It was her second day without any powers. Every passing second without it made her even more

anxious. Apparently she wasn't the only one who was on edge.

Sakura slowly put down her glass and looked around the table. Yelan was busy reading a letter,

Syaoran's sisters were whispering incoherently, Meilin was having a staring contest with her plate,

and Tomoyo and Eriol were extremely quiet. It seemed Syaoran was as confused about it as her.

During the entire time they had been sitting at the breakfast table nobody had said anything. It was

nerve wrecking.

Sakura looked over at Meilin who was sitting across from her. She just smirked and looked away,

leaving Sakura totally confused. Was she missing something? She saw Meilin mouth something to

Tomoyo, who was sitting next to her and she giggled.

She had, had enough. She cleared her throat to get everyone's attention.. Meilin, Tomoyo, Eriol,

Yelan, Syaoran, and his sisters all looked at her. "Ok, what does everyone know that I don't

know?"

Syaoran shrugged and the others just smiled.

Tomoyo and Meilin exchanged a secret smile and then Tomoyo said, "The better question is, what

do you know that you don't want us to know about?"

Sakura gave her a quizzical look. "Nothing."

Meilin raised a brow. "So you're completely denying that you were making out with Syaoran last

night, in the garden, secretly?"

Syaoran who was drinking juice, started choking on it. Sakura became completely pale. "H-

how!"

Feimei giggled. "We all saw you!"

Sakura went from completely pale to totally red.

Syaoran blushed like crazy. "I can't believe you were watching us!"

"Well if we had known that you two were in the garden, sharing an intimate moment we wouldn't

have looked out," Yelan said, secretly smiling at the fact that his son turned into a tomato when

she said 'intimate moment'. "It would've been also nice if we were informed that there was

something going on between you two."

"It just happened. We didn't mean to keep it a secret from you guys." Sakura looked down at her

plate.

"It's nothing to be ashamed about, darling." Yelan smiled at her son and his 'girlfriend'.

"I know! Didn't we say you two would make a cute couple from the beginning?" Meilin asked.

"Yeah.. But-"

"And now you are! So what's the problem?" Feimei interrupted Sakura's reply.

"Nothing?" Sakura replied with uncertainty. She looked over at Syaoran who was smiling at her.

She smiled back, making everyone in the room say, "Aww!"

-.-.-.-

Back at Penelope's lair, she stood by the mirror. Syaoran's lookalike was standing behind her,

holding the Sakura Book and the dart he used on Sakura. Penelope closed her eyes and took a

deep breath, smiling. "I've been dreaming about this moment for centuries."

She held out her right hand and the lookalike gave her the dart. She took it and stuck it in her left

arm. Penelope winced but then smiled as she felt herself become cloaked in Sakura's aura. It was

obviously fighting her but it would hold up long enough.

"Give me the cards! Let's see if this will work for me."

The lookalike handed her the card book immediately. She unwrapped the Key from the book and

turned it into the staff using some ancient words. She took out the Through Card. "Sakura Card, I

call upon your power!" She threw the card in the air and hit it with the staff. "Through!" The

Through Card opened a portal in the mirror. "Now lets see if it worked." Every time she had

figured out a way to open a new portal, she had been disappointed by the fact that she still could

not get through it.

She slowly reached out her hand towards the portal and when no force field stopped her hand

from going through, she laughed and pulled back, turning around to face her minion. "It worked!

Which means I have no use for you anymore..." She raised her hand to say a spell but stopped. A

smirk crawled upon her lips. "No. You might be useful yet." She grabbed him by the collar and

they both jumped into the portal.

-.-.-.-

Sakura dropped the book she was holding as a very terrible feeling of doom filled her. She turned

around to find Eriol, Syaoran, Yue, and Kero staring at each other with the same look: fear.

"You guys feel it too?" Sakura asked them.

They nodded. "I fear we might be too late to stop her." Eriol put down the book he was holding

and walked out of the library. The others followed him.

The dreadful feeling got stronger and stronger. They could tell that any minute something was

going to happen. Eriol, Syaoran, Sakura, Yue, and Kero broke into a run. When Meilin, Tomoyo,

and Syaoran's sisters saw this, they worriedly followed them outside.

"What's going on?" Meilin asked.

"I think Penelope's escaped." Sakura looked into the sky with worry. Dark clouds blocked out

the sun.

Syaoran put his arm around her and said. "We can take care of this."

Sakura nodded back.

A big black swirling portal opened up a few yards away from them and through it came Penelope

and Syaoran's lookalike.

"Oh dear," Yelan gasped as she joined the group.

"Yelan, take the girls and go inside," ordered Eriol.

Yelan nodded and gathered the girls and rushed them inside.

Penelope stopped a few yards away from them. "Oh how sweet, you want to protect them!" She

cackled, "It's a little bit too late Clow. I'm going to destroy them all! Nobody from your line will

be allowed to live!"She cackled. "But it's been a while since I've been on earth... I think I'm

going to go have some fun first!" She took out another Sakura Card. "Fly Card, I summon thee!"

The fly card created wings on her evil staff. The evil Syaoran and her got on it and sped away.

"We have to go after them!" Sakura cried..

"No!" Eriol replied. Syaoran and Sakura looked at him like he was crazy.

"We can't let her loose on the world! She'll destroy it!" Syaoran yelled.

"I meant, slow down. We need a plan."

"The plan is to kill her, how about that?" Syaoran bit out.

"We'll get to that. First there's something you two should know..." Eriol looked at them with sad

eyes. He had hoped it wouldn't come to this but since Penelope had escaped he had no choice but

to tell them everything.

"Can't it wait 'till later?" Sakura asked desperately.

"I'm afraid not. This will change everything." Sakura and Syaoran stared at him curiously. He

continued, "We are in the middle of an ancient prophecy. Penelope is a very powerful and ruthless

being and she will use all the power she has to take revenge on the Li family and the only people that can stop her are you two..." He looked at Sakura and Syaoran.

"Ok then let's go!" sad an impatient Syaoran.

"There's more." Eriol sighed and continued. "The prophecy also includes you two and the way it ends is ... heartbreaking."

Sakura gasped. "What happens at the end?"

"I- I don't know but it's not going to be a 'happily ever after' thing," Eriol replied sadly.

Syaoran rolled his eyes. "Well happily ever after doesn't exist in reality anyway, now lets go get Penelope before she wipes out the world." He walked towards the direction Penelope had disappeared in.

Sakura glanced at Eriol and hesitantly follows Syaoran. Eriol put his head in his hands and sighed. "This isn't gonna end well."

"We'll watch over them," Yue said. "You stay here in case she comes back or if we... we fail." Eriol nodded and Yue and Keroberos flew after Sakura and Syaoran.

-.-.-.-

Syaoran's evil look-alike was walking behind Penelope as she waslked towards the tip of the mountain top. " Why didn't you kill them all while they were all there together?"

Penelope let out a frustrated sigh. "Because... Together they would be too much for me to handle at first. My powers are still not strong enough but as I spend more time in this realm the more power I gain and soon I will be invincible. Besides have you ever heard of the expression 'divide and conquer'?

OH I am soooo sorry it took this long to update!