Harry Potter and the Cardcaptors

Chapter 3

The next day dawned and Harry was up at five in the morning as he wanted to try out his apartment in his new trunk. It had three bedrooms the master bedroom having it's own bathroom, it also had another bathroom for any guests that stayed, it also had a living room complete with TV (with sky TV) + dvd/cd players and also a games console as well as a computer (again with internet access) and a printer, there was also a kitchen/dinning room, a duelling room and a indoor/outdoor pools as well as a gym, there was also a potions lab and finally it had a garden of 30 acres.

So from five Harry was in the gym working out as he was normally up early anyway to cook for the Dursley's he might as well use that energy for what he was doing now.

At seven he stopped his work out and got in the shower he was in there for an hour allowing the hot water too ease his tired muscles, he got washed then got out and dried off. He went to his walk in wardrobe and got dressed as he bought new cloths that he bought in Muggle London (he put Dudley's old castoffs in his old trunk with all his other junk and there for it all got kicked into the floo) so when he came out of his trunk he was dressed in a black pair of trainers with two white stripes on them and a black pair of jeans and a black t-shirt with a white stripe going across the chest from left to right and last a black trench coat with a white stripe at the bottom and a white stripes on both arms where the bicep muscles are, all in all he looked a whole lot better.

When he got downstairs for breakfast everyone was already sitting at the table apart from Mrs Weasley who was by the oven cooking, she looked up when Harry walked in and smiled then said "Morning Harry dear, just take a seat at the table and I'll bring your breakfast over in a minute, and those new cloths are much better than your cousin's so I hope you got some more decent ones upstairs?"

"Thanks Mrs Weasley. I bought a complete new wardrobe so Dudley's old cloths are gone and are not coming back." Replied Harry with a smile as he sat down at the table between Hermione and Ginny. As soon as he was seated Mrs Weasley put a plate of eggs, bacon and toast in front of him which he made a start on.

"Hey, Harry where were you this morning? When I woke up you weren't in bed?" Asked Ron as he still shovelled his breakfast into his mouth.

"What time Ron because I was up at five and couldn't get back to sleep?"

"Oh, it was just after seven." Replied Ron.

"Right well at that time I was in the shower." Said Harry not noticing he was getting some strange looks from Ron and the twins as well as the two girls on both sides of him and they were also blushing.

"What were you doing wearing your Invisibility cloak?" Asked Ron raising his voice a little.

"Ron why on earth would I wear my cloak in the shower? Normally when I have one I'm completely naked, so you might wear something in the shower but I don't." Asked/Replied Harry looking up at Ron with a strange look on his face wondering about his friend's sanity.

"Harry you couldn't have been in the shower because Hermione was in at seven and Ginny at half past so you couldn't have been." Said Ron wondering if Harry had in fact showered with one or both girls and ready to kill him if he did.

Now Harry understood what Ron was getting at so he decided too have some fun. He quickly put his hand behind both girls back and quickly using his finger on both hands wrote on their backs the words keep quite all the while specking with his best friend.

"So what if I was, do you here them complaining cause from their blushes I would say they enjoyed every minute of it. All though they did scream my name a few times. Hang on a minute your jealous that I can handle two energetic girls and you can't." Said Harry teasingly with a smile on his face. He then suddenly burst out laughing after pulling his arms back.

Ron just looked pissed off and jumped to his feet now wondering what Harry was laughing at. "What the bloody hell are you laughing at!?" He shouted only too be answered by his father who had started specking to stop both Ron and the twins from jumping on Harry and beating him into a bloody lump.

"Ron you have been pranked and quite good as well." Said Mr Weasley giving a little chuckle.

"What you mean Harry wasn't in the shower?" Asked Ron now completely confused.

"No he was definitely in the shower as his hair is still wet. No what I'm on about is his new trunk if you remember he said it had a library compartment, well those trunks also as standard comes with one compartment designed as an apartment so you can live in it so it would have a shower or two depending on the make of it."

The rest of breakfast went by in quite conversation so when he was finished Harry went back upstairs and claimed into his library compartment and made a start on putting the books that were on the floor back where they were meant to be. He was done by half two but he did stop for lunch at twelve, he then turned to the trunk from his vault and started too sort them on to the now restocked shelves and adding the vault books to the parchment list he created.

It was four o'clock when he finally finished with the books so he put the table and chairs back to where they were meant to be. When done he turned to the book that had cursed all the mess in the first place, he had left it on purpose on the table he had put it on along with the three cards.

He walked over to it wondering why it had acted the way it did when he read the cards name and so leaving the cards for now he reached out for the book. As soon as his hands touched it glowed bright Golden colour and Harry jumped back as if he were burned, he just stood there shocked thinking what on earth was happening now.

As he stood there watching the book something started too come out of it like some one being pulled straight out of water only without the ripples. When it was over, hovering above the now normal book was what looked like a teddy bear with a big head, a lion's tail and a set of white wings.

It stretched and yarned then looked at the book then the three cards next to it then looked at Harry and yarned again.

"Couldn't wait another hundred or so years before waking the clow cards huh?" It said in a tired voice as it stared at Harry still half asleep.

"I'm sorry to say but I have no idea what your talking about and what or should I say who are you?" Asked Harry thinking that his life has just got weird again just like the last three years.

"Huh, oh I am Kerberos I'm the guardian beast of the seal for Clow cards, but you can call me Kero. Now the clow cards are or were created by a man named Clow Reed, 52 in all and I see you managed too hang on to three of them which is good as it means we won't have to start from nothing. You are now the Cardcaptor since you woke them up you need to catch them, if you weren't worthy they would not have woke up." Replied Kero now waking up the more he spoke to Harry who was still a little bewildered.

"Err... What do you mean I have catch them they're just cards what damage can a bunch of cards do?" Asked Harry who was still thinking that this was stranger than anything that has happened to him before?

"Well maybe because all the cards have different powers some will just be around to get on your nerves where as most have the power to course untold destruction and other than these three the rest are all in an active state so none of them are in card form. There are also four that can control the four elements of nature but you were able too keep one of them."

"Hold on are you saying that I just unleashed something that can destroy the world if not stopped?" Asked Harry now not liking the fact he is being push into another life or death adventure without him having a choice in the matter.

"Basically yeah, but I will be there too help guide you through the whole thing and then we'll see if you are worthy of becoming the master of the clow cards."

"Wait, I thought you said I was worthy of being that already?"

"No, I said you were worthy too wake them up not that you were worthy of being there master. You need to pass all the tests that each card will have for you so they'll seek you out and test you once they find you, but god help anyone that gets in the way before they find you."

Kero then put his paw on the book and moved back as a golden orb of light rose out of it.

"Now take the light in your hand and you will be the next Cardcaptor but if you don't then the cards you released will continue the destruction that they will start."

Harry thought that this was a bit much even for him but he could never just stand by if something bad was happening especially if he was the course of it in the first place. So thinking that at least his life isn't boring he walked forward and reached out with his right hand closing it around the light which vanished, then looking in his hand he saw a key it looked like it had a red beak and a set of wings one on each side.

"That's the sealing wand you can use it like a normal wand only it can not be tracked by the ministry" Said Kero

"It looks more like a key not a wand."

"You need the incantation to change it into its wand form just follow your instincts and you will understand what to do."

So Harry closed his eyes and looking deep within himself until he felt something. He then opened his eyes to find the same symbol as when the cards were released and him standing in the middle and the key floating and his hands on both sides of it not even touching it and finding himself speaking.

"Oh key of clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the wand, the force ignite. RELEASE."

Suddenly there was a gust of wind but it wasn't strong so everything stayed where it was and the wind seemed to be sucked into the key anyway until after a few seconds where it started too lengthen into a wand and still had the same head as the key did with the beak and wings. As soon as it finished changing Harry grabbed it and gave it a twirl between his fingers.

"Now why not use one of the cards you have just to get a feel of how they work, try THE SWORD card."

So Harry pick the sword card up in his left hand looked at it and without a second thought throw it into the air in front of him where it spun until Harry struck it with the wand, beak first and shouted "SWORD CARD." then suddenly the card vanished and the wand in Harry's hand changed into a sword where he swished and slashed it a few times too get a feel for it. After his little bit of fun he retuned the sword to its card form and the wand to its key form.

"I so can't wait to tell my friends this, they'll be completely gobsmacked." Said Harry who in fact couldn't wait too tell his friends, he was only stopped in his tracks by what Kero said next.

"Sorry kid but all this needs to be a complete secret no one can know in case the ministry find out they already tried too make a play for the cards once before and if they turn up again you can bet the ministry will do anything too get their hands on them. Anyway what's your name kid?"

"I'm Harry Potter and why would the ministry be after the cards?" Replied Harry wondering why he can not tell his friends after all they went through.

"That's easy they're after the cards power so the fewer people that know the less chance they have of falling into the wrong hands."

"Fine I can understand that but what if my friends find out on their own then I'm going too explain and ask them too keep it a secret ok." Replied Harry.

"Okay, fine but you must do your best not too get caught the secret will be harder too keep the more people that know about it."

After Harry had showed Kero to his apartment and of coarse he was sorted out Harry left the trunk to hang around with his friends and show them his apartment, of coarse Kero knew Harry was brining his friends in so he hid out the way and the rest of the day past in normal activity until it was bedtime.