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Chapter 33 - Chapter 33: Ice Breaker!: A Nightmare On The Ice!

Okay, so a few days had now passed since me and Sakura had used the Change Card to put Li and Kero back in there respective bodies. Which was after this had happened to them as a result of coming into contact with the Change Card spirit before me and Sakura had captured and sealed it.

But fast forward to today, and things were now a little less calm then back with the capturing of the Change Card spirit. Well, though this wouldn't be the case for very much longer.

And as for today, me and Sakura, as well as Li, had gone on a field trip so too speak with the rest of our class from Tomoeda Elementary, to the town's skating rink. But, as we were about to learn, this was to be the next site of me, Sakura, and Li's next upcoming fight against a Clow Card spirit. And it would make the song title of Foreigner's 'Cold As Ice,' seem like a ordinary ice induced hail storm.

But getting back to the current situation at hand...

"It's so cold, I can hardly feel anything," Madison had now just managed to say. Which she had struggled a bit to say, due to the current falling temperature inside of the building that we were all in that housed the skating rink.

But, just as what looked like uncommanded flows of what appeared to be ice, had started to appear beneath the feet of everyone that was present both on and around the skating rink...

"Meilin!" I heard Li call out, as he watched with horror, as Meilin was encased in a block of ice.

"What the heck is going?...Wait a sec, I just got a familiar strange feeling...Well, looks like me, Sakura and Li have a Clow Card on the loose," I proceeded to think to myself with.

And, just after I had had my thought...

"Oh no, Madison!" Sakura was now heard calling out, as Madison, like Meilin, was also now encased in a block of ice.

And, just as the ice had then finished with encasing everyone else other then me, Sakura, and Li, in blocks of ice...

"Sakura, Zachary, you know what this means right?" Li proceeded to say to me and Sakura.

"Yes Li, I do, there is a Clow Card on the loose!" I proceeded to say back to Li. But interestingly, I had said this statement of mine, with not a single bit of fear to my tone. Which was probably due to the fact that I was pretty much used to this sort of occurrence by this point. Which to be honest, was in fact true.

And fast forward to about a minute or so later...

"So it's the Freeze Card then..." I managed to say, right before the mentioned Clow Card spirit in question proceeded to break through the ice of the skating rink, and then dip beneath it again just as quickly as it had appeared.

Which as this wound up happening, me and Sakura proceeded to pull out our respective keys. "Key of Clow, power of magic, power of light, surrender the wand, the force ignite, release!" Me and Sakura chanted in unison.

Which as the wind within the ice skating rink proceeded to pick up, and blow through me and Sakura's hair. This was then promptly followed, by both of our respective keys quickly expanding into our respective clow staffs. Which we both grabbed with a brief overhanded grasp. Which we wound up finishing off by twirling them, and then striking our usual battle ready poses.

But, this was then quickly followed by the appearance of a blue colored looking creature. Which as it briefly broke out of the ice of the ice skating rink, and then quickly dipped back into and below the ice again. I was just able to get a brief glimpse of it from beneath the ice of the skating rink. And as for what it looked like? Well about that...

"It's as big as a whale!" I proceeded to say out loud.

But unfortunately, just as I was about to see that the Freeze Card spirit was about to break through the ice and try and attack Sakura.

"Sakura, lookout!" I managed to yell out to her, as I just managed to make it over to her in time, just to shove her out of harms way for the moment.

Which unfortunately, wound up with me taking the full hit and force of the Freeze Card spirit. Which not surprisingly, had wound up sending me flying through the air by the force of the impact with the Freeze Card spirit. To which I then hit the ice with a slight bit of force, skidded across it for a few inches, and wound up temporarily knocked out by the incident.

But, what I was not able to see during the part where I had been flying through the air from the force of the hit I had gotten from the Freeze Card spirit, was that Li had a look of great concern on his face. I mean, wouldn't you if you saw your friend and fellow Cardcaptor take a direct hit from a Clow Card spirit, get thrown through the air, and then hit the ice hard? My point exactly.

But, just as I was starting to regain consciousness...

"Oh no, it's got the Sealing Wand!" I heard Li call out from just in front of me. As I then took notice of the fact that I was now starting to feel quite a bit colder then I already was. Which indicated to me that the Freeze Card spirit was trying to encase me in a block of ice, just as it had done to the rest of our friends.

But thankfully, I was able to regain consciousness. Which was just as Li managed to break some of the ice off of me, and I was able to get free.

But then, I had an idea that would help me, Sakura, and Li, capture the Freeze Card...

"That's it, let's 'break the ice,'" I had now proceeded to say to both Sakura and Li. Which surprisingly, even though I had not verbally said exactly what this statement of mine meant, they both still seemed to understand exactly what I meant by it.

And so, once me, Sakura, and Li, had proceeded to skate across the skating rink at a pretty good speed. This then prompted the brief appearance of the Freeze Card spirit. But thankfully, me and Sakura were ready this time. Which was confirmed, as both me and Sakura proceeded to raise our respective staffs.

 "Freeze Card, we command you to return to your power confined, Freeze!" Me and Sakura both chanted in unison as we swung our respective staffs down at exactly the same time.

And with the all too familiar appearance of our respective Clow Card halves, that had materialized on the tips of our respective staffs. And as the Freeze Card spirit was broken down and was then sucked into our respective Clow Card halves. Which quickly combined to form a complete and whole Clow Card, the Freeze Card was sealed.

But instead of it flying into either me or Sakura's hands, it wound up in Li's hand instead. But, I found it to be one that he had very much deserved, seeing as how he had helped to keep me out of harms way, by breaking me out of potentially getting frozen by the Freeze Card spirit. So, I decided to resign myself to this, since me and Li had set aside our differences not too long ago, when we had been capturing the Sweet Card spirit inside of our schools baking classroom.

But, though none of us knew about what truly lay ahead for us in the future. We would soon learn, that capturing and sealing the Clow Cards, was nothing compared to what was truly awaiting us. As we would wind up coming into contact, with at least three more powerful female groups. Which with regard to two of them, were the two most well known 90s magical girl groups in the history of anime. And as for the third and so on? Well it would make the normal shock that one would usually get from an electrical charge, to seem like a walk in the park so too speak. But more on that, at a much later date.

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