Chapter 4: An Unexpected Find!: When It Rains It Pours!

A few days after me and Sakura had captured the Water Card, me and Sakura woke up one morning and realized that it was a little early for us to be waking up, since it was Sunday. "Hey, you two are up pretty early for a Sunday." Kero said, after me and Sakura got out of bed and went to the window to pull back the curtains. "Yea we know," Sakura said. "Because today we are going with Madison to the new amusement park!" I said with a smile. And with that, me and Sakura ran downstairs as fast a we could. "Morning," Sakura said as we entered the living room. "Morning Sakura, morning Zachary, you two are up early," Fujitaka said. "Yeah, and its not even noon yet," Tori said in a sarcastic tone of voice.

It was then that I turned to Tori. "I'll let that one go," Sakura said in response. And with that, me and Sakura went to the dining room table and sat down. "What's gotten you two so excited?" Fujitaka asked. "me, Madison, and Sakura are going to the new amusement park," I said in response. "Aren't you two forgetting something?" Tori said, putting a whiteboard down on the table. "Both of you traded chores with me," Tori said, reminding me and Sakura about it.

A few minutes later, me and Sakura were busy doing Tori's chores when Fujitaka came by with a basket of laundry. "Well, here is all the laundry," Fujitaka said, putting the basket down. "Do you two need any help?" he asked. "You've got your lecture to think about, don't worry, me and Sakura can take care of it," I said in response. "Okay, I'll go put this over by the washing machine," Fujitaka said. "See you later squirts," Tori said, as he closed the front door and left. "See you later Tori," Sakura said. "Well, I'd better get going too," Fujitaka said. "Have a great day," I said as he closed the front door.

A little later, I was talking on the phone with Madison. "I'm sorry, me and Sakura completely forgot that we traded weekend chores with Tori," I said. "So It'll take you all day?" Madison asked. "Yea," I said in a sorry sounding voice. "Don't worry about it Zachary, we can all go some other time," Madison said. "Thanks, see you at school tomorrow," I said. "Okay, see you later," Madison said. After I hung up the phone, I then sighed. "I guess me and Sakura will have to make it up to her," I said to myself with a sigh. A little bit later on, me, Kero, and Sakura started doing our chores. I was washing the dishes, Sakura was dusting the living room, and Kero was doing the laundry.

It was when I was cleaning the rug, that I found something under it. "Wood?" I said as I read the name on the Clow Card. "This is a Clow Card!" I said in an excited tone. And with that, I ran down to the basement to show Sakura what I had found. "You're pretty lucky to have found a Clow Card so close to where it was released," Sakura said. It was then that the vacuum that Sakura was using caught something, Sakura then picked up the ink covered card that the vacuum had caught. "Looks like someone spilled the ink," Sakura said, turning the ink covered card over to find an all too familiar symbol on the back. "Another Clow Card," I said. "I can't believe it," I said. "Two Clow Cards in one day, we must be getting good at this capturing stuff," Sakura said, turning to me. After that, me and Sakura set both Clow Cards on the desk. "I recommend that we both write our names on the Wood Card so that it won't escape," I said to Sakura. "Sounds good to me," Sakura said. And with that me and Sakura wrote our names on the bottom of the Wood Card, with my name above Sakura's.

It was then that the phone upstairs rang. "I'll get it," Sakura said, running upstairs to answer the phone. A few seconds later, I heard the front door of the house close. "Sakura must be running an errand," I said to myself.

It was then that I noticed that the ink covered clow card was glowing. "This can't be good," I said, reaching into my pocket and attempting to remove my key, only to realize before removing it that without Sakura being present, I couldn't use it to defend myself, or use the clow cards. A few seconds later, a rain cloud appeared from the glowing ink covered clow card.

It was then that a little girl then appeared on top of the rain cloud, and a few seconds later, turned her attention to me. Realizing that I had no way to defend myself without Sakura being present, I could only look on in horror, and hope that Sakura would return soon.

A few minutes later, Sakura came back from giving Fujitaka an envelope that he had left behind. It was when Sakura went back down to the basement that she noticed that I was running around the room with the girl on the cloud chasing after me with water raining down from the cloud. "What's going on here?" Sakura asked, turning to me. "The ink covered card activated on its own, and because you weren't here, I couldn't use my key to defend myself," I said. "Well, I guess we better seal it then," Sakura said. "I guess so," I said as I stopped running and waited for Sakura to reach my side as we both then both raised our respective staffs. "We command you to return to your power confined, Rain Card!" Sakura and I chanted in unison. And with that the Rain card was sealed. And I wouldn't know until much further into the future. That this, was only the beginning.