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I want to apologize though for the confusion I gave to all my readers in my last chapter. I had gone through a lot of contemplating whether or not I should give Blitzwing magical powers. But for future event, he'll play a large role and Sari will need all the help to capture all the Clow Cards. And please be patient because everything will be answered as Clow reed said. I know I kinda hate keeping things from my readers, but I don't want to spoil I'm sorry if this chapter is shorter than the others, college is being such a pain that I've found little time to write. But I managed to pull through. So enjoy!
Note! I made some changes in Blitzwing's and Clow Reed's conversation with each other. It's not much but go ahead and read so you have any confusion in this chapter.
Note!! I've made a slight adjustment in the title.
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers Animated and/or Cardcaptor Sakura.
Vows
Kero's eyes snapped open. Looking around, wide awake with no hint of drowsiness as he sat on his hind legs. That burst of magical energy; it was strong enough that he had felt it in his sleep, a sign that someone's magical powers were awakened. But who's? Could it be that face changing robot, Blitzwing? Kero closed his eyes in concentration as he reconnected with the flows of magic. His senses sharpened as he felt and heard the hum of electricity running through the many circuits that flowed through the tower. Kero extended his senses from the tower, from the city to the forest. The quiet forest sang a melody of balance and time. The life energies flowed through it like water, sharply contrasting the energies of the city that coursed by like the traffic (straight and orderly, but with occasional spikes and distortions).
The guardian searched, but the burst of magic had vanished. The guardian flew up into the air and made his way to the balcony. Careful not to let sunlight shine on Sari, Kero slipped by the curtains and opened the glass doors (thankfully all he had to do was press a button on a remote). The guardian sat on the balcony railing as he stared off into the distance. That magic, the energies felt so similar to that of Clow's. But it couldn't be; Clow Reed was dead in fact for over a hundred and fifty years.
"A hundred and fifty years…" he repeated the words in his head.
As he thought about it, he had been sealed in the book for so long. Too long in fact… what had he been doing all these years? He's only slept for fifty, what about the other years? Kero searched through his memories, but nothing. He couldn't remember what he did in the book. It was if there was a void. This troubled the guardian, he thought back to Fly. The card came and insisted to Kero that they had a previous master, but couldn't remember who. A previous master… who was he, or she? Unless Fly had an avid imagination, which Kero highly doubt (he's been with the cards for so long, they knew each other like siblings), then was it the truth?
Right now Kero can't deal with the uncertain. Sari still has so many cards to seal, but at least they were making good progress. Three cards have already been sealed, all in a row. But Watery, the most recent card to appear had fallen into the hands of (as Sari put it) the enemy. But Blitzwing, Kero doubted that he was really evil as she said. Good and evil were merely concepts people labeled to one another, what some view as inhumane or taboo the other doesn't think so. The triple-changer had gotten Sari out of sticky situations twice. Saving someone two times is an awfully high number of someone who's supposed to be with 'the bad guys'.
Although the girl distrusted, even bordering on disliking the triple-changer, Kero on the other hand felt that he could. Autobot or Decepticon, these didn't matter when it came to the Clow Cards. If Blitzwing truly did have magical powers over the Clow Cards then he do would have to play a part in the sealing.
Kero looked up into the sky and spotted a purple dot in the distance. In the early morning glow, Kero noticed a flare of violet from behind it. The dot grew larger as it neared; its form became much more distinguishable. Kero recognized it as a fighter jet, the same one Blitzwing transformed into (it's purple and beige color scheme pretty much gave it away). The jet neared, its engines roared as it encircled the tower before stopping in front of the balcony. Blitzwing transformed in mid-air, his thrusters still activated. He slowly made his way to the balcony and landed, dust and wind rolled through the air. The air stilled when the triple-changer deactivated his thrusters. Despite the balcony to be fairly large, it was still a tight fit for the Decepticon as he kneeled uncomfortably on it.
"Does everyone of your kind have to make a dramatic entrance?" asked Kero, so far it seemed that every Cybertronian entered with flair when they transformed.
"Vhat? It's not my vault all jou organics are so small," replied Blitzwing. "I vas hoping to meet jou,"
"I suspected as much," said Kero. "I felt a sudden burst of magic just then, which would be you wouldn't it?"
The triple-changer nodded.
"I see, so you do have some magical powers within you. But… it's almost impossible," Kero muttered as he placed a hand over his forehead, thinking.
"Vhy vould zhat be?" asked Blitzwing.
"Magic, so far, has only been wielded by those connected with the life force of the Earth. Organics as you would call us," said Kero, looking up at the Decepticon. "You're practically made entirely out of metal, a poor conductor of magic. And because you're not born of Earth, it makes it even less likely you could have obtained magical powers. I don't how all of this would work,"
"Zhis magic, I've just been introduced to it. Vhat is it?"
"Magic, mana, the arcane and the many other names it is given is a mysterious force that flows through and around the universe. For countless years people have tried to unravel its mysteries, even tried to explain it. But magic is formless and almost random in its ways. You can't record it, detect it or study it easily with technology and science. Magic and technology are like polar opposites that don't mix well, like water and oil. Apparently magic differs a lot, even the smallest things like time, the seasons, the positions of the stars, the phase of them, even the person itself using magic can greatly change how it is utilized and its properties. But only a small handful people on Earth can use it," Kero gave the triple-changer a small lecture. "But those who can wield magic can do extraordinary things such as hold the very forces of Nature at their hands or summon things at their whim,"
"Zhis is already so illogical. How can something like zhis exist? Already I can see zhe very basic laws zhat govern the Universe break. Stellar cycles of scientific research and discovery in physics could be disproved just by zhis,"
"That's what's so mysterious about magic. Apparently it managed to co-exist peacefully with the basic laws that many scientific people based the world on since the beginning of time. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed, yet magic can break this rule but you don't see the Universe exploding,"
"But if organics, especially zhe Humans haff dwelled so far into zhis magic, vhy haff ve not seen it sooner?"
"I really have no answer for that. In truth, we didn't expect giant robots from another world to come to ours. So there's no study of the relationship of magic and extra-terrestrials. But I guess you can credit Nature for gifting us with magic. I believe this is a way for Nature to balance the tables of power. While you Cybertronians have your size and advance technologies, Humans and organics have magic,"
"Zhen vhy vas I gifted vith it?"
"Well there's no harm in doing a bit of research. Would you mind summoning out your powers?"
Blitzwing nodded as he opened his subspace container and took out the golden pendant. Kero instantly recognized the pattern.
"That circle, it's exactly the same as Clow Reed's magic circle. Where did you get this?"
"Funny jou should ask, but I had met Clow Veed in zhe flesh and he gave me zhis," Blitzwing's face spun and stopped on Random. "Vell not exactly in the flesh, if jou know vhat I mean! Hahahaha!"
"So you met his spirit,"
Blitzwing switched back to Icy.
"Correct,"
"Is he doing well?
"How am I supposed to know? Vhat can jou ask an offline Human?"
"Are you going to show me your powers or not?" Kero's voice held a small hint of impatience.
With the pendant on his palm, Blitzwing chanted out the incantation.
Zhe Key which hides zhe power of Clow
Show jour true powers before me
I, Blitzving, command jou under our contract
VELEASE!
The magic circle reappeared underneath the triple-changer. Light exploded as the wind howled as the pendant grew in size. It spun in the air and embedded into his right servo, transforming it. Kero looked at Blitzwing's new servo in awe, taking in every detail from the golden metal to the obsidian coloring. Kero flew up to next to the servo and placed a hand to feel the smooth metal. Blitzwing jerked his servo slightly from the organic. Kero looked up at Blitzwing, puzzled.
"What?" Kero asked.
"I still don't trust jou, organic," said Blitzwing.
"It's not like I'm diseased, I only want to check on your magical properties," Kero rolled his eyes at the Decepticons hesitation. Slowly Blitzwing extended his servo again for Kero. The guardian placed a hand once more, eyes closed in concentration before snapping open in surprise and shock.
"I don't believe it, you actually hold a portion of Clow Reed's magic," exclaimed Kero. "How old are you?"
"I am probably stellar cycles beyond Clow Veed, no doubt about it,"
"That's impossible, Clow Reed died a hundred fifty years ago. His magic can't have passed on to you. You have to be his descendant in order to receive his power. But even when magic powers are passed down via family, they get diluted every generation. The powers you hold feels fresh, almost as if it came from him,"
"Vell some how it did; but zhat Clow Veed is a secretive von, I asked him zhe very same question. All he could give me vere cryptic answers," said Blitzwing. "All I know is zhat at some point in mein life-cycle his powers assimilated into me,"
"Hmm…" Kero felt inside Blitzwing once more. "Well it's not a hundred percent of Clow Reed's power, your only holding half of it,"
"And zhe other half?" asked the triple-changer.
"I don't know," Kero replied with a sigh.
"Kero, who are you talking to?" Sari let out a yawn before stepping out into the balcony, rubbing her eyes. She froze in place when she spotted the kneeling triple-changer. "You!"
In an instant she rushed back inside. Kero looked at Blitzwing worriedly before following the panicking girl. Inside Sari held her mobile phone, the AllSpark key in the other. Before she could insert the key and get a hold of the Autobot comlink frequency a pair of stubby yellow hand grabbed the hand that held her AllSpark key, stopping her.
"Please don't do this, Sari," she looked to see Kero.
She gave the guardian a bewildered look.
"Kero, are you crazy! Blitzwing's here, I have to tell the guys about this," said Sari.
"Sari just trust me, okay?" Kero gave the girl a small reassuring smile. "You might not trust Blitzwing, but I do,"
Sari kept her eyes on the guardian as he gently pulled out her mobile phone from her hand. Reluctantly she let go of her AllSpark key at the same time.
"I hope you're not making a mistake Kero," Sari sighed.
Just when she least expected, today had gotten off to a strange start. Walking out of her room and back on the balcony she looked up to glare at the still kneeling triple-changer.
"Hello, Human. I did tell jou zhat ve vould meet each other again very soon," Blitzwing greeted smugly.
"Whatever, I just didn't expect you to barge in on my balcony Decepti-creep," huffed the girl.
"Sari, please," Kero almost pleaded with her.
"Okay, okay. What are you doing here Blitzwing?" her voice stressed as she said the Decepticon's name, it was almost she detested it.
"Destiny," he simply replied.
"Destiny? You don't seem like the kind who would believe in something like destiny," said Sari.
"True, Human. I don't believe in destiny, I don't even know vhy I vas brought here," said Blitzwing.
Sari eyes surveyed the Decepticon, she noticed his servo.
"It's Sari, it would be nice if you would call me by my name. Nice hand by the way, where'd you get it?"
"A gift, from Clow Veed," Blitzwing pulled up his servo, basking it in sunlight. Light reflected off the golden metal.
"Clow Reed! You actually met him! No way, how is he?" Sari shouted excitedly, all sense of suspicion melted at the name of the sorcerer.
"He is like no human I haff met. Calm and mature, it is as if he holds zhe wisdom of stellar cycles despite somevon who has lived so short. I haff taken a liking to him, he is quite a charismatic and charming human," said Blitzwing.
"That's Clow Reed alright," said Kero. Sari felt somewhat out of loop as her eyes darted between Kero and Blitzwing.
"Wait Kero, didn't you said that he passed away like a long time ago? Then how did you meet him?" Sari turned to look back at the triple-changer.
"In a dream, during recharge," said Blitzwing. "He has instructed me to aid jou in jour quest of capturing all zhese strange organics zhat haff appeared in jour city,"
"You're not lying are you? Decepticons are known to be pretty slippery," said Sari suspiciously. "How can I trust you that this isn't some plan of yours to get your servos on the Clow Cards?"
"I think I have a solution," Kero proposed. Both Human and Cybertronian turned to look at the guardian. "Since both of you have magical powers this will be simple process,"
"What?" "Vhat?" both of them asked in unison. Kero turned to Blitzwing.
"Blitzwing, are you prepared to make a vow with Sari?" he said.
"A vow, zhat's jour solution?" asked a doubtful Blitzwing.
"I hate to agree, but Blitzwing's right. A few words aren't enough, especially for a Decepticon," Sari added in a snide comment.
"I thought ve had some sort of understanding here," Blitzwing growled at the girl.
"Guys, guys let me explain," Kero broke up the mounting tension. "In magic, creating a vow is a very powerful promise that you can't break. You swear an oath to the person involved and that person also swears and oath in return of equal value. Both of you will be bound by your vows to ensure that you don't break them,"
"And what happens if one of us breaks our promise?" asked sari, giving the triple-changer a quick glare.
"The consequences will be severe, that is too ensure both of you hold your end of the agreement. So what do you say? Want to give it a try?" Sari and Blitzwing looked at each other, a second of silence passed as they contemplated one another. They finally nodded their head together. "Good, let's begin! Okay, Sari I want you to summon the Sealing Wand"
Sari took out the Sealing Key from around her neck.
The Key which hides the power of the Dark
Show your true powers before me
I, Sari, command you under our contract
RELEASE!
Just like with Blitzwing, wind blew around her as light illuminated the balcony. The Key elongated as it transformed into the Sealing Wand. Sari grabbed hold of the staff and everything stilled.
"Okay, Blitzwing I need you to grab hold of the Sealing Wand with your hand. Yea the magic one," Kero instructed when Blitzwing indicated to his right servo.
"Vhy?" Blitzwing noticed a slight hesitation from Sari. The guardian sighed.
"You need to connect both of your mediums of magic, that's how you do a vow. I don't write the laws, I just know them," said Kero in a more snappy tone. Blitzwing grabbed a hold of the staff tip, though it was bit difficult considering the limited space and it seemed that Sari was constantly trying to back away from him. "Good, now then,"
I call upon the power of Clow
Soft wind brushed through the three as the golden magic circle glowed into existence, underneath where the Sealing Wand and Blitzwing's servo connected.
There are two who wish to make a vow
Their names, Sari and Blitzwing
I, Kero, am their witness
The two mediums of magic emitted a soft blue light in response. Kero appeared satisfied with the results.
"Okay Blitzwing, you go first. First address me as the witness and state your vow, what you promise for Sari," said Kero. Blitzwing stared, feeling somewhat foolish.
As Kero as my vitness
I, Blitzving, vow to aid Sari in her quest
As instructed by Clow Veed
Blitzwing servo glowed weakly.
"Your hiding something, c'mon bring it all out," ordered Kero. Blitzwing let out a groan but continued.
I vill be her protector
Should zhe need arise
I vill guard her from zhe perils on her quest
His servo gave a quick burst of blue as a stream of light snaked out of it and wrapped around the triple-changer like cloth. Blitzwing flinched slightly in surprise, but kept his hold of the Sealing Wand. The stream of light looped around and stopped short above the Sealing Wand and his servo, as if waiting.
"Good! Okay Sari your turn," Kero turned to the girl. Sari stared at Blitzwing over the light, a little surprised at his pledge. "Sari?"
"Huh? Oh yea," Sari gave the triple-changer a small questioning look before closing her eyes.
As Kero as my witness…
What was she supposed to say? Sari gave it her best shot.
I, Sari, vow to place Blitzwing under my protection
I will treat him as my ally
There was one, the next? Sari gave pause…
I will throw away all prejudices
And see him in new light
The Sealing Wand flashed blue, just like Blitzwing's servo, as a stream of light wrapped around Sari. The two ends of the pair of streams of light intertwined each other, making a knot over the two mediums of magic. Kero proceeded to cement the vows.
By the power of Clow
The vows have been made and heard
RELEASE!
The ribbon of light melded into Sari and Blitzwing as a tempest blew from the magic circle. Both Sari and Blitzwing felt an invisible force tugging them; physically almost emotional from within as magic strengthen the vows. The light faded away as the air calmed, leaving behind no traces of the ritual that took place. Blitzwing and Sari stared at the spot where their mediums of magic touched. Then a feeling of fatigue washed over the girl. Kero yelped in surprise as she began to collapse. A large metallic hand caught her.
"T-thanks…" Sari mumbled.
"That was a really powerful vow you made Sari," said Kero, in concern. "No wonder you feel drained,"
"Which one…" asked Sari through the drowsiness.
"The one where you would throw away all prejudices about Blitzwing, it's powerful because no matter how pure some is we have our discriminations. To throw away something that has been integrated into our life, it takes a lot of will not to fall back into old stereotypes,"
The fatigue faded away, replaced by a dull headache. Sari rubbed her temples to ease it.
"I think I need to relax a little bit, a lot has happened," said Sari as she stood up from Blitzwing's servo, retracting her staff back into its key form, and walked back inside. Sari made her way towards her bathroom, closing the door behind her, and directly towards the bathtub. Twisting the dials, water fountain from the polished faucet and splashed into the white porcelain tub. Once the tub was filled to the desired height and the temperature of the water was just right Sari stripped off her clothes and slid inside. She let out a mixed sigh of relief and pleasure as the soothing waters enveloped her, lessening her headache considerably to close to nothing. Steam from the water heated her face as sweat broke out, but she quickly rinsed her face leaving behind a refreshing and clean feeling. She rested her head on the edge of the tub as she reflected on Blitzwing's words. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all. Just because he was Decepticon didn't make all of them bad bots, although he did try to hurt her friends in battle, but not intentionally.
Sari decided to rest hey eyes for just a moment as she closed them. In the blackness she heard the soft splashing of water as her hands aimlessly moved through the liquid. She had almost fallen asleep when something landed on her nose, tickling it. Opening up her eyes she saw nothing but pink. Grabbing whatever had rested on her nose, she saw that it was a large pink bubble.
"Strange… I don't remember using any bath soap," she thought. The bubble popped, leaving behind a small mist of liquid before evaporating. She looked up and let out a cry of surprise.
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Outside, Kero and Blitzwing had been making small talk between each other. So far Blitzwing knew that Kero enjoyed eating sweets, something like taste was hard to explain to the Cybertronian (who have never truly experienced it) so he couldn't really understand Kero's love for sugary treats. Kero learned a little bit about Cybertronian history, a bit about the Great War. Details on how it started were muddled between Autobots and Decepticons. But Kero expected this, one side says one things and the other would say differently. So far it seemed that Decepticons were a band of rebels who were tired of their kind being underrepresented in the Autobot rule on Cybertron. It had irked them to the point that something drastic needed to be done, so Megatron united the Decepticons under his rule to 'rebel against Autobot tyranny' as quoted from the Decepticon leader. Another thing to be expected, it was kind of strange to the guardian that there was little difference between Earth's history and Cybertron's history.
Then they heard Sari scream from inside. Things got interesting afterwards.
"Sari!" Kero bulleted towards the bathroom and threw open the door. Blitzwing was stuck outside; the balcony door to her room was too small for him. Both the guardian and triple-changer looked on in surprise as a mass of large pink bubbled frothed from the bathroom, spilling across the bedroom carpet. Stray pink bubbles floated dreamily across the room and out the balcony. A few stuck to the triple-changer, growling he rubbed them off.
"Kero! Is this another Clow Card!" shouted Sari from the other side of the bubbles.
"Yes, it's the Bubble card!" said Kero.
"Well, how do I seal it?" asked Sari.
"Simple, Bubble isn't an aggressive card. You should be able to capture it with ease," From the wall of bubbles Kero and Blitzwing could see some movement. They heard the muffled voice as Sari chanted.
RELEASE!
Light glowed forth as Sari held the staff high into the air amongst the sea of froth. They couldn't see her, only the staff was a marker to where she was. Bubbles began to float around the tip of the staff, as if detecting the magic emanating from it.
Return to the guise you were meant to be in!
CLOW CARD!
Chime bells rang as columns of bubbled rose into the air, converging at the staff tip. Despite the size of the bubble, they shrank easily into the card shell. When the last of the bubbles cleared…
"Oh-hohoho, vhat's zhis!" Random giggled, amused.
Sari let out a scream of disgust, but luckily she was wrapped in a towel.
"You guys are such perverts!" screamed Sari as she slammed the door shut, locking it. Random kept on laughing, a servo on his heaving chassis.
Dun dun da da daduuun dun dun dun!
Leave it to Kero!
"Hey-hey-hoo! Here we are again with Leave it to Kero. It looks like Sari and Blitzwing have started off well with a bang!" the yellow guardian tried hard to hold in his giggles. "G-give me a second to calm down, whoo… okay this will be the last set-special review on Blitzwing. Let's get it started!" the background changes to the nuttier personality, Random.
"What Random lacks in facial features is his wonderful character. Eager to break jokes, followed by his trademark laughter there's so much about him that you can find both disturbing but likeable. His face does resemble a jack-o-lantern. Black, smooth face a pair of glowing red eyes and a toothy grin I wouldn't want to meet him in a horror attraction. Now time for a Kero's Check!"
The background changes to a picture of the back of Blitzwing.
"The wings of a fighter jet; very slick and fashionable for Blitzwing it gives him that aura of authority without any extra ego. And now let's give a final applause to the three faces of lunacy once more!" Kero cheered as the background switched to head shots of all three of Blitzwing's personalities.
"Well I can't tell you much I enjoyed inspecting every detail of Blitzwing. In fact I wish I could turn back time and do it all over again, that's how much of an interesting character he is. Well we've just run out of time, see ya!"
End of the eighth chapter!
Sorry for the short chapter and all the unanswered questions. There will be answered in the future!