"Copycat"
The woods were dark, nearly everything black, but the moon's glow still illuminated nearly everything. Still it wasn't very easy to see though.
"Did you find anything Li?" Said Sakura as she, Madison, and Kero rejoined Li who had the lasin board with him. Sakura, wearing a costume of Madison's design. It was a pink colored nylon dress with white stockings and white and pink striped boots, along with a pink hair band that covered the back of her head. Madison was in a blue dress with black shoes and Li was wearing his green robes. Kero had on a tiny blue shirt.
"Kero, what will happen the that shirt if you were to transform?" Madison asked, finishing her conversation with Kero. Kero just looked at her with a smile.
"Nothing, if he's here, he's using the Shield card. But I'm sensing something else out there." Just then, a shadowy figure moved through the woods. It had blue robes, similar to Li's. Nobody saw though.
"What?" Sakura said thinking of a ghost at this time of the night.
"That kid has more stupidity than Li does, thinking he can steal from me and Sakura." Said Kero, very angry at the resent events.
"I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRACK HIM DOWN WITHOUT ME!" yelled Li, taking some pot shots at Kero.
"Cut it out, Li" Ordered Sakura, protecting Kero.
"Easily" Kero answered.
"Well, if the Shield card is active, can't you look for it?" Madison suggested.
"There's no need for that," a calm, yet confident voice sounded. It was Kuragari.
"It's time to put you in your place!" Li blurted out and pulled out the Time card. "Freeze the moment of time!"
"Too easy" kuragari said as the Time began to take effect. "Mirror card! Lend your powers to my key, grant me your powers, release!"
The power of the Time card partly reflected back on Li, Madison, Kero, and Sakura. Madison froze instantly while Sakura, Kero and Li slowed down. Kuragari also slowed because the Mirror didn't have enough power to reflect all of Time's power. Li, weakened greatly though and froze after a minute. But the Time still kept drawing power from him.
"WWWiiinnndddyyy!!! gggaaattthhheeerrr aaallllll ooofff LLLiii'''sss cccaaarrrddds!!!" (Windy! Gather all of Li's cards!) Kuragari slowly blurted out.
"SSSaaakkkuuurrraaa!!!!!" (Sakura!) Kero slowly exclaimed. "TTTrrryyy ttthhheee LLLooooooppp cccaaarrrddd!!! (Try the Loop card!) LLLooooooppp cccaaarrrddd, rrreeellleeeaaassseee aaannnddd dddiiissspppeeellllll! (Loop card, release and dispel) The loop card reverted Kuragari's Windy from Li and into a circle with Kuragari at the other end. His Windy attacked him and he lost his control. Suddenly, time went back to normal. Li passed out from his energy drain and Madison, realizing she missed something, still continued to tape.
"Windy!, Return and unite your powers!" Sakura said throwing up her Windy card and tapping it with her staff. Kuragari's Windy glided into Sakura's Windy card and landed in her hand. Sakura ran to Li ready to pull out another card to defend him.
"Clever girl," Kuragari thought to himself. "But it's time for a greater test, Maze card!"
"Not again," Sakura thought, remembering their first experience with the maze card. The woods around them revolved around them and converted into the walls of the Maze card. But the Maze card didn't have enough power to transform everything. Instead holes in the walls were blocked by trees or branches, but were still easy to pass through.
"Through card!" Lend your powers to my key, grant me your powers, release!" Kuragari said from outside the maze. He slowly began to pass through the outer walls of the maze, without the maze card fighting back because of it's dwindling power. But he found a problem with his plan though, when the Through card began to loss power. Traveling through only ten walls, he realized that he'd merge with the wall and kill himself if he didn't stop for right now.
"If I can't go to them, they'll come to me. Time to borrow a trick from your book, Sakura," he said to himself. "Loop card! Connect the exit to my position!" Kuragari knew that naturally, they'd look for the exit, and when they found it, they'd turn back into the maze and to his position. The maze began to shift. Walls merged, divided, or were just demolished. Sakura , Madison, Kero, and Li saw the changes.
"We didn't even do anything" exclaimed Sakura, wondering why the maze changed.
"It must have been Kuragari doing" Li responded and the changed stopped. "He's trying to trick us to forget where we've been. Even with all these holes in the walls, it'll still be very hard to find the exit."
"There's got to be some card that can help us find the exit." Madison said with a sigh.
"The through card could help, but not for all of us for very long at half power." Sakura waited for Li's or Kero's reply.
"Maybe if we copied the Through card," Kero said in a doubtful tone. "But it could work." Sakura through down the Through card.
"Twin card, copy the Through card and its power!" Li ordered and The Through card duplicated itself. There were now two Through cards as long as Li didn't recall the Twin.
"Through card! Through card! Release and dispel! Allow us movement through the walls!" Sakura spoke as the spirits incased them.
Dawn began to approach outside as the unknown shadowy figure observed the maze from the outside. Inside, Sakura, Kero, Madison, and Li traveled through walls after walls, seeing places that looked familiar, but really not. Finally, after 10 minutes of wandering, they uncovered the exit. Racing through it they discover that they are back in the maze, only in a different part.
"I would have made it in half your time." Kuragari said, returning his loop card.
"Sakura, counter attack" Li said in rage. "Storm card! Release!" cried Li.
"Thunder card! Release!" followed Sakura. The Thunder surged forth surrounding reflecting off the walls in an attempt to confuse Kuragari, while Storm forced him against the walls with heavy gales.
"Mirror card! Reflect the attacking forces!" Kuragari ordered. Storm hit first. Hurricane gale winds were scattered in all directions breaking down walls from all around them. Next lightning struck the mirror. Li was hit and blown over, while Sakura and Madison escaped with plasma burns on their clothes and Kero dodged them. Kuragari shot backward dropping the Mirror card. The maze collapsed.
"Mirror card!" return to your power confined!" the mirror that lay on the ground twisted upward onto the staff and into Sakura's hands. Kuragari began to regain consciousness.
"Maze card! Return to your power confined!" Sakura continued. The maze sealed quickly because of its loss of power but floated over to Li and landed in the palm of his hand.
"My turn" Kuragari announced. "Watery! Collect all of Li's cards!" Kuragari's Watery flowed around Li picking up everyone except the Maze; not knowing it had gone to him.
"Water! Counter Kuragari Water's force." Sakura said releasing hers. Each struggled to regain the cards.
"Never thought I'd do this twice." Kuragari mumbled to himself announcing an incantation.
"With all my power thrust in hand
Summoned from across the land
To form a time when Clow is untamed
And the forces of the seal shall share their power
COPY THE SEAL!"
The set of cards they were fighting over were copied, each Water spirit bringing back a set. Kuragari suffered a headache and decided it was time to depart. Li regained consciousness seeing all his cards lying beside him, including the Maze, as Kuragari flue off.
"Shadow card, bind Kuragari." Sakura said. Shadow lurched forth now with full power. A half power light card wouldn't do enough. So Kuragari flue on, the shadow began to thin out but he knew that he couldn't out run it.
"Now I can use it," Kuragari said bring out his Light card. "Light card!" he said gliding to the ground. "dilute the shadow!" The spirit of the Light lit up the sky as the sun began to rise. They had been in the maze practically the intire night. Saturday morning had come. Shadow began to disappear and Sakura called it back, knowing that the battle was over. Kuragari flue off into the morning sky.
"I think this belong to you." Li said handing the Maze card to her.
"Li, you can take it, it went to you" Sakura responded.
"But you have its counterpart." Li replied taking her hand gently and giving it to her. Sakura watched him walk into the distance as Madison and Kero came up to her.
"Are you two alright." Sakura asked.
"The camera is ok and I got the almost the intire event on tape." Madison said wondering what she could do next. Sakura just collapsed in the thought.
"But there's one thing we are missing." Kero told them.
"What's that?" Madison said as Sakura rose to her feet.
"Breakfast!" Kero drooled as he flue on route to Sakura's house, followed by Sakura and Madison who now just wanted to sleep.
"Maybe they can take Kuragari." The shadowy figure said from the treetops. "But they don't see what I see." It said holding the prophecy ball.
Author's note: I kind of ran through this one. Don't you think they found the exit to the maze a little too quickly? Yes, I am I the U.S. Kind of makes me feel sorry because they don't air any new episodes. Also, I realized that I might need a disclaimer. You know how people are that someone stole something from a company. Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptors, Card Captor Sakura, or any other of its series or products. What are mine are the plots, characters, and items that I have made up on my own within these stories. (ex. The prophecy ball)