"So, what do you think you'll find out about your dad here?" Sakura asked as she and Madison walked down the street heading for the Battery Drive address Madison had been given the next day. It was so nice that they had only taken the cab halfway and decided to walk the rest of the way.

"I don't know. Maybe he has family here or something. I just hope they have a picture of him. I really want to know what he looked like," Madison said "Not to mention knowing his name."

"Wouldn't his last name be Taylor like yours?" Sakura asked.

"No. That was the name of my mom's first husband. I think my mom was pretty high up in her company by the time she got together with my dad so she just never bothered changing it for herself and then by the time I was born my dad was gone so there wasn't really a need."

"Could you be careful?!" Kero called from Sakura's backpack, deverting Madison before she could become too sad at the thought of her father again. "I'm getting squashed in here!"

"Here. You can wait for us out here," Sakura said as she stopped and opened the backpack. Kero quickly flew out and stretched to relieve the cramps from being bounced around over half of the town. "Just don't let anyone see you."

Just then a man, or what Sakura thought was a man at first, came racing down the street, ramming into the girl, sending her crashing to the pavement and her backpack flying out of her grasp.

"Sakura, are you alright?" Madison asked anxiously just as two men in black suits raced past them with weapons drawn.

"I'm fine. I think we better get out of the way, though," Sakura said as she pulled herself up and darted into a nearby alley with Madison and Kero right behind her. She cautiously peered around the corner and spotted her backpack laying on the pavement. In her rush, she had completely forgotten it.

Sakura was just about to rush out for it when the "man" suddenly fired some sort of energy blast at the men in black suits. She quickly ducked back to safety and stared at Madison and Kero in shock. "I don't think that's a human," she murmered.

"Is it a Clow Card?" Madison asked as she peeked out just long enough to see the man's scaly green face. Definately not normal.

"I would have sensed it for sure when he knocked me down," Sakura said. "At least I think I would have sensed it."

Just then, they heard another blast and Sakura suddenly felt a something cold running down her spine. She quickly looked out to find that her backpack had been struck and was glowing oddly. "The cards," she whispered as she darted out. She had to get to the pack before something horrible happened.

Sakura had just reached he pack when a bright light shot out of the pack and a tremendous wind rushed around her. She struggled against the wind, reaching into the bag and pulling out the Clow book. Somehow, it was open and the cards were flying out again right before her eyes. Sakura quickly slammed it shut but not before almost all of the Clow Cards had escaped.

"Sakura, what happened?" Madison said as she darted out and dragged her friend back to safety again. "Those weren't...."

"The Clow Cards escaped," Sakura moaned. She couldn't believe this had happened. She had brought the cards with her because she was worried about leaving them at the hotel and now.... How could she have been so stupid. "We have to get back to the hotel and figure out how many of them are missing," Sakura murmered.

Just then the girls heard footsteps approaching and ducked behind a trash can as a young black man in a black suit appeared at the entrance to the alley. "Now where did those girls go? Could have sworn I saw them come in here," Jay muttered just as he caught sight of Madison and Sakura. "There you are!" He started towards them pulling out the neuralizer his partner had loaned him. Suddenly a flash of orange fur swooped down on him and the next thing Jay knew, there was some sort of odd stuffed animal clamped onto his finger resisting all efforts to pry it off.

"Run!" Kero called.

Sakura grabbed Madison's hand and darted off down the alley, pulling out her key and chanting as she ran. "I hope Fly didn't get away," she murmered as her sealing wand appeared in her hands and she quickly tried to summon the power of The Fly card. A second later she was relieved to see the wings appearing on the back of the wand. She hopped on, pulling Madison on behind her as they took off. Sakura just hoped they could recover the missing Clow Cards as easily as they had escaped the man in black.