Fun with the Clow Cards
"Sakura! Wait come back! Wait for me!" Tomoyo yelled into the raging wind. She then ran off after Sakura, Kero clinging onto Tomoyo's video camera bag. A big wind that the windy card made came crashing down on Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero. They were all picked up off their feet and flung backwards into the wall.
Sakura fought against the wind and managed to stand up. She looked beyond anger, more angry then she was the time the Snow Card took her watch. "Windy Card! Please Stop! It's me, Sakura!" Sakura called. The windy card didn't say anything. It glared at her, and circled above Readington.
"SAKURA! Do something fast!" Tomoyo shrieked. The storm grew bigger and bigger, taking over more sky. The rain was basting down harder on them. The Mist was growing thicker and making it hard to anything too far away. Thunder was rolling in louder and louder. Closer and Closer to the ground. The Bubbles were growing bigger and falling faster. Including the Earth Card. It was going faster and faster. Making the land very bumpy and mountains popping up all over the place. No good would come of this.
Sakura fumbled with her neckline. She grabbed the star key and held it out. "Oh Key of the Star, with Powers shining bright. Release the wand and shine your light!" Sakura yelled. The key started to glow and was lifted into the air. It turned around and around and slowly transferred into the wand. She picked her cards out of her pile and quickly glanced through them. She took out her Power and Wood Card.
"Power Card! Wood Card! Draw your powers from my light, take your power and get all the cards in one spot! Then Wood Card, make a cage and trap the spirits so they can't escape!" Sakura shouted. She threw the two cards up into the sky and thrusted her wand up to the cards. The windy card dived back down at Sakura.
"Sakura! Look out!" Tomoyo yelled, seeing the windy card diving at Sakura. Sakura shook it off. The pink and brown forms of the Power and Wood came out of the cards, only to be sucked back in when the windy card struck again. It grabbed the two cards and took it up into the sky with the other cards. The two figures were released. The Power and The Wood had just joined the force of the other cards.
Tomoyo gasped. Kero gasped. Sakura gasped. "Sakura! Don't do anything else with the cards! They will all be taken away from you!" Kero shouted. Sakura nodded, and started to put the cards back in her pocket. Some of the cards caught her eye. Some of them were glowing. The one's that she had used at school. The Erase, Float, Water, Wave, Maze, Lock, Time, Snow and Freeze Card. The cards shook in her hand, and shot up into the sky.
They circled above Sakura's head; just out of reach. The nine figured shook and the figures were released into the sky above. "Kero! What's happening?" Sakura yelled. Kero gasped. The time is coming! In two days this town will be in the bottom of the ocean. Just like Rivendell. Enjoy your time while you have the chance." Sakura looked over at him. "How do I stop this?" She questioned, starting to get worried.
Kero looked around. He looked up and gasped. The Power Card was coming down! "Sakura! Put your wand away!" Kero shouted. Sakura nodded, the wand began to turn back into the key, until Sakura was caught off-guard. The Power card had just came to a jump on the ground. The card held it's hand out, crushed it into a fist and thrusted it at herself. Sakura's wand moved and stopped transforming. It shot out from Sakura's grasp and into the Power Card's hand.
"My Wand!" Sakura shouted. She ran at the Power Card, from up above the Thubder Card saw Sakura's movement. Since, Sakura had let the cards do what they want on free will, the cards were like freed again. The Thunder Card shot a thunder bolt down at the ground. It just missed Sakura's foot. She fell down and landed pretty hard on the ground. So hard that it knocked her out.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo shouted. She got up from the ground and ran over to Sakura. Before she got there, the ground shook. Tomoyo gasped and that knocked her back down on the ground. The Earth Card was coming straight at Sakura's knocked out body. "NNNOOO!!!" Tomoyo shouted. Everything seemed to go into slow motion. Tomoyo getting up and running to Sakura and Kero flying beside Tomoyo, wings growing, changing back into his true form. The Earth Card was making the ground shake and coming faster and faster at Sakura. This had to be the work of the Time Card. Making everything slow down.
All the sudden everything went back into fast motion. The Earth stopped in front of Sakura and swooped up, making like a cage around her. Only at the top there was a little hole, small enough for a small thing to get in. Tomoyo ran right into the Earth Card and started pounding her fist onto it. "Sakura! Sakura! Are you alright!" She shouted over and over. The storm raged faster and harder over Tomoyo and Kero.
From the clouds above, the cards looked down at the unfolding scene. The Bubble Card's head appeared from through the clouds. It evilly grinned and with a swish of it's mermaid tail, a big bubble was produced and was guided down through the storm and into the Earth Card's little cage. A few minutes later, the Earth Card shook again and swooped back down to the ground, and went back to making mountains wherever it felt like. The bubble started making it's way back up into the sky. The only thing was; the card had Sakura in there!
A little strip of thunder shot down, the bubble dodged the thunder, flipping the bubble around and around. When it flipped, the remaining Sakura Cards fluttered down to the ground. Tomoyo walked over and slowly picked them up from the ground. The cards that were wandering free, didn't even notice that the rest of the cards were gone.
Tomoyo walked back over to where Keroberus sat, looking up in the sky. "This is no good Tomoyo. In two days this will all be the bottom of the ocean." Tomoyo smiled and looked at Keroberus. "When the cards took Sakura, they dropped the remaining cards. Here you go." Tomoyo said, holding the cards out to Kero. He looked from the cards to Tomoyo. He smiled.
"Stay here. I'm going to get some help from Yue, and the others. Keep the remaining cards save from the other cards and be careful yourself!" Kero said. He then flew off, trying to find the others to help him. Tomoyo watched Kero until he was out of sight. She looked around. Her camera was sitting on her tri-pod and sighed. What could she do while she was waiting for Kero and the others? She had no magical powers and was useless. She looked down at the cards. It was worth a try. Maybe she did have magical powers? Sometimes she did sense the cards presence before Sakura did.
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Up in the clouds
The cards looked at Sakura and rolled their eyes. "If she knew any better, she wouldn't have done this. But this is our destiny. Too run free and destroy things when our master or mistress lets us." The Storm card said, looking up from the storm and glaring at Sakura. "Way too go their, Bubble. Now get the cards out!" The Storm shouted. The bubble card nodded, and with a swish of her mermaid tail, the bubble disappeared.
The Bubble Card make it's way over to Sakura. She looked through her house coat pockets. There were no Clow Cards there. The Power card then appeared with the help of the Float Card. The Power Card smiled evilly and showed the Sealing Wand to the others. "Excellent!" The Rain Card said. The others looked over at Bubble. Who was sitting there.
"Did you get the cards?" Storm asked. The Bubble nodded. "The Cards…they aren't there. They are missing!" Bubble said. Storm glared around. The water card looked poked her head down through the clouds. She looked closely at the ground. She saw a girl with purple hair standing on the ground, looking around. "DOWN THERE!" Watery shouted. A few more heads appeared through the clouds.
The cards looked at each other and nodded. They exited from the clouds. Some of them anyway! The Freeze, Loop, Maze, Power, Rain, Snow, and Windy flung down from the sky. Joining up with the Earth and Mist Card. They explained something to the others and they agreed. The nine cards nodded and they flung after Tomoyo.
Tomoyo heard a rumble on the ground from behind her. She turned around, wanting to see where the Earth Card was. It felt and sounded very close. She gasped. Nine of the figures were coming straight at her. They were going to attack her. She turned and started to outrun the cards. It wasn't really working. They were gaining on her.
'Oh help! Anyone help! But…everyone's asleep.' Tomoyo thought. She then bumped into someone. She looked up only to come face to face with Syoaran. Behind him were Keroberus, Yue and Touya. The four of them looked down on Tomoyo. "Where's Sakura?" Touya asked, looking down at her.
"The Bubble Card! The Earth Card! Trapped her. Bubble created a bubble. Sakura's up there, she's kidnapped by the bubble card!" Tomoyo quickly explained, pointing up at clouds. "But… the cards are gaining up on me! Because I have Sakura's Star Cards!" Tomoyo said. The four gasped at the nine figures coming at them. "Luckily I have Meilin here today. Meilin! You and Tomoyo run! They want the cards!" Syoran said, shoving Tomoyo behind the rest. Meilin grabbed Tomoyo's arm and the two started to run off down the street.
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In Sakura's Mind…
"Where am I? How did I get here?" Sakura said into the darkness of this place. This place was all in black. Also it had no floor or ceiling, with purple streaks now and then going through this place. The last part that I remember is being inside the Earth Card's cage, then something that looked like the Bubble Card's bubble coming down at her. That's all she remembered.
"Sakura! I am very disappointed in you." A voice said, from the surrounding darkness around her. "Who are you? Where are you? Why are you disappointed in me?" She called, looking around the darkness. Out of the darkness, a hologram of Clow Reed appeared. He walked over to Sakura and looked down at her. He smiled weakly at her, and laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Sakura. Why did you do this with the Star Cards? Didn't Kero warn you about what would happen to you, your friends and town will be destroyed?" Clow Reed asked, looking down on the twelve-year-old girl. Sakura sighed. "Kero did warn me. When he found out what I had done at school. He told me about Chondra and the power that the cards held inside of them. But last night, I thought that it was a joke. I dragged Tomoyo out with me. This might just kill them all, right?" Sakura asked, hanging her head. Clow Reed smiled and sighed.
"Look through this little window, you will see what is going on." Clow Reed said, and waved his arm, over this one spot. With a 'pop' a little window appeared. "If you ever need me, just call my name." And with that Clow Reed was gone. Sakura looked to where he had disappeared, she nodded and looked out the window.
She saw the twenty-two sprits laughing at the destruction of Readington. Then she saw eight of the sprits fighting with Syaoran, Yue, Keroberus and Touya. Then there was Meilin and Tomoyo running away from the Cards. The Freeze card chasing after them. It had abandoned the others and was following the two girls. Every time the Freeze opened its mouth, ice came out. As Sakura was watching it, it opened its mouth, ice came out and hit Tomoyo's foot. It was then that Sakura realized that she didn't have her cards. Tomoyo had them. That's what the cards were after.
With the help of Meilin, Tomoyo grabbed the cards and started to run again, Meilin at her side. Little did the two know, they had forgot two cards. The Cards glowed, and two figures came out from the cards. One was the Arrow Card and the other was the Firey Card. All the elements were now out; Firey, Earthy, Watery and Windy.
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Back with the Cards…
Once the two cards were out, they opened their eyes and looked around. "Freeze!" Arrow shouted. The Freeze stopped and went over to Firey and Arrow. "What's happening! I was sleeping. So what do you want?" Arrow asked. Freeze explained the story. At end of the story the three looked at each other. Firey laughed a little girl laugh. "Arrow and I can take them down. I can fly. Arrow can't. I have fire she has an arrow. Put fire on the arrow and we have them." Firey explained. Arrow and Freeze nodded. "Go after the two girls." Arrow commanded. Freeze then took off, blasting ice at the two girls. Firey grabbed Arrow and off they went. Blasting Arrows at the girls.
After awhile of shooting the arrows and blasting ice at the two girls, they were finally cornered. The girls had ran up stairs and ended up looking down over the two of Readington. Mass destruction had been caused so far. They had nowhere to run. They were cornered. Freeze was behind them. Fire was flying up above them, and the arrow card was in front of them. Within a few seconds the arrow card had grabbed a bow and arrow and trapped the two in there. By creating a cage around them (without a roof) and they were trapped. The Firey card then swooped down and put fire on the arrows. The arrow's were metal and were hot if you were to touch it now.
The three cards walked over to the cage. The Firey card flew down and into the cage with them. She held out her hand. "Star Cards!" Firey commanded, with a gleam of fire in her eye. Tomoyo and Meilin looked at each other. Tomoyo slowly took the cards out of her pocket. The one's that were left anyway. The card's eyes gleamed and Firsy snatched the cards out of Tomoyo's hand. "AHH!" Meilin shouted. The cards then took flight into the sky, and into the darkness.
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Where Sakura is…
"Tomoyo! No! Why did you give them the cards? That's the key to destroying Readington! MeiliN! How could you let her do that?!" Sakura shouted into the window. She knew that they couldn't hear her She shook her head, looking for her wand. "Hey? Where's my wand?" Sakura asked herself, looking around. The sky flashed to another scene.
Sakura gasped. Her wand was gone, and if she could get back out of this place and get her spirit back into her body. She could grab the wand. The Power Card had it, and was standing beside Sakura with it. "Where's Clow Reed?" She asked the darkness. Then she heard Clow Reed's voice echoing through her mind. 'When you need me, I'll be nearby. Shout my name, I will come.' The voice then died away. "CLOW REED! HELP ME!" Sakura shouted into the darkness.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Will Sakura ever get out of the darkness and into her body and get her wand back? Does Tomoyo have real powers? What will happen, now that the free cards have taken all the remaining cards? Please R&R!!!!!
Arwen- Queen of the Elfs
