Distance Gives Us a Reason to Love Harder
This fic is part of my CardCaptor Tony AU series.
IronStrange Week Day 6
Prompt: Time Travel
Tags: Time Travel, Tony Wants His Stephen Back
Read here or on AO3.
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Tony ran fast. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He had to find Stephen. Once he found him, Stephen would be able to help him. Tony did not where he was, but all he knew was he had to find Stephen. Tony kept running, the town he was in was both familiar and unfamiliar to him. Stephen’s town was a place that he didn’t go to often, only when Stephen brought him to visit his magical family. Despite not visiting the town often, Tony knew the places the two teens would often visit. Slowing down a bit as he ran, Tony looked began to look around look for his favorite food stalls, and his favorite vendors. He found neither. Tony was even more worried now and ran faster as his legs took him to the spot that Stephen liked.
The two teenage boys might be a little antagonistic with each other, but Tony knew that Stephen would always be able to help him. Despite saying that the Clow Cards were his birthright, Stephen had always been quick to help and support Tony in catching the cards.
Tony ran towards the lake, and recognizing the back of Stephen's head from anywhere slowed down.
"Stephen! I need your help!" wheezed out Tony, as he roughly placed his right hand against his chest as though that would that help Tony bring in more air into his lungs.
"Who the hell are you and why is my birthright in your possession?" growled out Stephen, moving towards Tony in a move that Tony recognized as the intent to hurt.
In move too fast for Tony to follow, Stephen whipped out his sword and if it weren't for Tony's athletic abilities kicking in at the last minute, the sword would have cut him. Tony quickly stopped moving when Stephen's sword stopped at his neck.
Tony's heart broke a bit when he recognized that tone of voice. It was the one that Stephen had used for weeks to always antagonize Tony because he had apparently stolen Stephen's birthright. It took weeks for Stephen to tone down and often a tiny bit.
"Stephen, chill dude, I thought you accepted the fact that Friday chose me," mumbled Tony.
"I never told you what my name was so who are you and how do you know me?" asked Stephen menacingly.
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“Return to it guise you were meant to be!” Yelled Tony, the light blue magic staff in his hands held above his head swung down and stopped as though it had hit something.
The space around Tony and Stephen became chaotic as the light breeze picked up and began to work around the two boys. Dust flew around them almost blinding them as it hit them in their face. The dust they was picked up by the torrent winds began to condense in front of them and to the two boys, they saw two figures begin to form.
The first figure was that of an old man, in a pale cloak slowly appeared from the dust and wind. Its face was both somehow and wrinkled, and the figure covered in a big billowing cloak of a pale yellow. In the figure’s hand, it carried a large hourglass, and the dust that was flowing around Tony and Stephen, floated towards the hourglass. It was then tat Tony realized that the dust was sand. The imagery of the hands of a clock on the figure's hood made had Tony realizing that whatever this card was, its power was related to the powers of time.
The second next to the old man had started to form. Tony was starting to notice that the second figure was similar to the first card, except that this figure looked feminine, its facial features were soft and round where the first card's were sharp and angular. It's pale blue hood had the same clock hands that the other figure had, but what made the two even more different from each other was what this card held in its hands. Within the figure's grasp was a giant clock, of a deep blue color and its hands reading five o'clock.
As the heavy gust of wind seemed to stop around the two figures, Tony didn't wast his time and yelled out
“CLOW CARD!”
“Stephen,” said Tony as he looked at Stephen, disappointed that the look that he recognized on Stephen's face was the look of anger and malice that stephen had given him on his first day of school and not his flustered mean look that Tony was used to by now, “I know that you don’t like me now, but I hope you’ll open your heart to being friends with me in the future.”
"tch, whatever, I'm not going to because the Clow Cards are my birthright," snarled Stephen, his brows furrowed angrily, as he turned his head to the side, "also you're in my space"
"Ohhh…uh shit, well, I think it's time for me to go back to my time then," coughed Tony as he took a couple steps back from Stephen, realizing again that this Stephen wasn't the Stephen who was used to Tony being in his personal space.
Taking out the RETURN card, Tony focused his magic and lifitng the hand that held his magic staff incanted,
"Creation of Clow, Lend your power to my key, Bestow the magic of the card unto my key!"
"Return me to my original time! CLOW CARD, release and dispel!"
Tony made eye contact with Stephen as the wind started to pick up again and swirled around him. Closing his eyes, Tony clutched at his staff and waited.
Once the winds died down, Tony opened his eyes and automatically looked for him. He looked for Stephen and Tony let out a big sigh of relief as his Stephen glared his familiar glare.