Okay, so Christmas had now arrived in Tomoeda. And me and Sakura were very excited about it. Which we were clearly showing in our respective expressions, as we both walked through the fairgrounds of a Christmas Carnival, that was currently Tomoeda for the holidays. And this was while Li, Julian, and Tori were also present with us as well. But, as we were soon about to learn, even though it was Christmas. A Clow Card spirit can wind up appearing at any time, even if it is the holiday season.
And with regard to this very clear fact, as we fast forward a bit in time to a bit later on...
"You have got to be kidding me right now Kero, how is this Clow Card spirit this strong?! I mean I know you told me, Sakura and Li that it is one of the remaining Element Cards!..." I proceeded to say with just a hint of fear to my tone of voice. As me, along with Sakura, Li, and Kero were currently trapped in what could only be described as a burning ring of fire, that had just appeared around us. And I thought that Johnny Cash was joking when he wrote that song. Well it turned out, that he was in fact correct. As you go down, down, down, the flames do in fact get higher. But enough about that terrible and corny joke, back to the current incident at hand.
Which just after me and Sakura had called on our respective staffs, and had used the Sleep Card spirit to put everyone else in the fairgrounds of the Christmas Carnival, except for me, Sakura, and Li, to sleep...
"What if we used the Windy Card?" I proceeded to ask to Kero. As both he, me, and Sakura were currently running around an open area of the woods nearby, so that we would not get badly burned by the flames of the Fire Card spirit.
But unfortunately...
"That won't work, you can't just capture Fire with just the Windy Card! And if you were to use just the Water Card, then the same will just wind up happening, and it won't work either! So maybe this is as far as you and Sakura go," Kero proceeded to say back to me in response.
Which not surprisingly, had caused both me and Sakura to each display an expression of fear on our respective faces. But thankfully, Li was able to bring us both back to our sense, and back down to earth so too speak...
"Sakura, Zachary, you can use two Element Cards!" He proceeded to yell out to me and Sakura.
And it was then that I pulled out both the Windy and Water cards. But not before a thought then proceeded to make its way into my mind...
"Our dream, maybe this is the so called test that me and Sakura are supposed to overcome..." I proceeded to think to myself. But unfortunately, this was not the case. As me and Sakura, still had quite a long way to go with regard to capturing the rest of the Clow Cards.
But for now, I decided to push this thought to the side. And as I proceeded to throw both the Windy and Water Cards forward. Me and Sakura also proceeded to ready our respective staffs.
"Windy and Water, come to our aide, help us to fight against Fire! Windy, Water, release and dispel!" Me and Sakura chanted in unison, as we hit the Windy and Water cards at the same time with the tips of our respective staffs. Which was actually possible, since they were stacked one on top of the other.
A split second later, the Windy and Water Clow Card spirits appeared and began soaring towards the Fire card spirit. And even though the Fire Card spirit tried to halt the advance of both the Windy and Water Card spirits, by throwing a wall of fire towards them both. We were relieved to see that both the Windy and Water Card spirits simply wound up passing through the wall of fire like it wasn't even there.
"I don't believe it, it's working!" Li then proceeded to say with a slight bit of shock to his current tone of voice.
As just a second later, the Fire Card spirit was bound by both Windy and Water. To which it then fell over backwards, and then began to fall towards and then hit the ground.
A second after the Fire Card spirit hit the ground, me and Sakura then proceeded to capture and seal it. "Fire Card, we command you to return to your power confined, Fire!" Me and Sakura chanted in unison, as we proceeded to swing our respective staffs down at exactly the same time.
And, with the all too familiar appearance of two respective light blue aura colored Clow Card halves, proceeding to materialize on the tips of our respective staffs. And as the Fire Card spirit was broken down, and then sucked into our respective Clow Card halves. To which the two halves then combined together to form a complete and whole Clow Card, the Fire Card was then sealed.
But, though none of the four of us knew it yet, we still had quite a long way to go. And more surprises, were still very much in store for us. As we would wind up coming into contact with the most well known 90s magical girl in the 90s anime magical girl genres history. I mean after all, she wasn't known to fight for love and for justice for no reason. And as for what else awaited us in the far future? Well that is another story for another time. But for now, we were just glad that we had successfully captured and sealed yet another Clow Card. But, what we would also not know until much later on, was that one of our closest friends, was in fact our next opponent. But as aforementioned, that is another story, for a much later date.