Chapter 6: Searching

Sakura's point of view

The night air was cold and brisk as I hovered over the site of the plane crash. The strong feeling of Clow magic was all around me and for the first time in a long while; I was afraid.

"Kero?" I started to ask as we began to fly over a nearby woods, "who...or what would have the power to set the Clow Cards free and make them hostile?"

"I'm not exactly sure" Kero responded in a serious tone, "but whatever it is it must be extremely powerful."

Kero and I soared through the sky for any sign of Shaoran for what seemed like hours when all of a sudden I spotted a spiral of smoke rising from a corner of the woods.

"There!" I shouted changing our flight direction towards the smoke.

Thoughts of Shaoran were still racing through my mind as we neared the fire. Was he ok? What if I never saw him again. I erased the horrible images out of my head and I assured myself that I would find him no matter what the cost. As we landed at the origin of the smoke I found myself standing at the foot of a building with an enormous hole in it's side which was outlined by a ring of fire.

"This could only have been done by Firey." I plainly told Kero as I felt a knot form in my stomach.

"I hope Shaoran's ok..."

I allowed my thoughts to drift back to when I had originally captured Firey. He was one of my most difficult opponents and it took the combined efforts of two element cards simply to take him down. I remembered that Shaoran had to help me by stopping time and almost using all of his magic. I felt a tear roll down my cheek. All I wanted was for Shaoran to be with me, so we could solve this problem together. Wiping the tear from my eye I decided that I wasn't going to rest until I found him...until I could tell him how I felt.

Li's point of view

By now Kristie and I were quite aways away from the scorched battleground were I had fought Firey and the pain of the burn Firey had given me in the middle of my chest was just starting to kick in. I fell to my knees clenching my chest as Kristie ran up along side me.

"Are you ok?" she asked me sounding concerned.

"Fine." I retorted attempting to be a tough guy. "Barely a scratch."

I knew my wound needed to be treated but I had never been very good at accepting help from others. With some amount of trouble I managed to stumble to my feet and began to head on. I kept thinking about my fights with Firey and Fly and wondered to myself which Clow card would attack me next. I began to ponder about Sakura and whether or not she had been attacked yet. Again my chest surged in pain and I fell to the ground.

"Damn it." I thought to myself making a fist and punching the ground. If only I would have been a little less careless.

Kristie must have been able to figure out that I was in a lot of pain because she approached me and asked if we could stop for the night. I slowly nodded as I realized that the only reason she had offered was for my sake.

"If you moisten the burn it will help with the pain." Kristie let out sounding sympathetic.

She ripped off one of her sleeves and walked over to a stream we had stopped by and soaked her sleeve in it. She handed me the wet piece of cloth. Taking it gratefully and pressing it against my chest, I felt some of the pain fade away and I forgot about my troubles for a moment. Suddenly, as if some unknown force didn't want to give me a moment to rest, I looked up and saw something that filled me with both horror and awe at the same time.

"It can't be!" I thought to myself as I rose to my feet dropping the cloth.

I blinked hard hoping the vision in front of me would disappear but it wouldn't. It appeared that two of the Clow spirits were fighting one another.

"Windy and Wood" I said out loud barely even noticing my own speech.

Windy was gracefully dodging the forest's attempt to trap her within the branches of the trees. Suddenly Kristie screamed from behind me. Turning around as quickly as I could I saw Kristie being grabbed by the branch of a tree. The entire forest was being controlled by The Wood! Quickly taking out my sword I leaped into the air and and chopped the branch in two with one clean slash. Picking her up in my arms I jumped back several feet and placed her on the ground behind me.

"Stay close to me if you want to live." I commanded Kristie.

She nodded and I turned back to the problem at hand. How was I going to deal with Windy and Wood at the same time? Clenching my sword in my hand I knew I had no choice but to fight...win or lose.

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