Summoner Wars

A Card Captor Sakura/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover

Episode 3: New Old Evil.

By Razor Knight

Last update: June 14, 2006

Sakura frowned. Hope. The last Sakura Card she'd created, and for these duels, the one that could give her the advantage. But on it's own, it was quite useless. All she could do now was wish Yugi didn't have a card strong enough to destroy her Lock.

"I summon Fiery!"

Two thousands and one point two thousands... Not enough to destroy the Summoned Skull, at least not without destroying itself, but Yugi knew what her plan was.

"... And I end my turn."

"What?"

Sakura looked at the Pharaoh. "I don't need to attack you yet."

'She seems to trust her cards as much as we do,' Yugi noted.

'I would be too, with that Lock card of hers...'

Only one card would be able to solve Yugi's problem... And, for once in a lifetime, he didn't draw it in the right moment. "I set another face-down monster, and a face-down card, and end my turn," the Pharaoh said with a frown.

"Yugi's winning, no surprise."

Syaoran turned to the side and saw a group of teens watching the duel. The one who'd spoken, a blonde-haired, tall guy, was wearing an uniform similar to Yugi's, only without the collar and pyramid.

"Who's that girl anyways?" The second one, a brown-haired guy with a quite lame hairdo, asked.

"Oh darn, it better not be another Rebecca," the brown-haired girl besides the first two commented.

The blonde chuckled. "I thought Rebecca was over her 'Yugi's girlfriend' phase."

"She is, and I really don't want to go over that kind of things again."

Quite unaware of all the people watching the duel, Sakura drew a card and smiled. Sword. One more card and she'd be able to show Yugi the real power of her cards. "Nothing to do right now, so... I end my turn."

Yugi chuckled. "If you don't attack, you won't beat me."

"Offense is not the only way of winning a fight," Sakura countered.

"Right then..." The spike-haired boy drew another card and smirked. "Just what I was waiting for. I summon my Dark Magician Girl in attack mode, her two thousand attack points are raised to two thousands three hundred since the Dark Magician is in the graveyard.. "

'So that's why he discarded it,' Syaoran thought with a nod.

'Wonder who that girl is,' Anzu, the brown-haired girl, pondered.

'Where the heck did she get those cards from?' Katsuya, the blonde guy, wondered.

'Yugi's outfit's so cool... I wonder who designed it,' Tomoyo thought with a smile.

"And that's not all," Yugi said. "I also set the field card Yami," he said as he put a card besides the field, which turned pitch black. "This boosts all Fiend and Spellcaster monsters's attack another two hundred points. Dark Magician Girl, finish her Firey card!"

The crowd cheered as Sakura's card was blasted to pieces by a magic bolt, going to her graveyard pile. Sakura's point went down to one point five thousands.

"And with that, I end my turn."

Sakura frowned as she drew a card, then smiled. Shield. "Well, well, I just got lucky."

Her opponent smiled. "Let's see what you've got." He was quite excited about this fight, he hadn't dueled someone who used new, challenging cards in quite some time.

"Okay," Sakura said and showed him her 'Hope' card. "I activate Hope, and fuse my Sword and Shield with... Me."

"What the heck?" Honda said from the crowd. His question was echoed by many others.

Sakura walked into the field, standing besides her Lock Card, and the Hope card hovered over her. A second later, a Shield and Sword appeared in her hands, and everyone saw the three cards going into the graveyard as her school uniform turned into a silvery, helmet-less full plate armor. "This is my Knight Sakura fusion," she said. Two point five thousands attack, two thousands defense, relatively stronger than the Summoned Skull or even the Dark Magician Girl, Yugi thought. "But before I show you what I can do, I activate Hope's special ablity. Once sent to the graveyard, it can be put back into my deck, which is shuffled afterwards."

Katsuya whistled. "Kinda like a recyclable Polymerization."

"And now, I attack your second face-down card!" the female Knight said as she charged at the face-down Mystic Elf.

Not if I can help it, Yugi thought. "I activate Negate attack."

Sakura frowned as her charge was stopped by an unseen force. "Hoe?"

The Pharaoh chuckled. "As the name of the card implies, this trap stops your attack, and also cancels any further attacks you may have planned in this battle phase."

"Okay then... I end my turn," Sakura said with a sigh.

Yugi drew a card and chuckled. "Well, this was fun, but the duel ends now. I activate Raigeki!"

Sakura yelled in pain as lightning struck her side of the field, zapping her two other cards and herself. The attack sent her out of the field, and she kneeled on the ground as her armor reverted back to her school uniform. "That hurt..."

'Didn't know it'd hurt her,' The Pharaoh admitted.

'Maybe it's a side-effect from being a card herself...'

"Are you okay?" the spike-haired guy asked.

Sakura nodded. "Don't worry, I've been hit far worse before and survived."

The Pharaoh nodded back. "Okay then... Dark Magician Girl, take out the rest of her life points!"

Sakura staggered up as her life points dropped to zero. "I could get used to this," she muttered.

"Playing the game, or getting beaten up?" Syaoran asked slyly.

Sakura stuck her tongue out at him, then turned to the Pharaoh who was walking towards them, the battlefield already gone. "This was interesting," he said. "I guess I'll help you improve your skills, but those cards of yours are quite strong on their own."

"Hey Yugi, who's the cutie?" the blonde guy asked as his group walked to them.

"Name's Sakura, and you better keep those eyes for yourself," Syaoran snapped.

"Easy, boy, I was just asking. 'Sides I already have Mai..."

"Does she know that yet?" Honda asked.

"Now seriously, who's the girl?" Anzu asked.

'Yugi, she's looking at us that way...'

Yugi cringed. 'We better explain all this and fast, huh?'

"I'll explain, but not here," The Pharaoh said. "Let's go into the shop."

Unseen by the others, Seraph and Zenit were amongst the crowd that had watched the duel. As the crowd started thinning out, they both walked away. "You were right, that Yugi guy is good," the woman commented.

"And the summoner girl's cards are nothing like I've seen before. She's quite a wild card, so to speak," Zenith admitted.

"We have to tell Suzaku about this," Seraph said as they both turned around a corner and vanished from view.

"So once again, there's some big bad evil out there using duel cards in an attempt to take over the world," Katsuya said. "Nothing new there, huh?"

"I bet if Kaiba meets these guys, he'll insist they're using holograms and cheap magic," Honda commented.

"I'll need all the help I can get to fight this new evil," Sakura said. "I'm still trying to figure out most of the duel's rules and strategies."

"If you want, Duelist Extraordinaire Katsuya Jounoichi can teach you a few things!"

"Like how to lose with dignity?" Honda muttered.

"Why you..."

"Stop it you two," Yugi said. "Well, Sakura, I can teach you all I know about dueling, but I first need to know all about your cards, what each of them can do, and what their weak points are..."

Syaoran shrugged. "I just wanna know what the deal was with that Fusion thing... Never seen anything like that."

"I have," Yugi said. He still remembered about Noah and Marik, and how they'd fused with their monsters to fight. Sakura's fusion, however, wasn't the same. She wasn't fusing with an existing monster, but using her cards as equip cards... "But not the way she uses them."

"They all work the same way," Sakura explained, "and that Knight Sakura thing was the only thing I could think of to win the duel."

"You lack information, but your skills are good," Yugi said.

"You know, Yugi, you're speaking more and more like the Pharaoh every day..." Anzu mused.

"Perhaps I do," Yugi admitted. "Guess some of his character rubbed on me, but also... He's not as grim and socially challenged as he used to be."

'I'm still here, you know...'

'Hard to forget. So, what do you think?'

'I agree with you. Once she learns the basics and how the most common monsters and traps work, she could be quite a powerful ally. '

Sakura paled as she looked at her watch. "Damn, dad must be worried sick by now!"

Touya chuckled. He'd been listening to the others as he worked on keeping the store clean. Today had been quite a calm day compared to the rest of the week, but he couldn't complain. "Don't worry, monster, I called him and told him you were here."

"Don't call me that," Sakura muttered.

Yukito was leaning on a wall, with Kero sitting on his shoulder. Both had been silently trying to figure out who the new foe was, but Seraph didn't use any item or spell that could give them a clue about it. Still, there was something familiar, a magic they'd seen before, in her deck.

Suddenly, the door opened and a quite tired man walked in. His white hair had the same gravity-defying form as Yugi's, and along with his short white beard and blue overalls gave him quite a funny appearance. "Hmmm... You've got visitors I see."

"Grandpa?" Yugi asked.

"Don't worry," the old man said. "Some crazy girl named Astra wanted to duel me. Ranted on about her master and uniting the world and other stuff I didn't quite get."

"You beat her?"

"Of course, but it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be." The old man stopped and looked at Yugi. "You've met someone of her group, right?"

Yugi nodded. "I did. And this girl here's Sakura Kinomoto, Touya's sister... She has her own kind of cards to use in duels."

"Own kind?" Grandpa asked, his interest raising.

Sakura smirked, mentally summoning forth her Hope card like she had in the duel, along with Shield, Sword and Fly. The end result was, she looked like an armored angel. "And not only for duels," she said.

The old man gasped. "Amazing. Those look like the Mage Cards."

"Mage Cards?" Yugi asked.

"A friend of mine found records on them in an ancient buddhist temple in China. There were two mages, Clow Reed and Phoebe Suzaku, who tried to create cards much like the ones used eons ago, the same ones you use now, Yugi," Grandpa explained.

"So my cards are connected to them?" Sakura asked.

"You're using Clow's cards, right?" the man asked back.

"Not exactly... I had to transform them to use them," Sakura said. "Could you tell me more about that legend?"

Grandpa Motou smiled. "If you have time for an old man's ranting... "

"There could be details we need to know in that legend," Yugi said, "so we should listen to it."

"Darn, I forgot to bring the popcorn," Katsuya muttered. Anzu promptly glared at him.

The old man chuckled. "Well..."

"Reed and Suzaku were two mages who had studied the magic arts together, but while Reed wanted to use magic to help others, Suzaku wanted only power and control. There'd always been tension between them, and when Reed created his Clow Cards, Suzaku did everything she could to get them. Upon failing, she created her own set of cards, the Phoenix Cards, even stronger than Clow's."

"So, Suzaku started using her cards to take over small villages, then fortresses, and in the end, she was confident enough of her powers so she decided to take the final step."

"Suzaku tried to use her cards against the Emperor, but Reed stood in her way. They fought with their summons for almost two days, and, in the end, only one mage got out of the fight alive. "

"Clow killed her?" Syaoran asked skeptically.

"No," Yukito said. "I remember Phoebe now. Her cards were strong, but that also made them hard to control."

The old man rose an eyebrow. "You mean you were there?"

Yukito swiftly turned into his true form as Kero floated off his shoulder. "I'm Yue, one of the guardians of the Clow Cards. Now that Sakura turned them into her cards, I serve her like I served Clow. "

"So those legends were real... Wait until my friend finds out," Grandpa mused.

Kero shrugged. "I'll tell you what happened in that battle. Despite them both being rivals, I know there was something else there. Phoebe had the chance to deliver a killing blow to Clow with one of her strongest cards, but she didn't... She couldn't. The card went berserk and killed her before Clow could help her."

"What happened to the cards?" Sakura asked.

"I don't know. Clow said he'd put them in a safe place, but never told us where."

"I don't see a connection," Syaoran said.

"We sensed something... Familiar in Seraph's deck today," Kero explained. "We didn't know what it was until this man mentioned Suzaku. Seraph could have one of the Phoenix Cards in her deck."

"I'll call Eriol and tell him," Yue said. "Maybe he can give us more details."

Sakura nodded. "As for me, I'm going home. Yugi, I'll come back tomorrow so you can teach me all you know about duels."

"I'll help you as much as I can," Yugi said, noticing Anzu still seemed a bit territorial. "See you tomorrow."

Sakura nodded as she and her friends walked out of the store. Touya just shrugged as he turned to Motou. "Sorry, Mr. Motou, but there aren't a lot of customers today. I'm going to make sure Sakura gets home unharmed."

The old man nodded. "Don't worry, I can take care of business."

"Hey Anzu, stop glaring at the door, or you'll melt it down," Katsuya joked.

"I wasn't!" Anzu snapped.

"That girl's got a boyfriend, so I think you're safe," Honda added.

Yugi sighed. "Don't worry about her, Anzu. You know I only have eyes for you."

Katsuya whistled, and Honda promptly headlocked him to keep him silent.

Anzu smiled at Yugi, then frowned. "Is that the Pharaoh or Yugi talking?"

Yugi smiled at her. "Both."

"You've failed."

The three persons standing near the desk bowed to the man behind it. He was giving his back to them, his dark blue business suit contrasting with his long golden hair in quite an imposing way. "Master Suzaku, we're sorry about our failure. But we have data on those we fought..."

"I'm listening."

"My target," Zenit said, "was Yugi Motou. He indeed deserves his title. I couldn't even use the little surprise I had for him..."

Astra was a black-haired woman wearing stiletto-heeleed, knee-long blue boots, a very short blue skirt, and blue tube top. She sighed. "His grandfather is no pushover either."

"As for me... I found someone special," Seraph said.

"You did?" Suzaku asked.

"I found the new master of the Clow Cards. Her name is Sakura Kinomoto."

"Interesting, very interesting," Suzaku said. "Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone there. Gain a powerful ally, and also the only cards that could oppose my Phoenix Cards."

"What if we can't make her join us?" Zenit asked.

"Then I'll kill her myself. I don't want those Clow cards to destroy me like Clow destroyed the first Suzaku."

A/N: One thing I noticed about YuGiOh is, you rarely see the villain/opponent's hand. So for this duel, you could consider Sakura as the main character. About the result of the duel, it could've gone either way, but I decided to not have a rookie win against the 'Duel Master' Yugi.
Disclaimer: I own neither Card Captor Sakura nor Yu-Gi-Oh, I'm just using the characters of those shows for my own little story.