6H:The identity of the Fragment Hunter is going to be revealed! Oh, I'm sooo excited!
Anaretsu: Great. let's get this over with.
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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments
Fragment 8-Cedeile, The Fragment Hunter, and The Magician
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"I...am a fragment hunter." The person said. The group looked at him warily.
"A fragment hunter? Mind explaining what that is?" Leon taunted. The person stayed calm.
"It is simple. It is a person who hunts for the fragments." he replied.
"And these fragments are...?" Cedeile asked. Leon stepped in front of her, sheilding her from the hunter. Cedeile sighed. 'I am 14. I can take care of myself." she thought bitterly.
"No one knows what a fragment really is...but long ago, they were scattered throughout the worlds. There is a small group of us who have become fragment hunters and now dedicate our lives to finding them. We have come to believe that they are shards of light that will save the worlds from darkness." He reached deep into his cloak. When he returned, he held something in his gloved hand. "This is one such fragment. It is the only one that's been found so far." He held it out for them to see. It looked like a broken peice of glass, except the colors of the rainbow fainty danced across it like it was incendesent. After the group had looked at it for a short time, he replced it in his cloak. He then took out his sword.
"Where do these fragments exist?" Leon asked.
"They could be anywhere. Even in people's hearts."
"So, are you one of them?" The hunter only glared at him. Then he spoke, with anger rising in his voice.
"Don't make such an accusation. Me, one of the heartless? That is utterly ridiculus. I have been fighting them on my own. They may hold fragments as well." He looked from side to side. "Aren't they coming now?" Sure enough, the black creatures rose out of the ground. Some heartless in armor also arose. The group all drew out their weapons, anticipating the attack. The hunter didn't move. The heartless began their attack. Leon, the duck, and the dog dashed forward. Cedeile was about to join them, but felt herself being uplifted. When she was able to see clearly, she was on a rooftop, in the hunter's arms.
"You! God damn, put me down!"
"My, you have a colorful vocabulary, miss." he remarked, smiling cockly at her. "Let's run off together! What do you say to that?" he joked. She wacked him in the back of the head with her staff.
"How about you put me down before I kill you!"
Meanwhile on the ground, They all realised the Cedeile and the hunter were gone.
"Geez! Can we not get the two masters in the same place!" Leon asked retorically. Aerith sighed. Yuffie and Sora walked out of the hotel.
"What's up, guys?" He asked the group.
"We just lost the Heartblade master." Leon sighed.
"She landed on us."
"Is that so, Donald?" Sora asked, laughing. "Guess it's payback for landing on me before."
"She tried to kill me! Isn't that right, Goofy?" Donald asked. The mentioned soilder nodded his head.
"Yup. That was pretty funny!"
"I'd like to see that. So, I guess we gotta go after her and save her from that hunter guy, right?" Sora asked Leon.
"Let's go then." Leon said, and the group headed off to catch the pair.
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The hunter agilely jumped from building to building, while holding onto Cedeile in his arms. She pouted, knowing she couldn't get him to let her go.
'Well, at least he knows how to carry a girl right! Not slinging me over his shoulder like Riku did. That reminds me, when I see him next, I'm gonna KILL HIM!" she thought angrily. Suddenly, they stopped without warning.
"Hey! What's going on?" she asked him as he knelt down.
"Shhh. Look down there..." Cedeile watched.
Unfolding below them was a struggle between a young girl and an adult man. He had a hold of her wrist, and she was trying to pull away. The girl wore glasses and had light purple hair. Her clothes were quite strange-a sleeveless dark blue shirt that fastened around her neck, and over that was a white robe thing that hung at her elbows and was covered with blue patterns. The robe seemed oversized on the small girl as it drapped around her small frame, going down past her knees. Her ankleboots were dark blue, and seemed bunched up, like they, too, were too big. Around her eyes were a pair of glasses. Her sleeves of her robe eaisly could've covered her hands, and were so big that they dragged on the ground too. At the moment she was attempting to tug her hand away from the man.
"Please release me!" the girl pleaded timidly. The man refused.
"This is where I come in. A lady is in trouble, and I am the valiant one to save her." The hunter declared. Standing, he placed Cedeile down and took out his sword.
"If you're so valiant, then how come you're kidnapping me?" she asked.
"I'm not kidnapping you!" he hissed.
"Sure." He shook his head and prepared to jump off the building. Taking a deep breath, he hurled himself into the air. Cedeile followed suit, summoning her Heartblade to her hand. (She hadn't even realised it had left her hands.) They both landed on the man, knocking him out and freeing the girl, who stumbled backward. The hunter brushed off his cloak.
"You're safe now. Did this man hurt you?" he asked her.
"No. I'm fine now, thanks to you."
"All in a day's work for a noble soul!" he boasted.
"That and kidnapping me." Cedile added.
"What are you talking about? I'm not kidnapping you!" he insisted again. The girl gave a polite bow.
"Thank you so much. I am Aru, a magician from far away. I just got to Traverse Town." she said.
"It's no problem Aru. Just watch out for this guy here." Cedeile pointed back at the hunter.
"Hey! If it wasn't for me, then Aru would still be in danger!" Cedeile suddenly thought of something.
"Hey, hunter! What's your name?" she asked him. He smirked.
"I am called Ryosuke. But my good friends just call me Ryu." he declared.
"Alright then! I'm Cedeile!" She said. "Now, Ryu, bring me back to the group and apologize for kidnapping me!" he demanded. He glared at her.
"One, only my friends call me Ryu. And two, I didn't kidnap you, okay! If you must know, one of those heartless was going to attack you from behind and you didn't see it. I saved you from a horrible fate." he confessed, turning his back and crossing him arms in frustration.
"You...saved me?" she sighed. She hated being wrong. "I guess...I'm sorry then..." Aru looked at them both, a worried look in her crimson eyes.
"Oh, I hate it when people fight." she said. "Ryosuke, please forgive Cedeile. It not good for people to fight about something so silly." Ryosuke turned his head a bit and looked at them from the corner of his eye.
"Come on, Ryu...or should I call you Ryosuke?" Cedeile teased, smiling all the while.
"Fine. I've found it in my heart to forgive you." He said. "Just don't push your luck."
"Aww, you're no fun now." Cedeile laughed. The moment was interupted by a swarm of heartless decending upon them. "Damn, heartless." Ryosuke drew his sword and held it out in front of him, the light from a streetlamp glinting off the silver of the blade. Aru backed up towards Cedeile, who had the heartblade at ready.
"Watch it!" Ryosuke called as he suddenly leaped forward and cut through the horde. Cedeile swung the heartblade around, causing pillars of light to stream out from the ground underneath the heartless she had pointed at. She took a step forward, swinging her staff at some more of the dark creatures. Aru clasped her hands together, as if praying. The creatures looked at her for a moment, perplexed, but then made the desicion to attack. Just before they landed on her to devour her heart, she threw her hands in front of her, casting a high level fire spell that desintigrated them in one blow.
"Hey, Ryosuke! I could use some cover over here!" Cedeile yelled, grabbing a heartless off her shoulder and throwing it back into the crowd.
"I'm sort of busy myself!" he yelled back, slashing at heartless left and right. Aru ran to the rescue, raising her one arm into the air and then pointing at the sky while the fire gathered around her finger. When the attack was fully charged, she brought it down across a diagnol.
"Fire arc!" she screamed, as the flaming arch flew above the ground and knocked out sevral heartless. Cedeile thrusted the heartblade at them, engulfing them in light.
"Thanks Aru!" Cedeile called, giving the magician a thumbs-up. Aru smiled.
"Let's help Ryosuke!" Aru ran over to where the hunter was. Cedeile sighed in stubborness, but soon followed.
"Fire Wave!" Aru stuck her hand in the air for a moment, and then thrust it at the floor. Ripples of fire flew from her hand on the ground and dissimated the heartless. Ryosuke hacked the last few to peices and then they were gone.
"Not even one fragment." He complained, search the ground for the little shard.
"Hey, we just beat all those heartless!" Cedeile said in a moment of realization. "That was pretty cool. We make a good team, don't you think?"
"Yeah..."Ryosuke slowly agreed, a small smile finding it's way to his face. "I guess we do." Aru smiled.
"It was great, to fight like that again. Whenever I fight, I'm usually so scared that I can't do my magic right. But having you two with me...I feel like I can't be afraid anymore.
"Hey Aru! Why don't you stick with me. There's a bunch of great people I want you to meet!" Cedeile said. Slowly, Ryosuke turned and looked at the two girls talk, and a smiled slowly appeared on his face.
"Why don't you guys come with me. I could always use your help in finding the fragments, and then at the end when all the fragments are gathered, we'll be able to see what happens at the end. It's kind of cool, cause no one knows what will happen when all the fragemnts are gathered."
"I have a goal of my own. Now, realizing that I have the power to save all those lost in darkness, that I will make it to this 'final purification' that someone told me about in a dream. I also have to save someone..."Cedeile stated, looking up at the stars. 'Sorry Sora, but I'll come back for you another time and together we'll see those worlds.' she thought, hoping he would hear her.
"I have a mission of my own to carry out, but I'd love to help search for the fragments." Aru added.
"Then it's decided!" Ryosuke declared, raising his sword to the sky. "We'll journy to find the fragments!"
"And we'll fight the heartless to stop them from overtaking the worlds!" Cedeile added, raising the Heartblade. Suddenly, they heard voice coming from around the corner.
"I thought I heard something over here!" Yuffie said.
"Cedeile! Come out! And you too hunter!" Leon yelled.
"Crap! They're coming to get me." Cedeile cursed. "Heh. If they think I want to go running off with Mr. Mighty Keyblade master, whoever he is, then they've got it all wrong." Ryosuke smiled.
"You're still going to come with me?"
"Yup! I think this is the path I have to take, ya know?" she replied. "Just get us out of here!"
"I'll take care of that!" Aru said, raising her hands above her head. "TELEPORTA!" she yelled. A beam of light came from the sky and engulfed them, then instantly vanished.
Leon and the group ran into the ally just after they left.
"Great. They're gone. And Cedeile is with them!" Leon said, looking at the sky. Sora gazed at the stars.
"Cedeile...don't worry. I'll find you again."
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6H:Now the adventure begins! And I'm even starting off with an original world I made up myself!
Anaretsu: Yipee.
6H: I just noticed that when people write KH fics, they often put in other FF8, FF7, FFX, and even FFX-2 characters, but what happened to FF9? Those characters are just gone! Like they don't even exist!
Anaretsu: Maybe their world disappeared. Or they got kicked out of Hallow Bastion for being annoying, like you.
6H:Very funny.
