6H and Jack: (sitting in chairs)

6H: The Six of Hearts,

Jack: And the Jack of Spades,

6H:Request your presence-

Jack: At a casual gathering

6H:In chapter 30 of this fanfic to celebrate it's sucess and long run and also at how awsome it is!

Jack: Please RSVP in your reveiw. Oh, and bring as much sugar, snack food, and party supplies as humanly possible.

6H:We hope to see you there!

Jack: It's being hosted by us, the members of the Royal Flush alliance!

6H:Two of us anyway.

Jack: That's true...

6H:Hey look! It's the breadblade brought back to life!

Jack: Yeah! Let's go fight some heartless!

Anaretsu: Idiots.

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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 27-Gepetto

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Cedeile slowly opened her dark emerald eyes. Her head hurt and she was cold and damp, and it was dark in this place. She pushed herself into a sitting postion, and looked around at their surroundings.

"Damn it. I told Ryu we needed a bigger cockpit." she said, rubbing the back of her aching head. Ryu groaned as he came to. He was lying on his back, a small stream of blood flowing down his face.

"Hey Cedeile, Aru. You guys okay?"

"Hey Ryu. I'm fine ,but I don't know where Aru is. You okay? Your head is like...bleeding." she said, slowly standing and walking to where he layed. Ryu slowly lifted his left hand and touched the cut. He winced as his fingers made contact.

"It's nothing." he insisted, but still didn't move. Cedeile nudged him with her foot a bit.

"Hey, get up. Where are we, anyway?" she asked.

"Monstro must've swallowed us whole. We're inside the space whale..." He said, looking at the ceiling.

"So we're trapped?" she asked, starting to panic. "I can't beleieve we got eaten by a shark!"

"Cedeile, it's a whale."

"Yeah, I knew that." Ryu shook his head. "So, Ryu, are you gonna get up?"

"I've been trying to." Cedeile's eyes widened a little.

"You can't move? Holy hell! You're paralized! What the hell are we gonna do? Cid's not a chiropractor!"

"Cedeile shut up. I'll be fine, okay. I guess this cut on my head isn't my only wound, huh?" he laughed slightly, but not much since it hurt. Cedeile knelt down beside him.

"How about I look around this place for a way out. Then if I find one, I'll come back for you and we'll get out of here. Then I'll come back for Aru, unless she already got out okay." she said.

"What if Aru didn't get out?"

"She's not around here, so she might be okay."

"Fine, I'll go along with this, but if I end up dead because of you, I'm coming back to haunt you, okay?" Cedeile smiled and poked his shoulder playfully.

"Great. I'll be back!" she stood up and dashed off.

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Cedeile's feet bounced off the spongy floor as she tried to look for an exit. Suddenly, she saw a light in front of her somewhere. She ran towards it, but hit a deep pool of cold water that went to her waist. With a yell of surprise, she ran back onto shore and shivered.

"Holy...damn! That's really freezing." she then thought of Ryu. He could be dieing and she was standing around because of some cold water. She swallowed hard and dived into the water. 'Ryu, I'm not gonna disapoint you. My plan will work, you'll see.' She rose up near the source of the light and gasped for air. The splashing of water echoed through the monstrious cavern. She looked up the side of a wooden wall. The light came from above it. No, it wasn't a wall...it was the side of a boat. She looked around and found a wooden plank floated on the water. She pulled herself on it and looked around. There were towers of wood from wrecked ships. Random boards floated in the water.

She rubbed her arms to try and warm up, but her wet clothes hung on her body. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to move. She decided to jump up on the deck of the boat before she freezed to death. She launched herself and landed on the wooden floor. An old man with white hair turned and looked in shock.

"Oh, hello there. Who are you?" he asked. The light source, a latern, sat on a small table. The boat seemed more like a home than a boat.

"I'm Cedeile. You would be...?"

"Gepetto. I'm a simple inventor."

"I see you couldn't invent a way out of here. How long have you been here, anyway?"

"For awhile now. I was trying to find Pinochio, but I ended up being swallowed by Monstro instead." Gepetto sighed as he sat down on a bed.

"My friends and I landed here. We got swallowed too. But my friend Ryu...he can't move and Aru isn't anywhere around."

"What brings you here? Are you on a journey?"

"Heck yeah! I'm the heartblade master!" she declared, getting pumped. Gepetto thought for a moment.

"Heartblade, huh? You wouldn't know anything about a keyblade, would you?" he asked.

"Yeah! My friend Sora has that one! Together, we gotta save the worlds." she then remembered the reason she was here. "But more about that later! Right now, I gotta help Ryu!" she paniced.

"Bring your friend here, and i'll do my best to help him."

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Cedeile dragged Ryu to Gepetto's boat and they layed him on the bed. Gepetto looked him over quickly. He then looked closer at the cut on his head. Ryu winced when he touched it.

"Well? What is it, Gepetto?" Cedeile asked.

"I'm not sure. It must be something internal."

"He IS paralized!" Cedeile screamed.

"He didn't say my spine was broken, fool." Ryu gasped. It seemed like he was struggling to breathe now. Cedeile looked at him, worried.

"I think I may know...you say you were thrown from your ship. You must've hit the ground so that you broke a few ribs, and they pierced a lung and it collapsed. Nothing that can't be cured with the right treatment." Gepetto went searching in his drawers. Cedeile walked closer to the bedside.

"Ryu? Does it hurt alot?" she whispered.

"No, it's tickles."

"Oh good, I thought you were in pain." She sighed in releif.

"Cedeile, you can be so dense. I AM in pain."

"Well sorry! I'm worried about you and all you can do is insult me!" she yelled.

"Well maybe I was worried about you, but you obiviously didn't care!" he yelled back. Suddenly, the words of the other sunk in their heads and the went silent, tints of pink appearing on both of their faces.Gepetto returned with a green leafed plant and a glass bottle filled with purple stuff.

"Here it is. The first part is simple. I just mix the plant with this potion and Ryu will be fine in the morning."

"That's a relief!" Cedeile said, sighing.

"But, the second part isn't so easy. You see, In order for the potion to work right, it has to be cold. Otherwise, the cure would be rejected by his body."

"How?"

"You wouldn't get it if I told you."

"So what do we do?"

"You said that the water down there is cold, Cedeile, right?" Ryu asked. Gepetto snapped his fingers.

"That's it! You'll just have to spend the whole night in the cold water. That should do it. But you can't stay down there alone, of course. You'd die of hypothermia. You'd need to stay awake the whole night. If only someone could stay with you and make sure you were okay..." The suddenly both looked at Cedeile.

"What, me? No way! I'm not going to spend the whole night in that freezing hell!" she insisted.

"Cedeile, it's the only way." Gepetto said.Cedeile sighed.

"Okay, I give in. I'll do it."

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6H:Hey Jack! Let's go drool over Inuyasha and Hige!

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Anaretsu: Forget to reveiw, and maybe she'll never do another chapter ever again! Heh heh.