Great. I really try to update on a regular basis. I also need to re-update
some of the chapters. I really don't know what's going on, but some of my
old chapters aren't coming up quite right.
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Kriee woke up feeling the turf under her body and the sun on her face. She twitched her eyes over and saw Asura, Peko, and Roku standing over her. Instantly, she shot up and panted heavily.
"Not again!" she cried. "How long was I out?"
"Only ten seconds," Roku answered. She looked over and saw the rest of the class still sitting in the grass as if nothing happened. The coach decided to ignore her as soon as she fell. When she returned her attention to her friends, both Roku and Asura had their hands reached down offering their help. There seemed to be a sense of tension between the two that Kriee missed as she grabbed of their hands. They both reluctantly pulled her up together.
"Which is quite and improvement from yesterday!" Peko added happily. She broke the strange silence between the two boys.
"What happened yesterday?"
"Kriee fainted and I saved her," Asura answered harshly. "Kriee, I think we should go back into the gym." He started walking away and Kriee looked back at Roku and Peko. Peko, who was behind Roku at the time, shrugged and motioned her to go. After walking for a few moments, Kriee turned her head again to make sure that Roku was a respectable distance away.
"Why were you so rude to him?" Kriee asked.
"I don't like him," he answered coolly.
"Why not? He seems nice."
"Can't trust him." Kriee shot a disgruntled look at him as they entered the gymnasium. The rush of cold air from the air conditioning was a pleasant surprise and felt good after running in the hot sun. "I'll get you some water. The class should be inside any minute now." While he left the gym to the hallway where the water fountain was, the rest of the class pounded through the doors and nearly bulldozed her down as they went to get water as well. As the cloud of students faded into the hallway, Asura stood alone on the opposite side of the gym with his shirt soaking wet and a paper cup smashed on the ground. Kriee tried to suppress a laugh as he looked with pity upon the broken cup and the contents that had splattered on his shirt.
"Are you okay?" she asked between snickers. Asura sighed and threw the cup away. Before he could return to Kriee, the bell had rung once again, and gym class was over.
"Finally!" Kriee said happily. "I thought today would never end!"
She walked out of the school between Asura and Peko. Her arms were swung casually behind her head as they made their way to the parking lot.
"Are you taking the bus today?" Asura asked Peko.
"No, me and Densi are going through a rough spot. Apparently she thinks I'm some sort of evil sprite and she thinks I always act like a bar's been shoved up my-"
"ANYways," Asura said loudly. "What about you?"
"Well," Kriee said embarrassingly, "I was kind of hoping I could get a ride from you."
Asura cut though Kriee and Peko and lovingly wrapped his arms around the two's shoulders. "Did you hear that," he directed towards Peko. "She wants me to drive." Quickly, dipped his hand into Peko's purse and pulled out the keys to her car.
"Give those back!" she shouted. Before she could catch him, Asura was already far ahead of her.
The three of them walked into the car, but Kriee took the backseat this time. She assured herself that the only was to enter a car, convertible or not, was by opening the door. As they were driving down the highway back to where Kriee supposed they lived.
"Where do we go?" Asura asked suddenly.
"What?"
"Where do we go to get to your house," he said sarcastically slow. "Where do you live?"
"Oh!" Kriee shouted. It was hard to hear from the wind whipping their ears. "Turn here!" she yelled, pointing to the dirt road that they had almost passed. Asura performed a U-turn that only a master driver could ever do. A car that was trailing behind him stopped less than an inch away from Peko's car. Despite this near miss, the group made it to the old dirt road safely.
"That was a miracle!" Kriee shouted from the back seat. She sat up and looked behind her where the car that nearly ran their bumper was honking his horn off.
"A miracle, yes," Peko hissed, glaring as Asura who gulped nervously. She diverted her attention to a huge wooden cabin trailing off the street. "Geesh! Look at the size of that place!"
"That's home!" Kriee said happily. Asura drove up the driveway and stopped. There was an old, rusty looking foreign car in the parking lot right in front of them. "That must be Touya!" she said happily. Kriee fiddled with the handle of the car before it opened and rushed out. "Thanks for giving me a ride!"
Before waiting for a reply, she ran up to her the front door and flung it open. She marched down the marble hall into the atrium.
"Oji Touya!" she shouted. An old man whose back was faced away from her turned around slowly, but was instantly hit in the neck by Kriee. He had the same face, save for a few wrinkles, and his hair was turning gray in the back. She hugged him so tight that he probably would have died if she hadn't noticed the other body sitting on the couch opposite of him. "Yukito!" she said happily. He smiled in response. He wore glasses with thin, silver frames. His hair was also slowly graying, but it was hard to tell against his silver hair.
"Yeah. I invited him with me," Touya said dully. He took another sip of his coffee and placed it on the table in front of him. Her eyes gleamed with happiness as they trailed down from the smiling face of Yukito to a brightly wrapped present on the coffee table.
"Is that for me?" she gasped. Touya took it up from the table and tossed it to her.
"Sure. Happy birthday," he sighed. There was a small card taped on it that merely said 'From: Touya and Yuki.' Kriee opened the lid to the box carefully and was shocked to find a small stuffed. something inside.
"A teddy bear?" she asked with dismay. "Oji, don't you think I'm a little old for stuffed toys?"
"We thought you like teddy bears," Yuki commented. For a moment Kriee though she saw the bear twitch. It had big ears with a long tail resembling that of a lion. 'At least it's yellow,' Kriee mumbled to herself.
"Kriee, you should be thankful for your gift," Tomoyo said, walking out of the kitchen from behind her with a fresh pot of tea. Touya gave Kriee a smart look until she added, "No matter how late it is." She poured the tea into Touya and Yuki's cups and walked over to Kriee. "What did you get?" she asked. Kriee leaned the box over so she could see what was inside.
"It's just a toy," she sighed. Upon seeing the 'teddy bear,' Tomoyo gasped and dropped the ceramic tea kettle, shattering to pieces when it hit the ground. "Are you okay?"
"Oh, I'm fine. Why don't you go upstairs and put your present away while I have this cleaned up?" Kriee nodded and left the room. Tomoyo didn't act until she heard the steps of Kriee walking up the stairs. Instantly, she turned to Touya, who was casually drinking from his tea again. "What's wrong? Is something bad happening?" she asked.
Touya took another sip and continued. "Yukito thinks so."
"I've been having this strange feeling lately. It's about the cards though. Touya and I were going to observe from here, since Tokyo seems to be the place where my sense is strongest," Yuki explained.
"You're going to be living here?"
"Goodness, no. Touya and I will be renting an apartment near here, however, so we'll be close in case anything does happen."
"You still have the book right?" Touya asked. "And the key?"
"Of course. I have the book locked up in my library. Kriee wears the key every day as a charm."
"That good. At least we haven't lost anything," Touya snuffed.
"Is this thing you sense," she told towards Yukito, "what could have made Sakura and Syaoran disappear like that?"
"It might," Yukito said calmly, taking yet another sip of tea. "That's why we sent Kero to talk to her. Whenever she's alone, we asked her to talk to her."
"You mean she's going to find out about her mother?" Before Yuki or Touya could answer, a loud shriek emitted from upstairs. There was a blur of brown hair and plaid uniform falling down the stairs and sprinting behind Tomoyo.
"Ma-chan!" Kriee cried. "The teddy bear talked to me! It moved!" Touya and Yuki didn't seem so surprised, but Tomoyo was worried trying to consol her. A small yellow bear floated softly down the stairs and in front of Tomoyo. "It flies!"
"Hello Daidouji," Kero said happily.
"Kero-chan!" Tomoyo shouted. She jumped up and hugged the diminutive form of Sakura's sun guardian.
"Y-you [i]know[/i] him?"
"He belonged to Sakura," Touya sighed.
"My mom?"
"My mistress, yes," Kero answered.
"It talked again!" Kriee yelled, throwing the box he was wrapped in at his head. Kero dodged the attack with ease and slowly lowered himself on the back of the couch Touya sat on.
"First of all," he said with a hint of aggravation, "I am the guardian beast of the seal. I go by the name Kerberos, but you can call me Kero, if you want."
"K- Kero?"
"That's right," he said slowly, congratulating her as if she were a small child.
"What s- seal?" she stuttered. Kero paused for a moment, then looked towards Yuki.
"You haven't told her yet?" he growled. Yuki looked up innocently, then his eyes shut and his head limped down like a rag doll. He was lifted from his seat with an eerie glow escaping his back. Huge wings sprouted from his back, knocking over a lamp that sat peacefully on the table next to him. The wings wrapped around his body, cocooning himself inside. The light died down as soon as it started, and the wings let go of Yukito, leaving someone else behind.
"You must forgive my friend," he said numbingly. His arms were wrapped coldly around his chest as if he didn't give a care for staying in Tomoyo's house at the moment. "He's been in rest for the past three years." He moved his head of to the side, letting his long silver hair shift softly. The clothes he wore looked like something from a romantic, historic, fantasy movie. His robes were delicately fitted and were sewn with the finest of shimmering white fabric Kriee had ever seen.
"Do you mind me asking who you are?" Kriee said quickly and silently. The being shifted his eyes revealing their cat-like demeanor.
"I am Yue."
"Me?"
"No, Yue," he repeated, still showing little emotion. Kriee nodded slowly and gaped her mouth open, about to say something, but then shut it again.
"I suppose you want to know why were here," he sighed.
"It would help a lot, yes," she squeaked.
"Your mother was a Card Captor. When she was young, younger than you, she harvested great magic to help her in capturing the cards when they were released from their book when it's seal broke."
"If Kero is the guardian of the seal, then why did the seal break?" she asked. Kero shuttered for a moment, then he finished the story.
"Her magic was what opened the seal, not my recklessness, if that's what you're thinking. The maker of these magic cards-"
"They're magic?"
"Yes! -Did you tell her nothing?- The cards were made hundreds of years ago by the sorcerer Clow Reed. Each card contained a particular power that harnessed a certain element or ability. Sakura, your mother, was the chosen one to capture them all, which she did and returned them back to their book, which what helmed them. However, not long after you were born. Something bad happened to her and she disappeared. along with the gaki."
"He was not a gaki!" Tomoyo cut in. She turned to Kriee with a look of sympathy. "You father, who will be called Syaoran, not 'gaki,' was a distant relative of Clow Reed."
"So, you have the blood of a Card Captor and of Clow Reed himself in you!" Kero said proudly.
"What does that have to do with anything? What was that you said about my parents [i]disappearing[/i]? I thought they died when their car veered off a bridge."
"That was just a cover," Tomoyo said sadly. "When you were young, we didn't want to put the burden and the trust on you."
"We didn't want you telling all your friends that you were a Card Captor," Yue said blatantly.
"So. How did they disappear?"
"We're still trying to figure that out," Kero admitted. He floated off the couch in front of Kriee so they were at eye-level. "Honestly, Tomoyo was the only one that saw it happen." Kriee, taken by surprise, whipped her head around to her step-mother and begged for answers.
"I can't really remember it that well. There were trees vanishing, and then Sakura was gone in a flash of red light, and suddenly the trees returned to where they were. It's like whoever, or whatever, took Sakura and Li wasn't after anything but them."
"So, you have a feeling that whoever caused this is returning."
"Yes. It's very faint, but there seems to be an uprising since your magic began to awaken," Yue commented.
"But I haven't felt anything. I don't know what it's like to have magic!"
"We know, you just need some practice," Touya said.
"But what if I don't want to?"
"It's really all your choice, I guess," Yue exhaled. "We can't do this without you."
"What is it exactly that you want me to do?"
"We need you to practice your magic on a regular basis so when the enemy magic arrives, you'll be ready. We believe that if this force is destroyed, your parents might return if their life force wasn't disturbed," said Kero.
"They're still alive," Yue commented indefinitely. Kero harrumphed and Touya chuckled. He loved it, although he knew it was wrong, whenever Kero was mistaken.
"How do I fight?"
"You're choosing all the right questions," Yue said. It was awkward receiving a comment from him, since he seemed to be so uptight and rigid. "That must be the Clow in your blood. You will fight using your wand and cards. We will teach you the incantations you will need to know to awaken the cards and use them for your defense."
"That is, if you'll let us," Kero added. It was now when Kriee noticed that everyone seemed to have moved across from her and were now looking at her, as if begging to say yes.
"I- I suppose so."
"Great!" Kero said blissfully, breaking the stiffness that Kriee was showing. "Tomoyo-san, you still have the book, right?"
"Oh, yes, I've kept it in the library. I'll go get it now," she answered and then left the room down the same hallway that led to the library.
"I'm afraid I don't know what I've gotten myself in to," Kriee admitted warily. "Of course you haven't," Yue muttered, obviously being the only one who had heard her, "however I promise you won't regret it." His head flexed backward again and the wings wrapped around his body. As the angelic wings faded away, Yukito remained unharmed, but somewhat fazed at the events.
"What happened?"
"Kriee knows now. She's willing to help us," Touya stated, taking the finishing sip of his tea.
"That's good," Yuki said calmly. He sat down and started drinking his tea as if nothing had happened. Kriee sat on one of the less comfortable chair and looked from Yuki to Touya, and then to Kero who was munching on a pile of cookies that was placed on coffee table.
"Sweets!" he gurgled happily as he downed one after the other.
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Kriee woke up feeling the turf under her body and the sun on her face. She twitched her eyes over and saw Asura, Peko, and Roku standing over her. Instantly, she shot up and panted heavily.
"Not again!" she cried. "How long was I out?"
"Only ten seconds," Roku answered. She looked over and saw the rest of the class still sitting in the grass as if nothing happened. The coach decided to ignore her as soon as she fell. When she returned her attention to her friends, both Roku and Asura had their hands reached down offering their help. There seemed to be a sense of tension between the two that Kriee missed as she grabbed of their hands. They both reluctantly pulled her up together.
"Which is quite and improvement from yesterday!" Peko added happily. She broke the strange silence between the two boys.
"What happened yesterday?"
"Kriee fainted and I saved her," Asura answered harshly. "Kriee, I think we should go back into the gym." He started walking away and Kriee looked back at Roku and Peko. Peko, who was behind Roku at the time, shrugged and motioned her to go. After walking for a few moments, Kriee turned her head again to make sure that Roku was a respectable distance away.
"Why were you so rude to him?" Kriee asked.
"I don't like him," he answered coolly.
"Why not? He seems nice."
"Can't trust him." Kriee shot a disgruntled look at him as they entered the gymnasium. The rush of cold air from the air conditioning was a pleasant surprise and felt good after running in the hot sun. "I'll get you some water. The class should be inside any minute now." While he left the gym to the hallway where the water fountain was, the rest of the class pounded through the doors and nearly bulldozed her down as they went to get water as well. As the cloud of students faded into the hallway, Asura stood alone on the opposite side of the gym with his shirt soaking wet and a paper cup smashed on the ground. Kriee tried to suppress a laugh as he looked with pity upon the broken cup and the contents that had splattered on his shirt.
"Are you okay?" she asked between snickers. Asura sighed and threw the cup away. Before he could return to Kriee, the bell had rung once again, and gym class was over.
"Finally!" Kriee said happily. "I thought today would never end!"
She walked out of the school between Asura and Peko. Her arms were swung casually behind her head as they made their way to the parking lot.
"Are you taking the bus today?" Asura asked Peko.
"No, me and Densi are going through a rough spot. Apparently she thinks I'm some sort of evil sprite and she thinks I always act like a bar's been shoved up my-"
"ANYways," Asura said loudly. "What about you?"
"Well," Kriee said embarrassingly, "I was kind of hoping I could get a ride from you."
Asura cut though Kriee and Peko and lovingly wrapped his arms around the two's shoulders. "Did you hear that," he directed towards Peko. "She wants me to drive." Quickly, dipped his hand into Peko's purse and pulled out the keys to her car.
"Give those back!" she shouted. Before she could catch him, Asura was already far ahead of her.
The three of them walked into the car, but Kriee took the backseat this time. She assured herself that the only was to enter a car, convertible or not, was by opening the door. As they were driving down the highway back to where Kriee supposed they lived.
"Where do we go?" Asura asked suddenly.
"What?"
"Where do we go to get to your house," he said sarcastically slow. "Where do you live?"
"Oh!" Kriee shouted. It was hard to hear from the wind whipping their ears. "Turn here!" she yelled, pointing to the dirt road that they had almost passed. Asura performed a U-turn that only a master driver could ever do. A car that was trailing behind him stopped less than an inch away from Peko's car. Despite this near miss, the group made it to the old dirt road safely.
"That was a miracle!" Kriee shouted from the back seat. She sat up and looked behind her where the car that nearly ran their bumper was honking his horn off.
"A miracle, yes," Peko hissed, glaring as Asura who gulped nervously. She diverted her attention to a huge wooden cabin trailing off the street. "Geesh! Look at the size of that place!"
"That's home!" Kriee said happily. Asura drove up the driveway and stopped. There was an old, rusty looking foreign car in the parking lot right in front of them. "That must be Touya!" she said happily. Kriee fiddled with the handle of the car before it opened and rushed out. "Thanks for giving me a ride!"
Before waiting for a reply, she ran up to her the front door and flung it open. She marched down the marble hall into the atrium.
"Oji Touya!" she shouted. An old man whose back was faced away from her turned around slowly, but was instantly hit in the neck by Kriee. He had the same face, save for a few wrinkles, and his hair was turning gray in the back. She hugged him so tight that he probably would have died if she hadn't noticed the other body sitting on the couch opposite of him. "Yukito!" she said happily. He smiled in response. He wore glasses with thin, silver frames. His hair was also slowly graying, but it was hard to tell against his silver hair.
"Yeah. I invited him with me," Touya said dully. He took another sip of his coffee and placed it on the table in front of him. Her eyes gleamed with happiness as they trailed down from the smiling face of Yukito to a brightly wrapped present on the coffee table.
"Is that for me?" she gasped. Touya took it up from the table and tossed it to her.
"Sure. Happy birthday," he sighed. There was a small card taped on it that merely said 'From: Touya and Yuki.' Kriee opened the lid to the box carefully and was shocked to find a small stuffed. something inside.
"A teddy bear?" she asked with dismay. "Oji, don't you think I'm a little old for stuffed toys?"
"We thought you like teddy bears," Yuki commented. For a moment Kriee though she saw the bear twitch. It had big ears with a long tail resembling that of a lion. 'At least it's yellow,' Kriee mumbled to herself.
"Kriee, you should be thankful for your gift," Tomoyo said, walking out of the kitchen from behind her with a fresh pot of tea. Touya gave Kriee a smart look until she added, "No matter how late it is." She poured the tea into Touya and Yuki's cups and walked over to Kriee. "What did you get?" she asked. Kriee leaned the box over so she could see what was inside.
"It's just a toy," she sighed. Upon seeing the 'teddy bear,' Tomoyo gasped and dropped the ceramic tea kettle, shattering to pieces when it hit the ground. "Are you okay?"
"Oh, I'm fine. Why don't you go upstairs and put your present away while I have this cleaned up?" Kriee nodded and left the room. Tomoyo didn't act until she heard the steps of Kriee walking up the stairs. Instantly, she turned to Touya, who was casually drinking from his tea again. "What's wrong? Is something bad happening?" she asked.
Touya took another sip and continued. "Yukito thinks so."
"I've been having this strange feeling lately. It's about the cards though. Touya and I were going to observe from here, since Tokyo seems to be the place where my sense is strongest," Yuki explained.
"You're going to be living here?"
"Goodness, no. Touya and I will be renting an apartment near here, however, so we'll be close in case anything does happen."
"You still have the book right?" Touya asked. "And the key?"
"Of course. I have the book locked up in my library. Kriee wears the key every day as a charm."
"That good. At least we haven't lost anything," Touya snuffed.
"Is this thing you sense," she told towards Yukito, "what could have made Sakura and Syaoran disappear like that?"
"It might," Yukito said calmly, taking yet another sip of tea. "That's why we sent Kero to talk to her. Whenever she's alone, we asked her to talk to her."
"You mean she's going to find out about her mother?" Before Yuki or Touya could answer, a loud shriek emitted from upstairs. There was a blur of brown hair and plaid uniform falling down the stairs and sprinting behind Tomoyo.
"Ma-chan!" Kriee cried. "The teddy bear talked to me! It moved!" Touya and Yuki didn't seem so surprised, but Tomoyo was worried trying to consol her. A small yellow bear floated softly down the stairs and in front of Tomoyo. "It flies!"
"Hello Daidouji," Kero said happily.
"Kero-chan!" Tomoyo shouted. She jumped up and hugged the diminutive form of Sakura's sun guardian.
"Y-you [i]know[/i] him?"
"He belonged to Sakura," Touya sighed.
"My mom?"
"My mistress, yes," Kero answered.
"It talked again!" Kriee yelled, throwing the box he was wrapped in at his head. Kero dodged the attack with ease and slowly lowered himself on the back of the couch Touya sat on.
"First of all," he said with a hint of aggravation, "I am the guardian beast of the seal. I go by the name Kerberos, but you can call me Kero, if you want."
"K- Kero?"
"That's right," he said slowly, congratulating her as if she were a small child.
"What s- seal?" she stuttered. Kero paused for a moment, then looked towards Yuki.
"You haven't told her yet?" he growled. Yuki looked up innocently, then his eyes shut and his head limped down like a rag doll. He was lifted from his seat with an eerie glow escaping his back. Huge wings sprouted from his back, knocking over a lamp that sat peacefully on the table next to him. The wings wrapped around his body, cocooning himself inside. The light died down as soon as it started, and the wings let go of Yukito, leaving someone else behind.
"You must forgive my friend," he said numbingly. His arms were wrapped coldly around his chest as if he didn't give a care for staying in Tomoyo's house at the moment. "He's been in rest for the past three years." He moved his head of to the side, letting his long silver hair shift softly. The clothes he wore looked like something from a romantic, historic, fantasy movie. His robes were delicately fitted and were sewn with the finest of shimmering white fabric Kriee had ever seen.
"Do you mind me asking who you are?" Kriee said quickly and silently. The being shifted his eyes revealing their cat-like demeanor.
"I am Yue."
"Me?"
"No, Yue," he repeated, still showing little emotion. Kriee nodded slowly and gaped her mouth open, about to say something, but then shut it again.
"I suppose you want to know why were here," he sighed.
"It would help a lot, yes," she squeaked.
"Your mother was a Card Captor. When she was young, younger than you, she harvested great magic to help her in capturing the cards when they were released from their book when it's seal broke."
"If Kero is the guardian of the seal, then why did the seal break?" she asked. Kero shuttered for a moment, then he finished the story.
"Her magic was what opened the seal, not my recklessness, if that's what you're thinking. The maker of these magic cards-"
"They're magic?"
"Yes! -Did you tell her nothing?- The cards were made hundreds of years ago by the sorcerer Clow Reed. Each card contained a particular power that harnessed a certain element or ability. Sakura, your mother, was the chosen one to capture them all, which she did and returned them back to their book, which what helmed them. However, not long after you were born. Something bad happened to her and she disappeared. along with the gaki."
"He was not a gaki!" Tomoyo cut in. She turned to Kriee with a look of sympathy. "You father, who will be called Syaoran, not 'gaki,' was a distant relative of Clow Reed."
"So, you have the blood of a Card Captor and of Clow Reed himself in you!" Kero said proudly.
"What does that have to do with anything? What was that you said about my parents [i]disappearing[/i]? I thought they died when their car veered off a bridge."
"That was just a cover," Tomoyo said sadly. "When you were young, we didn't want to put the burden and the trust on you."
"We didn't want you telling all your friends that you were a Card Captor," Yue said blatantly.
"So. How did they disappear?"
"We're still trying to figure that out," Kero admitted. He floated off the couch in front of Kriee so they were at eye-level. "Honestly, Tomoyo was the only one that saw it happen." Kriee, taken by surprise, whipped her head around to her step-mother and begged for answers.
"I can't really remember it that well. There were trees vanishing, and then Sakura was gone in a flash of red light, and suddenly the trees returned to where they were. It's like whoever, or whatever, took Sakura and Li wasn't after anything but them."
"So, you have a feeling that whoever caused this is returning."
"Yes. It's very faint, but there seems to be an uprising since your magic began to awaken," Yue commented.
"But I haven't felt anything. I don't know what it's like to have magic!"
"We know, you just need some practice," Touya said.
"But what if I don't want to?"
"It's really all your choice, I guess," Yue exhaled. "We can't do this without you."
"What is it exactly that you want me to do?"
"We need you to practice your magic on a regular basis so when the enemy magic arrives, you'll be ready. We believe that if this force is destroyed, your parents might return if their life force wasn't disturbed," said Kero.
"They're still alive," Yue commented indefinitely. Kero harrumphed and Touya chuckled. He loved it, although he knew it was wrong, whenever Kero was mistaken.
"How do I fight?"
"You're choosing all the right questions," Yue said. It was awkward receiving a comment from him, since he seemed to be so uptight and rigid. "That must be the Clow in your blood. You will fight using your wand and cards. We will teach you the incantations you will need to know to awaken the cards and use them for your defense."
"That is, if you'll let us," Kero added. It was now when Kriee noticed that everyone seemed to have moved across from her and were now looking at her, as if begging to say yes.
"I- I suppose so."
"Great!" Kero said blissfully, breaking the stiffness that Kriee was showing. "Tomoyo-san, you still have the book, right?"
"Oh, yes, I've kept it in the library. I'll go get it now," she answered and then left the room down the same hallway that led to the library.
"I'm afraid I don't know what I've gotten myself in to," Kriee admitted warily. "Of course you haven't," Yue muttered, obviously being the only one who had heard her, "however I promise you won't regret it." His head flexed backward again and the wings wrapped around his body. As the angelic wings faded away, Yukito remained unharmed, but somewhat fazed at the events.
"What happened?"
"Kriee knows now. She's willing to help us," Touya stated, taking the finishing sip of his tea.
"That's good," Yuki said calmly. He sat down and started drinking his tea as if nothing had happened. Kriee sat on one of the less comfortable chair and looked from Yuki to Touya, and then to Kero who was munching on a pile of cookies that was placed on coffee table.
"Sweets!" he gurgled happily as he downed one after the other.