Hi everyone! For all the people who wants more action and magic in this story...this chapter will be it! There will be no romance in this chapter and probably won't be too fluffy for the next few chapters either, so I hope you guys'll be happy about that. :) Happy Holidays everyone!!!! :D
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Sakura had a hard time sleeping that night; her heart still hasn't stopped beating like fast drums, and her breath was both short and heavy. Why can't she get that amber-eyed boy out of her mind? After a decade of tossing and turning, she finally decided to sit up and stare into space...Then, she decided to look at the cards she's captured.
Wonder if he's still looking for me. She thought, staring at her 'Jump' card. He also has the 'Mirror' Card, I need that in order to change all the cards under my name. She sighed. But I don't wanna hurt him. She set the cards down into their book and looked at Kero, who was sleeping peacefully in the little drawer of her table. Frowning, she looked at the red cover of the Clow book, feeling the golden lion that was carved on it as she studied the small form of Kero. Wonder when Kero's gonna change to his real form. Will he ever change back?
The sound of leaves rustling interrupted her from her thoughts. She set the book down into her drawer and stepped away from the table to stare out of the clean window. Something was in her gardens, and it didn't feel like human.
She spotted something–or someone–blue with speed as fast as lightning as it ran out from the bushes. By then, she was sure that it was a card.
Dressing up as fast as she could, she quickly changed into a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, also waking up Kero from his slumber. She crawled out from her window and took out the 'Fly' card, enchanting her staff into a long pink stick with gigantic feathered wings, and immediately jumped out from her window with Kero by her side.
"Are you sure it's a card?" Kero asked as Sakura looked hard to see the card, dashing to and fro. Although it seemed very fast, it didn't look like it had any super-human speed, it was more of Sakura's speed, very athletic.
"Yes, I'm sure." Sakura replied, almost yelling through the hard blowing of the wind on her face. "But I don't know what card it is."
"Where is it heading?" Kero yelled, and Sakura looked at her surroundings.
"We're almost at Penguin Park." She said, and gasped when the card disappeared from her sights. "Where did it go?"
She landed to the ground and changed her staff back into its original form, the 'Fly' card floated quietly into her hand and she put it into her pockets, looking around. She started walking towards the big landmark on Penguin Park; although, she never failed to be cautious. Just when she stepped onto the hard, smooth ground of the park, a figure ran across before her, and she gasped as she lost her balance and sat on the ground with an "Oomph".
"The 'Fight' card." She heard Kero murmur above her, his eyebrows knitted together in a worried way. "It challenges people with fighting skills and never gets tired no matter how many combats it has gone through." She looked in front of her where a girl wearing a strange, blue dress was standing in a fighting pose, obviously challenging Sakura to a duel. "You have to be careful of her, Sakura, you need to know where to limit your powers or else you'll get defeated."
Nodding, Sakura stood up, holding out the pink staff in front of her. She's learned karate for quiet a time, too, she can fight this card.
Once she got ready, she sprinted towards the card with lighting speed and tried to hit it with her staff; however, the card was good enough to dodge it. She then brought her fist down towards it as it held up an arm and blocked its' face, an emotionless pair of eyes stared at her with a white glow. Sakura pulled back and bent down, swinging one of her legs under the card and hit its legs, making it fall. At the same time, she stood up and brought her other leg down, and smiled with triumph as her heel hit the card right on the stomach as it gave out a pained grunt. As it laid there, holding its stomach, she brought her fist down again, and with her strongest power, attacked it right on the gut as the ground underneath them cracked with a sound.
"Alright, Sakura! Way to go!" Kero encouraged from the background as Sakura jumped back and returned to her fighting position, her staff still in her hands.
Almost immediately, the card stood up, all healed, and smiled at her without any emotion, Sakura knitted her eyebrows together in frustration. The card was much stronger than she thought. This time, it was the card who was going to make the first move. It ran towards her, fist up and all, and tried to hit her face. Sakura, as good as karate as she was, jumped to the side and brought her leg up to kick the card on the side of its face. She regained her posture as the card rubbed its face before making its move again. Sakura swung her staff before her when the card had approached her and was barely two feet away, but what surprised her was that the card caught her staff and pushed to the side, revealing an unguarded Sakura as she gets pulled along with her weapon, eventually getting punched on the gut. Being too concerned about her wound, the card took this chance and replayed what Sakura had done earlier; she brought her leg under the wounded girl and swung as Sakura landed on her back with the smiling card above her, its fist was right next to its face at it brought the hand down; Sakura moved her head from the side as the white fist landed next to her, making the ground crack.
"Careful, Sakura!" Kero yelled, feeling a bit worthless since he didn't have enough power to do anything.
Sakura was already feeling weak, but she still managed to get out from under the violent card and bring her leg up again. But this time, her strength wasn't enough, and the card caught her leg with one hand and through her up to the air as it jumped up over her back, and attack her spine as Sakura crashed to the ground with a yelp. She got up again, and dodged as the card came down as well with its fist right next to it. Sakura didn't know what to do, she was already hurt badly, and no matter what she does, the card will never be wounded.
Deciding that it would probably be better to use her magic, she took out the 'Wood' card, and tried to wound it around the card's body to capture it. The trees were apparently too soft since the card used one hand to break the wood in half. Sakura then took out the 'Windy' and informed it to change into a chain. It successfully chained one of the card's legs, but the card immediately twisted so the chain itself wounded around each other, breaking the connection.
"Sakura! Remember! The object is strongest at its weakest point!" Kero pointed out and Sakura looked at him quizzically.
"How is that suppose to help me?" She asked, the little form just shrugged.
"I don't know. I just thought that it would be helpful if I just talked!" A huge sweat-drop formed in Sakura's hair.
Wait a minute! She suddenly thought, an electricity-like shock ran through her brain. An object is strongest at its weakest point...the weakest point must be something that attaches the card together!
Taking out her 'Power' card, Sakura became extremely strong and stood in front of the card, almost 10 feet away and smirked, the card only stood its ground.
Within two seconds, the card finally made its move and ran towards Sakura. Sakura got ready, and she lifted her staff up and brought it down, right before it was close enough to punch her...
WHAM!
The card fell unconsciously to the ground as the tip of her staff came down upon the back of its neck.
"Hooray, Sakura!" Kero cheered from the side and fluttered around her head. "I knew you could do it!"
Sakura sealed the card and it changed itself back into a card as it floated into her hand. She looked at it and sighed, putting a hand on her forehead.
"Why didn't I think of using the 'Power' card before we fought? Then I wouldn't get hit so many times." She mumbled to herself quietly as she sobbed in frustration and despair. Kero only smiled.
"It's okay, Sakura, people make mistakes..."
"WELL, AT LEAST THE PEOPLE WHO MAKES THE MISTAKES DON'T GET PUNCHED IN THE GUT!" Sakura retorted and turned around, still crying, while Kero rubbed its ears and glared at her, mumbling,
"She didn't have to yell..."
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Meanwhile, in another place, Eriol was sitting on a red chair, seeing everything that had happened in Sakura's fight. An evil grin had replaced itself from the usual warm smile that he had always wore and his blue eyes glimmered, reflecting the light from which a ball was formed in front of him to show him what's happening at the girl's place. Suddenly, his gaze softened, and he used a long staff and made the ball disappear, everything around him became normal and time repeated its usual pace.
He stood up from his chair and walked to a nearby window, and glanced through the gigantic glass before him to stare at the falling leaves on the other side. His chest went up and down slowly, and his eyes searched for something; an answer that has troubled him ever since he knew that Sakura was a cardcaptor.
Syaoran will be heartbroken. He thought sadly. Especially when he figures out that he'll have to take Sakura to his place and punish her. A leaf on the other side fluttered to the ground. I guess that needs to be a secret for now. I'll just let Sakura take the action.
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Well...whaddya think? Good? Bad? Weird? Eh, everything that I write seems to be weird. ;) I hope you guys liked it, though, it only took me,like an hour to finish this chapter, I had so much fun writing it.
The next chapter will be similar...with a little twist. But I probably won't be updating for a while 'cause my laptop broke and I can't go online, the laptop I'm using right now belongs to my school and I can't bring it home over winter vacation.*makes a face* But still, I promise I will update the next chapter as soon as possible, probably next week, so wait and review please! I hope you guys will still be reading when I get back!
Merry early Christmas everyone! :D