Chapter 6: Seeing Is Believing!: Fighting An Illusion!

It had been a day or so after the capture of the Jump card. And me and Sakura were currently in the school's courtyard, listening to a story that Nikki was telling us, about how one day after school, she had decided to take a shortcut through the woods. And after she had been frightened by a bird that had come out from one of the tops of the trees. She then said that she saw, what looked like a ghostly orb in front of her, to which it then proceeded to fly away, and Nikki then proceeded to follow after it. She said that she thought that it was a firefly, but she was wrong.

It was after Nikki was done telling her story to Chelsea, me, and Sakura, that Chelsea chose to speak up about what we had all just heard.

"Come on Nikki, did that really happen?" Chelsea asked.

"Uh huh," Nikki responded back in a scared sounding tone of voice.

"Are you sure it wasn't just a squirrel or something?" Chelsea asked.

"Trust me," Nikki responded back.

"Hey Sakura, Zachary, do you want to go back to the woods tonight and check it out for ourselves?" Chelsea asked us.

Sakura responded back by saying that we couldn't, and mentioned that we had a big science project at school tomorrow.

I however, took a different approach at this. "I am with Sakura on this, we can't just go into the woods because of a story Chelsea, I mean, what if one of us got hurt?" I said.

However, this would ultimately prove a fruitless plea, as future events would have Sakura and I venturing off into the woods anyway, for obvious reasons.

Later that night, after an incident with the "ghost" caused everyone to apparently see everything different. And a phone call from Madison prompted Sakura and I to go back to the woods, except this time, dressed in our respective battle outfits. Sakura was dressed in a bunny girl outfit, while I was dressed a similar outfit, except instead of being the color pink, it was the color blue, with light blue accents. And yet, despite no one else being there, it was still very embarrassing to be wearing them.

"Come one Sakura, Zachary, you are fearless Cardcaptors, remember?" Kero said to us both, in an effort to lessen some of the embarrassment.

"I guess," Sakura said in an embarrassing tone of voice.

"I suppose so," I said in about the same level and tone of embarrassment.

After seeing the all too familiar orb, and then seeing it fly away, I immediately pulled out the Fly card, to which me and Sakura then immediately raised our respective staffs.

"Fly!" we chanted in unison, as we hit the Fly card at the same time with the tips of our respective staffs.

And with the fly card wings now adorning the heads of our respective staffs, we then took off in the direction of the orb. After following the orb for a few seconds, we both dismounted our respective winged staffs, as the orb approached a cliff at the end of the wooded area. However, when this happened, the orb expanded outwards, and as me and Sakura took ready stances, a specter like figure appeared in its place. Me and Sakura immediately recognized it as Sakura's late mother. However, as Sakura walked towards the specter, in almost a trance like state, it soon became clear to me, that something was tragically wrong. But, despite me running up to her, in a desperate attempt to snap her out of it, she wound up taking a step too far and fell over the cliff. And despite me getting there in time, and grabbing her, I was immediately pulled over and down the cliff with her. Thankfully though, fate would ultimately play a role in saving us both. Because, despite Sakura being out cold during the fall, and me not fairing any better in the matter, having being also out cold, from falling over and off the cliff. We somehow, and yet miraculously, found ourselves back up on top of the cliff, and also perfectly fine. However, this incident with the specter wasn't over yet, not by a long shot.

The next evening on the following day, me and Sakura, along with Madison and Kero, elected to try and capture the clow card again, albeit, we would do our best not to get ourselves into a dangerous situation again. But, despite our best efforts, things would once again, wind up in a very bad situation. It was as me and Sakura approached the cliff like last time, that once again, Sakura fell into a trance like state upon seeing the specter of her late mother. However, unlike last time, I had also now fallen into this trance like state. And this was very bad, because now, if we fell off the cliff again, there was more then likely no possible way that I could use any sort of means to save us both. But, thankfully however, as me and Sakura fell over and down the cliff, we managed to snap out of our trance like state, just in time for me to pull out the Fly card.

And once me and Sakura, raised our respective staffs, chanted "Fly!" and hit the Fly Card at the same time with the tips of our respective staffs.

We then managed to us our respective winged staffs to fly upwards, and back onto the top of the cliff. And, before anything else bad happened to us, we decided to take the initiative and seal the card.

And so, with that thought in mind, me and Sakura raised our respective staffs.

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

And with that, the clow card was sealed, which turned out to be the Illusion Card. Which wound up explaining why everyone was seeing what they had been seeing.

It was at this point, that I decided to speak up.

"Man, talk about a close call, if we hadn't snapped out of our stupors when we did, who knows what would've happened to us," I said with a sweatdrop as I rubbed the back of my head with my right hand.