Finally, another chapter

Finally, another chapter!

Whoops, forgot a disclaimer in the first chapter, so here it is!

~Card captor sakura/ cardcaptors does not belong to me in any way at all. All the characters (with the exception of the ones I make up) belong to clamp and various other companies!

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"So tell me again why I'm the chosen one?"

Kero and Sakura arrived just as Zachary asked that.

"To capture these cards, Rahn came upon the decision that the chosen one must be one with a tremendous sense of humour, as some of them are quite, shall we say… mischievous? And by that I mean twice as bad as any of Clow Reed's cards."

"Whoa, back up! Who's Clow Reed?"

"Er, Zachary? I think we can answer that." Sakura said as Kero hovered over her left shoulder.

"Wha…? You…another one?" He looked utterly and hopelessly confused as he looked from Kero to Quan, and then back to Kero again. So what followed was an explanation from Sakura of the Clow cards, and how she and Li were the card captors.

"I can't believe you guys never even told me!"

Sakura looked at him skeptically.

Zachary snorted. "So what do I have to do?"

"It's quite simple really. Just capture all of the cards." Quan told him.

"Oh I'm sure it's 'quite simple' for you!" Zachary yelled, "I have no idea what I just got myself into!"

"A deep pile of dung my friend, that's what. These cards…" Quan sighed.

"Okay, I want an explanation of this Rahn guy right now." He looked at Quan seriously.

"Well as you know, Clow was a very talented individual when it came to all things magical. His closest friend was my master, Rahn Kaylelle. They studied their art together beginning at a young age, and were more or less inseparable. At the same time Clow was working on his cards, master Rahn was creating his, er, masterpiece. He was a very creative man he was, always finding some way or another to make himself the centre of attention. Very much like you are, no doubt. Always smiling for some reason or another, that man. That's the effect he had on most everyone I'll wager. And this trait of his was reflected in almost every card. You'll see as you capture more and more of them, he was a great jolly bloke."

Quan stopped and looked from face to face. "Cerberus, old boy! Well bless my ears, how long 'as it been?" his furry face seemed to light up as he spoke to Kero for the first time, his jaw hanging open.

"Quan! I can't believe…! You finally got released!"

"You know each other?!" Zachary and Sakura screamed.

Kero blushed as much as it's possible for someone who's yellow to blush. "Uh, yeah, about that. At the time the books were sealed, our masters did it together. They made us promise not to reveal any secrets of the other's book unless it had already been opened."

"Ancient wizards and their secrets…" Sakura trailed off, grumbling. "So you've been leading Li and I off the whole time with this thing?!"

"No I haven't! I just didn't give you any new information about it!"

"I understand Kero. It's just frustrating, that's all."

Zachary blinked a couple times.

"It's going to take me a while to get used to this."

At that very moment the doorbell rang. Sakura and Zachary looked at each other for a second before Sakura went skidding down the hall to answer the door.

"Would you three hide?!" she yelled back at them, just before she opened the door.

"Li!" she exclaimed.

"Hi Sakura. Mind if I come in?"

"Oh, yeah sure…" she trailed off, blushing lightly. "Why are you here?" she asked him.

"I sensed something. What's going on?" Li looked at her seriously. (I don't care if that's an unlikely reason, it's my fic)

Sakura sighed. "Long story."

"Does it involve the other book?"

"Yes."

"I thought so. So what's happening?"

"Apparently our good friend Zachary has magical powers. He opened the book."

Li looked surprised, but only for a minute. Then he went back to his usual serious self. "So where is he now?"

"Talking to a flying monkey."

Li raised an eyebrow curiously. "A flying monkey?"

"Right this way." She closed the door behind him and led him to Aiden's study.

"So what do I do with this thing?"

Zachary was flailing a sword that had appeared out of nowhere back and forth.

"Careful with that! It's very powerful. You use it to seal the cards." Quan explained

"Oh I do, do I?" he stared along the blade, which was glinting slightly in the dimly lit room.

"See what I mean?" Sakura asked Li as his jaw went down slightly.

"This is sad." Li said, and raised an eyebrow as Zachary made a thrust with the sword, lost his balance and fell over with a crash. "And don't tell me, let me guess. I'm going to have to show him how to handle that thing?"

"If you don't then how's he going to capture the cards?" Sakura gave him that do-anything-for-me-because-I'm-so-cute look, and he had to give in.

Sakura smiled to herself because she new that it got to him every time, and this time it was no different.

Li groaned and walked across the room to where Zachary was sitting on the floor.

"Slow down before you hurt yourself." He pulled Zachary up by one arm.

"What's next, an encounter with the ghost of Yoda? I can't believe this is happening to me." He looked off into space.

"You need some practice with that thing."

"I'm insulted. Are you telling me that you don't think I can handle it?"

Li gave him that condescending look. Zachary looked innocently to Sakura, who just shook her head slowly with an amused expression.

"Fine, I'll show you. Choose your weapon man, it's go time!"

He brought the sword over his head and fell backwards. (Imagine them all sweatdropping)

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After three straight weeks of training from right after school until nine p.m., Zachary could finally move the Sealing Sword without falling over. Madison had gone all starry-eyed at the thought of being able to make battle outfits and videotape someone again after a long time of no action, but her hopes were quickly squashed by Zachary.

"Hey Chelsea, Nikki, check out these pipes!" He ran up to them outside school and flexed the muscles that had hardly been visible three weeks ago.

"Nice stuff." Chelsea commented, looking very surprised.

"What a stal." Nikki teased him.

A blush began to creep across his face. "Give it up, you know you want a piece," he joked.

Nikki rolled her eyes.

As they went inside Li managed to edge up to him and pull him into an empty classroom.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Have you seen the new girl yet?"

"What new girl?"

"The blonde…" he paused and corrected himself, "the ONLY new girl here."

"Well OBVIOUSLY not. What's the problem, are you going to tell me she's yours or something?"

"No it's just…can't you feel it?"

"What?"

"Anything? Any kind of vibes from people? You know, that kind of thing?"

"Not that I know of. Is that a bad thing?"

"Don't worry about it. Sakura was like that in the beginning but it got easier for her to feel things."

"I still don't get what all this is about."

"Just be careful."

"As you wish, master." They walked out of the room.

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"Class, settle down. HEY!"

Mr. Terada called for their attention. ( I know he's the elementary school teacher, but as always in my fics, he upgraded his teaching license to high school, ok?)

"Thank you. I'd like to introduce a new student this morning. From southern Japan, Kaylelle Torako Tenshonnaimi. Would you like to tell us a bit about yourself?"

The girl standing at the front of the room didn't look a whole lot Japanese. More English than anything, with an interesting hair-do full of bouncy blonde ringlets.

"I go by Torako." She gave the teacher an odd look. "I just moved here with my brother Saruko from Kodokuharu."

"Sounds like a cheerful place." Zachary commented. Torako narrowed her eyes at him. Li poked Zachary in the side.

"See?" Li said.

"Torako?" Mr. Terada prompted her away from her staring contest with Zachary.

"Hmm?" she turned away.

"You can take your seat beside Kinomoto Sakura. She'll show you around the school today."

Torako looked across the room and found Sakura's welcoming wave. She smiled and took her seat.

"Welcome to our school," Sakura whispered. "I'm Sakura. This is Madison," she paused as the two exchanged warm smiles and little waves, "Li Syaoran,"

"Li?" Torako seemed concerned by the mention of his clan's name. He held out his hand for hers, and when he had it, he kissed it, making Sakura's voice waver. Li met Torako's eyes and she quickly looked away.

"And this is Zachary."

They shook hands, with Zachary saying, "There's no way I could top that first impression." It was obvious that Torako had no problem reading people from the look that he got. It was the same one Li had given Sakura when they had first met.

"If you're finished, mister Yamazaki, please turn to page 437 in your textbook."

Zachary rolled his eyes at the teacher as Torako turned around and started flipping through her textbook.

"And drop the attitude Zachary."

"Yes sir!" Zachary saluted him with fake enthusiasm as the class snickered.

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"Zachary!"

School was finally out, and Zachary was walking home with his friends when he heard his name being called. Torako walked up to him.

"Can we talk somewhere? Alone?"

"O…kay. Go on guys, I'll catch up later."

Kobiashi snickered at the thought of a girl wanting to be "alone" with Zachary. Li grabbed Zachary's arm and gave him a meaningful look.

"Relax man, it's under control."

"If you say so." Li and Kobiashi met up with Sakura and Madison and left the two of them.

"What's this all about, Tiger Child?"

She seemed taken back when he called her that.

"What? That's your name, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"And Tenshionnami means-"

"That's enough about my name."

"And having the name Kaylelle suggests that you are related to Rahn Kaylelle, are you not?"

"I…yes. And I think you know what it is that this is about."

"You want my cards."

"No, I want my cards. They aren't yours. They rightfully belong to my family, and I'm here to reclaim them."

"You'll have a tough time doing that. None of them have been captured yet."

"What?" She did not look impressed. "I would have thought you could have at least made some progress. The book has been open long enough for the cards to cause serious damage and you haven't caught a single one of them? Pathetic! This is awful!"

"You came here expecting that I'd have made progress? I couldn't even use the sealing sword three weeks ago. I had arm muscles like wet noodles, and you have the nerve to say I haven't made any progress, and that I'm pathetic? The cards haven't even done anything yet, so just relax."

"How dare you talk to me like that? I am a direct descendant of Rhan Kaylelle-"

Zachary dug down into his pocket and pulled out several quarters.

"Here, call someone who cares." He dropped them into her hand and began to walk away.

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A/N

Ok, from what I've researched, here are (hopefully correct) the meanings of the names of the new characters:

Tora=tiger

Ko=child

Tenshi=angel

Onna=girl/woman

Mi=beauty

Saru=monkey

Ko=child

Kodoku=solitude

Haru=sunny days

If I'm wrong, somebody please correct me now! And for people who read this like, a year after I start writing it, I'll say it RIGHT NOW, I KNOW I am not positive of the meanings, so don't yell at me! And by the way, Kobiashi is one of their classmates that is mentioned in the first movie, incase anybody was wondering or didn't already know. Short chapter eh? Tah tah for now!