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One Fateful Day

One morning, Sakura and Li are involved in a mysterious happening in the playground in their school. The ground is swallowing Sakura just like a doodle bug's pit.
Sakura	Aah!
Li	Spirit! Wind!
Li has the wind magic send him to Sakura, and cradle her out of the pit.
Sakura	Aah!
A mass of sand rises to attack them.
Sakura	Key of Clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the wand, the force ignite! Release! Fly!
Sakura and Li ride on the sealing wand, and fly.
Sakura	What's going on?
Li	A Clow Card!
No matter where they fly, the mass of sand follows them, and tries to knock them down.
Sakura	But I didn't sense any Cards here this morning.
Li	No, me, neither.
The whole of the playground swirls like a doodle bug's pit, and it attacks them in the air blasting a mass of sand.
Sakura	Aah!
Li	Aah!
Sakura	Aah! Aah!
Li	Aah!
Sakura	Which Card do you think it is?
Li	Watch how it moves. It's the Sand Card. Huh?
Sakura	We've got to seal it before it destroys the school!
Li	Right! Let's go!
The playground keeps swirling violently, waiting for the chance to attack.
Li	Look out!
Sakura	Aah!
Sakura	You're probably wondering how I got into this mess. I mean, how does an eleven-year-old girl end up flying over a whirlpool of sand? It's kind of a long story.
Sakura is putting on rollerblades and protection gear. Then she leaves her house for school.
Sakura	Bye, Dad.
Aiden	Bye, honey. Will you be late for dinner again?
Sakura	Yeah, I got practice.
Sakura	And this is how it all began.
Sakura is rollerblading on the street along which she can see the cherry trees full of blossoms.
In English class, the teacher is reading a stoy from the textbook.
Teacher	The ancient Egyptians worshipped the Sun God, Ra. Now, Ra was considered to be powerful, and so, the symbol chosen to represent him was a single eye that watched over his people.
Meanwhile, Sakura casually draws some imaginary tiny beast with wings.
Madison	I like your drawing, Sakura. What is it?
Sakura	You mean this?
Teacher	Sakura, continue reading.
Sakura	OK. Tell you later.
Madison	We're on line forty-eight.
Sakura	The Sun God Ra was considered so powerful that only very special people could even speak his name.
		Sakura	Hi! I'm home! Dad? Tori?
Sakura trots into her house, when Sakura hears some bubbling noise.
Sakura	Huh? Hmm.
Sakura opens the refridgerator.
Sakura	Whoa, pudding.
At the moment she reaches the pudding, she can hear the bubbling noise again.
Sakura	Huh? What's that noise?
Sakura timidly walks out in the hall holding her baton.
Sakura	It's coming from Dad's library. I wish Dad or Tori were here.
The noise continues in the basement, so she walks slowly close to the door to the basement.
Sakura	Ooh. I'll take a look inside. If someone's there, I'll call the police.
Sakura opens the door, and begins to walk down the stairs.
Sakura	Please let it just be the furnace.
Stepping on the basement, Sakura timidly walks between bookshelves in Aiden's library. Just one more corner, she's getting at the bottom, so she encourages herself to step out.
Sakura	Ha! There's no one there. Huh?
While Sakura is looking all around, a Book glows among other books in the shelf.
Sakura	Where's that glowing coming from? Huh?
Sakura notices and step forward to the glowing book. When she's about to reach the book, it quits glowing.
Sakura	Huh?
Sakura takes the book out of the shelf, and gasps at the look of the book. It's an ancient book titled ``The Clow'' with a mighty beast on the front cover, which is locked at the right-edge.
Sakura	What a cool book.
Suddenly, the book is unlocked, so Sakura almost drops the book with an astonishment.
Sakura	Whoat! Unh! Huh?
Sakura opens the unlocked book, and finds a deck of cards inside.
Sakura	They're cards.
Sakura picks up the one on the top.
Sakura	``The Windy.'' Hmm. I wonder what it's for.
Meanwhile, the air around her feet begins to swirl.
Sakura	``Windy.''
The card flashes at her read-out, a madala glows under her feet, and a strong gust of wind occurs.
Sakura	Aah!
The wind blows like a whirlpool.
Sakura	Aah! Aah! Aah!
The wind blows out every cards from the deck. The blown cards penetrates the wall and spring out of her house.
The wind continues until no cards remains in the book. Sakura collapses on the floor with a shock, with the Windy Card in her hand.
Sakura	What just happened?
Moreover, the book glows bright.
Sakura	Baah!
At the next minute, a little beast with wings pops out of the glowing book. He hovers in front of Sakura, and wakes up.
Kero	Hi-dee ho-dee how-dee! Aw, thank you so much for letting me out, little girl. I have been sealed in that book for centuries!
Sakura reaches and grabs the stuffed toy-like creature.
Kero	Whoa-ahh!
Sakura	What are you? Some kind of squirrel? A toy? Where do the batteries?
Kero	I am not a toy! I am Keroberos, Guardian Beast of the Seal of the Clow Book.
Sakura	But you're so small.
Kero	Hey, don't let my size fool you. Call me Kero. I keep the Clow Cards from getting into trouble. See?
Kero opens the Book to try to show Sakura his Cards.
Kero	Huh? Whoa! No-ho-ho-ho! My Clow Cards! Where are my Cards? My precious Cards!
Kero cries and gets depressed.
Sakura	Is this what you're looking for?
Kero	Huh? Oh, the Windy Card! That's it! Thank you. So, uh, where's the rest?
Sakura	Well, as soon as I read the word ``Windy,'' ...
Kero	Yeah?
Sakura	This huge wind started blowing.
Kero	Yeah, yeah?
Sakura	Heh heh heh, and they blew away.
Kero	Ha ha! Blew away!
Sakura&Kero	Ha ha ha ha.
Kero's look changes.
Kero	What-oooh?
Sakura hurriedly fill herself with dinner.
Sakura	Ah! There, I'm all finished!
Sakura takes the dishes into the sink, picks up a pudding out of the refridgerator, and runs out.
Sakura	See you!
Tori	Where are you taking that?
Sakura	Up to my room to eat.
Sakura comes back in her room.
Sakura	Hey.
Kero	Aw, it's no use. Only a true Cardcaptor can bring the Cards back.
Sakura	I brought some pudding.
Kero	Oh, my favorite! Aw, I don't deserve it. I let the Clow Cards escape.
Sakura	Clow Cards?
Kero	They're dangerous forces. Now that the seal has been broken, there's simply no telling what they'll do. The Clow Cards were created by a very powerful magician named Clow Reed. Each Clow Card has its own character and special powers. They were designed to be free, but the Cards grew so strong willful that they couldn't be controlled. So Clow Reed protected the Cards by placing them in a book and sealing it with a magical lock and key.
Sakura	They sound dangerous.
Kero	Mm-hmm, and that's why I got to get them back. And you're going to help me.
Sakura	Huh? Why do I have to?
Kero	Because you're the one who summoned the Windy Card and set them free in the first place!
Sakura	Yeah, but it was your job to guard the seal, and make sure the Clow Cards didn't escape.
Kero	I know. I, uh, just took a little nap.
Sakura	For how long?
Kero	Thirty years or so. I never said being a guardian was easy!
Kero jumps onto the cover of the Clow Book.
Kero	But if you were able to open the Clow Book's seal, you must have very strong magical powers. So, what's your name, anyway?
Sakura	Sakura.
Kero	OK, Sakura, go stand over there.
Sakura	OK.
As soon as Sakura stands in the middle of her room, Kero begins to glow, and a mandala appears under her feet. She can feel as if she was put in a mysterious place.
Sakura	Huh?
Kero	Key to the seal, you have chosen this girl Sakura to carry out the sacred promise. I command you to empower her with the language of the staff! Release the power!
A key comes out of the book, flies to above the center of the mandala, and flashes at Kero's command.
Sakura	Aah!
< The shining key grows and turns into a staff,
Sakura	Aah!
Kero	Sakura, take the staff.
Blindend by the light, Sakura walks to the staff and grabs it.
Kero	All right. I, Keroberos, name Sakura Cardcaptor!
Sakura	Aah...
Sakura is whining about Kero's cheat, blowing her hair with a hair drier.
Sakura	This is crazy. No way. I'm not doing it.
Kero	Ah, that pudding hit the spot.
Sakura seizes Kero in delight bouncing up and down on the bed.
Sakura	Unh!
Kero	Ugh!
Sakura	Listen. I can't be a Cardcaptor.
Kero	I'm not so sure about that. You now control the staff with your powers.
Sakura	Yeah, well, I'm just a kid. I'm not old enough to capture the Cards yet.
Kero	Yeah, well, you were old enough to let the Clow Cards loose.
Sakura	They'd still be in the Book if you hadn't taken a thiry-year nap.
Sakura&Kero	Mmm.
At this time, a strong wind blows thruough the window.
Kero	Whoa!
Sakura	Where'd that come from?
Kero	Sakura!
Sakura	Huh?
Taking a look where Kero is pointing to, Sakura can see a gigantic bird is flying above houses.
Sakura	What's that?
Kero	It's a Clow Card!
Sakura	Here?
Kero	It's the Fly Card all right. Well, don't just stand there! Do something!
Sakura	Like what?
Kero	Get out there and capture the Clow Card!
Sakura	What?
The gigantic bird lands in the town. With a swing of its wing, a gust of wind cracks the windows of nearby houses.
Sakura	You could've at least let me change.
Kero	A true Cardcaptor can battle in anything, even in pajamas.
Sakura arrives where the Fly Card is standing.
Sakura	Oh, man, I don't stand a chance against that thing.
Kero	You're a Cardcaptor!
The Fly Card screeche and blasts a gust of wind against Sakura.
Sakura	Huh?
Kero	Yeah!
Sakura blow away in the night sky.
Sakura	Aah!
Kero quickly catches up with her in the air, bites her by the collar and gets her on her feet safely.
Sakura	Wh-whoa.
Kero	Sakura, use your magic.
Sakura	Huh?
Kero	The words will come. Just let the staff guides you.
Sakura	Hmm.
Sakura reaches into her pocket and takes out the magic key.
Sakura	O Key of Clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the wand, the force ignite! Release!
Kero	Ready, Sakura? The Fly Card has already revealed its true form. You should be able to use the Windy Card to capture it.
Sakura	I don't know.
Kero	You'll just have to get up close to it and help...
Sakura	Huh? Aah!
Kero	Whoa!
The Card is hovering and aim at Sakura. Next moment, it comes and flies to her, so she ducks.
Sakura	I think it's after us.
Kero	Sakura, call the Windy Card.
The Card makes a turn up above to attack them again.
Kero	Whoa-aa! Today would be good!
Sakura ducks at the moment the Card flies past her.
Kero	Sakura, you got to use the Card now!
Sakura	But it's chasing us!
Sakura rollerblades to make a run for it. The Card is following her flying low.
Sakura	Let's get out of here!
Kero	You are the Cardcaptor. You are stronger than you think you are!
Sakura	But I don't know how. Huh? Wait! I've got an idea.
Sakura speeds up rollerblading and get ahead.
Kero	Please just hurry!
Fly hit the ground with its leg, then some block of pavement and Kero blow away.
Kero	Whoa-aa-aa! Sakura!
Sakura gets up on the paved sidewall of the cliff, when Fly flies next to her. She flips herself onto Fly's back.
Sakura	Hyaa! Ugh!
Kero	Be careful!
Fly flies up high to shake off Sakura, so she has to hang on.
Sakura	Windy Card, form a chain and tie up the Fly Card's wings! Windy!
Windy ties up all around the Fly, and it crashes on the ground with Sakura on its back.
Sakura	Clow Card, I command you to return to the power confined! Fly Card!
The gigantic bird changes its form into a card as if sucked in at the tip of the staff.
Kero	You did it, Sakura!
Sakura	How'd I learn to do that?
Kero	You've always known. You just didn't know it yet.
Sakura	I told you that I can't be a Cardcaptor.
Kero	Still don't get it, huh? This was something you were destined for. You're a natural. Hahahaha.
Sakura	Mmm.
Kero	Besides, you've captured the Fly Card. Touch your staff to it.
Sakura	Why? What's gonna happen?
Kero	Just give it a try.
Sakura	Fly!
On Sakura touching the Card with the staff, the staff gets a pair of big wing that allows Sakura fly as long as she rides on the staff, just like a witch on a broom.
Kero	So how do you like flying?
Sakura	It's the best!
Kero	I knew I could count on you, Cardcaptor Sakura.
Sakura	Yeah! Uh, wait a minute. I haven't agreed to anything yet.
Sakura	Kero was right. He could count on me. And from that day on, my life would never be the same.
At the scene back to the capture of Sand Card, Sakura and Li on the staff are attacked.
Sakura	Aah!
The mass of sand thrusts them away, so Li fall into the whirlpool of sand.
Sakura	Li!
Li gets his head up out the sand.
Sakura	Huh? Li!
Li	Stay back!
Sakura	But...
Li	Just do it!
Sakura	OK.
Li	Use the Water Card and cover all the sand in water.
Sakura	But the sand will just soak the water up. It's not enough!
Li	Turst me.
Sand springs up to Sakura to swallow her.
Sakura	Aah!
Sakura hangs on, and takes out the Card.
Sakura	Water Card, come to our aid. Cover all the sand in water! Release and dispel!
Tons of water covers all the sand, so the whirlpool turns into a violent mud flow, on which Sakura falls.
Li	Freeze Card!
The Freeze Card freezes the whirlpool of mud instantly.
Sakura	It's freezing.
Li	Seal it.
Sakura	I command you to return to the power confined, Sand Card!
The sand spirit is sucked up from over all the playground, forming a card.
Sakura	Li! Are you OK?
Li	Yeah, I'll be all right. Huh?
At this moment, the sealed Card flies to the two, and comes between them. Sakura and Li catch the Card together.
Li	Huh.
Sakura	Huh?
Sakura	Protecting the world from the Clow Cards isn't always easy. Sometimes you just can't fight fate.

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