We're Moving?!
Chapter Four.
Sakura bladed down the streets of the downtown area of Hong Kong. She was trying to remember the way back to her house.
"Oh… why didn't I pay any attention to the way I came to school? I was supposed to be home half an hour ago." Sakura mused to herself.
She looked down the street, and at the streets she passed. None of these buildings looked familiar. Going to a new town was hard… and finding your way around? Impossible! Sakura sighed, and slowly came to a stop on her roller blades. Once she had stopped she looked around, upon still seeing nothing familiar. Sakura sighed, and then she spotted it -- a travel agency. Sakura bladed over to the front door of the agency and opened the door. She poked her head in, to see a desk in the centre with what looked like at least a twenty-year-old woman sitting there. Sakura closed the door before she was noticed and took her blades off, and then walked into the store. The middle-aged woman looked up and smiled.
"Hello there." She said with a smile.
'She seems nice enough.' Sakura thought, as she walked over to the desk.
"Hi. I was wondering if you had any maps of Hong Kong. I just moved here, and I'm kind of lost." Sakura explained as much as she could.
The woman nodded, and looked around the small office. She walked over to the wall on the far left and started looking at some maps. She started humming and hawing over the maps, and finally found the right map. She then turned and held the map out to Sakura.
"Here you go, a map of Hong Kong. That will be $3.00." The saleswoman said, walking back to her desk.
Sakura nodded and started looking through her pockets for three dollars. When
finding no money in her skirt pockets she looked into her backpack. The
saleswoman smiled and chuckled as Sakura looked for the money.
"So, where did you come from?" The saleswoman asked.
Sakura looked up. "I can from Readington." She replied, finding a couple dollars in her pocket.
"Oh I hear it's beautiful there. Being in the travel agency, you get to hear about everything." The girl said, smiling.
"Yeah, It's nice there. My dad's here on a dig," Sakura handed the saleswoman the $3.00. "My name's Sakura Kinomoto." She smiled.
The saleswoman took the money and put it on the back counter. "My name's Casey." Sakura nodded, and pocketed the map.
"Bye Casey." Sakura waved and exited out of the store.
Sakura sat down on the curb of the Hong Kong Street, strapping her roller blades back on. After the pink roller blades were strapped onto her feet, Sakura stood up and pushed off from the street. Sakura glided down the street, unfolding the map. Sakura got so caught up, when the map was open that she crashed right into someone. Sakura looked up and saw that she had crashed into a girl… that looked familiar.
The girl had purple hair that was up in buns on the side of her head that went down to her elbows. Sakura didn't recognize her from school… but she could have changed, right? As Sakura looked the girl over, she had the weirdest outfit on. It was a green tank top with blue sleeves and orange fingerless gloves. She had short yellow shorts on and long "socks" that went past her knees and into her orange shoes.
"Here let me help you…" Sakura said, holding her hand out to the girl.
The girl shook her head, making the tendrils from the buns fling every which way. She got up and glared at Sakura for a second. Then realizing who she was, smiled a little.
"Kinomoto!" The girl said.
"Meiling? Is that you?" Sakura asked raising an eyebrow at her.
Meiling nodded. "That's me. You better watch where you're going, Kinomoto. Anyways, where are you heading?"
"I'm heading to my house. I live out on the west outskirts of town near the lake. Just… I don't know where that is." Sakura said, laughing.
Meiling sweat dropped and sighed. "I'll take you there. Tomoyo-chan lives out that way."
Sakura nodded, as Meiling grabbed her arm. "Come on Kinomoto!" Meiling pulled Sakura after her.
The only thing was that she didn't notice was that Sakura was on roller blades. As soon as she pulled Sakura forward, where a small hill just happened to be, Sakura immediately tried to put on the brakes, but it didn't work. Sakura started rolling down the hill at top speed with Meiling holding onto her arm, yelling.
"Kinomoto! Stop!" Meiling said, trying to dig her heels into the pavement. Which worked with no avail.
Sakura put her one hell down on the ground, to try and put on the brakes. She eventually came to a skidding stop. Meiling, who was running after Sakura, was surprised when Sakura came to a stop. Meiling flung by Sakura and landed in a heap on the grass.
"Oh! That hurt." Meiling said, standing up.
"I'm sorry, Meiling. Maybe I should just go by myself," Sakura said in a low voice. "Just tell me how to get there, this map isn't helping any." Sakura said, pocketing the map.
Meiling looked up and nodded. "Alright, go all the way down the main street until you reach Hufferman Road. Turn to the right, and go straight until you're on the road parallel to the ocean, turn left and go straight until you see the houses by the lake. Since you live out to the west… that's where your house will be. Which street do you live on?"
"Um," Sakura started off, digging into her pocket and bringing out a piece of paper. "I live at 584 Westriver Drive."
"Oh, you live on the same street as Tomoyo-chan! She lives at 594 Westriver Drive. Just look for a house with a black limo is front of the house, and you'll find your house." Meiling said, snapping her fingers.
Sakura nodded, unsure. "Arigatou Meiling-chan!"
Sakura waved, and pushed off from the ground, and glided the way down the street, leaving Meiling standing there. When Sakura was out of sight, Meiling turned and shook her head.
"I don't know why Syaoran-kun and Eriol-kun think she's the Legendary Card Captor… she doesn't even know where her house is…!" Meiling muttered, walking up the hill. Eventually she wanted out of view, muttering to herself about the Card Captors and Kinomoto being the Card Captor.
* * *
Sakura followed Meiling's direction, enjoying the scenery and the lake view on her way by. Soon enough she made it to the start of Westriver drive and started down it. There weren't many houses there so it wouldn't take her that long to find her house. Meiling said that Tomoyo-chan lived here somewhere. Sakura looked around, and her eyes landed on a house she remembered. Her house. Sakura smiled to herself, and roller bladed up to her house.
Sakura bladed around the water foundation in the front yard, before blading up to the front door. She sat down heavily on the front steps and took her roller blades off. She picked them up and walked in through the front door, sock footed.
"Sakura? Is that you?" A voice called from the living room.
"Konnichiwa!" Sakura called back, putting her blades in the hall closet.
Sakura closed the hall closet and walked into the living room, smiling at her dad. She sat down in one of the comfy chairs. Her father smiled up at her.
"How was school today?" He asked, looking up at her.
"School was great! I made four new friends, but I got lost on the way home from school but one of my friends helped me get home. The school's big, and I was lost at first until I met up with this girl—actually I crashed into her on the way to school. She ended up going to my school and being in my class. She showed me around, and I met her friends. There actually pretty nice." Sakura rambled on.
Her dad sat there, nodding as Sakura told him what happened that day. When Sakura finished talking about her day, her dad spoke up.
"So what are your friends names?" He asked.
Sakura looked up. "Oh…there names are Tomoyo Daidouji, Syaoran Li and his cousin Meiling Li, and Eriol Hiiragizawa. He's a transfer student too, hard to believe, eh? Anyways, he's from England!" Sakura said.
Her father nodded, and smiled. "Looks like you're not the only transfer student. Looks like you have made a lot of friends on your first day at school." He smiled.
Sakura nodded, and stood up. "I can't wait for school tomorrow. I'll be in my room, call me when suppers ready." And with that, Sakura ran up the stairs and into her bedroom.
* * *
At the opening of Fox Forest one girl sat on a big rock, looking for something or someone to come there. She sat there in the silence and cold of the night in nothing but a nightgown and a jean jacket. She didn't seem to mind the cold September air against her as she sat there, staring into the forest. A crack of lightening was seen in the distance, but not even that bothered her. She blinked and looked to where the lightening was coming from… inside the forest. She grinned knowing who and what it was. A clow card was on the loose… and she had to get there…!
The girl got up from the big rock and stepped down on the forest grounds. She raced through the forest, passing and dodging many trees, hurtling over stumps and roots, following where the lightening struck. She soon came to a clearing where three young people around the age of ten in an all out battle… with a thunder wolf? This wasn't any wolf it was a mystical creature… a clow card. The Thunder Card to be exact.
The three people seemed to be losing the battle. Two of the three were boys and the last one was a girl. All three of them had outfits on, that had ying-yangs and suns/moons all over the top of it. The newcomer sighed; she hadn't missed the fun yet.
"Konnichiwa!" She called, waving and walking over to the group.
The three turned away from their battle for a second to look at the newcomer. They smiled slightly, glad that it was their friends, not some innocent bystander.
"Konnichiwa Tomoyo! Here to tape us again?" Eriol called, dodging a lightening attack.
"Hai." Tomoyo replied.
She whipped out her camcorder and turned the 'tape' button on, and started to tape the battle with the card, while commentating to the camera. She was so wound up in commentating that she didn't see the Thunder Card wanting to make an attack on the unsuspected victim. It made a launch at her, hoping to strike the bystander.
"Tomoyo! Watch out!" A voice yelled out of nowhere.
Eriol ran at Tomoyo, knocking her out of the way before the lightening struck that spot. The spirit of the Thunder Card looked around, trying to find that unsuspecting human. When Eriol had grabbed Tomoyo, they made a break for the trees.
"Tomoyo," Eriol looked over at her, worriedly. "Stay here, you're going to get yourself killed!" He nearly yelled.
Tomoyo looked down from his gaze to her camcorder. She turned the camcorder off and looked up at Eriol. "But, how come Meiling gets to be out there, and I don't?" Tomoyo said, putting her hands on her hips.
Eriol sighed, and looked back out to the card. "Just stay here." He said, and made a run for Syaoran and Meiling.
The Thunder card was about to strike an unsuspecting Meiling, who was too busy yelling at Syaoran about who knows what. Syaoran rolled his eyes, and started looking around for the card. He saw a strip of light behind Meiling. He reached back behind his back and head and grabbed the handle of his sword. He whipped it out in front of him ready to attack. Meiling looked behind her to see the thunder Card taking off from the ground, and land on the leaves and branches of a tree.
"Meiling, move." Syaoran muttered, pushing Meiling aside, who stumbled.
"Humph!" Meiling said, crossing her arms across her chest, nose held up in the air, eyes closed.
Syaoran sighed, and ignored her. He ran up to the trunk of the tree and grabbed his sword and his stack of magical Clow Cards. He flicked through them all trying to find the one card that he thought that would be able to trap and capture the Thunder Card.
"Where's that card?" He muttered, flipping through the cards, faster and faster.
A crash of lightening crashed around him. The lightening had struck again. Syaoran looked up to see Eriols' moon and sun staff glowing a light red. A scream broke through the silenced air, except for Eriol's chanting. Syaoran looked over at the scream. He saw a flash of purplish black hair flying out behind them, and a camcorder or something of the sort in one hand a handbag in the other. Tomoyo…!
"Infinite Fire!" Eriol chanted, one last time.
The red light surrounding the sun and moon from his staff grew brighter and the light flung at the Thunder Cards' spirit. The Thunder spirit stopped in mid attack as the small fire hit it. It reared its head and glared at Eriol and turned around, and made a lunge at the attacker.
"Sock 'em one Eriol! Teach it a lesson!" Meiling shouted, with her fists in the air every so often.
"Syaoran! Do something! Please!?" Tomoyo shouted, looking at Syaoran from her spot in the bushes.
Syaoran looked down and like magic, the card he was looking for was right onto of the pack. The Sword Card. Syaoran smiled, and held his sword out in front of him, ready to attack. In the other hand he held the Sword Card.
"Sword Card! Release your power and contain the Thunder Card! " Syaoran yelled.
The spirit of the shadow card came to life. A black form came out of the flat card and took the place of a cloak draped over some un-seen person. The form looked down at Syaoran as if to ask what he wanted it to do. A crack of lightening behind the shadow got its attention. It left Syaoran and 'flew' at the Thunder beast. It sunk down into the ground, and shot up surprising later, trapping the beast in a black cage. Syaoran, Eriol and Tomoyo sighed. Meiling just stood there.
"That's it? No fighting? Don't you have any lasers or things that are in the video games?!" Meiling called, glaring at Syaoran and Eriol.
The two sweat dropped and fell down anime style. Syaoran stood back up, sword held out in front of him.
"Thunder Card!" He shouted. "Return to your power confined!" He brought his sword down onto an empty card.
The yellow spirit from within the black cage seeped out of the corners and seemed to be sucked into the empty sword. When the yellow light died down, no spirits were there. The black-cloaked spirit of the Shadow had vanished, and the yellow spirit of the Thunder had been contained in a card. Syaoran grabbed the card before it floated to the ground, and walked over to where the others stood.
"You did it, Syaoran!" Tomoyo beamed, from behind her camera.
Syaoran smiled at her, and wrote his name on the bottom of the card. Meiling was still off in the distance talking about things like lasers and fighting the "evilness" of the Clow Cards. They just disregarded her, knowing how she usually gets in times like this. Eriol walked over to where Tomoyo and Syaoran where.
"The Legendary Card Captor will soon be revealed. Since we think Sakura is the Legendary Card Captor, if she has any magical powers and is the chosen one, she would have felt something. Like a part of her was being ripped out or something of the sort." Eriol explained to the others.
Syaoran and Tomoyo nodded, hoping that this wild hunt for the Card Captor would come to an end, soon.
* * *
Sakura jolted up from the reading position she was in on
her bed. She felt something – something she hadn't felt for a long time. It was
like something was being ripped out of her heart… like something was gone from
her heart. It felt like a form of enthusiastic was gone. Sakura closed her
eyes, trying to picture what she thought she saw.
In her mind she saw blackness swirling around her. Then she saw it. It was a
yellow beast, and looked like it had lightening surrounding her. It felt so
familiar, as if the beast wouldn't hurt her. She stretched her hand out to
touch the beast. She was within grasping distance, when the beast was gone. She
saw a yellow card with sun and moons on it, staring at her with the name
"Thunder Card" written under it, with a name there. Someone had written on her
card! She then saw a flash of white and the card was gone. Four people were
standing there. Sakura opened her eyes, and sat right up.
"Tomoyo…Syaoran… Eriol… Meiling… They have something that feels like mine." Sakura mumbled to herself.
She got up off of her bed and walked over to the closet. She pulled her door open and grabbed the coat from her old school off the hanger. She kicked her fuzzy pink slippers off, and put on her fall shoes from her old school as well. Sakura sighed. She had a feeling deep down inside of her that she knew where Meiling and the others would be. Sakura crossed the room and pushed the bedroom window open. Sakura gulped and stepped out onto the small roof.
"OK, I can do this." Sakura muttered to herself, closing her eyes and jumping.
She landed on the ground, softly. She looked back at her house, and ran off down the street. Her dad and brother wouldn't know that she was gone for awhile, and Sakura would be able to see what that vision meant and what her so-called new friends were up to.
Q&A:
CherryBlossomWarior: Hey, I check out that story. It's pretty good. It's a bit confusing and it jumps around a little bit, lol. Maybe if you got someone to beta it for you, it would be a little but more easier to understand. That's just by personal opinion. Please take this is a good way, but in some evil way, ok? If you want someone to beta it for you, I could do it, if you want.
Smileygirl322: Glad you like the story : )
Kinomoto Sakura: I am so sorry that this took so long! I'm getting ready to take the literacy test at my school, and I have to study for that. I also have had a lot of homework, and writers block. And, of course I need time just to hang out with friends, and try to write this story. It's not as simple as it sounds… I hope to write the next chapter much faster.
LicyBabe2002: Thanks for thinking this story is really great! : ) Yeah, I thought it would be a change from most other CCS fics out there.
OK. I don't know if any of you know what the Japanese words are, so here's a quick translation thanks to Syaoran Bear's Corner: (http://www.freehomepages.com/lisyaoran/index.html)
Konnichiwa - Good day, hello
San - Mr/Mrs/Miss, honorific for someone of status equal
to yourself. Is to be add at the end of the name
Chan - Honorific for someone of status lower to yourself, and term of
endearment for family and friends. Used mostly for females and is very
informal. Is to be add at the end of the name
Kun - Mr (junior), master, boy. Similar to chan, but mostly applied to
males. Is to be add at the end of the name.
Sensei - Honorific for professors, doctors, teachers.
Hai - Yes.
Arigatou-gozaimasu - Thank you. Short: Arigatou
~~ Fire Spirit.