Although it had been a long and tiring day for Sakura, me, and everyone else, I just khat things weren't going to get any easier anytime soon. And this was rgely due to the fact that earlier in the day, shortly after Sakura and I had captured the Earth card that Kero had then transformed into his true form.

  To make matters even more plicated, once Sakura and I made it back to the area where everyone else was after capturing the Earth card, we were then told to seal it as usual with both of our names.

  This also wasn't made any less embarrassing due to the fae and Sakura were once again dressed up in another one of Madison's card capturing outfit ensembles.

  Sakura was dressed up in a pink outfit with yellow ats, while i was dressed up in an outfit that resembled a medieval knight.

  However, once Sakura had finished signing her hat was when things started to really kick off.

  Julian who had been knocked out by the Sleep card during Li, Sakura and I's battle with the Earth card began to glow and then angel wings sprouted from his back.

  While all the while, Li, Sakura and I stood there in utter disbelief.

  Ohe glowing had stopped and the angel wings had parted, airely different individual stood in Julian's pce.

  Earlier we were told that like Kero showing his true form that another individual would ma himself by the name of Yue.

  I just knew deep down that this was him and whatever was this Yue had pnned and what was about to happen would not be easy.

  "It's been a long time Keroberos," Yue said.

  "Yes it has," Keroberos said in response.

  "You were careless, the Clow Cards should've never escaped," Yue said.

  "Perhaps, but you know as well as I do that nothing happens by act, Yue, I khat you were close by, waiting, preparing," Keroberos said in response.

  "Why didn't Julian tell us?" Sakura asked.

  "I don't think he knew," I thought to myself in response.

  "Yue kept his true identity hidden from him, he didn't know, without the final card I could only sense your presence," Keroberos said in response.

  This was then followed, by Keroberos, turning his attention, to Ms. Mazie. "And you, you have magical powers as well, I thought for a time that you could be the judge. But, you helped both Sakura and Zachary. It was then that I realized that you couldn't be the judge. It is not the judges job to help others find their way," Keroberos said, while he, towards the end of his statement, had given a sort of side-gowards Yue.

  "Wait a sed here Kero, what did you realize?" Sakura asked Keroberos in a somewhat fused sounding tone.

  However, it was then that Yue decided to interject by flying over to get a closer look at both me and Sakura. "So we finally meet Sakura and Zachary, the first two didates to be the masters of the clow cards, chosen by Keroberos. A, I sense ahat has the cards," Yue said, obviously referring to Li.

  "Their is no point in passing Final Judgment on those who are uo capture all the cards themselves," Yue tinued.

  "Sakura and Zachary both have learned much, I have faith that they will both pass the test," Keroberos said in response.

  "You seem fident," Yue said. "By tradition, the final decision belongs to you," Keroberos said in response.

  "Thehe Final Judgment begin," Yue said.

  "I am Yue, the judge, Final Judgment belongs to me," Yue said to Li who stood opposite him oher side of the top of the structure fag him.

  "You may use all of the cards at your disposal, try a me," Yue said, as he jured up rge ks of crystals from his right hand and began firing them towards Li at astonishing speed.

  Only a sed or two ter, Li was stru his left side by a crystal and was nearly knocked off the building.

  It was at this point that Sakura began to rush towards the fight to try and save Li and was almost immediately stopped by an invisible barrier.

  As Sakura tinuously pounded on the barrier as I looked on from a couple feet away with a very ed look on my face.

  She stantly begged Keroberos to help, but unfortunately Keroberos said that no one could help him and that it was his fight and his fight alone.

  It was at this point that Li decided to use one of his fire element talismans on Yue. "Element, fire, e to my aide!" Li ted as he hit his talisman with the bde of his Jian.

  As the fire from his element talisman ed Yue, Li at first thought that it had worked, but as the fmes dissipated and Yue was shown not to have even a scrat him, it became clear that Li would have to try something else.

  "You ot defeat Yue with just fire alone!" Yue said as to which Li promptly pulled out another element talisman.

  "Element...wind!" He started to t, to which Yue then responded. "It's no use, i thought a direct desdant of clow reed would be more of a challenge." Li then decided to pull out the Time card to try and see if that would give him some sort of an advantage.

  As the Time card nded he roof, Li hit the Time card with the tip of his Jian. "Time!" He ted.

  But it was only after he looked up after Time card had frozehing around him that Yue was not in front of him.

  It was then that Yue's voice was heard from behind him. "Time is one of the cards under my prote," to which he theime's powers to freeze Li, and then followed up by speaking. "This is the end," Yue then said, to which the night was then filled by Li yelling.

  It was then that Li reappeared on the ground in front of me and Sakura. As he woozily swooned bad forth, he gradually began to speak. "He took...all of my cards," he said.

  "What, all of them?" Sakura excimed.

  "Be careful Sakura, he is very powerful," he then turo me and said "you too Zachary."

  It was shortly after Li had told me and Sakura to be careful that Yue decided to speak. "It is now time to call upon the didates," to which both Sakura and I immediately felt another preseake over both of us to which we both faded out of view of everyone on the ground.

  "Sakura, Zachary!" Madison excimed as she witnessed both of us fade out of existence.

  It just seemed to go on forever as I stared off into nothing, waiting for everything arouo materialize again and for Sakura to reappear again beside me.

  I just couldn't shake the feeling that something just wasn't right.

  "I see we have a new pyer in the game," a disembodied voice called out from the void. I immediately perked up. "Who are you, show yourself!?" I said in a anding tone.

  "Oh e e now Cardcaptor, you know as well as I do that you don't belong here," the disembodied voice fired back.

  "What are you talking about?!" I excimed.

  "I know all, and I see all, I am everywhere, and also nowhere," the disembodied voice said.

  "Oh, so you are basically God, is that what you are saying?" I asked half expeg the voiot to answer.

  "Well, ly. Lets just say I am the keeper of this dimension and all who pass through it. Do you remember when you filled out that form Cardcaptor?" The disembodied voice asked.

  "Vaguely, but yes, I remember," I said in response in a somewhat nervous tone.

  "When you filled that form out and wound up in this dimension, you upset the baween your dimension and this one, and the only way to pensate was to erase any trace of your former life in your dimension," the disembodied voice said with a hint ret in its tone.

  It was then that a look of utter shod horror found it's way onto my face as I fell to my knees.

  "You, you 't be seriht, you have to be lying!?" I said with utter disbelief and anger in my voice.

  "I'm afraid it's true Cardcaptor, with every choieone makes there must always be some sort of equal sacrifice. However, there is a way for you to fix this," the disembodied voice said.

  It was then that I rose to my feet and stared off into the void once again. "And what would that be?" I asked half expeg not to hear the answer.

  "I want you to throw the Final Judgment," the disembodied voice said.

  It was at that moment that the feeling of reprieve welled up within me, like i khat I actually had a ce to go bay normal life. Every fiber of my being wao scream out yes. But then I remembered something, I remembered back to all of the fun I had had on my journey with Sakura and her friends while capturing the clow cards, and how much I would hate it if I let Sakura down if i deliberately didn't try my hardest to help both of us succeed. I then also remembered something else, by my own fruition i am petitive, I used to py a petitive trading card game ba my former life, and I alyed in a very aggressive and petitive mahis went against everything I was as a person in my former life when it came to being a petitive pyer for a full 16 years, and there was no way that I was going to go against that. There just had to be someway to go get my former life back without throwing the Final Judgment and risk losing everything me and Sakura worked so hard for. I knew I would think of somethiually, but right now I had to deal with the task at hand. It was then that a feeling of anger welled up inside me as then said into the void "Not going to happen, I don't care who you say you are, but I care enough about the friends I have made in this dimension to protect them and fight to the bitter end. So what if I don't belong here, you will just have to deal with the fact that I am here to stay. However, I will still think on your offer." "So be it fool, you may have the will to vince everyone else that you belong here, but you will always be an outcast to me!" The disembodied voice said in response. And with that everything got very bright.

  "Zachary, Zachary are you there, earth to Zachary," Sakura's voice called out to me as I slowly snapped out of my stupor. "Wha...what happened?" I excimed as my eyesight finally returo normal. I then pced a free hand on the side of my head to try and take uanding of the current situation, to which I then slowly turo Sakura with a quizzical look on my face. "You zoned out for a moment there, but be ready, you and I have a test to pass," Sakura said in response. "Oh...right," I said as I once again turned my attention towards Tokyo Tower.

  "I now call upon the final didates," Yue said. But as Sakura and myself prepared ourselves for what y ahead, I couldn't help but remember what that disembodied voice had said to me in the void. But only time would tell as to whether or not I would do something that I was strongly against.

  It had just been only seds since I had snapped out of my stupor. However, it was only then that an idea had finally e to me that would hopefully not only help Sakura and me win the Final Judgment against Yue, but it would also allow me to get my former life back should I want to ever return home again. I then turo Sakura and decided to ask her about what she thought of my idea. "If it is at all alright with you, I would prefer it if you took the lead and I follow you," I said in a somewhat fident a nervous tone of voice. "Okay sure, but I don't quite uand why you wao lead Zachary," Sakura responded bae in a somewhat fused tone of voice. "Oh trust me it will be fine," I said in a semi fident tone of voice. "I just hope for the sake of both of us that it works, for if it doesn't, I don't have a former life to go back to if i choose to return home," I thought to myself. It was only after I had finished my sentend Sakura had agreed to my idea that Yue once again spoke up, which turned both of our attentions back across the way to Tokyo Tower, "In order for you both to be masters of the cards that you've captured, in order to pass judgment, you must use them, to defeat me," Yue said. It was then that Sakura decided to speak up "Defeat you, but Julian, no I won't!" To which I almost proceeded to look upon Sakura with a look of what almost said, "you've got to be kidding me right now, this is not the time to be deg to py passive Sakura." Only to be interrupted from doing so by Yue gazing upon us both from afar with glowing blue eyes and saying the words "e here." Immediately afterwards, both me and Sakura's eyes glowed blue and then our pupils went bnk, which was instantly followed by Sakura pulling out the Jump card. Sakura and I then raised our respective staffs and then hit the Jump card with the tips of our respective staffs. To which white wings appeared on the sides of both of our shoes. "We will...e...to you," we both said in a trance-like sounding tone of voice. "Sakura, Zachary!" Keroberos yelled out to us as me and Sakura, whilst still in our trance-like states then began to leap off the building we were on and then proceeded to leap from building to building on our way to Tokyo Tower.

  It was only after Sakura and I had nded down on the roof at the mid-base of Tokyo Tower that we were then brought out of our trance-like state, well when i say nded down, I would say that we both nded face down. To which Yue then turo us and then said, "and now, the Final Judgment will begin." However, while me and Sakura were getting back to our feet, Sakura was saying that she was still adamant on not defeating Yue since she was still ed on hurting Julian. To whice I had gotten bay feet as had Sakura that I then proceeded to say to Sakura that whether Yue was Julian or not, this was something with a lot at stake, but rather than worry her, I decided to keep it to myself until after this was all over and doh. But, all of the sudden, Yue decided to go on the offensive and deliver a upward strike on Sakura, followed swiftly by using the same tactie, sending the both of us backwards a good distand nearly knog us both off the edge of the tower. Yue then decided to follow up by using the same crystal shard attack that he had used on Li in their battle. But thankfully, right before that attack hit, Sakura and I both got to our feet, Sakura was able to pull out the Fly card, ah were able to use it to the away on our now respective wiaffs. But, as we both flew round a er of the tower and out of sight of Yue, for the moment, Yue then came down from out of nowhere and came to rest on one of the parts of the tower. "You realize you two ot defeat me, by simply running away," he said. In fact, it took only a few seds before he then caught up with the both of us, jured up crystal shards from one of his hands and then blew us both skyward. This was then followed by both me and Sakura getting pummeled upon by several more of Yue's attacks as the pain started to mount oh of us.

  Meanwhile on the ground, Li was starting to get restless watg both me and Sakura taking stant punishment from Yue, so much so that at that point, he couldn't bear to watch it any longer. "That's it!" he shouted as he proceeded to charge forward whilst brandishing one of his elemental talismans, only to be stopped by Keroberos. "No don't, if aempts to help them Sakura and Zachary will lose the Final Judgment instantly," Keroberos said trying to stop Li from doing anything he might regret. "I 't just stand here and watch them get hurt," Li responded ba a very paione of voice. "Have faith, they are both strohan they seem," Keroberos said to which he then followed up by saying, "they may soohrough to him yet."

  Back atop Tokyo Tower, Yue had finally relented on his attacks against me and Sakura. But it was only after Sakura and I had once again gotten to our feet that Yue, once again, began to speak. "If her of yoing to try, then the Judgment is already over," It was at that moment that Yue through his own magic, jured up a blue aura crest shape that resembled that of a bow. Yue then jured up a long blue object that resembled what looked like an arrow, to which Yue then used his magic to pull the arrow ba the bow as if he was getting ready to fire it at us. "I've got to...think of something, I o think of a card," Sakura said with her head down. I then turo Sakura. "If you have any ideas I am listening, because right now, you're the leader, I am just the one following you in this," I said. It was then that Sakura pulled out the Wood card, to which Sakura and I then raised our respective staff. "Wood!" We ted as we hit the Wood card at the same time with the tips of our respective staffs.

  It had just been a split sed or two after the tips of both Sakura and my respective staffs had hit the Wood card. It was then followed up by Keroberos shouting from the ground. "No, not that one!" He shouted. For it was immediately after that the vines of the Wood card spirit began to emerge from the glowing card, shot forward, and almost made it to Yue, but right before they did, Yue fired the arrow that he had drawn back from his bow. The arrow then whizzed through the air before embedding itself in the ground right o where Sakura and I were standing. A split sed after that, the vines of the Wood card spirit retreated and began to make its way towards the both of us. Sakura made an attempt to start running, whilst I tried to take ht after her. But unfortunately before either of us could get more than two steps forward the vines from the Wood card spirit caught both of us by s, and then began to entrap us. O had enpassed the lower portion of both of our bodies, it then brought us both up off of the ground. Yue then came to rest on one of the many vines of the Wood card spirit. "Wood is one of the cards trolled by the Moon, the rightful didates would've known that," Yue said. "The Judgment is over, the Clow Cards require a stronger master thawo of you," Yue tinued. "So, we lost, but what will happen to them?" Sakura asked. "Without a master, the cards will be unsealed once again," Yue said. "Please, let us try again, we do it," I said in a fident tone of voice. "That is impossible," Yue said in respoo which both Sakura and I stared back with very shocked looks on our faces. "It is forbidden for a didate to take the Final Judgment twice, to ehat this didn't happen, Clow Reed decreed that anyone having anything to do with the Clow Cards, would fet this chapter in their lives, forever..." Yue said.

  Ba the ground, Li decided to chime in. "What is he talking about?" Li asked. "If Sakura and Zachary lose, everyone will fet everything that happened sihe seal on the book was broken, even the cards. Clow Reed didn't want ao suffer, the bonds we all made would be painful to lose, especially for Sakura, Zachary and the Clow Cards, they care the most for those who sealed them, It will be as if none of this ever existed for any of you," Keroberos said.

  "Everyone will fet, even us," I thought to myself. "her of us will remember Kero or the cards," Sakura thought to herself. But it was only after both of us thought about it for a sed or two that her one of us was going to let that happen, and we were going to tio fight. It was then that Sakura and I started tle with the vihat bound us. "We 't let that happen," I said, as my right hand holding my staff moved for a moment as I struggled for a moment to try a free, which immediately caught Yue's attention. "LET...US...GOOOOO!" Sakura yelled as the both of us charged forward with all of ht whilst still very much bound by the vihat entrapped us. "I see you have a determined spirit Sakura and Zachary," Yue said as the vines now started to get tighter and began to further entrap the both of us. "However, I am not as seal as Keroberos," Yue tinued as the viill tio circle arap me and Sakura. "The only one I ao is Clow Reed himself," Yue tio say.

  Ba the ground, Li could only look on in shock as the vines of the Wood card tio entrap me and Sakura. It was then that Li yelled no at the top of his lungs as if that would somehow ge what was currently transpiring right in front of him. However nothing would ge what was currently now set in motion by the hands of fate.

  Baear the top of Tokyo Tower, the vines from the Wood card were just about to pletely entrap Sakura and I, but not before Sakura and I had one final thought each. "Julian, its too te, we're all going too...fet!" Sakura said as she bcked out. "I'm sorry Sakura, I'm so sorry, I tried my best, but I guess in the end, it just wasn't enough to protect you. At least I leave this dimension, and am now heading home knowing that I tried my hardest to protect you," I said, as a tear welled up from my left eye and started to find its way down the left cheek of my face as I then too bcked out. Or was I?

  Once again, as I opened my eyes, I found myself staring off into nothing. But this didn't make any sense, I should've been ba my room ba my dimension just waking up from the previous night. "I've got to admit Cardcaptor you're very clever" An all too familiar disembodied voice again began t out from the dark abyss. "I thought we were doh this already, I did as you asked, I had Sakura lead during the Final Judgment, I only followed her moves, so teically, I wasn't throwing the Final Judgment, a the same time, I was," I said as a smirk found its way onto my face. "I know Cardcaptor, that is why I admitted to you being very clever," the disembodied voice responded ba a semi sarcastie. "Oh, okay then...so about me going bae to my dimension..." I began saying. "Yes, what about it?" the disembodied voice asked in a quizzical sounding tone of voice. "If it is alright with you, I would like to head back to Sakura and her friends, I owe it to them to protect Sakura sie put me as her brother," I said in a somewhat fident tone of voice. "I'm afraid that that is no longer an option, since you lost the Final Judgment, as did she," the disembodied voice said in response.

  It was then at that moment, that I heard a noise echh my head, that sounded like the chiming of a bell. I then saw a vision of a womanly arm holding a familiar metallic object that looked antique in nature. It was not even a sed after that, that the world around me once again got very very bright. But not before I said o thing as did the disembodied voice. "I guess we will have just to see about then won't we?" I said. "Just remember Cardcaptor, there will e a time when you will wish you headed back to your dimension when you had the ce," the disembodied voice said, as my vision blurred and I then bcked out.

  Back atop Tokyo Tower, it was only a minute or so after the vines from the Wood card spirit had pletely covered arapped Sakura and I that the vihen were loosened pletely, and then flew out in a circur motion in all dires, leaving the both of us free. "Impossible!" Yue excimed as he was taken aback by Sakura and I's sudden escape from enta from the Wood card's vines. And once Sakura and I had nded ba the mid-base of Tokyo Tower that the both of us realized exactly why we had bee free. Standing on the mid-base of the tower just in front of us, was Ms. Mazie, wielding the exact same metallitique that I had seen in my vision. "Ms. Mazie!" Sakura excimed. "Fancy meeting you here," I followed up with. "You two did it, wele back Sakura and Zachary," Ms. Mazie said. Immediately after that the metallitique like object disappeared. "The Bell!" Sakura excimed o had vanished from view. "It disappeared because it fulfilled its purpose, you two will not be able to begin again," Ms. Mazie said.

  It was then that I turo Sakura and decided that it was finally time to finish this. I then turned my attention to Sakura. "Sakura, you still have the lead, so it is your decision on how we proceed here," I said. We both then turned out attention to Yue. "The clow cards brought us all together, her myself or Zachary are going to let you take that away," Sakura said in a very fident tone of voice. Sakura then turo me and just said the words, "repeat after me, and do what I do." As she then raised her respective staff above and in front of her, to which I did the same shortly after as we both ted in unison together, "Oh staff of clow, guide my as now!" To which both of our respective staffs responded by having their respective eyes shine blindingly bright. Sht in fact that they took everyone on the ground and even Yue by plete surprise. "Okay Sakura and Zachary, raise the seal!" Ms. Mazie said from behind us. Without having to think about it even once, both Sakura and I raised our respective staffs above our heads, to which they shined even more blindingly bright. Unbeknownst to us, shooting stars, or what looked like them now started to shoot across the sky in rapid succession. "They're returning to them," Yue said. "They've chosen Sakura and Zachary," Ms. Mazie said. "RELEASE!" Me and Sakura yelled in unison as the light then began to shine even brighter. Ohe light had faded, both Sakura and my staffs looked pletely different from when the light had first shone. Apart from both still being our respective colors, both now had a ring on top rather than a bird head with a golden star in the middle, a white wing resent on each side of the ring.

  Ba the ground, Keroberos stared on i the transformation that both me and Sakura's staffs had just gohrough. "The staffs, they ged," he said.

  Back atop Tokyo Tower, Sakura knew what had to be done, Sakura pulled out the Windy card, turo me, to which I nodded. Sakura then threw the Windy card up into the air. And as it spun end over end, Sakura and I began to t. "Windy card, form a cage and trap Yue, WINDY!" We ted in unison as we raised our respective newly transformed staffs towards the spinning Windy card, only to have them both stop a single inch from it, causing the card to stop spinning end over end. A split sed ter, the Windy card spirit shot forward from the card and began making its way towards Yue. Yue then looked upon the Windy card spirit. "The Windy card...it could never..." Yue never was able to finish his sentence before the Windy card spirit began to encircle arap him and form a protective sphere around him. The sphere then began to make its way toward the mid-base of the tht to where Sakura and I were standing. It was ohe sphere taining Yue had touched down on the mid-base of the tower that Sakura started to speak "We couldn't quit, we'd miss everybody too much, my dad told me that you keep someone close to your heart forever, as long as you remember," she said as she made her way over to Yue follolit sed ter by me. "That's why I couldn't have you have us fet, Sakura and I are no Clow Reed, but we do know how important friends are, and we will give it our best shot," I tinued off of Sakura in a somewhat fident and still nervous tone of voice.

  It was once we had made our way over to where Yue was that the sphere encapsuting him that vanished pletely and I outstretched my hand to Yue, while Sakura did the same. "For you see, we don't want to be your master Yue, we want to be your friend," Sakura tinued off of me in a kied tone of voice. It was then that Yue stood up and told the both of us to close our eyes, to which we obliged. Yue then stretched his wings out and said, "The Final Judgment is over, I Yue, reize Sakura and Zachary, as the new masters." To which the sery around us faded away and was then repced by a starry one.

  It seemed to st forever as Sakura and I floated ih our respective staffs at our chests and our eyes closed. It was then that a figure approached us to which Sakura and I then opened our eyes, and floated to the ground. It was when Sakura and I had touched the ground pletely and had gazed upon the figure more closely that Sakura immediately realized who it was, I then realized shortly after. "You're..." Sakura started to say. "So we finally meet, I've been watg you both personally, the cards need a strong master, but they also need a person with a stro. That is where both of your strengths lie, Keroberos and Yue, have chosen well," the figure said. "You must be...Clow Reed!" I said. "So did you give me and Sakura the affs?" I asked. "No you made them all on your own, your staffs are not ruled by the power of the sun or the moon, but by the power of your very own stars, take care of your powers, your stars are tiny lights now, but they burn bright, and they will always light your way," Clow Reed said in response as both Sakura and I once again rose up off the ground and once again closed our eyes. And thehing the bck.

  It was only after Sakura and I had touched the ground after everything had gone bck that I had just realized what had happened. I had not only bee the master of the clow cards, as had Sakura. But upon doing so I had taken away whatever ce I had left of returning to my former life ba my dimension. However, I didn't really see that as such a bad thing. Before I could dwell on that for another sed, I heard a familiar voice calling Sakura and my names. It was then that we both turned around to see Li and Madison running towards us from the distance. "We did it!" Sakura yelled. "You bet we did!" I chimed in. But it was as the four of us gregated together that I the a bad feeling hit me. But rather than a it, I pushed it to the side and tio gratute Sakura and myself on a job well done. However, that bad feeling I had just felt was only a stepping stone for what was to e.