Well, hello! And Welcome to My Little World of Weirdness!

I state for the record that, despite the fact I really, really wish I did, I don't own any of the characters that will grace this story; it's all CLAMP's! Always has been, always will be!

Also I don't pretend to have any Mastery over the language of Japanese or any clue as to correct grammatical structure. I put it in and hope it gets across the point I'm trying to make! Nor do I [thankfully] own the Nelvana theme tune, but I do own the Cardcaptor of the Whoops lyrics to this fic!! And Yue-Bella, and Kero-ette, and Li Syaotang, and Madison Rae and Carl Hodover, and several other characters, but I don't want to spoil the surprise yet!! All other songs I don't own, but I do own the made up lyrics!!

"Speaking"

*Stress/emphasis*

//Thinking//

~~Flashback/dream~~

#singing#

Whoops! Didn't Mean To Do That . . .

By Dr Megalomania.

[Cue CC Theme Tune and Manufactured Boy Band™]

What if, Hammer, Bounce, Hole, Swear, Unfinished, Stupid . . .

Cardcaptor of the Whoops,

Expect some unexpected stuff!

Cardcaptor, you gotta be kidding!

Cardcaptor, go track them down!

Cardcaptor . . . dun dun do dodo!

CARDCAPTOR MEILIN?!

"Good morning Ruby!" Eriol smiled as he found Ruby Moon frowning at a book, he glanced over her shoulder, "Ruby, dearest . . . Moonlight of my life . . . Why are you reading a dictionary at this time of day?"

"I contemplated a notion, untimely this dawn, of a phrase that I don't recognize the denotation of . . ." Eriol blinked at her, and her face blanked and her eyes crossed slightly as she said in a shock, quiet voice, "I also don't have a clue what I just said . . ."

[Cue senselessly dramatic music]

Part five: Meilin, Ruby And The Mysterious Janitor!

Tomoyo sipped her tea as she looked around the hastily gathered group; Eriol had insisted everyone come just in case he was hearing things. Madison Rae and Syaotang turned up because they could feel a Whoops card at work, and Sakura and her brother accompanied her guardians.

Nakuru was sat rather despondently on the floor, as all eyes glanced from her master, to her alternatively. "What's wrong, Nakuru-chan?" Yuki-Bella asked sweetly, and then popped the eighteenth double chocolate cookie into her small mouth. Nakuru looked up and opened her mouth, "I have become the re-embodiment of a lexicon vocabulary contrivance and you pose to me the enquiry of what's erroneous with me? I'm a distressingly eloquently, articulated, voluble orator at this instance in epoch and you implore to perceive what may possibly be ungrammatically incorrect with me?"

A couple of cups and saucers slipped out of shocked hands, mouths fell open, and Eriol started to clean out his ears again. Nakuru blinked, staring at the shocked expressions, she threw back her head and wailed, "Precisely!!"

After Nakuru had been soothed by being given free rein to roam in Tomoyo's collection of costumes . . .

"So, what make you think it a Whoops card?" Kero-ette questioned, then shook her head, "No . . . I know it's a Whoops card too."

Meilin looked at Ruby, who had fallen into a tear-filled sleep. "So . . . what is it? And how do we beat it?"

Kero-ette shook her head, "It isn't that simple . . . Clow created dozens of these cards . . . some he create but immediately destroyed, others he just was . . ." she glared at Eriol, ". . . Lazy, or too drunk to remember that he created them . . ."

Meilin sighed, "Isn't there any way of telling?"

"You could use the Magic Girl card." Meilin screamed as Moon guardian appeared out of nowhere. "You know, that's intensely irritating."

"Sorry, you just surprised me."

Yue-Bella raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow, and continued; "The Magic Girl card can predict which card you might meet . . . we might be able to make some sort of guess from the costume it gives you . . ."

Meilin stood, "All right . . ." she paused as some strange tinkling and the sound of harp strings sounded, the music reached a particular triumphant tone, "Can anyone else hear music?"

"Yeah!" Kero-ette smiled as she watched her sister's normally cool icy exterior drop as her favourite card began to play. Yue-Bella loved music, it was her favourite thing after reading, "Do you remember it?"

"Yes . . ." Yue-Bella held out her arms and smiled as if the music notes fell on her as raindrops. "It's the Music card . . . perfect for magic situations like this . . ." She danced slightly and laughed, "Isn't it beautiful?"

Meilin smiled slightly as her Magic circle started to write itself in time with the music, "It is . . ." she frowned slightly as it skipped, like a record caught in a loop. "What's wrong?"

Yue-Bella frowned; "It's waiting for you! The music is composed as the Cardcaptor moves . . ."

Meilin took a step toward the magic circle and the music progressed, "Ah . . ." the music became hushed as she pulled out her magic key, for the first time since becoming the new Cardcaptor, Meilin actually felt like one of those anime magic girls, "O key that hides the staff of the Whoops . . ." Nakuru raised her head tiredly as the group stepped back as a whole to give Meilin the space she need.

"Hey, where's the music coming from?"

"So. . . Any ideas?"

Sakura scratched her head; Meilin was wearing a costume that was bright green, with strange patterns on it, and question marks and long, very long words swirling up and down and around the various patterns. There weren't any sleeves as she had gloves that went past her elbow, these were also bright green and had question marks all over them as well. Meilin rolled her eyes as Tomoyo made her promise to let her talk to the card more often as it was ". . . A genius, it has true Magic Girl spirit!!", she sighed because the Magic Girl card had managed to find a couple of shades of green that match Meilin's eyes rather than clash with them.

They had been staring at the costume, with it's long coat tails, tall top hat and puff-ball shorts. Sakura considered the question-mark buckle of the thigh-high, dark green boots carefully before standing up straight. Sakura shook her head, and Tomoyo shrugged, Eriol sat beside Ruby, who had changed to her true form and was becoming increasingly incoherent. Not that she couldn't speak anymore, just that the words she was beginning to use were getting longer and longer. Yue and Spinel had taken to translating for her, but soon warned that soon she might go past their understanding even . . . although both stoutly retained that that was a long time away and the other would probably be the first to stop understanding.

"Well, we know it has something to do with words." Syaoran and Syaotang said together, they glared at each other. Syaoran had changed into his own robes, and the truth about how similar the pair's robes were came out. Syaotang's robes were exactly like Syaoran's except . . . the orange replaced the green and vice versa. Their hats suffered the same colour changed and where Syaoran's hat had square patterns on it, Syaotang had curls, and the two gemstones above the ears were square on Syaotang's, while Syaoran were round. Eriol hide a chuckle, and murmured "Yin-yang!" To Spinel, who nodded.

"And we know that it has something to do with puzzles, riddles and games." Yuki-Bella said quietly, Yue-Bella had become a little tired, and so had decided to go wonder her own memories to search for the card.

Madison blinked, "How'd you figure that out?"

 Yuki-Bella smiled as she moved closer to Meilin. She pointed to the words, "Word puzzles . . ." to the question marks, "Riddles . . ." her pale finger brushed over the strange patterns, "These are mazes . . . Games. It's a card that plays a lot."

Touya knelt beside the snow bunny-Bella, his lips quirked slightly as he noticed the blush Yuki-Bella's proximity was causing to Meilin's face. The new Cardcaptor was experiencing some of the crush that his sister had had when she met Yuki. He glanced at Syaotang, who stood there openly fuming at Meilin. He shook his head, that meant the little tango was experiencing some hormonal attractions too. One look at Yuki-Bella's face told him that Yuki-Bella was either completely oblivious to it, or like Yuki had done, was only pretending. He buried a slight laugh to ask, "So what are we going to do about this thing that's got Ruby?"

"We had superior achieve something presently . . . I don't imagine I'm manufacturing greatly logic any supplementary, the syntax is appropriating deformed!"

"What did she just say?"

Spinel frowned, "I think she just said, 'we had better do something soon . . . I don't think I'm making much sense any more . . . the grammar is becoming distorted.' And she's right . . . we had better do something soon . . . she's approaching my understanding and vocabulary limit!"

Ruby suddenly stood up, "That cannot exist accurate! I determined not permit this development!"  

"What?!" Madison screeched, "What did she just say?!" But no one could answer her as Ruby suddenly pulled the window open and flew out.

"We have to go after her!" Eriol ran to the window, "Ruby!!"

"But how? Not all of us can fly, you know!" Madison started to rant how she and Syaotang were going to get it themselves and that Meilin might as well give up now . . .

Eriol held out his hand to Tomoyo and pulled her onto Spinel, Sakura instructed Kero to carry Syaoran, and Kero-ette offer her back to Touya, Sakura smiled and pulled out her own key, "Fly!" Once her wings had grown, she glanced at Meilin. "Meilin! How are we going to get you there?!"

Meilin smiled and pulled out a new card, "Don't worry . . ." she threw it out in front of her, "Butterfly!"

Sakura gasped as large white butterfly wings fluttered from Meilin's back, "Wai! When did you catch that one?!"

"I didn't catch it! I created it!"

"And it's the last one you'll ever create 'cause me and Syaotang will conquer all the cards . . . come on Syaotang baby! We got card capturing to do!" And with a haughty laugh Madison spun on a heel and walked out the door. Syaotang stared after her and sighed, heavily.

Meilin blinked, and glanced at her staff, if only she could make the wings appear on her staff . . .

"Mistress . . ." Meilin screamed as Yue-Bella appeared once again, Yue-Bella rolled her eyes, "Again with the screaming . . . I was only going to suggest, that if you would prefer to ride your staff instead then it's a very simple spell . . ." the Moon angel-girl bent down and whispered into her mistress' ear. Meilin glanced at her, "Are you being serious?" She asked dubiously.

"Take one look at Eriol's face . . . you can see I'm telling the truth." Yue-Bella straightened and glared at Eriol who was sniggering behind his hand. Meilin sighed, "Okay . . ." she shook her head slightly, as she raised the staff, "Butterfly, give my Ducky wings. . ." she tapped the staff off her forehead lightly, "Release!"

Eriol burst into laughter, "I really regret I took that function out of the Fly card now . . . it would have been hilarious to watch Sakura do that!" Meilin glared at Eriol, as her wings fluttered and retracted, they grew on the staff quickly.

Yue and Yue-Bella glanced at each other as they climbed out the window, Yue-Bella leant towards Yue, "Clow was an idiot . . . why did we fall for him?"

"He was a genius with *other* things . . ." Yue fluttered his wings slightly to emphasis his point, Yue-Bella fluttered her own wings and press a hand over her mouth as she giggled, "Oh yeah . . . I forgot about that . . ." Kero glanced at his own identical twin sister, who joined him in a shudder. The two Yue's stuck their tongues out briefly at the two Kero's and gracefully fell back out of the window.

As everyone else flew out the window, Syaotang glanced at the door; he supposed he'd have to follow Madison. He sighed heavily, if only there was another way . . . of deporting her. Meilin mounted her staff quickly, and held her hand to Syaotang; "You can go with Madison or ride with me . . ."

The Music card followed them out, and it had an uplifting effect on the guardians, and Sakura and Meilin's wings. Meilin laughed as she and Sakura did another roll, then again as Yue and Yue-Bella dipped and looped along to the Music card's drum and guitar's gentle beats. Best of all were Kero, Spinel and Kero-ette's singing, Meilin never thought the three guardian beasts, well, two beasts and a beast-ette, would ever make such prefect harmony.

"Hey?" Meilin cried out over the din, "When will I be able to catch the music card?"

"Whenever you please!" Syaotang called back to her, "It's a gentle card and only wishes to serve!"

"Oh . . . Arigato!" Meilin murmured, Syaotang looked a little annoyed again.

"What sorry?"

"I said arigato!"

Syaotang blushed slightly, and Meilin felt him tighten his grip on her waist as he leant closer, "I know but what does that mean?"

"Thanks!" Meilin blushed as she remembered that Syaotang was still a little new to Japanese.

"Oh . . . you're welcome!" He looked at his Rashiban board, "She's heading for the park!"

"You mean the Shrine?"

"Uh . . . yeah, whatever . . ." he pointed, "It's thatta way . . ." he looked at the flying group, "Why do you think that Ruby girl went there?"

A silence . . . well, a silence that was gentle supported but guitar, drums and uplifting flying music . . . descended on the group as they chased after Ruby. Each had their own worried thoughts about what would happen to Ruby if the card tighten it's grip on her voice . . .

Ruby landed with a pant, she was so tired. She had flown to the only place she ever really felt in control, the Moon shrine. She sat by the pond and stared into it's clear depths, what would happen to her, if her speech went beyond Suppi's capability to understand? Suppi was only just marginally more intelligent then Eriol, in fact he was the most intelligent of the guardians even the two Yue's grudgingly admitted this. She started to cry, well . . . she had gotten her wish, now every time she wanted to tell Yue-Bella she loved her she'd be able to say more than just 'I . . . you . . .'

"Hey, there . . ." Ruby gasped as a soft voice murmured quietly from behind her, she felt a warm hand press itself against her shoulder. Ruby bit her lip, she was in her full form, complete with wings . . . if some mortal had discovered her then . . .

"It's all right, magic one . . . I am merely hiding my aura . . ." she turned slightly and felt a warm aura brush her senses, "There now . . . tell me what's wrong?"

Ruby blinked and looked up, she gasped as she realised who it was . . .

Syaoran growled slightly as Kero's midair dancing got a little more pronounced, "Kero!"

"What?" Kero growled at him for ruining his solo.

"Stop trying to drop me!"

"I'm trying to drop you, Gaki?" Kero scoffed, "Well, maybe you'd have an easier flight if you didn't claw my fur so!"

"Stuffed animal!" Syaoran leant forward and shouted in the lion's ear.

"Okay, now I'm going to drop you!" Kero did a series of tight rolls and dips, Syaoran held on for dear life.

"Sakura!"

Sakura was still doing her happy little dance in the air as she flew slightly closer to the pair, "Nani?"

"Your stupid stuffed animal---"

"Your stupid stuffed boyfriend is hurting me, mistress!" Kero interrupted him, "Why not make Yue carry him!"

"I don't want to!" Yue called out obstinately, "I can't fly right with people!"

"You liar!" Kero roared, "I used to see you carry Clow all the time!"

"That was over puddles!"

"Oh, yeah, sure . . . huge *lake* sized puddles right?!"

"I decline to answer that question on the basis it might . . ."

"What?" Kero strained to hear Yue's mumbled reply, when Yue mumbled again Kero flew slightly closer to him, "WHAT?!"

"Kero!" Yue held his ringing ear, "What did you make me swear approximately seven centuries ago?"

Kero blinked slightly, as he thought about it, then he glanced at Eriol who smiled irritatingly, then he got it . . .

"Hey! Kero!" Syaoran clamped his fingers into Kero's fur as the guardian beast started to convulse with ancient disgust, "Kero!" Syaoran cried again, he was starting to lose his grip. "KERO!"

Sakura screamed as Syaoran slid off Kero's back, she flew after him desperately. Meilin cried out too, "She'll never catch him!"

The Music card started a new song, as Meilin flew closer to Kero-ette, "Quick! Jump on to her back!" Meilin cried to Syaotang. Once the Little Tango was safe on her guardian beast-ette's back, she pulled up her staff and tapped it against her forehead, "Butterfly card, Release!"

Meilin flew down as soon as the white butterfly wings appear on her back.

Kero-ette flew closer to Spinel, "What is this song?"

Spinel glanced at his master, who was happily singing along to the tune, "It's 'Catch You, Catch Me' by Gumi . . . Eriol loves it."

"#Datte . . . datte . . .#" Eriol cheerfully sang. "#Tsubasa hiroge futari de . . . Sora wo marathon . . .Yume wo unison shitai . . .#"

"Syaoran-kun!!" Sakura called as Meilin caught up, she glanced at the red-eyed girl, "we'll never catch him in time!"

"We will," Meilin said calmly, she pulled out a card, "Bounce card! Bounce Syaoran back to us! Release and misspell!"

Syaoran's chocolate brown eyes widened as he was suddenly encase in a nice round orange ball, Meilin grabbed Sakura, to hold her back as Syaoran hit the ground . . . there was a loud twang as Syaoran came bouncing back. Sakura's eyes widened too as Syaoran came hurtling back towards them; Meilin shoved her out the way, as the slightly translucent ball containing Syaoran bounce straight past them.

"#Hora catch you catch you, catch me catch me matte,#" Eriol belted out, as Tomoyo joined him, "#Kotchi wo muite suki dato itte . . .#"

Yue and Touya provided the next lines, "#Sou nice to meet you, good to see you kitto#"

"#Watashi no omoi anata no heart ni tonde tonde tonde ike#" Tomoyo and Eriol sang together, Kero'-ette rolled her eyes good naturally and looked down, "IN-COM-ING!!" She called as this orange ball came hurtling towards them. The small group separated to let Syaoran through, Eriol held his stomach and started to laugh, "I'm a freaking comedian!" He pointed at Syaoran as the annoyed little wolf came hurtling back through their gathering again, "*That* is hilarious!!"

Syaoran was not only getting mighty bounce-sick, but he was also getting annoyed at Eriol who kept bouncing him as they made their way to the Moon shrine, he rolled his eyes as he hit the ground again. In the brief second before he twanged back up again, he spotted Madison, Syaotang's irritating girlfriend, she was running after them. He bounced back up again and glared at Touya who smirked and bounced him again. Syaoran sighed, as he flew back down again.

There was a slight difference when he hit the ground and he looked down. He had squished Madison, he smirked satisfied and when he bounced back up again, he grinned and gave the group two thumbs up, "We hit Madison!!"

There was a cheer from Syaotang, who was back on Meilin's staff again. "WOO-HOO!!"

When they arrived at the shrine, a strange tinkering sounded. Meilin glanced at Yue-Bella who started to wince, "What is it?"

"This sound!" Yue-Bella ground out as she pressed her hands against her ears, Meilin gasped and looked at Kero-ette who had curled up on the floor, groaning and holding her paws to her large ears. Syaotang ran forward as Yue-Bella started to fall forward.

"Oh! Kero! Yue!" Meilin spun to find Sakura trying to sooth her own guardians, the tinkering sound got louder as it started to get closer.

"What's going on?!" Touya picked Yue up; the Moon angel was pressing his hands hard against his ears, and was kicking out violently. "Yue?! Yue!!"

"Make it stop! Make it stop!!" Kero-ette screamed, as Kero-started to cry out. The four guardians sounded like they were in relentless pain! Meilin looked around frantically for the source of the sound, she glanced at Spinel who was looking slightly pained, more irritated by the sound but he didn't seem to be affected.

"Spinel?" Meilin ran to Eriol, "Why isn't he being affected?!"

Eriol looked very concerned as Spinel shook his head, "I don't know . . . Spinel?"

Spinel looked up at them, annoyance making his lip curl, "The sound's more pronounced to us, it's more like . . . a dog whistle . . . it's more annoying to me than painful."

 The sound suddenly stopped, the four guardians panted as they struggled to get to their feet, Yue and Yue-Bella instantly shook their heads in annoyance and turned into their false forms, Kero growled as he looked around for the source of the strange sound, "Where is it?"

Eriol slapped his forehead as he suddenly realised what it was, "I've been looking for that bell for ages!"

Kero grunted, "Yeah we know . . . that's why we hid the blasted thing!"

Meilin blinked, "What bell?"

"Whenever Clow was sick, he's pull out this bell . . . it was enchanted, and could call us no matter where or what we were doing . . . it was *sooo* annoying." Kero growled as he squinted at Eriol, "So we took it one night and hid it!"

"And my family found it." The group gasped and spun as they found a green haired man and Ruby standing behind them, the man smiled as he held up the bell, "My name is Carl Hodover . . ."

Meilin blinked at she stared at the mysterious man, he was sooo . . . nice looking, and . . . she felt another sigh building, he made her feel like going //Hayaannn//

Syaotang scowled at the man, he had managed to sneak up behind some of the most powerful magicians in the world and not be noticed . . . this man had power. Strong power, and he also had one of Clow Reed's bells. The bell was crescent Moon shaped, just like the Clow bell that had been left to give the Cardcaptor a second chance in the final judgement. Carl smiled at him sweetly, "I'm going to be the new janitor at your school . . . you may call me Carho . . . everyone else does." He smiled again, this time at Ruby; "You'll be all safe and sound with the Cardcaptor." He squeezed her hand, Meilin blinked as she realised Ruby was friendly with this man. She glanced at Spinel and Eriol; they too, seemed to be familiar with this mysterious janitor.

"What are you doing here?"

Carho smiled, "I'm also the new janitor at this shrine . . ." he stepped forward, "And you are?"

Meilin blushed as she took the janitor's hand, "Li Meilin."

"May I call you Meilin-chan?"

"H-hai."

Syaotang rolled his eyes, then gasped as Yuki-Bella suddenly got up and ran to Ruby, "Ruby-chan! You had me worried about you!"

The pair stumbled slightly as Yuki-Bella wrapped her arms around the startled Moon guardian, Ruby blushed slightly and wrapped her arms around Yuki-Bella's waist, "Gratify facilitate me . . . construct this impede." She rested her chin on Yuki-Bella's head, "I accurately tenderness you . . ."

"Nani?" Yuki-Bella raised her head to look at the slightly saddened Ruby.

Ruby smiled ruefully and muttered. "Nonentity."

While Yuki-Bella hadn't understood, Syaotang had, he stumbled back slightly, and glanced around, everyone was either completely engrossed with Carho, or were nudging each other and saying "Kaho . . . Carho!" The little tango spun on a foot and ran off.

Meilin stepped forward, and held her staff at Ruby, "So what do I do?"

"Make way for Syaotang!" Madison's severely annoying voice called out, the group turned to see the girl running towards them, "He's the real Cardcaptor."

Kero-ette growled, "I don't remember authorizing two Cardcaptors! Get lost!"

Madison stuck her tongue out, "and what are you going to do about it? Mop doll!"

Kero-ette blinked in shock, "what did you just call me?"

"Your false form looks like a mop doll!"

Kero winced as Kero-ette drew in one long breath in shock. "I'll . . . show . . . you . . . MOP DOLL!!" The lion-ette growled as she pounced on the incredibly annoying girl, Kero chuckled as Yue and Yue-Bella suddenly appeared, to haul the irate guardian beast-ette off.

Carho smiled, and turned to Meilin, "You must seal the card . . ."

"Demo . . ."

"It's all right . . . I'll just look over here . . ." the mysterious janitor turned away and joined the two Yues. Yue-Bella stumbled away from the fracas and joined Meilin, "You must seal this card, before it gets burly adequate to obtain an additional individual hooked on it's embrace!" Yue-Bella clapped her hand onto her mouth.

Tomoyo gasped from behind her camcorder, "It's got Yue-Bella too!"

Meilin bit her lip and turned back to Ruby, who looked in concern at Yue-Bella, "Card, show yourself!" She challenged, when nothing happened, she growled slightly, "Evidently you think you will lose at this game if you show yourself! Oh, well . . ." she turned away, "I win then!"

She waited a few seconds, as there was a glow from behind her, she smiled.

"Meilin!" Syaoran cried, "Ihe card's true form!!"

Eriol joined the shout; "It's the scrabble card!!"

//Gotcha!// she swivelled around quickly and hit the card as hard as she could with the rubber ducky staff. The card's spirit went sprawling over the floor, Meilin shrugged, as she had intended to seal the card with that strike. "Just as well . . ." she muttered, as the music card suddenly struck up with the triumphant Magic Girl music. Sakura began to whistle along with it, and whispered to Tomoyo who was filming away happily, "I wish I had had some Cardcaptor music to go with my captures!"

The crimson magic circle drew itself on the floor and the supernatural maelstrom whipped up. Meilin grinned as she struck the ducky staff as hard as she could in the air, "Return to your mistake's confine!" The card tried to scramble away as the magic tendrils of magic drew it towards Meilin's staff, "Scrabble card!"

Magic streamed away from the staff and grabbed out blind for the card's spirit, who ducked and tried to run away. The magic was faster, and grabbed the spirit firmly.

"And he used this card for?"

Meilin looked at the card she held in her hand, the card's spirit looked like Clow Reed except it was a girl and her robes had question marks and snakes and ladders all over it.

The new Cardcaptor glanced at Eriol who shrugged also, "I don't remember it that well . . ."

"He used it to cheat." Meilin jumped slightly and blushed as the handsome new janitor stepped forward, the janitor chuckled slightly as he continued, "that card can make up words, or give the user knowledge of long words, either way the words are accepted and can appear to be real . . . but only to normal people . . . others with magic can recognise that the word is made up, Clow used it to cheat at board games . . ."

"I did not!" Eriol complained, then glared at Yue and Kero, and Yue-Bella and Kero-ette who clamped their hands over their mouths to prevent the sniggers, "Damnit it's true!"

"Sure it is, Clow . . ." Yue and Yue-Bella nodded.

Kero-ette and Kero provided the follow up, ". . . Keep telling yourself that and someday it might even come true . . ."

Madison snatched the card out of Meilin's hands, "What do you mean?"

Meilin blinked as she stared at Yue-Bella and Kero-ette, "What did Clow really use this card for then?"

The Sakura guardians, the Eriol guardians and the Whoops guardians exchanged a look, before Kero stepped forward, "It's kinda embarrassing but . . ."

"HEY!!" Yelled Madison, "Where's all this smoke and wavy lines coming from?!"

Kero growled at her, "I'm trying to create a flashback kinda mood!"

Yue stepped forward, "Kindly keep quiet . . . you're ruining the atmosphere!"

The smoke and a strange, but funky flashback melody started . . .

~~

"Clow hated losing . . . not just a little bit, but a whole lot of it . . . if he so much as lost a coin toss, he'd sulk about it for days . . . we used to try and avoid such occurrences but you could always tell when Clow was getting wound up . . . he would start to pout and then this silly little frown would settle on his forehead . . . it was really funny 'cause Clow's glasses were fitted so they would only stay on when Clow was smiling . . . but when he frowned . . ."

"Kero, please try to stick to the right story . . . this is not the trials and tribulations of Clow's spectacles . . ."

"Oh yeah, I forgot . . . you were the master of knowing everything about Clow's glasses, especially how to get them off in a hurry . . . not to mention a hell lotta other—"

"Kero!"

"Heh, heh, heh! Anyway . . . Clow cheated all the time, in everything he did . . . why the hell do you think that the cards were created? The man hated having to do things himself . . ."

"That's not strictly true!"

"Of course Eriol, keep telling yourself that and one day it might come true . . . anyway, where was I?"

"Clow's utter laziness."

"Thank you Syaoran, Clow hated losing and he hated work so you can imagine what he was like when it came to playing games with me and Yue . . . he loved me when it came to playing those stupid word games simply because I couldn't read."

"You still can't!"

"Shush Yue, and he loved Yue when it came to more physical things like--"

"Don't say it Kero . . . 'specially if you value your tail!"

"I was just going to say races and outdoor pursuits Yue . . . but now you mention it . . ."

"Oh, just carry on with the story!"

"So anyway, he couldn't stand it when he played Yue at scrabble . . . you see, Yue was just like Spinel and spent most of his days reading . . . he actually learnt how to speak through a dictionary, anyway, there wasn't one word in the English language that he didn't know . . . so one day . . ."

Clow looked at his arch nemesis, Yue the Moon guardian was twiddling his thumbs. Clow's dark blue eyes narrowed slightly, this meant Yue had a win combination of letters, //Crap!// Clow frowned. Kero snorted as Clow's glasses fell off his face again, "In danger of losing again, Clow-y?"

Clow's glasses fell off as soon as he replaced them, "Stop calling me that!"

Yue chuckled slightly too, "Yeah, Kero, we don't want to disturb his concentration . . . I'm sure he wants to be completely focused as I absolutely trounce on his triple word score . . ." Yue smiled sweetly at his scowling creator. Kero blinked as Clow quickly raised an eyebrow, pointed at himself then Yue quickly before flashing the Through card at the Moon guardian. Yue gasped, as he understood Clow's short message, he pouted then mouthed back, "Fine then!"

Kero's face screwed up, as he understood too, "What have I told you about doing that in front of me?!"

"We're not doing anything!" Yue reached over to grab the extra letters bag.

"Not tonight anyway!" Clow muttered stropily, folded his arms and slouched in his chair. Kero grimaced violently as Yue's mouth fell open.

"Awwww! Come on! Get a room, in a house far away, in a different country, on another planet really far away from me!" Kero started to squirm in his seat, "How icky is it! My mind!" He clamped his paws over his head, and started to rock, "My poor little innocent mind! You fill it with such gross images!"

Yue rolled his eyes and started to put down his chips, "Kero, you're over reacting it's just . . ."

"The sensual, pure love between man and an angel . . . and if Yue wants to retain his special privileges in my bed, then he'll stop spelling . . ."Clow sat forward, "*Judgement* this instant."

Kero shuddered again, and Yue looked from the 'm' in his hand to Clow, who blew an air kiss to his Moon angel. Yue scowled and put the 'm' back on his rack.

"Kero?"

"Yup?"

"What's this got to do with this stupid card?"

"I'm getting to it, Meilin, just give me a couple of minutes . . . anyway, one day, cut a long story short . . ."

Clow smiled as he put his last tiles on the board. "Ta da!"

"That isn't a word!" Kero growled, and looked at Yue for confirmation, the Moon angel nodded.

"I think you're cheating Clow Reed!" Yue picked up the dictionary and started flicking through the various pages.

"What's this?!" Clow suddenly sounded flabbergasted, the powerful magician clutched his chest in his 'shock', "What's this my guardians are telling me?"

"Come off it Clow! That isn't a word! You're cheating!"

"No, no!" Clow moaned and waved his hand at Kero, the dark haired magician threw himself forward as he 'sobbed' into his hands, "I can't take it!" Kero and Yue exchanged a look as Clow's wailing got louder, "My own guardians! Why? Et tu Yue?" Clow drew out his large purple handkerchief and theatrically blew his nose, "No, don't say another word . . . you have wounded me! My heart!" He croaked, "Broken in a thousand places!" Yue paused in his search long enough to look at Clow, as he rested his forehead in his hand, "Please . . ." Clow raised a hand, "Please just . . . just give me a moment . . ." he appeared to compose himself before breaking down again, "Oooooh! Where did I go wrong? Why? Where? And I thought I was such a good creator too!"

"Cut the crap, Clow! Snortle isn't a word."

Clow's racking sobs disappeared instantly as he leapt to his own defence, as he snatched up the dictionary and flicked through the pages. As he did so, a Clow card floated out of his large sleeve. Kero picked it up and started at it, as Clow pointed out the word to his Moon guardian. "There see, snortle . . . a sort of amused sound, that is not quite a chortle, but less sinister than a snigger!"

Yue pressed a long finger against the book's yellowing pages; he frowned in confusion, "*That* wasn't there yesterday!"

"I think I've got your answer right here, brother dearest . . ." Kero waved the strange new card, Clow straightened instantly and laughed falsely, "Whoops . . . didn't mean to do that . . ."

Yue and Kero stood and advanced on the cheating magician slowly, they extended their wings and plucked a couple of large feathers from them, Clow began to chuckle nervously as his menacing guardians drew closer with their feathers of ticklish doom, Yue and Kero growled playfully together, "What's this our creator is saying?"

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"And that's how this stupid card was created!"

Madison coughed, and waved away the smoke, "So basically Clow was some sick, twisted, lazy bloke with far too much magic and an angel fetish . . ."

"Excuse me!" Eriol held up a hand, "This is my past life we're dissin' here!"

As their argument ensued, Yue-Bella knelt by her mistress, "Meilin?"

"Hai?"

"May I be excused?"

"Why?"

"I have some business to tend to, I will return shortly."

"Oh . . . *oh*!" Meilin realised, "Um . . . of course, I didn't realise that---"

"It's not that . . ." Yue-Bella's face creased in faint disgust, "I need to talk to someone."

"Who?"

"Syaotang."

Meilin looked around, "Where's he go?" But when she turned back to her Moon guardian, the angel-girl was already gone.

Syaotang slowed to a jog, he was lost. "Stupid Moon shrine . . ." he groused as he sat in the middle of some forgotten path. Yuki-Bella was in love . . . and Ruby loved her back. He frowned, it wasn't that he really thought he had a real chance with the older girl, but it felt so nice to fall for someone who wasn't Madison. The engagement had been made a long time before he had been born, and he really couldn't stand the girl. Over the years though, he had been becoming increasingly resigned to the fact that he was going to marry her. Madison was annoying, irritation incarnate! But she appeared to be the only girl his family would ever let him marry.

He sighed, Yuki-Bella was so beautiful, and she was so . . . not Madison. But now . . .

"You should not dwell on this fact . . ."

Syaotang gasped as the cool voice of the Whoops Moon guardian floated to him, he looked up. Yue-Bella, Yuki-Bella's true form, landed on the ground softly. The Moon angel-girl looked down on him as he scrambled to his feet, "Yue-Bella!"

The angel-girl nodded, "Indeed."

He glanced at her hand, "Why are you carrying a teddy bear?"

She glanced at the toy, "I found it on my way here . . ." she threw it at him, "Here, you can have it." He stared at the small bear, as the angel-girl continued, "I am aware of the feelings you harbour towards my false form . . . I'd advise you to give it up, you are blinded by my power, and thus am attracted to my false form . . ."

"Actually I just find her a refreshing change from Madison . . ."

Yue-Bella rolled her eyes, "Shush . . . I'm trying to get this rather important moment over and done with . . . anyway, look inside your own heart, yadda, yadda, yadda . . . and find the one you feel the most to . . ."

Syaotang's eyes settled on the small teddy bear, it was small and white with rather disturbing red eyes. He blinked as Meilin's face came to him, she was beautiful, he realised. Meilin had been nothing but nice to him, and he had been a real jerk . . . he sighed, and wondered if that, deep inside his heart, Meilin was the one who was his number one.

"Meilin . . .?" He whispered.

Yue-Bella went crashing to the ground, then leapt to her feet quickly, "No, you moron . . . you are supposed to say *Madison* . . ."

"But I really don't like her . . ."

"As if I care! Meilin's not the right one for you! Go with Madison!"

Syaotang held the teddy bear closer to his chest, and closed his eyes. The music card started to play a soft tune, as Syaotang smiled quietly to himself, "I can't really be in love with Meilin . . . can I?"

Yue-Bella sighed sharply, "Hoo-boy . . ."

Carho chuckled as he watched the new Cardcaptor show her friends the strange new card; he felt a cherry pink aura move behind him, "Hello Ruby . . ."

"What are you doing here?"

Carho turned, "I am here to assist Meilin . . . you?"

"Eriol needed me . . ." Ruby glanced at her master, then back at the janitor, "Not a letter, not a call . . . you didn't even give me a chance to say good bye . . ."

Carho's lips quirked gently, "If I had said good bye any earlier then you would be sad . . . besides I did say that one day when I returned that you and I would be in love with someone new and that we would be good friends."

Ruby blinked, "That's Kaho's excuse . . . you mumbled something about an expensive janitoring course in the Bahamas . . ."

"Same thing . . ." Carho shrugged, "Still it's true isn't it?"

Ruby bit her lip and glanced at Touya, "You know what?"

"What?"

"I'm going to do what Touya should have done to Kaho when he saw her when she returned . . ."

"Really?" Carho laughed quietly. "What's that?"

Ruby cocked her head, "THIS!" She drew back her fist and socked him one in the jaw. As he lay dazed and confused on the floor, she smiled, "Much better . . ."

Meilin laughed as she spotted Syaotang and Yue-Bella, the angel-girl fluttered over to the main body of the group and whispered something that made Syaoran swear, Touya demand payment for a bet from Eriol, Kero and Spinel chuckle, Kero-ette spit "That bloody yank!", Tomoyo and Sakura sigh, "Awww!", Madison go bright purple in the face with anger, and Yue shake his head, "didn't you tell him that . . ." but Yue-Bella held up a hand as she watch Meilin jog up to meet Syaotang.

"I did it!!" Meilin smiled and showed Syaotang the card, she went on to babble how she had figured out how to catch the card, unaware that Syaotang was only watching her with this wistful 'I-love-you-but-I'm-too-shy-to-tell-you' look on his face.

Madison stormed forward, and announced loudly, "Well, it's nice that you still *suck* at it. . ." Meilin blinked and fell silent, as Madison stepped between the pair, "And you should know that is the last card you'll catch 'cause me and Syaotang will catch the rest!"

Syaotang looked mortified as Madison stormed off, he looked at Meilin who looked utterly dismayed. "Maybe she's right . . ." Meilin murmured. Syaotang frowned, and stepped forward, he was about to hug her when Yuki-Bella suddenly knelt down beside Meilin.

As the snow bunny-Bella opened her arms and comforted Meilin, Syaotang sighed. Beaten to the punch, he turned and started after Madison.

He'd only walked a little way when he felt a breeze behind him; he turned and saw that Meilin was flying behind him. "ARGH!" He yelped, Meilin frowned, and glanced at Yue-Bella who shrugged, "See . . . I told you it was intensely irritating . . ."

Meilin shook her head, and held out a gloved hand to Syaotang, "Want a lift?"

Eriol chuckled as they waved goodbye to Carho, the Music card started up again. "It sounds like it should have someone singing along to it!" He turned on Spinel to look at Sakura, "Why not let the Song card give it a go? "

Sakura rolled in the air as she pulled out the Song card, "good idea!!" She threw it out in front of her, "Song card! Sing along to this music!!"

Syaotang gasped as the purple spirit of the song reached forward, and the light green identical music card appeared. "Meilin! That's the Music card's true form."

Meilin nodded and flew over to Kero-ette to let Syaotang get off the staff. After she called her own wings out, she tapped the music card lightly, but asked it to continue it's song. She smiled at the card as it nodded and increase the volume of the song. Calling back the staff's wings, she flew back to Kero-ette. Syaotang smiled as he climbed back on the staff, he wrapped his arms tightly around the new Cardcaptor. He was just dozing off, warmed by Meilin's closeness. Tomoyo smiled and pointed at him, everyone smiled too, realising that Sakura's and Syaoran's whole love affair was being speeded up and replayed through Syaotang and Meilin. Meilin remained oblivious to this, and Syaoran growled, "That Gaki!"

Kero-ette shook her head, and flew closer to Meilin, Meilin was smiling again, and that made her feel happy. She growled playfully as Yue-Bella flanked their mistress, Kero-ette glanced at the sky; the day was blue, the sun warm, the clouds fluffy and cute. "Waiii!!" Kero-ette roared and, to Touya's annoyance, pulled off some tight rolls, "Go, go Music card! Let's show our voices!"

Eriol grinned, "#Meilin's just a magical girl. . .#"

"#In an accidental world!#" Sakura laughed.

"#You dash . . .#" Yue sang quietly.

Ruby grinned, "#. . . and soar!#"

"#With me by your side!#" Kero-ette squealed.

"#You are the one. . .#" Tomoyo and the song card sang in perfect harmony, "#. . . Who will discover the cards . . . in time!#"

Meilin smiled, maybe being the new Cardcaptor wasn't so bad . . . after all.

"#Meilin's just a magical girl, girl, girl,

In this accidental world, world,

Now she's on the path of disorder#"

Meilin looked around her, everyone joined in the singing except Syaotang who had fallen asleep, she shook her head, "And my quest has just been launched!"

"#Her powers keep goin',

Each time she kicks card butt!

But still . . . # "

Syaotang frowned slightly in his sleep, nah . . . it had to be his imagination . . . he couldn't be in love with her . . . could he?

"#Meilin's just a magical girl . . .#"

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And now it's time for Leave it to Kero-ette   

Kero-ette: Konnichiwa! And welcome to this Energy giving part of Cardcaptor Meilin! What a beautiful day it was today! I hope it's nice and warm where you are, if not don't worry cause I'll soon warm you up with all the bright happy information we have here!! Today we met the Music card and the Scrabble card; both are really useful when you want to have theme tune music and when you want to cheat at stuff!! Wasn't the music just beautiful?!

[Presses face against screen] HEY, HEY!! Kero-ette-chan check!!

Meilin's costume was really useful today, with it's intricate design and it's pretty patterns! With a gorgeous emerald green outfit, Cardcaptor's eyes really shone! And compared to that yank's girlfriend's blue eyes, Meilin as always came out top! Meilin's gloves were really useful when it came to holding on to the staff, with their special grips, helped her to think quickly and use the bounce card. And thanks to Meilin's quick, quick thinking, her cousin was safe and sound!! Yay Meilin!! Go, go, go!!

[Sits in big red chair] So how was it? Remember never cheat at board games, and always try to do your bestest best! Well, please R&R and come back for the next instalment of Whoops, Didn't Mean To Do That!

[Waves] Ja matte ne!

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Meilin: What's this strange dream I keep having? And what about this new one? Wh-what? The magic guardians are dancing like they did last summer? Bummer . . . and Eriol can't say the word, man . . . total wipe out . . . what's wrong with everything . . .? Look at all those totally psychedelic colours . . . can't you just feel the love in the air? . . . wait! My apartment wasn't like this yesterday!! Help me, Syaotang!!

Meilin, Syaotang and the return of the sixties, baby!

Next time on 'Whoops! Didn't Mean To Do That!' Come with me, Cardcaptor Meilin!

Release!

[Cue senselessly dramatic ending music!]