Card Captor Shukuen!

[Bean Bandit]

Sakura's father nodded amiably, allowing polite disappointment to show. "Of course." he agreed, inclining his head slightly. "Unfortunately, Sakura-chan's gone out to the local park with her friend today. I'm not sure when she'll be back." he offered.

[Music-chan]

"Ahhh, that is unfortunate.  Perhaps I will stop by later.  Though I was planning on getting some reading done at the park today. Maybe I will run into her."

Bowing respectfully, Yomiko gave Sakura's father a friendly smile then turned to go. "Thank you very much, Kinomoto-san! Tell the family I said hello."

It took all her willpower to keep Yomiko from running to the car.  She liked to think she managed quite nicely and slipped into the vehicle, buckling up in a hurry.

"Sakura is at the park, Nenene.  We need to get there and try to catch her before she moves elsewhere.  Maybe I can provide a....distraction or something to catch her attention."

[Bean Bandit]

Yomiko made it to the car without incident, and Nenene grinned, and started up the car again. "Gotcha. How exactly will you catch her attention?" the younger woman asked curiously, as she pulled out the car, and began heading to in the general direction of trees visible over the houses.

[Music-chan]

"I was thinking maybe a giant paper airplane or something. But I don't know. I've only just gotten use to Yomiko's powers. They're not hard to control, really, but I'm afraid I'll mess up.  That and I'm not sure how well that idea will work."

With a sigh, Yomiko rested her chin in her hand, her elbow on the windowsill.  If only Sakura had been home. This whole ordeal would have been much easier.  Suddenly she was glad they weren't going after the Love Hina girl.  That would have been unnessisarily hard as well.  Maybe she would find THEM before they had to find her.  That would be nice.

"I hope we can find her."

[Bean Bandit]

"Shouldn't be hard...all you need to do is come up with something simple, and recognizable. If she sees it, she'll come running...I mean, unless being a child is comfortable for her..." Nenene smiled faintly.

"That is, if I understand what's happened to you. Whoop. This looks like the place." she said, pulling the car up beside a neatly kept arrangement of grass and trees.

[Music-chan]

"Something simple and recognizable, huh?"

Yomiko opened the car door and slid out easily, looking over the park as she did so.  There were some people in sight, and a larger amount of younger children than she expected, but it wasn't too busy.

The elementary school must be out or something. I think it's a weekday anyway. I'm not actually sure.

"Simple and recognizable....damnit, what's simple and recognizable?"  Ra-chan ran through her memories of R.O.D., trying to sort through everything she had seen Yomiko do.  Paper shields were good, but wouldn't cover enough ground. The giant paper airplain wouldn't do any good unless they could get it off the ground, and there really wasn't anywhere to do that around here.  At the end, she had made little paper butterflies for Nancy and had made it fly around but that....

Wait, THAT could work!

Pulling a pen out of her pocket, Yomiko grabbed the suitcase out of the trunk and opened it in a hurry, scribbling as fast as she could.  She wrote on maybe a dozen notecards, then concentrated on them, making them light, boyant.....thinking FLY as hard as she could.  With some practiced, confident movements, she tossed each of the dozen into the air and mentally told them to drift around the park. On each card was the name "Soulriders" and underneath it, "Ra-chan"

But that might not be good enough.  Opening the suitcase as wide as it would go, the dark-haired paper-user guestured with her hands (just like she remembered from the show) and told the cards to lift up into the sky, forming the letters S O U L R I D E R S, like a giant kite made entirely out of white paper.

Hopefully, hopefully, something would suceed.

[Shukuen]

"Oh, utter chaos, death, destruction, pigs flying, cats and dogs living together..." Shukuen blinked, then added. "Probably nothing you aren't used to dealing with actually..."

[Bean Bandit]

The cards rose into the air in a bundle, floating higher, and higher until the bundle seemed to explode, sending the dozen cards floating on air currents, seeming to blow to every corner of the park.

The first project completed, Yomiko turned to the second, which ALMOST didn't work, as the papers didn't want to form the kite as independant letters, and Yomiko found it an immense strain to do. However, the papers shifted to her thoughts, forming the word 'Soulriders' in english cursive as a coherent unit, and slowly began to float upwards, The giant lettering becoming visible to the park as a whole as it rose into the air.

More than a few people paused to look at Yomiko as she worked, puzzled and stightly stunned at what she was doing...

[CyMage]

Sai smirked and gently pulled Kero out before handing him to Kotone.  "Here, kiddo."

"As for the destruction of the universe.  There seems to be a contest between two higher beings.  Order and Chaos.  They both have chosen people to fight for them in a contest.  What the contest is, we don't know exactly.  Chaos is setting that part up.  He's also the one who got us stuck in mostly random bodies.  If Chaos wins, he gets to do anything he wants with this universe.  Eventualy it'll die from his attention."  Bolt finished and waited for any questions.

[Bean Bandit]

Kotone beamed and Kero gave a startled squawk, and protested as Bolt dropped him into Kotone's eager hands, but the little yellow guardian calmed down considerably when it became clear that Kotone wasn't the type to stangle toys, and he reluctantly settled down, trying to look like her wasn't enjoying the brown haired girl petting him.

Tomoyo paused on the path out of the park, and looked up at Bolt, her eyes widening marginally. "Er...that's a little bit beyond our experience. And what's this about bodies?" she asked, puzzled. "It sounds like only half a story..."

Kotone frowned, in the middle of stroking Kero, and began to look puzzled. "Ano...Bolt-san...what's a 'soulriders'?"

[CyMage]

"Bodies?  I guess 'Sakura' didn't tell you?  You see, Order chose several people from another universe.  Smart, resorceful and decent.  Mostly.  Even higher beings make mistakes.  She wanted us to chose whom our souls would replace for the contest, but Chaos interfered and sent us into random bodies."  Sai patted Sakura on the head.  "So.  Are you going to tell us who is in that body or will I have to wait until we find the rest to figure it out?"

Smiling at Kotone, he explained.  "It's an online forum that all the chosen people frequent.  Though you could use it to describe the people as well..." Two blinks later.  "How did you that name?  I never mentioned it nor did she."

[Bean Bandit]

Kotone points to the sky. "Up there." She replied simply and suddenly, all four of them could see what looked to be white writing in the sky, creeping over the trees. After a few moment's observation, it seemed to be some sort of kite, made, strangely, of cursive writing, in english.

Kotone's eyes were apparently, quite sharp as it took the others a few minutes to discern what the message was. While the others were confirming this, a small white index card blew past Sakura's nose...

[Shukuen]

Shukuen reflexively snatched the card in front of her, blinking as her mind caught up with instincts. She checked the card for anything notable.

"And in answer to your question, 'Sai', I supposed you can call me... Karma," Shukuen shrugged, resisting the urge to strike a declarative pose.

[Bean Bandit]

The card was small and white, 3 inches by 5 inches, with neat handwriting in a feminine looking script. The word 'Soulriders' stood out on top, with the name 'Ra-chan' written beneath them. Other than that, the card was featureless...

[CyMage]

"She's here.  YES!"  Sai was excited to say the least.  Looking back upwards, he noted where the 'line' for the kite plunged downw and headed for that spot.  "You coming or not?"  He didn't wait for an answer.