Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura
"Where am I?" Sakura wondered as she scanned her surroundings. It was nighttime, and the full moon hovered with the bright stars above her. Trees circled around her, forming a barricade that prevented her from seeing further beyond.
A powerful light source illuminated the environment like the sun. Although it was in middle of the night, where the darkness would have shrouded everything, Sakura could clearly see everything around her Looking at her feet; she realized that the light source was from her own magical circle.
She clutched the star staff in her hand and felt her magical powers surged through it. She raised the staff high above her toward the moon and the stars. The yellow star imbedded in star staff began to spin rapidly as the wings on the side grew and expanded.
The Sakura cards started to appear one by one around her and bathed in her light. Before long, all her cards were floating around her, like if they were dancing under the lunar sky. The presence of her cards always gave Sakura and feeling of happiness and pleasantness. She reached forward with her hand to touch one. However, when her hand made contact with the card, the card dissolved in a ball of light.
Like if she unknowingly started a chain reaction, the others cards around her also started to lose their form. Confused, Sakura tried to call out for them, but she didn't get a response. The balls of light started fade away into nothingness. Sakura watched in panic as her cards disappear into thin air, and desperately called out to them with all her strength.
Her attempts made no success, as the lights continued slowly faded around her. Suddenly, Sakura began to feel very hot, almost if like she was burning. Pain started to spread around her body, and she collapsed to her knees as the pain sapped her strength to stand.
Panting heavily, Sakura felt moisture rolled down her cheeks. She wasn't sure if it was her sweat or he tears, but she desperately wanted to cry for help. Wondering, she was feeling this excruciating pain from her body. She grew weaker as the pain intensified, and then everything went black.
Sakura jolted up awake from her nightmare, and sent Kero, who was sleeping soundly on her chest flying towards the wall. She was panting heavily and her pajamas were covered with her sweat. For a few moments, Sakura stared blankly at the pink blankets in front of her, trying to calm the beating of her frantic heart.
"Sakura. SAKURA!" Kero shouted at his mistress.
"Ah!" Sakura let out a short scream when Kero's shout startled her.
"Hey, are you alright kiddo?" Kero asked in concerned voice since he saw Sakura looked like she just came back from a battlefield.
Turning her head left and right, she realized was back in her room. The familiar yellow walls in her bedroom gave her relief, and embracing the fact that it was a bad dream.
"Sakura! Earth to Sakura!" Kero broke Sakura's train of thought, as she focused her attention at the flying yellow plush doll in front of her.
Sakura saw a red bump on Kero's forehead. "Hoe…sorry, Kero-chan." Sakura apologized for flinging him into the wall when she awoke.
"It doesn't matter. But what the hell happened to you, did you have a prophetic dream?" Kero asked curiously.
Sakura nodded. "I think so…" She can never really tell which dreams are supposed to be prophetic dreams and which ones are common dreams. They were all just dreams to her, but she assumed prophetic dreams were the ones where she could remember the dream clearly.
"Can you tell me what you saw?" Sakura nodded again.
Sakura described to Kero what she saw and felt in her dream. Kero's face began to darken with worry, since what she just described wasn't something that could be taken lightly.
"I don't know what it means, Kero. Ever since the capture of The Nothing a year ago, I had never had dreams this vivid again. And, every time I had those dreams, something always happen afterward. Like the dream about Yue and the final judgment, and the dream when Eriol first came to Tomoeda." A feeling of uneasiness started to plague Sakura's mind.
In the back of her mind, Sakura wanted to brush aside the dream she had as a common nightmare every person experiences once in a while. However, everything felt so real in that dream, the surroundings, the cards, and the pain. Incidentally, Sakura could still feel a lingering sense of pain in her body, which added more to her worries.
Sakura lowered her head dejectedly. "Kero-chan, do you think the cards will leave me?"
"Of course not! Sakura, the cards love you, and I and Yue love you as well. We would never abandon you." Kero patted Sakura on the head, and felt the moisture of her sweat, and recognized that Sakura was really shaken by the dream.
"You shouldn't worry too much about it. Dreams are often misleading and can represent something completely different. " Kero stated with confidence, trying to cheer Sakura up.
Sakura raised her head and looked at Kero. Her emerald eyes showing signs of gratitude for supporting her and talking with her about the dream.
"Thank you, Kero. I feel a lot better now." She smiled softly.
"Now, get back to sleep. You have school today." Kero commanded.
Looking up at her alarm clock, she was surprised that it was only three in the morning.
She went to her closet and changed her pajamas that have been drenched with sweat with fresh news ones, and made her way back to her bed. She lay on her bed, and got into a comfortable sleeping position, while Kero helped pull the blankets over her.
"Good night Kero. Sorry for waking you up so suddenly." Sakura said as she closed her tired eyes.
"Good night, Sakura."
"Hey monster, wake up already! Your alarm has been ringing for ten minutes now." Touya shouted from Sakura's bedroom door. Sakura got up groggily, and reached for the alarm to turn it off. Focusing her sleepy eyes on the time shown on the clocks, her eyes sparked into life.
"Ah! I'm going to be late!" Tossing her alarm clock to the side, Sakura hastily made her way out of bedroom to her wardrobe, and knocked Kero off the bed in the process.
"You must really be a monster if you can sleep with the alarm ringing for ten minutes." Touya quickly closed the bedroom door before a pillow flying came flying at his face.
"Breakfast is ready downstairs." Sakura heard Touya through the door as she grabbed her school uniform and put it on. She did not have that nightmare again when she fell asleep again during the night. At least she was happy to know that the prophetic dream had the decency to let her take a break.
Suddenly, she sensed a dangerous presence from behind. She turned around quickly and saw Kero hovering in front her. Another red mark was added to his head.
"Sakura, I am not some rag doll that can be thrown around. I have feelings too." Kero said in a sorrowful tone.
"Heh heh, sorry, Kero-chan." Sakura said apologetically.
"You and Clow Reed are the same. You both treat me as I was just some kind of doll; A nobody." Kero flew lifelessly towards a corner of the room.
"Is he sulking?" Sakura thought. "Yes, he is definitely sulking."
"Hey Kero-chan, How about I make it up to you by buying you some sweets when I get back from school?" Sakura said in a soft voice like she was trying to cheer up a child.
Upon hearing the word sweets, Kero zipped back in front of Sakura. His expression changed from being sad to an expression a little kid who have if he received what he wanted in Christmas.
"Strawberry cheesecake?" Kero asked.
Sakura nodded and agreed. After cheering Kero up, she left the room, and hurriedly walked down the stairs to the living room.
"Good morning, Sakura." Sakura was greeted by her father when she arrived in the dining room.
"Good Morning, Dad."
"Good morning, Mom" Sakura greeted at the picture of her mother on the table.
"So the monster finally made its way out of the cave." Touya said teasingly as he sipped his morning coffee.
"For the last time, I am not a monster!" Sakura made an attempt to stomp her brother's foot, but failed because Touya quickly retreated his foot.
"Sakura, you better hurry and eat your breakfast or you will be late for school." Her father reminded her.
"For the 237th time." Touya quickly added his sly remark at the end.
"Well, for your information, I have not been late to school once in this semester, no matter how late I sleep in." Sakura said with her chest puffed out in pride.
"Is that something to be proud of?" Touya questioned, but Sakura ignored him, and she quickly began eating her breakfast.
"Well, I will be off then. Later Dad." Touya walked up to Sakura, and gave her a quick pat on her head.
"You be safe, squirt." Touya left the living room and headed to the front door, with Sakura glaring at him.
Although Touya liked to tease her, Sakura knew that her brother cared about her deeply. From time to time, she wondered whether her brother knew that she had magical powers. He was certainly suspicious of Kero all the time. Maybe someday, she would be able to tell him and her dad about her powers when she found the proper time.
After eating the last bit of her breakfast, she said goodbye to her father, grabbed her backpack, and made her way to the front door.
"Let's see now, class starts in ten minutes, and it would take me about fifteen minutes to get to school even if she rollerbladed." It was in situations like these that Sakura was glad she had the cards to help her out.
She moved to a place where no one could her see her, and summoned her star staff. She pulled out a Sakura card from her pocket, threw it in the air above her, and pointed the tip of her staff towards it.
"Fly!" she shouted. White wings grew from her back and fluttered, causing a shower of white feathers around her.
She took out another card from her pocket, and threw it into the air.
"Light! Bend and distort the light around my body so that I may become invisible." Sakura commanded. A beautiful woman in white sprang forth from the card, and swirled around the card mistress before fully enveloping her. When the female spirit faded after doing her magic, Sakura took off to the skies, and flew towards her school.
She always liked flying through the sky. The cool breezes blew past on her face and body, and the freedom of having the sky to herself. In a few moments, she landed gracefully on the school's rooftop. She undid her light spell, and her white wings disappeared and transformed back into a card, which she placed back in her pocket.
She quickly made her way downstairs towards her classroom. A passing glance at a clock told that she had a few minutes before classes start.
Sakura entered the classroom, greeted her friends, and walked over to her desk. Tomoyo, her best friend and sat on the desk next to her, greeted her happily with a smile.
"Did you use "Fly" to get here?" Tomoyo asked in whisper.
"Hoe? How did you know?" Sakura was curious to know how her friend knew.
"Your hair is a complete mess, Sakura-chan." Tomoyo smiled as she watched Sakura trying her hardest to fix her auburn hair with her hands.
"Here, Sakura-chan. Let me help." Tomoyo pulled up a comb from her backpack, and began to gently comb Sakura's disheveled hair.
"Thanks, Tomoyo-chan." Sakura said with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"No problem Sakura, we can't have your perfectly cute look ruined by a messy hairdo. This is because I need you to try some more or my outfits after school." Tomoyo said as she somehow got out her video camera out without Sakura noticing.
"Hoe…alright." Sakura said with a nervous smile.
Ever since the conclusion of her cardcaptor days with the capture of the Nothing card, nothing strange had happen in Tomoeda. As a result, Tomoyo was rather disappointed that she wasn't able to continue to film her beloved Sakura fighting and tackling her magical enemies and problems. Eventually, Sakura became somewhat Tomoyo's own personal model because Tomoyo was keen of making more of her costumes for Sakura.
On the other hand, Sakura was relieved. After two years of capturing the Clow cards, and then dealing with reincarnation of Clow Reed and transforming the cards, she was glad it was over. She enjoyed the peaceful life she has now with her cards, guardians, family, and all her friends. However, it would have been perfect, if she was also able to experience it with one other person.
She looked behind her, and saw the empty seat and desk, where her former rival and the person who stole her heart once sat.
"Syaoran, I wonder what you are doing right now?" Sakura whispered to herself.
"So it has already been five years." The man said as he walked towards the gate which said arrivals.
The Tomoeda airport was filled with people walking through corridors to get to their destination. A lone man walked among them. From a glance of his hair color and facial features, one could easily assume that he was Japanese or of Asian descent. However, his eyes were blue like the sea. He wore a black western suit with a thin and long brown coat over it. Unlike the rest arriving passengers, he carried no luggage.
"I am pretty certain that I left the Book of Clow in this city five years ago." The man thought to himself, trying to remember if he was right. He took a folded piece of paper out from his coat, unfolded it in front of his eyes, and scanned it.
"Yes, I am correct. So the next location for the book would be…Munich, Germany. Damn, why is it so far away this time? It's getting very annoying that I need to move the Book to a new place every five years." The man complained to no one in particular.
"Well, might as well get this done quickly. " The man extended his arm fully in the empty space in front of him.
"Book of Clow, answer me." The man commanded inside his head. However, there was no response.
"Huh? I say again, Book of Clow, answer me." The man tried again, but again the only answer it got was dead silence.
"I am absolutely sure I left the book here." The man panicked as he checked the folded piece of paper again. He started to notice that that he was attracting attention as the people passing by him looked at him awkwardly.
To avoid gathering any more unnecessary attention, he decided to walk to someplace quieter, and with less people.
The man double checked and triple checked the paper, and every time it indicated that the book should be here.
"It needs to be here, or I am going to be in big trouble." Since calling the Book of Clow was useless, he tried to sense the magical energy that radiated from the book. It was faint, but he was feeling a lingering magical presence belong to the Book. Unfortunately for him, the magical energy he sensed were scattered all around the city.
"Don't tell me someone found it and stole it? He was going to be in a lot of trouble if a person was misusing the Clow Book, and hurting other people." The man face went pale with dread.
"Okay, in times like these, I should not panic. I just need to find the person who has possession of it, and take that person down. Yes, that is all of I have to do." The man gave a light laugh to cheer himself up.
He grabbed a map of the city as he walked out of the airport.
"Trying to find the book is going to be a pain." With that last remark, he mentally set a route of where he sense traces of Clow book's magic, and set off to find it.
Tomoyo was returning home from school in her family car, feeling satisfied with the pictures and footages she took of Sakura wearing the outfits she had made. A slight giggle came from her mouth as she thought about it. When the car turned to the walkway, she saw a man in a brown long coat, arguing with someone on the intercom in the front gates.
"I just want to ask some questions! Please understand, I'll die." The man pleaded.
Tomoyo stopped asked the car to stop near him to see what was the commotion is about.
"First of all mister, I do not know who you are, nor do I want know. I do not buy this nonsense about magic and artifacts." The person on the other side of the intercom retorted.
"Please, just let me talk to one of the members of this house." The man pleaded desperately again.
"No."
"I guess I will do this the hard way with brute force." The man whispered to himself. As he was about to use his magic to burst through the front gates, he spotted a car pulling up beside him. He saw an elegant young girl with gray-violet hair in the backseat of the car.
He stood in front of the car, blocking it from entering the gates. Immediately, two of Tomoyo's bodyguards came out the car, with intent of removing the guy from where he was standing.
"Look, I just want to have a little conversation with that young miss in the backseat. No need for violence." The man said, but the bodyguards ignored him and approached threatingly.
"So you want to fight me? Well, you would only hurt yourself." The man warned.
One of the guards lunged at him in order to grab and apprehend him. The man gracefully glided to the side, and watch the guard clumsily jumped passed him, and crashed into the games. Infuriated, the guard attacked him by sending his fist right at the man's face. The man caught the fist as it was approaching him like if it was standing still. The guard tried to retract his fist, but his hand wouldn't budge from the tight grip.
The man took a step forward, and punched the guard in the stomach, knocking him out. While, the man was distracted with the other guard, a guard managed to grab the man, while he wasn't looking, and put him in a shoulder lock.
The man yawned at the guards' futile attempt at apprehending him. Electricity started to radiate from his body, and bright flash of light sprang forth from his body. After the light died down, the guard that put him in the lock was electrocuted, and fell to the ground.
"See, I told you that you would only hurt yourself. They never listen, always." The man walked towards to the car.
Tomoyo seeing the fight in front of her, and realizing that the man was definitely not a normal human, tried to make a run for it. However, by the time she went for the door, the man was already by her windshield.
"Um…don't worry, I am not here to hurt you. You see, I am actually very friendly!" He saw the girl in front of her retreated to the other side of the car in fear. From a glance, he could tell that she did not have the Book of Clow. He sensed no magic energy coming from her.
"Look, I am trying to find something I lost. Did anything strange happen to you while you were living in this house?" The man asked.
"Strange?" Tomoya asked questioningly.
"Yes, like things disappearing without explanation. Or accidents that have an unexplained cause,or things being moved around without anyone moving them. Those kind of strange things."
Tomoyo instantly thought about Sakura and her cards. However, in the interest of her friend's well-being, she decided to deny everything she knew.
"No, nothing like that had ever happen." Tomoyo stated boldly.
"Ah I see. Sorry to for disturbing you and about the guards, I can't really hold myself back enough in order not to hurt commoners. Have a good evening." The man said and he started to walk off.
"Wait! Can I have your name?" Tomoyo asked before the man left.
"My name is Sekai." The man replied as he walked off.
As Sekai was walking to his next location of interest, he knew that the girl was hiding something. However, he didn't want to stick around that place for any longer. The person on the intercom probably saw him took the out the guards through the security cameras, and had probably called the police or more guards. The last thing he need on top of all his problems was unnecessary fights, or becoming a wanted man by the police.
"I hate math." Sakura muttered underneath her breath as she tried to solve the linear equations in front of her. Kero was sitting on the desk, indulging on the strawberry cheese cake she brought for him.
"Maybe you should ask your dad to help you." Kero suggested.
"No, he is already tried enough already from his work. Besides, he is out of town tonight and tomorrow for his excavation project." Sakura said.
"How about your brother?"
"I would rather die than to ask him for help. He would probably make me do all his chores for a week in exchange." Sakura pouted.
"Then I guess you're stuck."
A phone call diverted her attention, and Sakura made her way to answer it.
"Hello?" Sakura inquired.
"Sakura-chan!" It was Tomoyo's voice and she sounded urgent.
"Sorry that I called you so late because after today's evening incident, my mom went berserk and wouldn't let me go." Tomoyo sounded apologetic.
"Incident? Are you ok Tomoyo-chan? Is everything fine?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, I am completely fine, you don't need to worry. About the attack, it was a man who caused it. He asked if me if I have seen something strange lately, and he was looking for something. I got the feeling he was looking for the Clow Book because he seemed to have magical powers." Tomoyo remarked.
Kero was listening in on the conversation beside Sakura.
"It wouldn't be uncommon for other magicians to be looking for the Clow book, since is a one of the most powerful magical artifacts in the world. However, there are also a lot of magical artifacts scattered around the world too, so we can't assume for certain that he is looking for the Clow book." Kero stated.
"But we should be cautious. Luckily Sakura has done a good job in hiding her magical presence and the presence of the Sakura cards. So unless she performed some magic, he shouldn't be able to detect anything, and would probably just leave." Kero continued.
"I hope it would turn out that way." Sakura gave a hesitant laugh. The sound of the doorbell rang. Taking a peak on her alarm clock, Sakura wondered why they would have a visitor at 10 pm at night. She looked outside through her bedroom window and saw a man standing at the front door.
"Um…Tomoyo-chan can you describe the man that attacked you?" Sakura asked nervously.
"let's see, he has black hair, wears a brownish long coat, and a black suit underneath it. His eyes are blue, and he said his name was Sekai."Tomoyo continued to list the characteristic of the person.
Sakura felt a sweat a drop as the characteristics that Tomoyo listed fits perfectly on the person who was currently ringing the doorbell.
The front door opened, and Sekai was greeted by an irritated Touya.
"Hello!" The man said in a friendly tone.
"Who are you?" Touya asked with impatience and suspicion seething from his voice.
"I am here to investigate the unusual concentration of magical energy around this house. Do you mind if I take a few minutes inspect it?" Sekai asked politely.
Touya just stared at the person in front of him with eyes that told the person in front of him was crazy. Touya started to close the front door, as an indirect sign of telling Sekai to go away.
However, before the door completely closed, Sekai managed to grab the ledge of the door and held it in place. Touya tried pulling on the door with all his might, but to his surprised, the door wouldn't budge.
"Go away or I will call the police." Touya said with anger in his voice.
With his hands firmly hold the door in place, Sekai asked again. "Please, I just need a few minutes. We would both be better off if you just cooperate."
"Is that a threat?" Touya knew that his person was dangerous and suspicious. Two very good reason to never let this person in the house or anywhere near his little sister.
"Nope, just an advice." Sekai smiled.
Sakura and Kero went downstairs to take a peek of the situation in the front door.
"Hoe. This seems bad." Sakura whispered to Kero.
"It looks like your brother is having a tough time with him. Not only that, that person has powerful magical aura, it would be wise to not let ourselves get detected."
Sekai was finding the person in front of to be very stubborn and annoying. Even when he showed him the difference in power between them, he still would not do as he said. Taking him out would be easy enough for him. However, he saw a little girl walking back up the stairs.
The girl caught his attention because he didn't felt any trace of magical energy coming from her. Normally, this wouldn't have caught his attention, but this house was covered with traces of magical energy. Even the stubborn person in front of him has some trace of magical energy on his body. It is like seeing a spotlessly clean object in a place covered with filth.
"She might be hiding magical her energy. If that is the case, she seemed rather inexperienced at it." Sekai noted in his mind.
Knowing that he had found something suspicious and interesting, he had no more reason to talk to the person in front of him. The person was also about the call the police, which did not want to be involved with.
"Fine, you winl." Sekai sighed, as he let go of the front door, which instantly slammed shut. He will need come back later in order investigate that girl.
"It seemed like he left." Kero said as both he and Sakura watched the man leave.
Sakura let out a big sigh, and mentally thanked his brother.
"We should be on guard, and don't use magic carelessly." Kero advised and Sakura nodded.
Sekai came back again late at night. Before he left, he noticed that there was a bedroom window on the top of the house. He jumped and landed quietly on the roof. After looking checking if there were any magical wards on the roof, he went towards the window.
He held out his index finger, and let his magical energy flow through it. A small yellow tipped blade sprouted from his fingertip. He craved a small hole in the window just big enough for his hand to reach in.
When Sekai was finished carving the opening on the window, he reached inside and unlocked window. He stealthy made his way inside the house.
"Infiltration successful." Sekai whispered in his mind. He felt was like he was ones of those top secret spies from one of the movies he watched. The room was dark, and the only light source was from the moonlight that shone through the window. He looked around, and recognized that this was a bedroom. Looking over to the bed, it was the little girl he saw earlier today that walked up the stairs.
"Well, a top secret agent that sneaks into little girls' bedrooms in the middle of the night. What a disgrace I have become." His glorious thought of him being a secret agent hero suddenly turned into great distaste.
The room he was in was saturated with magical energy, which added to Sekai suspicions. There was high probability that he will find something related to the Clow book in this house. He walked over to the wardrobe and began to search for any clues. He found nothing in the wardrobe, except for some curious costumes that would make one wonder where she got them from. He heard a groan from behind and quickly looked behind.
The girl was groaning and panting heavily in her sleep, and sweat was falling from her face. She seemed to be having a terrible dream. In the back of his mind, he wanted to help her by waking her, but in doing so would jeopardize his entire mission.
Ignoring her, he made his way to her desk, and began to search. He started with the objects and books on the top of her desk, and then began to search the drawers. He opened the top drawer, and found a familiar book.
The book seemed very similar to Clow book he was looking for, but it was very pink.
"I don't remember the book to be this pink and girly; I remembered it to be red. Looking at the front cover of the book, it said Sakura." Sekai assumed Sakura was the little girl's name.
He reached for it to take a glance of its contents. When he made contact, a spark appeared and it zapped his hand.
Sakura instantly woke up from her nightmare when she felt a reaction from her cards. She immediately looked in the direction of her desk. Sekai, noticing the movement of the girl sleeping behind him, looked around to check. Emerald eyes met sapphire, and Sekai quickly leaped towards Sakura, to restrain and cover her mouth, so she wouldn't scream.
"Don't scream, I'm not going to hurt you." Sekai said soothingly, but Sakura kept flailing her arms, trying to get the person off her.
Sakura was panicking. Part of her mind was still experiencing the same nightmare she had the night before. And now, something was trying to restrain and keeping her mouth shut. She struggled like her life depended on it.
"Calm down and stop struggling already or I will seriously need to hurt you." Sekai warned.
"What do you think you're doing to Sakura?" Sekai heard a voice that wasn't his nor the girl he was holding. He created a small orb of light to illuminate the surroundings, and saw a yellow flying plush toy centimeters away from his face.
Kero's sudden appearance startled Sekai and caused his hold on Sakura to lessen for a few seconds. Taking this opportunity, Sakura managed to slip out her hand, and elbowed the attacker in the face. The attacker released his hold and Sakura managed to escape Sekai.
"Key that hides the power the stars, show your true form before me. I, Sakura, command you under our contract. Release!" Sakura commended.
Sekai was amazed that the young girl in front of him was channeling magic. He had not expected this development.
"Sakura cards, come to me" Sakura commanded. Sakura opened her hand, and the deck of Sakura appeared and landed on her hand. She threw a card into air.
"The Clow cards?" Sekai thought as he watched the cards gathered at the little girl's hand. "She couldn't possibly be the new master."
Sakura analyzed the person in front of her. "This was the person from earlier tonight. Was he after the Sakura cards? It is best to capture him first, and let him explain himself." Sakura thought inside her head.
"Shadow! Bind and capture the intruder." She pointed the star staff at the shadow card in the sky, and stream of darkness rushed towards Sekai.
Seeing shadows converge around him, Sekai tried to evade it, but the small confines of the room gave him no space to do so. Instead he created another bright light from his hand, and lit up the entire room, which warded off the shadow.
Sekai wasn't expecting this type of development. " I should neutralize her first , and interrogate her later." Instantly, He counter attacked by shooting a giant blast of electricity from his hand towards the girl.
"Shield!" A barrier form around her which deflected the blast, and sent sparks of energy everywhere throughout her room.
Sekai closed the distance between him and Sakura, while she was on the defensive. Because of the limited space in the small bedroom, close hand to hand combat would be most efficient. Also, the fact he could easily overpower anyone in melee combat gave him a comfortable advantage. He struck with a kick to the side, which she managed to block with her staff just in time, but it still sent her flying towards the desk, and knocking everything over.
"Ow, that hurts. Maybe capturing him was not really feasible." Sakura quickly recovered from the strike, but she realized that she was still in a bad situation. Before the man closed the distance to pin her down, Sakura quickly activated another card.
"Fight!"
Sekai launch a fist aimed at her stomach to knock her out, but she dodge the blow, and instantly countered with a roundhouse kick towards his gut. Sakura managing to get past Sekai's guard with the help of the fight card, the roundhouse made a direct hit, which sent him stumbling back towards the wardrobe, and knocked over all the outfits Tomoyo gave to her.
"I got a lucky hit that time; I doubt it would work again." Taking the moment to regain her composure, she prepared herself for her next move.
The spontaneously increase in the girl's agility threw Sekai off guard. Hell, everything she was doing was throwing him off guard. This girl magical power was powerful; he wondered how she managed to hide it from his detection.
Sekai quickly reassessed the situation. "This girl is too unpredictable in her abilities. It would be risky to draw out this fight any longer because there is no way to know what she can do next. A large powerful attacked would be needed." Sekai thought as he decided on a spell to take the girl down in the next hit.
"O' god of lighting, come to my aid. Lightning converge around me. And become the blessed light that strikes all evil." Electrical energy started to spread through his body as he chanted out he spell.
Sakura noticed that the enemy was channeling massive amount of energy throughout his entire body into his hands. "A ranged magical attack? I can get in close to stop him from channeling. However, he is more skilled and experienced than me in close combat, and this could be a trap to draw me into close combat with him." Sakura contemplated on her next move, and decided to meet his attack head on with her own ranged magical attack.
"I call upon the powers of my star, grant me the strength of your brilliant light." Sakura's magical circle lit up more brightly as she called summoned as much magical energy from her body as she can.
"Pease Sakura cards, draw your power from my light in name of your master, Sakura!" Sakura threw a card in the air, as Sekai extend both his hands towards Sakura's direction. Energy swirled around the two the magicians.
"Rageki!"
"Thunder!"
The two beams of lighting energy collided in the center of the room, and created a volatile ball of raw magical energy that shone like the morning sun. Both sides were putting everything they have in trying to overpower the other, as the ball of energy pushed back and forth. Sparks flung everywhere, turning everything it touches into ash, and scorching the sides of the wall. The white ball of magical energy soon grew too unstable by constant inflow of magical energy and exploded, sending a power shockwave that knocked both parties back hard.
Sekai crashed against the wall, leaving a big dent. On the other hand, Sakura flung back towards the window, her back hit the wall, and her head smashed against the glass, shattering it. Sekai quickly recovered from the blow, and ran towards the girl. He saw that he girl was still lying on the floor defenseless. She had no guard up, and was still recovering from the blast. Sekai took this chance to land the finishing the blow.
"This is it. I got you." Sekai said in his mind.
However, just before his blow was about to connect, he suddenly could not move his body. Sekai quickly looked at his arm, and saw that there was black stream of darkness that wrapped around his arm, which prevented him from moving it. Taking a closer look at this body, he noticed that the black stream has wrapped around his entire body and that it was coming from the shadows within the room. Coming to the terrifying sensation he had been caught and bounded, he struggled to break out of the bind, but with no success.
"Crap, she got me." Sekai said in defeat.
A.N: I hope my readers enjoyed this first chapter, which serves a bit of introduction to the current setting and timeline in the CCS universe. Please review and tell me what you think about it. Your feedback and critiques will be carefully considered as I write further chapters for this story.
