Refresh: Shuai is the mysterious boy that you've read about since chapter two. He was sent by the elders to bring back Kuragari. Kero, Li, and Shuai hear a cry out by some Clow Cards and Kero thinks they're dying. A new card, The Possess was used on Kero and now he has disappeared. Li has taken possession of the Move and Mist cards.
"THE LOST CARDS-part II: Possession"
"Possess card, return." Kuragari ordered. The crimson red spirit glided out of Kero's body and into its card form in Kuragari's hand. The spirit on the card looked like the shadow card, except it had glowing red eyes where the head would be. In the middle of the body, claw-like hands came out of the black space. Kero woke up and looked around, not recognizing anything, except noticing that he was in a cage.
"Let me out of here!" Kero yelled at Kuragari.
"How about………….. not." Kuragari responded. "Besides, you aren't in a place to make demands." Kero stared at Kuragari angrily. "I have an offer for you. You can take the winning side, my side, or stay with Sakura and when I'm done with her, I'll trap you in the cover of the book."
"Yue will never let you do that……" Kero argued.
"Yue is in hiding not to be found and by the time he figures out what is going on, it'll be too late for him too." Kuragari interrupted.
"I've had enough of this." Kero said and began to glow. He was attempting to transform.
"Stupid guardian." Kuragari said. "Possess card! Release!" The crimson red strike shot out of Kuragari's wand once again and into Kero's body. Kero went back to his "plush toy" form. "Now," Kuragari pointed to the table. "I need you to engage a transfer of power among these Clow Cards." On the table, there were two rows of cards. In the first row were The: Wave, Lock, Create, Sweet, Song, Silent, Erase, Glow, Libra, Loop, and Change. The second row was missing cards under the Wave, Lock, and Create, but it continued under the Sweet. The cards were The: Balance, Teleport, Thought, Fake, Construct, Air, Darkness, and Wrap. The backs of them were blank and white. "I also want you to give each full power, and these too." Kuragari said placing two more cards on the table The Event and The Counter. Kero nodded and Kuragari opened the cage. Kero glided over to the two rows of cards. He held position in the middle of the table. Kero transformed and slowly began to glow. Both rows glowed too in unison. The second row began to glow stronger and the first row's glow began to fade. Finally, the first row's glow went out and the second row was still being filled with power by kero. Time passed. Kuragari wondered what was taking so long. He got worried the cardcaptors would sense the power emanating from Kero and the cards. After ten minutes, it was done. The possess card flue from Kero's body and into it's card form and landed on the table, now fully powered. Kero transformed back and fainted, falling to the ground. The backs of the second row had turned to the design of normal Clow cards.
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Sakura, Li, and Shuai were walking through the park, looking for Kero. A maintenance man was fixing the vending machine, which Kuragari had broke. They walked in silence thinking of a plan, but they could think of nothing.
"I didn't know there was a Possess card." Sakura said to Li. Li turned his head back to her and responded, "There isn't." in a cruel tone. Sakura thought he was a little angry at this point and turned to Shuai, who was walking next to her. "You said to Kuragari that he'd go to the house of time. What is that?" Sakura asked Shuai.
"There are nine orbs. Each one has there own home in which we contain them. Each has a special meaning. The orb of time, allows you to look back into the past or future. The orb of prophecy lets you see the meaning of your life." Shuai responded.
"And the prophecy ball you have, do the elders know you took it?" Li just came out and said.
"No." Shuai responded looking downward. "I didn't want to run into this blindly like you. I wasn't ready for this, but I was the only one. They said that I had all I needed but I didn't believe them. It wouldn't China where I could consult the orb of prophecy when I was in trouble. How did you know I had it?" Shuai said.
"I see you trying to hide it." Li responded. Shuai pulled out the prophecy ball from under his robe. Sakura eyed it, wondering if she could see her future with kero and the Clow Cards with it.
"What's the difference between the orb of prophecy and the prophecy ball?" Sakura asked Shuai.
"The orb of prophecy can examine your life but the prophecy ball doesn't have that much power. It can only tell you the most likely outcome of an event if you don't change the course of time." Shuai answered. Out of the blue, a familiar high-pitched scream sounded through the air. This time Sakura heard it. The Clow cards were crying out to them. Then like nothing, the sounds stopped abruptly.
"I heard it again, more cards. About eight." Li said jumping up. Sakura nodded acknologing she had heard it too.
"Use the lasin board!" Shuai commanded. Li pulled out the lasin board. The light flashed though the woods. Out of the woods the light went on. Turn after turn was a never-ending line that they followed. Running past people and getting weird looks from them was something they were constantly getting.
"Are you getting anything with the prophecy ball?" Li said, wanting to know where they were headed.
"I see lots of water and what looks like a past memory of some sort." Shuai responded.
"Past memory of what?" Sakura asked, looking into the prophecy ball. She saw a cave and a shrine. "That's the place where I caught the Erase card." Sakura added. They all continued to run on. It began to drizzle. They heard fearce crackles of lightning. It was obvious that this was going to be a rough storm, a storm they didn't need right now.
"Which ever one of you has the rain card, use it to stop the rain." Shuai called to them.
"I've got it." Sakura said bring it out. "Rain card, Release and dispel! Control the rain!" The rain spirit was released from the card. It stretched itself out, hating being confined to its card form, but it went forth into the clouds. A waterfall of rain fell from the spot it had entered. Something had gone wrong.
"Why is more rain coming down?" Sakura asked Li. He had no idea though. Then, out from the clouds, shot the rain spirit. Coming after it, was another rain spirit. Then they knew this was no ordinary rainstorm. Sakura pulled out her staff preparing to seal both cards when out of the corner of her eye came a fimular thunder beast. It shot down Sakura's Rain card. It plummeted to the ground. Sakura called it back, but Thunder and the other rain spirit retreated into the clouds.
"Fly card!" Sakura called, hitting the card. Wings sprouted from her wand and she flue in front of the others. "Everyone on." She announced. Shuai hopped aboard and Li hesitated.
"What are you waiting for?" Shuai asked. Li gave in and got on behind Shuai. Sakura took off. Rain pelted them from all angles. The thunder beast roared downward, trying to tackle the three. Dodging it was taking too much time.
"Release the light! Lightning!" Li said, pointing his sword at Thunder's next possible location. Thunder flue up and intersected the spot that Li had struck. It plummeted down, colliding with the ground. It roared with pain. Sakura just flue on though, following the lasin board's light.
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"Sakura is persistent. Wouldn't even stop to capture Thunder." Kuragari pointed out to Kero, who was looking down at the new cards. "Kero, I'm going out," Kuragari said, gathering up the second row of cards. "Lock yourself in the cage and……" Kuragari thought, "eat the key." Kero glided up to the cage. Once inside, he turned around and grabbed a bar of the door. Then shutting it, he slipped the key into the lock, turned it, pulled it out, and then stuck it in his mouth. Kuragari watched him out of the corner of his eye. Kero swallowed and fell flat on the floor of the suspended cage, feeling sick. Kuragari unleashed Fly and took off to recover the Thunder card.
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Sakura's Fly card began to lose altitude. Carrying three people through a pounding rainstorm just wasn't something this half-powered Clow card could keep up. They continued to fly though, descending as they went. In the distance, Li spotted a moving dot. Squinting his eyes, he recognized it as Kuragari.
"Release the light! Lightning!" Li commanded from Sakura's wand as they descended. The bolt dashed behind Kuragari's back, missing him by a few inches but it was enough to startle him. Kuragari lost control and fell to the ground. He saw Richu in the distance and returned it to its card form. Meanwhile, Sakura landed on the beach. The lasin board's light beam went out to sea.
"Float card! Transport us across!" Sakura said, releasing the card. Sakura, LI, and Shuai rose into the air and began traveling over the water. Kuragari was now back in the air on Fly.
"Kuragari won't be able to catch us with his half-powered fly card, but we should speed up anyway." Shuai said to Sakura. She tried to increase speed, but wasn't getting too far on this half-powered card.
"I'll never get to them in time." Kuragari said to himself. But then he thought of an idea. Kuragari landed on the beach and pulled out another card with a Clow card backing. Li and Shuai watched.
"Sakura, he's using another card!" Li warned.
"Event card! Cause the Float to loss power!" Kuragari called out. A dark sky blue stringy spirit emerged from the card.
"What is the Event card?" Shuai asked worriedly.
"I have no idea." Li said quickly. "Sakura, we need a new plan!" Li said turning around to Sakura. The pink sphere of the Float disappeared from around them. Nothing supported the three of them anymore. Gravity pulled them downward until they hit the water.
"Float card! Return and unite your powers!" Kuragari called from shore. The spirit traveled through the air, and into Kuragari's Float card. "Fly!" Kuragari said starting out once again. He soared out over the water. Sakura, Shuai and Li stared up at him. They tried difficulty to swim, but their clothes were making it tough.
"You're not getting away that easy," Li said, taking out the Mist card. "Mist Card! Stop Kuragari! Release!" The cloud of mist floated over to Kuragari's position. Kuragari tried to speed up, but the full power Mist card was too fast. A hole began to form in the right wing because of the mist. The hole began to spread out and the Fly card began retreating into it card form.
"Return to your power confined! Fly card!" Sakura announced. The Wings came off of Kuragari's wand. He splashed down into the water trying to grab the card as it flue through the air. It traveled across the water and into Li's hand.
Teleport Card! Transport me to the cave!" Kuragari announced. Kuragari disappeared in a flash of light, gone. Li swan to Sakura handing her the card. Remembering what Kero told her about not losing the allied cards, Sakura accepted it. Sakura joined and Re-released Fly. Li and Shuai got on. The lasin boards beam started back up pointing out the correct cave.
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"Kero! You still here!" Kuraguri yelled.
"Yes" Kero replied, still rubbing his stomach.
"We've got to go. Sakura will be here any second." Kuraguri told him.
"But I ate the key." Kero responded sickly.
"You're not leaving." Li shouted. Kuragari turned around. He saw Li, Sakura, and Shuai standing at the entrance of the cave.
"Then we battle here." Kuragari said bitterly.
Author's note: Sorry to end like that, I needed something for part three. (Hears boos in the background). This would have taken less time but I was working on two of the other chapters. Is anyone getting confused on who has what card? If your not, than your good. I'm almost at a complete loss (lol). I'll make a list of who has what and put it out in one of the next author's note. I'll also make a list of what the new cards do and put it out in one of the other author's notes. Bye!