Sakura is a fourth grader attending Tomoeda Elementary School. She is on the cheerleading squad in school. One day, on getting home when nobody else is at home, she finds the Clow Book in her father's library in the basement. The moment she reaches the book, the seal on the book is broken. Opening the book, inside are the magical cards she finds. As soon as she reads aloud the name of the first card she takes, which is the Windy, a gust of wind blows out all the other cards away. Immediately after the accident, a stuffed animal-like creature comes out of the cover of the book. He is the guardian beast of the seal of the Clow Book, whose name is Cerberus or Kero for short, and who tells Sakura that the Cards she scattered were the magical cards called the Clow Cards. The Clow Cards are so mischievous that they have to be recaptured before it causes a disaster in the world, therefore Kero makes Sakura be the Cardcaptor to capture all the problematic escaping Cards.
Meanwhile, the Fly Card turns into its visible form and goes on a rampage in town at night. It looks like a gigantic bird sending out a powerful wind when it flutters. Timidly facing the first Card to capture, Sakura encourages herself and gets on top of the Fly, which flies up high in the night sky with Sakura on its back. However, she has Windy tie up the Fly, and then suceeds in capturing the Card.
Sakura's best friend, Tomoyo, shows Sakura the video she happened to tape the night bofore. To her surprise, recorded is Sakura flying with the Fly Card just after she had captured it, with Kero flying beside her. Furthermore, when Sakura screams with a shock, Kero who was hiding in Sakura's backpack jumps out, only to be seen by Tomoyo. Then Sakura and Kero have to reveal the secret to Tomoyo.
Next morning, Sakura sees the mystrious incident that desks and chairs are piled in the playground. Even in her classroom, everything is messed up, but nobody can figure out who did it. On getting back home, Sakura tells Kero about it, and he says that might have been the work of a Clow Card.
Sakura, Tomoyo, and Kero went to school at night for inverstigation, when a number of human shadows attack Sakura. That was the work of the Shadow Card, which had taken the shadows from the kids in school to strengthen itself. When Sakura is being menaced by those shadows, Tomoyo turned on all the lights in school so the shadows disappeared. Thanks to Tomoyo, Sakura can pinpoint the Shadow Card itself, so she uses the Windy Card to trap the Shadow and seals it.
Sakura in an aquarium for her field trip witnesses a mysterious accident. In the penguin show she is enjoying, there's a whirlpool in the tank cathing a penguin and the trainer; they are almost drawned. Sakura's brother, Touya, who is working there by chance saves them from the whirlpool.
Sakura reports her findings to Kero eating pancakes, when Touya takes Yukito home. Sakura who has a crush on Yukito offers the pancake she cooked.
According to Kero's opinion, the mysterious acciedent in the aquarium was the work of the Watery Card. He thinks it is too hard for her to capture, because the Watery is one of the Element Cards and is aggresive. He supplements that it is hard to capture a shapeless being like water. Sakura is lost in thoughts, when Yukito says he wants to buy her snack just in return for the pancake from the day before. So they promise to go on a date on the following Sunday.
On the Sunday, Yukito takes Sakura to the aquarium of problem, since he knows they have good snow cones in the tea room. When they are in the tea room, the tank cracks to flood the tea room. Under the water, Sakura sees the whirlpool tangling around her ankle. Yukito breaks the door to let the water out as Sakura comes out safe. Furthermore, at the moment Yukito mentions the word “ice,” Sakura luckily thinks up of a plan.
Sakura sneaks into the aquarium at night with Tomoyo and Kero. She provokes the Watery Card and draws it into the freezer. As she expected, the Watery freezes in the chamber, then she easily captures it.
Sakura's BME Clinic © 2002–2004 Yuki Neco
