Hello Everyone! This was originally the second half of chapter 8. Chapter 8 was originally named "The Mysterious Ice Woman and Rescuing Meilin." I changed woman to Hime because Hime means some sort of princess. What was I supposed to do? I wanted to post something soon so people wouldn't get mad at me. By the way, I know some people think I probably haven't seen the Japanese version because I don't add chan or kun at the end of their names. I have started to add that in and I've edited all of my chapters. I realized that with out that, it loses its' spark. I have so far 13 DVD's of Cardcaptor Sakura. And I have written episode scripts. If anyone would care to look at them, e-mail me or tell me your e-mail in your review.

Part 9: Rescuing Meilin

A set of eyes open, awakened to a world of blur. Every where is white. As the blur clears away she sees the tubes coming out of her wrist, and realizes she is in the hospital. Feeling the pain in her head, she sits up. Her eyes barely parted.

"Why am I..."

The nurse looked at the patient and walked toward her.

"So, your awake."

Meilin looked up with her eyes wider now.

"Um... Why am I here? Where am I?"

"You are in the Kyushu - Okinawa hospital.

Meilin lifted her head up and a looked around. Her eyes saddened.

"Hospital..."

Meilin quickly checked her finger to see if she still had her ring on her finger. It wasn't.

The nurse walked over to her side.

"Let's have a look..."

The nurse examined her head where there was a deep cut and a large bruise.

"Ahh!" She swallowed her pain.

The Nurse laid her back on the pillow.

"Everything will be fine." The nurse said softly.

"Your family is here..." The nurse looked at a clipboard at the end of her bed.

"....Meilin Li."

"My Family?" Meilin asked, surprised.

"Yes. Would you like to see them before you get your stitches?" Meilin's face turned blue.

"S-Stitches?" Meilin said dizzily.

"Yes, If you would like it to heal quickly and not get it infected."

Meilin's face toughened again.

"If I have to..."

"Would you like to see them now?" The nurse asked.

Meilin raised her head and looked at her with confusion.

"Your family."

"U-Um I..."

"I will get them for you. You just wait here." The nurse quickly walked out the door and closed it behind her.

Meilin wanted to yell "wait!", but she didn't. She somehow couldn't.

"Could it be... That my family came here all the way from Hong Kong? Could it be they want to take me back?"

Meilin's eyes saddened. She heard a click coming from the door and turned her head helplessly. Her eyes trembled.

The door slowly opened and she saw.... Sakura, Li, and Tomoyo.

"Meilin-chan!" Sakura shouted as she rushed to her side. The other two were soon to follow.

"Are you alright?" Tomoyo asked.

"U-Um... They told me that my family was here. Where are they? Did they come all the way from Hong Kong just to see me?"

"Hoe?"

Tomoyo and Sakura looked at each other in confusion.

"No." Li replied. "We all had to put our names under Li in order to see you." He said calmly.

"You thought that your real family came here, Meilin-chan!?" Sakura asked.

Meilin slumped over.

"Yes, But I'm glad that they didn't.... I'm glad...they didn't..." Meilin lowered her head.

Li came over to Meilin's side and sat on her bed.

"It not your fault Meilin. It's not your fault that this happened." Li told her.

Sakura and Tomoyo looked at each other in awe.

"Shaoran... How do you know?"

He smiled. "Nothing is ever your fault."

Meilin wanted to smile. She wanted to hug him for making her feel better. For some reason she didn't. Seeing this he frowned. He looked at her head and without warning he felt it.

"Ahh!" Meilin shouted in pain.

"Are you alright?" Tomoyo asked.

Meilin swallowed her pain once again, making it look like nothing in her hurt and she looked up at them with a reassurance.

"Yeah... I'm fine."

Li frowned. "There is no way that you are fine Meilin!"

Sakura's face saddened.

"Meilin-chan... You shouldn't say your fine when you're not."

"I didn't die. So, I'm perfectly fine."

Meilin snapped. "Sheesh... I shouldn't even be in this hospital."

"What do you mean?" Li scolded. "This hospital is the reason why you're alive now!"

Meilin's head throbbed and she suddenly became completely light headed. Her eyes closed half way as she fell backwards in bed.

"Meilin-chan!" Sakura shouted in worry.

Meilin opened her eyes again.

"I'm sorry." She said softly "But..."

"Meilin how did you get all the way out there in the first place?" Tomoyo asked.

" I... Don't know..." Meilin whispered. "I had only closed my eyes for a second... And I was just there..." Meilin whispered even softer. She turned her head to look at the glass of water beside her.

"My power..."

"Meilin-chan, have you figured out how to use your power?" Sakura asked excitedly.

Meilin who was still lying down said:

"Yeah, but I need my ring."

Li took the ring out of his pocket.

"I though it was best that we should only give it to you when you woke up."

Meilin smiled and put the ring on which had fit around her slender finger perfectly and felt the surge of magic rush through her body again. Meilin tapped the side of the table twice where there was a glass of water on the other side. As her hand met the table, the glass fell over. The water spilled and trickled onto the floor. The rest of them looked at her dumbfounded with their eyes wide.

"Meilin-chan, that was wonderful." Tomoyo praised.

Meilin smiled.

"With more practice, I would be able to put the water back into the cup."

"That's good" Li remarked. "Now we know that your magic isn't just about making messes. It's about making messes and cleaning them up."

"That's not true!" Meilin whined. "I wouldn't even have to be here, if my ring hadn't fallen off."

"What do you mean Meilin-chan?" Sakura asked. "Is that why you got into trouble? Because your ring fell off?"

"Yeah. Although it took me a while to figure that out." Meilin's face saddened.

"I don't even know how I got there..."

They all looked at her with curiosity.

"Please, tell us what happened." Tomoyo said.

"I had only closed my eyes for a second to contact you."

"To contact us?" Tomoyo asked.

"Yeah, If I close my eyes and concentrate I can talk to other people."

"So that is why we heard your voice in our head!?"

"Yes. I contacted you to try and then when I opened my eyes I was in this place filled with snow. Where there was no one in sight." Meilin closed her eyes scornfully. " I never want to go there again." She opened her eyes again. " Before I knew I was surrounded by this gang of boys. And this one very handsome boy came up to me."

"Handsome?" Sakura questioned.

"Yeah. He was really good-looking but he ruined all of that with his attitude. He didn't have any magic and was very weak. They all formed a circle around me so I couldn't get through. I tried to fight my way through the men but they wouldn't budge. No matter how many times I had fought them they wouldn't move at all. Amazing self defense magic."

*Flash*

"Quiet! I will be the one asking the questions."

*Flash*

"The boy said..." Meilin's eyes looked distant and sad.

"He said I was summoned there... He said that I knew something..."

*Flash*

(A shot of the boys face is shown)

"You..... You know something.... Don't you?

(A shot of his mouth)

"I know you do." These words echo over and over again in Meilin's mind.

*Flash*

"It must have been when I was fighting that the ring fell off. My magic wouldn't work..."

"Was he the one who hurt you, Meilin-chan!?" Sakura asked infuriated.

"No... While I was fighting him someone used their powers to knock me unconscious." Meilin rubbed her head.

"The next thing that I knew, I was here...But... How did I get here?"

"Well..." Li began. "After we heard your voice in our head we decided to go to the penguin park.

*Flash*

As the heavy rain continued to fall, they walked all around, turning their heads in different directions, searching the penguin park. Sakura searched in the bushes.

"Meilin-chan!" She shouted.

Tomoyo looked under the Penguin slide. She shook her head and sighed sadly.

Li stood on top of the penguin slide's crown and searched the area from above, shading his eyes with his hand.

"Meilin!" he shouted out.

Sakura continued to look but she couldn't help but cry.

"Meilin-chan... Where are you?"

Li jumped from the slide and hurried over to Sakura.

"Don't cry..." He began.

Sakura looked up at him with tears in her eyes. Li smiled.

"It won't be long until we find her. Everything will be all right."

Sakura scrunched up her eyes.

"But.... Before, we could feel her presence... Now it's not here."

Li looked at her, a little surprised.

"Why?" She asked herself.

"She's right... What are we going to do?" Li asked himself.

Tomoyo came up to them. "

She's not anywhere in sight. We should go back and inform the police."

"Sakura-san Help..."

Sakura rose her head in alert.

"Meilin-chan's voice!"

"What wrong!?" Li asked.

Sakura grabbed her Sakura key.

"Release!" She ordered quickly. Then she took out the fly card.

"Sprout your wings from my staff, and grant us your power to fly about the skies! Fly!" Sakura smacked the card with her staff and the fly card's wings sprout from her staff allowing the three of them to fly on it. (The reason the fly card's wings came from the staff instead of Sakura's back is because she needs Tomoyo and Li to come with her.)

They flew past buildings and cities in seconds. Sakura continued to fly faster and faster. They couldn't even feel the rain anymore. Tomoyo scrunched her eyes in fear. Li stared at the ground below them and how remarkably fast they were going. He was dumbfounded at how strong the magic in her cards became.

"Sakura-chan! aren't we going too fast!?" Tomoyo asked.

"Everything will be fine! Just hang on!"

They continued going faster and faster and faster. Li looked at the ground, but he saw nothing. Everything was a complete blur. His face tightened. They all felt like they were on a water slide. Like they were going through another dimension.

"Hey Sakura!!" Li shouted. He couldn't hear himself. Tomoyo and Sakura didn't hear him either. They were going to fast. Li gasped. Suddenly, they were all on the ground. They were in 'winter wonderland'. No one was in sight. Tomoyo and Li got of the staff, dazed. She returned the fly card and gripped her staff tightly. Strangely it was raining. She could now feel the rain pelting on her skin again.

"Where are we?" Tomoyo asked worried.

Li looked at the snow above him and the rain below him.

"Why is it raining? It should be snowing."

Sakura looked around. They had gone so far away that they didn't even know where they were. They only got there by trying to feel Meilin's presence.

"But, Where are we now?" Tomoyo wondered.

Sakura ran out into the snow. She kept on running in one direction.

"Hey, Sakura!" Li yelled as he ran after her.

He soon caught up to her as they ran down a long road. Tomoyo had finally caught up to her.

"Sakura! Where are we going?" Li shouted, out of breath.

"It's Meilin-Chan! I feel Meilin-chan's presence. She's this way!" Sakura replied.

Li followed Meilin's presence down the long side walk. Sakura ran faster, hoping to hide the tears that were falling from her face. The three of them soon saw a lifeless figure on the ground in the distance.

"Meilin-Chan!!" Sakura screamed as she rushed to her aid. Horrified by Meilin's condition, Sakura held her head and began to shake her.

"Meilin-Chan! Meilin-Chan!" The tears burned in her eyes as she tried her hardest to keep them back.

"What happened to Meilin-Chan!?" Tomoyo asked, panicking.

"Calm down! Meilin will be fine. In any case we have to get her to a hospital."

Sakura stood up and thought for a moment. She stood directly in front of Li. She took out two of her Sakura cards and threw them into the air.

"Grant your powers to whom stands yonder. By our contract, Sakura commands you! Power! Dash!"

The two spirits came out of their cards and entered the dumbfounded boy. A red aura surrounded his body as he felt an amazing surge of power run through his body. He looked up at her.

"Sakura... What are you--"

Sakura held the fly card out.

"Fly!" As she got on with Tomoyo she looked at Li solemnly.

"Shaoran-Kun you can carry Meilin-Chan and run under me and Tomoyo-Chan on Fly." Sakura replied. Li looked at her in a confused way.

"With the cards you won't get tired. I can't fit all four of you on my staff! It'll be faster this way! So hurry!" (Dakura Haiyaku!) ((I could help think about that phrase)) (((I'm bad at spelling Japanese words... Don't sue me!)))

Li nodded his head solemnly. Sakura flew up into the air with Tomoyo at her side. Li quickly picked up the ring that he saw beside his foot and put it in his pocket.

Sakura looked back at him as she flew about the skies.

"Shaoran-Kun!! Hurry!"

Li picked Meilin up and ran. He could have gone a lot faster that he was going but he needed to stay under Sakura and Tomoyo in order to know where they he was going. They went faster and faster until everything seemed like a blur just like it did before. Time seemed to have stopped. For just a few seconds. Then they felt as if they were in the new dimension again. As if they were on a water slide. They found that they were not in the 'winter wonderland', but they were back in Tomoeda. (Their home town in Japan) Everyone that they passed thought that they were just strong wind. In second they were at their hometown hospital.

*Flash*

Meilin looked down in shame.

"I'm sorry... It's because of me that you were so worried..."

Sakura's eyes burned with anger.

"It wasn't your fault Meilin-chan! It was because of that handsome boy you were talking about before!"

"Something bad is going to happen..." Meilin said.

"Meilin..." Li protested.

"Something will come out of all this. The dream... The boy... That place..."

The nurse came in and informed them about Meilin's stitches. She told them that they would have to leave.

Sakura and Tomoyo left the room as Li was the last one to leave he turned his head to look at Meilin.

As Li leaned on the door he felt the same way Meilin did. What if something did happen? What would he do?

"Li-kun" He heard a voice call. It was Tomoyo. "Let's go" She said smiling.

Li began to walk forward. He sat in the waiting room next to Sakura and Tomoyo. Staring straight forward.

"Hey, Shaoran..." She began.

"We have to do something...I can't help but think--" Li though to himself.

"Are you all right?" Tomoyo asked seeing the look on his face. Shaoran's became more serious and sad.

"I can't help but think that I've heard of something like this before… Meilin is right. This is bad."

"Shaoran..." Sakura began "What's wrong?" Sakura asked sadly.

"But... This feeling... it's as if a blanket is covering me..." Li smiled at this thought.

"Nothing." Shaoran replied.

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Sorry to keep you all waiting... This is a rather sad chapter... Poor Meilin-chan. I know that some of you "Cardcaptors fans" Think of Meilin as a two faced prostitute... But she is a very sweet, real loving and important character. Everyone who hates Meilin has to realize that she is a Hero, not a villain.