Chapter 3: Izuyu's Story

The three soon looked up.  The place that they were wasn't much different than the place that they had left, except the sky was black and the plants were different.

"I knew that the world had to stop polluting, but this..." commented Li.

"No, it's not pollution, it's the Evil, except...it's supposed to be here now."

Sitting down under a tree, Izuyu said, "Well, as long as we're waiting, we might as well chat..."

Sukura followed suite, and Li came after her.  Izuyu began, "As you probably know, I'm about 4 years old now, and I guess that I'll give you a more detailed version of what I've told you.  Ahem... I woke up one morning, got my breakfast, blah blah blah.  Then a boy and his younger brother went by, saying, 'look at all these nice family heirlooms mom and dad left us at the bank, now we'll be able to know more about them, and if you're having trouble pushing my wheelchair, just tell me'.  They didn't need to say anything else. I was gone.  I raced to the bank, and a short while after I got there, a guard came and told me that I had to leave because I was 5 minutes too late.  The next day, however, I came there and had been waiting for approximately 6 minutes when they threw out all the people who had been there for 5 minutes. Talk about a close call. Anyway, I received my package, and found out about my family, and the whole Cardcaptors business.  I decided to create a few cards of my own.  I made a pool of my own magic, and was starting to think of what card I would create.  When I came to a decision, I turned and saw that the magic had attracted residue sparks of evil, and for some reason or another, the Dark and Shadow cards tossed in some of their power.  I could do nothing, except watch in horror as a black figure with white outlines crawled out, looked at its hands, which were ugly and disfigured and seemed to be made of pure evil, and then see it look up, smile, and say, 'Hi, Mom'.  You have no idea as to how I felt, to see something this horrible and hear it call me 'Mom'. I sealed it, and saw that it's title was 'The Stealing'.  I had tried to create something that would help the people around me, and instead, I did something that only made things worse," She showed them a picture of her card, and it greatly resembled Michael Jackson (no offense). "I then decided that if I could create something that awful, I could create something that could fight it.  I wrote an incantation for a card, making sure that it mentioned 'the end of theft', and set my plan to work.  I created a pool of magic, recited the incantation, and voila`!  A Light card came out and said, 'Hello, Mom,' very cheerfully, and I sealed her."

"A Light Card?" asked Li.

"Well, sure," replied Izuyu. "Stealing is at its peak at night, and light ends the night, right?  Here," she passed out her Light card.  It looked like a beautiful young woman.  "I was delighted.  Then I created a Dream card just for fun.  When I found out that you guys had the power to stop all of this, but you didn't, I decided to take matters into my own hands.  I gave Sukura a cryptic message with the Dream card, and the rest is history."

Suddenly a rumble interrupted them. "I guess that this is it," said Sukura.

"Let's do it," said Li.