Disclaimer: Card Captor Sakura belongs to the great CLAMP (and I don't deserve to own any of their masterpieces...).
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Author's Note: Thanks for your wonderful critics and reviews! As promised, here comes the first chapter! #nn#
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Japanese and Chinese Vocabulary:
Kirei: beautiful/pretty.
Gomen: sorry.
Daijyoubuka: are you all right.
Nanya: what (Osaka slang).
Um: yes (more informal than 'hai').
Aa: yes, usually said by boys (Anyway, the way to read it is like in 'Archery', not in 'Amen'.).
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Chapter 1The Trip to England
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"Hoe! The clouds are beautiful!" Sakura exclaimed with admiration. The plane's engines hummed mildly.
"Kirei, ne?" Tomoyo agreed.
"Did you bring Kero along?" asked Tomoyo.
"Hoee! Now that you mention it!" Sakura quickly dug into his bag. This action received a little attention from other passengers.
Sakura finally found an unconscious Kero on the bottom of her bag. His eyes forming spirals and his tongue stuck outside. Both Sakura and Tomoyo sweat dropped.
"A…Ano, how long will it take to arrive in England?" Sakura asked with still a single sweat drop.
"Hm… About 10 hours," Tomoyo answered innocently.
"EEEEH?! 10 HOURS?!" Sakura screamed.
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSTT!
The people in the plane hissed, signaling Sakura to be quiet.
"Go…Gomen…" Sakura said silently. The people stared at her with unfriendly looks.
After 10 exhausting hours…England Airport, 08.30 P.M
"Daijyoubuka, Sakura-chan?" asked Tomoyo worriedly.
"Hoe I'm dizzy!" Sakura muttered, her eyes started to form spirals.
"I think you should rest somewhere…" Tomoyo looked around for empty seats.
"There, Sakura-chan! There are empty seats!" Tomoyo led Sakura to the green seats.
Sakura slumped herself onto the chair.
"Hoeeeeee! I don't know that flying to England would be this terrible!" she complained aloud.
"Eh? That sounds like Kinomoto!" Sakura heard a girl's voice from behind her.
"Are you sure?" Now, a boy voice said.
Eh? Nani… Sakura looked back.The amber eyes met the emerald eyes.
"Sh… Shao Ran-kun?!" Sakura exclaimed in disbelief.
"S…Sakura?!" Shao Ran half-asked, equally surprised.
"Wha… What are you doing here?!"
"I…I got a call from Eriol and…" Shao Ran's blushed in shame.
"Eh?! You too?!" Sakura also blushed.
Shao Ran stopped.
"What do you mean, 'you too'?" he asked curiously.
"Well, I received a call from Eriol, he said that there's a problem with The Clow Cards!" said Sakura.
"Strange… whatever would happen to The Clow Cards? You've turned all of them into Sakura Cards, right?"
"Um! But I feel that something bad will happen…" Sakura put on a worried face.
"Ahem." Mei Lin said, annoyed.
"When will you two stop acting like we aren't here?!" Mei Lin asked, slightly offended.
"Ah! Gomen! Gomen!" Sakura half-smiled, half-sweat dropped.
"I think we should go to Eriol-san's house to find out more about it…" Tomoyo suggested.
"Hai!"
"Aa!"
Both Sakura and Shao Ran said at the same time. They looked at each other and blushed some more (They are so shy, ne? nn).
Suddenly, Sakura's bag rumbled.
"Eh…?!" Sakura gasped.
"S…Sakuraa… You squeezed me hard in there…" a just-woke-up Kero said miserably.
Kero looked at Shao Ran.
"Nanya?! What does this brat do in here?!" he automatically shouted.
"Who are you calling brat?!" the raged boy replied.
"I see that you have arrived safely in England…" a male voice said.
"Eriol-kun!" Sakura said, surprised.
"Clow!" shouted Kero.
"Omae…" Shao Ran said silently.
"You come along here to pick us up?" Tomoyo asked.
"Well, I didn't give you my address, right?"
"Eriol wants to keep secret of his house, he doesn't like many people…" a suddenly-popped-up-from-nowhere-Suppi said.
"Spinel," Eriol gave Suppi a calm warning.
"Spinel-kun?" said Sakura.
"But it's the truth, ne, Eriol!" Nakuru also said in sudden.
"Nakuru-san?" Sakura said again, most likely confused.
"Eriol never allows people to enter his house without permission, he even put a spell around it!"
Everyone sweat dropped at the thought of everyone that enter Eriol's house got electric shock or fired…
"ANYWAY, shall we go now?" Eriol said, trying to distract the others' thoughts…
They arrived at a spooky-looking, England-type mansion behind tall bushes…
"He has a very remote residence…" Shao Ran said with a sweat drop.
"I told you! He's kinda' weird…" Nakuru said, defending himself.
"Did you say anything?" Eriol, who just shown up, innocently
"Me and Ruby… No. Nothing…" Shao Ran canceled after he looked at Ruby Moon's giving a comical 'no' signal from behind Eriol's back.
"Strange, I thought you said something…" he said with a grin.
"Huh…" Ruby Moon sighed in relief.
"He can be very scary if he's angry…" Ruby Moon warned in a whisper to Shao Ran.
They entered Eriol's mansion cautiously, not wanting to accidentally got fired or shocked… The interior of the great wizard wasn't that bad, actually, even if it was a little bit dark and isolated.
"Ah… This sure brings back memory…" said Kero in wonder, while looking around the mansion.
"Everyone, please have a seat…" Eriol suddenly said.
"Now," said Eriol, sitting on his favorite big sofa.
"I'll tell the important thing which I told you earlier on the phone…" he began mysteriously.
That's all for the first chapter! Hee-hee-hee! Sorry for the cliffhanger! Hey, what would a fanfic be without a cliffhanger?! n Next chapter will be interesting! Eriol finally told them about… Well! You read it yourself after I wrote the second chapter! I'm going to update every week! Keep reading!
#nn# (JK-Chan)