Me: Yosh! Chapter 7 is completed! Before I forget, I decided to stop waiting for reviews and write this chapter.
Charas of the Gakuen Alice cast:
Mikan's chara – Hina and Mitsu (Hina's character is being strong, because Mikan wishes to become stronger so that she can protect her friends while Mitsu's represents Mikan's inner shine just like Dia. Although Mitsu's character is not really what it seems of the requirement of the embryo, Mitsu, is actually the embryo. Oh! I forgot! Mitsu can also grant wishes!)
Natsume's chara – Kei and Sakidatta (Kei's character is being social and strong. Kei is strong in the sense of friendship and is very friendly. Sakidatta represents the part of Natsume that loves bloodspill, just like Shizuka.)
All of them are 11 years old, except for Kukai, Utau, Yaya and Ikuto.
Pairings: NONE
Disclaimer: I don't own Gakuen Alice or Shugo Chara!
Once the new student was introduced, the class was immediately thrown towards the roads of chaos. Why? You would ask. The boys were screaming at the sight of the new student. They all began commenting on how cool/cute/pretty she was. Valiantly, their compliments were loud enough making the innocent girl blush. Even the girls were jealous of her coolness and prettiness. Wait. Was there such a word called prettiness? The once fangirls of Hinamori Amu were astonished by the different student.
"Eto… Can you stop staring?" the silver-haired asked, feeling a little embarrassed due to the actions caused by the class.
"Class. I know that Hikari-chan—" That earned a glare from Hikari to Nikaidou. The class was shocked by the sudden change of shy to cool yet mean attitude. "I mean, Hikari-san is cool and all, but I should assign her to her new seat. Hikari-san, maybe you can sit at the empty seat behind Mikan-san."
Hikari nodded and proceeded to the empty desk behind the Nullifier. Just then, Mikan felt the presence of an Alice with her Stealing alice.
Natsume's POV
That new girl, she is hiding something from us. I'm sure of it. But what is it? I can't seem to figure out. Never mind, I'm too lazy to take any action right now.
End POV
After the calming down of students and continuation of class, the day went like normal. Like each of the Guardian's daily routine, they headed towards the Royal Garden to enjoy tea and sign paperwork. Little did they know, there was a certain raven-colored hair girl spying on them.
"Today's tea is red tea and the brownies are freshly baked," Nadeshiko said with her usual charm, pouring some tea from the teapot into Natsume's teacup.
Just then, Natsume sensed someone spying on them and shouted, "Who are you? Why are you spying on us?"
Hikari came out of her hiding place. The Guardians turned to look at her and were amazed by Natsume's sharp senses. Natsume immediately questions her, "What are you doing here?"
Hikari gave a smile and replied, "I got lost. Soshite [1], someone told me to tell you this. All that glitters is not gold." She said the last sentence with fluent English. After she left, the Guardians, except Natsume were dumbfounded at the scene that was just being portrayed right in front of their very eyes.
Suddenly, the Charas sensed a swarm of X-Eggs and instantly reported to their owners.
"Amu-chan! There is a swarm of X-Eggs!"
"Mikan-chan! X-Eggs!"
"Natsume! X-Eggs!"
"Tadase, there are X-Eggs."
"X-EGGS!"
Immediately, the Guardians rush to the planetarium that they found a tremendous amount of Negative Energy in. Soon Amu, Mikan and Natsume chara nari-ed.
"Chara Nari! Amulet Heart!"
"Chara Nari! Death Strawberry!"
"Chara Nari! Black Cat!"
Once they arrived, they saw the same red-eyed figure [2] as a few days ago. At the same time, Mikan felt the presence of another alice through the alices that she stole. Somehow, she felt that she had felt this presence before, but she failed to remember who was it. They were shocked with the amount of X-Eggs present and immediately started to purify the X-Eggs, much to Shizuka's displeasure.
"Starlight Secret!" Mikan shouted. Everyone was disappointed at first when nothing happened. She included her Healing alice together with her Wind alice and all the X-Eggs that were hit by Mikan's wind blades were purified instantly. Shizuka gritted her teeth, feeling angst.
"Heart Rod!" Amu summoned her signature pink rod. "Spiral Heart!"
The X-Eggs were bind due to her attack and she took the chance to purify it. "Negative Heart! Lock on! Open Heart!"
The X-Eggs that were bind, all got purified. Then, Natsume attacked. "Charity Bell!" The X-Eggs that were hit by the bell were bound down, leaving Amu to purify it once again. That was the last of the X-Eggs. "Negative Heart! Lock on! Open Heart!"
Once all the X-Eggs were purified, Shizuka snickered and said, "This isn't the last of Easter, it will never be. For the fact that your fate chain is already attached to mine."
After hearing Shizuka's voice, Amu thought, I've heard that voice before. But no matter how hard she tried, her attempts to recall that voice failed. After Shizuka finished her sentence, the Guardians were shocked about the scene that was playing in front of their eyes.
"Boku no Kokoro: Unlock!" A bright white light engulfed the black haired girl and the Guardians were forced to cover their eyes, in case they go blind.
"Chara Nari! Hakai-Hime! [3] " This time, Shizuka was wearing a black short kimono with a bloodstained obi, black sandals and a white scarf. Her hair was tied up into a messy, high ponytail with a white with red splotches ribbon. Her katana was attached to the back by the waist [4]. With that, she started to fight against the Guardians, causing them to go out of their Character Transformation. Within a few shots, the Guardians were down. Once Kei and Natsume came out of their Chara-Nari, his new egg started to hatch. Everyone except Shizuka looked at the hatching egg with curiosity. The white egg with red blood-like splotches hatched to reveal Natsume's other chara. The egg hatched to reveal a male chara with black spiky hair and dark coal-colored eyes. He was wearing a black tank top and black jeans, with chains attached to the pants. He had a wristband on his right hand that had the kanji for kill and wore black sneakers. "I'm Sakidatta. Your other Shugo Chara!"
Suddenly, a bright white light engulfed Natsume once again and he chara nari-ed with Sakidatta. "Chara Nari! Bloody Road!"
"Hn, nice one," Shizuka replied once Natsume started to attack her with the katana which was provided in the Character transformation. "But, it can never hurt me."
With that last sentence of hers, Shizuka jumped onto a tree and came out of her Chara Nari with Satsugai. Taking the opportunity to look at the Charas, the Guardians imprinted the memory into their heads. Satsugai had blood red long hair with scarlet red eye-piercing orbs. She wore a black kimono along with a red obi and matched her shoes with black sandals. Her blood red long hair was tied up into a French braid and there was a katana attached to her back [5]. "Shizuka, are you going to chara-nari with Hageshii?" Satsugai asked. Shizuka nodded. With that, another ray of bright, white light swallowed Shizuka and she once again, chara nari-ed with her other chara.
How many Charas do she have?! All the Guardians thought as soon as the light swallowed Shizuka. Shizuka once again Character transformed to wear a silver colored kimono, dark navy blue colored obi along with a light blue colored scarf. She had hazel colored sandals with white socks on and her hair was tied up into a high ponytail using a white ribbon. "Chara Nari! Sōzō-Hime [6]!"
"Equivalent Trade!" Suddenly, all the students that were within a 50 meters radius of where they were had X-Eggs. All the Guardians became aghast at the sight.
"No, more X-Eggs.." the Guardians murmured. Mikan looked at Mitsu and Mitsu nodded while Amu nodded at Miki.
"Atashi no Kokoro: UNLOCK!"
"Chara Nari! Luna Pandemonium!"
"Chara Nari! Amulet Spade!"
It was the Guardians first time seeing Mikan character transform with Mitsu. After chara nari-ing with Mitsu, Mikan was wearing a sweet lolita dress, her hair tied up into a ponytail and white boots were placed in replacement of her school uniform's boots.
"Sō ka, a chara nari with the embryo. This should be interesting," Shizuka said, her grin turning into an evil smirk. After aiming the X-Eggs at the Guardians, Shizuka transformed back into Hakai-Hime and fights the Guardians. While she was heading towards the direction of Amu, an X-Egg blocked her way and she gritted her teeth in annoyance.
"Fuck you. Killer Strike!" At the call of the attack, Shizuka unsheathed her katana and sliced the X-Eggs into half to Amu's horror.
"How could you…" Amu murmured softly, still in her character transformation with Miki. Shizuka smirked even futher.
"I expected that you would have the embryo, but I guess I was wrong. But at least, the embryo has been revealed. Shockwave Strike!" Her katana still unsheated, Shizuka swung her katana at speed of lightning. Then, a shockwave emanated from her katana and destroyed all the X-Eggs that were hit by the wave. With that last attack of hers, Shizuka came out of her character transformation.
"Remember. This is will never be the last of Easter. You are foolish if you think that Easter has given up on the Embryo." Then, Shizuka jumped back into a tree and escaped from the Guardians. After Shizuka's escape, Amu, Natsume and Mikan came out of their character transformation.
"She is very familiar," Mikan commented. The Guardians switched their gazes to the brunette. "I felt her presence before, but I cannot remember where I felt it."
"You idiot polka dots. If you remembered, maybe it would help us by a lot," the infamous Black Cat replied. Mikan crossed her arms in anger.
"Natsume-san, I think at least Mikan-chan tried to remember," Nadeshiko said with a stern look on her face. The black cat sighed.
"Whatever," Natsume replied. After discussing matters for a while more, the Guardians decided to go back to the Royal Garden to continue with the paperwork that they have stopped at.
Shizuka's POV
"Shizuka, so that Chara with hazel brown and teal colored eyes is actually the embryo?" Satsugai asked. I nodded. Then, Rin and Yūki appeared.
"Where did you go, Rin, Yūki? You frightened me that you might have gotten captured!" I said, putting my hands onto my hips.
"Gomen nasai, Shizuka-chan. Yuuki and I wanted to explore the school," Rin said. Rin represented the girly, happy-go-lucky and gentle side of me. Meanwhile, Yūki represented the otaku character of mine. I sighed.
"It's okay, Yūi, Rin. Anyway, Satsugai, Hageshii and I saw the embryo character transforming with her owner." Rin and Yūki's eyes widened.
"Hontō?!" Yūki and Rin were surprised. Hageshii nodded. Hageshii was not my true Chara, but a chara that were performed experiments on. Hageshii could create X-Eggs with no difficulty.
"Anyways, could you guys stop worrying Shizuka? She's under a lot of pressure, you know!" Satsugai retorted. I smiled. Althought Satsugai's character was killing and destroying, she was a bold, daring girl underneath. She never showed it in front of others except for the four of us. Suddenly, a flash of blond walked past me.
"O sashiburi [7] desu, Utau," I said, with a small smile. Rin grinned and did a character transformation with me. My cross-shaped hair barrette was replaced with a treble clef one.
"Shizuka. Oh right, that old man wanted to see you," Utau replied, in her cold and emotionless façade. I nodded.
"So, he wants a report." With that, I left the entrance of the building and headed in. As many people thought that it was an average music company, the entrance for the secret area were only revealed to those that had charas or were working for the dark Easter. I entered the normal lift and pressed the secret button that were invisible to the naked eye. It was not tiny or anything, it was invisible.
"Shizuka, can we return to our eggs?" Satsugai asked. Hageshii, Rin and Yūki nodded in agreement. Not knowing how I should respond, I nodded and opened the mini bag that I carried by the side on my skirt. Soon, I reached the level that allowed me to enter the area of the Dark Easter. Once the 'DING' emanating coming out from the lift could be heard, I walked out of the lift and walked towards the left direction. After walking for some time, I reached the old man's office.
"Okerinasai [8], Amano Shizuka," the old man said as soon as I entered the room.
"Tadaima [9], Hiro-sama," I responded, bowing 45 degrees.
"I heard that you saw the character transformation of the embryo. Would you explain how it was like?" Hiro replied. I nodded.
"It was like any normal character transformation. But I could tell that character transforming with the embryo, takes up a lot of the owner's physical energy."
"Good job. What are the embryo's abilities?"
"They have not revealed it to me."
"Why is that so?"
"All the X-Eggs were being purified by the Humpty Lock, Hinamori Amu before action could be taken by Sakura Mikan."
"Sō ka, that irritating girl from before." I nodded. "Shizuka, could you think of a way to dispose that girl? Or do something to prevent her from interfering with our affairs."
"Wakarimashita."
"You're dismissed." Satisfied with my report, I left the room and headed towards mine. My room was pretty plain, as I did not really stay in it; instead, I stayed in my apartment. It consisted of a simple bed, a desk with some stationery, a laptop and a chair. I slumped against the chair, when suddenly my door creaked open.
"Shizuka," the voice of the person who opened the door could was vaguely able to hear. I walked towards the door and opened it full. I was surprised with the figure that was right in front of my very eyes.
"SHIRO-NII!" I hugged and sobbed for my dear life. Right in front of my eyes was the brother I thought that had died.
"Shizuka, I missed you," the black haired boy replied. I nodded and started punching him softly.
"Where did you go, Shiro-nii?" I replied, at last, stopped hugging him. Shiro laughed.
"That Easter." My eyes darkened at the thought of it. Suddenly, memories of Shiro and I were playing through my head.
--Flashback—
I was an average person studying in Midori-ku, Yokohama. Everyday, when I reached home, I would be warmly greeted by my parents and my one and only, irreplaceable older brother, Shiro.
"Shiro-nii!" I shouted, as soon as I reached home. Most of the time, once I reached home, a certain black haired boy would be waiting patiently for me.
"Shizuka!" Shiro responded, as soon as he sighted me. I ran towards him and hugged him like there was an apocalypse was going to happen. "Mo [10], Shizuka, you didn't have to hug me like that."
"Shiro-nii," I said with a gentle smile. Then, okaa-sama appeared. "OKAA-SAMA!"
"Shizu-chan, come on. Lunch," Kana, the name of my mother, responded. I nodded incoherently and headed into the kitchen, where we had our meals. "Shizu-chan, remember that you have your violin lessons later."
"Hai, hai."
Once I finished my lunch, I headed back into my room to finish my homework and bathe. When I completed my homework, I headed straight down wearing outdoor clothes my violin bag. Then, Shiro and I headed out together, he holding my hand to my teacher, Katsure-sensei's house. Katsure-sensei was a kind-hearted teacher that never gave up and forgave people easily.
"Katsure-sensei!" I shouted as soon as I removed my shoes to enter Katsure-sensei's house.
"Shizuka, I will be going now." I nodded and Shiro left me to my own devices in Katsure-sensei's house. Katsure-sensei appeared soon after and we began our lesson with a few simple exercises. Once the lesson ended, Shiro came to pick me up. Once we headed home, I saw otou-sama, Shin and the heads of the family at the family living room. I had headed to my room before walking towards the kitchen room for dinner.
"Eh?" I said, scratching my head in confusion. Shiro motioned for me to sit beside him and I obeyed.
"What's going on, Shiro-nii?" I asked, making him laugh.
"You forgot? Today is the day that you inherit the family heirloom!" Shiro responded. Then, it shot me like a bullet that I was part of the main family line and I was to inherit our family heirloom, or more commonly known as The Path of Hell. God knows why it was named in such an inauspicious manner.
"Today, I would like to hand the family heirloom to the next generation," Grandpa said. I looked us with untainted, innocent eyes. "Amano Shizuka-sama."
"Hai." I replied, standing up from my seat and bowing down before Grandpa. The family members of the Amano family were trained to go through such troublesome steps.
"Amano Shizuka-sama, do you promise to uphold the rules of the Amano Family and protect the heirloom with the cost of your life?"
"Hai." The Path of Hell was worth protecting. It had been passed down through the members of the Amano Family for a few hundred years.
"Then, The Path of Hell would truly be yours." Grandpa handed to me the ring that had an onyx gem with garnet gems surrounding it. In the middle of the onyx gem was a diamond gem and the silver part usually used to surround the ring had diamonds adorned on them. It was truly a priceless ring. "Never pawn it or do anything to it, even if you are at a financial crisis."
Just then, I thought why the family did not give the ring to Shiro-nii instead. After all, Shiro-nii was older and more responsible than I was. Things could be so weird sometimes. "Wakarimashita."
"Then, the meeting is over." With that strict sentence of Grandpa's, all the members nodded and rose from their seats. I walked over to Shiro-nii, wearing the ring on my thumb. It was too big for me.
"Congratulations, Shizuka," Shiro said as soon as he caught up to my moving figure.
"Hontō?" I responded, too shocked for words.
"Hai, hai." Weeks after that meeting had passed and I brought The Path of Hell wherever I went. Since I was the one safeguarding it now and nobody would think I had the ring, it was truly safer if the Ring was with me. Once again, when I reached home, I would call 'Shiro-nii' out loud. But, on that particular day, everything changed.
I reached home after my violin lessons to see my house being engulfed by a red, orange flame. Immediately, I ran inside the house, apparently, not thinking of the consequences that could happen to The Path of Hell and I.
"OKAA-SAMA? DOKO NI IRU YO? [11] ANSWER ME, ONEGAI! [12]" I shouted, with hints of desperation inside my voice. I did not hear any reply from the softhearted mother of mine. Almost instinctively, I ran into the kitchen. I knew that okaa-sama would be preparing dinner now.
"OKAA-SAMA? DAIJYOBU DES? [13] OKAA-SAMA!" I screamed, this time, my voice could be recognized with hints of terror and desperation.
"Shizu-chan. Run!" I could hear due to my sense of direction. The voice was coming from the area near the refrigerator. Then, I started to choke as soon as I headed towards that direction. "Daijyobu, Shizu-chan?"
I screamed.
Okaa-sama's upper half of her body was badly burnt. Torn skin was flaking against her body. After seeing the scene that was portrayed right in front of her very eyes, I heard faint gasps emitting from okaa-sama's mouth and then, it stopped.
Knowing that okaa-sama was dead, I shouted "SHIRO-NII! DOKO NI IRU YO?" And she went into a coughing fit.
Then, I heard faint coughs that were coming from the living room. "Shiro-nii?"
"Shizuka! Get out of here!" I heard. Shiro was trying his best to shout. "I'm not leaving without you!" I stubbornly replied back.
"Get out! If you want to live!" More coughs.
I instantly ran towards the source of sound. I found Shiro sprawled on the floor. I screamed again. Flaking skin and the smell of blood…
--End Flashback—
"Shiro-nii! Where did you go after the fire happened?" I replied, wiping the tears from my eyes.
"I was adopted by the Tsukiyomi family, which is Ikuto and Utau's family. Which means that they are your half-siblings now," Shiro replied like it was nothing at all.
"That cat boy and retarded singer?" I responded. Shiro nodded and laughed. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "Is there anything wrong, Shiro-nii?"
"You have Charas too?" I nodded. Then, I was shocked.
"You can see them?"
"I have a Chara too. Natsuko, come out of your egg," Shiro demanded. Then, a little male character with white spiky hair and ice blue eyes appeared. The male chara was wearing a white ¾ sleeved shirt with golden brown trousers. He smiled.
"I'm Natsuko. Yorushiku!" I smiled.
"Hageshii, Rin, Yūki, Satsugai, come on out."
"That's so cool! You have four charas." Hageshii, Rin, Yuuki, Satsugai came out of their eggs after hearing what I said.
"Atashi wa Rin! Yorushiku!"
"Watashi wa… Hageshii… desu..."
"Konnichiwa! Watashi wa Yūki desu!"
"Boku wa Satsugai des. Yorushiku."
While Shiro and I were reminiscing about the past, our Shugo Charas were in a self-absorbed conversation between themselves.
"Shiro-nii, can you transfer to Seiyo Elementary?" I begged my brother, who was a year older than I was.
"Doushite?"
"I'm lonely and I don't have anyone to talk to during lunch. Soshite, you can help me with the mission I was recently assigned to." A sweatdrop plastered the right corner of Shiro's face.
"Hai, hai. Let's go."
"Doshite?" This time, I was the one to say it.
"I need to fill out the application form, don't I?" Shiro responded, making me laugh.
"Hai!"
Me: YAHOO! A record of 4,225 words! The revelation of Shizuka's dark past. But, that was the first part. The other parts ahll not be revealed to you yet.. Kufufufu... I would like to thank:
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