Having made her way back home Toph snuck back into her room and switch out her normal clothes and back into the dress she normally wore around the house. She did not like wearing it but her parents would never really listen to her about her style in clothes anyway.
Hungry after everything that she had just been through, the young Bei Fong decide to head towards the kitchen to get something to eat. Though halfway there she hear her father and other gathering around something in the courtyard.
About to just shrug it off and keep heading towards the kitchen hoping that she just walk by them and not get noticed. She always found strange how despite her parents thinking she was helpless they allow her to wonder around the mansion on her own not worried that she might run into something because she can not see. Not that she really thought about that much as it this small amount of freedom she was given was how she was able to sneak in and out the house.
However this was not to be the case as object of their attention shot up and flew straight into her arms.
"You" Toph mumbled so lowly only they could here.
"Do you know that thing as it was spotted heading towards your room before some guard took it down" her father asked.
"Of course father. Have you forgotten as this the baby cat owl that allow me to get while you and mother were away one of your business trips" she answered her father with tone that made appear she somewhat timid then she really is.
"I did?" Lao Bei Fong asked as he certainly did not remember doing something like that.
To this Toph just nodded her head purposely giving a sad puppy dog look towards thin air rather then in her father direction. This was tactic that she used quite often to get her father to admit to giving things that he never had as he goes on so many business trips and gives her some many gifts it had to keep track so she make up things like this.
"Ok well make sure you take better care of your pet from now on" Lao told her walking off followed by the guard shortly after.
Kerberos was just stuck in shock at how Toph was acting before her father as this was completely different from how she acted early in the forest.
The smile that was plastered on her face faded away once she was sure everyone was gone and she was alone with Kerberos. Also the light grip that she held him with also tighten as with a few stomps of her foot the Book of Clow slid over to her and she picked it up.
Returning to her room and eating something she had stashed in their rather then something fresh from the kitchen. Toph sat on floor staring over to where Kerberos sat on Book of Clow.
"Why did you follow me home?" she asked annoyed.
"Why did you call me your BABY cat owl I am not baby and certainly not your pet" Kerberos replied back equally annoyed.
"Remind me again who is that claims they need my help for sleeping on the job. Not only that but you could have been put down for come at me like that. My father had done that to few stray animals that wondered in here" the young Bei Fong girl said.
Kerberos mumbled something so low that even Toph's sensitive ears had problems picking it up.
"What was that I could not hear you" she told him.
"Fine you win. I will act as your pet but only if you help me in capturing the Clow Cards that escaped the Clow Book" the guardian said.
"Tell me one good reason why I should even bother helping you clean up a mess that your fault" Toph asked.
"Take a look at this" the small guardian said handing her the one card that she had managed to grab.
"Yeah it a card so what. There are hundred of thousand of cards that exist in this world what so special about these other then they can fly" she asked.
Kerberos then slapped his head with her hand somehow having forgotten she can not see what written on the card itself.
"It said Earthy and the Clow Cards are magical cards that used to perform various feats of magic. There eighteen other cards just like this one" he told.
"Your point. I can already bend earth myself what do I need some magic cards for" she asked.
"If you help me gather up the cards then you can have them and there two cards that you might be interested in particular, The Light and The Wood" he answered her, " With these two cards it might be possible either give you ability to see or at least make so that you can 'see' on wood something I know you can not do now"
Seeing with her eyes it was something she had long since given up on as the sight she had now was great even better then normal eyesight in many ways. However to actually see the world around in detail rather then just outlines and to finally know what colors like green really look like rather then just have a feeling of it. Then if these cards could give her the ability to see with her eyes then this Wood Card might be pretty interesting as well. No more avoiding certain sections of house or better yet she could actually leave this place as go off to explore the world instead staying here and being treating like she fragile doll.
"So you would be willingly to give me these cards that you are suppose to be guarding simply because I managed to force open the book" Toph asked.
"The fact that you were get the cards to appear and even cause them to fly off means that you might be worthy successor to the Book of Clow" he took her.
"You got yourself a deal, Kero" Toph told him as she had nothing better to do and the Earthy, the Light, and the Wood cards interested her.
"That's Kerberos" he corrected her.
"No its not as you are my pet remember and last time I checked pets do not get to name themselves nor do they talk. So your name is now Kero" she said.
"Fine, so what was the deal with how you were acting around your father" the newly dubbed Kero asked.
"My parents think I some helpless little blind girl and it really get on my nerves but I can something use it to my advantage getting away with all sorts of things" she replied "So let get down to business and talk about how I am going to help you recover these cards"
Author's Note:
I know the Anime had 53 Clow Cards(one coming from the Second Movie) but the manga version only had nineteen so I going with the manga version because I get through them faster that way.
I would like to thank:
GraysonPaladin for reviewing this story
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