Post by senshifullmoon on Jul 13, 2009 11:05:29 GMT -5
Ok this is the first chapter of my card captors fanfic
Time's Jewel
Based off Card Captor Sakura
Copyright of characters is Clamp's where applicable
Other characters and story copyright to me
In the future, the Earth has finally had contact with extraterrestrials but this meeting was not something that would be wished for by anyone, for peace was not on the agenda.
Chapter 1
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In the ruins of Tokyo, figures wearing cloaks were running in the pelting down rain of night, lightning cascaded across the sky periodically, something that the aliens were directly responsible for whether it was deliberate or not. The figures stopped a moment catching their breaths and one spoke "Kero, is this the right way? It's so hard to tell any more". The addressed was Keroberos, the guardian beast and in no way human looking, but this would of normally of made no difference for in this time the world had changed greatly even before the appearance of aliens and the destruction they brought forth. Advances in science had discovered a latent magical power, something that approximately 1/3rd of the worlds population had possessed, if unknowingly. But this had also been what had drawn the aliens attention here, the large gathering of magical power emanating from billions had acted as a beacon of sorts to these aliens, but their exact purpose being never revealed, they attacked mercilessly and without warning, at least in the beginning. Afterwards they had changed whatever tactics they were employing, this had ensured that not everyone had died within a short time but instead people were hunted now... whether for a purpose or sport, no one knew, only that magic use was tracked down very rapidly.
Keroberos turned his head towards the speaker "This is the way Eriol said in his last communication, that much I know Sakura, we can only hope that this works or there will be no future for anyone". Suddenly a hunter drone materialised in front of them, it let out a shriek and was about to attack them when a lightning bolt struck it, it momentarily was suspended where it was before it exploded into dust. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief - a hand over her heart as their saviour came into sight Syaoron, who quickly spoke "Are you guys OK?" looking anxiously at Sakura and the others.
Sakura's party consisted of her, Keroberos, Yue and a forth who was smaller and more hidden under her cloak who Yue was protecting - Saelyn, Sakura's and Syaoron's 13 year old grand-daughter. Yue answered the question first "We are fine, your spell saw to that but we must presume that it is even less safe to just stand here now, we should proceeded while we still can". Sakura nodded a 'yes' and Syaoron replied "You're right, we don't have time" and they proceeded to carry on, after a while with no further incidents they reached their objective - Tokyo tower!
Tokyo tower or at least what remained of it stood surrounded by the ruinous shells of buildings, nothing above 25 foot high was to be seen, everything had either been destroyed completely or partially. A good deal of the tower laid upon the ground, it had been hit early on in the aliens initial attack, they had targeted the more magical connected areas of the city with deliberate actions, the rest was just general destruction. Sakura surveyed the area quickly before giving a sad shake of her head in regards to its present condition and spoke while catching her breath "OK we better start preparations, we won't have much time once this magic is started... I only hope Eriol is correct" Sakura glanced at her grand-daughter while she said this, with more than a twinge of apprehension in her heart. They moved to the center of the ruins of Tokyo Tower, looking around as they did trying to spot any signs of the enemy. Syaoron knelt down with some chalk and began etching a symbol on the ground similar to the original magical symbol that the Clow cards had used before Sakura had turned them into Star cards. While he did this Sakura took out 4 of the Star cards, and placed one in each of the corners - Shadow in the east, Mirror in the west, Time in the north and lightning in the south. The cards where glowing faintly, like they knew things were not right and Sakura glanced around uneasily and she called over to her grand daughter "Saelyn, are you OK?". Saelyn nodded while saying "Yes" but sounding frightened, she had never known things like this. In the days before the alien attack, Tokyo had been one of the safest places on Earth, but even in general the world had been a safe compared to Sakura's younger days. Now she was one of the few people that still lived and the aliens could find them at any point, her grand-parents were strong but she still was afraid all the time. As she looked back over to her grandmother she saw the star wand already activated and just was about to say something when shrill noise went up, a tracker had found them and had sent an alert out.
Moment later it was hit by a fireball from Kero and exploded and quickly Sakura used the shield card to form a protective bubble around them all. Syaoron quickly spoke, first to Saelyn and then Sakura "Sae... stay where you are, Sakura get the spell up, we'll try to hold them off". As he was finishing his sentence, hunters started materialising around them, Syaoron, Kero and Yue took up positions. Suddenly a energy ball shoot over there heads heading for straight for Saelyn who stared horror struck as the ball of pulsing energy came at her. Before it struck Sakura's voice rang out "Shield!" and a bubble like field appeared around Saelyn moments before the energy ball hit the bubble shield and dissipated. Sakura now stood next to her grand daughter and carried on preparing the spell as the shield surrounded them, while the others starting battling the hunters. It soon became apparently that the attack was primary for one target and despite the fact hunter drones were being destroyed they were losing the battle. For every one that was destroyed, two were taking its place. Syaoron, Kero and Yue withdrew to within the shielded area and started concentrating on channelling magical energy to the shield, but it was clear it would not hold up much longer under the vicious onslaught of the alien attacks. Like they sensed the desperate situation, the cards self leviating came out of Sakura's pocket and started positioning themselves on the inner side of the shield, adding their power to it. Saelyn could hardly believe it, they seemed trapped and everyone was doing their best yet all she was doing was standing here. Truly she did't understand why she was being brought along, not that she would of wanted to be left alone, but she was not exactly of help. The shield as she looked on was glowing reddish from the constant attacks, suddenly her eyes widened in horror, a crack was splintering across the shield's surface. At that moment there was a swooshing bang and a flash. Situated not far away was a portal, shimmering, shinning and pulsating, the magic spell had completed. "Sae, get to the portal, we'll follow..." Sakura shouted out in urgency, Saelyn looked at her grandmother, fear on her face but did't move. The shield became even more cracked as they talked and Syaoron looked at Sakura and nodded, and Sakura nodded back, a silent exchange of the situation. Using the last remaining card she had on her, Sakura cried out "Windy! Take Saelyn and protect her!". The card activated, briefly showing the cards human shaped form, before it swarmed around Saelyn taking her like the wind, in seconds Saelyn found herself else where yet not, everything was fine, no aliens at all. Saelyn turned around waiting expecting to see everyone come through but it never happened as there was a sudden explosion and a huge gust of wind shot out of the portal knocking her down. Windy reverted back to card form and floated down to the ground and Saelyn looked in horror as the portal was gone. Tears bubbled in her eyes and she screamed "Nooooooo!" collapsing on her knees, her body shaking as she cried, not caring what was around her at that point.
Time's Jewel
Based off Card Captor Sakura
Copyright of characters is Clamp's where applicable
Other characters and story copyright to me
In the future, the Earth has finally had contact with extraterrestrials but this meeting was not something that would be wished for by anyone, for peace was not on the agenda.
Chapter 1
------------
In the ruins of Tokyo, figures wearing cloaks were running in the pelting down rain of night, lightning cascaded across the sky periodically, something that the aliens were directly responsible for whether it was deliberate or not. The figures stopped a moment catching their breaths and one spoke "Kero, is this the right way? It's so hard to tell any more". The addressed was Keroberos, the guardian beast and in no way human looking, but this would of normally of made no difference for in this time the world had changed greatly even before the appearance of aliens and the destruction they brought forth. Advances in science had discovered a latent magical power, something that approximately 1/3rd of the worlds population had possessed, if unknowingly. But this had also been what had drawn the aliens attention here, the large gathering of magical power emanating from billions had acted as a beacon of sorts to these aliens, but their exact purpose being never revealed, they attacked mercilessly and without warning, at least in the beginning. Afterwards they had changed whatever tactics they were employing, this had ensured that not everyone had died within a short time but instead people were hunted now... whether for a purpose or sport, no one knew, only that magic use was tracked down very rapidly.
Keroberos turned his head towards the speaker "This is the way Eriol said in his last communication, that much I know Sakura, we can only hope that this works or there will be no future for anyone". Suddenly a hunter drone materialised in front of them, it let out a shriek and was about to attack them when a lightning bolt struck it, it momentarily was suspended where it was before it exploded into dust. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief - a hand over her heart as their saviour came into sight Syaoron, who quickly spoke "Are you guys OK?" looking anxiously at Sakura and the others.
Sakura's party consisted of her, Keroberos, Yue and a forth who was smaller and more hidden under her cloak who Yue was protecting - Saelyn, Sakura's and Syaoron's 13 year old grand-daughter. Yue answered the question first "We are fine, your spell saw to that but we must presume that it is even less safe to just stand here now, we should proceeded while we still can". Sakura nodded a 'yes' and Syaoron replied "You're right, we don't have time" and they proceeded to carry on, after a while with no further incidents they reached their objective - Tokyo tower!
Tokyo tower or at least what remained of it stood surrounded by the ruinous shells of buildings, nothing above 25 foot high was to be seen, everything had either been destroyed completely or partially. A good deal of the tower laid upon the ground, it had been hit early on in the aliens initial attack, they had targeted the more magical connected areas of the city with deliberate actions, the rest was just general destruction. Sakura surveyed the area quickly before giving a sad shake of her head in regards to its present condition and spoke while catching her breath "OK we better start preparations, we won't have much time once this magic is started... I only hope Eriol is correct" Sakura glanced at her grand-daughter while she said this, with more than a twinge of apprehension in her heart. They moved to the center of the ruins of Tokyo Tower, looking around as they did trying to spot any signs of the enemy. Syaoron knelt down with some chalk and began etching a symbol on the ground similar to the original magical symbol that the Clow cards had used before Sakura had turned them into Star cards. While he did this Sakura took out 4 of the Star cards, and placed one in each of the corners - Shadow in the east, Mirror in the west, Time in the north and lightning in the south. The cards where glowing faintly, like they knew things were not right and Sakura glanced around uneasily and she called over to her grand daughter "Saelyn, are you OK?". Saelyn nodded while saying "Yes" but sounding frightened, she had never known things like this. In the days before the alien attack, Tokyo had been one of the safest places on Earth, but even in general the world had been a safe compared to Sakura's younger days. Now she was one of the few people that still lived and the aliens could find them at any point, her grand-parents were strong but she still was afraid all the time. As she looked back over to her grandmother she saw the star wand already activated and just was about to say something when shrill noise went up, a tracker had found them and had sent an alert out.
Moment later it was hit by a fireball from Kero and exploded and quickly Sakura used the shield card to form a protective bubble around them all. Syaoron quickly spoke, first to Saelyn and then Sakura "Sae... stay where you are, Sakura get the spell up, we'll try to hold them off". As he was finishing his sentence, hunters started materialising around them, Syaoron, Kero and Yue took up positions. Suddenly a energy ball shoot over there heads heading for straight for Saelyn who stared horror struck as the ball of pulsing energy came at her. Before it struck Sakura's voice rang out "Shield!" and a bubble like field appeared around Saelyn moments before the energy ball hit the bubble shield and dissipated. Sakura now stood next to her grand daughter and carried on preparing the spell as the shield surrounded them, while the others starting battling the hunters. It soon became apparently that the attack was primary for one target and despite the fact hunter drones were being destroyed they were losing the battle. For every one that was destroyed, two were taking its place. Syaoron, Kero and Yue withdrew to within the shielded area and started concentrating on channelling magical energy to the shield, but it was clear it would not hold up much longer under the vicious onslaught of the alien attacks. Like they sensed the desperate situation, the cards self leviating came out of Sakura's pocket and started positioning themselves on the inner side of the shield, adding their power to it. Saelyn could hardly believe it, they seemed trapped and everyone was doing their best yet all she was doing was standing here. Truly she did't understand why she was being brought along, not that she would of wanted to be left alone, but she was not exactly of help. The shield as she looked on was glowing reddish from the constant attacks, suddenly her eyes widened in horror, a crack was splintering across the shield's surface. At that moment there was a swooshing bang and a flash. Situated not far away was a portal, shimmering, shinning and pulsating, the magic spell had completed. "Sae, get to the portal, we'll follow..." Sakura shouted out in urgency, Saelyn looked at her grandmother, fear on her face but did't move. The shield became even more cracked as they talked and Syaoron looked at Sakura and nodded, and Sakura nodded back, a silent exchange of the situation. Using the last remaining card she had on her, Sakura cried out "Windy! Take Saelyn and protect her!". The card activated, briefly showing the cards human shaped form, before it swarmed around Saelyn taking her like the wind, in seconds Saelyn found herself else where yet not, everything was fine, no aliens at all. Saelyn turned around waiting expecting to see everyone come through but it never happened as there was a sudden explosion and a huge gust of wind shot out of the portal knocking her down. Windy reverted back to card form and floated down to the ground and Saelyn looked in horror as the portal was gone. Tears bubbled in her eyes and she screamed "Nooooooo!" collapsing on her knees, her body shaking as she cried, not caring what was around her at that point.