Meilin puts on a mysterious ring and all of a sudden there is a new magic.... Could this be related somehow?
Part 7: Meilin's "Good News" and "Bad News"
"We have to find what it is. It could be evil." Kero said.
"Even if it is, where is it?" Li asked.
Meilin stood up and walked towards Sakura.
Sakura fixed her concentration in Meilin's direction.
"What ever it is, it's in this room!" Sakura shouted.
"We'll help you find it!" Kero said.
"Nasara-san told me that the evil magic is after me... I'm the one it wants."
"Sakura...." Li began. Sakura reached under her shirt and pulled out a key on a necklace.
"Oki no chikara o himeshi kagi yo! Shin no sugata o ware no mae ni shimese. Keiyaku no moto Sakura ga meijiru! Release!!!" As the key transformed into the wand Sakura grabbed it and gripped it with determination.
"I know you here! Show yourself!" Nothing happened. Sakura's face dropped. "Sakura's challenge you! Show your self!" Still nothing happened.
"H-Hooeee.... Kero-chan this hasn't happened before...."
"Sakura, you may have to find it by yourself!" Kero replied.
"H-How?" Sakura asked uneasily.
Kero closed his eyes and glowed a yellow glow.
"I feel it... It's in this room." Kero opened his eyes. "Concentrate, Sakura. Feel its' presence." Yue ordered. Sakura closed her eyes. She felt around the room looking for a presence as if she could see through her eyelids.
"I feel Kero-chan... Yue-san... And Shaoran-kun's magic... But..." Sakura concentrated harder. "But... There's something else... Something... That I've never felt before..." Sakura saw a picture of a rose in her mind. "A rose...?" Immediately after that she saw a picture of Meilin. "Meilin-chan...?" Sakura opened her eyes.
"Meilin-chan..."
Shaoran's eyes widened. So did Kero's.
"What?" Meilin asked.
"You know... Did any of you notice..." Sakura began. "That Meilin-chan..."
"Yeah, I felt it." Kero said, solemnly.
"What are you... Talking about?" Meilin asked.
"It does seem like it's coming from Meilin." Li agreed.
Kero thought for a minute.
"It seems that our Meilin has discovered something new in her life time." Tomoyo said cheerfully.
"I understand now! I understand!" Kero shouted.
"What!?" Sakura asked.
"It's the--!"
"The ring has enforced her magic..." Yue interrupted.
Kero fell over and got into Yue's face.
"I was about to say that!"
"I don't understand..." Meilin said helplessly.
They went back into Sakura's room and examined the letter that Nasara wrote.
" This ring contains extraordinary power. It will help the person who wears it."
"This ring gave Meilin magic?" Sakura asked.
"No it didn't give her magic." Kero replied.
"Then, why??" Li asked
"The ring enforced her magic." Yue continued.
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked. Meilin looked at her ring.
"Although Meilin was never able to use magical powers, I would say that she had magic somewhere deep inside herself. To activate unknown power you need something to enforce it and bring it to the surface." Yue replied.
"I always thought it was strange that Meilin came from a family of sorcerers but didn't have any magic herself." Sakura said.
"So it looks like the brat discovered magic!" Kero shouted.
There was a blank expression on Meilin's face. Meilin whispered:
"I did it....."(Yatta)
Tears filled her eyes.
"Meilin-chan...." Sakura started.
"Are you alright?" Tomoyo asked, worried.
Meilin rubbed her eyes. Meilin jumped into the air screaming:
"I DID IT!!!!!" Meilin ran around the room giggling. She hugged Sakura and Tomoyo at the same time, Then Li, The she picked up Kero hugged him and gave him the noogies. Kero screamed and struggled to get away from her. She finally let go of Kero and accidentally threw him to the wall.
"I'm so Happy!!!!" Meilin shouted as she jumped up and down for joy.
Meilin soon ran out of the room.
"Hey Meilin..." Shaoran began.
Meilin ran out of the room, and out of the house. As she did they could hear faint giggling
The rest of them were back inside dumbfounded.
"Where do you think Meilin-chan went?" Sakura asked.
Tomoyo held up a finger.
"Perhaps she needed to get rid of her nervous energy." Tomoyo said smiling.
"What do you mean?" Li asked.
Meilin ran faster hen she ever did. She ran and jumped for joy at the same time shouting:
"Wai!! WAI!!!!! I did it! I did it!!!"
After a while Meilin calmed down. She smiled and looked up at the sky. She found dark clouds swirl around her.
"I found my place....... In this world of magic..." She thought.
"Thank you!!" She shouted at the sky. Rain slowly fell from the sky and Meilin felt it. Still looking up she said:
"Oh? It's raining." Meilin looked down and put a finger on her chin.
"But... I don't want to got back yet....I'm too happy to be scolded by Shaoran." Meilin thought for a moment.
"I know the Penguin slide!!"
Meilin ran as fast as she could to the penguin slide. She sat under it.
"After...... All these years...... My dreams finally came true." Meilin let her head rest on the penguin.
"I am no longer a disappointment......" Meilin chanted.
She smiled.
"But..... If I have magic..... How can I use them.....?" Meilin thought. Meilin closed her eyes. And thought:
"Shaoran....... I wonder what he is thinking....."
" I hope Meilin didn't get lost." These words echoed in her head. Meilin's eyes snapped open.
"That was Shaoran's voice! Am I going crazy?"
"Maybe if I try it again, it will work." Meilin thought. Meilin closed her eyes.
"Shaoran, what are you thinking?" Meilin asked as she concentrated.
"Maybe, I should go look for her..." Shaoran's words echoed in her mind again. This hurt Meilin's head.
"Is.... This....... My power?" Meilin asked herself.
Meilin lightly patted her toes onto the sand.
Just then the pale and shovel that was in front of her, fell over. Meilin's eyes widened. Meilin crawled over to the pale. She picked up and put it on the ground. She slapped her the palm of her hand to the ground and it fell over again.
"I can make things move?" Meilin pounded her first to the ground. The whole penguin park shook with great power. Meilin screamed.
"What is this?"
She stood up and walked towards the entrance to the park. She saw a bird's nest that was on the ground with birds chirping in it. Meilin's face saddened. She took her hand and held it out face down she moved her hand upwards and focused on the bird's nest. The bird's nest flew up from the ground and into a comfortable spot on a tree branch. Meilin looked at her ring and smiled.
"So, this is my power!" Meilin thought, delighted.
Meilin closed her eyes. "Shaoran, if you can hear me, come to the penguin slide. Bring Daidouji-san and Sakura-san."
Meilin stopped. Her head hurt from doing this. She opened her eyes and found that she wasn't in the Penguin park. She felt like she was on a water slide. She was traveling through some kind of dimension.
"What?" She started to fall faster and faster she closed her eyes and screamed. Suddenly she stopped. She gave a yelp. She slowly opened her eyes. She felt like she was in the north-pole. There was snow everywhere. Strangely it was still raining.
"Where am I??"
Meilin began to walk. She continued to walk, not knowing where she was. The rain poured harder onto her skin. A tear fell down her cheek. Then she looked up she spotted something familiar. Meilin saw a police station.
A dark figure was watching her from on top of a hill covered in snow. The rain poured by the gallons.
Meilin timidly walked around this 'Winter Wonderland'. All of a sudden a boy about her age stepped in front of her.
"I believe you know something that I would like to know." The boy said with an evil smile. Although he looked well groomed, dressed, and handsome, he looked mean. He had a bad look to his face.
Meilin was a little shocked.
She pushed passed him.
"I'll be on my way." Meilin said, firmly.
"I don't think so." The boy said again stepping in front of her. Meilin became infuriated. She didn't like it when men thought they were better then her and she was getting irritated by the rain. She looked at him and whipped her head to the left. He fell to the ground. Meilin smiled at the wonderful things her magic could do. She lifted her head and continued walking. More boys appeared in front of her. Meilin looked back and there were boys behind her as well. Meilin then realized that they had surrounded her. Meilin gritted at her teeth as a small drop of sweat rolled down the side if her face. Although you can't really notice it because of the rain.
"W-What do you want?" Meilin asked as she turned around. There was no answer from them.
"Answer me!" Meilin ordered.
Meilin tried to push through them. They wouldn't let her through.
"Move aside!" Meilin yelled.
Meilin punched the nearest person she could, but the person just blocked it. A cling was heard. Meilin's ring had fallen off her finger and fell to the ground. Meilin didn't notice. Meilin continued to throw punches and kicks where ever she could but the men just seemed to ignore them.
"Let me go!" Meilin barked.
"There is no need to fight." A boy said, walking into the circle.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Meilin asked.
"Quiet! I will be the one asking the questions." The boy shouted.
Meilin was furious.
"Now, why was it that you had magic before, when you were summoned here and now you don't?" The boy asked.
Meilin's eyes widened. " I was summoned here?" Meilin thought
"What?" Meilin asked the boy.
"Answer me!" The boy shouted, losing his patience.
"I don't know what you're talking about! Meilin shouted.
"You..... You know something.... Don't you? I know you do." The boy asked, as the wind hit his hair.
Meilin slightly gasped. She closed her eyes.
"What is this boy thinking?" Meilin thought. Meilin didn't hear anything. Her eyes snapped open in shock. She tried again.
"What is this boy thinking?" Still she didn't hear anything. Meilin's eyes snapped open.
"What happened to my power?"
Meilin could no longer feel the magic inside her. She put that feeling aside for a moment and snapped back into reality.
"Listen, I don't know anything about you, I don't know anything that I could hide from you, and you must be crazy if you actually think magic is real!"
"Why should I believe you?"
Meilin face became infuriated.
"Let me go!!!" Meilin screamed. Meilin punched the boy in the face. Her clothes began to stick to her skin. She screamed out shouts of battle in every hit. She punched him low in the gut. She kicked him, jumped up in the air, twirled and landed on his head. She knocked him to the ground. She had almost defeated him. Meilin stopped and began to pant. She looked at him. He was pitifully lying there on the ground.
"You think you're tough? Get up and face me you wimp!!"
A boy slowly crept up behind Meilin. He touched his hand to her head and it glowed a blue aura. Meilin whimpered and fell to the floor. She seemed to lose consciousness. The boy staggered to his feet, with bruises and such all over his body.
"You killed her?" The boy asked.
"No, " The boy replied. "She's only passed out"
"Even though she seemed to have some kind of power, she won't be bothering us for a while."
"Should we take her with us?" one of the boys asked.
"No." The boy replied. " She knows nothing of us. Let's go!" The boy shouted in pain. They all ran towards the frozen ocean and they dove in.
A moment later Meilin slightly opened her eyes. She found her ring lying in front of her. She picked it up and put it on her finger. She felt the magic surge through her body. She staggered to her feet. Her head throbbed with pain. She felt her head with her hand. She fell to the ground in pain. She closed her eyes.
"Sakura-san Help...." Meilin moaned she didn't move. She wasn't asleep, she wasn't awake. She lost consciousness.
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Meilin is so cool, yet so injured. Will she die in this "Winter Wonderland"? Nah.... Not my Meilin!