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 [regretfully] own The Gumi 'Catch You, Catch Me' 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!! Every line except from the last line from catch 'em, That way . . . I mention it purely because my beta reader, who I have never heard swear and once read one email with a serious swear word in it [I'm still in therapy for that one, the shock, the shock!] anyway, she who never swears almost gave me a heart attack when she suggested it . . .
Oh and Thank you for the spelling corrections in chapter 10, Brat-Girl, I've made the appropriate changes! Thankoo!!!
"Speaking"
*Stress/emphasis*
//Thinking//
~~Flashback~~
#Singing#
Whoops! Didn't Mean To Do That . . .
Series Zero.Two
By Dr Megalomania.
[Cue 'Catch You, Catch Me' and Meilin Singing:]
So now, catch 'em, catch 'em, that way, that way, Hoo-boy!
Remind me who's fault this was!
And now, Syaotang's after 'em and Madison's crazy! Help me!!
Surely there must be some other, other, other, OTHER way!!
I'm in such deep sh--------
"You're in love with her, aren't you?!"
Syaotang looked at Madison over the breakfast table, "And if I am?"
Madison humpt-ed, "You realise that you have to marry me, don't you?"
"Don't we have some sort of sweet childhood pact that if one of us fell in love with someone else, we would step aside and let the other marry whomever we want?"
"No."
Syaotang looked into his cereal bowl dejectedly, "Crap . . ."
[Cue Senselessly Dramatic Music]
Part Twelve: Meilin, Madison And The Disappearing Act!!
"Welcome to Tomoeda School's Annual Variety Show!"
Meilin peered through the curtains, "Wai . . . There's so many people out there . . ."
Tomoyo put the finishing touches to Sakura's costume, "You'll be fine, Meilin . . . because you and Sakura are just the Kawaii-est contestants there are!"
Sakura pulled a complete Tomoyo, and sighed happily, "You'll be the star of the show, Meilin!" She lifted her camera and murmured sadly, "My only regret is that I won't be able to tape you myself . . ." She perked up instantly, "Demo, demo, Oniichan has agreed to do it for me!!" Sakura ran forward and grasped Meilin's hands, "You simply must promise to keep your genki features happy for me, Onegai!!"
"Hai . . ." Meilin nodded, "You are getting very like Tomoyo Sakura-chan . . . You are still very strange . . ."
"And I can tape both of you, my favourite magic girls!!" There was a loud sigh from Tomoyo causing Sakura and Meilin to look at her; they went crashing to the ground as Tomoyo's mom's bodyguards popped out of nowhere branding video cameras . . .
"So, what's the game plan?"
"We're gonna pull a little trick on the Cardcaptor . . ."
The two Whoops cards sat in the rafters above the dressing room and watched as Meilin and Sakura blushed furiously. One was dressed in a very scary outfit, and looked like the phantom of the opera; the other was partially hidden by shadows and therefore couldn't be described. It smirked as it looked down on the Cardcaptor and her friends, "She's getting too good . . . and the American is helping her too much . . ."
The phantom of the opera dude scratched under his mask, "So what are we gonna do about it?"
"Let's try to break them up . . ." It smirked at him, "We'll just steal a couple of her little friends and then see how the Cardcaptor can stand losing to us . . ."
"What if she figures me out?"
"Don't worry, you're too hard to figure out . . . especially in the world of magic . . ." It smirked again, "Let's see how the Cardcaptor enjoys the magic show . . . when it's got real magic . . ."
The phantom of the opera dude nodded, and jumped down from the rafters, his visible form disappearing. "Muwha ha ha ha!"
Meilin looked up as she heard a faint evil laugh, her Whoops card radar tingling. "Can't there just be one day when everything just goes all right?"
"Hey . . ." Meilin turned to find Syaotang; he stuck his hands into his pockets and stepped forward. He looked around; Meilin was now alone in her dressing room. //Perfect . . .// Syaotang smiled, "Just thought I'd tell you to break a leg . . ."
Meilin blushed, "Thanks . . . it's a pity you won't be in the magic show today . . ."
Syaotang shrugged, "I'm not really a perfect helper . . . besides Eriol seems to be having the time of his life . . ."
Meilin laughed, "Bet Syaoran's making things difficult though . . . he's been avoiding Tomoyo all week . . . just so she can't get his measurements . . ."
"Measurements?" Syaotang blinked, "Why would she need his measurements . . . wouldn't he just need a bit of cloth?"
"Um . . . Tomoyo says it's much more complicated than that . . ." Meilin giggled, " . . . Y'know . . . just in case there's some sort of action involved, he'll have to be able to move around the place without . . ." She blushed, "Flashing the world . . ."
He snorted, "Good thing I'm not in it then . . ."
"Oh, I dunno . . ." Meilin folded her arms and looked him up and down, "I think you'd make a perfect scantily clad assistant . . ."
He snapped his gum, and turned, giving her various views, "You think?"
Meilin blushed again and turned to sit back in her seat in front of the mirror, "I'm so nervous . . . do I look okay?"
"Sure . . ." He moved closer and stared into her eyes through the mirror, "It's a nice costume . . . Magic Girl?"
"Iie . . ." Meilin smiled and ruffled the frilly, high collar. She was dressed in a form fitting magician's costume, with shiny black boots, a bright red coat with long tails, a crisp white shirt and a midnight blue waistcoat. She smiled as she picked up a midnight blue scarf that had Moons and suns embroidered into it, "Sakura-chan made it for me . . . with a little help from Tomoyo-chan . . ." she handed the scarf to Syaotang, and lifted her chin, "Could you . . .? "
"Sure . . ." Syaotang let the silken scarf slide threw his fingers, and felt magic from it. "This is enchanted . . ."
Meilin nodded, "That's because Yue-Bella and Kero-ette made it for me . . . because they can't be as close to me as normal. It's to ward off Whoops cards, evil spirits and Eriol . . ."
Syaotang tied it swiftly around her neck, and put a bow in it, moving it to the side. "There . . . perfect . . ." he blushed as he realised he was gazing at her lovingly, "Um, like I said . . . uh, break my hear--" He blushed, "I mean a leg! A leg!!"
"Yeah!" Meilin and Syaotang jumped apart as Madison's shrill voice sounded from the door, "'Cause that will be the only way to escape the humiliation you will feel as I surpass you in the magic show!!" Her neon blue eyes fixed on Meilin's scarf, she pointed at it, "What is that?!"
Meilin's hand went to the scarf instantly, "It's a magic scarf . . . from my guardians . . ."
Madison sniffed haughtily, "I hate it . . . it makes you look fat!" And with another haughty sniffed, the awful girl stormed off. Syaotang chuckled slightly, and leant over to Meilin, "It seems your scarf works . . ."
Meilin blinked, "Huh?"
He walked off to the door, and paused only to look at her, "It warded off Madison, didn't it?"
Syaotang managed to walk all the way to the guys' dressing room, before his knees turned to all American fresh Jell-O with fruity bits . . . he pulled himself together quickly, //Okay, now, see . . . you can remain cool around her . . .// He looked back, // Even when she looks so stunning . . . oh, man . . . Meilin's so hot!// He turned, and came face to face with Li Syaoran. The little wolf growled menacingly, Syaotang growled back at him. Eriol stepped out to find the two distant cousins exchanging lightning . . .
"Ah! There you are Syaotang-kun . . . I assume you gave your best wishes to our leading ladies, Meilin and Sakura?" Syaotang nodded, Eriol smiled, and looked at Syaoran, "Come along now cute little descendant number one . . . we're due on in a minute . . ."
At this Syaoran paled, "I told you I am not going out dressed like this . . ."
Eriol smiled, "But don't you just feel the freedom that my lovely girlfriend Tomoyo put into these wonderful costumes?" He swung his hips to illustrate his point. "Oooh yeah . . . feel the circulation of the air . . ."
Syaotang sniggered as Syaoran growled at Eriol, "I AM NOT GOING OUT THERE IN A LOINCLOTH!!"
Nakuru slid in to place next to Touya, "Where are they then?"
"A little nervous are we?"
Nakuru squirmed slightly, "Look, shut it you, this just happens to be our second date . . . if it all goes well this time and Yue-Bella isn't called away to deal with some stupid Whoops card . . ." There was a loud shout from her purse, and Nakuru blushed deeply, "Urh . . . Suppi-chan . . . Keep down already!!"
"But I'm choking!!" Spinel coughed louder, "Let me out!"
Nakuru opened the bag slightly, "There you happy now?"
"I would be even happier if I didn't have to suffer the indignity of having to travel with your cross dressing aides and . . ." he picked up a small note pad, "And your plans to seduce Yuki-Bella tonight . . ."
Nakuru blushed deeply, "Stop going through my personal stuff!!"
"Konbanwa!" Two musically even voices sounded, Nakuru and Touya looked up to find Yuki and Yuki-Bella dressed in kimonos, the two snow rabbits smiled, "Whatcha think of our new kimonos?"
Nakuru's chin hit the floor, "Uh, erm, uh . . ."
"They're great!" Touya saved her and put his finger under her chin. He pushed it up gently as he smiled at the two snow rabbits, "So . . . hurry up and sit so we can catch a closer look!!"
About half an hour later . . .~~~
Spinel carried up the box of popcorn, "Are master Eriol and the rest up yet?"
"Nope . . ." Kero-ette squinted through her big red spyglass. She smiled at him, "Thank you for getting the popcorn my sweet little hunny-wunny . . ."
Keroberos felt his stomach protest at the overload of mushy name calling, as Spinel kissed her lightly, "That's all right my sweet little sugar free dumpling-a-ling-a-ling-a-bing!" She leaned forward for another kiss, and Spinel exclaimed lightly, "Ah, ah! Not too much love of my immortal life . . . I might become drunk on your sweet kisses . . ." Kero-ette giggled, as he flirted some more, "But it's one hangover I'd be willing to live with for the rest of my life, 'cause you're so addictive my darling Kero-ette!"
Kero's eyes crossed, never in his life had he been so . . . //Oh wait . . .// He thought // . . . Yeah I have . . .//
~~
"Yue-sweetie-darling-hunny-bunny-wunny?"
"Yes, my Clow-y-woey-lovely-bubbly-schnukcums?"
"I weally wove you, Yue-sweetie-darling-hunny-bunny-wunny!"
"I weally wove you too, Clow-y-woey-lovely-bubbly-schnukcums. . ."
Kero's stomach threaten to pack it's bags and storm out the door as he watched Yue and Clow over the breakfast table, he looked down at his plate and pushed it away slowly, suddenly he didn't feel like eating his traditional sugar and pancakes . . .
~~
"Uh, Keroberos?" Spinel asked in concern, Kero was going a rather peculiar shade of green . . . "Are you okay?"
"And next up . . . we have two of Tomoeda's finest magicians . . ." the announcer winked at Meilin and Sakura as they stepped on, "Or should I say two finest magic girls?"
While the audience laughed at the weak joke, Madison looked up. She could feel the Whoops card above her head, she tutted and shook her head; it was doing a very poor job of hiding its sorry hide.
"How far does all that blue hair go down?"
"Oooohhhh! There're they are!!"
"Hey little wolf . . . you can maul me anytime!!"
There was catcalls and whistles as Syaoran and Eriol paraded on, Syaoran refused to smile in the least, and brooded as he helped Eriol as they moved the box into place. Eriol grinned and purposely wiggled his behind at the audience, causing more calls for Syaoran to do the same. The Little Wolf blushed, and growled at Eriol as the blue haired reincarnation winked at him. "Play a little Syaoran!"
"Not bloody likely!" Syaoran growled back.
"And now . . . for our next trick---"
"You'll make their loincloths disappear!!"
Sakura blushed as she started again, "We'll be sawing Eriol in half!!"
Syaoran smiled involuntarily, this was his favourite bit!!
Madison growled as Sakura and Meilin, Syaoran and Eriol took their bows. The applause was thunderous, especially for Eriol. He had squealed and screamed like a good'un as Meilin cut into the box, and rather freakily he fell very silent as the saw went all the way through. So quiet he even had Syaoran a little worried, "I can't believe you did that to me!"
"Awwww . . . but come on . . . it was good!" Eriol clapped him on shoulder, "Come on even you have had fantasies when you are on stage and you're naked except for a loin cloth . . ."
"Any sane person would call that a nightmare!" Syaoran sighed, "But then again you are Eriol!"
"The one and only, my cute little descendant!"
Sakura laughed as she followed the pair, she pulled a video camera from some hidden place in her costume, "And the main applause goes to our leading star . . ." She swung the camera into Meilin's face, "Meilin-chan!!"
"Sakura!" Meilin blushed and pushed the camera out of her face, "Cut it out!" She turned to Madison who was the next act. "Good luck Madison!"
Madison pointedly ignored her, as her name was announced. The purple haired American girl strode confidently on to the stage; her act was a magician's act. "Tonight before your very eyes . . . I am going to disappear . . ."
The phantom of the opera Whoops card smiled as it watched the performance . . . "So you wish to out do the Cardcaptor . . .?" He pulled his big black clock in front of his white mask, "Well, well . . . each card has a mystical power . . . tonight you shall be wishing you were . . ." It frowned, "Um . . . at home taking a shower . . ."
Yuki-Bella blinked in the darken audience; luckily no one could see her as her eyes turned a light purple. The snow rabbit pressed her hand against her ear and slouched in her chair leaning towards Nakuru, "Crescent Moon to Stuffed Animal . . . over?"
Nakuru blinked and whispered, "What are you doing?"
Yuki-Bella pressed her finger against her lips, "Shh . . ." she pulled on her kimono's lapel, "I said Crescent Moon to Stuffe--- oh. . . fine then Crescent Moon to Blazing Sun, over?"
Kero-ette grinned as she pressed the radio's response button, "Crescent Moon, this is Blazing Sun, what's got your Luna knickers in a twist? Over?"
"I sense a disturbance in the ch'i, over?"
Kero-ette closed her eyes and reached out . . . her radar zeroed in on the rafters over the stage, "It's over the stage! We've gotta tell Meilin, over?"
"Agreed, I'll excuse the snow rabbit, you radio it in . . . over?"
"Received and understood, over, roger and out." Spinel and Kero stared at the small golden guardians as she pulled on scarlet radio headphones. "What?"
"Why are you so technologically advanced?" Kero groused, "We didn't have such things in my day . . . why I oughta?!"
Spinel smiled as he grabbed his new girlfriend's paws, "You look stunning my darling! Go capture that card!"
Kero-ette smiled, and pecked him on the lips quickly, "I'll do my best my love!"
Kero shuddered and fell over, far too much mushy lovey-dovey-ness in the air . . .
Meilin stared at the rafters; she could have sworn she'd seen . . .
"Blazing Sun to Lotus Pretzel, Meilin you there? Over."
Meilin blushed as her hat started talking. She pulled it off her head and quickly swung it around her back, she laughed nervously as everyone stared at her. "Ermmm . . ."
Tomoyo smiled and quickly jumped behind Syaoran and Eriol, she winked at Sakura and Meilin and then pulled at some innocent looking loose threads on the boys' costumes . . .
Sakura pulled Meilin away as soon as the attention was pulled off Meilin and on to Eriol and Syaoran. Meilin breathed a sigh of relief as she and Sakura quickly ducked behind a set piece. "I never thought I'd be thankful for that girl's strangeness . . ." she put the hat back on her head and pulled the mouth piece down from the hat's rim, "Lotus Pretzel to blazing sun, I feel a card at work, where's it at? Over."
Madison smirked as she noticed the flurry of movement from the Cardcaptor, //So there's a card at work is there . . . well, that won't stop me from upstaging you, Meilin! // She bowed to her audience, "And now . . . before your very eyes . . . I shall disap----"
***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!***
Meilin jumped as she heard thunderous applause from the audience. "What the---?"
Sakura gasped, "Madison just disappeared!!"
Meilin's mouth fell open, as she leant onto her tiptoes, yes, indeed Madison Rae had really disappeared . . . leaving her top hat floating to the ground . . . and traces of a Whoops card's aura . . .
Big Voice Over Dude: Has Madison disappeared for good? Will Meilin ever be able to find her again? Will Tai ever remember what his Digimon turns into? Find out in the next episode of Digimon, Digital Monsters . . .
DrM: [wakes up] Arrrghh!! [Pants and looks around] What a terrible nightmare . . . [shrugs and gets back to typing] Where was I? Oh . . . Madison disappearing in . . .
". . . I can't believe she just disappeared!" Meilin blinked, "She's gone . . . completely gone!"
Yukie-sensei clapped as she came over, "Madison-san is very good, when is she---" there was a loud burp, and a big black bubble suddenly surrounded Yukie -sensei.
***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!***
Meilin blinked and pulled Sakura back as the ball suddenly retracted making the teacher disappear.
"What's happening?" Cried out Tomoyo as she ran towards them, "Everyone's disappeared from the dressin---"
***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!***
Sakura screamed, "Tomoyo-chan!"
Meilin stepped back and looked out into the audience, ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!***
"Sakura!!!" Meilin yelled, "Everyone's gone . . ." she turned, "Sa-Sakura?"
A little while later . . .~~~
"What are we going to do?"
"Kero-ette, sit down . . ." Yue-Bella crossed her legs as they sat on the balcony seat, "We've just got to find Meilin . . . and then---"
***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!***
Kero-ette screamed, "Yue-Bella!" She turned to find her sister gone. Kero-ette bit her lip and edged away from the seat, "What am I gonna do now . . .?" She sighed and picked up her radio again, "Lotus Pretzel? Awwww . . . come on Meilin . . . if you're gone, then no-one will be able to save us . . ."
Meilin ran out into the corridor, her hat had just been taken away by the whatever it was that was taking everyone. //what am I going to do? Minna-san . . . minna-san! It took everyone!!// She looked from left to right, not knowing where to go. "Minna-san . . ."
Syaotang watched Meilin, "What are we gonna do . . .?"
He looked up as Carho put his hand on the little tango's shoulder; "There's nothing we can do . . ." He looked around, "at least all the others won't remember all of this . . ."
"So what is it?" Sakura asked as she held up Tomoyo, she didn't even have her camera up, "What's this Whoops card?"
"It's the Erase card's template . . ." Yue-Bella said as she walked towards them. Ruby Moon ran to her, and threw her arms around her neck. "It got you too?!"
Yue-Bella hugged her, "Yeah . . ." She looked around at everyone who had been taken by the strange Whoops card, Yue and Touya folded their arms and huffed together. "Are we going to have to wait until . . ." Yue frowned, "What *will* she need to do in order to free us?"
Eriol shook his head, "It's another special card . . . thankfully it's a bit like the Mirror . . . Meilin just needs to figure it out . . ." He sat on Spinel's back and folded his arms. "Let's just hope the card doesn't get Kero-ette too . . ."
Kero sat up, "Wait a minute . . . wait a minute . . . you mean we have to wait until Meilin guesses the card's name . . ." he blinked, "We have to wait until *Meilin* saves us?"
Mouths fell open, eyes watered as the resounding cry of: "WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEEDDDDD!!!" Echoed around the hall.
"Meilin!!!" Kero-ette called out, "Aaawwwww. . . girl where are you?!" She zoomed quickly to the stage, "Meeeeeiiiiiilllllliiiiiiinnnn!!"
"Kero-ette?!" Meilin called back, she ran out on to the stage, "Kero-ette, is that you?"
"If you're looking for a damned cute lion with wings, you've found her!" Kero-ette bowled Meilin over, "I was so worried about you kid!!"
"I thought it had taken everyone!" Meilin threw her arms around her Sun guardian, "I thought I'd lost everyone!!"
"Well, it's got Yue-Bella . . . and the rest of that kooky gang you hang out with . . ." Kero-ette looked up, "We gotta figure it out and quick . . ."
"Which card is it?"
Kero-ette frowned, "I don't know . . . it's got Yue-Bella's aura all over it . . ."
"Meaning?" Meilin got to her feet, and looked around.
"Meaning, Yue-Bella's the one who knows what the hell it is . . . and how to seal it . . ."
Meilin frowned, "Damn . . ."
"Exactly . . ." Kero-ette nudged her, "But don't worry . . . you're . . ."
"Cardcaptor Meilin . . ." Meilin nodded, "Okay . . . let's see what I've got . . ."
The phantom of the opera Whoops card stared down at them, "I can't get them . . ."
"Why not?" Screeched the evil Whoops card, "Just ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** them!"
"I can't . . . I don't have any more power!" The white mask turned thoughtful, "Unless . . ."
The evil Whoops card turned to him, it's pupil-less blue eyes wide, "Unless?"
"Unless you lend me some of your power . . ."
The evil Whoops card smirked, "That's not half a bad idea . . . I'm glad I thought of it . . ."
"Well, actually . . ." The white mask frowned.
"Ah, shut up . . . and help me get that pesky Cardcaptor and her little lion too!"
"O, key that hides the power of the Whoops . . ." The key started to glow a deep red, "Reveal the true blunder to me . . ." Her crimson magic circle started to draw itself beneath her feet. "Under our bathly bond . . ." The key started to spin, her black hair twisted in the supernatural storm, ". . . I, Li Meilin, command thee . . ." Her bright red eyes narrowed with determination, as she threw her hands forward, "RELEASE!!!!"
Sakura pulled out her camera and started to film, as Meilin grabbed her staff and whirled it around herself. "She's gonna get it!" She glanced up at her friends, "Meilin's gonna get it soon!!"
Syaotang nodded, "I'd still like to give her a hand though . . ." He looked up as Carho squeezed his shoulder again.
"Meilin must face this challenge alone . . . just as you must face yours . . ."
"What does that mean . . .?" Syaotang murmured, but before he could press the subject further, there was a scream. He drew out his sword and growled as he looked at Meilin, if that card had harmed---
"There's no film in the camera!!" Sakura wailed again, "I'm going to miss this capture!!"
Syaotang slapped his forehead, as the others went sooth her. He looked up at Meilin as the calm girl looked around for clues. "Come on, Cardcaptor Meilin . . . you can do this . . ."
"You can do this . . ."
Meilin blinked as she heard a whisper, she closed her eyes, "I've got to figure this out . . ." She clutched her staff closer, "For my friends . . . I can do this!" She opened her eyes, "what do I need to do?"
Kero-ette shook her head, "This is—"
"A special card . . . gotcha." Meilin smiled, "So all I gotta do is guess it's name right?"
"It's not that simple, Meilin . . . you've . . ." Kero-trailed off, "Oh wait . . . it is, it *is* that simple . . ."
"Okay . . ." Meilin spun and held her staff out, "It's a card that makes everyone disappear . . . it's . . . the Erase card?"
"Mwha ha ha ha!!" There was a loud burp as the strange black blue thingybubble appeared and took a large chunk out of the stage. ***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** Meilin blinked, "Okay . . . not the Erase . . ." she backed away from the large hole, "the . . . Make Everything Disappear card?"
***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!*** A chunk out of the curtain disappeared, Meilin growled, "This isn't fair . . . how am I to guess what you are if I can't see you?"
"Meilin!" Kero-ette called, "I think it might be the In---"
***SHAZ-BADDLY-BA-BAH-BOOM!!***
The winged lion scowled as she was sucked into . . .
. . . well, okay she wasn't sucked anywhere. . .
"What the hell---?" Kero-ette turned, the entire gang smiled weakly and waved.
"Welcome to What The Hell . . . Please enjoy your stay . . ." Kero growled, "When is Meilin gonna realise what that card is . . .?"
Kero-ette shivered, "I don't know . . . I hope she heard me . . ."
Meilin growled slightly, "Okay . . . So you have my friends, you have my guardians . . . well . . ." She held up her staff and her magic circle appeared under her, "I'll tell you one thing matie . . . you are not gonna get me!" Meilin threw her hand to the side, "Magic Girl . . ." The card materialised in her hand, "Magic Girl . . . give me a costume to help me guess this card's true ways . . . Magic Girl . . . release and misspell!!"
Magic swirled around Meilin, and disappeared quickly. Meilin opened her eyes and looked down on herself, "Magic Girl . . .?" The card's spirit floated in front of her helpfully, Meilin put a hand on her hip, "You're either getting really lazy . . . or . . ." She looked herself up and down again, she was still dressed in her fine magician's costume except the red had turned into a bright royal blue. "The card has something to do with magicians?"
The magic girl smiled and bowed.
Meilin smiled, "All right, magicians do magic . . . they pull rabbits out of hats, they make things disappear and reappear . . ."
The evil Whoops card yanked the phantom of the opera card by it's collar, "Why can't you just get her?!"
The phantom card rolled it's pupil-less . . . well, actually it didn't even have eye sockets so it rolled something. "I can't take her . . . she's protected by some sort of protective thing . . ."
The evil Whoops card growled, "I want her out of the way!"
"Well, I can't do anything about it!" The phantom card lifted his cloak, "For I think I am about to be guessed . . ." And with that the card leapt off the rafters and floated down.
Meilin felt breeze against her neck, and turned. Behind her, floating about three feet off the ground was a very scary looking Whoops card; it was dressed entirely in black, except for a white mask. Meilin couldn't see all of the mask as the Whoops card had drawn it's arm in front of the bottom half. It looked like a vampire out of an old B-movie. "Are you the Whoops card responsible for taking away everyone?" Meilin demanded.
The card bowed elaborately.
Meilin growled, "Well then . . . let me tell you now . . . I am the Cardcaptor and I demand that you return my friends . . ."
The card spread it's arms invitingly, showing off it's scary white mask to the full, it was curved into a knowing smile, "Each card you capture has a mystical name . . . Guess mine and you will find fame . . ." It pointed at her, "Fail . . . And your friends will surely hold you to blame. . ."
Meilin nodded, "Tell me about it . . . Madison will probably give me hell . . . saying how Syaotang should have caught the card . . ." Meilin grimaced, "Maybe it would be a better idea just to leave her wherever it is you've taken them . . ." She started to walk away, then slowed to a stop. "But then again . . . I wouldn't see any of my other friends ever again . . . I mean Tomoyo and Sakura might be scary and strange, but when I first came here they always tried to make me feel at home . . . and Yuki-Bella, Yue-Bella and Kero-ette, they are my guardians, and I have to protect them . . ." She sighed as she turned back to the card, "And then there's Syaoran, my cousin and Eriol . . . I don't mind too much about that weirdo . . . but sometimes my cousin's almost obsessional dislike of the man is the only thing keeping him here in Japan. . . well, that and Sakura. . ." Meilin put her hand on her hip and stared at the Whoops card, her features softening, "And then there's Syaotang . . ." She clutched her staff to her chest and looked down, "They all mean a lot to me . . . I don't often get to say that to them . . . I'm always too busy trying to be the best . . ." She sighed, and looked up at the card, "I've just got to figure it out right?"
"My name is the key . . . And then your friends may walk free . . ." The card bowed again, "I might spill the beans for a small fee . . . Then too easy would life be . . ."
Meilin raised an eyebrow, "Tell you what, forget all that mushiness I said earlier . . ." She raised her staff, "I'm gonna seal you before you can spout any more of that crappy rhyming stuff!"
The card arched an . . . oh, wait . . . it doesn't have an eyebrow . . . um, it raised something translating to an eyebrow on it's mask. "How brave you are . . . It might make you a star . . . Or could get you covered in . . ." It frowned, "Covered in . . . Or could get you covered in . . ."
"Tar?"
"Thank you . . ." The card bowed graciously, "It could get you covered in tar . . ."
Meilin sighed, and shook her head, "I bet you've spent hundreds of years waiting to use these, haven't you?"
"We have waited a long time . . ." The card nodded, "But I never thought it take so long to guess that name of mine . . . Perhaps it would help if I started to mime . . ."
Meilin's eyes bugged, she was finding the card's little poems bad enough . . . "Um, okay . . . magicians make things disappear . . ." She started to pace back and forth, "Um, um . . ." She paused, as she started at the mirrors Madison had been planning to use in her act. "No . . . they don't . . . they just make what was once visible . . . *in*visible . . ." She spun and pointed her staff at the card, who was smiling at her. "Card, your name is . . . Invisible card, right?"
The applause was really, really loud, a little uncertain in places, but really loud.
Madison folded her arms and pouted, as the audience applauded everyone who had taken part in the talent show. She couldn't believe it! Meilin and that scary Sakura girl had beaten her brilliant act. She growled even more as judges handed the first place prise to some snotty kid who had burped his way through the alphabet.
Meilin leant towards Sakura, "So you're telling me you were actually just invisible . . ." She frowned, "If you were just invisible how come I didn't bump into any of you?"
Sakura shrugged as she walked off the stage, "I dunno . . . must be because it's a Whoops card . . ."
Meilin smiled as she looked at each of her friends as they all made their way home, "You guys . . ." everyone slowed and came to a stop, Meilin smiled, "I know I don't say this often enough but . . ." she blushed, "I'm glad I got you all back . . ."
Yuki-Bella smiled, "It's nice to be back . . . even though I have absolutely no memory of being gone . . ."
Meilin smiled and skated up to her quickly, she grabbed the snow-rabbit-Bella's hand, "I know . . . let's all get ice cream!!"
Three Sun guardians popped out of their hiding places, two cute little descendants raised fists into the air in triumph, two very disturbed little girls sighed happily from behind their FFX Series Six Digital Cameras, three false forms sighed happily one older brother nodded in gruff consent, and one reincarnation of a certain stupid but incredibly powerful, or put another way, powerful but incredibly stupid magician grinned evilly as they all gathered their voices and roared, "YEAH!!"
"You know what?"
Syaotang sighed, "What Madison . . .?"
"I think you should get rid of that Cardcaptor . . . she's getting too many of the Whoops cards . . . and after all you should be the card master . . ."
Syaotang sighed as Madison ranted on, Meilin had had a brilliant capture, and she had invited them to go with them to the ice cream parlour, but Madison . . .
". . . And she's completely out of the magic girl circuit, I mean who wears . . ."
Madison had dragged him home. Syaotang sighed and whished for the millionth time that he could deport her. She was getting on his nerves and she was preventing him from spending time with Meilin.
*DING DONG!!**
"I've got it, Way!" Syaotang pulled himself out of Madison's grip and stumbled towards the door, he grumbled slightly to himself as Madison continued to rant behind him, "Oh, please . . . let that be a bullet with my name on it . . . better still, let it be a bullet with her name on it!" He lugged the door open, "Hell---"
"AWWWW!!! HERE'S OUR LITTLE BROTHER!!"
"HE'S SO GROWN UP NOW!!"
"SO GROWN UP NOW!!"
"GROWN UP NOW!!"
"WOW, HE'S SO GROWN UP!!"
Syaotang struggled and groaned as he clawed his way out of the squirming mass of older brothers. "What the . . .?!" He gasped with shock, "What are all of you---" he straightened bolt up right as he felt an unusually strong presence behind him . . .
"Xaio Tang . . ." Hard green eyes narrowed fondly, "Give your mumsy a great big cuddle!!"
"Mother?!" Syaotang looked from the tall blonde haired woman to his 'enthusiastic' brothers, "Syao-Zachary?! Syao-Eli?! Syao-Julian?! Syao-Tori?! Syao-Showran?!" He sweat-dropped as his brothers jumped on him again. Syaotang cleverly ducked out the way and looked up at his mother. The plump, happy looking British woman smiled happily, as she licked her fingers and started to clean his cheeks. "Mother! Desist! Stop it! Mother!!" He pulled away from her, and stumbled back against the door. He pressed himself as hard as he could against the wood, wishing that he had the Through card. "Wha-what are you all . . . *doing* *here*?"
Li Mulan beamed happily as she drew herself to her fullest height, "Why wouldn't our Little Tango want us to be here for the most important event of his life?"
Syao-Zachary held up his finger and wagged it, "Most . . ."
". . . Important. . ." Syao-Eli grinned manically as he righted his wire-rimmed glasses.
Syao-Julian, the adopted, slightly feminine, dapple-grey haired, boy with the amber eyes smiled gently, ". . . Event . . ."
The tallest brother, Syao-Tori, wrapped his arm around Syao-Julien and grunted gruffly, ". . . Of his . . ."
"Life!" Syao-Showran folded his arms, and blew his heavy eyebrows out of his eyes.
Syaotang whimpered slightly as his mother pushed Madison towards him, "What most important event of my life?"
Madison grinned wickedly and held up their legal papers, the ones his mother and father had signed saying he had to marry the little bitch. His mother sighed happily and his brothers started to edge closer to him, Madison linked her arm with his and put her head on his shoulder.
"Our wedding . . ."
Syaotang's eyes widened, as Madison sighed blissfully, his butler, Milky Way, comforted his mother as she wept, "My little baby . . . he's all grown up now . . ." And his brothers prepared to jump on him again.
"My-my-my . . . WEDDING?!?"
T o B e C o n t i n u e d . . .
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Next On Whoops. . . Didn't Mean To Do that!!
{Insert Uplifting Movie Quality Music}
Meilin: Wai! Syaotang's family have all come to Japan all the way from America for a special reason . . . demo, demo, why isn't Syaotang telling me all about it?
Yue: [Singing] Here we go now . . .
Meilin: What's this, Kero-ette? I'm about to face my biggest challenge yet?! One of the most powerful Whoops cards?! AIIIIEEE!!!
Spinel: [Singing] Capturing all the cards . . .
Meilin: Let's hope all my good, good friends will be there to help me!
Kero: [Singing] And Meilin's the magic girl now!
Meilin: There'll be Kero-ette-chan, Yue-Bella-san, Syaoran-kun, Yuki-Bella-chan and Syaotang-kun!!
Yue-Bella: [Singing] Are you ready too?
Meilin: Come on Minna-chan!! Hold my hand Sakura-chan, Tomoyo-chan as you join me, Cardcaptor Meilin!! I'll take on this Mysterious Mission, for sure! It'll be all right!
The First Movie . . .
C A R D C A P T O R M E I L I N :
Kero-ette: [whispers] Always Read The Fine Print, Meilin!!
Meilin: You've had your fun; now let me have mine . . . Whoops card! Return to your mistake's confine . . . Release!!!
Kero-ette, Kero and Spinel: [all their faces pressed really close] ::Blink::Blink::