Hello everybody and welcome to the Card Captor Sakura and Ranma ½ crossover: Lost Cards

First off I would like to apologize for the long delay. I had only ment to take a break fro Christmas, but I just couldn't build up the momentum to write again.

Disclaimer: Despair! My lack of ownership of the series involved in this fic has left me in despair!

I'd like to have a SWORD with you

Ryoga sighed as he watched breakfast cook on the campfire. It was the morning after the fight with the Chinese boy and his cat-girl friend. Just what did those two want with a raiju? The boy said he was after something called 'Clow Cards', but what did that have to do with a raiju? Did it accidentally eat what the boy was after? Ryoga let out another sigh. There were just too many questions and no way to answer them. Well that wasn't exactly true. There was one way for him to get some answers.

The Lost Boy's gaze shifted to the far side of camp, where Pow was tending to the currently unconscious raiju. His traveling companion seemed to know what was going on. But he couldn't just ask her about it could he? She had been terrified last night when the Chinese boy had brought it up. On the other hand Ryoga couldn't help her out unless he knew what was going on.

"Pow-san?" Ryoga asked, getting the young girls attention. "What are the Clow Cards?"

"Ma-gic." Pow answered hesitantly. So these Clow Cards where some sort of magical artifacts? That answer actually made a lot of sense. It certainly explained why someone would be after them.

"What exactly can they do?" Ryoga questioned. Experience taught him it was always best to learn as much about a magical item before you encounter it.

"A lot." The pink girl answered. Not the answer he was looking for but it did cross 'limited number of uses' off the list.

"Why do you know about them?" Ryoga asked. Was she looking for them herself?

"Old mas-ter." Pow replied after a full minute of silence. Wait a sec, old master?

"What happened to your old master?" Ryoga asked. Did she abandon him? Did he get rid of her?

"Died" was all she said. Ryoga noticed a glistening tear make its way down her cheek.

Ryoga thought he had this thing all figured out. Pow's old master had these magical cards that could do all kinds of things. Someone must have come along and wanted the cards for themselves. Pow's old master must have refused to give them up so the someone killed him. Pow must have saw all this and hid the cards. The someone is now hunting her so she'll tell him where the cards are. She's obviously staying with him because she believes he can protect her.

"It's okay." Ryoga said as he wrapped his arms around her in what he thought was a comforting hug. "It's okay. I won't let anything happened to you." The damn broke as Pow clung to the Lost boy and began crying earnest.

Sakura wondered how her life could get any worse. Last night she found out that Syaoran was looking for the Clow Cards. Not only was he looking for them, but he apparently had been training to capture them most of his life. To make matters worse the man, who according to Kero was responsible for the destruction of Penguin Park, showed up. He took care of THUNDER with more ease than Syaoran, who was handling it with more ease than Sakura herself.

When Syaoran had asked for the cards, she was more than happy to give up this whole mess and go back to being a regular ten year old school without a care in the world. Unfortunately, another Clow Card, apparently POWER, didn't like that idea, because it hurt Syaoran really bad. Sakura wasn't sure how badly he was hurt, just that her homeroom teacher had announced Syaoran would be out for about a week due to an 'accident.'

Sakura's classmates had come to the conclusion that her recent depression was because she had a crush on Syaoran. Despite her protest, they refused to believe her. Tomoyo, and Rika, another of Sakura's friends and classmates, had decided to try and cheer her up by taking her shopping. Everything was fine until Rika had bought a broach that had caught her eye. When she had put it on she had instantly became possessed and a sword appeared in her hand.

This brings us to the present where Sakura, was desperately trying not to be killed by one of her best friends. Sakura had never been more thankful for cheerleader practice. Her skill with a baton was the only reason she could deflect the thrusts from her possessed friend, which was a very good thing consider the wall behind her was starting to look like Swiss cheese. She had no idea how much longer she could keep her friend at bay though. Already she had amassed numerous cuts from barely parried blows.

Sakura really wished Syaoran or the man from last night was here. From what she saw either one of them would be able to hold of Rika. But as things are now, Sakura couldn't even get enough time to use a Clow Card.

"Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo cried out as Sakura received another cut on her face. This turned out to be a mistake as Sakura was distracted and lost her footing. The magical girl blocked another thrust from the possessed girl but was unable to keep her balance and fell over. The Rika smiled sweetly at the downed Sakura as she placed the tip of her sword against Sakura's chest, right above her heart. Rika pulled back her sword in preparation for the final blow.

*boom*

Only for a small explosion to blast the possessed girl. Rika was unharmed and turned to see what attacked her, and Sakura saw her chance.

"WINDY, come forth and be my binding chain! Subdue Rika!" Sakura shouted as she swung her staff to summon WINDY. Ethereal strands of air formed and wrapped themselves the possessed girl. Rika struggled but was unable to move

"Return to the guise you were meant to be, Clow Card!" Sakura chanted as she gave the staff another swing. The sword in Rika's hand was suddenly turned into a card. The card depicted the sword bound in chains, aptly labeled as SWORD. Rika's body collapse, or would have if not for WINDY still holding the girl up.

"That was amazing, Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo exclaimed as she rush over to Sakura. "How did you know that it was a Clow Card?"

"I didn't." Sakura answered with a weary sigh desperately not trying to think about what would have happened if she was wrong. "Hey, Tomoyo-chan. Did you see what caused that explosion?"

"No, I didn't." Tomoyo replied just as curious as Sakura. "It's to bad I wasn't expecting a Clow Card. I didn't bring my camera with me."

As the two school girls discussed what could have caused the explosion, they were unaware of the diminutive figure watching from the rooftops with a pleased expression.

POWER was very upset as she cried in her masters arms. She was upset because of what her old master did to her. Clow Reed had created the Clow Cards and used them as tools to aid in his life, but that's all he saw them as, simple tools. When he knew that death was coming for him, he sealed the cards away only to be released by the one he chose to be his heir. For centuries, she and the rest of the cards watched on as the world slowly changed around them, while they could do nothing to interact with it. Many of her fellow cards became torn between whether they should curse their old master's existence or stay loyal to his wishes.

But that wasn't why she was upset right now. Sure the memories and feelings of betrayal still hurt her, but she was upset because she showed her new master weakness. She didn't want to be a burden to him.

~Ur. What happened? ~ POWER's crying turn to merely sniffling as she heard the voice of the only other Clow Card near by. Turning her head she saw THUNDER groggily stand up.

~Are you alright? ~ POWER asked in the language that only the Clow Cards hear.

~POWER? What's going on? ~ THUNDER snarled. POWER could feel her master tense, while he couldn't understand what was actually said he could still hear THUNDER's rumbling growl. ~Who is that guy? ~

~He's my new master. ~ POWER answered, but regretted it immediately as THUNDER tensed and electricity began arcing all across his body. ~He doesn't know about Clow! ~ she added immediately.

That seemed to calm the thunderous beast down, as the lightning show came to a sudden stop. THUNDER slowly stalked over to her master, who POWER just realized was still holding her in his arms. The raiju went face to face with her master and began sniffing.

~This guy reeks of magic. ~ THUNDER stated. This prompted POWER to actual turn to face her master, who was wearing a confused expression, and took a deep inhale of his scent.

~You're right. ~ POWER agreed. She knew he got hit with an old Chinese curse, but he's got too much magic about him for it to only be from that.

~ Eh. What do I care if he's got magic or not. ~ THUNDER commented as he backed away from the duo. ~Dude ain't who Clow wanted us to be with, so that's good enough reason to be with him. ~

~Yeah. He takes much better care of me then Clow ever did. ~ POWER said with a nod.

~I noticed. ~ THUNDER remarked. POWER's face turned whitened as she once again felt something she didn't normally feel. It was an awkward sort of feeling.

"Are you hungry or something?" her master asked. It took POWER and THUNDER a second to realize he was talking to THUNDER. "But what exactly does a raiju eat?"

"Miso?" POWER asked. While her master's cooking wasn't nearly as good as Kasumi's, it still tasted rather good in POWER's opinion.

Her master nodded before letting go her to find an extra bowl. POWER suddenly felt colder and a bit of longing for her master's warmth.

~He…He's actually giving me food! ~ THUNDER asked in disbelief. ~This guy is way better than Clow already. ~ Both THUNDER and POWER knew that they didn't actually need to eat, but it was the thought that counted.

~He's much better than Clow. ~ POWER agreed with nod.

I think that's a good place to stop. I apologize if this chapter is slightly short then the others but I couldn't really see what I could have added.

I also apologize for the long wait. I had only meant to take a break for the holidays, but afterwards I was unable to motivate myself to write this fic again.

I also have a request that I admit is rather selfish of me. Would anyone like to start up a page for this fic on TvTropes? I'd do it myself but that just seems like something really arrogant to do in my opinion.

On to the chapter itself, this probably were the divergence begins on the Cardcaptor side. Canonically Syaoran showed up and held off Rika long enough for Sakura to use ILLUSION, obviously with the events of last chapter that's not going to happen. Since Syaoran didn't show up, it also nulled or at the very least delayed the subplot where he develops a guy crush on Sakura's crush Yukito.

Any guess to who was on the roof?

Fun fact: While looking up information for this chapter I came across Rika's page on the CCS wiki. On said page it has her special power as "Jailbait." I don't know whether to find that funny or disturbing. She's TEN YEARS OLD!