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14. Flower's Token

Rad looked at the flyer that Spike had placed on his desk. "What's this?"

"It's a flyer for a championship race and my dad is sponsoring a racer. Do you want to come?" Spike asked.

"Hmm, alright." Rad relented. "I'll go." A thought occured to him. "Where is it?"

"Read the flyer." Spike said patiently.

Rad let out an "Oh" before looking back down at the flyer. June 15, 11:00 am to 6:00pm. "It's the weekened before the exams, joy." he muttered.

"You could study there too." Spike offered.

"Where?" Rad asked.

"In the pit crew area of course." Spike replied grinning.

Rad stared before grinning back. "I'll be there."

Rad put several books into his pack as he gets ready to got to the race. "I'll be back after 6." he told Kero.

Kero looked up from the supply of chocolate Rad had bought him. "Just becareful."

Rad smiled reassuring. "I'll be fine, trust me." he said before leaving the room. He headed downstairs and outside. Rad waited until a blue and gray Datsun pulled up in front of him. He got into the driver's seat, put his seat belt, and kissed the steering wheel. "Hello Blue."

The engine purred. "Hello Rad."

The Datsun pulls away from the curb and drives away. On the way to the race track, Rad couldn't help but get an inkling of suspicion once they arrived. Rad got out and patted the hood. "Later Blue." he said going to the stadium.

He walked into the pit area where Spike, and Sparkplug were. "You made it." Spike said smiling.

Rad smiled back and sat down on the bench. "So where's your racer?"

Sparkplug gestured to a blue and white racer. "There he is."

Rad walked over to the sleek car and was awed. "Amazing, this looks just like Mirage."

Spike and Sparkplug exchange glances. "What makes you say that?"

Rad shot them a deadpan look. "I just said it looks just like him." he took out books. "I'll just stay here." Rad heard them leave and glanced over at the blue race car one more time before reading through his first book.

After a while, Rad suddenly felt as if petals were brushing against him and a flowery aroma entered his nose. 'Not now.' he thought and got up and looked outside to see the crowd cheering and pink flower petals falling like confetti.

Rad threw the racer a suspicious glance before taking his key off. "The key that hides the power of the dark." A golden circle appeared underneath him. "Show your true powers before me, I, Rad, command you, under our contract, Release!" His key flashed in a golden light before changing into it's staff form.

Rad missed the blue sparking coming over the blue car as he saw the petals beginning to overwhelm and pile in the stands. "Not good." he muttered and began looking around until he saw a glowing pink figure on the opposite building.

Rad grimaced when he saw that the racers had now stopped racing because they too were being overwhelmend and as he ran through the stadium hall to get to the opposite building, he failed to notice a certain mechanical bird or a certain yellow racer.

Rad looked up at the building's height and frowned. "There's no way in hell I'm running up all those stairs." he said and pulled out Windy. "I need you to help me get to the top of the building, Windy."

A swirl of air seemed to attach to him and for a brief moment, he felt the euphoria of flying. The feeling ended all-too-soon as his feet hit the gorund of the roof. Rad turned to the card causing the disturbance.

It was a glowing pink woman with pink hair in corkscrew pigtails, wearing a pink dress and her forehead had a flower design on it. She didn't seem to notice him as she continued smiling down at something.

"Hey!" Rad pointed at her. "Cut this out!"

The woman then seemed to notice him, but instead of running or trying to attack him, she merely looked back at whatever it was she had staring at fondly. Rad, feelling curiously confused, followed her gaze. It appeared that while all the race cars were also being overwhelmend by flower petals, a single yellow racer didn't even have one on it, and all the petals surrounding it were yellow also.

While the car seemed familiar, he couldn't place it, but he didn't recognizze the look on the woman's face. It was the same look he'd had on his own when ever he had looked at Blue. So smiling he chanted, "Someone's got a crush!"

The woman looked away uneasily and her face seemed to glow brighter.

Rad contiued smiling. "Tell you what, you let me seal you, and I promise to give him a gift from you."

The woman stared at him for a moment before nodding and a boquet of yellow flowers appeared in her hands.

Rad grabbed the boquet and set it down carefully before lifting the staff above his head. "Return to the guise you were meant to be in, Clow Card!" His swing stopped mid-way as a glowing shell card appeared at the beak of the staff and chime bells sounded.

The woman casted one final lookat the yellow car before she dissolved and was vacuumed into the card. The card stopped glowing and floated over to him. The card read: The Flower.

Rad sweat dropped.

Rad looked around the area before approaching the yellow racer, who's deriver was no where to be seen. He looked down at the boquet in his arms. The flowers were-as far as he could tell-a blend of chrysanthumums and lillies, their yellow colors reflecting almost orange in the sunlight.

Rad placed the boquet on the windshield, the breeze blowing the sweet smell of the flower onto his face. Rad sighed. "Flower must really have liked this this guy to put this much effort into her gift."

With that, Rad walked away to where Spike and Sparkplug were; he still had to study after all.