Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara, only my OC's and their charas
Shades of Black and White
The Guardians: Friends or Underrated Enemies?
"So, what're your charas like?" I asked Daisuke sociability.
After the whole "rabid squirrel" episode, we had to hightail it bad to class because the bell rang. Luckily, we had the excuse of being the new kids, so we didn't get into trouble.
It's after school now and we're walking along the sidewalks, not in any real rush to get home.
"Yo, I'm Akuma(devil), nice to meet 'cha babe," the devil/rockstar looking chara said while flashing me a devilish smile.
This would not fly with my charas.
"Itai(ow)! What was that for psychos?!"
"You can't talk to Yume-chan like that, I'll tear you apart! Katsu(victory)!" cried Kokoro after hitting Akuma on the head.
"Yeah! You also have the same guitar as me, you copycat, cha nya~!" shouted Sakka after smashing her guitar on his head.
"You're the cat, not me!" Akuma shouted back at her.
Akuma and Sakka entered in a glare down while Kokoro slowly snuck up from behind for a sneak attack.
"No! You can't fight with him, he's hawt," interjected Kaori as she quickly floated over while pulling Akira in her wake.
Akuma seemed to glow in pride, "yeah, this fox knows what she's talking about."
Kaori giggled and flipped her hair as her and Akuma began to flirt.
I gagged, "we want to be like them?"
Daisuke snorted and said, "I have another one, Dei(day) come out."
The lid of Daisuke's black leather bag popped open and a chara popped out.
He had bright spiky golden hair (Naruto style) and glowing orange eyes like Daisuke's. He had a white warm up jacket with an orange stripe going up each side and an orange and gold tie-dye shirt underneath. For pants, he had white sports shorts with a yellow stripe going up either side. For shoes, he had white trainers with flames on them, and he had a white headband and wristbands that had a that had thin yellow and orange stripe going around them. He seemed energetic, friendly, and ready to fight a bear *sweatdrop*.
"Sup?! I'm Dei, nice to meet you!" he exclaimed energetically.
"Same," I said evenly as my charas floated over to greet him.
"So you have four charas? Impressive," said Daisuke.
I was quiet for a minute, then snorted, "it's not that great Halloween, it just means I don't know who I really am."
Daisuke was about to reply when a screech was heard. We both jumped and looked around frantically. It's funny how paranoid you get of fangirls after one day.
"The guardians!" cried annoying fangirl #275.
We looked up and saw some kids strutting along the sidewalk. The thing is, everyone had cleared a path for them to walk down *sweatdrop*.
I pulled Daisuke out of the pathway, shushed him before he could complain, and gestured for him to look at the seemingly important kids walking.
There was four of them, one was a boy that had short and cleanly cut dark brown hair, darker brown- almost black eyes, and dark skin (he looked part Indian or something). He walked with an air of what wasn't really regal, but more of importance.
In deep conversation with him, was a girl with long light blond hair and crystal blue eyes. She seemed to be like the typical beauty queen and had an air of grace about her.
Slightly behind them, and snickering to each other, were two twins. They both both had teal hair and slightly darker blue eyes, but you could clearly see one was a boy and the other a girl. The girl had her long hair in two low pigtails and the boy had slightly long shaggy hair. They both seemed mischievous and troublesome.
The thing that set them apart from everyone else was their (*cough*dorky*cough*) capes, and something else......
"They all have charas," gasped Daisuke.
"No shit sherlock," I mumbled.
"What was that?!" yelled Daisuke with fire around him.
Psh, just because we're friends in some twisted way now, doesn't mean we're going to actually get along.
Unfortunately, the idiot got everyone's attention on us with his moronic yelling. The "guardians" looked at us, then gasped. People sure like to gasp when they see charas, don't they?
Leader guy and beauty queen girl turned to each other quickly, discussed something in hushed voices, and started to come over to us with their charas tagging along.
Leader guy's chara had the same skin tone and eye color as him, but had lighter and shaggier hair and a serene face. He was wearing a cream colored African-style shirt with an orange and green pattern on it. He had dark brown capris-like pants and tan moccasins for shoes. He also had an orange and green beaded necklace and a dark brown yarmulke(Jewish hat) that had a gold design on it. He carried a wooden staff that had pictures of Japanese style dragons etched on it in gold, black, orange, and green. Basically, he looked like he just stepped out of a culture convention.
Beauty queen's chara had flowing snow white hair, pale blue eyes, extremely pale skin (do charas get sunburn?), and a gentle and caring expression. She had a tattered white dress that looked like it was made for a roman goddess and had silver chains that looked like they were made from stars hung all about her body. She had bright silver sandals that had a silver ribbon that attached it to the foot and wound up her leg to right under her knee. The most stunning thing about her though, was her huge(for a chara) fluffy, pure white, elegant wings. Basically, she was obviously a breathtaking angel.
By the time I finished observing their charas, they were about a couple feet away from us. Me, being me, turned right around and started to walk away. I could care less if Daisuke followed, it's not that I didn't care (which you can only so much after knowing someone for a day), but I simply didn't want to be involved with these guardians. My intuition told me trouble came with them, and I wanted none of it.
"What are you doing?" hissed Daisuke who magically popped up next to me.
"Taking a walk, lovely day, isn't it?" I asked- with plenty of sarcasm of course.
He grunted and was about to say something, before he was interrupted, "I'm sorry, but could you please stop walking for the moment?"
I stopped and turned my head slightly to look at the boy guardian who just spoke.
"My name is Natsume(tree) Kontei(root) and my friend here is Sakura(cherry tree) Tenshi(angel). I'm the king of the guardians-"
"And I'm the queen," interjected Sakura calmly, obviously not liking being spoken for.
Natsume continued as if nothing happened, he was probably used to it, "-and it is our duty to show new students around. Would you please come to the royal garden with us so we can discuss the school rules with you?" he asked professionally while obviously looking at our charas.
"Nope," instantly slid off my tongue while I ignored the murmurs of jealousy that had been aroused when the offer of going to the royal garden came.
Everyone looked shocked. Apparently no one in their right mind would turn down the offer to go to the royal garden, well that's fine, I'm not in my right mind.
…....Okay, so I lied. I actually wouldn't mind going to the royal garden. Even if I do get into some type of trouble with the guardians, I've already gotten into plenty on my own before. I actually like talking to other people with charas, a lot. I just can't take back my "no" now though, I can't say what I want to......
"chara change!" Oh crap, I just thought, "Can't say what I want to", didn't I?
Their was a popping noise, and I knew the star on my chocker turned into a peace sign, and my cross earrings turned into little guitars.
The devil cat had taken over.
I grinned lazily and said, "Kidding, I'd love to. I was just joshing ya, jeez, no need to be so serious, nya~" Then it was over.
Daisuke was nearly pissing his pants from laughing so hard, the king and queen were chuckling while looking satisfied, the twins were laughing just as hard as Daisuke, everyone else without charas looked confused as to what the hell just happened, and I'm 100% sure my face was beat red from anger and embarrassment.
I was having cat for dinner tonight.
"Excellent, let's go," Grinned Sakura as she took this chance to drag me to wherever the hell we were going. She was freaking strong, not that I was even resisting. I was temporarily stupefied from the mortification of saying "nya" in front of the majority of my school.
I did register the twins dragging Daisuke between them, with all three of them still laughing. Assholes.
Natsume was calmly walking behind them, and all of our charas had intermingled and were introducing themselves. Sakka was smartly stating far away from me.
I finally snapped out of it and pulled myself away from queeny. I marched straight over the idiot trio (A.K.A. The twins and Daisuke), went behind them, took the twin's heads, and smashed them together with Daisuke's. Kokoro's temper hadn't come from no where.
"Ow, what was that for?" the twins whined as Daisuke settled for a "What the hell was that?!"
They turned around, and turned ashen with fright. I'm pretty sure I looked like a pissed off Medusa.
"Don't laugh at me."
They whimpered and nodded their heads quickly. I took a deep breath, calmed down, and asked, "what are your names?"
They twins looked at each other from over Daisuke's head, looked back me, and pointed to themselves dumbly.
I let out an annoyed sigh, "yes, you."
They stood up simultaneously and grinned.
"I'm Megumi(blessing)-" said the girl.
"And I'm Mahou(magic)-" said the boy.
"Ryoku(power)," they finished while striking a pose.
I looked at them, and I swear there was a sign over my head that said "not impressed", and said, "Nice to meet you, I guess."
They deflated while I turned away from them and to Sakura and Natsume. I said, "So, what's this whole guardian business?"
Daisuke, who apparently magically popped up next to me, again, said, "Yeah, I'm guessing it has something to do with charas since you all have one and we have charas."
"Yeah, Halloween makes a, surprisingly, valid, if not obvious, point," I said in concurrence. Whoa, I'm not usually that mean to people, even with my outside character. Haha, Halloween must just be screwed.
Daisuke once again exploded, but the guardians ignored it and Sakura answered, "once we get to the royal garden, we'll explain."
We traveled the rest of the way with Daisuke exploding every now and then from one of my sarcastic comments, the twins taking it upon themselves to annoy me, Sakura and Natsume talking quietly amongst themselves, and the charas goofing off in their own little world.
It took a little while to snap Daisuke, our charas, and I out of awe when we set eye on the "royal garden". It was a beautiful greenhouse with many different kinds of plants and fountains. Their was a gazebo with a table and several chair to sit down on, and, my personal favorite, sweets.
We finally managed to make it into the royal garden, sit down, and munch on treats while chatting.
"Well, we haven't introduced our charas yet, so...." I suggested in-between bites of a particularly good chocolate chip cookie.
"That's a good idea, come over here and introduce yourselves everyone!" called Natsume.
All the charas flew over and floated by their respective owners. Natsume's chara started, "Hello, I am Heisei(calm), nice to meet you."
Next up was Sakura's chara, "Greetings, my name is Kyuuten(heavens), it's a pleasure to meet you."
Before the twin's charas could introduce themselves, I had to say something, "Hey, you guys look like the white and black mages from the Final Fantasy video games."
The twins look surprised, "you're a gamer?"
I shrugged, "Yeah, the Final Fantasy series, especially the Crystal Chronicles, are some of my favorites."
The twins got these really creepy shiny eyes that you'd see Naruto have if he saw ramen.
The charas looked pleased and floated up to my face.
The one that was a girl was the white mage. She had long red hair and pure white eyes with a cheeky but soft expression. She had on the traditional white hooded robe that had a slight slit up the middle and large red triangles at the bottom. Under a slit up the middle of a very short cloak that was the same white color as the robe and only covered to just below the shoulders, was a red patch that had a gold cross in the middle. She also had red gloves you could see poking out from the sleeves and red boots on her feet. Lastly, she had a golden staff that had a gold moon on the top and two golden moon earrings. "Wassup', I'm Megumi's chara, Yin."
The boy chara was obviously the black mage. He had (weird) jade colored hair that was covered up by a large witch-style yellow hat, pure black eyes, and a smart-ass but serious expression. He had a black robe that completely covered his feet and had a large slit going up to about his waist. Underneath the robe was another slightly lighter layer of black cloth. His large collar flared out in a Dracula-esque way. Under his robe collar, the collar of a white dress shirt peeked out. On his chest there was a large jade broach that resembled a raindrop and he wore two smaller earrings that looked exactly the same. Lastly, he had had a yellowish staff with a large jade star on top. "Ello, I'm Mahou's chara, Yang."
Yep, the twins are total game junkies, though I am one myself.
Daisuke decided to have his charas go next, "Hey kiddies, I'm Akuma," Akuma said devilishly.
"Nice to meet you everyone, I'm Dei," Dei said, grinning brightly, as most people smiled back. Dei seemed to have an aura that just wanted to make you smile, unlike his brother.
"Kay guys, your up," I said to my charas.
"Yo, I'm Sakka, and I rock it, cha nya~!" exclaimed Sakka while strumming her guitar.
"I'm Kokoro, and I'll kick all you asses in sports! Katsu(victory)!" cried Kokoro while kicking her little soccer ball, which appeared whenever she wanted it to, right at Akuma and nailing him in the face.
"I'm Kaori, do what I say and we'll have no problems *evil giggle*," giggled Kaori girlishly, yet so evilly.
"I-I-I'm Akira, it's a pleasure to meet you. P-Please take care of me," Akira blushed, bowed humbly, then quickly went to hide behind her sisters.
"You're not suppose to say something about yourself, and Akira was the only polite one, damn it!" I blushed while scolding them.
Everyone started laughing, and I flushed angrily, "stop laughing at me!"
Natsume was the first to recover and smiled, "Sorry Tsubasa-san, you seem to have colorful charas."
I mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like "colorful my ass", then said, "let's get this straight, I'm from America, and we don't call each other by our last names, except for sports. Drop the Tsubasa crap and just call me Yume."
"You don't seem very "calm and cool", Yume-chan," Sakura teased.
Hm, no freaking clue what this "san" and "chan" crap is, but I do know that blondie here is making fun of me.
"Well, we do have chara, and I don't believe any of them can be qualified as calm or cool," I said in a smart-ass way.
"Too true," she said sweetly as my charas each (except Akira of course) voiced their complaints.
"Can you just tell us why we're here," Daisuke asked in an annoyed fashion.
"That's a good idea, Natsume," Heisei said while turning to his owner.
Natsume nodded an affirmative and said, "to be frank, we'd like you to join the guardians."
There was a silence and the guardians looked at us expectantly. I fiddled with my glasses and thought it over. I was about to respond when I heard a popping noise. I looked at Daisuke and saw that he had devil horns and a devil tail. He chara changed with Akuma, delightful.
This can only end well.
He snickered meanly, "sorry kitties, but we're not interested in joining your little group, ("You do realize they're the same age as us, right?") we'll be going now, take your offer to someone who cares."
As he got up, I expected him to take his charas and leave, but I had sorely misinterpreted who exactly "us" was.
I was roughly grabbed by the arm and dragged out of the royal garden, leaving some flabbergasted guardians and followed by my fuming charas.
Yep, that went well.
And numero dos is done! Hoped you like it! It'll be a little while to get the next one out, but I'll aim for the end of the week. In the next one we'll see some of the original shugo chara gang, so look forward to that! By the way, I do not own Final Fantasy! See ya next time :)!