Chapter 12

"Oh, Megu-senpai you came!" Rikka exclaimed. Megumi had a huge bag on her shoulder as she walked in. There was a Christmas tree, fully decorated behind the table in the Royal Garden. There was a bunch of snacks and drinks on another table with a huge strawberry cake with Merry X-mas on it. All the guys were wearing Reindeer costumes and Amu was complaining because she was the only girl not wearing the Santa dresses with the matching hat. She was dressed liked the guys.

"Everyone looks sooo cute with their santa outfits!" Izumi squealed seeing all the shugo girl charas dressed in the same outfits as their owners. Some were complaining but sighed because they had no choice. She squealed again when they handed her, her own and she ran away to get dressed.

"Uh… what are you guys doing with that?" Honou asked slowly backing away from Suu, Kusukusu, and Pepe holding out the same dress.

"NO! GET AWAY FROM ME! I'LL NEVER WEAR THAT AS LONG AS I LIVE!" Honou ran away with them chasing her. At the same time Yaya and Rikka pushed where she can get dressed in the dress they gave her.

Right when she went to change Shouta walked in.

"You're late Shouta-senpai." Hikaru said to him.

"No you're just early." Shouta had an unexpectedly sophisticated face.

"um… Shouta senpai?" Shouta then lost a small amulet around his neck in a flash. He had a mad face glaring towards Tsuki.

"Tsuki!" he scolded his chara.

"I was bored." Tsuki said.

Shouta faced his friends and he burst out laughing when he saw what the guys were wearing.

"Stop laughing Shouta! You're going to where this anyway." Kukai stated.

"oh, no"

"Oh, yes." They smiled mischeviously at him before they can convince him to wear the costume, Megumi came out with her dress on, blushing.

"Um… Yaya, do I have to wear this?" She asked staring down.

"It looks perfect on you like how Honou looks perfect in her dress!" Izumi exclaimed.

"Get this is thing off me! AH! It's burning my skin!" Honou exaggerated and everyone sweat dropped.

Kukai nudged his friend to say something to Megumi but it was kinda funny because he was in his costume.

"Um…. You look nice?" Shouta managed to saw trying to hide his blush with his hand.

"That's all you can say?" Utau said walking in the Royal Garden. Apparently she was invited, too by her boyfriend and Amu.

"I mean… uh…." He kept staring at her making her blush more.

"Utau! You shouldn't tease the guy so much!" Kukai said slinging his arm over her shoulder.

"fine…"

A few minutes later they were laughing with the music loud and enjoying the cake while Yaya and Rikka ate almost half of it themselves. When it reached 12 pm it was officially Christmas. They handed out everyone's present but Megumi and Shouta's present was the most surprising one ever.

"YOU GOT ME A LAPTOP!" Megumi exclaimed staring at the device in her arms.

"YOU GOT ME AN IPHONE!" Shouta, too, exclaimed at his present. (I know it's unbelievable but just pretend it is.)

"Ho-how'd you afford this?" She asked with everyone staring at them with Utau nudging Kukai saying why didn't you get me something like that.

"I told you, my kid model money. How'd you afford this?" He asked.

"My piano competition reward money." She answered.

"You guys are rich…." Everyone burst out laughing but stopped when Rikka pointed out something.

"Wait, are you guys dating?" they both blushed at this statement and that night continued with everyone asking them questions about their relationship.

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The year went by fast. Now it was February, a few days after valentine's day and Izumi wasn't found anywhere. Megumi and Honou were wandering around calling out her name but there was not answer. They took a break in the park but was immediately interrupted when the three hunters appeared before.

"MEGUMI!" Shouta called to her from behind with her other friends following him.

"Aw~ Megumi's friends came to help her!" The huntress squealed.

"Well they may be able to stand against us individually but they won't stand a chance against all of us at once!" He said as a huge cloud of purple eggs emerged from behind them and charged towards them.

"MY HEART: UNLOCK!" Everyone chanted.

An egg immediately charged towards Megumi who blocked it with her sword but the impact was so hard it made her fall backwards. Before she hit the ground Shouta was there behind her to catch her.

"thanks…" She blushed. She was doing that more often now.

"Hey, what kind of boyfriend what would I be if I let my girlfriend fall?" he joked as he blushed too.

"Look at that! Megumi-chan finally has a boyfriend! Isn't that sweet!" She said as she watched everyone get back to attacking and defending themselves from the eggs that circled them individually. The leader hunter twitched a little while the other hunter scowled and charged himself towards Shouta.

"O-oi!" The hunter ignored his leader and went straight towards Shouta summoning a strong purple aura onto his hands with the power of his new heart's egg. Shouta used his Megic Spell defense but he broke the defense easily.

"Woah!" Shouta lifted his staff to block another punch. It worked but he was pushed back a lot causing him to slide back. He raised his arm for another attack but was blocked by Megumi's sword. She glared at him while he narrowed his eyes behind her. When they finally had eye contact Megumi widened her eyes as he jumped back as her sword hit the ground. She stared still wide eyed at the figure before her.

"You're…." Megumi started but got distracted from the thought when a Bastu Tama aimed for her and she jumped away. Everyone used their attacks to paralyze all the eggs which took up most of their power. When Amu did her open heart on the eggs only half of the eggs were purified even if she combined powers with Rikka and Tadase. Even Rima, Kairi, Yaya, Rikka, Hikaru, and Kukai tried everything.

"MAGIC RAIN!" They heard two people cry out. Then a huge wave of blue light passed above them and engulfs the eggs slowly purifying each and every one.

"Megu-tan! When did you and Shouta learn a new attack!" Yaya asked happily jumping on Megumi's back.

"A few months ago." Megumi answered smiling towards Shouta.

"I guess we underestimated you guys." The three hunters turned to leave with the one who attacked Shouta had his hands clenched in a fist. "But we collected all the information we need." He smirked. As they were about to leave Tadase called out to them.

"WAIT!" he shouted making them turn around. "Who are you guys?"

The leader closed his eyes and smirked at the younger boy confronting him.

"If you really must know…" All three of them removed the clothe covering their mouths to reveal three stunning looking high schoolers standing before them.

"We know how you look but who are you guys really?" Kukai still wondered.

"I'm sure Megumi still knows, Right Megumi?" He said still smirking at the frozen shocked girl standing next to her friends.

"I-I…" Megumi stammered releasing herself from her Chara Nari. The leader and the huntress started snickering while the other one had a guilty look on his face. They ran into the forest hoping that Megumi got the message to follow them.

She, still staring straight ahead, followed them into the woods with her friends calling behind her.

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She ran and ran until she reached a small opening in the forest she ran in. She was panicking in the inside so much she left Honou behind. There stood the three people like they were waiting for her.

"You…" Megumi glared at the leader remembering all the pain he caused.

"I hope you still remember your first love Me-gu-mi." The leader taunted.

"Why are you here anyway, Eric." She sneered.

"Hey, you better not talk to my boyfriend like that!" the huntress stood in front of her.

"Alice, don't scare her off. We need her to make this plan a success." He smiled that smile that made a the girls swoon over him.

"What plan?" Megumi asked still irritated.

"huh, and I thought you were the genius. The plan is to gather data and information of each and every one of your friends because they are the rumored the holders of the most powerful eggs. Our goal is to capture the strongest for us to use as our eggs and to create it into ours, all we have to do is use the Dark Aura that Luke collected. With everything set all we need to do is destroy all your friends that stand in our way and to defeat the Guardian Chara owner to claim the eggs." He started laughing maniacally then directed his gaze to Megumi. "And you're going to help us."

"What?" She scoffed. "Why on earth would I help you?"

"Because we have this," He added holding out his hand. There floated an egg with the darkest purple aura she has ever seen. When she looked closer she saw a raindrop on it. She gasped.

"That's Izumi's egg!" She exclaimed.

Eric just stood there studying the egg like a diamond jewel. "That's right. She turned herself into a Bastu Tama because you have been ignoring her and giving all your attention to the other one. She felt left out and turned into a Bastu Tama a month ago and you only noticed one week ago." He explained obviously amused at Megumi's guilty look. "We found her and turned her into a more powerful Bastu Tama creating her into a Dark egg. We would use it but its better if we use it for Blackmail."

"You guys are evil…" She growled but closed her eyes in defeat. "Fine, I'll do as you wish Eric-sama." She bowed.

"Good," He handed her another egg with a far more darker aura. "We created this egg from all the powerful Dark Auras Luke collected. Use this to complete your missions." Tossing it to her. "Your first targets are…" he whispered to her three names that made her stand there lowering her head so her eyes were covered by her hair.

"As you wish master." She bowed one last time before shooting Luke a disapproving glare and walking away.

"Oh, and one more thing, if you tell anyone you're working for us." He smirked, "I'll make sure to destroy the person most dearest to you, Kisaragi Shouta."

I don't own Shugo Chara!