Why Not Know The Future?
Sakura was sitting on her bed, reading some
manga, she turned the pages slowly. Her eyes were some what disfocused,
she nodded off several times before blinking awake again.
Kero was taking his usual nap on her pillow,
the Saturday's warm sun filled her room and left everything calm.
Sakura's portable phone started ring. She
closed her manga and weakly got out of bed.
The phone was in her desk door which she
opened slowly to retrieve it.
"....hello," she answered with a small yawn.
"SAKURA," a male voice yelled through the
phone. Sakura jumped back dropping the phone on the floor. The
voice could still be heard clearing, the person
on the other end was obviously shouting.
"SAKURA, SAKURA ARE YOU THERE," the voice
yelled. A shocked Sakura slowly kneeled onto the floor and picked up the
phone.
"...hello...," she repeated hoping for a
quieter response.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN," the voice yelled.
It was Syaoran, he continued to yell through the phone until Sakura calmed
him down.
"Quiet down Syaoran," Sakura pleaded, her
ears were starting to wring, "Tell me what happened."
"All right," Syaoran began he cleared his
throat and began, "Meiling was looking through the cards I captured, and
she wanted me to release the Dash card so she could hold it."
A sweat drop formed on Sakura's head and
after Syaoran cleared his throat he continued again, "Well you see we began
to have an argument, and the Dash card ran away....."
The sweat drop on Sakura's head grew as
he ended his tale.
"So you're saying that the Dash card, ran
away right," Sakura asked trying to make heads and tails of what happened.
"THAT'S WHAT HE SAID KINOMOTO," Meiling's
voice shouted through the phone.
"GET OFF THE OTHER PHONE MEILING," Syaoran
yelled back. Sakura took the phone away from her ear and waited for things
to quiet down again.
"How long ago did the Dash card escape,"
Sakura questioned hoping it was about a half hour or an hour.
"About 2 weeks ago," Syaoran said, he sounded
like he sweat dropped from the other side of the phone.
"AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME UNTIL NOW," Sakura
yelled through the phone, Meiling still hadn't gotten off the phone and
began arguing with Sakura, who immediately yelled back.
Syaoran cleared his throat took and deep
breath and yelled, "SHUT UP," both girls remained slightly stunned as Syaoran
began to speak, "We don't have the time to argue, we have to go look for
the Dash card."
"All right, I'll look by the King Penguin
at the park, you go somewhere else and Meiling some other place, I'm gonna
call Tomoyo and Eriol," just as Sakura was about to hang up Syaoran's voice
could be heard through the phone.
"WHAT?? You're calling him....," he stated
extremely jealous.
"He should know about it too, bye bye Syaoran
go look for the Dash card," Sakura pushed the off button leaving Syaoran
completely cut off.
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"ooo," the Dash card said quietly hopping
merrily through the trees and underbrush of the park. A large bright red
butterfly flew over his head and he batted at it with little effort.
As he began bounding through the forest,
there was a weak pleading 'ai' from a nearby tree. The Dash card jumped
up into the thick branches and saw what appeared to be a cat like creature.
This cat had four ears to long and to short.
It was bright white and had a cut of it's front paw.
'ai," the creature said again.
'ooo' the Dash card walked over slowly and
began to lick the wound. The creature smiled and watched quietly as the
Dash licked it's paw.
Once several minutes had passed, the creature
stepped back away from the Dash card and began to make it's way down the
tree truck. The Dash card followed and they began to walk along through
the peaceful quiet forest.
"It's such a nice day," Eriol said to himself
as he came into the forest. He walked along for awhile not really paying
attention to anything, even though he was supposed to be looking for Dash.
The white creature stopped suddenly and
the Dash card looked back at it with concern. The white creature arched
it's back and ran quickly away. The Dash card followed her but even with
it's great power could not catch up to it.
Eriol stopped too, "I sense
something," he said out loud, "It's Dash, where is it." Eriol began looking
in the forest for the Dash card, he knew clearly what it felt like and
ran towards the power.
The Dash card sat in a clearing, little
tears fell down it's face and it looked rather weak. As Eriol approached
the Dash card perked up his heavy ears and looked at him.
"ooo," he said softly getting up to his
feet.
"What are you doing here, I thought you
were captured already," Eriol said picking him up. A white flashed passed
his eyes and he felt a sharp pain on his right cheek. The Dash card jumped
out of his arms and disappeared into the shrubbery. Lifting his arm
he touched his cheek to reveal that there were two long scratched on the
side of his face.
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"Dash, Dash Card," Sakura's voice yelled
through the forest, she was wearing a forest green short sleeved shirt
with a matching skirt. Sakura resembled a forest nymph as she jumped over
a fallen tree branch. Tomoyo followed her closing with a video camera in
her hand recording 'Sakura's Hunt For The Dash Card'
"Dash card," Tomoyo yelled still holding
her camera up to her eye, "Can you sense anything Sakura?"
"I feel three magical powers that way,"
Sakura said pointing east, quickly she darted through the trees, Tomoyo
followed her although she was having difficulties with her camera still
recording.
As Sakura broke into a clearing, she saw
Eriol there with his hand up to his face.
"Hello Eriol-kun," Sakura said cheerfully
waving slightly.
"Hello Sakura-san," he said taking his hand
off his face.
"You're hurt," Sakura said walking towards
him. Tomoyo tripped and fell into the clearing her camcorder hitting the
ground and turning itself off.
"Tomoyo-san," Eriol said running towards
her and helping her up.
"Arigato Eriol-kun," Tomoyo said catching
her breath.
"Did you see the Dash Card," Sakura asked
Eriol as Tomoyo got to her feet.
"A did for a second, but that another power
came by and Dash disappeared into those trees," Eriol said pointing towards
a giant oak tree, he looked over at Sakura and couldn't help but giggle
slightly, "Another bit of Tomoyo-san's work I see."
Sakura blushed and looked down at her outfit,
"Yeah.... it is," she said softly not really knowing how to reply.
"I have another one for you Eriol," Tomoyo
said happily taking a outfit out of her backpack. Sakura giggled and Eriol
sweat dropped as he took the outfit into his hands and walked into the
trees to get changed. Tomoyo smiled and waved as he exited.
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"ooo," the Dash card said walking carefully towards
the snow white creature. The creature appeared to be happy to be with a
Dash card and took several steps closer to him.
The white creature looked left and right,
she appeared to be scanning the surroundings. And once everything was clear
a jewel appeared on her forehead. It was split into four colors red, blue,
green, and purple. Each section began to glow and the light covered the
creature's body.
The Dash card jumped back afraid and hide
itself in a small shrub.
Once the light had faded again and woman
stood there. She was taller then most people, and she wore a snow white
dress.
Her eyes at first appeared cruel and cold
but they warmed up drastically once she kneeled on the grass covered ground.
"There is no need to be afraid come here,"
she whispered to the Dash card. She snapped her fingers and a small chocolate
heart appeared, the Dash card bounded out of the foliage and into her lap.
She taunted him slightly with the chocolate
but gave in when he began to beg, "ooo ooo oooo."
The Dash card licked the chocolate heart
slowly to savor it's taste, she giggled began to pet his soft fur. Her
long hair tickled his nose and he sneezed.
She smiled down at him until she heard a
voice yell, "Dash, Dash card," it was Syaoran's voice. He began breaking
through the tree branches and coming closer to him.
As the Dash card heard him and grew nervous,
the beautiful snow white woman looked down at him and comforted him so
he wouldn't be afraid.
Syaoran felt of magical presents and slowly
entered the thicket where the woman sat. He gasped as she turned and looked
at him gently.
"Please come closer," she said softly. Her
charm worked on him, and he couldn't help himself and he walked over slowly
and sat next to her.
Snapping her fingers again another chocolate
appeared, much bigger then the last one. Which she immediately gave to
Syaoran.
"Who are you," Syaoran questioned looking
up at her. Her eyes smiled down at him, but not color filled them they
were soft white which made her look like a ghost.
"I am," she began, but she couldn't finished
and appeared to ponder the thought. The Dash card jumped onto her shoulder
and nudged his head against her cheek. She giggled and let him rest there.
"I cannot say," she responded after several
drawn out seconds. Syaoran didn't seem to mind though he was eating chocolate
and couldn't control himself.
They peacefully sat there until another
voiced filled their ears.
"Dash Dash card," three voices yelled. As
they came closer, the woman's eyes began to fill with color and deep blue.
She stood up causing the Dash card to fall onto the ground. Syaoran who
was under her spell sat there on the ground eating contently with a big
smile plastered onto his face.
"Eriol," she said coldly taking a few steps
towards the voice. The Dash card followed her, and Syaoran got up and ran
after them like a pixie.
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"Come on we should keep looking for the
Dash card," Eriol said once he came out dressed in the outfit Tomoyo gave
him. The girls were rolling on the ground laughing as hard as they could.
Eriol hadn't gotten the worst of Tomoyo-chan's
costumes but it was still rather amusing. It had puffy shoulders, and puffy
hips like he was a Shakespearean actor. There was a large peacock feather
sticking out of the top of a rather floppy hat that fell past his years.
Once they recovered from their giggle spree
Eriol turned bright red and started trampling through the forest.
White mist began to fill their senses and
cause shivers to run up and down their backs.
"I sense something," Sakura and Eriol said
at the same time. Tomoyo-chan lifted her camera and took a few "practice
shots" or Eriol before lifting the camera ahead of her.
Tomoyo-chan even sensed something her body
grew cold, ice began to cover her feet like the Freeze card.
"Sakura-chan my fe-," but before she could
finish ice had encased her body and she remained frozen solid.
"Tomoyo," Eriol said turning back and kneeling
on the ground. Sakura joined him as they punched at the ice.
Tomoyo's eyes remained frozen open in a
fake sort of horror. She was looking at her feet her camera dropped at
her side.
Eriol turned back to the mist and walked
closer to it. It was bitterly cold, eye began to freeze the inside of his
nose.
Sakura jumped up and followed him quickly,
"What could this be," she questioned looking over at him.
"I'm not sure," Eriol responded walking
slowly through the wafting mist.
Small giggles filled their ears now, happy
giggles like someone was playing a game. They didn't want to retreat to
far from Tomoyo-chan in fear that they'd never find her again but they
had to continue.
They had to find out what was causing all
of this. Sakura threw herself into a run and dashed quickly towards the
sounds of laughter. Breaking through a clump of trees, Sakura saw Syaoran
laughing and smiling acting rather unusual for his normal personality.
But there was no one else their, the Dash
card floated in mid air like it was being held in someone's arms but
Sakura couldn't see who that someone might
be.
Blinking several times she looked again,
but still only the Dash card and Syaoran were present in the clearing.
Eriol put his hand on her shoulder and she jumped with a small yell.
"Shh," Eriol said looking at her, "We've
got to be quiet."
"I know I know but look," Sakura said pointing
into the clearing. Eriol leaned forward and looked through the small crack
in the trees.
He gasped slightly and began walking towards
them. Sakura overreacted and tackled him from behind.
"What are you doing," he questioned pulling
himself free from Sakura's grasp on his ankles.
"We shouldn't just barge in, I mean the
Dash card is controlling Syaoran," Sakura explained pointing to the floating
Dash card.
"What are you talking about? There's a woman
dressed in white holding the Dash card and taunting Syaoran with with chocolates,"
Eriol said looking down at her confused.
"I can only see the Dash card and Syaoran
where is this woman," Sakura questioned stepping closer to look through
the tree again.
"There's only one way to find out," Eriol
said, he got up quickly and ran through the trees. Sakura jumped up after
him again but missed and watched as he ran out of her site.
"Eriol-kun," Sakura yelled getting up to
her feet again. She followed him through the trees until she broke into
the clearing.
Eriol was staring at the floating Dash card,
and began talking to someone.
"What are you doing here," he questioned
looking up at someone.
"You left me here, remember I cannot leave
the woods," A female voice answered. Sakura stepped closer and walked up
behind Eriol.
"But you were locked inside that creature.
I made sure it stayed locked," Eriol stated putting his hands on his hips.
"Just like the book I see," the female responded,
she giggled as him and Eriol grew irritated.
"Why have you returned then," he questioned
stepping closer.
"Because I need you master, we need each
other, I know you enjoyed it when you saw the future," she said rather
softly like she was flirting with him.
"I don't want to know my future I will shape
it myself, I no longer need you," Eriol said pointing to the invisible
woman who apparently was standing in front of him.
"Eriol who are you talking to," Sakura asked
whispering in his ear.
"Can't you see her, Sakura? It's Mirai,"
Eriol asked gesturing above his head. Syaoran got up off his feet and headed
over to Sakura.
"Can't you see her," he asked rather playfully.
He took her pigtailed hair and started twisting them, "She's standing right
in front of you."
"Little Syaoran, you're such a good boy
here you go," the voice said the woman must have snapped her fingers and
Syaoran let go of Sakura's hair.
A chocolate appeared in his hands which
he ate without hesitation. Sakura gasped and looked up at the floating
Dash card.
"Who are you and what do you want with Syaoran,"
Sakura said stepping in front of Eriol.
"Oh, it seems we have a little Card Captor
in our mists now don't we," the woman's voice said, she sounded rather
giggly but she had a stern underside.
"Why don't we see what our little friend
has learned shall be," The woman's voice said, she snapped her fingers
again and Eriol was thrown aside and into a tree, "I don't need my masters
help this time. Run little Dash card, my baby Syaoran I will meet with
you again soon."
Syaoran and the Dash card ran off into the
trees to hide, each one appeared happier then ever, "Now little Card Captor
lets play,"
She laughed to herself as she jumped into
the air, It began to rain strongly. The leaves left little protection against
the blast of water from above. Sakura yelled as she took out a Clow Card,
"Wind create a binding chain Windy!," Sakura called Windy forward as as
Windy flew towards the source of the rain she was struck down by Thunder.
"Little Card Captor, it won't be so easy
to catch me," she laughed, the rain stopped and the sun began to make rainbows
across the sky. The woman slowly lowered herself down and stood firmly
on the ground, "You haven't been told about me have you? I'm not surprised,
Eriol over there what a fool, I am the most powerful card, the only card
you'll ever need. But it is futile to come after me, for I know all of
your attacks," The woman explained.
Sakura was completely confused she couldn't
see the person that was supposedly in front of her, she called out the
'Snow' card. "Snow become a freezing system, 'Snow'!," Sakura commanded.
Again the woman did nothing but laugh, Syaoran's
and the Dash card laughed along with her, as snow flew across the sky the
leaves began to freeze to the trees, everything became froze covered and
icy.
"Aren't you worried about Tomoyo," the woman
asked taunting Sakura to continue to use the snow card.
"What do you know of her," Sakura asked
stopping the snow card in flight.
"Well if it gets colder the ice will last
longer," the woman began, "Besides you'll never rescue her unless you can
outwit me, which is impossible."
The woman snapped her fingers and the frozen
block that Tomoyo was is landed in front of Sakura. which caused her to
cry out.
"Oops almost forgot," the woman said snapping
her fingers again. Another ice block fell from the sky, Sakura had to leap
sideways in order to dodge it.
Meiling sat there frozen solid her eyes
glazed over like Tomoyo's she appeared to be in fright, her mouth was frozen
in a large 'O'.
"Poor little girl, got to close to my trap,
only those with magical powers are able to enter," the woman laughed her
cruel laugh and hovered slightly above the ground.
Eriol began to shake slightly from the cold,
his eyes opened weakly and he saw the woman floating above the sky.
"Stop," he said weakly getting to his feet,
"Mirai fight with me, you don't wish revenge on Sakura." Mirai looked towards
him and floated down knelling on the ground.
"Master you left me in this forest never
to be discovered again, but yet you let your cards become guarded by Keroberos
my pet, you kept Spinal Sun though I'm thankful you kept your present,
but Master why didn't you just turn me into a card," she asked looking
up at him with tearful eyes.
"You don't deserve to be a card, you created
yourself without my consent, I didn't want the power you were given and
I still don't," Eriol yelled at her pulling away from her grasp.
"Eriol I still can't see her," Sakura said
walking towards him, as she got close enough to touch she felt a powerful
force throw her aside.
"You will not approach my master without
my permission," the woman's voice said, "Please Eriol turn me into a card."
"It's to dangerous, if you refuse to let
the Clow Mistress see you then how can in be possible," Eriol said gesturing
over to Sakura. The woman's sobs refused to end, they echoed through the
trees and began to shake the ground. She snapped her fingers again and
dropped slowly to the ground.
"Huh," Syaoran's voice questioned from the
trees. He stepped out slowly chocolate covering his face. The Dash card
followed him confused and curious.
"Syaoran," Sakura said trying to get to
her feet. Her ankle hurt badly and it was beginning to swell.
"Sakura," Syaoran yelled running towards
her, she fell back onto the ground whimpering in pain. As Eriol was about
to run towards her a force stopped him.
"Please master, just turn me into a card
and I'll be able to let you go," the woman taunted. Eriol was extremely
pissed, with a quick swipe he backhanded her and go through her defense.
"Leave me alone Mirai I can't be bothered
right now," Eriol yelled behind him. The woman's eyes flashed a brutal
red as she got to her feet.
"All right master you deserve this," she
said touching the side of her face. Her image shattered and began to go
into the air. The mist like create flew towards Eriol and was absorbed
into his system.
"Master...... Master, now you'll see what
the future holds for you," her voice said inside Eriol's head.
"No stop," he yelled knelling onto the ground,
"I don't want to see the future anymore."
Great pain covered his expression, tears
filled his eyes as he grabbed his head.
"Master if you stop struggling it won't
hurt as much," her voice echoed in his ears.
"I don't want to know I won't see the future,
I'll let it take it's own course I don't want to know, I DON'T WANT TO
KNOW," Eriol screamed, the pain increased and he couldn't help but see
what was going to happen in the future.
"You see master that wasn't to difficult
now was it," the woman asked, red mist began to form into the air and
she stood there at Eriol's feet.
Syaoran helped Sakura to her feet, despite
the pain in her ankle, "I have to capture her," Sakura said
reaching down her shirt and pulling out of the
Clow wand.
"No Sakura," Eriol said weakly, fighting
Mirai had reduced his energy greatly, "Give me the Clow ward."
"Eriol.....," Sakura said carefully closing
it in her hand.
"Give it to him," Syaoran said taking Sakura's
hand lightly. Sakura looked up and Syaoran and nodded. She took the Clow
wand off her neck and threw it to him.
The key touched his hand and it instantly
grew into the Clow wand, "I create they 'The Future' card," Eriol said
lifting the wand above his head. The woman smiled as she disappeared into
the card.
The Dash card gasped as he saw her disappear.
Running quickly out into the clearing he slipped on some ice and skid over
towards Eriol.
"The Dash card," Syaoran said looking over
at it.
"Little dash," Eriol said knelling down.
He showed the Dash card Future and the Dash card grew happier. For the
future card shown in the eyes of the Dash card reflected a female create
much like himself. It shown the Dash card his future.
The Future card floated softly the to ground
and remained there for a moment or two. Syaoran helped Sakura towards it,
gently he lowered her to the ground and she picked up the card. Sakura
gasped as she looked at it and Syaoran looked down in concern.
"What is it what's the matter," he asked
taking the card in his hand. He two looked slightly shocked as he stared
into the card.
"Sakura it looks like - ," he began
"You," Sakura yelled grabbing the card from
his grip.
"No it looks like you," Syaoran said taking
it from her. Eriol giggled slightly and they both looked up at him. "I
can explain," he began, "The Future card shows the person looking at it."
He burst into laughter before he could finish.
"Come on lets get out of here," Eriol said
offering to help them to their feet. Sakura cleared her throat loudly and
pointed to the frozen statues of Meiling and Tomoyo, "Oh yeah."
Eriol sweat dropped as he snapped his fingers
twice. The ice around their bodies melted and the rest of the forest began
to turn back to normal.
"Sakura-chan," Tomoyo yelled running towards
her, Meiling was still shaking off the icy effect and slowly got to her
feet.
"Tomoyo-chan I'm glad your safe," Sakura
said hugging her slightly.
"What happened to your ankle," Tomoyo questioned
seeing her limp.
"It's a long story lets go home all right,"
Sakura explained sweat dropping slightly.
"Syaoran," Meiling said running up to him
and giving him a hug.
"Meiling, are you all right," Syaoran said
still helping Sakura walk.
"I think I am, did you ever get the Dash
card back," she questioned looking in his pockets for it. Syaoran turned
towards Eriol who held the Dash card lightly in his arms.
"It's time you were back to being a card
again isn't it," Eriol asked looking down at the Dash card. The Dash card
nodded and with a small tap of the Clow wand he began the usual Dash card.
"Here Syaoran, Sakura," Eriol said giving
the Dash card back to Syaoran and the wand back to Sakura, "Be careful
with that card Sakura, it's capable of a lot more then you think."
And with that spoken Eriol turned the opposite
direction and into the forest, still wearing the strange Shakespearean
outfit Tomoyo had made for him.