Chapter 7: Yesterday's Friend
The four were furious. They had tried, without success, to destroy the card captors, and as a result of their failure, their deal with Clow was turning against them. How had this happened? Was the Golden Clow meant to lose to these four human kids?
Meilin had captured Explode on Tuseday.
Sakura and Syaoran had captured Disappear and Smoke on Wednesday.
And Tomoyo had captured Eye on Thursday.
Today was Friday. If this continued, then the Golden Clow would be finished. The time to strike was now. There was no doubt about this.
Meilin, Syaoran, Sakura, and Tomoyo were trading cards in front of Sakura's house. It was late Friday afternoon.
"Tomoyo, you need more offensive cards," Syaoran pushed. "I don't want you to get hurt."
"I won't get hurt," Tomoyo protested. "I've got Create."
"I'll give you Mist." Meilin offered.
"Take Snow in return. You know that I'm against violence." Tomoyo said firmly.
"Sakura! Take Shadow for Earthy!" Syaoran pleaded.
"Hai!" Sakura agreed.
"Then I want Big for Illusion," Meilin prompted.
"Deal."
"Trading cards? Nice move, card captors."
Eriol appeared from behind a tree just as Syaoran closed the last deal.
Tomoyo gave her friend a kind smile.
"It's good to see you smile again, Eriol-kun." Tomoyo said kindly.
Syaoran gave a snort of disgust.
"Anyway," he said loudly. "We're going to the park tonight. The presence of the cards is strongest there."
"I'll come with you." Eriol said quietly.
"It's dangerous," Sakura warned.
"What's dangerous for someone like him?" Meilin laughed.
Friday night, 8:00 pm
At the Park
"Ready to record!" Tomoyo announced.
Everyone, except for Tomoyo and Eriol, were wearing their battle clothes.
"It's too bad that Mirror can only copy one person at a time," Sakura sighed. "Now, we're short on cover."
"I'll take care of that," Eriol said slyly.
"With a sleeping spell, I bet." Syaoran gave his ancestor a hard stare that he did not return. Eriol turned his back on his descendant. He had something better to do.
Syaoran suddenly heard a buzzing sound near his ear. He knew from the intensity of the sound that it was no mosquito.
"Sakura! Did you hear that noise?" Syaoran asked.
"It's a Clow card," Sakura answered.
Suddenly, the card captors were plunged in darkness.
"Hoeeeeeeeee!" Sakura shrieked. "Who turned out the light?"
"Sakura! Don't panic!" Syaoran tried to find his friend in the dark. "What's going on?"
"Tomoyo! Syaoran! Sakura! Eriol!" Meilin called. "Where are you?"
Eriol stood on a ledge watching the card captors struggle in the dark. There was a sinister smile on his face.
"Ugh!" Tomoyo groaned. "I can't find my cards!"
"We'll have to search by sound, then. I can't see a thing at all!" Sakura agreed.
"That's the point, Card Captor Sakura."
The card captors gasped as the darkness lifted to reveal someone standing on the ledge. It was Eriol, in his blue, black, and gold battle robes. He held his sun staff in his hands and smiled evilly at his friends.
"Eriol!" Sakura gasped.
"How did he transform so fast?" Meilin was stunned.
"Traitor! You led us into a trap!" Syaoran growled.
"No," Eriol laughed. "You fell into my trap."
A telekinetic bolt of energy burst from Eriol's staff and struck the card captors, knocking them violently to the ground.
"That does it!" Syaoran glowered, taking out a certain card.
"Syaoran! Stop!" Tomoyo screamed.
"Shield!" Sakura called, just as Eriol fired a second blast.
"Shot!"
A bright beam of light shot towards Eriol at lightning speed.
"Magnet," Eriol said calmly, and a shield appeared just as Shot reached its target.
The Shot smashed into Eriol's shield, causing a brilliant flash of light. Then, it bounced off the shield and whizzed right back-at the four card captors!
