6H:Welcome back to chapter 19!
Anaretsu: I don't see how anyone could read this whole story.
6H:Because it's good, now hush!
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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments
Fragment 19-A Monster's Face
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"This is excellent! Those brats won't know what hit them!" one of the villans said from the darkness. They were all crowded around the glowing orb, watching Cedeile, Ryu, and Aru climb to the top of the house mountain in McFuzz town.
"Maybe we'll finally kill them this time." Another said.
"Look at that shot! It was so close!" exclaimed another. Mallificent entered the room, and they all backed away from the orb.
"Mallificent." the sneering one said. She smiled at them all in her evil way and approached the orb, looking at the three struggling heros.
"Ah, I see that heartless I sent is taking very good care of them." she said, as happy as a villan could be.
"We'll finally be rid of the heartblade master!" one said from the darkness. Mallificent turned to face them.
"Weren't they just in your world, Hades?" she asked. Hades stepped out of the shadows, arms crossed, with a smug look on his face.
"They might've stopped there. But now I'm taking care of the keyblade master, should I be graced with his presence. I got a great warrior to take him out." he snickered.
"Ah...I see...you're making a plan to get rid of the keyblade master." she said, laughing a bit. "WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE KEYHOLE OF YOUR WORLD FOOL?" she yelled, her mood chaging violently. He cowered back a bit. "I see you've all already forgotton about losing Nightville and the alliance with Lady Chain. And McFuzz Town is hardly worth the effort. And we've already lost Wonderland as well. If the rest of you keep slacking off, then we'll never gain any worlds."
"Oh Malificent, you're such a hothead." A girly voice said from the shadows. "We already have most of the princesses, and even though Wonderland was sealed, we still got Alice, didn't we?"
"That's not the point."
"But it really is." the girlish voice replied. "Even if we lose all the worlds, if we have all the princesses then we've won."
"Maybe she has a point." Hades ventured. But a glare from Mallificent sent him cowering back into the shadows.
"Mallificent, if they do by some twisted miracle, make it out of this trap, then allow me to trap them in my world." The girly one requested.
"No! They're going to be my prey, just like the keyblade master!" the sneering one hissed like a snake. 'Girlish' 'tsked' him and went on.
"My plan is superior. They'll be dead in five seconds flat, I promise."
"Yeah right." said another shadow. "What are you going to do, throw books at them?" 'Girlish' sighed.
"You can't recognize true genious." she said.
"Enough!" Mallificent tapped her rod on the ground, calling everyone's attension. They all stopped their bickering and looked to her. "You'll all get your chance, don't worry. For now, let's just watch them die here."
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The all stopped on the last platform to catch their breaths before proceeding to the monster above them.
"Who would've thought that the safest place on this whole damn thing is closest to the monster on top?" Cedeile remarked, looking at what little remained above them.
"It sure took us a long time." Aru commented.
"But we did make it. Hopefully, when we defeat the Mask Monster, the house will go back to normal." Ryu said. "Or else we'll have a whole lot of explaining to do."
"I'm regreting coming here in the first place." Cedeile sighed. "I thinkCid needs to make more friends who DON'T live in dangerous places."
"There's nothing we can do now. Except go up there and fight that heartless." Aru said determined. "It is our destiny. It became ours when we joined Cedeile. And when we decided to hunt the fragments...that's when this became our destiny."
"You're right Aru." Ryu agreed. "Let's just get this over with and hope that no one dies." They all took deep breaths and prepared themselves to enter battle. Then, Ryu and Cedeile took off, jumping into the air. From Cedeile's back, Aru kept an eye on the masked monster. It stood completely still-one twisted hand covering it's face. They landed softly on the platform. Aru climbed off of Cedeile's back and stood on the ground. The three watched the monster with tension, none of them daring to breathe.
Suddenly, its demon wings snapped out to their full length. It let it's hand drop from it face as it roared to the sky and then looked at each of them. They held their ground as the fight began. Ryu charged in first with his sword and did a triple combo on the beast, then jumped away to avoid any danger.
"Ryu, you're such a show off!" Cedeile teased.
"Hey, you get to be the famous Heartblade master, so I wouldn't be complaining!" he replied as she went in for an attack. She swung her staff into the air and sent the cresent of light at the beast. It roared having being hit by the purifing light. Aru cast several eartha spells and a fira spell to help. Without warning, the beast charged forward, knocking into Cedeile and Ryu who were standing closest. They slid to the edge, nearly falling off.
"WOODAGA!" Aru called, summoning huge throned vines from an enchanted circle below her. Ryu and Cedeile got back up slowly and went in to attack the monster again. Ryu pulled another triple combo, and Cedeile swung her hearblade in a downward slash, sending the resulting light energy flying at the monster fromsome ten feet away. They did this for awhile, and it seemed to work pretty good.
"I think we've almost got him!" Ryu yelled to the girls. Aru was panting from casting so many spells-even though her MP was fully charged, it still exhausted her. And Cedeile was covered with cuts and bruises from being flung around. Not to mention she was using all of her power to try and purify this thing. Ryu saw this and decided to head for an attack himself. He rushed in, jumping up for an air attack when all the masks on the monster popped off it, revealing that they were attached to tentecles that went into the monster's skin. One of them launched forward and hit Ryu in the side, causing him to call out in pain.
"RYU!" Cedeile yelled, standing on her feet. Ryu landed hard on the ground, his sword not landing too far away. He moaned in pain as he grasped his side to stop the bleeding. Another tentice lashed out, this time towards Aru. She cast Aero on herself to try and deflect it, but it peirced the spell, wrapping itself around Aru. It began to glow as it sucked up Aru's MP meter, gaining more power.
"EEEKKK!" she screamed. Cedeile tried to walk to her, but a searing pain shot through her left leg. Another tenticle had sliced it in the split second she had dropped her guard. She dropped on her knee, still fighting to stand. When the monster had sucked up all the MP it wanted, it dropped Aru on the ground like a doll. She was out cold from being drained. The monster turned to Cedeile, the last one still standing. Ryu watch in agony as it slowly walked closer to her.
"Ce..deil..e..."he wimpered. 'Come on! You still have to fight!' pleaded in his mind. 'If only I could get over there to protect her, but I'd never make it in time.' he thought sadly. Thinking this was the end, he peacfully closed his eyes. He didn't want to watch Cedeile die.
Meanwhile, Cedeile had given up trying to stand and now knelt on the ground, glaring at the beast that was approaching her. She slowly lifted the heartblade and held it out in front of her, hopeing it block the attack or something. It shot out sevral of it's tenticles, the masked ends flying toward Cedeile. She twirled her staff around in a circle rapidly, and they were bounced off it, but not without sending electrical charges of light through it's body. The monster screamed. Cedeile felt her strength increase as she raised the heartblade abover her head, holding on to it with both hands. She swung it down, and a veritical beam of light formed, burning as if it were fire. Cedeile then held the heartblade to her left and swung it over to the right, leaving another line of light before her. The two lines formed a cross.
"HOLY PURIFICATION!" she yelled. The cross of light zoomed towards the monster, cutting through the ground as it went. It hit the monster and caused a great explosion. When the light cleared, the place where the cross hit burning with blue flames of light. Cedeile sighed in releif as she fell forward from exhaution. Ryu opened his eyes, seeing that Cedeile was more or less alive and the monster was more or less done for. He slowly lifted himself to kneeling on his hands in knees and dragged himself over to the black haired girl, the fallen heartblade master. Slowly he made his way to her, passing the monster as it stood still, the light still burning.
He fell when he finally reached her, unable to get back his strength, so he grabbed one of her hands.
"Cedeile..." She slowly stirred, lifting her head so he could see one of her dark emerald eyes.
"Ryu...are you gonna be okay?"
"Yeah. Nice work with the purification."
"Thanks. You weren't too bad yourself." she gently laughed, although still appeared in pain. Suddenly, the monster cried out again as it began to die. The masks all over it's body smashed one by one. Still, the heartless struggled to live. The two fallen warriors that were concious watched as each mask broke until the only mask was the one on the monster's face. Slowly, cracks formed in that one, and light began to break through them. It reared it's headup to the sky as more light broke through, until the mask could no longer hold and all the light burst forth. The heartless was purified by Cedeile's attack, and dissolved, freeing the heart within. It flew up to the sky, disappearing to go rejoin it's vessel.
The strange and bizare house turned mountain began to shake violently and the platform beneath them broke up. Ryu and Cedeile passed out, but their hands were still joined tight. They fell slowly and gently down to the ground, hands joined, safe from any threat of heartless. Aru gently slipped off the platform and fell down in the same slow and gentle manor. Her eyes partly opened for a short moment when she saw semi-transparent arms reach for her and then wrap themselves around her shoulders, as if protecting her.
"Who...?" she asked, not intending to finish her question.
"Shh..."A deep voice said to her softly. "I will protect you for now." he whispered. Aru closed her eyes fully, wondering who this was.
'How are you? Ryu? Or Kai, maybe? Or someone I do not know?' she wondered before passing out.
The three friends landed safely on the ground. A figure stood behind the house as it went back to it's proper form. He smiled to himself, looking at the three.
"Cedeile...you've done well for yourself. You have great new friends...and that magician is kind of cute..." he whispered. He turned and faded slowly until disappearing.
Benida had also made it down safe from the house mountain and ran to the trio who were laying unconcious in the dirt. She knelt down beside them, and sighed when she determined they were alive. She looked to the sky and thanked the gods that these brave warriors had been sent to them.
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6H:Don't worry! They're not dead! They're just resting after their long battle.
Anaretsu: I was hoping they were dead!
6H:Heh! I guess you're all wondering who that guy was! HA HA HA! YAY PLOT TWIST! Anyway...he comes back later...heh heh heh. Don't forget to review!
