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Amu was sitting in her normal seat by the window, gazing out at clouds going by. Her posture and mannered was disintered as always, or at least, the way it was when anyone was looking. Her gold eyes half closed as she rested her hand on one palm. Her pink hair tied up in a ponytail with a small hair-band.
It was just something she had started doing and became kind of her thing. The other kids in her class called it the 'cool and spicy' attitude and had some kind of fan worship of her for it. It was strange but because of that she was locked into doing it even though it wasn't really how she felt on the inside. Though who knew how she really felt on the inside. Even she wasn't quite sure. Something that she could be reminded of just by glancing up at the three tiny figures flying around above her head.
Her Guardian Characters, Shugo Charas, or Char for short. A Guardian Character was supposed to be an expression of who its owner truly wanted to be. And if that was the case, then Amu wanted to be completely insane. Rather than receiving a single Guardian Character, she ended up with three, each with their own very extreme personality.
Ran, Miki, and Su where flying around above her head, though she did her best to ignore them. Since anyone who didn't have a Guardian Character couldn't see them, her making a big deal about them would just make her look crazy and rune the public image she held for herself.
Each of the three looked like what you would get in scientists tried to condense cuteness into a weaponized form. Their large heads with baby like cheeks and large colorful eyes where so adorable that it was almost absurd. Each one was wearing a different outfit that went with their theme.
"Amu-chan! Amu-chan! Fight, fight, fight!" Ran cheered over and over. The small red haired Char was dressing in a bright pink cheerleader's outfit with two pompons in her hands, cheering even though there was nothing really to cheer about.
The little energetic girl was supposed to be Amu's desire to excel at physical activities and her red hair was tied up in a ponytail with a large heart shaped amulet.
"Ran-chan could you be a little quieter, I'm trying to draw the sky." Miki said as the blue haired Char flouted by the window with a sketch board on her lap, looking up at the sky before looking back down and making some pencil strokes. She was dressed in a blue painters outfit with long sleeves and overalls. On her head was a large blue beanie hat with a spade amulet on it.
Miki was the embodiment of Amu's creative side, and took her artwork really seriously. Though for some reason she also seemed to be the one most obsessed with romance.
"Tidy up, tidy up." Su sang softly as she used a hand rage to the window. The thing was so small that it would take the Char the entire afternoon to do all the windows, but that would at least keep her out of Amu's hair. Su dressed in a bright green French maid outfit with lots of frilly stuff. On her little hair tie was a clover amulet.
Su was Amu's wish to be better at domestic activities, cleaning and cooking mostly. Being a house maker.
Heart, Spade, Clover. Each a symbol from the traditional deck of playing cards. The only one missing was... diamond. Amu gave a little sigh at the thought. The diamond egg had appeared after the other three, during the start of the new semester.
At the time, Amu had been trying to open up a bit more to people, and it had exploded in her face. She had been having trouble with the new Queen's chair, Rima, who had replaced her friend when she went off to America to study dance abroad. She had became depressed by the experience and because of that the diamond egg had become an 'X' egg before hatching into an 'X' character and leaving her.
Even after she had managed to patch things up with the new queen, she hadn't been able to reclaim her egg. She felt so ashamed, her actions had caused her to lose a part of herself. To turn it into a negative shadow of itself, like the ones she had promised to help fight against.
"Amu-chan! The sensei is here!" Ran shouted in order to get the girl's attention.
Amu's head turned towards the front of the room as the stiff history teacher, Koga-sensei, shuffled in. Amu stood up like the rest of the class until they were told to be seated by the teacher.
"Alright class. Before we begin I would like to introduce you all to a new student who will be joining our little family." The teacher said, wiping sweat off his large balding forehead with a cloth. "Please give a warm Seiyo Elementary welcome to Kore Danielle."
Amu turned her head to the door with the rest of the class as the newest addition entered.
At first she had a heard time identifying the new girl as a girl. She was dressed in a boy's uniform and didn't seem to be all that feminine, but her hair and face was definitely that of a young girl's.
"The name's Dani, not Danielle." The girl said as she held herself with a certain amount of pride. She had a clear American accent though her Japanese seemed pretty fluent.
"R...right." The teacher said nervously. "Would anyone like to ask our new friend any questions?"
A boy raised his hand. "Why are you dressed like a boy?" He asked, something that the other students nodded with.
"I don't like skirts. Got a problem with that?" Dani said a bit aggressively, leaving the boy shaking his head no.
A girl raised her hand this time. "Where are you from?" She asked.
"Pass." Dani said with a shrug.
"What?" The girl said surprised.
"I said 'pass'. I don't feel like telling you." Dani said turning her head.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Another student tried.
"Pass." Dani replied again.
"What do your parents do for a living?" Someone else asked.
This time Dani didn't answer for a few seconds, not even to say pass. Finally she tired to the teacher and said. "Sensei, can I take me seat now?"
"Um... yes. You can sit in the open seat in the back." The instructor said seemingly unsure about the unfriendly girl. Dani went back into the corner and sat down, propping her self on her elbows and doing her best not to look at the other students.
Amu watched her from the other side of the room while some of the girls around her whispered. "She is so cold and mean." One of them said.
"With an attitude like that. There is no way she is going to make any friends." A second replied. Amu saw the girl flinch slightly on the other side of the room. Amu blinked. Had she been able to hear them from all the way over their? Maybe someone else was saying something similar nearby her.
"I wonder if that is what she is really like, or if it was all just an act to protect her." Amu wondered to herself before turning back to the front of the class. She decided that come lunch time, she would try to invite the new girl to lunch with her. Maybe everyone would see she isn't so bad after all. Just like with Rima.
When they had finally been dismissed for lunch, Amu stood up and walked over to Dani over in her corner. Some of the other students hushed up as she approached. "Hey, Kore-san." Amu said standing over Dani in a confident manner, even if she didn't feel all that confident.
Dani turned her head to look up at the pink haired girl. "What is it?"
"I'm going to be having lunch with Rima-chan, your free to join us?" Amu said, earning a lot of whispers from the surrounding students.
Dani looked up at her, and she thought she saw a flash of green in the girls eyes. All of the nearby students shivered as a pulse of negative energy went through the room. Though Amu herself, who was more used to such things from dealing with the 'X' eggs was merely surprised by it. Her Guardian Characters had not sensed any 'X' eggs nearby, so how was this girl producing so much negative energy.
Pushing the thought aside Amu pressed forward. "So do you want to or not?"
Dani blinked at her, as if surprised to see that she didn't just run off. "Fine, whatever." Dani said as she pulled out her own bento.
"Come on then." Amu said before leading her through the other students who all parted to let them pass.
Dani was more than a little surprised when a girl with bright pink hair had walked up and talked to her. Sure it wasn't exactly in a friendly manner, but it was still more than she was used to.
At first she wanted nothing to do with her and had sent a bit of her ghost energy out, hoping that it would drive the girl off. But when she hardly reacted Dani had been to shocked to continue resisting. Though lunch had turned out to be mostly a silent afar anyways with hardly any talking between the three girls.
It had been a little fun to be called Kore. It was a name that Dani picked for herself since the name Phantom or Fenton was out. It was from the cult of Hecta in Greek Myth, and was another name for the queen of the Underworld, Persephone, who had been cursed to spend half of her life in Hades with her husband and the other half in the world of the living with her mother. It was Dani's own little joke. Not that anyone would get it.
Lunch would have been pleasant enough, if it wasn't for all of the students that were staring at them and whispering. Dani was trying her best not to hear them, but it wasn't in her power to shut off her hearing. Most of their words seemed to be praising Amu's gutsiness and much less nice comments about Dani herself.
"Do they ever shut up?" Dani finally said, glaring at the group of gossiping girls, sending them a wave of ghostly energy to make them shiver.
"I would say that they will get bored and stop, but that would be a lie." Amu said with a disintered shrug. "You just get better at ignoring it." This response was met by squeals of 'cool and spicy' from nearby girls.
Dani actually smiled a little. Amu reminded her of Sam, and not just because of the small ponytail. The outwards display of being just separate from what everyone else wanted of her was pretty cool, though Dani remembered that Sam was only really that way when people were looking, and when it was just her and her friends she was all jokes and laughter. **** was also nice and quiet. She had long wavy brown hair and a doll like face that was pretty cute.
Though that smile turned to a frown when she realized that she thought the two girls were kind of cute. Perhaps Danny's tastes in girls and transfered over to his clone. Mentally denying that to herself, Dani continued to eat her food.
"S#e's #ot #ea# at a#l is #he Amu-#han." Dani frowned as she thought she heard a straight voice. She looked up straight over Amu's head where she thought the sound was coming from, but she didn't see anything.
"Something the matter?" Amu asked her, noticing her squinting.
"No. I just thought I heard something." Dani responded with a shrug. The next teacher entered their classroom to tell them that lunch was over and they all moved back to their seats.
After school ended Amu went to the 'Royal Garden' with the rest of the guardians to do their equivalent of student counsel. It was rather odd that no one questioned the fact that the guardians were always appointed instead of elected, but considering the amount of fan worship each one had, they would have won by a landslide anyways.
The thing that was characteristic of each of the guardians was that they all had a Guardian Character. There where five guardians in all, the king, queen, jack, ace, and Amu herself, the Joker.
While the chars all ran around playing explores the Guardians got to work.
"I hear that your class has a new student!" Yuiki Yaya, the Ace chair said excitedly. The most childish of the children who dreamed of growing up to be a baby had her brown hair up back into its usual pigtails and a goofy grin on her face. "What's she like?"
Amu thought for a little bit about how to answer. "She's a little cold and distent I guess. She's got a lot of negative energy, but she doesn't seem to be a bad person." Amu admitted. "But at the beginning of class, when everyone was asking questions about her dreams and her family in order to get to know her better, she refused to answer."
"That is most likely because she is an orphan." The Jack's chair, Sanjou Kairi said, catching Amu off guard.
"What!? She is!?" The pink haired girl shouted.
"Yes. She's here on scholarship for academic excellence, but she has no family. Right now she is in a foster home program." Hotori Tadase, the king's chair reported. Amu always found it a little weird how the Guardian's always had information about all the students.
"That's so sad." Amu mumbled thinking about the other girl. Family had always been one of the most important things in Amu's life. She couldn't imagine life without her goofy parents or her cheery little sister.
"She's never been to school before and most likely is unfamiliar with dealing with other students her own age." Kairi said. "It will more than likely be difficult for her to make friends, but we will see."
Amu looked down at the club activities paperwork she was supposed to be looking over. "Yeah... we'll see." She said, will wondering if she couldn't do something to help.
Dani felt more than a little emotionally drained after her first day at school. The things the other students said all ringing in her head. 'She's such a freak.' 'She'll never make any friends.'
Dani couldn't even find the motivation to make herself dinner. She went to the small room she was being given to sleep in and just flopped down on the bed, not bothering to change out of her day clothes.
She rolled over looking out the window and could see a star hanging in the sky. "I wish I knew how to make friends." She mumbled weakly before closing her eyes and going to sleep.
The next morning, she would wake up to a pair of surprises in her bed with her.
The basic idea for the two charas will be like the duality for the singer character.
One of them will be a hero or knight like character (most likely a boy), and the other will be a lady like persona (maybe a princess of some kind).
Names for Dani's Chars.
Hades and Demeter
Soul and Maka
Arthur and Guinevere
Piri (s(piri)t) and Uma (h(uma)n)
Other suggestions?
I am going to admit, my knowledge of this series is extremely limited. It was an interesting little concept, but I lost interest in actually watching it very fast.
Though it isn't like that has ever stopped me from writing before. After all, I already did a MLP story and I never even watched that show. And I wonder if any of you will realize I haven't watch DP in at least seven years, and I hardly remember most of it.