AN: Hiya guys… OMG! People actually read I! I'm sooo happy… sorry, my last story, I wrote it, found this place and posted it, it's been up for a few months and only has 2 review for all 13 chappies… kinda sad isn't.

Oh well, I wrote the second half as soon as I posted the 1st part… how could I not? I don't want to leave Li there in such a state… well, not for long anyway. You'll just have to read and see… J This chappies better than the last… I hope.

Tori woke Sakura in the morning, calling into her ear. Sakura blinked the sleep from her eyes before peering at her clock to figure that it was 10.

'On No! I'm meeting Li and Madison in the park at 10! I'm late!'

10 minutes later, with a full stomach, Sakura was skating past the park when she saw Madison coming from the other direction. Sakura skidded to a stop as Madison walked up to her, smileing.

"I looks like Li's late today. I'm not surprised, he said Wei was going away for a week and he would have been cleaning up things first," Madison said smiling. Sakura and Madison sat down on a bench and Madison took out her video camera to show Sakura what she had caught on tape last night. Half an hour later saw Li still not shown.

"You don't suppose that anything's happened to him do you?"

"Hang on Sakura," Madison called out and brought the tape back a couple of minutes. "Look at this."

"Looks like Fight took Li on first I think… but then that means…" Sakura trailed off and pulled her cell phone out of her bag, dialling Li's number.

Madison looked on as Sakura hung up the phone and looked worriedly at Madison.

"It rung out, he never answered. I know, I'll check his apartment and be back in 5 minutes," Sakura said pulling out her pendant and releasing the staff.

"Dash card, help me get to Li's house double fast, release and dispel!" Sakura ran off as she felt the magic spread through her, leaving a cloud of dust in her wake, knowing how fast Dash could go, even when it wasn't panicked.

She skidded to a stop in the court yard of the block of apartments Li lived in, called on Jump and jumped up to the appropriate level. She ran to Li's door and knocked on the door. She waited half a minute before knocking again, becoming panicked herself.

'hell with this,' she thought, pulling out another Star card.

"Lock card, unlock this door, release and dispel!" she called, hitting the card and watching as the spirit flew out and into the lock, before a moment later, the door popped open. Sakura stepped cautiously inside, slipping off her shoes at the door before creeping around the apartment in the attempt to find Li. She looked in his room and found that the bed hadn't even been slept in it looked like.

"Oh No!" she cried out and ran to the front again, satisfied that Li wasn't in and grabbed her shoes, pulling them on as she ordered lock to put the door back as it was. She then took Dash and Jump out and used them together to get back to Madison.

"Madison, he never went home last night!"

"Oh No! You don't suppose he's still in the park after last night do you?"

Sakura and Madison both rushed into the park. They moved into the trees and Sakura called out several cards to help her search for Li, they both now knew that he was still in the open. Sakura was glad that her powers were so strong now, throwing up the cards.

"Dash, Flower, Mirror, Song, Through, Shadow, Windy, Wood, release and dispel!"

The spirits of the cards came forward, floating and a-waiting orders. Sakura was glad that she had picked not only the faster cards, but also the gentler cards to help her search for Li.

"Star cards, my friend is missing somewhere close, but we don't know where he is. Please, stay in your spirit forms and help us find him, you all know him as you have seen him before. He should be dressed in green." Sakura paused before calling out another two cards.

"Voice, lend these star cards a voice to call for my friend, release and dispel!"

Voice flew out, circled all the other card spirits calling out Li's name like Sakura before returning to her card.

"Illusion, cover these star cards so that if they are seen by anyone but me, they look like a normal person out for a walk, release and dispel!"

Illusion flew out and swept over the other card spirits, leaving the strange repeated pattern over them for a moment before leaving a group of women in pants and tops standing, staring at Sakura. Dash hopped up and down, a small fox like creature.

Sakura waved them all off as she and Madison started calling to Li at the top of their lungs, walking into the small woods. It was very wet and there were still some traces of snow on the ground in places. They searched for almost an hour before Sakura came to the same place she had met Mirror when she had caught her the first time. She remembered how Tori had fallen over the small cliff and expecting the worst, she looked over the edge to see what she had been hoping not to.

Li was sprawled out on his side at the foot of the cliff, a few meters from the base. He was lying in a small pool of his own blood and his robes were clinging to him, showing some peculiar bends in his limbs. There was bruising on his face and Sakura couldn't see him breathing.

"LI!" Sakura yelled in fright. She pulled out a card and released fly before jumping down to her friend, the wings filling with wind and slowing her descent. She landed with a small thud some meters away as she pulled out another card. (AN: ever noticed that when Sakura flys, the wings never actually flap? Or is it just me?)

"Twin card, find the other cards and bring them here as fast as you can, release and dispel!"

The twin spirits flowed out, bowed to Sakura and then, nodding to one another, sprang off in different directions to heard up the other cards.

Having put all that in order for the moment, Sakura called Li's name, shaking his shoulders gently in an attempt to wake him up, but to no avail. She then pulled out her phone and called the hospital, giving then the location of penguin park before hanging up and pulling Li close to her. She used Fly again using one hand and flew, carrying Li as best she could up to the top level of the park, calling to Madison and the cards as she went. Windy flew up almost at once and then gathered the rest of the cards that Twins had missed. Sakura recalled her staff as Madison walked up and absently took the cards from her hand as Sakura struggled to keep in the tears that threatened to fall.

"Li. Li! Talk to me, wake up. Come on, it's not funny any more, Li. Wake up!" Sakura begged him.

"What happened?" Eli asked Madison, causing her to jump a full foot into the air.

"Eli! Where did you come from?" She asked confused and worried about her friends.

"I was walking past on the way to the store and I saw Li lying on the ground and thought that something must be wrong," Eli said, matter of factly. "And what is he wearing?" Eli said, pointing out Li's strange costume.

Without knowing it (or perhaps he did know it), he had just helped Madison and Sakura a lot with that one little question. What would they say to the medics if they asked about Li's strange costume?

"Oh, that?… well, Sakura and Li were at my place last night, and we were shooting this play that we're doing as extra credit. That was Li's costume, a powerful magician taken down to a helpless being by an innocent girl that he love," Madison explained with stars in her eyes (AN: sound familiar hee hee).

"He had to wear it home because he spilt tea all over his clothes and couldn't wear them, so he just wore that home. He said that he liked the costume. Sakura told him that it was cute so that may be why."

As they were talking, Sakura was still trying to get Li to show some signs of life. Suddenly, Sakura stopped as Li let out a low moan. He struggled to open his eyes, his breathing laboured and whistling in his chest.

"Sakura… I knew… you'd… find me… soon…" Li all but breathed, before breaking off coughing.

Sakura shushed him as she rubbed his back, helping him out as you would a baby that needed to burp.

"Were you out here all night Li?" She asked him softly, tears welling up in her eyes again. He nodded but said nothing as the world around him continued to spin blearily.

"Was it Fight Li?" Li nodded again, closing his eyes in pain and confusion as the broken bones and the many cuts he had gave him grief. Sakura stroked his forehead carefully with he bare hand, noting with a shock how hot he was. He wasn't blushing this time. He had a high fever. Li suddenly turned away from her, landing on his left hand and threw up on the pavement, breaking into a coughing fit again. Sakura rolled him into her chest and continued stroking his head as he tried to stay away, having difficulty breathing and being in a lot of pain. After a few minutes, he fell into a restless slumber in Sakuras' arms.

"What happened to him?" Eli asked Madison as Sakura soothed Li.

"We found him at the bottom of the little ledge near here and carried him up the path to here, the medics wouldn't have been able to bring him up from there anyway."

"Little? That's not a little ledge, it's huge! He must have caught some of the sharper parts of the rock face," Eli said quietly. He felt bad for Li, especially after how many times he had been hurt in the trials he had put Sakura through. He had only wished to see how Sakura would handle changing all the Clow cards, but he had lost control of fight.

A few minutes later, the medics arrived. They took one look at Li and then put him on a stretcher before bundling the other three kids into the front and driving to the hospital. Some questions would be in order here.

AN: Well, what did you think? Good… bad… ugly... no wait, that was the last chapter… sorry J If the way I did Sakura annoyed you, let me know, I wasn't sure if it sounded alright but I asked one of my friends and they said that I should do that cos that's what she was always saying in the first series, before they were all changed. Anyway… the 3rd chappie shouldn't be too long, holidays have just started and so I'll have a bit of time… I just need my muse to bite my tongue and get me writing again. Don't you guys out there just hate writers block… let's hope it doesn't get me for this story huh J

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