II: The Book

"Hmmm," said Kero sitting in the center of the bed, "Are you sure this is the same guy?" Sakura's brother was at work and her father was out the university teaching his class. Sakura had just told Kero about her meeting with JD and his offer.

"I'm positive," said Sakura nodding sit on the floor near the right side of her bed, "It's the same guy and I'm sure his friend is the same girl. He was in my dreams but I didn't sense a magical presence on him."

"I'm just guessing at this but maybe it's the book that's magic you keep seeing your dreams," said Kero, "It's might just be the book, not the individual."

"I'm not sure," said Sakura turning to face him, "But who is to say this guy is safe? What if he is after the Clow Cards?"

"And what if he is not?" replied Kero, "He has the magic scent of Clow Reed floating around him. Whatever the connection is, we better figure out what it is to be safe."

"How are we going to do that?" said Sakura curious.

"By letting me come on this trip of showing JD and his friend around the town!" said Kero standing up, "I'll be your personal bodyguard of they try to pull a fast one on you and Madison!"

"Really?" she said to him.

"Plus, I want to try all the food from the restaurants you show JD and his friend to!" said Kero, "I want a little bit of everything!"

"You just want food instead of helping me out!" said Sakura angrily.

"Maybe," he said to her with a goofy smile.

"Ok," she said to him, "You can come along, but you stay in my backpack the whole time! You can't come out of the backpack for any reason unless I'm in danger."

"Just promise me you'll get me any food from any place you take them to ok?" said Kero shaking his hands.

"I promise," sighed Sakura, "I'll pick you up right after school ends for me and Madison."

"So you promised Kero he could come along with us as we show our new friend around the town?" said Madison to Sakura with a smile, "What if JD can sense Kero or his friend can sense Kero?" It was the next day and after school. Sakura and Madison were walking down the sidewalk to Sakura's house to pick up Kero.

"First off," said Sakura to her, "We barely know JD, how can he be our friend? Second, I don't know if they can sense magical things like I can."

"Well after you left the room yesterday after talking to him, we talked a bit and we became fast friends," said Madison, "He's a pretty cool teacher and we are right around his age too."

"He's 14 years old and we are 13," she said to Madison, "But either way, there is something about him." They came up to Sakura's house and went in. No one was around the house so they went straight to her bedroom.

Inside the room, Kero was playing Dead or Alive 4 on Sakura's Xbox 360. "Come on!" shouted Kero yelling at the screen, "How does Alpha-152 keep on beating me! I'm using my best player, Kasumi, and I'm still losing!"

"Kero!" said Sakura at him, "It's just a game!"

"How would you like it if you kept on getting beaten to crap in this video game?" said Kero yelling at her, "It would be just a game then."

"Either way," said Madison stepping in before thing could get out of control, "It's time to go get JD and his friend from the Holiday Inn. We can settle this problem later, ok friends?"

Both of them stared at each for a while and nodded. Sakura opened her backpack and Kero flew into it. "Please try not to crush me at any time for any reason," he said from within the bag.

Then Sakura grabbed her Clow Cards from her desk causing Madison to ask, "What are you getting those?"

"Just to be safe," said Sakura with a smile, "You never know if we'll need them. Lets hurry to the hotel now."

Sakura and Madison reached the hotel with their rollerblades on. They zoomed on inside through the opening door and crashed into a sofa in the main lobby. "Hey you two!" shouted the guy behind a desk, "No rollerblading in the lobby!"

"There you two are," said JD running up to them with his friend, "We are ready for our special grand tour by you two." He had changed out of his other clothes and was now wearing blue jeans, a black shirt with a leather jacket not zipped up, and red sneakers. Then she felt it, a low cold chilling magical presence. She could feel it coming from off JD.

"Something wrong?" he said to me raising his eyebrow, "Why are you staring at me strangely?"

"Nothing," said Sakura, "I was just thinking about something, but did any of you just feel a chill?"

"Nope," said JD's friend, "I felt no chill. Are you ok?" It was the girl from Sakura's dreams. She had blond curly hair and blue eyes. She wore a white and red baseball cap, white shirt, brown baggy pants, and white tennis shoes.

"So are you ready or what?" said JD, "I'm ready to see this town!" Madison looked at Sakura who had frozen a bit. Then Sakura snapped out of it and shook her head.

"We'll start our tour here in downtown," said Madison with a smile and then turned to JD's friend, "But first, who are you?"

"Me?" she said, "My name is private, but please call me by my nickname Dot. I'm his girlfriend." Madison looked pretty surprise, but Sakura was silent.

"Oh," said Madison looking sad, "Well in any case, we'll start by taking you to…"

At the near end of the tour and when night had fallen, they all stopped for dinner at a pizza parlor. Sakura excused herself from their table they were sitting at and went into the bathroom. She went into a stall and sat down on the toilet seat. "Kero?" she said opening her backpack, "Have you been sensing the presence I have been?"

Kero looked up at her and yawned, "What time is it?"

"WHAT?" shouted Sakura, "You have been a sleep the whole time? Have you been asleep this whole tour?"

"I knocked out around the time you stopped at the Bell Shop," said Kero flying out and landing on her knee, "But yes I have felt the presence you just mention."

"Do you know what it is?" said Sakura.

"I know the familiar magical essence," he said, "It's a dark evil that I vaguely remember from the past. But I don't remember what it was actually, but I do know it's a bad thing."

"It has been around JD around all day," she told him, "But not yesterday or during school today."

"Maybe it's the book?" said Kero, "He might have it in his procession now. The book might have been the source of the magic we are feeling now. But the weird thing is that this magic is Clow Reed. He hadn't used a dark magic as far as I remember."

"But it is his magic," said Sakura growing with more concern, "I just hope for this to end quickly." She put Kero back into her backpack and walked out of the bathroom to join the rest of them waiting for her.

"And we'll end our tour of the town here in the park!" said Madison leading everyone toward the Emperor Penguin Slide, "This was the site of many fun times I had with Sakura, not to mention the time where for some reason this slide was flipped upside down. That's it! Thanking for joining our tour group." JD and Dot seemed pleased with the closing statement.

"Thanks a lot," said Dot with a smile, "We probably be lost here without both of your help you gave us." Madison smiled back while Sakura nodded still in thought about what Kero said back at the pizzeria.

"As a reward," said JD reaching into his jacket, pulling out something and handing it, "You can have this book I picked up while traveling in China. You may think it's not much, but I think you'll like it."

"No way," mumbled Sakura stepping backward. It was just like her dream. She was feeling even more colder, the magic energy was coming off the book not JD.

"No way what?" said JD confused, "Do you want this or not? If you don't, Madison can have it." Madison smiled at that, but Dot seemed a little upset.

Sakura stared at the book for a while. On the cover of it was a bunch of words in a different language. But she knew it from seeing her dad's work. It read, The Book of Monsters. She then reached out for it and took it from him.

"These are…" said Sakura surprised when looking through the book, "More cards?" She pulled them out and looked at them. Each of them had a picture of a strange creature on it.

Then a glow came from under her feet. The Clow circle appeared from below her feet. Everyone backed away surprised. She slammed the book shut and dropped it from her hands onto the ground. It stood still and then it started to shake. The pages of the book opened up and a yellow eerie light came from it.

"What the hell?" said Dot falling to the ground. The wind began to pick up and formed a whirlwind on the center of the opened book. The cards then shot out and started to vanished into the air.

After a few moments, it ended leaving the book empty and everyone in shock. "Holy shit," said JD, "What happened?"

"I think we are in trouble now," said Madison to everyone and turned to Sakura, "What did you just do?"

Author Notice: I'm sad to say that this story isn't very popular by people and that only4 people review it so far. But that doesn't mean I'm giving up because I really want to write this story badly.

If it crossed your mind, Li and Meilin are not appearing in this story. I thinking of adding Eli Moon in the future, so keep your eyes peel for it.

In the next chapter, Sakura, Madison, Dot, and JD learned the story behind the book and the trouble that now has happened. Now they are now about to start one of their greatest adventures they'll ever have.

Next to Come: III: The Untold Story

Date: 7/10/06

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