Cardcaptor Twilight

Twilight stared off into the distance, her staff gripped tightly in her magical field as she took a deep breath. “We’re almost there, Sparkle!” Trixie shouted as the two, riding on Trixie’s Fly-staff, neared their destination. “Get ready!”

“Right,” Twilight said, narrowing her eyes as the sight of various flying objects came into view. “Just don’t shake too much.”

“Please, Trixie has already mastered the art of flying,” Trixie said, grinning as she leaned forward to increase speed. Twilight forehooves, which were already wrapped around Trixie’s waist, grabbed on tighter, so that she wouldn’t fall off. “Where’s that plush toy?”

“Who’re ya callin’ a plus toy!?” Kero shouted, floating out of Twilight’s mane and flying beside Trixie.

“Only one plush toy around here,” she answered. “And it certainly isn’t Sparkle.”

“Why you!”

“Guys!” Twilight shouted, stopping their argument before it could escalate. “Kero, which one is it?”

Kero turned to face the flying objects, which they were now very close to, and entered his meditation state. “Not sure…Float’s constantly changin’ between ‘em, so I can’t pinpoint its location.”

“Then how are we supposed to seal it?” Trixie asked, slowing down so that they didn’t fly past the flying objects. “Ah, I’ve got it!”

“Hm? Got what?” Twilight asked. Trixie used her magic to levitate the time card from her bag, and floated it over to Twilight. “Time?”

“Use that to keep float from moving, and then seal it. Trixie would do it herself, but…”

Twilight understood. If Trixie undid Fly, they would both plummet to their deaths. Twilight held up Time, and slammed her staff against it. “Time!” she shouted, unleashing a sphere that froze time around them. Twilight looked over to see the true body of Float as it was passing between two objects.

“Return to the guise you were in meant to be in, Clow Card!” Twilight shouted, slamming her staff down on Float, sealing it in card form. She undid Time’s effect, and grabbed the new Float card in her magic. “Got it!” she shouted triumphantly.

The various objects around them started to fall to the ground rather quickly, and Twilight quickly made use of Windy to make sure they didn’t break upon crashing to the ground.

Trixie slowly descended to the ground, where Rarity was waiting for the three of them. “Well? Did you get it, Twilight?”

“Yep,” Twilight said, a cheerful smile on her face.

“My, it seems you’re getting quite into this whole Cardcaptor business,” Rarity observed.

“Well, maybe a little,” Twilight admitted, a slight blush across her cheeks as she did so. She felt a tap against her shoulder, and turned around to see Trixie glaring at her. “Um…Y-yeah?”

“Trixie's Time card,” Trixie said, holding out a hoof expectantly. “Return it.”

“Oh, right. Sorry, “Twilight said, levitating the Time card into Trixie’s hoof.

“Hey! What’re ya doing!?” Kero shouted, floating in front of Twilight’s face. “Don’t help out the enemy!”

“But…It’s her card, Kero,” Twilight said.

“That’s true. Trixie’s name is on it,” Trixie said, pointing a hoof to her name on the card.

“That is her name,” Twilight confirmed. “That means if I kept it, I’d be stealing it.”

“You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me! Did ya forget how she tried ta steal your cards during the Thunder incident!?”

“Two wrongs do not make a right, Kero dear,” Rarity said, before turning to smile at Twilight. “And Twilight is just simply too kind to stoop to such lows.”

Before Kero could continue his rampage, Trixie’s saddlebag started to glow with a bright light, startling her and attracting the group’s attention. She levitated out her compass, which shot a bright beam of light off in one direction.

“What? Another one?” Twilight complained. “Where is it?”

Trixie shrugged, and climbed onto her staff. “Somewhere over there,” she said, kicking up off the ground. “Well, in any case, Trixie will be sure to find it before any of you.” She looked down at the two ponies and one “plush toy”, and grinned. “See ya!” she shouted as she took off in the direction shown by the light.

“Not good! She’s gonna beat us to the punch!” Kero shouted. “Come on! Let’s go!”

“Well…I could use Dash, but…” Twilight turned to Rarity, who told her to go on ahead. “Are you sure?”

“I’ll be fine, Twilight,” Rarity said, only half truthfully. “Really, don’t worry about me. Just make sure you don’t lose to Trixie, ok?”

Twilight nodded, and levitated the Dash card from her saddlebag. Kero sat down in Twilight’s mane, grabbing a hold of it tightly. “Dash!” Twilight shouted, slamming her staff against the card. She took off in the same direction that Trixie had, and soon caught up to her.

Twilight slowed down so that she could follow Trixie to wherever the next card was, but sped up again once she realised where they were heading. “Ponyville?” she asked herself, seeing the small town in the distance. “But…How could we not have found it there yet?”

“It must have been inactive until just recently,” Kero explained. “Anyway, it’s a small town, so it shouldn’t be hard to find.”

“How have we not found it yet in this small town!?” Kero shouted as he and Twilight checked the bushes in the park. Thankfully, nopony was around to see or hear him, due to the downpour of rain. “There haven’t even been any strange rumours!”

“Hey, Kero, can’t we just search later?” Twilight asked, moving her wet mane out of her eyes. “We’ll catch a cold if we stay out here much longer.”

Kero sighed and float down onto Twilight. “Guess it can’t be helped. Let’s go find some shelter for now.”

Twilight ran out of the park and through the streets of Ponyville, heading towards her library. A voice called out to her, and she turned to see a pink pony shouting to from Sugarcube Corner. “Hey! Twilight! What’re you doing out in the rain?” she asked, waving a hoof from the front door. “Come here! Before you catch a cold!”

Twilight smiled and accepted her friends offer, making her way towards her friend. “Hey, Pinkie Pie. You sure it’s alright for me to stay here for a bit?”

“Of course it is! What kind of friend would I be to leave you out in the cold rain?”

“Thanks, Pinkie,” she said, smiling warmly at her friend. “Um, I don’t suppose you have a towel I can borrow, do you?”

“Sure do! Right this way!”

Pinkie led Twilight to the bathroom, where she lent the wet Unicorn a spare towel. Once Twilight was dried off, the two friends moved up to Pinkie Pie’s room, so that they could talk whilst waiting out the downpour.

Twilight tried to explain to Pinkie how her research had made great progress lately, and although Pinkie was listening intently, Twilight wasn’t sure how much of her conversation the pink pony understood. Afterwards, the two played a few games together to pass the time. Kero, meanwhile, was sitting off to the side in Twilight’s saddlebag.

“Oh, hey, I got this new manepin today!” Pinkie shouted cheerfully. “You wanna see it? Huh? Do ya do ya?”

“Uh, sure. I’d love to-” Before Twilight could finish, Pinkie dashed off to her bedside table, and then returned moments later with her new manepin in her mane. “Wow, Pinkie. That’s…” Twilight examined the manepin, and was actually surprised at it. It was a miniature sword with a blue stone in its hilt. “…Something I’d expect Rainbow or Rarity to wear.”

“I know, but when I saw it I thought “oh wow this looks so cute!” and I like cute things and it was on sale so I bought it and-”

Twilight raised an eyebrow when Pinkie suddenly stopped talking, and waved a hoof in front of her. “Um…Hello? Pinkie Pie?”

“Twilight! Watch out!” Kero shouted as he shot out of her saddlebag. “This presence…It’s the Sword card!”

Twilight turned around when she heard Pinkie Pie moving, and just about managed to dodge an attack from the pink pony. Twilight stared at her friend in shock. Pinkie Pie’s face showed no sign of any emotions, and her mane had deflated from its usual curliness to a long, straight mane. And finally, in her hooves, she was holding an enlarged version of the manepin that she was wearing just moments ago.

“That’s the Sword card,” Kero repeated. “We need to get out of here! There’s not enough room!”

“But-”

“Watch out!” Twilight saw Pinkie Pie charging at her, and used her magic to teleport outside of the bedroom. Pinkie Pie looked up and saw Pinkie following her, and quickly made her way down to the lower level of the bakery. “Sword grants whoever wields it the power of a master swordsman. But if they have little to no magical ability, it also takes control of their mind!”

“So why is it trying to kill us!?” Twilight asked. “And how do we seal it!?”

“Sword is aligned with Firey! It’s an aggressive card, and seeks out the strongest of opponents to prove its strength!” Twilight and Kero made their way outside of the bakery, still being followed by Pinkie Pie. “To seal it, we need to make her let go of Sword somehow! But…I don’t think we have any cards powerful enough to defeat her.”

“Wait! You mean we have to hurt her to save her!?”

“It’s the only way!” Kero shouted. He felt a child down his spine, and turned around to see that Pinkie Pie had caught up to them, and was about to cut Twilight down. “Watch out!”

“Shield!”

A magical barrier formed around Kero and Twilight, and although Pinkie’s sword was able to cut through it, it had still allowed Twilight enough time to retreat a little bit. Pinkie turned towards Trixie, who was standing off to the side, and stared at her for a few seconds, before charging towards the blue Unicorn.

“Watch out, Trixie!” Kero warned. “She’s changed her target to you!”

“Yes, Trixie can see that,” Trixie responded sarcastically. She levitated out the Illusion card, planning to use it to distract Pinkie Pie long enough to knock Sword out of her hooves. However, she underestimated Pinkie’s speed, and the sword wielding pony was right in her face before she could use the Clow Card. “Oh buck…”

Trixie just about managed to dodge Pinkie’s attack, but in her haste she had dropped the Illusion card, and with Pinkie still pursuing Trixie, she was unable to go back and grab it.

Twilight watched the scene in horror, trying to think of something she could do. “We have to make her let go…But how?”

Trixie dodged another attack of Pinkie’s, and used Shield to slow the pink pony down. “Darn it! Why is she so fast!?”

An idea hit Twilight, and she took out her key. “Key that hides the power of the dark, show your true form before me. I, Twilight, command you under our contract: Release!” Wasting no time, Twilight made her way back to the bakery. “Hold on, Trixie! I’ll be right back!”

“What!? Don’t leave Trixie!” Trixie shouted, fumbling about with the cards in her saddlebag with her magic to find the right one. “A-ha! Now Trixie’s got you!” Trixie pulled out a Clow Card, threw it into the air, and slammed her staff against it. “Time!”

A sphere started to emerge from the Time card, but a single slash from Pinkie’s sword caused the sphere to shatter, surprising Trixie. “What!? How did it do that!?” She shouted, continuing to run from Pinkie’s attacks.

“Sword can cut through anything, even time and space distortions,” Kero explained, flying beside Trixie. “I dunno what Twilight has planned, but she better hurry…”

“Dash!” Trixie and Kero turned around to see a purple blur approaching the pink pony. Pinkie Pie stopped as the blur started to circle her, attempting to follow it with her eyes.

Trixie and Kero also stopped, and watched as Pinkie grew increasingly dizzy from chasing the purple blur.

Twilight took this chance to knock sword out of Pinkie’s hooves, and the pink pony in question suddenly collapsed to the floor. “Pinkie!” Twilight shouted as she slowed to a stop, holding Pinkie Pie to make sure she was alright.

“She’ll be fine, Twilight,” Kero assured her. “Quickly! Seal Sword before it possesses somepony else!”

Twilight nodded, and turned to face Sword, which was now floating in the air. “Return the guise you were meant to be in, Clow Card!”

Slamming her staff down, Twilight’s staff pulled Sword towards it, sealing it in card form. The card floated towards Twilight, and she grabbed it with her magic.

“Nice work!” Kero shouted, thrusting a fist into the air. “Meanwhile, Trixie was useless yet again.”

Trixie glared at Kero, and then raised her nose into the air. “A mere slipup. It happens to everypony, even great Unicorns like Trixie.”

“Actually,” Twilight started, approaching Trixie. “It was thanks to Trixie that I was able to seal Sword away. If you hadn’t come along, I wouldn’t have been able to reach the Dash card in my saddlebag.” Twilight scratched the back of her neck and looked down at the ground, shuffling her hooves nervously. “Um, thanks, Trixie.”

Trixie felt her face heating up, and turned her back to the purple Unicorn. “W-well, Trixie will be going now. She has a big day tomorrow, and can’t afford to waste anymore time here,” she said, taking a moment to recover her Illusion card.

As Trixie made her way down the streets of Ponyville, she felt a sharp pain running through her right forehoof. But she couldn’t stop to examine it, since it was raining, and she wanted to hurry up and return to her trailer. That’s when she took notice of the black thunderclouds up ahead, where lightning was beginning to shoot down.

“Well, that’s not good,” Trixie said to herself. “Trixie can’t really fly back in that weather…”

“Oh my, are you ok?” Trixie turned around to see a yellow Pegasus standing in front of her, panting heavily, completely drenched from the rain. “You’re covered in scratches. What happened?”

Trixie recognised the yellow Pegasus as one of Twilight’s friends. The one who had a strange affect on the showmare before. Trixie felt that same effect running through her body, as her heartbeat increased quickly, and her entire body started to heat up.

“Oh my, do you have a fever?” she asked, approaching the shivering showmare and placing her forehead against Trixie’s. “You’re burning up! Oh, we need to get you out of this rain, quickly!”

Trixie wanted to insist that she was ok, and that she didn’t need any help, but the pleading look from the adorable pony in front made it practically impossible. She instead simply nodded, and followed the Pegasus back to her house.

“Oh, I’m Fluttershy, by the way,” Fluttershy said. Her gentle voice made Trixie feel dizzy, but not in a bad way…It was like she was getting high on just being near this yellow Pegasus. “What’s your name?”

“T-Trixie,” Trixie responded, although her voice was unnaturally high as she did so.

“Well, it’s nice to meet you, Miss Trixie,” Fluttershy said.

“J-Just Trixie is…Fine…”

“Ok then, Trixie. It’s nice to meet you,” she repeated.

“Y-yeah, you too.”

Hours later, Trixie had finally managed to calm down, and was once again able to calmly pool her thoughts together. Over the past few hours, she simply followed the yellow Pegasus, Fluttershy, back to her home, allowed her to apply some first aid to her wounds, took a bath (Trixie insisted on taking one alone, although the singing from Fluttershy in the other room prevented her from calming down), ate a meal together with Fluttershy, and now, she was sleeping in Fluttershy’s bed, whilst Fluttershy took the couch downstairs.

Trixie wasn’t sure why, but right now, she felt like she was in heaven. She had only met the Pegasus once before, but just the thought of being near her, and sleeping in the same bed that Fluttershy herself had slept in many times before, made her so happy that she could barely hold in her squeals of joy.

However, now that Fluttershy was in a different room, and the storm outside had died down, Trixie decided to try sneaking out and returning to her trailer, before she became too entranced by the yellow Pegasus. She took off the bandages covering her wounds and threw them into the nearby bin.

“Honestly…Trixie doesn’t need such pity…” Trixie searched her saddlebag to make sure that everything was there. As she searched, the feather that was attached to Fly fell out, and she picked it up with her hooves. “Ah!” Trixie yelped as she made contact with the feather.

She examined her hooves, and saw the scratches running down them slowly disappearing. “W-what the!?” Within a few moments, her entire body was looking better than ever. The wounds gained from her battle with Sword had disappeared without a trace, and even some other wounds from before today had been healed, too.

She looked at the feather that she was still holding in her hoof, and could feel powerful magic flowing out of it. “This feather…What is it?” she asked herself. When she heard movement downstairs, she quickly put the feather away, and made her way towards the window.

Using the Fly card, Trixie made her way out of Fluttershy’s bedroom, and started her journey back to her trailer. “Today, Twilight got two Clow Cards, and Trixie got none…” Trixie ascended slightly to avoid an incoming cloud, and then slowed down as a thought ran through her mind. “Trixie should go and confirm something with that witch,” she said to herself as she changed direction.