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A New Riddle
Chapter VII
The First Classes and Plans for Ginny.
Sara sat back in her chair and put her hands behind her head as she stared up at the ceiling in potions class.
"Miss Riddle. If you mind, but could you tell me what you would get if you were to put a weasel's claw and ground parrot tail feather together in slug blood?" Professor Snape asked her.
"Something disgusting?" Sara said.
"No, Mr. Malfoy?"
"You would get a cure to any sort of cancer." Draco said, his head held high at Sara who just grunted and rocked back in her chair. Hermione's hand shot up in an instance.
"What, Miss Granger?" Snape snarled.
"He was wrong. It doesn't cure throat cancer." Hermione said and heard snickers from Sara, who was sitting behind her.
"And, when it is used to cure throat cancer, all it does is render the throat useless." Sara said. Everyone stared at her in disbelief. Hermione, who's hand was placed behind her back, brought it up forward onto her lap and started to rub away at her palm, removing the ink that she had used to give Sara the answer.
"But if the blood is fresh then the throat may be used again." Draco said.
"However, the throat is always coarse and the voice is harsh." Sara opposed.
"Yes, the potion to use would be weasel's claw and ground parrot tail feather in snail blood." Hermione said.
"Unlike slug blood, the snail blood is thin and not so rough on the damage." Sara agreed. Everyone in the class was in incredulity and wonder as the girls fought and won the battle against Draco.
"You two are correct, as was Draco by saying that it cures cancer. But for that amazing task of Miss Riddle to know all of that surprised me. How did you know it, Sara?" Snape asked, looking at Sara and Hermione. "Surely you couldn't have acquired that knowledge in the Muggle World."
"I take that as an insult, sir, for I have learnt much in the Muggle World. I studied at home, just as Sara might have in her room here." Hermione objected.
"Was that impudence from a Gryffindor? Shall I take five points away?" Snape asked and then went over to his scroll and marked Gryffindor down five.
"Excuse me, Professor Snape, but I don't understand what you are implying." Sara said, standing up from her chair. "Are you suggesting that I cheated? How could have I done that? I studied, just as Hermione said. My guardian, Mana, saw me do it last night, as I was asked to prepare by Mr. Hiiragizawa last night when I was given my timetable." Sara looked over at Eriol, letting him know that he better not deny it. "And if you don't take that as proof then you can go spit." Sara said as she sat back down in her seat and took in the glory of the sound of the class whispering and even a little cheer from the Gryffindors.
Snape was far passed fuming by now. His face was beet red and a small vein had popped on his neck. The Slytherins snickered, knowing what was going to happen to the young Card Keeper.
Even Harry, Hermione and Ron were holding their breaths, not wanting to make a sound that could make him angry. Sakura, Syaoran and Eriol looked on, not quite knowing how angry he could get.
"Are you okay? You look like Ms. Lain when I burnt this girls' hair." Sara laughed at Snape, who had steam coming from his ears. "Wow, you're angry. Did I say something wr…" Sara started again before Snape started to yell at her.
"Never before have I been treated with such disrespect!" he yelled, and much to his surprise, all that Sara did was snicker.
"And what are you going to do about it? Are you going to take points from my house? I'm not in one. The damn hat couldn't place me anywhere. Or will you take away my rations? I've gone five days without food. I'm sure I can put up with more. Detention would be interesting, but then I could always use Mirror so it wouldn't work. You could always write a note home to my family, but mum's six feet under and dad, well, he'd, you don't want to even begin to imagine that. That's if he actually got the letter. He never did quite do much when it came to parenting." Sara said. "So you're screwed."
"Sara Riddle! I will not have you talking to a professor like that!" McGonagall's voice cried out from the door.
"Oops, maybe I should mind my language more and practice my curtsy." Sara groaned sarcastically. "That's if it pleases thee."
"That's enough. We need to talk." She said, walking over to Sara and grabbing her by her arm to escort her out. Sara quickly snapped her arm back; disgusted that someone touched her.
"I hate it when people touch me." Sara snapped and then walked to the door. As she walked out, she was mindful to slap Malfoy on the back of his head. "Clumsy hands." She sneered.
"I saw that, Sara." McGonagall warned her. Sara simply shrugged at it.
Then the bell went and everyone was excused from class. As far as Sara went with the Gryffindors, she was a legend.
"Are you going to keep me here all lunch?"
"Well, you did say that you could go five days without food. Fifteen minutes shouldn't be so hard for you. And what was this Mirror that you were talking about?"
"A secret. I swore to Mana and Jintaro that I wouldn't tell anyone. The last person that I told nearly died. She now suffers from intense amnesia. Shot wasn't too happy about me telling anyone their secret." Sara said. "Do you find it fair that when someone stands up for another that they get in trouble, or in the case that I'm talking about loses five house points?"
"No, why?"
"Professor Snape insinuated that because I grew up with Muggles I couldn't answer the question as accurately as I did and when Hermione told him that she learnt all that she knows by studying at her Muggle home as I did when I got here and he took five points."
"Doing that was wrong on Professor Snape's behalf, but that is for him to judge." McGonagall said, not looking up from the reports that she was grading, but her head shot straight up when she heard a whisper from the door. "You have an audience."
"I know." Sara said, standing from her chair. She stuck a hand in her pocket and pulled out a card that made her chuckle. Both she and the card glowed and she disappeared from her professor's sight.
"Where'd she go?" a voice whispered.
"I don't know, but did you see her glow? That was cool." A second said. Then they felt themselves being picked up and carried into the room at tremendous speeds. They were soon dropped on the floor before McGonagall.
"Well, Mr. Ghost and Mr. Forest. How pleasant to see you." McGonagall said. "Sara, don't do that again." She turned to look at the boys so Sara wasn't in line of her sight and just as she looked back, Sara disappeared again.
"Wow, did you sense that?" Sakura asked Eriol and Syaoran as she felt Sara's power increase as she used the Dash Card.
"She really likes to use the cards a lot." Eriol chuckled.
"Cards?" Harry asked. (When the cards were used in chapter five, everyone was too distraught to realise.)
"Do you mean like the Clow Cards?" Hermione asked.
"Uh, never mind." Eriol said.
"And what was the Death Card from yesterday, anyway?" Ron asked.
"Don't worry. You won't understand it." Syaoran said in a convincing matter.
"But Hermione understands everything." Ron said, making Hermione blush.
"Kawaii!!" Tomoyo yelled whipping a video camera out of nowhere and training it on the two.
"Tomoyo-chan, where did you get that?" Eriol asked.
"Fenren gave it to me. She said it was so I could tape all of Sakura and Syaoran's kawaii moments." Tomoyo giggled, making the two blush.
"Tomoyo, please give it up. Sakura is as stubborn as Syaoran. There is no way that they'd actually admit those feelings to each other. But they're obviously blind to not see it." Meilin laughed. "Their feelings are about as obvious as little Ginny's! I know who she likes! Good on you. I think he likes you back."
"What? Are you insane? I like nobody!" Ginny squealed and Ron turned to her.
"Who?"
"What?"
"Who? Please tell me."
"Why? So you can just tease me about it with Fred and George?" Ginny snapped.
"So you admit that you like someone?"
"About as much as you like Hermione. And if you can admit that, then you have your answer." Claps and cheers came from Sakura and Tomoyo as they congratulated the young girl on her triumph over her brother.
"But, Hiiragizawa's one to talk! He likes someone, too. He's gotten over Kaho and now likes someone closer to our hearts!" Meilin cackled. Everyone stared at Eriol. 'Someone closer to our hearts.'
"Sakura?!" Tomoyo squealed. "No! You cannot take my kawaii Sakura from her kawaii Syaoran. I will not let you." She ran over to the two and before either of them knew what was happening, Tomoyo had forced each other's hands together. "I will not let you."
"That's okay. It isn't Sakura." Meilin laughed. Ginny started to giggle and ran over to Meilin to whisper something in her ear. She nodded.
"Agh! You're joking, right?"
"No."
"Eriol and…"
"Don't say it! I want to put them together! I love playing matchmaker. Now, how will I work on you and your special somebody?"
"I don't like anyone." Ginny blushed.
"Yes you do. He's really nice, but not too much on the cute side in my point of view, I've only met him today and you two are really kawaii together."
"What is kawaii?" Hermione asked. "You and Tomoyo are obsessed with it."
"It is cute in Japanese." Tomoyo said with her camera trained on anyone who talked. And then she noticed Sakura, Eriol and Syaoran look up in the same direction.
"Sara's coming." Eriol said.
"How do you know?" Harry asked.
"Well, when you train as much as we do with the type of magic that Sara uses, you can sense when it's near." Sakura explained.
"And why do you need to train?" Ron asked.
"The powers were unleashed by Sakura in Japan and I was sent over there by the Elders to help her fight to get them back. Then Eriol came and really screwed things up." Syaoran elucidated.
"Oh, so you two worked on fighting these powers that Sakura unleashed until Eriol came and made things worse?" Ginny asked.
"I was there, too." Meilin complained.
"So was I. I was the official photographer and Sakura's costume maker." Tomoyo said with a large smile. It quickly disappeared when a scream came from a corridor near them, followed by Sara's yelling voice.
"You idiot! Why don't you watch where you're going?"
"I-I'm s-sorry! Please d-don't hurt m-me." The kid stuttered. "I am so very sorry, Sara."
"How do you know who I am?"
"I'm in Gryffindor. Everyone in Gryffindor knows you. You're a legend. Word spreads fast when someone is like that to Professor Snape."
"Shut up and leave me alone." Sara snapped and walked out into the same place as the Card Captor gang was.
"You should stop doing that to little kids." Sakura said when Sara turned the corner.
"What did she do to Professor Snape?" Tomoyo asked.
"You should have seen it! She answered a question that Malfoy didn't know and he accused her of cheating because she grew up in the Muggle World so Hermione said that she could have studied like she did and we lost five house points, but then Sara told him that she had studied because Eriol had told her to when he went over to her room last night…" Ron started.
"WHAT?! Eriol was at Sara's room last night? No! I hate you, Riddle! How dare you take Eriol from Tomoyo?!" Meilin yelled as she walked right up to Sara. All three; Sara, Tomoyo and Eriol, turned red. Eriol and Tomoyo from blush and Sara from anger.
"You think I'd like him? You certainly are confused. I have none of those feelings. You can have him, Tomoyo." Sara said, surprisingly calm.
"That's it? You're not going to yell?" Sakura asked.
"Why would I yell? The way that Carrot Top put it, of course I'd think the same thing. He was only giving me my timetable, so you can calm yourself down."
"Yeah, well, as I was saying, Sara said that she had studied and that if he doesn't believe her, she said, and I quote; 'He should go spit. She has a Sara Fan Club in Gryffindor now.'" Ron finished. Tomoyo's mouth opened as wide as anyone had ever seen it.
"You said that to Snape?" (Tomoyo had already had Snape earlier that day.)
"Yeah." Harry said.
"McGonagall had to take her out." Ron informed them.
"And then on her way out she hit Malfoy on the head." Hermione laughed.
"Sound like you've had an interesting day today." Meilin said. "Guess what."
"What?" Sakura asked.
"We have study in the library next. We'll be with your brother." Tomoyo said.
"We're in there, too." Eriol said.
"Oh no." Sakura whined.
"What's wrong? You'll be with us." Meilin said.
"But we'll also be with Nakuru." Eriol groaned.
"And probably my sisters." Syaoran complained along with them. "They will do whatever they can to see Harry again."
"I feel so sorry for you. Trust me, I know what it's like. They think that I'm so cute and the perfect match for their Xiao-Lang." Sakura said.
"I wish I were in your grades." Ginny said in awe. Eriol scratched his head in deep thought.
"Um, could I talk to Ginny, Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Meilin for a while, in private?" he asked and his require was seen through as everyone but them turned for a while and left, all but Sara who grabbed Eriol quickly.
"You're going to use Clow's magic, aren't you?"
"No. I'm going to use my brain and then maybe some of Clow's magic." Eriol chuckled.
"Yelan would sense it."
"Don't you think I know that? I'd tell her if she found out."
"You're going to tell Carrot Top about the Sakura Cards and the Sara Cards, huh?"
"Well, she'd have to know because we might need Mirror."
"The last kid that found out about the Ayane Cards was almost killed. You don't want that happening to Ginny, do you?"
"Sara's got a heart." Eriol chuckled again.
"Having the fact that you killed someone on your shoulders is a hard thing to do. It will drive you insane."
"I won't get her killed. Trust me." Eriol said and walked back to everyone who he asked to see.
"What was that about?" Meilin asked.
"She wanted to know if I was going t o tell Ginny about the Sara Cards and the Sakura Cards."
"Shh, Eriol. Ginny might have heard you." Sakura said.
"I know."
"You're telling her?" Syaoran asked.
"Yes. I think we might have to use Mirror if it doesn't work out."
"What do you mean, not work out?" Ginny asked.
"I think I know a way how to get you to be in our grade." Eriol said.
"What? Really?"
"Yes, but you aren't to tell anyone."
"What about Ron?"
"Not even your brother."
"Wow, why?"
"Because this is really supposed to be a secret." Sakura said. She quickly took out her key and looked around to see of anyone was watching. When she realised that Ron and Hermione was too occupied with each other and Harry and Naoko were laughing their heads off at them, she transformed it into her staff, as did Eriol with his.
"Cool, that's wicked as."
"I know. Do you remember how Hermione asked why Syaoran's sisters keep calling Eriol Chibi Clow?"
"Yeah."
"Do you know who Clow Reed is?" Syaoran asked.
"He's a sorcerer that created the Clow Cards, right?"
"Yes. Now I happen to be the half reincarnate of him." Eriol chuckled.
"REALLY?!" Ginny asked.
"Yes but you didn't have to yell it. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone heard." Meilin said and then looked over to Harry, Ron and Hermione to see that they weren't there. "Where'd they go?"
"I took them to a hut by a forest. They should take their time in getting back." Sara said, appearing out of nowhere.
"Thank you, Sara." Sakura said.
"That power you unleashed was the Clow Cards, right?" Ginny asked. Sakura nodded her head. "Cool."
"Now, seeing as I am part of the person who created them, I think I should be able to create something that could help you. We might send you a fake letter from your mum, explaining that you have to go home but instead of sending you back, we change your look all together. I do believe that is Tomoyo's specialty, along with Meilin. And with sorting you into a house, we could go back in time to get the Sorting Hat to put you in Gryffindor and then go back to the future to this time. That would be either Sakura's or Sara's job. Now, Syaoran, I know this will be a big job for you, but you'll have to come with me to try and get your mother to understand it." Eriol said.
"No. I am not talking to her." Syaoran objected.
"Why?" Meilin asked.
"She changed my room into something. Every student will probably go in it by the time this week is over."
"Awe, poor Syao-kun." Sakura said, patting him gently on the head.
"But what about Ron? Won't he want to know what happened?" Ginny asked.
"We'll probably tell him." Eriol said.
"And Harry?"
"Kawaii!" Tomoyo whispered, earning a high-five from Meilin.
"I mean are we going to tell him and Hermione?"
"Well, Ron probably will. He seems to love gossip. He probably started up my fan club in Gryffindor." Sara groaned.
"He was the one to tell everyone at lunch." Sakura giggled. "Poor Sara-san. Not to hated anymore, are you?"
"So how do you have your powers if only the Clow Cards were created and Sakura's now the owner of them?" Ginny asked Sara.
"I have Clow Reed's best friends cards. Except I changed them to the Sara Cards like Sakura made hers the Sakura Cards."
"Oh."
"So are you going along with this?" Eriol asked. Ginny nodded her head.
"Yay! I get to make up Ginny!" Tomoyo laughed. "We'll have to give you a new name, though."
"How about Kayne?" Ginny asked.
"Isn't Kayne a guys name?" Sakura asked. "I thought it was an English name for boys."
"Well, I had a pen pal called Kayne and from picture I was sent, I'm sure Kayne's a girl's name." Ginny pointed out.
"I guess. After we've finished with you, you will be Kayne." Meilin laughed.
"What do you mean 'finished with you'?" Ron asked from behind them. "And what are they?" he asked, pointing to Eriol and Sakura's wands.
"Oh, ah," Sakura started. She stuck a hand in her pocket and pulled out the Small Card. She closed her eyes and began to focus and the card disappeared and her wand began to shrink. Once it was the size of everyone else's wands, she opened her eyes. "Thank you, Mana."
"Mana taught you that? He's supposed to be my guardian. He couldn't lift a finger for me." Sara snapped, frightening everyone. "That lizard's dead."
"Why are you always calling him your guardian?" Harry asked.
"Because he's what popped out of the book."
"What book?" Hermione asked.
"Certainly not one that you've ever read." Eriol said and then walked over to Sara. "I thought having someone killed wasn't fun." He whispered.
"Oh, trust me, I can repel the cards now. That was a few years ago. I'm a lot stronger."
"Then how come Shot couldn't stand up against me?"
"Listen, I can't control the power I give the damn things. They get my energy and survive and that's it." Sara snapped before she left.
"What was that about?" Meilin asked. "She really has an up and down attitude problem."
"No. She hates being called weak." Eriol chuckled.
"Eriol. You're not supposed to be hard on her. She took them off to that hut before." Sakura said.
"She did that?" Hermione asked.
"Well, how else did you think you got there?" Tomoyo asked.
"We didn't really think about it." Naoko laughed.
A woman dressed in black walked up to them and bowed gently at Sakura, mindful to glare at Eriol, before she turned to Ginny.
"Miss Sara says that if you wish to commence with the project, you may go to her room tonight. Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Meilin and him," she said, cocking her head to Eriol, "are to come as well." With that said, she left.
"The Dark Card really doesn't like you." Sakura said. "Well, at least Sara's doesn't. What happened?"
"She was the first I sealed away." Eriol groaned. "She must hold a grudge."
"You think?" Syaoran asked sarcastically.
"What do you mean sealed away?" Hermione asked.
Just as Eriol opened his mouth, Dark came back again. "Miss Riddle also requests that you do not tell them about anything. She knows how much we hate it."
"Okay." Eriol said with a nod of his head. Dark left again, leaving people to wonder if she'll come back.
"What's going on here?" Ron asked.
"We can't tell you." Tomoyo said.
"Why not?" Harry asked.
"Because Sara doesn't want you knowing." Ginny said.
"How can she stop you from doing anything?" Ron inquired.
"Quite easily." Sakura said bluntly. "She has her ways of hurting people."
"She didn't seem to do anything against Eriol." Hermione pointed out.
"She really could do some damage to me." Eriol chuckled. "And she has tried."
"Then why are you still here? It seemed like she was going to kill Malfoy." Harry said.
"My powers against those specific powers are quite good. And besides, he pushed her too far. Saying something like that was way out of line."
"She seems somewhat delicate to most subjects about her father." Tomoyo said.
"What are you going to do to Ginny?" Ron asked again.
"It does not concern you. Just please, don't tell anyone." Ginny said, putting on a puppy dog face.
"Fine, but if this hurts you, I swear, I will not keep my promise. I will find Dumbledore and tell him everything." Ron warned before he got a quick hug from Ginny.
"Thank you thank you thank you thank you!" she screamed over and over.
"There is no need to scream." Meilin yelled over Ginny's voice. "Now, I think it's time we get ready for the next class. See you tonight, Ginny!" with that said, she and Tomoyo left them to go to the Hufflepuff rooms to get their stuff.
"They're right. We should go." Hermione said and the rest of them left for the Gryffindor rooms.
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Ta da! That's it for chapter seven! I'm sorry if these are getting bad. *Sobs into a large hanky* I really like the way that the story's going.
If you guys can't picture how Sara, Mana, Manaturs and everything else that I made up look like, e-mail me and I'll send you pictures that I've drawn of them. Sure, the originals are in my school diary, but I've made larger ones.
