p id="docs-internal-guid-b34dc95d-7fff-50ae-da21-b5b10aa0a460" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The plan would take place in exactly a week. Oliver and his crew would distract the Shiba guards downstairs while Amu and Ikuto went in for Kimi's egg and with having Yorin now added to the team, between Amu, Ikuto, and six chara's, they were sure they would be able to do it. So this week focused more on Amu hiding in Ikuto's apartment. If Shiba were to find them now, it would be all for not. And what a week it was for Amu… She HATED being confined, but with Ikuto and the others it was a week of bliss for her. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"And then came the fateful day… Ikuto and Amu stood together waiting for Oliver's go ahead. Once the distraction was created, Ikuto chara transformed with Yoru and Amu, Ran. With the pair having the signal, Amu led Ikuto around to the side where her and Kimi fell. She stood there a moment just taking it in. "This is where you fell…" Ikuto asked. Amu nodded./spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Yoru and I made quite the team here," she said with a small smile. She lept off of the ground and started up the side of the building. This is where it got difficult. Even with the others going ahead to check for cameras, Ikuto and Amu had to be quiet and sneaky. "The lab is where they last held her egg…" Amu whispered to him. Ikuto nodded and let her lead the way as the pair started in that direction. What they were greeted with…/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Was Julie holding Kimi's egg! "Julie!" Amu said. She was trying to crush it. Julie turned and pulled the egg open, forcing the chara to spring from it. Amu had to cover her ears from the scream that the chara gave off. It made her hurt! Ikuto held Amu close to him as all of the x eggs from the lab broke free of their containers and surrounded Julie and the new chara. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The sky was turning dark outside with the sea of x eggs surrounding the building. "Ikuto!" Amu cried as the lab emptied. This wasn't something that Amulet Fortune or Seven Seas treasure could even handle! As the pair ran back for the roof, they could see Julie with Kimi's chara among the x eggs. "She's trying to make the embryo!" Amu cried as she watched. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Amu we have to try!" Ikuto said. Amu shook her head. If only she had Rikka and Hotaru! The three of them could do it! Amu shook her head and moved her hands to the side as she tried to think. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ikuto…" Amu said, looking up at him. "What if we borrowed all of the charas…?" she asked. Ikuto's eyes went wide. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Are you crazy Amu!?" he asked. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Of course I am thinking this! But look!" she said, looking back to Julie. She looked corrupted, off, and inhuman at this point. Ikuto looked at her and nodded, holding his key up after detransforming with Yoru. Amu did the same with her lock after detransforming with Ran. Ikuto looked serious as he drew Amu close. She moved her free arm around his neck and the pair of them closed their eyes, their foreheads touching one another. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Please… we need you… All of you… Every single chara. We need you…" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Amu gave this silent plea as the key and the lock once again combined. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Among a sea of black burned a bright light Amu and Ikuto had created. It looked as if falling stars were heading for the pair. Amu's eyes opened and she could recognize some of them! Kiseki… Il, El… Temari, Rhythm… Daichi… Pepe… Kusukusu… Musashi… Nana… and even Hotaru! Tears came to her face as she looked to Ikuto who had a gentle smile on his face. "Our hearts… Unlock," the pair of them said together. Once the light faded around the pair they stood there as if they looked like gods among men. Amu was still pressed against Ikuto's chest as they stood there. Around them looked to be a silk scarf that went from Amu's right arm, around her left wrist that connected to Ikuto's right wrist which wrapped around to his left arm. "Charameli," they said together with thousands of voices, "Chara Dream." Ikuto took Amu's right hand in his own as he turned her so her back was now against his chest. The movement looked so fluid and fluent that the pair had done it a thousand times before. Amu's hands raised into her familiar heart shape, but this time, Ikuto's hands wrapped around hers. "Open heart!" they and the charas yelled, but instead of Amu's normal flash of light, charas flew out from the open heart, each one grabbing and hugging onto an x-egg, changing it back to it's dream egg. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Julie turned and started screaming as the charas washed over her and Kimi's chara. Of course holding and using that many charas at once would take a toll on Ikuto and Amu and after that single attack, the pair collapsed…/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A week later is when Amu had opened her eyes for the first time and to all of her friends from Japan standing around her! They were all told what had happened from their chara's and rushed over on the soonest flights they could get. But as much as she loved her friends, there was a pair of eyes she'd been looking for. When he walked into her room… It was just silence as he made his way over. Both of them were in the hospital from the stunt they'd pulled and the only reason they were alive was because of the chara's. They'd all shared the burden of being in one transformation. Once he got her to, he almost plopped on her bed and he kissed her. "Amu…" he said quietly after drawing back. "Marry me…" he said against her lips. She of course smiled and kissed him as her reply. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Soon after they were released from the hospital and their friends all had gone home. Now it was just Amu in America with Ikuto...The pair were walking away from the current event center that Ikuto would be performing at with seven charas behind them. Why seven? Cause on the other side of Amu was Kimi. In that bright light, Julie disappeared. No one was sure where she went, but Kimi's chara, Lumi appeared, finally born. She held Kimi's desire to see the best in the world and see the light among the dark. But now Kimi was under the care of Ikuto and Amu. If you didn't know them, the three of them looked like a normal family. "Tell me again the story," Kimi said, moving between the pair, taking Amu's left hand which held a beautiful diamond ring and Ikuto's right hand. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Amu smiled and looked down at Kimi before looking back to Ikuto. "Well… It all started with a lock-" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""And a key," Ikuto finished for her./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The sky was turning dark outside with the sea of x eggs surrounding the building. "Ikuto!" Amu cried as the lab emptied. This wasn't something that Amulet Fortune or Seven Seas treasure could even handle! As the pair ran back for the roof, they could see Julie with Kimi's chara among the x eggs. "She's trying to make the embryo!" Amu cried as she watched. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Amu we have to try!" Ikuto said. Amu shook her head. If only she had Rikka and Hotaru! The three of them could do it! Amu shook her head and moved her hands to the side as she tried to think. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ikuto…" Amu said, looking up at him. "What if we borrowed all of the charas…?" she asked. Ikuto's eyes went wide. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Are you crazy Amu!?" he asked. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Of course I am thinking this! But look!" she said, looking back to Julie. She looked corrupted, off, and inhuman at this point. Ikuto looked at her and nodded, holding his key up after detransforming with Yoru. Amu did the same with her lock after detransforming with Ran. Ikuto looked serious as he drew Amu close. She moved her free arm around his neck and the pair of them closed their eyes, their foreheads touching one another. /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Please… we need you… All of you… Every single chara. We need you…" /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Amu gave this silent plea as the key and the lock once again combined. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Among a sea of black burned a bright light Amu and Ikuto had created. It looked as if falling stars were heading for the pair. Amu's eyes opened and she could recognize some of them! Kiseki… Il, El… Temari, Rhythm… Daichi… Pepe… Kusukusu… Musashi… Nana… and even Hotaru! Tears came to her face as she looked to Ikuto who had a gentle smile on his face. "Our hearts… Unlock," the pair of them said together. Once the light faded around the pair they stood there as if they looked like gods among men. Amu was still pressed against Ikuto's chest as they stood there. Around them looked to be a silk scarf that went from Amu's right arm, around her left wrist that connected to Ikuto's right wrist which wrapped around to his left arm. "Charameli," they said together with thousands of voices, "Chara Dream." Ikuto took Amu's right hand in his own as he turned her so her back was now against his chest. The movement looked so fluid and fluent that the pair had done it a thousand times before. Amu's hands raised into her familiar heart shape, but this time, Ikuto's hands wrapped around hers. "Open heart!" they and the charas yelled, but instead of Amu's normal flash of light, charas flew out from the open heart, each one grabbing and hugging onto an x-egg, changing it back to it's dream egg. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Julie turned and started screaming as the charas washed over her and Kimi's chara. Of course holding and using that many charas at once would take a toll on Ikuto and Amu and after that single attack, the pair collapsed…/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"br /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A week later is when Amu had opened her eyes for the first time and to all of her friends from Japan standing around her! They were all told what had happened from their chara's and rushed over on the soonest flights they could get. But as much as she loved her friends, there was a pair of eyes she'd been looking for. When he walked into her room… It was just silence as he made his way over. Both of them were in the hospital from the stunt they'd pulled and the only reason they were alive was because of the chara's. They'd all shared the burden of being in one transformation. Once he got her to, he almost plopped on her bed and he kissed her. "Amu…" he said quietly after drawing back. "Marry me…" he said against her lips. She of course smiled and kissed him as her reply. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Soon after they were released from the hospital and their friends all had gone home. Now it was just Amu in America with Ikuto...The pair were walking away from the current event center that Ikuto would be performing at with seven charas behind them. Why seven? Cause on the other side of Amu was Kimi. In that bright light, Julie disappeared. No one was sure where she went, but Kimi's chara, Lumi appeared, finally born. She held Kimi's desire to see the best in the world and see the light among the dark. But now Kimi was under the care of Ikuto and Amu. If you didn't know them, the three of them looked like a normal family. "Tell me again the story," Kimi said, moving between the pair, taking Amu's left hand which held a beautiful diamond ring and Ikuto's right hand. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Amu smiled and looked down at Kimi before looking back to Ikuto. "Well… It all started with a lock-" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""And a key," Ikuto finished for her./span/p