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Chapter Seven: Card Captor Sakura and the mysterious Clow Book
"Tomoyo, konnichiwa!" Sakura called, waving frantically on her roller blades.
The purple haired girl looked up from her video camera on the school bench where she was sitting. She smiled, as the brown haired girl roller-ed up to the bench and sat down.
"Ohayou, Sakura-chan." She replied, putting the camcorder down.
Sakura looked at the camcorder as if she was enchanted by it, as she absent minded started to take off her roller blades. She took the two of them off, and slipped into the white and blue shoes. Tomoyo followed Sakura's glance to the camera before she turned away to look at her shoes buckle.
"I know you want to ask me something about my camcorder, so spill." Tomoyo said, leaning back on the bench.
"Oh, well, I wanted to know why you brought it to school. I mean does it have something to do with my card collecting?" Sakura asked, her voice getting a little higher as she talked.
Tomoyo quickly clamped a hand over Sakura's mouth before she could say anything else about the cards.
"Sakura! No one can know about the cards and you can't let others hear about it, they won't know what to think. People here don't know how to deal with change, you'll be an outcast before you can," Tomoyo hissed, snapping her fingers.
Sakura nodded, shocked. Tomoyo could be forceful when she wanted to be, and kind the next. Tomoyo sat back down where she was and picked up her camcorder smiling. She reached down and grabbed Sakura's hand dragging her off the bench.
"Come on Sakura, I have something I need to show you in the video room." Tomoyo called, walking onto the gravel.
"OK." Sakura muttered, grabbing her backpack and roller blades and ran after Tomoyo. She ran off after Tomoyo, who didn't seem to be slowly down, until she walked down the twisted elementary school of Hong Kong and stopped in front of a black door, which looked rather heavy.
"We're here." Tomoyo said, smiling.
"Where's here?" Sakura asked, staring fearfully at the door.
"It's the video room," Tomoyo opened the door, only seeing blackness inside. "We can go in, come on."
Tomoyo smiled, and walked inside. She flicked a switch and a small light came on near the big screen at the front and the VCR. Sakura followed Tomoyo in and sat down in one of the TV table chairs. She watched as Tomoyo took out her camcorder and took a black videotape out of the camcorder. She turned on the VCR and a blue light shone out of the projection box wired up to the VCR and was shone onto the big screen.
"Now, Sakura. Watch and listen closely to the tape. This is some of the stuff we do on the Card Captor hunt. Sometimes dangerous and some of it is fun. This capture is of the Thunder Card, one of the captures we did at night… actually all the cards were captured at night. But anyways, the four of us all knew that a card was around when we were walking home from school there was a lot of noise and lightening but no rain, but the storm cleared quickly, and all we had to do was wait until the card showed up in it's true form." Tomoyo said.
Sakura nodded, slightly confused. Tomoyo nodded, and walked over to the black
door. She opened the door and looked in the halls, no one was around. Tomoyo
walked back into the room and closed the door, locking it.
"OK, action!" Tomoyo yelled.
She pressed the button on
the remote control in her hand and the blue screen turned black with stars
twinkling. Tomoyo smiled and turned the lights off, sitting back down in one of
the chairs beside Sakura. Soon enough the tape got into action. The camera was
looking up at what looked like it was in the forest, Sakura recognized the
clearing immediately, it was the Fox Forest! Right then, Syaoran and Eriol
appeared in their battle costumes, Meiling by their side. Syaoran and Meiling
were fighting about something, what Sakura noticed next was that a yellow strip
of light ran by Meiling, and Eriol seemed to run over to them. She then noticed
Syaoran take his sword, ready to attack; Meiling was soon pushed out of the
way, who stumbled. Syaoran make a jump for it and landed on a branch near
Eriol. Syaoran quickly started to flip through the small stack of cards, when a
scream was sounded. Eriol seemed to make his staff glow a red colour and a fire
seemed to stop the beast for a second but it soon lunged to attack Eriol.
Sakura let out a small scream at what was going to happen to her friend.
Syaoran seemed to finally find the card he needed. He held out the card and
threw it up into the air. The card started to fall and he slammed the tip of
his sword on the card, pinning it to the roof.
"Shadow!" He yelled.
A black non-visible person seemed to come out of the card and swoop down on the beast on the ground, making a total circle around the beast. Roars could be heard from inside the ball, before Syaoran called the Shadow back and yelled out a chant for the return of the Thunder Card to it's card form before it had enough time to get back some energy and attack. The video then zoomed into Syaoran signing his name to card and showing it to the camera, Meiling hanging around his neck, Eriol laughing in the background. The screen then went blank.
"That was before I came right?" Sakura asked, stretching.
"That's right. We caught that card about two minutes before you showed up and we all scattered." Tomoyo replied.
"She's right you know." A voice said, standing at the door. Three people's outlines could be seen from the new light of the tape, where everyone was scattering and you could only see branches and leaves. Sakura looked frightened, and Tomoyo glared, as she pressed the button on the remote so that the screen went blue.
"All three of you, come here. Tell me what you saw." Tomoyo snapped, pushing Sakura out of the way.
The three started to laugh and one of them turned the lights on. Syaoran and Eriol were standing there holding back a laugh while Meiling stood there between them, arms around both guys' shoulders. Tomoyo calmed down and her glare was replaced with grin. Sakura sighed, and sat up amongst the chairs rubbing her right arm.
"Geez, Tomoyo! You almost killed Kinomoto!" Meiling said, sarcastically.
Tomoyo laughed a dry laugh. She turned and took her video out of the VCR and turned everything off. Sakura looked up at the others in the doorway, before grabbing her backpack and roller blades.
"Tomoyo-chan is teaching me how to Card Captor! I'm seeing the video's!" Sakura chirped.
The three nodded, wondering how someone could be that hyper over something as small as waving a staff around and getting a pack of magical destructable cards that you have to be extremely careful with. Well, I guess it had its perks.
"Come on guys, we're going to be late for class." Eriol said, opening the door.
"OK, lets go." Tomoyo and Syaoran muttered while Sakura ran out of the room, quickly.
"What's with her?" Syaoran asked, as the brunette ran off.
"Who knows? You never know how out of towners work," Meiling shrugged. "Now, come on, let's go." She said, walking out of the room and turning the lights off in the meantime.
The remaining three turned and shrugged at each other and followed Meiling out.
* * * * * * * *
The bell rang, breaking the quietness outside. The doors to the two-story school opened and many different kids ran out in every direction all wearing the same white uniform. The crowd had mostly disappeared when the school doors opened one more time and five kids walked out. Two with purple hair, two brunettes and a blue haired kid, none other then our fearless card captors and sidekicks.
"I have so much homework! Stupid old Terada-sensei gave me another history project due in three days." Meiling muttered, pounding one fist into her other palm.
"Meiling, calm down. You'll finish it." Syaoran replied.
Meiling seemed to perk up. "Really? You do!" She replied, jumping on him.
Everyone sweat dropped at Meiling's expression.
"Well, I got to go. Ruby and Spinner are expecting me. Bye." Eriol waved, and started jogging the other way.
"Ruby and Spinner? What's that?" Sakura muttered, to no one inpeciular.
"You have a lot of things to catch up on Kinomoto! You'll never capture cards as good as my Syaoran can." Meiling scoffed, looking at Sakura.
"Lighten up on her Meiling. She just got into this last night," Syaoran said, glaring at Meiling. "Anyways, Ruby is actually Ruby Moon, she comes from the dark side of the moon and has the ability to be a normal person if need be, she goes by Nakuru Akizuki. Her true form she has black and pink large butterfly wings, with long purple hair with two buns up on the side, and a purple and black dress type outfit. Spinner Sun is from the dark side of the sun. He's all purple but with blue eyes and wings, and a long tail that looks like a curly pigs' tail at the end. In his true form he looks like a panther with a longer tail and blue and black large butterfly wings." Syaoran explained.
Sakura nodded, thinking about what the two looked like.
"Come on Syaoran! I have to do my history, come help me!" Meiling whined.
She let go of his neck and grabbed his arm dragging him away. Tomoyo and Sakura waved and walked the other way.
"Sakura-chan? Do you want to go over to your house, we can see if we can find the Clow Book." Tomoyo mused.
"OK, sure. But, I don't know what it looks like, do you?" Sakura replied, sitting down on the curb.
"Yeah, I do. Here I'll show you."
With that Tomoyo took out one of her sketchbooks and a pencil and opened the book to a blank page. She soon started to sketch the book and showed it to Sakura by the time she had her blades on. Sakura looked thoughtfully at the red book that had a sun and a moon on it with a picture of a yellow beast and wings in the centre and a yellow lock.
"Hmm," Sakura muttered. "I've seen that book before! My dad showed it to me years ago. It was at the University that he teached and no one could open it, so he took it to look at it. But he soon forgot about it, it's in our basement." She mused.
"Well, come on Sakura! Lets go!" Tomoyo half yelled, jumping up.
Sakura nodded, and rolled after her friend.
* * * * * * * *
"Hi dad. I'm home!" Sakura called, as she opened her front door.
She got no answer in return, but went in anyways, closing the door behind Tomoyo.
"The basement is down this way," Sakura called, walking to a door under the staircase. She turned back to Tomoyo. "You can keep your shoes on, we don't mind. I still have mine on, and it's a mess downstairs, anyways." Sakura said, opening the door.
Tomoyo nodded and carefully stepped on the white carpet, then noticing that she did it she ran after Sakura, and down the stairs.
"Sakura? Where are you?" Tomoyo called, when she reached the bottom.
There were bookcases and more bookcases all over the basement, jammed with books.
"I'm over here, by the far wall." A voice called back.
Tomoyo started to walk across the cement basement floor. Her shoes making a clack, clack sound as she walked. She soon reached the far wall and looked down the small aisle. It went straight and then it went into two different directions. She walked down the small aisle and stopped at a fork in the aisle. She was going to turn left, when she saw an eerie yellow light falling across the floor and a bookcase across from it on the right side. She soon forgot about going left and walked down to where the light was coming from, and poked her head around the corner. It was coming from a book that lied in Sakura's hands.
"Sakura, wha-" She cut herself off, when she saw Sakura's feet.
Around her feet a yellow circle was there with a moon and a sun intertwined together. Tomoyo wondered what it was for about a second when she clued in that it was the Clow symbol and that was the Clow Book that Sakura had. She had to keep quiet or else something could go wrong. Tomoyo watched as Sakura struggled with the lock, and then magically when Sakura touched where a key was supposed to go in, it opened. Sakura looked startled at it before opening the cover and looking at the piece of paper on the inside of the Clow Book. She looked at it, and saw that there was a card inside. She picked it up and turned the card over so it was face side up.
"The Float." Sakura muttered, reading the name.
A wind seemed to pick up around Sakura, and started to swirl around her and the clow symbol that started to glow brighter. Some bright lights shot out of the book and started to fly every which way out of the house. Soon enough the light of the wind seemed to die down and everything started to go back to normal. Tomoyo sighed, about thirty more Clow Cards had just been released, that wasn't good. She came out of her hiding place and walked over to Sakura.
"Hey, Sakura." Tomoyo replied.
"What was that? What happened?" Sakura asked.
"Sakura… you just released thirty more Clow Cards into the town to capture." Tomoyo muttered.
"HOE!?" Sakura yelled, dropping the book onto the floor.
Tomoyo laughed, and looked down at the book. It was moving about. It seemed like
the guardian of the light side of the moon was going to show. The legendary
Cerberus was about to be revealed. Sakura followed Tomoyo glaze down to the
book she dropped. She saw it shake and screamed, falling backwards and landed
with a thud. Under the book a yellow teddy bear head poked out, followed by a
yellow teddy bear body and a long yellow tail with a light yellow puff at the
end. The bear stood up and held his book up. The creature stretched and looked
into the book.
'That's the legendary Cerberus.' Tomoyo thought, sweat dropping.
"AHHH! My cards! What happened to my beautiful cards!" The bear shrieked, seeing an empty card book.
"What is that?" Sakura said, getting her courage and crawling over to the creature.
Tomoyo suppressed a laugh and leaned against a bookshelf. Sakura looked at the creatures' back and then poked it in the head.
"Is it a teddy bear or something?" Sakura muttered to Tomoyo, poking it again.
The bear turned around eye's flashing.
"I am not a teddy bear you little girl!" He yelled.
"Ah!" Sakura yelled, falling back off her feet and onto the ground.
Tomoyo walked over and helped Sakura up, then turned back to the legendary Cerberus.
"Sakura, this is the legendary Cerberus of the Clow Cards. The cards that you just released into the tow—"
"WHAT! This girl let my cards out? You better get them back for me, you little girl." He yelled, flying up to face the scared brunette.
"But, I can't. Make Tomoyo-chan go. She knows more about it!" Sakura whimpered, hiding behind Tomoyo.
Tomoyo sweat dropped, and moved aside, revealing Sakura. Kero closed his eyes and the room turned black all around Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero. Sakura looked around fearfully, Tomoyo looked amazed and Kero was calm, muttering words that couldn't be heard. A flash of yellow light could be seen in front of Sakura, who yelled, and tried to run away, but Tomoyo stopped her.
"Take the staff." Kero ordered.
Sakura fearfully stuck out her hand and grabbed the staff. The light disappeared
and the key started to grow. It got a longer stick and the head of the staff
looked like a duck with beady big red eyes and a red beak. The light vanished
and the blackness turned back to the basement.
"What do I do, now?" Sakura asked.
"You must capture all 52 Clow Cards and no one can now, girl. I'm your guardian all the way through and will help you through it all. Now, what's your name?" Kero said.
"S-S-Sakura K-Kinomoto." Sakura stuttered, not as freaked out anymore.
"Sakura Kinomoto, A-ha! Well, you're now Card Captor Sakura, Sakura Kinomoto!" Kero said, smiling.
"OK. Now, how do I shrink this?" She pointed to the wand.
"The words will come, when they are needed." Kero replied.
"Sakura, I'm home!" A voice yelled, as the front door closed.
"Oh no, Touya's home. I need those words now, Kero!" Sakura said, glancing at her guardian.
"Concentrate."
Sakura nodded, and closed her eyes holding the staff out. Soon she began to chant out something.
"Oh Key of Clow.. Power of Magic… Power of Light... Surrender the wand... The force disappear! VANISH!" Sakura yelled.
The staff in her hand soon went into a small necklace that had a gold chain and what looked like the red and yellow duck head with a key at the bottom. Sakura slipped it around her neck and looked at Kero, eyes begging him to hide. Kero nodded, and flew into the small handbag Tomoyo had.
"Come on lets go." Sakura said, starting to walk through the maze of shelves, Tomoyo right behind her. They soon reached the stairs and climbed up them and into the hall.
"Konnichiwa Touya. How was school?" Sakura asked.
"Ogenkidesu." He replied, walking off into the kitchen.
Sakura followed him in the kitchen, Tomoyo trailing behind. Sakura watched as Touya
grabbed a glass of milk and a piece of pudding. Sakura then turned and grabbed
two cups and plates and walked over to the fridge.
"Hey Tomoyo. What do you want to drink?" Sakura called, opening the fridge.
Touya looked strangely at Sakura; so far he hadn't seen Sakura leaning on the island cupboards.
"Well, what do you have?"
"Um,"
Sakura looked into the fridge. "Milk, Coke or Orange Juice?"
"I'll have a bit of Orange Juice."
Sakura nodded, and grabbed the container and started pouring into the plastic cups. Tomoyo started fixing her hairband while she was waiting when she caught Touya looking at her.
"Konnichiwa." She said.
"Who are you?"
"Tomoyo Daijouji. Hajimemashite." She said, smiling at him.
Touya just looked at her and walked into the living room. Tomoyo glared at him, wanting to scream and say that he wasn't being polite when a plate appeared in front of her. Sakura smiled, and held up her plate and cup.
"Just ignore him. Touya can be real baka sometimes." She shrugged.
Tomoyo laughed and followed Sakura to the dinner table. They both sat down and started eating the different cookies that were on both their plates.
"These are really good Sakura, who made them?" Tomoyo asked, taking the last bite out of her cookie.
"My
dad and I made them a couple days ago. He's teaching me how to cook."
Tomoyo nodded, and smiled. Her bag rustled and Kero popped out.
"Is the coast clear?" He muttered.
"Yes. Come on out, Kero." Sakura said.
Kero flew out, and stood on the small table for four. He looked around at the food on Sakura's plate and flew over, and grabbed a cookie.
"Mmm, food. You have no idea how long it's been. I've been sleeping for about thirty years!" Kero said, stuffing his mouth.
The two girls laughed at what this creature would do for food.
* * * * * * * *
"Sakura. Can you come here for a second?" Fujitaka called.
"OK." She called back.
"Kero stay here. Don't move and guard that Jump card!" Sakura warned, before leaving the room.
Kero nodded as the door closed. Sakura jogged down the hallway, down the stairs and over to where her father stood. He seemed to be hiding something behind his back. Sakura tried to look around him, but he'd move the book from her sight.
"What do you have?" She asked.
He took his right hand and moved it out in front of him, a book in his hand. Sakura gasped at the book. It was the Clow Book.
"Were you down in my study today, playing with my study books?" He asked, seriously.
Sakura noted the tone and shook her head, no. "I wasn't down here. It must have fallen off the shelf. I heard something fall when me and Tomoyo walked in the door." Sakura lied.
Her dad nodded. "OK, because I was thinking of sending this book back to the Readington University. When the book fell I guess it became unlocked and when I looked inside there was very old written words in there that sounded like magic, and you know what I think of that stuff." He said.
Sakura nodded. "I know, magic is wrong and that isn't of God's will." She recited.
Her dad smiled and walked into the living room, Sakura followed. Her father sat down on the couch with a small box sitting on the table. Sakura watched as the Clow Book was put into the box and sealed up with tape. Then the address of the Readington University was put onto the box.
"I already called the University and they would love to have the book back. They really missed this book and the 'presence' it seemed to give off." Her father replied.
Sakura nodded, and sat down beside him.
"How come I can't keep it? My one friend Naoko loves things of mystery. Can I give it to her?" Sakura asked.
"No, I don't think so. I don't want my daughter getting mixed up into the magic business. It would be better off back with the others and away from us. It can be sinful." He replied.
Sakura nodded, knowing the Clow Card business was right up
that alley. Her thoughts were interrupted by her dad's voice.
"You should be in bed now Sakura. It's almost nine o'clock. Goodnight, I'll see you in the morning." He said, kissing her forehead.
"Goodnight dad." She replied, hugging him.
Then she ran off out of the living room, up the stairs and into her room. She closed the door behind her and looked around wildly for Kero. She found him sitting on her desk staring into a mirror.
"Kero? I have a small problem." Sakura whispered.
"OK, what is it Sakura? What's wrong?" Kero asked, flying over to her.
"The Clow Book! When Touya got home I put the card away and you went with Tomoyo the Clow Book was forgotten and my dad found it. He hates magic and everything that does with it, and he saw the writing of the incantation for the staff, and boxed it up sending it to back to where I came from!" Sakura almost yelled.
"WHAT? THE CLOW BOOK IS GONE TOO?!" Kero yelled.
"I'm so sorry. Its all my fault." Sakura said, starting to cry.
"Oh Sakura, don't worry about it. I'll think of something. You just get some rest." Kero said, petting Sakura's hair.
Sakura nodded and wiped her tears away. She got into her
bed and pulled the covers up to her chin and closed her eyes muttering a
goodnight to Kero. Kero muttered one back and Sakura's world went blank.
Kero flew over to the window and sat down. The Clow Book was gone, and everyone was doomed. The cards needed the magic of Clow Reed. Now that Sakura had the jump she needed Clow's magic before the cards went cold and just became normal tarot cards.
Q&A:
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Japanese Words Used:
Gakkou: School
Ogenkidesu: FineHajimemashite: Nice to meet you
Baka: Stupid
Ohayou: Good Morning
Konnichiwa: Hello
I don't think that I forgot any other words in the story, but if I need tell me in the reviews and I'll post it up in chapter eight! OK? Great!