The Lost Cards-Chapter 1
(....)=author talking
'......'=character thinking
"..."=character talking
The sky is clear and the moon is full as the Card Mistress and her friends sleep in their beds, unaware of the dangers that are gathering in their hometown.....
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"Ohayo, Sakura! Hurry up or you'll be late!" Fujitakak, Sakura's father said from the kitchen. As usual, she was late for school. Everyday she would wake up and rush out the door. 'I wish that one day she would actually wake up early enough to eat her breakfast.' Fujitakak thought to himself. 'Oh well...I can't have everything.'
I could at least try to get her to eat. He asked as he said in his head. "Do you want something to eat first?"
"Iie, I gotta go! Bye!" He heard the door slam as she ran out the house. "Oniichan! Wait for me!" He smiled.
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"Ohayo, Sakura!" Sakura looked up from her seat to her best friend.
"Ohayo, Madison!" The she noticed that Li Syaoran walked in. 'He looks so kawaii! But then he always does.' She sighed. 'I should tell him... that I like him, but everytime we get close, I feel...frozen and too scared to say something.' She sighed again.
"Sakura? Daijoubu desu ka?" Madison's voice brought her back to reality. He doesn't even notice me.
"Sakura?" Madison asked as she put her face right in front of Sakura's. 'Wow, she really must like him a lot!' Tomoyo thought. 'She can't even hear me.' "So...aren't you going to say hi to Syaoran?" She asked mischeviously.
"Nani? Oh, sorry Madison...I was just..." Sakura trailed off.
"Why don't you just tell him that you like him?" Madison wanted to know. "What?! How did you...?" Madison smiled... "I know many things. Just go talk to him. He looks kind of bummed out. You should cheer him up"
Sakura looked at Syaoran. He did look a bit distant. Like he was staring off into space. 'Ok, well, I might as well go talk to him, since the teacher isn't even here.'
"Ohayo class!" Their teacher just walked in. Sakura stumbled to her desk and sat down. 'I'll talk to Syaoran later,' she promised herself.
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'Hmm... She looks so dreamy. Her soft hair...and her emerald eyes...I could sit here and stare at her for hours and not get tired. She's soo beautiful.' He was so busy staring at her that he didn't hear the teacher ask him a question. "Sumimasen, Syaoran? LI SYAORAN!!!" She yelled. He shook himself from his dreaming and looked at the teacher. "Good, I have your attention then." She didn't wait for him to reply. "What is the answer to question 16?"
"I...um..." He stumbled over his words. He was so busy thinking of Sakura last night that he forgot all his homework. Then he noticed that Sakura was writing something on a slip of paper. She passed it to him and it took him only a few seconds to realize that she was giving him the answer. He glanced at the writing then answered the teacher's question and she seemed satisfied. She turned back around to the blackboard and started writing the homework for tomorrow.
'I have to remember to thank her.' He thought as he looked at her. He saw her looking at him and then she winked then smiled and started copying the homework.
'I think I'm dreaming! Did Sakura just wink at me?! Nah! It couldn't be. She likes Yukito...I think I'm starting to imagine things. I should copy down the homework. I'll thank Sakura later.' But just her name made him feel all dreamy. "Okaeri Syaoran." He heard the teacher say to him.
"Nani?!" 'What is she talking about?!' He thought.
"Good of you to come back to reality."
"Oh. Gomen." He apologized.
She turned back to the blackboard, but not before warning him. "Copy down the homework, Syaoran. There will be no excuses if you don't get them done."
"Hai!" He replied.
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DDDDIIINNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!
"Class dismissed!" Their teacher yelled out, but everyone had already ran out of the class.
Syaoran watched as Sakura packed up all the books she needed from her locker. He was staring so intently that he didn't notice that she was watching him.
'Hmm... What is Syaoran doing?' She looks right into his eyes, but it seemed like he didn't even see her. 'I wonder what he's thinking right now. It's probably very interesting if he doesn't even see me here. Or maybe he's just ignoring me...' Sakura sighed. Even after all the Clow Cards were captured, Syaoran was still mean to her. Even after she saved him from detention in class. 'Well, thats no reason for me to be mean to him.'
Frowning slightly, she tapped him on the shoulder and looked him right in the eye again so that he would see her this time. "Syaoran? Daijoubu desu ka?"
'Hmm?' Syaoran felt someone tapping him on the shoulder. He blinked back in reality and right in front of him was...SAKURA?! 'Oh my god! She's looking right at me! And she's so pretty!' "Syaoran? Daijoubu desu ka?" She asked him. "A..a...Aa...Ano...Daijobu desu..." He turned so red that Sakura thought he was sick.
"What's wrong? Are you sick?" She asked him.
"Oh...I...um...nothing....I'mnotsick." He said really fast.
"Oh...ok..." Sakura looked a bit upset. 'She knows I'm lying. She looks a bit sad...You baka! How could you make her sad?!' He yelled at himself. 'I better do something to cheer her up.' "Um...doyouwannagogeticecream?" He asked. She looked at him confused. It was then that Syaoran realized that he said it too fast and she didn't catch a word.
"Gomen, do you want to get some ice cream? I'll treat." He said. He didn't know what came over him. He never would've got the courage to ask her and he didn't know how he did just then.
'Syaoran is asking me to get ice cream?! Maybe we do have a chance. I hope so.' Sakura thought. "Um...sure..." Sakura said blushing.
There was silence as they walked over to the place that sells ice cream. Syaoran looked over at her. Her emerald eyes were looking at the ground, as if all the answers could be found there. He looked a bit closer and saw her blushing a bit. 'Nani? Why would she be blushing? Could it be because...she likes me? Nah! That would never happen. Why would she like me, if I was the one trying to get the Clow Cards from her? I was always so mean to her, but she still treats me as a really good friend.'
He decided that now was the time to tell her how he felt. But as he opened his mouth to say the words, he lost his courage.
"Um...Sakura? Can I ask you something?" Sakura looked at him, startled when he broke the silence between them. "Sure."
"Ano...why did you help me?"
"I... I didn't want you to get in trouble." She looked back at the ground, blushing a bit more.
"Arigato Gozaimasu."
"Don't worry about it." She said smiling slightly. They were silent again, as they got their ice cream. Then they walked to the park and sat down under a sakura tree. The flowers were at full bloom and Syaoran thought they were beautiful. 'Not as beautiful as Sakura, though.' He reached up and broke off a tiny branch.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked softly.
"Hold still." Syaoran told her. He took the branch and tucked it behind her ear. Her hair felt so silky in his hand that he had to resist hard to not stroke it. She looked at him and blushed. Then, he suddenly realized what he had done, and he blushed even more then Sakura had.
"Arigato," she said smiling again as she licked her ice cream. She looked so cute when she smiled.
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"Oi! Sakura!" They looked up from each other and saw Tomoyo running towards them. "Opps. Gomen." She said breathlessely as she saw who Sakura was with. Sakura and Syaoran both turned red as Tomoyo saw them together. 'Aww...they're so kawaii together!' "Gomen, Kero-chan was looking for you."
"Really? Nani?"
But before Tomoyo could answer her, water dripped from the sky. It started to rain!
"But, thats not right! It's May. Why would it rain?" Sakura asked Syaoran. "Be careful, Sakura. This seems to be like a card."
"I thought we caught all the cards?!" Sakura said, shocked that there were more cards.
Suddenly Kero stuck his head out of the backpack on Tomoyo's back. "Thats what I wanted to talk to you about. It seems that someone is controlling the Clow Cards to leave Sakura."
"NANI??!! Someone?! Which means I have to find and catch them all over again? This is so unfair!" Sakura wailed. She was almost close to tears.
Syaoran couldn't take seeing Sakura like this. 'I promised myself that I would protect and help her. And I will. I will help her capture all her cards once more.' "Sakura, don't worry. We'll get them back." As he said that, he put his arm around her. Sakura sniffed and buried her head into Syaoran's chest. Syaoran stiffened. It wasn't because he didn't want Sakura close to her. It was just that Kero and Tomoyo was watching them.
'I don't care. I won't let anything happen to her.' He wrapped his arms around her tightly. In the corner of his eye, he could see Tomoyo smiling. He heard Sakura sniff again, then she softly pushed Syaoran away. "Ok, I'm ready." She smiled at Syaoran and his heart almost melted. Kirei...
Then she took out her wand. It had changed as she grew and instead of a bird's head sort of thing, on the tip was a star in a circle.
"Key that holds
the power of the stars,
show your true form.
Under the compact,
I, Sakura, command you,
RELEASE!"
She took out a card. "Fly! Release and dispell!" The wand suddenly sprouted wings. She climbed onto it. "Syaoran, come on!" She was talking to him. She wanted HIM to climb on with her. Then he saw that she was serious, so he climbed behind her and held on to her waist. She was shivering from the cold. "Here," he took off his sweater and put it around her shoulders. "Arigato, Syaoran," she said as she looked at him behind her.
"Matte," Kero interrupted. Syaoran had forgotten that Tomoyo and Kero were still there. "You'll need these to capture the rest of the cards. And to stop the people who are controlling them." Kero dived into Tomoyo's bag and took out a tiny bag that looked like it held cellphones. "My cards! Thanks Kero-chan! Kiosukete Ne!" And thy were off.
Sakura led them off the ground and she patrolled the area to see if any cards were in sight. She then remembered that she wouldn't be able to see them, but she could sense them. She gripped her wand tighter and closed her eyes. "Syaoran, you'll have to direct us for a while. I have to look for the cards." He was going to protest but he noticed that had already drifted into her trance, so he held onto her tightly and ignored the joy that ran through him as he did.
In her trance, Sakura was searching for her cards. The cards that someone had dared to take from her. It took her a long time but she caught them all and with Kero and Syaoran's help, she had even passed the Final Judgement from Yue and had gained his friendship as well as his protection. But now, someone threatened to take their friendship away. The cards were her friends. They liked having Sakura as their mistress and enjoyed her company a lot. 'They would never leave me for someone else.' Sakura thought to herself.
"You are wrong, of course. If they did trust you then why would they have left you?!" A mocking voice came from behind her.
'What? Who was this person?' She asked herself. "Its no use. I can hear you even if you were thinking to youself." She turned and behind her was a girl. About the same age as she was. She had a black and purple robe on and she had long red hair.
"Dare?!" Sakura asked. Her voice shaking.
"Humph...allow me to introduce myself. I am Mioki. I am the rightful Clow Mistress. I was the one who was suppose to capture all the cards and be the most powerful sorceress in the world. But instead, you took my place. You beat me to the cards and you, being the baka that you are, let them escape. Which gave no choice to Kero so he had to make you a cardcaptor."
"Sou desu ka?" Sakura asked her. "Then why did I become the Clow Mistress? I passed the Final Judgement from Yue and I gained all the cards' trust. They trust me and they obey me as the Clow Mistress."
"Honto ni?" She smiled evilly. "We'll see about that. Firey! Attack!" Sakura didn't have a chance as The Firey card flew out of her tiny bag and started to attack her. She pulled out a card. "Shield! Release and dispell! Protect me from Firey!" The shield card formed a bubble around Sakura but not before Firey let out two big blasts of fire. "AHHH!" Sakura rammed into a wall.
(....)=author talking
'......'=character thinking
"..."=character talking
The sky is clear and the moon is full as the Card Mistress and her friends sleep in their beds, unaware of the dangers that are gathering in their hometown.....
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"Ohayo, Sakura! Hurry up or you'll be late!" Fujitakak, Sakura's father said from the kitchen. As usual, she was late for school. Everyday she would wake up and rush out the door. 'I wish that one day she would actually wake up early enough to eat her breakfast.' Fujitakak thought to himself. 'Oh well...I can't have everything.'
I could at least try to get her to eat. He asked as he said in his head. "Do you want something to eat first?"
"Iie, I gotta go! Bye!" He heard the door slam as she ran out the house. "Oniichan! Wait for me!" He smiled.
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"Ohayo, Sakura!" Sakura looked up from her seat to her best friend.
"Ohayo, Madison!" The she noticed that Li Syaoran walked in. 'He looks so kawaii! But then he always does.' She sighed. 'I should tell him... that I like him, but everytime we get close, I feel...frozen and too scared to say something.' She sighed again.
"Sakura? Daijoubu desu ka?" Madison's voice brought her back to reality. He doesn't even notice me.
"Sakura?" Madison asked as she put her face right in front of Sakura's. 'Wow, she really must like him a lot!' Tomoyo thought. 'She can't even hear me.' "So...aren't you going to say hi to Syaoran?" She asked mischeviously.
"Nani? Oh, sorry Madison...I was just..." Sakura trailed off.
"Why don't you just tell him that you like him?" Madison wanted to know. "What?! How did you...?" Madison smiled... "I know many things. Just go talk to him. He looks kind of bummed out. You should cheer him up"
Sakura looked at Syaoran. He did look a bit distant. Like he was staring off into space. 'Ok, well, I might as well go talk to him, since the teacher isn't even here.'
"Ohayo class!" Their teacher just walked in. Sakura stumbled to her desk and sat down. 'I'll talk to Syaoran later,' she promised herself.
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'Hmm... She looks so dreamy. Her soft hair...and her emerald eyes...I could sit here and stare at her for hours and not get tired. She's soo beautiful.' He was so busy staring at her that he didn't hear the teacher ask him a question. "Sumimasen, Syaoran? LI SYAORAN!!!" She yelled. He shook himself from his dreaming and looked at the teacher. "Good, I have your attention then." She didn't wait for him to reply. "What is the answer to question 16?"
"I...um..." He stumbled over his words. He was so busy thinking of Sakura last night that he forgot all his homework. Then he noticed that Sakura was writing something on a slip of paper. She passed it to him and it took him only a few seconds to realize that she was giving him the answer. He glanced at the writing then answered the teacher's question and she seemed satisfied. She turned back around to the blackboard and started writing the homework for tomorrow.
'I have to remember to thank her.' He thought as he looked at her. He saw her looking at him and then she winked then smiled and started copying the homework.
'I think I'm dreaming! Did Sakura just wink at me?! Nah! It couldn't be. She likes Yukito...I think I'm starting to imagine things. I should copy down the homework. I'll thank Sakura later.' But just her name made him feel all dreamy. "Okaeri Syaoran." He heard the teacher say to him.
"Nani?!" 'What is she talking about?!' He thought.
"Good of you to come back to reality."
"Oh. Gomen." He apologized.
She turned back to the blackboard, but not before warning him. "Copy down the homework, Syaoran. There will be no excuses if you don't get them done."
"Hai!" He replied.
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DDDDIIINNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!
"Class dismissed!" Their teacher yelled out, but everyone had already ran out of the class.
Syaoran watched as Sakura packed up all the books she needed from her locker. He was staring so intently that he didn't notice that she was watching him.
'Hmm... What is Syaoran doing?' She looks right into his eyes, but it seemed like he didn't even see her. 'I wonder what he's thinking right now. It's probably very interesting if he doesn't even see me here. Or maybe he's just ignoring me...' Sakura sighed. Even after all the Clow Cards were captured, Syaoran was still mean to her. Even after she saved him from detention in class. 'Well, thats no reason for me to be mean to him.'
Frowning slightly, she tapped him on the shoulder and looked him right in the eye again so that he would see her this time. "Syaoran? Daijoubu desu ka?"
'Hmm?' Syaoran felt someone tapping him on the shoulder. He blinked back in reality and right in front of him was...SAKURA?! 'Oh my god! She's looking right at me! And she's so pretty!' "Syaoran? Daijoubu desu ka?" She asked him. "A..a...Aa...Ano...Daijobu desu..." He turned so red that Sakura thought he was sick.
"What's wrong? Are you sick?" She asked him.
"Oh...I...um...nothing....I'mnotsick." He said really fast.
"Oh...ok..." Sakura looked a bit upset. 'She knows I'm lying. She looks a bit sad...You baka! How could you make her sad?!' He yelled at himself. 'I better do something to cheer her up.' "Um...doyouwannagogeticecream?" He asked. She looked at him confused. It was then that Syaoran realized that he said it too fast and she didn't catch a word.
"Gomen, do you want to get some ice cream? I'll treat." He said. He didn't know what came over him. He never would've got the courage to ask her and he didn't know how he did just then.
'Syaoran is asking me to get ice cream?! Maybe we do have a chance. I hope so.' Sakura thought. "Um...sure..." Sakura said blushing.
There was silence as they walked over to the place that sells ice cream. Syaoran looked over at her. Her emerald eyes were looking at the ground, as if all the answers could be found there. He looked a bit closer and saw her blushing a bit. 'Nani? Why would she be blushing? Could it be because...she likes me? Nah! That would never happen. Why would she like me, if I was the one trying to get the Clow Cards from her? I was always so mean to her, but she still treats me as a really good friend.'
He decided that now was the time to tell her how he felt. But as he opened his mouth to say the words, he lost his courage.
"Um...Sakura? Can I ask you something?" Sakura looked at him, startled when he broke the silence between them. "Sure."
"Ano...why did you help me?"
"I... I didn't want you to get in trouble." She looked back at the ground, blushing a bit more.
"Arigato Gozaimasu."
"Don't worry about it." She said smiling slightly. They were silent again, as they got their ice cream. Then they walked to the park and sat down under a sakura tree. The flowers were at full bloom and Syaoran thought they were beautiful. 'Not as beautiful as Sakura, though.' He reached up and broke off a tiny branch.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked softly.
"Hold still." Syaoran told her. He took the branch and tucked it behind her ear. Her hair felt so silky in his hand that he had to resist hard to not stroke it. She looked at him and blushed. Then, he suddenly realized what he had done, and he blushed even more then Sakura had.
"Arigato," she said smiling again as she licked her ice cream. She looked so cute when she smiled.
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"Oi! Sakura!" They looked up from each other and saw Tomoyo running towards them. "Opps. Gomen." She said breathlessely as she saw who Sakura was with. Sakura and Syaoran both turned red as Tomoyo saw them together. 'Aww...they're so kawaii together!' "Gomen, Kero-chan was looking for you."
"Really? Nani?"
But before Tomoyo could answer her, water dripped from the sky. It started to rain!
"But, thats not right! It's May. Why would it rain?" Sakura asked Syaoran. "Be careful, Sakura. This seems to be like a card."
"I thought we caught all the cards?!" Sakura said, shocked that there were more cards.
Suddenly Kero stuck his head out of the backpack on Tomoyo's back. "Thats what I wanted to talk to you about. It seems that someone is controlling the Clow Cards to leave Sakura."
"NANI??!! Someone?! Which means I have to find and catch them all over again? This is so unfair!" Sakura wailed. She was almost close to tears.
Syaoran couldn't take seeing Sakura like this. 'I promised myself that I would protect and help her. And I will. I will help her capture all her cards once more.' "Sakura, don't worry. We'll get them back." As he said that, he put his arm around her. Sakura sniffed and buried her head into Syaoran's chest. Syaoran stiffened. It wasn't because he didn't want Sakura close to her. It was just that Kero and Tomoyo was watching them.
'I don't care. I won't let anything happen to her.' He wrapped his arms around her tightly. In the corner of his eye, he could see Tomoyo smiling. He heard Sakura sniff again, then she softly pushed Syaoran away. "Ok, I'm ready." She smiled at Syaoran and his heart almost melted. Kirei...
Then she took out her wand. It had changed as she grew and instead of a bird's head sort of thing, on the tip was a star in a circle.
"Key that holds
the power of the stars,
show your true form.
Under the compact,
I, Sakura, command you,
RELEASE!"
She took out a card. "Fly! Release and dispell!" The wand suddenly sprouted wings. She climbed onto it. "Syaoran, come on!" She was talking to him. She wanted HIM to climb on with her. Then he saw that she was serious, so he climbed behind her and held on to her waist. She was shivering from the cold. "Here," he took off his sweater and put it around her shoulders. "Arigato, Syaoran," she said as she looked at him behind her.
"Matte," Kero interrupted. Syaoran had forgotten that Tomoyo and Kero were still there. "You'll need these to capture the rest of the cards. And to stop the people who are controlling them." Kero dived into Tomoyo's bag and took out a tiny bag that looked like it held cellphones. "My cards! Thanks Kero-chan! Kiosukete Ne!" And thy were off.
Sakura led them off the ground and she patrolled the area to see if any cards were in sight. She then remembered that she wouldn't be able to see them, but she could sense them. She gripped her wand tighter and closed her eyes. "Syaoran, you'll have to direct us for a while. I have to look for the cards." He was going to protest but he noticed that had already drifted into her trance, so he held onto her tightly and ignored the joy that ran through him as he did.
In her trance, Sakura was searching for her cards. The cards that someone had dared to take from her. It took her a long time but she caught them all and with Kero and Syaoran's help, she had even passed the Final Judgement from Yue and had gained his friendship as well as his protection. But now, someone threatened to take their friendship away. The cards were her friends. They liked having Sakura as their mistress and enjoyed her company a lot. 'They would never leave me for someone else.' Sakura thought to herself.
"You are wrong, of course. If they did trust you then why would they have left you?!" A mocking voice came from behind her.
'What? Who was this person?' She asked herself. "Its no use. I can hear you even if you were thinking to youself." She turned and behind her was a girl. About the same age as she was. She had a black and purple robe on and she had long red hair.
"Dare?!" Sakura asked. Her voice shaking.
"Humph...allow me to introduce myself. I am Mioki. I am the rightful Clow Mistress. I was the one who was suppose to capture all the cards and be the most powerful sorceress in the world. But instead, you took my place. You beat me to the cards and you, being the baka that you are, let them escape. Which gave no choice to Kero so he had to make you a cardcaptor."
"Sou desu ka?" Sakura asked her. "Then why did I become the Clow Mistress? I passed the Final Judgement from Yue and I gained all the cards' trust. They trust me and they obey me as the Clow Mistress."
"Honto ni?" She smiled evilly. "We'll see about that. Firey! Attack!" Sakura didn't have a chance as The Firey card flew out of her tiny bag and started to attack her. She pulled out a card. "Shield! Release and dispell! Protect me from Firey!" The shield card formed a bubble around Sakura but not before Firey let out two big blasts of fire. "AHHH!" Sakura rammed into a wall.
