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: It's The Glass Card!(It sounds even more nonsense than the first… --;) Any right guesses? n 2 thumbs for you! #0#
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Japanese and Chinese Vocabulary:
Itai: ouch.
Hontou ni daijyoubu: I'm fine, really.
Arigatou: thank you.
Ni kan: you see.(pronounce kan like pronouncing can't without the 't' in British, you put 'h' between 'k' and 'a')
Xie-xie ni: thank you.
Onegai: please.
Sugoii na: how great.
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Chapter 4
The Glass
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The sunrise penetrated through the window's glass and caught Sakura's eyes. She yawned, scratched her head, and got up to go to the bathroom. Her legs hurt as she stood up on the cold, marble floor.
Itai! Is it because of yesterday?… she thought, rubbing her hurt leg.
She walked awkwardly to the bathroom, her eyes were still giving a blurry view.
This thing… I used to get so familiar with this… Sakura thought about last night.
"Yo, Sakura! Ohayou!" surprised Kero, shattering Sakura's thought…
"Hoe?! Oh, ohayou, Kero-chan!" said Sakura, her heart almost jumped.
"What happened? You looked nervous," asked Kero worriedly.
"No… I'm okay, Kero-chan, hontou ni daijyoubu!" she said, assuring.
"It's just… weird, to re-experience all this card-capturing things…" she added.
Kero kept silent.
"Sakura, you've been in this situation before! You'll get through this, I believe you will!" comforted Kero.
"Arigatou, Kero-chan…" thanked the Clow Mistress.
Suddenly, Sakura heard a knock from the door.
"Come in," Sakura invited.
"Ohayou gozaimasu, Sakura-chan!" said Tomoyo from behind the half-open door.
"Ohayou! Eh?! You've already changed (well, Tomoyo sleep wearing a dress, right? nn;)!" Sakura cried out.
"But we are going to have breakfast together, right?" she said.
"HOEE?! I'd better take a bath now! See you, Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura said hurriedly, she then went to the closet to get some clothes and towel.
"Sure, see you downstairs!" Tomoyo went out.
15 minutes later…
The now-wearing-a-sky-blue-dress Sakura appeared in the breakfast room…
"Ohayou! Sorry, I'm late!" apologized Sakura, a teardrop appear on her face.
"It's okay, Sakura-san," said Eriol, giving his popular, innocent, angel-like smile.
"…" Shao Ran glared at Eriol without saying anything.
Sakura sat next to Tomoyo, who sat beside Eriol, who sat before Nakuru, who sat next to Mei Lin, who sat on the right side of Shao Ran, who sat beside Kero. Suppi was on the last role… (confusing, ne? nn;)
The sweet smell of England bread and the fresh salad added with dressing for perfection surely gave the group a somewhat soothing and nice feeling to start a new day in England… Sakura and the others sipped their hot Grey Earl teas with delight.
"Nice tea…" Mei Lin commented in silence, while Tomoyo just smiled politely.
"So… Sakura, what happened exactly, last night?" said Eriol as he put back his half-filled teacup.
"Well, me and Shao Ran was jumping after the Spin Card, when it suddenly changed itself to its real form…" Sakura said.
"After considering what card to use, I finally chose Windy…" she added.
"Ah, and a perfectly good choice too, right?" asked Eriol with another mischievous smile.
"Well, I did caught The Spin…" answered Sakura ineptly.
"I see…" he whispered shortly.
"So, cute descendant, have you anything to say?" Eriol suddenly asked the frown boy, merrily.
"Stop calling me with that nickname!" Shao Ran stood up as he protested.
"Hoe… Shao Ran-kun, you should calm down a little…"
"Why didn't you go with us last night?!" Shao Ran cut.
"Are you planning something behind all these?!" he continued accusing.
Eriol kept smiling calmly.
"Oh? Whatever make you think so?" he asked with a low voice.
"Well… I mean, the way you act strangely…"
"Don't you think he's always like that?" Kero suddenly cut.
"Don't interfere, stuffed-animal!" he insulted.
"You…you brat! Who did you call stuffed-animal?!" said Kero in rage.
"Ho… Hoe…" Sakura looked at their fight, didn't know what to do.
Shao Ran and Kero started The Glaring Contest…
"HEY!!" Nakuru suddenly shouted and hit the table hard.
"…" everybody froze in shock, black aura formed from behind Nakuru…
"… Don't fight while drinking teas!" Nakuru said in a cheerful tone.
All of them had a huge sweat drop, several hairs sprouted from their heads…
"Well, he is still weird…" commented Suppi.
"Wow! Englishmen surely like arts!" exclaimed Sakura while looking at some handcrafts in a museum.
They went to an art museum; Kero and Suppi are inside Sakura's bag.
"Why must I stuck in here with you…" grumbled Suppi silently.
"WHAT?! I should be the one who said that!" yelled Kero silently too…
"Well… They like to collect them, as a matter of fact," said Eriol.
"They would pay a high price for a piece of art!" he added.
"Wow… By the way, Eriol-kun, could I take photos here?" asked Sakura hopefully.
"I'm afraid not, these kind of museums usually won't allow people to take photos, in case they duplicate it…"
"Hoe… It's too bad…" Sakura said disappointedly.
"Don't be disappointed, Sakura, you could always buy the book which contains the exhibited artworks in here!" said Tomoyo with her favorite kind smile.
"Grr…" Shao Ran growled under his breath when looking at them.
"Shao Ran! Ni kan! Those small clay statues are cute, right?" said Mei Lin suddenly.
"Huh? Oh, yeah…" he answered gawkily.
"Are you thinking about something?" asked Mei Lin curiously.
"Huh? Me? Not really…" he lied.
"About Sakura?" teased Mei Lin.
"Mei Lin…"
"It's okay, I told you already that I've get over it… It's useless to think about the past…" she told Shao Ran honestly.
"…"
"But, Shao Ran, you should be more open to Sakura, you know?" Mei Lin said teasingly.
"You're always shy and cold to others, you should be more open to them!" she added.
"Eh?" Shao Ran looked surprise.
"… Xie-xie ni…"
"It's okay, I'm your closest cousin, anyway!" she winked and looked for more handcrafts.
Be more open, eh? thought Shao Ran while looking at the smiling Sakura…
Meanwhile, a group of students were observing a glass artwork when it suddenly moved.
"Eh? Did you see that?" asked a brown-haired boy.
"Ya, do you think there's an earthquake or something?" a blond-haired boy answered.
"Look! It moves again!" a brunette-haired girl told the others.
The glass artwork vibrated hard and suddenly smashed into tiny pieces.
CRANK!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" the students screamed.
"Nanda?!" said Shao Ran.
"Clow Card!" shouted Sakura.
"Sakura!" said the-popped-up-from-the-bag-guardian.
"Un!"
"RELEASE! SLEEP!" shouted Sakura.
The people in the museum fell down and fallen asleep.
Suddenly, a piece of glass flew, attacking the unaware Sakura.
"Ah!" Sakura looked shock.
ZEB! ZING! WHOOSH!
The sound of flying and stabbing glasses rang in Sakura's ears, she was closing her eyes tightly.
"Shao Ran-kun!" shouted Sakura when she realized that Shao Ran had protected her. A glass piece stabbed Shao Ran into his right arm.
"I'm okay…" said Shao Ran, assuring.
More pieces of glasses flew toward them…
ZIING!!
"Watch out! LIGHTNING!" Shao Ran's sword was surrounded by crackling lightning that eventually stroked the glasses.
CRANK! Some of the glasses shattered.
"Sakura, are you all right?!" asked Tomoyo worriedly.
"I'm okay, but Shao Ran…" Sakura looked at Shao Ran with concern.
"I'll take care of him! Kinomoto, catch that card!" suddenly Mei Lin said.
"Oh… Okay, onegai, Mei Lin-chan!" said Sakura, suddenly feeling a twinge in her chest.
Sakura stood face-to-face with the glass pieces, they suddenly merged and formed a girl with medium-length black hair wearing a purple kimono. She looked kind of seductive with her red lips and eye-shadowed eyes. She had a pair of black wings made of glass. Several black glasses surrounded her. (Made her more or less like The Mirror, ne? nn;)
What should I use to capture The Glass? Thought Sakura deeply.
"WINDY!" Sakura decided.
The gust of wind surrounded the extremely calm card. The wind just passed through it.
Ah! The Windy just passed through it! Sakura realized in shock.
ZZIIIING!
The Glass decided to attack Sakura with her sharp glass pieces.
"JUMP!" Sakura shouted and jumped in time.
"Ah!" she cried when one of the glass pieces brushed against her skin, creating a long wound on her arm.
"Sakura!" shouted Tomoyo in fear.
"Sakura! Use The Sword!" yelled Shao Ran.
"The Sword?!" said Sakura, half asking.
"Yes! The Glass won't be able to escape from it!"
"Okay!" said Sakura firmly.
Sword… Please catch the card!"SWORD!" Sakura shouted.
The beam from The Sword attacked the now-worried card.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEKK!" The Glass screeched painfully as the card destroyed her.
The lost card started to break into glass pieces once more…
"Hurry, Sakura!" yelled Kero, full of spirit.
"Return to your true self! Clow Card! (I made the spell myself… Gomen…--;)" Sakura said in triumph.
The card sucked into a card and flew in front of Sakura.
"Yay! I captured another card!" Sakura said happily as she took the floating card.
"Congratulations, Sakura!" Kero and Tomoyo clapped with enthusiasm.
Sakura went towards the wounded Shao Ran, Mei Lin left them with a supportive wink to Shao Ran.
"How's your injury, Shao Ran-kun?" asked Sakura worriedly.
"It's okay…" he looked at his wound with a twitch on one of his eyebrow.
"How's yours?" he looked at Sakura's wounded arm.
Sakura shook her head.
"No, it's not that painful anymore… By the way, thanks, Shao Ran-kun! Anou… this card…"
"It's yours, you deserve it…" he cut.
"But… you told me what card to use!" Sakura insisted.
"But you are the one who sealed it. Take it, it's yours…" Shao Ran said somewhat sternly.
"Oh… okay, then, arigatou…" she gave up.
Sakura was about to leave when Shao Ran said something.
"Sugoii na, Sakura," he said, looking to the floor.
"Eh?!" Sakura blushed a little.
"Arigatou, Shao Ran-kun…" she thanked again…
"Eriol, you should told them the truth…" said Suppi silently to Eriol.
"Yeah! They will be mad later!" added Nakuru.
"…" Eriol didn't say a word.
"Hey, Eriol, did you hear me or not?!" Nakuru said, annoyed.
"Hm…" he hummed, ignoring the now-pouted Nakuru.
"It's getting more interesting, eh?" he smiled mischievously…
Oh, My Goodness! I can't believe I wrote it longer than I thought! #nn# (cheered happily…) Well, it's not something to pride over, actually… ANYWAY! Review! I won't like to write a long fic and received only 1-2 reviews! Review! Review! REVIEEEEEEEEEEEWW!!!!! (--; I'm so pathetic…)
P.S. Next chapter will be different from the past chapters! It's between Sakura and Shao Ran! Romance and humor! Keep reading this fic! Or I'll be very desperate, really… , ,
#nn# (JK-Chan)