Miss Mackenzie opens the episode by introducing the discussion for the annual Reidington Arts fesetival. Sakura and Meilin talk about it and Meilin tells that her school also did an arts festival. Miss Mackenzie tells that would be a fairy tale. Sakura thinks about the situation and about the dream card telling Sakura about things to come and she thought about Miss Mackenzie in her dreams. Sakura tells that Miss Mackenzie made her feel safe but she wondered why she is in her dreams.

    Miss Mackenzie wrote it on the board and the play was Sleeping Beauty. (The writing looks digitally altered, it was probably altered from japanese.) Everyone gets excited because the play involved a kiss. Miss Mackenzie went on about how she wants everyone to have a fair shot at it so she uses lots to draw who plays what. Everyone placed their names at the bottom and the parts were hidden at the tops. Sakura wondered who was going to play the prince and Li goes to sign up when he becomes unsettled from Miss Mackenzie. She tells him not to always be cautious and, "It won't be long now." Li fills out his name, creeped out and joins Meilin on the way back. It ends up that Sakura plays the prince and Li plays the princess. (It's funny now but it gets really funny later.)
 
    Kero asks Sakura about who plays what at home and she tells about how she has to play the prince and Li was the princess and that Mackenzie thought everyone should have a shot at all the roles. They go on to talk about Miss Mackenzie and Kero then tells that Li is even sensing her so he should come along to the play in case something happens.
 
    Sakura practices her lines at school and finds Li sitting in a tree practicing her princess lines. (Good voice!) Sakura talks about how these lines will be hard to memorize and they talk about Mackenzie. They talk about how she must really have creeped Li out and that they have to go back to class. On the way, Sakura thinks about it and asks Li to study lines together. Li gruffly replied. "When?" He reluctantly agrees to it and they made the appointment tomorrow morning before School. As they walked off, Miss Mackenzie watched them from within the school.
 
    The next morning, Sakura gets gently awakened by three alarm clocks. Kero wakes up and asks what time it is and also asked about the alarm clocks. Sakura tells that she had all these alarm clocks from her dad and Tori so she wouldn't stay asleep. She then tells that it's important and, "You never know who will be in the audience." (Whoa, what an awful line...)
 Tori treats Sakura to a nice breakfast and gets a chance to talk to her about when she had a fever. They then go into flashback from "Under the weather" and the flashback told about Sakura's mirror clone. When it was over, Tori told her to be careful. Sakura is wondering on the way to school if Tori knew about the clow cards and thought at the end. "Yeah right, if he knew, then he would be teasing me non stop!"

    Sakura comes across the garden and thinks about Miss Mackenzie and skates away, being followed by a strange force. Sakura finds Li at his locker and he's surprised she was able to be up and they decide to study outside. On the way, Li almost notices the force that followed Sakura. They go outside and we sample Li pricking his finger on the golden spinning wheel (A leaf in reality) and falls flat. He memorized the whole scene! They skip it to the part where the prince finds her in the castle. Sakura and Li were about to kiss (as part of the play) when they get attacked by sand.

    Li rescues her with an element Wind ofuda and they fly to safety. They see the sand whirlpool become more and more big. Sand then flies up to hit them and Li falls into the sand whirl. Li emerges and tells Sakura to stay there and use the water card. Sakura uses water to muck up the sand and Li uses the Freeze card to freeze the sand with the water. Sakura seals it and it flies to both of them. Sakura takes it but gives it to Li telling him that he deserved it and that he did give her the Cloud card. Li tells her that they are supposed to be competing for the clow cards but he accepts it saying "Now we're even."

    Sakura tells Li that she was happy that the clow card attacked before school and he wondered if that was a coincidence or if the card waited until they were alone but he dismissed his idea that he might be "Reading too much into it." They walk into school, being watched by Miss Mackenzie. She then smiled and said again. "...It won't be long now." She was holding the bell, with the symbol that burned in our minds.
 

Now for my part.

Todd Arcana's Rating:    4.1 / 5.0    ^_^

 That was such a stupid title! Don't you agree that the title has nothing at all to do with the story. Anyway, I liked the episode because there was plenty of action to keep me interested and there was content as well. This story was not about the clow card but about the play which makes me happy enough. The best part is that this episode is pretty much a two parter and the next part was played too, to not keep me hanging!