I was in the corner of my bed looking at the yellow stuffed animal-like creature. "W-Who are you...?" I was so startled, this just shocked me so I couldn't really remember anything from last night. "I'm Keroberos the guardian of the Clow cards." Then it hit me, I had let all of the cards fly away last night. I face-palmed myself, "Hey, honey. Are you alright? I heard a scream." I heard mother call out from outside my room. "Uhh..yeah, mom. I'm fine, don't worry about it, it was just a small spider but I took care of it."
I sighed when I heard her footsteps head downstairs. I didn't know that I had grabbed Kero and covered his whole face with the palm of my hand until I felt him got limp. My eyes quickly shot down at him and I quickly let go of him. "N-Now...I n-need some...c-candy..how...chocolate...mmgnm..gmmag.." Kero was mumbling nonsense. I rolled my eyes and sighed out. I looked over at my alarm clock seeing that I was going to be late.
I quickly jumped off the bed and headed for the bathroom so I could wash up. "Crap, I'm going to be late." I quickly brushed my teeth and washed my face, I didn't have time for a shower at the moment, I would be taking be later on in the day. I scrambled to get my uniform on and fix my hair, putting on the two regular flower pins on each side of my hair. I was about to head to the door when Kero stopped me. "What's your name kid?" He asked, sighing a bit I quickly grabbed him and shoved him into my bag. I didn't have time to talk to him nor answer any of the questions he was going to ask.
He squirmed inside my bag as he yelled, "Kidnap! I've been kidnapped!" What could I do to make the weird creature stop? Well I was in the middle of walking down the hall and I was pretty sure that mom had heard, "I'll give you as many sweets as you want if you just shut up." And of course that quickly got him to shut up and stay as quiet as Kero could possibly be.
I walked into the kitchen and I could see a plate of food already set on the table. "Thanks mom!" I yelled out to her before I started to quickly eat or pretty much gobble up the whole plate of food, drinking water after so I wouldn't choke on anything. "I'm off!" I yelled once again, getting a reply this time. "Take care, sweetie! Have fun at school!" I chuckled softly to myself before I quickly walked to the front door and put on my shoes. Trioping over my feet and stumbling a bit I headed out for school.
I ran as fast as I could. I really didn't want to be late for anything today and neither did I want Kero to randomly pop out of the bag. I started to think of what to tell Kero while I was running. "Alright, Keroberos. I know exactly what you want and I know what I have to do. But for today and only for today will you not get out of my bag, I don't want to explain to the class or to anyone else who or why you're in my bag and you can talk as well as speak." I tried to be reasonable and clarify to the point where he could understand what I didn't want him to do.
I eyed his head out of the bag, meaning that he had been listening. "Eh, alright. Can I still have sweets though? And what's your name? You never told me what it was." I gently face-palmed, "Yes you can still have sweets, and my name is Krystal. Now if you ever so slightly even peek out of my bag all of the sweets that I have promised you will never even be near you, is that understood." Kero held his hand right next to his head, like a soldier in the army would do. "Yes ma'am!" And with that he was back inside of my bag.
Well I took care of the Kero problem, it was a lot easier than I thought. Usually it took Sakura more than sweets to keep him under control. I just hoped that no Clow card would appear.
I was almost at the gates of the school when I felt something, it was a weird kind of feeling and almost as if there was a presence. Quickly everything went black but I didn't feel my body hit the ground or anything. 'Krystal, now that you are the new cardcaptor and have knowledge of which cards you will seal in order. Your memory will be erased of such thoughts. You will have to find your own way of sealing the cards, meaning that you will not Copy what you have dread about the captures but you will find your own way.'
It felt weird, a couple of seconds after my sight came back and everything was the same way again, though this time I couldn't remember exactly what the heck I had been thinking about, which was on how to capture the fly card, though I no longer had those thoughts. Shaking my head I heard the first few bells ring. "Ah, crap, crap, crap!" Quickly I zoomed right into the school and scrambled to take off my shoes and put on the other pair. I closed the locker and zoomed up towards the classroom.
I opened the door and stood there for a few seconds as I panted hard. I hadn't done such exercises during the summer. I tried catching my breath as fast as I could, which only resulted into making me lightheaded. I soon stopped because I soft of stumbled into desks that I had no idea were there. Also lucky for me class was about to start in 5 minutes. Which meant that I got there in time.
I walked to my desk and sat down, letting out a long sigh of relief and just pretty much slamming my head against the desk. "Hey, Krystal. You seemed agitated." Madison said as she looked over at me. I gently waved my hand wearily , "It's...nothing, really..." I gasped once more for air and soon I was back to normal. One of the flower pins that was on the right side of my short light brown hair had moved out of place, Madison helped me out with it and I smiled. "Thanks." Madison gave me a closed eyed smiled in returning.
Throughout the day I was happy that Kero had actually kept his part of the deal, not once had I heard a sound or seen him come out of my bag. I was happy for that and of course I would have to waste money to buy the little lion a couple of sweets today.
I was now out in the school yard, well in the back of the school sitting under a tree as I ate lunch. I looked through my bag, trying to find Kero. 'I bet he's hungry already. It is lunch time now.' I hummed softly to myself before I felt a soft tail, a sly smiled appeared on my features before I pulled out the sleeping little lion. "Hey, Kero are you hungry?" I asked, though I got no answer from him except for a couple of snores and some random gibberish.
I gently poked his belly trying to see if anything happened, and he wiggled a bit. Giggling softly to myself I did it once again, I was enjoying the little moment before I got startled by Madison. "Krystal! There you are!" I jumped a bit making Kero fall on the ground and bonk his head. 'Shit!' I thought as be started to wake up, one eye first opened and then the other. "Hey! What's the big idea!?" Kero yelled at me before freezing on the spot. He had a visible bump, it was small bump but still a little visible.
I bit my bottom lip gently as I waited for Madison's reaction. "Oh, hello Kero." She said not surprised at all. Her voice had more of an enthusiastic tone to it than surprised. "Uh...hi?." Having a confused expression on, Kero flew up and examined her. "Do I know you?" He asked Madison, who only replied with a small giggle. "Well I'll explain it to you later on, I can't really tell you know because I will sound slightly crazy." Giving Kero a smile, he nodded and grinned. "Alright then."
Madison turned over to me and tilted her head to the side. "So, Krystal. I'm guessing that the book I gave you was the Clow book. And you were destined to have it." Madison smiled before she handed Kero a small cookie. "Yeah..." I was slightly confused but I knew that Madison might have already met or known about Keroberos. "And where are the cards?" She asked looking around, alright so this just made me fell stupid and I mean like really stupid. Sighing I scratched the back if my neck, "Welll..." I said trailing, she laughed softly to herself. "Little miss here, did exactly what Sakura did, she read out the name of the Windy card and all of the cards flew away." Kero interrupted and explained everything to Madison.
I glared at Kero before turning my back to both of them. "Alright, I was just curious and I forgot about that part of the manga." I tried to defend my case, "But now that we are in that topic. Where is Sakura?" I was still curious, not once had I seen her here since I first arrived. "Eh, you see. She isn't real at all. It was just a fictional character. We couldn't find a girl that actually had the power great enough like her. That is, until now. And that is you, Krystal." Kero once again explained. 'Shes fictional? What?! And...I'm going crazy. Haha, yeah that's it.. It's just a dream or I'm going crazy...' I thought to myself as I looked from Kero to Madison and back.
Kero grinned and a circle of light appeared beneath us. "Now, Key to the seal, this girl will carry out the scared promise. Her name is Krystal I command you to bestow her with your magical powers. Release the power!" A small ball of light came from my bag where I had been keeping the book. the light then became brighter and brighter until i had to cover my eyes. 'Now, I take the staff.' I thought as I saw the small key become bigger in front of me. Well apparently the color was wrong because the staff was actually red instead of pink. Not wanting to waste anymore time I quickly reached for the staff and took it. "Great! I Keroberos name Krystal, cardcaptor."
I looked down at the staff in my hands, I didn't mind it at all, it wasn't pink which I was happy for. I turned over to say something to Madison but apparently she had gotten this whole thing on tape. I sweat dropped, 'Just great.' "That was a great shot!" Cheered Madison, I sighed softly before seeing the staff shrink and turn into a small key. Placing it around my neck I fixed both of the pins in my hair.
Looking over at Kero I pointed at the bag once again. "Kero back in the bag because were going back to class now. And here, you can eat this before I et you your sweets later today." Kero jumped up into the air and fist pumped. "Alright!" Quickly grabbing the three cookies I had been holding out he jumped into the bag and I closed it before I stood up and helped Madison up as well.
We headed back to class and the day went on like always. I continued to ask Madison about everyone else. About Tori knowing about this and Julian as well. Apparently they were the only ones that weren't exactly knowledgeable at all about the whole series of episodes. They were the only oblivious ones because if they were to have asked if they wanted to be there then it would have caused problems. I also asked about the color of the staff but then i remembered that they didnt have someone to actually open the book so they just took a gander at it. I was surprised that they got the card's names right. i soon stopped asking questions as I understood everything now. That is until we left school.
A thought came up, "So Li will be coming to Japan right?" I asked, slightly curious. Hey I had developed a crush on him ever since I read the manga. "Haha, yeah. He sure is, though I wouldn't get my hopes up. I mean he's going to be a jerk and he won't like you very much." Nodding slowly and giving her a small smile, yeah I forgot about him being a jerk at the beginning and well I was sure that he was going to get on my nerves and that I was going to loose interest in him.
As soon as I was going to say something I felt a presence. "Krystal there's a Clow card!" I heard Kero yell out as his head poked out of my bag. "Where?" I questioned, looking around us frantically until I saw a pair of wings. "No...the fly card..." I mumbled as I looked up at it, I pouted a little bit. "Oh, I get the first chance to video tape your card captures. Alright!" That just made me want to cry, yep I also forgot about how Madison only liked to record card captures, but oh well time to get to work.
I took out the key and started to recite the chant, "Oh, key of Clow. Power of magic, power of light. Surrender the wand, the force ignite...release!" The little key grew into a wand and I took it in hand. The Clow card looked like it was a wyvern, which probably was or a really big and mean swan. The next thing I knew was that I had just face-planted into the ground. Apparently the bird had attacked us and well I didn't really see it coming.
I quickly got back on my feet and started to run after it, though instead of it being chased it started to chase me. "Seriously!" I yelled out, I was so happy that it was past sunset, so the sky was dark and I was glad that no one could see me running like an idiot.
As I tried my hardest to run away from the Clow card, finally after running away for a couple of seconds longer I got sick of it. "Come on, Krystal do something about it! Use Windy!" Yelled Kero, as if he was helping me! "Oh, shut it Kero. You're not even helping!" I remarked back at him. He quickly fell silent, and that was when I was picked up by the bird. "Ah, crap!" I looked up at the bird as it started to fly higher. It had grabbed my bag so I easily slipped out and stated to climb up its body. I had to do this now or never.
As I stood up on its back I lifted the wand up and recited, "Clow card, I command you to return to your power confine. Clow card!" The Clow card started to go into it's card form, smoke coming from the bird. Soon enough I was falling down, I was happy. I didn't even need to use Windy. "Kero!?" The next thing I know Kero is right next to me, yelling. "Use the fly card!" I quickly grabbed it and threw it up, "Fly!" The staff grew wings and I quickly got on. I was able to prevent myself from hitting the ground. Which I was happy for, I sighed out as I started to slowly fly. Looking down at Madison and then jus looking back ahead.
Yeah, my life has changed and I think that this was a good change. I knew that I now had a purpose and I liked it. Like Clow Reed said, expect the unexpected.
