Author's Note: Well…here we are at chapter two. I'm going to update every two weeks from now on, and it will always be on weekends.
I actually really like this story, it's a little darker than my other story, which is filled with fluff. This story doesn't have much fluff in it, just a little in the romance department.
Anyway, I'm hoping that readers will like this story too, because I'm really excited for this story to get into a really deep plot. I have it all planned out :D.
To my reviewers of Chapter 1:
Chibi Ame – Lol, thanks…don't worry, Syaoran, Meiling and Eriol will all be in the story, but it may take a while. Syaoran will be mentioned a lot though.
Xtremequeen666 – Thank you, don't worry I'll update soon. It just takes me two weeks to write a new chapter because I've got a lot going on. Digital Boarding School will be updated next weekend, and this will be updated in two weeks
Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura or Sailor Moon
Chapter 2
"Your birthday is in two weeks."
"I know that." Sakura replied as she flipped through a magazine.
"Are you going to do something for a party?" Tomoyo asked.
"It hadn't crossed my mind." Sakura said, stopping on a page she found particularly interesting. "Tomoyo-chan, those are those girls from today."
"Really?" Tomoyo asked, sitting down on the bed beside Sakura.
"Yeah." Sakura said. She looked at the cover of the magazine. "I've had this magazine for a year now. I wonder how long they've been around."
Tomoyo got up, going back to her immense closet. "Well Sakura-chan, they've been part of the news for three years."
"That was when things started to stop."
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo asked.
"Well Kero-chan said that the challenges would never stop, but nothing has happened until today."
"Where is Kero-chan anyway?"
"He and Yukito-san were in the middle of an eating contest when you called." Sakura said.
"Oh…" Tomoyo said dreamily. She looked back at the picture in the magazine. The title was 'Seven Female Superheroes: Our Mysterious Saviors'. "This is not very good resolution, I would never be able to make a costume from this."
"Well it was obviously taken on the run and it's from far away." Sakura looked up at her best friend. "I asked you not to make any more costumes for me."
"Yes, I know you said that after he left, but I don't-."
"Tomoyo-chan, saying that sorta defeats the purpose." Sakura said, stuffing her face into a pillow.
"I'm sorry Sakura-chan, but I think that it's time…that you got over that. It won't go away if you ignore it."
"You never know, maybe it will." Sakura said, looking at her watch. "I've got to go home for dinner. Goodnight Tomoyo-chan."
"Goodnight Sakura-chan." Tomoyo said, watching her best friend leave. She took out a notebook and picked up the phone. She waited a while as she heard the door close, signaling the definite departure of her friend. She dialed a number and waited for someone to pick up.
"Hello, is Mihara Chiharu there? … Thank you … Hello, it's Tomoyo … Well you know how it's Sakura-chan's birthday on the first of April…"
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
"Would you listen? I found something fairly interesting last night on the Internet."
"Ami-chan." Usagi whined. "It's so early."
"It's only noon." Ami replied skeptically.
"But it's Saturday." Usagi said, falling backwards on her cushion to lay on the floor.
"Come on, you'd be up at eight if you had a date with Mamoru-san." Rei said before narrowly dodging a flying pillow.
"Stop it! Would you all just listen to this?" Ami said, as she looked through about twenty pieces of paper, all chock-full of writing.
"Okay, what have you got?" Makoto said, holding Usagi back by her collar.
"Well, Kinotmoto-san and Daidouji-san have been in the same class since kindergarten." Ami started. She looked up at her four friends and put down half of the papers. "Here I just have a whole bunch of hardly relevant stuff on them and some of their classmates… Anyway in grade four a boy entered their class, Li Syaoran. I did some research on him…that's all of this…" Ami put down half of the papers she had left. "He is part of the Li clan, a very prestigious family in China. They can trace their lineage all the way back to a man named Clow Reed who lived in England. In old stories he was a great sorcerer, the most powerful in the world."
"You don't think they're stories." Rei said decisively.
"No, I don't. I couldn't find that much information on Clow Reed, I think the Li family has taken most of it off of the Internet."
"So… What does all of this have to do with Kinomoto Sakura?" Makoto asked.
"A direct descendant of Clow Reed was in her class. You don't think they could be connected in any way?" Ami said, trying to make her friends put two and two together.
"It is who you know." Minako pointed out to the rest.
Ami banged her head on the short table. "The Li's are a very highly thought-of family, they'll do anything to protect their pride and I believe that Kinomoto Sakura was imposing on it somehow."
"So they sent a ten-year-old-kid?" Minako asked.
Ami glared at her. She had had a long night.
"I'm not saying you're wrong." Minako said defensively. "I just think that it might have been coincidence that he went to that school."
"He and his cousin went to that school for almost three years and both of them are from China and both of their families were in China at that time. Now tell me they weren't there for a reason."
"Okay, so there was a reason he was there. But why? Why would Kinomoto-san have been imposing on the Li's honor?" Makoto asked.
"I think it has something to do with this Clow Reed guy. I'm going to try and dig up some more dirt on him and I'll talk to you guys later after I get any information." Ami said. She put all of her papers in a neat pile and crossed her arms.
Rei sighed. "Okay, on to homework."
"I already did mine." Ami said absent-mindedly.
"What? Why?" Minako asked.
"I couldn't sleep last night." Ami said, chewing on the end of her pencil.
Rei sighed again. "Then go on the computer and do your research." She ordered.
Ami didn't move. She was deep in though as she tapped the end of her pencil on her lips and stared at nothing. She finally looked up. "Can I use your computer?"
Everyone groaned.
"Okay then." Ami said, getting up and leaving the room.
There was a low grumble and everyone turned to look at Usagi.
"I was listening! Really!"
Everyone groaned again.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
Sakura tapped her pen idly on her notepad. She would have been thinking of what to write if the little dots created by her pen weren't so interesting. She didn't bother to look up as she heard footsteps enter the living room. They couldn't be anymore interesting than these dots.
"Hey kaijuu. What're you doing?"
It was Touya. Her beloved big brother. Sakura noticed that there were a lot of B's in that sentence as she started to stare into space again. She suddenly moaned and completely collapsed, letting the notepad and pen fall onto the floor beside the couch she was sitting on.
"This is hopeless. I'm supposed to be good at this." Sakura groaned. She looked up at her big brother. He had dark hair and dark eyes. A tall, dark stranger, something any girl would fall for.
"What is it?" Touya asked, sitting down beside her.
"I'm supposed to write two hundred words on a moment." Sakura said, snapping her finger as she said the last word.
"Well that's easy, the five senses, the five W's, twenty words per paragraph and you're done." Touya showed her all ten of his fingers.
"Writing it is easy, it's just picking a moment." Sakura said, snapping again.
"Well Sakura-chan, you're almost sixteen, there must be one moment that is interesting enough to write about." Touya replied, snapping as he said 'moment' as well.
"Onii-san, I have had many interesting moments in my life." Sakura said, snapping. "But I can't tell anyone about them."
"Ah, I see"
"Do you realize that every time we've said moment-." Sakura stared at her brother, who had snapped for her. "We've snapped."
"Don't jinx it kaijuu." Touya said, ruffling his little sister's hair as he got up to leave.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
"Meatball head better be here." Rei said. "We've looked all over for her and if she isn't here I'll kill her."
"Rei-chan, we just need to tell her what I found." Ami said, looking through a pile of papers thoughtfully.
"Yes?" Mamoru opened the door sleepily.
"Is Usagi-chan here?" Rei asked, looking at him suspiciously.
Mamoru looked behind himself. He seemed disoriented. "Yeah, come in."
Rei giggled as she and Ami walked in. "Drink a glass of water."
Mamoru ran a hand through his hair and headed towards his kitchen. Rei and Ami walked into the living room where Usagi was sitting on the couch, her eyes closed.
"Usagi-chan?" Ami said.
"What? Oh…hi…" Usagi said, looking around.
Rei giggled even more as Mamoru sat down beside his girlfriend and handed her a glass of water. She drank the first half slowly and put it down on the coffee table. Mamoru took it and chugged the rest.
"Anyway, why are you two here?" Mamoru asked. "Where are Makoto-chan and Minako-chan?"
"Mako-chan was attempting to teach Minako-chan how to cook." Rei said. "They were busy."
"Oh, I see…" Mamoru said.
"Okay, I found some stuff last night and it's quite interesting. Do you remember who Li Syaoran is?" Ami started.
"Yeah." Usagi replied.
"Well his cousin, Li Meiling, actually only stayed for around one and a half school years. That doesn't matter very much, but in grade six a boy named Hiiragizawa Eriol came into Kinomoto-san's class. I think he had something to do with all of this because I couldn't find any information about his parents. As far as the Internet's concerned, Hiiragizawa Eriol came out of nowhere."
"But how is that possible?" Usagi asked. "And what does this have to do with the Li family honor that you were talking about yesterday?"
"Nothing right now, but I believe this new student had something to do with this, people don't just pop out of thin air unless it had something to do with magic." Ami said. "Anyway, continuing with what I had yesterday, I found a story about Clow Reed that looks really interesting. Supposedly he created a deck of magic cards and each one had its own ability. It's a big guess but I think that Kinomoto-san has the power over those cards."
"So she has the power over something that should belong to the Li's. But how did she get the cards?" Mamoru asked.
"Minako-chan thinks she may have stolen them." Rei said.
"She didn't seem like the sort of person to steal something from a family like the Li's." Mamoru said.
"Well you can never judge a book by its cover." Ami said as she sorted through all of her papers.
"She was ten years old at the time." Rei said. "And so far she doesn't seem like she had any motive."
"Well the Li's sent a ten-year-old kid to get them back." Ami said.
"Maybe Kinomoto-san didn't steal the cards." Mamoru said. "Maybe she got them accidentally."
"Stop asking questions I can't answer!" Ami said.
"Wait, be quiet." Rei said, putting a hand on Ami's shoulder. She put her other hand to her forehead. "We have to go."
"What? Where? Why?" Usagi said. She grabbed Mamoru's sleeve.
"No time! Mamoru we need your car!" Rei said, running out the door.
"Usako, grab your jacket, it's in the kitchen." Mamoru said. Usagi obeyed and ran out the door last.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
"Onii-san! Go faster!" Sakura said, bouncing in the passenger seat of her brother's car.
"I'm already ten above the speed limit and if the cops catch me you're never going to get there." Touya replied.
"I don't see any cops!" Sakura said.
"Sakura-chan, he's right, let him be." Tomoyo said from the back. "We got there pretty early last time, you're getting really good at sensing magic."
Sakura sighed and started fiddling with the edge of her pink sweater. She looked up at the signs lining the highway. The next exit would be where they had to go. She suddenly gasped. "It's here! Onii-san, pull over!"
Touya pulled over off the highway. Sakura and Tomoyo jumped out of the car and ran into the trees, Kero close behind them. Touya looked around, wondering if he should follow. He wanted a few moments before getting out of the car and running into the trees.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
Sakura looked around. The same eight girls were there, along with the man in the cape. By the look of things, the thing hadn't exploded more than twice, and the same cloud of dust and debris was waiting to settle around it. Sakura knew that if she used the Windy, the same black void would appear and they would have to run away again. She'd have to fight blindly if she were going to fight at all. Sakura transformed her key and ran into the dust, Shield in her hand.
Tomoyo was filming Sakura as she heard Touya come up behind her.
"Touya-san?"
"Oh my God." Touya said. Tomoyo turned to look at him; he was staring at the cloud of dust with his eyes wide.
"What is it?" Tomoyo asked.
"It wouldn't be a good idea to tell Sakura-chan about his, but there are a lot of spirits floating around whatever is in there."
"No, I don't think we should tell her about that." Tomoyo said nervously. She turned her camera back to Sakura, but the girl was lost in the dust. She wanted to tell the sailor senshi to stop attacking, but she didn't think they would listen.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
"Sailor Moon!" Sailor Mars yelled at her teammate. "Kinomoto-san is here, and she's brought another friend."
Sailor Moon looked at where two people had come through the trees. She looked as Sakura who was disappearing into the dust and then back at the two people and the floating teddy bear.
"Who is that? He looks older than Mamo-chan." Sailor Moon asked.
"It doesn't matter, Kinomoto-san's in there and she's in there and she's in danger." Sailor Mars said, looking at the dust. There was a flash from the very center of the cloud and everyone stepped back.
"Here it comes." Sailor Jupiter said. Her expectations were correct, there was another explosion and everyone thought Sakura would come flying, badly hurt, but she never came.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
A female voice laughed maniacally. "That's a nice trick, Card Mistress, but you can't keep that up forever."
As much as Sakura didn't want to admit it, she couldn't keep it up forever. Shielding that one blast had taken a lot out of her, and she had to keep the shield up because she didn't know when the next explosion would come. She was starting to have trouble locating the source of the explosion.
"Maybe you can help me." The female voice said evilly. "I plan on taking one of your little friends, so I want you to help me choose."
"You won't take anyone." Sakura said, but she was already taking out the Voice card to warn everyone.
"I wouldn't bother, Card Mistress." The evil voice said. Sakura looked up and saw the vines rushing toward her.
/MoOn/
/AnD/
/StArS/
Yay! It's a cliffhanger! I didn't plan it this way, I swear, but with the entire battle in, this chapter was way too long and it wasn't consistent with the others. But I like cliffhangers, so I'm happy. You may not be…but I am!
Word Count: 2,477