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The Power of Two

By Margaret Chen Li

Chapter Thirteen

Into the stadium

All of a sudden, a bright blue and yellow light came out of Lero’s stomach. The next generation of Cerebus is here! Lero had a baby with Kero. This is the greatest thing in the world, a little green creature, the color mixed by yellow and blue. They decided to name him Mero as for the letter after K and L. The little boy looks exactly like Kero but only his skin color is different. After a day, Mero grown is half big as Kero when he first met Sakura. “Wow, I’m so happy for you guys!” “Thanks Meilin, this might be the first time and the last time you ever say good things to us.” “No Kero, don’t be silly, I’m trying to be nice after your fight.” “Thanks anyways.”

“I’m happy for you too Keroberos.” Said Darken. “Darken? What are you doing here? You are not invited to the baby shower and you aren’t going to destroy the great thing.” Said Sakura with the wand in her hand. “No, no, no. You got this all wrong, I’m here to celebrate.” “Save it for yourself Darken, I know you aren’t just come and say good things to us.” “That’s right!” “You don’t understand, since you defeat all my bright agents, you’re going to go into the stadium and fight for your very last fight but it’s not ‘the’ last one. Maybe there’s another trouble during this time but you’ll know after.” “What should we do?” “You take all your time with your babies and stuff, if you’re all done with those, come to Dark World and I’ll tell you everything then you’ll going to Lasin World to fight. The Lasin Mountain is the highest mountain in Magic World and you have to climb up and find out all the mysteries. Anyways, come when you’re ready and I’ll tell you everything. Okay, bye!”

Darken left and everybody gone back to their happy place. That night, they had a party and it was so cool. They don’t have a lot of people so it made the party much easier, Kero made all the candles and stuff for the party and they just sit there, eating barbecue. “I think this is the most fine day of our lives after we had the connections with Magic.” “I agree with Sakura. Think about this, all four years, we’ve been capturing cards; fight, capturing cards and fights. We never got anything to do other besides that. Then we lost our friends and stuff like that. It’s just too cruel.” “I don’t seem why is that possible because our loved ones were always lead us and tell us what to do. Sometimes we’ll get lost but we’ll always be grateful and we’ll always win.”

It’s a very long conversation about magic, life, and most of all, love and friendship. When they’re talking, Julian spent his time eating all the food and Meilin talked the most about her old life with Li and everything. Madison found her camera and Kero made an empty tape so Madison was taping. Tori is kind of bored just listening and sometimes he’ll talk about ghost and his mother. Kero is just keeping making miracles and Lero is taking care of the baby. Then Sakura and Li had a walk.

“Li, do you think we’re able to win this match?” “Of course we will, we will always will, I knew that. I will always there for you. Can we talk about something else?” “Sure.” “What about our future?” “What do you mean?” “After this, I think I needed to head for Hongkong and I don’t know if I’m coming back or not. What about if there’s another trouble and I’m not able to reach you?” “Don’t worry Li, we’re meant to be together and nothing is ever going to bother us.” “Thanks. And one more things, I love you Sakura.” “I love you too Li.” “I think we should head back because it’s kinda late.” “I know! I was going to say that and we’ve been walking for thirty minutes.” “Right.”

Li and Sakura are heading back then rain started so the walk became a jog. “What is up with this weather? I thought Magic World was sunny.” “I don’t know, something is terribly wrong, did you bring your wand? We can fly back.” “Okay. The key of Clow, the power of Magic, the power of light, surround the wand, the force ignite! Release! Fly! Li get on, we got to get back!”

When they got back, everybody is gone, except for the fire on the barbecue. “What? It can’t be!” “What is happening? Li, tell me, all my friends and relative are in that group!” “I once had this dream that the exactly same thing happened except the rain. I dreamed that we had a walk and then it snowed but we walked slower and when we got back all the people were dead.” “It’s worse! Tell me, what happened next?” “I don’t know! Then I woke up! But I think we should check in with Darken.” “Surprise!” “Huh?” “Sakura? Don’t you remember today is the first day you know about Magic and it’s Mero’s birthday?” “I know it’s Mero’s birthday all right but I forgot all about my first day of Magic.” “Then here you go!” “Li, I think this is happiness and it’s not very cruel.” “I hope it stays this way.”

The next week, Sakura and the other people checked in with Darken about the battle. Now Mero is big as Kero when he first met Sakura. Darken is very happy to hear that they’re read to battle him. “Now, as you can see, you have five tiny missions to finish. You have to climb on Lasin Mountain. First, you have to answer a question to get in. If you got that question right, you’re going in perfectly but if you didn’t answer it right you have to battle the guardian. When you reached certain level, one of you have to answer a question. No matter who it is or you get it right or wrong, that person have to stay there and battle. Mero will be the one who deliveries. Now are you all cleared up?” “Sure.”

“Go to the Lasin Mountain and help yourselves. Don’t forget, there are five levels, the first one is the easiest and the last one is the hardest. The test will get harder by how much you climbed. But Sakura and Li should be the last one who are fighting with me. If they lost, bad, really bad things will happen. If someone won at certain level they will get an element by what kind of attack the test is and Mero have to deliver it to you guys and then he disappears. After you beat me, Li or Sakura has to place it in the back of my palace that has five stars on the wall. Those are the shapes of the elements but have different colors and picture on it. Okay, get on your way now!”

About ten minutes later, they all reached to Lasin Mountain’s entrance. All of them including Tori, Julian and Clow Scouts. “Well, here goes.” The guardian popped out the question on the gate. “Who is the first leader in Magic World? A: Clow Reed B: Source God C: Dark Shadow D: Blair Witch E: Fairy God. You only have 3 choices.” “This is so easy,” said Meilin, “It’s A: Clow Reed.” “Eh, false alarm!” “What? How did that happened?” “I think it’s Fairy God because it’s cool.” “You’re so childish squirt, I think it’s Dark Shadow.” “No Tori! He is the bad one!” “Okay, fine! I’ll decide. It’s Blair Witch.” Said Li but it’s still wrong. Julian turned into Yue and he plugged in Source God and it was the right answer. The gate opened and they all went in and started their journey.

“Do we really have to climb up? I hate climbing!” “Meilin, don’t complain, we get into this point and it’s a good thing. We shouldn’t be complaining about anything else you know.” “Li, you always like that telling me what to do like you’re my father or something like that! Exactly! Now I know what is wrong with you, you talk like my father and everything he does. You happy now?” “Not really but I’m fine though.” They began to climb but it’s not easy as they thought it would be, Meilin almost fell and Madison fell but Sakura used Fly card to catch her. It’s so hard but they made it to the first level. They are deciding who is going to stay there and they had a big fight. Sakura and Li were looking at all those people fighting over who’s going to stay and they sighed like animated pictures.

The wind flew over the horizons, a new adventure begun.