"Ni Hao!" I twitched and turned around. Meiling? Already? But Wei-san was supposed to go pick her up…

"SYAORAN! I MISSED YOU! What…" she turned to him, "What are these two girls doing here?" I watched bemusedly as Meiling quite literally threw them out and slammed the door.

"Meiling, that was the," I think about how to say this. "That was the other Card Captor." There's a brief, ringing silence and then she bursts out into hysterical laughter. It's quite scary, really.

"Syaoran…that's funny…"

"I'm…not… joking," I reply. She stops.

"The mahou sensor Auntie gave me barely pricked at the one with mud hair. If that's the other one, then this should be no problem. How many do you have so far?" I don't meet her glance.

"Syaoran…answer me." I take a deep breath and start counting. Ichii…nii…san…

"Listen, Meiling. I've been…I've been catching the cards and weakening them for her." She states at me incredulously, one daintily-picked eyebrow arching far into her fringe.

"Nani?!"

"Do me a favour. Just…don't tell her how powerful I really am, please?" She Looks at me for a second, and I almost think she's about to refuse. Then she suddenly sighs.

"Hai. Whatever," she smiles, "but you better try your hardest!"

                                                                                                                        ~*~

'Here…I'll use Time…use Sleep!'

I waited for her to finish, and conveniently collapse, the picture of tiredness. Any moment now, she's going to seal the card. And it *will* come willingly…I can still see my seal, although it's merging into the spirit. Funny, they seem to be almost melting.

All of a sudden she runs off. Baka! I want to scream, no! Get back here! I swear, as fatigue begins to set in. As much power as I have, Time is no pushover. And my seal is disintegrating. I gather it back, and Firey stretches. Damn…now she's going to have to use a fusion.

Sakura comes running back, all ready. And pulls out – Windy. No! I want to say. But I hold myself back. Slowly, I leak my magic onto the flames. They roar up, and it holds them back. We'd be enfants à brûler by now otherwise.

I watch as she puts two and two together and takes out Watery too.

You're going to use two high cards!

"You're going to use two high cards!" The words are out of my mouth before I can stop myself. Even after she calls upon their power to supplement hers, her magic is nowhere near strong enough to use and control them.

I throw a bundle of power to her without thought. Watery immediately stops and checks the magic. I can see her putting pieces together, how she was sealed twice. She screeches and twines with Windy. Firey was still an equal match – but she throws me a Look and gives herself up. Sakura runs and seals it, jubilant.

I turn and walk away, ready to throw myself in bed for the next year or so. I walk out of the bush and see everyone still asleep. Not good…Green magic surrounds each body as they are moved into a standing position and woken up. Touya eyes me with an evil glare, and I respond sleepily. So sleepily, in fact, that I almost miss what feels right now like the moon crashed on the Earth. That…and sunglasses… Nod and shrug, just nod and shrug…I look up and feel that teacher standing far into the distance. It's too far to actually make a difference, but I pull out an enhancer to check her out.

That's when it all went blank.  

AN: I've decided to turn this into a mini-series type thing…The Power of Tomoeda. It's going to showcase the various magical people in Tomoeda, and how powerful they really are, in my view. I'm thinking Touya, doing Syaoran, Wei, Kaho, Nadeshiko, etc. And to finish it off, some magical demonic catastrophe that all these people put together defeat in front of Sakura. Should be neat. And maybe a thing on how the love that Tomoyo stitches into her costumes actually does amout to something…but that's been done over and out.