Dia's egg didn't fly away after the X appeared on it. Instead it hatched, and Dia is corrupting Amu. Can the guardians help her return to her true self, or will she be too much for them?


I can't believe it. Amu thought to her self as she left the school. I just can't believe the nerve of those boys!

-Flashback-Classroom-5 minutes

"So how are the rankings for the cutest girl in school?" A boy asked his accomplices. You see this boy and friends gathered in the classroom after school in secret every week for the past few years, for one purpose and one purpose only.

To see who was the cutest girl in school.

"Is it really any contest? Mashiro-san is definetly the cutest!" One of the boys answered.

"What about Hinamori-san?" One asked.

"Nah. When she first transferred here, she seemed 'cool and spicy,' but now she's been acting like a normal girl." Another boy answered.

"Yeah, she really has been out of character lately, hasn't she?" The first boy asked.

"Exactly! Nothing is cute about someone acting out of character!" one of the boys replied.

-End Flashback-

I was totally acting in character…Wasn't I? Everything would be going great if it wasn't for that spoiled Mashiro.

"Isn't spring supposed to be a time for new beginnings?" Amu whispered.

"Amu-chan…" Su mumbled, her voice coated in worry.

"Don't let those guys get to you!" Ran cheered.

"How can I not? How am I supposed to know who I really am? What is my real character?!" Amu cried out her voice rising with each sentence.

"The egg!" Miki cried out as she saw Amu's most recent egg, the diamond egg, floated into the air.

Amu and her Charas looked on in awe as the saw an X slowly form on the egg.

"An X egg!" Ran cried out.

"Come on, Amu! We have to get it!" Miki told her.

"What's the point? The Joker's job is to capture the X eggs, but one of my own eggs has an X. I'm a failure as the Joker." Amu replied with a sigh.

"If you fail as the heroine, then change into a villainess." A voice said. It seemed to be coming from everywhere.

"Who said that? Who's there? Come out!" Amu called out nervously.

"I am your true self. You may call me, Dia" the voice said as the egg, branded with an X, hatched.

What came out of the egg was not what, the girls were expecting. Normally when an X egg hatches, the X character is pure black, with a giant red X on their forehead, there appearance and ability's differ depending on what the human counter part specialized in.

Dia was a girl with long blonde hair that went well past her feet. She wore a plain black dress. Her eyes were cold and emotionless. In her hair was a black diamond shape hair clip with a white X on it.

"Yo-You're my true self?" Amu nervously asked.

"I am one of your true selves just as Ran, Miki and Su are." Dia replied.

"I don't understand." Amu replied.

"Chara are a person's true self, born from the wishes and dreams they made when they were children. They can change as the person they belong to changes or they become X Charas, but some were meant to be that way from the start." Dia explained.

"I'm still confused. What do you mean?" Amu replied.

"Have you not noticed that I'm different from all the other X Chara you have seen before?"

She's right. Every X chara I've seen until know. Normally they're just mindless beings that lash out at anything they see.

As Amu was thinking, the eggshells of Ran, Miki, and Su appeared. They slowly began to close around their respective Chara.

"Tell me, are you happy with the way things are? Are you happy with Ran, Miki, and Su? Are you happy with the way you're treated? Are you happy with the current Guardians?" Dia asked.

Am I-I really happy? Do I like the way people treat me?

"No, I'm not happy!" Amu replied. As she said this, the eggs of her Chara shut tight.

"Tell me, why are you not happy?" Dia asked.

"Because no one likes me for my true character." Amu replied.

"But didn't you just say that you didn't know what you true character was? Maybe your true character was the 'cool and spicy' girl everyone loved?" Dia retorted

Could that really be the true me? No, that's just my outer character, isn't it? Now that I think about it, I've hated how a reacted when I was out of it. Have I been playing the part so long, that it has become the real me?

An X appeared on each of her Charas' egg.

"But the Guardians are my friends, they know the real me!" Amu cried out.

"Really? From what I understand the only reason they asked you to join was because you had three Chara. And Tadase only likes you for Amulet Heart. Let's not forget that Mashiro is the new queen. You two don't strike me as best friends. The two guardians who you thought were your friends abandoned you!" Dia responded.

"Th-That's not true, is it?" Amu asked.

"The King and the others have been manipulating you away from your true self from the start. Did you forget his Chara, his true self? How he pines for world domination? He was born from the kings wishes. That's means that the real reason the King wants the embryo is for his own gain!" Dia told her.

I-It makes sense. If Keseki really is Tadase's true self then what will he do with then embryo? I can't let that happen! I have to do everything in my power to get the embryo first and prevent it from falling into the King's hands!

With that last thought, her Chara hatched from there X eggs. They looked pretty much the same except their clothes were darker shades, and each of their symbols was black with a white X on it.

"That was different." Miki said

"Miki, you have an X!" Su called out in panic.

"So, do you Su!" Ran cried out

"You, too, Ran!" Miki replied.

The three Chara began flying around in panic.

"What are we gonna do?!"

"Quiet!" at Amu's outburst the girls shut up. "Miki, do you think that you can you and the others to look like they did before?"

"Yeah, I think so" Miki replied.

"Good. I don't want you girls telling anyone about this, alright? You can't mention the Xs or Dia to anyone." Amu told them.

"Alright." They replied in unison.

"Here I go. Drew. Draw. Drawn." Miki said with a wave of her paint brush, recoloring the girls so they look as they did before.

"So, now what?" Ran asked.

"Now, we go home and get some rest. We'll figure this out later." Amu told them. With that they leave but they failed to notice a pair of prying eyes.

"I know I'm supposed to be running away, but I have to report this to Utau." Eru said before flying off in the direction she came from.


AN: This is just an idea that's been in my head for the pas few days. I've looked through some of the Shugo Chara fics, and to my displeasure most of them were just fics that were just there to hook Amu up with someone. I don't have a favorite pairing (yet) So don't expect Amu to instantly hook up with someone.

AN-V2: I fixed the the misspellings of Dia. I can't believe I spelt one of the main characters name wrong