Meag: I'm back!
Kiori: mumbles under her breath unfortunately...
Meag: Shut up Kiori. You and I have reviews to thank. Me 'cause otherwise I can't put in a new chapter, or I'll go mental and you 'cause, you don't like my rat poison drink.
Kiori: No duh I don't like it! I'm allergic to fruit punch plus, the rat poison burns my insides! Anyway thank you again Starbolt 1218 for being kind enough to review all of her chapters so far.
Meag: You also don't have to worry about Kiori being offended by me hurting her since I'd do it weather or not someone reviewed.
Kiori: mutters under breath no kidding...
Meag: whacks Kiori you also don't have to worry about Kiori dying since, she can't. Joyful expression Kiori, I found a rope and created a ceiling to hang you since you did suggest it...
Kiori: tiny voice help...
Meag: Thanx to you boltaction too! It's great too know someone appreciates my story. Glares at Kiori
Kiori: looks around whistling, avoiding all eye contact what?
Meag: O ya. Sorry about the battle scene in chapter 2, Starbolt 1218. I didn't mean for it too be confusing.
Kiori: Doesn't matter anyway. Meag is messed up any way you look at it. Suddenly finds herself hanging from a very high ceiling what the...? Meag let me go now!
Meag: innocent look I didn't do anything. On with the fic!
Kiori: I'm serious Meag. I can't breath much...! Mouth becomes gagged...
Disclaimer: Why was the word "disclaimer" invented? I don't own CCS, just to let you know. I own Yelan Young-meh, the dark cards and the mysterious woman though.
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Last chapter: "Well, this is a dark card," Syaoran began pointing to the card in Yelan's hand. "Those are ying/yang cards," Syaoran continued, pointing to thunder and fire that were standing quietly behind Yelan waiting for a new command. "And this," Syaoran finished pointing to Yelan.
"I'm his twin sister," Yelan finished.
This Chapter:
"HIS SISTER?!?" Eriol, Tomoyo and Sakura all shouted at the same time. Syaoran, Yelan and Kero all covered their sudden outburst. Rubbing her poor eardrums Yelan looked at them oddly.
"Ya. Sister. Twin sister if you want to get into detail," Yelan replied to the yell.
"What's the big deal? If your goal was to wreck our poor eardrums than I believe you succeeded. So the gaki has a sister. So what?" Kero asked, reverting to his smaller form.
"Why are you calling my brother a brat?" Yelan asked getting a little steamed from having her one and only brother being insulted. Syaoran looked equally as mad and was agreeing with her. "Sure he get's annoying but the only one who can call him 'gaki' is me." When Yelan said this, Syaoran fell over anime style, now glaring at his sister for insulting him too. Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending how you look at it) she wasn't paying attention to him. She was busy shouting at Kero whom he could swear was shrinking at each word as she got more and more intimidating.
"If you don't watch it Keroberous (a/n: spelling?), guardian beast of the Sakura cards, the next target of fire and thunder who are standing behind me, is you!" Yelan continued. "You'd think you'd be a little grateful after I saved you and your mistress, from drowning but no. You go ahead and insult us. Humph! You need to be taught a little respect!" Finished with her um... lecture, she cooled down considerably and turned towards Syaoran, Sakura, Eriol and Tomoyo who had been cowering a good distance away.
Fearing that her wrath would be inflicted towards them for one reason or another they braced themselves, while Syaoran got the guts to slowly get up and dust himself off.
"Yelan? I think you've scared Kero and the others so uh, could we get back to asking why they were so shocked you are my sister?" Syaoran asked timidly, using Kero's proper name in case he would get "the respect" lecture from her. Smiling she nodded and walked over to where Sakura and the others were dusting themselves off, fire and thunder close behind.
Remembering what they had been talking about before Kero had made the biggest mistake of his life Tomoyo looked up and exclaimed, "You mean Sakura-chan was jealous of his sister?" Noticing the surprised looks she got from Syaoran, Yelan, and Kero (who was as far away from Yelan as possible) and the glares she was receiving from Sakura and Eriol, she realized her mistake.
"Sakura was jealous?" Syaoran asked doing his best to control his fast beating heart. He was doing his best to try not to get his soaring hopes up too high.
"Why was Sakura jealous?" Yelan asked confused. Syaoran resisted the over whelming urge to slap his forehead. His sister was innocent and kind with pure intentions but she could be denser than either him or Sakura. Take your pick.
"I was, uh, jealous of you..." Sakura started, struggling to find a good excuse while avoiding eye contact with either Li and glare at Tomoyo at the same time.
"She was jealous of how you managed to catch that dark card, Yelan," Tomoyo finished for her in hopes that Sakura would catch on and follow, then forgive her for her mistake later.
"I was?" she asked looking at Tomoyo questioningly. A good elbow in her ribcage from Eriol who was standing on the other side of her cured her of that. "I mean, ya I was! What's with this whole 'dark card' business anyway?" Syaoran hid his disappointment very well but his sister still caught it.
'Why would she be jealous if you liked another girl' he asked himself. 'Not like she likes you anyway.' Yelan could tell he was very sad from Sakura's answer but decided not to say a word about it. She wasn't dense. She was just a very good actor. Recovering quickly, Syaoran looked at Sakura, Kero and Eriol oddly and Yelan could tell he was better, much to her relief.
"Don't you know about the dark cards?" he asked them, only to be greeted by blank looks. Now it was Yelan's turn to be surprised. Kero was supposed to be the guardian beast of the Clow book and Eriol was supposed to be half of Clow Reeds reincarnation. Sakura should know about the dark cards but she is new. If this was true, which by the magical feeling she was receiving from the two of them it was, than they should know what a "Dark" card is.
"You don't know?" she asked incredulously. Everyone but Syaoran shook his or her head. Giving out a small sigh she gave them a better view of the Dark watery card in her possession, that now had the name "YING" written along the bottom. "Sit down. It's a bit of a story and Syaoran and me should tell you if you want to help collect them.
Obeying her command they sat down and waited patiently like a group of kids waiting for their nanny to tell them a story before bed. Taking a seat next to each other, Syaoran and Yelan sat down where they were standing. All eyes were on the pair and the card in Yelan's hand. All ears were focused sharply.
"Long ago when Clow Reed still existed, he created cards that each had a certain power. The strongest of all the cards were the four elemental cards. They were windy, watery, fiery and earth. When the cards became harder to control Clow Reed sealed them away in a book and created two protectors to make sure that it didn't fall into the wrong hands," Syaoran began. Yelan was about to carry on when Eriol interrupted.
"But we all know that. What do they have to do with the dark cards?" he asked. Yelan stared at him before saying,
"I was about to tell that part before I was rudely interrupted." Kero, Sakura and Tomoyo all glared at him while he wore a slight sheepish look upon his face.
"Quiet Eriol! I want to hear the rest of this story!" Tomoyo hissed. The others were nodding in agreement.
"Sorry. Please carry on," he muttered under his breath, head down to show a bit of respect. Nodding to show that it was okay just don't do it again Yelan continued what her brother began.
"As you probably all know. The world needs to have a healthy balance of good and evil. When the Clow cards were created, good overrode evil and the world was thrown into disaster. Plagues of mice stormed through cities while animals died of unknown reasons. Climates changed so that growing crops began to be impossible. Besides that, incurable diseases were let loose and thousands of people died by the hour. Within a day the entire world population had been unhealthily reduced.
"Seeing the mayhem that was spreading, Clow Reed realized his deadly mistake and set to work creating another set of Clow cards that were more evil than the last. Each of the cards that were in the last deck was given a counter part to help balance the scale of evil and good. After a day had officially gone by the deck was complete." Yelan paused and looked at her brother whom the audience switched their attention too.
"When the disaster still refused to stop he could not tell what was wrong. Each card had a counter part that had the same amount of power as them. When another day had passed he realized that if nothing was done soon there would be nothing left of the world and he did the one thing that was on the very bottom of a list he created of ideas to balance the scale." Syaoran paused again taking a deep breath before continuing. Th group of 4 hung on too his every word absorbed in the tale.
"Clow Reed added more power too each Dark card." A gasp was heard from Sakura, while Eriol and Kero stared at him with disbelief etched on their faces.
Yelan looked at Tomoyo who was clearly confused and began to explain gently.
"Clow Reed used a good chunk creating the Clow cards, book and both guardian beasts. He had little time to regain that energy before creating the Dark cards. When he had finished creating those he barely had enough energy to walk much less use it for magic. Clow Reed had a pure heart and risked his life to save others on the planet, suffering from his own wrongdoing. To be able to put enough power into each of the dark cards equally he would have to go into his life energy. When he did he was barely alive." Yelan finished her explanation sadly.
Tomoyo gasped and looked down tears forming in the corners of her eyes. Sakura looked like she was going to break down and cry up a sea of tears. Eriol looked solemn and Kero mournful. Looking at each other they let them stay like that and created something like an unannounced moment of silence. After a bit Syaoran cleared his throat to continue.
"Clow Reed didn't die though. At least not from creating the Clow cards and the Dark cards. He recovered after a week of lying in bed and had a friend bring food and water for him. Everyday he would look out the window and make sure that the world was at peace again, and it was. People who survived rebuilt buildings and began life again. Clow Reed decided that people's minds are easy to mold and deceive. Sometimes it even forgot something out of greed or excitement like he had.
"To keep a set of cards like dark cards was dangerous with a human mind so he decided to hide it." Stopping Syaoran turned to Yelan who continued the story where he left off.
"He went through a secret passage that led to a hidden tower near the top, and put the deck in a book that was so powerful it would keep the cards in itself and would not need guardian beasts to protect it. After carefully placing each card inside he sealed it with a number of spells doing his best to make sure that if this dangerous book were ever to be found it could not be opened. Once numerous spells had been placed upon it he opened a trap door that was well hidden that led to an incredibly small room. Opening a secret tile that had a safe that only he knew how to open, he placed the book inside and sealed it away for what he hoped for was forever.
"Now, somehow the book had opened despite all the precautions that Clow Reed had taken and unleashed a very dangerous force. Each card that Sakura has, has a counter part. Each dark card is stronger than the original. If we don't catch the cards people will die, much like you almost did today. That's why we have to catch them ASAP or there will be major trouble." Yelan finished looking at the faces of their quiet audience.
"But Yelan, how can I help. My cards weren't strong enough to seal Dark Watery. You and Syaoran saw yourself. I couldn't hit it," Sakura asked confused how they could help.
"Don't worry Sakura. Dark Watery is an elemental card like watery. If you catch some of the other dark cards that aren't elemental first, you can use them to defeat the elemental cards easily," Yelan reassured.
"How come my cards didn't work anyway?" Sakura said curiously.
"The star cards aren't ready to face their counter parts quiet yet. They need confidence to get stronger just like our cards," Syaoran answered acknowledging fire and thunder that were sitting in a tree watching for trouble. "The more dark cards you catch the more confidence they get." He answered the question he saw coming.
"Well my cute little descendants, you sure seem to know a lot. How did you know how to seal the card?" Eriol asked with interest, wondering if Yelan would respond just like Syaoran did.
"All you do is call out the card name, say 'I,' your name, 'of the,' the cards you control, 'command you to return to your card form now!' Then yell their name again. It's pretty simple great ancestor." Yelan replied ignoring how Eriol looked a little indignant at being called old and her brother who looked like he was opening the best Christmas gift ever.
"So any staff can seal it?" Sakura wondered.
"Ya. My sword for the ying/yang cards, Yelan's sun staff, your star wand or Hiiragizawa's sun staff." Syaoran answered with a shrug.
"That reminds me Li-kun, Yelan-chan where did you get your ying/yang cards? Did Clow Reed make those too? They seem pretty powerful." Tomoyo asked full of curiosity. Everyone turned their attention to Yelan and Syaoran all wondering the same thing. Syaoran's eyes were full of emotion and distant just like Yelan's as soon as the question was asked.
Very softly, so that everyone, except Syaoran, had to lean in to catch her words Yelan whispered, "No Tomoyo-chan. Clow Reed didn't make these cards." Kero was about to ask who did than when she continued on, "Syaoran and I did."
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Meag: Well there's chapter 4
Kiori: MMMMH!
Meag: You know I could get used to the peace and quiet around here.
Kiori: Beginning to turn unhealthy shades of colors while being hung and gagged
Meag: Don't worry readers that are worried. If she could die she would already would have before the second page was done.
Kiori: Passed out from lack of air
Meag: I'll let her down before the next fic. Don't worry about her. Anyway if you still don't like it I'll let her down now. Snaps fingers
Kiori: lying on the floor unconscious
Meag: See she's fine. Anyway review if you want a new chapter.
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