"So, has the news mentioned any Clow Cards?" Sakura asked as she came out of the bathroom the next morning to find Madison and Kero sitting on one of the beds watching tv.
"Nothing yet," Madison said just as the reporter was handed a bulletin and a moment later, she announced a disturbance at the lake in Central Park. Supposedly, a nearby sewer pipe had broke, creating whirlpools all over the lake.
"Oh, no! Watery!" Sakura cried when she saw the report. They had been lucky the last time. Watery had been at the aquarium where it wasn't able to really pose a danger to anyone but the trainers and animals. There were people who took boats out in that lake, though, not to mention all of the other people who might be close enough to that water to be threatened. "Come on!"
"How will you capture it this time, Sakura?" Madison asked as she followed her friend out of the room after snatching her video camera. The last time they had been able to lure it into the aquarium freezer but that wasn't going to work now.
"I don't know. I'll think of something when I get to the park. Right now all I care about is getting Watery away from there before someone really gets hurt!" Sakura pulled Madison into an alleyway behind the hotel and quickly summoned her wand and the power of the Fly Card. They had to get to the park fast.
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"X, I swear if you do not stop chuckling, I am going to give you an autopsy....while you're still alive!!" Elle yelled at her partner as she slowly moved around the edge of the lake looking for signs of what could be causing the mysterious whirlpools. 'Wonder how upset Zed would be if I threw X into one of those?' she thought. He had been laughing non-stop ever since the incident at the zoo the day before and just that morning, she had caught him telling a couple of other agents about that mark on her.... She was definitely going to have to kill him.
Elle frowned as she felt water lapping at her shoes, soaking them. She started to step back, but one of her feet was stuck. She jerked her leg, thinking that it was mud holding her foot in place, but it still wouldn't budge and suddenly Elle felt something pulling her off balance, jerking her feet out from underneath her and sending her crashing into the lake.
"Help!" she shouted not really expecting X to do anything. She jerked at her foot again, reaching down with her hands to try to pull free. Whatever had her wasn't budging though and it was dragging her deeper into the lake.
Suddenly, she heard splashing nearby and X appeared at her side. "What happened to you?" he grumbled as he grabbed her arm. "Why don't you just stand up?"
"Something's got my foot!" Elle cried as she pulled harder on her leg to try to free herself. She was being pulled into deeper water now. It was lapping at her chin. Just then, the thing that had her pulled hard and jerked her completely under and out of X's grasp. She frantically kicked out with her free foot trying to make contact with whatever was holding her but there was nothing there that she could touch. Her chest was starting to burn and she could feel spots passing in front of her eyes as she struggled.
X finally managed to find Elle under the water and grabbed her. He jerked hard on her, trying to pull her to the surface but she just wouldn't move He slid deeper into the water, hoping to find whatever had her foot and free her. He had just caught sight of the miniature whirlpool that was imprisoning her, when he was forced to surface for air. When he when back under a second later, Elle was floating totally limp in the water, her eyes deep black pools staring up at him.