6H: McFuzz Town is weird, isn't it?

Anaretsu: Very much so.

6H: Don't ask about the name, but it's something unique and different.

Anaretsu: Is that so? It's all stupid to me.

6H:Anaretsu! Don't make me lock you in a room with Tea again!

Anaretsu: NO! NOT HER!

Tea: Let's all be friends because the power of friendship...

Anaretsu: AHHHHH!

6H:Let's get to this great story, eh?

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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 17-Unmasked Monster

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Ryu leaned against the wall, his arms crossed, as Silver Eye used his blacksmith magic to weild the sword back together. The room changed colors according to the magic that was used.

"FIRAGA!" he yelled, making fire come out of his hand. The room glowed red. "Well boy, shouldn't be much longer, now!"

"I'm not worried, Silver Eye. Hey! Watch where you're aiming that fire!"

"I know what I'm doing boy! Ow! My hand's on fire!" Ryu sighed as the old man blew on his burnt fingers.

'Just hold on guys. I'll be there as soon as I can.' he thought.

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They flew up the many stories of the house looking in the windows. The radar was going off like mad, meaning they were close to the fragments.

"Keep going, Aru. We're almost...okay, stop here!" she said. She looked up from the radar and looked into the window before them. Mrs. McFuzz was standing in the doorway, talking to someone who had their head down on the purple and gold vanity before them. "I wish we knew what they were saying."

"I can do that. Hold on..."Aru focused her magic. "Form shift...ghost!" she whispered. From her hands came what looked like glowing white shells admist ghost-green mist. The mist surrounded them and changed them into ghosts themselves.

"Nice Aru! Let's head in and have a listen, shall we?"

"We have to be careful. I don't know how long this form shift will last." They flew through the wals and floated near the red ceiling of the royal purple room.

"Benida, dear,"Mrs. McFuzz started softly, "You should probably put your mask back on now. If you keep it off too long, then the curse could get you." the adressed girl turned from her vanity. Her thin long blonde hair floated as she moved. Her eyes were a deep shade of brown and her skin was very pale. She looked as though she had been crying.

"Momma, we can't keep dening it any longer- Papa is gone. We should try looking for him." Benida said softly. Mrs. McFuzz twitched again.

"Don't say things like that, dear. It's not wise..."she said, trying to control a great amount of anger.

"But, momma! This-"

"Quiet!" her mother yelled, falling to her knees. Benida placed a pearl colored mask on her face and then got up, walking slowly to her mother.

"Momma? Are you alright?"

"Noooo!" she screeched, her voice starting as a high pitched scream and ending as a monster's cry. Her voice shifted and became demon like.

"Amita! Kaze! Come here, something's wrong with momma!" Benida cried. A younger girl and a boy ran into the room.

"What's going on?" Kaze asked.

"Something's wrong with momma!" Bernida yelled. The whole house began to shake. "You two get out of here!"

"But Benida!" Amita yelled as Kaze dragged her away. Benida stepped back from her mother, kneeling in pain on the floor. Suddenly, the golden dress was ripped to shreds as the body within it changed. It became a huge monster with long arms that dragged near it's knees. All over the exterior of the monster was masks that potrayed every single human emotion- anger, sadness, depresion, fear, surprise, embaressment, joy, relief... the mask on it's face had black eyes and the heartless symbol on it's forehead. It opened it's mouth to reveal several rows of jagged teeth.

"That's not the mayor's wife!" Aru exclaimed. "It's a- yeah!"

"We'll have to fight it!" Cedeile said, drawing out her weapon. "Aru, lift the form shift spell!" Aru undid the spell as the two slipped back into their human bodies. When they gained their forms back in full, they began to fall from the high ceiling. They launched a first attack. Cedeile just made to land on the thing and slashed at a mask on it's shoulder.

"AQUA!" Aru said, as a stream of water erputed from the outlined circle she drew before her. Both attacks had some effect on the creature, as it screamed both times. Benida stepped back in fear of these two intruders. Cedeile landed smoothly on the floor and swiftly jumped back into the air, landing behind the monster's head.

"Prepare to be purified h- I mean, DEMON!" she yelled, nearly letting the forbidden word slip.She slashed at the monster's head, and it roared again, rearing up it's back, and causing Cedeile to land on the floor. The house began to shake more violently as it started to change. Two demon wings forced themselves out of the creature's back, as it flew towards the ceiling, and then went through it.

"Cedeile?"

"I'm fine, Aru. But we gotta get the fragments and find the keyhole before that thing kills us!" Benida sat on the floor, not really understanding what was going on.

"Then let's go. That thing needs to be stopped. Then we'll find the real mayor's wife and the mayor." The two ran out of the room, leaving Benida behind. Suddenly a huge ball of darkness engulfed the house. When it cleared. Cedeile and Aru were standing outside on a ledge made out of a chunk of wall and a painting. The whole house had been jumbled and then made into one vertical moutain of terror. Benida sat on one of the lower ledges, clinging to the wall.

"What is going on? Momma? Papa?" She gazed to the top of the structure, the wind blowing her hair wildly around.

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Ryu saw the explosion.

"What the hell was that?" he yelled, looking out the window.

"Can't say. Looked like it came from the mayor's house." Silver Eye said calmly, continuing his work on the sword. Ryu banged his fist into the wall.

"Cedeile and Aru are there. And now they're in trouble. I need to help them, but I'm useless..."

"Now boy, those girls are more capible than you think. Just keep faith in them, like they have faith in you. I'll be done shortly. BLIZZAGA! There we go...like I said, just believe in them. That's the best you can do for them now." Ryu nodded.

'You better not get killed Cedeile. You are the heartblade master, after all.'

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"Aru, what's going on now?"

"I'm not sure. The whole house has been reconfigured..." Cedeile took the fragment radar out of her back pocket.

"The fragments are on top." she said. She lifted her head up to look at the sumit. "It's kind of far. And the ledges might be to far for us to jump."

"Not for you Cedeile! You have amazing jumping powers or something. Remember in Nightville when you cleared that wall?"

"Yeah. I guess I do jump kind of good." she said. "But how will you get up there?"

"I'll just ride on your back!" she said, smiling.

"Okay. Climb on!" Cedeile knelt down as Aru climbed on. Then, she crouched down, charging her spring loaded legs, and released them, going a good ten feet to the next ledge. She jumped to the next one, but nearly fell off due to a heartless attack. Three of them gathered on the small ledge, nearly forcing the two off. Cedeile slashed through them in a few moves and purified them all. proceeding to the next one, but was faced with more heartless. She landed on the edge, her foot just touching the end, but it slipped off. Cedeile felt herself falling past it.

"Cedeile!" Aru cried.

"AHHHHHH!"The two screemed, facing a fall to their inescapible deaths.

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6H:Ha ha ha! Cliffie! The worst one yet, right?

Anaretsu: I bet.

6H: REVEIW! Or I'll find out where you live...heh heh heh...