The wind swept gently over the Li household. Meiling basked in the breeze. She really enjoyed her new found powers and was waiting in the sky for Sakura to attack. She saw the brunette contemplating her moves, and after a few seconds came into the air as well. They smiled.

"I thought you might need to learn how to fight in the air." Sakura said.

Meiling frowned. "Are you still worried about Shinta's dreams?" Sakura nodded sheepishly, knowing her Chinese friend would see through her thoughts. In an instant, fire blazed through the sky as both attacked with fire. They broke away, and quickly the sky became a war zone.

Syaoran looked at the two in the sky. Meiling and Sakura were giving it their all. Sakura was competitive, and wanted to prove that she was the better of the two since, after all, she was the one with the powers first. But, Meiling was competitive as well, probably even more than Sakura, with sheer determination, pride, and stubbornness. He sighed, this was not going to be a very light training at all with Sakura around.

He was about to make his way into the house again, when he saw Ice. She had disappeared the night before and Xing told him something was wrong with her. One girl's problem is gone, the other is just starting... Xing had told him last night. Syaoran smiled at the thought. Girls were complicated. Too complicated.

Ice saw Syaoran and quickly left again, giving him a look that told him he shouldn't follow her. He sighed again. There was no end to the drama with three ex-vampires added to their household it seemed. He sensed a presence coming down to him very quickly. Syaoran looked upward, to see Meiling plummeting down from the sky. Sakura was trying her best to accelerate so that she could catch her, but Syaoran knew she'd never make it.

Using his quick reflexes, Syaoran ran under her, and caught her just in time. She was light and breathing heavily. Sakura came down in a flash, looking at Meiling in his arms worriedly.

"She was in the middle of summoning something...and then...she fell."

"She just fell?" Syaoran asked. Sakura nodded her head. "Do you think she used too much magic and just reached her limit?"

"No way. I asked Yelan how strong of an aura Meiling had so that I knew how far too push her. Your mother told me she had enough to push her as far as I wanted. I was just warming up."

Syaoran looked worriedly at Meiling. Her breathing was heavier, and she looked paler. They took her immediately into the house.

"Mom! MOM!" Syaoran yelled frantically.

His mom came into the room, rather annoyed that he was yelling for her. "Syaoran! You know better than to yell-" she stopped, and gasped at the Meiling. In the few seconds that it took for her to get there, Meiling got worse.

Yelan swiftly went to Meiling's side and inspected her with a keen eye. "She's been cursed." The others looked at Meiling worriedly. "The person who did this is still around."

"How do you know?"

"Trust me. This looks like a threat. If you want to save her life, go out now!" Syaoran ran out the living room and into their backyard. The place where they always trained. A young woman stood at the edge of the yard. Her long, straight, black hair glistened in the wind. But what shocked Syaoran the most was her eyes. They were black, just like the others when they were cursed. A vampire.

She smiled wickedly at him. Her green body came toward him slowly. "Syaoran, I've been waiting to meet you." Shinta came running out of the house hurriedly and stopped when she saw the mysterious woman. The woman looked at her interestingly. "Shinta...we've heard so much about you..."

Shinta and Syaoran looked at each other quickly. Neither of them had ever seen this woman.

"I thought all the vampires were gone." Syaoran started.

"You thought wrong. What? You think Yang-I mean Chansa, now, was at the top of the ladder?" Syaoran didn't know what to think anymore. "I'll let Meiling live on one condition."

Shinta didn't like the way things were going. This woman's curses were effective quickly meaning she could do some powerful dark magic. Then again, with her powers combined with Meiling's, she'd be even more powerful. Wouldn't she? "You're bluffing." Shinta announced.

Syaoran and the woman looked at her surprised. "Shinta, what are you talking about?"

"I might not know much on magic, but I do know if she did curse Meiling, then she must have-"

"Done it quickly? You know, what if I cast a curse on her a few hours prior? Hm? I still have the upper hand because you don't know anything about my powers. Let alone, even if I do have them." Shinta stared intently at the ground.

Syaoran saw what Shinta was going at, but it was true at what this strange woman had said. To make a curse, one needed a piece of the person that they were going to curse. Perferably a piece of the victim's hair. She could have easily slipped by them all while they were all asleep. "Well, what do you want?" he asked in a rather rushed tone. He was worried of Meiling's health. Whatever Shinta came out here for, she must have forgot, because she seemed in no hurry to tell him anything.

The woman sighed. "Well, I did want something else, but that'll have to wait. Shinta, I'm surprised to see you here. You know what Tomo's one wish was?"

Shinta's eyes widened, and it felt as if her heart had stopped. "Wh-What?"

"To see you." Syaoran was a bit leery of this, but Shinta saw no harm in it.

"He's alive!"

The woman nodded. "And he's waiting to see you. Come with me and Meiling goes free..." That was all she wanted. To see him again and to be with him.

"Shinta, he's dead! Don't do it!"

"What do you know Syaoran? Sakura even said he could be alive! Don't you care about your dear Meiling?" she told him rather coldly.

He winced. Shinta and him had become just as close as a brother and sister, and it hurt to hear her talk like that to him. Sure, it was true that he didn't want Meiling to get hurt, but he didn't want her to get hurt either. "So, what is it?" the woman asked.

"I'll go." Shinta walked defiantly toward the woman and smiled once more to Syaoran. "They call me Fang." Shinta looked shocked and tried to flee, but Fang grabbed her swiftly by the arm. She threw a smoke bomb just as Syaoran was running to save Shinta from Fang's grasp, but as the smoke cleared, she and Shinta was gone.

A/N: I'd just like to point out she really doesn't have a green body. She was wearing all green, just in case if somebody didn't catch that. Well, this update was a lot more faster than my other ones, and summer is almost here! That means, about one update every week, if I'm lucky. Thank you Sam and JovianShe-Wolf for reviewing! Please, keep up the reviews so I know how well this story is coming along. I love reviews. They help me a lot in my writing.