6H: Chapter ten! This is so exicting.

Anaretsu: How sad.

6H: I've recently read a great manga called R2 (rise R to the seond power) It's really good. And the main character is really cute!

Anaretsu: That's even sadder.

6H:Well, here is the next part of our friend's adventure in Nightville!

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Fragment 10-Trouble in Nightville

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The trio walked up the street. Random people walked around, dressed similar to the way they were. Many places seemed like garages, and their doors were open, revealing the masterpeices that were being born. They were rickity contraptions of wood and nails.

"I thought they were machanic geniouses, Aru." Cedeile asked under her breath.

"She also said they were peacful, but we know that's not true." Ryosuke reminded her, shooting a glance at Aru, who cowered away.

"I'm sorry...all the books I read in my studies never mentioned any of this." she said, seemingly on the verge of tears.

"Aww, don't cry Aru. It's okay. What's important now is finding those fragments. Not all the details." Cedeile reassured her.

Suddenly, they heard a yell and saw a group of guards chasing someone in their direction who was flying through the air.

"Come back here, kid!" one guard yelled.

"Stop running, you punk!" The person they were chasing zoomed along as fast as he could, a worried look on his face. He looked quickly at the guards behind him, and then averted his attention forward, just in time to see Cedeile, Ryosuke and Aru in a panic because he was going to crash into them.

"Look out!" he cried. He flew into an alley, grabbing them along with him. The guards persued. The trio ran on the ground beside the bat. "Why don't you fly!" he asked.

"Huh?" Cedeile asked confused.

"Your wings!" the mystery person replied.

"I don't know how!" Cedeile admitted. They dashed through the back alleys, trying to lose the soilders on their tails.

"Cedeile!" Ryosuke yelled"Get ready to jump the wall!"

"The wall?"

"Yeah! You can do it! Aru and I will follow!" He insisted. The wall that enclosed the village loomed closer. Cedeile readied herself and then as if springs were in her legs, she flew up into the air, not even useing her wings. She cleared the wall without a problem. The person who had orginaly got them here flew over as well. Ryosuke and Aru skidded to a halt.

"Aru, climb on my shoulders!"

"Ryosuke!" She cried, but he picked her up off the ground and pushed her over. He then launched himself over, landing in the grass on the other side. He lay there for a few moments, listening to the guards walk away.

"Doesn't matter now that he's outta the village. We'll tell Lady Chain we killed the little brat." one said.

"Yeah. He's outta our hands now." They walked intothe distance.

'Lady Chain again...is she connected with the heartless? I wonder...' he thought in the silence. When the soilders had left, he got up and walked over to the group. Aru and Cedeile looked at the kid before them. He had the usual bat wings of the people of the world. He wore some goggles as a headband around his head, and wild brown hair that stood up and fell over it.

"What is with everyone and wearing goggles in this world?" Cedeile asked Aru, who shrugged. The kid panted, shaking as he did.

"Are you okay?" Aru asked, bending closer to him. Ryosuke joined them.

"What's up with him?" he asked not expecting an anwser.

"Are you alright Ryosuke? You landed kind of hard."

"I'm fine. But those guys chasing us were talking about that Lady Chain again." He said. "They must work for her. But why were they after him?" he looked at the bat kid on the ground. When he steadied his breathing he looked up at the group before him.

"I'm really sorry about that. Now I've dragged you into this mess." he said.

"What's your name?" Aru asked him.

"I'm Kai. You guys don't seem to be from around here. And you ask alot of silly questions. I can't believe you don't know about Lady Chain." Kai said, laughing to ease his nervousness. Ryosuke held the point of his sword under Kai's chin threateningly.

"If you tell anyone we're not from here, you'll be missing your head...and your stupid goggles." he threatened darkly.

"Ryosuke, I think you're being a little extreme." Cedeile said, freaked out by his sudden hostility.

"I swear I won't. I was hoping someone from the outside would come here. Lady Chain is an evil lady who lives in that castle. She pretty much left us alone and did her own thing, but now she's teamed up with some heartless and is trying to take over the world." he told them. "I was trying to break into the palace, because I heard the keyhole was there, but those guards caught me! Now I'll never stand a chance against them." He sighed, looking at the massive castle.

"The keyhole?" Cedeile asked. "You were trying to lock it, right? So the heartless would go away because they can't get to the heart of the world."

"That's how the legend goes. How do you know all that?" Kai asked in wonder.

"I'm the heartblade master. I don't know if I can lock the keyhole, but I can purify heartless." she said. "By the way, I'm Cedeile, and this is Ryosuke and Aru." she introduced her two friends to him.

"So you guys are trying to beat the heartless too?"

"Well, it's sort of like a side quest." Ryosuke began. "Our true mission is to gather the fragments."

"Fragments?" Kai asked, cocking his head to the side.

"Hey, show it to him. He might know something." Cedeile suggested to the hunter. He sighed as he removed the bottle from his pocket.

"They look like this one." He said, showing Kai the bottle without actually giving it to him. Kai stared at it as if in deep thought.

"I'm not sure...maybe Lady Chain has one that she's useing for power." he said. He sadly shook his head. "But I've never seen or heard of them."

"Well, I guess we head for the palace now, right?" Cedeile said, summoning the heartblade and slinging it over her shoulder. She turned her emrald eyes to the castle in front of the moon, hidden in shadow.

"No! We should go to Mr. Wickette's place. He'll help us out." Kai said, getting up and begining to walk towards the wall that surround everything. The three adventurers followed him into the night.

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6H:Heh heh. I guess it's sort of another cliffe. See you in chapter 11!