Chapter 3

Tamaki

Last Time: "How boring, nyan! We have to pretend to not know that jerk." Yoru snickered. Kukai slowly stood up and walked away. "Daichi...Daichi...Daichi..." Suddenly, Amu heard a chuckle. Everyone directed their attention to the one person they need to see the least. Lunatic Charm.

"Why are you here?" Amu yelled.

Utau smiled. She seemed to be swaying back and forth, as if she were getting dizzy. "I'm here to destroy you, of course." she said.

"What's happed to you...?" Amu mumbled.

"Easter has shown me the light, Amu!" Utau grinned, then jumped forward. "Devil's Blade!" Utau put her hand out as she ran toward Amu. A black, demonic sword formed in her palm.

Amu put her paint brush out and blocked the incoming sword. Utau leaned into Amu's face as the two weapons met. "That's new..." Amu said, trying not to let Utau's power overcome her.

"Are you jealous?" Utau said in a high pitched tone.

Amu grunted, and looked into Utau's face. Her eyes were blank. Amu gasped, then pushed Utau back a few steps. "Colorful Canvas!" Amu waved her brush and a rainbow of colors flowed out.

Utau snickered. "Blank Expression!" Utau slashed her sword and a mixture of purple and black energy flowed out, colliding with Amu's attack. The rainbow slowly began to wither, and the darkness lashed forward, knocking Amu backward onto the ground. Amulet Spades Chara-Transformation suddenly ended in a flash of blue. "Had enough?!" Utau said, raising her sword to finish Amu off.

"Tightrope Dance!" Rima yelled, wrapping a rope around Utau's hands. "Yaya, now!"

"Right!" Yaya yelled excitedly. "Yaya's turn! Go!Go! Little Duckies!" A herd of rubber ducks formed around Yaya. They began bulleting toward Utau, one at a time. Suddenly everything went black. "What's going on?!" Yaya yelled. "I'm scared!"

"Useless!"

Amu stood up in the darkness. How can it be so dark? She thought. It's the middle of the afternoon and we're outside!

There was a flash of purple light, and Amu, Kairi, Tadase, Yaya, and Rima were all standing in front of a giant X-Chara. No one was in their Character Transformation forms, and no Chara could be see except for the giant. Not even Utau or the X-Eggs were present.

"Yummy! Yummy!" the X-Chara yelled as it gained heart, clover, and spade pins on it's shirt along with a baby bib, a crown, clown face paint, and a samurai sword.

"It couldn't have!" Kairi yelled.

"It did! That thing ate our Chara!" Tadase said in disbelief.

"Hinamori, Kiddy King, everyone else. Come with me."

The guardians turned their head. "Black Lynx- Ikuto!" Amu said. Ikuto- or Black Lynx- was standing in the center of the path through the park.

"Kitty!" the giant X-Chara yelled. Waddling forward.

"Come with me if you don't want to become another one of that thing's accessories," Ikuto said while turning and running.

The guardians all looked at each other and nodded. They all began to run after Ikuto. Eventually, they got away from the giant Chara.

"What- huff -was that thing?" Amu said as she regained her breath from running. The group had rested in the Guardian's Clubhouse.

"Tamaki..." Ikuto mumbled.

"Tamaki? Isn't that Jack's Chara?" Tadase gasped.

"Yes. Unfortunately, that was one of the side effects from Nikaido's experiments..." Ikuto sat in one of the chairs and ended his Chara-Transformation.

"What do you mean?" Amu said, looking up in skepticism.

Ikuto sighed. "I guess I should start from the beginning..." Ikuto began leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed. "A couple of years ago, Nikaido went to America to study X-Chara, and their effects to X-Energy. I don't know exactly how, but Nikaido got a hold on a batch of X-Eggs. One of those eggs was Tamaki's." Ikuto put his chair down and looked over at the guardians in boredom. They all looked as if they were dying to know more. "When he performed a test on Tamaki by adding excessive amounts of X-Energy, I guess that Tamaki's X-Chara form couldn't handle the energy. As a result, it must've grow to it's size to hold all of the energy. Occasionally, Tamaki changes back to his regular form, and Jack never notices Tamaki's absence."

Tadase looked deep in thought. "That must mean that, since Tamaki is so large, he eats other Chara to get their energy to keep himself from dying..." he commented.

"Bingo." Ikuto said standing up. "Well, I better get going. Let's go, Yoru."

Yoru purred as he landed on Ikuto's shoulder. Ikuto waved and headed for the door. "Ikuto wai-" Amu yelled, but was cut off by the shattering of the entire front of the Clubhouse. Tamaki, in giant X-Chara form, had punched the glassing. Ikuto jumped back to avoid the glass. He landed next to Amu. Ikuto then fell on the ground, unconscious. Tadase ran over.

"I think he collapsed from exhaustion..." he mumbled.

Amu sighed in relief. "C'mon nyan!" Yoru shouted. "Amu, you're gonna help me defeat this thing, okay!"

Amu looked over at Yoru in confusion. "Wha-?"

"Yoru floated over to Amu. "Amu's heart, Unlock!" Yoru said as the Humpty Lock began to glow.

"Wait!" Amu yelled as she rose into the air. Her entire body began glowing purple. When she finally made contact to the ground, she was wearing what looked like a pink one piece bathing suit with a tail coming off of the back. She was also wearing pink cat boots, cat gloves with claws like Ikuto's transformation, and she had pink cat ears sticking out of her hair. "Character Transformation: Amulet Lynx.