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Cardcaptor Chibiusa
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Mizuno Ami | Sailor Mercury & Tsukino Chibiusa | Sailor Chibi Moon, Hino Rei | Sailor Mars & Tsukino Chibiusa | Sailor Chibi Moon, Kino Makoto | Sailor Jupiter & Tsukino Chibiusa | Sailor Chibi Moon, Aino Minako | Sailor Venus & Tsukino Chibiusa | Sailor Chibi Moon, Tsukino Chibiusa | Sailor Chibi Moon & Tsukino Usagi | Sailor Moon
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Hino Rei's Grandpa, Kinomoto Sakura, Neo-Queen Serenity, Clow Cards, Tsukino Ikuko, Tsukino Chibiusa | Sailor Chibi Moon, Tsukino Usagi | Sailor Moon, Hino Rei | Sailor Mars, Mizuno Ami | Sailor Mercury, Kino Makoto | Sailor Jupiter, Aino Minako | Sailor Venus, Chiba Mamoru - Mentioned, Keroberos | Cerberus - Mentioned, Tenoh Haruka | Sailor Uranus - Mentioned, Meiou Setsuna | Sailor Pluto - Mentioned, Kaiou Michiru | Sailor Neptune - Mentioned, Tomoe Hotaru | Sailor Saturn - Mentioned
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Published: 2022-06-17 Words: 5,604 Chapters: 4/4

Cardcaptor Chibiusa

Summary

A crossover between Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. The story takes place chronologically towards the Clow Cards arc’s end (Sakura) and after Sailor Stars (Sailor Moon).
After Chibiusa meets Sakura in a dream, she inherits her magic key. Now, Chibiusa has to recapture seven Clow Cards that ended up in her world.

Chibiusa's dream

In Crystal Tokyo, at the Crystal Palace, Chibiusa is sound asleep. She has a very pleasant dream. On the back of a Pegasus, she and Helios discuss many things. She even blushed at times. Suddenly, Helios hears a weak voice.  

"Did you hear that?" He asks Chibiusa.

Although it is only a dream, Helios sounds so real.

"Yes. It sounds like a girl's voice."

"Let's try to find it, shall we?"

Chibiusa nods. Why not? It's like going on an adventure! But I would have preferred to spend more time alone with him. Helios and she look for the voice’s location.

"Look!" Chibiusa said suddenly.

She points to a child's silhouette. She seems to be taller than Chibiusa. As the Pegasus approaches her, it disappears without warning. Chibiusa calls to Helios for help as she falls quickly to the ground. He doesn't answer her. He isn't there anymore.

"NOOOOOOOO!" She shouts while closing her eyes.

Chibiusa seems to lose consciousness. When she comes to, she is still in her dream. The face of a girl with brown hair and green eyes is leaning towards her.

"Are you okay?" The girl asks Chibiusa.

"Y...Yes. I think so. Who are you?"

"My name is Sakura, Sakura Kinomoto. And you?"

"I am Usagi Small Lady Serenity."

"Huh?" Said Sakura, surprised by Chibiusa's full name.

"All my friends call me Chibiusa. Chibiusa Tsukino."

"I see! You must be wondering why I am here in your dream."

"Yes and no. I must have imagined you."

"No. I'm real, like you. I... I don't know how to explain it to you..."

"Explain what?" Chibiusa asks, curious.

"I come from a different world than you. I'm a Cardcaptor."

"A Cardcaptor?"

"Yes. I released the Clow Cards and I had to capture them again. I managed to do that, but..."

"But?"

"But some of them have become wandering cards again, without a magician to control them." Sakura explains. "Kero doesn't understand how this could happen. I wrote my name on each of them, so they should have stayed with me."

"I don't understand..."

"Chibiusa, you have to recapture them for me!"

"Whaaaaat?!"

"Please! I have to get them back. Kero told me that the Final Judgment is almost here and, without all the cards, something terrible is going to happen."

"Something terrible? Like what, your world's end?"

"I don't know. Chibiusa, you're the only person I managed to reach in a dream. You are the only one who can help me."

"But, I... how can I capture these cards? I'm a Sailor Guardian. I have powers, but..."

"You need this."

Sakura takes out a small key that she wears around her neck like a necklace and she gives it to Chibiusa. She explains that this key is magical. The key can turn into a large magic wand that can seal (capture) the Clow Cards. Normally, only Sakura, chosen by Kero, can use it. Since this is an exceptional situation, Kero showed Sakura how to transfer her Cardcaptor status temporarily to someone else.

"So I'm going to make you a Cardcaptor, like me. Then you can capture the elusive cards."

"That's great!" Chibiusa exclaims. "How many cards do I have to recapture?"

"Seven. Windy, Wood, Watery, Firey, Earthy, Light and Dark."

"All right."

Then, Chibiusa asks Sakura her age. Just out of curiosity. Sakura is 11 years old. Chibiusa, in appearance, is only 7. In reality, she is more than 900 years old, but she won't tell Sakura that. Then Sakura performs the transfer ritual. To do this, she must hold Chibiusa's hand as she holds her magic key, and then utter the following incantation: "O key of the seal. O key that hides the powers of darkness. I, Sakura Kimonoto, offer my burden and my duty to this girl, Usagi Small Lady Serenity. Grant her your power, O key! RELEASE!" A great light dazzles Chibiusa and the key in her hand turns into a long pink wand with a bird's head with pink stones as eyes, a red beak and a pair of small white wings on the back of the head. Chibiusa is so surprised that she almost drops the wand on the ground. Fortunately, Sakura is there to help her catch it.

"Thank you." Chibiusa said to her. "I will do my best to recapture the cards."

"Yes, I'm counting on you. You will wake up soon. I have to explain the incantations to you to—"

"Small Lady? SMALL LADY!" Suddenly says another voice.

This wakes Chibiusa up with a start. Her mother, Neo-Queen Serenity, looks at her with concern.

"Mom?" Chibiusa questions. "I'm fine. Why did you wake me up?"

Her mother, the queen, explains that she felt an evil presence around her.

"Huh? An evil presence? That's impossible."

Chibiusa thinks back to her dream. Sakura isn't an evil person. Her magic key... Of course. The key's powers come from darkness, but all it can do is capture (and probably use) the Clow Cards. Nothing dangerous.

Chibiusa tries to explain everything to her mother, but Neo-Queen Serenity doesn't want to hear anything. Wanting to protect her daughter, she orders her to give her Sakura's key.

"NO! Mom, after all we've been through together, in the past, you still don't listen to me, don't trust me?!"

It’s true that, for some time, the queen and her daughter have been arguing often. Sometimes on trivial matters, but other times on more serious matters.

"Sakura is not an enemy! I'm going to recapture the Clow Cards and you're not going to stop me!"

With that, the princess runs out of her room, Neo-Queen Serenity at her heels.

"Wait. Small Lady, wait!"

Chibiusa ignores her and then the queen says something surprising.

"Go back in time."

Chibiusa, surprised, stops running. She turns around to face her mother.

"The Clow Cards are in the past. In the twentieth century."

"Mom?"

"Forgive me, my daughter. I... I always... have a kind of distrust... towards darkness. Go find Sailor Pluto. Ask her for a time key and—"

The queen is interrupted by her daughter who runs to her and throws herself into her arms.

"Oh Mom! THANK YOU!"

Mother and daughter embrace for a while, then Chibiusa leaves her to get dressed and go find Sailor Pluto. Since her return to the future, Chibiusa has given her time key to Pluto, not thinking of having to go back in time again. In the end, her adventures in the past are not over.

Sailor Pluto is happy to see the young princess again.

"So, you have to go back to the past?"

"Yes, Puu. Can I have a time key?"

Pluto promptly gives her one. Chibiusa thanks her and she returns to the past.

The mermaid and Sailor Mercury

As soon as Chibiusa arrives at Azabu-Juban, Tokyo, in the 20th century, she wonders where she should look to find the magic cards. I can't walk around for hours, she thought. Oh, I know. Rei can help me. So Chibiusa goes to the Hikawa Shrine. Rei is outside and, as soon as she sees Chibiusa, she’s very surprised to see her.

"Chibiusa?! What are you doing here? Don't tell me a new enemy has arrived in Crystal Tokyo! With Chaos defeated, new evil forces shouldn't appear. Unless he is back?!"

"No, no, Crystal Tokyo is safe. There are no enemies. I came because Sakura asked me for help."

Rei invites Chibiusa inside the shrine so they can talk more. Chibiusa tells her about her dream, about Sakura, the elusive Clow cards and she shows the magic key to Rei.

"Hmm." Said Rei, while focusing. "I feel darkness coming from this key. Yet, I don't feel any danger."

"Of course." Chibiusa replies. "It isn’t dangerous. I was wondering if you could help me locate the Clow Cards."

"I can try using the sacred flames and my sixth sense. Which card do you want me to locate first?"

Chibiusa thinks and then she says "Watery." Rei asks her to wait for her and she goes to another room to meditate near the sacred flames. She comes back quickly and in panic.

"Rei? What's going on?"

"I found her! Watery, she's at the pool and people are in danger! I also saw Ami in the flames."

"Ami? No. We have to do something!"

Rei doesn't waste time. She contacts Usagi, Makoto and Minako. The girls are happy to hear that Chibiusa is back, but they are also worried about Ami. Rei asks them to meet at the pool, then she transforms into Eternal Sailor Mars. Chibiusa transforms, too.

"Pink Moon Crystal Power, Make Up!"

Then they run to the pool. At the entrance, they join Eternal Sailor Moon, Eternal Sailor Venus and Eternal Sailor Jupiter.

"Mars, Chibi Moon!" Jupiter says.

"Let's go." Adds Venus.

The Sailors Guardians enter the pool room and are shocked with surprise and fear.

The water seems to have come to life and has transformed into giant columns. People are trapped in the blue liquid and among them is Ami. In the columns’ center, surrounded by water, is a female creature.

"Whoa!" Can't help but say Chibi Moon. "She looks like a mermaid."

Indeed, the creature has the appearance of an adolescent blue mermaid with elf-like webbed ears and two wing-like fins on her back. Her hair is parted in the middle and three stray strands point upward. A large scaly ring adorns her forehead.

Upon seeing the Sailor Guardians, the mermaid shoots water in their direction. Sailor Moon and her friends barely manage to avoid them.

"Enough fooling around!" Jupiter says loudly. "Sparkling Wide—!"

"NO!" Yells Mars. "Your attack might hurt the people trapped in the water."

After all, water does conduct electricity.

"I'll take care of it." Says Venus. "Venus Love And Beauty Shock!"

Her attack destroys the water streams.

"Let's get it over with! Silver Moon..."

"Sailor Moon, WAIT!" Chibi Moon shouts at her in vain.

"…Crystal Power Therapy Kiss!"

Sailor Moon's attack destroys the water columns and frees everyone, but has no effect on the mermaid.

"H-Ho-How?" Moon asks, not expecting that.

"It's Watery, a Clow Card!" Explains Chibi Moon. "I'm the only one who can capture it."

She shows Sakura's magic key to the Sailors Guardians. Jupiter and Venus think it’s so cute. Moon thinks the pink matches well with Chibi Moon. Mars, for her part, has already seen it.

"But I don't know the incantation to turn it into a magic wand." Said the little Sailor Guardian sadly.

"So, what can we do?" Venus asks.

Watery, in anger, prepares a powerful water attack, by creating long dragons. Sailor Moon screams in panic when she sees them.

"Hey, YOU!" Ami suddenly shouts to Watery.

Watery turns to Ami. The other people who were trapped in the water columns are unconscious.

"It's *I* you should be facing! Mercury Crystal Power, MAKE UP!"

Once Ami has become Eternal Sailor Mercury, she wastes no time in using her powers. Mercury already has a strategy. She uses Mercury Aqua Mist to confuse Watery, the Clow Card shoots her long dragons into the void, then Mercury performs Shine Snow Illusion. It took a long time, but Watery ends up frozen. The fog disappeared afterwards.

"Mercury!" Said Moon as he ran to her. "Are you okay?" 

"Yes, but I'm exhausted. What power..."

"Chibi Moon." Said Jupiter. "Capture her now."

"I want to, but without the incantation, I—"

"Don't worry!" Said Venus, all smiles. "Say what's on your mind!"

"WHAT?!" Chibi Moon replies, finding her idea strange.

"It will work, I tell you!" Adds the Sailor Guardian of Love and Beauty.

"No." Mars says. "Saying nonsense is not the way to go. Wait... maybe... ‘O key hiding the powers of darkness.’"

"O key hiding the powers of darkness." Repeats the little Sailor Guardian.

Suddenly, the key is surrounded by a light and a magic circle appears at Chibi Moon's feet.

"IT WORKS!" Yell Moon, who has returned to the other Sailors with Mercury. This startles her friends.

"Good," Mars continued, "then said, ‘Show your true form before me. I, Sailor Chibi Moon, in the name of the contract made with Sakura, command you.’''

"Show your true form before me. I, Sailor Chibi Moon, in the name of the contract made with Sakura, command you."

The light emanating from the key becomes stronger and stronger and the magic circle is brighter.

"Now shout release!" Ends the Sailor Guardian of Fire and Passion.

"RELEASE!"

The key grows and becomes the long pink magic wand. Chibi Moon holds it firmly in her hands. The magic circle disappears.

"Okay, now for the capture." Says Jupiter. "Do we need an incantation too?"

Chibi Moon starts to say yes when Mercury notices that the ice covering Watery is starting to crack.

"NO!" She says. "She's trying to break free!"

"Let's not panic." Mars says. "We still have time. Chibi Moon, approach Watery and lower the wand towards her, saying ‘return to your original form, Clow Card’!"

"O-ok."

Chibi Moon approaches Watery.

"Return to your original form, Clow Card!"

She briskly lowers the wand toward Watery and the red beak brings up the glowing silhouette of a card. The mermaid shrieks and is absorbed into the silhouette which turns into a long card, similar to a tarot card. Chibi Moon shouts with joy.

The card, rather than falling to the ground, or going into her hand, goes to Mercury.

"Huh? Why did she go to me?" She asks. "It was Chibi Moon who captured her."

"Yes." Said the little Sailor Guardian. "But it was you who froze her. The cards should go to the ones who defeated them."

"That makes sense." Mercury says. "But what to do with this card? Can it get free again?"

"It's possible." Mars says. "There would have to be a way to bind her to you."

"OH!" Said Chibi Moon suddenly. "Sakura had said ‘I wrote my name on each of them, so they should have stayed with me.’ So if you write your name..."

"...it will belong to you." Concluded Mars. "That is, until Chibi Moon captures the others and they hand them over to Sakura."

"I see." Mercury said.

The Sailor Guardians leave the scene before the unconscious people wake up, de-transform in a secluded alley, and go to Usagi's house. Meanwhile, Chibiusa transforms the pink wand back into the magic key.

The first thing Ami does when she arrives is to ask Usagi's mom, Ikuko, for a pen to write her name on the Clow Card. Chibiusa bewitches Usagi's parents again to pretend to be her cousin, much to her anger. Then the girls go to Usagi's room and Chibiusa tells them everything, as she did with Rei.

"Wow!" Says Minako. "So there are six cards left to find."

"Yes." Says Chibiusa. "Windy, Wood, Firey, Earthy, Light and Dark."

Ami is thinking a lot. Usagi asks her what she is thinking about.

"Well, Watery represents water, so Firey must be fire, Windy the wind, Wood the wood or nature, Earthy the earth, Light the light and Dark darkness."

"Probably." Rei adds. "I don't know if Watery attacked you on purpose, but if so, Firey will target me."

"Huh?" Usagi asks. "Why?"

"Well..." Mako said, still finding Usagi's naivety impressive. "Rei, as Sailor Mars, controls fire and Firey is fire."

"I still don't understand."

A large drop forms on the heads of the other girls. They can't believe it. They know Usagi is not very bright, but she can't be that stupid!

"I'll explain." Said Ami, while pointing to Watery in her hand. "I have Watery, who is water, and I am Sailor Mercury. My powers are on...?"

"Watery!" Usagi said happily. "Ohhhhhh, I understand now."

Another large drop forms on the heads of the other girls, replacing the first one. Holy Usagi!

"So Firey for Rei and...?"

"If the cards are only targeting us, and not Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru," Ami explains, "I would say Wood for Mako, because she loves plants. Earthy for Minako, her attacks are based on light, but also on metal and metal comes from earth. Light and Dark, if it's a pair, for you Usagi, because you have a long fight against darkness. As for Windy, well that leaves only Chibiusa. "

The other girls nod their heads. Ami's theory is sound. They now know what to expect. Finally, Ami, Rei, Mako and Minako go home.

Chibiusa stays with Usagi. This one orders her, in a dry tone, to leave her room.

"Okay, you don't have to be mean."

"Sorry, it's just... did you really need to hypnotize my parents?"

"Well yeah. Unless you'd rather I stay at Mamoru's?"

"At Mamo's?! NO WAY AND GET OUT OF MY ROOM!"

Chibiusa, with a mischievous smile, leaves Usagi's room. She would like to visit Mamoru but, as she doesn't know how long she's going to stay, and she doesn't want to hurt his feelings, she prefers to leave him unaware of her arrival in the past.

The fire angel and Watery Mars

The next day, after school, Ami contacts Usagi. Since Chibiusa is standing close, she can hear the conversation.

"Mother will be angry." Ami says. "There's water everywhere!"

"What happened?" Usagi asks.

"Well..."

Ami tells him that while she was taking a bath, she started singing Watery's name.

"It rhymes with Mercury, after all." Ami explains, and as Usagi insists, she hums. "♪ O Watery, o Watery, I am Sailor Mercury. O Watery, o Watery, grant your power upon me, Mercury. ♪ "

Then the Clow Card manifested in her room, splashing water everywhere. Ami, hearing the noise, transformed into Eternal Sailor Mercury and went into the room. Watery, seeing her transformed, must have thought that Mercury wanted to practice combat, so the Clow Card started to attack her.

"I was able to avoid her attack," Ami continues to explain, "but Watery, well angry, moved all over the house. She put water everywhere!"

"Oh my!" Usagi replies to her. "How did you stop her?"

"I explained to her that I was willing to practice my water powers with her, but not right away. Watery seemed to understand, because she calmed down. I ordered her to become a card again and she obeyed."

This solved one problem, but Ami has no idea how to get rid of the water. Chibiusa tells Usagi to tell Ami to use Watery to reabsorb the water. Usagi thinks this idea is stupid, but Ami loves it. She tells Usagi to thank Chibiusa then hangs up. Usagi passes the message and Minako contacts her. She panics.

"Minako? What the—?"

"Usagi, Chibiusa! Hikawa Shrine is on fire!"

"WHAT?!" Usagi and Chibiusa shout at the same time.

"Firey must have attacked Rei and set the fire. I'm on the spot with Mako, but—"

"But what? You have to help Rei!"

"I would, Usagi, but the flames are too big. We need you and the Silver Crystal's power if we are to get in!"

"We're coming!" Chibiusa said.

Before leaving, Chibiusa warns Ami. The mother and her future daughter transform on the way.

When they arrive in front of the burning shrine, Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon join Minako and Mako. They transform into Eternal Sailor Venus and Eternal Sailor Jupiter. Strangely, there is no one around. Not worried people, nor firemen, nor police. Moon finds this strange, but she doesn't have time to worry about it.

Using her Silver Crystal and Chibi Moon's Pink Moon Crystal, a protective barrier is created and the Sailor Guardians can enter the sanctuary without being charred. They didn't wait for Ami, because every minute counts.

In Hikawa Shrine, while staying together to remain in the protection, they start looking for Rei and her grandfather. They find Rei, transformed into Eternal Sailor Mars, on the ground and badly injured. Burns are all over her body. Her eyes are closed, but she is breathing. A little further away, in a circle of flames, is Rei's grandfather. He seems unconscious.  

"Look!" Venus says.

She points to a creature made of flames standing in the air.

"That must be Firey."  Says Jupiter.

Firey has the appearance of a teenage androgynous angel with orange wings and eleven long ears. Firey appears to be naked, but hir body is hidden by flames and hir wears only a red headband. Chibi Moon wastes no time.

"O key concealing the powers of darkness. Show your true form before me. I, Sailor Chibi Moon, in the name of my contract with Sakura, command you. RELEASE!"

The magic key turns into the sealing wand. Firey, seeing this, launches fiery attacks towards the Sailors Guardians. The two crystal's protection holds, but the heat is intense.

"If this continues," says Jupiter, "we'll end up roasted!"

"NOOOOO!" Venus shouts. "I don't want to become a chicken!"

"Huh?" Chibi Moon asks. "A chicken?"

"I'll take care of it!" Says Moon.

She prepares to attack Firey, but Chibi Moon stops her.

"If you use your powers, the Silver Crystal will no longer protect us! My Pink Moon Crystal won't be able to maintain the protection by itself! Firey's attacks are too powerful."

"But then, what to do?" Moon asks, and then she calls Mars for help. "Mars! Sailor Mars, wake up! Please wake up!"

Sailor Mars doesn't wake up.

"We need you! Your grandfather needs you!" Keep begging Moon. "Please!"

She still doesn't wake up. Firey continues to attack them and then a voice is heard.

"FIREY! It's us you have to face!"

Eternal Sailor Mercury arrives. She holds Watery in her hand.

"Watery, with me!" Mercury said. The Clow Card lit up and Watery appeared. "Mercury..."

Watery creates water dragons.

"Aqua Rhapsody!!!"

The two attacks combined extinguish Firey's fire attacks. Hir isn’t happy. The Clow Card counters with a torrent of flames and, although Watery was able to reduce its power, Mercury gets a first-degree burn on her arm. The Sailor Guardian of Water and Knowledge screams in pain.

"NO! MERCURY!" Moon shouts.

"Mercury!" Say Jupiter and Venus.

"Watery... Sailor Mars..." Says Chibi Moon, also worrying about Rei.

Suddenly, like a miracle, Mars opens her eyes. She can hardly move, but she whispers something unexpected.

"Watery... may I... channel… you? Mercury... authorize..."

Her words surprise all the Sailors, but Mercury gives her permission without further ado. Sailor Mars then utters an incantation. As she quickly whispers it, Chibi Moon doesn't understand it all except for the words "maiden," "water," "spirit" and "enter," then the incredible happen.

Watery turns into a swirl of water, goes to Mars, enters her body, and the Sailor Guardian transforms. Sailor Mars' hair becomes dark blue and very, very long, like Watery. Her eyes become bright, as if a light was turned on in them. Her Sailor Guardian uniform remains the same, but blue is added to the red. The burns disappear and the transformation is complete.

"Wow..." Sailor Jupiter said.

"Mars, is that you?" Sailor Moon asks.

The Sailor Guardian leaps to her feet and speaks. Her voice is a little different, but Moon recognizes Rei.

"I am... Sailor Watery Mars."

"Watery... Mars?" Said Sailor Venus, surprised.

"That's amazing." Said Chibi Moon. "Since when can Mars channel spirits?"

That's a good question. Watery Mars continues to speak.

"FIREY!" She said with anger in her voice. "You've caused enough trouble. Let Chibi Moon capture you or else—!"

Firey simply laughs and throws a large fireball in her direction. Watery Mars raises a hand and a big water spray stops it and puts it out. This angers Firey.

"All right. I'm going to have to do this the hard way!" Watery Mars exclaims. "WATERY..."

She spins her right arm once and blue flames shoot out of her hand. The flames turn into eight blue balls around her.

"MANDALA!"

The blue balls, being of the water element, rush towards Firey. They explode. Firey is paralyzed and very weakened.

"Chibi Moon, NOW!"

Chibi Moon runs out of the protection, diminishing its effectiveness, and she hurries to capture Firey.

"Return to your original form, Clow Card!"

Firey screams and turns into a card. The flames created by Firey disappear immediately. Hikawa Shrine returns to normal. Sailor Mercury's burned arm returns to normal, too. The fire element card goes into Watery Mars' hand. She smiles, closes her eyes, and Watery comes out of Rei's body, de-transforming her in the process. The Sailor Guardians do the same, Chibiusa turns the wand back into the magic key, Watery becomes a card again, and Rei's grandfather wakes up. He doesn't remember anything.

One more Clow Card captured! There are five left. Rei quickly writes her name on Firey and her friends keep bombarding her with questions. "Since when can you channel spirits?", "Can you channel Firey too?", "Why didn't you tell us before?", "Can you summon <dead celebrity>?" etc., etc. Only Chibiusa doesn't ask her any questions because she can see that it makes Rei angry.

Finally, Rei kicks everyone out. Usagi, angry, goes to get an ice cream and Chibiusa follows her.

The Other Clow Cards

Four days later, Makoto contacts Chibiusa.

"Can you come to my apartment?"

"Sure, Mako. Did you cook something good?"

"No. I can't, with all these tree branches everywhere, I'm afraid I'll start a fire."

"Tree branches?"

"It's Wood. At first my plants grew faster, then little branches started appearing on my walls, and now my place is filled with giant branches! I have tried to locate her, without success. However, I don't feel any danger from her. Can some Clow Cards be peaceful?"  

"It's possible. I'm coming."

Without telling Usagi, Chibiusa goes to Mako's place. She knocks on her door.

"Hi, Chibiusa. Come in."

Chibusa enters and she is surprised to see tree branches everywhere.

"Whoa... yet, Mako, your plants have nothing."

"I know. Wood is careful. My furniture has nothing either and there are no branches on my bed!"

"She must really be peaceful, then. It'll be easy to capture her."

Chibiusa transformed the magic key into the sealing wand. Immediately Wood appears in front of Makoto and her.

Wood is a beautiful young woman with flowing green hair. She has a leaf symbol on her forehead. She has leaf-shaped ears and slingshot wings on her back.

"Wood?" Mako asks.

Wood nods her head.

"Can I... uh... capture you?" Chibiusa asks.

Wood nods again.

"Okay. Return to your original form—"

Suddenly, Wood makes the "shush" sign.

"Why?" Asks the little pink-haired girl and Wood points at Mako.

"I think she wants me to sign my name on the card."

"Is that all? No problem."

Wood smiles and Chibiusa captures her. Wood turns into a Clow Card and her tree branches disappear. Mako's apartment is back to the way it was before.

"Phew!" Mako says. "I'll be able to cook again."

The Wood card goes into Chibiusa's hand, but she gives it to Mako. Mako goes to write her name on it and then she asks Chibiusa if she wants to eat something. She's really looking forward to cooking!

Two days later, Usagi, Ami, Rei, Mako, Minako and Chibiusa are walking in the forest. They have a good time and then the earth starts to shake.

"An earthquake? Here?" Minako asks.

"It must be Earthy!" Exclaims Chibiusa.

"In that case, let's transform." Usagi says.

The girls transform and Sailor Chibi Moon manifests the sealing wand. The Sailor Guardians get ready for anything and then a huge snake made of hard earth comes out of the ground.

"There it is." Mars says. "Let's go."

Sailor Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter launch their most powerful attacks on the snake. Only Jupiter and Venus' attack seems to have a small effect.

"It's not enough to capture it." Mercury says. "Watery, come to my aid!"

Watery appears. Mars calls Firey and Jupiter, Wood. With the help of the cards, they attack the earth serpent relentlessly. Venus helps too, but the Clow Card doesn't seem to weaken. Earthy counterattacks with earth-type magic - large rocks and falling trees - but the Sailors manage to avoid them.

"I have an idea." Mars said. "Sailor Moon, use your power. Then Jupiter asks Wood to use her power on Venus' next attack. Venus, use Venus Love Me Chain."

"Are you sure?" Venus asks. "I have more powerful attacks."

"Yes, do it."

Moon, Venus and Jupiter nod.

"Silver Moon Crystal Power Therapy Kiss!"

Her attack distracts Earthy. It seems transfixed by Sailor Moon's light.

"Wood," says Jupiter, "help Sailor Venus with your power!"

"Venus Love Me Chain!"

Venus' light chain is surrounded by thin branches with green leaves. It surrounds the snake everywhere, paralyzing Earthy. Mercury tells Chibi Moon to capture it.

"Okay! Return to your original form, Clow Card!"

The wand’s red beak reveals the bright silhouette of a card. The snake then transforms into an elegant lady wearing a dress with draped sleeves and a bodice. Her hair is curled upward and parted in opposite directions. The lady, Earthy's true form, is absorbed into the silhouette, which transforms into a Clow Card. The card goes into Sailor Venus' hand and the earth no longer shakes.

"Well," she says, "I did well to bring a pen with me."

She signs her name. There are only three cards left to capture. The girls de-transform and continue their walks.

Three days later, in Chibiusa's room, she sees Usagi disappear into the darkness. Suspecting that it's Dark, Chibiusa transforms, makes the pink wand appear, but she doesn't manage to enter the darkness and thus find Usagi. She'll have to fend for herself.

Finally, ten minutes later, Usagi, transformed, reappeared with two supernatural women, Light and Dark. The darkness was gone.

"Sailor Moon!"

"Chibi Moon! I'm fine. This is Light and Dark. They are sisters."

"Yes," said Light, "Sailor Moon has passed our test."

"A test?"

"Yes," Dark explains to Chibi Moon. "My darkness was trapping her. She had to guess my name and summon my sister with her own light. With her Silver Crystal."

Chibi Moon was not impressed. She knew that Moon was going to make it. After all, she had faced much worse! Since Light and Dark are sisters, they must be captured at the same time. Sailor Chibi Moon captures them and both cards go into Moon's hand. They de-transform, Usagi signs her name on the cards, then the window suddenly opens. In a soft breeze, an elegant fairy with blond hair, styled high and falling forward in two long strands, arrives. Her body seems to be made of air.

"Who are you?" Usagi asks.

"Windy." Says Chibiusa. "She must be Windy."

Windy nods and, as the two girls look on in surprise, turns into a Clow Card by herself! Chibiusa signs her name on it. She now has all the elusive Clow Cards!

"Now all I have to do is hand them to Sakura." She says. "But how, by dreaming about her?"

"Maybe." Usagi said. "Why don't you go to bed, and I'll ask the girls to come over, okay?"

"Okay."

Chibiusa goes to bed. As soon as she manages to fall asleep, Chibiusa finds herself on a plain.

"Sakura?" She calls out. "Sakura, are you there?"

She hears Sakura's voice answer her.

"I'm coming!"

Chibiusa joins Sakura. She is happy to see her again.

"Hello, Chibiusa!"

"Hi Sakura."

"So, did you recapture the cards?"

"Yes, but I don't have them all with me."

"You don't? What do you mean?"

"Well..."

Chibiusa tells her everything. Sakura is impressed by the fact that Chibiusa and her friends are magical girls. Also by the temporary Sailor Watery Mars.

"I wish I could transform..." Sakura said dreamily.

"But my friends are supposed to come to Usagi, where I'm living for a while, so..."

"You should have had all the cards, yes. Focus."

Chibiusa concentrates, as requested, and all the cards appear in her hand.

"Whoa! Here they are."

She wants to give them to Sakura, but a force prevents her from taking them.

"Huh?" Sakura says, surprised. "Kero never told me about this! How can I get them back now?"

"Maybe you need to get your magic key back first." Said Chibiusa.

"Maybe."

Sakura does another incantation to transfer her Cardcaptor status back to herself. Chibiusa gives her the key and then she tries to give her the Clow Cards. This time, Sakura can take them and the names written on them disappear. Thus Sakura is able to write her own. Sakura thanks Chibiusa warmly. Chibiusa wishes her good luck and then she wakes up. Usagi and her friends are standing next to her.

"Is everything okay?" Usagi asks.

"Yes. I saw Sakura. I gave her her key and the Clow Cards."

"That explains why they disappeared." Says Ami.

The key was no longer around Chibiusa's neck.

"So," Rei asks her, "are you going to go back to the 30th century right away?"

Mako, Minako and Ami look at Chibiusa with a sad look in their eyes. It's so hard, the goodbyes.

"Yes," she says sadly. "It's for the best."

Usagi and her friends say goodbye, all the while holding back tears, and Chibiusa leaves the house. She finds a quiet corner and uses the time key to go back to the future, to the Crystal Palace.

Back home, she gives the time key to Sailor Pluto and discusses her adventure. Afterwards, Chibiusa wonders if she should talk to her mother, Neo-Queen Serenity, about it or not. Hmm, she thought. I have time to think about it.


Author's comment: The idea for this fanfic came to me in a dream, where Sailor Mercury was trying to fight Watery and Chibiusa arrived with Sakura's magic key. Chibiusa captured the Clow Card and Mercury could then use it.

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