Sakura's Rival

Sakura is sleeping having a dream. A boy dressed in a green robe is standing on the rooftop of a building facing to a big radio tower.
Sakura	Oh no! Not again. That tower. That kid. Kero! Oh no! He's got the Clow Cards. (Gasps) I gotta... hey come back.
Kero	Hey! Hey!
Sakura	I can't! I can't!
Kero	Hey! Hey! Sakura!
Sakura is groaning in the dream, tossing and turning in bed with her hands on her head.
Sakura	(Groans) I can't!
Kero	Hey! Hey! Come on, kid. Wake up.
Sakura	(Groans)
Kero	Excuse me. Snap out of it!
Sakura	Huh?
Kero	Sakura!
Sakura wakes up and first sees Kero's face all over her view. She got frightened, so she pushes away Kero down on the bed.
Sakura	Ugh! I can't! I can't!
Kero	Unh! Oof! No doubt you have a perfectly logical explanation for that.
Sakura	Oh. Heh heh. Sorry. Heh.
Kero	What's going on?
Sakura	Mmm. Yeah. Well, you know, Kero... I keep having that same dream. Oh, about this kid on a tower with the Clow Cards.
Kero	Huh? Fine, but you don't...
There's a knock on the door, Kero puts on a stuffed animal impression, lying on the ded. Opening the door quietly, Tori pokes his head.
Tori	Sakura?
Kero	Ugh.
Tori	Hmm.
Sakura	I'm up already.
Tori	Sounds like you've got company.
Sakura	No.
Tori	Is that right? Well, whatever you say, squirt. I heard voices.
Sakura	Nope. Nobody's in here. Ha ha! Everybody knows stuffed toys can't talk, Tori.
Tori	Mm-hmm. I think you're really losin' it, squirt.
Sakura	Get out! Ugh!
Furiously, Sakura throws her pillow straight at Tori, and he closes the door to shield himself from the blow.
Kero	Oh, why does he always do that?
Tori opens the door again, Kero gasps and puts on a stuffed animal impression.
Tori	Oh.
Kero	(Gasps)
Tori	By the way, I'm leaving in ten, so...
Kero	(Gasps)
Tori	Hmm.
Sakuran&Kero	(Sigh)
Sakura turns up the window open. Kero is floating beside her.
Sakura	What does it mean? What's with that dream?
Kero	Get over it, Sakura.
Sakura	Hmm?
Kero	You got bigger fish to fry, kiddo. For example...
Sakura	What?
Kero	... capturing the Clow Cards.
Sakura	Yeah, I know that.
Kero	But do you really, Sakura? Look kid, you gotta expect things when you least expect them.
Sakura	Huh?
Tori leaves for school, when Aiden, Sakura's father, is calling Sakura.
Aiden	Sakura, you're going to be late!
Sakura	I'm coming!
She puts on rollerblades and safe gears, and rushes out of her house running after Tori.
Sakura	Tori, wait up! Ugh!
Aiden	Take it easy.
Sakura	Bye Dad. Whoa!
She runs through down the gentle slope, and turns left at a corner pivotting a pole she's holding. She speeds up rollerblading straightly up to Tori.
Sakura	Wait! (Grunts) Tori! Slow down!
Tori	That's what happens when you sit in your room talking to yourself.
Sakura	Tori! I was not.
Tori	Hey, Julian!
Julian is waiting for Tori standing beside a cherry tree. He gets together riding his bike to school.
Julian	Uh, hi.
Tori	Sorry we're late. The squirt was having a very deep conversation.
Sakura	Unh.
Julian	He giving you a hard time again?
Sakura	As usual.
Tori	I know what I heard. She's ten years old and still talks to imaginary friends. It's pretty pathetic, don't you think?
Sakura	Tori!
Julian	Are you feeling OK?
Sakura	Oh, yeah. I had a strange dream last night.
Julian	Yeah? Dreams can tell you what you least expect.
Sakura	Huh? The unexpected. That's just what Kero said.
Julian	In fact, this morning, I had a dream just like that.
Sakura	Yeah?
Julian	Very déjà vu. It was really quite amazing. I dreamt that I'd have French toast breakfast and you know what? I did.
Sakura	Oh!
Tori&Julian	(Laugh)
Sakura	Whoa!
At the classroom, Sakura is talking with her best friend, Madison.
Sakura	Another video camera?
Madison	It's a new digital version my Mom got.
Sakura	Great. Heh heh. And sorry but chrominance reduction is a good thing?
Madison	It cuts down the color noise.
Sakura	Madison.
Madison	And we are noisy.
Sakura	Hee hee hee.
Rita comes into the classroom.
Rita	Hey, guys.
Sakura	Morning, Rita.
Madison	How's it goin'?
Terada	Good morning, class. Take your seats, please.
Mr. Terada comes to the classroom, the pupils are running to their seats.
Terada	Hmm. Hope you all had a good weekend. I have a surprise for you. We have a new exchange student—Li Showron.
Pupils whisper.
Terada	Come on in.
Madison	Why do you suppose we're getting an exchange student at this time of year?
Sakura	I don't know.
Sakura gasps at a glance at the exchange student.
Sakura	That's him! From my dream!
The exchange student, Li Showron, looks so much like the guy Sakura dreamt that early morning. Li is staring at her steadily.
Sakura	Heh heh.
Madison	That new kid's staring at you.
Sakura	Mmm.
Terada	Please welcome Li to Reedington Elementary. OK, Li. Where shall we seat you? Let's see now. Why don't you sit behind Sakura?
Sakura	Heh?
Li, walking to his seat, stops in front of Sakura, staring at her.
Madison	Your seat's right over here, Li.
Li	Hmm.
Li takes his seat without a word. Sakura is shivering at his fierce glcance she senses on her back.
Li	Hmm.
Sakura	Oh, man. What's with the new kid? Talk about intense. What does he want from me?
At recess, Li takes Sakura to the schoolyard.
Sakura	Excuse me, what?
Li	Source of light with ancient spin send force the magic power within. Oracles of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, cloud, wind, rain, and electricity. Force, know my plight. Release the light!
A blue beam shoots out the Lasin Board, focusing on Sakura.
Sakura	Huh?
Li	It is you!
Sakura	(Gasps)
Li	You do have them.
Sakura	I... have what?
Li	What do you think this is, Chinese Checkers? It's a Lasin board. It knows all. Clow Cards.
Sakura	The Clow Cards?
Li	I know you've got them.
Sakura	Even if I did, I'm not giving them to you. I'm capturing them for Kero.
Li	Wait a minute. Do you mean Keroberos?
Sakura	Yeah, that's right.
Li	Hmm. Since when does the gurdian beast let someone like you handle the Clow Cards?
Sakura	Uh, I accidentally let the Cards out of the Clow Book. I didn't even know what it was, so where do you...
Li	Ha! Keroberos was supposed to guard the Clow Cards. Don't tell me they all escaped.
Sakura	Yup.
Li	But you got some of them back, right?
Sakura	Yeah, a few. I'm working on it.
Li	And you're a Cardcaptor? That's pretty pathetic.
Sakura	Ugh. So I hear. Wait. How do you know about the Clow Cards anyway?
Li	That's none of your business, but I'm taking over.
Sakura	Ugh.
Li	Give them to me.
Sakura	Um, no! Exactly who do you think you are anyway, Li?
Li	You'd be surprised. Give me the Cards.
Madison, walking to the schoolyard, finds Li trying to take the Clow Cards from Sakura.
Madison	Sakura, Hey! Hey! Stop it!
Li	Unh!
Sakura	Unh!
Li	Give them here!
Sakura	No way!
Tori finds his own sister in trouble, climbs over the fence for a rescue.
Tori	Hey, you!
Sakura	Let go of me!
Li takes his hands off Sakura, and jumps backward to square up to Tori. Tori also squares up slowly.
Sakura	Oh.
Madison	Are you OK?
Sakura	It was nothing I couldn't handle myself.
Tori	Don't pick on my sister, kid. Why don't you go home before someone gets hurt. Namely you.
Julian is running to them with a grocery bag in his arm, who climbs over the fence. Li gets frightened at a glace of Julian.
Julian	Hey! Anybody here hungry?
Li	Huh?
Julian	Look at what I have. I was starving.
Tori	Wow.
Julian	So what'd you think of the physics exam? Sure good thing we reviewed quasars, huh? Oh, uh, hi. Come on. There's lots. One for you, one for you, and one for you.
Li gasps as Julian turns to him.
Julian	Uh, here. You want some?
As Julian walks up to Li, Li starts rushing away from him. He trips over a stone and falls down on a flower bed.
Li	Oof.
Li jumps up and resumes running away.
Julian	Huh?
Bell rings.
Julian	Guess he's not hungry.
Sakura and Madison are walking home, when they talk about Li.
Madison	Will Kero know what to do about that Li guy?
Sakura	Sure. He's the guardian of the Clow Cards.
Madison	Right.
Sakura	He's probably at home right now planning on our next move.
Meanwhile, Kero is snoring at home, nonetheless.
Madison	Yeah, I bet you're right.
There is a lightning in the sky unexpectedly; Sakura and Madison start. A thunder follows.
Sakura	Oh, great. A storm.
Sakura and Madison run into Reedington Park and rush into underneath the Penguin Slide for a shelter from the rain. But it doesn't seem beginning to rain.
Madison	Huh? Oh.
Sakura	That's weird. It didn't even rain.
Lightning hits a lamp post, and jumps to another post, and then so forth. An electrician is walking in the park. The lightning jumps beside the electrician, and chase him making a run for it.
Electrician	Aah!
Sakura	Huh?
Kero is taking a nap above Sakura's bed. Sakura tries to wake him up.
Sakura	Kero. Kero! Come on, you gotta wake up. Wait till you hear what happened to me today.
Sakura	Wake up!
Kero	Aah! Ugh.
Sakura is telling Kero about her exchange student.
Sakura	And he tried to take the Clow Cards. Well?
Kero	Expect the unexpected, Sakura.
Sakura	That's it?
Kero	Don't forget, you are a Cardcaptor now. You've been chosen to get the Clow Cards back. That's what you gotta be worried about, not some insignificant little schoolyard scuffle.
Sakura	What?
Kero	This is powerful magic we're dealin' with here.
Sakura	Uh-huh.
Kero	There are gonna be a few bumps along the way.
Sakura	Kero, he tried to take the Clow Cards.
Kero	Maybe it's time for a little history lesson. Sorcery is an ancient tradition. Now, most socerers practice in line with their traditions but my master Clow Reed created a new kind of magic when he created the Clow Cards.
Sakura	Great, but what's that got to do with Li Showron?
Kero	Yeah, I'm getting to that point.
Sakura	What do you mean, Kero?
Kero	Huh? There are some people who study magic all of their lives. You could say that they're, uh, born into the tradition.
Sakura	Your point is?
Kero	Li Showron is a descendant... (sips tea)... of Clow Reed.
Sakura	(Gasps)
Kero	What?
Sakura	If Li's part of Clow Reed's family I should have given him these Cards after all.
Kero	Uh-uh. Doesn't work like that.
Sakura	Why?
Kero	Sakura, try and keep up, will ya? The Cards were in the book. The bood had a seak on it. You broke the seal and only a person with specially chosen powers has that kind of ability. Don't you get it? You're the one who found the book, the one who signed the Cards. You have the right to them. You're the one who's destined to have them.
Sakura	Oh. (Blushes)
Sakura's cell phone rings.
Sakura	Hello, Sakura speaking.
Madison	Sakura.
Sakura	Oh, hey, Madison.
Madison	You've got to look outside... at the sky.
Sakura	Why?
Madison	You've got some Cards to capture.
Sakura	Wow. I guess I do. I'll meet you in ten.
Kero	Now you're talkin'.
Sakura, Kero, and Madison are in a forest. Sakura is in a cat-like pink outfits, made by Madison.
Sakura	But, pink frills, Madison?
Madison	It's not pink, it's cyber-rose. It's high-tech, and it's in all the magazines, Sakura.
Kero	Huh, high-tech, huh?
Madison	Non-conducting titanium and rubber.
Kero	Well, uh, she's got a point there.
Madison	Rubber will protect you from lightning.
Sakura	Only for you, Madison.
Kero	You're on, Sakura.
Madison	You are going to thank me.
Sakura	Let's fly.
Sakura calls the Fly to soar up in the air.
Madison	Oh, what a shot!
Kero	Sakura, did you notice if Li had some kind of magic device with him?
Sakura	Uh-huh. He called it a Lasin Board.
Kero	That gives him a predictive edge that could be a little problematic for us.
Sakura	Uh-oh.
Kero	Aw, don't worry. You're the rightful Cardcaptor. We'll just capture the Thunder Card before the Li kid manages to show up.
Sakura	That's right. I'll show him.
Sakura and Kero see a lightning, they notice the Thunder Card begin attacking them.
Sakura&Kero	Aah!
Sakura climbs abruptly in the air, dodging the Thunder's blow in the nick of time.
Sakura	Whoa!
Sakura lands on the rooftop of a building.
Sakura	Kero, just how am I supposed to do this? Ugh!
Kero	First, transform it to its visible form.
Sakura	And that would be how?
Kero	Heads up!
Sakura	Huh? Jump Card! Here goes.
Sakura jumps over and onto builings, and finally she gets on the top of the clock tower at her school.
Sakura	All right, Kero. What do we do now?
Li	You really are pathetic.
Kero	Huh?
Sakura	Huh? Li, how's it goin'?
Li	Force, know my plight. Release the lihgt. Lightning!
The Thunder Card, attacked by Li's magic, falls on to the roof of the school building. Li jumps off the clock tower to get closeer to the the Card. Sakura sees him falling.
Sakura	That's just like in my dream. Wait!
Thunder Card turns into the Raiju, which is roaring.
Sakura	That's Thunder's visible form?
Li	You are looking at Raiju, the thunder beast. Boy, you are hopeless.
Sakura	Back off.
Kero	Listen up, Li. She is just gettin' started.
Sakura	The Windy Card'll take care of this. Here.
Li	Put it away. Windy can't stand up against Thunder.
Sakura	But, Li, I've captured other Cards using Windy Card...
Kero	In case you hadn't notice, kids, your Raiju remains on the warpath while you keep arguing!
Li	You have the Shadow Card, don't you?
Sakura	Uh-huh.
Li	OK. Force, know my plight. Release the light. Lightning!
Li's magic pushes and drops Raiju off the building onto the ground. Sakura and Li step forward to the edge on the roof.
Li	Your turn.
Sakura	I can do this.
Sakura calls out the Shadow Card. The Shadow spreads and encloses the Thunder beast up inside itself.
Sakura	Shadow! Release and dispel! Return to your power confined!
The Thunder Beast turns into a card, then the Shadow Card returns to the card form as well. They lie at Sakura's foot, so Sakura takes them up.
Sakura	I did it!
Li	Boy, you really don't have a clue about this, do you?
Kero	Hey! Hey! Take it easy! Everybody's got to start somewhere.
Li	Huh? What's this thing?
Sakura	This is Kero.
Li	No way! Keroberos? The gurdian beast of the Seal? The greatest guardian of all... the beast with the golden eyes... is a stuffed animal?
All Sakura can do against his words is just sigh.
Kero	Grrr.
Kero bites Li in the forefinger.
Li	Aah!
Sakura	Serves you right!
Li	Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Uh! (Groans)
Li fans his own hand to take Kero away. Kero lets go of him.
Li	You two are a joke.
Kero	I was appointed by Clow Reed himself.
Li	A lot of good that did!
Madison is running up to Sakura.
Madison	Hi, Li.
Li	Hmm.
Madison	Whatever. Hey! The chominance reduction worked great. What's wrong?
Sakura doesn't say a word, feeling a disappointment about Li's criticism.
Madison	Hey, you pulled it off.
Sakura	Yeah, but this is only the begining.