I don't own CCS, I'm just a poor obsessed fangirl! ^0^

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Chapter 3

"You mean the kids back?" Kero asked as he dug his spoon into a mound of puddings on his plate. "That's right Kero." Sakura answered pacing the room. Stopping by the window she peered out at the rain falling in torrents.

Sakura's eyes flew wide open and she whispered, "you had better see this Kero." Setting down his spoon Kero flew over to the window. "I don't see anything." He glanced at Sakura. "Can't you see it. A bright blue light's shining near penguin park, and over there, there's a green light!"

She looked down at herself. "Kero! I'm glowing pink!" She glanced at Kero who was glowing an intense gold. "What's going on?" Sakura looked out the window again.

The blue and green lights were moving. The blue light was now shining outside of the gate leading to Sakura's house and the green light was coming up the road. As the green light drew closer the source of the blue light looked up at Sakura.

She was a teenager, and she looked about the same age as Sakura. She wore a flowing robe made of many layers. In her hand she held a large staff topped with a crescent moon. Floating between the tips of the moon was an elaborate slar, and in the center was a gently glowing orb. Gasping Sakura noticed that the rain didn't fall on the girl. It was like something was blocking it.

The girl looked up at the sky. The rain stopped. Sakura glanced back towards the green light and she realized it was Li. As Li came closer towards Sakura's house the figure smiled, put her finger to her lips in a silencing motion, then disappeared. When the girl disappeared the lights evaporated.

Strange, thought Sakura. The door bell rang and she hurried down to answer it.

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"So, it really was Sakura." A figure by the large, ornate fireplace shifted excitedly. "Yes, but you do realize that it won't be easy to get them. She will find you out eventually. Especially with that half-breed hanging about," a soft masculine voice answered out of the darkest shadows of the room. The figure standing in front of the fireplace turned towards the source of the voice, "I don't really care as long as I can have the Star Cards."

The figure in the shadows shifted, "I don't think the half- breed will let you have them." The person near the fireplace stepped back into the light revealing a slim red haired girl of about sixteen, "Like I said before, I don't care. She's not a real threat. Anyway, who's the master here. I don't recall asking your opinion. You're starting to forget who created you."

"Copied me, is more like it." The shadowed figure finally stepped into the light to reveal a look-alike of Yue. "You copied the form Clow Reid created and you know it." The girl crossed her arms in a huff, "so what if I did? You're still mine!"

For the first time emotion crossed the look-alike's face, disdain, "As I recall you don't even have strong enough magic to control me with, you had to steal someone else's magic to even create me! But then again, you also had to take something else that couldn't be regained..."

The girl looked sorrowful for a moment then her face went blank once again, "I did what I had to do..." She said more to convince herself, than the recreation that stood before her.

She began to walk slowly out of the room. When she reached the door her creation's quiet, eery voice drifted out to her, "tell that to the dead soul." She turned quickly to reply, but the room now stood empty.

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