CCS IS NOT MINE!!!!!!!!!! WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! IT'S CLAMPS!!!!!!!!
WHAAAAAA!!!!!!!! ALL I GET IS THE LEFT OVERS!!!!!!!!...enjoy ^-^
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"Ohayo!" "Ohayo, Ohayo!"
Students at Tomoeda elementary were greeting each other with blissful smiles. Today, Sakura and her class were taking a trip..and they are very anxious to go. ^-^
In the Classroom.
"This is going to be so much fun!!!"
"Yeah! Just like last time!"
"It was so much fun in fourth grade! I wonder if there are new things to do!"
Naoko popped up in front of the students. "I heard that the ghost that was haunting the shrine in the cave has moved on. I wonder now.."
The students listened carefully.
".that it is vacant a new spirit will appear."
"Ooooooohhhh." The students burst into conversations about what type of monster or spirit will appear next.
"HOOOEEEEE!!!!!!" Sakura overheard Naoko and was now not very excited about the trip as before.
Tomoyo looks at Sakura. "This will be as fun as last time. Sakura-Chan? Isn't that where you captured the Erase Card?"
Sakura nods. "I didn't like the last trip as much." She shakes her head in fear.
Tomoyo puts her hand up to her cheek. "Things were so different back then."
Sakura looks up. "What do you mean?"
Tomoyo looks down at Sakura. "Well for starters, Li-kun was still in competition with you and the Clow Cards."
Sakura eyes widen. "Oh yeah. I forgot..." Sakura smiles. "But we're good friends now." Sakura looks at Syaoran who is sitting at his desk. He catches her glance and turns his head away with a slight blush.
Tomoyo smiles at him. She turns toward Sakura and continues. "And Misuki Sensei was our teacher back then."
Sakura nodded. "And back then I didn't even know that she was involved with Clow Reed or the Clow Cards. Now she knows something more, something we don't know."
Tomoyo nods and smiles. "And back then."
Sakura looks up.
".Sakura-chan was just as Kawaii as she is now!"
*Fall* (AS)
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Lunch.
"Idsutakimus!"
Sakura took a bite out of a rice ball.
Rika looks at her. "Sakura-chan?"
Sakura looks at her with her mouth full of rice.
"Who's going to be on your team on the trip?"
Sakura swallows. "Team?"
"Yeah, there are going to be six teams of four on our trip. We're having a survival game there and you need four people to a team."
Sakura put her chopsticks up to her lips and looked up.
"Hmmmmm.. it's really hard to choose just four. Tomoyo, are you in a group yet?"
Tomoyo looked down. "Yes. I'm going with Rika-chan, Naoko-chan and Chiharu- chan.. [Authors Note: Grrr.. I tried to refrain from using 'Chiharu', but for those who are not in the guild....well yeah. -_-...STUPID CHIHARU!!!!! YOU STOLE MY YAMAZAKI!!!!!] .gomen. But Sakura-chan will do fine. ^-^"
Sakura looks at Tomoyo. "I wonder who I will be with."
Syaoran looks at her. 'I don't have a team either.'
Yamazaki pops up. "About teams.."
Chiharu pushes him out of the way. "Yeah yeah, enough of your lies." [Author's note: Grrr.. I'm gonna kill her...]
Tomoyo looks at Sakura. "Why doesn't Yamazaki-kun be apart of your team, Sakura-chan?"
Sakura smiles. "Yeah! Good Idea!"
Yamazaki nods.
Syaoran stares at Sakura. He looks down, blushes and then yells. "I'll go too!"
Sakura nods. "Ok. That makes three, now we just need one..."
"I WANT TO GO WITH SHAORAN-KUN!!!!!!" Reita yelled. She jumps on to Syaoran and clings onto his neck.
"Ack!!! *choke* Get off!!!"
Sakura looks at Reita ".more." *sweatdrops*
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At the camp...
"Catch it Sakura!!!" Rika tossed the beach ball at Sakura.
Sakura runs backward to get under the beach ball. "Ha!" She hits it back.
"Get it!!"
Tomoyo sits on the beach with Naoko. She smiles as she tapes Sakura with her camera.
"Eh?" Tomoyo see's Syaoran in the lake through her camera watching the girls play. She smiles.
Syaoran continues to swim. "It's too early. She hasn't calmed down enough for me to tell her without confusing her. I." "AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Syaoran's foot is grabbed by something and he's dragged down. He comes to the surface gasping for air, with Rieta clinging to his neck. Rieta yells through her snorkel, "Shaoran-KUN!!!! ^-^"
*choke* "Ah!..*choke* I can't breathe!!!! Get off!!! I can't swim with you on me!!"
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Sakura was peeling some potatoes along with everyone else. "So what do you this survival game will be about?"
Naoko drops her potato and looks up. "I hear that we have to go into the forest behind the cave!" Naoko jumps up and goes starry-eyed. "I hope we find some ghosts!!!"
Sakura falls backward. "Geh?!? I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS NOW!!!!!" Sakura cowers in fear.
Tomoyo comforts her. "Don't worry, I'm sure what ever comes your way, someone will be there to protect you for sure." Tomoyo glances at Syaoran who stumbles back. She laughs to herself.
Sakura looks up. "Ho-e?"
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That Night.
"Ok! Gather around here!" Mr. Tereda motioned everyone to come closer.
"This is how we will play!! We have hidden puzzle pieces all around the camp! There are four in all to collect for each team. They could be in the woods, on the beach or in the cabins! When you have found the 4 correct pieces, head toward the shrine in the cave and assemble your puzzle. First team to finish is the winner!"
The students begin to scramble through out the camp to search for the pieces. Sakura and Yamazaki run over toward Reita who is attached to Syaoran's neck. Syaoran is crouched over from Reita hanging on so long. When he catches a glimpse of Sakura running toward him, he straightens up and blushes.
Sakura runs up to them. "Ready?"
Syaoran nods. Reita jumps up and down. "YEAH!"
"Where should we start looking?"
"Wouldn't it be faster if we split up?" Reita asked Sakura. "That's a good idea!" Sakura smiles.
Yamazaki turns toward Reita. "Should we look around the cabins?"
Reita nods. "Sure!" Yamazaki and Reita run off. Reita glances back. She stares at Sakura and smiles. "Do your best." She looks at Syaoran, "You too."
Syaoran's eyes widen and he glances at Reita. He watches her run off. "What..was that?"
"Shaoran-kun."
"There's something strange."
"Shaoran-kun!"
"..strange about..."
"Shaoran-kun!!"
Syaoran blinks and realizes that Sakura is inches away from his face staring at him with a confused look.
"G-GEH?!?!!" He stumbles back and falls backward.
Sakura runs over to him. "You alright?"
Syaoran looks at her. He blushes and turns away. "Yeah."
"Should we look on the beach?"
Syaoran gets up and dusts himself off. "O-ok"
Sakura smiles. "Great! Come on!"
Sakura and Syaoran run toward the beach.
Sakura walks near the water hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the hidden pieces. Syaoran pretends to be looking for them too, but instead watches her out of the corner of his eye.
"Hey Shaoran-kun? Do you remember two years ago, when we came here last?"
Syaoran looks at her.
"You know that night, I was scared and you comforted me? I never really thanked you ^-^"
Sakura turns around to see Syaoran's face deep red.
"What's wrong? Your face, it's.."
Syaoran shakes some of the blush off. "It was nothing really.."
"AH! Found one!" Sakura held up a puzzle piece. Sakura looked at it closer. She smiled at Syaoran and showed him the piece.
"The picture looks like part of a star. Let's just hope that Yamazaki-kun and Reita-chan find the matching pieces."
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Sakura and Syaoran found another piece and headed to the entrance of the cave to wait for Yamazaki and Reita.
Sakura looked at the entrance. "T-T I don't like this place..."
Syaoran looked at her.
"Sakura-chan!!!" Reita and Yamazaki came running from the woods with two puzzle pieces in their hands.
Sakura jumped up. "Ah! You found the other two!" Yamazaki handed her his piece as Reita jumped on top of Syaoran.
"SHAORAN-KUN!!!!! I missed YOU!!!!!"
"-_-U....get off." Syaoran struggled.
Sakura looked at them and smiled. "Now we just gotta put the puzzle together at the shrine in the cave."
Reita got off of Syaoran and walked over to Sakura. "Why don't the two of you go in and we'll wait here for you." The piece in Reita's hand began to glow a bright purple and then returned to normal. Reita smiled. "Here's the fourth piece" She handed Sakura the last puzzle piece.
"Me?! Go in there ..h-hoee....."
Sakura and Syaoran entered the cave.
Sakura whimpered to herself as they went through the passages towards the shrine. "H-hoe...it's as scary as it was before...."
Syaoran stared ahead. "There's no need to be afraid, all of the Clow Cards are caught and transformed so there's nothing ahead of us."
Sakura nodded.
They reached the bridge that hung across a pond in the cave.
"Eh heh..it looks like they fixed the bridge since last time. ...^-^U"
Syaoran nodded.
They crossed the bridge to the shrine. In front were six pedestals. Each one had an engraving on the top. Sakura looked at them.
"There's a moon....a sun shaped ....that one looks like a wisp of fire....um there's a drop of water....and that one has a leaf..there's a star and the last one is a cloud. I guess we found the star."
Sakura approached the pedestal with the puzzle pieces. She put them face down so that they fit into the engraving. Sakura placed the last piece in and stood up.
"There we did it!"
One of the pieces began to glow a dark purple. Soon the whole pedestal was glowing. A bright light shot from the pedestal and filled the cave with immense light.
Sakura stumbled back and both of them shielded their eyes from the intensity of the brightness being cast from the pedestal.
"What's happening!?!"
The cave began to shake and rumble. Rocks were falling from the ceiling and into the lake. The quakes began to cease and the shaking soon stopped. But the lake was beginning to form waves. A big wave crashed into the shrine which pinned Sakura and [pic][pic] Syaoran to the cave wall. Both of them gasped for air as each wave crashed into them. Syaoran looked over at Sakura.
"Sakura!! *gasp* Use watery to .*gasp* stop the waves!!! Just like at the pool!!" [Autors note: Syoaran is referring to Episode 63: Sakura, the Pool, and the Big Wave.]
Sakura nodded and took out her key.
The key that holds the power of the stars.
The glowing star circle appears under Sakura.
Reveal your true form to me. AAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
A wave crashes into them again. Sakura catches her breath and continues.
I, Sakura, commands *gasp* thee under contract.
Release!
The key extends into a staff. Sakura grabs it and clutches it tight as another wave pounds her and Syaoran against the wall. As soon as the wave passes, Sakura takes the chance and grabs the card from her pocket.
Sakura throws it into the air and it starts to spin. Sakura thrusts her staff at the card and yells its name.
"WATERY!!!!"
A blue light shoots from the card as the water spirit emerges and forms. It turns to face Sakura.
Sakura takes a breath. "Watery! Use your power to stop the waves!!"
Watery turns and flies toward the center of the room of the cave. It dodges the oncoming wave as well as protects Sakura and Syaoran. It begins to perform its task, but is bombard with the strong waves.
Sakura turns to Syaoran. "It's no use!! Watery isn't strong enough!"
Syaoran turns toward her. "You need to fuse with it!"
"But I don't know if I'm strong enough...."
Syaoran grabbed her shoulders and stared at her eyes. "You can do it."
Sakura nodded. She turned toward Watery and pointed her staff at it.
"Card of the stars Reveal your power And fuse to become one Under the name of the Card mistress I command you! Watery!"
Watery stops and bursts into it's water form. The water formed into a ball of glowing blue light. The ball sped toward Sakura and came in direct contact. Syaoran backed away as Sakura was surrounded in a wall of light. As the light faded away, Sakura emerged with a gentle flow of water covering her entire body. She shot a smile at Syaoran as water formed at her feet and lifted her into the air. Syaoran's gaze followed her as she headed toward the center. More waves had formed and they were all heading for Sakura.
Syaoran ran to the edge of the water. "Watch out!"
Sakura smoothly lifted her hand toward one of the waves. The wave was forced back and disappeared as it crashed against the wall. Sakura backed off all of the waves with out any effort. She then summoned what strength she had and formed a ball of water in her hands. She threw it at the lake with great power. The water grew bigger and came in contact with the surface of the lake. A light filled the room as the two waters clashed. When the light disappeared, Syaoran opened his eyes and saw that the remaining waves on the surface of the lake were gone. He looked up to see Sakura in mid air surrounded by a blue light. Sakura returned to normal and began to fall to the ground.
Syaoran ran to the middle of the bridge and took out his sword.
"Wind descend!" The wind shot out of the Ofuda and caught Sakura in mid air. The soft wind gently floated Sakura down toward the bridge. Syaoran caught her as the wind disappeared. He looked toward the lake.
"This wasn't by accident..."
He looked down at Sakura. Then he walked out of the cave with Sakura sleeping in his arms.
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The next Morning.
Tomoyo stood up."Ah!!! No! I missed it!" Sakura had just finished telling Tomoyo what happened the night before.
"You fused with one of your cards and I wasn't there to tape your heroic efforts" Sakura looked at her with a confused look.
"But Tomoyo-chan, last night was pretty dangerous with the waves and all.."
Tomoyo smiled. "When I'm with Sakura-chan everything will always turn out right."
Tomoyo put her hand on her cheek and lowered her head. "Watery is the most elegant out of the elemental cards! It's unfortunate that I missed Sakura- chan's fusion with it."
Sakura sits on the beach blanket with a blank stare. "º.º?....................."
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In a tree near the entrance of the cave, Reita sits and watches the class play on the beach. She looks at Sakura.
"You've grown strong..even though you are still tired, your magic has increased rapidly in such a short time. It's almost here..."
She looks at Syaoran who is swimming in the lake next to the beach. She smiles.
"You're time is near too."
She disappears in a flash of light.
Syaoran stops swimming and looks over at the tree near the cave entrance. He sees nothing in the entangled branches and continues swimming.
*?* TO BE CONTINUED *?*
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"Ohayo!" "Ohayo, Ohayo!"
Students at Tomoeda elementary were greeting each other with blissful smiles. Today, Sakura and her class were taking a trip..and they are very anxious to go. ^-^
In the Classroom.
"This is going to be so much fun!!!"
"Yeah! Just like last time!"
"It was so much fun in fourth grade! I wonder if there are new things to do!"
Naoko popped up in front of the students. "I heard that the ghost that was haunting the shrine in the cave has moved on. I wonder now.."
The students listened carefully.
".that it is vacant a new spirit will appear."
"Ooooooohhhh." The students burst into conversations about what type of monster or spirit will appear next.
"HOOOEEEEE!!!!!!" Sakura overheard Naoko and was now not very excited about the trip as before.
Tomoyo looks at Sakura. "This will be as fun as last time. Sakura-Chan? Isn't that where you captured the Erase Card?"
Sakura nods. "I didn't like the last trip as much." She shakes her head in fear.
Tomoyo puts her hand up to her cheek. "Things were so different back then."
Sakura looks up. "What do you mean?"
Tomoyo looks down at Sakura. "Well for starters, Li-kun was still in competition with you and the Clow Cards."
Sakura eyes widen. "Oh yeah. I forgot..." Sakura smiles. "But we're good friends now." Sakura looks at Syaoran who is sitting at his desk. He catches her glance and turns his head away with a slight blush.
Tomoyo smiles at him. She turns toward Sakura and continues. "And Misuki Sensei was our teacher back then."
Sakura nodded. "And back then I didn't even know that she was involved with Clow Reed or the Clow Cards. Now she knows something more, something we don't know."
Tomoyo nods and smiles. "And back then."
Sakura looks up.
".Sakura-chan was just as Kawaii as she is now!"
*Fall* (AS)
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Lunch.
"Idsutakimus!"
Sakura took a bite out of a rice ball.
Rika looks at her. "Sakura-chan?"
Sakura looks at her with her mouth full of rice.
"Who's going to be on your team on the trip?"
Sakura swallows. "Team?"
"Yeah, there are going to be six teams of four on our trip. We're having a survival game there and you need four people to a team."
Sakura put her chopsticks up to her lips and looked up.
"Hmmmmm.. it's really hard to choose just four. Tomoyo, are you in a group yet?"
Tomoyo looked down. "Yes. I'm going with Rika-chan, Naoko-chan and Chiharu- chan.. [Authors Note: Grrr.. I tried to refrain from using 'Chiharu', but for those who are not in the guild....well yeah. -_-...STUPID CHIHARU!!!!! YOU STOLE MY YAMAZAKI!!!!!] .gomen. But Sakura-chan will do fine. ^-^"
Sakura looks at Tomoyo. "I wonder who I will be with."
Syaoran looks at her. 'I don't have a team either.'
Yamazaki pops up. "About teams.."
Chiharu pushes him out of the way. "Yeah yeah, enough of your lies." [Author's note: Grrr.. I'm gonna kill her...]
Tomoyo looks at Sakura. "Why doesn't Yamazaki-kun be apart of your team, Sakura-chan?"
Sakura smiles. "Yeah! Good Idea!"
Yamazaki nods.
Syaoran stares at Sakura. He looks down, blushes and then yells. "I'll go too!"
Sakura nods. "Ok. That makes three, now we just need one..."
"I WANT TO GO WITH SHAORAN-KUN!!!!!!" Reita yelled. She jumps on to Syaoran and clings onto his neck.
"Ack!!! *choke* Get off!!!"
Sakura looks at Reita ".more." *sweatdrops*
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At the camp...
"Catch it Sakura!!!" Rika tossed the beach ball at Sakura.
Sakura runs backward to get under the beach ball. "Ha!" She hits it back.
"Get it!!"
Tomoyo sits on the beach with Naoko. She smiles as she tapes Sakura with her camera.
"Eh?" Tomoyo see's Syaoran in the lake through her camera watching the girls play. She smiles.
Syaoran continues to swim. "It's too early. She hasn't calmed down enough for me to tell her without confusing her. I." "AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Syaoran's foot is grabbed by something and he's dragged down. He comes to the surface gasping for air, with Rieta clinging to his neck. Rieta yells through her snorkel, "Shaoran-KUN!!!! ^-^"
*choke* "Ah!..*choke* I can't breathe!!!! Get off!!! I can't swim with you on me!!"
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Sakura was peeling some potatoes along with everyone else. "So what do you this survival game will be about?"
Naoko drops her potato and looks up. "I hear that we have to go into the forest behind the cave!" Naoko jumps up and goes starry-eyed. "I hope we find some ghosts!!!"
Sakura falls backward. "Geh?!? I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS NOW!!!!!" Sakura cowers in fear.
Tomoyo comforts her. "Don't worry, I'm sure what ever comes your way, someone will be there to protect you for sure." Tomoyo glances at Syaoran who stumbles back. She laughs to herself.
Sakura looks up. "Ho-e?"
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That Night.
"Ok! Gather around here!" Mr. Tereda motioned everyone to come closer.
"This is how we will play!! We have hidden puzzle pieces all around the camp! There are four in all to collect for each team. They could be in the woods, on the beach or in the cabins! When you have found the 4 correct pieces, head toward the shrine in the cave and assemble your puzzle. First team to finish is the winner!"
The students begin to scramble through out the camp to search for the pieces. Sakura and Yamazaki run over toward Reita who is attached to Syaoran's neck. Syaoran is crouched over from Reita hanging on so long. When he catches a glimpse of Sakura running toward him, he straightens up and blushes.
Sakura runs up to them. "Ready?"
Syaoran nods. Reita jumps up and down. "YEAH!"
"Where should we start looking?"
"Wouldn't it be faster if we split up?" Reita asked Sakura. "That's a good idea!" Sakura smiles.
Yamazaki turns toward Reita. "Should we look around the cabins?"
Reita nods. "Sure!" Yamazaki and Reita run off. Reita glances back. She stares at Sakura and smiles. "Do your best." She looks at Syaoran, "You too."
Syaoran's eyes widen and he glances at Reita. He watches her run off. "What..was that?"
"Shaoran-kun."
"There's something strange."
"Shaoran-kun!"
"..strange about..."
"Shaoran-kun!!"
Syaoran blinks and realizes that Sakura is inches away from his face staring at him with a confused look.
"G-GEH?!?!!" He stumbles back and falls backward.
Sakura runs over to him. "You alright?"
Syaoran looks at her. He blushes and turns away. "Yeah."
"Should we look on the beach?"
Syaoran gets up and dusts himself off. "O-ok"
Sakura smiles. "Great! Come on!"
Sakura and Syaoran run toward the beach.
Sakura walks near the water hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the hidden pieces. Syaoran pretends to be looking for them too, but instead watches her out of the corner of his eye.
"Hey Shaoran-kun? Do you remember two years ago, when we came here last?"
Syaoran looks at her.
"You know that night, I was scared and you comforted me? I never really thanked you ^-^"
Sakura turns around to see Syaoran's face deep red.
"What's wrong? Your face, it's.."
Syaoran shakes some of the blush off. "It was nothing really.."
"AH! Found one!" Sakura held up a puzzle piece. Sakura looked at it closer. She smiled at Syaoran and showed him the piece.
"The picture looks like part of a star. Let's just hope that Yamazaki-kun and Reita-chan find the matching pieces."
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Sakura and Syaoran found another piece and headed to the entrance of the cave to wait for Yamazaki and Reita.
Sakura looked at the entrance. "T-T I don't like this place..."
Syaoran looked at her.
"Sakura-chan!!!" Reita and Yamazaki came running from the woods with two puzzle pieces in their hands.
Sakura jumped up. "Ah! You found the other two!" Yamazaki handed her his piece as Reita jumped on top of Syaoran.
"SHAORAN-KUN!!!!! I missed YOU!!!!!"
"-_-U....get off." Syaoran struggled.
Sakura looked at them and smiled. "Now we just gotta put the puzzle together at the shrine in the cave."
Reita got off of Syaoran and walked over to Sakura. "Why don't the two of you go in and we'll wait here for you." The piece in Reita's hand began to glow a bright purple and then returned to normal. Reita smiled. "Here's the fourth piece" She handed Sakura the last puzzle piece.
"Me?! Go in there ..h-hoee....."
Sakura and Syaoran entered the cave.
Sakura whimpered to herself as they went through the passages towards the shrine. "H-hoe...it's as scary as it was before...."
Syaoran stared ahead. "There's no need to be afraid, all of the Clow Cards are caught and transformed so there's nothing ahead of us."
Sakura nodded.
They reached the bridge that hung across a pond in the cave.
"Eh heh..it looks like they fixed the bridge since last time. ...^-^U"
Syaoran nodded.
They crossed the bridge to the shrine. In front were six pedestals. Each one had an engraving on the top. Sakura looked at them.
"There's a moon....a sun shaped ....that one looks like a wisp of fire....um there's a drop of water....and that one has a leaf..there's a star and the last one is a cloud. I guess we found the star."
Sakura approached the pedestal with the puzzle pieces. She put them face down so that they fit into the engraving. Sakura placed the last piece in and stood up.
"There we did it!"
One of the pieces began to glow a dark purple. Soon the whole pedestal was glowing. A bright light shot from the pedestal and filled the cave with immense light.
Sakura stumbled back and both of them shielded their eyes from the intensity of the brightness being cast from the pedestal.
"What's happening!?!"
The cave began to shake and rumble. Rocks were falling from the ceiling and into the lake. The quakes began to cease and the shaking soon stopped. But the lake was beginning to form waves. A big wave crashed into the shrine which pinned Sakura and [pic][pic] Syaoran to the cave wall. Both of them gasped for air as each wave crashed into them. Syaoran looked over at Sakura.
"Sakura!! *gasp* Use watery to .*gasp* stop the waves!!! Just like at the pool!!" [Autors note: Syoaran is referring to Episode 63: Sakura, the Pool, and the Big Wave.]
Sakura nodded and took out her key.
The key that holds the power of the stars.
The glowing star circle appears under Sakura.
Reveal your true form to me. AAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
A wave crashes into them again. Sakura catches her breath and continues.
I, Sakura, commands *gasp* thee under contract.
Release!
The key extends into a staff. Sakura grabs it and clutches it tight as another wave pounds her and Syaoran against the wall. As soon as the wave passes, Sakura takes the chance and grabs the card from her pocket.
Sakura throws it into the air and it starts to spin. Sakura thrusts her staff at the card and yells its name.
"WATERY!!!!"
A blue light shoots from the card as the water spirit emerges and forms. It turns to face Sakura.
Sakura takes a breath. "Watery! Use your power to stop the waves!!"
Watery turns and flies toward the center of the room of the cave. It dodges the oncoming wave as well as protects Sakura and Syaoran. It begins to perform its task, but is bombard with the strong waves.
Sakura turns to Syaoran. "It's no use!! Watery isn't strong enough!"
Syaoran turns toward her. "You need to fuse with it!"
"But I don't know if I'm strong enough...."
Syaoran grabbed her shoulders and stared at her eyes. "You can do it."
Sakura nodded. She turned toward Watery and pointed her staff at it.
"Card of the stars Reveal your power And fuse to become one Under the name of the Card mistress I command you! Watery!"
Watery stops and bursts into it's water form. The water formed into a ball of glowing blue light. The ball sped toward Sakura and came in direct contact. Syaoran backed away as Sakura was surrounded in a wall of light. As the light faded away, Sakura emerged with a gentle flow of water covering her entire body. She shot a smile at Syaoran as water formed at her feet and lifted her into the air. Syaoran's gaze followed her as she headed toward the center. More waves had formed and they were all heading for Sakura.
Syaoran ran to the edge of the water. "Watch out!"
Sakura smoothly lifted her hand toward one of the waves. The wave was forced back and disappeared as it crashed against the wall. Sakura backed off all of the waves with out any effort. She then summoned what strength she had and formed a ball of water in her hands. She threw it at the lake with great power. The water grew bigger and came in contact with the surface of the lake. A light filled the room as the two waters clashed. When the light disappeared, Syaoran opened his eyes and saw that the remaining waves on the surface of the lake were gone. He looked up to see Sakura in mid air surrounded by a blue light. Sakura returned to normal and began to fall to the ground.
Syaoran ran to the middle of the bridge and took out his sword.
"Wind descend!" The wind shot out of the Ofuda and caught Sakura in mid air. The soft wind gently floated Sakura down toward the bridge. Syaoran caught her as the wind disappeared. He looked toward the lake.
"This wasn't by accident..."
He looked down at Sakura. Then he walked out of the cave with Sakura sleeping in his arms.
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The next Morning.
Tomoyo stood up."Ah!!! No! I missed it!" Sakura had just finished telling Tomoyo what happened the night before.
"You fused with one of your cards and I wasn't there to tape your heroic efforts" Sakura looked at her with a confused look.
"But Tomoyo-chan, last night was pretty dangerous with the waves and all.."
Tomoyo smiled. "When I'm with Sakura-chan everything will always turn out right."
Tomoyo put her hand on her cheek and lowered her head. "Watery is the most elegant out of the elemental cards! It's unfortunate that I missed Sakura- chan's fusion with it."
Sakura sits on the beach blanket with a blank stare. "º.º?....................."
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In a tree near the entrance of the cave, Reita sits and watches the class play on the beach. She looks at Sakura.
"You've grown strong..even though you are still tired, your magic has increased rapidly in such a short time. It's almost here..."
She looks at Syaoran who is swimming in the lake next to the beach. She smiles.
"You're time is near too."
She disappears in a flash of light.
Syaoran stops swimming and looks over at the tree near the cave entrance. He sees nothing in the entangled branches and continues swimming.
*?* TO BE CONTINUED *?*