Chapter 7: The Guardians

As class was finishing, we entered lunch time. I was about to sit down and eat when Nagihiko came up to me and grabbed my hand. Huh? What's going on? I was literally screaming in my head. He dragged me out of the class room and did a character change with Rhythm. I was lifted off the ground and Nagihiko jumped out of the window. At that point I was screaming. When we landed on the ground, he kept running. We came to this really big glass building. He put me down and opened the door. He grabbed my hand again and led me inside. There were flowers everywhere and a fountain. I looked all around. We went up to a table. I stood behind him and nobody noticed me.

"Nagi-nii, why are you so late?" the orange haired girl said munching a cookies.

"Sorry I had to pick up a little something on my way." he stepped aside and I kept my head down. I stood completely still and didn't say a thing. I was kind of embarrassed.

"Nagihiko, why did you bring someone here?" the blond boy asked with insecurity.

From behind me, Tune and Musa popped out "Wow! This place is wonderful!" they both said at the same time. I didn't notice but Nagihiko was still holding my hand. I didn't try to shake it away. I felt a bit of comfort and relieve like this.

"Oh that's why." The pink haired girl said. everyone had the same surprised look as Nagihiko did at first.

We sat around the table and had tea and cookies. I didn't eat, drink, or speak while I sat there. "So, what is your name?" the pink haired girl said.

"H-Hakuoru M-Minueshi" I stuttered. What am I doing here? I asked my self.

"But she likes to be called Haku." Nagihiko said right out of the blue

"Well she does have chara, but we have no open positions." the blond boy said.

"Not exactly, " we all turned our heads to see the chair man walk up. "There are a loud to be 14 people in the Guardians." he said. We all looked confused. "Okay let me explain, we have the Kings chair, Queens chair, Ace chair, Jack chair, and Joker chair, as you all know. What you don't know is that we have nine more chairs. These chairs are called the basic chairs. Just like in a deck there are thirteen cards and the joker. We have the basic tens chair, basic nine chair, and so on. In this case, she would be in the basic ten chair."

Nagihiko turned to me, "So, would you like to be basic ten chair?" he asked.

"I-I don't...No." as I replied everyone looked at me. They looked confused and worried.

"But, why not?" the red head said as she clung to my arm.

"I don't know any of you, except for Nagihiko, and I don't even know what kind of stuff you do. I just... If it's a big responsibility then I can't take it. I'm really bad at remembering things like this. I'm sorry." I got up and started to walk away.

"What if we show you? Would you stay then?" I heard the red head ask.

I turned around. My head was down so they never saw my eyes. As I looked and I saw the red head's face. It was sad, and it's sadness got to me. "Maybe, I could give it a try." I said softly. As I looked up I saw the biggest smile on her face. And so I'm a guardian.

Chapter 8: Guardian Duties

Nagihiko and the others told me to come to the royal garden the next morning. When I walked in I saw a chart. It show who was going to have me at what time, what they were going to teach me, and how they were going to do it. They were all holding schedules and pens. We all took a seat around the table again. They discussed the schedules.

I felt so weird because I didn't know any of their name, except Nagihiko's. But it would be rude to ask. "Character Change" Musa said before a purple tiara appeared on my head. "Hey!" I said over all the noise they were making. "I don't know any of your names! I demand you tell me! Right now!" I said bluntly before I changed back. "Oh, I am so sorry!" I said turning red from embarrassment.

"No were sorry." the blond boy said. "My name is Tadase Hotori and this is Kiseki, my guardian character."

"I'm Yaya and this is Pepe!" Yaya chimed.

"Yaya! Oh, sorry. I'm Hinamori Amu." so that was her name.

I turned to the blond girl who just sat there drinking her tea. "What about you?" I asked. She shot a look at me, her eyes like daggers. I just ignored it though. It made her kind of mad.

"Rima." Nagihiko said smirking. Rima shot him a look and they stood glaring at each other for a few minutes. Yaya grabbed my hand and dragged me away. I was like a toy that everyone had to share. She ran to the garden and got two watering cans. "As Guardians, we take care of the pretty flowers!" Yaya started to explain. At ten o'clock Amu stopped by to pick me up.

"Aw! Amu-chii! Don't take her!" Yaya said holding onto Amu's leg.

"But, it's ten o'clock it's my shift." At twelve o'clock, Tadase got his shift. At two o'clock Rima got me, more like I got her. When four o'clock came around, it was finally Nagihiko's turn.

"As Guardians, we also do our best to keep personal information on every student." he said showing me different files. I sat there at the table, then got up and walked towards the door. "What's wrong?" he asked. I stopped walking when I was about a yard away from the door. I turned around to face him.

"As a Guardian you take care of the flowers, you keep peoples personal information, you get to wear one of those capes! I don't care about the cape at all, I thought being a leader was all those things, I already expected that!" I said anger in my voice. Before Nagihiko could say anything, we both heard the violin sound go off. We looked at each other and nodded then, ran out the door.

"It's coming from the park." I said.

When we got there we saw everyone else fighting off the black eggs. Nagihiko said "Stay here!" and went into the fight after transforming. I sat down on the grass with my arms and legs crossed and an angery face on.

Chapter 9: Full Member

"Don't you think you should help them?" Musa came out of her egg.

"Why should I? They told me to stay here so I am, and besides they don't need my help. They don't even think I can do anything." I said in my stubborn way as normal.

Tune came out and sat in front of me. "You should because it's the right thing to do, you never do as you're told, you've saved them a lot of times, and you aren't worthless. You know you can do it." with those words I felt encouraged and a little happy.

"Thank you, both of you." I held them both in my hands hugging them. "Okay, lets go." they both nodded in agreement.

I went running after Nagihiko. When I turned the corner and saw them all in a cage of eggs.

Out of the cage Tadase yelled "Run!" but I didn't. Some of the eggs came toward me. I looked at everyone in the cage they were all terrified

"My heart..." I said in a low voice, everyone was still looking at me. "Unlock! Character Transformation: Rock 'n Shooter." everyone's eyes got big by the sight of my transformation. As i did before, I slammed hard on the guitar "Music Prism!" again they all fell to the ground. "Tune release." he did so. "My heart Unlock! Character Transformation: Emerald Princess." their jaws dropped even more. "Dazzling Star!" as they saw the eggs purifying they were released and transformed back.

I looked up at the eggs leaving with a big smile on my face. I turned around and they were all still staring at me. I transformed back to myself. they were still staring.

"What, what is it? Did I do something wrong?"

"Have you ever transformed before?" Amu asked me still in aw.

"Of course. Why do you ask?" I said

Back at the Royal Garden, they explained it to me. The next day at school there was a Guardian assembly. It wasn't for the guardians but, it did concern them in the matter. I was about to sit down in the audience when Nagihiko grabbed my hand again. He took me back stage. They put the cape on me. Then came the announcement.

"Thank you for coming. We, the Guardians, have an important announcement." Tadase said as he read off the papers he had. He read the results from the uniform survey, the lunch survey, and the contest winner for the raffle. "Last form of business, we have a new Guardian joining us. Please welcome basic ten chair Minueshi Hakuoru." I stepped out on stage wearing the cape.

Everyone was cheering and clapping. I felt happy and accepted. I kept a straight face though.

At lunch I went to the Royal Garden. I still wasn't used to it yet. So, I was still scared. When I got inside everyone welcomed me with a smile. We all had a lot of fun. When I got home it was almost five o'clock. I told my parents and they tried to hug me. I pushed them away and went to my room. As I laid on my bed, Tune and Musa went into their eggs and went to bed. I laid there thinking of Jake.