Nakoruru: Okay everyone. I'm finally back trying to work on this story...well...actually everyone has my friend Lady Love to thank for this chapter. She wrote most of the chapter, I just added in the beginning and maybe a few lines here and there, but this is all her work. THANKS SO MUCH, Missey!! I don't think I would have pulled myself away from school long enough to do this.

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Serena dodged another attack from Tennousei as she tried to make a dash for the only card left she had yet to seal. Earlier that evening, when she was coming back from introducing Raye to Lita and sitting down talking with the two, all three sensed the power of three very strong cards. Those cards turned out to be Power, Fight, and Twin. Lita had done a good job of subduing Fight, which teamed with Twin to split in two. Raye dealt with Power before it could team with the other two cards.

Everything went well, but then Tennousei and Kaiousei showed up to claim the cards also. Those two didn't give up the battle for anything and Raye and Lita volunteered to match up so Serena could seal the last card. So far, wherever she tried capturing the card, it would split in two, confusing Serena to which was a copy and which was an illusion. To make matters worse, Kaiousei and Tennousei kept throwing things at her.

It was hard enough for her to seal the card, but with dodging their attacks too was a bit of a hassle. "Serena!" Lita called, as she placed up a shield to block Tennousei's attack.

"Yeah, what's up?" Serena said, as she kept her attention on the split card.

"One on the left!" Lita shouted. "Don't worry about these two, we got them, concentrate on getting the card!"

"Right!" Turning to the card, Serena raised her staff above her head. Pulling out Windy and Freeze, she tossed them in the air. "Windy, trap the one on the right! Freeze, get the one of the left!"

Striking the cards with her wand, the cards took form and darted at its respective target. The half of the card that was on the right tried to move away, but end up bumping into its other half while it was trying to get away. So the effect was both becoming captured simultaneously by the two attacks.

"Now!" Serena closed her eyes, feeling the magic circle underneath her feet. "Twin card once made by Clow. Whose power burns bright hear me now. By the covenant that I have made, change your power from start to moon!" Pointing the staff at the card, both halves dissolved as they became one card again.

"Curses..." Kaiousei and Tennousei pulled back, seeing there was no more reason to fight. Without a word, the two disappeared from sight, knowing that their master was going to punish them for another failure.

Well...I guess that's another one for us," Raye sighed as her staff disappeared from sight.

"Yeah. I think we should go home now. It's been a busy day," Lita suggested. "And the captor will need her energy if cards keep popping up like this."

"I agree. We're getting down to the last few cards," Raye said. "I think all we have left are Change, Illusion, Watery, Mirror, Wood, Flower, Light, and Dark."

"Just that many left...well, I'll be happy when we finish," Serena said, but was worried just a tad. What was really going to happen after she sealed the cards? Was there going to be some kind of test for her like Lita said? Or was it going to be different this time?

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"Serena, your path to the end of the journey is almost done, but your greatest test will come after your journey is complete. But remember Serena, this is a test you must not fail or..."

"SERENA!!! Wake up, your going to be late to school again if you don't get up now," yelled Kero, right into one of her ears, and getting the response that he had hoped for.

Serena opened her eyes wide as the meaning of the word struck her like a ton of bricks. "No, I can't be late again or I'll get detention again," yelled Serena as she jumped out of bed, took a shower, and got dressed, in less than five minutes.

While Serena was putting on her shoes, she looked at Kero as he stuffed his face with more sweets, and couldn't help but wonder if at the end of this journey she would still be alive, to face the test that Sakura was talking about, before he woke her up. Serena's eyes went out of focus, as she remembered Sakura talking to her and had a being standing behind her that she couldn't make out, but knew that they were very loyal to her, just as the cards were. Returning to the land of the living due to Kero's loud burp.

Kero sensing eyes on him turn to look at Serena, who had a smile on her face but had trouble hidden in her eyes. Kero was about to ask her a question when she looked at the clock and screamed so loud that if Saturn had life they would have heard her.

"I'm so late," said Serena as she grabbed her books she accidentally grabbed Kero, stuffed him and the books into her bag back, and was out the door, before her mother could give her lunch for school. While making a mad dash to school Serena wished for more speed to get there in time, because she only had two minutes before the bell rang and she was five minutes from school.

Answering its mistress wish, the dash card gave Serena the speed she needed to get to school, with only milliseconds to spare, before she got detention. Sitting at her desk, she opened her book to give the homework to the teacher, which almost fell over in shock from her doing to assignment.

Amy and Mina couldn't believe Serena was actually paying attention in class, taking notes and staying awake. They decided to wait until lunch to ask Serena what's going on, so they wouldn't get into trouble because the teacher was having a bad day (you know what I mean girls '', and boys who don't have sisters, don't ask,).

After class was over, Serena went to Mina and Amy's favorite spot to eat lunch, and waited for them to get there. Serena reached into her backpack to get her lunch and when she didn't feel it she looked inside to find no lunch, meaning she had forgotten it. Starting to cry, she remembered that she had a couple fruit bars she had kept in her backpack just in case she had forgotten lunch. Looking for them, and only finding the fruit wrapper and a very stuffed Kero...wait Kero??

"Kero what are you doing in my backpack?" asked Serena with tears in her eyes.

"Well, while you where in a hurry to get to school, you grabbed my tail and put me in your backpack with your books. By the way, thanks for the food, I was getting hungry again," said Kero as he put his hands behind his head and laid back and relaxed. When Kero looked up he saw that Serena had her eyes closed and was trying not to shake too much. "Serena are you alright?" asked Kero as he got out of his relaxing position on her books.

"Kero, I thought I told you to not eat my food, no matter what because I need it with all the battles getting as hard as they are now. I need my strength and that comes from my food that you just ate," yelled Serena as she took into the woods by the school.

"Serena wait," hollered Kero as he made a beeline towards the direction the Serena went. Kero could see Serena in front of him, but she was getting further ahead of him. "God, she's fast!" thought Kero as he finally lost sight of her. When he was going in the direction that he saw her running in, he pushed back a branch and went to go by, but the branch came back and slapped him on the butt and pushed him into something, more like someone. When Kero saw that is was a human and not Serena he pulled the stuff animal act, which worked because the person picked him up.

"I wonder who dropped you, you cute animal," said a boy with blonde short hair as he poked Kero in the stomach with his finger. The boy or more like young man was wearing an orange shirt, with tan pants, but both where covered by an apron, that said Crown Arcade. The boy walked back into the place that he had came out of when Kero had hit him. Once inside he walked back to the counter and set Kero on the bar, and went to do something when he heard his name called.

"Andrew, you have someone here to see you again," said a girl with red/blonde hair (his sister, Liz), as she past him to take the money of a customer.

"Thanks sis," said Andrew as he headed where Liz had been, only to find his most favorite customer, Mina. "Hey Mina, what can I do for you today?" asked Andrew.

She always came in with a smile of her pretty face, and yes he thought she was pretty, but more along the line as attractive. He maybe out of school, but he was still a boy, and you know what comes with boys. He had been dumped by his previous girlfriend Rita, because she didn't like that he would always talk to Mina, because she was jealous of Mina's looks and her status as a highly demanded volleyball player. Mina's voice snapped him out of thought.

"Hey Andrew, can I have my usually, I have to meet with Serena after lunch. I forgot mine, so I came here," said Mina as she reached into her pocket to get the money to pay, when she felt something stop her hand. She looked up to see that Andrew had placed his hand on hers to stop her, to say the least; a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.

"Don't worry about it, it's on the house today," said Andrew as he removed his hand and walked away from the blonde, and blushing beauty.

When he returned he had her usually hamburger, fries and a vanilla & chocolate shake. Which he knew by heart, because he was always the one to take her order and he didn't mind, but he also brought the stuff animal alone with him.

"Hey Mina, do you know how this belongs to by any chance," holding up Kero from the tail, asked Andrew.

Mina seeing Kero in the arcade was a change, but seeing him in this predicament, made her want to laugh. She saw him begging her to take him, but she thought she would scare him. "I don't know, Andrew, let me think..." Mina taps her chin thinking hard, well not too hard. "Oh, I think Serena had one like that," said Mina as she took Kero and set him on the table by her fries (bad idea Kero food trouble).

"Well, if it's not hers can you bring it back, so I can maybe find who is belongs too," said Andrew as he walked away to take another person's order.

Mina looked at Kero to see that he had eaten most of her fries and was drinking her shake, which was almost a quarter gone. Mina was not too happy at the moment see the sun guardian eating, HER food. "Kero, what are you doing," said Mina in a soft, yet demanding voice. If looks could kill, Kero would be dead about now.

Kero looked up to see the glare that Mina was giving him and he scratched the back of his head with his hand. "Well, you put me in front of the food, so I thought that was an invitation to eat with you, besides, I'm starving," said Kero as he flew to the hamburger and was about to swallow it whole, had Mina not snatched it back before he could. But his hands were not so lucky because he bit them, and hard. "What did you do that for," asked Kero as he nursed his bitten hands.

"Serves you right, this is my food and you've almost eaten all of it, you little stuffed animal," said Mina as she took a bite of the hamburger and swallowed. She loved the taste of her double bacon, cheese, ham, lettuce and tomatoes. She looked at Kero to see that he had tears in his eyes, while watching her eat the hamburger, but she didn't let it stop her from enjoying every last bite.

"Why didn't you share?" asked Kero as he looks at the small pieces of the food left on the plate in front of Mina. It would have been such a good burger too, thought Kero as he looked at Mina cleaning her fingers.

Mina looked at Kero, and smiled, "Well, I would have shared, if YOU hadn't eaten most of the fries, but a few, and you were about to eat the whole darn burger, BY yourself. So tell, me would YOU have shared; NO," said Mina as she took a drink of her shake.

Kero looked down at the crumb on the plate and wiped his tears from his eyes. She was right, and he would have told her, if it hadn't been for the feeling of a card near by. Kero looked around to see that the cards power was coming from the back room of the arcade, where the office was.

Mina saw that Kero had jerked his head from the plate towards the direction of the office, but all that was back there was Andrews's office. She had seen this when their was a card around, and Serena wasn't here, darn it. "What is it Kero? A card?" asked Mina as she stood up from the chair.

"Yes, but I can't tell what card yet, so we had better go find out," said Kero as he took his place in her front, breast jacket pocket and acted like a stuff animal.

Mina started waking towards the back office, when she got a bad feeling in her gut telling her something was wrong with Andrew and it never lied to her. Mina took off in a run towards the back office and I opened the door to see Andrew on the ground with a little creature hanging over him that looked towards the two arrivers. She shut the door behind her only to be pushed into the door by the card, and that meant that Kero, got smashed, and he did, because he had stars in his eyes.

"Mina...card...you...some...body...hours," said Kero as he slipped out of her pocket onto the floor next to the body of Andrew and started to glow and Mina screamed when she saw one ball of light go into Kero from Andrew and from Andrew to Kero.

"What's going on back here," said Liz as she walked in the room to see her brother lying on the floor. "Andrew, are you ok," asked Liz as she went to see if he was all right. When she got to him she shook him to wake him; which she did, and she also heard a moan.

"Where...where am I," asked Andrew as he got up from the ground and turned to face Liz, only to freeze up. This wasn't good, not good at all.

"You're in the back room, bro. Are you alright," asked Liz as she helped her brother up from the ground. Her brother seemed to be in a state of shock for a moment, and then finally snapped out of it.

"Fine, sis. I just have a headache, that's all. I think I'll call it a day, so this doesn't happen again," said Andrew as he took of his apron and picked up the stuff animal on the floor and walked out the door. Mina wasn't far behind him.

"See ya, Liz," said Mina as she took off after the blonde haired boy. Mina couldn't shake the feeling that she wasn't going to be going back to school today. Mina followed Andrew until he when into an alleyway between to buildings, when she followed Andrew pushed her up against the wall, and it hurt. "Let go, Andrew. That hurt!" said Mina as she struggled to get away.

"Mina, it's me, Kero. I'm in Andrew's body," said Kero/Andrew as he let go of the struggling blonde. Kero looked at his body as a human again and let out a deep sign.

"If your Kero, then where is Andrew," demanded Mina, who put her hands on her hips to give the point more emphasis.

"Andrew is now in my body Mina. The change card changed us and it will change us back in 12 hours, but for now we have to try and survive as each other," said Kero as he handed Mina Andrew currently stuck in Kero's body.

The two walked out of the alleyway and head to no place in mind. Just they wanted to walk to get some things cleared up in their head. Mina looked down at Kero's body to see that his eyes where open and looking right at hers. "Hey, Andrew. You okay?" asked Mina as she lifted him closer to her face.

"Where am I?" asked Andrew as he looked around at his surroundings to see himself walking in front of him and beside his crush. He did the most logical thing that came to him and what anyone might do in his place, he screamed.

Mina not wanting to draw attention to them covered Kero/Andrew's mouth and took off towards the park, where they would have some peace and quite. But, what she didn't expect was for Andrew to bite her finger that covered his mouth, and hard enough to draw blood.

"OUCH," yelled Mina as she took her finger away from his mouth to put it to her mouth to stop the bleeding. Now she knew why he was mad at her for making him bite is fingers earlier; he had razor sharp teeth. When she looked down after getting into the part, so saw that Andrew was looking at her finger in her mouth and had a look of horror on his face.

"I'm so sorry Mina, I just don't know what came over me," said Andrew as he started to get tears in his eyes, and stopped when Mina put her finger under his closed eyes to caught the tears that fell.

"It's ok, Andrew. I'll be fine once the pain goes away, besides I know you didn't mean too," said Mina as she hugged him and kissed his forehead, but that only caused both to blush at the action.

"There you two are. You left me back there, and trying to run in this body isn't easy," said Kero as he appeared beside Mina. Kero was trying to catch is breath from run after the two. Kero looked down at his body to see that Andrew was licking clean Mina's finger that had a bite on it (how cute ''), in the shape of teeth; his teeth. "Why did you bite her," yelled Kero at Andrew who looked up from his cleaning job.

"I didn't mean too, it was a reaction," said Andrew as he went back to cleaning the bite mark. When he was satisfied that is was clean enough, he looked up to see a very, very red faced Mina. But, Andrew felt no shame in his actions, because he was the one who caused the bite in the first place.

"Thanks," said Mina as she raised her finger to look at it better, too see that it had started to heal. She looked down again to see that Andrew was looking at Kero, who at the current moment was over at a concession stand, getting a lot of food.

"What does that guy think he is doing," said Andrew as he went to fly over to him, only to start falling to the ground because he couldn't use the wings. Andrew closed his eyes not wanting to see the ground, but opened them when he felt gentle hands caught him instead of the rock hard ground. Andrew looked up to see Mina with a smile on her face and laugher in her eyes.

Andrew was about to say something, when Mina sat down on the ground and started to tell him what had been going on with her and to the current situation. Andrew was in a state of shock to say the least after hearing what her friend Serena has been going through and what Mina's been doing, trying to help her when she could.

"Well, I guess that explains why I'm in this body," said Andrew as he started to walk around on the ground thinking. This was an interesting predicament that he had gotten himself into; well it wasn't his fault that he opened up a box in the back to find a strange creature in it. He would have screamed had the creature not jumped at him, making him jump back and hit his head on the table. He was brought out of his thoughts when his body brought over a load of food and sat on the ground and started to eat it.

"Oh, Kero, that's not a good idea to eat all that food," said Mina as she looked at the ton of hotdogs, corndogs, fries, chips, and more. God, he must have spent all of Andrew's money in his wallet, thought Mina as she watched him stuff food in his face. She was about to say something to him, when Andrew beat her to the punch.

"Hey! Stop eating all that food, you pig; I work hard to stay in shape," said Andrew as he walked over to his body and glared at Kero who wasn't listening to him. Andrew just shook his head and walked back over to sit on Mina's lap; at least he wouldn't be the one getting sick from eating at that food. "Is he always like this," asked Andrew as he looked up at Mina.

"Worst, Drew! He will eat everything in the refrigerator, had Serena not warned him if he did, he would be eating dog & cat food for a year, and living outside," said Mina as she started to rub behind one of his ears, making Andrew wanting to purr in contentment, but settled for closing his eyes in bliss. The two just sat there, watching as Kero ate and ate to his heart content, but much to his stomachs displeasure. Andrew would have been more hysterical had Mina not explained it to him and since he was being with Mina, he could live with 12 hours of not bring human.

They watched as Kero ate and ate, and after the last hotdog was swallowed he smiled and licked his fingers clean. "Now, what were you say," said Kero as he cleaned his fingers and looked at Andrew who was on Mina lap, getting his ear rubbed.

"You do know that eating too much, will make you sick," said Andrew as he leaned against Mina's stomach to get more comfortable. "I have never eaten that much, and I bet you're going to be sick in a couple of hours," said Andrew.

"I've eaten a lot more than this before and never got sick," said Kero as he puffed out his chest in pride.

"Well, Kero...I hate to say this but you've only eaten that must in this," points to the stuffed animal leaning on her stomach, "form, and besides you are use to eating that much, but Drew isn't," said Mina.

"HMM! I'll prove you both wrong," said Kero as he got up and started to head toward Serena's house. Mina got up to follow him and to keep him out of trouble until Serena got home or they changed back.

When they got to Serena's house, taking the key that Serena kept under the doormat just in case of emergencies, since her mother left the house during the day, Kero went right for the cookie jar and started to eat again, and would have continued had he not all of a sudden got green in the face and holding his stomach. "Kero, are you all right," asked Mina as she looked at him and got worried but had a feeling she knew what it was.

"I don't feel good all of a sudden," said Kero as he ran towards the bathroom and shut the door hard.

Mina and Andrew just looked at each other and shook their heads. Kero was in the bathroom for an hour before he finally came out and wiped his mouth with his wet shirt that almost became like a second skin. "Are you alright Kero," asked Mina as she approached him carefully so not to get caught in the fire if he had to throw up again and because he smelt really bad. She looked down and saw she wasn't the only one who smelt it; Drew could too.

"I kind of didn't make it to the toilet in time, so the tub had to do, and I went to wash it down when I got wet and fell in," said Kero as he lifted his arm to his face to pull it away fast because of the smell.

"I'll go see if I can find some clothes that will fit you and give them to you after you take a warm bath to get that smell off you," said Mina as she plugged her nose to stress the point. Kero just glared at her and Andrew and heading back towards the bathroom to take a warm shower.

With the help of Andrew she found some of Serena dad's cloths that he didn't wear anymore that would fit Kero, and brought them downstairs to give to Kero. When she saw that he had left the smelly clothes on a bag to be washed, she took them to the laundry to start to wash them, with Andrews help, or she would have added too much soap. When she started to walk out of the laundry room, talking to Andrew she ran into something hard and wet. Looking up she came face to face with a hot, wet, and thank god, a towel around the waist Kero.

"Do you know where some clothes are," said Kero as he looked down to see and very red and blushing Mina, whose mouth was open, and who was holding Andrew in her hand. Andrew was looking back and forth from his body to Mina and had a devilish smile appear on his face; at least he knew by Mina face, what she thought of him.

Mina finally managed to close her mouth some minutes later and gave the clothes that she was holding in her other hand to Kero to change into. And looked away so she would stare any longer at Andrew's hot body. When she heard him leave she got up and sat down on the couch to wait.

Andrew was about to say something when, the front door open to reveal Serena's smiling face. That got a look of surprise on it when she saw who was in her home. "So you found Kero, Mina? Thanks, I left him at the school after he ate all my food and never saw him again. But guess what, I caught another card that Raye says changes people around. That means you could be me and I you, wouldn't that be fun," said Serena as she sat down on the other side of the couch.

"Well...we sort of have an issue with that at the moment," Mina said.

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Nakoruru: Okay, that's it for us and writing this chapter, hopefully I will have more time to write this if school doesn't keep getting in the way. I'm really trying though gang, so stayed tuned for the next update. And thanks again Missey for helping me with this story, without you, I would be despairing.