Hi everyone. It's me, Lioness! I'm finally adding my 7th chapter. Argh! I lost my outline of what would happen in what chapter. So, now it's all free style. I'm trying to remember the important things on my outline, so the plot is still the same. Just, maybe some of the ideas that I had for the story will be missing. Oh well.

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Sakura and Syaoran in New England?

Chapter 7 - Syaoran? Is There Something You've Been Hiding From Us?

The birds twittered noisily at the sound of Syaoran yelling.

"Sakura! Where are you?" Syaoran was very worried. Where did Sakura go? How could she have left? She couldn't walk very well when he left to get his car from the University parking lot, so someone or something must have moved her. That really worried Syaoran. What could've taken her? Who could've taken her? And why was evil always chasing them around the whole world!?

Syaoran walked miserably around the park. He didn't know what to do. What *could* he do? Eriol wasn't there to use his wisdom of the different dimensions and worlds!

Of course, Syaoran wasn't thinking clearly, otherwise he would've realized that there were plenty of things that he could've done.

Suddenly, Syaoran realized some of his options.

He took out his Lasin Board (a/n: I know it's called something else in Cardcaptor Sakura, but I forget what it was! I lost my Japanese - English/English - Japanese dictionary, so can someone tell me what the word of compass is?) and sought for any source or anything auras that seemed familiar. After a moment of deep concentration, his eyes shot open with shock.

That dark aura! Why was it so strong now? He looked at his Lasin Board and saw that the clear, blue light was pointing in the direction of the center of the park. Syaoran ran and ran and ran, following his compass. All his being was concentrated on finding Sakura, nothing else. He was so intent on his compass, that he didn't realize when two people were standing in his way, yelling for Syaoran to stop.

"Syaoran! Syaoran!" shouted a familiar voice. Too late. Syaoran ran into the two people and fell back on the ground. He looked about, dazed, and saw that the two people whom he crashed into were...Craig and Amelia.

"Oh! Craig! Amelia! I'm so sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going," Syaoran said hurriedly. Craig's face looked grim.

"Well, you should be more careful, considering the speed you were running at. You could've gotten someone really hurt, Syaoran," Craig replied. His eyes drifted to the compass in Syaoran's hand. "What's that?" he asked. Syaoran started to try to hide it, but realized that it was no use.

"Syaoran? Is there something you've been hiding from us?" Amelia wondered. Syaoran looked at the ground.

"Well, yeah," he answered. Craig and Amelia looked at each other with wondering looks.

"I know it doesn't look like the best time to go through a long time of explaning...considering that you weren't even watching where you were going, Syaoran, but I think all of us would really like to know what's been happening," Craig explained. Syaoran nodded.

"All right...but it'll take a while. I hope you're comfortable," Syaoran said. He looked around to check if anyone was passing by, and seeing that there wasn't anyone, he turned towards the couple and started to recall everything that had happened in his life ever since he knew about the Clow Cards. He continued to explain his whole childhood, not leaving a single detail about the cards out. He told of his training, of Sakura's discovery of the Clow Cards, of his move to Japan, their adventures and captures together, the final judgement, and the changing of the Star Cards. He even went into depth about his feelings for Sakura...afterall, he felt that they needed to know everything.

When he finally finished up by telling of Eriol's deeds and how Syaoran almost left for Hong Kong, he was very out of breath. Syaoran looked at Craig and Amelia's faces. They registered one emotion and one emotion only: total and completel shock.

"Wow. That's all I can say: wow!" Amelia exclaimed. "I mean, it's not everyday that you find people with imense power. I can't believe it, you went through all of that when you were 10 years old? Eleven? Wow."

"That's very impressive. I knew that there was something up...or something that happened. But I was going to wait until you felt that you had to tell me. Oh, which brings to my question. Why did you all of a sudden tell us about this secret that you've kept for more than 5 years?" Craig asked.

"Well, you see, Sakura and I were on our date. We were taking a walk through some of Boston. Then we decided to go rollar blading in this park, but Sakura hit her leg and got hurt. She didn't twist or break anything, nothing like that. It just hurt to move her leg a lot, since it had so many bruises. So I told her to wait in the park while I left to go get my car from the school parking lot. That way, she would only have to walk a little bit to get back to campass. But as I was leaving, I couldn't sense her aura anymore...and I can sense her aura all the time.

That got me very worried...so I ran back here to find that she was gone! I took out my compass, the one I told you about, and tried to find a power. The only one I found was this dark aura that Sakura and I have been sensing for quite a while. I have a hunch who the aura belongs to, so I got really worried then. I mean, what could've happened to Sakura? I was following my compass to the power source, which I found was the center of the this park, and then I bumped into the two of you," Syaoran explained.

It took a couple of minutes for everything to register in the couple's brains. They were trying to absorb all the information about the Sakura cards *and* what the problem was now, and this information had been thrown at them in only a couple of minutes! When the news finally hit them, Amelia started while Craig was thinking about a plan.

"Man! All right, if I heard you right, if something happens to Sakura, chaos could break out again since the cards would have to have a new power source, right? You think that someone or something took Sakura? Well, who's dark aura do you keep feeling?" Amelia wondered.

"Well...this might sound a little crazy to you...but Professor Allamoy. I think he's the owner of the aura," Syaoran confessed. Craig smiled. Amelia grinned.

"No surprise, Syaoran," Craig replied. "Amelia and I have been thinking that there was something suspiscious about Professor Allamoy for quite a while now. I'm not surprised at all that he's the possible owner of this power that could've taken Sakura. I think that he might try to harm Sakura. Hey, Syaoran, if someone took the cards from Sakura, would they be able to do anything drastic?" Craig asked.

"Oh, yeah! With the cards in the wrong hands, it would be chaos. It'd be terrible. I mean, you could take over the world with those cards," Syaoran explained. Amelia grimaced.

"Well, Professor Allamoy is definitely defined as the 'wrong hands.' He definitely has something about him," Amelia said. Then she looked up at Craig. "But what can we do?" she wondered. Craig sighed.

"We could go after him. It looks like Syaoran can find him through his Lasin Board, plus he has immense power too. Don't forget, we could also help," Craig reminded Amelia. Syaoran watched, bewildered at what was being said, even though it seemed like they had forgotten that Syaoran even existed. He decided to make himself known again to the world.

"Help? I think you should stay here," Syaoran said. "I mean, there isn't much you can do. I'm really glad that I could tell you about the Cards, but I don't think you would be able to do anything without...well...without getting in the way," Syaoran explained, hoping he wouldn't offend anyone.

Oddly enough, Amelia and Craig *weren't* offended. Instead they looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

"Guys?" Syaoran asked. Craig turned to Syaoran.

"Syaoran, believe it or not, we *can* help. We *will* help," Craig declared. "In fact, we'll help in more ways than any other regular human being could." Syaoran looked at Craig in confusion then looked at Amelia.

"Excuse me?" Amelia sighed.

"You were never good at explaining things," Amelia said to Craig. Then she turned to Syaoran, saying, "Syaoran, I think now is the best time for me to explain. There's something you should know."
Hmmm...well what is it that he needs to know? How can Craig and Amelia help Syaoran? What will happen to Sakura? I know, the shortest chapter of all time, but I just wanted to get this out. The next chapter will be longer and worth it! Please review and tell me what you think!!