Miss Mackenzie laughed and Tori glared at him. Tori said. "No, Miss Mackenzie wanted to see you! She didn't tell me why but you must be in trouble!"
"What did I do?" Todd asked Miss Mackenzie. "I need to know why you're here."
"I need to speak with you about the you know whats." Miss Mackenzie replied, then motioning for Tori to leave.
Todd turned to Tori and said. "Hello! She wants you to leave, don't worry though...she isn't an axe murderer."
"How can you be sure?" Tori replied, joking. "Bye, I need to go grocery shopping anyway..."
"Buy nutritious things this time! Nutritious sugar! Nutritious chips! Nutritious Pop Tarts!" Todd called as Tori left the house. Todd turned to Miss Mackenzie and asked. "What is it?"
"You caught some clow cards right? Did you feel the aura? I felt a clow card around here yesterday. Todd, did you capture it?"
"Yes!" Todd replied as he showed her the flower card. "I caught the flower card yesterday, the naughty ones nearly took it way but...I managed to seal it before they could capture it."
"Good, you must never allow the naughty ones to capture the clow cards. They have an evil mission. I have yet to find out what their mission is..." Miss Mackenzie replied. "It would be a disaster, but as long as you get more clow cards than them...it will be okay. I'll give you as much advice as I can..."
"That reminds me..." Todd mumbled as he took Kero out of his backpack. Kero was asleep. Todd then screamed. "Wake up!!!"
Kero woke up and nearly jumped out of his skin. Kero looked around to reveal Miss. Mackenzie staring back at him, smiling. Kero suddenly looked at Todd and Todd said. "You probably know Kero...why do you know about the whole magic deal?"
"Miss Mackenzie has magical powers." Kero replied. "It's been awhile..."
"It has been a long time Keroberos..." Miss Mackenzie replied. "Last I saw you, you could be in your true form."
"Right, but Todd here released the cards and now we have a serious problem on our hands." Kero replied. "I'm not worried though, because I think that Todd is a great card captor. I also know that nothing happens by accident, destiny chose this boy to lead the fight against the Dark One."
"The Dark One...So it's loose?" Miss Mackenzie asked.
"Yes, but it's visible form is not revealed. I instead think that this essence is living in a human...I don't know which human this is. A lot of people have strong auras around here. There's Todd, Sakura, Li, Jeremy, Tatea, Jaki, Mashou, Madison, Julian, Tori. It quite possibly could be anyone."
"There is me as well." Miss Mackenzie replied. "It could very well be inside of anyone...I feel strong auras all over town. The clow cards are even harder to sense. This is all for our meeting, I'll come back when I'm Todd's new babysitter."
"Wait, I'm getting another housekeeper?!" Todd asked, annoyed and mystified. "Man, I go through more sitters then I go through pop tarts!"
Miss. Mackenzie left the apartment and Todd looked to Kero. Todd asked. "You know Miss Mackenzie? Did you guys have a meeting or something? When I dragged you of my backpack, you were asleep!"
"Well, I sleep from time to time, I eat too!" Kero replied. "I'm sorry, your backpack is hot, I keep falling asleep in it."
Todd yawned and realized it was 8:30 p.m. Todd's stomach growled and he wondered when Tori was going to come home. Twenty minutes later, Tori came home and was holding pizza. Todd groaned at this, Tori stared at him and asked. "But I thought you liked pizza?"
"Yeah, I like pizza...I just don't like it for every meal for three weeks. I gets tiring...wait, is that a new uniform?" Todd asked suspiciously. "I thought you worked at the zoo, feeding the animals?"
"Yeah well, the job sucked so I quit." Tori replied. "I got a new job at the pizza place."
"Didn't you already work there before?" Todd asked, annoyed. "What is this job about?"
"Don't you know, Todd. I work in a revolving door of jobs. A new job each and every week and after 12 weeks, I get a new job." Tori replied.
"I've only known you for 3 weeks and Sakura told me you worked at a pizza place. Explain that." Todd replied, annoyed.
"I got the job so I got this pizza for half price. I'll quit the job tomorrow." Tori replied.
"You are totally pathetic!" Todd replied, annoyed. "Where are the groceries?"
"Oh, sorry. I went out on a date instead with a beautiful brown haired girl who just moved here from Australia! Outstanding, really awesome!"
"What's her name?"
"Huh? Oh...I forgot."
"Whatever..." Todd moaned. "I'm going to eat this pizza and then go to bed. I'm doing the fund-raiser tomorrow." Todd ate some pizza and got ready for bed.
Tori looked over to the coffee table and saw Kero laying there. "This stuffed toy sure looks familiar. Todd! I didn't know you played with stuffed toys. This really does look like Sakura's..."
Todd raced up and grabbed Kero and lied. "This is Sakura's! She must have left it here. I'll give it to her tomorrow."
"But, it wasn't here when Miss Mackenzie came over, she was over two hours ago." Tori replied knowingly. "I've also been hearing voices..."
"The ones in your head?" Todd joked as he brushed his teeth. "Just what do those voices say?"
"Oh Shut Up, this is where I leave." Tori said as he left the apartment. "Good night squirt."
Todd went to his bedroom. Kero flew up and asked Todd. "What do you expect now? You have more then ten clow cards, you'll finally know who the person in your dream is!"
"My long wait is finally over..." Todd mused as he climbed into bed. "Let's go to sleep..." Todd got comfortable and Kero flew up to him and curled up at the foot of his bed.
A drop of water fell into a pool of black water. The drop made a ping as the ripples revealed Todd standing on the top of a building. Todd was wearing a white suit with a white cape topped with a white turban. Kero was flying beside him and he saw the silhouetted figure approached him. "You're here..."
"Here I am, so tell me who you really are...!" Todd replied dreamily. "I actually have eleven clow cards."
"Well, it took you long enough!" The figure replied, annoyed. "Well, I have some news. I'm afraid that..."
Todd cupped his hands and put his face in them and groaned. He looked up and said. "You aren't going to tell me huh?"
"I cannot tell you who I am, but I can give you something. I will give you a magic spell, receive it now!" The figure replied as it raised its arm. A glowing orb appeared in her hand. Todd looked up and saw the orb coming down on him. Todd felt a warmness surge through him. Todd opened his eyes and looked around. "I don't feel any stronger...what sort of spell is this?"
"It's called 'magic missile.' It is a spell that has a 100% hit rate." The silhouette replied.
"Really! Wow!" Todd replied cheerily. "Hey Kero, I have a 100% effective spell!" Kero looked at him and replied. "That's great!"
"There is a downside to this spell. Although it is 100% accurate, it isn't very powerful." The Silhouette replied. "Use it freely as it is very easy to use."
"Thank you!" Todd replied as the dream ended. A bright light surrounded Todd as he awoke to Kero in his face. Kero was snoring and a drop of his drool dripped on Todd's forehead. "Eww!" Todd knocked Kero away from him.
Kero flew up and looked at him. Todd blinked and Kero said. "Why did you do that?"
"You drooled in my face!" Todd replied angrily. "Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!" Todd got up to see 7:22 a.m. Todd groaned and walked into the kitchen. Todd got himself some corn flakes and put four teaspoons of sugar on it. Kero floated into the kitchen after Todd and Kero gagged.
Todd choked the sludgy cereal down his throat. Kero then asked. "Isn't the fund-raising event today?"
"Oh yeah! Right!" Todd replied, shoving more cereal into his face. "I'll go get ready!" Todd put his uniform on and went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and hair. Todd walked towards the door and turned back to ask. "Do you want to come with me?"
"Do I?" Kero replied cheerily as he flew into Todd's backpack.
Todd walked out of his apartment to notice Tatea walking by. She walked off but wasn't in her school uniform. Todd ran up to her but she was already in the elevator, going down to the bottom floor. Todd then thought for a second and went down the elevator. Todd stitched up his in line skates and skated the rest of the way to school. Sakura, Li, Madison and Jeremy were waiting for him. Todd skated up to them, and said. "So, the whole gang is here today?"
Madison walked up to Todd and said in a cheery tone. "They're all here! The flowers are all here!"
"That's great!" Todd replied. "Has anyone seen Tatea? I saw her leave the Kyoden manor without her uniform, she also had a parcel under her arm..."
"The parcel under her arm was probably all the cookies that she baked. She baked them for her brother, I think she also said that he gets out of the slammer today." Li replied, annoyed. "I think she should have given those cookies to us so we could sell them!"
"Let's get started everyone." Sakura replied. "I'll get the flowers ready, Li and Todd will help set up the booth and Jeremy...you operate the cash box. You can handle that right?"
"Yes, yes..." Jeremy replied, annoyed. "I'll do this...I'm not a kid you know...!"
"That remains to be seen." Sakura replied. "Let's go!"
Everyone got their stuff ready and Li and Todd set up the booth to look really good. The booth was decorated with a table cloth that was blue and sequined. Jeremy set up the cashbox and Sakura and Madison placed the flowers in a great way, they set up after Todd and Li finished preparing the table.
Miss Mackenzie walked up to Todd and Sakura and asked. "Flowers...they're beautiful...but I thought you were baking?"
"The baking thing was a total nightmare..." Todd replied, irritated. "We formed flower arrangements instead."
"Really?" Miss Mackenzie replied. "I thought you would make an excellent baker!"
"Thank you. You are totally wrong!" Todd, Li, Sakura and Jeremy replied in unison. "Thanks for saying that, Though!"
"Where is Tatea?" Miss Mackenzie asked.
"I don't know." Todd lied. "She could be sick I guess."
Miss Mackenzie was alerted that there was a problem over in the raffles and she hurried over there. Todd sighed and returned to his business. Within an hour, all of the flowers were sold out! They were a major hit, seeing that they were beautiful and very inexpensive. Jeremy looked over to Sakura and said. "Wow! If I had have known that the flowers were this popular, we could have doubled the price. 10 dollars for a bouquet...isn't that a little cheap?"
"Right! We sold them all though..." Sakura replied. "Let me see! So we made 250 dollars! That makes 61 dollars for each of us for the trip!"
"Right, but we still have 439 more dollars to go..." Li mumbled, looking at Sakura grimly. "We're still a long way to go..."
Meanwhile, Tatea saw Blair come out of the prison and rushed to squeeze him. "Brother, I missed you!"
"Yeah, I missed you too!" Blair replied. "Wait! Hark! I smell something! Could it be cookies?"
"Yeah..." Tatea replied, giving the parcels to him. "I made them for you. Eat up, you look thin."
"Okay, but check this out!" Blair asked, getting out a leaflet. "I've been waiting for this and now I'm gonna get it!"
"A motorcycle...how do you plan on stealing it?" Tatea asked, amused. "It looks cool."
"I'll find a way to buy it." Blair replied. "I'm going straight!"
"That's good, I guess..." Tatea replied. "It would be great if it was possible for you..."
They both went to Blair's friend, Tejina, who lived on the bottom floor of the Kyoden Manor. Just before they went in, Blair turned to Tatea. "Tejina is my girlfriend, Tatea."
"Good, you seduced this girl so you'd get a loan easy! That's cool!" Tatea remarked, impressed.
"Actually, she owns the motorcycle. I'm buying it off her, but I want to test drive it first...are you coming with me?" Blair asked, knocking on the door. "She has two helmets for when we go riding together."
"Are you two...serious?" Tatea asked, knowing she'll embarrass him.
"Serious enough!" Blair replied as the door opened to reveal a beautiful girl with long blond hair and a emerald green dress. Her shoes were also green. Tatea was amused by her appearance when she let them in.
Tatea looked into the apartment and was amazed by all the green furniture and the green carpet, the walls and ceilings were also green. "I'll bet anything that people can guess this girl's favorite color on the first try."
"Yes! That's right!" Tejina replied as she danced around. "Green is lush...lively and new colored...I love it!" Tejina sighed and waltzed up to Blair and kissed him. "Blair, is she your sister?"
"Yeah, Tejina...this is Tatea, she is my little sister and she's very responsible!" Blair replied as Tatea rolled her eyes. "She also is very happy to see you as well!"
Tatea then looked as unhappy and annoyed as possible and said, "Ecstatic," in a very boring and monotone voice, she laughed and said. "Brother! You're trying to impress her! You're babbling again!"
Tejina laughed and replied. "Oh I think I like you a lot!"
Back at the fund raiser, Todd and Li were bored out of their skulls. Sakura and Madison were bored too but delighted in watching Jeremy swooning over Tatea. "Tatea, I love you! I love the ground that you're on! I'm so happy I'm on the same planet as you! Oh!"
Sakura and Madison giggled and Madison mused. "This is so great, I think Jeremy is in love!"
"Yeah, but I think he has as much chance in snagging Tatea as he has of snagging Miss Mackenzie." Sakura replied. "What in the!? What's happening!?"
Jeremy suddenly fell to the ground, unconscious. He began snoring loudly and more people collapsed to the ground. People at the fund raiser were dropping like flies. Li and Todd were hit with a sensation. Todd cried out. "What in the world is doing this?"
"A clow card..." Li mumbled as he got out his pendant. "Source of light with ancient spin, send forth the magic power within...force know my plight, release the light!" At that, Li's pendant summoned his sword. "Now, where is this?"
Todd looked up to see what looked like a giant bug. Todd got out his pocket spear and replied. "There it is! Up there! I'll summon my weapon too! Spear of Todd...power of magic...power of light...surrender the spear...the force ignite! Release!" Todd spear glowed and shined and the lasan board design appeared below Todd and his spear grew to normal size. Todd spun his spear around and stopped as the creature vanished. "Huh? What happened?"
Todd looked over to see Tatea and Blair speeding down the road on a motorcycle. Tatea looked as though she was batting away a small object. Todd cried out. "Kero! Come on out! There's a clow card around and we have to capture it before the naughty ones show up. Let's Fly!!!" Todd slammed the fly card with his spear and off he darted on his spear. Todd flew up to Tatea who stared at him, the little creature was ahead of them. Tatea blinked and asked. "What on earth are you doing you idiot?! You shouldn't fly where others can see you!!"
"I'll have to deal with this thing..." Todd replied as he hopped on Blair's motorcycle. "Okay...here goes...this is the Sleep card isn't it?"
Tatea took the front of the motor cycle and said. "Catch that thing quick! I can't steer very well..."
Todd pointed his spear and commanded "Return to your power confined...what in the..." Sleep began sprinkling sleep powder on Tatea. Tatea was nodding off. Todd shouted. "Hey! Stay awake, Tatea! If you fall asleep, then we'll crash!!" Todd got an idea and pointed his spear. "I'll use the magic missile! It hits 100%! Summon the force...which comes from within...Magic Missile!" Todd suddenly formed a ball of white light on his spear and he flung the light at sleep, sleep veered off the road and Tatea followed, half asleep. They entered the park and the bike tipped over. Todd suddenly felt vertigo and commanded. "Jump Card!" Todd intantly took Tatea and Blair by the arm and leaped off the motorcycle. The motorcycle crashed to the ground and scratched itself up.
Todd landed and Tatea woke up and shouted. "Oh god! You trashed the motorcycle!"
"That's the least of our problems! Magic Missile wasn't strong enough to bind Sleep!" Todd replied, anxious. "Here we go! Wood Card! Release and Dispel! Bind Sleep now!" Todd threw the wood card up and slammed it with his spear. The card burst into a mass of swirling vines and roots. Wood formed in a blossom in the center of the garden. Wood saw sleep and she summoned several vines to trap sleep. One shot at sleep and missed and then another and another. Wood could not get sleep as Sleep was too fast. Todd saw this and threw the Dash card up into the air. "Dash! Make wood fast enough to trap sleep! Dash Card! Release and dispel!" Todd impaled the dash card with his spear and the card broke into a shower of greenish white sparkles that surrounded wood. Wood felt energetic. Wood surrounded sleep with her vines and roots that were now going at a hyper rate. The vines wrapped around sleep in a globe of foliage. Todd ran up to Sleep and positioned his spear and chanted. "Sleep Card! Return to your power confined! Sleep Card!!" Todd's spear gained a glowing clow card and Sleep was drawn into it. Sleep's picture appeared on the card and Todd grabbed it. "All Right! I caught the Sleep card!"
Tatea got up and also woke Blair up. Blair awoke and groaned. "Ugh, what happened?"
"We fell asleep at the wheel!" Tatea replied. "Todd saved our lives."
"Thanks, bud!" Blair thanked Todd and ran up to the bike. "Oh no! The bike's all scratched up! This'll cost a bunch to repair!"
Todd ran back to the school while Tatea and Blair composed themselves. The police arrived on the scene and said. "Well, well...look here guys! It's Blair Nightshade! And with a friend. This bike was stolen too!"
"No its..." Blair replied before the Police cuffed him. "... ... ..."
The police put him in the squad car and one officer went up to Tatea and asked. "We only just got here, are you hurt?"
"No..." Tatea replied as the car with her brother drove away. "I'll go back to Raidenton Elementary, I think my spare is over." Tatea ran back to Todd's school and ran into the fund-raiser. She went to Todd's table and asked. "Todd, where's the pay phone? I need to call someone..."
"I have a cell phone right here!" Madison repied cheerily. "Call whoever you want!"
"That's great! Now if only I knew her number...Wow! It's hopeless!" Tatea groaned. "Tejina's number...I heard it 100 times from Blair but what is it?"
"You mean...Tejina Gifuto? I know her! We design costumes together!" Madison interludes. "She loves the color green! She has it everywhere!"
"Really?" Tatea asked. "Do you have her number?"
"Sure it's this!" Madison whispered her number to Tatea and Tatea dialed it. "Hey, Tejina...this is Tatea! My brother is in jail again because the feds think that he stole your motorcycle...right, that's good. *Click*" Tatea said. "Todd, you'll go to help free my brother."
"What?" Todd asked. "Why do I have to come?"
"You are a witness, you can come to my brother's defense because I can't, the cops think that I'm just an innocent bystander and they'll want me to testify or something, I'll wait here."
Todd walked to the police station which only took a few minutes. Todd looked on as a blond haired woman approached him. "Is this the police station?"
"Yeah, I'm going in to help free someone." Todd said as they went in. Tejina asked about the charges and stated that she was the owner of the motorcycle and he was test driving it so he could buy it. She told them about Tatea and Todd told them that he was a witness and told them that her story was true. The cops told the guards to release Blair. The door suddenly locked down, a thick wall of steel dropped down over the door. Todd turned to them and said. "Is this a joke? This isn't funny!"
"I, I can't override the security system!!" The guard cried out, fumbling with the computer controls. "Everything is going buggy! Everywhere is getting locked down! All areas of the jail is getting total lock-down. The computer crashed!!"
Todd and Tejina looked around nervously and was suddenly hit with a feeling. Todd then thought to himself. "This is a clow card...I have to get everyone out of here." Todd turned to the two and said. "I can handle this...you two leave this place."
"What can you do? What can anyone do? This place is now locked up tighter then Fort Knox!" The guard interrupted. "The people in the jail will suffocate if we don't do something!"
"Get over there, I'll fix all of this. "Spear of Todd...power of magic...power of light...surrender the spear...the force ignite, Release!" Todd's spear glowed and became normal size. Todd took the sword card, "Sword Card! Release and Dispel!" Todd impaled the card and the card broke into a mass of swirling energy that surrounded his spear. The spear then transformed into the sword and Todd leaped up and chopped the wall open to reveal a way out. "Out everyone!"
Tejina and the guard made their way out and Todd stayed inside. Todd cut through another door and went into the prison. Blair was standing with the guard that was sent to release him. Blair asked. "What on earth happened, a guard came to release me and suddenly all of the cell doors swung and locked right in front of us. The doors locked down too! What are you doing with that sword?"
"Solving the problem!" Todd replied as he charged the steel door that lead to the CPU room. Todd's sword cut through the steal door and went into the CPU room and saw the problem. A large lock was floating in the center of the room, Todd yelled. "You're the lock card aren't you? Well, I'm going to capture you! Lock Card! Return to your power confined! Lock!!" Todd thrust his spear up and a glowing clow card appeared on the spear point and Lock got sucked into it, Lock's picture appeared on the card and Todd received it. The steel walls vanished and Todd breathed a sigh of relief. And went back outside to meet the Guards, Tejina and Blair.
"Who are you?" One of the guards asked.
"Never mind, the truth will only scare you even more. I solved the problem, there was a lock up in the CPU room." Todd replied. "It's all right now." The guards went mystified but thanked Todd. Tejina and Todd climbed onto the motorcycle and Todd was dropped off at the school. Todd walked up to Sakura, Li, Madison and Jeremy and said. "It was all just a big misuderstanding but get this! I caught two clow cards today! I caught Sleep and Lock, isn't that great?"
"Urgh!" Madison growled. "I missed it!"
"Good Job!" Kero said from inside Todd's backpack.
"You wouldn't know! Because you slept through it!" Todd snapped. "You're supposed to be helping me!"
"Expect the unexpected Todd...Expect the unexpected..." Kero replied as he went back to sleep.
Next time on Card Captor Todd!
Sakura got Todd a pen and Todd tried to sign the cards. Todd wrote his
name on all the
cards and breathed a sigh of relief. "Good! Now, they're truly mine."
Todd and Sakura looked on the clow cards as they began to glow, the
clow cards emitted
a bright light and the light vanished. Todd and Sakura looked closer
as the clow cards
revealed themselves. The cards were the same but...Todd's name was
gone.
"What just happened!?" Todd yelled as he looked on the cards, now nameless
again. "My
name disappeared!"
* * *
Todd returned to his path and skated, now a little worried as he made
the turn. Todd found
himself back at the beginning AGAIN! Todd looked around and grunted.
He looked to
Kero and said. "I feel a clow card and we're probably never going to
get to it."
"What?" Kero asked, worried. "If we can't get to it, who knows what
trouble it could
bring!"