Chapter 7: Silent As The Grave!: The Mysterious Painting!

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, they were right. And I was finding it somewhat awe inspiring, as Sakura continued drawing a portrait of Kero, who was having a rough time staying still for it.

"Can you hurry it up!" Kero said.

"Almost done," Sakura said.

"Hang tight Kero, I'm sure Sakura will be done shortly," I said, in an attempt to reassure the guardian beast of the seal. Who I was pretty sure was starting to cramp up from keeping still for this long a time.

Okay, so things really hadn't gone according to plan with regards to the capturing of our latest Clow Card.

After running into a girl. Well a girl who had been hiding her hair under a hat to hide the fact that she was a girl, claimed that one of the pictures at the towns museum had had something done to it. Kero then told us that it was in fact the work of a Clow Card. Which was the Silent Card. This was made a little more embarrassing by the fact that me and Sakura, were once again dressed up in another one of Madison's ridiculous battle outfits. Sakura was dressed in a green, purple and black outfit, with a purple checker design on both of her stockings. And bat wings on her back. (A/N: Her episode 7 battle outfit).

While I was dressed in something similar, except instead of it being green, purple and black, the colors were dark blue, dark purple, and black. And bat wings also adorned my back.

However, like I said, things had gone completely off script, any time that any of us tried to get close to the painting, and any of us made any sort of noise when we were that close.

This would wind up with the Silent Card spirit opening her eyes, and then transporting us back outside of the museum again. And to tell you the truth, after about the fourth time, I was starting to get really sick of it.

And it wasn't until I had suggested, that instead of us going to the Silent Card, and risk getting transported outside again if we once again made any noise once we had gotten close to it. That we should instead use the Shadow Card to extend our shadows through the window, and up to the painting that the Silent Card inhabited. That way neither me, Sakura, or Madison and the girl who was with us, had any sort of risk of being transported outside again.

And so, without wanting to waste another second, I pulled out the Shadow Card from my pocket, and me and Sakura then raised our respective staffs. "Shadow Card, pass through the window and project our image, Shadow, RELEASE AND DISPEL!" Me and Sakura chanted in unison, as we hit the Shadow Card at exactly the same time with the tips of our respective staffs.

However, despite the Shadow Card extending both of our shadows, they still weren't long enough to get inside the window, and up to the painting that the Silent Card spirit inhabited.

But, Madison was quick to solve this problem for us. By shining a flashlight that she had brought with her on our respective shadows, which gave them the extension that they needed to get into the window, and right up to the painting that was being inhabited by the Silent Card spirit.

And so, without wanting to waste another minute, me and Sakura then raised our respective staffs, whilst facing our shadows that had been extended by the Shadow Card, towards the painting that the Silent Card inhabited.

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

And once the silent card spirit was sucked into our respective card halves, that had materialized on the tips of our respective staffs, and both card halves had combined together into a complete clow card, the Silent Card was sealed.

"Well, I guess it is true what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case, a painting," I said, which I followed up with a kind halfhearted chuckle, which wound up earning one from Sakura as well.