The Second Generation 13
Meeko: Meeko here! This time with Shinji! Shinji: Yeah, last time we got ourselves into quite a little mischief. Meeko: He's right! I know Akiko likes Makoto. Shinji: and Makoto has already told me he like Akiko. Meeko: But being the stubborn one that he is, he hasn't told her yet. So Shinji and I… Shinji: We plan to set the two up using the fair as the basis. Meeko: While baking the cake though, Akiko and I ran into the Sweet. Shinji: Yeah, and a brat from school captured Dash, resulting in a fight. Meeko: My brother fought someone? Shinji: Yep! We saved Dash, who in return let us capture it. Meeko: Wow, well anyway. The day of the festival came fast so now we just hope our plan works. Shinji: It will, because you thought of it. Meeko: Did you say something? Shinji: No. Meeko: Okay, on with the festivities!!!!
Meeko sat in class, wanting it to end so fast, so she could go to the fair that was scheduled after school. Meeko felt the eyes of someone on her and turned to see Hitori looked at her. The girl smiled, her green eyes sparkling with an unnatural power. Meeko turned away, not wanting to look any more. Something was strange with the new girl. Being the teacher's daughter had to be tough. Meeko could only imagine the pain the girl went through with a mother like that.
Meeko felt a hand on her shoulder and slightly turned to Shinji behind her. He passed her a note. Won't be long now before the festival. Ready on your end?
Meeko smiled. She could always count on Shinji to take her mind off of anything troubling. She wrote back. Yep, she's all ready. We'll win. Will Makoto win? Shinji wrote back. We could use the Dash Card if things got ugly. Meeko gasped. Shinji! Shinji laughed behind her and wrote back. Just kidding. We're ready. Meeko smiled in satisfaction and sat back waiting for the end of the day.
She didn't really have all that long to wait, for only an hour later, class was out and the four were free to go to the fair. Meeko went with Akiko to get her cake that she had made, while Makoto and Shinji waited outside. (Note: Only Shinji knows Akiko's in the contest, besides Meeko of course)
Why am I doing this again? Makoto thought. He didn't really want to kiss anyone… other than Akiko. Her blue eyes and purple hair made her look so beautiful. He wanted to kiss her. Then again, Makoto was never one to back down from a dare.
Shinji looked over at Makoto's nervousness. "You ready?"
Makoto sighed. "I guess."
Shinji patted him on the back. "Okay, come on. Let's go." He took Makoto away from the door, where Meeko as hiding with Akiko. Saying she didn't want anyone to see Akiko's cake till the contest. When Shinji and Makoto were away, Meeko took Akiko over to the baking table to set up for the contest.
When Meeko was getting ready, Yukito shows up. "Hey you two!"
Meeko smiled. "Konnichiwa, Yukito-san. Why are you here?"
Yukito smiled as Nakuru came up behind him, holding his hand. "Like he could ever say no to cake."
That made both Akiko and Meeko giggle. Yukito tried to cover up his tracks. "I'm just one of the judges. I came by to wish you good luck."
Akiko beamed. "Arigatou!" Then Nakuru dragged Yukito away form the table to let the girls work.
Syaoran and Sakura were at the starting line of the race, waiting for it to start. "Makoto has always been a good runner." Syaoran commented.
Sakura giggled, as she held onto his arm. "He gets that from you."
Syaoran raised an eyebrow. "You're not such a bad runner yourself." He leaned on a kissed her on the lips. Shinji walked up and cleared his throat, causing both adults to break apart.
"The race is going to start. You guys gonna watch or play kissing face all day?"
Syaoran growled. Shinji was nice, but he was too smart mouthed for his own good sometimes. Sakura held Syaoran back. "We'll be right there."
Shinji nodded and went to one of the checkpoints. Sakura giggled and pecked Syaoran on the cheek. (Just trying to get some S+S in here too okay? Everything's "G" so far. Kero: Still feel bad about Ch. 9? Digidynasty: Yeah so!?) Anyway, Sakura and Syaoran got to the starting line and watched the gun go into the air.
"On your marks! Get set! GO!" The gun went off, and so did Makoto. Shinji cheered him on and Sakura and Syaoran shouted cheers to their son.
In the bushes, Hitori watched, like she always did, but this time her mother wanted to destroy the Cardcaptor Makoto. Hitori sighed. She didn't want to, but if she didn't her mother would punish her. So reluctantly, Hitori took out a card and released it. The card glowed and disappeared. Hitori closed her eyes and thought. Be careful. Looks can be deceiving. Then she disappeared to find her mother and report.
Shinji gasped as he heard a voice in his head, telling him to be careful. He looked around, and felt the presence of a Clow Card. He saw Makoto pass him again. What did the voice mean? Be careful? Shinji would keep his senses open for anything out of the ordinary; he just hoped it wasn't something they couldn't handle.
Meeko watched Akiko serve her cake to the judges, including Yukito. She had made a double chocolate cake, just like Meeko had suggested, also irresistible for Yukito. He took one taste and gave it a ten. Akiko and Meeko cheered, but then suddenly, felt a Clow Card. They looked at each other, and nodded, before running away from the judging table. They ran around looked for Eriol and Tomoyo, who were also there, but soon saw something bizarre. People around them started to fall asleep. One minute they were standing, the next, the fell to the ground, fast asleep.
"What is going on?" Meeko wondered.
Off to the side, Madoushi Sensei smiled as her plan was beginning to take effect. Hitori appeared besides her. "Loop Card has been released." She said.
"Good, now only one card left." Madoushi sensei smiled and released the last card. "This will take care of those pesky Cardcaptors once and for all!" She laughed, while Hitori beside her grew sad.
Hitori didn't want her classmates to get hurt. She watched as one by one everyone feel asleep, spectators and judges alike. She saw the card her mother had released, lift up one of the tables and aim it at Meeko. She couldn't let this happen. She jumped out of her hiding spot and shouted. "Look out!!"
Meeko turned around and saw it coming; she grabbed Akiko and dove to the side, the table smashing into pieces. Meeko looked back to the voice who had warned them, but found no one. She got up, helping Akiko up, and turned to see Yue, and Ruby Moon behind them. "Our enemy has release more Clow Cards here." Yue said.
"Which ones?" Meeko asked.
Ruby Moon stepped forward. "Power, Sleep, and Loop."
Akiko gasped. "Makoto!"
"Don't worry." Yue said. "My Mistress and The Clow Descendant are there with them, along with my son. He will be fine."
"We on the other hand, have to stop this now." Ruby Moon proclaimed.
Meeko nodded and as one, she and Akiko took out their staffs. "I'm going to find my father." Akiko said.
Yue shook his head. "He will not help you."
Ruby Moon nodded in agreement. "I will go with you. Yue will go with Meeko. We must seal them now."
Akiko and Meek nodded, and went off in separate directions.
Back at the race, Makoto stopped running, while Shinji ran up to him. "Everyone's asleep!"
Makoto gasped. "We have to help them!"
Shinji shook his head. "We have to get out of here first! We're trapped!"
Makoto frowned, but then sensed the Clow Card as well. "Which one?"
"Loop Card." Shinji said, taking out his staff. "We have to find the breaking point."
Makoto nodded and took out his sword. "Let's go!"
"Matte!" The two boys turned to see Syaoran and Sakura running towards them. "We can aide you! We'll split up and try and find the break in the loop."
Makoto nodded and took off to the right, Syaoran behind him. Shinji pulled out his wings, and took off to the left, Sakura using Fly right behind him.
Makoto looked and looked, but couldn't find the line. "Where is it?" He asked in frustration.
"Use your mind's eye! You'll find it!" Syaoran assured him.
Makoto closed his eyes, and tried to sense for the break in the loop. He ran and felt something, making him stop. He turned to a point that he had just crossed. "Right there!"
Syaoran smiled at his son's growing powers. "Seal it!"
"I can't. I can't seal cards…can I?"
Syaoran smirked. "No one ever said you couldn't. Now seal it!"
Makoto nodded. He brought down his sword on the break and cut the loop. Loop appeared and started floating up. Makoto brought up his sword. "Loop Card! Return to the shape you were meant to be!" Loop turned back into a card, and floated to Makoto's hand.
Syaoran smiled. "Let's go find the others!"
Akiko dodged flying pieces of chairs, tables, and some of the statues the school had around. Ruby Moon flew besides her, contemplating a plan. "You have to challenge it to a competition." She said.
Akiko frowned. She wasn't that strong to win against anything like that. She'd have to cheat…or trick Power, but how? Then it came to her. "Shot-put!" Suddenly, the sounds of things being thrown stopped, and Akiko turned around to see Power appear, smiling.
Meeko searched through the fair looking for The Sleep. She saw friends and teachers passed out on the floor. But she didn't notice her teacher wasn't among the fallen. Yue flew above her. "Sleep is around here somewhere."
Meeko nodded and stretched out her senses. Soon she found a little blue light moving around the fair, looking for more victims. She shouted. "Sleep!"
Sleep jolted from its searched and smiled at Meeko, finding its next target. It dove towards her, aiming its sleep dust at her. Meeko gasped. "Fly!" Wings grew out of her back and she took to the air. Sleep took after her in hot pursuit.
Yue shouted. "You have to use one of your cards!"
Meeko thought. She really only had Fly and Wave. Wait! That's it! Meeko took out the Wave. "Wave Card!" Wav came and went after Sleep, trying to drench it with its water.
Sleep dodged Wave's attacks, not paying any attention to Meeko. Meeko in the meantime, circled around, coming in front of Sleep. Sleep was looking behind her, watching Wave going up, when Meeko brought up her staff. "Sleep Card! Return to the shape you were meant to be!" Sleep tried to escape, but was ultimately sealed as a card and floated to Meeko.
Akiko watched as Power threw the metal ball into the air, sending it flying into the air, landing a good forty feet away. Akiko gritted her teeth as she tried to pick up another ball, similar to the one Power had thrown and found it difficult to even lift.
Ruby Moon watched, but then started noticing everyone waking up. "Akiko!"
Akiko was distracted and threw the ball the wrong way. The ball went flying to the left, hitting Power right in the head. Power collapsed to the ground, leaving Akiko shocked.
"Seal it!" Ruby Moon said.
"To thy try form! Power Card!" Power was sealed and awarded to Akiko. Right then, all the others came out into the open: Makoto, Shinji. Syaoran, Sakura, Meeko, and Yue.
Meeko started to panic. "Look at the mess! What are we going to do?"
Sakura smiled. "Leave that to me!" She took out her cards. "Erase Card!" Erase cleaned up all the mess. "Create Card!" Create made everything like new again.
Yue and Ruby Moon changed into their other forms, and saw everyone slowly wake up. No one remembered anything, so it all started over again.
Kero and Suppi appeared out of nowhere. "What'd we miss?" Kero asked.
Everyone laughed. "What took you guys so long?" Shinji asked.
Kero pouted. "Suppi here wanted to have a snack before coming." He glared at Suppi, who hid behind Nakuru.
"Well, you guys are just in time for the judging." Sakura said.
Makoto and Shinji returned to the race, to see everyone waiting for them. The judge walked up and shook Makoto's hand. "Congratulations. It appears you had the most laps done. You are the winner!"
Makoto was shocked, but accepted the prize. Shinji then led him to the main stage.
Akiko was sitting nervously as the rest of the judges tried her cake. The last judge looked at everyone else, they nodded and he smiled. "The winner!"
Akiko and Meeko jumped for joy, and were led to the stage.
Tomoyo stood in the middle of everything, happy of what she had recorded, but sad about the way Eriol had acted. "Everyone else helps in ways they can. Why can't we?"
Eriol kept his face calm. "They must do this on their own. We can not interfere."
Tomoyo looked down sadly at the ground, but soon heard the announcer and grabbed Eriol's hand. "Come on! I want to get this!"
On stage, Makoto was shocked to see Akiko led up as the winner of the baking contest. "Now the two winners will share a kiss to end this momentous occasion! For not only have we earned enough money for the camping trip, demo (but) a great one at that! Tomoyo and her husband Eriol have donated a large sum of money for the school!" Everyone cheered and clapped for the news. The announcer turned to Makoto and Akiko. "You may now kiss!"
Makoto and Akiko blushed furiously, as they inched towards each other. Shinji and Meeko on the sides giggled and put the past part of their plan into action. Shinji raised a finger, and gently pushed Makoto right into Akiko, sealing the kiss.
Everyone cheered, and Makoto and Akiko shared a beautiful kiss in front of everyone. Sakura and Syaoran clapped, as did Yukito and Nakuru. Meeko sighed. "How sweet. Sometimes I wish I had won."
Shinji smiled and turned Meeko towards him, laying a kiss right on her lips. She was shocked at first, but soon wrapped her arms around him, kissing back.
Syaoran looked for his daughter and was shocked to see her kissing Shinji! He growled. "Get your lips off of my daughter!"
Shinji and Meeko broke the kiss, as they saw a very mad Syaoran coming after them. Shinji gave one last peck on Meeko's cheek, before making a break for it. Sakura came up to Meeko's side giggling. "And he was hated when Touya drove him away."
Meeko sighed as she watched Syaoran angrily chase Shinji around the fair for kissing his daughter. Meeko on the other hand, would never forget this day. The day her crush actually kissed her.
Back in a dark room, Hitori was thrown in, battered and bruised, bleeding from several cuts. Madoushi sensei growled at her. "That's punishment for disobeying me!"
Hitori rolled up into a ball and cried as her "mother" slammed the gate, locking Hitori inside. Hitori didn't know what to do. She felt pain all over, but knew she had to warn them. What her "mother" was doing was wrong. Hitori lay there, trying to make the pain go away. Soon, she would tell the cardcaptors what the real story was…hopefully they would agree to help her.