Chapter 55: An Attack Of The Teddy Bears!: Of Swords And Flight!

Things had once again returned to normal since yesterday. And, in the schools courtyard, both Sakura and myself were currently hard at work putting together both of our teddy bears from the kits that we had both purchased at the craft store the night before. "There, finished!" Sakura said as she took a scissor and cut a loose thread away from her now completed teddy bear. "Well done Sakura" I said, as I too completed my work on my bear. However, it seemed that my congrats were a bit premature as Sakura seemed to not be happy with how her bear had turned out "No matter how many times I do this it always seems to look like Kero" Sakura said. It was then that I took a look at my bear, only to realize that the same was the case for my bear as well "It appears that we both have had similar issues with this haven't we?" I said as a sweatdrop found its way down the back of my head. A short time after Sakura had gone back to work on writing a letter that she was intending to send out to Ms. Mackenzie that Eli happened to venture over to us. And still not knowing any information about him, I remained somewhat on edge, but decided to pass all of that to the side for the time being. It was when Eli noticed both of our bears, realizing that we had gotten them at the craft shop, that he then asked to see both of them. With hesitation from both Sakura and myself at first, we gave both bears to him. And after Eli suggested that the ears of our bears needed to be a little bit shorter. Sakura and I reached into our respective bags to pull out our scissors. But, as our attention was focused on doing that, we weren't able to see Eli enchant one ear of each of our bears before he handed them both back to us.

Later that night, just outside of Julian's house, Sakura and I were once again dressed up into another one of Madison's costume ensembles. Except, this wasn't to capture a clow card. It was to visit Julian. "This is so embarrassing, why do we have to wear one of your costumes to go to Julian's house?" Sakura said looking very embarrassed. "You think I wanted this either Sakura, I'm no less embarrassed in this situation then you are right now" I said also feeling just as embarrassed.

Things had very quickly just gone off the rails. Both Sakura and I were in the process of handing our respective teddy bears over to Julian when all of the sudden both of our respective teddy bears grew to an enormous size. And to make matters worse, Madison was now in grave danger, Sakura and I would now have to act fast to deal with the current situation. I knew that the solution to this problem required both the use of the Sword Card and the Fly Card. However, when I had told my idea to Sakura, that was when the fundamental flaw to the solution became apparent. As it currently stood, we couldn't use the Sword Card and the Fly Card simultaneously because both required the use of our staffs to be in different forms. It was then that Sakura put the Fly Card to her chest and said "please allow both of us to fly without having to transform our staffs". It was then that I knew deep down that things were going to turn out just fine. I then pulled out the Sword Card, I then turned to Sakura, who nodded. I then threw the Sword Card into the air as Sakura did the same with the Fly Card, "we call upon the power of our stars, ancient forces near and far, Fly Card discard your former might, and draw your power from our might, Star Card!" we chanted in unison. And just like all the times before, the two cards stopped spinning and the fly card now displayed its new design and colors on the front and back. And a split second after that, rather than have our staffs grow the wings like they did when we used the Fly Card, they instead appeared on our backs like that of an angel. "Sword!" We both followed up by chanting in unison. Our respective staffs then transformed into swords, and with our transformations now complete, we spread our new wings and took off upwards towards our respective teddy bears heads. And after dodging a couple swipes from both of them, Sakura and I charged through the air with our respective swords drawn back in a thrusting strike. And as we both passed by our respective bears ears, our respective swords sliced through the ears that held the enchantments like a knife through butter. And once the both of us touched down on the ground again. We knew that we had both done a great job in finding a solution and executing it in a flawless manner. We only hoped that any further situation that presented itself in the future would only go as smooth.