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! 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~~

#Singing#

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

Series Zero.Two

By Dr Megalomania.

~~~~ fLaShBaCk!!

"Our wedding. . ."

His 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?!?"

Syaotang's eyes rolled back in his head, and fell over in a dead faint.

EnD fLaShBaCk ~~~~

{A Single, Crimson Lotus Petal Lands On Seemingly Pure White Water . . .}

The First Movie. . .

C     A     R     D     C     A     P     T     O     R           M     E     I     L     I     N     :

(Always Read The Fine Print, Meilin!!)

Part One . . .

Three days later, somewhere in the back streets of Tomoeda . . .~~~

"WELL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, SMARTY PANTS?!"

"I DUNNO! MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY OPENING YOUR EYES!!"

Yue-Bella growled to herself as Meilin and Kero-ette argued with each other violently, the weather was driving everyone up the wall and the fact it was the middle of the night wasn't helping any. "Mistress . . . sister . . . I suggest that your argument can wait until we capture this stupid card and get home!" Yue-Bella started to rub her temples, "And even then you can keep it down!!"

"Oh, like you could do any better!" Kero-ette hollered down at her sister, "I can't help it . . . this card always got on my nerves too!!"

"You can try!" Yue-Bella shook her head; the rain was starting to paste her fringe to her head. She glanced over at Sakura and Tomoyo, the two still disgustingly cheerful despite the heavy weather.

"Keep it up Meilin!!" Sakura yelled from under her pink umbrella, she struggled to keep her balance against the harsh wind; her guardians were at home, sleeping off their latest fight. Meilin looked exhausted too, and she had every right to be. The last three days had been hell; no one in the whole of Tomoeda had been able to get any sleep at all. This was because of the Coffee card, a card Clow had created one morning when he had run out of coffee and had in Yue's own words, "The biggest stonker of a hangover this side of the Big Dipper . . ."

This whole sorry saga wasn't helped any by the fact the Grouchy card, sick of having to wait it's turn, decided to attack at the same time. It had everyone snipping at each other, except for Sakura and Tomoyo because of their evergreen genki-ness. Touya and Yuki weren't talking to each other, Kero snidely suggested that Yue had a permanent case of the Grouchy card, Ruby and Spinel acted as normal, and amazingly Eriol hadn't smiled at all . . . not even when his cute little descendant, Li Syaoran had tripped up and fell down three flights of stairs . . . well, okay . . . he might have smirked . . . a little . . .

Meilin hadn't been immune to this card either, she growled as she tried to get closer to the grouchy card. For Meilin, the last three days had been complete hell, not only had she not got any sleep, not only had she been in a foul mood, but Madison had been annoyingly happy all the time. Meilin knew she was supposed to be nice to the evil little eighties reject but Madison was making it really hard to be anything but obnoxious.

And it wasn't helped any by the fact Meilin hadn't heard hide or tail of Syaotang. The little tango hadn't been seen at all, wasn't in classes (apparently he had been excused from classes for compassionate family leave), he wasn't answering the phone, nothing . . . and then there was all the strange squeals and shouts coming from his apartment. Meilin sighed, //At least now it's the holidays . . .// and tried to focus on the angry guardian beast-ette yelling in her ear.

"Okay, let's get this over and done with, okay Cardcaptor?" Kero-ette yelled, "Just concentrate on getting that card and whuping it's Clow-almighty annoying can!!"

The Evil Whoops card watched Meilin and her little gang as the Cardcaptor took on the Grouchy card; the nasty tempered card could control the weather as well, so it really took it out on Meilin. The card smirked, "So Cardcaptor . . ." it's pupil-less eyes narrowed, ". . . now we must come face to face . . . all the other cards you have faced so far, are nothing compared to me . . ." it smirked and started to walk away, down the conveniently darkened alleyway preventing any identification or description of the card, "Cardcaptor Meilin . . . you ain't seen nuffin' yet, especially since I am Clow Reed's re---Whoa!!"

The evil Whoops card was suddenly knocked off her hiding place by some random Act Of Author.

After the Grouchy card had been captured, Meilin turned her attention on the coffee card, a hyper little sprite that simply would not hold still. While Kero-ette and Yue-Bella shook the rainwater out of their white wings, Meilin chased after the Coffee card. Bounce! Meilin tapped the card quickly and jumped after the card. "Come back here!" Meilin bounced as high as she could in the air and turned slightly, looking for the card.

The bright pink little sprite, which incidentally was wearing a dress like a coffee cup upside down, giggled and waved as it bounced from side to side. The grouchy card's effect was wearing off, Meilin smiled and laughed, "Come back here you naughty thing!" She landed quickly and bounced after it again.

The card bounced into a small forgotten alcove between the buildings. Meilin smiled as she followed it.

Syaoran jogged over to Sakura and Tomoyo, "Where's Meilin?"

Sakura smiled, "She's just chasing up the Coffee card . . ."

"Good!" There was a deep yawn as Eriol joined them; Ruby moon and Spinel sun were carrying their tired master. Eriol smiled tiredly, "Then we can all get some sleep . . . which way did she go?"

Yue-Bella flashed Ruby a quick smile before stepping forward, she lifted her elegant hand and pointed, "Thattaway!"

Meilin landed easily and the bounce card's little spring on her feet faded away. Meilin looked around, the coffee card was still bouncing off the walls and giggled happily, she shook her head, "These Whoops cards are absolutely crazy . . ." Meilin lifted her staff and pointed at the coffee sprite, "Okay you . . ." Meilin's crimson red magic circle began to form, "Keep still while I seal you!"

The hyper sprite bounced up and down in front of her, giggling all the time and strangely sounding a little like Suppi when he had a little too much sugar. "Iwannahavemore!!"

//Not in this little girl's life time . . .// Meilin shook her head, she raised her rubber duck staff, "You've had your fun . . . now let me have mine . . ." Meilin's magic started to circle around her 'causing her wet costume, which incidentally was some very elaborate British pyjama's complete with typical smoking jacket and night cap, "Whoops card, return to your mistake's confine!" She brought down her staff quickly, "Coffee card!!"

The card giggled again, "Bai, bai!!" It waved, curtsied, and then did a back somersault as it sank into it's mistake's confine!

Meilin laughed tiredly as the card flew into her hand, bet Sakura never had that happen to her! She laughed again and pushed the nightcap's bobble out of her eyes. "Nutty cards . . ."

"Come to me . . ."

Meilin blinked and spun, the strange voice whispering all around her in giddy and repeating circles. "Who's there?"

"Please come to me . . ."

Meilin stared at the strange old well that just happened to be forgotten here in the back streets of Tomoeda, she started to walk towards it. "Hello . . .?"

"Please . . . I've been waiting so long . . . where are you . . .?"

She stepped up to the side of the well and looked in, her reflection blinking back at her, "Marin?"

". . . No . . . Please come to me . . ."

Meilin put her hands on her hips, "Look, if you're Marin again . . . I tell you one thing . . . I ain't being sucked into no stupid underwaterworld type thing, no bubbles, no ribbons, no scary looking birds . . ." Meilin frowned, "And definitely no opening of stupid books and the sucking of people into freaky places . . . no!" Meilin shook her head defiantly; "I won't take that kinda crap!" She turned away from the well, and jumped on to the ground. As she did, the surface of the water glowed.

"Okay then . . ."

Meilin jumped as a book suddenly landed in front of her. She spun, as the water's surface glowed again, a whole reel of ribbons was spat out and landed to her right, followed by two scary looking birds, and several bubbles floated away. "What are you doing?"

The water surface spun and floated out of the water, turning into a very pretty looking woman. She smiled lopsidedly, "You said no crap . . . wait . . ." She fumed at Meilin, "You're not Clow!"

Meilin slapped her forehead, "I said I wasn't gonna do this with you . . ."

"Where is he? I was calling him to me!" The woman looked around forlornly, "Where is he? . . . I . . . I've been waiting for him . . . forever . . ."   

"Well, you can wait another forever 'cause he ain't coming anytime soon!!" Meilin sighed, "Okay, before you try to drown me and then storm off looking for him yourself . . . let me explain some things . . . this isn't the same century you left . . . this is the twenty-first century, I am Meilin . . . I am the Cardcaptor of the Whoops cards, you most likely thought I was Clow because these stupid cards reek of his stupid aura . . ." The woman nodded, and Meilin shook her head and muttered, "Why does it have to happen to me?" She sighed and looked up at the woman, "Okay . . . the basics you need to know before you go on said rampage . . . you are looking for Clow Reed, right?"

The woman nodded.

"You met him long ago, you had some sort of stupid rivalry . . ." Meilin shook her head, and held her hand out to the woman, prompting her to explain. "Because . . .?"

"He came to Tomoeda, where I was a famous children's entertainer . . ." The woman narrowed her eyes, "He took my business, because in his spare time he entertained little children . . . my business dried up and failed because of him and his stupid 'here comes Uncle Clow-y' act!"

Meilin stared at her, and deadpanned, "Figures . . ." She sighed again sharply and continued, "Okay, so . . . you challenged him to a number of fights, which you always lost, and then one day, despite your obvious hatred of him, he turned up at this well, which happened to be yours and . . ." She pointed at the woman's beautiful and intricate hairpiece, "He gave that to you on your birthday, walked away mysteriously and said something along the lines of, if you think it sucks, just chuck it away 'cause I won't mind . . ."

"Not exactly . . ." The woman shook his head, and lifted her skirt revealing a very beautiful and intricate pair of stockings, "He gave me these on *his* birthday and said that if I ever had any free time to model them for him, he'd be in his study every night around five 'til eleven . . ." Meilin's mouth fell open in shock and faint amusement, and the woman nodded again, "I know . . . cheeky bastard . . ." She dropped her skirt, "I was so shocked I forgot to slap him silly . . ."

"Anyway . . . continuing . . ." The Cardcaptor tilted her head, "You have been waiting for him for . . .?"

"Forever . . ."

"Well . . ." Meilin nodded, "Hate to break it to you but uh . . ."

"MEILIN!!!" Meilin spun, as Syaotang suddenly appeared, "WAKE UP!!"

"Nani?" Meilin raised a confused eyebrow at the Little Tango, "What do you mean?"

He shrugged, "I dunno . . ." He stepped forward, "Anyway . . . who's this?"

"Oh . . . this is . . ." She looked up at the floating woman, "Sorry, I don't think I got your name . . ."

"Maren . . . Su-Ling Maren . . ."

Meilin smiled at her, "Pleasure to meet you . . . Maren, this is Syaotang, Syaotang, this is Su-ling Maren . . ." She turned to Maren, "Okay . . . so you've been waiting forever for Clow Reed right?"

"Zettai . . . forever . . ."

"And ever and ever . . . and you've been calling him to you and he hasn't come and if I don't bring him to you, you'll wreak your horrible and most likely terrible revenge upon my friends, stealing their power and then going to look for Clow Reed yourself . . ."

"In a nutshell, yes."

Meilin smiled lopsidedly, "Then I guess I'd better save myself from a soaking by telling you right now that---"

"Meilin-chan!! Meilin-chan!!" Meilin turned to find Sakura and the rest of the gang flying towards her at top speeds, Yue-Bella and Kero-ette landed quickly and stared at Maren before pointing at her, "We know you!!"

"Last time I saw you two . . ." Maren frowned, "Weren't you both male . . .?"

 Kero-ette and Yue-Bella exchanged a look, and Yue-Bella smiled unevenly, "Uh . . . in a manner of speaking, yes we were . . ."

Eriol slid off Spinel and stared at Maren, he glanced around, and then nodded in recognition, "Oh . . ." He murmured to himself, "The children's entertainer . . ."

Sakura ran forward with Tomoyo and the two wrapped their arms around Meilin, "Are you okay?"

"Sure, sure," She pulled away from them, "As I was saying, this is Maren, everyone . . . Clow Reed ruined her life, and now she wants something from him . . ."

Sakura and Tomoyo turned their cameras on the woman, who was tall, floating about five feet off the ground; she had her hair in two ponytails either side of her head . . . and strangely bore a great resemblance to Chiharu. She took a moment to rearrange her great big blue skirt, and her long red ribbons floated around her peacefully. She had little make up on, and three bright blue strips painted on her face, Maren nodded, "I have something I want to say to him . . ."

"Okay . . . well, I hate to break it to you but . . ." Meilin sighed, "Um, Clow Reed's kinda . . . dead . . ."

"What do you mean he's kinda . . . dead?"

"He's dead, stone cold, he's kicked the bucket, he's hung up his clogs, he's pulled the curtains shut, he's line-danced off the mortal coil, he's no longer with it, he's out of fashion, he's gone to that big top hat in the sky, he's a guest on Killroy, he's doing the six feet under, he was spotted with Elvis shopping for a brand new backpack in a shopping mall in Downtown, New Mexico . . ."

"Are you telling me that cheeky bastard's gone and kicked the bucket?!"

"He scored the half time goal with it." Meilin confirmed with a nod.

"That cheeky bastard . . ." Maren folded her arms and pouted, then something occurred to her, "DAMN IT!!"

Everyone jumped, and Kero-ette padded a little closer, "What is it?"

"That cheeky bastard!" Maren's long hair fluttered around her in complete frustration, "That means that idiot had the last word!"

Meilin folded her arms and shook her head, Sakura and Tomoyo filmed Meilin, Kero-ette and Yue-Bella rolled their eyes, Ruby and Spinel stared at Maren in confusion, Syaoran and Syaotang both slapped their foreheads than jumped apart, "Cut that out . . . That too!"

And Eriol . . . well, Eriol stood there beaming happily, trying his damn hardest not to burst out laughing. He settled instead for doing the Pulp Fiction dance.

Maren looked at the little strange, blue haired, bespectacled boy, who was enthusiastically dancing suddenly, "Who is that?"

Meilin smiled knowingly, "That is Eriol . . . he's---"

"Eriol?" Maren interrupted, "Eriol Hiirawagizawa?" Eriol stopped immediately, as Maren put her fists on her hips, "Eriol Hiirawagizawa Reed?"

"Uh . . . no . . ." Eriol said instantly, suddenly looking a little too innocent. "No . . . No, no, no. . . . . . . . . No."

Syaoran, sensing an opportunity to get Eriol back, smiled broadly at the woman, "Why?"

"Eriol Hiirawagizawa Reed was Clow Reed's father's name . . ." She squinted at Eriol, "He always said he would call his reincarnation Hiirawagizawa Eriol or Kinomoto Fujitaka . . ."

"Well . . ." Syaoran sighed happily, "Both of those names are really stupid . . ." He swung his head towards Eriol and smiled, "Don't you think, Clow?"

"They most certainly are not!" Eriol boomed in his Clow Reed voice, then squeaked, and clapped his hands over his mouth. He glared at Syaoran, who wiggled his eyebrows irritatingly. Eriol growled at him and silently promised to get him back later. He turned to Maren, "Look Marin . . ."

"It's Maren!" Maren floated towards him menacingly, "I've been waiting so long to see you Clow Reed . . . I'm going to slap you silly, and then I'm going to take these stockings . . ." She lifted her skirt to show him, "And then you are going to model them for me . . . AROUND YOUR NECK, YOU CHEEKY LITTLE BASTARD!!"

Syaotang and Syaoran nearly wet themselves, as Maren wrapped her hands around Eriol's neck and proceeded to strangle the blue haired reincarnation. Sakura and Tomoyo grinned, and turned their cameras on Meilin. The new Cardcaptor grinned and held her hands up to cameras. The grouchy card and the coffee card were signed and ready to return to the Whoops book. Kero-ette did a little pirouette in the air by Meilin's head, "All right Cardcaptor Meilin!"

Meilin smiled, "Well, that's the day's weirdness over and done with for today . . ." She glanced over her shoulder, Maren was still strangling Eriol, the blue haired reincarnation's eyes were wide open, and his face was starting to match his hair. Meilin giggled, "Reminds me of Yamazaki!"

Sakura and Tomoyo agreed, and filmed Syaotang and Syaoran, who had now crumpled to the floor and were beating their fists on the ground, tears of laughter rolling down their faces. "It's so good! Keep it up!!"

Kero-ette turned her attention back on Meilin, and found her sister picking Meilin up, "She okay?"

"Just tired . . ." Yue-Bella spread her wings, "Come on, sister . . . let's get her home . . ."

"This dream . . . who is it . . .?"

"There's something wrong . . ." Someone whispers, voice echoing in quiet circles, "Something's wrong . . . something's wrong . . ."

Meilin turns and lifts her hands into the air, thousands of crimson petals rain down on her, her long black hair loose from it's usual ties dances in the wind . . .

"E . . ." A deep voiced man intones, "Equals see are squared . . . see are squared . . . see are squared . . ."

"Why?" Meilin calls out, "what does it mean . . .?"

"If I tell you that . . ." There is a knowing chuckle, "Then there won't be any surprise for you . . ."

She sighs, and turns again, this time a wind blows at her, and she see long twisting crimson ribbon, she lifts her arms, to touch them and realises that they come from her, "What's going to happen . . .?"

Twangle . . . Twangle . . .

She turned once more, getting a little dizzy from all the turning, and finds Carho standing behind her, he smiles as raises his bell.

Twangle. . . twangle. . .

"Kero-ette is right, that is an annoying bell . . ." Meilin blinks, she turns around and looks, her school's bell is lit by a rainbow of lights . . . "I'm here . . ." She whispers, "At the . . . the Tomoeda school . . . the clock tower . . ."

"Meilin-sama . . ." Kero-ette is floating beside her, "Meilin-sama . . . it's time for you . . ."

Meilin blinks, pulling a red ribbon out of her line of vision, "What do you mean . . .?"

"You know what is to come . . ." Kero-ette smiles knowingly, "Look in your heart . . ."

Someone is squeezing her hand, Meilin looks to her other side and Syaotang is there, "Trust yourself . . ." He smiles, staring at the clock tower, "And we will surely succeed . . ."

Meilin nods, and looks at the clock tower, she taps the side of her head, "Butterfly . . ." As the wings grow on her back, Syaotang grabs her hand and looks deep into her eyes, "Good luck . . ."

Meilin nods and begins her flight. She approaches the clock tower and looks up, the full moon is almost gold . . . the top of the clock tower, there is someone waiting . . . long hair, white wings . . . and light purple eyes narrowing coldly.

"Something's wrong . . ."

Meilin turns her head, and stares into her own eyes blankly. "Me?!"

The doppelganger nods, "Meilin . . . there's something wrong . . . one of your friends is your enemy . . ."

Meilin's flight stops, "An enemy . . . who? "

Meilin 2 puts her hands on her hips, "If I tell you that then there won't be any plot to this story . . ." She shrugs, and looks around, Meilin sees all her friends looking up at her, from Sakura to Eriol, from Syaoran to Madison, from Yuki-Bella to Carho . . . "Which one . . .?"

The smiles fade from their faces. Carho steps forward, "Something's wrong . . ." He raises the bell again . . .

Twangle . . . Twangle . . .

"Something's wrong . . . but what?"

Kero-ette floated out of her draw not quite awake, still sparkling with her sleep. She yawned and rubbed her eyes, and fluttered over to the window. "Ah . . . what a beautiful day!" The sun was shining again, and thanks to Meilin capturing the Grouchy card, Kero-ette felt up to her cute little self once again. She fluttered over to Meilin's desk, and glowed. The Whoops book groaned and flipped over. Kero-ette folded her arms, "Come on you lot . . . wakey, wakey!"

The book groaned again, and the seal closed itself tighter.

Kero-ette floated down and landed on the desk, "Come on . . . up and at 'em you lot . . ." She rolled the book over, "If you didn't get enough sleep last night, you can blame the Grouchy card and the Coffee . . ." 

There was a huge amount of swearing from a lot of the cards, and the book disappeared in a puff of smoke. Kero-ette blinked, at the empty space, "What the . . .?"

:: Tap :: Tap ::

Kero-ette flew to the window, and let the hovering book in. She chuckled as it hovered to the desk meekly; "Well, now, you guys are awake . . . I'll go wake Meilin!"

Meilin was frowning in her sleep, "Something's wrong . . ." She mumbled quietly, Kero-ette frowned and landed on Meilin's pillow, careful not to tread on any of her mistress' hair, "Something's wrong . . ." Meilin repeated, "But what?"

"Meilin-chan . . ." Kero-ette started to fret, "Meilin-chan . . .?"

The black haired girl frowned even deeper.

Syaotang opened his eyes, and stared blankly in to the five sets of eyes that peered back at him.

"OUR LITTLE BROTHER'S ALL AWAKE NOW!!"

"LITTLE BROTHER'S ALL AWAKE NOW!"

"BROTHER'S ALL AWAKE NOW!"

"ALL AWAKE NOW!"

"AWAKE NOW!!"

"NOW HE'S ALL AWAKE!!" enthused Syao-Julien who, being the adopted one, could never quite get it right.

"ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!" Syaotang screamed as his five brothers stared down at him. "It's the first day of holidays, can't ya leave me alone?!"

Madison skipped in from her bedroom to find her auntie setting the table, "Where's Way?"

"Out shopping for milk dear!" The very British woman answered cheerfully, "Now give your auntie a great big good morning hug!!"

Syao-Eli bounced out of Syaotang's bedroom, "Mumsy dearest?"

Mulan smiled and wrapped her arms around her son, "Yes, son?"

"May I put on my bestest stiff upper lip and pop over next door and fetch some more tea?"

"Oh! Oooh! Yes, darling! And while you are at it . . ."

Syaoran yawned as he walked out, "Wei-san?" He blinked and looked around, "Wei?" The little wolf found a neatly written letter on the table, Have gone out with Way to fetch more milk, will be back soon . . . Syaoran shrugged and went into the kitchen. He was just brewing some green tea when . . .

**Ding-dong!**

 The little wolf yawned, and ran a hand through his hair before opening the door.

"AH! Good morning t—"

**SOCK**

Syaoran pulled back his bruised hand, "Eriol, it's too early in the . . ." He trailed off as a ginger haired boy sat up rubbing his jaw, "Oh!" Syaoran blushed, "I'm sorry, that was a instinctive reaction . . . I thought you were someone else . . ."

Syao-eli smiled, "It's all right!" The strange boy grinned as he bounced to his feet, "I just came over to ask for some more tea . . ."

Syaoran nodded and turned away to fetch the tea box, "We only have Chinese tea if that's ooooo. . ." Syaoran blinked as the one ginger, manic grinning boy turned into four ginger manic grinning boys and one dapple-grey haired, manic grinning boy, "Okay . . . and all of you are?"

"We're all from next door!!"

"All from next door!"

"From next door!"

"Next door!"

"Next door's where we're all from!!" Enthused Syao-Julien who, being the adopted one, could never quite get it right.

Syaoran's mouth fell open as he handed over the tea, and the five hyper boys bounced off, "Okay . . ." He said quietly, "You are the living embodiment of my sisters . . ." He looked off slightly, "Eriol is a dead man . . ."

Eriol sneezed.

"What's up, master?" Spinel looked up from his book.

Eriol smiled, "Oh nothing . . . just Syaoran cursing my name again . . ." He looked at the clock on the wall, "He's running a bit late today . . ." He returned to his evil sewing, "Must have over slept . . ."

Meilin brushed her hair slowly, "And then she said that one of my friends is also my enemy . . ."

Kero-ette sat on the book's edge and frowned, "Well, we can rule out me and Yue-Bella . . . we're your guardians . . . I guess we can rule out that Sakura girl, 'cause trust me, no one so dense could be so evil . . ." She sighed and cocked her head, "Let's write up a list . . . and I tell you what . . . we'll just watch everyone and rule them out as we go . . . "

Meilin stared into the mirror.

Kero-ette stood, "This might be your toughest challenge yet Meilin . . . finding out that someone you always trusted is your enemy . . . be careful and watch everything that happens around you . . ."

Meilin's hair covered her face, and she squeezed her hairbrush tighter, "But I . . . my friends . . . I can't . . ."

"You might have to, Meilin . . ." Kero-ette touched Meilin's hand gently, "You might have to . . ."

Yue yawned as he walked along the corridor to his bathroom, Ruby moon and Yue-Bella had stayed over last night because . . . Yue frowned as he tried to recall exactly why he allowed Yukito to let them stay over . . .

"Okay . . . are you ready?" Ruby moon squealed from the bathroom. Yue blinked and paused before he pushed the door open, Ruby and Yue-Bella had towels secured about their persons, their hair up in high ponytails and their legs up on the rim on the bath's rim. Yue's mouth fell open with shock as they . . .

*shhhhhhHHHHHHRRRRRIIPPPP!!!*

. . .pulled wax strips off their legs. Yue's eyes boggled, "What are you doing?!"

Ruby glanced at him, "What does it . . ."

*shhhhhhHHHHHHRRRRRIIIIIPPPP!!!*

". . . look like?" She finished, and rubbed the leg quickly with moisturiser. Yue-Bella smiled, as she started to apply even more of the hot waxy stuff to her pale legs. "Don't worry, brother . . . we'll clear up when we're done . . ."

"That's not what I'm angry about!" Yue stormed in and picked up the tub of wax, and squinted at the label.

"Then what's got your luna balls in a knot?" Ruby smiled as she took the wax scalpel shaped thingy from Yue-Bella and quickly dipped it into the tub of wax. Yue growled at her and took the tub out of their reach, "I'll have you know---!!"

*shhhhhhHHHHHHRRRRRIIIIIPPPP!!!*

 "There's something oddly satisfying about that . . ." Ruby nudged Yue-Bella with her bare shoulder. The moon angel-girl smiled and nodded. Yue cleared his throat, "As I was saying . . . I'm angry because this is MY leg wax!"

Ruby dropped the leg waxy scalpel thingy in her shock and Yue-Bella raised an impressed eyebrow, as Yue continued sulkily, "And it would have been nice if you waited for me first . . ."

"Well . . . that's it then . . . that's all of them . . ." Meilin put her pen down, and picked up the list. "Syaoran, Eriol, Tomoyo, Yue, Kero, Touya, Spinel, Ruby, Syaotang, Madison . . ."

"Madison?!" Kero-ette scoffed, "The yank's weird girlfriend can come straight off the list!!"

Meilin blinked, "Why?"

"Because first of all, you'd have to be nuts to consider her a friend!!"

Meilin shook her head and read the list again, "Which one could be--?" She paused and picked up her 'phone.

"Who ya callin', sweetheart?"

Meilin shushed her, and smiled as the other side picked up. "Sakura? Can we meet up?"

"That's terrible . . ."

"I know . . ." Meilin nodded as she looked around, the park was warm, the king penguin was shiny and filled with lots of adorable little kids that just made you feel like . . . 'Wow . . . isn't creation great? All those unbearably cute kids . . . one kick and they'd go sailing through the air with ease . . .' Meilin sighed and looked at Sakura, she was reading the list again.

"Well, how about Syaoran?" Sakura asked distractedly, while she watched Kero-ette slap some suntan lotion on her little gold body, lay back on her tiny hand made sun bed, and lift sunning mirror to catch some rays.

"It can't be him, he's my cousin!" Meilin sighed; as she entered a flash back sequence for no other reason except DrM couldn't think how to put what she wanted to say into dialogue . . .

~~

"I've known him since forever . . ."

Syaoran glanced at his cousin, and opened his hand, "This had better be the right bird . . ."

"Um . . . no . . . actually my bird was more . . ." Meilin tilted her head, "More . . . green . . ."

Syaoran sighed and ran off again.

Later that night . . .~~~

"This had better be the right bird."

Meilin giggled, "But that's a squirrel!!"

Syaoran looked down into his hands. The squirrel was chittering and chattering in cute little Disney-esque mannerisms. "This is a squirrel!" Syaoran frowned, and threw the squirrel over his shoulder, "Stupid squirrel!"

Meilin smiled and skipped away, unaware that the squirrel was now mauling Syaoran viciously.

A little later . . .~~~

"Meilin . . . I don't care what this is . . . as long as it's the right version of whatever it is . . ."

Meilin blinked, "I didn't know we got badgers in China . . ."

Syaoran held his hand out, a tiny little bird tweeting sweetly.

Meilin squealed, "That's it! That's the one!!"

Syaoran smiled lopsidedly, he was swaying on his feet. "Oh, good . . . now be a good little girl and get Wei . . . I think the snake's poisonous . . ."

Meilin nodded and ran off, Syaoran looked down on himself, and shook his leg to get the badger, who had sunk his teeth in to that limb, off. He turned on his arms and started to try and shake of the rabbits and the squirrels that had attached themselves there and then he looked over his shoulder and scowled at the crocodile that had attached it's self to a rather soft part of his back.

When Meilin came back, she found Syaoran lying on his back, with the badger, the three rabbits, the six squirrels, the crocodile and the cobra still attached to him.

~~

"Wow . . . now that's dedication for you . . ." Sakura nodded, "Okay, so may be not Syaoran . . . and we can instantly rule out Tomoyo-chan!!"

Meilin took a sip from her orange juice, "Oh . . . I'm not so sure Sakura . . ." Her mind was buzzing with instances when Tomoyo turned to her with stars in her eyes. Tomoyo was very evil many times, even surpassing Eriol in evil-ness. She did always say how she loved every opportunity to tape Sakura in her costumes . . . and with Meilin as the new Cardcaptor, Sakura hadn't exactly been the star.

Sakura shook her head, "Nope . . . not Tomoyo!"

Meilin sighed, "Okay . . ."

The emerald eyed girl looked down the list, "Hmmm . . . Oniichan can be real mean sometimes but nah . . . he wouldn't hurt you!" She picked up Meilin's pen and started to check people off. "Kero . . . might be evil when he hasn't had pudding, but no . . . Yue . . . gives the Glare-O-Evil pretty well, but nope, not him either . . ."

"Who could it be?" Meilin sighed and lay back, she stared at the clouds as they rolled past. "I mean, why would any one of my friends just pretend to be my friend . . .?" Meilin sat up and shook her head, "This doesn't make any sense . . ."

"Maybe that's because it's the Whoops cards." Meilin blinked and turned to find Syaotang standing behind them. He was dressed fairly shabbily as if he'd thrown on whatever was close to hand, a pair of jeans and a simple green shirt, and looked rather tired too. He had his hands shoved into his jeans, and shrugged, "Just a thought . . ."

Meilin smiled, "Haven't seen you in days, stranger!"

That broke Syaotang's tiredness, he smiled lopsidedly, "I just thought I'd come say . . ." He sighed, the smile fading from his face, as he knelt down in front of her, "I . . . um, I'm going back to America for a little while . . ."

Meilin blinked, "Nani . . .? Wait, you're not supposed to go back to your homeland until we defeat Eriol or whatever it is!"

"This isn't the Clow cards . . ." He smiled sadly, "Trust me, I wish it was . . . We wouldn't have to go through all this crap in and out every week . . ."

"What's wrong?" Meilin asked quietly. "What's happened?"

"Not what's happened, it's . . . what's going to happen . . ." He sighed heavily, "I . . . I have to marry Madison . . ."

"What's wrong with that?" Kero-ette sat up, folding her little sunning mirrors. She smirked at him, "Fate is fate is fate . . . you'll have no choice . . ." She snorted and picked up her cocktail. "Yank!"

Syaotang didn't even frown, "I thought I'd at least be able to choice the date . . ." He scowled, "But no, it's tomorrow!"

"NANI?!" Kero-ette choked on her sunrise special.

"HOE?!" Sakura damn well dropped her camera.

Meilin stood, "To-to-tomorrow?" Syaotang didn't even look at her as he nodded, "Demo . . . demo . . ." Meilin tried to think of something, "I . . . I . . ."

"I don't want you there!" Syaotang closed his eyes and stood, his fist clenched, "I don't want you there, Li-chan!"

Meilin stumbled back as if slapped by his stinging comment, tears brimmed her eyes and she pulled out her key quickly, and without checking to see if anyone would see her using her magic pulled out the butterfly card. "Butterfly!" Meilin flew off without looking back.

"Meilin-chan!" Sakura dropped her camera, and pulled out her key, "Meilin-chan!! Wait! Fly!!"

Kero-ette growled at him as she flew after the two little girls, "Yank!"

Syaotang, hung his head, not caring about the tears leaking from his amber eyes, "I don't want you there Meilin-chan . . . Because I'll choose you every time . . ." He looked up to the sky, and watched Meilin's rapidly receding figure. "I'd choose you . . ."

Meanwhile . . .

Eriol spat out his tea, "Urgh!!"

"What's up, master?" Spinel looked up from his book.

Eriol sat the tea down on the table, and wiped his mouth, "Somewhere in Tomoeda, someone just had a highly sappy encounter . . . errrggghh . . ." He shuddered, "Something must be done to readdress the balance . . ."

Eriol flicked his hand in the air.

Syaoran walked along the corridor carrying a large tray of lemon meringues. He smiled, "Ah . . . the last batch of meringues for the old people at the bottom of the building." Syaoran, who was the nicest little wolf in all of Tomoeda had so kindly offered to order the old people's meringues for the week, but for some reason the meringues had arrived at his home instead of theirs. Syaoran frowned as he neared the lift, "What the . . .?"

"It's out of order." Syaoran turned to find Carho dusting off his hands. The janitor shrugged, "Sorry."

Syaoran smiled, because he was in a really happy mood, "That's okay . . . I'll just take the stairs." He turned and walked the little way to the stair well. Unbeknownest to him, a banana peel suddenly appeared with a bright purple glow, just on that vital step before stairs . . .

"ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!"

Spinel looked down at his master's magic circle as Eriol watched Syaoran fall down the stairs, "Six flights of stairs . . . that seemed a little excessively evil, master . . ."

"You say potatoe, I say potato . . ." Eriol raised an eyebrow, "You say too evil, I say not evil enough . . ."

{Eye-catch}

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