Shugo Chara!/Hetalia

Unlock my heart: A beautiful banter!

Chapter 1: Of Snowstorms and Lovely Eggs

A slight grin appeared on the girl's face as she walked over to the cauldron that the blond Brit stood at; her arms filled with supplies, she had happily obliged to help. The young girl had violet eyes that gleamed in the lightly illuminated dark of the room, long black hair blending in with the surroundings. Dog ears twitching and hip popped to one side, she stood patiently as she waited.

"So, England, what do you have in store for us today?"

"I've got an idea," the blond murmured, "But I'm not entirely sure if it'll work.

"What do you mean, 'not entirely sure if it will work'?" The girl set down the ingredients on the table. "Will you be able to finish before everyone gets here or not?" There was a hint of impatience arriving in her tone of voice.

"Don't question by methods, Scarlett. I just don't know how to go about this…"

"What're you trying to do?"

"Create the embryo."

"Shouldn't you get an egg out of your fridge for that? I'd bet it's much easier."

"Oh, sod off, that's not what I meant and you know it!" England snapped. "The embryo is a mythical… well, yes, egg. It can grant any wish."

"Wonderful. Like there's not a million of those stories floating around."

"It's true! I know it is!"

"Alright, England, whatever you say. I'll go get things started for the meeting." Scarlett walked out of the room in the back of his house, making sure everything was set for the G8 conference; it was England's turn to host it, and since Scarlett was already there, she had offered to help- bring in food, set things up, etc. As the door rang and the girl ran to greet them, the participating countries sauntered into the house.

"Where's England?" America asked, taking a bite out of his hamburger.

"He's in the back, I'll go get-" Scarlett was immediately cut off by a loud pop in the air; a bright flash spread through the house, and everything went suddenly dark.

The snow fell outside the young Islander's window, unseasonable and uncharacteristic for her home country. Nothing had been right the past week since she'd gone home to attend to some business. She hadn't been able to get a hold of some of the other countries since Tuesday, and there was absolutely, under any conditions, not supposed to be any snow on the island. Something was, of course, wrong.

Atlantis sat up from her bed, sighing. Maybe she should call Italy just one more time…

The sudden meow of a cat outside snapped Atlantis from her thoughts, reminding her she'd left Gata- her cat- outside. Walking calmly to the door, she opened it to find Gata on the porch, gnawing on a beautifully decorated egg.

"Come on, Gata, don't play with that!" Atlantis chastised, taking the egg from the white cat's paws. The design was intriguing, beautifully painted with the Italian flag among other designs from the nation.

"Italy," she thought out loud, a fond, friendly tone finding its way to her voice. She brushed the snow and cat spittle off the lovely little egg and carried it inside, her small cat in tow.

Nestling the little egg into a blanket on her bed and sitting next to it, she admired its features; it was much larger than a chicken egg, maybe the size of the egg a hawk would lay. The middle was wrapped with a beautiful painting of the Italian flag, the rest of it littered with random bits of the culture- landmarks, food, you name it.

Atlantis was very fond of Italy's culture, seeing as the two had been together for quite some time now. She had promised to take care of him no matter what, and the worry of her inability to contact him was now merely hanging on the edges of her mind as she was easily distracted by the small egg.

'There's… someone out there?' The thoughts of the contents within the egg were quiet, light bits as he now became conscious. 'I… I sh-should get out of here!'

A slight pounding came from within the egg, and Atlantis, who had now rolled over onto her stomach, glanced over at the egg as it cracked open and a small figure forced it's way out; for a moment, she was almost unsurprised by the character crawling out- she was used to things like that- but an immediate shock filled her as she saw the blue uniform, the distinctive brown hair with it's singular curl, the shocked and groggy-but-restless expression.

"Italy…? I-Italy!" Atlantis immediately clambered up, getting onto her hands and knees and gently helping to pry the egg shells away. The smaller, but none the less distinguishable Italy pulled himself to his feet, rubbing the sleep from his eyes and looking up; a slight whimper escaped his throat, followed by a quiet cry of surprise.

"Atlantis!" The small boy whined. "Why are you big?" Italy reached up and started grasping for her, his stomach churning.

"Me? I'm normal size, hon! What happened to you?"

"I… I don't know! We were going to the conference, and then there was this big flash, and… and then everything was cold and dark, and…" Italy began crying, and Atlantis picked him up, letting him nestle into her neck as he sobbed.

"The G8 conference was 4 days ago… I'm so sorry…" Atlantis suppressed the urge to tremble as Italy calmed himself down. "Listen, we need to find the others. And- wait; didn't Scarlett come to help at the meeting?"

"Y-Yes, she was the one who answered the door…"

"Well then, hon, looks like Easter comes early this year, 'cause we're going egg hunting!"

A/N: ARGH. Another story. Three things I need to point out:

1. This story was inspired by "Egg Nation" by MagnifiedSun... that, and watching Alice and Wonderland, listening to the Alice and Wonderland soundtrack, and walking by dog all after reading that story. So… the plotlines between Egg Nation and this are a bit similar (I mean, come on, she had some great points. Who else is gonna get the countries turned into cute little eggs but England himself?) But there will be some odd differences. Like… back-stories that I'll explain next.

2. It says this is a Shugo Chara!/Hetalia crossover, but it's actually a Shugo Chara!/Grip! Crossover… see, "Grip!" is this online manga that my friend was doing (she stole my characters *facedesk*). I didn't want to hassle the to add Grip! to their Anime/manga categories, and since Grip! is a Hetalia/FMA/xxxHolic crossover, I just went, "Well crap, I can say it's Hetalia, can't I?" …'Cause I'm using the Hetalia aspect of all Grip!.

Anyways, thanks for reading! I will post more chapters as soon as I can, and as long as I'm working on this, I'll only post more of "Strange" when I feel like it ._.

3. Well this is my 2nd time uploading this 'cause I can't figure out how to separate my chapter… dashes and excessive underlines won't show up, so let's pray this one works!