A.N: We are up to capture number 2! Then again, we are also a chapter six! I think this story's going to be a very long one…

Of course, there are again numerous cuts (sorry!) and changes (sorry again!) to the original story of the RP.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original characters (Kero, Sakura, Tomoyo, Li etc), or the original plotline. As this was originally a role-play on GaiaOnline, the characters and some of the storyline and words belong in a way to their creators, through I've made many changes, they are still essentially the same!

Many thanks to those creators, including Hiryu-chan (the owner of CCS: The Next Generation).

Chapter Six: A Strange Woman

"How were you able to take me out of class?" Kimika asked, looking at herself in one of the mirrors in front of her. Yukino stood with back against the white wall and sighed.

"As a tutor hired by the school, I can get special permission to take you out of class"

Kimika smiled and turned towards her.

"Can you do it more often then?" she said winking. Yukino rolled her pretty eyes.

"I did it so I could help you with your next capture. I told you I know some magic. Earlier I sensed a powerful force near by. Now look outside and tell me everything you see"

Kimika turned and came towards the window next to Yukino.

"I see some grass; I see Li-san and Kaan-kun with their P.E class playing soccer on the east field, I see some trampled flowers, I see a huge bird causing destruction the far back field…ok, maybe that's not good"

"You've got that right. It's the Fly."

Kimika jumped out the girl's bathroom window in response.

Something inside made Natsumi know Kimika was going after a Clow card outside. She looked out the window. Not actually expecting to see her, she gasped in surprise as Kimika was in pretty much clear view from the window.
"Kimika-chan!" Natsumi called, only loud enough for herself and hopefully Kimika to hear, trying not to get the whole class's attention. Luckily, no one was looking in her direction.

'I want to see Ki-chan capture a card…where ever, whatever it is!'

"Ack!" cried Kimika as she turned to see Natsumi nearly falling out the window.'Oh no, I think that's Miso is coming towards the window!' thought Kimika. Why hadn't Natsumi noticed?

'I have to make some sort of distraction!'

"Hey, Urashima-san, are finally going to rid us of your awful face? I somehow don't think falling out the window will help, but thanks for trying!" Miso said and she and her gaggle of girls came toward the window. Natsumi glared and put her back against the window.

"No, I was preparing it so that when you tried, it would work!"

"Nice one, Urashima. Too bad we were unimpressed. Isn't that Waihashi-san out there? Trying to do a dance with those leaves and twigs?"

Kimika blushed as Miso and her friends looked out the window at her.

'I don' think this distraction is going to work' She thought, dropping the leafy branches and going behind a tree.
Kimika took her key from her neck and uttered as quietly as she could manage,
"Star key! Show me your true form, Release!"
The Star Key became the Star Wand in front of her. Kimika took the Windy card out from her pocket and flung it high into the air. She reached out and lightly tapped the card with the Star Wand, making it emit a golden glow.
"Windy Card! Said Kimika said as the windy started to shoot out of the now transparent glowing card. "Windy disguise the area with high wind to make it hard to see the Fly and me. Release! Windy Card!"
Soon, Windy had whirled around the sand and made it into somewhat a windstorm, with Kimika in the calm middle. The Fly flapped its wings and tried to peck at the wind.

'Now, what do I do? I left Kero-chan with Natsumi!'

"Well done, Kimika-chan" said a voice, as a beautiful woman in a silver-white Chinese-styled dress came towards her. Kimika blinked.

'Who is she?'

"Don't worry about who I am, Kimika-chan, I'm here to help you. Now use the Windy, to make sure the Fly can't fly away." The woman said in a slow calming drawl. She smiled at Kimika, her emerald eyes sparkling, giving the young girl insight. Kimika turned to the Fly.

"Windy! Please, help we catch the Fly! Make it impossible for him to fly through the whirlwind! Windy Card!" Kimika shouted as the Windy made its whirlwind higher and stronger. Kimika ran to the Fly, and cornered it. Then she struck it on the toe with the Star Wand and it collapsed onto the ground, still trying to fly away.

"The Fly Card, show me your true form! Return to your original form Clow Card! Fly!" Kimika yelled as, the wind rushed around her face, the Clow circle appearing underneath her feet. She saw through half closed eyes the Fly swirling golden light into a transparent card attached to her Wand. Then the Windy receded and the Fly Card drifted to the windswept ground. Kimika bent down to pick up the card.

"Goodbye, Kimika-chan"

Kimika glanced up where the woman had been, but all she saw was a flash of silver white.

"Goodbye…?"

Kyo was angry again. That stupid, Kaan-san, the one that was friends with Kimika-whatever, had kicked him in the shins and the teacher had sent him to the nurses office. Then he'd felt it.

Once again, she'd gotten something that rightfully belonged to him. Ok, so his mother and his father didn't mind too much…but he did. The Fly should have been his.

He jogged over to where she was returning to the building.

"Just what is going on here!"

Kimika was a little startled. Her mind had been on the mysterious woman, the one with long plaited brown hair, which had almost white streaks through it. She was surprised to see Li.

"Li-san!" screeched Hiryu. Everything had been so confusing for her.
"Well um... I caught the Fly!" She said, showing him the yellow Clow Card, "My tutor, the woman that told you to stay away from me, told me about it, so I used the Windy as a distraction so that Natsumi and Miso and her friends at my classroom window couldn't see me, then there was this strange woman, and I stabbed the Fly's toe and then you came-"

Kimika realised Li looked utterly confused at her rambling. He still looked angry. Kimika sighed. She was starting to confuse herself.

"This is all very new to me. Sorry." Kimika said sincerely, bowed in apology. She glanced up at Li, but he was already half way back to the school building.

'Why does he always act like that?'

Kisaya-sempai was still in the bathroom when Kimika returned. The brunette looked over at her and nodded.

"Great work."

Kimika moved over to the sink to wash away the dirt. She glanced at her tutor. Had she really been here the whole time? In some strange way, she made Kimika think yet again about the silver woman.

"Kis-"

"I have to get back to school." Kisaya-sempai interrupted, checking her watch, "I'll see you tomorrow for your lesson. Goodbye"

Kimika pulled a twig from her own blonde hair and frowned as the bathroom door shut quietly behind Yukino.

The school hours were over finally. Kimika stretched out a little, school always made her tired just from thinking all day in school. She straightened herself out a little. She changed the hand that held her book bag. Inside she could feel Kero squirming.

"Isn't it awesome that it's a Golden Week? I love holidays…" Natsumi mused, walking at a brisk step next to Kimika. Beside the two girls on Kimika's side was Kaan, trying to lean over and snatch Natsumi's bag away. Walking a little bit behind on Natsumi's side was Noda. After Kimika had returned to the classroom, she'd had asked where he lived, and then when she and Natsumi found out he lived near them and Kaan, they invited him to walk home with them.

Kimika glanced at her watch.

"I gotta go, Noda-kun, Nat-chan, Kaan-kun…I'll see you guys later, I forgot I needed something from the library…" Kimika said, taking a left and waving goodbye. She walked a little bit, then stopped and stood with her back against a large tree's dark trunk.

'She had a moon and a bunch of stars on her dress…she was so pretty! But why did she help me? Just who is she?'
It puzzled Kimika.

"Hey, can I come out now or what?" said a muffled voice from inside her bag. Kimika sat down and opened her bag to let the supposed plushie fly out.

"DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO BREATH INSIDE THAT THING?" Kero said, crossing his yellow arms. Kimika laughed.

"Sorry, I have a lot on my mind." Kimika said, launching into a blow-by-blow description of the latest capture. When she finished, Kero sat on her knee with a serious face.

"I know she helped you, but be careful…I've never met a woman like the one you described…she could be dangerous…"

"But Kero she was so ni-"

"Doesn't matter, kid. It's suspicious!" Kimika sighed. She brought the Fly out from her pocket. The yellow card had the bird with closed wings pictured. She fished in her bag for a pen and wrote 'Kimika' on the card like Yukino had said.

"You know, later we can try it out" Kero said with a wink. Kimika gave him a look.

"Try it out?"

"Ever thought about flying, kid?"

Wow, two and a half pages…

… # Rei Ant # …