"Don't worry Li we are almost there" she groaned.

Silence was Li's response.
They were soon to the healing springs. Which looked more like a marshy clear water swamp with huge trees surrounding them. It was hard to see in the dim light but strands of rays burst through the leaves of the trees and they shone on the water making it glitter. Tomoyo and Sakura helped Li into the water.Li felt a minty refreshing feeling flow throughout his body. It was cooling and pleasant and instantly he fell into a deep sleep.

"Huh Li?"

"It's okay he's sleeping" Kero said floating over Sakura.

"Yea the healing springs are so refreshing any wounded person immediately falls to

sleep."

They gently rested Li on a sloping grassy bank; his whole body was under the water except his head to allow him to breathe. Tomoyo yawned. " We just got to wait till he wakes up then we'll be on our way. Tomoyo slipped off into dreamland. Sakura couldn't sleep she wanted to stay awake and make sure nothing happened to Li. But eventually she gave in, and slept.

Li felt completely refreshed when he woke up. He skipped out of the cool water and turned to the sleeping Sakura and Tomoyo.

"Stupid girls" he muttered

"Whatever" Sakura muttered back and rolled over.

They continued on their way. Sakura and Tomoyo were chattering along whilst Li lead them silently out of the woods. Surprisingly they were soon out of the dark dreary forest and into a bright sunlight.

"Hey thanks..I" but before Sakura finished he was already walking back into the forest.

"um. Thanks" Sakura said softly.

"Don't worry about it Sakua" Tomoyo said patting her on shoulder.

Then one of the wolf creatures jumped out passed Li and towards Sakura. Sakura was prepared to take out her key but Tomoyo rested a reassuring hand on hers. She went up to the wolf creature and caressed its head.

"You must run away It growled.

"Why?"

"Mother. It's Mother she wants to kill you"

"Why?" Tomoyo gasped.

"Just run far away! The demon spirits within her have gone out of control, she is no longer your mother, as long as you have human blood which flow through your veins you are the enemy. Now go!" with that it dashed back into the forest. Li looked bewildered. He

turned to look at Sakura one more time then he walked into the forbidden forest without
saying a word.

"Judging by the sad expression on your face I'd say you like him." Tomoyo said with a

grin.

"Hmm.." Sakura pondered. 'Bye Li , I'll miss you' she thought.

"Come let's go" Sakura said grabbing Tomoyo's hand.

They were finally out of the woods and was now walking down the country side. It was filled with meadows. It was very bright and sunny with a couple of clouds, and cool winds whipping through the girl's hair. Tomoyo and Sakura as usual chatted and were becoming good friends.

"Hey what was that?" Tomoyo interrupted.

"What?" They both turned around to just barely get a glance of amber hair run behind a

tree.

"Li what are you doing?" Sakura yelled.

He finally found it now useless and revealed himself.

"Hey what suddenly made you change your mind?" Tomoyo let out a giggle.

"I have my reasons" he snorted coldly.

"Why worried about Sakura?" Tomoyo teased.

Li remained silent and the group continued walking along. Eventually the route became more and more dry and the green grass was left far behind and before they knew it they were in rocky terrain. It became dry and plain. Suddenly Li stopped.

"Why'd u stop?" Sakura asked.

"Shut up and listen" Li hushed her.

They listened carefully but nothing else but the wind could be heard, but kero perked his head up and twitched his ears. Something was out there that only Li and Kero could have sensed.

"It's coming!" Kero yelled.

Suddenly faster than lightning Li unsheathed his sword and flew into the skies as soon as the stocker was ready to pounce upon them. The girls looked up nearly blinded by the light and squinting to recognize the shadows above them.

"HIYA!" Li yelled as he made a clean cut across the creature's chest.

"Mom!" Tomoyo cried tears welling in her eyes.
"You must die!" the wolf demon said in that deep gruffled voice that shook the earth.

"Tomoyo look out!" Li yelled but he was too late as the wolf demon was ready to pounce

upon her.

"Fly Card release and dispel!" Sakura cried. No sooner had she scooped up Tomoyo as

they flew on fly. Kero attached himself onto Sakura's shoulder, and hung on for dear life.

"Hold on!" Sakura yelled.

"What about Li!" Tomoyo asked worriedly.

"He'll be fine" Kero and Sakura said together.

They could hear the two enemies battling each other. Sakura dare not look 'Li please
be careful' Sakura pleaded in her mind. She still flew over head to watch what was going
on.

The creature and Li circled each other tensely.

"Out of my WAY!" It roared furiously. It jumped up into the air and Li swung at it but quicker than lightning it zipped passed Li's strike and came behind him. No one could have shouted a warning as Li was violently struck into the wall of stone.

"Mom stop it!" Tomoyo yelled desperately.

The creature snarled at Li who laid on his stomach motionless on the ground.

"I'll deal with you later" It growled.

It pounced much quicker than it had before at Sakura and Tomoyo. The force caused

Tomoyo to fall deep within the bottomless canyon.

"Sakura!" Tomoyo cried.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura was gunna make a dive for her but the creature slapped her off her

flying wand.

Kero transformed immediately into Keroberos and caught Sakura.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura cried"

"I think it's too late for that" Keroberos said after just barely dodging the teeth of the

giant wolf demon.

Keroberos tried a fire attack, the Wolf demon did a ice attack at the same time. The two
attacks collided at the same time creating a fierce cloud of steam but Keroberos wasn't
strong enough and the ice attack hit Keroberos and Sakura. The both fell hard on the rocky floor. Sakura quivered as she tried to get up, not wanting to give in. She looked to her side and saw that Keroberos had de- transformed back into Kero.

"You! You hurt my friends!" Sakura shouted.

She struggled to get up ignoring the pain that was making her body tremble. She held her
wand infront of her, in the battling position.

"You are finished!" it roared.

"Not yet! Dash! Sword release and dispel!" Sakura pulled out both of the card at the same

time. Dash to keep up with the fast monster and Sword to beat it by force. She easily

caught up with it, as the tears filled her eyes fell, she sliced the monster in two. It cried it's last cry and the dead pieces fell to the floor. Sakura stared as the outer flesh just

shriveled up and rotted when only the bones remained. Brown smog lifted from the bones. "Tomoyo" Sakura clenched her hand to the side. She ran to Kero's side to make sure her

friend was okay. Apart from some minor bruises he would be fine.

"D.D..D.Damn it" Li mumbled painfully as he struggled to get up but just fell back

onto the floor.

"Li!" Sakura cried running to him.

She carefully rested Kero down and attended to Li.

"Li your hurt"

"Leave me alone!" he stormed angrily.

"You need help Li!" Sakura persisted angrily.

"NO!" he said then he suddenly slapped her in her face. The sound echoed throughout the canyons

Sakura's face faced remained still. Her eyes wide open in shock and surprise.

"I sorry Sakura I don't need any help okay so just.."

before he could finish Sakura forcefully slapped him back this time much more harder

than she had ever slapped anyone before.

" Now you listen to me Li I've had it with your attitude!" she stood up.

Li held one hand to his burning cheek and stared up at Sakura.

"You are stubborn and pig-headed!" she scolded.

Li was hurting inside and placed his palms to his ears trying to block out what she was

Saying, but couldn't.

"I hate you! I hate you! All I wanna do is help but you always reject me!"

"You don't know me!" Li yelled back. "

"That's the problem I don't know you! And you don't know me either!"

Sakura was choked up in tears she couldn't continue. She bent her head down as she let

tears spill onto the hot ground. Li to could feel tears welling up in his eyes but fought to keep them back.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" he said softly.

Tomoyo woke up feeling surprisingly refreshed.

"Where am I?" she whispered.

She was lying down in a lilac super soft bed with silk sheets. She tried to get up but the moment she moved her leg, it began to send messages of sharp pain. Tomoyo placed her hand to her head noticing a bandage around her head.

" Ow" she groaned.

"Ah I see you are finally awake." A voice echoed throughout the room sending shivers

down Tomoyo's spine.

"Who's there!" she called.

Suddenly the form of a human figure faded in before her eyes. A boy around her age with
deep violet hair and small, dark violet eyes. He smiled at her while slightly tilting his head to the side in curiousity. 'Huh judging by his clothes, I'll say he's a sorcerer of some
sort' Tomoyo thought. Slightly moving away as his hands were slowly coming towards her face.

"Who are you!" Tomoyo yelled in fear.

Eriol drew back his hand in sudden shock.

"Please Miss do not be frightened. You can't always judge a book by it's cover" he smiled again. "How long have I been asleep?"

"Quite some time now" the Eriol rpelied.

"Come now you can't stay in bed all day now how about some fresh air" Eriol offered

her his hand. She reluctantly accepted. Then as soon as she touched his flesh. She felt a
minty sensation, fly through her like a thin sheet of paper, first at her feet then up to her
head. Then she felt herself being slowly lowered to the ground. Eriol rested her down
gently on the grass under the shade of a cherry blossom tree.

"Please my dear allow me to treat you to some treats"

Tomoyo looked up and the handsome young man he was no longer dressed in his dark
dreary robe but a light peach shirt with white pants.

"Treats?" Tomoyo echoed absent mindedly.

Like magic, a small low table appeared before her, on it was two plates with two tea cups,

A kettle of tea and some assorted biscuits.

"Wow.." Tomoyo muttered.

" Is this okay?" He said as he sat down at the table and poured her some tea then himself.

Tomoyo nervously just nibbled at the biscuits, deep in thought, glancing at the stranger.

He sipped his tea, admiring the view, I mean really admiring the view.

"Are you some kind of sorcerer?" Tomoyo spoke first.

"Well you can say that." He continued smiling at her. It made her heart beat faster.

"Uh.. well what happened?"

"hmm..?"

"Well when you found me"

"I'm not certain. I just saw u lying there at the bottom of the canyon, I thought you were

dead. Surprisingly you survived the fall.

"Oh. I'm eternally grateful but I must return to my friends now" Tomoyo struggled to get

up on her bad foot, but she fell back down again, twitching in pain.

"Please Miss you aren't well enough yet you can barely stand up. Do you must leave so

soon?"

"As I've said before I am very grateful but my friends shall be worried about me. You

understand?"

"but I'll be very lonely without you I don't get much visitors, company at that."

Tomoyo began feeling sorry for him.

"Okay I'll stay just awhile longer, but you must return me to my friends okay?"

"Anything my princess"

Tomoyo could feel a slight tint color appearing over her cheeks. She continued to drink her tea hoping he wouldn't notice.

In the meanwhile Li and Sakura were trying to find Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo! Tomoyo!" Sakura yelled, the only response she got were the hawks

screeching over her head circling about in the hot blistering sun.

"There's nothing we can do Sakura," Li said softly.

" I'ma gunna hafta agree with the kid on this one" Kero said.

"but.. Tomoyo" Sakura sobbed.

"Come'on let's go" Li gently took her by her wrist and pulled her away from the edge of

the cliff. They continued down the dry deserted landscape. As they walked they left trails

of dust swirling around their feet as they tried to leave there sorrow behind. Li and

Sakura were quiet. Kero-chan was napping in Sakura's little purse. Li was kinda

stunned, he caught himself staring at Sakura's emerald green eyes, but he shook it off.

Sakura caught him but just turned the other direction to hide the smile on her face.

"So does this mean you are going to follow me forever?" Sakura asked playfully

"Hmmppff" Li gruffed

"You could always go back to the forest, or are you curious in something else?" Sakura said again, begging for conversation.

"Clow Card" He said bluntly

"Yea I noticed you were quite attracted to my key" Sakura took it out form under her blouse and jingled in front of his face to jog his memory. He blushed of course.

"Yea Yea, I am also a Card Captor I thought I was the only one. The soon to be master of the Clow Cards"

"Then I am your mistress" she stuck her tongue out.

"However if we both are Card Captors I must sadly say that we might be in danger"

"Danger?" Sakura echoed

"What? Is there an echo in here?" Li grunted.

"I don't know we are surrounded by canyons? I won't be surprised" Sakura winked teasingly.

She looked up and gazed around at their current environment, large tauntingly large walls of canyon. However they kept going. Where? Neither of them knew.