We're Moving?!
***NOTE: Would everyone please read what I wrote at the bottom of the story under the Q&A section. I put the note under Kura-chan's question, because she was the one who asked me about this, in her review a couple months ago. All help would be greatly appreciated. R&R!****
CHAPTER EIGHT
"You did what?!" Syaoran yelled the next day at school.
"I didn't mean to. My dad shipped the book back to my home because he found it in the basement when Tomoyo-chan and I almost got caught downstairs." Sakura replied, not meeting Syaoran's glance.
"You have to get that book back. Or else all these cards," He grabbed the float card from Sakura and his cards and put them up to her nose. "Will all become tarot cards and the wild ones will destroy the town and the whole world!" He yelled.
Sakura stood there shocked. What could she do now? She was just about to answer when her backpack started to move and the zipper started to unzip.
"HOE!" Sakura yelled, tripping on her roller blades and crashing to the ground.
Tomoyo, Syaoran and Meiling looked over at the backpack. It was moving slightly and white wings and a yellow lions' tail could be seen coming out of it. Tomoyo knew who it was, and laughed slightly at Meiling and Syaorans' looks at what it could be.
"Could you get off me?" A muffled voice said from under Sakura.
Sakura made an eep sound and jumped up, clinging to the chain fence, so she wouldn't fall again. She looked at whom she had fallen on and saw Eriol getting up from the ground.
"Sorry Eriol!" She called, as she started to un-strap her roller blades.
Sakura's bag stopped moving and the owner of the wings and tail emerged. Meiling and Syaoran looked at the small yellow thing, confused. Meiling sighed and picked up the thing by the wing and held it up to Sakura.
"You're scared of a toy, Kinomoto?" Meiling said, trying not to laugh.
"That's not a toy… Meiling." Sakura replied.
Meiling looked at her questionably before the toy started to move and looked at Meiling.
"Watch it you little girl." The thing hissed batting its wings out of her grasp.
"What is that? Some electronic flying toy?" Meiling asked again, poking its head.
Tomoyo and Sakura sighed, knowing what was going to come next. Kero was going to flip out on Meiling and the rest of them.
"I'm no talking flying electronic toy. I am Cerberus the guardian of the Clow Book and it's cards."
Syaoran looked over at the 'guardian'. "If you're the guardian why is the Clow Book back in Sakura's home town?"
Kero looked up at Syaoran. "Watch it kid. I know what I'm doing." He replied.
Kero turned away from Syaoran and looked at everyone. He could feel power
stronger then Sakura and Syaoran's coming from one of the other three. It
looked over at the girl he met last night, Tomoyo. Nope, no magic coming from
her. He sighed and looked over at the 'little girl', as he called her. Nope, no
magic coming from her. Thank god, he thought. He looked over at the last one
who was nameless. Yep, that's where the magic was coming from.
"Him!" Kero yelled, pointing over at Eriol.
Sakura, Meiling, Tomoyo and Syaoran looked over at the blue haired boy.
"Eriol?" Tomoyo mused, looking at Kero.
He simply nodded. "I can feel Clow Reed's power coming from him. Card Captor Sakura, and the kid! When your cards start to feel cold and distant give them to him. If he's got Clow Reed's power they'll be fine. And, it will buy me some more time to think of a way to get the book back. A-ha!" Kero said, smiling at his plan.
The five sweat dropped at the idea, but shook it off.
"Is that OK with you, Eriol?" Tomoyo said, looking at him.
He nodded. As long as the Clow Cards would be safe from harm he would look after it. Kero then looked back over at Syaoran, glaring at him. Syaoran didn't notice Kero looking at him, until he felt a pair of eyes on his back. He turned around to see two black bear eyes glaring at him.
"What? Stop staring at me." He muttered, crossing his arms.
"You have something of Sakura's. The Thunder Card, that belongs to her. That was the card that was destined to bring her here. Besides, you already should have your yellow paper to help you." Kero said, smirking.
Syaoran sighed and held the Thunder Card out to Sakura. "Fine, take it Sakura."
Sakura looked shocked, and took the card stunned, while Meiling glared from Kero to Syaoran hands on her hips. Meiling was just about to say something at Kero when the school bell rang, and Kero darted back into the backpack as Sakura picked it up.
"Come on lets go." Sakura said, grabbing her roller blades and walking off towards the school.
"Yeah. We'll finish this at recess. And bring the bear, Kinomoto!" Meiling yelled.
Tomoyo, Syaoran and Eriol sweat dropped at Meiling, as she was now starting to draw attention to them. Syaoran sighed and did the only thing that he knew that would shut her up. He slung an arm around her shoulders, making her blush.
* * * * * *
"Tomoyo-chan! Over here!" Naoko called, as soon as the purple haired and brown haired girl came into the classroom.
Tomoyo looked over and waved at Naoko, Rika and Chiharu. Tomoyo grabbed Sakura's hand and dragged her over to the three girls. Since Sakura didn't know them, only as other kids in the class she thought she might as well introduce her to them.
"I'll catch up with you guys in a couple minutes. Save two seats." Tomoyo told Syaoran while holding up two fingers.
Syaoran nodded and followed Eriol and Meiling looking for a table that could fit the five of them.
"Konnichiwa." Tomoyo said, as she sat down in one of the empty chairs.
The three girls said konnichiwa back and looked up at Sakura, who was standing there awkwardly. Sakura smiled and sweatdropped at their glances.
"Oh how bad of me not to introduce you. Sakura this is Naoko Yanagisawa, Rika Sasaki and Chiharu Mihara," Tomoyo said, pointing to the three of them. "And, this is Sakura Kinomoto."
"OK, well konnichiwa Sakura." Chiharu said, smiling.
"You guys will never guess what I saw last night." Naoko said, fixing her glasses.
The four girls looked over at the brown haired girl.
"What? What did you see, Naoko? Rika asked.
"I was taking a short-cut home through Fox Forest, when," Sakura looked over at Tomoyo nervously while Tomoyo just waved her off. "I saw this blue glowing orb when I followed it. It led me to a cliff and then it glowed brighter and it turned into a swirling eye. It caught me off guard and I ran away."
Chiharu and Tomoyo looked at Naoko eyebrows raised, Rika rolled her eyes at Naoko's stories while Sakura looked like she was holding back a scream. Tomoyo looked over at Sakura, and poked the other three, pointing to Sakura. The four laughed slightly and Sakura snapped out of it.
"I'm sorry. I can't stand stories like that. Ghosts give me the creeps." Sakura said, shaking her head.
The four nodded and started talking about what they all did last night, Sakura joining in the conversations every once and awhile. Soon enough the bell rang and Tomoyo and Sakura went over to where Syaoran and the others were sitting.
The day past by slowly and soon enough it was time to go home. The white school doors' opened and Meiling stormed out clutching a piece of paper, the other four following the reckless girl slowly.
"What's wrong with you, Meiling?" Tomoyo said, eyebrows rose.
"Stupid old Mr. Mizuki gave me a detention for being about five minutes late for his class." Meiling huffed, stuffing the paper in her pocket.
Tomoyo nodded, shaking her head. Meiling was so weird sometimes. The five were just leaving the schoolyard when a voice yelled out to Sakura and Tomoyo followed by the pounding of three people's feet coming at them. The two turned around and saw Chiharu, Naoko and Rika running at them.
"Tomoyo, Sakura. We're heading over to Fox Forest, are you coming. We're going to see if the you-know-what is there." Naoko whispered, avoiding Syaoran, Meiling and Eriol's questioning glances.
"I'm so there." Tomoyo smiled.
The three nodded and motioned to follow them in the path to Fox Forest. Tomoyo nodded and grabbed onto Sakura's hand, and dragged her after her and the others.
"Come on Sakura. Let's go."
Sakura whimpered and looked at the other three for some support, no luck there. Syaoran was leaning on the wall, eyes closed. Eriol was rooting in his bag most likely for his wand key and Spinner. Supposingly he brought Spinner to school today, for some reason. Then there was Meiling, she was too busy laughing doubled up on the ground at Sakura's face. Soon Sakura was out of sight of the others and followed the other four into the Fox Forest. They walked by trees and tress, Sakura clutching onto Tomoyo's arm and jumping every time something sounded from inside the forest.
"It was just up here." Naoko pointed to the clearing, where Sakura had first learned about the Clow Cards.
As soon as Naoko said that a blue orb seemed to appear out of nowhere bobbing in front of the five girls. Four of the five looked wowed to see it, while Sakura looked like she was going to faint. The blue orb started swirling and a form took shape. The girls all looked at what they saw and ran off screaming, Tomoyo being dragged behind, unfazed. The five stopped on the boundaries of the forest, Chiharu and Rika were on the ground hugging each other, Naoko was hovering above them, while Sakura was clinging to Tomoyo's legs, Tomoyo unfazed still.
"I saw it! It was a swirly one eyed…" Naoko said.
"With pointing ears!" Rika cried.
"Fangs too!" Chiharu stammered.
"I saw her, I saw her." Sakura whimpered.
"If you ask me," Tomoyo
said. "It looked like a hamburger."
" A hamburger?" The four muttered, looking at each other.
They quickly jumped up off the ground, smiling sheepishly at what they thought they saw. The four walked the rest of the way home, saying goodbye every now and then as they started branching off to their homes until Sakura and Tomoyo were the only two left.
"Oh Tomoyo! I thought I saw her." Sakura whimpered, still clutching Tomoyo's arm.
Tomoyo looked quizzically at the girl. "Saw who?"
"My mother! She was there."
"Wouldn't she be at home, not hanging in mid air in a forest?"
Sakura shook her head. "She died when I was three. She was a very pretty and was a model. I don't remember a lot about her but my dad and brother tell me lots about her."
Tomoyo nodded. "That's sad. I've never met my dad before. He left as soon as my
mom got pregnant with me." Tomoyo muttered.
Sakura smiled, knowing that her new best friend was also in the same boat she was in.
"I'll see you tomorrow,
okay? I'll ask Kero about this, maybe, he'll know something."
Tomoyo nodded, waved goodbye to Sakura and continued down the deserted street
of Westriver.
* * * * * *
"Kero! It was so scary," Sakura said, falling to the floor against her door. "I saw her! She was there."
Kero looked up from where he was setting up his room in an empty desk drawer. "Saw who Sakura? And what's so scary?"
"My mother! She was there in the forest! Hanging in mid air, beckoning me to come to the cliff's edge! It was so scary, she looked just like she did in her picture." Sakura shakily, pointed to a picture on the desk above Kero.
Kero looked up at where Sakura pointed. He saw a picture of a woman sitting there, smiling, happy as ever. It was obvious where Sakura got her looks, especially in the face area. Kero smiled, and flew over to Sakura, and patted her on the head, and landed on her propped up knees. Sakura looked up and saw Kero smiling at her.
"Now, tell your good new friend Kero all about this adventure. Ta-ha!"
Sakura sweatdropped and smiled. She closed her eyes, trying to remember everything that had happened. Slowly, she opened her mouth and explained everything she could remember to Kero. After the story was explained to Kero, he flew up from Sakura's knees deep in thought.
"From what you told me, it's either one thing or another. It's either a Clow Card or your mother is contacting you from the dead." Kero said, perching on Sakura's desk.
"Contact from… the… dead…" Sakura stuttered, looking if possible even more scared then she did when she saw her mother in the forest.
Kero turned to looked at her and nodded. "Did she say anything to you?"
Sakura shook her head. "She just looked at me, and held her arms out. It was as if she wanted to come to her. She was backing away, like she wanted me to follow her. I started too, but Naoko grabbed my arm and Tomoyo's and ran off. I thought I was just seeing things, but… I… I don't know!" Sakura whined, clutching her head.
Kero sighed. If this was a Clow Card, which one was it? Something that made you believe you saw something that wasn't there. The Create? Naw, that wasn't it. The Mirror? Nope, that wasn't it, either. The Illusion? That was it! If it was a Clow Card it would be the Illusion, everyone that sees it, will see different things. If it wasn't that, it was truly a ghost.
"Sakura, it's the Illusion Card. I'm coming to school with you again tomorrow, period. At lunch, me, you, that other girl will go to the forest. The kid, the little girl and the other guy can come if they are needed. You need some sleep, you'll need all your energy for tomorrow." Kero said.
Sakura nodded, dumbfounded. She then turned and looked at her pink phone on her bed. "First I have to call Tomoyo to tell her what we know."
Sakura sat down on her bed and picked up the pink phone, and punched in a couple numbers. Kero shook his head, and flew down into his small drawer room. Girls… and talking on the phone, why were they always doing that? Some things just can't be explained to guardians of the cards.
"Konnichiwa Tomoyo! You'll never guess what I just found out…
* * * * * *
"Kero! You can come out now. We're outside of the school." Sakura called, opening up the flap of her black backpack.
Kero flew out of the backpack, and stretched his wings, looking at Sakura and Tomoyo. He turned his gaze to the figures behind them, three people were standing there. Kero glared, why had they brought them along? Behind Sakura and Tomoyo, stood Syaoran, Meiling and Eriol.
"What are they doing here?" Kero asked in an annoyed voice, glared daggers at Syaoran.
"Well, you see…"
"If Kinomoto has the chance to capture a Clow Card, so does my Syaoran!" Meiling yelled, latching onto Syaoran's neck, glaring daggers back at Kero.
"Well whatever. Just don't get in our way, you little girl. Now, lets go Card Captor Sakura," Kero said, and flew off, Sakura running after him. "The kid to, I guess." Kero said, as an after thought.
The five teens ran off, leaving the school behind, unnoticed, during the lunch hour. According to Eriol, they were all going to his house for lunch, so that the school wouldn't wonder where the five had disappeared off too. The managed to reach the entrance to Fox Forest quiet quickly, with the help of Syaoran's old Fly Card. It seemed that the Card would only work on Sakura's staff, and wouldn't react to Syaoran anymore; she greatly annoyed Meiling to no end. As soon as they reached the cliff, the Fly went back into its card and the five looked around.
"Nothing's here! Are you lying to us Kinomoto! Tomoyo!" Meiling asked, rounding on the two.
Tomoyo was just about to reply, when Eriol hushed them both and pointed ahead. They all looked ahead, and the same blue orb was floating, tauntingly in front of them. The blue orb started to swirl and then changed into the one thing they were thinking about. Sakura had shown the other three the picture of her mother in between classes, so everyone ended up seeing the same thing. Sakura, still thinking that her mother was there to beckon her, walked forward towards the cliff's edge. Kero flew at her, and tried to stop her, but was flung back by some kind of barrier.
"What happened?" Tomoyo asked, catching the re-bounded Kero.
"She believes deeply that, that is her mother. There is nothing we can do to stop her. Her trust that that is her mother is so deep that she added to the cards' power, and it created it's own barrier so that we can't help Sakura." Eriol said, appearing behind Tomoyo, and looking down at Kero.
Tomoyo looked horror-struck, Sakura was standing on the edge of the cliff, one more step and she would fall to her death. "Don't do it Sakura! Listen to me, it's Tomoyo. That's not your mother, if it was,s he wouldn't be putting you into danger like this!" Tomoyo yelled, frantically.
The figure that supposed to be Sakura's mother, had it's arms outstretched and was gliding backwards so that Sakura couldn't reach it's arms. The four others stood there, almost frozen with shock as Sakura yelled out for her mother to come back to her. With a final attempt to reach her mother, Sakura took a step. Tomoyo screamed, and latched onto Eriol. Meiling stopped her remarks saying that Sakura was just faking it all, and Syaoran dropped his sword mid-swing, at an attempt to cut the barrier down.
'Why mom? Why?' Sakura asked herself, as she was falling and her mothers' figure watching her.
Suddenly, Sakura put all the pieces together, and Tomoyo's voice came ringing into her ears: 'That's not your mother, if it was, she wouldn't be putting you into danger like this'. Sakura opened her eyes, realising that the ground was rushing up to meet her, and the screams of her friends, yelling out 'Fly, Sakura fly!'
"That's it!" Sakura yelled, and took out her staff,a nd card from her pocket. She threw the card down and thrusted her staff against it.
"FLY!"
Wings sprouted on her staff, and she managed to fly back up to the top of the cliff, and dropped to the ground, in an unprofessional manner. She was holding onto the end of her staff, while it tried to fly her up. When you're falling, it's very hard to mount a flying staff.
"Sakura! You're ok!" Tomoyo smiled, letting go of Eriol and ran over to Sakura's side.
"Tomoyo, I'm fine. But, I have to teach this card a lesson. It can't just mess around with my feelings and my friends like that." Sakura said, standing up. She looked at the Clow Card, which was now fazing in and out. Since Sakura didn't believe that the woman on the cliff was her mother, it was fading out from Sakura's mother's portrait to the image of the Illusion Card.
"Sakura, now!" Kero yelled, pointing to the image of the card that was flashing more and more now.
"Right!" Sakura yelled back, and held her staff out in front of her. "Illusion Card! Return to your power confine, Illusion!"
The Illusions' image was flashing more and more, with little image of Sakura's mother. Soon enough that all stopped and the Illusion card was getting sucked back into a card that had managed to form itself in front of Sakura. The card floated around Sakura and landed in her hand. Sakura smiled at the card in her hand and smiled slightly, trying not to cry.
"Oh mom! I miss you so much; I wish you were still here today, with us. But, at least I know that you are still watching over me, from where you are now." Sakura said, letting out a few tears.
"Oh Sakura…" Tomoyo mumbled, she just hated to see her friends all sad. That usually made her sad as well.
"Oh come on! Lets go to Eriol's house already. I'm starved." Meiling half –whined and half-yelled.
"Alright, then, lets go." Eriol laughed, and started to make his way out of the forest, Meiling following willingly, dragging Syaoran behind her.
"You coming Sakura?" Tomoyo asked, looking back at Sakura.
"Yeah, I'm coming, lets go." Sakura smiled, and started off after Tomoyo.
She looked back at where she had caught the Illusion card. 'Something tells me that IU am going to be seeing a lot more of this place, and I'll be ready for it.' And with that, Sakura took off after the others, out of the forest.
Q&A:
Kura-chan: Seriously, I want to give up on this fic. I am very tired of it, and I can't think of anything more to write. I just don't see this story going anywhere at the moment. If anyone can think of any idea's on how Sakura can get the Clow Book back from Readington and into her possession. I don't just want to write about the capturing of the Clow Cards, because you can just watch the series for that. All help will be greatly appreciated, or else, I'm very sorry that I might discontinue this. Please, help me, I'm all out of idea's!