6H: HA! I have alot of great reveiwers! It's a shame I can't remember who they all are right now.

Anaretsu: It's a shame this fanfic keeps going ON!

6H:Chapter 26! YEAH! Well okay, it's not that big a deal. But I'm going to have a party in chapter 30! Yeah! So, here's chapter 26.

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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 26-Swallowed

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Sora and Cedeile walked through the door of Leon's house. Ryu pratically jumped up from the bed.

"Where the hell have you been?" he asked.

"Relax Ryu, I can take care of myself." Cedeile attempted to calm him down. "I was just with Sora at Merlin's house."

"With Sora?" Ryu exploded. "And what were you doing?"

"None of your buisness!"

"Ryu, please. It's not like she went off to another world by herself." Aru told him.

"He's just as bad as Leon." Aerith remarked.

"If you have to know..."Sora started, walking in between the two and seperating them from killing each other. "We were praticing magic targeting. Right, Cedeile?"

"Huh? I mean yes."

"Magic, huh?" Ryu wasn't buying it.

"Well yeah! If you have to conserve energy, then you have to have your aim as accurate as possible!" Cedeile insisted. Ryu still looked skeptical. Finally, he just sighed.

"Whatever. Let's head out again. The fragments won't find themselves." He began to walk out of the house. Aru and Cedeile watched him leave.

"Cedeile, let's go." Aru said, following suit. Cedeile shrugged.

"Okay. See ya, Sora!" She ran after Ryu, passing Aru on the way. She began to scurry after them too. The door shut and the house became silent.

"Well, Leon will be upset that he didn't get to apoplgize." Aerith stated, taking a sip of tea. Sora sat himself down on the bed.

"I still want her to come with me. But, if she says she has to take this path, then I can't stop her. No one can stop Cedeile once she makes a descion."

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"Where are we heading now, Ryu?" Cedeile asked. She was getting used to having her head against the glass window.

"I'm not sure yet. The radar isn't going off." he said, looking at some other controls and then averting his attension forward. "Damn it!"

"What?"

"Heartless ship, dead ahead!" he yelled. He reached up above him and pulled down a lever. "Fire anti gummi missles one and two! Go!" Two missels headed at the ships and they were rewarded with two explosions. "Firing main guns and rapid machine gun left and right." he pressed a few more buttons and colored beams started to shoot at the flank in front of them. "Hold on ladies, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!" He fliped a switch and they suddenly jetted forward, flying through the fleet as it was exploding. The bright light made it hard to see, and the ship was thrown back and forth.

"Ryu! We're gonna fly out of control!" Cedeile screamed.

"Do something, please!" Aru begged.

"If I could do something I would've done it. Just grab onto me and don't let go. This move might be risky!" The girls did as told, and Ryu did his fancy manuvering. The ship flipped over a few times and then skidded to a hault upside down. The explosions died down and everything was still. Cedeile and Aru fell into the ceiling. "See?" Ryu boasted cockily. "I told you everything would okay."

"Except my head."A low beeping sound began to sound. Aru reached for the fragment radar.

"Fragments ahead. Looks like there's only one." she said, adjusting her glasses.

"Where? In space?" Cedeile asked, turning her body to look outside. "Man, the blood is rushing to my head!"

"There's no world in front of us." Ryu said, squinting to try and get a better look. Suddenly, his navy eyes went wide. "It can't be..." he murmered. A loud wailing sound filled the silence.

"What is that?" Cedeile asked.

"Be quiet girls. I didn't think he would be in this part of space. It the legendary space whale-Monstro." he breathed, looking intently at the space in front of the ship. Aru and Cedeile both looked out. Another loud wailing sounded, echoing even in the cockpit. They were all still as stones and only their breathing could be heard. Suddenly, the huge blue monster came into veiw. Ryu slowly reached for a lever and slowly pulled it down. "Fire underside gravity missles one and five..." he whispered nervously.

Slowly, two compartments opened from the underside of the ship, which at the moment was the top of the ship. A computer moniter slowly raised from the control panel with a target on it and a view of the outside. Ryu looked at it and when the target turned red, he pressed two red buttons at the same time. A gauge appeared at the bottom of the screen and began charging-first green, then yellow over that, then orange...

"Damn! It won't make it in time." He breathed.

"Why are you panicing?" Cedeile asked.

"Because the space whale...is probably going to attack us." Aru explained frightfully.

"And my ship won't stand a chance." he looked back down at the gauge, which was halfway through red. "The gravity missles won't make it." Monstro came closer to them. Aru clasped her hands over her eyes and shook uncontroably. Ryu still eyed the gauge on the computer screen. It was almost finshed with red. Only black was left to charge...

"Ryu, what do we do?" Cedeile asked.

"If that thing attacks us and the ship is destroyed, we'll either die in the blast, or die outside in space." he told her. Aru let out a whimper.

"Well, aren't you the bringer of good news."

"Cedeile, just shut it!" he yelled, the first time in ten mintues anyone had used such a loud voice. Cedeile was about to give a smart remark back when she saw the worry in his eyes. She sighed and looked back outside. Monstro was closer, and the gauge was only half filled with black. It spotted them and let out another majestic roar that made the nearby worlds shake-keeping in mind the nearest worlds were about 2 kilometers away, which is about 1.242 miles.

Ryu couldn't take his eyes off the huge creature, and his hands clamped around the controls shook. He had no doubt in his mind that his knuckles were white. He looked at Cedeile, who was now still and unusually quiet. Then, his eyes made their way over to Aru, who was shaking like a little kid. His eyes glanced around the cockpit until they landed on the moniter with the gravity missle charge. It was almost full...

A single, soft beep sounded in the silence.

"FIRE GRAVITY MISSLES!" Ryu yelled suddenly. Two silver metal shafts emegered from their respective holds and shot out at Monstro, while the massive creature opened its fangs-techinically, whales don't have fangs, and Monstro happens to not have any teeth, but rather balene that is used to filter the water for food- and began to engulf the ship. A bright light flashed as the gravtiy missles hit their target, but it was too late, for as Monstro passed out from being hit,he came down upon the small ship, still succeeding in swallowing the three whole. The ship was tossed about. The lights inside flickered off and the controls went out.

"Damn it!" Ryu cursed in the confusion. They all eventually blacked out and flew out of the cockpit and into the darkness.

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6H:ANOTHER CLIFFIE! I've lost track of how many I've written. But in a story like this, I guess there is alot of them.

Anaretsu: Damn it. You hadn't written one in a looong time, so I thought you'd never write one again.

6H:You are mistaken, mon baka yami.

Anaretsu: You mixed french and japanese?

6H:That just proves how little of those languages I know! See you all in chapter 27!