What Secrets are Kept
ooooo Sakura looked around at the way everything had suddenly began to change around them. What had just been a rugged empty field, had then become a lush garden, full of any exotic flower you could think of. Serena knelt down and picked up a shining red rose. As she looked at it, her heart began to quiver from the thought of her beloved Tuxedo Mask. While the flower preoccupied Serena, Sakura knew this had to be the work of a clow card. She nodded to Li who then pulled out the Lasin Board from behind his back. After a few minutes he frowned and returned the board. "Nothing", he said angrily. Then out a patch of flowers, a creature that looked just like The Flower, but more colorful, jumped out at Serena. She dodged it in the niche of time. Sailor Mars was not about to let some flower-headed freak maim her princess. She leapt into the sky shouting, "Mars Flame Sniper!" As the scorching arrow hit the thing, it looked at her attacker and smiled. Then sending a flurry of petals at her, Mars fell at the feet of the beast, unconscious. As Venus took Sakura and the others away from the battle, Sailor Moon looked at her fallen friend then pulling out her new wand said, "In the name of the Moon I shall right wrongs and triumph over Clow Beasts, and that means you!" Twirling her wand several times and doing a couple of poses, (come on, this wouldn't be Sailor Moon, if she didn't take five minute to do a move) she shouted, "Clow card return to you power confined!!!" Then a shining rectangle appeared and the beast began getting sucked into it, then everything reversed. The trail the thing had flowed into the card with grew as the beast popped back out. "Wha..." was all Serena could manage. Then a giant orb of light appeared inches from the group. Out of it stepped, Eriol (in the big hat outfit), followed by Spinel Sun. "Well now, you have a problem don't you? With these card it will be a lot harder to capture them than it was with the Sakura's cards. You may have to use another card to help you on many." "But I don't have another card..." Serena looked down at the wand, thinking. Then she remembered. "All right! I got it". Similar to Sakura, Serena pulled the card out (don't ask from where), and activated the mysterious card. After it wrapped the other clow beast in a sparkling rope, Serena shouted, "Clow card, return to your power confined". This time the process was finished. "Whoa, that was awesome! My first card", she shouted jumping around. As the others watched (with the anime/manga sweat mark, of course), Eriol began clapping. "See, now that wasn't so hard now was it." "One more thing though, where do you plan on putting it?" She stared at the front of the card then flipped over looking at the strange symbol on the back. Then it hit her, actually Sailor Mars did, but it had the same effect; she had seen the symbol before. When she had gone to her grandmother house days before, she was looking at a book with the same symbol, on the cover, was a picture a purple cat that looked like a leopard with beautiful fairy wings. Interested in the picture, Serena opened the book. But before looking at what was in it, her Granny called her to dinner. When she had returned though, the book was empty and the thing on the cover was gone. So she had slipped the book into her bag and took it home with her. "I have the book at home. So don't worry, Eriol." The fact that she had knew his name surprised everyone but Eriol. "I am glad you were prepared for this, but you may not be for what is to some. This is not a game or just another one of your adventures. This is real", after speaking such commands to Serena, Eriol then turned his attention to Sakura, who had been staring at him through the whole encounter. "Now to you Sakura, you have you own little duty, and with my help it shall be done. I surely hope your guardians have truly chosen a good master or you will fail." He turned and went back into the orb. "What a jerk", Sailor Venus whispered.
ooooo Several days after becoming a Cardcaptor, Serena had to decide whether all her time should be put into her new mission or would she remain true to the Sailor Scouts. Raye and Mina promised they would support whatever decision she made. She looked at the Garden card long and herd before she realized she could do both. As long as neither interfered with the other, she would be fine. She had gone back home to Tokyo to inform the other about "her new mission". They seemed to understand but wondered how the girl would manage. She had a hard enough time at school, then being a Sailor Scout, the only one who could kill monsters, to say the least, and now she another duty. All of them wondered what had she gotten herself into. Amy had informed the others of some bad news, Luna was sick. When Serena first saw her, she couldn't believe her eyes. Luna seemed to have lost all her fur, or else it turned purple and grew a small set of wings. Serena picked up her poor kitty, which was lying on pillow looking pitiful. "Luna, Lu-u-na, hi, it's me, Serena", she whispered, "Don't be upset. I can explain the fur." Luna looked at her with hope in her eyes, "Please do" she sighed sadly. So Serena told her everything, and Luna instantly jumped up with anguish. "You mean to tell me that my beautiful black fur is gone because you opened a booked and let loose a bunch of wacky cards!" The cat then collapsed back on the pillow, sighing deeply. "But why did I have to change?" Serena looked at her friend and smiled, "We'll find out now won't we…" sliding the book up to the pillow
oooooThe next day, all the girls met to discuss their next plan of action. "Well it seems that whatever Hashew's machine was supposed to do, it didn't", Amy began looking at her computer. "If it didn't do anything, then how did we end up in Tomoeda," Raye said angrily. "Calm down Raye, Amy didn't say it did nothing, she just said it was not what the machine was meant to do", Mina said for her hurt friend. Serena looked at her friends curiously. "Hey guys, what happened after we were zapped away. I mean you told us you destroyed Hashew's lab and killed the last Heartbreaker, but how? I thought I was the only one who could destroy diamoas." "Well…so did we", Lita said nervously and biting her lip, "But after you three ran into the room, Amy and I stood back to come up with a logical plan. When we had come in some one was already fighting the Heartbreaker. It was another scout. She had on a fuku like yours Serena, but instead of the pink and blue colorings, she had gold and black." During the pause, Serena, Raye, and Mina looked at the nervous faces of their friends with anxiety. "Damn it, spill the rest of the story!!" Everyone looked at Raye because that was her expected outburst, then gasped when they figured it was Mina. "Um…she…is on her way over, with a couple of her friends."
oooooAfter about a half an hour, the doorbell rang. Serena rushed to the door, anxious to see the girl who was the new sailor scout. She let her disappointment show, when Alex (Amara), Michelle, Heather (Hotaru), and Cecilia (Trista) were at the door. "Well, Kitten, glad to see you enjoy having guests", Alex said smirking. "Sorry", Serena whined "I was just expecting someone else." As she led the other to the room, the doorbell rang again. Serena nearly knocked down Alex trying to answer it. "Who is it", she shouted to the door. "Is this the Tsukino home", asked a familiar voice. Serena opened the door to see Sakura, Li, Madison, and two people she didn't recognize, one a girl with the same hairdo as hers and cute guy with platinum gray hair and glasses. "Oh, hi Serena," Sakura said smiling. "I thought that I should introduce the rest of my friends to you. This is…" "Hey that's her" All of them looked at Lita and Mina standing on the stairs. Lita jumped down the last twelve steps (yes 12 steps!!) and ran to the door. "She's the new girl", she exclaimed to Serena. "Who", Serena asked being shorter than Lita and not getting as good a view. "I am", said someone from behind the tall guy…
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