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"What are you doing here?" Syaoran asked Meiling.

Meiling was standing at the doorway and had dark black hair that went to her shoulders and had buns on both sides of her head. She wore a light blue shirt and shorts with black and white sneakers.

"Came by to visit duh. Weren't you paying attention when I called you?" she said, while sticking out her tongue at him.

Syaoran completely ignored it and said, "Oh yeah. It must've slipped my mind cause of you know about-"

"Yeah...Have you told her yet?" she interrupted.

"Nah. Not yet." He said, looking down on the floor.

"Come on tell her. Are you even gonna tell her? Cause if you're not, then I can tell her."

Syaoran shook his head and said, "No I should tell her. I'm her best friend so yeah, I feel that I should be the one to."

"Ok ok. Hey come on, let me in." she said, as she walked past by him and up the stairs, leading to his room.

He closed the door and walked up with her up to his room. The butler came out of his room, sleepy, in response of the belated sound of the doorbell.

"Ah Miss Li, it's a pleasure to see you." He said, as he slightly bowed. "I take it that you shall be staying here with us over the next few weeks."

"Thank you. The pleasure is mine and yes I will. I believe that that his mother has told you of this?"

He nodded and said, "Yes. I'm sorry, but I believe that we haven't prepared a room for your early arrival."

Syaoran interrupted and said, "She'll be sleeping in my room."

"Ah very well then. And where shall you be sleeping good sir?" he asked.

"Don't worry about me." Syaoran said.

"Very well. I shall take those bags of yours and put them else where." He said, holding out his hands.

Meiling gave him her bags and things and he went back into his room. "Good night. And try to get some rest. It's a school day tomorrow, after all, education is a virtue"

Syaoran and Meiling both said good night and went up to his room. They got in and it was rather a spotless room. The bed was placed in the middle of the room against the wall with his desk to the right of it. At the foot of the bed was his dresser and table for his TV. To the left of the bed was the clear glass sliding door leading up to the balcony.

"Hey what's that?" she said pointing to his desk that had a teddy bear with a ribbon tied around its neck.

"Oh it's something for Sakura for Christmas. Something I got ahead of time you know." He said.

She giggled to herself and said in a teasing voice, "You like her…You love her…."

"Shut up." He said, blushing.

"She laughed and said, "Ok ok. Calm down. Hey come on, let's go to the old playground."

"What! Why? It's like hella late. And I'm tired dammit!" he said.

"Yeah so?" she said. "If you don't, then I'll tell Sakura that you-"

"NO! I'll go! I'll go!" he screamed, rushing over to the dresser and took out a black sweater that had a hood, some black pants and a pair of white socks.

It took him completely thirty seconds to get ready. They both walked over the glass door and opened it and closed it softly. They then jumped off the railing of the balcony onto a tree branch and climbed down from that and preceded on walking over to the old playground of where they used to play at with Sakura and Tomoyo when they were little. It was a cold night and the starry sky had changed to what was an ocean of stars to a big thick mass of clouds. It was strange seeing it for the both of them, as it was a sign that something was going to happen.

They made it to small and hidden park that was surrounded by trees all around. The park had swings to the side. There was also a yellow box that had misshapen holes and figurines of penguins of various colors all around. However, the eye catching part of the playground was the giant blue statue of the penguin that had a golden crown on top of its head and a slide that came out of its mouth. They walked over to the slide and sat down. They sat for a long time.

The wind blew a chilling cold and Syaoran said, "It's been a long time since we've been here."

"Yup." She said, as she was holding her sweater, trying to be warm.

"How's Hong Kong?" he asked.

"It's ok. Just the same old stuff you know, school, homework, martial arts…" she said.

"Oh hey, why are you here anyway?" Syaoran asked, putting his hands in his pockets.

"The reason I'm here is to tell you and Sakura something. Something is going on here and we can all be in danger."

"Danger of what?" he asked.

"We don't know yet, but we felt something a couple of days ago back in Hong Kong. There's something powerful now." She said.

"Hmm…a couple days ago also, me and Sakura-"

"Wait…Something just doesn't feel right." She interrupted.

"What do you mean?" he questioned.

"It's too quiet." She said.

After she said that, the slide had started to shake. They immediately jumped off seeing what was happening. The statue began to move. The sounds of the rusted metal, groaning, echoed throughout. The bolts that held it, erupted out of the ground, making it walk. It started to move the slide that was coming out of its mouth, trying to hit both of them, but failed, just barely grazing their lower leg. Then the small penguin figurines came to life and floated in the air and circled around the giant penguin.

"What the hell is going on!" Meiling yelled to Syaoran.

"It's another summon!" He said, pointing to the giant penguin.

On the statue in front glowed an ominous yellow of characters that were the same as before in the park with the boy.

"Another!" she yelled out.

"Yeah another." He yelled out. He grabbed his amulet and his sword appeared just as before. "Talk later, fight now!"

Suddenly, the figurines zoomed to Meiling. Meiling punched them to bits, laying blows on them. Another set of them went to Syaoran and he sliced and diced them with his sword. Even though there were only a few figurines, it seemed that the giant one was making more of them. Much more. Both were heavily under attacked and distracted, especially Meiling, who was absorb into the figurine massacre, to notice the giant one coming towards the fighting duo.

"I can do this all day!" she yelled out, destroying two more. "Bring it on!"

Both of them were fighting, hard for their lives and the giant statue crept toward to Meiling. The statue's massive weight was shattering the earth below it with each step it took. It slowly turned around, moving its slide again. Syaoran saw and jumped out of the way while slashing two more figures. Meiling was wrapped into what she was doing to not notice. The statue somehow managed to lift itself, causing the slide to go up in the air. The long slide moved above where Meiling was standing. She didn't notice. The figurines that she was fighting spread outward, out of the way of the oncoming slide attack.

"Meiling!" Syaoran screamed.

Meiling was too slow to notice what was coming and looked up. Bam.