(TIMESKIP)

The castle of Drumstrang loomed over the heads of Sakura, Syaoran and Yue. Its towers were high, the walls clear as if they were made with nothing but ice.

"Is this the place where Voldemort and his Death Eaters reside? It looks creepy enough," Syaoran said.

They walked towards the gates of Drumstrang under the illusion card so they would not be discovered.

The halls of Drumstrang were full Dementors, Death Eaters and the reek of evil magic. The strongest was a wave, nearly making Syaoran faint. They knew that it had to belong to Voldemort.

Sakura wanted to kill all the Death Eaters on sight. Syaoran would not let her, saying "the proper way to hunt a snake is to cut off its head. Then the body will eventually die."

Sakura had succumbed to his wisdom but only after hours of arguing. She would make them all pay!

Yue thought of this as they walked along, following the strongest dark magic they could find. Suddenly, Sakura stopped them in their tracks and said, quite loudly, "Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, what in the name of Clow are you doing here?"

The tree looked started as they came out from their invisibility charms. Harry asked, "Who's there?"

Sakura frowned for a moment then remembered. She snorted and took off the effects of the Illusion card.

"P-p-p-professor Kinomoto? Syaoran Li? That-funny-looking-angel-guy from breakfast? I could ask you the same thing!" Harry cried out in surprise.

"Blimy, it is them!" Ron exclaimed.

"I don't have time for this!" Sakura told the three Hogwarts students. "You should be in Hogwarts, studying for your exams! Don't worry about Voldemort; I'll take care of him. Oh, and by the way? That-funny-looking-angel-guy from breakfast's name is Yue."

Hermione looked grave. "We're here to bring you back to Hogwarts. You won't succeed in killing Voldemort, not when his Horcruxes are alive."

Syaoran cute in, "We know about the horcruxes, or, well at least I know about them. Sakura can destroy them easily enough. Now go, before you're found!"

Harry's eyes narrowed. "You're from Slytherin House, aren't you? Professor Kinomoto here ran away from her job. And we don't know anything about this Yue fellow. How do we know you aren't Death Eaters in disguise?"

Sakura sighed. "Harry Potter, trust me, I'd rather die then join Voldemort. Now, do you know what these Horcruxes look like? If I know, then I can destroy them right now."

Harry's eyes did not clear up but he replied, "We already destroyed one, Riddle's Diary. Professor Dumbledore destroyed another, Marvelo's ring. The others are Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's goblet, Ravenclaw's diadem, his snake Nagani and we don't know the last one."

"Six at the moment, then. If I get one, then I can find the seventh one. Now." Sakura started her incantations. "Firey, Watery, Earthy and Windy! Heed now unto my call! Destroy one each of Slytherin's Locket, Hufflepuff's goblet and the snake, Nagani! Windy, gentle of the elements, bring forth to me the diadem of Ravenclaw! Be quick and make fast your return!"

Five spirits rose from Sakura and glided out of the castle. Sakura gave her staff one last twist before saying, "That aught to do the trick!"

They waited. Less then five minutes later, the Windy returned. She held the locket of Slytherin but her hands were charred. She looked as if she was in intense pain.

At the sight of her first card, Sakura's eyes softened. "Oh, Windy!" she cried and flung herself at the being, her touch healing the pain in Windy's hands. "I'm so sorry, so sorry…" Sakura sobbed and took hold of the instrument of Windy's pain.

"Let me see…" Sakura muttered. She put her power into the locket, a bit at a time then let her spirit loose to find the similar magic. To her surprise, she hardly moved at all. Instead, she found herself staring into the eyes of Harry James Potter, the unintended Seventh Horcrux.

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Sakura returned to her body in a daze. "Harry," she said, "It looks like we'll have to do some spiritual surgery on you. You are the Seventh Horcrux and Voldemort's soul is bound to this earth as long as that part is not removed."

Harry looked stricken. "What, me? Can you remove it or will you have to…" here he stopped, looking a bit green. "Or will you have to kill me?"

"No, no, that won't be necessary. All I have to do is take it out, but I'll require about an hour to do so…" Sakura replied.

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She waited for the other cards to return, successful, before she started on her "spiritual surgery".

She called on the sword to help her. Slowly, she cut away at the area where Voldemort's soul had latched onto Harry's. She tried to keep Harry's soul untouched but it was impossible even for her because the two souls were mixed in some places. It was as successful as such things could be.

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The six of them hurried towards the fast-growing magic of Voldemort. They found him weeping over the death of his snake. His eyes looked harried and his face was even more twisted then usual.

Harry stepped out into the light.

"Harry Potter… did you do this to my snake?" he said, holding up the charred remains of Nagani.

Harry was shocked at the intensity in which Voldemort's eyes burned. He stood there, stricken as Voldemort tried to look into Harry's mind but failed.

"Crucio!" Voldemort shouted. The spell came at Harry, its light blinding him. He braced himself for the pain and heard screaming. It took him a second to realize that the screaming was not his own.

He saw the form of Syaoran Li in front of him but he was not the one shouting. In front of Syaoran stood Yue but he also was not the source of the deafening noise. Harry looked even further ahead to see Sakura, her back arched back gracefully and stiff, her scream filling up the room.

Syaoran had tried to save Harry from the pain of the curse. Yue, knowing that Sakura would try to take the pain instead of Syaoran, tried to stop Sakura by putting himself as a shield for Syaoran. But he did not know that Sakura cared for him more then she ever cared about anyone else in the world, not even Syaoran who was her soul mate. Yue did not know that Sakura would do anything for him.

The screaming stopped and Sakura crumpled from the pain. She slowly stood up to face him, her face narrowed in quiet hatred.

"You killed my best friend, tried to steal my cards, hurt my friends and tried to torture them. Today, you will die!" she shouted, her voice magnifying as her statement went on.

Her cards lashed out at Voldemort, each one hurting him as he had hurt their mistress. They struck him for causing their mistress unimaginable anguish at losing Tomoyo, hurt him for killing the innocent, hurt him for causing Sakura to lose her smile.

Then it was all over. Nothing remained of Voldemort but a stain upon the ground. This was the terrifying power of the Card Mistress.

Worn out, she collapsed into the arms of the awaiting Syaoran who looked at her tenderly and said, "Now you can forget your hatred and let me love you as I have wanted to for so long."

Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled a genuine smile. "It's all over," she whispered.

She stood up and looked around. Her tears fell and she was reborn into the girl she once was.

Syaoran embraced her. Sakura stiffened the returned the love. For the first time since Tomoyo's death, she loved.

Their lips met and the onlookers smiled at one another. Yue looked proudly at his mistress and said, "I'll take you two somewhere more appropriate for this kind of thing."

He teleported the couple into Sakura's bedroom in Toemeda then took the three Hogwarts students back to their school. He sighed and looked at the moon, perched on a cherry blossom tree. "I hope things will quiet down now," he sighed.