Chapter 2: Changes and Dreams

I woke up to everything dark. It was night. The day nurse must have gone home. Sure enough, there was a knock on the door and a raven-haired lady came in and turned the light on.

"I need to check your vitals. Is that okay?"

I nodded. What was I going to do? She's a nurse and she has needles. Would you say no?

"How are you feeling tonight?" she asked kindly.

"Fine, but a bit tired," I replied with a yawn.

"That's good. You may be tired but that just means your body has to rest up," she said as she put the blood-pressure cuff around my arm. "Oh! I almost forgot." She pulled a folded-up piece of paper out of her pocket. "Here," she said, handing it to me.

I unfolded the note and looked at it.

I called my friend and she said she would love to have you stay in her house in Tomoeda. She said that she'd even pay the bills and everything because you're living alone. She'll even let you live in the house with no cost at all. You just have to keep the house clean.

And as for plane tickets, no worries girls, I got you both first class tickets to Tokyo city. You'll be leaving out of the Portland airport Monday morning.

I didn't really comprehend the note completely, probably because I was still half asleep. I'd have to re-read it in the morning.


What? Where am I?

I was standing on top of a building…No, a tower with cards floating round me and a staff in my hand. The staff was topped with a crescent moon and in the middle of the moon hung a diamond tear-drop that matched the diamond on the end of it. The staff body was a rainbow of colors.

"Cards. Powers," whispered a voice. I looked around for the source of it.

"Light!" shouted a girl and everything was enveloped in a white light.


I woke up to light streaming in my window. I tried to recall my dream but all I remembered was the white light that I had just woken me up.

I remembered the letter that the day nurse left last night. I grabbed it off the table that was by my bed and re-read it.

I called my friend and she said she would love to have you stay in her house in Tomoeda. She said that she'd even pay the bills and everything because you're living alone. She'll even let you live in the house with no cost at all. You just have to keep the house clean.

And as for plane tickets, no worries girls, I got you both first class tickets to Tokyo city. You'll be leaving out of the Portland airport Monday morning.

"Yes!" I shouted.


I wonder how Sakura's doing. Doing without me? Does she miss me? Syaoran was listening to "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton. Definitely NOT Syaoran-like, but the song fit his mood at the moment.

He was in the car heading back toward Tomoeda.

Toward Sakura...and Meilin. Joy... One whines...and she's definitely not the best Card Captor in the world. And well...the other one just talks about how I'm her 'fiancée.'

He shut off his CD player for obvious reasons and stowed it in his bag. He searched for his Lasin Board. He couldn't find it. He'd left it in the car so it wouldn't get lost. It was in the trunk. Or was it?

Come to think of it, I haven't seen it since Meilin le…ft—

Syaoran gasped. "Meilin!" he whispered. She was the last one who had it. Why? He had no idea, but it couldn't be good. To be honest he didn't even remember giving it to her. Why did she have it anyway? She didn't have any of Clow Reed's magic. It was no good to her anyway.

"Syaoran-sama, we're almost at the apartment in Tomoeda. I suggest that you get some sleep when we get there," said Wei.

When Syaoran got into the room that used to be his, he found a note on his bed. It read:

Syaoran-kun,

I'm over at Sakura-chan's house spending the night. You're such a baka for not telling her how you felt before you left. (1) I hope you will work up the courage to tell her this time. I'm sure she feels the same way.

Meilin ♥

Syaoran smiled to himself and crawled into the blankets, let sleep over-take him.


"Syaoran-kun!" shouted Sakura as she was swept into darkness. He ran to save her but it was too late. The darkness had swallowed her up.

"Syaoran-kun," cried Meilin from beside him. "I—I tried to save her but, but, but she—" Meilin broke out in tears and buried her face in his chest, sobbing. He felt like crying with her, but held back the tears that stung his eyes. He had to stay strong for Meilin or else she would think all was lost.

All of a sudden all light went out leaving the whole Penguin Park and the surrounding area pitch black.

"What—What is this?" asked Meilin, trembling in fear and cold.

A dark, ominous laugh rang through the darkness as three figures emerged from the darkness.

"Hiiragizawa," growled Syaoran, mildly surprised, but at the same time not. "I should have known." Syaoran lunged at Eriol yelling, "What have you done with Sakura-chan!"

Eriol merely side-stepped Syaoran and chuckled. "Why, isn't it obvious, darling relative? She was eaten by the darkness."

"Eaten by the darkness?" asked Syaoran.

"Yes, and it shall devour her soul, whereupon she'll just be a zombie, dead among the living, one of my warriors."

"No!" came a female voice from above, atop the penguin slide. "How dare you take these lovers from each other in their time of love, Eriol! I won't let this evil of yours go on any longer. You shall feel my wrath! Kyokkou, go!" Without a moments hesitation she sent out a card. "Blitz!"

Eriol just laughed. He merely sidestepped the lightning bolt that was just thrown at him and with the wave of his hand Kyokkou was thrown into a tree on the other side of the street. "Silly girl. You think you can beat me with some silly card tricks? Only the creator of the cards knows their true powers. Even the Guardians of the Ridoru don't know the cards' full potential. These with the power of my Clow cards will cause total world damnation!"

Is there any way to stop it from happening?

"There is only one way to stop it from happening," said Eriol looking straight at Syaoran, as if he had read the boy's mind. "Only the creator of the cards can use them to their full potential to defeat me and she is off studying abroad in France." He took a few minutes to laugh. "And she fell right into my little trap."

"Eriol," came another female voice. "Is this what you wanted to keep me from?"


Syaoran shot bolt upright, breathing hard, sweat running down his back. "Was it a premonition?" he asked himself, thinking about the dream he just had.


So, what do you think? I might as well clear up some things things.

(1) Syaoran gave the bear to Sakura before he left. He didn't tell her that he loved her after Eriol almost put the whole world into a never-ending sleep. Instead, he told her that he loved her like a littlie sister. When he gave her the bear, she took it as a token of their friendship.

This is after the Sakura Card Arc but like it says above, a few things didn't happen. But otherwise, I think everything else happened like the anime.

Sakura Kat 007