(1) Ok…here is the deal everyone, school has started again, so just be patient with my updates, k? smiles pleadingly at you (2) So how did you like the last chapter, All will Ally? I know it was short, but I really liked that chapter because it shows how serious the plot is, and that now signifies the end of serious writing at the beginning of FUN WRITING! (jumps up out of the computer chair and jumps around the room chanting "FunFunFunFunFun…") Anyway…my goal is to have lots of fun writing this next chapter, so I expect them to be at least a little funny! Keep checking back on that, k? (3) Remember I do not own Cardcaptor sakura, I only own my fictional characters/places and the plot line. (4) I need you readers & reviewers out there to tell me if you think I am on the right track! So here I am to say thank you to all of my wonderful reviewers…
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Meiling's Other Side
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Setting: Syaoran's room, at 12:00 in the morning, according to his new digital clock on the bedside table Syaoran is tossing and turning in bed, (as a wide awake and disgustingly ready for the day, Meiling) is shaking him roughly to wake him up at this unbelievably early hour in the morning.
"What…What…" Syaoran struggled (still asleep) to defend himself from Meiling as she tried to push him off the bed. Meiling frowned, and tried to avoid Syaoran's flailing arms, so she gave him a sharp jerk.
"WHAT!!!" Syaoran shouted.
He sat up in bed and looked at Meiling with a glassy/mad/what are you doing here, look. Then, gave her his special death glare as he let his eyes adjust to the inky darkness. He could barely see the dark shape near his bed that was his cousin Meiling.
"Shhhhhhhhhh!"Meiling hissed, as she gave Syaoran a single-minded look. "Be quiet or everyone will hear you!"
"Meiling…" he whispered furiously, "What are you doing here!" He looked at the clock face, which read 12:04 A.M. As the time seemed to dawn on him he made a noise of surprise and anger, and then gave Meiling a look of un-calmable-anger.
"Meiling! It's twelve o'clock in the morning!"
"I know that!" she hissed back at him defiantly while she looked sharply from left to right. She rolled her eyes, stood up to her full height, and stuck her hand on her hip, "You have to get up NOW!"
Syaoran glanced at the look of determined stubbornness that Meiling face wore, and knew that he didn't have a choice. /-No matter what, somehow Meiling will find a way to make me get up and out of bed…I better make it easier on myself and just get up now… -/
So he groaned, muttered something incoherently about the unbelievable time in the morning, and started to roll out of bed.
Meiling gave him one of her famed death-glare looks (that could even match Syaoran's in power) in return for the look he gave her when he first woke up, and unexpectedly stalked over with her arms crossed and looked at the pictures on his desk.
But, just as she was counting the number of photos on his desk with Sakura in them…-
She heard a very loud, "thump" and spun around, and looked wildly for the source of the noise. Her eyes darted from left to right and she immediately went into her fight-defense position.
"Ouch!!!" Syaoran shouted in surprise, and rubbed his head furiously, "This is a great… just great..." He mumbled.
Meiling smirked; and tried not to laugh at her undignified cousin who-had-just-hit-his-head-on-the-bed. He was sprawled on the floor, all tangled in blankets. But as she looked at his face, which wore a look that a four-year-old would wear when he was confused about where he put his favorite toy two seconds ago. (I mean do you ever see Syaoran confused??? Like, ever???) He had never portrayed a less dignified pose in all the time Meiling had ever seen him! (And you have to remember; Meiling has grown up with him!) Meiling relaxed her pose from aware and alert, into a relaxed position. She started to say, "Syaoran…you…" but as Syaoran watched, she collapsed onto the floor with a fit of laughter.
Syaoran stopped rubbing his hurt head for a moment and glared at Meiling, with an it's-not-very-funny look on his face. But, as he continued to stare at Meiling as she laughed outrageously on the floor, his death glare melted just a little and his mouth tipped sideways into a small grin.
Meiling stopped in mid laugh for a second as she glanced at Syaoran and her mouth formed into a lighthearted smile as she thought, /-Well…that's a start-/
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Once Meiling had recovered from her laughing fit, which took a little while considering Meiling decided to savor the memory of what had just happened and Syaoran was still fighting to revive his death glare look. /-Look at him…he's really struggling…-/ Meiling thought with a laugh. And once she realized that her cousin would obey her orders to get up and ready, she smiled at him again and stood up to leave. But, before she closed the door she hollered, "If I come back and you are not ready cousin! I will take a leaf from Eriol's book, and find a very inventive way of punishing you!" she warned, smiling at him with a mischievous look in her eyes.
Syaoran just glared back at her but he knew Meiling was joking and gave a half hearted, mocking, "Oooooo…I'm scared…" (Ohhhhhh….Syaoran…are you sure????…I'd be careful if I was you…-) smiles secretly with a mischievous glint in her eyes like Meiling
Meiling just kept on smiling at him, which really worried Syaoran. Say anything like that Meiling…and well…lets just say…it just wouldn't be a good experience for you…
"Good…"she said mock seriously with a small shake of her head, but with a maniac glint in her eyes, "…You should be." And swiftly closed the door with a decisive snap.
Syaoran Li just continued to stare at the place Meiling had just been. His face was still serious, but he wore a look of confusion. /-What is going on?-/
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Meiling was walking down the hall when the small grin that lit up her face suddenly disappeared, and her smug look turned to a look of worry. She stopped abruptly in mid-step, turned around and headed down the hall…to Yelan Li's study. "Oh no…oh, no no no no…" she whispered.
"I can't believe I forgot we had to be quiet!" she muttered to herself angrily as she strided down the hall. "Anyone could have heard us!"
"I have to tell Yelan..."
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Setting: in a room down the hall…"You are sure of this…Meiling?" Asked Yelan Li seriously.
"Of course I am sure!" Meiling snapped back, and then she groaned and put her head in her hands. "I'm sorry…I just can't believe I forgot to be quiet…I just put the whole plan into danger."
"Meiling, you must remember to not let my son know anything is wrong, understood?" she said quietly, "But…don't worry…I will try to find if anyone heard you."
With this goal in mind Yelan abruptly stood up and walked out of the room. With a shake of her head, she whispered under her breath,
"Although…I don't know all of our servants as well as I should."
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Setting: Outside the Li mansion in the front of the building. Syaoran is just comming out of the Li mansion and closing the door behind him, but at Meiling's yell, he looks up.
"Oi! Syaoran…Come on!!!" Meiling whispered furiously as she waved her arms frantically, (a.k.a, a symbol for him to hurry up or else) as the bewildered servant in charge of driving them to the airport looked a little shocked at Meiling's uh…abrupt….behavior. It was obviously not the décor he was used to at the Li mansion.
Syaoran growled, "I'm coming Meiling!" "Just hold on a second!" Then a subtle change seemed to come over him, his eyes started to glint, and his smile looked, a little scary (not the normal Syaoran smile…wait, does he even smile anyway??? Man, is it me, or does Syaoran seem to not have a lot of expressions he doesn't seem to use???). Then (wait…there's one points happily) as a thought formed in his mind, his eyes took on that evil glint that Eriol always gave him when he's up to something well…evil. He started to walk to the waiting limo, even slower than before.
So as we see Syaoran saunter, deliberately, up the path to the limo with his hands in his pockets as he pretended to look at the scenery around him. We see a flash of the car door opening and closing, and a suddenly furious Meiling is right next to Syaoran tapping her feet and checking her watch. She looked livid.
After a couple of seconds of patient waiting on Meiling's part, where all Syaoran does is look anywhere but her, and stare even more raptly at the wonderful scenery, she decides now is the time for action. Meiling grabbed Syaoran's arm, dragged him over to the car, threw him in the backseat, glared at the look on their startled limo driver's face, and Syaoran, and clambered in after him.-
So, the driver (seeing that finally, all his passengers are in the car) decided to leave now, before he gets assigned to drive anymore strange people like his two new passengers.
Meanwhile in the backseat, Syaoran is already getting over his surprise that his cousin dragged him into his own limo and (once again) he gives Meiling the death glare. Meiling pointedly ignored him as she did some serious thinking.
/-If Syaoran is like this the whole trip to the airport…all I know is I might have to ship him in little pieces to Sakura…one by one…
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…and send her an apology note later!-/
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Setting: at the Hong Kong airport, in the lanes were the cars drop of their passengers and luggage.
"Um…Mrs.?" Asked the driver as he looked over at his passengers, a little nervously if truth be told. He noticed that the girl –Meiling- he had heard the boy call her, had that same boy by the arm and was arguing furiously with him. Maybe now was not a good time to be polite…
"WHAT!!!!" (Flash of an enraged Syaoran a.k.a think of what he would look like it Eriol asked out Sakura…get the picture?) "WHAT DO YOU MEAN…LEAVING!!!" shouted Syaoran furiously, "I AM NOT LEAVING CHINA!," he crossed his arms and stood still, giving of heat waves as he stood in front of Meiling.
"OH YES YOU ARE!!!" Meiling shouted back, oblivious to the fact that people were starting to stare at them, "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY??? BECAUSE YOUR MOTHER SAID SO!!! SO BE A GOOD BOY AND OBAY HER!!!"
Syaoran looked like he was going….to….explode.
The driver, on the other hand, looked very scarred. And with good reason because everyone was staring at his two passengers.
So he rushed over to Meiling and Syaoran, discarded Syaoran's baggage on the sidewalk, and ran to his car to preserve some sanity. (and not to mention safety)
The two arguing cousins, though, seemed not to notice as their ride speeded down the lane as fast it could go.
And they continued…
"I KNOW YOU DIDN'T GET ANY NOTICE!!!" yelled Meiling impatiently, "BUT YOU ARE LEAVING ON THAT PLANE THAT IS WAITING FOR YOU, NO MATTER IF YOU WANT TO OR NOT!!!"
As she continued to yell, she made furious motions at the sign that read Hong Kong Airlines.
Syaoran just glared his famous death glare, turned up to 100 degrees, and refused to move an inch…
Meiling stared at him with obvious furry. /-This is going to take desperate measures-/
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Setting: In the waiting room for the plane. As Meiling walked into the waiting room, pulling a cart with Syaoran's baggage, Eriol looked up from his interesting newspaper, spotted Meiling, and gets up from the chair he was sitting in, folded his newspaper and puts it on his seat.
"Meiling!" Eriol yelled, smiling as raises a hand to get her attention.
Meiling smiled when she saw Eriol coming towards her, and watched him struggle through the crowd, almost every second saying "pardon" or "excuse me".
"Meiling!" Eriol gasped when he reached her, and put his hands on his knees bending over, breathing hard.
Meiling smirked, "Hello Hiiragizawa!" Meiling chirped cheerfully.
Eriol lifted his face suspiciously. /-Meiling never sounds this happy, what is going on?-/
"Hello…Meiling…" Eriol cautiously restated. Then he glanced around her as if looking for something, "So, where is my dear descendent?"
"Ummmm….", Meiling muttered, as she smirked at him, and looked very pleased with herself.
"hhhuummmmfff!"
"Ummmmm….", Meiling continued, her smirk getting wider by the second.
Eriol looked Meiling right in the eyes, and gave her a suspicious look, "Meiling, where is he?" Eriol demanded.
"HHUUUMMMFFFFF!"
Suddenly, Eriol jerked his head around. /-wait a minute…did the baggage just move???-/ The baggage started to shake as he started to turn away, then… THIS IS WHERE I STOPPED EDITING!!!
"HHHHHHUUUUUUMMMMMMFFFFFF!"
There was no mistaking it…the baggage definitely moved. He watched the shaking-and-making-noises-baggage for a second, and then looked harder…then to Meiling's suspicious looking face, then back to the baggage again. This time, as Eriol stared at Meiling's face for the third time, she grinned at him, and he started to grin with her…
"HHHHHHHUUUUUUMMMMMMFFFFFF!"
The baggage shook furiously this time, and looked like it was going to fall off the cart…and it did.
"Thump!" "Thump!" "Thump!" "THUMP!"Eriol watched with amusement as one piece of luggage fell off the cart, then another, then another, until, finally, his dear decedent was on the floor with them.
Syaoran noticed Meiling had never looked so pleased, and Eriol never so amused, as they looked at him now.
So, Syaoran's answer to it all was not a new concept, really. An old one actually, just give them the old death glare 1-2.
But, unfortunately, (for Syaoran) even his death glare failed to work. Eriol and Meiling just ignored it as Eriol burst out laughing and had to grab his sides for support, and then their was Meiling with this insanely happy grin on her face.
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The People walking by this Scene's POV:
Let's just say other people at the airport were just a little scared. There was luggage all over the floor around a young man, lying in the middle of it, but not by choice, they could tell. This young man (Syaoran) was taped from head to foot in what looked like duct tape, and he was struggling and making strange noises, but one look in his eyes, and you could tell you didn't want to stay until he got the duct tape off…
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Finally Eriol stopped laughing after a couple of minutes; he turned to face Meiling, who was still looking at Syaoran with triumphant glee.
Eriol tried to force his face into some kind of expression that looked remotely solemn, and once he got it into some kind of order he looked at Meiling, with a glimmer of fun in his eyes and his mouth twitching from time to time in an effort to repress a smile, and held out a hand to her.
Meiling, glanced at him, and noticed he was looking at her. She turned to face him, and grasped his hand with equal evidence of this grave scene.
"Meiling, I just want you to know…I have to congratulate you, this is the best you have ever done!" Eriol said with a mock bow to Meiling as he looked up at her.
"You have officially made my dear descendent furious."
At this moment they both chose to look, fondly, as if at a little child, as Syaoran started struggling again, with a look of murder in his eyes.
After a couple of enjoyable seconds where they got to watch Syaoran struggle against the duct tape, Eriol looked (fake) sadly at Meiling, "Well, our fun is over, should we untie him, do you think?"
Meiling tried to look just as sadly back at him, but failed miserably, "Oh, I don't know, I kind of like him that way…" She gave Eriol a pout look, "Can't we leave him that way, just for a little longer…Do you think the airport baggage people would just take him like that???"
Eriol smiled at the thought of handing his furious cousin over to the anxious baggage people, and a smile touched his lips, "But Meiling, he will miss his plane, and what if he got lost in the baggage, and all our hard work will have amounted to nothing."
Meiling sighed longing and looked at Syaoran with a distinct change of features, "Syaoran I just want you to know now, that you can't move to hurt me, that this is just a taste of what I will do to you if you mess this up alright?!" She smiled a grin that looked, scarily enough, Syaoran noticed, like Tomoyo and Eriol's grins when they were going to be evil. "I have loads of other ideas to try on you."
Syaoran didn't even blink at her announcement, he just continued to glare at the pair of them.
"Well Meiling you can do the honors", Eriol said loudly.
Meiling turned to look at him with disbelief on her face, "I thought you were going to untie him?!" she said angrily, "I did all the work of tying him up, so you can untie him!"
Eriol looked at her with equal astonishment on his face, "But…but…well…I have to put our carry-on luggage on the plane?!"
Meiling looked at him angrily, and seemed to snap and crackle with invisible lightning sparks, "OH NO YOU DON'T!!!! I TIED HIM HIIRAGIZAWA!!!
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Well, what did you think everyone??? That was so much fun to write LOL Even a little more fun than Tomoyo & Eriol calls! : ) I am having writers block everyone, so keep writing reviews, comments, suggestions, questions, anything…that might inspire me, K? That would be very appreciated! - Thanks! May you all be blessed…-