A/N: Will finish as quickly as possible. Will be done by November as I need that time for I'm participating in Nanowrimo. If you like writing but can never finish anything its a good motivator. Look it up.

Chapter 15: Shattered: The Tragic Happy Ending

Amu's POV

It was the only way. The Humpty Lock had told me so while I was passed out. Sounds weird I know, I'm listening to a sparkly lock, but don't worry after I get Ami back to her normal self, I'll definitely find some herpetic help. At least that's what I was telling myself.

Ami right now, she was being controlled and confused. I knew why two, because the Humpty Lock and the Dumpty Key were the two things in the world other than the Yolk, the embodiment of knowledge, everything about Charas and Heart Eggs.

Agilely with the skill of those who've trained years Ami struck out with a crystalline sword. I barely dodged. Yuri! Its your time! I character transformed so now I was a Guardian with a purple cloak and otherwise plain old me. A staff and a shield appeared before me. Using each to deflect blows I almost easily evaded Ami. She was expert though, and she learned so quickly. I knew why. I knew very well why. But there was no time to explain, as I needed Ami to snap out of whatever trance she was in or whatever. I sent my shield forward letting it encase my sister. That would imobilize her for only a short time, so I used that in order to yell something that stopped everyone in their tracks,

"Ami listen carefully! Its the necklace I gave you! The necklace... It's the Yolk!" I exclaimed to the utter shock of all... except the Charas.

"Of course." my shield Chara Yuri replied.

"Eh? Yuri, what are you talking about?" Yuri spoke to me, so did all my Charas.

"Amu," Yuri began while Dia finished, "All Charas have a basic knowledge of the Heart Soul."

"W-what?"

"When we Charas are born we are granted with some of the knowledge the Yolk contains. This knowledge is of the beginning of our kind." Yuri stated. She put her tiny hand over her heart and began her tale, "The name of this man has been lost in the ages, but Charas still know his story. It was back in the early years of human kind. This man discovered something that he called a dream it was an aspiration of his. He wanted to move the human race forward, and relieve everyone of their fears and sorrows. He rallied the humans and together they created the dream to have dreams. That's how the Embryo was created." Ran said.

"The Embryo came to the man, always with him, it was the very first Heart Egg. After the Embryo appeared, even more heart eggs appeared. These heart eggs were more selfish and revolved around their owner's wishes. The man realized this and so he went to work creating the Yolk. It was an object meant to hold all human knowledge. Anything the humans learned the Yolk would absorb those facts too." Miki explained. Yuri continued the story,

"After a time the man met a woman. She had a Chara unlike any the man had ever seen. It was powerful and was a pure dream to protect everyone. The man fell in love and the two were married. The Embryo's power infected the woman's Chara making it even more powerful. The woman came to become the very first person to character transform with a Chara, and also she became the first Egg Shell."

"If you knew all this why keep it a secret?" I demanded. Yuri sighed.

"Because when the man was on his death bed, this was long after his wife, the first Shell, had died, all the Charas in the world gathered around him to mourn his death. But he saw the sorrow in their hearts and knew if it continued they'd all become X-eggs, so he told them to not fret. He told them they were important to the world and all humans needed at least one of them. As his dying wish he asked of them to continue to live with their human owners. Then he took the Yolk, and using the power of the Embryo spread the current knowledge of the workings of heart eggs to every Chara." Suu's tone was mournful.

"He told them to keep the knowledge secret, because he didn't want any human trying to gain access to the Heart Soul. He said the Heart Soul was meant for one purpose. Should the Earth ever be in catastrophic peril, the Heart Soul would save it. The Heart Soul is the combination of the Yolk, the Embryo, and the Egg Shell." elucidated Dia.

"The Egg Shell Chara, the embodied power of the Shell, comes to the human who has the rare and sincere wish to protect everyone. The Embryo appears when there is the rare and pure dream to have dreams. Should those two ever be in the same place the Yolk will find a way to get there. But even so the Heart Soul cannot be used even if a human did try, because the human owner of the Egg Shell Chara must give up that Chara to create the Heart Soul. If they did do that, that would not be protecting everyone and the Egg Shell Chara would lose its power and disappear. So the Heart Soul really is only possible if everyone else's life relies on it. Otherwise it is not accessible because it requires a single life to be sacrificed." Yuri, the one who would be sacrificed, finished.

I looked down. That was a heavy burden to carry. I was the Egg Shell wasn't I? I was the one who made the ultimate decision to save the Earth, knowing me it would not be possible for me to give up Yuri or any of my other Charas.

I stared at Ami who's powers were growing by the second, I could tell by the burning shine encompassing her. Soon she became like a bright star, I couldn't even look it was too dazzling. I asked Yuri,

"Why is this happening?"

"Its the Humpty Lock Amu!" Kairi yelled instead, "The Humpty Lock increases the powers of the Heart Eggs around it! Amu don't you see? That's why your Charas and everyone else's are so strong! Its the Humpty Lock!" I looked at the Humpty Lock which hung from a chain around my neck. This little thing was causing a internationally spread problem? This little thing was the reason for this sudden growth in the Earth's Chara population? I couldn't believe such a thing.

I snapped back to reality when Ami's aura reached the intensity of the sun and its energy bore down more than sticky, humidity under the boiling pressure of a high noon sun. This isn't going to stop. I realized. It wasn't just the Humpty Lock but the Embryo and the Yolk and the Egg Shell, we were all so close and our strength had increased miraculously fast.

"YURI! HOW DO I DESTROY THE HUMPTY LOCK?" I roared running through the blinding light towards my dear sister.

Yuri's tone was shocked, "How could you possibly dream of destroying that thing? First you'd have to destroy the Dumpty Key too! And second those things aren't just random cosplay accessories! They're important! Those two items are so powerful you'd need the Heart Soul to break them!"

"YURI! THIS HUMPTY LOCK IS ENDANGERING THE ENTIRE WORLD AND MY SISTER! I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!"

"THEN UNLEASH THE HEART SOUL!"

"HOW?" I demanded, aggravated.

"ONLY YOU'RE HEART KNOWS!" Yuri replied with equal frustration as I had.

A hand shot out of nowhere and cupped around mine. Through the blinding light I made out cat ears and blue hair. Ikuto! My thoughts screamed happily, but I maintained my cool, squeezing my true love's hand. I had it within myself to save this world, and the only way I could see fit was to destroy the Humpty Lock and the Dumpty Key. Then it hit me, those things had always been the lock and key of my own heart hadn't they?

"Ikuto! Give me the Dumpty Key!" I told him with a yell. A buzzing sound was surrounding us now. It was the sound of light itself, and it was completely overwhelming. I felt Ikuto jab me with the key and I grabbed it from him. Tearing the Humpty Lock from my neck I yelled, "Heart Soul! UNLOCK!" as I jammed the key into the lock.

The light evaporated like rippling water going backwards and became a small shimmering orb. Upon looking closer I saw it was the Embryo egg and Yume; she floated in front of me. With the light gone I could also now see Ami who stood very close. Then the necklace around Ami shattered and from it was born an egg that looked to be made of glass. Thin hues of color swirled like feathered falling leaves around it. And then Yuri came out, with her egg now solid purple.

"How did you know that would happen?" Asked Ami in wonder. Her voice was far away and her eyes seemed unfocused. Clearly there was still something wrong with her.

"The Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key, when together, have always forced the Embryo to come forth." I answered logically.

Yuri looked up at me, "I truly wish to protect everyone Amu. And so do you. I was born from your heart. I am not the same Egg Shell from those many years ago, but that doesn't change that I am the Egg Shell of now, so please do everything in your power to protect everyone. Do not mind me."

"Yuri, the time we spent together was wonderful. And I'm really happy I had you as a Chara even if for a short time. And I'm sorry," Yuri and Yume went into their eggs, "But this is necessary." The three eggs formed a glittering thin sword. The blade seemed to made of glass, and the hilt was made of silver and tinted purple while a gem of sparkling white diamond was imbedded in the middle, "TO PROTECT THIS WORLD I MUST!" I threw the sword above my head and then brought it plummeting back towards the ground.

No one's POV

The oddest thing anyone with a Heart Egg ever did see was when their Chara or Heart Egg glowed like an angel of heaven. Simultaneously, at that moment, when the Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key were forever lost, the Charas of the Earth looked up to the sky and they all cried. Each were attached to their owner, so soon the human owner cried too. All around the world that day people started crying, one after another. A kind of curse had been broken as the glass blade shattered and the purple hilt dissolved. The glass blade, which was the Yolk, shattered and spread the knowledge of the entire story of the Heart Eggs to each Heart Egg. Renewed with the memories of the man who created the Embryo and the woman who protected everyone, it was a happy tragedy. Without the Humpty Lock and Dumpty Key nothing could bind the Yolk to an Earthly form and nothing could tie the Embryo to a human, and nothing could bring back the Egg Shell.

Amu cried, and even Ikuto teared up. Ami probably cried the most. She'd been freed from Hollow's Eve's mind control tricks when Amu momentarily ripped the Embryo away from Ami's heart. Hollow's Eve's over all defeat was quick, for when the Heart Soul shattered the Humpty Dumpty duo all their technology and man-made heart eggs vanished as if they had never been created. At that moment all the X-eggs were healed and all the Ø eggs were cleansed, as well as the many other types of evil eggs there were. It was so momentous that this memory is no forever written in the Yolk and each Heart Egg across the world. For that moment, there was what is known as "peace" that covered the entire globe.

A/N: There are still more chapters so just wait