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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

by Zenin

Chapter Five: The Medieval Fair and Girl Talk

Kero rushed out the door. He'd figured out what the card was. It was the Heat card. It had made Sakura's body temperature skyrocket. If he didn't get help soon, Sakura would die. Sakura had become delirious, and was tossing around on her bed so much that he'd had to transform and place her on a low bunk. The cards were hovering around Sakura anxiously as she moaned. Kero decided that no one would mess with a full-sized, flying lion, so he stayed transformed and rushed off to find Syaoran. Even though the gaki annoys me, I have to find him. He's the only hope now.

Keroberos growled to himself as a few counselors began to scream after seeing him.

Ya know, this would be a great time for the Sleep card…

He flew swiftly around the corner of the Main Hall and soon detected a strong green aura coming from Cabin Eight. He rushed in.

"Sorry to break into your dreams, fellas, but Sakura needs help." Keroberos said gruffly.

Hakaru sat up quickly, his eyes huge. "I'm hallucinating, right? 'Cause I'm seeing a big, flying lion talking to us."

Keroberos growled. "I'm the Guardian Beast of the Seal, and I need the gak-Syaoran's help!"

Syaoran was out of his bed in a flash. He grabbed his sword and strapped it on.

"Don't worry, Hakaru. That's just Keroberos. I'll explain later."

Chen rolled over, his eyes dragged open, and he looked at Keroberos sleepily. He shrugged his shoulders, then fell asleep again, snoring gently.

Hakaru groaned. "Oh I get it…You guys put something in the ice cream, didn't you? And I suppose the next thing you're going to say is that you are a powerful magician who's off to save the world, right? Hey, where are you going? Right. Just leave me here, talking to myself. I'm much better conversationalist than anyone else anyway."

Akashi and Yamazaki slept through it all, completely oblivious.

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Syaoran stretched out his hand towards the Sleep card. Hesitantly, it came to him, dancing in the air nervously.

"Will you let me use you?"

The card wavered with uncertainty, then floated into Syaoran's hand.

"Arigatou. Sleep card, keep everyone in this cabin asleep so they won't notice us."

The card turned into a cute pixie and sprinkled dust over Meilin, Akemi, Emiko, Xiefa, and Keroberos.

"Matte! Not Kerober—"

Kero transformed back to his false form and fell asleep. The Sleep turned back into a card, smiling mischievously.

"Great. Just great. Now what am I supposed to do? I guess I'll just figure it out myself."

"Syaoran?"

A weak whisper came from Sakura as she struggled upright. "Syaoran?" Her green eyes were big and her auburn hair clung to her forehead in damp curls. Lifting a trembling hand to her forehead, she groaned. "I feel so hot…" She fell back, unconscious once again.

Syaoran quickly knelt beside her, placing his hand on her forehead. His hand immediately got burned. The fiery orange color surrounding Sakura began to grow in strength.

An idea came to Syaoran as he used one of his element cards to soak his burned hand. What if I…No. It's too dangerous. It might hurt Sakura. Why did this have to happen to her? Why not me? Kami-sama, why not me?

Sakura began thrashing around as the orange glow became brighter. She fell with a thud to the floor and lay still, the glow steadily brightening.

"I'm going to have to do it. Oh Kami-sama, protect her!"

Syaoran drew his sword.

"Water, come to my aid!"

Water blasted from his sword down upon Sakura, soaking her from head to foot. The orange glow lessened slightly, then began to grow, drying up the water.

Syaoran acted quickly. "Ice, come to my aid!"

A freezing tornado of ice covered Sakura and soon she was reduced to a solid ice statue. The orange glow wavered, trying to grow hotter, then sank to a dull flicker. An orange cloud drained from Sakura and formed an adorable golden-orange mink-like creature. It scratched its nose inquisitively, then sent a thought message to Syaoran.

Well, what are you going to do now?

"I'm going to seal you."

The tiny creature rolled onto its back in derision. You can't seal me! Only the Card Mistress can, and YOU turned her into a block of ice.

"Then I'll use the Fiery card—"

I wouldn't recommend it. The Fiery is just barely accepting Sakura as its mistress. It would toast you.

"Yeah, well, who made you the expert on Fiery?"

You're not too bright are you? I am the Heat card, and I'm related to Fiery.

"That's just messed up."

You're telling me… Um, I hate to put a damper on things, but if you leave the Card Mistress like that for another five minutes, she'll freeze to death.

"What am I supposed to do? I don't have the fire element. Mother borrowed it to perfect a spell she is working on."

The small animal twitched its nose. Love is warmth.

"What?!"

Okay, let me make it easy for you. For nine hundred and fifty years, I've been destroying things, giving people deadly fevers, making it 120 degrees outside in the winter; you know, the usual card stuff. I'm tired of it. I'd like a change, okay? So here's what you need to do. Kiss the Card Mistress!

"NANI?!"

Hey, it's worth a try.

"I can't do that. She'd—" Syaoran blushed, "she'd hate me."

You want to anyway.

"How do you know?"

It's rather obvious…

"Argh!!!"

The tiny creature rolled its eyes and nudged Syaoran towards Sakura with its paws. Two minutes more, and she's dead; all thanks to your BRILLIANT idea.

Syaoran ran a hand through his hair nervously.

Oh yeah, take your time…now she only has one minute left, boy.

Syaoran turned red. "Forgive me, Sakura," he whispered softly.

He knelt beside and gathered her into his arms, brushing away a few icy strands of hair from her still face. He leaned forward and kissed Sakura tenderly on her pale lips. A shudder passed through Sakura as the warmth of his kiss traveled down through her body. Syaoran broke the kiss and waited anxiously. Her lips reddened, then her cheeks as the ice melted away. Finally, her eyes fluttered open and she glanced up at Syaoran. She sighed and leaned against him. "Syaoran…"

Syaoran looked at her, a small smile showing on his face. She's so cute…such an angel… He tentatively caressed her cheek with his hand.

A-HEM!

The Heat card was staring at them with obvious disgust. Are you going to seal me or what?

Sakura was jolted back into reality as she came face to face with the orange animal. "Hoe? What's that?"

Syaoran nervously laughed. "Heh, um, that's the Heat card. You need to seal it."

Sakura frowned slightly. Wait a second…If that's the Heat card—then I wasn't dreaming? No…I remember. I had a fever, so I must have been delirious. Syaoran didn't kiss me. Darn. Sakura shrugged her shoulders and called out the Staff.

"Rainbow card, return to your power confined! Orange!"

The tiny animal scrambled into Sakura's lap and licked her nose. Just remember, I'll back you up. I won't try to escape. If you have a question, I'll try to help you as best as I can, Card Mistress. It then swirled into a card and floated into her hands.

"Such a cute card," Sakura said happily. The card was a mellow orange, with the animal sitting, its tail curled around its paws, with one paw raised in the air.

Syaoran quickly stood. "Yes,well,Ishouldbegoingbeforeanyonesuspectsanything,youknow.Um,nicecapture,Sakura,BYE!"

He ran out of the cabin and was gone before anyone could say, "Uncle George ate two thousand bananas".

Sakura stood and stared at herself in the mirror hanging on the wall. She was, to put it lightly, a complete disaster. She had forgotten to change for bed and the burgundy dress she had sung in was now torn and wrinkled. Her hair was escaping the clips that had held it in place, and clung to her forehead in damp curls. She sighed.

"I need a break."

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It took a while for Meilin, Emiko, Xiefa, and Akemi to wake up the next day. Akemi and Xiefa quickly jerked awake when Sakura told them about the previous night.

"WHAT?! You mean I missed it? ANOTHER??? Aww…" Akemi began muttering some words incoherently to herself.

Sakura giggled as Xiefa moaned. "I can't believe you didn't wake us…How could you?"

"Well, I don't know why you guys didn't notice my fever. Or the screaming. Or the cute fuzzy animal talking to us—"

"'US'?!"

"Er, I mean…you know…um—"

Xiefa grinned knowingly. "So, my handsome brother came to the rescue? Let me guess, did he kiss the sleeping beauty awake from her tormented, feverish dreams?"

Meilin fully awakened at that. "NO, HE DID NOT!!! My Syaoran would never do that."

Sakura climbed to her top bunk to make her bed, blushing hotly. They have NO idea…

Akemi rolled her eyes expressively and began to wake up Emiko, with Meilin loudly proclaiming her love for Syaoran in the background.

Xiefa suddenly jumped up from her position on the floor. "Hey! How 'bout we have a girls' day today?"

"A girls' day?" Akemi said, then smiled happily. "We do need a day to ourselves. It's perfect! After all—"

Xiefa quickly interrupted. "Yes, a whole day of doing things together, just us girls, NO GUYS. Except we will have to rejoin the boys for the dance—"

"The dance?! HOE!"

Xiefa laughed, then stopped suddenly, her smile fading from her face. "Oh! I forgot! Today is medieval day and we have to dress medieval style! What am I going to wear?!"

Akemi shook her head resignedly. "I guess I can help."

She reached under her bed and pulled out a huge trunk. She took a small golden key from around her neck and slid it into the lock, twisting it with a click. The lid swung up, revealing several beautiful dresses in several styles. She flung a few medieval dresses onto her bunk and waved her hand dramatically. "Your wish is my command!"

Xiefa gasped. "Where—I thought that you didn't like dresses!"

Akemi slipped the key back onto its chain and around her neck. "I don't. But you never know when a dress might come in handy. Plus, you need to remember that I've been coming here for the past six years. They always have some special day or dance. And it's good to remind the guys that I am a girl and proud of it!"

The girls giggled and looked over the dresses eagerly. Meilin picked up a beautiful red and white silk dress with long belled sleeves. A pattern of butterflies trailed diagonally from the waistline to the hem, which brushed the floor. "This is gorgeous…did you make it?"

Akemi sighed. "I…um…hai, I made it," she relented.

Sakura looked the dress over. "It's exquisite," she murmured. "You're almost as good as my friend Tomoyo."

Akemi coughed with embarrassment and changed the subject as she lifted a jade satin dress from the pile. "This should work for you, Emiko."

As Emiko examined her dress, Akemi pulled out a smoky blue dress with elbow sleeves and held it up to Xiefa. "Perfect. Now we'll just loop your hair in braids on both sides of your face and it'll look great," she remarked.

"What about you?" Sakura questioned.

Akemi stalled. "Well, I was thinking that I might not wear one, 'cause—"

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Wear this one, it'll look great!" She picked up a creamy dress and held it up to Akemi. The bodice was formed from crisscrossing strips of filmy material flowing into a floor-length skirt delicately embroidered with stars along the hem. Akemi blushed and went into the changing room to try it on. Meanwhile, the rest of the girls got dressed and did their hair. Sakura decided to wear the yellow dress Tomoyo had made her and left her hair down, wrapping a yellow ribbon around her wrist, just in case her hair got in her way to much. Meilin coiled her hair loosely in the back with a few curls escaping around her face. Emiko pulled back part of her golden hair with a matching ribbon, leaving the rest to hang freely.

Akemi walked out of the changing room. "So…what do you think? Awful…isn't it?"

Everyone stared at her silently. The cream color brought out the red of her lips and made her eyes appear like stars. Her brilliant red hair was braided in one long, thick rope, then tied it up in a bun with a cream-colored ribbon, leaving the usual wispy curls framing her face.

"Perfect."

"WE LOOK BEAUTIFUL!!!" Meilin shrieked. She twirled giddily and fell onto her bunk. "Oh, Syaoran, Syaoran, wherefore art thou, Syaoran?" Akemi quickly clobbered her and began smothering her. Xiefa checked herself in the mirror. "Okay, are we all ready? Let's go. After breakfast we'll come back here and do some—"

"GIRL TALK!!!" Akemi said, leaping up and running around, singing at the top of her lungs.

"I am NOT going to give you guys ice cream again. I swear…"

"Hey!" Emiko interrupted, glancing at a schedule. "I forgot! There's the archery and fencing competitions today!"

Everyone stopped. "Hoe?"

Emiko nodded. "Yup. The guys are going to compete today; medieval style, too."

"Just guys?"

"Well—"

"Um, let's go! We don't want to be late!" Xiefa said, sweat-dropping.

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I know, I know…It's SO short! But I'm going to make the next chapter really long (I think), and since I haven't written in a while, I thought that I would get something out.

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"Should the girls participate in the competitions?"

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