The Other Card Captor

Chapter 1- Ling?

Many people didn't know this, but Clow Reed had a daughter named Ling. She too, possessed very magical powers, though not as great as her father's. Clow never spent that much time with his daughter for he was too busy making the Clow Cards. Ling was really lonely because her father was always working and her mother passed away a little after she was born. She was also cut off from the real world (she was taught everything from home). She knew that her father was creating the cards, so she thought that it would be fun if she created her own. At the tender age of 12, she created her 1st card: LOVE. She called her cards "Ling Cards". She had lots of fun with her 1st card. She made squirrels fall in love with birds, bees with ants… (get the picture?). As she got older, she got even more lonely and sad. By the age of 15, she made 20 cards. They were: Love, Invisible, Destroy, Anger, Lightning, Possession, Bubble, Fight, Teleport, Stormy, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Sword, Vine, Health, Night, Cook and Fly. Some of the cards are very similar to her father's, but others are based on the emotions she was going through. After she created a guardian for her book, she realized that the cards wouldn't get into the book! She couldn't understand why! She was the master of the cards! The cards grew much too strong for her to handle, so she cast a spell that would hide her cards from her dad, fearing that he'd be angry if he found out about her cards. One day, she found a fairly good spell that sealed the cards in her book. Ling knew that there was a chance that the cards could break free from her book. So, for most of her life, she helped her guardian, Star, protect the cards. Don't think that Ling didn't have a social life, because at one point, she did have one. She fell in love with a family friend, Ping. Ping was also a magician. Together, they had 3 children ( who had inherited their magical powers from their parents). They had 2 boys and 1 girl. Before Ling passed away, she cast one last spell. She cast a reincarnation spell that would allow her to come back (as her 15 year old self, same memories- but stronger powers) if the cards did succeed in breaking free. The spell would enable her to capture all of her cards back.

A few centuries after Ling passed away, something happened. The Ling cards got away from Star (the guardian) and broke free from the seal. A woman named Yelan sensed something weird. So she called some people she knew could help them if they were in any kind of trouble.