¡Because you asked for it! The new chapter
The Hope Spell.
By: Princess Lalaith"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, snif; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Sakura, Tomoyo, Shaoran and Eriol stood there, shocked, wide-eyed, and with their jaws almost reaching the floor.
In front of them was standing a young lady, about their age, with short dark-brown hair, light-brown eyes and glasses; she was wearing a cream-color kimono with the design of an angel; beige sandals finished her attire. In her hands she was carrying a white urn, with an angel carved in gold and a seal in silver.
But what was most impressing wasn't the girl, nor her attire, nor the box, not even her identity! The most impressing thing was...she had a magical aura!!
"Kami-sama..." was all Tomoyo could manage to say.
"N...Naoko-chan!!" Sakura finally squealed.
"Yanagisawa-san!" Shaoran mumbled, as shocked and impressed as the rest of his friends.
Naoko just smiled at them.
"What do you mean that so am I?" Harry asked Hermione.
"I think something important happened." Hermione said suddenly.
"What?" Harry asked, he was still shocked of what they had just revealed...in fact, no scratch that: what he had just discovered. "Don't change the subject. Answer my question!" he demanded, he was tired of getting just half-answers.
"I promise I'll tell you everything you want to know, just after I find out what is Yanagisawa doing here, and why do I have a feeling there's magic around her." Hermione said as she ran away.
Harry didn't like to be left with just half the answers, but he followed his girlfriend anyway.
"Naoko-chan, what are you doing here?" Tomoyo asked, trying to calm her nerves, and let her mind think coherently again; something that seemed almost impossible with the present situation.
"Sakura! Tomoyo! Guys! Are you alright?" Hermione asked, finally getting to them.
"We're perfectly fine Hermione-san, don't worry." Eriol answered, without taking his eyes from Naoko.
Hermione too turned to the newcomer.
I feel magic! she mentally yelled.
Hai, we felt that too. Shaoran said. Why I wish to know exactly is if it comes from her or from the box she's carrying.
Comes from both. Sakura assured them. Although it's a different kind in each case.
"Naoko-chan, can you tell us, what's going on?" Tomoyo asked again.
"I could ask you just the same thing Tomoyo-chan." Naoko said calmly.
Tomoyo was about to say something, to come up with some excuse, but Naoko went on.
"But I can feel it fully well...magic." Naoko continued. "In fact I could feel it since the moment I saw you in the park."
"Nani?" Sakura asked, why hadn't they felt anything from her.
"You didn't feel my aura because I'm not like you, sorcerers, I'm a sprite." Naoko explained, it was as if she could read minds.
"Hai, I can read minds; no, I didn't read yours, I don't think it works with sorcerers, or part-sorcerers at all; although it was rather obvious you were going to ask." Naoko said calmly.
"That still doesn't explains how come you're here, and exactly when we're fighting those spirits." Shaoran said, distrustfully.
"If you're suggesting that I sent the spirits to you let me tell you you're totally wrong. In fact they wanted to get me." She made a paused. "No...not me..." she showed the urn. "This."
"What's that?" Hermione asked.
"A magic urn." Tomoyo stepped in, she had read about them.
"What's in it?" Sakura asked.
"In fact, I don't know." Naoko said, and this she sounded sincere.
"But..." Eriol started.
"Do you mind if we talk inside? I'm getting cold." Naoko said shivering a bit.
Everyone agreed and got inside the shrine.
Tomoyo had noticed that Sakura's oni-chan and Kaho-san hadn't seem at all surprised. Had they known about this all along?
Once inside they sat down in one of the main rooms of the shrine. Kaho left in silence and returned a couple of minutes later with some tea.
"Okay, time for explanations." Shaoran demanded.
"If you let me, I'm not the only one with secrets in this room." Naoko said with an innocent smile. "I can notice that your friend Potter has a great desire for some answers too."
Harry was a little surprised with this, how come this girl knew what he wanted? Then he remembered they where sorcerers.
'It must be easy for them to read minds like mine.' Harry thought.
"Okay, I'll start." Naoko accepted. She left the urn in the desk, at her reach. "As I already said, I'm a sprite. And my mission is to protect this magical urn. I don't know what is inside, they never told me, I just know that I must keep it until the true owner comes to claim it."
"And how will the 'true owner' know you have it?" Hermione asked. "Or how will you know he/she is the true owner for all that matters?"
"I'll know he/she is the true owner because just the Chosen One can open this urn, and that person will know I have it because it's part of destiny. When the content of this urn is needed it will call its possessor." Naoko said with a certain tone of mystery in her voice.
"How come you're a sprite and we didn't notice it before?" Tomoyo asked.
"Because I developed my powers just a couple of months ago. In December." Naoko said.
"How is that possible?" Eriol asked. "For all I know sprites inherit their powers when they're children."
"That I myself don't know." Naoko said. "Although I have the theory that someone bond my powers when I was little."
"But the Yanagisawas don't have any magic, of any kind. That I know for sure." Shaoran said.
"That's true." Naoko said. "But I'm a foster child. I don't know who my true parents are, just that my father was killed by some 'Death Eaters' and my mother brought me here hoping they would never find me. I don't know if she's still alive, although I don't think so."
Harry was getting mad, here was another person who's family was destroyed by Voldemort and his cronies.
And he was really surprised when his girlfriend voiced his thoughts.
"That...baka(stupid, idiot, fool, etc) Voldemort." Hermione said, being unable to find one word in her own language to describe that evil wizard.
Naoko turned to look at them, like waiting for them to say who they really where.
Hermione noticed this.
"As we said a couple of hours ago, I'm Hermione Granger, and this is my boyfriend Harry Potter." Hermione explained. "We're from England. We're wizards and study in a school called Hogwarts."
"You remember we left for a boarding school in England?" Tomoyo asked Naoko.
Naoko nodded.
"It was that school." Tomoyo explained. "We're attending Hogwarts."
"But you're not common wizards, that I'm sure." Naoko said looking at each of them.
"No, we're not." Eriol said. "We're Sorcerers, in fact scratch that, We're the Supreme Sorcerers."
Now Naoko was wide eyed.
"Nani?!" she finally shrieked.
"That's true." Sakura said. "Eriol-kun is Clow Reed's reincarnation, Tomoyo-chan is an Enchantress, Shaoran-kun is the Master of Elements, and Watashi wa (I am) the Card Mistress."
"Clow Reed?! Enchantress?! Master of Elements?! Card Mistress?!" Naoko yelled, now she really looked like she was about to pass out.
"We had already told you they weren't your average magical person." Kaho murmured.
Naoko nodded.
"You knew about this? Kaho-san? Oni-chan?" Sakura asked.
"Yes Sakura-chan, we knew." Touya stepped in, "After all Kaho is a priestess, and I'm recovering my medium powers. It's obvious that with this girl being a sprite the first persons she could ask for help would be us."
Sakura nodded.
"You're..." Naoko started eyeing Hermione and Harry.
"Part-wizards, part-sorcerers." Hermione answered.
"And I still don't understand what that means." Harry added.
"It means you're more powerful that a wizard." Tomoyo explained. "You can use more magic that the one that lays in a wand, because you have it in your own soul."
"That's why Hermy could use that spell without a wand?" Harry asked, starting to understand.
Tomoyo nodded.
"I can also feel magical auras and create special shields, more powerful that the Protergo Spell." Hermione explained.
"How did you learn to do all that? When?" Harry asked.
"Remember all those times I disappeared with Tomoyo and Sakura?" Hermione asked.
Harry nodded.
"That was the reason." Hermione said. "They were training me."
Harry nodded.
"And you too." Eriol added.
Again, Harry was puzzled.
"We have been training you too." Eriol said.
"It's impossible. I have never gone anywhere with you except here in Japan." Harry said.
"Dreams." Sakura interfered.
Harry turned to look at her.
"We've been training you in your dreams." Sakura explained.
Harry was just wondering if such a thing was possible when he felt something. Some kind of energy was emanating from Sakura, and from Shaoran, and Tomoyo and Eriol, and that girl: Naoko, Sakura's brother, that woman, and from Hermione too.
"What you're feeling is our auras." Hermione explained. "Our magical presence."
"When you get more used to it you'll get to identify a person just by feeling the aura. And then you'll get to use magic as Hermy-chan." Sakura said smiling.
Harry nodded, he was eager to learn something that may help him against Lord Voldemort.
"And one more thing." Eriol said, he took from his pocket a phoenix's feather.
Harry stared at it, it was pretty.
"If you're in this, you'll be 100." Eriol said. He handed the feather to Harry. "This is yours."
"What's this?" Harry asked holding the string from which the feather hung.
In the moment Hermione, Sakura, Shaoran, Eriol and Tomoyo discovered the necklaces that where hanging from behind their shirts.
"That Harry-san, is the symbol of the Order of Phoenix." Eriol answered.
Harry didn't need for them to explain what the Order of the Phoenix was, he knew perfectly well. His parents had been part of that Order. But that meant...
"We have permission to use magic out of school, yes; and even restricted spells. We're part of the Magic Word's defense now." Hermione explained before he had the chance to ask.
"That is, if you accept." Shaoran added.
"Of coarse I do." Harry said hanging it around his neck.
"We must hurry." Tomoyo said suddenly looking at her clock. "My mom and Shaoran-kun's family are expecting us for dinner."
"And tomorrow we have a wedding to attend." Sakura added.
The rest of them nodded. They stood up and where about to leave when they noticed Naoko was still motionless.
"What happens Naoko-chan?" Sakura asked.
"You said you where the Supreme Sorcerers right?" Naoko asked.
The other nodded.
"Clow Reed, an Enchantress, a Master of Elements and the Mistress of the Cards." Naoko counted. "Four."
Again the others nodded. They couldn't understand what was going on.
"Where's the fifth?" Naoko finally asked.
"What?" the girls asked.
"What do you mean?" Shaoran asked.
"What you heard." Naoko said. "There are supposed to be Five Supreme Sorcerers. Where's the fifth?"
Sakura, Tomoyo, Shaoran and Eriol turned to look at each other. They didn't have an answer for that question.
The next day, at noon, the weeding was held. Sakura, Tomoyo and Naoko were bridesmaids, and Nakuru was the Made of Honor. They were all very pretty, wearing dresses made by Tomoyo.
"I declare you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride." The judge said.
So Touya lifted the veil on Kaho's face and kissed her briefly on the lips.
Everyone cheered.
For almost everyone in that Shrine(the weeding was held in the Tsukimine Shrine), this was just a normal weeding, like any other.
For almost everyone...except for a group of teenagers who couldn't take Naoko's words out of their heads: "There are supposed to be Five Supreme Sorcerers. Where is the fifth?"
They were still wondering if what Naoko had said was true, if there was a fifth Supreme Sorcerer, and if so: where was he, or her?
In that week they had found out some things that some of them, just a couple of years ago, would have consider impossible. But now they knew they were true, completely true.
"Come on Kaho-san, throw the bouquet!" Nakuru called happily.
"Ok." Kaho said happily, standing over the stairs and giving the back to the guests.
"Please, every girl who is single, come on." Nakuru called. "Kaho-san is going to throw the bouquet now!"
Many of the guests gathered at the end of the stairs, waiting.
"Okay, here it goes." Kaho said. "One...Two...Three!" and she threw it.
The bouquet flew, and flew, and flew... and landed swiftly in the hands of...Sakura.
Many women started yelling at Sakura for being so lucky.
And Sakura stood there, amazed, with the bouquet still in her hands.
"Yay! Sakura is gonna be the next marrying!" Tomoyo squealed, immediately taking her camcorder out.
"I wonder who the groom may be..." Eriol murmured sarcastically.
With this Sakura blushed a deep red, and tried to hide it behind the white flowers.
Meanwhile Touya was letting go smoke by his ears.
"Calm down Touya-kun, dear." Kaho said hugging him.
"I don't like what that English boy is saying." Touya fumed. "Talking like that about by sister getting married."
"You don't like the idea of your sister marrying, or with whom she'll be marrying?" Kaho asked, half-predicting the answer.
"That gaki, he doesn't deserves her." Touya murmured between teeth.
"But you must respect Sakura-san's decision." Kaho said. "And besides, you knew what would happen since long ago."
"Hai." Touya nodded. "I knew it since the moment I saw that Chinese gaki for the first time. That's why I didn't like him a single bit."
"But you know your sister will be alright with him...she already is perfectly fine with him." Kaho said comprehensively.
"I know." Touya murmured, defeated.
And meanwhile Sakura was still holding the bouquet. Knitting sweet dreams in her head, while Tomoyo filmed her, and she and Eriol continued making comments that made her blush a deeper red each second.
And as all this happened, a certain chocolate-haired, amber-eyed, Chinese young man looked in silence at the woman she loved, his beautiful cherry blossom.
"Sakura...Wo ai ni(I love you-in Chinese-)..." he murmured under his breath.
An although his beloved couldn't listen to him, she could feel his aura embracing hers, and that was enough for her to calm down and relax immediately. Forgetting about anyone else, and thinking just about them: she, and her beloved little wolf.
"Aishiteru, Shaoran." She sighed happily.
Yay! I'm done! This time it took me less time! Aren't you happy for that?
Okay, now I got Naoko in all this disaster. Although her presence won't be too important(at least not yet). And I let there something hanging, the answer you may know it already, or at least have an idea. See, some of the things I mention in this fic won't be important until the sequel. Which will be started the moment I finish this, I'm deciding on a title, although I have one or two in mind already.
Sorry for the ones who were expecting a big weeding. As you can see the main topic of this trip was what Harry discovered, and what they discovered from Naoko. And also I was already taking too long in this vacations and we still have to go back to Hogwarts for the last two and a half moths of classes and the final battle...
Oops, I'm revealing more than I should, so this notes will stop here so no more information is spilled before time.
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Arigato and Matta ne(See you later).