Chapter one: Korano's cards
2 years later, dimension 100 in the town of Reedington. A young emerald- eyed, brown haired girl was walking along the street, towards her home when..
"Hey Sakura wait up!"
The girl turned around to see two girls and a boy running to catch her up.
"Oh sorry guys" she said with a giggle.
The boy walked forward and hugged her. Sakura hugged him back until she saw the others looking at them then she started blushing.
"Please Li, it's embarrassing"
"Come on Sakura, you mean you weren't embarrassed when you and Li kissed in front of the whole class"
"Well...you have got a point Madison"
"Or the time when you and Li hid behind the curtains in the hall, ditching assembly, and kissing when the curtains opened and the whole school saw you"
"Okay, okay I get your point Meiling"
They started to walk down the street with Sakura and Li walking next to each other with Meilin and Madison close behind.
"Hey Madison you know John Goodway?"
"Yeah, what about him?"
"He tried to ask Sakura out on a date!"
"W-what did Li do to him.did he break his nose like with Paul?"
"No he just gave him his scary stare"
"Oh good it seems like Sakura's talks are getting through to him"
"Hey what are you guys talking about" Li said turning around.
"Oh nothing" they both said in unison.
Later that night..
"So squirt how's the brat?"
"TORI HE IS NOT A BRAT!"
"Whatever squirt"
"Hey, hey, hey would you to keep it down!" a stuffed animal sitting on the table said "man sometimes I hate coming down here and listening to you two squabble"
"Oh shut up Kero" Sakura said.
"HEY DON'T TELL ME TO SHUT UP SAKURA!" Kero shouted.
They started having a staring contest but was interrupted as Sakura's dad entered the room. "Stop it you two, Sakura it's time for bed"
Sakura smiled and nodded "Okay dad"
Meanwhile at Li's apartment..
"Master Li are you alright?" asked a concerned Wei.
"Yeah Li you have been really quiet and haven't eaten anything" Meiling said.
"I'm just.not hungry" said Li as he got up and went into his room.
He went over to the balcony and looked at the night sky.
*I love Sakura but..every time I look at her it just..reminds me of the old times. Her magic is much more powerful than mine.I don't even know why I care everything its over now anyway*
He turned and walked back into his room and sat on the head and put his head into his hands.
*And yet..I just can't shake this feeling. Maybe it's not over..maybe there's something else. If there is it might be another chance to prove myself and now that I think about it I have been sensing something strange..oh well I'll sleep on it*
A swirl of colours surrounded Li and he nervously glanced around.
"Where am I?"
A book similar to the Sakura book floated up to him. It was almost exactly the same only the guardian on the front looked different and the book was called "Korano".
"Korano?" Li said.
He touched the book gently, the eyes of the guardian lit up and the cover exploded open and a bunch of cards shot up into the air and out of sight.
Li's eyes shot open and he sat up with astonishing speed with sweat all over him.
*Could there really be more cards? I'll talk to Sakura tomorrow*
He closed his eyes and went back too sleep but couldn't get his mind off his dream.
The next day...
"SQUIRT PHONE!"
Sakura sprang out of bed. She quickly rubbed her eyes and went downstairs still partly asleep and took the call.
"Hello?"
"Sakura it's me"
"LI!"
"Sakura listen I'm not sure but I think there's more cards you might want to get everyone together!"
"Okay Li but are you sure?"
"No not really, this whole thing could be nothing but we had better be prepared. I'll meet you in penguin park in 10 minutes alright?"
"Sure Li"
She hung up and phoned Madison and Julian to meet her in penguin park.
10 minutes later (penguin park)..
"Where's Julian!?" Sakura demanded.
"Sorry I'm late" a calm and controlled voice said.
"YUE!"
"So what's all this about?"
Everyone looked at Li. Li told everyone about his dream, after he was finished everyone was silent.
"Um.Li are you sure there are more cards?" Sakura asked.
"Not really.but I'll look in Clow Reeds journals maybe there's something there"
"Okay I'll help" Sakura said.
Sakura and Li went through all the journals but didn't find anything. When Sakura put down the final journal she said: "Li maybe we should just say it was just a dream"
Li sighed "your right Sakura, it's just too bad I was..looking forward to proving myself"
Sakura looked at him questionably "what do you mean Li?"
"Sakura, ever since you became master of the cards I've always loved you but...I have always felt so not needed and all I've ever really done is use my elemental wind too save you a couple of times nothing else."
"Don't say that Li" Sakura said holding his hand "I've always needed you I- I."
Sakura looked at the floor and Li realised that she was crying.
"Sakura I'm."his head jerked up and looked out the window with Sakura just behind him.
"I sense something very unusual" Li said.
"Yeah lets go Li" Sakura said smiling at him.
Li stared at her for a few seconds before smiling "We'll take care of it together"
They ran to penguin park where the magic was strongest.
"I don't see anything Li"
"Me neither, but there is something here"
Sakura nodded, all of a sudden blue light came out of nowhere swirling around in front of them forming what looked like a book. The book floated in front of them and the first thing Li noticed about it was on the front in gold letters was the name "Korano", the golden seal on the book snapped open and the cover started to open.
"SAKURA STOP IT FROM OPENING!"
They leapt forward but were too late as the cover sprang open and a bunch of cards floated out, the cards glowed for a few seconds before flying into the air and scattering in different directions out of sight.
"Sakura I think we have a problem"
"LI LOOK!" Sakura screamed pointing at the book.
The book was glowing, not bright at first but it got brighter and brighter. Three beams of light shot out, two beams at the ground one into the air, the two at the ground started to form shapes one getting human like and the other looked kind of like Kero. When the light stopped a tall dark haired, slim, amber eyed girl and a floating stuffed animal that was very similar to kero only with sunglasses were there.
"Man what happened?" the girl said.
Her head turned and she saw Li and Sakura.
"Um, did you guys release the cards?"
"Well I guess" Li said shrugging his shoulders "but who are you?"
"My name is Korano and he" she said pointing to the stuffed animal "is Senosa"
"What's happening?" he said.
Sakura giggled "he looks so cute with sunglasses!"
"Thanks a lot babe!" Senosa said.
Sakura blushed a bit, Li turned to Korano.
"So..what do you say we get everyone together and fill each other in?"
"Fill..each other in?"
20 minutes later Li's apartment...
Sakura, Li, Madison, Meiling, Yue and Kero were telling Korano and Senosa about when they were capturing the clow cards and when Sakura was transforming the cards. When they were done they asked Korano about the cards in her book.
"Wait a minute is Clow Reed the magician from several hundred years ago?" Korano asked.
"Yeah how did you know?" Kero asked her.
"Well I created my cards at the same time as him but since my magic was no where near as powerful as his I was only able to create 24 cards"
"Right now let me ask you something just how dangerous are these cards of yours?" Li asked.
"Well it depends on what cards really some are massively powerful but some are pretty weak also unlike the Clow cards some of my cards will work together making them quite difficult to capture"
"Korano aren't you forgetting that you have to select the capturer" Senosa said.
"What do you mean?" Madison asked.
"Well with my cards there has to be a capturer which is the person to seal the cards"
"It's gonna be Sakura without a doubt" Kero said smugly.
"Kero it could be Li" Sakura snapped.
"What the kid!? Give me a break!"
"KERO!"
"Stop it Sakura" Li said calmly "just choose Korano."
"Well it isn't me that does the choosing because you see the magic has to choose you" she pointed at the book and a bunch of yellow light came out of it and circled in the air.
"Right so how does this work again" Li said sarcastically.
Korano was silent and the light slowly came down floated in front of Sakura for a second making everyone think that it was going to be Sakura but all of a sudden it flew over to Li and covered him. "It looks like Li is the capturer" Senosa said.
"WHAT! THERES NO WAY THE KID IS THE CAPTURER!" Kero screamed.
"Oh shut up Kero" Sakura said as she went over and hugged Li.
"Right so Korano you mind giving me a rundown on the capturer because something tells me I'll have to do more than seal them"
"You got that right Li, the capturer apart from sealing the cards is the only person able to sense them, use them and he/she is the one to take the final judgement"
"Final judgement? Why does that sound familiar?" Li said.
"Was the beam of light that Li and Sakura saw shoot into the air the guardian that Li has to fight in the Judgement?" Madison asked.
"Yes" Korano said.
"Yeah right the kid didn't stand a chance against Yue he'll just screw it up" Kero said.
Sakura grabbed Kero and held him close to her face "Shut up Kero Li will pass the final judgement"
Li's head jerked up suddenly and he looked out the window, a card floated in and landed into his hand. "Looks like a card has chosen Li" Korano said "which one is it?"
Li looked down at the name which read "forest."
"Forest"
"Forest might be useful for capturing the first card" Senosa said.
Li suddenly got to his feet and grabbed his sword before turning to the others and saying "there's a card nearby."
10 minutes later penguin park..
"A lot seems to happen around here" Sakura said "how strong is it Li?"
"Not too strong but..here it comes!"
They all turned to look in the direction where Li was facing, at first they didn't see anything but after a few seconds a girl completely blue and in some kind of martial arts clothes with a picture of water on the front stood in front of them.
"Is this your version of Clow Reeds fight card?" Meiling asked Korano.
"No of course not it's the wet card"
"Right whatever" Li said stepping forward "I'll take care of this."
The wet card leapt forward bringing it's right fist forward in a punching motion but at the last second the fist was made of water and smacked Li in his left cheek sending him sprawling.
"Wow Li is weak to be decked by the wet card" Senosa said.
"Yeah I could have told you that Kero sniggered.
Sakura helped Li up just in time to see the wet card fire water out of it's hands forming a barrier around them which started to shrink.
"We'd better think of something!" Sakura said.
Li pulled out the forest card, *this had better work*
"FOREST CARD COME FORTH!" he touched the card with his sword and a bunch of roots came out of it touching the barrier of water.
"Kid how is this going to help us?"
"You'll see"
Suddenly the barrier started to shrink.
"WHAT!"
Li smirked "Surprised stuffed animal? The forest card is sucking up the water!" He turned to Sakura
"Sakura get the windy card ready!"
Sakura nodded and as soon as the barrier was small enough to see the wet cards surprised face she used the windy card to tie up the card and Li sealed it. The card flew into Li's hands.
"Great work Li!" Sakura said hugging him.
"Thanks Sakura" Li said hugging her back "but remember that this is only the beginning."
2 years later, dimension 100 in the town of Reedington. A young emerald- eyed, brown haired girl was walking along the street, towards her home when..
"Hey Sakura wait up!"
The girl turned around to see two girls and a boy running to catch her up.
"Oh sorry guys" she said with a giggle.
The boy walked forward and hugged her. Sakura hugged him back until she saw the others looking at them then she started blushing.
"Please Li, it's embarrassing"
"Come on Sakura, you mean you weren't embarrassed when you and Li kissed in front of the whole class"
"Well...you have got a point Madison"
"Or the time when you and Li hid behind the curtains in the hall, ditching assembly, and kissing when the curtains opened and the whole school saw you"
"Okay, okay I get your point Meiling"
They started to walk down the street with Sakura and Li walking next to each other with Meilin and Madison close behind.
"Hey Madison you know John Goodway?"
"Yeah, what about him?"
"He tried to ask Sakura out on a date!"
"W-what did Li do to him.did he break his nose like with Paul?"
"No he just gave him his scary stare"
"Oh good it seems like Sakura's talks are getting through to him"
"Hey what are you guys talking about" Li said turning around.
"Oh nothing" they both said in unison.
Later that night..
"So squirt how's the brat?"
"TORI HE IS NOT A BRAT!"
"Whatever squirt"
"Hey, hey, hey would you to keep it down!" a stuffed animal sitting on the table said "man sometimes I hate coming down here and listening to you two squabble"
"Oh shut up Kero" Sakura said.
"HEY DON'T TELL ME TO SHUT UP SAKURA!" Kero shouted.
They started having a staring contest but was interrupted as Sakura's dad entered the room. "Stop it you two, Sakura it's time for bed"
Sakura smiled and nodded "Okay dad"
Meanwhile at Li's apartment..
"Master Li are you alright?" asked a concerned Wei.
"Yeah Li you have been really quiet and haven't eaten anything" Meiling said.
"I'm just.not hungry" said Li as he got up and went into his room.
He went over to the balcony and looked at the night sky.
*I love Sakura but..every time I look at her it just..reminds me of the old times. Her magic is much more powerful than mine.I don't even know why I care everything its over now anyway*
He turned and walked back into his room and sat on the head and put his head into his hands.
*And yet..I just can't shake this feeling. Maybe it's not over..maybe there's something else. If there is it might be another chance to prove myself and now that I think about it I have been sensing something strange..oh well I'll sleep on it*
A swirl of colours surrounded Li and he nervously glanced around.
"Where am I?"
A book similar to the Sakura book floated up to him. It was almost exactly the same only the guardian on the front looked different and the book was called "Korano".
"Korano?" Li said.
He touched the book gently, the eyes of the guardian lit up and the cover exploded open and a bunch of cards shot up into the air and out of sight.
Li's eyes shot open and he sat up with astonishing speed with sweat all over him.
*Could there really be more cards? I'll talk to Sakura tomorrow*
He closed his eyes and went back too sleep but couldn't get his mind off his dream.
The next day...
"SQUIRT PHONE!"
Sakura sprang out of bed. She quickly rubbed her eyes and went downstairs still partly asleep and took the call.
"Hello?"
"Sakura it's me"
"LI!"
"Sakura listen I'm not sure but I think there's more cards you might want to get everyone together!"
"Okay Li but are you sure?"
"No not really, this whole thing could be nothing but we had better be prepared. I'll meet you in penguin park in 10 minutes alright?"
"Sure Li"
She hung up and phoned Madison and Julian to meet her in penguin park.
10 minutes later (penguin park)..
"Where's Julian!?" Sakura demanded.
"Sorry I'm late" a calm and controlled voice said.
"YUE!"
"So what's all this about?"
Everyone looked at Li. Li told everyone about his dream, after he was finished everyone was silent.
"Um.Li are you sure there are more cards?" Sakura asked.
"Not really.but I'll look in Clow Reeds journals maybe there's something there"
"Okay I'll help" Sakura said.
Sakura and Li went through all the journals but didn't find anything. When Sakura put down the final journal she said: "Li maybe we should just say it was just a dream"
Li sighed "your right Sakura, it's just too bad I was..looking forward to proving myself"
Sakura looked at him questionably "what do you mean Li?"
"Sakura, ever since you became master of the cards I've always loved you but...I have always felt so not needed and all I've ever really done is use my elemental wind too save you a couple of times nothing else."
"Don't say that Li" Sakura said holding his hand "I've always needed you I- I."
Sakura looked at the floor and Li realised that she was crying.
"Sakura I'm."his head jerked up and looked out the window with Sakura just behind him.
"I sense something very unusual" Li said.
"Yeah lets go Li" Sakura said smiling at him.
Li stared at her for a few seconds before smiling "We'll take care of it together"
They ran to penguin park where the magic was strongest.
"I don't see anything Li"
"Me neither, but there is something here"
Sakura nodded, all of a sudden blue light came out of nowhere swirling around in front of them forming what looked like a book. The book floated in front of them and the first thing Li noticed about it was on the front in gold letters was the name "Korano", the golden seal on the book snapped open and the cover started to open.
"SAKURA STOP IT FROM OPENING!"
They leapt forward but were too late as the cover sprang open and a bunch of cards floated out, the cards glowed for a few seconds before flying into the air and scattering in different directions out of sight.
"Sakura I think we have a problem"
"LI LOOK!" Sakura screamed pointing at the book.
The book was glowing, not bright at first but it got brighter and brighter. Three beams of light shot out, two beams at the ground one into the air, the two at the ground started to form shapes one getting human like and the other looked kind of like Kero. When the light stopped a tall dark haired, slim, amber eyed girl and a floating stuffed animal that was very similar to kero only with sunglasses were there.
"Man what happened?" the girl said.
Her head turned and she saw Li and Sakura.
"Um, did you guys release the cards?"
"Well I guess" Li said shrugging his shoulders "but who are you?"
"My name is Korano and he" she said pointing to the stuffed animal "is Senosa"
"What's happening?" he said.
Sakura giggled "he looks so cute with sunglasses!"
"Thanks a lot babe!" Senosa said.
Sakura blushed a bit, Li turned to Korano.
"So..what do you say we get everyone together and fill each other in?"
"Fill..each other in?"
20 minutes later Li's apartment...
Sakura, Li, Madison, Meiling, Yue and Kero were telling Korano and Senosa about when they were capturing the clow cards and when Sakura was transforming the cards. When they were done they asked Korano about the cards in her book.
"Wait a minute is Clow Reed the magician from several hundred years ago?" Korano asked.
"Yeah how did you know?" Kero asked her.
"Well I created my cards at the same time as him but since my magic was no where near as powerful as his I was only able to create 24 cards"
"Right now let me ask you something just how dangerous are these cards of yours?" Li asked.
"Well it depends on what cards really some are massively powerful but some are pretty weak also unlike the Clow cards some of my cards will work together making them quite difficult to capture"
"Korano aren't you forgetting that you have to select the capturer" Senosa said.
"What do you mean?" Madison asked.
"Well with my cards there has to be a capturer which is the person to seal the cards"
"It's gonna be Sakura without a doubt" Kero said smugly.
"Kero it could be Li" Sakura snapped.
"What the kid!? Give me a break!"
"KERO!"
"Stop it Sakura" Li said calmly "just choose Korano."
"Well it isn't me that does the choosing because you see the magic has to choose you" she pointed at the book and a bunch of yellow light came out of it and circled in the air.
"Right so how does this work again" Li said sarcastically.
Korano was silent and the light slowly came down floated in front of Sakura for a second making everyone think that it was going to be Sakura but all of a sudden it flew over to Li and covered him. "It looks like Li is the capturer" Senosa said.
"WHAT! THERES NO WAY THE KID IS THE CAPTURER!" Kero screamed.
"Oh shut up Kero" Sakura said as she went over and hugged Li.
"Right so Korano you mind giving me a rundown on the capturer because something tells me I'll have to do more than seal them"
"You got that right Li, the capturer apart from sealing the cards is the only person able to sense them, use them and he/she is the one to take the final judgement"
"Final judgement? Why does that sound familiar?" Li said.
"Was the beam of light that Li and Sakura saw shoot into the air the guardian that Li has to fight in the Judgement?" Madison asked.
"Yes" Korano said.
"Yeah right the kid didn't stand a chance against Yue he'll just screw it up" Kero said.
Sakura grabbed Kero and held him close to her face "Shut up Kero Li will pass the final judgement"
Li's head jerked up suddenly and he looked out the window, a card floated in and landed into his hand. "Looks like a card has chosen Li" Korano said "which one is it?"
Li looked down at the name which read "forest."
"Forest"
"Forest might be useful for capturing the first card" Senosa said.
Li suddenly got to his feet and grabbed his sword before turning to the others and saying "there's a card nearby."
10 minutes later penguin park..
"A lot seems to happen around here" Sakura said "how strong is it Li?"
"Not too strong but..here it comes!"
They all turned to look in the direction where Li was facing, at first they didn't see anything but after a few seconds a girl completely blue and in some kind of martial arts clothes with a picture of water on the front stood in front of them.
"Is this your version of Clow Reeds fight card?" Meiling asked Korano.
"No of course not it's the wet card"
"Right whatever" Li said stepping forward "I'll take care of this."
The wet card leapt forward bringing it's right fist forward in a punching motion but at the last second the fist was made of water and smacked Li in his left cheek sending him sprawling.
"Wow Li is weak to be decked by the wet card" Senosa said.
"Yeah I could have told you that Kero sniggered.
Sakura helped Li up just in time to see the wet card fire water out of it's hands forming a barrier around them which started to shrink.
"We'd better think of something!" Sakura said.
Li pulled out the forest card, *this had better work*
"FOREST CARD COME FORTH!" he touched the card with his sword and a bunch of roots came out of it touching the barrier of water.
"Kid how is this going to help us?"
"You'll see"
Suddenly the barrier started to shrink.
"WHAT!"
Li smirked "Surprised stuffed animal? The forest card is sucking up the water!" He turned to Sakura
"Sakura get the windy card ready!"
Sakura nodded and as soon as the barrier was small enough to see the wet cards surprised face she used the windy card to tie up the card and Li sealed it. The card flew into Li's hands.
"Great work Li!" Sakura said hugging him.
"Thanks Sakura" Li said hugging her back "but remember that this is only the beginning."