Chapter 5

Meilin Returns

(Oh boy)

"What!" Madison said in shock when she heard what happened to Sakura earlier.

"The shower started to fill up with water." Sakura said for the third time. "Don't worry. I'm fine." Sakura said noticing the look of worry on Madison's face.

Li hadn't reacted to what Sakura had said yet. "This person is really powerful," he thought.

Sakura then interrupted Li's thoughts, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah…fine." he said slowly.

Sakura didn't look away she just stared at him as he thought.

Madison finally broke the silence. "Aren't you it was glad it's a half day today?" Madison asked. The students did have a half-day today because weird things have been happening to people all day. Sakura and Li had headaches every five seconds because they could sense the power. Sakura had even gone to the nurse for something butthe nursewasn't there.

"Yeah." Sakura said finally, trying to sound cheerful. "But not for a fun reason. Weird stuff has been happening all day and that means I have to find out who it is and stop them." She said this like she has said it a thousand before.

"Oh yeah." Madison said in a 'oh yeah' tone. "Hey, good thing I brought my camera." She said happily.

Sakura groaned and Li laughed finally coming back to reality. "Good."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sakura said hitting Li playfully.

"Oh, nothing." he replied.

"Not funny." Sakura said as they walked into The Park. She looked around the park and didn't see anything strange…at first...she suddenly heard a bush move behind them. She looked abruptly over her shoulder. "Who's there?" She said to the bush.

"What's wrong, Sakura?" Madison asked after getting her video camera out of her bag.

Sakura didn't respond. She had no idea what she was expecting, for a second she thought the bush would talk but then she snapped back to reality. Bushes couldn't talk…but a person can. She walked cautiously over to the bush, which kept moving. She grabbed a couple of branches and moved them to see a familiar face. "Meilin!" she said in surprised.

"What!" Li said in shock. Oh great. He thought.

"Avalon! What do you think your doing with my Li?" She exclaimed angrily.

Sakura had gotten sick of Meilin the last time she saw her so she knew how to shut her up. "Meilin, he's not yours so shut your trap." She said turning her back on her. "What are you doing here anyway?"

Meilin didn't respond immediately, it seemed like she was thinking of a lie. But, Sakura didn't know that.

"Because, I want to be here." She said crossing her arms.

"Right." Sakura said. Sakura and Meilin had become rivals when she had saw Li and Sakura hug each other before he left. Meilin hated Sakura even more because she thought Sakura stole Li from her. Sakura had remembered the fight her and Meilin had before she left. She had told Meilin, on accident, that Li loved her not Meilin. Meilin had run away crying after she said that. Sakura had felt bad for a little bit…but now she didn't.

"Sakura, I'd hate to the interrupt but...look!" Madison said suddenly. Sakura, Li, and Meilin looked to Madison, who pointed to a tree. "There's a person in that tree."

They all saw what was in the tree and it was indeed a person. When Meilin saw it she didn't react at all…but she did smile.

"Who are you?" Li yelled.

The shadowy figure rose it's hand and a ball of light flew from his hands and hit Li, sending him flying.

"LI!" The girls yelled. Sakura pulled the Star Key off of her necklace and raised it into the air yelling, "Release!" The key began to glow and it turned into the staff form. She pointed it at the figure sending out a star-shaped ray of light the hit the branch the figure was standing on. The man jumped off before the branch fell and he landed behind the group and began to run away. Sakura looked at the star on her staff. "How did I do that?" She asked herself.

"Sakura!" Madison yelled. "He's getting away!"

Sakura looked over her shoulder and saw the figure running from them. Sakura began to run after him but then something hit her in the side and knocked her over. She looked up to see Meilin holding her down. "Get off! What are you doing?"

"Trying to save your life!" She yelled back.

"Since when do you care!"

"Since I saw what you just did!"

"What! Get off!" She yelled. Meilin suddenly went flying into a tree. Sakura looked sown at herself. "What's going on?"

"Your becoming more than a Card Captor." Li said getting up.

"What?"