Well, here's the next part. I'm hoping to make it better than last chapter. *Eyes last chapter* ... *Smacks with Neko's Dark Keyblade, AKA Shattered Heart* Yuck. -_-

Reviews: Soraoathkeeper (Oh, I'm not saying you can't LIKE her, you just don't want to BE her. ^_^ And Mickey-sama... You'll find out, oh, about five chapters from the end. Just accept that he's Not Around. ^_^;;)

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Shadow Realm, Duel Monsters, or anything else from YuGiOh. I don't own anything David Eddings has written. I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Squaresoft, Disney, or characters. I *DO* own Anzu, Neko, Anima, Takeo, Zeff, Oni, Niji, Oka, Lani, Tani, and original plot.

WARNINGS: A somewhat graphic battle scene. And if you squint REAL hard, maybe some very mild DM/DMG.

Note on notes: Instead of referring to those strange OC people that have appeared to Riku and Sora, and in the future to other people, will from now on be know as ENE Guides. In time, what ENE means will be revealed... In time.

More ENE guides! ^_^ *Glomps the at-least-two that show up* The previous ones are OOC of what I want them to be, but these to will be beyond IC! =^_^= Kawaii... More info on David Eddings' wonderful world of the Belgariad, and an anime world or two coming in... Yugi's Duel Monsters fight, but I'm not sure about exact names of spells and such, so feel free to correct me in a review... and I'm gonna have Heartless appear! ^_^

Ember: About time. I told you that you needed action. -_-

Oh, hush, muse no baka. -_-

Ember:...*growl*

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Experimental

Kurayami: Part Six

Shards of Sky

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~~~~~ Bastion

:: I'm still asleep. I've got to be.::

As the coppery afterglow of Dreams fades away from his aqua eyes, Takeo looks up into two long... Almost-narrow... slightly slanted eyes, shading from almost black to sky blue.

"Hey, Takeo! I'm Niji!" The blond person says in a bright, cheerful, babbling-brook sort of voice, ^_^ing his heart out.

Takeo blinks through his silver-streaked bangs once... Twice...Three times at the pale hand being waved in a friendly manner about two inches from his face. Takeo then raises a pale, thin hand of his own to push away... Niji's... hand, then blinks a few more times as someone else pulls the very cheerful person in red away enough so Takeo can breath again.

"Niji, don't make me thwack you," says another, slightly humorous, mostly exasperated, vaguely familiar whispery voice as another, obviously older... person... with long black hair pulled into a high ponytail and grey eyes comes into Takeo's range of vision.

Niji pouts just a little bit. The other person ignores it. Takeo blinks a few more times, just for good measure.

"Hey, I'm Oka." Blink, blink. "I suppose you're a bit confused..."

Takeo finally manages to nod, instead of blink.

"That's okay, Takeo!" Niji ^_^s again. "You'll figure it out eventually."

Takeo blinks.

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~~~~~ Shadow Realm

"What ARE these things?!"

Dark Magician Girl's green eyes narrow in pain as one of the strange shadow-creatures takes a swipe at her leg, a multi-tone cry of pain bursting from her lips. "DARK! HELP!"

The Dark Magician's indigo eyes widen, and he dives away from Gazelle, casting Dark Magic Attack to wipe the creatures away from Dark Magician Girl, throwing her a Book of Mystical Arts for a power-up. "Leave her ALONE!" he screams at the creatures, his deep voice climbing octaves as he fights, sweat plastering lavender hair to his face.

Kuriboh lets out a shrill scream, blood matting its soft brown fur, as a strangely wolf-like creature bites down on Kuriboh's paw. Silverfang lets out a mournful howl as Kuriboh shatters with a agonized cry, disappearing to the Graveyard, the two lupine creatures locking into bloody combat, silver and near-black flashes of fur disappearing beneath red blood and dark smoke.

The Celtic Guardian screams as he falls beneath the claws of the Heartless, Gaia falling soon afterward, Yugi's deck being eliminated card by card, the very heart of the deck soon to fall underneath those same black claws, the Shadow Realm covered in the deepest of darkness, the only light glowing yellow eyes.

Somewhere, a young man with the same yellow eyes smiles at the triumph, even though in the back of his mind, the real him cries out.

:: Stop controlling me! People are dying! Stop!::

:: DO YOU THINK I CARE? THE DARKNESS IS ALL THAT MATTERS, NOW...::

A puppet...

*But aren't we all puppets of our destiny?*

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Somewhere in a back alley of a grey city, a beautiful girl with green eyes and long blond hair wakes up, who never had a heart to be taken, but is missing something all the same.

Her blue armor is incredibly heavy, and a cut just above her knee trickles blood down into her high boots.

She sighs a peculiar sort of chord, her eyes dropping closed, one hand clutches around her mage's staff, the other around a round green orb that somehow comforts her.

A flicker of a lavender and purple spirit flashes deep in the gem...

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In Riva, no one sees the meteor shower because of the overcast sky.

But Neko feels a tingle deep inside her...

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*Puppets to our destiny... Mickey, is everyone ready?*

::Soon, only three more people need to get into place. Then we can start this. But... Nami isn't so sure we should be doing this.::

*Hm... She's going to be in close contact with Kairi, if we keep arrangements the same. Should we separate the two girls? We don't need anyone realizing...*

:: No, we don't, but Anzu's part of the reason Kairi hasn't collapsed. And... They're both too important, right now, at the beginning of this Wave. We can't separate them. Kairi's heart has weakened too much as it is... They could both use some of the support you've been giving Neko.::

*The kitten needs it more. We can't have her dying. She wields two keyblades.*

^It's more than that, to you. You've gotten to close to the kitten.^

*... Puppets...*

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End Notes:

o_o Poor DMG... Poor DM... I feel so sorry for them... And they're the ones that didn't get completely eliminated. KURIBOH-CHAN! 8_8

Ember: -_-0 *Thwacks me*

Ow... v_v... Well! ^_^ This chapter certainly was dark, ne? And it's gonna get darker! ^_^ This isn't called Kurayami for nothing.