One Day
Bethany Middleton was sitting in her bedroom with her book of Clow cards that her aunt had gotten her a few years ago. The 18 year old girl picked up the book and undid the clasp. No matter how she shuffled them, Bethany always made sure to put the Windy card on the top. Picking up the card, she stared at it, slowly closing her eyes and laying back on her bed, "I wonder what would happen if all these cards were real, if I read 'Windy' would all the cards be scattered?" she wondered aloud.
Unbeknownst to her, since she had her eyes closed, the minute she said the word 'Windy' an unnatural wind picked up around her. Opening her eyes, Bethany watched in complete shock, as the Windy card began to glow. Suddenly, the wind turned in a tempest of gale force winds. These caught each and every one of the cards, and as she watched with wide eyes, the once harmless paper cards, flew out of her house at impossible speeds.
Still in shock, Bethany heard the door of their apartment close, and her father called out: "I'm home!" Bethany blinked, then tears welled up in her eyes, and she ran out the door of her bedroom, leaving the now empty book of the Clow, lying on her bedroom floor.
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Bethany ran out to her father as fast as she could, "Daddy!" she almost screamed. Paul turned to her as she practically bolted into him. Paul then noticed she was crying, "what's wrong Bethany?" he asked, concern in his voice.
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Paul laughed at his daughters story, was she serious? Bethany sniffed, her frustration levels growing, "I'm serious, the Clow cards came to life!" she exclaimed. She showed him the Windy card still clasped firmly in her hand, "I read 'Windy' and the card glowed, then it came to life, and blew away all the other cards!" Paul stopped laughing, "come on, Bethany, I know you have a strong imagination, but these cards are just-" "hey, hey hoo!" suddenly an orange stuffed toy with wings jumped in front of him, making him scream and jump back in fright.
Bethany just stared at the stuffed toy. The very alive stuffed toy. The very alive stuffed toy that looked a lot like a certain Clow Guardian from a certain Anime and Manga series. Bethany walked up to the orange creature that was hovering curiously over her father, who was looking up at him with a blank look on his face. Bethany blinked at him, "K-Keroberos?" she asked tentatively. The creature puffed up his chest proudly, "yep, that's me, the very important and powerful guardian of the Clow cards, and-" here he stopped, and turned to her, so slowly his neck muscles were creaking, "do you have any idea where they are?" he asked, his eyes closed in an upside down 'U' shape, and his left eye-brow twitching dangerously.
Bethany held her hands up defensively, "um- no?" she said uneasily. Kero grew a giant tick mark to match his anime giant head, "whaaaaaaaat?!" he exclaimed angrily.
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Bethany went to the fridge and got her Daddy's Jaffa Lamingtons for Kero. Coming back into the living room, she saw him floating over the book of the Clow. "So?" she said, sitting down and placing the plate down in front of him on the couch, "any luck?" she asked. Kero came out of his meditation and shook his head, "wherever the cards are, I can't find them, you sure have made a big mess, haven't you?" he asked Bethany, picking up a Lamington and taking a huge bite out of it.
Bethany grew angry, "well before tonight, the Clow cards, as well as the book weren't "magical"!" she exclaimed. Kero stuffed a Lamington into his mouth, "well, since they "became magical" or whatever and you were able to scatter them, then it's your job to bring them back!" he exclaimed, pointing another lamington at her. Bethany blinked, then shook her head, "oh no, no way are you pinning this on me, you were supposed to be guarding the cards, right? Well then it's your fault I was able to scatter them, wasn't it?" she asked, as she and Kero glared at each other.
Meanwhile Paul had just been sitting in a state of shock the whole time, but the part about Bethany having to recapture the cards caught his attention, "wait, you mean my daughter, who is barely 18, has to capture extremely dangerous magical cards on her own! No, I won't allow it, I won't let you put my daughter in danger like that! And anyway, how the hell is she supposed to capture the cards, it's impossible for a normal girl like her to-" but Kero interrupted him by shaking his head, "it's not impossible," here he glowed along with the Book of the Clow, and it floated up beside him.
"My master, Clow Reed was an extremely powerful Magician, not to mention the one who created these cards and myself, and let me tell you, a person must have some powerful magic to be able to break the seal and open this book, that means you are the only one who can recapture them, and keep the evil from being unleashed upon this world" he explained. Bethany blinked, and lowered her head sadly, thinking about the evil. If it was the same thing as from Card Captor Sakura, the evil could be a far crueller punishment than anything the cards themselves could do.
The small 18 year old looked up, determination, along with fear lighting in her eyes, "if there's anything I can do to keep this world safe, I'll do it, even if it will be dangerous," then she looked down, "but, please, will you help me, Kero?" she asked, almost pleading. The small winged guardian smiled, then flew over to her, and placed one small paw like hand on her head, "of course, I'll help in any way possible," he looked down at her, "now, there's something you have to do," he pointed to the centre of the small room, "go stand there" he said. Bethany nodded. When she was standing in the middle of the room, Kero began to glow once again, and he closed his eyes.
"Oh key of Clow, there is one who wishes to make a contract with you,"the room suddenly turned dark, and the glowing yellow circle appeared on the ground beneath Bethany's feet. Suddenly, the circle changed to white and show a crescent moon, but Kero was too caught up in his chant to notice. "A girl, her name is Bethany, oh key, revile to her your true form, and lend her your power," a key emerged out of the clasp of the Clow book, but its head was that of a crescent moon. "release!" a huge wind picked up around the edge of the circle, and the key became a wand of medium size.
"Bethany, take the staff!" Kero exclaimed. Bethany shielded her eyes, and stepped into the circumference of the glowing circle. She slowly reached out with her left hand and grabbed the wand, which grew in size until it was twice as tall as her. "Yes!" Kero exclaimed, "a Cardcaptor is born!" Now that all the fuss was over, Bethany took the time to examine the changes to her sealing wand. Not only was it around three times as tall as her now, but it was surprisingly light for its size. The handle was fairly thin and silver. There was a glowing golden sun at the top, two large pink stars overlapping each other above that, and inside of those was an even larger crescent moon, glowing with a soft silver light and large pure white wings on either side.
Staring at the staff that the wand had become, Bethany knew that she was destined to become the new master of the Clow cards once she had captured all of them, and she would do her best to keep the evil from happening. No matter what.
TO BE CONTINUED