Winner! Written by Kitty:It has been just over two years since the Void Card was returned
to the Clow Book, now referred to as the Sakura Book. Things were
back to normal with nothing unusual happening since then. Kero and
Yue went on a quest to track down some of the magical items left by Clow Reed with the help of Li's family.
One night, the Sakura Book started glowing.
A red glow surrounded the Sakura Book, making the entire room turn bright red, waking up Sakura from her sleep.
A rock came crashing through the window, startling Sakura as she jumped
out of bed. After grabbing her baton, she crawled over to the rock, which
had a message attached to it. It read, "I'm here for your book and your
cards! I want revenge!" "What does this mean?" Sakura asked herself.
Sakura quietly walked across her room, grabbing the Sakura Book off the
desk, still glowing red, and looked out the window, where she saw a figure in the shadows.
"Who are you?" "I am the greatest
magician of all time, and have come to settle the score! My Suzaku Cards are stronger than Clow Reed's cards ever were!
Now get him down here!" "But Clow Reed isn't here, he died a long time ago,
and..." "Enough! WINDY, RELEASE! Blow
her out of that house and down here now!" The strange figure in shadow
threw out a card and hit it with his staff, similar to how Li use to do it all those years ago with his sword.
"It looks like my Windy Card, but darker with red eyes, could this be the evil
double? AHHH!" Sakura was swept out of the house and landed in the bushes below.
"I don't know who you are, but Clow Reed isn't here.
I'm Sakura and these cards are mine now!"
"I don't care, I'm going to defeat Clow Reed's cards no matter what, and so no one will disturb us, SHIELD CARD,
RELEASE!" A huge light purple bubble surrounded the entire block where
Sakura's house was. At that instant, Li suddenly woke up from his sleep with
fear in his eyes, never feeling such an evil presence before. Kero and Yue
also both sensed something was wrong immediately. Kero said, "I know that presence
but after all this time?" Yue replied, "I feared this day would come, Suzaku must
have known we weren't there. We must hurry back now!"
"What is it?" asked Li's mother?
Kero explained, "only known to Yue and myself, back in the early days when Clow Reed was creating
the Clow Cards, a magician known as Suzaku Sombra cast a very ancient spell, to copy all of Clow Reeds
cards at the same time, making his own duplicate cards, with the same magic powers and everything.
The only thing is, Clow Reed had only made 15 Clow Cards at that time.
Clow new something was wrong when they glowed bright red for a moment,
but couldn't figure out why. Then weeks later, he was challenged by Suzaku,
using his version of Clow's cards. When the Clow Cards glowed red again,
Clow knew what had happened. However, Clow Reed was able to defeat him since
he had made other Clow Cards that Suzaku had not copied. Those that glowed red
were frightened and couldn't be used, Clow had a hard time and was injured in that battle too, his first real
adversary and rival. We were asked to keep this a secret in fear that
someone else would attempt this same magic by copying the cards. Suzaku
was sealed away, but must of some how escaped and seeking revenge.
Oh no, SAKURA!!!" Suzaku said, "Now we finish this, SWORD CARD, RELEASE!"
Sakura stood directly in the path of the Suzaku Sword Card, unable to move, eyes widening
as the Sword duplicated itself over and over and over again. Suddenly there was a flash of light and the Evil Sword
Card was no more. "WHAT?!?!?! IMPOSSIBLE!" Screeched Suzaku, jolting Sakura out
of her shocked state. The young lady blinked, as if just awakening, and then looked up to catch sight of one of her
beloved Sakura Cards, The Erase. ~Mistress!~ Came the frantic, genderless call of her
card, echoing in her mind. ~Forgive me for fleeing The Realm without summons, but you must not let this evil man
defeat you!!! Steel yourself against the copycat cards, Mistress! I was warned of this-~
Before The Erase could say or do more, It was enveloped in Shadow, a pure evil black mass with odd-looking red
ovals dotting Its exterior. Out of no where, the red ovals snapped open to reveal sinister, white, glowing eyes.
At the same time, leaves and vines shot out at Sakura from a different location, wrapping themselves around her
tightly before strong trees sprouted out of the earth and encased her in a Woody-prison.
Sakura's eyes welled up with tears as recognition hit her. She couldn't possibly hurt the beautiful and gentle Wood
card, regardless of whether or not it was a double. It was just like hers! An evil
cackle sounded from the other side of Sakura's prison, and slow footsteps carefully made their way towards her.
"You know," began the man, his tone of voice none too pleasant.
"I'm not sure HOW you managed to summon that Card, or how it in turn managed to destroy my modified and more
powerful Card, but no matter. I, Suzaku Sombre, shall end your life and take control of the Clow Book and all the
Clow Cards held within!" +In the meantime, within "The Realm", also
known as the Sakura Book+ Firey's eyes snapped open. "Something is not right,"
It said, sensing a pulse of evil within Its world. It looked over at Its companion and frowned. "What is the matter,
Watery? Why do you shake so?" "Do you not feel it, fellow Elemental?
Do you not feel... The Evil One?" Replied the blue creature, coiling tightly around itself, eyes wide
with slight pain and fear. Firey snarled suddenly and fled the area, winking out
of existence before reappearing in another part of The Realm. A quick glance around the area, and the fire
creature winked out a second time, only to reappear somewhere else once again.
"The Evil One-" Firey began to say. "Has reappeared," said
the Light and Dark Cards in unison, standing side by side, their backs to the new arrival. Both turned to
face their visitor at the same time, studying Firey's eyes. "You are more angry than fearful,"
they both continued, floating towards the red creature. "Do you not fear for your friends' lives?"
Firey let out a low, angry rumble from deep in Its chest, but before It could
reply, the world around them rippled with evil. "Our comrade has just fled
The Realm," The Light informed, regaining Its composure after the dark blast passed through. It continued
on in haste. "I am assuming he had no time to shut the portal behind him. Quickly! We must seal it before
the toll is too great." "NO!" Snarled Firey, winking out at the same
time. Light and Dark froze for a minute at the force of that single word. And then,
somwhere within The Realm, The Thunder beast made Its agony known with a bone chilling roar filled with great
pain. The wave of evil was still making its way through their world, and had found the first of its 15 targets.
"Quickly! Go to them and set the plan into motion!" Commanded the
lighter haired of the two sisters, quickly disappearing after Firey. Without delay, Dark set off to begin what
had been planned for decades. The Light Card kept appearing and disappearing at a
rapid pace in various places, following the traces of Firey which in turn seemed to be growing nearer and nearer
towards the portal from which evil flowed through. "Firey, no! You cannot.
It is against the rules of The Realm. Only our friend Erase is allowed to pass through the Emergency Portal,"
exclaimed Light, finally catching up with the fire elemental. Firey paused in front
of the large portal, a shimmering shape of the Sakura Book, and turned to face Its wise, female companion, eyes
filled with sorrow. "Do you not feel her despair?" It questioned. "It pulses all around me.
Around us. If you absolutely must seal this gate for the sake of the True Fifteen, do so. But our kind-hearted
Mistress cannot bring herself to attack the form of something she has come to love. I must help her recognize
what the Deceitful Fifteen truly are." And with that, Firey disappeared through the portal.
+Back in the real world+
"...I, Suzaku Sombre, shall end your life and take control of the Clow Book
and all the Clow Cards held within!" Sakura began panicking as the vines grew
tighter and tighter, squeezing her body, tightening around her lungs and throat, slowly robbing her of the
crucial life-giving substance that hung silently around her. Desperately she tried to shift the thumb of her
right hand in an attempt to unclasp the Sakura Book, but to no avail. Beyond the
boundaries of the Suzaku Shield, Li and the Two Guardians quickly approached, intent on reaching their beloved
Sakura before it was too late. From their position in the sky (Li was riding atop Keroberous) they immediately
took notice of the Shield, and Sakura's location as she was swallowed up by trees, and rapidly decended near there.
Li jumped off of the Guardian of the Seal and quickly ran towards the Shield.
But instead of walking right through it like he should have, being a person possessing magic, he got a nasty
shock on contact and was thrown back. Landing on his feet, Li wasted not time in attempting an attack on the
Shield. He wielded his sword and rushed towards it again, slicing through the purple substance easily. Then...
his sword stuck... and a charge of red lightning quickly worked its way up the blade and towards the handle,
where Li still held on tightly, attempting to force the sword through.
"LET GO!" Roared Keroberous, rushing towards the young man. But Yue beat him to it, tackling Li to
the ground and away from the sword right before it blasted the pent up energy outwards in the form of a red beam.
"It's useless," advised Yue, standing up and helping Li to his feet.
"This is not the Shield Card you know of. There is a dark, enigmatic power weaved into it. Suzaku's
black magic." "But I have to help Sakura! If I can just pull my sword
out I could try some magic," replied Li, walking towards his sword with fierce determination. But Keroberous
blocked his path. "Don't. You'll get yourself killed," said the lion.
"Allow Yue and I to try." And so they did. But their efforts were in vain.
Neither Keroberous's firey breaths nor Yue's lightning arrows could penetrate the Shield. And so, they turned
their faces towards the oddly placed patch of thick trees and the shadowy figure slowly approaching it.
"Why isn't she doing anything? Why won't she fight back?!"
Growled Li, pounding on the Shield regardless of the fact that it
shocked him. "FIGHT BACK SAKURA!" He called out desperately. "FIGHT BACK!"
Suddenly there was a small pink glow shining through Sakura's encasement, and
before anyone could blink, the thicket burst into flames and receded, leaving behind an evil creature very
similar to Sakura's Wood Card. Despite its heavy wounds, the Suzaku Wood Card managed a purely evil snarl
directed towards Its attacker. Firey had appeared to aid Its Mistress.
~See what it is?~ Pointed Firey, communicating telepathically with Sakura. ~See how it snarls? These Evil
creatures may have the form of your beloved Cards, but they are not them! If you do not fight back, we will
all be tainted and destroyed!~ "I CALL UPON THE SUZAKU CARDS WATERY AND
EARTHY!" Shrieked Suzaku Sombre, clearly agitated by the appearance of yet another of the Sakura Cards.
The Evil Watery wasted no time in attacking Sakura's Firey, chasing after
It through the skies, hurling huge amounts of water at It in an attempt to extinguish Its armor of fire.
Due to worriedly watching Firey, it took a while for Sakura to realize that the earth had started to rumble
beneath her feet, and that vines had slowly wrapped around her ankles, rooting her to that spot. The Suzaku
Wood card was apparently spending all that was left of Its life and energy on this final task. The earth
began to split open... "FLY CARD!" Sakura commanded with her mind
and voice, opening the Sakura Book. For the past two years she had been practicing summoning her creatures
without the use of a wand, if only to keep in practice and to get to know her creatures as well as keep
them in practice too. But something went very wrong... Sakura's precious Fly
Card didn't even attempt to release itself into the material world, and so she slowly began to plummet
into the dark abyss below her feet. And as she fell, she heard Suzaku begin to laugh triumphantly. Her
precious Firey screeched in horror as It watched Its mistress disappear under ground, the momentary
distraction lending Evil Watery an advantage against Its opponent. Firey's flaming exterior began to
diminish rapidly as the weight of Watery surrounded and crushed It, trapping Firey between cold earth
and liquid water. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cried Li, Yue and Keroberous
in unison as they witnessed Sakura's disappearance, all three rushing at Suzaku's Shield at the same
time. The weight of their sudden existence, love and determination crashing into the Shield came as a painful
shock to Suzaku, whose concentration (in keeping the Shield intact) faltered for a mere 3 seconds, allowing
our three heroes through and releasing Li's sword (which Li managed to whisk away).
Before any of Yue's arrows or any of Keroberous's fire blasts could reach Suzaku, the evil man had managed to
quickly draw in the Shield and wrap It around himself, as opposed to the whole neighborhood. And before Li could
make any attempted dash towards the hole in the earth: "SUZAKU FIGHT CARD!" An opponent materialized
infront of Li and attacked, keeping him from reaching Sakura. Before the two
Guardians realized that their fellow young man was being attacked and could not aid their Mistress, the
Float Card burst through the hole in the ground, and safely atop the balloon was Sakura. But not for long.
Evil Windy (who was released to force Sakura out of the house) blew past and managed to throw the young lady
off the Float Card. Sakura landed near Firey with a big thud, her Sakura Book
clutched tightly to her chest. She opened her eyes and locked her sight onto dying ember orbs.
"No..." she whispered, slowly sitting up and taking in the whole
scene of Evil Watery suffocating Firey. "NO!" She screamed, jumping to her feet. "CHANGE
CARD!" Sakura frantically summoned the little furry creature in hopes that It would come forth. She
didn't know why her Fly Card hadn't appeared, and was half consumed by the fear that many more wouldn't
answer her call. To her immense relief, the Change Card came through and used Its powers to switch only
the CONDITION of Firey and Evil Watery's bodies. Its training for the past two years allowed Change to
discover that it could change much more subtle things, instead of simply making two beings switch bodies.
Sakura quickly returned Float, Change and Firey to their Card forms, watching
as Evil Watery's form slowly took on a red hue before going completely red and reshaping into a little ball,
which then flew straight into the outstretched hand of Suzaku. And then she
was in the air, completely restrained by Evil Windy's grasp, along with Li and her two Guardians.
"What kind of creature was that, girl?" Spat Suzaku, stalking
closer to the group in the air, his Evil Earthy emerging out of the ground to join him along with the
Evil Fight Card. Suzaku's sinister green eyes narrowed as his long, pin-straight red hair whipped around
his face in a menacing way. "How is it that one moment my Watery was defeating your fire creature,
and the next moment I was forced to soakup what remained of Its magical life? I had to do the same with
my beautiful Wood Card. You have destroyed three of my creatures while I have yet to kill one of yours.
ANSWER ME YOU FOOLISH CHILD!" "I didn't destory them. YOU did,"
she retorted. "If you had any care for them you would have called them back instead of forcing them to
fight to the death." "Who are you to scrutinize my methods?!?!?! I
am not the one suspended in air, unable to move, unable to summon." Suzaku smirked, twirling his staff.
"You," he ordered, pointing at his earth elemental. "Begin a rockslide. I want boulders to
simply materialize above these useless beings and bash into their skulls. Those Clow Cards are mine!"
'Oh no!' Thought Sakura, futilely struggling against the chains of wind. But
it was no use. She had to think of something quickly! Looking up above her, she watched as a black hole
formed and the first of the huge rocks emerged. She couldn't think of anything. She needed more time!
"Time... TIME CARD!" She summoned hesitantly, knowing that it
would drain her quickly if she kept it in use too long. Instantly, everything
froze. "Quick, any ideas?!" She asked, turning to her friends.
Keroberous and Yue were completely unscathed, but Li was as beat up as the Suzaku Fight Card seemed to
be. All three looked exhausted. The
giant lion couldn't respond at all due to his muzzle being sealed shut by a chain of wind, obviously to
keep him from breathing anymore fire onto his opponents. "Perhaps the
Through Card," suggested Yue. "Make it so that these boulders pass right through us."
Deciding that it was as good a plan as any, Sakura wasted no time in
recalling the energy-draining Time Card and summoning the Through at the same moment. She knew she had to
think of something else quickly, because even though the Through didn't cost her as much as the Time, it
would still continue to deplete her energy and magical sources as long as they remained transparent.
But they didn't calculate the fact that becoming transparent would release
Evil Windy's hold on them. And although they weren't that far up from the ground, it came as a shock when
they all fell and hit grass. A shock that cost Sakura her concentration on the Through Card, and It
automatically returned to The Realm before she could grasp it once more.
Immediately she was enveloped in large, protective wings. Looking up, she watched as Yue visibly battled
against the intense pain each rock brought him, wincing as the weight of each crashed onto him and made
him stagger. Sakura was horrified. And her fear bred anger. Anger and determination. No doubt Keroberous was
protecting Li and going through the same thing Yue was going through. She had to end this!
"SMALL! SHOT! SAND! LOOP! RELEASE!!!" Sakura's eyes glowed bright emerald as she gathered magic around her
like a cloak. She had never summoned four cards at once, never thought of doing so and never had to. But now she
needed to. Within a second the entire battle scene had twisted. There were no longer
any huge boulders falling onto the Guardians, only the tiniest of pebbles. The Evil Fight Card no longer stood
next to Its master, smirking arrogantly. Instead, It was too busy dodging shots of energy. Evil Windy was stuck
in an infinite loop, unable to come to the aid of Its comrades. Suzaku and Earthy were slowly being sucked into
a whirlpool of sand. Suzaku Sombre was momentarily confused, wondering how they had
managed to escape his Windy's grasps, but it didn't take him too long to realize he was sinking along side his
earth elemental. "FLY!" Within an instant, dark wings sprouted out of his
shoulder blades and he managed to flap away from danger, leaving his Earthy to Its fate. Suzaku never realized that
the whirlpool of sand had sucked in the Evil Shield during the his momentary confusion... But Sakura did.
"His Shield!" She whispered fiercely, facing her Guardians. They both
looked at her for a moment then turned to look at the man soaring high into the air. Both grinned and took off
after Suzaku. "Are you alright?" Li asked Sakura, catching hold of her
shoulders and hugging her as she swayed slightly. "You're using too much magic and energy," he explained,
taking a look around him. "Why don't you call back your Sand Card? That Earthy Double is gone."
Sakura shook her head. "Not yet. As long as these small pebbles keep falling,
Suzaku's Earthy still has power. And life." "The Shot, then. Call it back.
I can finish off that Evil Fight Card." Li turned to the girl beside him. "Call It back, Sakura",
he said sternly, yet not unkindly. The Card Mistress managed a small smile and gave a
slight nod before cutting off the vein of energy and magic she was feeding to the Shot.
The Shot suddenly disappeared, leaving behind Its worn out and confused opponent. It didn't take long for Suzaku's
Fight to set Its sights back on Its original adversary. Sakura knew how much of a
beating Li had sustained and wasn't about to let him spar with the Evil Fight Card for very long. She was going
to help him finish it off as soon as possible. And so she silently called the Power, and lended Its magical
abilities to Li. This Card didn't require as much of an effort to feed as the Shot did, being a dormant power
instead of an active offensive one. Li braced himself, going into his famous battle
stance, and trained his eye on the Fight Card as the latter zigzagged towards him at a baffling speed. He felt a
powerful surge course through him and knew right away what Sakura had done. 'I'm in
love with a fool,' he thought happily, resolving to end the duel as soon as possible to relieve Sakura of her
efforts to direct magic towards the Power Card. 'If only I had my sword.' Li side-glanced to his right and spied
his magical weapon, laying right where it had fallen when Evil Windy had swept him up into the air and held him
prisoner. Although his sight lay with his sword, his other senses were tuned into the oncoming enemy. He had to
wait for just the right moment. Suddenly the blur that had been advancing on the two
former-Cardcaptors was stopped dead in Its tracks. Sakura looked around Li's shoulder and watched as Suzaku's
Fight Card slowly crumbled to the floor. Li lowered his unwavering right leg back to the ground and fetched his
sword. Sakura turned away, unwilling to witness what Li must do to the irreversibly
evil being that lay in front of him. It wasn't these creatures' fault that they were tainted with the evil of
Suzaku Sombre. And as a tear slid down her cheek, the last of the pebbles bounced off her nose and she slowly
severed the thread of magic she had with The Sand and The Small, causing Them to automatically return to Card
Form. And then Keroberous crashed heavily besides her, causing her to jump a few
feet in the air before rushing towards the beast. "What going on?!" She
asked, frightened. She had been so preoccupied with Li and the Fight that she had almost completely forgotten
about her Guardians. Keroberous struggled to get up but only succeeded in falling
right back down. "LOOK OUT!" Came Yue's voice, booming from above.
Before Sakura had anytime to react, she came crashing to the ground with Li ontop
of her. "He's summoned the Thunder Card double," said Li, rolling off of
her and quickly helping her up. And as she watched him run off before she could say anything, her eyes fell upon
a gigantic red beast. Suzaku's Thunder card had managed to pin Keroberous under It and was digging Its claws into
the Guardian's flesh. "THUNDER GOD! ANSWER MY CALL!" Raising his sword, Li
directed a burst of lightning towards the electrifying Card, causing It to hurl backwards and land on Its side
with an earthshaking thud. The evil beast roared angrily. And then suddenly It quieted... and the entire hulk of
Its body flickered white. And Sakura's eyes grew wide. "Do that again, Li!"
She called out, running towards the young man as Suzaku's Thunder went back to red and started to charge.
"THUNDER GOD! ANSWER MY CALL!" Another burst of lightning and the Evil
Thunder Card flickered white again, only for a longer period of time. And the beast took on a look of confusion
for a moment before returning to Its original red color and advancing once again.
"KEEP DOING IT!" Yelled Sakura, sounding excited for some uknown reason. And as she heard "THUNDER
GOD! ANSWER MY CALL!" over and over again, she turned to watch Yue spar with SUzaku. But something else
caught her eye. The Evil Windy Card had discovered the Loop, and was lashing out at the thin red line with sharp thorns and leaves that
It had whirlwinded over. Although not as effective as a sword, the thorns and leaves were still slowly wearing away at
the Loop Card. This didn't alarm Sakura much, simply because she had time to think about how to defeat the evil
Windy. And so she relieved Loop of Its duty. Moments after the Freeze was summoned,
Suzaku's Windy Card literally froze and crashed to the floor, shattering into a million pieces. All Its pieces
turned red and flew past Sakura and up into the sky where the Evil Suzaku Sombre glowed an alarming dark red,
his hair standing straight up. Yue was no where in sight... Yue was NO WHERE in sight.
'No where...' thought Sakura, her body numbing all over. She couldn't sense him. SHE COULDN'T SENSE HIM!!!
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO WINDY?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY WINDY?!?!
YOU WRETCHED-" Suzaku Sombre plummeted to the ground as a block of ice and
met the same fate as his precious Windy. But instead of turning red, the sparkly pieces of ice simply broke
up into tiny fragments and floated away, disappearing one by one. Sakura sunk to
the ground and burst into tears. Li rushed over, having witnessed what happened, and figured that his love
was shooken up by what she had just done. ~Why do you weep?~ came a genderless
mental-call. The Erase hovered near the couple, having been released from Suzaku's Shadow when It (the Evil
Shadow) suddenly faded away. ~He was an evil man and there was no other way around it. If you had done what
Clow Reed had done, if you had let him and his vile Creatures live, this man would have simply appeared yet
again.~ "Y-Yue," Sakura managed to choke out, burying her face into Li's
shoulder. The young man's body stiffened and he quickly tuned into his senses, searching for the distinct
mystical waves that belonged to Yue. He found none. Suddenly a nearby bush rustled
and a tall, thin shadow emerged, rubbing at it's head. The Erase quickly retreated back to The Realm.
"Sakura? Oh my god, Sakura are you okay?! What happened?"
Sakura and Li's eyes widened.
"Julian?" Squeaked Sakura, slowly standing up to stumble towards the new arrival. "JULIAN!"
She exclaimed happily, rushing towards the older guy and hugging him. "What happened to you? Why couldn't
I sense you?!" "Well, Sakura," began Julian, patting the girl on
the shoulder. "It seemed you were running out of power. Yue noticed and decided to lend you his, which
resulted in him not being able to hold his shape. He miscalculated how much magic and energy he had left,
not realizing how much his fight with Suzaku had taken. I tried to warn him, but you know... he never listens,"
Julian said, smiling warmly. And then came a thick, deep laugh.
"What the..." Julian whispered in astonishment, looking over Sakura's
head. Li quickly whipped around to see what it was while Sakura twisted away from Julian to get a look as well.
About 20 feet away was Keroberous, flat on his back, with a mini thunder-beast
romping around on his belly. "Hahaha," Keroberous continued his laughter.
"Sakura! Sakura can we keep him?!" Sakura's jaw dropped.
"Oh come on! Please? Look at how cute and little he is hahaha."
+Fast forward a week+
Kero glared at Rai, the mini thunder-beast, as it rolled around happily on Sakura's bed.
"Let's get rid of him," he suggested evilly, extending his
miniature claws in a poor imitation of Wolverine. He had just got through turning off the TV because
he couldn't concentrate on The X-Men with an energetic pet behind him.
Rai pounced on Kero and panted happily, letting some drool slide onto Kero's face and down his tiny
cheek. "EWWW! SA-KU-RA! Rai just spit on meeeeeeeeeee," whined
Kero, trying to push the miniature thunder-beast off of him. Sitting at
her desk, Sakura turned away from the letter she was writing to her bestfriend and smiled at the two.
The past week had been quite amusing. From drooling on Kero to eating his sweets, happy little Rai
always had the Guardian of the Seal whining about one thing or the other. But Sakura knew that Kero
was happy with Rai around... at least most of the time. "Now now,
Rai," she chided half-heartedly. And then she turned right back to her letter.
"WHAT? That's it?! That's all you're going to do? I am APPALLED by your heartless-ness,"
declared Kero, struggling to get out from underneathe the chubby beast. "I cannot BELIEVE that
you would just..." But Kero's voice faded as Sakura picked up her
pen and continued writing: ...Gosh Madison, that night I crawled into bed sooo exhausted. It wasn't
until the next day that I got an explanation of the whole INSANE ordeal. It turns out that, during
the time of Clow Reed, Suzaku Sombre had made copies of half the Clow Cards, despite what Keroberous
and Yue were told. When Clow found out what was going on, he quickly created the Erase and ordered it
to go forth and erase all the duplicates it could find. Unfortunately, Suzaku was able to gather and
protect 15 of those Cards. That is when Clow found it fit to warn the Guardians and the rest of the
Clow Cards, for it was now a far more serious matter. He hadn't wanted to alarm them before, but now
he had no choice since the Erase wasn't able to erase all the duplicates.
It wasn't very long after that Suzaku's greed overcame his fear of losing more cards, and he sought
after the rest of the Clow Cards. Luckily Clow Reed was able to defeat him, and sealed Suzaku and his
duplicate cards into a Prison Realm he had constructed. And so Suzaku worked on his Suzaku Cards,
weaving ancient magics into their very beings, granting them the power to do such as they couldn't do
before. How Suzaku managed to live all these years is beyond me, but little Rai believes that Suzaku
had created a new creature, one that resembled him exactly, and stored his soul, magic and energy within
the creature. He was determined to get revenge. He was determined to gain control of the Clow Cards.
The Erase told me that after sealing the evil man, Clow Reed decided to
take no chances in believing that there wouldn't be another like Suzaku, or that Suzaku wouldn't escape.
He called upon all his Clow Cards to discuss the matter and discovered something horrible. Those who
had been duplicated felt pain when Suzaku was near. And even greater pain when their Realm opened to
release a Clow Card that he (Clow) had called. Everything fell into place. Suzaku didn't create those
duplicate Cards simply to defeat Clow Reed and gain control of the Clow Cards. It wasn't that simple.
He meant for the duplicates to enter The Realm and kill off the pure-doubles (which Firey also called
"the True Fifteen") and take their place, thus infecting the rest of the Clow Cards with Suzaku's
evil and putting them under his control. And so they constructed a plan.
An Emergency Portal would be created for The Erase, so that It could release itself into the real world
when it sensed Suzaku, or another like Suzaku (one who had used the Ancient Duplicating spell), and
quickly try to get rid of the false Cards. As soon as Erase escaped, It would seal the Portal. However,
in case It was not able to, the Portal would immediately be sealed by The Light and Dark Cards to minimize
the pulse of evil throughout The Realm. The True Fifteen would all be gathered as far away from the portal
as possible before being put to sleep by The Sleep. Clow Reed believed that, like humans, the Clow Cards
would feel no pain during slumber. But in case the evil of the spell could find them in their dreams, The
Dream was issued to keep it at bay and to create a happy scene within each of their subconscious minds. And
last, but certainly not least, to protect their outerforms from being eaten at by the evil waves, The Rain
was to constantly cleanse them with pure water in an attempt to diminish the affects of those harmful waves.
It was a really good plan in my opinion. I'm sure I couldn't have thought of anything like that.
Anyway, the Erase also apologized for being captured before it could do
away with more than just that Evil Sword Card. Apparently Suzaku's Shadow card was altered to not only
encase an opponent in shadow, but also to strip them of their powers as long as they're in there. No wonder The
Erase couldn't just erase Evil Shadow. I was wondering about that. Hmmm... I feel
like I'm forgetting something... Oh yes! Rai! Cute, adorable little Rai. He's really
very intelligent, despite the drooling hehehe. I think he only does that to annoy Kero. He's never drooled on me!
But anyway, dad loves him too! I don't know what Tori thinks though. I think he likes him as well. I've seen
him give the little beast some of his dinner. So why is Rai so miniature anyway?
And why isn't he evil? And why hasn't he grown at all? I'm sure you're asking all these questions in your mind,
Madison. Well, since I can communicate with him the same
way I do with my own Sakura Cards, he was able to tell me. Apparently, during the fight between Suzaku and Clow,
Clow managed to turn Rai permanently small! That's why he's tiny and that's why he's not growing! Suzaku had no
idea how to turn him back or even to call him back. Rai says that once Suzaku summoned a Card, he wasn't able
to return it to Card form. I still don't understand why, but Rai said something about how the Suzaku Cards had
no Realm to return to, and once they were out of Card Form, the card disappeared and they no longer had a place
but the real world. He says Suzaku was never powerful enough to construct a realm, even though he tried numerous
times. That's why he wanted to take over the Clow Card- errr, I mean Sakura Card Realm! Anyway, it's confusing
to me so I guess I'll stop trying to understand it for now... I asked Rai if he knew
which Cards Suzaku had duplicated and he gave me this list of them: Sword
Shield Watery Wood
Earthy Fight Fly
Windy Shadow Thunder
Illusion Mist Voice
Storm Lock Man he had three
of the elementals! Thank god he didn't have a copy of Firey, otherwise I don't know what would have happened.
Either way, I now understand why the Fly never came when I called. That was really scary,
Madison! But anywho, When Li
called upon the Thunder God and directed the power towards Rai, the pure magic of the God consumed some of the evil
that bound Rai to Suzaku. I noticed this and told Li to keep going. It wasn't until later, when I really thought
about it, that I became heartbroken thinking about all those other creatures that died when they could have been
cleansed of Suzaku's evil. But Rai assured me that it wouldn't have worked on them, that Suzaku had a much stronger
link with those Cards than he did with Rai. He figured Rai was useless, being so small, and never really tweaked
him or paid much attention to him. "Why should I care about you when Suzaku Storm can do everything you can
and MORE?" He had told Rai. As far as I can tell, The Storm Card seemed to be Suzaku's favorite. I asked Rai
why he didn't just use it but he didn't know. Although, Yue thinks that maybe Suzaku was saving It for last, to
unleash It's powers on us when we're all beat down and tired. When there was less of a chance of us defeating his
favorite creature. I think that makes complete sense, don't you? My little thunder-beast
also explained the reason why he looked so big to us during the battle. It was because Suzaku used the Illusion card.
And although his form was simply supposed to be an illusion, Suzaku had managed to tweak the Illusion Card so that it
all LOOKED and FELT real. Wow... I should try that with my Illusion Card. Then maybe I can have it take on the shape
of mom! Oh my god I could so do that! And I could get a hug! And pretend for just a little bit that she's still here.
God, I miss her so much. I can't wait to give it a try! Let me know what you think about the idea. I'm so excited just
thinking about it! Well Madison, dad's calling me for dinner and my hand is about to
fall off from all this writing so I supposed I'll end this here. I'm including a picture of Rai so you can see how
adorable he is and maybe come back from England sooner! I miss you. Say hi to Eli and Ruby
Moon and Spinny for me. I can't wait to see you guys soon! Yours truly,
Sakura Avalon
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