Chapter two: Contol Card: The broken hearted...or maybe not Note: Thank you to all those who reviewed, and thank you in advance to all you lovely people who are going to review (becuase that's what your going to do if your reading this, ISN'T IT?!) Anyway, onto the story. As always, I own nothing except Towra. He is mine, mine, mine! Please ask to use him. I'm off to my expensive pent house flat full of anime boys which I live in in my imagination. I will however, be back to remind you to review! So what do you think it is? asked Madison. She had helped the pair clear up the apartment, and once Li was fully clothed, Madison had been offered a cup of tea. She put the little white china cup back down on the saucer with a little chink and looked over at Li and Sakura. All three of them sat on the little blue sofa and Sakura was leaning her head against Li looking at the card he held. It says it's called the thief card, she told Madison, but I don't think it can be a clow card. I mean, I've got all of those in my room.It doesn't even look like a clow card, Li turnned the card over in his hand and examined the back of it, Hey beautiful, why don't you go check all the cards are still there? Sakura giggled like a school girl at his name for her and then ran off. Li still stared at the card in front of him. It was bright blue with a simple black and white yin yan symbol. The figure on the front wasn't beautiful like the ones from the clow cards, but like a twisted, scowling dwarf. Madison shuddered as she glanced at it. It's horrible, she uttered, leaning back and pulling at the pink shirt she wore, The old cards were so beautiful, that....it's horrible, she repeated herself for lack of words. Sakura re entered carring a wooden box and sat down between Li and Madison again, placeing it on the low glass table before them. All the cards are still there, she told them, and your sword still sealed the card so I'm guessing we shouldn't have a problem re captureing them.It's not re capturing them that worries me, Li put his arm round Sakura and she looked up at his worried expresion, It's who made them. Look at the symbol. Who does it remind you of? Madison and Sakura looked at each other and shrugged. Madison was about to reach for her tea cup again when a jingle started to play from the black leather hand bag she had placed on the floor. Oh, my cell phone, she unbuckled the bag and drew out the little pink phone, Hello? Hi Towra! What! But I thought we...Towra! Towra! She took the phone away from her ear and looked over at the other two in astonishment, her lower lip starting to shake. Towra was her boyfriend and the guy she was living with. He was very laid back and although not evryone got along with him, Madison liked him and he had managed to sweep her off her feet at the begining of last year. He...he, he broke up with me, she stuttered, looking at the pair with tears in her big blue eyes. Oh Madison, Sakura reached out to hug her friend, Did he say why?No he just...I know what it is, Li got to his feet and stretched, A card. Sakura stared up at him. How can you tell?I can't, but I mean, Towoa's not like that, he offered Madison and Sakura a hand each and pulled them to their feet. Madison and Towra lived on campus at Reiville University. They couldn't afford a flat of their own yet, so being room mates had to do. It was Saturday afternoon, so the only people around were a few students lazeing around under the shadey trees in the summer sun. Sakura, Li and Madison made their way to the student houseing area. Hold on, Sakura caught Madisons wrist as she was about to unlock the door, We don't even know what kind of card this might be. Li paused and tapped his cheeck with a finger. I guess we've just got to go and find out, he drew the pendant from his neck, Forces of clow, hear my plight, surrender the wand, the force ignite! It was of course at this very second that a student chose to come in through the doors and saw Li transform. Sakura sweat dropped and quickly thought up an excuse. Uhhhmmm, he's practiceing for a a a party, that's it a party! she and Madison smiled innocently and the student passed on down the hall. Breathing a sigh of relief Madison slowly opened the door to reveal....nothing. The room looked perfectly normal, save one thing: Towra was lying on the bed looking almost dead he was so pale. Madison ran to his side with a little cry of concern. Maybe the card was like, controling him, suggested Sakura as Li checked the bathroom and, for some reason, the inside of the micro wave. That's it! Control card! Just Meilins style! Li turnned in the bathroom door his dark eyes alight. Madison and Sakura spoke in unison, Whats she got to do with this? continued Madison. Li stepped back into the room. It was when I looked at the back of the thief card. The yin yan symbol, Meilins symbol and when I looked more closley at it I saw her name, he held up the card to show them the back and sure enough, scrawled in barley visible letters was Meilins name, Now all we have to do is catch the card. With some quick work from the lasen board Li discovered that his guess about the microwave had beeen near right: it was in the oven. Opening the door a flood of shapeless brown light swept into the room, settling high above them and gaining a figure. There were no colours in the loose clothes it wore, only that dingey brown and her (for it was a girl) features were non descript. Of course they would be: she had to inhabit other peoples bodies. Li was about to start shouting but Sakura had already stepped up. Control card! Return to your powers, confine! the card struggled and she held her breath, remembering fodly the old Clow cards that never fought once they knew they were captured. But finally the creature was in the card and she caught it with a satisfied nod. Towra slowly sat up and shook his black head, Madison? Why are you crying? Oh no don't cry! he got to his feet quickly and hugged her to his chest, rocking her back and forth and whispering something into her hair. Li smiled and put his arm round Sakura, looking at the card she held as he did. She's jealous, isn't she? she asked, looking up at him. Li nodded: When I was young, my mother used to tell me a story about a girl who learned magic through jealousy. The down side is, all she could do was copy cat what others had done, she could never create magic of her own. That's when it occured to me: the cards. Meilin found out how to gain the magic and copied Clow Reed, but she made a whole new pack of cards. Sakura sighed and looked over at Madison and Towra. The blue haired girl was talking animatedly about going to see a movie that was incredabley sad and, no Li didn't dress like that normally but it was a special occasion, very special. Uhh, why was it special, uhmmmm, it was a family thing. Yes, Li too was aware of the fact that the trousers were getting quite short on him he'd had them since he was ten but he'd never bothered getting any new ones. Clearly she was giving them a good cover, but it seemed to be at the expense of Lis' dignity. she turned back to the blushing Li, I guess we owe Meilin a phone call. | ||
