I've been meaning to do this for awhile. Disclaimer: I do not own the oh-so-wonderful Card Captor Sakura series. They were created by the very talented Clamp.I bowdown respectfully to them. I only own the new characters. Sorry it took so long to finish. Really busy with finals and all. Summertime is here, though, so I will try to update more often. Really depends on how fast the story ideas come to me.

Thanks to the following reviewers for their feedback thus far: titanfan, mi is elazarah, animeflower, and Lyra Sakura Sorry if I mispelled any of your names. I didn't really care if the reviews were bad or good, I read them and understood what needed to be explained and/or changed for future fanfics. Enjoy!

Chapter Three

The Sun's Mysteries

At points, Karen had to admit that she felt like a nurse to Sarah. Even when they were little, Karen had to take care of her ever since she could remember. Sarah was a klutz, a ditz, and a blonde in the form of the worst triple threat known to mankind. Karen was now making some hot lemon tea with ginger snaps for her, made by Sakura.

"Ginger snaps always make Sarah feel better when she's sick or upset. This should help her," Sakura told Karen, giving her a tray to take up to Sarah.

"Homemade ginger snaps? Very nice!" Karen commented.

"Sarah loves them. Add a hint of lemon to them at the very end before serving," Sakura said as she squeezed a bit of lemon onto the cookies, "And that is a little message she always gets. 'Get better because there are people here who want to see you smile.' Also, she likes the taste. It's always been her favorite flavor."

"Special secret?" Karen asked.

"Only when I make them for her. If you use this secret, however, for your own cooking, I will find out!" Sakura said playfully. She pointed to the open magic book that was laying on the kitchen counter. "I see all through that. Believe me, I will know what you did and you will play." She smiled as she set the cookies on the tray for Karen.


Karen helped Sarah sit up and gave her the tea which she had placed a single ice cube in. And, even though they were practically mortal enemies from here on out, Karen gave Kero his tea as well, though it was without an ice cube.

"Sakura wouldn't let me put the rat poison in it as I wanted to, so consider yourself lucky, stuffed baka," Karen told him.

"Those are homemade, right?" Sarah asked, pointing to the ginger snaps.

Karen nodded and handed them to her. Sarah took a bite from them and savored the taste.

"Yeah, these are Moms," Sarah muttered.

Karen looked her friend/cousin over. Her skin was paler than usual and that usual sparkle in her eyes was slowly disappearing from her view. She felt Sarah's forehead as she ate the cookie and shook her head.

"Your forehead is warmer than usual. What the hell is wrong with you?" she asked.

"Dad said my magic is dwindling. I don't know why, though," Sarah answered truthfully.

Kero looked up from his boiling hot tea, his tongue hanging out. He had burned it. "It's not yer faul, Sarah. Ye just need mer mabick and a lil mer training," he said, his tongue moving limply as he spoke.

Karen, with a well trained sad puppy face from Sarah, sighed and placed an ice cube in Kero's tea. "And how, exactly, is she going to get that extra magic training? When she opened the book, she became weak. When she captured the Fly card, she became weak. I suppose that if she captures anymore cards, her magic will dwindle down to nothing eventually, right?" Karen asked him.

Sarah sat up, causing Karen to jump in surprise. "You know where the safe is, Karen. Please…can you get it out?" she asked her.

"Y-yeah, I think so," Karen replied.

She went over to the closest and opened it up. She moved aside a box that was labeled "Old baby things" and found the floor board which was missing a corner of it. She lifted it up and pulled out the dusty safe.

"You haven't looked at it for awhile, have you?" Karen asked as she wiped the dust away from it and set it next to Sarah. She knew Sarah did want some sort of privacy so she let her open it up and search through it.

"Keep that out of my sight, Karen," Sarah said, handing the small velvet black box to her friend.

Karen stared down at the small box in her hands. She loved looking at the necklace, it was so beautiful, but she would never do that without Sarah's permission. Last time she had, Sarah had started to cry. About a month or two after that had happened, it seemed Sarah trusted her to know the right thing to do. If you ever made Sarah cry, you'd feel like crap for doing it.

"What are you looking for?" Kero asked, his tongue now back inside his mouth. The tea had cooled enough for him to drink it.

"This," Sarah said as she pulled out a small shined down stone with the Japanese kanji (sign/symbol) for 'Moon' imprinted in it in black on the front of it. The stone was dark gray with black markings on it all around, making it seem speckled. The stone was easily the size of Sarah's palm.

"I've never seen that before," Karen said, taking it from Sarah and looking it over.

"Mom gave it to me when I turned ten. She said I would need it soon. It'll give me a boost of magic from the moon," Sarah said, taking it back from Karen.

"But, Sarah…you're half under the power of the sun and half under the power of the moon, right? That stone won't do you much help if it's just for half of your power," said Kero as he looked it over.

"Yeah, but this is just one of things I'm looking for," Sarah said and set the stone aside. She pulled a picture out and laughed. "Look at us, Karen! I don't remember how old we were in this picture, but god, we were immature!"

Karen took the picture and looked at it and smiled. "I remember this. We were seven and I had forced you into your Chinese battle outfit. You hated it, but to make you feel better I wore my battle outfit as well. Mom took this picture!"

Karen's only battle outfit was Japanese. It was black with a silver wolf on the back with a green emerald for it's eye. On the front of the outfit was the Japanese kanji for 'fight'. Both outfits were way too big for them and the bottom of each lay on the floor collected in heaps.

Sarah shook her head and continued to search. Finally, she found it. It was a bracelet with a ring attached to it with a chain. The bracelet had the outline of a sun on it with the Japanese kanji for 'sun' inside the circle. Clouds were coming off the outline of the sun. The ring was inscribed with the Japanese and Chinese kanji for 'sun' all over the inside of it. On the outside of the ring were black diamonds inside the gold circling all the way around it.

"This should give me a boost in my power of the sun," Sarah told them as she put it on.

"But you can't wear the stone," Kero said.

Sarah laughed. "Man, I'd look stupid if I wore that stone around my neck as a necklace! No, I'll just keep it in my pocket."

"Lord knows you'll probably lose it then. It'll fall right out when you're not looking," Karen said, grabbing on the ginger snaps.

"No, that only happens to you, Karen. Not me," Sarah said.


Two days later, Sarah and Karen were back at school. Rooster sat, asleep, at the table at lunch, her head propped up on her hand. Karen snapped her fingers in front of her face, and then clapped her hands to make her wake up.

Rooster opened her eyes and glared at Wolf. "Really needed?" she asked, sitting up straight as Sarah set down the personal sized bag of pretzels and the piece of apple pie she had asked for. She scooted it over to Rooster and handed her a fork. She had run out of money again.

"Yes, I believe so," Wolf answered as she opened the bottle of Pepsi she had bought.

"Oh…I like that bracelet, Squeak! Where'd you get it?" Rooster asked, looking at the bracelet on her right wrist.

"My mom gave it to me on my eleventh birthday. I found it when I was cleaning out my closet," she said as she dipped her chicken fingers she had bought in the lunch line in BBQ sauce. "I've got no clue where she bought it."

"It's really cool. Does the sign on it stand for something?" Rooster asked, looking at it carefully.

"Japanese for sun," Sarah said.

"The ring is a nice touch, I must say," Wolf said after a quick glance up from her lunch bag.

Sarah smiled and continued to eat. Karen pulled out her chop sticks and started to eat her sushi she had brought with her. Rooster continued to eat her pretzels.

"This is the weirdest group of people ever!" Squeak laughed.

"Yeah, it is. Wolf is eating sushi with her chop sticks, Cheetos and Pepsi, you have chicken fingers, French fries, cookies, hot lemon tea and a small bag of popcorn shrimp and I have pretzels and a piece of apple pie. Yeah, this is weird," Rooster said.

"At least it's not French Toast, French Fries, French silk pie, apple cinnamon tea and a few pieces of garlic bread," Wolf said, an eyebrow raised in Squeak's direction.

Rooster let the list of food wash over, then turned to Sarah and said, "Squeak? Is something wrong?"

Squeak glared at Wolf, who had just said what she had eaten yesterday for lunch. Wolf just smiled and continued to eat.

"Cravings I've been having for some time," Sarah responded, then suddenly realized what she had just said and slammed her head down on the table. Cravings usually meant baby cravings.

"Oh dear, who's the father? Tom Felton? No, Rupert Grint! You always did go for the guys with red hair. Or are you going for the older guys like Orlando Bloom? Or is he an American? Aaron Carter perhaps?" Rooster said.

Sarah felt her cheeks flare up into a deep red and heard Wolf muffle a snort of laughter. "No! I'm not having a baby, Rooster!" she said quietly because there were some people at the school who'd just love to call up a tabloid and tell them she was expecting. "It's just lately…I've been having cravings. Also…I'm still a virgin and I haven't had a boyfriend for two years! It means nothing. I've…just been really hungry lately."

"Hungry for some really weird combos," Wolf said in an undertone as she grabbed one of the popcorn shrimps with her chopsticks. She earned herself an evil little glared from Squeak for that comment. She just smiled at her little pet mouse, however, and continued to eat.


In gym, they were doing swimming. Sarah jumped into the pool without hesitation and, only after about a minute or so, she let out a shriek that echoed off the walls saying, "It's freezing in here!"

"I suppose then that the weather has something to do with the pool being so cold, right? I mean, it is snowing outside right now," Rooster said.

"It'll warm up eventually," Sarah said, trying to persuade both Rooster and Wolf that it would be fine soon. She was also trying to persuade herself.

"You really are a Pisces, aren't you, Squeak?" Wolf said, not removing her towel from around her waist.

Sarah just smiled. "I thought Wolves liked water!" she teased.

"They do, but this Wolf ain't getting in until you give her a good reason to!" she said stubbornly.

"What if I begged, pleaded, got down on my knees or told you I'm lonely without my Wolf?" Squeak said, swimming up to where Wolf stood.

Wolf thought for a second. "Okay, I'll give you that."

Sarah just smiled. "At least Wolves like water. Roosters, however, hate it."

"No, this Rooster likes water. It just takes a bit of time for her to get used to the water," she said and jumped into the shallow end of the pool. To add on to the joke, she pretended to start to sink to the bottom of the floor. "We just have a hard time staying afloat. That's all."

Sarah shook her head. Splashes came from all over the pool as the girls got in. It was a free day that day in gym, so girls could participate if they wanted to. Half of the class didn't get in…only because they didn't want to get their hair wet or "forgot their swimming suits." Karen was last to get in because she was being lazy.

"And here comes the proud, strong Wolf!" Sarah said, laughing slightly.

Karen ran off the diving board and dived in. Sarah started to play with her bracelet, but then realized she had left it behind in the locker room. She didn't want to lose it in the pool.

"Retrieve, Wolf!" Sarah called, throwing one of those water sticks to the other end of the pool.

Wolf went after it within seconds of it hitting the water. Rooster laughed.

"Dude, she's fast," she said.

"I'm faster. Even Karen says that I was meant to be a fish instead of a human because of that fact that I can swim so fast," Sarah said, watching Karen bring the stick back to them.

"Let's see how good you've gotten with your swimming, Miss Squeak," Wolf said. "Fetch!" She threw it.

As Sarah dove underwater to find it, she felt something around her ankle. She turned and looked. A whorl-pool had caught her ankle. She tried to swim out of it, but it was too strong. She tried to pull it apart. It seemed as though she could grasp it…but it tied itself around her chest, pinning her arm's to sides so she could barely move.

"Karen!" she screamed, but all that escaped her mouth was the air that she had been holding inside in the form of bubbles.

She struggled, but couldn't escape it. She could hear screams, but they were getting dim. Sarah's eyes closed and she sank to the floor of the pool. The screams soon died down as she blacked out.

Sarah opened her eyes and coughed up the water.

"Are you alright, Miss Li?" the gym teacher, Ms. Banes, asked her, getting patting her back.

"Yeah…I'm alright now," Sarah muttered, wiping her eyes of water with shaking hands.

Karen and Sarah V., who were sitting next to her, were sighing in relief as were some of the other girls in the gym class. Other girls who hated her because she seemed stuck up and snotty, though she really wasn't, and weird just shrugged it off and continued to talk.


"Karen, what happened exactly?" Sarah asked her, combing out her wet hair after class and after she had taken a shower and gotten dressed.

"I don't know…but when I broke the whorl-pool thing…I mean, I could actually grab a hold of it, Sarah! Do you think…" she got close to Sarah's ear and whispered, "Do you think it's a Sakura card?"

"We can ask Kero when we get to my house. Dad's picking us up. Do you have my bracelet?" Sarah asked.

"Yeah, right here," Karen said, handing it to her.

Sarah had trusted Karen with it because she didn't trust herself with it. She knew she would probably be bound to lose it in all the junk she had. Karen shook her head, spraying water all over the place.

"Quit it, Wolf!" Sarah laughed, shielding herself from the water.

One of the girls who didn't like Sarah all that much took the bracelet, which Sarah hadn't put on yet, from her hand and looked at it.

"Hey!" Sarah yelled, seeing the girl with it.

"And what's this? A piece of cheap jewelry?" she asked Sarah.

"It's not cheap jewelry!" Sarah yelled.

"Sure looks like it to me!" came another girls' voice. The girl who had taken it from Sarah threw it to her and she grabbed it. She put it on. "Oh, this fits me perfectly! I think I'll keep it."

"Give it back!" Sarah tried to grab it, but the girl who had put it on threw it to another who pretending to almost miss catching it. "You don't know what you're doing!"

"Of course we do! We're admiring your beautiful bracelet and ring, Sarah," the girl who had almost "dropped" it said.

She threw it back to the other girl who originally had it when suddenly everything froze. Sarah and Karen turned to see Michael standing there, lowering his hand. Sarah looked down, realized she wasn't wearing a shirt, just her bra, yelped in surprise and grabbed it, covering herself up.

"I thought I sensed something going on," Michael said, watching Sarah pulled on her shirt. Karen noticed a hint of interest in his eyes and felt herself clench her fists. If he thought he could get under Sarah's bra…he had another thing coming.

Michael saw Sarah looking up above her, sigh in relief, stand on top of a bench and try to grab the bracelet and ring that were still up in the air.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Trying to get my bracelet and ring back! What does it look like?" she asked him.

Michael raised an eyebrow, lifted up his hand and grabbed it. He was still standing on solid ground. Karen couldn't help but smile. Even if Sarah stood on the bench, he was still much taller than her. It was so funny to watch her struggle to get something that was higher above her, then watch someone just grab it with no problem.

Michael looked at it. "A boost of the power of sun?" he asked her.

Sarah jumped off the bench and took it from him. "I need it. It could help me stop becoming unconscious every damn time I face a card," she said and put it on.

"Speaking of cards, Michael, is there a card in the Sakura book with the power of water?" Karen asked him.

Michael looked at both of them, confused. "You don't know the name of any of the cards?" he asked them.

Both of them shook their heads. "Mom wanted me to find everything out for myself," Sarah told him.

Michael thought for a second, then answered. "The Watery Card is the only card I can think of at the moment. Why?"

"We were just in swimming and something like a really powerful whorl-pool almost made Sarah drown," Karen said.

"Yeah…it's Water," Michael muttered.

He looked around the room at the girls who seemed to have been making fun of Sarah and teasing her. "Not the most popular, are you, Li?" he asked her.

"It's not my fault they think I'm stuck up, they just do," Sarah said quietly.

Silence came between the two of them. Michael was just staring down at Sarah, who was sitting on the bench, looking down at the floor. Karen finally broke the silence.

"I'll show you where the card first appeared, Michael," she said, grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the pool.


"If you even try to hurt her, I will make you pay. If you ever make her, I will make you pay. I don't care what you say, I will just make sure you never do it again!" Karen hissed at him as they stood near the pool side.

"I'd like to see you try," Michael muttered.

Karen clenched her fists again. "Sarah was the first person I ever felt I could trust. She has cried into me, begging to be comforted. She has laughed at my jokes, actually making me realize I do in fact have a sense of humor. She has kept all my secrets, which nobody has ever done for me before. In return, I do the same for her and I protect her from people who don't think she's worth a damn," she growled at him.

Michael looked up at her from where he was kneeling near the pool side. "You're not blood related to her, are you?" he asked.

"I'm adopted," Karen answered.

"And your blood accepted magical training and power?" he asked her.

"I don't know why, but it did all the same. And I'm glad it did because that means I can help her even more now," Karen said, glaring at him. Why the hell was he asking her these questions?

Michael stood up and they glared at each other, burning holes into each others eyes. Sounds painful, does it not? You would have no idea then how much Karen actually really did want to burn those holes. If glares could kill, theirs would definitely kill without a second glance.

"How much does her friendship mean to you? Enough to want to protect her? Enough to want to take care of her?" Michael asked.

"Yes, but you have no friends, am I right?" Karen asked him.

"I am my best friend. In this damn world, you can't trust anyone and I'm not going to start with you or that bitch in there. The only people I trust are my sister, Eriol and Fire-tail," he hissed at her.

Karen lost it and pushed him into the deep end of the pool.

"Sarah is not a bitch and do not dare refer to her as one, you fucking bastard!" she yelled.

At the sound of yelling and the splash from the pool, Sarah came out of the girls locker room and saw Michael floating there, glaring at Karen, her glaring back at him. He then turned his glare at Sarah and she backed up, scared of his anger. Karen got in front of her, taking the piercing glare for her and shooting one just as piercing right back.

Michael swam to the ladder and got out. He grabbed Sarah's wrist from behind Karen and pulled her forcefully over to him.

"You listen and you listen good. I'm with those girls in there a hundred percent. I think you are a spoiled brat who gets your fucking way with everything," he hissed at her as she tried to escape his grasp.

"You're hurting me!" Sarah gasped out in pain, refusing to look him in the eye.

Karen wanted to try and help Sarah, but she couldn't move. Michael was controlling her powers now and keeping her at bay.

"Good then. Maybe you'll remember that way to stay out of my way." Michael tightened his grip and she let out another gasp of pain. "I only came to this school because I sensed a card. I didn't come to try and make friends with you or the wolf over there."

Michael threw Sarah over to Karen and she caught her friend, making her sit down to try and calm the pain that was running through her wrist.

"Both of you stay out of my way." He snapped his fingers and disappeared. The water that had been frozen in time, started to move again. He had released his time spell.

"Come on Squeak. We'll have the teacher look at your wrist," Wolf said, helping her up from the wet floor.


"I'll kill him!" Kero shouted.

"Yeah…give him a stuffed animal kick he'll never forget," Karen said, re-bandaging Sarah wrist after school.

Sarah had a red mark on her arm from where Michael had gripped her so hard.

"I couldn't even look him in the eye. I was so scared he'd slap me if I did…" Sarah whispered, and then grimaced in pain when Karen accidentally bumped it.

"Sorry. I'm trying to be careful, really," Karen apologized.

Sarah turned to Kero. "Why is the Water Card so much more powerful then the Fly card? Or is it just my imagination telling me that?" she asked him.

"It's an elemental card. There are four of those cards. Windy, power of Wind, Watery, power of water, Fiery, power of fire, and Earthy, power of earth. You know about how some are under the power of the sun and the moon, right?" he asked her.

Sarah and Karen nodded.

"Well…Fire and Earth are under me and the sun. Wind and Water are under Yue…you know about him, right?" Sarah nodded. "Windy and Water are under Yue and the moon. The elemental cards are the most powerful of all the cards. You will probably have a hard time capturing them," Kero said.

Karen finished bandaging up Sarah's wrist and hand, and then turned to Kero. "Baka…will Sarah be able to capture this one with only two cards?" she asked him.

"Maybe…I hope so. By the way…is the pool indoors or outdoors?" he asked.

"Indoors. If it were outside, Kero, we'd…freeze…" The sudden idea came through her head and she smiled at Kero. He smiled back, knowing what she was thinking. "I love you, Kero."

"Right back at you, Sarah," he said, smiling.

Karen looked at her, confused. "Huh?"

"You'll see, Karen. Tonight, meet me in front of the high school around eleven. You'll recognize me by the blood red battle outfit," Sarah said.

Karen smiled her toothy grin. "I'm bringing my camera."

Sarah groaned and shook her head.


Sarah opened the doors to the school, Karen right behind her and Kero sitting on Sarah's shoulder. Karen had her mother's video recorder in hand and already recording.

"This is a pretty nice school," Kero said, looking around.

"We've got to go to the bottom level," Sarah said, walking down the stairs to the third level.

"Exactly how many levels does this high school have?" Kero asked them, flying by Sarah's side.

"Six. This school is huge and if you're not careful, you will get lost. Here's the ramp to the second floor," Karen said, pointing to it as they walked closer to it.

As they walked closer and closer to the end of the ramp, a figure came more and more into focus.

"Get out of here, Haku!" Karen yelled.

Michael looked at them, his eyes still as cold as ever.

"I thought I'd at least try and help you capture the card," he said, crossing his arms.

Michael was wearing a Chinese battle outfit. It was dark red with the Chinese symbol for 'power' on the front of the shirt part and on the back was the Chinese symbol for 'fight.' Think Syaoran's battle outfit. It was almost exactly the same, except for the fact that it was dark red, black and the sword had black tassels on the end of it. In the holder of the sword, there were emeralds on both sides of it.

"How'd you know we were coming tonight?" Kero asked him.

Michael tossed a crystal to Sarah and she caught it with ease. It was in the shape of a half moon.

"No…no…that was a myth! A-a legend! The…The Seers Eye isn't real!" Sarah said, shaking slightly.

"Isn't real?" Michael threw his hand back to himself and the crystal flew into his open hand. "You were holding it, weren't you? I has to be real then. Whenever I wish to see you, this is what I can use."

Karen turned to Sarah and watched her start to panic.

"Sarah…don't panic. Tell me, what is The Seers Eye exactly?" she asked her.

Sarah started to panic even more as Karen spoke the words.

"Squeak, tell me…what is so wrong about The Seers Eye?" she asked.

Sarah lost it and ran. Michael, however, grabbed her wrist and pulled her over to him. She let out a scream of pain and collapsed to her knees. Michael froze and let Sarah go.

"What did I do? What's wrong?" he asked her, getting down close to her.

"Just get away from me, please!" Sarah yelled and ran towards the stairs to the first floor.


She stood in front of the pool. Sarah unlocked and opened the door to the grounds outside. She held her staff in front of her to protect her and hit the water.

"Catch me if you can," she hissed to it in Japanese.

The Watery appeared in front of her, her tail and claws ready to hit her. She went after Sarah and she ran outside into the snow. Water fallowed her. Sarah pulled out a card.

"Fly!"

Wing appeared on either side of the circle and she got onto it.

"Come get me!" she called to Watery and flew into the snowing sky. The Watery went after her, her claws ready to strike, but Sarah turned and the Water ran into the side of the building. Sarah landed on the roof of the school and out Windy.

Michael, Karen and Kero came out of the school and watched.

"What the hell do you think you're doing, Li?" Michael yelled up to Sarah.

"Capturing the card!" she answered.

A pain ran through Sarah's wrist, the one Michael had twisted earlier that day, but she ignored it. It'd only give him the satisfaction of him seeing her in pain.

"Windy! Come to my aid and create your might winds!" Sarah yelled in Japanese into the night air.

Windy appeared and the snow whirled around Watery, causing her to stop from almost attacking Sarah. Michael stared. She had done it…she had stopped an elemental card dead in its tracks with only two cards.

"Watery Card, return to the form you were destined to be in, Sakura Card!"

Watery went into her card and floated over to Sarah. She felt weak again. She released fly again, went down to Karen and Kero and fell right into Karen.

"It's either the cold weather that's causing my legs to go numb…or my power is trying to kill me again," Sarah whimpered into Karen.

Karen helped her sit down on the snow and put her camera away. Sarah pulled out her pen and wrote her name on the card. Karen pulled out the Sakura book from her bag and placed the card inside it. Slowly, Sarah fell into her and went limp.

"Sorry," she muttered as she nuzzled her forehead against Karen's neck, making her blush. Her eyes were buried in her neck as she rested.

"When did she capture fly?" Michael asked as Karen picked her up again.

"Two days ago, Saturday. A lot of good you did to help her capture the card!" she hissed at him. Michael was taken aback Karen's sudden anger. "First, you torment her, telling her something she doesn't want to hear by saying "You're under contract the moment you open the book" or something like that, then you tell her she's weak, and then you tell her she's useless. You twisted her wrist and hurt her more than I would ever let you and I warned you. When she's with me, she's the only thing I care about at the moment. I don't care what people say, I'll still care for her no matter what. If you ever tried to hurt, I'd kill you. You've been warned and now, you pay."

Karen put Sarah down and attacked him in her wolf form. Michael transformed into his white dragon form and attacked her. Kero just sat near Sarah, keeping her pulse and making sure she was breathing. Half of him wanted to yell, "Yeah, that's it, Haku! Scratch her eyes out! Rip out her throat! Win, win, win!"

The snow was soon blood stained red. Wolf's white coat was soon splattered and stained a red and Haku's glistening white scales were all scratched up and bleeding slightly. Wolf pinned him down to the snow and ripped at his face. Haku opened his jaw and bit down. A howl of pain escaped Wolf. Haku wrapped himself around Wolf, trying to squeeze her, but she bit down on him and he quickly let her go, roaring in anger. He aimed to bit down on her throat from the front, but she clawed his face, hard. He threw her against the wall of the school building and she slid down it, back in her human form. Michael transformed back into his human form.

Both were blood covered and in scratches, bruises and more pain than they had ever been in before.

"Stay away from Sarah. If you don't, I will kill you next time for hurting her," Karen hissed, wiping blood away from her mouth.

She walked over to Sarah and felt her forehead. She froze, both because she was cold and because something was really wrong.

"God, her forehead is so hot!" she whispered.

Karen shook her, but Sarah just lay limply in her arm's.

"Sarah…please wake up," Karen whispered.

She didn't.

Michael, though he was beyond angry inside, snapped his fingers and they all appeared in the living room of Sarah's house. Sakura and Tomoyo gasped at the sight of their daughters and ran to them. Eriol stood in front of Michael.

"What happened?" he asked him.

"Why don't you look for yourself? I'm sure you can do that," Michael hissed.

"Come on, Karen. We're going home and cleaning you up," Tomoyo said, taking Karen's hand in hers.

"No! I'm not leaving her alone! Not with this…this bastard being able to see her every moment! I refuse to leave her alone and I will not!" Karen yelled.

"I'm only watching her to find the cards! Nothing else!" Michael yelled at her.

David started to cry upstairs. "Quiet! Karen, go up and take a shower. And you two go home. Tomoyo, you'll stay the night. I know you won't want to leave Karen while she's in this condition," Sakura said.

"I'll take her upstairs, Sakura. You're coming with me, young lady. I'm not leaving you around him," Eriol said as he picked Sarah up in his arms.


"What is The Seers Eye, Eriol?" Karen asked as she covered Sarah up.

"The Seers Eye? Oh god, I haven't heard about that in a long time. The Seers Eye is a crystal in the shape of a magical person's soul. Take mine for instance. It's a mix of the sun and the moon. Yours would probably be the sun, so is Michael's. Sarah's is both, but her power mainly lies in the moon because her father is mainly the moon and her mother is part of the moon, so her crystal would be a moon shape.

"The Seers Eye can only be created by an extremely powerful magician. They can create it for only two reasons: one, the person whom it was created from must have major magical abilities and needed to be watched over probably because they do not know how to properly use them and needed to make sure nothing happens and two, the person who created it must need it for some purpose that has to do with the person whom it created from. If The Seers Eye is used improperly, it can lead to disaster, so it has to be handle with great care," Eriol told her. "Why?"

"No reason. Sarah just mentioned it and never explained it to me," Karen said.


While Karen was taking her shower in Sarah's bathroom, Kero flew over to Sarah's side.

Please wake up, Sarah, he thought.

I can't even open my eyes, Kero. It'll hurt if I do, she thought back.

Just breathe, Sarah. That's all I'm asking you to do now. Breathe, please. Karen, though I hate to admit it, is trying her best to protect you.

Please don't tell me what she did. Please…don't. I don't think I would ever be able to wake up if you did. Can I just sleep like this…just for the rest of the night? I really don't feel well…

Kero flew next to her and gently moved her hair away from her face.

"I'll let you rest. You need it the most kiddo," he whispered.


Karen got dressed in the nightclothes Tomoyo had brought over for her and dried her hair. She walked into Sarah's room and sighed, shaking her head at the sight of her friend unconscious/sleeping in her bed. She walked over to Sarah.

"I'm never letting him come near you, Sarah. I promise, I'm never going to let him hurt you again," she whispered.

"You know…I'm still sticking with the idea that you're a lesbian," Kero said.

Karen picked him up by his tail and hissed, "Kero, one of these mornings you will wake up hanging by a flag post by your tail, feathers trimmed, shaved naked and skin dyed neon green." Her face was deadly serious with a cruel, smirk written across it. She threw him across the room. "I care a lot about Sarah. Yeah…say what you want, but she's basically my sister. The only sister I will ever want in this lifetime and I want to keep her safe. She is my little sister and yeah, I do love her, but not in the way you think. My little sister to protect and I will do anything to keep school-yard bullies away from her."

"You are a total mystery to me," Kero said.

Karen watched him fly over to Sarah.

"The sun has many mysteries. I'm just raveled up in them."

Karen sat down by the bed near Sarah and took her hand, holding it.

I guess that means Michael is as fucked up in Kero's view as I am to him.