Episode 57!

Disclaimer: Shadow does not own pokemon, but Destiny and Charlotte are mine! MWAHAHAHAH! Oh, and I don’t own CCS either… the Clow Cards belong to CLAMP and Kodansha; the cards I create belong to me.

Example of Clow Cards: Jump, Shield, Time, and Arrow… look, go to a CCS web site and click the clow cards. If its there, its not mine. If it isn’t there, it’s mine.

Examples of my cards: Nightmare, Paralyze, Terror…

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates pokemon speech. If you don’t read my authoress’s notes and get confused, then it’s your own fault!

Pikacar/Marle – hmm. Well, magic is kind of common in my fics. *Guardians eat food happily*

Tmp – hmm…. Lance has ‘Sakura’ cards and pokemon cards, the moon card set. No, Lance is NOT Eriol. They are 2 different people. And the dream isn’t referring to Johto, good guess though!

SnowTiger – no, Lance is just playing Eriol’s part, not Eriol. FIRE RULES!

Nikki Wind and Crystal Wind – thanks, try to post Dragon’s love soon

Ranma – guess you know my writing style too well… *sheepish grin*

Eevee99 & Star – thank you! ^_^

Silver2 – well, it is mentioned in CCS…

Severus’s Potions Mistress – well of course the dream is hard to decipher… it’s supposed to be mysterious. Ash loves pancakes!

Fire Eevee – Lance is NOT Eriol, they are two different people both checking in on Ash. The address of the RPG I use is http://pub10.ezboard.com/bpokemonrpgrevealing2693

Look for threads started by shadowphantomness if you want to read up on my adventures a bit.

Digifan – thank you! Ash isn’t sealing the cards though, he’s changing them

Inami – yep, Lance is the pokemon version of Eriol, but Eriol is there too. If I can get the movie in Chinese or subbed I’ll watch it. No dubs!

Timeline: 3 days later

Episode 57: Circles, circles, and more circles

“Is it just me, or have we been walking in circles?” Teresa asked. “Shouldn’t we have gotten farther into the Kaze Forest?”

“Perhaps you’re right.” Charlotte said as she smiled. “Why don’t we check?” She swung her key in a circle, and frowned as nothing happened.

“I’ll try. Magic to cards, cards to key!” Ash said eagerly. From his staff shot a very wavy and confused white beam.

“Does that mean that the card is around us?” Teresa inquired. * Maybe if I find out more about magic, Ash will like me more. *

“Yep.” Ash said as he summoned his staff forward. “What could it be?”

“No clue. Release!” Charlotte said, pulling out her own staff. “Hmm… it’s around us… Maze?”

“There’s a maze card?”

“Yes.” Pika-chan said. “But wouldn’t Maze try to trap us in one?”

“We can fly up and check!” Ash said. “Card created by Clow, please accept this new star power and take your new form! Your new master Ashura commands you, Release! Fearow, I choose you!” White light surrounded the elegant flying pokemon, before it appeared in front of Ash, who climbed on. “I’ll be down in a sec!” He called, as Fearow lifted him into the air.

The others waited down below. After a few minutes, Vulpix-chan spoke up.

“It’s not Maze. If it was, the walls would have been visible by now, and we’d probably be trying to hack our way out.”

“Is it Return?” Charlotte asked, as a deck of cards formed in her hands. “I didn’t create one like that yet.”

“No.”

“Time?” Pika-chan suggested. “That card is very dangerous.”
“Yes, but Time shows the past to people with magic, even if it is indirect.” Angel stated. “So it can’t be that either. I’m guessing… Loop.”

“I didn’t think of that!”
“So how do you get out of Loop, whatever it is?” Teresa wanted to know.

Charlotte smiled. “We’ll wait for Ash to come back. To free yourself from Loop, you must strike the area where it’s the weakest with a sharp object to break the spell, so it will free you.”

Teresa sighed. This was all going over her head. A minute later, Ash returned.

“It’s not Maze!”

“We think its Loop.”

“Loop?” Ash got a question mark over his head.

“One of the Clow Cards.”

“Oh! Okay, I know. So we have to cut through it?”

“Yes.” Charlotte said. She flipped a card into the air and struck it with her staff. “Sword!” Her staff morphed into a slender rapier.

“Scyther!” Ash called. His Scyther nodded and a sword with Scyther’s wing blades on the hilt formed in his hand, taking the place of his wand.

“Let’s go!”

“Wait! Can’t you wear costumes? Pretty please?” Teresa asked.

Ash sighed. Charlotte shrugged and leaned against a tree to wait, but…

“I have a costume for you too!” Teresa said.

Charlotte’s jaw dropped. “What?”
“I’m sure you’ll like it!” Teresa said cheerfully. “It matches Ash’s! Here you go!”

Charlotte stared at the pile of her cloth in her arms, than at Teresa, than at Vulpix-chan, who shrugged innocently.

“Vulpix-chan…”

“What? It’s a good idea!”

Charlotte angrily stalked off into the nearest bush. Unfortunately, it was the bush Ash was changing behind.

“Yikes!”

“Sorry!” Charlotte said, dashing into another bush across the clearing.

Ash sweatdropped. * What’s going on here? *

A few minutes later…

Both Ash and Charlotte from the shrubbery. Ash was wearing white pants with feathery black patterns on them, and a matching top. He was also wearing dark blue boots that went up to his knees and black elbow-length gloves, plus a white fluffy Tomite-style hat with little earflaps. Charlotte was wearing the same top, but she had a white skirt and her boots were ankle boots. Instead of a hat, she had a headband. There was also a little bow on the back of her skirt. Pika-chan and Vulpix-chan both had black-and-white collars and bows.

“I didn’t know you had a costume too.”

“Blame Vulpix-chan.”

“Ahem!” Pika-chan said. “We are here to defeat that card, right? So let’s go! Time’s a-wasting!”

“Yes ma’am!” Both said, saluting.

They both took their swords and began walking towards the area where the magic concentration was the highest. Soon, they saw a faintly glowing red line.

“Is that it?”
“Yes.” Vulpix-chan said. “You just strike at it with your sword.”

“That’s it?” Ash asked. “You mean we don’t have to do some complex spell or anything like that?”

“Nope.”
“Okay!” Both pulled out their swords and slashed at the red line. The area around them seemed to shudder, before the line began to vanish.

“Oh no you don’t!” Ash said, throwing out a card. “MQ! Disrupt this time and prevent Loop from leaving this dimension!”

The blocky card seemed to grin before enveloping Loop in a wave of black. Back in the pokéverse dimension, Lance gasped.

“Okay, now to turn Loop into an Ash card… how do I do that again?”
“Not sure if you can.” Pika-chan said. “But since you defeated it, it can’t leave and has to listen to you for the time being.”
“Cool!” Ash said. He and Charlotte both posed for Teresa, despite Charlotte’s scowling. Then, they both quickly got out of the costumes.

“But they’re so cute!” Teresa said.

Charlotte groaned. * Not to self. Kill Vulpix-chan. *

She dressed in her slacks and t-shirt and sighed. * I am really going to kill Vulpix-chan. *

Vulpix-chan purred.

Charlotte glared at her.

“MY CHOCOLATE!” Ash yelled, as Pika-chan ran away from him.

“Mine now!”

“Give those back!”

“Why don’t’ you make me?”

Ash glared. “Okay then… Caterpie, go! Use String Shot!”

Pika-chan found herself all tied up. Ash triumphantly took his chocolates back… and then he promptly fainted from energy overdose.

Pika-chan giggled and took off with them again.

End Episode 57! ^_^

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I don’t think I should have bothered posting this at Pokemon Tower, nobody there reads this anyways. Oh well, it only lost 5 minutes of my time.

STUPID SATS! *Sobs* I did so bad…