of the well. But before that we were in the living room and then I was in this place, it was really dark and I couldn't see anything, but the four glass mirrors that Kero, Li, Madison, and Meilin were in. I couldn't save them all! I should have them all out."
"You did the best you could Sakura. I know you will get them back, I believe in you."
"So do I Sakura. We will get them back." Li said, tring to calm her down.
"Yea, we are friends and we'll get them back!"
"Sakura, let's find out what cards you have, ok?" Kero said after being quiet, which took effort, for a while.
"Um, ok. I guess we can take a look." She reached in for the card book and found it to be gone! "Oh no! It's gone!"
"What do you mean it's gone! Sakura! It has got to be in there somewhere!" Kero yelled.
"Sakura, you had it back at the well, right?"
"I thought I did, I had it out..maybe its still back there!" She ran to the door and was about to open it.
"No, I'll go back, Kero can come to. You should stay here and rest. I'll be back, with the Clow book and you just rest, okay Sakura?"
"Promise, you'll come back. Whether the book is there or not, okay?" Li walks to her and holds her hands in his.
"I promise. I'll come back soon." He hugs her and walks out the door as Kero follows.
When Li got to the well, he looked for the book; he found it easily near the well where they had landed. Clouds covered this area and a weird kind of aura filled the air.
"Get it and lets get out of here, Li! Come on, lets go."
"Got it," he said as he picked it up, held it close, and turned away from the well. As he did, he heard a voice from behind him.
"Give the book." It was different then the last voice, its sounded female now. "Give it back to me."
"No way! Its Sakura's not yours. I'm going to give it back to her." He started to walk away from the well but Kero yelled and Li turned around.
"LI! Help me, come on!"
"Fire!" he used his sword on a fire template, to attack what had a hold of Kero, with a huge burst of flame. It appeared to be the upper part of a woman with long hair. The hair had Kero by the tail and the woman's stomach appeared to be stretched out from the well. Once she had released Kero, she retreated back into the well and everything returned to normal. They made their way back to Li's house as he opened the door to find his mother and sisters nowhere in sight. "Mom? Sakura? Where are you guys?"
"They are not here, Li Shoaron. They have stepped out for the moment. But I would be happy to lead you to them!" a voice said in an evil way.
"Where are Sakura, my mom and my sisters?" the house began to shake and Li fell.
"Get up Li, we have to get out of here!" Kero placed one of his paws on the door only to get shocked.
"Kero, transform and open the door, hurry!" Kero transformed into his true form and knocked the door down. Li jumped onto Keroberos' back and ran out of the house as it crumbled to the ground.
"Li, that's wasn't your house, you know that right?"
"Yea, I do. But then where is my house?"
"Li?"
"Sakura!" He ran thru the rumble to find her laying on the ground, next to his mom. "Mom!"
"Li, a man walked in and blew the house up. I tried to save your mom, but I'm not sure if she is.."
"It's fine, Sakura, I'm alive."
"Mom!" Li hugged his mom. "Where are my sisters?"
"They were out at the time. I sent them to stay with friends."
"Sakura! Are you hurt Sakura?"
"Kero. Did you guys get the book?"
"Yea, we got it. Here." Li handed Sakura the Clow book. She opened it to find most of the cards gone.
"Li, the cards, most of them are gone."
"'Cards', what are' the cards'?"
"Sakura, Li is forgetting you, remember? That's the Lover's card's ultimate power."
"He's.. He's forgetting me? I have to get the cards back! Kero, let's go to the well, that has to be where it is."
"You can't do anything right now. You might want to get the other guardian before trying to return to that world. Where is your place? May I stay there?"
"Sure, I'll show you." Sakura got up, and showed them to her hotel, but not before Keroberos returned to Kero. Tory and Julian were there already and her dad was still at work.
"Tory, Julian you remember Ms. Shoaron right?"
"Yes, how are you today ma'am?" Tory tried to kiss up.
"Just fine, thank you."
"Julian, can I show you something really quick?"
"Sure Sakura." Julian and Sakura walk into a room away from the main apartment room, a bedroom. "What is it you wanted to show me, Sakura?"
"I actually need to talk to Yue. If you don't mine, of course." Julian became Yue and he sat on the bed and motioned Sakura to sit next to him. She sat next to him and looked him in the eyes. Yue sensed the pain in her voice as she told him everything that had happened so far.
"I am asking you, not just as the guardian of the cards, not as the new owner of the cards, but as a friend. Help me fight and regain the cards, please."
"Of course I will. Julian has been your friend for a while now, and I have grown to like you as well." Yue gains a slight tint to his cheeks, but turns away so Sakura does not see.
"I see. Thank you Yue!" She got up and hugged him.
"Y-your welcome." Yue reluctantly hugged Sakura back. Yue became Julian once again and they walked out of the bedroom, Julian quite confused.
"Ms. Shoaron, you may have this room, no one is using it yet." Tory said. They quickly made up the excuse that the house was being remodeled and they spoke with Sakura's father on a cell phone.
"Yes, thank you." She bowed in respect and walked into the room. As it got later and later Sakura got more and more worried about her dad. Then suddenly, the phone rang. Sakura jolted upright in her bed as she reached over for the phone and answered it.
"Sakura, is that you Sakura?"
"Yes, my name is Sakura but how did you know? Who are you?"
"My name is not important right now, but what is important right now is that you find your true enemy before it is too late to stop it."
"What are you talking about? What do you mean my true enemy?"
"Right now, Li and his mom are being taken to your true enemy."
"How do you know all this?"
"Just find out where your enemy is and defeat it before it is too late for your friends!" that was when the voice hung up.
"Hello..hello? Hello!" No answer. She hung up the phone and ran to Li's room. Empty. Then she made her way to Ms. Shoaron's room. Empty as well. She finally returned to her room and woke up Kero. "Kero, wake up!"
"Breakfast already? I'll eat in my room, I want to play video games first."
"Kero! Snap out of it! We have to get to the well, come on!"
"Huh, what? Oh, sure, now you wake me up, right before 2 am. I told you to wake me up at 12, remember?" he told her sarcastically.
"Kero, come on! I'm not kidding anymore. We have to go, now! Go wake up Yue, we are leaving!"
"Alright, alright." Kero floated to the next apartment room where Sakura's dad, Julian, and Tori were sleeping. When Kero floated into Julian's bed, he found it empty. Kero quickly returned to Sakura's room only to find that she was dressed already. "Yue must be out doing rounds around our old neighborhood. I'll go and check." He became Keroberos and flew out the window. Sakura was wearing the new outfit that Madison had made for her before she was taken. Sakura walked to the window not seeing anyone.
"Kero! Where are you? Yue!"
"We are right here Sakura. I found him, about to do his last run for the evening."
"Yue, we are going to the well, okay?"
"Right Sakura. Want me to give you a ride?" He knew she had lost the fly and jump cards.
"No thanks, I'll have Kero give me a ride, k?"
"Sure Sakura."
"Let's go then." Keroberos flew close to the window allowing Sakura to jump on and fly away on the back of one of her only best friends left.
"Let's save Li and the others, I know I can save them!" She held her fist high in the air as they flew.
Hi there, another cliffhanger. I love to write, whether it is poems or fanfics or just stories. Tell me the pros and cons of this chapter. Send me emails! I love to get emails. I better rap up cause I gotta start Ch 4! I'm so happy and excited! I never thought it would end like this! I have a plan for this story, I might even write a sequel! If I get enough complements that is. See u next chapter!