This is a Fic is an entry for Michael's Cardcaptor's 3rd Anniversary Contest for Wednesday, August 20th 2003. I do not own the idea for this fic, nor do I own the Sparkle Cards. Naima owns the first names of the students and I own the last names. Pretty amazing, isn't it? Story Setting:: Sakura is now 36 years old and in charge of a new school of magic. Here children from all across the globe could come and learn how to use their gifts for the good of everyone. "Magic is nothing to be scared of as long as you understand and learn how to use it," said Sakura.
The world had come to know about Clow Reed, Clow Cards, Star Cards, and the origins of magic. After saving the world from destruction on numerous occasions, Sakura, Li, Meilin, and Madison had earned the admiration and respect of the world.
One day at school, Madison was videotaping for a new promo commercial, Meilin was teaching self-defense, and Li was busy mastering new arts in magic with a few students. In Sakura's class, 3 prospects of magic were about to learn how to catch and use their own Sparkle Cards. They were called Breeze, Gust, and Stream, which all happen to be descendents of The Windy Card. Sakura called upon her staff as did the children many times before. The prospects also have key chains that can turn into staffs. Sakura thought this would be easy to keep track of and learn how to use.
Sakura instructed the students, "concentrate on your magic, but always remember, respect the spirits within the Sparkle Cards, cause once they grow with you, they will turn into your own Star Cards."
The children responded by nodding their heads with great commitment, as they did not want to fail their second and most important test. (The first test, all 3 were successful in capturing the Dim, Twinkle, and Flicker Sparkle Cards, all decedents of The Light Card.)
Sakura released the Breeze, Gust, and Stream Sparkle Cards and 3 spirits appeared. Sakura instructed them that 3 new prospects had wished to be their new masters. Breeze, Gust, and Stream were unhappy, as they wanted Sakura, their creator, to be in charge of them. However, Sakura explained that she cannot live forever and it was time for them to know and trust new masters.
Upon agreement to Sakura's wishes, Breeze, Gust, and Stream went down to the arena. When they arrived, Sakura called upon the Maze Card to form a huge maze for the children to go through.
"There will be a few surprises in store so be ready," said Sakura.
The children nodded and entered the maze.
"Dark Card, RELEASE AND DISPEL!" said Sakura. The maze got dark and the children couldn't see anywhere................
Chapter One: Out of the Darkness and into the Maze
"Dark Card, cover this Maze in Darkness! Dark Card, Release and Dispel!" Sakura shouted, releasing the Dark Card.
Fourteen-year-olds Hikari Kaze, Haru Kazuko and Ying Hua Lan all walked into the darkness, staffs ready if they were needed. Together, the small group of friend had barely managed to get passed their pervious test alone. It would take much more then their bonds to stay calm whenever the situation was chaotic and required dire need.
"Hopefully this will be a tad easier. Do you think, Hikari-chan?" Haru asked her friend. Hikari was the smartest of the three, and usually came up with all of their ideas, and also came Ying and Haru enough time to for fill their plans.
Hikari sighed, looking back at Haru. "I'm not sure how to get there, exactly, but we'll try our best." Haru and Ying Hua nodded. The other girls were the fighters, and did was needed to be done when capturing the cards, and also wanted to please Sakura at the same time. The girls stopped for a moment and looked back at Ying Hua.
"What's wrong now, Ying Hua?" Haru asked, watching her friend try and pinpoint the Sparkle Cards' location.
"The darkness is starting to thicken—we act now or we get absorbed into the darkness and fail the test." Ying commented, her hazel eyes glinting.
"Okay." Hikari plopped down on the ground and began to think. "Well, we can either finds Dark's weakness or get lost in the darkness and fail." Haru fell over.
"Do you have to be that obvious?!" She yelled, standing up.
"Sometimes I have no choice to, Haru-chan." The other two girls sighed. Right now it didn't seem like they had very many options. And, the worse part about the test was that they didn't have a clue on what Dark's weakness was. That, or Sakura had gone over it whenever the girls were away in London. It was a good chance that it was the second choice because Hikari remembered missing something whenever they had returned.
"Hm... Which card can we use?" Ying asked, staring blanking into the darkness.
"Either Dim, Twinkle or Flicker. For being descendants from Light, it can work. How about we use all three in a combination?" Haru suggested, her eyes now flickering with excitement. Hikari's reply was a mere shrug.
Back to each other, each girl took out their cards, holding onto them for a moment. They threw each card into the air, and hitting their staffs on them and cried in unison: "Descendants of Light, dispel the darkness! RELEASE!" In a bright flash of light, the three cards went about the room as one and lit the place, causing Dark to return to its original form. She smiled and returned to her card and went off to Sakura who marked was at the entrance and had been marking down points for the girls.
"Oro?" Haru looked around and saw that she had been separated from Ying Hua and Hikari. "Baka walls!" She shouted, annoyed.
"Calm down, Haru-chan." Came Ying Hua's voice. "Remember, if you can think about the task at hand, others will not have to come to your aid."
"Sou da ne, Haru-chan." Hikari agreed (I don't exactly know if that's how to spell it, but let's just say Hikari said 'That's right' in Japanese.). A sigh was heard from the spring child, a slight smile on her face.
"Ussha, let's all do our best and try to make something of this test, ne?"
"Hai." Both girls agreed. With the agreement to do their best, each one headed off in their own direction, hoping that their friend will be safe and does their best against the Sparkle Cards.