THE MOONSTONES
By Eriol CHAPTER ONE

A fireball nearly hit him, but he managed to dodge it.

'She's getting good' Eriol thought as he dodged another.

'Go Eriol! Yay yay YAY!' Ruby was yelling.

'Boo' a tall yellow sun guardian said humorously.

'Ray, shut up! I can't hear the spell Eriol is using' A huge white panther said looking excitedly.

'What do you know about spells, Shiny?' Ray asked towering on the panther.

'MOVE!' She yelled at Ray. 'I'm no cow to 'Moo'.' Ray returned.

'Will Sunray and Moonshine please be quiet?' A huge golden lion said gruffly as an ice spell came from Eriol's side.

Sakura used the shield card and the ice spell shattered as it hit the shield, sending ice pieces everywhere.

'The Card Mistress is good' commented a black panther.

'She is' said Cerberus proudly, 'You should have seen her at battle with the Wind maker!'

'Not to mention the way she caught the shadow cards!' exclaimed Moonshine.

'How do you know? You were created only after the cards were caught right?' Ruby asked.

'Right! But you forgot our magical abilities! We are the now great shadow star cards guardians!' Ray said innocently.

'Don't believe him! He saw the tapes that Tomoyo recorded!' Kero said.

Ray glared at Kero 'Spoil sport!' He muttered.

'This is great!' Tomoyo yelled as Sakura used a SS (Shadow Star) card- The Laser. But Eriol blocked it easily with his staff and reflected it using a reflector spell.

The card returned to its seal- a black, golden and blue card. Sakura's magic circle appeared again as she used the voice card.

And Eriol blinked. 'Very Good' He mouthed as no voice came out.

Yue smiled.

'KAWAII!' Ruby yelled and Spinel glared at her.

'Not bad!' Ray said cheerfully 'Mistress used the same card to capture the shadow song! See dear Shiny, why you shouldn't have spells-they have to be muttered'

'Not all!' Moonshine said excited 'LOOK!'

Eriol was waving his staff slightly and it glowed golden. A fine long piece of blue-violet ribbon flew out of nowhere and went straight to Ray and tied him up.

'Ransom' Eriol said suddenly, his voice as normal as it was a few minutes ago.

It was Sakura's turn to blink.

'Let us make this a draw then, shall we?' Ray said cheerfully as the ribbon caught fire and fell to the ground.

Eriol smiled. Sakura smiled. Both nodded. Suddenly both looked up at the sky.

'What's that?' Asked Sakura

'Some Alien force' Eriol said calmly 'they come once now and then. Normally, it's from an other world, not known to human beings, and most wizards.'

Sakura looked at Yue, who shrugged, ever so slightly.

'He wouldn't know! Clow didn't!' Eriol continued enjoying the bewildered faces, 'my latest experiment during the last 2 years showed that they don't actually know we exist.I mean the Earth.'

'That's a relief' Shine said 'I wonder how they look like?'

'Anything!' Eriol said' from ants to dinosaurs!'

'Do dinosaurs really exist?' Kero asked in wonder.

Eriol shrugged, Ruby smiled and Spinel looked at Eriol.

'I hope they don't have magic!' Ray said.

'They just might!' Ruby said mysteriously.

Yue rolled his eyes! Kero looked as if he agreed. Sakura looked scared and amazed.

'Heard of the moonstones?' Eriol asked suddenly.

'Of course!' Everyone replied quickly.

Sakura looked around and sighed. 'Alright I don't and the others don't too!'

Eriol grinned. 'Oh! No!' Kero said seeing Eriol's trick.

'Well' Eriol said smiling, 'I did not come here for pleasure visit....'

And the others saw through too.

'Why me?' Sakura asked sighing.

'It just so happens that the Ancient Moon cards will be released soon by someone, it's already destined as such by Mecca Moon the Great, the creator of the Moon cards, and to-'

'Let me guess' Ray put in, 'and to capture them one must collect these moonstones.'

'They were the crystal of Mecca moon's wand and to capture these cards one must have the power of the moon rocks in their source!' finished Eriol smiling.

Everyone groaned.

'The good thing is Sakura alone has the power to support the energy of the moonstones-' Eriol was cut by a 'Who said that was a good thing?' from Shine.

'-But not enough to capture the cards.' Eriol continued as if he had not been interrupted. 'Then' Sakura asked, 'what is the use?'

'I and the 6 guardian's power would be more than enough!' Eriol said, 'The only problem is it is in a Alien's world!'

Everyone blinked.