This might be my last "focus with the plot factor" chapter, because I've pretty much lost the feeling to write adventurous and dangerous and all at the same time humurous stories, because some people (just two in peculiar) are being so mean to me, so I'm gonna pick on them, but this chapter was alreayd written before today, so that will be the next chapter, and perhaps you will all look forward that that one!
CCS does not belong to me, but this story does.
A New Beginning
"Gee, thanks Mrs. Bowman." I said.
"Yeah, thanks for the ride." Kanari added. Five kids hopped out of the minivan. Mrs. Bowman had blond hair and multicolored eyes. She smiled and waved, then drove off.
"Bye mum!" Nakita waved with her right hand, wince she was holding Cherry in the other. "C'mon, let's go." I groaned.
"The year I have to get braces is the year that this Jewel thing starts." I grumbled and walked into the building.
"Aww, don't worry." Kanari said. "I've got to get braces too, and when they extracted three teeth, they gave me a needle shot on the roof of my mouth." Vash winced. I walked up to the front desk and signed in.
"Luckily I only have to get one tooth pulled." I said as I joined the others and sat down. "Three sure is a lot." Nakita, who had perfect teeth, shrugged.
"Yuki?" A dentist popped his head out of the door. "Okay, you can get your filling now."
"Luckily for Vash, he never gets cavities." Kelli said.
"They have sweets on Planet Uri?" Kanari asked as they all followed me in.
"Well, not really." Kelli said. "It isn't exactly sweets, only (smug smile) there is this river that flows by our house and contains vast amounts of sugar, and I always drink from it when we play near that area. Queen Jewel does the cavities herself." She took a look at me and then at the numbing needles nearby. "Except she just crams this stick into your mouth and then ooh, the PAIN!!! She never numbs it. Lucky duck (she looked at Vash) never had one cavity. He's scared of needles."
"Really?" Nakita asked. Vash groaned and tugged at Kelli's sleeve like a seven-year-old.
"Yeah." Kelli said. "Once, when we had to get vaccine shots, he threw up on the nurse." We all started laughing. The dentist walked in, and took out a needle. Vash winced. He stuffed his ears and Kelli put her hands over his eyes.
The dentist popped a needle in my mouth, and then another one. I groaned softly in pain. Vash clutched his stomach furiously. Right after the needles were done, I felt the shot take instant effect. Biting down on my lip, I felt nothing, but biting down on the other side, I felt pain. The dentist left. Vash was twisting in his chair.
"Um, it's over already Vash." Nakita said. Vash looked up and Kelli removed his hands.
"Fr reel, Vash, you suffer moor tan di do." I said with my numb mouth. Kanari laughed. "I'm not joking."
"I think you should lay off the talking." Kanari said. I felt my right cheek. It seemed swollen. I compared the measurements of my two cheeks. Yes, it was much bigger.
"Now the filling." Kanari said. The dentist had returned.
"Err, Vash, do you think we should leave now?" Kelli suggested. "I mean, this IS pretty gruesome, and Yuki is probably going to scream (the dentist gave her a fierce look) so I was just saying, maybe it'd be best if we've just wait in the lounge."
"I'm no wimp." Vash complained.
"I didn't say you were." Kelli said gently. "I just think it's best." Vash considered his options for a moment, then nodded and headed out the door. Kelli followed close behind. Kanari giggled. The dentist worked some tools (and I almost screamed, it hurt so much) but in the end it was done. We left the room to wait for Mrs. Bowman to pick us up.
"The numbing usually takes several hours." Kanari said. "Drink plenty of water."
"Yeah, Kanari's the expert on this." Nakita laughed. "Oh, look, mom's here to pick us up!"
"How do you feel, Yuki?" Mrs. Bowman asked as we climbed into the van.
"Not fery good." I said, "Numb." Mrs. Bowman chuckled.
"Well, my dears, where would we be heading now?" Mrs. Bowman asked.
"Rene's house." Nakita said, and then gave out quick directions. "You'll see it instantly, mom, it's a big white mansion house."
"And may I ask why?" Nakita looked confused.
"Because she works at a toy factory." Nakita said.
"No, I meant why you are going to Rene's house."
"Oh! Well, she just invited us over and some other people." Nakita said. Mrs. Bowman smiled, and then tried to follow Nakita's directions as best as she could.
My mouth was hurting, and I felt as if it were glued together. Moving my mouth, a felt a "snap." I made a face.
"You'll be okay." Kanari said. "It only takes a few hours to go away."
"Only?" I asked.
"And see, you're talking better already!" Kanari tried to encourage me. I groaned.
Rene's house was decorated, at least the door was. I wondered what the special occasion was. Rene opened the door prior to our knock. She let us in. Doughboy, Liz, and Snowy were already there. Mrs. Bowman left us at the door.
"When do you want me to pick you up?" She asked. Rene poked me with four fingers, and then once again.
"How about four and a half?" I asked, responding to our secret code. Kanari imitated the way I spoke in a whisper. The rest looked at me strangely.
"Okay, I'll come back in half and hour." Mrs. Bowman walked back to the car.
"Thanks!" I said. Rene echoed me.
"Why?" Nakita asked as soon as her mother was out of earshot.
"It's my mum's birthday, and she's coming home ASAP, which is probably five, and I want everything to be ready." Rene said. "Mum and I hardly see each other, because she works so long at the toy factory."
"Yeah." Kanari said. "Well, let's go in." Kanari made her way inside.
"So what's the plan?" Doughboy asked. "Anyone?"
"We will visit the Fourth Dimension to find the door to the Fifth." Kelli said. "Ooh, where's Anora?" Anora popped out of the bushes and spread out her brown bat-like wings.
"I know the way through the best." She said. Vash shuddered.
"Do we have to go through that place again?" He asked. "Ugh."
"Why, is it bad?" Nakita asked, cuddling a content Cherry in her arms.
"Have you ever been there?" Doughboy asked. "There are zombies that follow you around and try to get you. We met Ariel in there, and I supposed we'll meet Eriol too." Kanari shuddered.
"Also, there are some people that automatically freeze when they enter the Fourth Dimension." Vash said. "They have the most horrible expressions. Most of them never make it back to where they came from."
"Are they all criminals?" Nakita sat down in a chair, put her chin in her hand, and let Cheery run around the room. She focused her eyes of Vash.
"Most of the time." Vash seemed to be enjoying himself. "The most dangerous, blood thirsty of them all, and-" Kelli started to laugh.
"Not really." She cut Vash off. "Most of them are innocent people and only a few are criminals."
"Oh." Nakita said.
"Vash lies, and likes to mess around with people." Kelli said, laughing.
"Well, Yuki and I are very gullible." Nakita said. I nodded.
"Yeth." I said. Rene giggled, and came back to the room with a smaller box.
"Shoes!" She said. We all groaned as Rene passed around some black shoes, a special type for the girls and boys, though Vash and Doughboy refused to wear their shoes. "Oh, I found this in the newspaper." Rene pulled out a newspaper clipping, and handed it to Kanari.
"It's very recent." Kanari said. "What does it say?" Kanari handed the clipping to me and looked around for her glasses, which were lying on the table. I read it quickly, then gasped and gave it to Nakita, who was still sitting on the chair, with Cherry in her lap putting on her usual shoes.
"Let's see." Nakita said. "Only two days ago. Hmm? : News reporters say that there has been a disturbance in the tanks of fish at the nearby Bridgestone Aquarium, and also in the Community Pool. Cyclones have mysteriously appeared and so have whirlpools. Some believe this is a sea monster. As long as it remains, we advise people to stay away from these places." Nakita looked up thoughtfully. "Hmm."
"Watery Card." Vash announced.
"But I thought you already had that card Yuki." Doughboy said. Liz nodded. I started to flip through my book.
"I did." I said. "Remember, I gave Doughboy that cordial when we first met Kanari and her jewel with the Watery Card."
"Something is wrong, then." Vash said. "Hm."
"I might have lost that card." I said.
"Maybe." Nakita said. "But you usually don't lose things."
"I have a suspicion that I've been robbed." I said. "Probably by Eriol."
"Probably." Kanari said. "Is your mouth better now?" I nodded.
"WE NEED TO GET INSIDE THE AQUARIUM." I said grimly. Rene dug in her purse.
"Tickets!" She said. "C'mon, this is card is worth capturing as well as this is worth using." We got into our costumes and headed towards the park (okay, so I used the Illusion Card because we DID look a little suspicious heading down the street dressed like that).
We arrived at the front of the aquarium and Rene handed the guy her tickets. As she did, she moved out of the Illusion. Luckily she was wearing those normal clothes she had brought for herself. Her camcorder was in the other hand. The Illusion only showed Nakita, Rene, and me, so we only had to pay for three people. We walked inside and I closed the Illusion.
"Well, nothing suspicious has happened so far, so we can go home now." Doughboy started towards the door. Liz grabbed the back of his collar.
"Not so fast." She said, pointing down the dim aisle. It was deserted, except for a shape watching the circular pool. AS our eyes adjusted, we could see what it was.
"Colton!" Kanari exclaimed.
"SHHH!!!!" We tried so shush her, but Colton turned his head. In a split second, he came charging at us.
WE ran.
"Ah, Release!" Liz got out her sword, and held it in front of Colton. Colton stopped and turned around to come the other way.
"Oh bad." Doughboy had already summoned his bubble and was rising.
"What are we running?" I demanded. "We have to fight him and we're supposed to send him to the Fourth Dimension!"
"Are there security cameras here?" Nakita asked nervously. I looked around.
"There!" I pointed to one damaged camera. "I guess Colton has already taken care of the security."
Rene and Liz took to the air on her broomstick. Snowy, Kanari, Nakita, and I quickly followed, and so did Kelli and Vash.
"I swear Vash, you need wings." Kelli said. "I mean, why didn't you ask Queen Jewel?"
"You weren't supposed to ask." Vash replied gravely, and then his expression changed suddenly. "Ahh, Colton can fly!" Colton charged up to Vash and Kelli, like a flying beast. It looked like a definite collision.
"Ah!" Kanari shouted.
"Watch out!" Nakita said. "Uh, Release!" Nakita bells (which were still in her hair) moved into the release position and turned into bigger bells. Blinded by the light, Colton stopped. Nakita's bells were lighting up the whole place.
"Uh, how does this work?" Nakita asked. No one answered. No one had time. Suddenly, water rose from the pool and wrapped itself around Nakita, bringing her down.
"Nakita!" I called, rushing to help. Colton looked stunned, but that didn't stop him from making a huge swipe at Kelli and Vash. It didn't hurt them, but I can't say it had no effect. Kelli fell out of the air, and they both splashed into the water. Kelli's wings were wet, and she couldn't fly out. Vash was struggling.
Nakita was still in the water, and it was forcing her under. I quickly did something with two of my cards (which I can't tell you at the moment, it will spoil everything) and then rushed to pull her out. It was not working. I managed to annoy the Watery Card enough that it stopped with Nakita and turned into it's visible from. It resembled the Firey Card only it looked slightly older. I backed up a bit. Element Cards had four times the power than the normal ones, and the powerful card, like Power, for instance, was almost as tough. Rene and Liz flew over to Nakita and managed to get her out of the water and into a chair (we were in an area, and surrounding the circular pool were stands of chairs to sit on to watch the show, only ever since the water card had appeared, there had been no shows.
Snowy flew over to offer her hands to Vash and Kelli, and Doughboy followed her example. Colton rushed to get them off balance too.
"AHH, help!" Snowy called. Suddenly, with a huge tackle and swipe, Colton went flying and crashed into some stands. Nakita, who was nearby, shrieked as Colton came flying her way and flew up to get out of the way, since her wings were now dry.
Cerberus was hovering on top of the pool, looking all brave and smug at the same time. I had transformed a little Kero to Cerberus with the Earthy and Firey Cards.
"Kero!" Nakita said. "What are you doing here?" Kero shrugged.
"I followed you guys." He said. "I knew Yuki would be at Rene's house, so I came over and saw you guys leaving for the Aquarium."
"Oh." Nakita said. Colton got up, and the Watery Card started to attack Kelli and Vash, who had barely gotten out of the water.
"Vash." Cerberus got under Vash, and Vash climbed into his back. He transported Vash to the stands to rest, and then approached Colton.
"Okay, I've got it figured out." Snowy said. "Doughboy, Rene, Liz, and I will help Cerberus with Colton, and the rest of you (Kelli, Yuki, Kanari, and Nakita) will capture the Watery Card."
"Okay." I said. "C'mon." Nakita and Kanari rose to fight. Kelli assisted to Vash.
"I'll be there in a moment." She said. The Watery Card (in it's visible form) scowled at us. She snapped her fingers, and a flash of water rose to meet us above the pool.
"AH!" Nakita moved out of the way. Cherry cheered from the stands. Since they had arrived, Cherry and Anora had hid under the stands. The Watery did a series of snaps and clicks, and water aimed at us everywhere.
It was tough. Nakita finally got a chance to point her bells at the Watery.
"Fire." Nakita said, meaning for the weapon to shoot, but instead, fire came streaming out. Unfortunately, Kanari was in the way between Nakita and the Watery.
"Watch out Kanari." I said, lunging for her. We both fell out into the water as Nakita's fire toasted the Watery.
"Quick, Yuki!" Anora called. I struggled to get out of the water. I wasn't working. My wings were full of water and keeping me down. I held out my key and though underwater, "Oh Key of Clow, Power of Magic, Power of Light, Surrender the Wand, the force ignite! Release!" The wand popped right out and surfaced, bringing me to the surface of the water and I breathed in the fresh air.
"Fly!" I said, hitting a card. I was finally back in the air again, since the Fly Card had pulled me out of the water several feet. I spread out my wings and sprinkled the water droplets out. Since my wingspan was so big, everyone got sprinkled on. Cherry and Anora giggled as the water droplets hit them.
Flying up to the Watery Card, I commanded, "Watery, Return to Your Power Confined! Watery!" The form of the Watery Card wavered in front of me as it was sucked into its card. The Watery Card flew out of my hand and in front of Nakita, who took it, looking at the sleeping Watery inside of the card. I flew up to her.
"Uh, Yuki?" Nakita firmly gave me the card. "I don't want it."
"But you captured it!" I protested.
"Maybe so." Nakita said. "But I'm not the one collecting 52 cards, and I don't know how to use it, so it wouldn't be of any use to me. Here, take it." I reluctantly took it, and we met at the side of the rink with the others. Doughboy used his Memorization to show what happened, and so we could visualize it exactly right.
After Snowy had given directions, the four of them headed right to Colton, who had just launched his Missile Launcher at Cerberus.
Doughboy used his lasers to hit some of the bullets, and they disappeared, missing Cerberus. The rest bounced off the side of the tank as Cerberus flew sideways away from the bullets, but one bullet made a hole in the glass. Water started to leak out, slowly at first, but then the whole part of the glass split and water came pouring out. Doughboy ran up to the glass, and with Cerberus's help, sealed the tank. Colton dived for Cerberus again, but was too slow for Liz. With Rene's help, they had gotten up in the air, and Rene had let go of Liz just on top of Colton. Liz hung on one hand tightly to Colton's mane as Colton shrugged to toss her off. Liz took both hands and plunged the sword into his back. Colton howled in pain, and there was a ball of blackness, with light streaming through it for a split second. The beams of light illuminated the room, and purple sparks like electricity currents revolved around the ball. A second later, it was gone, as well as Colton.
"YES!" Snowy gave Doughboy a high-five. "We DID it!"
"Um, actually." Doughboy said, but was cut off. Rene rushed over to Liz.
"Oh, I was so worried you'd disappear too!" Rene said. Liz had fallen onto some stands, and was dazzled, but otherwise okay. Liz stood up.
"I'm okay." She said, rubbing her head. "Look!" Doughboy cut the Memorization short.
"That was when we say you capturing the Watery Card." He said, tucking the pendant away in his shirt.
"I must say, that was some experience." Vash said, rubbing his hair. His shaggy hair was spiked up when it was wet. As he did so, he sprinkled water over everyone. Cherry giggled. Nakita smiled and bent down to pick her up. Anora jumped up on Vash's shoulder and wrapped herself around his neck, choking him.
"ARG." Vash said, coughing. "Get off!" Kelli tried to pry Anora off. Cerberus turned back into Kero, and I felt the light go out of him and back into the cards. Kero lay down on my shoulder.
"Whew!" He said. "Boy, am I tired. Turning into Cerberus really takes the energy out of you."
"You didn't mind so much when we were in Nothing." I said diligently.
"Well, that was different." Kero said in a little kid's voice. I cut him off before he could explain.
"Shouldn't we go now?" I asked. Kelli nodded, and fell back as she finally got Anora off of Vash's neck. Anora ran towards the nearest door. And Cherry yelled, "Ay!" which Nakita and I have always believed was her way of saying, "Yeah!"
The door was open, and there was a sigh of relief as we got out.
"It's already five!" I exclaimed, checking my watch.
"Uh-oh." Nakita said in a singsong voice. "Um. Err, let's fly back to Rene's house, land in the backyard, get our bags, and then I'll call my mom and tell her we went to see a movie."
"And then she'll ask you what." Kanari added, crossing her arms.
"Uh." Nakita said. "What's playing, anyone?"
Doughboy mumbled under his breath the lamest movie I had ever heard of.
"Uh, okay." Nakita said. She wasn't that much of a movie fan. Vash listed a few more. We stared at him.
"Vash, er, finds it fascinating to see a projector and a big screen." Kelli said nervously. Vash nodded, his mind seemingly somewhere else.
"Okay then." Rene said. "Quick, let's go, before my mom arrives home!"
Ouch, an important chapter, with a lot happening...You haven't had some of these in a long time.
CCS does not belong to me, but this story does.
A New Beginning
"Gee, thanks Mrs. Bowman." I said.
"Yeah, thanks for the ride." Kanari added. Five kids hopped out of the minivan. Mrs. Bowman had blond hair and multicolored eyes. She smiled and waved, then drove off.
"Bye mum!" Nakita waved with her right hand, wince she was holding Cherry in the other. "C'mon, let's go." I groaned.
"The year I have to get braces is the year that this Jewel thing starts." I grumbled and walked into the building.
"Aww, don't worry." Kanari said. "I've got to get braces too, and when they extracted three teeth, they gave me a needle shot on the roof of my mouth." Vash winced. I walked up to the front desk and signed in.
"Luckily I only have to get one tooth pulled." I said as I joined the others and sat down. "Three sure is a lot." Nakita, who had perfect teeth, shrugged.
"Yuki?" A dentist popped his head out of the door. "Okay, you can get your filling now."
"Luckily for Vash, he never gets cavities." Kelli said.
"They have sweets on Planet Uri?" Kanari asked as they all followed me in.
"Well, not really." Kelli said. "It isn't exactly sweets, only (smug smile) there is this river that flows by our house and contains vast amounts of sugar, and I always drink from it when we play near that area. Queen Jewel does the cavities herself." She took a look at me and then at the numbing needles nearby. "Except she just crams this stick into your mouth and then ooh, the PAIN!!! She never numbs it. Lucky duck (she looked at Vash) never had one cavity. He's scared of needles."
"Really?" Nakita asked. Vash groaned and tugged at Kelli's sleeve like a seven-year-old.
"Yeah." Kelli said. "Once, when we had to get vaccine shots, he threw up on the nurse." We all started laughing. The dentist walked in, and took out a needle. Vash winced. He stuffed his ears and Kelli put her hands over his eyes.
The dentist popped a needle in my mouth, and then another one. I groaned softly in pain. Vash clutched his stomach furiously. Right after the needles were done, I felt the shot take instant effect. Biting down on my lip, I felt nothing, but biting down on the other side, I felt pain. The dentist left. Vash was twisting in his chair.
"Um, it's over already Vash." Nakita said. Vash looked up and Kelli removed his hands.
"Fr reel, Vash, you suffer moor tan di do." I said with my numb mouth. Kanari laughed. "I'm not joking."
"I think you should lay off the talking." Kanari said. I felt my right cheek. It seemed swollen. I compared the measurements of my two cheeks. Yes, it was much bigger.
"Now the filling." Kanari said. The dentist had returned.
"Err, Vash, do you think we should leave now?" Kelli suggested. "I mean, this IS pretty gruesome, and Yuki is probably going to scream (the dentist gave her a fierce look) so I was just saying, maybe it'd be best if we've just wait in the lounge."
"I'm no wimp." Vash complained.
"I didn't say you were." Kelli said gently. "I just think it's best." Vash considered his options for a moment, then nodded and headed out the door. Kelli followed close behind. Kanari giggled. The dentist worked some tools (and I almost screamed, it hurt so much) but in the end it was done. We left the room to wait for Mrs. Bowman to pick us up.
"The numbing usually takes several hours." Kanari said. "Drink plenty of water."
"Yeah, Kanari's the expert on this." Nakita laughed. "Oh, look, mom's here to pick us up!"
"How do you feel, Yuki?" Mrs. Bowman asked as we climbed into the van.
"Not fery good." I said, "Numb." Mrs. Bowman chuckled.
"Well, my dears, where would we be heading now?" Mrs. Bowman asked.
"Rene's house." Nakita said, and then gave out quick directions. "You'll see it instantly, mom, it's a big white mansion house."
"And may I ask why?" Nakita looked confused.
"Because she works at a toy factory." Nakita said.
"No, I meant why you are going to Rene's house."
"Oh! Well, she just invited us over and some other people." Nakita said. Mrs. Bowman smiled, and then tried to follow Nakita's directions as best as she could.
My mouth was hurting, and I felt as if it were glued together. Moving my mouth, a felt a "snap." I made a face.
"You'll be okay." Kanari said. "It only takes a few hours to go away."
"Only?" I asked.
"And see, you're talking better already!" Kanari tried to encourage me. I groaned.
Rene's house was decorated, at least the door was. I wondered what the special occasion was. Rene opened the door prior to our knock. She let us in. Doughboy, Liz, and Snowy were already there. Mrs. Bowman left us at the door.
"When do you want me to pick you up?" She asked. Rene poked me with four fingers, and then once again.
"How about four and a half?" I asked, responding to our secret code. Kanari imitated the way I spoke in a whisper. The rest looked at me strangely.
"Okay, I'll come back in half and hour." Mrs. Bowman walked back to the car.
"Thanks!" I said. Rene echoed me.
"Why?" Nakita asked as soon as her mother was out of earshot.
"It's my mum's birthday, and she's coming home ASAP, which is probably five, and I want everything to be ready." Rene said. "Mum and I hardly see each other, because she works so long at the toy factory."
"Yeah." Kanari said. "Well, let's go in." Kanari made her way inside.
"So what's the plan?" Doughboy asked. "Anyone?"
"We will visit the Fourth Dimension to find the door to the Fifth." Kelli said. "Ooh, where's Anora?" Anora popped out of the bushes and spread out her brown bat-like wings.
"I know the way through the best." She said. Vash shuddered.
"Do we have to go through that place again?" He asked. "Ugh."
"Why, is it bad?" Nakita asked, cuddling a content Cherry in her arms.
"Have you ever been there?" Doughboy asked. "There are zombies that follow you around and try to get you. We met Ariel in there, and I supposed we'll meet Eriol too." Kanari shuddered.
"Also, there are some people that automatically freeze when they enter the Fourth Dimension." Vash said. "They have the most horrible expressions. Most of them never make it back to where they came from."
"Are they all criminals?" Nakita sat down in a chair, put her chin in her hand, and let Cheery run around the room. She focused her eyes of Vash.
"Most of the time." Vash seemed to be enjoying himself. "The most dangerous, blood thirsty of them all, and-" Kelli started to laugh.
"Not really." She cut Vash off. "Most of them are innocent people and only a few are criminals."
"Oh." Nakita said.
"Vash lies, and likes to mess around with people." Kelli said, laughing.
"Well, Yuki and I are very gullible." Nakita said. I nodded.
"Yeth." I said. Rene giggled, and came back to the room with a smaller box.
"Shoes!" She said. We all groaned as Rene passed around some black shoes, a special type for the girls and boys, though Vash and Doughboy refused to wear their shoes. "Oh, I found this in the newspaper." Rene pulled out a newspaper clipping, and handed it to Kanari.
"It's very recent." Kanari said. "What does it say?" Kanari handed the clipping to me and looked around for her glasses, which were lying on the table. I read it quickly, then gasped and gave it to Nakita, who was still sitting on the chair, with Cherry in her lap putting on her usual shoes.
"Let's see." Nakita said. "Only two days ago. Hmm? : News reporters say that there has been a disturbance in the tanks of fish at the nearby Bridgestone Aquarium, and also in the Community Pool. Cyclones have mysteriously appeared and so have whirlpools. Some believe this is a sea monster. As long as it remains, we advise people to stay away from these places." Nakita looked up thoughtfully. "Hmm."
"Watery Card." Vash announced.
"But I thought you already had that card Yuki." Doughboy said. Liz nodded. I started to flip through my book.
"I did." I said. "Remember, I gave Doughboy that cordial when we first met Kanari and her jewel with the Watery Card."
"Something is wrong, then." Vash said. "Hm."
"I might have lost that card." I said.
"Maybe." Nakita said. "But you usually don't lose things."
"I have a suspicion that I've been robbed." I said. "Probably by Eriol."
"Probably." Kanari said. "Is your mouth better now?" I nodded.
"WE NEED TO GET INSIDE THE AQUARIUM." I said grimly. Rene dug in her purse.
"Tickets!" She said. "C'mon, this is card is worth capturing as well as this is worth using." We got into our costumes and headed towards the park (okay, so I used the Illusion Card because we DID look a little suspicious heading down the street dressed like that).
We arrived at the front of the aquarium and Rene handed the guy her tickets. As she did, she moved out of the Illusion. Luckily she was wearing those normal clothes she had brought for herself. Her camcorder was in the other hand. The Illusion only showed Nakita, Rene, and me, so we only had to pay for three people. We walked inside and I closed the Illusion.
"Well, nothing suspicious has happened so far, so we can go home now." Doughboy started towards the door. Liz grabbed the back of his collar.
"Not so fast." She said, pointing down the dim aisle. It was deserted, except for a shape watching the circular pool. AS our eyes adjusted, we could see what it was.
"Colton!" Kanari exclaimed.
"SHHH!!!!" We tried so shush her, but Colton turned his head. In a split second, he came charging at us.
WE ran.
"Ah, Release!" Liz got out her sword, and held it in front of Colton. Colton stopped and turned around to come the other way.
"Oh bad." Doughboy had already summoned his bubble and was rising.
"What are we running?" I demanded. "We have to fight him and we're supposed to send him to the Fourth Dimension!"
"Are there security cameras here?" Nakita asked nervously. I looked around.
"There!" I pointed to one damaged camera. "I guess Colton has already taken care of the security."
Rene and Liz took to the air on her broomstick. Snowy, Kanari, Nakita, and I quickly followed, and so did Kelli and Vash.
"I swear Vash, you need wings." Kelli said. "I mean, why didn't you ask Queen Jewel?"
"You weren't supposed to ask." Vash replied gravely, and then his expression changed suddenly. "Ahh, Colton can fly!" Colton charged up to Vash and Kelli, like a flying beast. It looked like a definite collision.
"Ah!" Kanari shouted.
"Watch out!" Nakita said. "Uh, Release!" Nakita bells (which were still in her hair) moved into the release position and turned into bigger bells. Blinded by the light, Colton stopped. Nakita's bells were lighting up the whole place.
"Uh, how does this work?" Nakita asked. No one answered. No one had time. Suddenly, water rose from the pool and wrapped itself around Nakita, bringing her down.
"Nakita!" I called, rushing to help. Colton looked stunned, but that didn't stop him from making a huge swipe at Kelli and Vash. It didn't hurt them, but I can't say it had no effect. Kelli fell out of the air, and they both splashed into the water. Kelli's wings were wet, and she couldn't fly out. Vash was struggling.
Nakita was still in the water, and it was forcing her under. I quickly did something with two of my cards (which I can't tell you at the moment, it will spoil everything) and then rushed to pull her out. It was not working. I managed to annoy the Watery Card enough that it stopped with Nakita and turned into it's visible from. It resembled the Firey Card only it looked slightly older. I backed up a bit. Element Cards had four times the power than the normal ones, and the powerful card, like Power, for instance, was almost as tough. Rene and Liz flew over to Nakita and managed to get her out of the water and into a chair (we were in an area, and surrounding the circular pool were stands of chairs to sit on to watch the show, only ever since the water card had appeared, there had been no shows.
Snowy flew over to offer her hands to Vash and Kelli, and Doughboy followed her example. Colton rushed to get them off balance too.
"AHH, help!" Snowy called. Suddenly, with a huge tackle and swipe, Colton went flying and crashed into some stands. Nakita, who was nearby, shrieked as Colton came flying her way and flew up to get out of the way, since her wings were now dry.
Cerberus was hovering on top of the pool, looking all brave and smug at the same time. I had transformed a little Kero to Cerberus with the Earthy and Firey Cards.
"Kero!" Nakita said. "What are you doing here?" Kero shrugged.
"I followed you guys." He said. "I knew Yuki would be at Rene's house, so I came over and saw you guys leaving for the Aquarium."
"Oh." Nakita said. Colton got up, and the Watery Card started to attack Kelli and Vash, who had barely gotten out of the water.
"Vash." Cerberus got under Vash, and Vash climbed into his back. He transported Vash to the stands to rest, and then approached Colton.
"Okay, I've got it figured out." Snowy said. "Doughboy, Rene, Liz, and I will help Cerberus with Colton, and the rest of you (Kelli, Yuki, Kanari, and Nakita) will capture the Watery Card."
"Okay." I said. "C'mon." Nakita and Kanari rose to fight. Kelli assisted to Vash.
"I'll be there in a moment." She said. The Watery Card (in it's visible form) scowled at us. She snapped her fingers, and a flash of water rose to meet us above the pool.
"AH!" Nakita moved out of the way. Cherry cheered from the stands. Since they had arrived, Cherry and Anora had hid under the stands. The Watery did a series of snaps and clicks, and water aimed at us everywhere.
It was tough. Nakita finally got a chance to point her bells at the Watery.
"Fire." Nakita said, meaning for the weapon to shoot, but instead, fire came streaming out. Unfortunately, Kanari was in the way between Nakita and the Watery.
"Watch out Kanari." I said, lunging for her. We both fell out into the water as Nakita's fire toasted the Watery.
"Quick, Yuki!" Anora called. I struggled to get out of the water. I wasn't working. My wings were full of water and keeping me down. I held out my key and though underwater, "Oh Key of Clow, Power of Magic, Power of Light, Surrender the Wand, the force ignite! Release!" The wand popped right out and surfaced, bringing me to the surface of the water and I breathed in the fresh air.
"Fly!" I said, hitting a card. I was finally back in the air again, since the Fly Card had pulled me out of the water several feet. I spread out my wings and sprinkled the water droplets out. Since my wingspan was so big, everyone got sprinkled on. Cherry and Anora giggled as the water droplets hit them.
Flying up to the Watery Card, I commanded, "Watery, Return to Your Power Confined! Watery!" The form of the Watery Card wavered in front of me as it was sucked into its card. The Watery Card flew out of my hand and in front of Nakita, who took it, looking at the sleeping Watery inside of the card. I flew up to her.
"Uh, Yuki?" Nakita firmly gave me the card. "I don't want it."
"But you captured it!" I protested.
"Maybe so." Nakita said. "But I'm not the one collecting 52 cards, and I don't know how to use it, so it wouldn't be of any use to me. Here, take it." I reluctantly took it, and we met at the side of the rink with the others. Doughboy used his Memorization to show what happened, and so we could visualize it exactly right.
After Snowy had given directions, the four of them headed right to Colton, who had just launched his Missile Launcher at Cerberus.
Doughboy used his lasers to hit some of the bullets, and they disappeared, missing Cerberus. The rest bounced off the side of the tank as Cerberus flew sideways away from the bullets, but one bullet made a hole in the glass. Water started to leak out, slowly at first, but then the whole part of the glass split and water came pouring out. Doughboy ran up to the glass, and with Cerberus's help, sealed the tank. Colton dived for Cerberus again, but was too slow for Liz. With Rene's help, they had gotten up in the air, and Rene had let go of Liz just on top of Colton. Liz hung on one hand tightly to Colton's mane as Colton shrugged to toss her off. Liz took both hands and plunged the sword into his back. Colton howled in pain, and there was a ball of blackness, with light streaming through it for a split second. The beams of light illuminated the room, and purple sparks like electricity currents revolved around the ball. A second later, it was gone, as well as Colton.
"YES!" Snowy gave Doughboy a high-five. "We DID it!"
"Um, actually." Doughboy said, but was cut off. Rene rushed over to Liz.
"Oh, I was so worried you'd disappear too!" Rene said. Liz had fallen onto some stands, and was dazzled, but otherwise okay. Liz stood up.
"I'm okay." She said, rubbing her head. "Look!" Doughboy cut the Memorization short.
"That was when we say you capturing the Watery Card." He said, tucking the pendant away in his shirt.
"I must say, that was some experience." Vash said, rubbing his hair. His shaggy hair was spiked up when it was wet. As he did so, he sprinkled water over everyone. Cherry giggled. Nakita smiled and bent down to pick her up. Anora jumped up on Vash's shoulder and wrapped herself around his neck, choking him.
"ARG." Vash said, coughing. "Get off!" Kelli tried to pry Anora off. Cerberus turned back into Kero, and I felt the light go out of him and back into the cards. Kero lay down on my shoulder.
"Whew!" He said. "Boy, am I tired. Turning into Cerberus really takes the energy out of you."
"You didn't mind so much when we were in Nothing." I said diligently.
"Well, that was different." Kero said in a little kid's voice. I cut him off before he could explain.
"Shouldn't we go now?" I asked. Kelli nodded, and fell back as she finally got Anora off of Vash's neck. Anora ran towards the nearest door. And Cherry yelled, "Ay!" which Nakita and I have always believed was her way of saying, "Yeah!"
The door was open, and there was a sigh of relief as we got out.
"It's already five!" I exclaimed, checking my watch.
"Uh-oh." Nakita said in a singsong voice. "Um. Err, let's fly back to Rene's house, land in the backyard, get our bags, and then I'll call my mom and tell her we went to see a movie."
"And then she'll ask you what." Kanari added, crossing her arms.
"Uh." Nakita said. "What's playing, anyone?"
Doughboy mumbled under his breath the lamest movie I had ever heard of.
"Uh, okay." Nakita said. She wasn't that much of a movie fan. Vash listed a few more. We stared at him.
"Vash, er, finds it fascinating to see a projector and a big screen." Kelli said nervously. Vash nodded, his mind seemingly somewhere else.
"Okay then." Rene said. "Quick, let's go, before my mom arrives home!"
Ouch, an important chapter, with a lot happening...You haven't had some of these in a long time.
