Hi. Me again. Big surprise. I'm currently listening to Purrachina. I borrowed the CD off Sakari Sheira. She rules! Now it's changed to Fruits Candy.

I went to the Melbourne Zoo today. I have never been so bored in my life. And to make it even worse, I didn't get to go into the Japanese Garden there. I wanted to see if there were any cherry blossoms. My science teacher didn't let us. I think that's because my friends and me walked off multiple times before. Well, us four knew the way. We had a map. So what if the teacher's way was shorter then ours? O.o

Disclaimer: I only own Sara. Sara and my pillow. That's about it. Sara, my pillow and my teddy bear. Sara, my pillow, my, teddy bear and my clothes. Okay, I'll be quiet now. (I don't own CCS or HP.)

A New Riddle.

Chapter Three.

Train Rides.

Sara sat in the compartment that she had all to herself. She went through the cards that were in her pocket.

Sara had this thing; once she found someone she didn't like, they'd pay, and at the moment, she hated Draco Malfoy.

 "Fight, Water, Shot, that could do some damage." Sara mumbled to herself. "Arrow, Dream, Time, Dark."

 "Still talks to herself. Poor little girl." Laughed a voice from the shadows inside the cabin.

 "Go away. I'm not in the mood to talk to you." Sara said, still looking through the cards.  The owner of the voice appeared out of the shadows and laughed harder.

 "But Sara, you're never in the mood."

 "Exactly. Go away, Mana."

 "But I don't want to. I'm your guardian and I shall guard you." The little lizard-like creature said. (Get it? Kero's like a teddy, Suppi's like a cat and Mana's like a lizard.) "And besides, you locked me in here."

 "You can use that 'go through walls' trick you always do." Sara said. She looked up at him and picked him up by his little black wing. "Like your always saying, I am the Card Keeper and I do not need your help. I have been taking care of myself for a while now. What made you come?"

 "My creator went to Hogwarts."

 "Do you mean Clow? The others hold powers by cards made by Clow Reed. Is that where my cards come from?"

 "No. You are in fact the descendant of his partner, Ayane. (A/N: Pronounced Ay-ya-ne) She was the one who created the Ayane Cards and me, aka the Sara Cards. I suppose the others have changed their cards, too. Clow Reed's Card Mistress must be smart."

 "Yes. They have transformed them and stopped me from hurting this jerk."

 "He's the one that you want Shot to have a go at."

 "Yes."

 "Why? You got into so much trouble last time."

 "I know. They don't bother me."

 "That's your problem..."

 "I don't have any problems. No one has ever complained about my use of the Sara Cards. The Cards don't mind this. They haven't brought up anything with me."

 "That's because Ayane turned dark. And then there's your father's influence."

 "That has nothing to do with any of this. He is him and I am me." Sara snapped, tugging on the wing she held him by.

 "But it could." Mana said evilly. Sara flung Mana across the cabin and into a wall that connected her carriage to Sakura's.

 "Sara, are you okay in there?" Sakura asked through the wall. She then got out the Create Card out and wrote in it to create a door in the wall. She went through it to see Sara huddled in a corner, banging her head against the wall. "Sara, are you okay?" Sakura heard a groan from the wall with the door in it and saw a lizard-like creature with wings lying in its back, trying to flip over.

 "Sara, a little help here would be helpful if it isn't too much to ask for!" he shouted. Sakura walked over to him and picked him up by the tail. 

 "Well you look odd." Sakura laughed.

 "Well you're not the nicest looking creature, yourself." Mana groaned.

 "Fiery, burn this little lizard's wings off." Came Sara's voice from behind the two.

 "Ah, no Sara. You can't go burning up every little thing that gets on your nerves! If that was so, I wouldn't have much of a brother left!" Sakura said as she let go of Mana. Mana fell to the ground but then flew back up to Sakura's face using its black dragon-like wings.

 "See, there's someone who complained about what you do."

 "Shut up, lizard."

 "Look, I'm sorry, kay? I didn't mean to go that deep. I shouldn't have said that."

 "Your damn right you shouldn't! My father has nothing to do with my cards, let alone my life!" Sara yelled. She looked over at Fiery. "You can return now. It seems like my pathetic guardian can live another day."

 "Guardian?" Sakura asked.

 "It is none of your business. These are my cards and are nothing like the Clow Cards."

 "How do you know about the Clow Cards?"

 "Green and scaly told me. Now get out. I'm already as mad as hell." Sara snapped. Sakura silently made her way back to the door the Create had made and slowly walked though it, eying both Sara and her lizard guardian.

 "Sakura! Are you okay?" Tomoyo asked when she saw her bestfriends' head pop out of the door.

 "Yeah. I'm fine, which is more then what I can say for Sara's guardian." Sakura said once the door had disappeared.

 "She has a guardian? That must mean that her cards were originally like the Clow Cards, but she must have worked with them for a long time and changed them into Sara Cards to be able to absorb them like she did. That was very impressive." Kero said.

 "Well, while you're happily drooling over your new found hero, the little lizard's getting a beating."

 "Little lizard?"

 "Yeah. He's green with light purple eyes and wings. What is with the wings? You, Suppi and the little green thing all have wings." Sakura said. Kero flew right up to the wall and knocked on it lightly.

 "Manaturs, are you in there?"

 "Yeah." Came a muffled voice. "Is that you, Keroberos?" he asked and then drifted through the wall, much to the enjoyment of Naoko. She squealed and examined him all over, going on about how he looks like a chibi dragon. "It is you. It's been a long time."
 "You too. So Sara got the Ayane Cards, huh?"

 "Yeah."

 "Poor girl. They must be so hard to control."

 "Oh no. She's worked them out and has mastered them."

 "How'd she manage that?"

 "With a lot of difficulty. You should have seen her at the start. They took over her. Um, I don't think this is a conversation we should be having in public." Mana said, noticing the looks that he was getting from the other three in the compartment.

 "Oh, yeah. So how's Jintaro?" Kero asked, trying to get off that subject.

 "Who's Jintaro?" Naoko asked. "Is he another dragon?"

 "Well, no. He's more like the devil." Mana said, earning an 'oh' from Naoko.

 "He's like Yue." Kero said.

 "Yue?" Naoko asked.

 "Yue's well, another Guardian that judged me to see if I could be the Card Mistress." Sakura informed her.

 "Oh, so there's Yue, Kero, Manaturs and Jintaro? And you are all Guardians?"

 "Hai. Keroberos and Yue guarded the Clow Cards, but someone in particular decided to take a thirty year nap, therefore stopped guarding them allowing me to set them free and I'm not too sure about Sara's cards." Sakura said.

 "Kero, taking a thirty year nap. I bet Yue wasn't too happy." Mana laughed.

 "He was about as happy then as he was when Sakura tried to get him to help clean up the house." Kero said.

 "Are you insane, girl?"

 "No I'm not. And Yue did eventually help me and didn't say anything about it." Sakura said.

 "Well, of course he didn't say anything about it. He doesn't talk all that much."

 "How do you know about Yue and Kero and the Clow Cards?" Tomoyo asked.

 "Well, my creator, Ayane, was possibly Clow Reed's bestfriend before he decided to create these two. She got very lonely because Clow Reed put all of his time into the cards and the Guardians and they didn't talk much at all. This turned Ayane evil. She didn't like being all alone so she created the Ayane cards and they turned out to be dark. That's why all of Sara's cards are the total opposite of Sakura's. I'm sure you noticed that Power was a different colour and Fiery wasn't as yellow as usual." Mana explained.

 "If your master was evil, doesn't that mean that you would be, too?" Naoko asked.

 "Um, no. Sara's my master now and she isn't evil. I simple follow my masters' influence."

 "So you mean you're harsh and silent?" Kero asked.

 "No. That's her personality. Not mine. The Ayane Cards turned evil and had to be beaten by the Clow Cards and put into the Book Of Ayane where they stayed for over a thousand years. The Shot Card killed Ayane but her body disappeared a week later. There were three theories that were used to explain this. One was that her body was stolen, two she wasn't really dead and walked away after she recovered and three she was reincarnated."

 "Like Clow Reed." Sakura said in almost a whisper.

 "Clow-chan was reincarnated?" Mana said in surprise.

 "Yes. He was split in half into Fujitaka Kinomoto and Eriol Hiiragizawa." Kero said.

 "ERIOL?" Naoko screamed. "Eriol's magical?"

 "Um, yeah." Tomoyo said quietly. "So's Touya and Yukito and Nakuru. And then there's Syaoran."

 "Syaoran? Wow, Tomoeda is just full of magical people. Um, Sakura, can I check out your cards?"

 "Sure," Sakura said, getting her cards out of her pocket.

 "Excuse me, but you guys might want to get ready to leave. We're almost there." The train lady said. Sakura put her cards back in her pocket.

 "Um, Manaturs, can you change into your original form like Kero can?" Sakura asked.

 "Ah, yeah but I don't think that you could handle seeing such a beautiful and majestic creature like my true form." Mana said.

 "She's seen me. What's the big difference? I'm a beautiful winged lion that just screams pride and you're a green dragon." Kero said.

 "DRAGON?" Naoko screeched. "You turn into a dragon? Please won't you show yourself? I just love dragons. I wrote about one once, but I lost the book."

 "Was the dragon big and red?" Sakura asked.

 "And did your story have a panther, a pink hippo, a horse and a panda? And a cute little hamster?" Tomoyo asked.

 "That had wings?" Kero finished.

 "Yeah. Have you read it anywhere?" Naoko said.

 "Um," Sakura said, taking a card from her pocket again. This one had a book on it with two four-point stars. "Is this the book?"

 "Oh my god. That's the book. It's a Clow Card?"

 "Yeah. When you wrote in it, the things came to life."

 "The dragon. Oh no. I'm sorry."

 "That's okay. I used the Big Card to face it."

 "Okay." Naoko said. Then the train stopped moving and everyone picked up their stuff to leave.

 "Sara! Wait up, will you?" Mana called to Sara as he rushed to catch up with her. "Would you just stop?"

 "Mana, shut up already. You're getting on my nerves." Sara groaned. Mana caught up with her and sat on her shoulder, surprised that she didn't through him off. He stared at the large castle in front of them.

It was made of a white stone, making it look more like a palace. It was so big it looked as if it easily had over six stories and the garden surrounding it was even bigger. The grounds had a large variety of flowers and trees and in the middle of the pathway that led towards the castle was a cherry blossom that was about four years old. Sara walked up to it and saw a plaque at the front. In cursive writing it said; This tree was planted in the honour of Masters' Ying Fa back at Japan.

 "Isn't that beautiful?" Mana asked Sara.

 "It's sickening. There is no way I would write anything like that about anyone." Sara said as she stormed off past the tree and towards the castle.

 "Hello there. I see you are one of the young ladies joining the Hogwarts group. My name is Wei. Welcome to the Li castle. I am the butler and will assist you in anything you want. You will stay in the guest rooms until you are put into your house. If you'll follow me, I'll take you to your room." Wei said. Sara followed slowly as Wei took her up six storeys to her room. She entered it and put her stuff down, all the while literally gawking at the size of the room. "I take it you like your room, miss?" Wei asked. "I'll leave you here and go make sure the food is ready for the other guests. Just call for me or any of the other workers here and we'll come."

 "That's okay. Is this all for me for the next few weeks?" Sara asked, walking over to the double bed that was in a corner of the room. She sat down on it and looked around. Sara noticed the large closet and then another door. She walked over to it to see that it was connected to a bathroom that was three times the size of her bedroom at the orphanage.

 "Yes." Wei said. Then Sara heard a pair of people arguing from across the hallway. "Oh, it seems that Master Syaoran isn't too happy with his mother's decision."

 "I will not attend these classes! I do not train everyday and night for no reason!" came a boy's voice.

 "Syaoran, you will go and you will not complain anymore. The new fifth graders will be here soon." Came an older woman's voice.

 "But mother…" he stopped halfway through his sentence as he felt a strong aura. "Are all witches and wizards as powerful as this one?" he asked calmer then usual.

 "No, this one is, special."

 "They have a green aura. How strange. It isn't too far off mine."

 "You're right. Why don't you go greet her? She's right across the hallway." She said. He nodded curtly and walked out of the room to Sara's. He saw her put a black coat into the closet and then stop.

 "Li Syaoran. How typical that I get sent to a castle that's owned by a descendant of Clow Reed, hey Mana?" Sara asked, not turning from the closet.

 "Hm, this is the Li castle? Oh no. Don't mind me, Sara. I'll be on my way. I have a little yellow friend who'll probably want to know about this." Mana said, flying out of Sara's bag on her bed. He then flew out of the room.

 "Let me guess, this is the master in the story by the cherry blossom tree."

 "So you speak English." Syaoran said. "Hardly anyone who visits here does. How did you know it was me?"

 "I can sense your aura." Sara said, turning around to face him. "So this is the new Hogwarts?"

 "Hai, what was that little green thing?"

 "Manaturs. He's my guardian if that's what you wish to call him."

 "How do you have a guardian?"

 "I am the Card Keeper, okay, the Mistress of the Ayane Cards. They're much like your Clow Cards, now turned Sakura Cards."

 "I thought the Ayane Cards were destroyed. That's what it said in all of the magic books that Clow left behind."

 "I bet it also said that Ayane disappeared once she was killed. By the way, are we allowed to hurt anyone purposely while we're here?"

 "I don't think my mother would appreciate it that much."

 "Never stopped me before." Sara mumbled.

 "Why? Who do you want to hurt?"

 "This little idiot. He's coming because of the whole Hogwarts thing."

 "Ah."

 "You're the one that was angry at your mother's decision, weren't you? I can understand why you don't want to. I was just fine with my training. So what age level will you be starting in?"

 "Five."

 "Me too. Are you going to be sorted and all that?"

 "Yes, unfortunately."

 "You obviously aren't the social type."

 "Neither are you. How did you get the Ayane Cards under control? Weren't they supposed to be evil?"

 "Huh, yeah." Sara said with a bit of humour. "They're a hard bunch to tame."

 "I can imagine."

 "So did you work with the Clow Cards?"

 "Yeah. But I…."

 "Ah, hello. You must be Master Li and Miss Riddle. It's good to see you two getting along." Came a voice from behind them. They turned to see an old man with a long silver beard and a woman behind him. "I am Professor Albus Dumbledore and this is Professor McGonagall. It's good to see that you finally responded to our letters, Miss Riddle."

 "Whatever." Sara groaned and continued to put things into the cupboard.

 "Excuse me, young lady, but you will not treat your headmaster that way." Professor McGonagall said. Sara quickly turned around and pretended to curtsy, all the while a snarl printed over her face. "I see the Riddle part in you."

 "Would people just STOP saying that?" Sara growled in anger. Professor McGonagall was taken aback by that and looked down. "But yes, the orphanage finally let me come."

 "Syaoran, would you like to come down and greet your other guests?" Dumbledore asked.

Syaoran nodded and they walked back down the stairs and were just about to enter the main hall and that was when he felt it: a pink aura, as strong as ever.

Sakura.

~*~*~

In the main hall, Naoko stood in a corner while feeding Lilly a berry and Sakura and Tomoyo were sitting on one of the seats in the hall then Sakura's head shot up when she recognised a strong green aura.

Syaoran.

~*~*~

Professor Dumbledore looked over at Syaoran and chuckled at his reaction.

 "Anything the matter?" he asked, his hands on the door.

 "No." Syaoran said as Albus pushed the door open.

~*~*~

 "Li-kun?" Naoko asked in surprise when she saw him.

 "Yanagizawa-san?" Syaoran asked with even more shock. "I thought this was a school for magical people only."

 "Well, I am magical."

 "Daidouji-san, Kinomoto-san, it's good to see you both again."

 "It's good to see you, too, Li-kun." Tomoyo said, a wide smile on her face.

 "What brings you here, Syaoran-chan?" Sakura asked, blush covering her cream cheeks. She heard Tomoyo whisper a 'kawaii' from her spot next to her.

 "This is where I live."

 "Really?"

 "Yes. This is the current replacement of Hogwarts until we can get rid of the…" Dumbledore started.

 "Termites." Naoko said with a giggle. "That's what Hagrid told us."

 "Oh, well, I'm your headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore. When the other students arrive, you will be put into a house from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Then you will be put into year five, and take all the classes. I suggest that you start reading up on your text books…"

 "That's it! I am sick of this girl!" came Professor McGonagall's voice from atop the staircase. She quickly hurried down them to the main hall where she found the small group of five.

 "Problems, Minerva?" Dumbledore asked.

 "That Riddle child. She is the rudest and disrespectful little girl I've ever met! She's up there right now and just threw her books and stuff onto her bed, not caring if they fell off or not and when I told her to pick them up she argued to me about her being able to do as she pleased with them because they're hers."

 "At least she hasn't threatened you with Fiery yet." Naoko laughed.

 "So she's using the Ayane Cards like that?" Syaoran asked.

 "She seems to be the exact duplicate of Ayane, herself." Said a feminine voice from behind them. Everyone turned to see a woman with four girls behind her, obviously the mother of the four.

 "Yelan Li. It's good to see you. Thank you so much for letting us use the Li Castle." Dumbledore said cheerfully.

 "Sakura-chan!" the four girls all cried out at the same time.

 "Wow, you haven't changed a bit!" cooed one that was called Fenren.

 "I just loved your movies!" squealed another called Sheifa.

 "To think, our Syaoran was so close…." The third, Feimei stared before Syaoran caught her by putting a hand over her mouth.

 "Our Syaoran was so close to what?" asked a raven-haired girl who joined them.

 "Meilin-chan. Are you attending, too?" Tomoyo asked, standing up next to her.

 "Hai. I got the letter! I'm really magical! Oh, and Tomoyo-chan, Eriol-kun is coming too."

 "So?"

 "Nan de mo." Meilin chuckled.

 "No one told me about Hiiragizawa!" Syaoran snapped. By now the professors had left the room, along with Yelan and her four daughters, leaving the old classmates some 'catch up time'. "When is he to be arriving?"

 "Today."

 "Meilin." Syaoran whined.

 "Syaoran just whined? As in sooked? What is this world coming to?" Tomoyo laughed and then caught the death-glare from Syaoran. (A/N: Yes, they are losing their innocence along with their naiveness. Well, Sakura still falls for lame lies from Eriol but still.) "Gomen."

 "It's okay."

 "Li-kun is it alright if I call you Syaoran, I mean there is going to be so many foreign students coming and they might think that I'm weird." Naoko asked.

 "As long as I call you Naoko."

 "Hai."

 "So have you met Sara yet?" Sakura asked.

 "Yes. Her room is across the hall from mother's library. I think it's totally absurd that I have to take these classes. Um, where is Keroberos?"

 "Oh, he went off with Mana. They're talking about something."

 ~*~*~ Off with Mana and Kero~*~*~

 "So we're staying at the kid's castle?" Kero asked, taking a bite out of a chocolate bar that was with a large collection of sweets.

 "The kid?"

 "Yeah. He used to live in Tomoeda. He helped her capture the Clow Cards. How exactly did Sara manage to get the Ayane Cards in the first place?" Kero asked.

 "Well…"

~*Flashback*~ (Not in Mana's memory. This is so you can get an idea of the plot.)

 "Sir, we have a problem."

 "What?"

 "He's gone."

 "Did he kill Lilly and James?"
 "Yes."

 "What about their son?"

 "He's still alive."

 "How?"

 "Voldemort's power rebounded or something like that and got him instead."

 "The fool."

 "What's to happen to his daughter? Her mother has been dead for a while now."

 "Who cares? Send her to an orphanage."

 "But she won't learn any magic there."

 "Drop the Ayane Book off with her. She was destined to find it."

 "But that'll do enormous damage."

 "If she can control them then she'll be able to finish her father's work."

 "What if they don't turn out like that?"

 "Then we'll use the other Card Captor to fight against them, turning it into another glorious battle, like it was said in the books." The man said. He then heard a noise and strained his ears to hear more. From the room next to him, he could hear the tiny wails of his child. He stood up, excusing himself from the other man and walked to his infant.

~*Time jump*~ (Ten years. We are now up to Mana's memories.)

 "Sara, move!" Mana called to his fallen ally. The Power Card had knocked her down to the ground and it was ready to strike at her again. The Power launched its attack and the bright beam headed straight for her. Sara closed her eyes, tears welling up and then screamed.

A dark light surrounded her, her eyes fogged over until all she saw was black and the light from Power. She stood up and screamed again, letting all her power loose and the glow she saw vanished. She then picked up her now black sealing wand and commanded:

"With the powers of dark,

I command you to return to your power confined.

Not just as an Ayane Card,

But to possess the darkness inside me.

Power Card; transform to have a new owner- Sara!

Sara Card!"

She transformed her first Sara Card before she had caught every other card. Then her world started to become lighter and she saw the lime green card in her hand and then looked at the black-now turning green-wand. At that time, her world blackened again, but this time it was because she passed out.

Many times after that, that very same power was unleashed when a card cornered her. And after every time, she was put into a coma. The first time was three days, but the second was five and then ten and so on.

Each time, Mana stayed with her until she was okay but then disappeared for days on end.

When it was time for the Judgement, Jintaro wondered if he should let someone with such dark powers to keep the Cards, for they often turned her on her own friends, leaving her alone. She even endangered the life of her best friend because the Cards didn't want anyone knowing of Sara's power. She was put into a seventeen-day coma and lost all of her memory. That pushed Sara to the limit. When it came to the unnatural occurrences, Sara let them go until at least half of the town's population had cleared out before she decided to transform her cards.

~*End Of Flashback*~

 "It scared me. I thought that sometimes she would let the cards take over her." Mana said.

 "Nothing like that happened with Sakura."

 "The Clow Cards were tame and under control. They didn't witness the horrific death of their master."

 "So they tried to kill the one destined to be their master."

 "Keroberos, as witty as ever, I see."

 "Yeah, well…" Kero started. His head quickly pricked up, along with Mana's, and they both looked towards the navy-haired teen approaching them, alongside him was an older girl with her dark red, almost brown, shoulder length hair put up in one single ponytail, each of them with a backpack on their backs.

 "Keroberos and Manaturs, how good to see you. Mana, if you're here, that must mean that the Card Keeper is here, too. I long to meet her." The boy said to the bear and the lizard like creatures. Then out from his backpack flew a tiny little cat like being.

 "Suppi." Kero said in his greeting. "Eriol, Nakuru. How typical that you're attending Hogwarts. Just like old times, eh?"

 "Kero, how do they know me?" Mana asked.

 "The young boy here is the reincarnate of Clow Reed. Nakuru is his guardian, along with Suppi."

 "My name is Spinnel Sun. Not Suppi." The cat protested.

 "Nan de mo."

 "Oh yeah?" Suppi said, floating over to Kero and standing up in his full height. (I know, Suppi, Kero, Ruby, Yue and Mana don't have an actual gender, but it sounds better then it.)

 "Yeah." Kero said, doing the same. Both puffed their chests out as far as they could.

 "Oh yeah?"

 "Yeah."

 "Oh yeah?"

 "Yeah!" Kero yelled. "But as much as I'd hate to do this, I must." He then turned back, much to the enjoyment of Spinnel and shoved a large piece of chocolate in Spinnel's mouth. "Ha ha ha! Chew on that! Su-pi!" Kero laughed at the choking guardian as he tried his best not to swallow the large sweet. But Kero punched him in the stomach, making Spinnel swallow it.

 "Keroberos. Why did you do that?" Eriol asked, picking up the already high Suppi. "He's going to be on another sugar high."

 "So? He shouldn't have been like that."

 "Well, why don't you come with me for a second. We'll take you back to Sakura." Nakuru said, picking up both Mana and Kero. "You're a funny looking thing. I've never seen a guardian like you before."

 "You should see him in his true form. Very impressive." Eriol laughed and started to walk to his descendant's castle.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Okay, that's a bit long, but heck. It wasn't too obvious that Sara is Voldemort's daughter, was it? I hope it wasn't, but duh! A New Riddle! RIDDLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone who has read book two would understand that. I have an idea on who the big bad dude's going to be, but I could change it. I hope y'all haven't figured it out yet. If you have, or at least have an idea, e-mail me and if anyone gets it right, then I'll change it and well, yeah. That's already giving too much away.