It was 03:40 am and everyone in the Kinomoto house was asleep. The rooms were all dark as the curtains were all drawn. On the north-west side of the house, you could see the moonlight creeping in behind the curtains of the rooms and a pale line of moonlight could be seen on the floor of Sakura's room. In a drawer, tucked away, Kero awoke from his slumber. He pushed the draw out, and drew the curtains, letting all the moonlight fill the room. He could feel it. He knew, it was time for him to wake Sakura. Now that, was a difficult task.
"Sakura," he whispered "Sakura wake up!"
No answer
"DON'T make me bite you!"
Nothing. Suddenly an idea struck him.
"Sakura, Li's in trouble! He needs your hel-"
Sakura flew up at once.
"Wha-what happened?" she exclaimed as she jumped out of bed," Is he
ok?"
"Where is he? Kero?!"
"Sakura the test has begun." he answered calmly
"Huh?! Li's not allowed to be a part of the test. Eriol told me!"
Kero rolled his eyes to heaven
"Sakura, Li's fine I just needed a plan to get you up but the point is Sakura, the TEST has BEGUN!"
"But only just told Li today, I haven't prepared!"
"Sakura its happening NOW! We've got to get going."
Kero and Sakura stood there waiting for the other one to lead.
"Sakura?! Where did Eriol say it would take part?"
"Umm he never said he said that I should know so I assumed he had told you."
"What?! Since when did I ever know anything? I think he meant you have to find the answer deep within you. Think hard Sakura!"
Sakura closed her eyes and concentrated hard but nothing came to her. The Windy just kept popping up and she tried to brush it aside as she thought and thought.........wait......wind-y....of course! Wind!
Sakura drew the Windy card and said, "Windy, take me where I want to be! Release!"
The spirit rose up and circled the two before circling around Sakura's legs..........suddenly, without meaning to, Sakura began to walk. She walked right out the back door, and down the road till she got to penguin park. There she could see Li sitting at the bottom of the penguin slide. His lip bleeding terribly.
"Oh my gosh! Li!? Are you ok? What happened?!!"
Kero really wanted to help her but he felt his voice going and his body
start to freeze. He wasn't supposed to help, but her really wanted to stop
her. She knelt by Li and went to lift his chin, see if she could see it
better, or sense the test had anything to do with it but he moved away.
Sakura was confused by this. What was wrong? Why wouldn't he speak to her.
Suddenly, his arms lifted and his hands wrapped around her neck........Kero
couldn't move.......needed to help........the hands grew tighter and tighter.....Sakura
spluttered for breath and tried to pull away, tried to pull his hands away.
She noticed his hand were cold.....thats strange she thought......his hands
are...always warm.........Come on Sakura! Kero thought............. she
thought of power to to pull his hands off, but as the power pulled, it
showed no result. He resisted. She tried to use illusion to make him look
away but her never blinked. She tried jump to jump away but he floated
with her, weightlessly. Tears rolled down Sakura's eyes. There was only
one thing she could do. She drew the sword and, without looking, cut through
his wrists. Strangely, nothing seemed to resist her in anyway. She went
straight through. Li vanished. Just like that. But Sakura didn't notice
his weird way of departing. She was on the ground, weeping. She thought
he was dead and wished she had let him strangle her. Kero's voice came
back
"Great job Sakura! Well done!"
Sakura suddenly stood up.
"How can you say that!" she cried, she turned around with a tearstained face.
"Sakura what's wrong with you, you got through didn't you?"
"Li is dead! But all you can say id well done!"
"Huh? Li's not dead. That wasn't ...Li! Didn't you see it vanish? How you cut through the wrists like they were air? That was Eriol's test! Not Li! You real think he'd do that?"
"You mean, Li's .....alive?"
"Probably"
Sakura lunged forward and hugged Kero harder than ever!
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