6H:I'm continuing on my debate about FF9 characters. Seems like they're not talked about alot.
Anaretsu: Maybe they like it better that way.
6H: Maybe. And does anyone in KH wear socks?
Anaretsu: HUH?
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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments
Fragment 9-To Nightville!
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Ryosuke's gummi ship was very..well, small. It had ONE seat, which three people were now crowded in. The cockpit was very small too, and there wasn't much else too it. So, Ryosuke had to sit in the seat and keep his arms around Cedeile and Aru, both of who were postioned on his lap, meanwhile, he had to pilot the ship. Aru was short, so headroom was not a problem, but Cedile was jammed up against the glass of the window.
"Why is this thing so tiny?" Cedeile asked, cleary upset about her current configuration.
"Hey, remember I used to travel alone." he said, never taking his eyes off the road...okay, there isn't a road, persay, but the space in front of them.
"Why are you gathering the fragments, anyway?" The new heartblade master asked.
"A promise to someone. Yeah, I promised to find all the fragments and be a strong hunter." he said, smiling that confident, cocky smile.
"That's nice. It's always good when people make promises." Aru said. "It means they have a strong bond, and the promise makes it stronger. When it is fullfilled, then the bond between the two people is forever made stronger."
"Is that so..."Cedeile remarked. She plunged herself into her own thoughts. 'So, since Sora and I made a promise...does that mean our bond is something more...? No way! Hello, Sora is my best friend!' Her thoughts were interupted by a beeping sound. "What's that?" she asked, pointing to a divice plugged into a cartrigde on the control panel. On it's green screen was a moving dot, and then a fixed dot, out of which ripples were coming.
"That is a fragment detector. It senses fragments."
"Really? Then why do you need us?" Cedeile asked again.
"It's not accurate at all. I can only locate which worlds they are in. The quicker the beep, the closer we are to the shards. The stronger the pulses there are, the more framgents there are in one place.Get it?"
"It's quite ingenious." Aru commented, adjusting her glasses. "So, we are close to a fragment then?"
"That's right."
"Hey, where do you plan on keeping all the fragments, anyway?" Cedeile questioned.
"In a pocket in my cloak."
"That's not safe. Give me that one fragment, I have an idea." He dug around for it with his one hand. Finally he retrieved it and handed it to her.
"What are you going to do?"
"This," she said, putting it in a small bottle she had with her. "This way, we can keep them all together without any danger of losing them." She said, handing it back to him. He stared at it for awhile, then hastily grabbed it and stuffed it back with in the contents of his long cloak.
"Here we are, ladies." he said suddenly. The two looked out in front of them. Before them was a world that had a large village of small houses and then a huge,tall, and crooked castle. The whole thing looked like it was in the middle of night. "It's called Nightville! A world of bat people that sits forever in eternal night. According to the radar, there are at least three fragments here."
"Then let's go." Cedeile yelled. Ryosuke prepared to land.
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They hid the ship in a forest outside the town. The houses looked like something out of a fairy tale, and the whole place was surrounded by a stone wall. The only entrance seemed to be a huge gate, and that was being guarded by two of the bat people. They looked human, except they had at wings, clawed hands, and fangs for teeth.
"Great. Do they suck our blood or something?" Cedeile asked, shaking.
"No, the bat people are not hostile at all. In fact, they are one of the most peaceful peoples in the universe. They are also mechanic experts and build all kinds of fantasy veichles." Aru said, as if reading from a book.
"So, what's our first move?" Ryosuke asked, crouching behind some bushes at the edge of the forest. The full moon looked on from above.
"Let's try to get in." Cedeile suggested. The trio moved out of the bushes and approached the gate. The two guards watch them approach. As Cedeile tried to walk past, the one pointed his spear directly in her face. She backed away in fear and surprise. "Wha?"
"You are not aloud." the guard said, looking at them through small green gogles, the kind that looked like they were used for night vision.
"Sorry to come off as hostile, sir, but we simply want to get it." Aru tried, slowly approaching.
"Only citizens of Nightville may enter the village. No others may pass." He said, glaring at Aru. She backed away, feeling threatened by his look. Ryosuke tried.
"Look, I'll make this plain and simple. I am looking for fragments-I'm a fragment hunter. My radar detected some here and-"
"I don't care if you hunt world eating demons! You are not aloud in. That's a direct order from Lady Chain. All others will be escorted to the exicutioner's block." The guard declared, unmoving.
"Look, We just want to help you. No doubt the heartless have invaded here. We fight them while we search for the fragments, and-"
"For the last time, no! Entry denied. And as for these heartless, I have never seen or heard of something so stupid. Sounds like something out of a kid's manga! Now leave, before I bring you to Lady Chain." The three walked away, defeated.
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Back in the woods they tried to formulate many plans to get in.
"I wonder who this 'Lady Chain' is. Must be their queen or something, eh?" Cedeile said, looking at the castle in front of the full moon.
"I'm not sure. But it makes me suspicious why they won't let us in. Aru, didn't you say they were peaceful? Executing foreigners sound's really pleasent and peacful to me."
"I don't get it." the small magician sighed, obivously thinking about it hard. "They don't like fighting at all."
"Our big problem right now is how we get in there. I can sense the heartless everywhere."
" 'Sense'? You can sense them?"
"I can't tell how, but I guess it's because I weild the heartblade."
"Well, if you guys really want to get in, I could...you know, change your forms to disguise us." Aru chimed in. The two looked at her.
"Change our forms?" they both asked.
"It's a high level of magic, but I should be able to do it. I'll make us bat people in three seconds." She put her hands together, leaving her index fingers and thumbs outstreched. She chanted quietly under her breath until three circles of light appeared beneath each of them. Slowly, little flecks of light rose from them and changed their bodies. Cedeile felt something rip out of her back, and felt her clothes changing. She closed her eyes from the intense light, and when she opened them, she had changed.
Her bandana was gone, replaced by a pair of goggles. Her red vest and white shirt were gone- she now wore a sleeves dark blue turtleneck, and her hands were covered by big leather gloves. Her shorts,now black, were covered by a pair of pants that hung off her hips and was held up with multiple belts. Her sneakers were changed to leather boots that started at her knees.
"Whoa. Not bad. A little dorky though." She looked at her comrads. Ryosuke's cloak had become shorter and black. He had bat wings as well. Aru's glasses had been replaced with goggles. She wore a blue tank top and her hands had become clawed. Her pants were puffed and had belts at her knees and ankles.
"So? Did I do okay?" she asked.
"It doesn't matter." Ryosuke said, adjusting his sword case, that hung across his back and under his cloak.
"Hey, if your sword is under your cloak..."
"There's a hole in the back that the handle sticks through." he anwsered with hearing the rest of the question.
"Oh. Well, let's try it." Cedeile said, emerging from the woods. They walked up to the gate, and the guard mearly glanced at them.
"You may enter." He said without another thought. They walked calmly and cautiouly through the gates. After they passed, they quietly celebrated, giving each other the thumb's up. They turned to look before them. The crowded town and the huge castle loomed before them.
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6H: All for this chapter! Next chapter they meet up with some of the locals, and hear about Lady Chain, who is sceaming something!
Anaretsu: feh.
