"Stop it!" the girl squealed and thrashed in their grip but to no avail, "Go bug your stupid friends or something!"
"But we just want to hang out with our baby sister, isn't that right Deneb?" one of the twins said with a sickening grin on his face.
"Yep." The other replied, same grin and everything, "C'mon Vega quit being a wuss."
"Leave me alone!" she squinted her eyes shut and tried throwing all of her weight backwards which didn't do her much good. By the looks of it two tall twin brothers had taken hold of a smaller girl, their sister, by her arms and appeared to be dragging her somewhere. The girl didn't appear to be enjoying this at all.
Our setting would be a normal single family home on the corner of a small street in a quiet neighborhood. So a pretty ordinary house in short. The two brothers pulled her upstairs and past a long white hall to what appeared to be a small door for a crawl space. "Now we can play locked in the dungeon. Right Altair?" said the one referred to as Deneb to the other one who snickered, he must have been Altair.
'Vega' the tiny girl looked horrified as large dark green eyes widened, "W-Wait a minute… t-the crawl s-space is haunted! Don't-"
Too late, they'd already opened the door and she was halfway in. By the time she was able to finish her sentence the door had shut and she was alone. Unfortunately for Vega the crawl space could only be opened from the outside but at least it was nice and cool. Though at the moment she didn't care; the girl slammed her fist against the door and screamed hoping someone would hear her. She must have terrible luck, because her mother and sister didn't get home till late and her brothers weren't letting her out anytime soon.
After much kicking and screaming and pressed her back against the door and took short, quick breaths, scared out of her wits. She had heard noises from this crawl space before, supposedly someone had lived in this house, but it burned down many years ago and they had to rebuild it. 'Maybe if I'm really quiet the ghosts won't hear me…' she thought trying to stay as quiet as possible.
She brushed some pinkish strands out of her eyes before a soft 'huuummm…' came from her right. Vega took a quick breath and froze, but it persisted.
HuuummmShe dared to turn to her right ever so slightly, out of the corner of her eyes, in a stack of old novels a soft glow had appeared. Shifting her hand she felt it rub over something cool and smooth. A flashlight. Vega made a mad grab for it, though she doubted that it worked; and to her surprise it did.
Scanning the room with the small flashlight she noted that nothing in the crawl space belonged to her or her family. Some old clothes that looked like something out of the 1990's, old dusty books, a rocking horse that was on it's last legs, then she finally came to the glowing book.
"Ma-maybe it's supposed to do that…" she tried to sound confident as she reached out to touch it. Well, she didn't burst into flames so it might not be all that bad. Vega slowly slid over next to the pile and tried to stand, amazingly this part of the crawlspace was no longer a crawlspace since she could stand and not hit the ceiling. Gingerly picking up the book she examined it.
A lion-like creature was on the front and a moon charm held firmly in place by a golden chain. It appeared to be in excellent shape for a book that had been sitting ina dusty, haunted, crawlspace for god knows how long. Turning it to the side she examined the spine, THE CLOW was written in large letters. "…clow?"
She slid off the seal that kept it closed and revealed an inscription on the inside cover and a deck of cards that were tucked away in false pages. It had appeared to be a normal book from the outside…
Next Vega examined the inscription, "… 'When the seal is broken, disaster will befall this world…' Well that's a short summary for a story. I wonder where the pages are…" She reached into the false pages, pulling out the first three cards on the top, one was a young looking girl that appeared to be made out of flames, the other was the same only she appeared to be made from water, the third was a wispy like girl, "Firey… Watery… Windy-?"
There was a moment of awkward silence before the floor began to glow with a strange circle like design, a star in the middle with a moon and sun on either side. The cards began to glow and there was a gust of wind that made everything shake or topple over. Even the locked door was forced open. The cards in her hands jerked and she released her grip, then the cards in the book began to break free.
But a certain yellow guardian was there just in time to catch the last card that almost freed itself, "Gotcha! And you thought I'd sleep through that all over…" the yellow bear , who was floating inches from Vega's face slowly turned to look at the empty book. "GAH! The cards! I can't believe I let it happen again! Ooooo! I'm sorry Sakura!"
Vega, who had froze where she stood stared at this strange little creature with a bewildered expression. He spun back around, "Another little girl-? Sheesh- You remind me of Sakura- anyways… How ya doin' there kiddo-?"
"That slang… you must be from Osaka… no? Somewhere near there-?" she pked him in the stomach lightly just to make sure he was real.
He giggled like a little girl before answering, "Actually I am from Osaka, Wow you are a lot like her. She said that the first time we met too-" for some reason he looked a bit saddened.
"What's going on…" she asked simply.
"Can we talk about this in your room or something? Or wait. We are in a house? Right?"
The pink haired girl cocked her ead to the side slightly, "Umm… we are in a house, just in a crawlspace… Yes lets leave!"
"So you're the culprit who opened the Clow Book? We really should have change the name to the Sakura book."
"Not to be rude Kero-san but did something happen between you and this 'Sakura'? You seem to be reminiscing a lot. And you seem to smile everytime you go 'you remind me so much of her'." She poured some tea in his cup and slip it to him on the wood floor.
Kero stared at the floor for a long while, "She was my former master. My ssecond one after the original creator of what used to be the Clow Cards, that's why it was the Clow Book. They don't exist anymore since Sakura used them as a base to make her own cards and use her own magic. It's been quite awhile since then." He paused emptying his cup in what seemed to be one gulp.
His cheeks turned red from the sugar (he had added lots of sugar to it), and slid it back towards Vega. She had a feeling he wanted more so once again she filled his cup; taking a tiny sip of her own. "Sakura… she was very powerful… more powerful than Clow even and she was almost eleven when she had finished changing the Clow Cards. That means things might be difficult on you." He sipped his cup, taking a moment to add another spoonful of sugar.
Vega had lifted her cup as to take another sip but stopped at his last sentence. She also took the opportunity of his pause to ask a question, "What do you mean things will be hard?"
"Well think of it this way. Clow Reed had a certain amount of power embedded in the Clow Cards. When Sakura captured them she had to have had a little more power than the cards to successfully capture them. She only had a teensy bit more power than Clow after she'd captured them all ya' know? But. When she changed them she was using her own power, before she was using Clow's power. So after changing all the Clow Cards she was extremely powerful. So that made the Sakura cards more powerful than the Clow Cards. So if you have the potential to be the next strongest magician then you'll be able to dot he same."
"Uhhhuuuhh…" she nodded, "But… what's so difficult about that?"
"Sheesh… When I meant Sakura became super powerful that means the Sakura cards became super powerful too! So now the Sakura cards are really strong. They'll cause more damage, they might have new abilities, and they'll require more magic to capture them. Thankfully Sakura super charged the new key. Oh, by the way, this is your starting card… since we only captured one before they all flew away." While gulping down his sugary tea he slid the card across the floor.
Vega gingerly picked it up, as if it was going to break into a million pieces, "S-Sword-?"
"Ahhh…" he put the cup down and patted his bloated belly, "Yes, sword, thid should make it a little bit easier on us. Sword is pretty strong, it's an attack card and can cut through anything, but it requires will power."
"Will power?"
"Yeah, the Sword will only be as strong as it's user wills it to be," He trotted over to the book and opened it, removing something that looked like a small key with a chibi wing design, "And this here, it your weapon." He hovered up to her and gently tossed the key at her.
The girl rolled it about in her hand, "Are you sure this isn't your weapon? It looks a little tiny for-"
"Just relax…" he sighed, "Now what did you say your name was again?"
"Vega…"
"Alright," he grinned, "Key that hides the power of the Stars… someone wishes to make a contract with you… a girl… her name is Vega." Vega watched with wide emerald eyes as the key began to spin, surrounded by a white glow, then it grew to what looked like a perfectly round gold ball with two chibi wings on each side that wrapped around the bottom of the ball and merged into the handle which was also white. The end was gold tipped with a bright red, "Take the staff! Hurry!"
There was a strong gust of wind as she stumbled forward and clumsily grabbed for the staff, which grew longer. Kero began cheering. "Wahoo! The next Card Captor is born! Congratulations Card Captor Vega.
"That sounds like the title of some sappy shoujo anime." She sighed, rubbing one hand along the cool metal of the staff while letting all this process, "Hey! Wait! What do you mean Card Captor!"
In a sly voice Kero replied, "I mean… you're a Card Captor."
Ve1 here! Whew that took awhile. I wrote this waaaaay back in June, but got cold feet about the premiere and re wrote this entire chapter. I really wanted this to be an original but I scanned through a couple pages of the CCS fan fictions and realized there was another story like this. (Sigh) Oh well… Anyways I really hope to get reviews. Please review! I get discouraged and pull the plug on stories when I don't get many reviews!Coming Soon…
Vega, with Kero and the Sword card is spending her Saturday working on an assignment in the park. But when a bouncy and quick little creature interrupts her will she be able to catch her first Sakura card? AND! Will she be able to finish her assignment? (joking) It's all in the next chapter of Tomorrow's Melody. So stay tuned for: Chapter 2, Bouncing off the Walls!
