Samantha Taylor: Madison's Mother, the president of the toy industry. They stayed together to compete for Natasha's interest. Samantha is a fiery girl who loves to compete and was very close to Natasha when they were young. She also hates to lose.
 
    This episode is about a race or picnic at Sakura's school called the Sports Festival. Sakura and Li and some other racers go at it and do a race. Li tells Sakura in his normal bullyish sort of way that he WILL not allow himself to lose to her. They do the race and enter this obsticle course and many racers mess up on various events. Sakura and Li are still running and manage to complete the race. Julian and Tori were there and Julian cheered Sakura on. Li saw this and it caused him to trip at the finish line. (Li would do anything Julian wants to. I think he threw the race.)

    Sakura wins and she triumphantly runs to them and they congradulate her. Tori comments that she only runs like that to the dinner table and Sakura stomps him for it. Julian smiles and congradulates her and she blushes a bit.
 
    They also sit down to a picnic lunch and Li is also there, blushing a bit while eating beside Julian. Madison was about to eat something when a pink flower petal (A Sakura??) landed on her food. She looked at it and smiled a bit. Julian starts hyper eating and everyone looks at him wierdly and he apologizes for motor eating like that. Aiden takes the garbage they had and threw it out. Julian and Tori went with him and they met up with Samantha, Madison's mother!

    Thing's didn't change between them, Samantha still had fire within her and practically ATTACKED him. She challenged him to a race and Aiden accepted. Madison and Sakura talked about how it's cool that they know eachother. (Samantha and Aiden were friends? You could have fooled me...) They got ready, got set and then GO! They started to run, and that was when the storm of flower petals set in.

    The petals got deeper and deeper and deeper. Everyone got buried and they cried out from it but Samantha and Aiden just kept on running, practically waist deep in flower petals. Samantha was shooting off her mouth at him but he didn't get nervous. (God...she's a b---- well you know...)

    Sakura decided to risk using magic in broad day light and got lucky. No one saw her summon her sealing wand and she used the fly card to get onto the top of the school. She and Madison saw her dancing and Sakura didn't know how to go about catching it. Madison asks her to call Kero. Kero was at home playing a video game and lost. Kero took the phone and told her that it's the flower card and she's just a fun loving spirit.

    Sakura alerted Flower to her and Flower advanced and grabbed Sakura's arms. Madison asked Kero while she was sating at them dance, well more like Flower flinging Sakura around "things are getting wierd. What do we do now?" Kero tells Sakura just to seal it. Madison tells what Kero to Sakura and Sakura seals her. Flower doesn't fight back, she just dances as she's captured. Right after Flower was captured, Sakura asks Kero what it's good for and Kero tells that it can make any flower at all and Sakura sighs. "That's it?"

    Tori and Julian get stuck picking up all of the flower petals along with a few other people. Tori comments about "Why did we get stuck picking up all of these flower petals?" Julian replies by saying "Too bad we couldn't eat flowers huh?"

    Aiden and Samantha resolves bitter conflicts but Samantha fires up again on how Aiden stole Natasha away from her. Sakura and Madison see this and Madison asks Sakura to give them flowers to make them feel better. Sakura uses the flower card to create a flower to give to Samantha, the flower whom Natasha loves and it rekindles fond memories. Samantha starts to cry from it but Aiden conforts her. Sakura and Madison declare how good friends they are. They then get called to the final ceremony from Aiden and they join it.
 

    KERO'S CORNER: Kero pops in and begins to talk about the festival. He talks about her cheerleading and running outfit and also the batons they use for cheerleading. Kero wraps up the episode by boasting Sakura's ability in athletics.
 
 

Toddy's thoughts

Todd Arcana's Rating:     4.3 / 5.0    ^_^

GOODNESS THAT WAS SOOO SATISFYING!! The episodes were shown in order but this one took many many weeks to get here. This episode wasn't girly at all! It wasn't about the card but instead about people! Samantha, Madison's mom...didn't you find that the love between her and Natasha shines through despite Nelvana's cuts.