Card Captors: A New Beginning
By "Grand Master Shoma"
Episode 4: Caught Clean
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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It was gruesome... horrible...
that horror movie I saw...
Oh, sorry!
Where we left off, Ryuko and his cards managed to capture the elusive Sweet card.
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"Really!?"
I couldn't believe it! It was like the third of November, and it was brisk. It was past Halloween, and Daidouji-san and I had our fill in candy. But above all things, my second cousin, Li Meilin, was coming over and staying for a few weeks. Which brings into contrast my question: how many is few? It could be anything from three to three million four hundred thousand five hundred and two. The sugar level from the candy still seemed to reside somewhere in my being.
"Where's she going to sleep?" I seemed to ask like a little child.
"Well, we, haven't quite decided yet." Otou-san said with uncertainty.
That's when Okou-san noticed something that she hasn't noticed before. "My goodness! It looks like if about seven people were living in here! This place is an absolute mess!"
I worry. I realize that while everyone is out, Earthy, Fight, and Sweet might be going about the house at the time of our absences, like creepy elves or demons or Eskimos.
"Um, OH! I'll clean the house!" I blurted out.
Both of them looked surprised at me. She stepped closer to me, and told me, "Ryuko, I don't think you should--"
I had interrupted her. "You know I am quite capable of doing this on my own!"
"Um, he has a point there." Otou-san reassured my point to her.
"Well, I don't see why not." After pointing out a few things to me, she and Dad were getting their things ready and she reminded me, "Her flight will arrive in a couple of hours, so we'll be back in a few hours. Alright?"
"Yeah! Heh heh heh. Sayonara!" After seeing off my parents, I closed the door behind me, and sighed in despair.
"Hoe! I can't get a house cleaned in a few hours! Unless..."
I then pulled out my Star Key.
"Oh Key that hides the forces of the stars!
Reveal to me thy true form!
I, Ryuko, command thee under contract!
RELEASE!"
When it became a staff, I released my cards.
"Sakura Cards!"
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"You want us to WHAT!?" Fight was surprised to find out what I had called her and the others out of their seals for.
"C'mon guys! Please! You gotta help me out on this one!" I pleaded with them.
"Of course. Anything for our friend." Earthy said calmly.
"I will help too. At least, I'll try." Sweet faintly said.
"Well, I'll start with washing the floors." I run to the cupboard. I hated the situation. "I don't believe this!" I grab my coat, shoes, and wallet as I headed to the door.
"Where are you going?" Fight, of all people, asked.
"I have to run down to the store to get some floor cleaner! Try to work out a job system while I'm away, okay?" And with that, I left the door.
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[Author's note: This following section is in third person perspective. So don't get confused.]
"Okay." Earthy said. "We should do as Ryuko said, and maybe organize who does what."
"Fine with me." Fight simply replied in a sarcastic tone.
"I think I'll do the dusting." Sweet cheerfully gave herself up.
"Alright, that works." Earthy smiled. "Now, for Fight and myself..."
"Hey! Don't look at me like that!" Fight was riled up. "Even though this is about Ryuko, I'm not anyone's CLEANING MAID!!"
"Well now, since you're acting like that, I was going to let you wait until Ryuko comes back and gives you a job." It was Earthy's turn to get mad. "But since you are acting like a baby, you're washing the dishes!" She then turned away into the laundry room.
"That's it! I'm going to kick your--"
Fight was interrupted by a small giggle. She was baffled, and a bit scared. She didn't know who was doing it.
"Earthy! Stop it!" That was all she scowled.
"Stop what?" Earthy asked.
Then she heard that giggle once again.
"STOP THAT!"
"It's not me!"
"If it's not, then give me one good reason why I should believe you!"
Earthy simply stated, "Do you think I can make my voice go up that high?"
Fight started becoming a bit more frightened, realizing that there was something else. "If it's not you, then... who... is it?"
"I am!"
Out of the corner appeared, a little creature.
She appeared to look like a cute little mermaid. Only she had very large hair, which almost looked foamy, had pearls on the top of her hair, and she had a blue orb on her chest. She also had a soap trail flowing behind her.
"You're the... Bubbles Card!"
She giggled once again. "That's right! And--" She looked around the house, and she was disgusted. "Christ! This place is a mess!"
"It's not that messy!" Fight complained back at her. "Anything to you is dirty!"
"Time to clean up!"
As soon as she finished saying that, she started covering the floor around them with lots, and lots, of soap bubbles.
"That's it! Your ass is mine!!" Fight was dashing right into her, except she hadn't taken into anticipation the slippery floor, seemingly making her slide around in a comical fashion. "Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa WHOA!!"
"And out the door." Bubbles muttered as she opened the door, sending Fight right outside, then slammed the door.
"Ow..." Fight mumbled to herself as she was getting herself up, getting an 'anime vein' on her forehead. "That does it! I'm gonna give that little twerp a piece of my mind!" She then tackled the door open, thankfully not knocking it down. "OKAY! Where's that little--"
"Um, Fight." Earthy pointed behind the door. It seems that Bubbles had been squished.
"Owww..." Bubbles slid out beneath the door. "What was that for!?"
"Don't mess with our job, you little prick!!" Fight yelled.
"Your job!?" Bubbles was ranting. "Clow Reed created me to do the cleaning around here! Why are you doing this?"
"Because our master Ryuko asked us to do so."
Bubbles was basically appalled. "Ryuko? You listen to a bratty, conceited girl?"
"Ryuko is not a girl!"
"WHAT!? Now that's interesting!" Prepare to--"
A phone ringing, was all that cut off the action. Great.
"What should I do?" Earthy became nervous.
"Well, figure something out. It could be Terry, most likely." Fight pushed her on.
"I doubt it. But what if we lose our cover?"
"Well, answer it! Answer it!!"
With that, she picked up the phone.
The voice at the other end was Ryuko's mother. "Hello?"
"Um... uh..."
Ryuko's father soon came on. "What did you do now, boy?"
Then an idea came to her. "This is the Li Kinomoto residence. If you wish to leave a message, wait until the beep comes. *beep*"
She then heard his mother reply, "Well, I have to tell you that the flight was pushed back 2 hours... No honey, I will not make out with you now... Anyway, you're going to have to bear with us and wait for... Stop it! Stop...... Oh, yeah. That feels good... Oh! Wait for us, okay?... Oh yeah! Oh yeah!! OH YES!!"
That was when Earthy had had enough. She hung up.
"So?" Fight ask.
"Well, our secret will be kept for at least a couple more hours."
"Well," Fight started to get sarcastic on her. "That was smart! An answering machine? RYUKO DOES NOT HAVE AN ANSWERING MACHINE!!"
"Um, excuse me?" Bubbles unexpectedly butted in.
"OH! Right! We're so stupid!" With that, Earthy thrusted her hand into the ground, and created a rock prison around Bubbles. "That ought to shut you up!"
But the little #$%^er was quite persistent, breaking free from her earth prison.
"I'm FREE!!" And with a little trail left behind, she flew into the living room.
"What the!?" Earthy and Fight had heard Sweet from the other room. "Sit down!!" And with a flick of her wand, she created a donut, which for some odd reason, managed to constrict Bubbles.
"Nice work." Earthy congratulated.
But everyone forgot about Bubbles: not the fact that soap can slip through small spaces, but that she was eating the constraining donut.
"Nothing holds her down! We're gonna have to do this, the hard way!" Fight charged once again, not known to her [once again] that there was foam on the floor. "This is SO A DEJA VU!!"
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[Author's note 2: This is now back to Ryuko's view. Sorry to cause any trouble.]
"Stupid old bag. She knew I needed that floor cleaner." I then admire my Star Key. "It's a good thing I summoned this baby up before she could get her purse." I soon get closer to the door. Noticing the foam at the base of the door, I knew something was wrong. "Guys!! What's going on!?"
I was a bit worried about them. More so worried when I saw Fight get chucked through the wall. I advanced up to her. "Are you okay?"
"Well," Fight was getting herself together. "If you consider sliding through the wall on a trail of soap, caused by an elusive Bubbles Card, yeah, I'm okay."
"BUBBLES CARD!?" was what got to me. "Where is it!?"
"Inside."
"Let's go!"
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Going through the front door, me and Fight were flooded with soap bubbles. "Well, that was fresh! Fight, have you tried to restrain Bubbles?"
"Restrain? Not only that, but we tried to KNOCK HER OUT!!! Nothing works!!!"
"Fight, is that you?" I heard Earthy from outside. Fight and I charged inside to see Earthy and Sweet holding down the little mermaid known as Bubbles. Boy, was she proud to see me. "Ryuko! I'm glad to see you! Now, seal the card!!"
"Don't have to tell me twice!"
"Oh Key that hides the forces of the stars!
Reveal to me thy true form!
I, Ryuko, command thee under contract!
RELEASE!"
"Return to thy form which though should be!
BUBBLES CARD!"
It looked quite cruel you know. Seeing her disintegrate into the card seal while she was still conscious. Good thing she turned into a card quickly, cause I couldn't bear to watch.
"What's so special about this card?"
"Well, our true original master, Clow Reed-sama, created this card to clean." Fight explained.
"Wow." I was in awe. "Clow Reed must have been a lazy ass!"
"Hey, you don't know even the half of it."
A dead silence occurred for about a minute.
"Oh! One more thing." Earthy reminded me, "Your parents called, and they said that the flight was delayed for two more hours. It sounded like they were #$%^ing each other after."
This, got me worried. "Did you answer the phone?"
"Earthy had to pretend to be an ANSWERING MACHINE!!" Fight yelled.
"Really? What a coincidence!" I pulled something out of my shopping bag. "For being the 1,000th customer, I got a free answering machine!" I was soon setting it up. "You could say I saved your asses!" After fully setting the machine up, I asked Earthy. "Can you repeat exactly what you said to Mom and Dad?"
"Sure."
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"We're home."
"What did you do now, boy?"
That indicated that Okou-san and Otou-san were home. I went down to greet them, but I was surprised to see someone else there. She was wearing jeans, a half orange and half red shirt, with her hair in two meatballs and long drooping hair. Her eyes were like my dad. This must have been my second cousin, Meilin.
The end...