Four days later, Makoto contacts Chibiusa.
"Can you come to my apartment?"
"Sure, Mako. Did you cook something good?"
"No. I can't, with all these tree branches everywhere, I'm afraid I'll start a fire."
"Tree branches?"
"It's Wood. At first my plants grew faster, then little branches started appearing on my walls, and now my place is filled with giant branches! I have tried to locate her, without success. However, I don't feel any danger from her. Can some Clow Cards be peaceful?"
"It's possible. I'm coming."
Without telling Usagi, Chibiusa goes to Mako's place. She knocks on her door.
"Hi, Chibiusa. Come in."
Chibusa enters and she is surprised to see tree branches everywhere.
"Whoa... yet, Mako, your plants have nothing."
"I know. Wood is careful. My furniture has nothing either and there are no branches on my bed!"
"She must really be peaceful, then. It'll be easy to capture her."
Chibiusa transformed the magic key into the sealing wand. Immediately Wood appears in front of Makoto and her.
Wood is a beautiful young woman with flowing green hair. She has a leaf symbol on her forehead. She has leaf-shaped ears and slingshot wings on her back.
"Wood?" Mako asks.
Wood nods her head.
"Can I... uh... capture you?" Chibiusa asks.
Wood nods again.
"Okay. Return to your original form—"
Suddenly, Wood makes the "shush" sign.
"Why?" Asks the little pink-haired girl and Wood points at Mako.
"I think she wants me to sign my name on the card."
"Is that all? No problem."
Wood smiles and Chibiusa captures her. Wood turns into a Clow Card and her tree branches disappear. Mako's apartment is back to the way it was before.
"Phew!" Mako says. "I'll be able to cook again."
The Wood card goes into Chibiusa's hand, but she gives it to Mako. Mako goes to write her name on it and then she asks Chibiusa if she wants to eat something. She's really looking forward to cooking!
Two days later, Usagi, Ami, Rei, Mako, Minako and Chibiusa are walking in the forest. They have a good time and then the earth starts to shake.
"An earthquake? Here?" Minako asks.
"It must be Earthy!" Exclaims Chibiusa.
"In that case, let's transform." Usagi says.
The girls transform and Sailor Chibi Moon manifests the sealing wand. The Sailor Guardians get ready for anything and then a huge snake made of hard earth comes out of the ground.
"There it is." Mars says. "Let's go."
Sailor Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter launch their most powerful attacks on the snake. Only Jupiter and Venus' attack seems to have a small effect.
"It's not enough to capture it." Mercury says. "Watery, come to my aid!"
Watery appears. Mars calls Firey and Jupiter, Wood. With the help of the cards, they attack the earth serpent relentlessly. Venus helps too, but the Clow Card doesn't seem to weaken. Earthy counterattacks with earth-type magic - large rocks and falling trees - but the Sailors manage to avoid them.
"I have an idea." Mars said. "Sailor Moon, use your power. Then Jupiter asks Wood to use her power on Venus' next attack. Venus, use Venus Love Me Chain."
"Are you sure?" Venus asks. "I have more powerful attacks."
"Yes, do it."
Moon, Venus and Jupiter nod.
"Silver Moon Crystal Power Therapy Kiss!"
Her attack distracts Earthy. It seems transfixed by Sailor Moon's light.
"Wood," says Jupiter, "help Sailor Venus with your power!"
"Venus Love Me Chain!"
Venus' light chain is surrounded by thin branches with green leaves. It surrounds the snake everywhere, paralyzing Earthy. Mercury tells Chibi Moon to capture it.
"Okay! Return to your original form, Clow Card!"
The wand's red beak reveals the bright silhouette of a card. The snake then transforms into an elegant lady wearing a dress with draped sleeves and a bodice. Her hair is curled upward and parted in opposite directions. The lady, Earthy's true form, is absorbed into the silhouette, which transforms into a Clow Card. The card goes into Sailor Venus' hand and the earth no longer shakes.
"Well," she says, "I did well to bring a pen with me."
She signs her name. There are only three cards left to capture. The girls de-transform and continue their walks.
Three days later, in Chibiusa's room, she sees Usagi disappear into the darkness. Suspecting that it's Dark, Chibiusa transforms, makes the pink wand appear, but she doesn't manage to enter the darkness and thus find Usagi. She'll have to fend for herself.
Finally, ten minutes later, Usagi, transformed, reappeared with two supernatural women, Light and Dark. The darkness was gone.
"Sailor Moon!"
"Chibi Moon! I'm fine. This is Light and Dark. They are sisters."
"Yes," said Light, "Sailor Moon has passed our test."
"A test?"
"Yes," Dark explains to Chibi Moon. "My darkness was trapping her. She had to guess my name and summon my sister with her own light. With her Silver Crystal."
Chibi Moon was not impressed. She knew that Moon was going to make it. After all, she had faced much worse! Since Light and Dark are sisters, they must be captured at the same time. Sailor Chibi Moon captures them and both cards go into Moon's hand. They de-transform, Usagi signs her name on the cards, then the window suddenly opens. In a soft breeze, an elegant fairy with blond hair, styled high and falling forward in two long strands, arrives. Her body seems to be made of air.
"Who are you?" Usagi asks.
"Windy." Says Chibiusa. "She must be Windy."
Windy nods and, as the two girls look on in surprise, turns into a Clow Card by herself! Chibiusa signs her name on it. She now has all the elusive Clow Cards!
"Now all I have to do is hand them to Sakura." She says. "But how, by dreaming about her?"
"Maybe." Usagi said. "Why don't you go to bed, and I'll ask the girls to come over, okay?"
"Okay."
Chibiusa goes to bed. As soon as she manages to fall asleep, Chibiusa finds herself on a plain.
"Sakura?" She calls out. "Sakura, are you there?"
She hears Sakura's voice answer her.
"I'm coming!"
Chibiusa joins Sakura. She is happy to see her again.
"Hello, Chibiusa!"
"Hi Sakura."
"So, did you recapture the cards?"
"Yes, but I don't have them all with me."
"You don't? What do you mean?"
"Well..."
Chibiusa tells her everything. Sakura is impressed by the fact that Chibiusa and her friends are magical girls. Also by the temporary Sailor Watery Mars.
"I wish I could transform..." Sakura said dreamily.
"But my friends are supposed to come to Usagi, where I'm living for a while, so..."
"You should have had all the cards, yes. Focus."
Chibiusa concentrates, as requested, and all the cards appear in her hand.
"Whoa! Here they are."
She wants to give them to Sakura, but a force prevents her from taking them.
"Huh?" Sakura says, surprised. "Kero never told me about this! How can I get them back now?"
"Maybe you need to get your magic key back first." Said Chibiusa.
"Maybe."
Sakura does another incantation to transfer her Cardcaptor status back to herself. Chibiusa gives her the key and then she tries to give her the Clow Cards. This time, Sakura can take them and the names written on them disappear. Thus Sakura is able to write her own. Sakura thanks Chibiusa warmly. Chibiusa wishes her good luck and then she wakes up. Usagi and her friends are standing next to her.
"Is everything okay?" Usagi asks.
"Yes. I saw Sakura. I gave her her key and the Clow Cards."
"That explains why they disappeared." Says Ami.
The key was no longer around Chibiusa's neck.
"So," Rei asks her, "are you going to go back to the 30th century right away?"
Mako, Minako and Ami look at Chibiusa with a sad look in their eyes. It's so hard, the goodbyes.
"Yes," she says sadly. "It's for the best."
Usagi and her friends say goodbye, all the while holding back tears, and Chibiusa leaves the house. She finds a quiet corner and uses the time key to go back to the future, to the Crystal Palace.
Back home, she gives the time key to Sailor Pluto and discusses her adventure. Afterwards, Chibiusa wonders if she should talk to her mother, Neo-Queen Serenity, about it or not.Hmm, she thought. I have time to think about it.
Author's comment: The idea for this fanfic came to me in a dream, where Sailor Mercury was trying to fight Watery and Chibiusa arrived with Sakura's magic key. Chibiusa captured the Clow Card and Mercury could then use it.
