Useless
My name's Sakura Avalon, and I'm the Master of the Clow Cards. The Clow Cards are cards that have different magical abilities, like Dash, Windy, or Loop.
I had to capture all of them after I accidentally set them free. Kero Beros, the Guardian Beast of the Seal, gave me a special magical staff to capture them with, but I changed it during the Final Judgement.
The Final Judgement was a battle against the second Guardian, Yue. Whilst Kero is ruled by the Sun, Yue is ruled by the Moon. He almost defeated me, but I changed the staff and beat him using the Windy Card.
I didn't capture the cards alone, though. I had some help from my best friend Madison, a great fighter called Meilin, and a descendant of Clow Reed (the creator of the Clow Cards), Li Showron.
I thought my life would get easier after that, but apparently not. A powerful force has settled here, and weird things keep happening, like a teddy bear becoming enormous and attacking me!
However, there's this really nice new kid at school called Eli Moon, and he just seems to make everything seem better. Li doesn't seem to like him though. He keeps acting strange, and if Eli and I go somewhere together, he always insists on coming too. I don't understand why, but I'm sure he'll tell me sometime.
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I ducked as another arrow whistled towards me. My class had been looking round the museum, and our guide had let us pass around this great bow and quiver, the latter full of arrows.
But when the guide got them back, they jumped out of his hands and started acting as if invisible ones held them. An arrow would jump out of the quiver, set itself in the bow and then fire itself. at ME!
When the class scattered, I hid behind a statue and transformed the Time Card into a Star Card. If the cards are going to work with the new staff, they have to become Star Cards.
Anyway, Time froze everyone but me and Li, but I thought I saw someone run out of the door. I was about to follow when another arrow fired itself at me. I looked at Li to see if he knew what was happening, and I saw he had that focused expression when he's about to use his sword, magically or physically.
But the elements Fire and Water didn't work, and Wind and Earth probably wouldn't help either. I tried the Erase Card, but some kind of magical shield was protecting it.
Another arrow fired, and I had to roll out of the way quickly. Li was obviously getting worked up, and we didn't have Kero or Yue to help.
Then the bow turned sideways and THREE arrows positioned themselves, then fired. Two shot towards me, but the third headed for Li. I leapt to my feet and shoved him to the side, but the arrow struck my shoulder. I screamed as the blood started flowing.
Then I heard Li scream, "SAKURA!" Another three arrows struck me, one on the other shoulder, the other two on either side of my chest (Note: Just scratched her deeply enough to draw blood, not anything else).
I collapsed to the floor, blood gushing over my uniform. However, I still saw what happened. Li screamed something that sounded like a battle cry, then leapt at the floating weapons. Before another arrow could fire, he brought his sword down, slicing through them like a hot knife through butter.
Then I felt myself blacking out. My last thought before the darkness closed in was, 'What about the magical shield.?'
~*~ POV CHANGE ~*~
As my sword became beads, I dropped down next to her, "Sakura? Sakura, are you OK?"
My name is Li Showron, descendant of Clow Reed. I came to Readington to capture the Clow Cards, but ended up just helping the chosen CardCaptor, Sakura. When Meilin showed up, it was a nightmare, but it got OK when she stopped showing off and acting like I was some great and powerful hero.
When Yue defeated me in the Final Judgement, all I think could think of was what a disappointment I was to my family. Then another force appeared, and so did this creepy kid called Eli. Something about him seems to set off an alarm bell inside me.
At one point, these weird threads came out of nowhere, and fastened themselves to me like I was some kind of puppet. Then they made me attack Sakura, and I felt awful afterwards.
Yue says I need to stay around to help Sakura, and Mother says I need to protect the new Master of the Clow Cards. So I've gone from a descendant of Clow Reed, creator of the Clow Cards, to a lowly sidekick, protecting the really important person.
Some protector. Sakura was hurt badly, because she was protecting ME!
She needed to get to a hospital, but with time frozen, the ambulance would never get here! I reached out and shook her shoulder, not caring about the blood on my hand, "Sakura? SAKURA! You need to start time again! WAKE UP SAKURA!"
I sighed. There was no way she's wake up in time. Reaching into her pocket, I pulled out the Time Card. It looked the same as ever, only pink, and with Sakura's magic circle on the back. Time had used to be one of my cards, before Yue took them.
'I wish I could use it again, just this once. Sakura NEEDS me to,' I thought, closing my hand around it. Then this really bright light started to surround it, and I dropped it in surprise.
When the light faded, I couldn't believe my eyes. The card was back to its old form, and the name `Sakura` had changed to `Li`.
'It's just the way it was when I had it.' Carefully, I picked it up and turned it over, seeing if there were any more differences. No. Apart from my name, it was just the same card Sakura had brought along `Just in Case`.
I slipped it into my pocket, then dragged Sakura behind a display of Samurai weapons. I didn't want everyone thinking that Sakura had teleported into the middle of the room and magically gained wounds. Then I changed the beads into my sword once more, and took out the Time Card. I sighed again, 'Hope this works.'
I threw the card up, "Time!" I slammed the point of my sword against it. All the yellow light that comes when time's frozen flowed into it, and time started again.
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I lay on my bed, staring at the ceiling. Sakura was in hospital, the Time Card had become a Star Card again, and all that was left was guilt. 'I should have been able to help,' I thought.
All I'd done since the Final Judgement was get in the way. I'd almost killed her once, and I couldn't even help her when she went down that hole that appeared in Penguin Park.
'Why do I stay here?' I asked at loud. I didn't care what Yue and Mum thought. I controlled my life, and I'd decided that I didn't belong here any more.
'But where should I go? I can't go home...' I shook my head. I could just hide in the forest or something, whilst I got my thoughts straight.
My mind was made up. This time, no one would change it.
~*~ POV CHANGE ~*~
I am Kero Beros, Guardian Beast of the Seal. It is my job to guard the cards and their master, Sakura. My power comes from the Sun, and in my true form, I can blast great flames from my mouth.
And I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Yue had arrived at Sakura's house as Julian Star, his borrowed form. Yue, the second Guardian of the Clow Cards, gets his power and energy from the Moon. When we were alone, he changed, and told me the news.
Li Showron was missing.
I didn't really like him when I first met him, but I have to admit he's helpful. The news of his disappearance troubled me greatly. Maybe even more than Sakura being in hospital. She was strong. She would survive. But kids like Li don't grow on trees.
Yue stood next to the window, looking out at the Moon, "Lately he has been questioning his place in the scheme of things. I have had to tell hi twice now that he is still needed. I fear my advice may have fallen on deaf ears."
I walked up to him; "It's possible he's disappeared because of what happened to Sakura. He may be blaming himself."
Yue nodded, "It's very possible. But the cause is immaterial. WE need him. He has helped Sakura many times, and she has come to rely on him."
I sighed, then looked at the clock, "You should be going."
Yue turned from the window, "I'll keep an eye out for him. You should too."
Then he closed the door behind him.
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In my borrowed form, a teddy bear with wings and a long tail, I sat on the windowsill, looking out. But I didn't really see anything. I was too focused on the questions inside me.
Sakura had to have used the Time Card, but if she had, how had time started again after she's passed out? Why did Li think he was unimportant? And, most importantly, WHERE WAS HE?
The only one I could even guess at was the middle one. He'd been defeated in the Final Judgement, and as a direct descendant of Clow Reed, that would probably hurt him more deeply than if it had been Sakura who had failed. But would it hurt him so deeply he'd run away?
I sighed. He obviously didn't want to be found. Yue didn't know much, and I couldn't just go to his house and find out what he had taken with him. Or maybe I could..
No. Breaking and entering wouldn't help anything or anyone. Maybe I could try flying over Readington, to see if I could sense him. I nodded. Yes, that would work..
~*~ POV CHANGE ~*~
I am Yue, the Judge, and the second protector of the Clow Cards. When Sakura defeated me in the Final Judgement, I named her the Master of the Clow Cards. However, lately she has been having a few problems.
And Li.. I thought a direct descendant would put up a better fight. Maybe, if he had still been the ice-cold warrior he had been when he arrived in Readington, he would have defeated me or the fight might have been over in no time. No one knows what the future COULD have been. We only know now and what used to be.
But the boy missing.. That required my direct attention. I had no doubt in my heart that his disappearance would affect Sakura greatly. And that could distract her.
However, as Julian, my investigations wouldn't get anywhere. He would be unaware of Li's disappearance, and I wouldn't be able to prod him in anyway. Julian and I are separate entities with the same body, neither of us having direct conversation with the other. Only I am even aware that Julian is more than he seems.
But I believe Sakura's brother, Tori, has sensed me. Several times now he has tried to tell Julian his true identity, but every time the girl Ruby Moon has intervened. Every time, when Tori has gone, she has checked that Julian doesn't know what Tori is trying to tell him. She is special in some way, that much I can sense, but her presence is disruptive.
Li has tried to run twice before, but I was able to stop him both times, and talk some sense into him. However, it seems my advice has already been forgotten. And now he has disappeared completely.
No, not completely. No human can just disappear off the face of the Earth. So, he had to be somewhere. I.. We just needed to find him.
But my powers cannot be supplied by the Moon alone. Until the cards are all transformed, my very existence is in jeopardy. I can't try to sense him with the limited magic I am surviving on, or I will die.
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Julian sighed as he leant against the fence, thinking. 'I don't know what's going on. I'm so hungry, I've barely got any energy, and I keep having blackouts. What's happening to me?'
It hurts me deeply when Julian is like this. It is my fault this is happening to him, after all. Yet it is necessary. I wish it wasn't, but it is.
Then, if I had been visible and not inside him, I would have jumped 10 feet into the air, for the subject of Li came up. Had he sensed my fear? Or were these his thoughts alone?
'And Li's not here today. He's usually standing around here, but today he isn't. I've never known him not to appear. And he didn't look sick the last time I saw him.
'I wish he was here. It just made everything seem OK to have hi around. He was acting like he had problems too. Even if neither of us said anything, it's nice knowing I'm not the only one with problems.'
Sometimes Julian amazes me. In just a few sentences, he's shown that he understood Li more than me. Very few mortals have had the privilege of outdoing the Guardians of the Clow Cards.
After his school had ended for the day, he took his normal route home through the wood. Julian prefers to walk amongst the trees after school, to sort out his thoughts. And he had a lot to sort through this particular time.
Carefully, so I wouldn't lose too much magic, I scanned the area around him, seeing if I could sense Li. There were some magical traces, but they were so faint I couldn't tell whether they were remains from Sakura using the Clow Cards, or if Li had left them.
Then Julian stopped. I'd forgotten my magic heightens his own senses. If I'm trying to sense something, it tends to increase his vision and hearing. Normally, I try to avoid doing this, but this time it was a good it did.
Something.. No, someONE..was running through the forest. If his senses hadn't been heightened, there would have been no way that Julian could hear or see them. But, as it was, he took off after them, and I willed him on silently. If it was Li..
The figure leapt up into the trees just when it seemed Julian had them, though. But it didn't matter, since they hadn't jumped fast enough. I'd seen the messy brown hair, the ceremonial sword strapped to their back, even though they weren't wearing the entire outfit.
Li Showron.
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Lady Moon: Woo! My first CardCaptors fic! Go me! Go me!
Fiery Card: Woo. Hoo.
LM: Oh, come on. Give me more than that!
FC: Yay.
LM: OK, you can go back to Sakura, and you can forget about me stealing the Water Card so it'll never bother you again, because now I won't.
FC: (Brief Pause. Then grabs an Oscar thingy) Congratulations Lady Moon! For finishing your first CardCaptors fic, you get a very fake Oscar Award! And a wash from the Bubble Card!
LM: Jeez, you're touchy. That does it. If I ever do a sequel, it's gonna be any card but YOU.
FC: YES!!!!!!!!!
LM: And the Water Card will remain unharmed.
FC: NO!!!!!!!!!
LM: (Grins) YES!!!! Anyway, CardCaptors doesn't belong to me, only the idea for this fic does, which came from watching non-stop CardCaptors and Digimon episodes for about 2 hours! GAH!!!!!
Lady Moon
My name's Sakura Avalon, and I'm the Master of the Clow Cards. The Clow Cards are cards that have different magical abilities, like Dash, Windy, or Loop.
I had to capture all of them after I accidentally set them free. Kero Beros, the Guardian Beast of the Seal, gave me a special magical staff to capture them with, but I changed it during the Final Judgement.
The Final Judgement was a battle against the second Guardian, Yue. Whilst Kero is ruled by the Sun, Yue is ruled by the Moon. He almost defeated me, but I changed the staff and beat him using the Windy Card.
I didn't capture the cards alone, though. I had some help from my best friend Madison, a great fighter called Meilin, and a descendant of Clow Reed (the creator of the Clow Cards), Li Showron.
I thought my life would get easier after that, but apparently not. A powerful force has settled here, and weird things keep happening, like a teddy bear becoming enormous and attacking me!
However, there's this really nice new kid at school called Eli Moon, and he just seems to make everything seem better. Li doesn't seem to like him though. He keeps acting strange, and if Eli and I go somewhere together, he always insists on coming too. I don't understand why, but I'm sure he'll tell me sometime.
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I ducked as another arrow whistled towards me. My class had been looking round the museum, and our guide had let us pass around this great bow and quiver, the latter full of arrows.
But when the guide got them back, they jumped out of his hands and started acting as if invisible ones held them. An arrow would jump out of the quiver, set itself in the bow and then fire itself. at ME!
When the class scattered, I hid behind a statue and transformed the Time Card into a Star Card. If the cards are going to work with the new staff, they have to become Star Cards.
Anyway, Time froze everyone but me and Li, but I thought I saw someone run out of the door. I was about to follow when another arrow fired itself at me. I looked at Li to see if he knew what was happening, and I saw he had that focused expression when he's about to use his sword, magically or physically.
But the elements Fire and Water didn't work, and Wind and Earth probably wouldn't help either. I tried the Erase Card, but some kind of magical shield was protecting it.
Another arrow fired, and I had to roll out of the way quickly. Li was obviously getting worked up, and we didn't have Kero or Yue to help.
Then the bow turned sideways and THREE arrows positioned themselves, then fired. Two shot towards me, but the third headed for Li. I leapt to my feet and shoved him to the side, but the arrow struck my shoulder. I screamed as the blood started flowing.
Then I heard Li scream, "SAKURA!" Another three arrows struck me, one on the other shoulder, the other two on either side of my chest (Note: Just scratched her deeply enough to draw blood, not anything else).
I collapsed to the floor, blood gushing over my uniform. However, I still saw what happened. Li screamed something that sounded like a battle cry, then leapt at the floating weapons. Before another arrow could fire, he brought his sword down, slicing through them like a hot knife through butter.
Then I felt myself blacking out. My last thought before the darkness closed in was, 'What about the magical shield.?'
~*~ POV CHANGE ~*~
As my sword became beads, I dropped down next to her, "Sakura? Sakura, are you OK?"
My name is Li Showron, descendant of Clow Reed. I came to Readington to capture the Clow Cards, but ended up just helping the chosen CardCaptor, Sakura. When Meilin showed up, it was a nightmare, but it got OK when she stopped showing off and acting like I was some great and powerful hero.
When Yue defeated me in the Final Judgement, all I think could think of was what a disappointment I was to my family. Then another force appeared, and so did this creepy kid called Eli. Something about him seems to set off an alarm bell inside me.
At one point, these weird threads came out of nowhere, and fastened themselves to me like I was some kind of puppet. Then they made me attack Sakura, and I felt awful afterwards.
Yue says I need to stay around to help Sakura, and Mother says I need to protect the new Master of the Clow Cards. So I've gone from a descendant of Clow Reed, creator of the Clow Cards, to a lowly sidekick, protecting the really important person.
Some protector. Sakura was hurt badly, because she was protecting ME!
She needed to get to a hospital, but with time frozen, the ambulance would never get here! I reached out and shook her shoulder, not caring about the blood on my hand, "Sakura? SAKURA! You need to start time again! WAKE UP SAKURA!"
I sighed. There was no way she's wake up in time. Reaching into her pocket, I pulled out the Time Card. It looked the same as ever, only pink, and with Sakura's magic circle on the back. Time had used to be one of my cards, before Yue took them.
'I wish I could use it again, just this once. Sakura NEEDS me to,' I thought, closing my hand around it. Then this really bright light started to surround it, and I dropped it in surprise.
When the light faded, I couldn't believe my eyes. The card was back to its old form, and the name `Sakura` had changed to `Li`.
'It's just the way it was when I had it.' Carefully, I picked it up and turned it over, seeing if there were any more differences. No. Apart from my name, it was just the same card Sakura had brought along `Just in Case`.
I slipped it into my pocket, then dragged Sakura behind a display of Samurai weapons. I didn't want everyone thinking that Sakura had teleported into the middle of the room and magically gained wounds. Then I changed the beads into my sword once more, and took out the Time Card. I sighed again, 'Hope this works.'
I threw the card up, "Time!" I slammed the point of my sword against it. All the yellow light that comes when time's frozen flowed into it, and time started again.
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I lay on my bed, staring at the ceiling. Sakura was in hospital, the Time Card had become a Star Card again, and all that was left was guilt. 'I should have been able to help,' I thought.
All I'd done since the Final Judgement was get in the way. I'd almost killed her once, and I couldn't even help her when she went down that hole that appeared in Penguin Park.
'Why do I stay here?' I asked at loud. I didn't care what Yue and Mum thought. I controlled my life, and I'd decided that I didn't belong here any more.
'But where should I go? I can't go home...' I shook my head. I could just hide in the forest or something, whilst I got my thoughts straight.
My mind was made up. This time, no one would change it.
~*~ POV CHANGE ~*~
I am Kero Beros, Guardian Beast of the Seal. It is my job to guard the cards and their master, Sakura. My power comes from the Sun, and in my true form, I can blast great flames from my mouth.
And I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Yue had arrived at Sakura's house as Julian Star, his borrowed form. Yue, the second Guardian of the Clow Cards, gets his power and energy from the Moon. When we were alone, he changed, and told me the news.
Li Showron was missing.
I didn't really like him when I first met him, but I have to admit he's helpful. The news of his disappearance troubled me greatly. Maybe even more than Sakura being in hospital. She was strong. She would survive. But kids like Li don't grow on trees.
Yue stood next to the window, looking out at the Moon, "Lately he has been questioning his place in the scheme of things. I have had to tell hi twice now that he is still needed. I fear my advice may have fallen on deaf ears."
I walked up to him; "It's possible he's disappeared because of what happened to Sakura. He may be blaming himself."
Yue nodded, "It's very possible. But the cause is immaterial. WE need him. He has helped Sakura many times, and she has come to rely on him."
I sighed, then looked at the clock, "You should be going."
Yue turned from the window, "I'll keep an eye out for him. You should too."
Then he closed the door behind him.
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In my borrowed form, a teddy bear with wings and a long tail, I sat on the windowsill, looking out. But I didn't really see anything. I was too focused on the questions inside me.
Sakura had to have used the Time Card, but if she had, how had time started again after she's passed out? Why did Li think he was unimportant? And, most importantly, WHERE WAS HE?
The only one I could even guess at was the middle one. He'd been defeated in the Final Judgement, and as a direct descendant of Clow Reed, that would probably hurt him more deeply than if it had been Sakura who had failed. But would it hurt him so deeply he'd run away?
I sighed. He obviously didn't want to be found. Yue didn't know much, and I couldn't just go to his house and find out what he had taken with him. Or maybe I could..
No. Breaking and entering wouldn't help anything or anyone. Maybe I could try flying over Readington, to see if I could sense him. I nodded. Yes, that would work..
~*~ POV CHANGE ~*~
I am Yue, the Judge, and the second protector of the Clow Cards. When Sakura defeated me in the Final Judgement, I named her the Master of the Clow Cards. However, lately she has been having a few problems.
And Li.. I thought a direct descendant would put up a better fight. Maybe, if he had still been the ice-cold warrior he had been when he arrived in Readington, he would have defeated me or the fight might have been over in no time. No one knows what the future COULD have been. We only know now and what used to be.
But the boy missing.. That required my direct attention. I had no doubt in my heart that his disappearance would affect Sakura greatly. And that could distract her.
However, as Julian, my investigations wouldn't get anywhere. He would be unaware of Li's disappearance, and I wouldn't be able to prod him in anyway. Julian and I are separate entities with the same body, neither of us having direct conversation with the other. Only I am even aware that Julian is more than he seems.
But I believe Sakura's brother, Tori, has sensed me. Several times now he has tried to tell Julian his true identity, but every time the girl Ruby Moon has intervened. Every time, when Tori has gone, she has checked that Julian doesn't know what Tori is trying to tell him. She is special in some way, that much I can sense, but her presence is disruptive.
Li has tried to run twice before, but I was able to stop him both times, and talk some sense into him. However, it seems my advice has already been forgotten. And now he has disappeared completely.
No, not completely. No human can just disappear off the face of the Earth. So, he had to be somewhere. I.. We just needed to find him.
But my powers cannot be supplied by the Moon alone. Until the cards are all transformed, my very existence is in jeopardy. I can't try to sense him with the limited magic I am surviving on, or I will die.
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Julian sighed as he leant against the fence, thinking. 'I don't know what's going on. I'm so hungry, I've barely got any energy, and I keep having blackouts. What's happening to me?'
It hurts me deeply when Julian is like this. It is my fault this is happening to him, after all. Yet it is necessary. I wish it wasn't, but it is.
Then, if I had been visible and not inside him, I would have jumped 10 feet into the air, for the subject of Li came up. Had he sensed my fear? Or were these his thoughts alone?
'And Li's not here today. He's usually standing around here, but today he isn't. I've never known him not to appear. And he didn't look sick the last time I saw him.
'I wish he was here. It just made everything seem OK to have hi around. He was acting like he had problems too. Even if neither of us said anything, it's nice knowing I'm not the only one with problems.'
Sometimes Julian amazes me. In just a few sentences, he's shown that he understood Li more than me. Very few mortals have had the privilege of outdoing the Guardians of the Clow Cards.
After his school had ended for the day, he took his normal route home through the wood. Julian prefers to walk amongst the trees after school, to sort out his thoughts. And he had a lot to sort through this particular time.
Carefully, so I wouldn't lose too much magic, I scanned the area around him, seeing if I could sense Li. There were some magical traces, but they were so faint I couldn't tell whether they were remains from Sakura using the Clow Cards, or if Li had left them.
Then Julian stopped. I'd forgotten my magic heightens his own senses. If I'm trying to sense something, it tends to increase his vision and hearing. Normally, I try to avoid doing this, but this time it was a good it did.
Something.. No, someONE..was running through the forest. If his senses hadn't been heightened, there would have been no way that Julian could hear or see them. But, as it was, he took off after them, and I willed him on silently. If it was Li..
The figure leapt up into the trees just when it seemed Julian had them, though. But it didn't matter, since they hadn't jumped fast enough. I'd seen the messy brown hair, the ceremonial sword strapped to their back, even though they weren't wearing the entire outfit.
Li Showron.
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Lady Moon: Woo! My first CardCaptors fic! Go me! Go me!
Fiery Card: Woo. Hoo.
LM: Oh, come on. Give me more than that!
FC: Yay.
LM: OK, you can go back to Sakura, and you can forget about me stealing the Water Card so it'll never bother you again, because now I won't.
FC: (Brief Pause. Then grabs an Oscar thingy) Congratulations Lady Moon! For finishing your first CardCaptors fic, you get a very fake Oscar Award! And a wash from the Bubble Card!
LM: Jeez, you're touchy. That does it. If I ever do a sequel, it's gonna be any card but YOU.
FC: YES!!!!!!!!!
LM: And the Water Card will remain unharmed.
FC: NO!!!!!!!!!
LM: (Grins) YES!!!! Anyway, CardCaptors doesn't belong to me, only the idea for this fic does, which came from watching non-stop CardCaptors and Digimon episodes for about 2 hours! GAH!!!!!
Lady Moon