Card Captors: A New Beginning
By "Grand Master Shoma"
Episode 3: Sweet Encounters
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the anime, or anything doing with the anime. But I do own this story, so don't steal it.
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We're back! Now, it gets fun. The Sakura cards can now move in their visible forms like people, making Ryuko work even harder to stop some totally uncalled-for chaos.
But, with Earthy and Fight on his side, he'll be alright.
Better than the original series, is it not?
And one more thing: it's called The Hope card, not The Void card.
HOPE CARD!!!
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"Yes! It's Nichiyoobi (Sunday)!!"
I said aloud to myself as I woke up from my slumber of χ hours (you decide how much I slept). Which gives me an opportunity: to sleep some more!
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I awoke χ hours after to see the time: It was 12:00 noon. I decided to pop a hearty brunch into the microwave. Then, I thought about my Sakura cards, Earthy and Fight.
I have to prove my point about showing them freedom without running rampant. So after I finished my microwave lunch (which is in English, for some odd reason... something about a 'pizza pop'), I look inside my Sakura book, and look at the only residents inside it: The Earthy, and The Fight.
I get ready to take out my key, and I'm ready to recite my incantation.
"Oh Key that hides the forces of the stars!
Reveal to me thy true form!
I, Ryuko, command thee under contract!
RELEASE!"
With this, I go outside with the two cards, and
"Earthy Card! Fight Card!"
And in a flash, my two cards came out.
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"Ryuko, where are we going?" Earthy asked me as we were going down the sidewalk.
"Oh, I just have to stop at the bakery. That's all." I simply replied.
"If that's all," Fight complained. "Then why bother bringing us out!?"
"Look, I thought I made myself clear when I said that I didn't always wanted to confine you in the cards. You guys need some exercise too, like people. And besides, isn't this better than being cooped up in a card?"
"Well, he's got a point there." Earthy smugly pointed out.
Fight was in a mode of semi-pouting and ignorance. "Yeah, you're right." I then heard under her breath, "Jackass."
"Here we are."
We were at the Nakajima Bakery. This is not only the best place in the world, but I like to come here, whether buying a chocolate brownie or complaining about how Kazama-sensei gives too much homework. The owner of the bakery is really nice to me, too. (not in that way if you're thinking that, you sick bastards) He's like a second father to me.
"Okay. Guys, wait outside for me. Is that alright?"
"Iie. Go." Earthy proceeded me.
Then all of a sudden, some jackass comes by, and comments on Fight. "Hey baby! Looking kinky tonight!" He was drunk... I could tell.
"WHAT!?" Fight got totally ballistic. "I'm gonna kill you!" If Earthy wasn't holding her back, she would have gotten her way. That was when I went inside, not knowing that those two were duking it out outside the window.
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"Konnichiwa Nakajima-san!"
"Konnichiwa, Ryuko. How's it going?" kindly Nakajima-san asked me.
"Oh, everything's all right lately." I smiled politely. "I--"
"Yes, I know what you want." He goes to the back room, and retrieves a large bag of bread. "Why else would you be here on a beautiful Sunday afternoon?"
"Heh, you read my mind, Nakajima-san." I smiled politely again. "I would also like my usual, please."
"Alright! That can easily be done." He hands me one of his specialties: the total chocolate brownie. Has nothing but chocolate in it. That's how I like it.
"Arigatou-ne!" Right before I paid him for the bread and brownie, I thought 'Why not buy some brownies for Earthy and Fight?' "Oh. Nakajima-san, can I have two more brownies?"
"For who?" he asked.
"For some girls I know." Heh heh heh. That'll work.
"You mean those girls outside?" He pointed to whom I saw strangling each other, Earthy and Fight.
"Oh! Heh heh, yeah! Sometimes they can be like that!"
"Well, before you go, I need you to see my new assistant. She's only been here for a few days, but she bakes like a professional." He was calling to the back room. "Hey Charlene! I want you to meet someone!"
Out came an oddly dressed girl.
Her dress was unusually puffy, more puffy than most of those dresses with frills and laces. Also on her being were... how can I say this... six-sided stars on her body. Her hair was also puffy like the dress with two semi-pigtails sticking out also puffed out. She had a pen or wand of sorts which was puffed at the tip, but striped like a candy cane. Finally, her stockings were striped also like candy canes.
"Hello. Nice to meet you."
She was giving off a mysterious psyche. I couldn't pinpoint it, exactly.
I then realized that I had two Sakura cards outside, most likely clawing each other's eyes out. "Uh, I have to go out. People are expecting me! See ya!" and with that, I leave the bakery. Going up to the cards, I get pissed. "What do you think you two are doing!?"
"Well, I was restraining Fight from committing any casualties." she then laid eyes on the brownies. "What are those?"
"Oh." I handed each of them one. "They're brownies."
"Bah! Human food." Fight hissed against my offering of foodstuff.
"What? What's wrong with eating?"
"It gives us unneeded energy. We draw our energy from the great Sakura, and that is how we get powerful." She was then eying Earthy. "Why are you taking that brownie?"
"Oh, come on! You have to try new things, my friend!" With that, she took a bite of it. Her reaction was more of a knock-back of her senses. She was looking at me, and said calmly, "Damn! These things are good! Sweet too!"
"See? Ittadakimasu!" I took a bite. "I'm telling you: these things are what dreams are made of." I then finished my little brownie, possibly ending its misery.
"Let me see!" Fight snagged the extra brownie I was going to finish off, lest anyone wanted to eat it. She chewed on it. After swallowing a bit of hers, she had a stronger knockback reaction. More of, oh let's say, knocking her back to the wall. "What the blazing blue hell!?* This really packs a freakin' punch!"
"See? What did I tell you?"
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We were walking down into downtown. If memory serves me correctly, I remember the location of the office that was Ms. Daidouji (Daidouji-san has no father, and she never married), where I remember that was where Daidouji-san was going to talk with his mom about some pointers today... that doesn't sound all that great... OH GOD!! I'm sorry, back to the story.
The people still didn't seem to notice the young boy, which is me, with the two oddly dressed women who could almost look like damn prostitutes hounding me for a dollar, which I state are Earthy and Fight. I then notice something wrong...
"Fight, you've been nursing that thing for an hour. Put it out of its misery, already!"
"Okay! Okay! Don't rush me!" Fight said almost before devouring her long tortured brownie. "Besides, it was only ten minutes."
Then, right as we were about to cross streets, in the distance, we see a drunk being taken away by his sober friend.
"Man! Something's whack here!!" the drunk bitterly said while he was trying to get himself up.
"My friend," said the sober one. "You already drank 5 beers and it's already 2:45 in the afternoon. You shouldn't have eaten that vending machine sandwich!"
"It was weird... It tasted like chocolate!!!"
"Man, you're so out of it."
Me and my companions rushed to them.
"What happened?" I asked.
"My friend got sick eating one of the vending machine sandwiches." The sober man answered.
"I'm not sick!" the drunk yelled. "I saw this woman simply touch the machine, it started glowing, and then when I got the sandwich, it tasted like candies..." That's when the drunk passed out, and left his friend to haul his ass.
"What did this woman look like?" I asked.
When the drunk slurred the description of the woman, it got me curious.
It took a while for me to process what the drunk said, but I got the jist of it. "Vending machine sandwiches tasting like candy!? This I gotta see!" And next to me was, well, a vending machine.
This one had some sandwiches, so I slid some coinage inside, made the selection, and... it got stuck. "Damn."
Fight pushed me out of the way. "Here." She then fired a mighty side kick to the distributor of food (can't I be proper?) and basically destroyed it. One sandwich was spared... for the time being. "There you go."
"Let me see." I unwrap the sandwich, and took a bite. With a few chews, I swallow it, and I grimace on what I ingested. "Yuck!! This tastes like the brownie!" I then resume normal mode. "If you don't believe me, then try it." I split a piece off for Earthy and Fight. Guess their reactions.
While Earthy was saying nothing, her facial expression was 'This is disgusting.' And Fight... well...
"This is terrible!"
"If its not the expiration date on the food, then what could be causing this?"
I saw Earthy become silent. I can tell she was pondering about the situation. "Would you believe me if it was a Sakura Card?"
"Well, if it's something like that, then," I grab my little key out, "Let's grab a Sakura Card!"
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Character Intro
Even though you pretty know much about me, I forgot to give you the skinny on what I looked like. Well, my hair is short, like my dad when he was a kid. One of my eyes are brown, the other green (thanks to genetics). I'm basically a normal-looking boy. Sometimes though, I tend to wear my uniform even after school. This, managed to keep me from being tardy. That, and unlike my father, I am really a happy kid. Well, that's the jist on me.
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I went back to the bakery to see Charlene about this, all the while returning Earthy and Fight to their sealed forms. After preparing myself, I went in. There she was, working main shift. I wait until she finishes with this lineup of customers.
One hour passed, and when she was finally done, I went up to her calmly.
"Konnichiwa Ryuko!" Charlene said happily.
"Konnichiwa." I look around for Mr. Nakajima. "Do you know where Nakajima-san is?"
"Oh, he had to run some errands, so he put me in charge of the bakery for the while." she smiled once again, smoothing her dress from any wrinkles. "What do you want to know?"
I pull out my Star Key. "Do you know what this is?" I ask in a innocent tone, fully aware of what the Star Key is.
"Well," she was taking a small step back. "I wouldn't know..."
"Oh, hehehe, I think you'll recognize it soon enough." I then start to recite my incantation.
"Oh Key that hides the forces of the stars!
Reveal to me thy true form!
I, Ryuko, command thee under contract!
RELEASE!"
I finally grabbed my Star Staff, and as I did, Charlene stepped back a few more times.
"There's no way..." her voice starting to get more scared. "No way you could've gotten that! That book was sealed long ago!"
"Oh. Then, let me say something...
Earthy Card! Fight Card!"
As the two cards materialized out of nowhere, Charlene was almost ready to run. Until I gave the command.
"RUSH HER!!"
In an instant, Earthy and Fight tackled Charlene down, pinning her down with their great strength. She was panicking like an insane maniac, screaming at them to let go of her. I then raise my Star Staff, and
"Return to thy form which though should be!
SAKURA CARD!"
She looked like she disappeared into smoke, but then the smoke vanished, and in my hand was the Sakura Card.
"The Sweet card?"
The End
*"What in the blazing blue hell!?" is copyright of CMA.