Guardian of the Cards
Chapter 1: The Transfer Student
"Sakura, hurry up! You're gonna be late for school!" Sakura's older brother, Touya Kinomoto yelled up the stairs to his sister, who is always late.
"Coming!" Sakura yelled back down as she grabbed her book bag. "Stay in here." Sakura ordered her guardian beast, Kero, with a warning glare before running downstairs to put her roller blades on.
"Are you sure you don't want breakfast Sakura?" Sakura's father, Fujitaka Kinomoto, asked his daughter for the third time.
"Sorry dad, not enough time." Sakura said as she rushed out the door after Touya.
"Strange kids." Fujitaka muttered to himself as he looked out the window and saw his son on his bike and his daughter rollerblading into the distance.
"Hey, Touya! Hey Sakura!" an all too familiar voice said coming up behind them.
"Hey Yuki!" Sakura beamed at her brother's best friend. Sakura had once had a huge crush on him, but when she confronted Yukito about it, he had told her the truth. It was only that fact that Yukito was Yue and of his power that attracted Sakura to him. Besides, Yukito already had his eyes on Sakura's brother Touya.
"Hey Sakura!" Yukito beamed back at the sweet looking little girl and tossed her a bag of sweets.
"Thanks!" Sakura said, catching the bag of sweets easily, which she had learned to do very well while having to be a cardcaptor, who were always having to be on their feat and ready for surprises.
Sakura left the two friends as they reached her school and waved goodbye to them. She skated to a bench and sat down. She began taking off her skates when she heard a familiar voice.
"Hey Sakura, how ya doing?" Sakura turned to see her best friend, Tomoyo Daidouji, running up to her, video camera basically glued to her hand, as usual.
"Hi Tomoyo!" Sakura cheerfully greeted her friend. Tomoyo sat on the bench next to Sakura as she finished taking off her skates.
"Hurry up, Sakura!" Tomoyo said as more and more students arrived at school and entered the building. "We're gonna be late for class."
"And of course you wouldn't want to miss a second of staring at your special Eriol, now would you?" Sakura teased her friend, as it was very obvious that Tomoyo had a huge crush on him.
"Shut up!" Her friend scolded her. They quickly made their way into the building and were into their seats just before their teacher, Mr. Terada, walked into the classroom. Mr. Terada went to his desk and looked at a paper that was placed there.
"Well," Mr. Terada cleared his throat. "It looks like we have another transfer student." At that moment, a girl walked through the doors into the classroom. Sakura glanced up from her dazing out the window to look at the girl. This girl had golden hair and emerald green eyes, the same shade as Sakura. She was a little taller than Sakura by the looks of her, and was very thin. "Please state your name and a little bit about yourself." Mr. Terada told her.
"My name is Blake Katana. I came from North America, but I was originally born in Tokyo. I have one older brother named Kyle Katana." Blake told the class.
Sakura felt a strange aura coming from the girl. It was a deep, dark, tunnel like black. She suddenly heard a soft whisper from behind her. The person said, "Dark sword." Sakura turned around and saw that it was Syaoran who had said it. Syaoran did not even seem to notice that Sakura and Tomoyo were both staring at him. Sakura then turned her head and looked at Eriol. She was surprised. When she turned back to Syaoran, she noticed that they were both glaring at Blake in a weird way.
"Syaoran!" Sakura said in a harsh whisper to the boy sitting behind her.
"What?" Syaoran asked, never taking his deadly glare away from the new transfer student.
"Sakura will you please turn around?" Mr. Terada snapped at her. When Sakura turned around, she saw that the girl, Blake, was looking at her with a strange expression, as if she knew something the others did not. "Blake, will you please sit in the seat beside Syaoran and behind Tomoyo? Will Tomoyo and Syaoran please stand up?" Mr. Terada instructed.
Blake walked to the back of the room and sat in the seat that she had been assigned. Syaoran and Tomoyo sat down, but Syaoran kept staring at her. Finally, she looked over at him. She could see in his eyes that he knew. He knew her secret, and he who she was. Nevertheless, she knew that he did not why she was there, or what was in store for him, the mistress, the guardians, or her friend. Blake plastered a menacing smile on her face and turned back to face the front of the room. Syaoran frowned in anger and her too turned to face Mr. Terada.
At the end of class, Blake walked out of the school, only to be approached by Syaoran and his cousin Meiling.
"What is your deal?" Meiling said is a cold, mean voice.
"Well, temper, temper, Meiling. That's no way to treat a new student." Blake said, putting on the same smile that she had given Syaoran in the morning.
"How did you know my name?" Meiling asked, confused at the face that the girl was showing. This was no ordinary girl, and even if she did not have any magical powers, Meiling could plainly tell.
"I know a lot more about you and the business of the Clow cards than you think I do." Blake said, wiping the grin off her face and replacing it with a menacing glare.
"How do you know about the clow cards? And what is your business with them?" Syaoran asked, giving her his own famously known glare.
Blake put a sickly sweet smile on her face and said, "We are all of the same family, don't you think we could settle this all out with a snack?"
"What do you mean of that?" Syaoran asked. "That we are of the same family?"
"Really it can't be that hard for you to figure it out." Blake said, her smile widening. "I thought aunt Yelan taught you better." Blake said the word 'aunt' a little bit louder and in a different tone than all of the other things that she said.
"Aunt!" Meiling and Syaoran said their face expressions turning from hard to surprised and shocked as they both said the same word at the same time. "Yep." Blake said, finally smiling a true, innocent smile. "I've been waiting for a while to meet my dear cousins. When I arrived at your home in Hong Kong, Syaoran," Blake addressed him, "Your mother told me that you and Meiling were here in Tomoeda, helping the clow card, or now as I am told, the Sakura cards, chosen mistress."
"Oh my god." Was all that Meiling said. Syaoran said nothing. He stood there, his mouth slightly open as he thought and tried to piece together all of the information that Blake had just said.
"Wait," Syaoran finally said. "How do we know that you are really our cousin? This stuff you just said could all be lies."
"Are you doubting your own blood?" a familiar voice called to him from the tree they were standing over. Eriol jumped down from the tree, immediently followed by Sakura and Tomoyo, Tomoyo having captured the scene with her video camera.
"Are you telling me that this is all true?" Syaoran said, looking at Eriol through narrowed eyes.
"Of course it is." Eriol beamed at Syaoran and then at Blake. "So Blake, what made you come here now?"
"Oh, just wanted to catch up with old family members, you know." Blake said.
"Sure, like I believe that." Eriol said. "Tell me the truth." Eriol coaxed her.
"Later, Eriol." For the first time since the group of friends laid eyes on her, Blake's face showed a very serious expression.
Sakura, looking on feeling a little odd, decided to speak up. "So, do you have magical powers like Syaoran and I too?"
Blake looked at the brunette with the same emerald eyes as her. Blake's smile returned, the sincerest she had smiled yet, and she replied, "Yes actually I do."
Eriol chose this time to smile and let Sakura and the others in on a secret. "Blake has something in common with you, Sakura. Actually a lot."
Getting that something was going on with Eriol, Syaoran smiled and said to the devious half reincarnation of Clow Reed, "Oh really, Eriol. Do you have anything particular in mind?"
"Well, actually I do." Eriol said, but before he could announce it, Blake did. "I am a mistress of my own kind of cards."
"Wow, really!" Sakura, Tomoyo, and Meiling said, while Syaoran's eyes widened a bit when he heard her say this. Eriol looked, amused, at his 'cute descendent'.
"What kind of cards are they?" Sakura asked, eager to know.
"Well, like you, I've changed them." Blake told the three girls. "They used to be Night cards, but I have sealed them and they are now Blake cards. Well, Eriol refers to them to dark cards. And to yours as Cherry blossom cards." All three girls and Syaoran looked at her for an explanation.
"The meanings of your first names." Eriol was the one who spoke up and told them this.
Blake looked at them amused. She knew that she would be staying here for a while. But, she and Eriol also knew that she wasn't going to be the only new magical force to come to Tomoeda. She could feel it. It was an evil, dark force. And she needed to be here to protect the mistress of the Sakura cards and the future master of another kind of cards.
Chapter 1: The Transfer Student
"Sakura, hurry up! You're gonna be late for school!" Sakura's older brother, Touya Kinomoto yelled up the stairs to his sister, who is always late.
"Coming!" Sakura yelled back down as she grabbed her book bag. "Stay in here." Sakura ordered her guardian beast, Kero, with a warning glare before running downstairs to put her roller blades on.
"Are you sure you don't want breakfast Sakura?" Sakura's father, Fujitaka Kinomoto, asked his daughter for the third time.
"Sorry dad, not enough time." Sakura said as she rushed out the door after Touya.
"Strange kids." Fujitaka muttered to himself as he looked out the window and saw his son on his bike and his daughter rollerblading into the distance.
"Hey, Touya! Hey Sakura!" an all too familiar voice said coming up behind them.
"Hey Yuki!" Sakura beamed at her brother's best friend. Sakura had once had a huge crush on him, but when she confronted Yukito about it, he had told her the truth. It was only that fact that Yukito was Yue and of his power that attracted Sakura to him. Besides, Yukito already had his eyes on Sakura's brother Touya.
"Hey Sakura!" Yukito beamed back at the sweet looking little girl and tossed her a bag of sweets.
"Thanks!" Sakura said, catching the bag of sweets easily, which she had learned to do very well while having to be a cardcaptor, who were always having to be on their feat and ready for surprises.
Sakura left the two friends as they reached her school and waved goodbye to them. She skated to a bench and sat down. She began taking off her skates when she heard a familiar voice.
"Hey Sakura, how ya doing?" Sakura turned to see her best friend, Tomoyo Daidouji, running up to her, video camera basically glued to her hand, as usual.
"Hi Tomoyo!" Sakura cheerfully greeted her friend. Tomoyo sat on the bench next to Sakura as she finished taking off her skates.
"Hurry up, Sakura!" Tomoyo said as more and more students arrived at school and entered the building. "We're gonna be late for class."
"And of course you wouldn't want to miss a second of staring at your special Eriol, now would you?" Sakura teased her friend, as it was very obvious that Tomoyo had a huge crush on him.
"Shut up!" Her friend scolded her. They quickly made their way into the building and were into their seats just before their teacher, Mr. Terada, walked into the classroom. Mr. Terada went to his desk and looked at a paper that was placed there.
"Well," Mr. Terada cleared his throat. "It looks like we have another transfer student." At that moment, a girl walked through the doors into the classroom. Sakura glanced up from her dazing out the window to look at the girl. This girl had golden hair and emerald green eyes, the same shade as Sakura. She was a little taller than Sakura by the looks of her, and was very thin. "Please state your name and a little bit about yourself." Mr. Terada told her.
"My name is Blake Katana. I came from North America, but I was originally born in Tokyo. I have one older brother named Kyle Katana." Blake told the class.
Sakura felt a strange aura coming from the girl. It was a deep, dark, tunnel like black. She suddenly heard a soft whisper from behind her. The person said, "Dark sword." Sakura turned around and saw that it was Syaoran who had said it. Syaoran did not even seem to notice that Sakura and Tomoyo were both staring at him. Sakura then turned her head and looked at Eriol. She was surprised. When she turned back to Syaoran, she noticed that they were both glaring at Blake in a weird way.
"Syaoran!" Sakura said in a harsh whisper to the boy sitting behind her.
"What?" Syaoran asked, never taking his deadly glare away from the new transfer student.
"Sakura will you please turn around?" Mr. Terada snapped at her. When Sakura turned around, she saw that the girl, Blake, was looking at her with a strange expression, as if she knew something the others did not. "Blake, will you please sit in the seat beside Syaoran and behind Tomoyo? Will Tomoyo and Syaoran please stand up?" Mr. Terada instructed.
Blake walked to the back of the room and sat in the seat that she had been assigned. Syaoran and Tomoyo sat down, but Syaoran kept staring at her. Finally, she looked over at him. She could see in his eyes that he knew. He knew her secret, and he who she was. Nevertheless, she knew that he did not why she was there, or what was in store for him, the mistress, the guardians, or her friend. Blake plastered a menacing smile on her face and turned back to face the front of the room. Syaoran frowned in anger and her too turned to face Mr. Terada.
At the end of class, Blake walked out of the school, only to be approached by Syaoran and his cousin Meiling.
"What is your deal?" Meiling said is a cold, mean voice.
"Well, temper, temper, Meiling. That's no way to treat a new student." Blake said, putting on the same smile that she had given Syaoran in the morning.
"How did you know my name?" Meiling asked, confused at the face that the girl was showing. This was no ordinary girl, and even if she did not have any magical powers, Meiling could plainly tell.
"I know a lot more about you and the business of the Clow cards than you think I do." Blake said, wiping the grin off her face and replacing it with a menacing glare.
"How do you know about the clow cards? And what is your business with them?" Syaoran asked, giving her his own famously known glare.
Blake put a sickly sweet smile on her face and said, "We are all of the same family, don't you think we could settle this all out with a snack?"
"What do you mean of that?" Syaoran asked. "That we are of the same family?"
"Really it can't be that hard for you to figure it out." Blake said, her smile widening. "I thought aunt Yelan taught you better." Blake said the word 'aunt' a little bit louder and in a different tone than all of the other things that she said.
"Aunt!" Meiling and Syaoran said their face expressions turning from hard to surprised and shocked as they both said the same word at the same time. "Yep." Blake said, finally smiling a true, innocent smile. "I've been waiting for a while to meet my dear cousins. When I arrived at your home in Hong Kong, Syaoran," Blake addressed him, "Your mother told me that you and Meiling were here in Tomoeda, helping the clow card, or now as I am told, the Sakura cards, chosen mistress."
"Oh my god." Was all that Meiling said. Syaoran said nothing. He stood there, his mouth slightly open as he thought and tried to piece together all of the information that Blake had just said.
"Wait," Syaoran finally said. "How do we know that you are really our cousin? This stuff you just said could all be lies."
"Are you doubting your own blood?" a familiar voice called to him from the tree they were standing over. Eriol jumped down from the tree, immediently followed by Sakura and Tomoyo, Tomoyo having captured the scene with her video camera.
"Are you telling me that this is all true?" Syaoran said, looking at Eriol through narrowed eyes.
"Of course it is." Eriol beamed at Syaoran and then at Blake. "So Blake, what made you come here now?"
"Oh, just wanted to catch up with old family members, you know." Blake said.
"Sure, like I believe that." Eriol said. "Tell me the truth." Eriol coaxed her.
"Later, Eriol." For the first time since the group of friends laid eyes on her, Blake's face showed a very serious expression.
Sakura, looking on feeling a little odd, decided to speak up. "So, do you have magical powers like Syaoran and I too?"
Blake looked at the brunette with the same emerald eyes as her. Blake's smile returned, the sincerest she had smiled yet, and she replied, "Yes actually I do."
Eriol chose this time to smile and let Sakura and the others in on a secret. "Blake has something in common with you, Sakura. Actually a lot."
Getting that something was going on with Eriol, Syaoran smiled and said to the devious half reincarnation of Clow Reed, "Oh really, Eriol. Do you have anything particular in mind?"
"Well, actually I do." Eriol said, but before he could announce it, Blake did. "I am a mistress of my own kind of cards."
"Wow, really!" Sakura, Tomoyo, and Meiling said, while Syaoran's eyes widened a bit when he heard her say this. Eriol looked, amused, at his 'cute descendent'.
"What kind of cards are they?" Sakura asked, eager to know.
"Well, like you, I've changed them." Blake told the three girls. "They used to be Night cards, but I have sealed them and they are now Blake cards. Well, Eriol refers to them to dark cards. And to yours as Cherry blossom cards." All three girls and Syaoran looked at her for an explanation.
"The meanings of your first names." Eriol was the one who spoke up and told them this.
Blake looked at them amused. She knew that she would be staying here for a while. But, she and Eriol also knew that she wasn't going to be the only new magical force to come to Tomoeda. She could feel it. It was an evil, dark force. And she needed to be here to protect the mistress of the Sakura cards and the future master of another kind of cards.
