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Part Five: The Myth
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Another summer day of Tomoeda began.  Fresh air, golden sun, bright
morning blue sky, pure white clouds, faint fragrance of green trees
were blown along the summer winds showed that it was another nice day
in Tomoeda.

At the Kinomoto resident, Sakura was lying on her bed in her own
bedroom.  She made a quiet shift, turning to lie on her side.  Sakura
opened her eyes slowly, when she felt the warm light of the sun
osculated her face.  Sakura sat up carefully, not wanting to disturb
Kero, who sound asleep beside her, and got up from her bed.  All
sudden her little heart squeezed as her caught the sight of the teddy
bear Shaolan had forgotten to bring it back.

<I should return it back to him.  It must be very important to him
because he was about going to give it to the person he loves, did not
he? >  She was very certain, whoever the person was; the person must
be very lucky since the boy was very good person...

Sakura could feel her heart was squeezed sorely again with that
thought.

Sakura had not slept well last night.  She had mused about the allude
Eriol-kun had told her before he had left Tomoeda, the reason why she
had cried last night, why she felt her heart was squeezed whenever she
heard the name of the Chinese boy or thought of him.  All she knew
was, definitely, she did not want her another friend to leave but some
how it...hurt, hurt a lot, she could not understand it...why.

Sakura shook her head and stretched out her arms.  She should better
back to self, not wanting anyone to worry about her, she thought then
walked to bathroom for taking a bath.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

"Umm... this shirt match with this pants..." Fuutie paused and looked,
"or this better?" Fuutie held another shirt and brought it against
Shaolan who was standing like an effigy in a shopping center. She
turned and picked another pants from a heap of shirts and pants, which
was dispersed on Shaolan's bed, where Shiki-chan was buried somewhere
under the heap.  "Umm...or this one?"

Shaolan sighed.  He had been standing like this for a haft hour.
"Fuutie-oneesan, anything."

Fuutie neglected what Shaolan had said, she continued to find the best
dress for her young brother, wanting everything was the best for her
plan today.   "Ah! Here! It's perfect!"  Fuutie smiled broadly at the
picture of Shaolan was wearing a deep blue shirt very matched with
black pants she had chosen.  "You're very handsome now, Shaolan."

Shaolan blushed; being flattered caused him uneasy.

"Next, let me do your hair, Shaolan."  Fuutie grinned, holding a
hairbrush in her hand.

He sighed once more, he felt like he was his eldest sister's doll.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

After Fuutie succeed to make her little looked as nice as she wanted,
the siblings and Shiki-chan arrived to the Tomoeda amusement park.
They could see that at the front gate of the Tomoeda amusement park,
Tomoyo had already waited for them, holding her video camera.

"Good morning Fuutie-san, Li-kun, Shiki-chan." Tomoyo greeted while
smiling

"Good morning Tomoyo-chan," Fuutie greeted back, smiling back at the
girl, as Shiki-chan bowed to her.

"Good morning," said Shaolan.

"Li-kun, you look very nice today," Tomoyo said.

"T-Thanks" said Shaolan.  He blushed lightly while Fuutie also smiled
down at the boy, pounding of her performance.

"What about Sakura-chan?"  Fuutie asked, looking around.

Right away when Fuutie had finished her question, Sakura arrived to
the place where they had been standing.  The girl wore one-piece, knee
length, light cherry-blossom flower color dress, which matched with
the summer vacation, and a light yellow egg shape backpack draped
behind her.

"Good morning Fuutie-san, Tomoyo-chan, Shiki-chan." Sakura greeted.

"Good morning, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo and Fuutie greeted back,
Shiki-chan bowed to Sakura.

Looking around, Shiki-chan was trying to find Kero, but nowhere the
guardian to be found.  Shiki-chan practically slumped and let out a
disappointed sigh that the new friend evidently did not join today.
Perceiving the disappointed pose of the magic creature almost caused
Fuutie blurted out laugh, but she tried to suppress it.  She wondered
where her magic creature got those kinds of act?

Meanwhile Sakura turned to Shaolan, her face was red, hesitating to
look at him.  Her heart was beating painfully and her face was red,
looking at the floor, not daring to look at the boy's face.  "G-Good
morning Li-kun."

Shaolan, on the other hand, had the same reaction as Sakura, looking
at the floor with the same feeling—did not dare to look at her face.
"G-Good morning." He felt his stomach was arching again while he
greeted her, he did not know that why recently he had this stomachache
so often.  It was since he had known that he must go back to Hong
Kong.  Maybe he had his stomachache because over stress, he supposed.

Sakura and Shaolan were standing there and soundless, not knowing what
to do.

Perceiving the uncomfortable silence grew, Fuutie said, "I guess we
better to go in, ne Tomoyo-chan." She turned to Tomoyo for supporting.

"Yes, we better go in, Sakura-chan, Li-kun." Catching the signal from
Fuutie, Tomoyo agreed, smiling.

Snapping back from the silence, Sakura and Shaolan nodded.

"Let's go.  Let's go," Fuutie said, nudging Sakura and Shaolan into
the amusement park with Tomoyo and Shiki-chan followed.  To herself,
Fuutie mentally sighed, seeing the reaction of her little brother and
Sakura already discouraged her.  How this day would end? She thought
to herself.

In the Tomoeda amusement park had a lot of people came to visit, as
today was Sunday, during summer vacation, and moreover it was Tanabata
Maturi--or to be known as Star Festival.  For feting the traditional
Japanese festival, every year the Tomoeda amusement park would perform
show which was known as the most famous and most impressive.

The group was walking in the amusement park. Tomoyo, who act as a
guide, walked with Fuutie, who was listening to Tomoyo and admiring
everything around her, just like an ordinary foreigner took a tour.
Shiki-chan, that catching all kid's attention along the way, was
drifting beside Fuutie.

"Wow!" exciting Fuutie.  She turned to Tomoyo and lowed her voice
enough to prevent the kids behind not hear her.  "Tomoyo-chan, I knew
you chose to come here because the show of the festival, but I didn't
expect a lot of people like this."

Smiling Tomoyo said, "they all probably come to watch the shows too,
Fuutie-san"

"I can't wait to see how wonderful the show'll be," said Fuutie,
glitter of excitement in her eyes, smiling to Tomoyo, who smiled back
to her.

Tomoyo and Fuutie secretly peeped over their shoulder to look at
Sakura and Shaolan followed them silently, mixing with shyness and
uneasiness. They purposely left Sakura and Shaolan to walk together.

Feeling she had to say something, Sakura gathered her nerve and said,
"To-Today has a lot of people, ne Li-kun,"

He found the uncomfortableness in her voice.  It made him realized
that his reaction was causing her uneasy, and he did not want her to
worry about him.  "Um," Shaolan nodded in response, he smiled to her
slightly.

Seeing his smile, Sakura's could feel her heart beat faster, blushing,
but his smile also relieved her tension.  Sakura smiled back to
Shaolan.

Looking at her, Shaolan could detect, in her eyes was not as bright as
she always was.  With worry, he asked, "Sakura, did you sleep well
last night?"

"Ho-e, well, yes, I, um, slept very well."  She did not tell the
truth, not wanting him to worry about her.

However despite the fact that she was not a good liar caused Shaolan
more confidence that she had something in her mind.  "Something
wrong?" He asked again with concern.

"N-Nothing nothing" Sakura laughed nervously.

"Sakura," said Shaolan, worrying about her.

"Really Li-kun"

When Shaolan was about to open his mouth again, Fuutie called.
"Shaolan, Sakura-chan! Let begin with this first!"  She pointed at a
roller coaster in front of her and Tomoyo.

"Y-Yes." Sakura and Shaolan both nodded and followed Tomoyo and
Fuutie.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

In main technical controlling room of the Tomoeda amusement park, two
technical controllers, who was surrounded with electric panels and
monitors, were checking and preparing for the Star festival show which
was coming in this evening.

"There'll have enough electricity for all the parade and the show in
this evening?"  The first controllers asked his friend.

"Yep, sure... but...umm."

"What?"

"Look at this," the second controller pointed at the monitor in front
of him.  "The monitor's showing the Ferris wheel area has electronic
wire damage, don't it?"

"Let me see." The first controller shoved his friend to stand aside
and began to check it.  "Um... I don't see anything wrong."

"Is that so?"

"Gee, look at the dark circles under your eyes, buddy, you probably
overwork till makes you feel giddy, don't you?"

He sighted, "I guess you're right.  We all have been overworking for
this past week for the show in this evening."

"Come on, it's lunch time.  Let find something to eat then we can
check other sections."

"'Kay."

Both controllers went out from the room to find some meals to eat;
missing the signal of the Ferris wheel's damage that was showing again
on the monitor.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

"Ah! It's fun!" said Fuutie, walking out from 'Super roller 360 degree
ball' machine.

Seeing Shaolan's face was little pale, Sakura asked with worry,
"Li-kun are you all right?"  The question drew all the attention of
the rest of the group to Shaolan.

"I-I'm fine."

"But your face is obviously pale," added Tomoyo.

"Yes, Tomoyo-chan's right, Shaolan." Fuutie said while Shiki-chan
nodded, agreeing.

Actually Shaolan felt totally not fine and rather ill.  His stomach
became more and more ached since the morning.  Furthermore he had
ridden almost all kind of swinging machines in the amusement park.
Something swinging, something spinning, something banging or rolling,
all of them were appreciated by his sister, and those only made his
stomach was even more ached.  Those kinds of machines would not bother
him if he were really fine, but now he was not.  However Shaolan still
confirmed others he was fine.

"Maybe over rolled, Fuutie-san," Tomoyo commented.

Fuutie nodded, looking at her wristwatch.  "It's lunch time, I think
we should find some place to rest and have lunch."

"Yes," Three kids nodded.

The group walked to a little cafe, which was very well ornamented in
white and blue Scott patters.  They entered the cafe and sat at a
table, and then a waiter came and brought menus with him.  The waiter
could clearly noticed that Sakura was looking at Shaolan with all her
concern.

"What do you want to order, sir?" The waiter asked.

Sakura was snapped back to the voice of the waiter.  Why the voice was
so familiar? Sakura looked up to see the waiter.  "Onii-chan!"
Sakura's exclaiming caused everyone looked up.  "What are you doing
here?"

"Part-time job," said Touya.  He looked around and found Tomoyo and
Fuutie gave him a greeting bow as he did so, and then he turned to
reciprocate a greeting glare with Shaolan.  Touya was being displeased
because in Sakura's eyes, when she sent a concern look to that brat,
it annoyed the big brother very much.  Why his little sister had to
worry about that brat that much anyway, the annoyed big brother
thought.  "What do you want to order? Today's specialty has fried
rice, curry rice, yakisoba and barbecue with baked tomato." Touya
offered with a tiny blood vein popped on his head.

"Ho-e, um, I want fried rice."

Touya began to jot the order.

"I want fried rice too," said Tomoyo.

"Umm I want yakisoba, what about you, Shaolan?" Fuutie turned to asked
her little brother.

"Fried rice."

"What do you want to drink then?" asked Touya.

"Orange juice," said Sakura

"Peach juice, please," said Tomoyo

"Lemon tea, please.  Shaolan?"

"Iced tea."

Touya jotted all the orders, he collected the menus back, and bowed to
the group, as it was the manner every waiter had to do to every
customer.  He stole a glance at Shiki-chan before he turned to walk
back for giving the orders to the main counter.

After the group finished the lunch, Fuutie asked, "What do you want to
play next?"

"What about boating there?" Tomoyo offered, pointing to a large lake
that surrounded with various kind of flowers, and the lake also had a
tunnel for boats to go in side and went out to another side of the
lake.

"Great! Sakura-chan, Shaolan, do you want to go there?" Fuutie asked.

Sakura looked at her and nodded, smiling.  "I'd love to, ne Li-kun,"
she turned to Shaolan, asking for support and got a nod from Shaolan.
Actually boat was good, nothing risked getting her Chinese friend more
ill, Sakura thought.

The boats were not much big and only two persons could sit on each.
Fuutie and Shiki-chan sat with Tomoyo, while Sakura sat with Shaolan
on another one, following Tomoyo and Fuutie's boat.

Sitting on the boat with the Chinese boy, Sakura said, looking at him
with all of her concern, "Li-kun, are you feel better now?"

Boating, Shaolan blushed but he kept smiled at her, "Yes."

Sakura smiled back at him.  She was glad that her friend felt better.

Boating, Fuutie was surprised when she looked back at the boat behind
hers.  Shaolan was smiling!  Just like an ordinary kid!  She had never
ever seen her little brother smiled like this before.  Her little
brother had always acted, as he was not a kid but as an adult in the
kid body.  "Tomoyo-chan," said Fuutie.

"Yes, Fuutie-san?" answering Tomoyo, Shiki-chan was on her lap.

"Shaolan always smiles when he's with Sakura-chan or at school?  I
mean I have never ever seen him smile like a kid before." Fuutie
asked, confusing, as if she did not believe what she had just seen.
It was just weirdo for her little brother.

"En?"  With confuse, Tomoyo looked at the boy on the another boat,
seeing him was exchanging a cheerful smile with Sakura, Tomoyo
immediately understand.  "He has been just doing it in past few days,
Fuutie-san, and everyone in the class was very surprised when we saw
his first intentionally smile."

Fuutie gave Tomoyo Oh!-I-see looked, "But en? He has been doing it in
past few days? It was..."

Tomoyo nodded hesitantly, "... the day... after you arrived to Japan."

Fuutie stopped cold.  It was the day after he had known he had to
leave Japan soon, leaving Sakura.  Or that smile was what Shaolan used
for cover his pain?  She had wondered how Shaolan's smile looked like.
What could make him smile?  In what situation?  She had expected
Shaolan would smile because he was happy, really happy enough to make
him smiled, not smiled for hiding his pain.

Catching the unhappiness in Fuutie's eyes made Tomoyo and Shiki-chan
worried, "Fuutie-san."

"Nothing Tomoyo-chan, I just... did not expect... to see his smile
because he want to... hide his sadness..." Fuutie trailed off.

Tomoyo nodded, understanding.

<My poor little brother, > Fuutie thought sadly, looking over she
shoulder to Shaolan.

The two boats entered the tunnel, which was on the center of the lake.
Inside was dark, but the wall of the tunnel was decorated with
numerous little electric lights along the way, the water beneath the
boats reflected the lights perfectly as if the water was a very big
mirror.  Floating in the tunnel, it was like they were floating in the
night sky.

"it's beautiful, ne Li-kun" said Sakura and smiled, amazing what she
was seeing.

"Um," Shaolan nodded, agreeing.

It did remind Sakura to the fair of her school.  The day she had
confessed her feeling to Yukito-san.  In the gymnasium that at that
time had used the name 'Star road', she had been with Yukito-san.  The
gymnasium had also been decorated with the small electric lights.

Sakura looked at Shaolan.  It reminded her farther, afterward in the
park, with Li-kun, she had cried, and how he had comforted her,
telling her that he had sure she would find the person that she loved
most and loved her most too.  His words had helped her very much at
that time.  She, too, wished Shaolan would find the person that he
loved most and loved him back most... the person that he had intended
to give his teddy bear to.  Sakura smiled at Shaolan, but inside she
could felt her heart was squeezed, and it was... hurt, hurt with the
thought of whom was the person the Chinese boy fell for.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

Kero was flying in the blue sky, and it was high enough to make no one
noticed him.  Below him was the Tomoeda amusement park, he was looking
for Sakura.  He had intended to go with her today, even it meant he
would be trundled by that fat fish of the Li lady.  Unfortunately--and
very strange to Sakura--she had awakened up and left before he could
awake.  But, still, had seen Sakura last night made him really worried
about her, so he decided to follow her to the Tomoeda amusement park,
but...

"Argghh!! Why it's crowd like this? And where're they anyway!?"

His two arms swung wildly in fluctuate.  Kero was facing a big
problem.  He had been finding the group for three hours under the
burning sun.  Nevertheless he could not find them.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

Coming out from the tunnel, but Sakura's boat was still in the tunnel,
Tomoyo could swear she heard Kero's voice, calling her name, above her
head.  Looking up, she saw drained and exhausted from flying in the
hot air Kero was flying to her.  He fell to her lap, on the top of
Shiki-chan, wearing out.

"Cerberus??"

"Kero-chan?? Why are you here?" Tomoyo asked, scooping Kero up from
the top of Shiki-chan.

Kero flew from Tomoyo's hands and landed on the girl lap, beside
Shiki-chan.  "I just—Ack!"  Kero was cut off by the
very-glad-to-see-friend Shiki-chan, trying to hug him.

"Shiki-chan, please don't hug him now, Cerberus's very tied, give him
some rest, okay?" Fuutie forbade  her magic creature.

Shiki-chan nodded, loosing the hug, so instead of hug, Shiki-chan
fluttered a fin, making wind to cool Kero down from the heat of
summer.

"Thanks," said relieved Kero to Shiki-chan, then he turned to Tomoyo
to continue where he had been cut off, "I just worry about Sakura, so
I came here."  Then Kero turned to Fuutie, "And if anything I can
help, tell me I'll help."

"Thank you very much Cerberus, you're very kind." Fuutie smiled
brilliantly.

When Sakura and Shaolan' boat came out from the tunnel, Fuutie
directed her boat to Sakura's boat, so they could talk.

"Sakura-chan, look, who is here," said Tomoyo, smiling.

Sakura was surprised when she saw Kero with Tomoyo and Fuutie.
"Kero-chan? Why you're here?"

"Once in a while, I want to go out too," said Kero, not telling all
the truth.

"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Sakura.

"I forgot," Kero said confidently, folding her arms on his chest.

Sakura and Shaolan blinked, confusing.

After finished boating, the group returned the boat to the pier and
left the lake.  With Kero was in Fuutie's handbag, emerged his head
from the opening zip, they continued to ride machines that not much
swinging, not much spinning, not much banging for Shaolan would not
get more ill.

When they came out from the machine they had ridden, they walked out o
f the machine, and they found a parade was passing them.

"Wow! There has a parade!" Kero exclaimed, exciting.

"It is 6:10 P.M.  And it is time for the parade, Kero-chan," said
Tomoyo.  She smiled when she saw Sakura, Shaolan and Fuutie were
smiling, and glint was in Shiki-chan's eyes.  The beauty of the parade
amazed them all.

The parade was embellished beautifully with the fine color fabrics,
electric lights and other stuffs.  The mascots of the Tomoeda
amusement park, the princesses, the princes and other characters from
myths were walking with the parade, greeting the visitors that
gathered themselves along the way the parade passed.

"The parade was really wonderful, ne," said Fuutie, smiling to all.

"Yes," everyone nodded in agree.

Tomoyo smiled. "The next will be the star festival show, near the
Ferris wheel."  She pointed to the big and only Ferries wheel of the
Tomoeda amusement park.

The Ferris wheel of Tomoeda amusement park was the biggest Ferris
wheel of all amusement parks in Tokyo.  It was located at the center
of the amusement park.  As for the show, the Ferris wheel itself and
trees were decorated beautifully with numerous electric lights, which
made the Ferris wheel looked as if it was a Milky Way of the night
sky.

"Really? It's great!" Said Fuutie. "Oh, we haven't played that Ferris
wheel yet."  Fuutie pounded her right fist on her left palm, "I have
an idea!"  Her abrupt excited utterance caught everyone's attention.
"Why don't we go to play the Ferris wheel?  So we can have a good site
the see the show and at the same time we can see the view of Tomoeda
town in the night too."

"Good idea, Li lady." Kero agreed.

"Yes, that is great idea, Fuutie-san," Tomoyo turned to Sakura and
Shaolan, "ne Sakura-chan, Li-kun."

"Yes," Sakura said cheerfully, while Shaolan nodded in agree.

Then the group head to the Ferris wheel.  Fortunately for the group,
there had not many peoples were waiting in the line, but visitors
already filled almost all of Ferris wheel.  At the basement of the
Ferris wheel has a stuff of the amusement park who acted as a doorman,
opening one by one of each Ferris' doors, waiting the peoples to enter
and locked each door of each Ferris carefully for the safety of the
visitors themselves.

When it was about their turn to go inside a Ferris, Fuutie said, "I
want some snacks there," she pointed to the snack store by the Ferris
wheel.  "Please come with me, Tomoyo-chan, I can't read Japanese
language."  With her back facing Sakura and Shaolan, Fuutie sent
Tomoyo a signal wink.

Getting the signal, Tomoyo smiled, "my pleasure, Fuutie-san."

"Me too! Me too!" Kero, who was emerged his upper body from Fuutie's
handbag, squalled when he heard the word 'snacks'.

"Kero-chan!" Sakura cried, warning Kero to be composed himself.

Fuutie giggled, "It's all right, Sakura-chan.  I love to see when
Cerberus eat too, he looks really cute when he's eating."

"Wai! Wai!" Kero cheered happily.

Fuutie giggled again and said, "Anything you want to eat, Shaolan,
Sakura-chan?"

"N-No.  Thank you, Fuutie-san."

"No.  Thank you, Fuutie-oneesan."

"Okay, so you two go in the Ferris Wheel first.  After I have snacks,
I'll follow."  Fuutie said while pushing Sakura and Shaolan into the
waiting Ferris wheel.  Her main purpose was to lock Sakura and Shaolan
together.

"En?" Shaolan stuttered.  "But we can wait..."

"The others are waiting, Shaolan." Fuutie cut him off.

Seeing that other peoples were on the line behind them, and the stuff
of the amusement park were opening the door of a Ferris, waiting for
them to go inside patiently.  Sakura and Shaolan gave Fuutie a little
nodded before they went in the waiting Ferris together.

Fuutie's smiles filled with satisfaction, as she could achieve her
purpose, then she turned to Tomoyo, pretending to be innocence, and
said, "Let go to buy snacks, Tomoyo-chan."

Tomoyo giggled, as she could see what Fuutie had tried to do, she
smiled to Fuutie and said, "Yes, Fuutie-san"
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

As Fuutie had said, in the Ferris was the best site to appreciate to
the view of Tomoeda town which was being bathed by the numerous of
electric lights, and the other side of the Ferris was the view of
Tomoeda amusement park.

Appreciating the view outside the windows of the Ferris they were
sitting, Sakura, who was sitting by the window and looking at the view
of the Tomoeda amusement park, said, "Look, Li-kun, the view outside's
really beautiful."

Shaolan, on the other hand, stole a glance at Sakura, and saw the girl
he was in love with was also being bathed by the reflected light from
the outside, he said, "Yes, beautiful."  He felt his face grew hot.
He looked away from Sakura, before she could notice that he was
looking at her, to the view of the Tomoeda amusement park in the
night.

The kids sat silently, treasuring the view for a while, then Sakura
began.

"I-I had the good time today, Li-kun," she said, blushing lightly.

Shaolan nodded, blushing, "Me too, Sakura."

"L-Li-kun," Sakura made an uncomfortable and hesitated call.

"Yes?"

"W-When you will go back to Hong Kong?  I mean your... flight." She
asked with small voice.

Shaolan gasped, his breath was caught and his stomach was arched
again.  He felt a surge of pain rushed to him when he heard her
question.  Hiding his pain in his eyes by looking away from her, he
replied, "Coming Wednesday, at-at 1:30 P.M."

Sakura trembled at his answer, "Can... Can I meet you at the airport?
S-So Tomoyo-chan, Kero-chan and... and I can say good-goodbye..."
Sakura trailed off.

"Yes, you all can..."

"... L-Li-kun," she called him once again.

"Yes?"

"Will... will you be back... again?"  Sakura asked, hope in her voice.

Shaolan tightened his jaw.  "All of my duty in Japan was finished," he
replied, biting back the part that he would probably not came back
again because all his duty in Japan had finished.

Sakura bowed her head and looking down.  Her heart was sore badly, as
if it was being ruptured, tears began to well up on her eyes, but she
tried hard to keep them from felling down.

[When the same thing occurs again]  Eriol's voice repeated in Sakura'
head, [when a person who is close to you end up by going some place
far away, please think hard about how you feel then, and how it
different with how you feel about my going.  Because if you do that,
you'll know who is the person you truly think of as your 'number
one'.]

<I-I don't want him to leave. >  Sakura thought.  Sakura looked at him
again, her face was red, the intense despair was in her eyes, "Li-kun,
I-I...."

Shaolan turned to Sakura, as she called him, listening what she was
going to say calmly.

Her mouth hung down, as if she wanted to say something, but it was
nothing came out.  "Li-kun, I--" she tried again.

"Good evening, ladies and gentled men," the voice that came out from
speakers, which resounded allover the amusement park, interrupt
Sakura.  "Tomoeda amusement park proudly to present the Star festival
show.  We all hope you will enjoy the show."

Suddenly all the lights around the yard and the adjacent areas were
shut, showing the visitor, who was gathering around the yard the
darkness.  Then the small electric lights began to turn on group by
group and one by one, presenting themselves as if they were
constellations and little stars in the darkness of the night sky.

"Once upon a time"  The voice of narrator began, "Members of royalty
were, associated with the heavens; Tentei (the celestial emperor)
being centered at the North Pole.

"One day, the celestial princess, Orihime, was sitting beside the
river of heaven (Milky Way)."

The little numerous electric lights began to turn on one after
another, filling the darkness with their light, till they were looked
alike a long Milky Way of the night sky.  Then Orihime, who dressed in
a beautiful and very traditional Japanese outfit, hanging herself my
using invisible slings, drifted from the darkness to the river of
heaven, amazing all the visitor.

"She had been weaving because her father.  The emperor loved the
beautiful clothes that she made.

"On this particular day, she was very sad because she realized that
she had been so busy that she didn't have time to fall in love. Her
father, Tentei, the ruler of the heavens, felt sorry for her and
arranged a marriage with Kengyuu, who lived across the river of
heaven.

"Their marriage was one of sweetness and happiness from the start; and
everyday thereafter they grew happier and happier. However Tentei
became very angry, for the reason that she was spending so much time
in her happy marriage, Orihime was neglecting her weaving.

"So Tentei decided to separate the couple.  He placed them back in
their original places, separated by the Milky Way. The couple was
forced to be separated by the river of heaven and only one night of
the year would he allow them to meet, the 7th day of the 7th month.

"However, there is no bridge over the river of heaven, and the
princess, on her first visit, wept so bitterly when she found out that
it's impossible for her to meet her beloved husband. This roused the
sympathy of a Kasasagi (magpie) who assured her that a bridge would be
contrived for her, every year on that day. This was done when the
magpies spread their wings, forming a bridge on which the princess
crossed.

"Even so if Orihime has not done her weaving to the best of her skills
and ability, Tentei may make it rain on the eve of 7 July. When it
rains, the magpies will not form the bridge and the celestial lovers
must wait another year before meeting ... "

"What's a wicked father?!" Kero, who was eating a waffle, said
angrily.

Shiki-chan, who rested itself by Kero's side and looked as if was
going to cry, nodded in agreement.  Both magic creatures pitied the
celestial lovers.

Kero turned to Tomoyo and asked, "They have to stuck with this
forever?"

Tomoyo smiled to him and Shiki-chan and nodded.  Hearing Kero groaned
in disappointment, she added, "For this day, we will write wishes to
the deity Orihime on colorful strips of paper. On the evening of
Tanabata, they tie these paper wishes to freshly cut bamboo, believed
that the wishes will become true."

"If I write that I wish Orihime can be with Kengyuu forever, it will
become true?" Kero asked hopefully.

"It probably will help them a lot, Kero-chan."

"Good!"  Kero and Shiki-chan both jumped with determination in their
eyes.  Kero grasped a Shiki-chan's short fin and flew together.

"Wait, Cerberus, Shiki-chan.  Where are you two going?" Fuutie called.

One good thing was now the amusement park did not turn much lights on,
so it would not much catch others' eyes if a pink fish-shaped balloon
and an orange rat doll would fly together freely.

Kero and Shiki-chan turned to where Fuutie and Tomoyo were standing.
"Find bamboo and striped papers to write our wishes."

Fuutie and Tomoyo blinked, confusing.

"Hey quick, Tomoyo, Li lady! We have to write the wish before that
wicked father will make rain."  Kero said, while Shiki-chan gesturing
for Tomoyo and Fuutie to follow.

Tomoyo and Fuutie turned to look at each other and giggled.  They
followed the two magic creatures.  Kero and Shiki-chan were fully
drawn into the show.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

In the Ferris, Sakura's mobile phone rang.

"Yes?" Sakura answered the phone.

"Sakura-chan, it's Tomoyo.  Fuutie-san, Kero-chan, Shiki-chan and I
are finding a booth that sells bamboo and striped paper."

"Oh-e?" Sakura was confused.

"Kero and Shiki-chan really pity Orihime and Kengyuu.  They want to
help them by write their wish as quick as possible, just in case
Tentei will make rains," Tomoyo giggled lightly.  "Will you and Li-kun
wait at the Ferris wheel for a while?  We will meet you there soon."

"Yes, Tomoyo-chan, we'll wait.  See you."

"See you later, Sakura-chan."  Finishing the conversation, Tomoyo hung
up.

When Sakura hung up her mobile phone, she looked at Shaolan.
"Fuutie-san, Tomoyo-chan, Kero-chan and Shiki-chan are finding a booth
that sells bamboo and striped paper."

"For what?" Shaolan asked, confusing.

"Tomoyo said Kero-chan and Shiki-chan really pity Orihime and Kengyuu,
and they want to help by write their wish."

"Oh..."

Sakura and Shaolan went to silence again.  They were staring out to
the view of Tomoeda amusement park in the night.

"... Actually, Me too... thinks that they're pitying."  Sakura began
quietly.  Her face flushed in soft pink, unnerving to look at the face
of the boy before her.

"En?"  Shaolan turned to look at Sakura.

"Orihime and Kengyuu...  Being separated from the person they loved
most, it'll be very sad..."

Shaolan sat quietly, looking at the girl tentatively said words.  He
smiled lightly but his eyes were sorrowful, as he did understand how
it felt, being separated from the person who was beloved.  And he was
going to face those feelings very soon.

"I-I think I can understand.  When... when the last judgement, Yue-san
said that... if I failed the judgement... I would forgot everyone...
It was terrified me a lot…"  Sakura gripped the hem of her dress
tight, looking down at her feet.

"But you succeed." Shaolan said, his voice was consoled and soft.

"And when Eriol-kun called the Dark, making Tomoeda covered with
darkness...  Everyone fell asleep.  First Tomoyo-chan, Onii-chan then
Kero-chan and Yue-san and then... and then... you."

"Sakura..."

"I-I was very scared.  When I thought that... that I would never see
you again, I just could not let it happened."

"Sakura?" Shaolan was more and more confused by what exactly was in
her mind, he felt his stomach ache increase its intensity.

[When the same thing occurs again]  The memory of Eriol's speech
repeated, [when a person who is close to you end up by going some
place far away, please think hard about how you feel then, and how it
different with how you feel about my going.  Because if you do that,
you'll know who is the person you truly think of as your 'number
one'.]

At last, Sakura turned her face up to Shaolan slowly, her eyes
glistened by tears, "Li-kun, I--"

Abruptly, with a damaged knot and was the main one that linked the
core spindle of the Ferris wheel could not hold its duty any longer.
The main knot began to loosen from the core spindle, which created the
force of colliding to the Ferris wheel.  The peoples inside the Ferris
wheel were thrown side to side by the momentum.

"What happen!?" cried Sakura.  Both kids stood up sharply and looked
around to see what was happening.

"Something wrong with this Ferris wheel, Sakura!"

As Shaolan finished his statement, the Ferris wheel began to incline
to the yard that the show had performed.  The weight of the huge
Ferris wheel ripped the various big and small live wires that were
coiled the Ferris wheel.  It caused the one forth of total power of
the Tomoeda amusement park was out.  Screams of the visitors around
the Ferris wheel could be heard all over the park.

A good thing was electric insulator allover wrapped the Ferris wheel.
So even many high power live wires had been ripped apart, they could
not harm peoples who were in the Ferris wheel if they did not touch
any of those live wires directly.

The bad thing was the biggest Ferris wheel of Tokyo was going to
topple.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

The saddened powers out of the Ferris wheel and shrieking of peoples
snatched all eyes of Kero, Tomoyo, Fuutie and Shiki-chan, which were
sitting on a branch, writing their wishes.

"Some thing wrong with that Ferris wheel!  Sakura-chan and Shaolan’s
still there! Come quick Cerberus, Tomoyo-chan!"  Fuutie commanded.
She scooped Shiki-chan and run to the Ferris wheel, knowing that
Shiki-chan could not flew fast.  She prayed to the god to protect her
little brother and the girl.

"Sakura and Li boy are in danger!" Kero headed to the Ferris wheel
quickly.

"Sakura-chan!" cried Tomoyo, following Fuutie and Kero.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

Touya bolted out quickly from the cafe he did his part-time job,
looking at the Ferris wheel.  Sakura was in danger!  His sense cried
out.  Even he had given all his power to Yue, but his special sense
for his little sister still worked well.

<Damn! > Ignoring the call of his name from another writer, Touya ran
to the Ferris wheel as quick as he could, Why his sister was always
put in dangers? He caused.
 

* * * * * * * * *
 

In side the tilted Ferris wheel, which was nearly toppled to the yard
that the show had preformed, the kids were standing.

"Release!!" Sakura hold her magic stave in her hands.  She turned to
Shaolan.  "We must help others to get out of this Ferris wheel before
it topples, Li-kun!"

"Um," Shaolan nodded, already holding his sword in his hand.

Sakura and Shaolan both knew the Ferris wheel was going to topple soon
before a rescue party would arrive.  Everyone that was in this Ferris
wheel and stood around this yard was in the great danger.  And they
would not let the disaster happened if they could help.

"Wood!!" Sakura called her card.

Finishing its master's call, the numerous of lianas came from other
side, holding the tilted Ferris wheel up tight in place.  But
unfortunately, the Ferris wheel was overweight more than woods could
hold.  Finally, with the weight of the Ferris wheel and the attractive
force of the earth the lianas could not hold the Ferris wheel any
longer.  All the lianas were ripped apart.

With that, it created the great force of bang within the Ferris wheel,
caused a little young boy bumped hardly against the door of his Ferris
made the door busted opened and the boy fell from his Ferris.

"NOOO!!!!"  His mother screamed in terror.  Her child was going to die
before her.

"Fuuka Shourai!!"

On the spur of the moment, the body of the little boy was held in the
air by the magic wind, protecting him from crashing against the earth.
The little boy was landed safely with little confusion.  Seeing that,
the mother of the little boy cried in grateful to whatever gods who
had helped her child.

"Li-kun!?"  Sakura turned to Shaolan, who had just used his magic to
save the little boy's life.  She was relieved from the terrified
moment; he could be helpful as always.

Nevertheless the real problem was still not be solved, the Ferris
wheel continued to tilt into the deeper angle.   Everyone that was in
the Ferris wheel tried their best to hold their balance, but they all
knew, with this situation and with the rescued party still did not
arrive, more terrorized things were going to happen.

"This Ferris wheel's going to topple!" Shaolan warned.  They had to do
something, but what.

"But this Ferris wheel's too heavy, Wood could not hold!"  Sakura
cried, being scared out of her wits.  "How can I...  What should I
do?"  Tears caked on her eyes.  She was going to cry.  What should
they do? What should they do?  Sakura thought in helpless, as the
Ferris wheel made another degree of its bend caused Sakura lost her
balance.

"Don't cry," Shaolan commanded resolutely, using his left hand to
catch Sakura and held her in place.  "Cry will not make anything
better."

Sakura stared at him.  There was Shaolan, standing before her and
giving her courage every times she loosed it.  She felt power rush to
her, making her stronger.  And with that power, she could do anything.
He always helped her, always gave her courage, and always gave her
power.  If she had him by her side, she would become stronger, and
everything would be okay.

Finally claimed down, Sakura wiped tears from her eyes and nodded.

"Maybe, you can use Windy.  I will used Fuuka Shourai so we can help
others to out of this Ferris wheel and land on the ground safely."
Shaolan suggested.

"Um," Sakura nodded, then she called the card, "Windy!"

"Fuuka Shourai!" Shaolan called his wind magic.

The magic winds made all the doors of the Ferris wheel, excepted
Sakura and Shaolan's, opened and took everyone out from the Ferris
wheel individually and brought them down onto the ground safely.

Everyone that was around the place and was the witnesses of the
miracle event was marveled, as they saw the peoples out from the
Ferris wheel and landed onto the ground one after another.  It must be
the God that was helping them, they all thought.

Sakura and Shaolan' power were being depleted.  Using their magic to
take peoples one by one continuously was the big deal, even for
Sakura, the greatest magician of the world.  However they both kept
persisting in their rescue.

Dashing to the Ferris wheel at the same time, Touya, Tomoyo, Kero and
Fuutie, who was holding Shiki-chan in her arms, stood by one another's
side.  They did not aware that they were standing by one another, as
they concerned to the safety of the kids.

Seeing the supernatural even, Touya uttered, "Sakura..." He knew it
was his little sister's magic that was rescuing peoples and another
was...

"Shaolan," Fuutie called with worry.  Seeing the magic, she could know
the kids were still unharmed, but using a lot of magic like that would
drain all of their power completely.

When the last person was brought down to the ground, Sakura fell to
the one of her knee.  She was exhausted.

"Are... Are you all right?"  Shaolan asked.  He also fell onto his
knee, using his sword to keep his body from collapsing to the floor.
His illness only made his condition worse.

"Um," Sakura nodded, "What about you, Li-kun?"

"I am fine," he lied.  Sensing the Ferris wheel tilted even deeper,
Shaolan said, "We have to get out of this Ferris wheel quick."
Forcing himself to stand up to his feet, he helped Sakura to stand up
to her feet.

"Um," Sakura nodded.  She reached out, intending to grape the knot of
the door and open it.  She planned to use Fly to help her and the boy
to land on the ground.

Shaolan's eyes widened, at the knot, he saw a thick damaged live wire
that had been ripped apart by the weight of the Ferris wheel was
waiting for Sakura to touch it.  Sakura could not see the damaged live
wire as the darkness different angle blinded her, and she was going to
touch that damaged live wire.

"SAKURA, DON'T TOUCH THAT KNOT!!" Shaolan cried.

"Oh-e?" Sakura turned to the boy.

Sakura succeed to open the door, but her hand also accidentally
touched the damaged live wire.  With the force of the powerful
electric current from the damaged wire, Sakura was thrown to the
opposite direction.  Shaolan managed to catch her before she would
crash against the wall of their Ferris.

"Sakura!!" Holding the unconscious girl, Shaolan called her.

The situation did not give him time to check her condition.  The
Ferris wheel tilted to fifty degree caused Shaolan and Sakura, who was
unconscious in Shaolan's arms, slid through the opened door to outside
that had nothing to catch them from falling down.
 

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03/02/2001
To Be Continue Next
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My Confession: As I must confess to you, this is my first CCS fiction
& first fiction that I succeed to send it to home page. ^-^  So it
might not good as others, but I will try to improve myself, as CLAMP's
thick fan I swear next will coming in few mouths.
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Note:  Just in case if anyone confused—[Fuuka Shourai] is Shaolan's
magic for calling wind.

Babbling With Mee-na:

Hi Dear readers.

At last another part of this series is done.  I hope you will enjoy it
^_^

For this part, if some of you already watched or knew the CCS second
movie, you will know that the second movie also had the amusement park
scene and the Ferris wheel scene. After I made the plot of this
series, I was really surprised when I knew it, however I decided to
change nothing, as the scene of the amusement park and the Ferris
wheel are very important to the plot.  (Partially because I hold some
pride that I was not copy from the movie, and I want to make my work
as best as I can, so why I have to change my idea anyway?  ^_^'
Heh-heh I am such a stubborn, ne)

Lastly, Thank you all that keeps your patient to read until this part
(And if it is not too much, I also hope you will continue to read the
next) and thanks for all of your mails you sent me.  I am really happy
that my dear readers gave me responses o^___^o

Bye!
God blesses you all and takes care of yourself
Mee-na
meena_hello@thaimail.com