Sakura and her Angelic Wings
As the sun began to come up on the new day Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Kero went outside to see the damage the storm had caused that night. "It's not as bad as I thought it'd be." Syaoran said. Then there was heard the sound of a car pulling up. The four with Kero disguised as a stuffed animal once again looked to see a cab pull up to them. The passenger door on the opposite side of the car opened and out popped a tall black haired Chinese girl. She looked at the group and bounded over to them loudly. "LI!" she yelled as she threw her arms around Syaoran's neck.
"Meling, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to stay in Hong Kong!
"Hi Meling!" Sakura biped. "How have you been?" Tomoyo asked nicely.
"Hi Sakura, hi Tomoyo!" She said ignoring Syaoran's question.
"Meling." He said calling her attention back to the question.
"You mother sent me!" She answered.
"My mother!?" Syaoran gasped.
The cab driver had popped the trunk of the car and Meling was now taking out luggage. She fished out of a suitcase a white envelope. "I'm a messenger! She told me to give you this!"
"Couldn't she have just sent it though the mail?" Li argued.
"It's a pretty important letter." She paused with a look on her face that hinted bad news at the very least. "Well anyway, she wanted me to check on you anyway." She said as she handed Syaoran the letter and some of her baggage to take into the apartment. "So what's been going on?" She asked as she looked around at everyone.
"The cards have released again." Syaoran said.
"Yay!" Meling exclaimed to everyone's surprise. "That means we get to be cardcaptors again!" Syaoran let out a groan of unhappy frustration and the girls giggled. The future seemed to be set as Sakura and Tomoyo said goodbye to their old friends but only to see them again very soon.
Sakura's hand came slamming down on her alarm clock as it's bothersome sound woke her out of a relaxing slumber. "uug!" Sakura muttered in disgust that it was morning already. Sakura got up and out of bed. She walked down the hall and into the bathroom. She stood in front of the sink and looked at her reflection in the mirror. "Is this the mirror card? Or could it be the illusion card, maybe it's just my reflection." Sakura thought to herself. She splashed some cold water on her face and rubbed her eyes. "G'morning sunshine!" Kero said kiddingly as he flue into the bathroom. "Theirs nothing good about this morning, Kero." Sakura said as she grabbed her brush and pulled at her hair.
"There are fifty-one phantom cards on the loose, I look terrible and it's the first day of the new semester!"
"Sakura, you look fine, and I know for a fact that you're not as miserable as you think." Kero said reassuringly. "What do you mean, Kero?" Sakura said as she washed her face.
"Well I hate to say it but it's probably more of a good thing than a bad that the brat has come back." Kero said.
Sakura, despite her mood, couldn't help but smile at his mention. "Your right. He's always looking out for me, but..." Sakura thought about the previous night and Syaoran's words. ".But it feels like he's holding something back."
"I know what you mean." Kero said. "He knows something about what's going on that we don't. It's not just the cars being released that we have to worry about. Be sure and remember that."
"I know, I know." She said as she hopped into the shower.
"Be sure and hurry up in there, you're gonna be late!" Kero called over the sound of the water.
Sakura got out of the shower and into her school uniform, a white-gray button up blouse with a tan tie and a short black skirt. As she stood at her dresser looking into the mirror she was reminded of something. Reaching down, she opened a drawer and saw the gold necklace her father had given her still safe. 'I'll keep it safe. It and everyone.' She though. She then closed the drawer, said good-bye to Kero and walked down stairs.
"Morning monster, your up early." Toya said.
"Not really, and I'm sixteen now you can't call me that!" Sakura said with balled up fists.
"Alright you two that's enough, now come and eat some breakfast." Fujitaka, Sakura's father said. Sakura saw yummy looking pancakes on the table with maple syrup and juice, her favorite. 'Yay!' she thought. There was then the sound of a car horn coming from the street. 'no.' Sakura whimpered. "Sorry dad my ride is here. I gotta go!" Sakura said as she grabbed her backpack and ran out the door.
Sakura got in the back seat of a luxury sedan. "Hay everybody!" Sakura said happily. "Hi Sakura!" Tomoyo said from the driver's seat. "Hay Sakura." Yamazaki said leaning over the passenger's side seat. "Ya know Sakura, on the first day of the second semester of your sophomore year in high school it's tradition to wear all your cloths backwards." Yamazaki said still leaning over the seat. "Really?" Sakura said with a dumbfounded look on her face. "No, he's lying!" Chiharu said from the seat next to Sakura's.
"Guess what guys!" Sakura bubbled.
"What?" Yamazaki and Chiharu said almost in unison.
"Syaoran is back!"
"Really? Li's back? When did he get here?" Chiharu asked.
"Yesterday." Tomoyo said.
"And he'll be staying for a while so he'll be at school with us!" Sakura said rather excited.
They arrived at school a few minutes before the first bell. Tomoyo and Sakura walked slowly towards their first period class while Yamazaki ran off somewhere with Mihara. Sakura saw Syaoran standing next to a tree so she and Tomoyo walked over to greet him. "Hi Syaoran." Sakura said in a playful voice. She then saw another person standing next to him latched onto his arm. "Oh, ah, hi Meling. I. didn't know you were going to stay."
"Of course I am!" Meling stated. "You think that I'm just going to leave my Li alone?"
"Hay." Li said in a low voice seeming to be trying to ignore the clamp on his arm. Sakura looked at Li's face, he had a bandage over his left eye. "How ya feeling Li?" Sakura asked in a supple tone. "Not bad, a couple of browsed ribs, some scrapes, I'm fine, how about you?" Li asked seemingly not interested in the answer. "I'm fine." Sakura said. The warning bell rang and Syaoran turned to walk to class with Meling. He stopped and looked over his shoulder at Sakura. "Just try and be careful. I can't. well, just be careful." He said and then turned and continued walking.
"Okay, Syaoran! I will!" Sakura said with happy enthusiasm.
The bell rang for lunch and everyone poured out of their classrooms and migrated to the courtyard to socialize. Sakura and Tomoyo sat down to have lunch. "I'm starving!" Sakura said. Syaoran walked up with Meiling attached to his arm as always, and sat down. No one said anything for a while, they just sat there eating. "So, Syaoran, how are you doing so far, ya know with classes and your apartment and stuff? Are you getting settled in?" Sakura said trying to start a conversation to break the silence.
"We're settling in just fine and Li is so smart that no matter what the subject is he'll do great!" Meiling gloated for Syaoran. "Stop it, Meling." Syaoran said in a not so friendly tone. Meling sat there looking a bit melancholy at Syaoran's scolding. She almost looked like she was about to cry and she got up and ran away.
"Li, that wasn't very nice." Tomoyo said. Li ignored her and hunched over the lunch table and leaned on his fists. Tomoyo looked at him. He had seemed the day before more hopeful and less upset it seemed. She wondered if it was something that could have happened between then and now or maybe if he had changed in the years passed.
"Li is something bothering you?" Sakura asked not knowing what kind of response she would get.
"It's nothing, Sakura." Li said in an apologetic tone.
The rest of the school day went by and the dismissal bell rang. Sakura met Tomoyo in the parking lot to go home. "Boy am I glade this day is over, hay where's Yamazaki and Chiharu?" Sakura asked Tomoyo. They're off somewhere, said they'd walk home." Tomoyo answered. The two girls got in the car and started home. "What do you think is wrong with Li?" Tomoyo inquired.
"I don't know but something is defiantly wrong, I've never seen him so depressed." Sakura said.
"I've never seen him depressed period." Tomoyo said.
Sakura got home and she and Tomoyo went up to her room to study. "So how was your fist day back at hell-high?" Kero asked Sakura and Tomoyo. "I wish you wouldn't repeat things you hear Yamazaki say." Sakura complained. "Well as much as you complain about it, it sounds like a accurate description." Kero pointed out. Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero did homework and watched TV until about six-thirty when Sakura sensed something. Sakura stared blankly out the window and Tomoyo said "Sakura what is it?"
"I sense a Clow card!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Oh yah! Our first Clow card!" Kero shouted. Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero left the house and started to search for the card. "Can you tell where it's coming from?" Tomoyo asked.
"Over there." Sakura pointed to the wooded area near her house.
"It's getting dark." Tomoyo said as she held onto Sakura's arm.
"Can you tell which card it is?" Kero asked Sakura. "It's familiar, one of my first." Sakura said in concentration.
"What's that?!" Tomoyo said as she pointed to a beam of bright blue light through the trees. "It's Syaoran!" Sakura said with a hint of excitement. Sakura Tomoyo and Kero ran toward the source of the beam. Sakura burst out of the bushes behind Li. "SYAORAN!" Sakura said.
"Ahhhh!" Syaoran he yelled startled. "Ahiiiii!" Sakura squealed and fell down startled by Syaoran's yell.
He turned around with a look of irritation. "Don't do that! You okay?" Li said looking down at her. Tomoyo jumped out of the bushes and saw Sakura sitting on the ground. She knelt down next to her. "Sakura are you okay?" "Sakura what the hell is wrong with you, I could have killed you!" Li shouted at Sakura. "Sy- Syaoran, you scared me." Sakura whimpered as she stood up.
"I was the one who was scared!" Syaoran said as his hear went budump budumb. "Don't sneak up on me like that in the dark." Li warned her in a low and intolerant tone. Sakura could tell that despite his attempt at kindness, Syaoran was still troubled by whatever was bothering him. Syaoran turned from Sakura and Kero flue in front of him.
"You got alota nerve kid! Knocking Sakura down for no reason!" Kero growled at Syaoran. Syaoran stared at Kero for a moment and than swatted him out of the air and walked away. "I've got a card to capture." Syaoran said as he stormed off.
Tomoyo picked Kero up off the ground. "Are you okay, Kero?" She asked. "I'm fine, but that Li kid has gone too far!" Kero announced. "He didn't knock me down, I fell down." Sakura said. This didn't really surprise Kero, and it made more sense, but he didn't want to admit that. "He was angry about something though, he's been upset all day, he even lashed out at Meiling." Sakura said with concern.
"We'll deal with this later, right now we have a card to catch." Kero said. "Sakura where is it?"
"Close, I can feel it." Sakura said. "It's, It's, above us!" Sakura said as she looked toward the sky but there was nothing there. "Hmm, well, it could be the fly card." Kero Said. There was then a loud screech coming from above. The area of sky above they could see through the trees vanished as the form of a massive bird that was white and glowing like the full moon swooped overhead and as it did the trees waved from the wind of it's wake. "Yep, defiantly the Fly. Sakura, you're up!" Kero said.
"The key that hides the powers of darkness show your true form before me, Release!" Sakura chanted as her Star Wand appeared. "Windy, bring fly down!" The windy burst from it's card and chased after the large bird. When it caught up with fly it wrapped itself around the bird and they fell from the sky. Sakura ran to where they fell; in a grove where the trees were scarce and found windy struggling to keep fly in its grasp. The bird was as large as before and it seemed to be stronger this time. "Seal it now!" Kero shouted. Just then fly burst from windy's grasp and flapped it's wings once toward the three with gale force knocking them to the ground.
"Thunder!" A deep voice penetrated the air. A bolt of lightning left Syaoran's sword and impacted the bird. "Return to your true form, Phantom card!" Sakura yelled. The bird was pulled into it's card in a beautiful stream of light. The card floated into Sakura's lap as she sat on the ground.
Syaoran walked to Sakura and stood a few feet in front of her. "Thanks for your help Syaoran, I, couldn't have done it without you." Sakura said wondering if Syaoran was still up set. Syaoran than held out his hand to help Sakura up. Sakura took his hand and stood up. Syaoran held Sakura's hand and looked into her eyes. Sakura looked at him, but she didn't fell anger in him any more, instead sadness. Syaoran turned and walked away from Sakura and Tomoyo. "Syaoran, wait what's wrong?" Sakura asked Syaoran as she put a hand on his arm. Syaoran pulled his arm away and said "Goodbye Sakura." Li continued walking. "Syaoran!" Sakura pleaded.
"Sakura, he'll tell us what's wrong when he's ready. Now lets try out your new wings." Tomoyo said cheerfully.
"Yah, kid, don't worry about him, he's a survivor." Kero said.
"Okay, your right" Sakura said as she taped the fly card with her wand. And with that a pair of beautiful white wings appeared on her back and Sakura flew into the sky like an angel ascending to heaven.
Syaoran looked to the air and saw the angel. "I can't protect you any more. I never could."
As the sun began to come up on the new day Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Kero went outside to see the damage the storm had caused that night. "It's not as bad as I thought it'd be." Syaoran said. Then there was heard the sound of a car pulling up. The four with Kero disguised as a stuffed animal once again looked to see a cab pull up to them. The passenger door on the opposite side of the car opened and out popped a tall black haired Chinese girl. She looked at the group and bounded over to them loudly. "LI!" she yelled as she threw her arms around Syaoran's neck.
"Meling, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to stay in Hong Kong!
"Hi Meling!" Sakura biped. "How have you been?" Tomoyo asked nicely.
"Hi Sakura, hi Tomoyo!" She said ignoring Syaoran's question.
"Meling." He said calling her attention back to the question.
"You mother sent me!" She answered.
"My mother!?" Syaoran gasped.
The cab driver had popped the trunk of the car and Meling was now taking out luggage. She fished out of a suitcase a white envelope. "I'm a messenger! She told me to give you this!"
"Couldn't she have just sent it though the mail?" Li argued.
"It's a pretty important letter." She paused with a look on her face that hinted bad news at the very least. "Well anyway, she wanted me to check on you anyway." She said as she handed Syaoran the letter and some of her baggage to take into the apartment. "So what's been going on?" She asked as she looked around at everyone.
"The cards have released again." Syaoran said.
"Yay!" Meling exclaimed to everyone's surprise. "That means we get to be cardcaptors again!" Syaoran let out a groan of unhappy frustration and the girls giggled. The future seemed to be set as Sakura and Tomoyo said goodbye to their old friends but only to see them again very soon.
Sakura's hand came slamming down on her alarm clock as it's bothersome sound woke her out of a relaxing slumber. "uug!" Sakura muttered in disgust that it was morning already. Sakura got up and out of bed. She walked down the hall and into the bathroom. She stood in front of the sink and looked at her reflection in the mirror. "Is this the mirror card? Or could it be the illusion card, maybe it's just my reflection." Sakura thought to herself. She splashed some cold water on her face and rubbed her eyes. "G'morning sunshine!" Kero said kiddingly as he flue into the bathroom. "Theirs nothing good about this morning, Kero." Sakura said as she grabbed her brush and pulled at her hair.
"There are fifty-one phantom cards on the loose, I look terrible and it's the first day of the new semester!"
"Sakura, you look fine, and I know for a fact that you're not as miserable as you think." Kero said reassuringly. "What do you mean, Kero?" Sakura said as she washed her face.
"Well I hate to say it but it's probably more of a good thing than a bad that the brat has come back." Kero said.
Sakura, despite her mood, couldn't help but smile at his mention. "Your right. He's always looking out for me, but..." Sakura thought about the previous night and Syaoran's words. ".But it feels like he's holding something back."
"I know what you mean." Kero said. "He knows something about what's going on that we don't. It's not just the cars being released that we have to worry about. Be sure and remember that."
"I know, I know." She said as she hopped into the shower.
"Be sure and hurry up in there, you're gonna be late!" Kero called over the sound of the water.
Sakura got out of the shower and into her school uniform, a white-gray button up blouse with a tan tie and a short black skirt. As she stood at her dresser looking into the mirror she was reminded of something. Reaching down, she opened a drawer and saw the gold necklace her father had given her still safe. 'I'll keep it safe. It and everyone.' She though. She then closed the drawer, said good-bye to Kero and walked down stairs.
"Morning monster, your up early." Toya said.
"Not really, and I'm sixteen now you can't call me that!" Sakura said with balled up fists.
"Alright you two that's enough, now come and eat some breakfast." Fujitaka, Sakura's father said. Sakura saw yummy looking pancakes on the table with maple syrup and juice, her favorite. 'Yay!' she thought. There was then the sound of a car horn coming from the street. 'no.' Sakura whimpered. "Sorry dad my ride is here. I gotta go!" Sakura said as she grabbed her backpack and ran out the door.
Sakura got in the back seat of a luxury sedan. "Hay everybody!" Sakura said happily. "Hi Sakura!" Tomoyo said from the driver's seat. "Hay Sakura." Yamazaki said leaning over the passenger's side seat. "Ya know Sakura, on the first day of the second semester of your sophomore year in high school it's tradition to wear all your cloths backwards." Yamazaki said still leaning over the seat. "Really?" Sakura said with a dumbfounded look on her face. "No, he's lying!" Chiharu said from the seat next to Sakura's.
"Guess what guys!" Sakura bubbled.
"What?" Yamazaki and Chiharu said almost in unison.
"Syaoran is back!"
"Really? Li's back? When did he get here?" Chiharu asked.
"Yesterday." Tomoyo said.
"And he'll be staying for a while so he'll be at school with us!" Sakura said rather excited.
They arrived at school a few minutes before the first bell. Tomoyo and Sakura walked slowly towards their first period class while Yamazaki ran off somewhere with Mihara. Sakura saw Syaoran standing next to a tree so she and Tomoyo walked over to greet him. "Hi Syaoran." Sakura said in a playful voice. She then saw another person standing next to him latched onto his arm. "Oh, ah, hi Meling. I. didn't know you were going to stay."
"Of course I am!" Meling stated. "You think that I'm just going to leave my Li alone?"
"Hay." Li said in a low voice seeming to be trying to ignore the clamp on his arm. Sakura looked at Li's face, he had a bandage over his left eye. "How ya feeling Li?" Sakura asked in a supple tone. "Not bad, a couple of browsed ribs, some scrapes, I'm fine, how about you?" Li asked seemingly not interested in the answer. "I'm fine." Sakura said. The warning bell rang and Syaoran turned to walk to class with Meling. He stopped and looked over his shoulder at Sakura. "Just try and be careful. I can't. well, just be careful." He said and then turned and continued walking.
"Okay, Syaoran! I will!" Sakura said with happy enthusiasm.
The bell rang for lunch and everyone poured out of their classrooms and migrated to the courtyard to socialize. Sakura and Tomoyo sat down to have lunch. "I'm starving!" Sakura said. Syaoran walked up with Meiling attached to his arm as always, and sat down. No one said anything for a while, they just sat there eating. "So, Syaoran, how are you doing so far, ya know with classes and your apartment and stuff? Are you getting settled in?" Sakura said trying to start a conversation to break the silence.
"We're settling in just fine and Li is so smart that no matter what the subject is he'll do great!" Meiling gloated for Syaoran. "Stop it, Meling." Syaoran said in a not so friendly tone. Meling sat there looking a bit melancholy at Syaoran's scolding. She almost looked like she was about to cry and she got up and ran away.
"Li, that wasn't very nice." Tomoyo said. Li ignored her and hunched over the lunch table and leaned on his fists. Tomoyo looked at him. He had seemed the day before more hopeful and less upset it seemed. She wondered if it was something that could have happened between then and now or maybe if he had changed in the years passed.
"Li is something bothering you?" Sakura asked not knowing what kind of response she would get.
"It's nothing, Sakura." Li said in an apologetic tone.
The rest of the school day went by and the dismissal bell rang. Sakura met Tomoyo in the parking lot to go home. "Boy am I glade this day is over, hay where's Yamazaki and Chiharu?" Sakura asked Tomoyo. They're off somewhere, said they'd walk home." Tomoyo answered. The two girls got in the car and started home. "What do you think is wrong with Li?" Tomoyo inquired.
"I don't know but something is defiantly wrong, I've never seen him so depressed." Sakura said.
"I've never seen him depressed period." Tomoyo said.
Sakura got home and she and Tomoyo went up to her room to study. "So how was your fist day back at hell-high?" Kero asked Sakura and Tomoyo. "I wish you wouldn't repeat things you hear Yamazaki say." Sakura complained. "Well as much as you complain about it, it sounds like a accurate description." Kero pointed out. Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero did homework and watched TV until about six-thirty when Sakura sensed something. Sakura stared blankly out the window and Tomoyo said "Sakura what is it?"
"I sense a Clow card!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Oh yah! Our first Clow card!" Kero shouted. Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero left the house and started to search for the card. "Can you tell where it's coming from?" Tomoyo asked.
"Over there." Sakura pointed to the wooded area near her house.
"It's getting dark." Tomoyo said as she held onto Sakura's arm.
"Can you tell which card it is?" Kero asked Sakura. "It's familiar, one of my first." Sakura said in concentration.
"What's that?!" Tomoyo said as she pointed to a beam of bright blue light through the trees. "It's Syaoran!" Sakura said with a hint of excitement. Sakura Tomoyo and Kero ran toward the source of the beam. Sakura burst out of the bushes behind Li. "SYAORAN!" Sakura said.
"Ahhhh!" Syaoran he yelled startled. "Ahiiiii!" Sakura squealed and fell down startled by Syaoran's yell.
He turned around with a look of irritation. "Don't do that! You okay?" Li said looking down at her. Tomoyo jumped out of the bushes and saw Sakura sitting on the ground. She knelt down next to her. "Sakura are you okay?" "Sakura what the hell is wrong with you, I could have killed you!" Li shouted at Sakura. "Sy- Syaoran, you scared me." Sakura whimpered as she stood up.
"I was the one who was scared!" Syaoran said as his hear went budump budumb. "Don't sneak up on me like that in the dark." Li warned her in a low and intolerant tone. Sakura could tell that despite his attempt at kindness, Syaoran was still troubled by whatever was bothering him. Syaoran turned from Sakura and Kero flue in front of him.
"You got alota nerve kid! Knocking Sakura down for no reason!" Kero growled at Syaoran. Syaoran stared at Kero for a moment and than swatted him out of the air and walked away. "I've got a card to capture." Syaoran said as he stormed off.
Tomoyo picked Kero up off the ground. "Are you okay, Kero?" She asked. "I'm fine, but that Li kid has gone too far!" Kero announced. "He didn't knock me down, I fell down." Sakura said. This didn't really surprise Kero, and it made more sense, but he didn't want to admit that. "He was angry about something though, he's been upset all day, he even lashed out at Meiling." Sakura said with concern.
"We'll deal with this later, right now we have a card to catch." Kero said. "Sakura where is it?"
"Close, I can feel it." Sakura said. "It's, It's, above us!" Sakura said as she looked toward the sky but there was nothing there. "Hmm, well, it could be the fly card." Kero Said. There was then a loud screech coming from above. The area of sky above they could see through the trees vanished as the form of a massive bird that was white and glowing like the full moon swooped overhead and as it did the trees waved from the wind of it's wake. "Yep, defiantly the Fly. Sakura, you're up!" Kero said.
"The key that hides the powers of darkness show your true form before me, Release!" Sakura chanted as her Star Wand appeared. "Windy, bring fly down!" The windy burst from it's card and chased after the large bird. When it caught up with fly it wrapped itself around the bird and they fell from the sky. Sakura ran to where they fell; in a grove where the trees were scarce and found windy struggling to keep fly in its grasp. The bird was as large as before and it seemed to be stronger this time. "Seal it now!" Kero shouted. Just then fly burst from windy's grasp and flapped it's wings once toward the three with gale force knocking them to the ground.
"Thunder!" A deep voice penetrated the air. A bolt of lightning left Syaoran's sword and impacted the bird. "Return to your true form, Phantom card!" Sakura yelled. The bird was pulled into it's card in a beautiful stream of light. The card floated into Sakura's lap as she sat on the ground.
Syaoran walked to Sakura and stood a few feet in front of her. "Thanks for your help Syaoran, I, couldn't have done it without you." Sakura said wondering if Syaoran was still up set. Syaoran than held out his hand to help Sakura up. Sakura took his hand and stood up. Syaoran held Sakura's hand and looked into her eyes. Sakura looked at him, but she didn't fell anger in him any more, instead sadness. Syaoran turned and walked away from Sakura and Tomoyo. "Syaoran, wait what's wrong?" Sakura asked Syaoran as she put a hand on his arm. Syaoran pulled his arm away and said "Goodbye Sakura." Li continued walking. "Syaoran!" Sakura pleaded.
"Sakura, he'll tell us what's wrong when he's ready. Now lets try out your new wings." Tomoyo said cheerfully.
"Yah, kid, don't worry about him, he's a survivor." Kero said.
"Okay, your right" Sakura said as she taped the fly card with her wand. And with that a pair of beautiful white wings appeared on her back and Sakura flew into the sky like an angel ascending to heaven.
Syaoran looked to the air and saw the angel. "I can't protect you any more. I never could."
