(A/N: Before you start reading this, if you are going to do the kind of crap where you read this chapter and then skip to the end. Or you skip several chapters because you want to be a troll, and you think it's funny. Then do me a favor, leave this fanfic and don't bother reading it. I have spent far too much time on this story as well as my other fanfics, to have trolls like you not give my self insert fanfics the proper respect that they deserve. Don't take my kindness for weakness, because I can choose to be very unreasonable to trolls like you if you decide to be a complete and total prick.)

Chapter 1: One Fateful Day


It was just another gloomy day for me in New York City as I once again typed another fanfic chapter onto my computer. I was just about to finish typing when an email alert popped up on my screen.

"Really? Of all the times to get an alert..." I said, as I went to my inbox and clicked the email.

The email read "Don't you wish you could live out your greatest fantasies in another world? Fill out this form in the link and your wildest dreams will come true!" Now rather than do what I usually do with usual scam looking emails which is delete them. I decided to act on my curiosity. So i went to the link and filled out the form. When nothing happened afterwards. I went to bed, not knowing that what I had just done would have serious implications later on, especially since because i was fast asleep, I didn't get a chance to see my computer screen shine a bright blue to the point where it consumed my entire room.


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When I woke up, I found myself in a very unfamiliar room, but for some reason, it looked very familiar to me.

"W-where am I?" I said/asked to no one in particular as I sat up in the bed that I was sleeping in. It was then that I looked down at my hands and realized that not only did they look animated and like those that an anime character would have from a japanese anime. But they looked smaller and younger then when I had gone to bed.

It also then occurred to me that I also felt much younger than I did from when I had gone to bed. What happened next was a complete shock to me, the alarm clock that rested in between the bed I was in and the one next to me went off, and an girl with short auburn hair and emerald colored eyes sprang up from under the covers.

"We're going to be late!" the girl said. It was when I turned my attention to the girl that I recognized her immediately, and a look of complete shock and disbelief found its way onto my face.

"W-Wait a second, you're...you're!?" I said in a shocked tone of voice.

I couldn't believe it, Sakura Avalon, future CardCaptor, was in the bed next to me, but that didn't make any sense to me at all. She was a fictional character from a fictional anime. It was then that I realized what had happened. That form i had filled out the night before must've done this and on top of all that it must've also reverted me back to being 10 years old as well.

I then also realized, whether I liked it or not, that i was now her brother, which when i thought about it, didn't sit well with me at all. I then realized one more very important detail. Despite having known about the show, my knowledge on it was spotty at best. I never had the time to watch the anime in its entirety back when I was younger. The only thing I knew about the anime was information on some of the main characters. And I only had the chance to watch the first five episodes back in my world. It was at this point that Sakura turned her attention to me.

"We are going to be late for school if we don't get going soon" Sakura said as she quickly got out of bed and then proceeded to get changed into her school uniform, unaware of what I had said.

It was then I figured that rather than dwell on how or why things had happened the way that they had, and despite my horrid memory regarding the show, that for now I would go along with it for the time being and see where it took me. Knowing full well that anything past episode 5 would be venturing into the unknown for me. A feeling of complete nervousness washed over me with that thought, and for the time being, I pushed it aside to focus on the task in front of me, which was getting dressed into my school uniform for school. I would just have to deal with the fact that I was now Sakura's brother for the time being, despite it not sitting well with me at all.

And with that last thought, Sakura got dressed into her school uniform, followed soon thereafter by me. And once that had been done, we both headed downstairs for breakfast.

"Morning" Sakura said.

"Sakura, Zachary, could you two be any louder?" Tori asked in a sarcastic tone.

"We weren't that loud" I said in response to Tori.

"You two sounded like small dinosaurs up there" Tori teased.

"We were walking normally!" Sakura said in response, now raising the tone in her voice.

"Hey, I'm lucky, how many brothers get two dinosaurs for a little brother and sister." Tori said.

"STOP CALLING US DINOSAURS!" I said, now yelling.

After Sakura and I had our breakfast and Tori left, we both strapped on our skates, put on our protective padding, and after I had helped Sakura up, we made our way down the street to meet up with Tori and Julian.

"Hey Sakura, hey Zachary" Julian said, as Sakura and I caught up with him and Tori, and after about minute of Julian, Sakura and I talking to one another, both Sakura and I said our goodbyes and continued down the street towards the school.

After the school day ended, me and Sakura then headed back to our home. But, when we got home, we began to hear strange noises that seemed to be coming from the basement.

"Sakura, did you hear that?" I asked with a frightened tone in my voice.

"Uh huh" Sakura said in a very frightened tone of voice as well.

"How about we both check it out together?" I asked while turning to Sakura.

"And if it's a burglar, then we'll call the police" Sakura said in response.

A few seconds later, me and Sakura were down in the basement. Both of us had our batons clenched in our hands, and, it wasn't long until we came upon a row of bookshelves in the back.

It was then that both of us jumped out hoping to see someone, but there was no one there. But, as Sakura and I stayed close to one another while looking around, we heard a strange noise. Both of us then turned around and noticed that one of the books on the shelf was glowing. Without hesitating even once, both Sakura and I reached for the glowing book and, with my hand slightly below hers on the spine of the book, we both pulled it off the shelf.

It was when we both held the book in front of us that both Sakura dropped her baton as both of us gazed at the book, the book was red and had what looked like a lion type creature on the front cover, chains were on either side of it, and a sun was in front.

"That's the same book from my dream" Sakura said to herself.

It was only then that I started to feel nervous, knowing full well of what was about to happen, and with my spotty memory of the events that lay ahead, I knew all too well that after Episode 5 I would be going at this completely blind.

But for the time being, I had to ignore that nervous feeling, and deal with what currently lay in front of me.

It was then that as if by magic, the catch on the book came undone by itself. Sakura and I jumped back thinking that something scary would jump out and attack us.

But, when nothing did, both of us slowly opened the cover of the book. Inside the weird book was a stack of cards, both Sakura and I picked up the top one, with each of our index fingers and thumb each holding a bottom corner of the card, the cards' name was in English.

"The Windy" Sakura and I both said in a low tone of voice.

It was then, as we were walking away from where we both stood with the book and card in our possession, that the card began to glow bright blue.

About a second after, a tornado surrounded me and Sakura. Both of us closed our eyes, so both of us ended up missing the glowing circle on the floor under the both of us, which was identical to the one on the back of the cards. The rest of the deck in the book ended up getting blown away by the wind and headed towards the ceiling. But, the cards didn't stop at the ceiling, they were carried off to who-knows-where.

When the wind finally stopped, both Sakura and I dropped the strange book and sank to the floor.

"What is this?" I asked while looking at the card. A moment later both Sakura and I were staring at a tiny, winged, teddy bear who was rising from the glowing book.
"Heydy-howdy-hoedy!" It said, while hovering in midair and smiling.

"Thank you so much for getting me out of that book" It said.

"An Osaka accent…?" I asked.

Well, this book was in Osaka for so long, I've caught the…" The teddy bear yelped and complained as Sakura and I tried to figure out how he worked, including where the batteries went, finally pulling himself free.

"I'm no toy!" It shouted at me and Sakura, "I'm Keroberos, the Beat of the Seal who guards this book!"

"Seal…? Keroberos…?" Sakura asked as the bear walked forward to look at both of us.

"Yeah. Looking out for the cards in this book so that they don't do anything bad is my…" There was a pause while the fact that the cards were gone sank into the bear's head, and then, "The cards are gone! Why? Why? Where did they go?!"

A little later, Kero was up in our room hovering over the Book of Clow when Sakura and I got back up to our room after we quickly ate dinner. We were carrying a desert for the guardian of the cards. "Anything?" I asked.

"No good." He answered, sounding depressed and landing, "I can't tell where the cards are at all."

"Here." Sakura said, putting the cake in front of him with a tea spoon. Sakura then leaned against her desk chair while I sat down next to Kero.

"It looks delicious." Kero's face lit up as he gazed at it.

Then it sank again, "There were Clow Cards in this book." Kero said.

"Clow Cards?" I asked.

"Clow Cards… when the seal on them is broken, a catastrophe will be fall this world… those cards were special cards made by an amazing sorcerer named Clow Reed. Each card is alive and possesses incredible powers, but they all like acting on their own and normal forces are no match for them. So, Clow Reed himself created this book and placed me, the Beast of the Seal on the book's front cover."

Kero sighed, "In any case, we have to get those cards back and I can't sense where they are because of the strong magic in the area, so you two are coming with me."

"Why us? Wouldn't one of those powerful mages in the area be better?" Sakura asked.

"Because you two are the ones that scattered the cards with the Windy spell, and I don't know if I could trust anyone with the sort of magic I sense." Kero said.

"B-but wasn't it your job to keep those cards properly sealed away in the first place?" I asked.

"Well…" Now Kero was embarrassed, "I accidentally fell asleep."

"For how long?" Sakura asked.

"About thirty years." Kero said.

"And you call yourself the Beast of the Seal?" I asked.

"Stuff happens! All right!" Kero said in response.

"So those noises were just snores?!" Sakura said as we both looked at him with a hint of frustration on our faces.

"In any case, the fact that you both could open this book means that both of you have some magical powers at least, and that puts you both in first place, above anyone else with magic in the area. So, what are your names anyway?"

"I'm Zachary, and this is my sister Sakura" I said, only to internally cringe after saying that.

"Alright Sakura and Zachary, stand right over there." Kero said, pointing to the side of our respective beds.

Sakura and I then got up, and stood by our beds, which seemed to vanish as the magic circle from before formed on the floor under both of us.

"Keys of the Seal" Kero intoned. Two small balls of light rose from the keyhole of the book and hovered in front of me and Sakura.

"These two kids will carry out the sacred promise, there names are Sakura and Zachary. I command you to bestow them with you magical powers, RELEASE THE POWER!"

It was then that both of the two light balls expanded, as did the keys, each forming a baton like staff, one colored blue, the other colored pink. I caught the blue colored one, while Sakura caught the pink colored one when we were told by Kero to grab them.

"All right! I, Keroberos, hereby declare Sakura and Zachary, CardCaptors!" Kero said. As the circle faded and the room returned to normal, while both Sakura and I examined our staffs , that I once had to remind myself what lay ahead. But I still wasn't at all okay with being Sakura's brother. Sakura and I then turned to kero, expecting him to say something. But instead, he was stuffing his face full of pudding.


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It had only been a few minutes since Kero dubbed me and Sakura as "CardCaptors." And although Kero said that we were both the right people for the job, Sakura and I still felt a little dismissive. "I don't think we have the time to do something as dangerous as this" I said to Kero. "Excuse me, who let the cards out of the book?" Kero said/asked. "We did" Sakura responded back in a depressed sounding tone of voice.

It was then that Sakura and I heard a loud noise that sounded like a bird screeching. Sakura and I then ran to the window, and upon looking out the window, we noticed a giant blue bird flying in the sky. "What is that?" I asked Kero as he approached the window. "It's a Clow Card" Kero said. Sakura and I gulped; we both knew then what we had to do.

A few seconds later, Sakura and I ran out of the room, downstairs, and out the door, with both of us still in our pajamas, and both of us having on our roller skates. As both Sakura and I skated down the street, Kero flew right in between us.

"Its the Fly card, Sakura, Zachary, release you staffs just like I showed you!" Kero said. "Right!" I said in response. Sakura and I then reached down our shirts and pulled out our respective keys. "Oh key of clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the wand, the force ignite, RELEASE!" Sakura and I chanted in unison. (a/n: for the upcoming chapters I will be keeping the incantations in their nelvana dub translations. I am going to try my hardest to try and translate the Clear Card incantations over to what would wind up being the incantations if Nelvana had been in charge of dubbing the episodes. It isn't going to be easy to do this, but whoever said that doing something like this was going to be easy). With our staffs now in hand, Sakura approached the giant bird, with me following close behind. But, the bird then spread its wings and took off into the sky, and, Sakura had jumped onto the bird right before it had taken off and was taken along for the ride.

"D-don't worry Sakura, I'll handle this!" I said nervously while hesitantly pulling out the Windy Card.

I then, while still being a little bit nervous, raised my staff and said "W-Windy Card, encircle the Fly card and bind its wings, W-WINDY, RELEASE AND DISPEL!" I chanted in a somewhat nervous tone as I tapped the card with the tip of my staff. A few seconds later, the Windy Card spirit appeared and started encircling the giant bird. Once the giant bird's wings were bound, it began to fall at a rapid speed, a few seconds after that, Sakura fell off the giant blue bird, but thankfully, I was able to use the Windy Card to catch Sakura before she hit the ground.

"That was too close for comfort" I said.

"Nice quick thinking Zachary" Kero said as he flew beside me.

"T-thanks kero" I said in a nervous tone of voice as I ran towards Sakura, who was still on the ground to see if she was alright.

It was when I was kneeling beside Sakura that she finally woke up, "uh…W-what happened?" Sakura asked.

"You almost got hurt when I bound the Fly card with Windy, but thankfully I was able to catch you in time" I said.

"Thank you Zachary" Sakura said as she smiled at me.

"Y-you're welcome" I said nervously as I helped her up.

It was then that we turned our attention back to the bound Fly card, and Kero then flew right beside us.

"There is one thing that both of you must know before sealing the card, both of you will have to swing your staffs down in unison, or else the capture won't work." Kero said.

"R-right!" I replied in response, still not quite sure about this whole card capturing stuff.

It was then that we turned to the giant bird and raised our staffs at the same time and said, "Return to you power confined, FLY CARD!" Sakura and I chanted in unison as we swung our respective staffs down at the same time.
About a few seconds after that, nothing happened, but a few seconds later, one half of a card materialized on the tips of our staffs. The Fly card spirit was then split in half, and then one half of it went into both of our card halves. The captured Fly card then fluttered to the ground, and then both Sakura and I dropped to our knees.

"I thought I was going to fail" Sakura said.

"S-same here" I said in response still somewhat nervous about what lay ahead.

It was then that Kero landed in front of us and said, "both of you will need to write your names on the card so that it won't escape."
And with that, Sakura and I wrote our names on the bottom of the Fly Card with Sakura's name below mine.

"Why don't the both of you try it out?" Kero asked after Sakura and I were both done writing our names on the card.

"What can the card do?" Sakura asked as I went over and picked it up.

"I guess we should find out" I said.

Sakura and I then once again raised our staffs, swung both of them down at the same time, and tapped the Fly Card at the same time.

"FLY!" Sakura and I yelled out in unison, and after the one word was said, both of our staffs grew wings on the top. Sakura and I then got on our respective winged staffs, and then, after a few seconds, we took off into the sky.

"This is awesome!" Sakura said. "I knew I could count on you two CardCaptor Sakura and Zachary" Kero said.

"Hold on, we haven't agreed to anything yet" I said still in a nervous tone as all three of us flew across the sky.

End Of Chapter 1