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.Three
By Dr Megalomania.
{A Single, Crimson Lotus Petal Lands On Seemingly Pure White Water . . .}
[Cue Platinum And Meilin Singing Third Season Song]
I am the 'captor . . .
Look at my power!
In this world, things will happen . . .
But not to worry, we can take it on . . .
Remember, that you and I . . . we are stronger together!
So whatever blunder we must face . . .
Whatever mistake of Clow's . . .
We will face it and we will win!
Whatever comes . . .
Promise me.
We'll face it, together an' then go for ice-cream!
Oh, Come with me,
Trust in me,
What have we got to lose? Oh, what the hell!
Come on, let's go!
Come on! With me . . .
Cardcaptor Meilin!
"Master?"
Eriol Mark Two glanced up from his evil sewing. "Yes, my dearest Suppilita?"
Spinellita frowned, "my name's---"
"I know, I know . . . but the Mediterranean accent just rolls off my tongue so nicely . . ."
"Ahem," the small blue cat-alita sighed and shook her head, "Start again?"
Eriol mark Two resumed his evil sewing, "Please."
"Master?"
Eriol Mark Two glanced up from his evil sewing. "Yes, my dearest Spinellita?"
"What will be your plan? That girl, Meilin is growing stronger . . . and you haven't even gotten past first base with that Syaoran boy!"
"This is a crime against eviliality. . ." Eriol Mark Two frowned, and nodded, "Well . . . I've got a plan that could change that . . ."
"And then the boy?"
"I was talking about the boy actually . . ." Eriol Mark Two resumed his sewing, and shrugged, "As for Meilin . . ." he shrugged again, "Ehhhh . . . something'll come up. . . in fact, it'll come bounding through the door any minute now . . ."
The door burst open, and in a strangely familiar and repeated way, Rubix Luna . . . evil double of Ruby moon . . . bounded in, in his false form. "I think I'll enjoy pretending to be a teenager . . ." Rubix's eyes narrowed, as he pressed a finger against his cheek, "We've got to film a production of Alice In Wonderland . . . and guess who's class is providing some of the actors, master!"
Spinellita glanced at the two of them as Eriol Mark Two began to chuckle evilly. He held up his costume, and smiled widely, "Ah yes . . . I think Meilin would enjoy a trip to Wonderland . . ."
Part Seventeen:
You're A Movie Star, Meilin!!
"Allllll-right people . . . here's . . ."
Nukara paused for dramatic effect, he held up his hands and squinted through the small square they made.
". . . my vision."
He nodded slowly as if this had suddenly made a physical impact upon the hapless earth. The other students from film studies blinked and glanced at each other. Touya looked mildly amused – after all, he was the sound man, he didn't have to worry about anything, just that big grey dead hamster they had strapped to the boom mic – Yukito and Yukito-Bella had identical bright smiles – come on they had to smile . . . they were dressed as White Rabbits – and Nakuru raised a mildly irritated eyebrow and tugged at her costume's bodice piece – she was dressed as the Queen of Hearts, even more outrageously dressed than usual. The hidden form of Ruby Moon turned and glared at Yukito-Bella, "Alice in Wonderland AND the movie making project . . . at least during the Sakura Cards, WE made an effort!"
The Slightly Less Than Sane Hatter . . . Eriol glanced about, and glared as Eriol Mark Two came out with the production's 'Alice', "How come *he* gets to be the Cheshire Cat?!"
Syaoran and Syaotang glared at each other, and pointed at one another, "I don't want to be his identical twin!"
Nukara turned and got the company's 'Alice' in his sights, "Ah yes . . ." he hummed, "My vision . . ." he breathed deeply as if he was being swayed by a powerful overcoming emotion, "My vision is . . . bellalisamo!! And *you*!!"
'Alice' turned as Nukara suddenly ran up behind her, and crouched down. Nukara grinned manically, and pressed his long finger against 'Alice's' nose. "*You* are gonna help me achieve my Vision!!"
Meilin raised a worried eyebrow and sighed quietly, "Hoooooeeeee . . ."
"Ahhh . . ." Kero-ette hummed happily. "The house all to my---"
Mockery leapt up on to the bed and started to bark in her face. Kero-ette pulled a face, and frowned at Mockery, "You know . . . I'm starting to think you were a really bad idea . . ." The poor puppy stopped wagging his tail as he watched Kero-ette call up the Hole card.
Kero-ette chuckled evilly as the poor puppy disappeared with a small whimper down a hole. "Whaaaaat?" She shrugged to an empty room and the readers all around, "I'm just not a cutesy puppy person . . ."
"I wouldn't worry about it, Meilin . . ." Sakura enthused, "I'm sure Eriol Mark Two wouldn't put you through what Eriol did to me . . ."
"But!" Meilin protested as Sakura and Tomoyo fussed over her, she sneezed as they dusted her face with face powder, "A-chuu!"
"Bless you." Tomoyo murmured quietly as she brushed out Meilin's long hair. The girl's costume so very beautifully supplied by the Magic Girl card was protected by the large towel they had wrapped around Meilin's upper body. The Alice in Wonderland costume, the big blue dress and the white apron had been changed for a slightly more modern approached. Meilin now had bright yellow short-shorts . . . which prompted Yukito to crow 'Who loves Short-shorts?!' every time she past him, he would always shrug and say it was Yue's fault . . . and a bright yellow sleeveless turtle neck which didn't quite cover her stomach, she wore bright yellow fingerless gloves that reached the middle of her upper arm and bright yellow socks that reached up to the middle of her thighs, and on top of that she wore a small bright yellow cap with various shades of yellow ribbons streaming down to her feet. On top of this Meilin wore a small waist apron which in turn was frilly, and had white ribbons trailing from behind it . . . and now Tomoyo was braiding Meilin's hair with yet more yellow ribbons.
"Thank you," Meilin replied absently, she frowned and glared at the mirror, "But what can he be planning . . . I mean he did absolutely nothing last episode . . . it's really irritating . . . and not to mention . . . boring!!"
"You want him to attack you?!" Sakura paused in her lipstick-ing to gently wipe away a smear on Meilin's teeth. Meilin mumbled something, which Sakura didn't understand, "Sorry what?"
"I said . . ." Meilin ran her tongue over her teeth, "I said well, yeah . . . I mean . . . don't want my life to get boring just as it got interesting . . ."
"And to think . . ." Tomoyo murmured, "just a few months ago you were wishing none of this had ever befallen you . . ."
Eriol Mark Two, pervert as he was, smirked as he watched the three girls.
"So . . . you want life to be interesting, eh Meilin-chan?" He pulled out his staff, and swirled it slightly, "well, then . . . who am I to disappoint you!!"
Meanwhile . . .
"Are you sure you're okay?"
Yukito-Bella yawned and nodded, "I'm fine . . . it's not like I'm going to suddenly drop dead . . ." she pressed her forehead against Nakuru's, "Stop fussing about me . . . I'm a grown false form of a grown moon guardian . . . I can take care of . . ." she trailed off to yawn again, can take care of myself. . ."
Nakuru frowned as Yuki-Bella pressed a small hand against her cheek and then moved off. Inwardly Nakuru couldn't help but worry, //oh Yuki-Bella . . . I do worry. . . as a moon guardian you shouldn't be affected by the illness of normal humans \\-- human kind shouldn't have--\\-- Yue-Bella should be able to easily over come--\\-- to fight these battles . . . that's why the --\\-- such a simple thing as exhaustion, there's some--\\Gundam are here . . . it's our responsibility to make sure that --\\-- thing else going on here that's --\\--other humans don't have to face these kind of --\\--WHAT IN THE SEVEN CIRCLES OF. . .?!//
Nakuru looked around irritably as someone else's inner monologue started to overlap her own. She caught sight of a short, longhaired boy and a really serious boy setting up some video equipment, and she rolled her eyes. The moon guardian stormed over to the two and growled quietly, "Look, boys . . . don't wanna blow your cover, but could you keep you inner monologues down?!"
The braided boy blinked his violet eyes rapidly in surprise, as the really serious one scowled at her but nodded, "Mission accepted."
Nakuru rolled her brown eyes, "And loosen up . . . if you're gonna have a cameo, have an invisible cameo. . ." she turned and pointed at Tomoyo, "Or I'll sic that girl on you. . ." the dark haired serious boy glanced briefly at Tomoyo and grunted as if he didn't take the threat seriously, Nakuru leant closer, and whispered, "She gave stalking lessons to Relena . . ."
"Eh, heh, heh . . ." The braided boy grabbed his friend's arm and started to drag him away, "You wouldn't . . ."
"I wooooullllddd!!" Sang Nakuru, the dark haired boy's face visibly paled. The two boys glanced at each other, and made a silent agreement to run for their lives and sanity. Nakuru grinned after them, "Ah . . . stalkers . . . is there nothing they can't do?" She turned and gazed at Yuki-Bella, "Now, where was I? Ah, yes . . . worried inner monologue . . ."
//There's something else going on here, Yuki-Bella, Yue-Bella, and I don't think you realise how potentially unhumorous it could get!//
"Okay, so Meilin . . . your motivation is that you . . . as Alice . . . you are falling down that hole . . ."
Nukara pointed at the stage prop that was the Hole, he moved his arm and his horsewhip made a sharp 'swish!' noise as he did so. He pointed at Meilin, "You have to believe it or it won't conform to my vision! And remember . . ." he brought up a brass loudspeaker, "We're making MAGIC, people! We're making MOVIE MAGIC!! And we can't achieve that unless we all conform to my VISION!!"
"I've got a vision . . ." Eriol muttered darkly to Tomoyo as she made the finishing touches to his costume, "I've got a vision of shoving that horsewhip so far up Eriol Markus' ---"
"Eriol!" Tomoyo snapped, "Shush . . . there are delicate ears around!"
"Silence on set!" Shrieked Nukara irritably, "Anyway . . . back to MY VISION!! Meilin, you are Alice . . . and you are falling down that tunnel . . ."
"Right . . ." Meilin sighed, "Falling down the tunnel . . ."
"Now . . ." Nukara continued, "I want you to close your eyes and IMAGINE you are falling down the tunnel . . . do it, do it now!"
As Meilin closed her eyes, she frowned . . . suddenly wind had picked up . . . and her skirt was billowing up, and she could faintly hear Sakura scream her name. Meilin reopened her eyes, to brieftly watch Syaotang yell in panic, and start to run toward her before a white light completely blocked her vision, making her close her eyes for a brief instant. When the light faded away, Meilin found she could open her eyes and . . .
. . . and promptly found herself standing in a field.
"Aw . . ." Meilin put a hand on her hip and looked around. "Crap."
Meanwhile. . .
"Meilin's in trouble!!"
Spinel suddenly sat up and yelped this very important fact. Kero-ette opened an eye to look at her love, as her brother, Kero snickered, "Is that your Spinel-sense acting up again?"
The midnight blue panther blinked, having never seen Spiderman, "Why . . . um, yes, I would."
A paw waved in his face as Kero started to laugh at him, "Ah, you're just like Yue!"
Kero-ette slapped her brother with her tail as she turned to look at Spinel, "What do you mean?"
"I don't know . . . all I know is that it would be beneficial to the plot if we made some sort of fumbled rescue attempt . . ." Spinel gazed in the direction of the schools. He sighed, and glanced at Kero-ette, "I mean otherwise we'll have nothing to do aaaallllll episode!"
"Hm . . . you might be right . . ." Kero-ette sighed, "But if she's been dragged to Wonderland then what can we do?"
"How about we stay here . . ." Kero rolled on to his back, and spread his wings out lazily, "And mentally try to save her . . ."
"Mentally?" Spinel cocked his head, "As in you using what little brain you have?"
Kero-ette sniggered as Kero agreed and then thought about it, "HEY!!"
"Sakura-chan!! Tomoyo-chan!!"
Meilin turned in the field, cupping her hands over her mouth, "Sakura-chaaaaan!! Tomoyo-chaaaaan!! Where are you?!" She sighed, "Why me? What did I do?" She sighed and sat down in the middle of the field, "Now what? Mockery will miss me . . . and my family, and my friends and my cards . . ." She gasped, "My cards!"
Stuffing a hand into her pockets, Meilin pulled out the Whoops cards, "Excellent!" She crowed as she pulled out her key. "Well . . . I'm not the card mistress for nothing . . ." She held out her hand, and concentrated on the small lotus petal shaped key, "Oh, power of the Lotus . . . Now Answer Us . . ."
The Music card shook itself awake and started to hum gently, as Meilin's new and improved magic circle began to appear under her feet, Meilin smiled encouraged by this development.
"Give me the Staff of The Magical . . ."
The key began to turn and grow; taking on a blood red handle and the lotus petal became a full flower. Meilin held her hands open, and whipped her arms forward; she squinted slightly as she yelled above the supernatural maelstrom.
"Let's do something supernatural!! Release and displace!!"
Crimson red pulses of magic throbbed slightly as the key completed the spell. Meilin grinned happily as she grabbed the new staff and pulled out a card, "What If card . . ." The music card started to pump up the volume as Meilin threw the card above her head and struck it, "What if I was out of Wonderland!!"
The strangely Windy-like spirit of the What If card flumed out of it's mistake's confine and wrapped itself around Meilin . . . only to disappear again, the Music card cut out like a needle being torn off a record.
"Ah, ah, ah!!"
The irritating voice of Eriol Mark Two floated sing-songly across the air, and Meilin looked up to see the boy sitting on a branch swing his purple clad legs languorously. The long haired boy smiled at her as he straightened the giant yellow bow tie he had, he was dressed in something similar to the costume that Tomoyo had designed for him, except now he had sparkly purple ears and his deep purple suit had sparkly bits on it. Meilin sighed, "Why are you here?"
"This is Wonderland . . . can't have a Wonderland without a Cheshire Cat now, can we Alice?"
"My name's not Alice!" Snapped Meilin, "Now . . . why don't my cards work?"
"Because!" Eriol Mark Two chirped happily.
Meilin waited for the rest of the answer as the boy sat there humming to himself happily, Meilin growled, "Okay . . . fine . . . how do I get out of here . . ."
"Simply go to 'there' and then you will no longer be 'here'." He beamed happily to her, "It's all very simple when you think about things logically."
"But that's not . . ." Meilin took a deep breathe, and calmed herself, "Why are you doing this to me then?"
"Because . . . I feel like it, and when I feel like it, I would rather much like to do 'it' rather then 'that'."
The black haired girl started to shake her fist, "I wish . . ."
"You'll make many wishes."
Meilin blinked and glanced up as Eriol Mark Two's voice suddenly deepened. He stared at her with all seriousness, "And some of them won't come true unless you believe your heart . . ." he grinned suddenly, "But there I go telling you this rather than that . . . it's time that I went there rather than here . . ."
"Wait!" Meilin gasped, "Wait!! What did you mean?!"
"Twinkle, Twinkle, little bat . . ." Eriol Mark Two started to fade away, he grinned manically, "How I wonder where you're at! He pointed at the sky and winked broadly at the confused girl, "Up above the world you fly, Like a tea tray in the sky . . ."
Meilin gawked at the boy as he faded all except for his grin. Meilin sighed as that too soon faded. "Like a tea tray in the sky . . ." she muttered irritably. "What does he mean? Why does this have to happen to me? Why is Clow such an idiot?!"
"Oh my, we're going to be late!" Twin voices chimed together as Yukito and Yukito-Bella came jogging up along the path, Meilin blinked and ran up to them.
"You're trapped here too?!" She asked the two snow rabbits quickly, they looked very cute in their identical waiter's uniforms. Meilin blinked, "Wait . . . if I'm stuck in Wonderland then you two are the white rabbits right?"
"No . . ." the two twins shook their heads, "We're playboy bunnies at the Queen of Hearts' Club . . ."
Meilin felt a nerve in her eye twitch, "Playboy bunnies?"
The two nodded enthusiastically, "And we're twins so that makes it even better!"
"But aren't playboy bunnies supposed to be female?" Meilin eyed Yukito sceptically, but Yukito started to wave his hand dismissively.
"That's an urban myth! Besides . . . I look good in a corset and suspenders!!"
Meilin raised an eyebrow and folded her arms, "I think I pass judgement on that one . . ." she sighed and looked around ". . . I guess the Queen of Hearts' club is a good a place as any . . . how do I get there?"
"We can take you . . ." Meilin blinked and snapped her attention back to the two playboy bunnies, Yue and Yue-Bella now stood there impassively dressed in their playboy bunnies costumes. Yue-Bella raised an eyebrow and glanced at her brother, "Clow was an idiot . . . and a pervert . . ."
"I was not!!" Eriol and Eriol Mark Two's voice echoed around them.
The two moon guardians rolled their eyes and glanced at Meilin, "Well?" They held out their arms, "We'll take you to the Club . . ."
"What's the catch?" Meilin asked suspiciously, as the two moon guardians started to grin eerily. Yue and Yue-Bella aren't this nice and helpful if they can help it . . .
"There's not a catch . . ." Yue grinned, "Nothing except . . ." he trailed off and glanced about innocently, before coughing, "Thatwegettodropyoufromareallyreallyreallyhighplaceohsayabouttwothousandfeetabovetheearthforseeminglynoreasonatall."
"What was that?" Meilin put her hands on her hips, having only caught 'drop', 'really high' and 'above the earth'. Yue started to whistle, and Yue-Bella smiled, waving her hands, "Oh, nothing, nothing!!"
Meilin frowned, and shook her head, "I think I'll pass on the ride . . ." she sighed and looked around, the vast meadow was huge! "Can't you just tell me where to . . ." Meilin trailed off as she realised the moon guardians had disappeared. "Crap . . ." Meilin sighed again, "Well . . . what's next . . .?"
Meanwhile . . .
Nukara blinked stupidly.
Veeeery stupidly.
"What happened to my star?!" He wailed into Eriol Mark Two's ear. Eriol Mark Two glanced up from his evil game of evil solitaire . . . like solitaire only evil and sinister in a way that couldn't be described . . . he sighed for the fifth time, "I trapped her in a fantastical spell, that's unbreakable by her puny little friends, to teach her a vital lesson about . . ." he waved his hand absently, "Yadda, yadda, yadda, love, compassion, peace, blah, blah, blah, vital for the survival of mankind . . . you know how the story goes, right?"
"I think so Master . . ." Nukara pressed a finger against his bottom lip and thought hard for a moment or two, "But wouldn't it be awfully hard to teach her that elephants and mice are not a good set of companion drivers on long haul drives in a mini?"
Eriol Mark Two pressed the heel of his hand against his forehead as if feeling a terrible pain there. "How many more times do I need to tell you . . . plagiarism sucks, cut it out Pinky-uh, I mean Nukara!!"
Elsewhere . . .
Syaotang gazed at the spot morosely where Meilin disappeared . . . a rather dirty looking manhole cover . . .
"Are you sure she didn't just fall down the manhole?" He asked Sakura quietly, he and Syaoran had been trying to pry the cover up for the last hour or so with their swords but every time some one came along they had to hide their swords . . . and let me tell you one thing, hiding a three foot ancient steel sword which incidentally require a hellva lotta respect because it's the family's most treasured and oldest item . . . or in the case of Syaotang, bought cheap at a yard sale in Readingtown . . . is not an easy task. Eventually Tomoyo, brainy girl that she was just started telling everyone that they were making a few additions to the two Li's costumes and that Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum now had big ancient swords because . . . because . . .
Ahem, elsewhere . . .
"Mentally we failed . . . But that's the beauty of mental rescue attempts . . . you can keep trying as many times as it takes . . ." Kero supped at his cocktail and sighed as the sun beat down on the three sun guardians. Kero-ette was stretched out happily, and Spinel hummed a happy response to Kero's theory. The small golden teddy bear like guardian chuckled as he supped his cocktail again.
"Yes, indeedy . . . don't worry Meilin . . . we're a-comin' for ya darlin'!!"
Back in Wonderland . . .
"No room!!"
"There's *plenty* of room!" Meilin growled as she sat down very primly on a high padded chair, she glared at Eriol . . . who was now the Just On The Other Side Of The Fine Line Hatter, at Spinel Sun who was the March Hare, and some random dormouse who was dozing in between them. She pointed at the tremendously long table and all the chairs that were propped all around it. Some of them fairly familiar, especially the one that looked like Clow Reed's favourite chair. Meilin rolled her eyes as Eriol sat back in it and arched his fingers; trying to ignore the fact his frown was causing his spectacles to fall off.
"Here, as I'm very nice indeed . . ." Meilin sneezed slightly as the April Spinel thrust a pot of tea in front of her nose, "Have some Orange Juice and Vodka!"
Meilin frowned at him, she looked at the teapot, and then at the rest of the table, "Much as I'd like to drown my sorrows right now . . . there isn't any OJ and Vodka on the table!"
The May Spinel hiccupped and grinned fuzzily, "There isn't any . . ."
"Then why bother offering me some?! That wasn't very nice of you at all!!" Meilin demanded angrily. The June Spinel grinned again, as Eriol . . . the Not So Sane Hatter . . . pulled the absolutely massive hat off his head and gingerly balanced it so his ears kept it from falling over his eyes again. Unfortunately for the Little Less Than All There Hatter, this had the adverse effect of making his glasses exceedingly loose. As he pushed up his wire-rimmed glasses, he muttered, "It wasn't very nice of you to come and crowd our poor little table!"
"Well!" Meilin huffed, "I know but . . ."
"Yesssss?!" The Just Short Of A Few Cards Hatter and the July Spinel leant forward and inquired quite curiously.
"But . . . I just want to know how to get to the Queen Of Hearts' Club . . ."
"Well . . ." The Picnic Short Of A Ham Sandwich Hatter stood and raised his finger. Meilin stared at him waiting for him to continue, the August Spinel started to nod as if The Loopier Than A Rollercoaster Hatter was making some very profound statements.
And then just as he stood, The Wick Short of A Church Candle Hatter sat quite primly, and picked up at steaming teapot.
"Well?"
"Well what?!" Asked the Nuttier Than Fruit Loops Hatter, his glasses slipping down his nose again, he pour a cup of tea for himself, "Weren't you listening?" He pour a cup of tea for the September Spinel, "I was speaking quite loud, you know. . ." He pour a cup of tea for Meilin, who was becoming thoroughly confused, "Just because old September—"
"We're up to October now." Spinel quickly injected.
"Old November Spinel here is quite deaf . . ." Without so much as a pause; The Rabbit Short Of A Magic Trick Hatter began to pour tea on the top of the dozing dormouse's head!
"What's that you say?" December Spinel asked, cupping his paw up to his ear and leaning closer to The Round The Bend Hatter.
Meilin stood, and stalked off knowing quite well that she would get no straight answers from The Mad Hatter and The Decemb—
"Up to January!!" Spinel hollered after Meilin as she grumbled to herself.
--The February Spinel . . .
Meilin continued to walk; until she found herself standing on a staircase . . . she looked around, and found herself standing on the left side of the floor, just upside down from the sky.
"#I gave up everything for you . . .#" a beautiful, but also manly voice sang in declaration, "#and look how you repay me . . . you are the only one . . . I'd take the sky down for . . .#"
Meilin turned and stared with shock at the white haired Goblin King, his one green eye and his one blue eye blinked rapidly, "What the--?!" He frowned, "You're not Sarah!!"
"I know I'm not Sarah!" Meilin snapped, "I'm not Alice either . . ."
"Alice?!" The Goblin King wrinkled his nose, and folded his arms, "Who the feck is Alice?"
"I don't know, all I want to know is how I can get to the Queen Of Hearts' Club . . ." Meilin sighed and sat down.
The Goblin King chuckled, "Oh good luck . . ." he purred, his soft chuckle making Meilin look up at him, "Because nobody ever tells anyone the right way in the Labyrn—" he cut off suddenly and slapped his forehead, "uh . . . I mean Wonderland . . ."
Meilin sighed and glanced down, "Can't you tell me the right way?" When she didn't get any answer, Meilin looked up and gasped as a pure white barn owl dives towards her. She scowled as she realised that the Goblin King was gone, and the owl was flying off into the distance singing, "Dance, magic dance!!" Quietly under it's breath.
"Great . . ." muttered Meilin, she got up and walked around for a bit, "Onwards I guess . . ."
"Okay, okay . . . so . . ." Kero cracked an eye open, and glared at Spinel who shrugged, "So that attempt failed . . ."
Kero-ette frowned deeply, and growled at Spinel, "You were only meant to blow the bloody doors off . . ."
As Spinel and Kero-ette muttered about what had gone wrong with their last mental attempt to save Meilin, Kero looked out across the streets, "Well . . . let's give it another try, shall we?"
[Cardcaptor Meilin – Eye catch!!]
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Big Narrator Type Guy: This Fanfic on FF.net . . .
Whatever comes . . .
Meilin: [Quietly] If I can only wish one last wish . . .
Promise me.
Eriol Mark Two: Sometimes you gotta give some tough love . . .
We'll face it, together an' then go for ice-cream!
Meilin: [Quietly] If I can only give one last gift . . .
Oh, Come with me,
Trust in me,
Yue-Bella: I trust you always . . . I love you . . .
What have we got to lose? Oh, what the hell!
Come on, let's go!
Meilin: [Quietly] If I can dream one last dream . . .
Come on! With me . . .
Kero-ette: we're on your side, never forget that . . .
B.N.T.G: One New Cardcaptor . . . One Last Series . . . One More Bout Of Insanity . . .
Come on! With me . . .
Cardcaptor Meilin!
Meilin: [lifts tear-filled eyes] . . . I'd do it for you . . .
Cardcaptor Meilin: Series Zero.Three – One last time . . .
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[Cardcaptor Meilin – Eye catch!!]
Now about three inches high due to a freak card stampede, and perched upon a very tall lotus flower, Meilin folded her arms against, and sighed.
"Aw, hell no."
Looming before her was Tweedle Wolf, and Tweedle Tango. The two Li's stared at her with a trace of menace in their gazes, and yelled at her. "HELLO!! WE'RE NOT ON A TRAIN!!"
"I can see that . . ." Meilin sighed again, "okay . . . what do you want?"
"WE'VE COME TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS THREE . . . WE'LL TELL YOU THE WAY IF YOU CAN ANSWER ME!!"
"Okay, then . . ." she rubbed her hands together and nodded, "I'll take you on then!!"
The two Tweedle Li's glanced at each other and folded their arms, they were dressed in their uniforms, Meilin found herself grinding her teeth in an effort not to rip apart the awful orange robes of Syaotang which remained in complete opposite to Syaoran traditional green robes. "THE FIRST QUESTION . . . WHICH COMES FIRST AND NOT SECOND, AND NOT THIRD BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE SILLY . . ." the two glared at her, as Syaoran spoke first, "THERE IS SOMEONE I LOVE!"
Meilin nodded, as Syaotang spoke, "THERE IS SOMEONE I LOVE TOO!!"
The black haired card mistress blinked, "Where's the question in that?"
"THERE WASN'T ONE . . . HERE'S THE QUESTION!!" They both took a deep breath, Syaoran once again the first to speak, "SHE KNOWS I LOVE HER . . ."
". . . BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW I LOVE HER!!" Syaotang yelled back. The two turned their attention back to Meilin and yelled loudly, "IS THIS TRUE?!"
Meilin winced, but her nimble mind started turning, "Well . . ." Meilin thought instantly of Syaotang's response to Yuki-Bella, but then thought about the fact that both of the Tweedle Li's were Syaotang and Syaoran . . . which could mean, she closed her eyes and nodded to herself, "Erm . . . yes, this is true?"
"CORRECT!!"
Meilin breathe a sigh of relief and looked up again, as the two Li's glanced at each other. Syaoran again the first to speak, "I TOLD HER SO . . ."
". . . I HAVEN'T TOLD HER SO!!" Syaotang finished, they folded their arms again and stared at her, "IS THIS TRUE?!"
Reaching the same conclusion as before, Meilin nodded more confidently, "Yes, this is true!"
"FINAL QUESTION!!" Roared the two, "SHE IS SHORTER THAN ME!!" Announced Syaoran, as Syaotang roared just as loudly, "SHE IS SHORTER THAN ME!! IS THIS TRUE?!"
Meilin blinked as this threw her thinking for a loop, while Sakura remained short than Syaoran, that part of the statement was true but Yuki-Bella was taller than Syaotang . . . she frowned, did this mean that Syaotang wasn't in love with Yukito-Bella? But then . . . who could he be in love with?!
"Erm . . . this is false?"
"BLAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" The two Tweedles stuck their tongues out at her, and put their hands on their hips, "WRONG!!"
Meilin sighed and, just like everyone in this, she blinked and they were gone.
"Okay . . . let me get this straight . . ." Nukara said slowly so not to loose the tread of precious thought he was now grasping onto. "We are . . ."
"The bad guys . . ." Eriol Mark Two glanced up from his evil book, and nodded slowly.
"And they are . . ."
"The good guys . . ." Eriol Mark Two turned an evil page in his evil book. Nukara was making good progress . . . well, for a moon guardian with the intellect of a glass of water . . . which interestingly was an I.Q of 7.
"And we want to . . ." Nukara paused slowly and made a motion with his hand to tell Eriol Mark Two that he didn't want help with this one, "We want to make sure . . . that . . ."
Eriol Mark Two slid a decidedly evil looking S Club Seven bookmark into his evil book, to make sure he didn't loose his evil page. He folded his evil hands in his evil lap and looked at his evil moon guardian evil—uh, I mean encouragingly.
Meanwhile. . . where the Moon Guardians' I.Q were just the combined I.Q of Steven Hawking, Einstein and Data from Star Trek.
Casually leaning against the balcony's railing, Yuki-Bella yawned quietly. . . Yukito caught the yawn off her, and also yawned quietly, Touya also began to yawn and was quickly followed by Nakuru. Yuki-Bella grinned softly, "Sorry . . . I'm just a little tired . . . guess I didn't get much sleep last night . . ."
All eyes turned to Nakuru who pouted and folded her arms, "much as I'd like to take credit . . ." she sighed, and turned to Yukito-Bella, "are you sure that you're okay?"
"I'm fine, I'm fine . . ." Yuki-Bella waved her hand slightly, "I just need a couple of days rest and then I'll be happy and as bouncy as the day I was born . . ."
"I hope so . . ." Nakuru sighed, "I just don't like the idea of having to go all mushy on you . . . particually if you choose a fairly random moment to fall off the—" Touya cleared his throat, and nodded his head in the direction of the balcony railing. Nakuru sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, "She's gone, isn't she?"
Yukito and Touya nodded slowly.
Nakuru sighed again, and drew a deep breath.
"YUUUUUUUUUKIIIIIIII-BEEELLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAA!!!"
Eriol Mark Two glanced up in amusement as Nakuru screamed the name of her girlfriend.
"I'm so evil . . ." he murmured, as he looked out his window, the pale legs of Yukito-Bella dangled, swinging gently side to side. Eriol Mark Two smirked, "I love me . . . no, really . . ." he held up his hand, and magically appear a small hand puppet of himself, "I'm not just saying that 'cause I think you are da bomb, I'm sayin' it cause I really do love me . . ."
The hand puppet blushed and tried to hide his face.
As Eriol Mark Two cooed sweet loving to this tiny little cloth thingy, Nukara blinked and looked at the flash cards Eriol Mark Two had given him, "Okay . . . so . . . one more time . . . we're the bad guys . . . and they are the good guys and we're trying to . . ."
On The Flipside . . .
Meilin rubbed her temples, "This is getting stupider and stupider . . ."
Before her, several signs pointed to 'Here', 'There', 'Everywhere', 'Certain Death' and of course, the classic 'You Are HERE' – an arrow pointing at two foot prints on the ground. Meilin sighed and looked around, "Is there no end in sight . . .?"
The black haired girl blinked as a strange creaking sound suddenly occur. She glanced up at the sign, which now had an addition, a sign that now pointed to 'The End'.
"Funny . . . hilarious Eriol Mark Two . . ." She sighed and glanced about, "well . . ." the girl made as if she was rolling up her sleeves, and nodded resolutely to herself. "Okay . . . I want to go to the Queen of Hearts' Club . . ."
The creaking noise sounded again, and Meilin glanced up to see the sign now displaying yet another branch of direction. Meilin grinned and nodded, "And since no one ever tells you the right way . . . I shall go the very opposite of that direction . . ." she saluted the sign, "Thanks chump!"
"YUUUUUUKIII-BELLLA!! WAKE UP!! PLEASE!! YOU GOTTA WAKE UP!!!"
Nakuru screamed frantically, as Yukito, Touya and she tried to help the very unconscious Yukito-Bella up. The snow rabbit-Bella was completely out of it, and her delicate little hand was slipping, slipping, SLIPPING out of their reach. . .
"It's not that far to the ground . . ." grunted Touya, his dark blue eyes squinted shut, "I say we . . . let her fall . . ."
"WHAT?!" Cried Nakuru, "We can't!!" she lifted her foot to brace it against the railing, "We'll have to pull her up!!"
"Are you kidding . . ." groused Touya, as he broke out into a sweat, "She weighs a *ton*!!"
"Well . . ." Nakuru muttered, "She *does* eat the same as Yukito . . ."
Yukito sighed wearily as he tried to tighten his grip on his sister's hand, "Again . . . what can we say? We're growing false forms of two moon guardians that simply don't eat . . . can you blame us?"
"YES!!"
As Meilin walked along the yellow tiled road, she thought about what she had been experiencing lately. "So . . ." she sighed and folded her arms around the back of her head as she gazed thoughtfully at the sky, "Syaotang is in love with someone who isn't taller than him . . ."
The clouds above rolled past merrily, gleefully and in perfect shapes.
Meilin sighed again, "I wish I could find out who . . ." she smiled slightly, "of course . . . it would be nice if it was me . . . I mean that would be just a perfect sweet happy ending to this sorry excuse for a fanfic—"
"Hoooeeeeeee!!"
A piercing shriek caught Meilin's attention. She spun to find herself staring face to face with Sakura. An . . . upside down Sakura-chan . . . hanging from what appeared to be a bright pink hovering chair . . .
"Sakura-chan?!"
"Uh . . . no . . ." Tomoyo's calm, and prim voice corrected, "We're Humpty . . ."
"And Dumpty . . ." Sakura gulped awkwardly as she tried valiantly waved her arms in a vain attempt to right herself. Meilin smiled slightly as she gave Sakura, uh, *Dumpty* a helpful shove the right way up. The girl spun, but was turned up right, she gave Meilin a thankful smile as she wobbled slightly. "Arigato . . ."
Meilin waved her hand, "Never mind . . . anyway . . ." she turned away from Sakura and glanced up at Tomoyo, who was floating in a nice purple hovering seat, "I'm pleased to meet you . . ."
"As much as it is impolite as me to say such a thing, erm . . ." Tomoyo frowned slightly, "I guess it's you're the reason I couldn't wear the same costume as before, eh?"
Meilin blinked, "Me?"
"I wanted to wear nice pale yellows but no, no, no . . . *You* had to wear yellow . . ." Tomoyo, uh, Humpty pressed a gloved hand against her pale cheek, "My, whatever will be next?"
"Uh . . . actually . . ." Meilin decided that a swift change of subject was needed, "I was wondering if you could tell me how to get to the Queen Of Hearts' Club?"
"Why?" Sakura-Dumpty inquiered as she fell upside down again.
"Because I want to go there." Meilin breathed deeply so she could keep her temper. The two girls on hovering egg seats exchanged a puzzled look.
"There?" Tomoyo-Humpty asked, her voice taking on a very posh accent, "Why one earth would you want to go *there*, when you are already *here*?!"
Meilin's head started to hurt, as she explianted, "I want to go to The Queen Of Heart Club, because in the story, that's what Alice does, she goes to the Queen of Heart. . ."
"Who on earth is *Alice*?!"Sakura questioned, "And why would Alice want to see The Queen Of Hearts . . . after all, everyone knows that nobody wants to see the Queen Of Hearts, and the Queen of Hearts wants to see everyone!"
"What does that mean?" Pondered Meilin aloud to herself, "Does that mean the Queen of Hearts is a bad woman?"
She looked up in time to catch a look of pure horror on the faces of Sakura and Tomoyo, and blinked. She turned and came face to face with one very tall, one very badly dressed, one very angry Queen of Hearts. Meilin swallowed, and smiled hesitantly, "I suppose you are the Queen Of Hearts?"
Ruby Moon, the Queen Of Hearts, was dressed in a tight wine red bodice, a flowing black and red skirt, and a high frilly lace collar, the woman growled menacingly, "I am not a bad woman . . ." she hissed into Meilin's face, and waved a black and red butterfly wing-shaped fan in front of her, "I am the Queen of Hearts . . . and *you* are standing in the middle of my Club!!"
"I can't take much more of this!!" Touya grunted, and he tightened his grip on Yuki-Bella's ankle, "She's slipping!!"
Yukito craned his neck and looked around, "There's only one thing for it!" He and Nakuru let go of Yuki-Bella and stepped back.
"Hey!!" Touya protested as he was suddenly almost dragged over with the unconscious moon guardian, "Get back here!!"
There was a flash of bright light and Yue and Ruby Moon dashed over the side, grabbing both of Yuki-Bella's arms and pulling her over railing to safety.
"Oh MY GAAAAAAWDDDDD!!!" Shrieked a hapless camera girl, as half the film class watched the moon angel and the butterfly girl save Yuki-Bella from certain grassy doom. Touya grabbed Yuki-Bella's arm and started to help her out of the room, he smiled slightly as he nodded to all the other students. The class were fixated on the two winged creatures that Nakuru and Yukito had morphed into, Ruby smiled uncertainly, and fluttered her wings slightly, Yue folded his arms and glared at anyone who looked remotely like they were going to reach out and touch his gossamer, silken hair. "Okay . . ." Ruby held up a hand, "I know what this looks like. . ."
Yue scoffed.
"And I know some of you might feel a little disturbed by our true nature. . ."
Yue snorted.
"But let me assure you that even though we have changed our appearance we, that is Yukito and Nakuru are still okay, we're just them only magical and capable of flight and, while that might seem like a frightening thought, we aren't going to hurt you. . ."
Yue muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, 'Much'.
"And there will be no need or call for witch hunting. . ."
Yue rolled his eyes.
"Or to involve the mass media. . ."
Yue readed into the folds of his shawl thingy and pulled out a thin silver tube and two sets of sunglasses.
"So nobody go call the army or anything stupid like that. . ."
Yue put on one pair of the glasses and slipped the other on Ruby's nose.
"Okay? So what I want you to do is look at Mister Black. . ."
Yue raise an eyebrow.
"And wait as he . . . takes you picture. . ."
Yue twiddled some dials, and then pressed a button. A bright beam of light filled the room, and the students all stared gormlessly at the two. Ruby sighed, and Yue began to talk, "Okay . . . you will forget everything you've seen here, there were no transformations, all that happened was that while you were working on your project, Yukito-Bella tripped and fell out the window, she had a nasty fall but there was no need to call for help, she's resting in the master bedroom, and you will continue your project, working hard, and studying for your finals."
Ruby sighed as they walked out the room, and tossed over her should, "Also remember to get Nakuru a bagel when she returns, preferable chocolate bagel!"
Yue rolled his eyes, "What are you like?"
"Don't tell me you've never taken advantage of the flashy thingy?"
"No. . . it would dishonourable!" Yue growled, then he caught a quick flash of amusement on Ruby's lips, "Why have you . . ." he frowned, "Have you ever flashy thingy me and made me do something?"
"No . . ." Ruby drew the syllable out overly innocently, "Never . . ."
Yue growled and grabbed her arm, "Have you ever flashy thingy-ed me?!" As Ruby began to chuckle, Yue demanded, "What in the seven circles of Clow did you do to me, Ruberta Moon?!"
"Hey!" Ruby started, "How'd you know my real name?!"
Yue cocked an eyebrow, and smirked, "Have you . . ." he began slowly and maliciously, "Ever . . . flashy thingy me . . . and made me . . . do anything?"
"Ooooh. . . we were so close!"
Kero whined as their latest mental rescue failed, "So very close . . . it's a pity we got knocked back just at that last second!"
"Yeah . . ." Kero-ette sipped her cocktail and opened an eye, it was coming to sunset now, "figure we should give it a try in the real world?"
"I dunno . . ." Suppi hiccupped, "Would we make it there in time?"
Kero-ette growled and turned on her brother, "How much sugar did you spike his drink with?!"
"Oh. . ." Kero grinned, as he settled back, "It might have been a grain or two or. . ."
Kero-ette sighed and eased Suppi back into his chair, "Or?"
"A kilogram or two . . ."
"OFF WITH HER HEAD!!"
Meilin blinked for a second as The Queen of hearts bellowed in her face. She spun as another voice sounded in agreement, and then off with her hands!! Yue, the King of Diamonds, frowned down at her coldly. Meilin now found herself on a massive . . . snakes and ladders board!!
"What did I do?!" Meilin spun to find Yue-Bella glaring down at her, as the Queen of Clubs.
"Do?!" The Queen of Clubs shook her head, "What didn't you do, child?! That's the Question!"
"What question?!" Meilin blinked, suddenly frightened, the guardians never looked friendly, but at least none of them had looked like they really wanted to detach her head from her body. "What are you talking about?"
"The question, the question! Everyone knows the question!!" A fourth guardian walked up and yelled, he looked just like Ruby Moon only with Yue's clothes in Ruby's colours. Meilin frowned, she'd never seen him before.
"Who are you?!"
"I . . ." the male Ruby Moon jutted out his chin proudly, "I am. . ."
His voice got lost as all the people Meilin had met suddenly appeared in circle all around her, asking her questions upon questions, "SHE IS SHORTER THAN ME!! IS THIS – Would you like OJ an—Why would you want to go 'there' rather than stayi---" Meilin grabbed her ears and screamed quietly, they were starting to over whelm her, what could she do?!
The poor girl looked up, and saw . . . of all things . . . a tea-tray floating in the sky . . .
"Twinkle, Twinkle . . ." Eriol Mark Two's voice started to float more clearly above the others' voices, "Little Bat . . . oh, how I wonder . . ." Meilin winced as Tweedle Wolf and Tweedle Tango started to bellow at her, their faces becoming quite red. Meilin shook her head, if she stayed any longer . . . the girl grabbed her key and scrambled away from them, pushing as hard as she could. The Music card span out and flew just ahead of her, loudly sing the magic girl tune and adding to the cacophony. "Power of the Lotus!!" Meilin hollered as loudly as she could, "Now Answer Us!!" She threw the key out on it's chain, and span it quickly, "Release and Displace!!" The staff appeared, and Meilin swirled it once around her wrist. She pulled out the Butterfly card and threw it ahead of her, striking it as hard as she could. "BUTTERFLY CARD!!" She screamed as the mad, mad crowd behind her gave chase, "FLY ME OUTTA HERE!!"
Syaotang sighed in defeat.
Sakura watched Syaotang sigh and bit her light pink lip in despair.
Tomoyo filmed Sakura watching Syaotang sighing and biting her lip in desolation.
Syaoran rolled his eyes at Tomoyo filming Sakura watching Syaotang sighing and biting her lip in depression.
Eriol grinned happily and set down a tea tray.
The four looked at him and frowned, "Why are you happy?" Syaotang growled darkly. Eriol smiled and shook his head.
"Don't worry so much . . . Sakura came out of this just fine and so will Meilin . . . not only that but this is the work of a defective Clow Reed reincarnation's impersonator. . ." he nodded with all sureness to himself, "And besides . . . Eriol Markus could never out do me . . ."
"I could . . ." the five jumped, at the mellow voice of Eriol Mark Two. The blue haired boy – Eriol Mark Two that is – grinned slightly, "If I was Clow Reed's reincarnation . . . which I'm not . . ."
As he turned and walked away, Eriol stood and clenched his fists, "How in the hell does he do that?!"
Syaotang rolled his eyes, "Boy is creepier than Carho . . ."
Eriol pouted and sank to the ground, "I hate him . . ."
"We know, Eriol . . ." Tomoyo murmured soothingly, "You told us about an hour ago . . ."
"That long ago?" Eriol smirked angrily, "Well, let me reassure you about my feelings for him . . . I HATE HIM!!"
Yuki-Bella opened her eyes slowly, and smiled as Ruby Moon's face swam into blurredness.
"Can I have my glasses . . .?" Yuki-Bella asked quietly, "I kinda can't see a thing . . ."
Ruby Moon's expression twisted into . . . Yukito-Bella shrugged, an expression she couldn't make out and waited patiently for her glasses to be pressed into her hand. Touya – a dark blur – and Yue – a white blur with smudgings of Blue – hovered in the doorway. She smiled at them, "What happened?"
"You fell over the railing . . ." Ruby murmured quietly, as she slipped Yuki-Bella's glasses on her face. Now Yuki-Bella could see the hurt, worried look Ruby was sporting. The snow-rabbit-Bella smiled slightly, "I must have slipped . . ."
"Nuh-uh . . ." Ruby shook her head, her dark pink bangs swishing quietly. "After Bunny boy over there –" she jerked her thumb over at Yue, who had the good grace to shift his eyes elsewhere "-decided to fall head over heels in love with the ground, I put down that grippy stuff that they put on roads . . . you didn't slip . . ."
Yuki-Bella pressed a hand against Ruby's cheek, "I'm okay now . . ."
"You're losing magic . . . and you know it . . ."
"But it's just because Meilin can't handle us right now . . . you know that . . . it happened with them over there . . . now it's happening here . . ."
"But this time there's no 'Touya' for you . . ." Ruby balled up her fists, and growled. Yuki-Bella glanced up as she heard the door slide shut quietly, mentally thanking Touya and Yue for their good grace, she turned her attention back on Ruby, "Everything will be okay."
"I just can't help you . . ." Ruby bowed her head so that her dark pink hair obscured her features. She couldn't see as a light purple light filled the room, and she felt a wing wrap around her shoulders. Ruby looked up as Yue-Bella slipped from the bed and knelt before her. The light purple cat-like eyes were warm as Yue-Bella's cool voice murmured soothing noises. "Everything will be okay, Ruby . . . everything will be absolutely okay. . ."
The two held each other, unaware of the presence of one evil little magical git with blue hair and glasses.
"Yes indeed . . ." Eriol Mark Two chuckled quietly to himself, "Everything will be absolutely fine and dandy . . . for *me* . . ."
"I still hate him."
Eriol growled to his two favourite reincarnations as they sat in a tree above the girls. The afternoon was wearing on, and nobody seemed very concerned about the fact that Meilin had disappeared, that Yuki-Bella had fainted, that Nukara was a complete dimwit. Syaotang sighed and looked out, he wished he could do more to help Meilin . . . but they were running out of options. He snorted at that idea, they HAD run out of options. A quiet chuckle from below them made him looked down. He tensed as he met grey-lavender eyes coolly staring up at him. Syaoran tensed, and Eriol glared at Eriol Mark Two, his own lavender-grey eyes narrowing.
"How you doin'?" Eriol Mark Two's voice floated up to them as he stared up at them. He chuckled again, "Come now . . . you always look at me with such an expression . . . like I'm going to make you fall out of the tree. . ."
"But you are!" Syaotang growled, "And that's why we took precautions!!" He tugged at the rope they had used to tie themselves to the tree with. "We know what Eriol did, and we know what you're going to do!!"
Eriol Mark Two looked faintly displeased, "Well . . . that's just mean of you!" He folded his arms and glared at them, "In fact that's just spoiled my entire day. . ."
Eriol sniggered, "Good!"
"Unless . . ." Eriol Mark two grinned lazily, and stroked his chin thoughtfully.
"Oh no . . ." Syaoran protested, "There's no 'Unless'!!"
"Unless . . ." Eriol mark Two slapped his forehead, "Of course . . . why would I think of something so terrible mundane!!" He grinned at them, and raised his hand. The three boys exchanged a suspicious look, and then glared at Eriol Mark Two. The evil little rogue smirked up at them, "This is such a better idea . . . please concentrate . . . you're about to be a part of greatness at work . . ." and with that, he gave them a camp little wave . . .
For a few moments, nothing happened.
Eriol Mark Two smirked and swung his hands behind his back. Syaotang frowned and resisted the urge to untie his rope to jump down and throttle the man, Syaoran avoided making eye contact, and tried not to catch any of Eriol Mark Two's flirtatious winks. "I was a git in my past life," Eriol's left eye began to twitch as he realised what had happened, "I am a git in this life . . . and . . ." he tipped his head back and roared, "I AM A GIT REBORN!!!"
Right at the top of the tree, a cute, really cute little robin decided to peach on the very top branch . . . this minor disturbance in the force made a tiny little wobble. There was a loud creak, and a huge crash as the tree simply uprooted, did a three point seven flip and fell over.
Eriol Mark Two raised his hand to salute his handy work, tears brimming, yes, *brimming* in his grey-lavender eyes, "I am a freaking comedian . . ." he murmured, his voice getting all choked up, "That was riotous . . ."
Meanwhile . . .
"Don't panic!! Don't panic!!"
Sakura and Tomoyo looked up as the three sun guardians came into land. Suppi looked a little worse for wear, and Kero-ette was now sporting a nice suntan, Kero grinned widely, "We've come to save Meilin now . . ."
"You took your time . . ." Sakura folded her arms, and squinted at her sun guardian, "Meilin fell in hours ago . . ."
"Weeellll . . ." Kero's eyes flickered to the side suspiciously, "We, uh, had too . . . uh, save . . . uh . . ."
Sakura was going to roll her eyes when Eriol's tea tray started to rattle, the pot and cup jangled slightly, as the entire thing started to glow. Sakura quickly called forward her staff and leapt to her feet, Kero-ette and the other guardians quickly turned into their fully forms and Yue and Touya came sprinting up, we sense magic!! Yue came to a halt and stared at the tea tray, he folded his arms, before tipping his head back and praying to the moon. Touya tried not to smirk as he caught snatches of, 'Why me? What did I do? A freaking tea tray, for Clow's sake . . . I'm Yue Moon guardian of the Clow, and what happen . . . a floating, glowing tea tray!!'
Syaotang and Syaoran panted slightly as they rounded the corner, with Eriol – who was still cursing Eriol Mark Two's name – in tow. "What's going on?!" Syaotang yelled, "My salad board's goin' crazy!!"
"See for yourself . . ." Yue pointed at the floating, glowing tea tray. All fell quiet as the half filled teacup started to rattle even more violently, and glow even brighter. There were gasps all around as Meilin ascended from the teacup like a yellow clad angel.
"Meilin!!" Yelled Sakura, "you're okay!!"
Meilin opened her eyes and sank to the ground . . . only to yelp and stumble into Syaotang's arms as she sat in some hot spilt tea. She scrunched up her eyes as she rubbed the cooling patch of tea, and buried her face in his chest. "Ouchies . . ."
Meanwhile, Syaotang was going bright . . . oh, how shall we say? Maroon? Yes, he was going bright maroon, his ears growing hotter and hotter, and then there was steam coming out of them . . .
Meilin sniffed and straightened slowly, she winced again, and glanced at him. Syaotang's face was a little red, and the steam was now slowing down. "Uh . . . thanks . . ."
"Don't mention it." Syaotang retorted stiffly, he blushed again, and smiled slightly as he looked away and asked softly, "Are you . . . you okay?"
Meilin blinked slightly, but smiled, "Yeah . . ." she reached up and curled an hand around her elbow, "One heck of a trippy trip though . . ." she smiled and chuckled, "Thought the Happy, and the Anti-Happy cards were bad . . ."
Syaotang glanced at her, she was so beautiful, the pale yellow complimenting her hair perfectly, and her shoulders were pale against the deep yellow of the sleeveless shirt she wore. Meilin looked at him, her eyes were soft as they latched onto a leaf in his hair, "What happened to you?"
"I was in a tree and then . . ." he sighed and lean forward to murmur, "And then tree fell over . . ."
"Don't you mean . . ." Meilin blinked, as she leant forward, "And then you fell out of the tree?"
Syaotang felt a soft smile of amusement tug at her lips, and felt . . . he didn't know what he felt, well, he did . . . he felt that it would be absolutely perfect if he could kiss her . . . if only . . . if only . . .
If only . . .
If only Sakura's camera was pressed right against her right cheek, and Syaoran wasn't growling threateningly in his left ear, and Clow Reed's aura wasn't suddenly making itself known.
Yue sighed, "Since my sister is currently not here . . ." he sighed and spun with half hearted surprise, "This aura!"
The group looked around as Clow's aura pulsed for a second and then disappeared.
Meanwhile . . .
Eriol Mark Two stared down at the small group and smiled indulgently.
"Hm."
He smirked and tossed his head slightly; the group spun and stared in that direction. He chuckled slightly and glanced in another direction. Spinellita sighed and glanced up at her master, "[racticing the ol' throwing your aura trick, master?"
"What can I say . . ." Eriol Mark Two grinned irritatingly, "I'm a man of many talents . . ."
"I think you should rest a little longer . . ."
Yuki-Bella smiled and pressed a hand against Nakuru's cheek, "I'm okay . . ."
Nakuru frowned slightly, and cupped her hand over Yuki-Bella's, "I don't like this . . . whatever is happening to you . . . I don't like it . . . I . . ." she frowned deeper, "You . . ."
"NAAAAAAAKKKKKKUUUUUUURRRRRUUUUUUU!!! WHEEEERRRRRRRRREEEEEEE ARRRRREEEEEE YOOOOOOOUUUUU?!"
Nukara's voice echoed around the courtyard, Yuki-Bella chuckled lightly as Nakuru's eyes widened in horror, "I think you should make a run for it before he finds you!!"
Nakuru bit her lip, "Only if you are okay . . ."
At Yuki-Bella's nod, the moon guardian's false form spun and made a get away. But . . . as Yuki-Bella turned to re-enter the building . . . both false forms missed the fact Yuki-Bella's hand flash in and out of reality for a second . . .
As Sakura and Tomoyo dragged Meilin away to check her health, and Eriol dragged Syaoran away for the sake of Syaotang's health, and Spinel, Kero and Kero-ette went to go eat something that was probably bad for their health, and Yue and Touya went off to do something that would keep thousands of fan-girls happy and healthy, Syaotang smiled slightly, his hand loosely clasped around the leaf that Meilin had pulled from his hair. He didn't even care that the Music card was faintly humming the season three theme tune softly.
He didn't know why . . .
He didn't know when . . .
He didn't even care how . . .
But he had made up his mind.
He was going to tell her . . . he was going to tell Meilin that . . . she had toilet paper trailing from her left shoe . . . his eyes flickered up from the annoying paper trail to the back of her silken black haired head.
And then he was going to tell her he loved her.
"A man . . ."
A nasty smirk spread over Eriol Mark Two's lips as he noticed Yuki-Bella's hand fade in and out.
"Yes, indeed . . . A man of many, many talents . . ."
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[Cue Brand Spanking New Ending Music – To The Ending Song 'Fruits Candy' with Yue-bella singing]
Now, Cardcaptor listen up,
You've got a fight before you,
But don't worry, you'll pull through,
Because . . .
You, me, Kero-ette. Simple.
Come on!
Let's go, Cardcaptor!
You're the Magic Girl, now, Meilin!
Come on! You'd better be ready, now!
Cardcaptor . . . Meilin!!
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And now it's time for Leave It To Kero-ette
Kero-ette: Moshi, moshi minna-chan!! It's autumn now, and everyone's going to school!! Wai!! I hope you'll keep trying your hardest, especially if you're starting at a new school . . . don't be scared or lonely 'cause you've got me and Meilin and Yue-Bella and of course everyone cheering you on!!
[Presses face against screen] Kero-ette-chan CHECK!! KEEP ON DANCING!!
Wai!! So much happened today . . . makes up for last episode for being so boring, eh? Cool, cool, cool!! How could you not enjoy . . . wait . . . how come I wasn't in today's story much?! Grrr . . . well, at least our leading, bright star, Meilin-chan was the star of the show, and didn't she keep on fighting!! That's our girl!!
[Sits behind low table, on pillow, and sips at cocktail] But what this I see? Sad, sad faces! No, don't be sad, because this isn't the end!! No!! Please R&R and come back for the next fun-fun part of Whoops, Didn't Mean To Do That!
[Waves] Hon na!!
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Preview
Meilin: I can't wait!! There's a fair coming to Tomoeda and there's going to be rides . . . I just hope the rain can stay away long enough!! What's this? Why is everyone so depressed!! It's going to be really romantic, I can tell . . . in fact . . . I'm going to tell Syaotang that I . . . I love him!!
Meilin and Syaotang's Unnecessarily Romantic Episode!!
Next time on 'Whoops! Didn't Mean To Do That!' Come with me, Cardcaptor Meilin!
Release!
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Movie Trailer
Big Narrator Type Guy: This Fanfic on FF.net . . .
The rain dripped off her nose, running into her tears. Her voice was a near whisper.
"If I could only wish one wish . . ."
{Insert Uplifting Movie Quality Music}
Meilin has to fight as Dark Forces draw near . . . or lose those whom she holds dear . . . Coming Soon To A Fanfic, [hopefully] Near You . . .
The Last Episode . . .
C A R D C A P T O R M E I L I N :
It's The Last Card, Meilin! Honestly!
"You're the only magic girl for the job, Meilin!"
