Destiny's Choice
Part I - Mika and Nika
By Xellgadis


It was a bright sunny day in Tomoeda. The birds were chirping, flowers blooming, and the smell of spring was in the air. All was silent except for the bluebirds singing, that is, until a large high pitched sound filled the air.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm late for school!" screamed a young girl. Soon footsteps could be heard stomping down a wooden staircase. A young girl stood at the doorway of a kitchen, then quickly sat down and started cramming her breakfast into her stomach.
"Late as always, Sakura-kaiju" Sakura's older brother, Touya, taunted.
"Don't call me Sakura-kaiju!!" Sakura was fuming towards her brother.
"Well I'm going off to school now. See ya.. kaiju" Touya said as he left the table. Sakura formed a fist and in anger, yelled out, "Don't call me that!! Oh my god! Yukito-san!" Sakura finished up her breakfast and ran out the door. Touya had already left the house, and Sakura madly dashed to put on her skates and catch up with him. As they went around a corner, and guy about 16 years old with overly large glasses and light gray hair stood over by a corner. He waved at Sakura and Touya.
"Hi Touya, Sakura-chan." The guy said.
Sakura got bright red in the face. "Yukito-san...". They then went to school together. Since Sakura's and Touya's schools were right next to eachother, they could go to school together. As Sakura was entering Tomoeda Elementary, Yukito called out her name. When she turned around, Yukito tossed a piece of candy toward her. She caught it, and blushed.
"Good morning Sakura-chan." chimed a voice behind her. Standing behind her was her best friend.
"Good morning Tomoyo-chan." After they changed their shoes and prepared for class, Tomoyo had pulled out a bag with a video camcorder inside it.
"This is a prototype of my mom's new line of cameras. I want to see how well I can capture Sakura-chan on it." Tomoyo smiled at Sakura. Sakura just chuckled a bit then sighed. Behind Tomoyo stood a young boy her age.
"Morning Li-kun" Sakura said.
"Morning" Li said as he took his seat behind Sakura. The door opened and the teacher entered. All the students stood up, then took their seats again.
"I have good news everyone. We have a new student transferring from England in our class." Torada-sensei announced. In walked a kid with short blue-ish hair and glasses. He smiled to the class.
"I'm Eriol Hiirigizawa. Nice to meet you." Eriol said to the class. Torada-sensei looked around the class and pointed to an empty seat behind Tomoyo.
"You can sit there." he said. Eriol walked towards the back of the classroom, but stopped infront of Sakura.
"Hi, nice to meet you." he said with a smile. He then sat at his desk behind Tomoyo.

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Afterschool, Sakura headed home since she didn't have any cheerleading practice. As she was heading home, the sky grew dark. Soon after, it began to rain. After dashing home soaked, she dried off and changed her clothes. As she walked into her room, and small yellow creature with wings was playing videogames.
"Kero-chan!" Sakura yelled.
"Noooooo!!! My score is ruined!" Kero turned around. "Sakura, what's up?"
"It was all bright and sunny today, and all of a sudden it started raining. Could it be a Clow card?"
"But you captured all the Clow cards. Its probably weird weather."
"Then what's happening?" Sakura turned on the news to watch the weather report.
"The area will have a lot of sun for the next few days, but in the Tomoeda area, rain will continue to fall for an unknown amount of time." said the meteorologist.
"See Kero? Something is wrong."
"Maybe we should go out and investigate."

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Mika had been thrown into darkness. All around her she saw nothing. No light at all. It was as if she was in space.
"Where.... am I?" she wondered. "I fell off that cliff, so, am I dead? But where's Mika, Seta, and Takao? Weren't they with me? WHERE AM I!?" Out of the blue, the darkness turned into a dark grey. Some light had made its way through the darkness. Soon, it started to rain, drenching Mika. From her weightless dark zone, gravity soon began to take effect, and she began falling.
"I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die.... AHHHHHHHH!!!"

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Tomoyo, Sakura, Keroberos, and Yue, were at Penguin Park. Tomoyo was holding an umbrella in one hand and her videocamera in the other. Sakura had another one of Tomoyo's outfits on.
"Sakura in another battle..." Tomoyo's eyes lit up."
"I'm going up to investigate" Sakura said. She then pulled out her key. "Release!" she commanded. Nothing happened. "Hoeeeee??? Release!" Still, nothing happened.
"Sakura, what's the matter?" Keroberos said.
"The key..... it's not working." Sakura looked up at the sky. The rain wasn't getting lighter. In the faint distance, beyond the sound of the rain, she thought she heard a faint scream. From the clouds, she could see a dark figure falling from the sky.
"Kero! Who's that? That person it going to fall!" Hesitant at first, Keroberos then took off towards the dark figure.

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Mika was falling, and fast. Panicked, she didn't know what to do, nethertheless anything she could do. All she could hope was to have a soft landing. Looking around, she could see so dark figure heading towards her.
"I'm saved!!! Thank god!"
Keroberos had caught Mika from falling, and took her back to Penguin Park. Relieved, she was breathing heavily. She was also shivering from the cold.
Calmed slightly, Mika went up to Keroberos. "Thanks for saving- AHHHHHH!!!"
"Hoeeeeee?" Sakura asked.
"A LION WITH WINGS??? Maybe I did die and go to some weird world....."
"Sakura, what is her problem?" Keroberos asked.
"IT TALKS?!?!" Mika was on the verge of having a heartattack.
"Yeah. His name is Kero-chan." Sakura smiled.
"What is her problem?" Yue asked.
"Huh?" Mika looked in Yue's direction. "WHAT?! Another guy with wings? I'm seeing angels..... I MUST BE DEAD!!!" Mika was hysterical.
"Calm down. You aren't dead. As a matter of fact, you look very much alive." Tomoyo said.
"Huh?" Mika stopped screaming. "Then where am I?" She looked around.
"Tomoeda, Japan" Tomoyo said.
"Which island?
"Honshu
"Honshu? How'd I get here? I was on an island East of Hokkaido. AND WHERE IS MY SISTER!"
"Hmph. What a noisy girl. If she keeps this up, I'm going to leave." Yue said.
"Hoeeee? What's that?" Sakura wondered. Four pillars of water had formed, reaching up to the sky. Soon, one of the pillars moved, ready to attack Sakura and the others.
Before it had hit Sakura, Tomoyo, and Mika, Yue had shielded them from the water. The impact had sent him off his feet, slamming him into a tree.
"Yue-san!" Sakura screamed. Another water blast came towards them, this time, hitting Keroberos.
"Kero-chan!" Sakura once again pulled out her key. "RELEASE!" Again, the key didn't form into the wand.
Yue had been in more shock than pain. "I don't believe this. The only person that can defeat our powers is the mistress of the Clow cards and.... Clow Reed."
"EXCUSE ME?? JUST WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?" Mika had apparantly been freaked out by the attacks.
"Sakura. We better retreat for now. We can come back at another time." Keroberos told her.
"Oh.. okay." Sakura had began to feel upset. Her key wouldn't release into the wand. All of them had run to the closest building they could find, which happened to be Li's house. They knocked on the door. Li had come and opened it, only to find Sakura, Tomoyo, Yue, Keroberos, and some other person.
"Uh... Kinomoto... what are you doing here? And you're soaked."
"Sorry Li-kun, we have a small problem."
"Well I can see that. If there wasn't a problem, Keroberos wouldn't be here, and neither would Yue." Li glared at Keroberos. "Who's she?" Li pointed at Mika.
"Oh, she's... umm... I didn't get your name." Sakura said.
"Takamoto. Takamoto Mika." She said.
"Oh...." Li had eyed Mika for a second. "So what's the problem?"
"For some reason, we were attacked by some force and Yue and Kero were defeated by it." Sakura explained.
"What about your magic?"
"It..... It......." Sakura got teary-eyed.
"Her magic won't work." Tomoyo explained.
"What? How come?"
"We don't know. Clow's magic didn't work, so maybe you magic could."
"Maybe." Li looked at Yue and Kero, who appeared fine, but he could sense that their power was significantly lower than the last time they met. He then looked at Mika. "So what are you doing here?"
Mika rubbed the back of her head. "I don't know too much either. One minute I was with a few of my friends hiking up Mount Okatome, the next minute I was falling from the sky. How am I supposed to know what happened? I don't even know where my friends are." Li had looked up to the sky. The rain had showed no sign of lightening up.


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Author's Comments:
Well I have a start on this branch of the story. How'd you like it so far? Questions, Comments, Flames, or Praise? Please send it to Xellgadis@hotmail.com

Disclaimer: The characters from Card Captor Sakura don't belong to me. They are creations of CLAMP and NOT me.