Hi everyone ! ok finally i got this chapter up and many thankx to Toham's Sleepless Beauty! for editing my first chapter of this story ! hugs sis thank you very much girl!! uhh what else ..hmmm well i hope you all like my stories and i look forward to all of your reviews....:) and please tell me how you really like it....if you dont that is ok...no worries ;) well thank you for your time and i hope you all have a great day :) i dont know when my next chapter will be out but i hope that you continue to read my stories :) i am also planning on loading up a Fruits Basket fanfic too and a Ronin Warriors too ! :) soo those are two more fics to look out for and the titles to those are Ronin Warriors: Destiny's Other Dimension, Fruits Basket: Love Will Find A Way, and this one Cardcaptor's: Holding the Hope :) thank you again and now i will stop yapping and leave you to read ..have fun and enjoy :) review ....please....p.s this is my first story ....:) byyyyyeee!! waves bye to the readers PEACE!! :)

Holding the Hope

Chapter 1

In a town where magick looms and the stars give strength and power to a young magician. There comes another from a world where adventures are wished for and where the stars shine bright. This is my tale and it is a true one. Hi my name is Anne Wolf and I'm going to tell you what happened to me the summer after my freshman year of college. I firmly believe in magick and not just the kind that is between lovers or family and friends. This magick is real, enchanting, it is the kind you use to protect others or to find out mysteries of a past long forgotten. Yes this tale is true, from beginning to end. Now where do I begin, well I suppose that any normal person would begin from well the beginning but I will start from where my life changed, changed forever.

I hadn't had a boyfriend before and was feeling well just not energetic, and more or less down, the day I was pulled into my favourite anime show, Cardcaptors. It all started with my pendent, one moment I'm wishing to find someone and the next, BAM! I'm falling through the skies. As I was falling I could feel my body changing, getting lighter, and my fall started to slow. Suddenly I saw trees and what looked to be a park and people walking around in it. As I averted my attention from the park to the ground below me, I noticed that I was going to land in the trees, at least that is what I thought was going to happen. As I got closer to the trees, the pendent around my neck, which wasn't there before, started to glow yellow. Then I started to float over to where it was clear of trees. When I was about five feet from the ground the wind started to pick up a bit. I started to float down to the ground a little quicker.

As I landed softly on the ground I looked around to notice that I had landed in a deserted part of the park. Thank god. Do you know how hard it would have been to explain why I hadn't fallen to my death! I just stood there eyes wide and my heart beating so fast that I thought it was gonna jump out any minute. That is when I heard it. "Hey Tory!!! Wait up!!!" It was, yes, I was sure of it. It was Sakura Avalon from Cardcaptors! As Sakura and the gang got closer to where I was, I decided to hide. If he was with them, then I definitely didn't want to be around when they arrived. I don't think I would have been able to act right if I was going to meet him like I was, all confused and worked up over what just happened with my pendent and the falling out the sky thing. I had to let myself calm down and get a breather before I met him. I just didn't want to make a fool of myself. I quickly jumped into some bushes nearby and prayed to god that they didn't see me or even worse sensed me!! As I sat there waiting patiently for them to come into the clearing I noticed Li looking in my direction. Great! Just great! I thought. This is all I need. 'Why is he staring over this direction? No not good, not good at all!

Li called to Sakura. "Sakura I think there is something in that bush."

As Li talked to her I saw that he was pointing right in my direction! I'm not liking this one bit, nope not one bit! I thought frantically.

Sakura then replied, "Li what could it be?" I looked from Li to Sakura, What!! I'm a what and not a who, how rude, hmph! And then just when I thought my luck would get better, it got worse. How do you ask? This is how.

Tory walked up to Sakura and Li and said, "Let's go find out what it is instead of talking all day about it, ok?"

I watched Tory say this as he passed the two teens and walked right up to the bush! Why is this happening to me?!?! I know I should run for it, it's always the best thing to do when you don't know what's happening. I'll try to figure this out later on! I made a mad dash from behind the bush and started running towards where I could see a sidewalk.

"Hey you, come back here!! Who are you?" cried Tory.

I ran as fast as I could as I heard Tory ask me, or more like yell at me. All I could think was, Oh yeah, now I'm a who and not a what! And I rolled my eyes. I quickly noticed that I was running straight into the street and that a huge transport truck was speeding my way. No, I can't die, I want to go home first and not die here! No! I don't want to die. I was frozen in fear. The truck was getting closer and closer, when suddenly from out of nowhere someone jumped into the middle of the street where I stood and pushed me out of the way. Where am I? Oh yeah I got pulled into a different dimension...oh no!! What happened, am I dead?!?! Then I realized that there was what seemed to be a male figure shielding my body. He raised his head up from my shoulder and slowly opened his eyes, looking into mine. Tory!! saved me!! Wow, well didn't see that one coming. Oh well, might as well go from here and see what happens. I looked Tory in the eyes and asked, "Are you ok?"

He looked at me like I was a crazy person and right then and there, he jumped to his feet and pulled me to mine.

" Me ! Am I ok!? Are you out of your mind, what possessed you to run out into the street like that and risk getting killed, huh!?!?" Tory cried.

By now I was not in the mood to be yelled at, whether it was by a cute anime guy or not. I looked up at him. " For your info, I didn't know there was a street but I would have known if it wasn't for the fact I wasn't looking at where I was going because you were chasing me! So hence why I ran in the street!! I'm so sorry you had to come to my rescue, you didn't have to, you know! No one forced you!"

Just then, Julian and the others Li, Melin, Madison and Sakura came from across the street and began watching the scene like it was a movie.

Julian decided that enough was enough. "I think if you two are going to kill each other you better do it in a less populated area, what do you say? Tory let's go back to your place and we'll figure this out, ok?"

Damn it! I love it when he smiles like that after he talks, why me! I hung my head down. Tory and I agreed with Julian's idea so we headed off in the direction of Tory's house. As we were walking Tory and Julian were in front. Madison, Li and Sakura (Kero was in Sakura's purse of course) were in the middle, and I was bringing up the rear. Sakura held back until she was walking next to me and asked, "Why were you in the bushes?"

What to say to that? Should I tell her the truth or make up some lame story?.....The truth. I looked at her and replied, " I was in my backyard when suddenly there was this flash of light and I was falling through the sky about to hit the ground when suddenly I slowed down and land safely. I'm not sure how I got here or how I'm going to get back home. All I know is that my pendent might have something to do with this and perhaps there is a reason I am here."

I looked up towards the sky, then back at the front of the group to notice that we had reached the Avalon's house. I looked back down at Sakura from where she stopped too and said to her, "I believe that everything happens for a reason."

She smiled up at me. I didn't want to let on that I knew who they were, because I figured they would probably get suspicious of me, I mean who wouldn't, right?