Star fire: I am sooooooooooooooo sorry for the LATE chappie; you see I was in Vancouver for 2 and half weeks with out any access to the computer!!! Oh and as for your question ArtemisHunteress, I explained that Sakura lost her memory near the end of chapter 6 with kero's memory.

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"Where- where am I?" Birdy asked confused,

"Good job! You bought your dear sister back...but can you save her?" the queen of darkness asked floating on her throne.

"Wha- what do you mean?!" Li demanded.

The queen just chuckled and flicked a finger, a thousand knifes appeared in the air and headed for Birdy, because Birdy was still confused she didn't hear the whistling of the blades but she did feel the pain as a thousand knifes bore into her. Birdy sunk to he knees and fell to the ground, dead.

Li watched as his sister fall to the ground...a thousand memories flashed before his eyes, Birdy laughing as she bounced him up and down, Birdy stealing a apple from a stall in the market place just to prove she could, then -WHAM the memory caught him unexpectedly,

~*~flash back ~*~

"Just remember, I'll always be with you no matter what." Birdy told Li staring up at the starry sky they were sitting under.

"But won't you die before me?" Li asked

"Not quite, I will die before you, even sooner then later, but I won't quite die." Birdy whispered glancing at him, tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear and gazed up at the starry sky again.

"Huh?" Li asked confused.

"Never mind lets just say someday you'll meet a special girl, yes Li a girl." Birdy laughed at Li's expression.

~*~ end flash back ~*~

Li gazed at Sakura's tear stained face, 'could SHE be the "special girl" Birdy was talking about?' Li remembered the look on Sakura's face as she pointed his own sword at him, yes she was indeed special butt is she the one? Sakura turned her tear stained face toward Li, she too had been remembering how kind Birdy had been to her.

"LOOK!!!" Kero shouted and they all looked towards Birdy's body, it was glowing bright red as it gradually floated up in to the air, even the queen looked surprised as Birdy's arms grew fiery red feathers and her clothes disappeared to revel a bird's body slowly Birdy's head changed into a phoenix's head. Red and gold tail feathers grew and then with a blinding red flash of fire the transformation was complete, in place of Birdy, princesses of the Li kingdom was a fiery red phoenix. She- it? Opened its golden eyes and glared at the queen. Slowly it circled the battle field, singing a strange song, all of a sudden all the queen's warriors exploded into flame and the phoenix swerved downward to land on Sakura's shoulder.

//hiya\\ said a familiar voice inside everyone's head.

"What the..." Li was incredibly confused, that was Birdy's voice, but Birdy is dead isn't she?

//never mind that, Sakura, there is a way you can defeat the queen\\ Birdy's voice now only sounded in Sakura and Li's heads.

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Star fire: again sorry for the late chappie, also im sorry for the cliffhanger too.