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: I posted the fic earlier 'cause I happened to have finished it! nn
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Japanese and Chinese Vocabulary:
Nanda: an informal way to say 'what', usually said by boys.
Zen de, ma: it's true, right?
Sugoii: great.
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Chapter 2
Eriol's News
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The room was silent for a moment, the flames on the fireplace dancing in silhouettes…
"When I created The Clow Cards," The atmosphere was getting tense when Eriol began.
"I lost ten of them accidentally…"
THUD!
Everyone fell down comically.
"You… You lost the cards?!" Kero shouted in disbelief.
"Yes, technically…" he said, matter-of-factly.
"How come YOU, a great wizard, did such a CARELESS thing?!" Kero added, veins popping.
"Well, it just… happened…" he said ingenuously.
"Hoe! Then we must catch them again?!" said Sakura.
"Precisely." Eriol said shortly.
"That's great! I can tape Sakura again!" Tomoyo said with sparkling eyes.
Everyone sweat dropped again…
"Luckily I bring my video cam!" she said, taking out the cam inside her bag.
"Really, it's not the time, Daidouji…" said Mei Lin, shaking her head.
"What cards are they?!" asked Shao Ran furiously.
"Are they dangerous?!" he continued.
"Most likely similar to the cards you've captured," Eriol answered, "but I think these cards would create more damages than the others…"
"NANDA?!" Shao Ran asked, rather shocked.
"But I believe you'll be able to handle these cards!" he smiled, trying to be a somewhat spirit-lifter.
"Anyway, Shao Ran, you'll be able to practice your new kung-fu style, right?!" Mei Lin said.
"What do you mean?!" Shao Ran lied, noticing that everybody's attention goes to him.
"Zen de, ma! I saw you practicing in the garden last week!" Mei Lin accused.
"Well, that's…" Shao Ran started to blush.
"Sugoii! I'd like to see it sometimes!" Sakura said naively.
Shao Ran blushed even more.
"It's… it's nothing!" he said.
"You looked even cuter when you feel ashamed, ne, my little descendant," Eriol teased Shao Ran to finish it up.
"OMAEE!" he yelled with his still-red face.
Everybody laughed.
"Well, enough for the intermezzo, I think…" said Eriol, dismissing the laughter.
"Even if it's still too early to sleep, you all should get some sleep after that long journey…" he said.
"Um… but… where are our rooms?" asked Tomoyo, trying to be as polite as she could.
"Ah, I forgot to tell you, I've put your names on the doors of each empty room."
"You'd better watch your steps," he added when they were heading upstairs to their rooms.
"It's very dark at nights, since I don't use electricity…"
"NO ELECTRICITY?!" Mei Lin particularly yelled.
"I can't watch TV, listen to the radio, or even have an air-conditioned room?!" she continued.
"And I can't watch Sakura on tape!" said Tomoyo.
Everyone looked at her again with sweat drops…
"He never changes…" said Kero, remembering his old times without electricity.
Sakura and Tomoyo were heading to the rooms. Their surroundings were pitch-dark, and they can hardly see a thing… The wooden floor creaked louder and louder when they stepped further…
"It's… It's very dark! I'm afraid…" she squeaked.
"Don't be afraid, Sakura-chan, I won't leave you!" Tomoyo soothed her best friend.
"After all, Eriol doesn't have any ghosts in his house…" added Kero.
After almost desperately looked for their room in that dark mansion, they finally found their names on the far-off rooms.
"S… Sakura!" Sakura trying hard to read with the light from the candle they carried.
"This is my room!" said Sakura without doubt.
"And the room beside it is mine!" Tomoyo exclaimed with a smile.
"Hoe! Tomoyo-chan, I'm afraid of sleeping alone in this dark room!" said Sakura, her voice trembled.
"ALONE?! Then what am I, Sakura?!" Kero asked, offended.
"Well… Ahahahaha!" Sakura gave her forced laugh, a large sweat drop behind her head.
"Don't worry! I'll surely come when you're in trouble!" Tomoyo said, assuring.
"O…Okay…"
Tomoyo-chan! Why did you say 'when', not 'if'?! Sakura thought when she entered the room.
A candle supplied the light in the room. It was a nice room that gave a soothing feeling. The bed was rather big with silky-white bed cover, and Sakura noticed a luxurious, huge, somewhat-make-up table.
"Oh! Nice room!" exclaimed Kero.
E… Eriol-san must have magically turned this room to be comfortable and nice… thought Sakura with a sweat drop.
The already-tired Sakura went fast to bed with Kero. But not long after that, she sensed something bad…
Suddenly, she heard a rumbling noise…
Hoee?! Ghosts?! No! This is …CRASH!
A huge spinning wind crashed the window glass and went inside Sakura's room.
A Clow Card!
Argh! Attack from the Clow Cards!! RUN! SAVE YOUR LIVES!! Okay, that's pitiable and lame… --;
Anyway, that was the first 'missing' card. Could you guess what card that is? n (Wink!) Well, see you next week!
#nn# (JK-Chan)