Hey peeps! I just wanna say that I used to own Cardcapters but my dog ate my rights to it and so Clamp claimed it! I was soo peeved! J/K, they own it so don't tell them they stole it from me they would sue me and I don't have any money! This is called The Lover's Card. Its about Cardcaptor Sakura! And of course, Li is here too! I'm not sure what rating to give this cuz well..I write freestyle so.. um..I'm not sure how it will turn out yet. I don't like to have a plan when it comes to stories I feel restricted! So enjoy the surprise, as will I! Also, have fun! Any questions or flames or whatever else you wanna send to me (minus viruses) I would love to here it all! So send, send, send!
Prologue:
"Its ok Sakura, I'm sure Li will return from Hong Kong soon." Madison put a hand on her friend's shoulder.
"Madison, he said he would never be able to come back, maybe I have to go to him. After all, we've only been to Hong Kong once and I'm sure that Kero would love to go again."
"I guess Sakura but, how are we gone get there?"
"I don't know but I'm sure we will find out soon. Dad always said, if you want something bad enough, you will get it in time. I'll see you in school tomorrow Madison." She hugged her friend goodbye, turned, and walked into her house. Her name is Sakura Avalon and she is the cardcaptor. She already has all the Clow cards but still has a lot of problems to deal with. Like the guy that helped her collect the cards is gone and she misses him. His name is Li Shoaron and he is a direct decedent of Clow Reed, the creator of the Clow cards. Her friend is Madison Taylor, they have been friends all of their lives, plus she makes cool outfits for her to wear while she is taping her friend capturing the Clow cards. Both are in the fifth grade and doing quite well. Right now though, they have bigger cards to capture.
Ch 1:
'How..how do you know if you are in love with someone or not?' Sakura thinks to herself as she makes her way upstairs to her bedroom. But her dad sees her walking in and stops her with a question.
"Sakura? What's wrong honey?"
"Dad how did you know..that you loved mom?"
"Well, when I first saw your mother, I was a little harsh on her. Soon, though, I began to feel strange around her, but I still teased her in class so as not to show my feelings were growing for her. Whenever I was around her, or even saw her I felt like I was floating or walking on a cloud. They call that being on cloud 9, and that was me when I saw or was near your mom. It took a little while for me to realize that this feeling I felt was love and even longer to find out that she loved me back. Why do you ask sweetie? Is this about that Li kid?" Sakura blushed and looked away from her dad's eyes.
"No Dad, a friend at school asked me and.. I didn't know what to say and told them I would help them later." She then turned to walk away then said, "Thanks Dad."
"Your welcome Sakura." She walked up stairs and into her room to see Kero playing video games.
"Hi Kero, how are you doing?"
"Hey Sakura, I can't get past this one level and it's driving me nuts!" Sakura smiled then giggled. She looked over at the Book of Clow to see it not where she put it.
"Kero, did you move the Book?"
"No, why do you ask Sakura?"
"Cause the book is gone!" Kero looked up from the game and got a funny look on his face and screamed. "Kero! What if my dad heard you!"
"The Book is gone! Someone must have taken it. You know, now that I think about it, I did sense a weird energy earlier. Like a new Clow Card, maybe."
"But you said the Earthy Card that I captured a while back was the last card."
"Yes, it was but…maybe, just maybe.."
"Maybe what, Kero?"
"There might be a new card that I forgot. Let me think here." He thought of all the cards she has, trying to find a card he might have forgotten. "There was a rumor of another Clow Card, but I thought it was a legend."
"Go on, tell me."
"Well, remember that woman that told fortunes on the water? The one Clow Reed fell in love with?"
"Yes, she was so sad and she just wanted to be set free." As she talks, she remembers the time when everyone went to Hong Kong for the first time and that weird dimension where her friends were kept. Not to mention the fight she and her having to save her friends.
"Yea, her. Once she was sent to that world and he started to create the Clow Cards, he created a certain card. Off hand I can't think of the name but it was a card that he created to one day set her free. That card can make people fall in love, or out of love with each other. It's powerful stuff. Even more powerful when it's alone."
"Alone? What do you mean alone?"
"Well to put it simply, you know that the cards have feelings and they know whether they are with the other cards or not. That is why the Windy and Mirror cards gave up so easily, they knew you had powerful magic and knew that you'd capture the others so they gave in. The other cards were fighting you because that is what they do when they feel alone. Once captured, they obeyed because they were with you and other cards."
"I think I understand."
"Really? Cause I confused myself." Kero lwas splayed out on the floor, feet in the air.
"Kero!"
"I'm kidding ya! But we need to get that Clow Card, before it causes mayhem across Tokyo." Kero jumps onto her backpack, she grabs her backpack and runs down stairs and out the door. Her dad sees her leave but does not say anything about the surprise that he has planned for her.
"I'll tell her when she comes home from where ever she is. I bet she will be so excited to find out."
Meanwhile..
Sakura and Kero go to Madison's house to tell her about the new Clow Card. She thought up a new outfit just perfect for the job and would get to work on it right away.
"Uh, thanks Madison. I am happy about the new outfit but I better get home, alright? I'll call you when I get there. See you Madison!"
"See you Sakura!" Sakura walked out the door and down to the pathway from the house. She felt a little strange but didn't say anything to Kero. It felt like she was being watched, and also a little light-headed too.
"Sakura, you ok?"
"Yea, fine Kero." Her head felt warm, she knew had to get home, fast. Halfway home she tripped and fell. She didn't get up.
"Sakura, Sakura, you have to get up. Come on, hurry." Kero pleaded but he could not wake her. She was unconscious on the ground. He heard someone coming from behind him. He made himself look like a stuffed toy and lay next to Sakura.
"Well, what do we have here? A girl? She has an unusual force around her. I better take her home till she wakes up." The man picked her up gently and began to walk away when he turned and saw Kero. "Better grab this too, she might miss it." He grabbed Kero and walked out of sight.
Sakura's dream
"Where..where am I?" Sakura said. Sakura looked around and saw Li looking at her. "Li? Is that you?"
"Yes, I am Li."
"Li! I missed you!" she ran to him and hugged him.
"Do..do I know you?"
"Li, its me, Sakura. Remember me?"
"No, we have never met. I am Li Shoaron. You are Sakura right?"
"What do you mean you don't know me? Did the Lover's Card do this? Li, you have to remember me! Please you have to!" Li turned and walked away from Sakura.
"Li, please..please come back. I..I think I love you!" Li is gone soon after. Sakura is alone in nowhere. "LI!"
End dream
Sakura opened her eyes and jolted up. Then she painfully lies back down on the bed, holding her head.
"Li..Kero? Where is Kero?"
"Kero, you mean this little doll? I picked it up when I found you."
"Who are you?"
"I, well..you can just call me a friend. But I have liked the name Chris." Chris was very tall, and didn't look at her right away. He was wearing a long sleeve light blue shirt with a black collar on it. His jeans were a faded blue and looked like he had been working out in a garden somewhere. He also had on a pair of grass stained white tennis shoes.
"Alright then, can I call you Chris?"
"Yes, of course you can."
"Well, how did I get here?"
"Like I said, when I found you on the street, I picked you up and bandaged you. You should not be walking in your condition."
"What do you mean?"
"You passed. You should be glad I found you and not someone else."
"Thank you." Chris handed Kero over to Sakura. Her cell phone rang a moment later, which she answered. "Hello? Madison. Yes I am fine. Dad is looking for me? Call him and tell him I'll be right home, ok? Thanks Madison." Sakura hung up the phone and looked at Chris. "I have to go, where am I?"
"Look outside and find out. I bet you will know. By the way, what is your name?"
"I'm Sakura." She walked to the door. "Sakura Avalon." She opened the door to find herself not far from the Tsukimine shrine. "Hey, this is near my house! Thank you for everything."
"Don't worry about it, I was just passing through. I'm sure anyone would have done the same."
"I'm not so sure." Sakura said as waved to Chris and ran out the door toward home. The whole way home she couldn't get him out of her mind, he reminded her of Li. His soft brown eyes, long brown hair, it almost made her cry she missed him so bad. But she continued to run home, not slowing a bit!
"I'm home Dad, sorry I took so long."
"Honey, good, your home. I have something to tell you. We are going on vacation for about 2 weeks. I asked Madison to come but she wasn't sure she wanted to miss school. She's running it by her mother now."
"Where are we going for 2 weeks dad?"
"Hong Kong of course. I know you would love to see your friend Li, right? I'm going there on business but I'm sure you can visit him. Tory, you can ask Julian to come too." He looked at Tory who had been quiet all this time.
"I guess, if he isn't busy." Sakura's face lit up, then dimmed. She remembered how mean he was to her and how Li…..Li, she missed him so bad and now she was going to see him, finally. She smiled again at her father, hiding her sadness.
"Yay! When are we leaving?"
"Soon. Whenever we get a reply from Madison." With that Sakura ran upstairs to call her friend and ask her if she was coming.
"Madison! Your coming right?"
"I think so, as long as my mom says yes. Hold on and I'll ask her." In the back ground Sakura could hear Madison ask her mom and her mom's reply. "She said yes!" Both of them jumped up and down screaming.
"Dad, she's going!" she called, running back downstairs, still holding the phone.
"Good, we will leave Tuesday, tell your teachers that you won't be there for 2 weeks, ok?"
"Ok dad!" She hugged her dad tightly, then ran up stairs again to tell Kero about the news and hung up with Madison.
"Kero! We're going back to Hong Kong! We're leaving on Tuesday so get ready by then, k? Madison and Julian are coming too."
"Yea! Back to Hong Kong! I get to eat all that great food!" Kero's eyes went all big with his dream about the food from Hong Kong.
"And I get to see Li. I miss him Kero." Then she remembered her dream. The one she had had while sleeping at Chris's house.
"I wanted to tell you about a dream I had when I was at that guy, Chris' house. It was like Li forgot about me, that's the power of that Clow card right?"
"You bet, you might have seen the future of your and Li. He may not even remember you if you don't get the Clow book back soon."
"How soon, do you think?"
"If I have to guess, I'd say at least between now and next Sunday." Today was Sunday.
"That short period of time? You really think so?"
"Well, if you lost it today, he may not remember small things about you right now, like parts of you past." Sakura looked around her room and looked at her dresser, which was glowing! She opened the glowing drawer and saw the book.
"Hey, here it is, I must have put it there instead." She opened the book to find the Windy Card was gone. "Windy! Kero, Windy is gone!" She looked thru and found that none of the other cards were gone, just Windy.
"That's what I mean Sakura, little things like that, as you lose your cards, he'll slowly forget you, but I never thought that they would leave so slowly. If just the Windy is gone, you may have till the end of the trip to get that card."
"I remember what the card is! I heard it in my dream! It was…"
"Talking to your self again, brat!" Tory said, walking into her room. Kero quickly became the doll figure again.
"Go away, Tory!"
"My sister is so weird!" he mumbled as he walked out the door, shutting it behind him.
"What were you saying Sakura?"
"It was called the Lover's Card."
"Yea, I remember now! It was!"
"Maybe we should talk to Yue about this. He might be able to help."
"Yea. Maybe, but.."
"Come on Kero! It can't hurt to ask!"
"Fine, I'll find him for you."
"You ask him, I need to get packing and get ready for school in the morning. It is after 8 already!"
"Well then, "Kero transformed into his true form, Keroberos. "I will talk to him for you. Goodnight Sakura." He then flew out the window in search for the other guardian. Sakura laid on her bed for a while and just tried to think of every little thing she could about Li. She remembered it all. Maybe all that stuff about a new Clow Card was just a lie. But if that was so, why did she have that weird dream? She soon fell fast asleep as the guardian of the night, Yue watched over her as she slept.
When Sakura woke up the next morning, she found that Kero had fell asleep next to her at some point during the night. She looked at her clock and it read 6:45.
"OH NO! I'm going to be late!" Sakura jumped up from the bed, knocking Kero on the ground.
"Hey! I didn't get a lot of sleep!"
"Gomen Nasi, Kero, but I'm gonna be late!"
"You mean like always?" Sakura gave Kero an evil glare, went downstairs, put her roller blades on and skated out the door toward school. She ran into Tory and Julian on her way out the door.
"Hey Sakura. Get up late again?"
"Yea, Julian, I did."
"See you, brat!" Tory said smartly.
"Bye Tory!" Sakura said happily and ran out the door leaving a stunned Tory to nearly ride his bike into a phone pole. Sakura skated to the school and bumped into a familiar face.
"Oh, Gomen Nasi, I didn't mean too…." Sakura said bowing in forgiveness.
"Its ok, really. I'm just fine. Hey, Sakura! Is it really you! Li sent me here to see you cause he couldn't come himself." Meilin said.
"Oh, he couldn't…or wouldn't" Sakura mumbled.
"He is stuck at home Sakura, or else he would have come himself. Honest, I wouldn't lie!"
"Go back.."
"What!"
"Go back to Li..and tell him that I will be there soon!" Sakura smiled. "My dad is going to Hong Kong on business. We will be leaving tomorrow so will be there soon, tell him that."
"I'm going back then too, we have the same flight I bet!" Meilin ran to class before the bell rung. Sakura knew that this trip to Hong Kong was going to have a different ending then the last time she left.
That's it for chapter 1 and the prologue! Hope you loved it as much as I loved writing it! If you want more, you gotta e-mail me! I'll be working on Chapter 2 and 3 when I get time and when I get replies. Please send me reviews, please! I love to get and reply to reviews. I hope you enjoy the next chapter as much as I will enjoy writing it, Ja'ne for now!