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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 30-Heartblade's miracle at Last Second


Cedeile and Ryu decided to go look for Aru, so they left Gepetto's boat and walked into the first chamber.

"Whoa, what does this thing eat? Playdoh?" Cedeile exclaimed at the bright colors.

"Not what I expected from the legendary space whale." Ryu said, looking at the walls, floor, and ceiling to see the same color pattern.

"I hope Aru isn't like dead, or something." Cedeile said worried. Ryu sighed.

"Aru is probably fine. She can use magic, you know."

"Come to think of it...we don't know much about Aru..." Cedeile said. "She just said she was a magician from far away. But she never said if her world was destroyed or if she was sent to fight heartless."

"Yeah. She also said 'I have a goal of my own.' What did she mean?" Ryu asked, thinking. Neither of them had given it much thought as to who Aru was really. Now that it hit them, Aru was pretty mysterious.

"Well, she's still our friend, right?"

"Yeah, but..."

"Come on, Ryu! We gotta find her. Past or no, she's my friend, no matter what." she ran ahead to continue the search.

"Cedeile, wait!" Ryu yelled, catching up to her. Suddenly, they were surrounded by heartless.

"Whoa! I never saw these heartless before! They look like ghosts!" Cedeile exclaimed. She jumped as one attacked her. Ryu slashed through a few with his huge sword. Cedeile went to purify some of them, only to find them still floating before her with no changes to them.

"Cedeile, go and purify them!" Ryu yelled.

"Don't you think I tried that?" Cedeile yelled. She tried using her new attack. "HOLY PURIFICATION!" the cross of light passed through them, but they didn't purify. "EKKS! What the hell is wrong?" she got hit behind by a heartless. She rolled a few times before she could regain balance.

"Cedeile, what are you doing?"

"Trying to not get killed!" she yelled as she jumped into the air. Ryu charged forward and slashed through the horde. He watched Cedeile run away from the heartless chasing her.

"Cedeile!" he yelled, frustrated.

"I can't purify them! It's not working!"

"Not even 'Holy Purification'?" he asked, while killing a few more of them.

"Yeah!"

'Could they be too strong for you?' he thought fratically. A few more heartless came at him from behind, but he swung his sword around with two hands, and it cut through most of them. He leaped up in the air and flipped over, killing some more as he landed. Cedeile, however, was not in a good spot. The heartless had cornered her, and she would've jumped, but they would float up to block her.

"Hey Ryu! A little help here?" she called from the corner. Ryu rolled his eyes and ran forward, killing heartless left and right. Cedeile squeezed her eyes shut as he slashed through the heartless around her.

"You okay?" he asked, holding out his hand to help her out. She grabbed it as he pulled her up.

"I guess." she said. "But why can't I purify these new heartless?"

"Maybe you aren't strong enough yet.Or maybe they're invunrable to your attacks."

"So I'm useless from now on? This sucks!" she yelled.

"Come on. We have to go find Aru." Ryu said, walking towards the doorway to the next chamber.

"Hey, wait for me!" she called, running up beside him.

"Isn't that what I told you before?"

"Very funny." The two walked through the narrow hallway, their feet bounced off the spongy floor. The entered the next room to find it empty. "I'm glad there are no heartless in here."

"Hold on...there might be...they must be waiting for us to come out." Ryu said quietly. He pushed Cedeile against the wall, signalling for her to stay there, and walked out slowly into the room. A huge, fat heartless appeared. Ryu jumped around behind it and began attacking it like no tomorrow. Soon, it died, and disappeared. "Alright, it's safe." Cedeile walked out from the hallway, but five heartless appeared around her.

"Damn!"

"It was a trap! They were waiting for you!" Ryu yelled. He came forward to try and attack the heartless, but he was suddenly frozen stiff. "What the?"

"Hey Ryu! Anytime now..." Cedeile said nervously. The heartless were making a barrier of magic around her.

"I would move if I could, believe me." He could only watch as the heartless formed a dark sphere around her and and carried her up to the ceiling. "Cedeile! No!"

"Damn it! If only I could get out of here!" Cedeile yelled to herself, banging on the solid sides of her prison. She and the heartless disappeared through the ceiling.


When Cedeile woke up, she found herself binded to the wall by tenticles that seemed to be an actual part of Monstro, as they fused into the wall behind her. They felt cold and slimy. She pulled against them, put could not release herself.

"Talk about deja vu." she murmered to herself.

"Or maybe it would be better if you didn't talk." A voice said. Her head darted up to look at the person before her.

"R-riku!" she gasped."Riku, let me out of these!" she cried. He didn't move. Cedeile's look became skeptical. "Wait, are you pulling another 'trapping me in the secret place' gigs again? You know-you're gonna leave me here and when people come looking, they won't see or hear me cause of your damn spell." she glared smartly, triumphant in figuring out his scheme.

"Not this time. I just want to talk with you." he said, no emotion in his voice. His ice eyes looked at her coldly.

"Talk?" she asked, nervously. "Like we 'talked' in Traverse Town?" she added sarcasticly.

"Cedeile, I've come to take the Heartblade from you." he said bluntly. She gasped, her eyes widened.

"What do you mean? Riku, I thought you were on our side!"

"Things have changed, Cedeile." he told her, walking forward. "Sora has forgotton Kairi, and I know he's going to turn you against me." he said, pain coming to his eyes as he gently placed a hand on her face, fingers stroking the skin lovingly. "I won't let that happen. I'm not going to lose you, espically since there are some strings left to tie." Cedeile's eyes turned into a look of hatered. Riku's eye's became sad, like he could cry. "No, don't look at me like that." he said softly.

"Get you hands off me, Riku." she whispered in rage. "Bastard..."

"I don't like it when your voice becomes harsh. Don't be angry, Cedeile, you'll understand soon." He knelt down on one knee and rested his free hand on his other one. He looked her straight in the eyes with a gentle look of longing. "But, in order to save Kairi, I need the Heartblade. Please..." he begged.

"I'll never give it to y-"she was cut off by him in such a suddenly action, she wasn't really sure how it happened. All she knew was that he had silenced her with his lips They felt cold, yet conveyed love and longing. She was stunned, eyes wide, as Riku seemed lost in his own world. 'What the hell is this? Great, Riku stole my first kiss, and he captured me too. This was not how I imagined things.' He slowly released the kiss and looked to meet her eyes.

"You don't know how much this hurts me Cedeile. I have to take your power from you. And I have to kill your best friend..."

"You're gonna kill Sora? You're nuts! You two...you were always closer than me and him! Why are you suddenly against him now?"

"Because..." he released her from his grasp and stepped away, turning his back to her. "Because he's forgotton me and Kairi. I'm the only one who can save Kairi." he looked back at her. "Kairi's gone."

"'Gone?' Like 'dead gone', 'missing gone', 'gone on vacation gone', or..."

"Cedeile, she's lost her heart."

"She's heartless?" she exclaimed. She couldn't imagine the red haired girl turning into such a terrible being.

"No...her body is still here. But her soul, her heart...they're missing..." he turned to face her again. "Do you see why I need the heartblade now? It's purifying powers will bring Kairi's heart back to her body! She'll come back to us..." he bit his lip as though holding back tears. His body shook.

'Riku...are you evil, or...maybe you're just trying to get Kairi back...I can't tell...I don't think I can trust you...but, Kairi's my friend too.' Cedeile battled with herself inside her head.'I could give Riku the heartblade to save Kairi...but...' Images of Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Ryu, Aru and all the others she'd met so far came into her head. 'Lot's of people are depending on me! I told Ryu I'd help him hunt fragments, and Leon and them watched thier world get destroyed yet they put all their faith in me and Sora. Kai gave us the fragment in his heart, and Benida and her family believe in their hearts now because of me! I made a promise to Sora! I won't break it...this...TIME!' She glowed with and intense lgith as her bonds broke and the cords snapped. Monstro gave a loud roar-he had felt them snap; they were part of him. Riku gasped in shock as Cedeile stood before him, Heartblade extended in front of her.

"Cedeile!"

"I can't give this to you, Riku! I'm sorry, but too many are depending on me to use this to save all the Heartless!" she declared fiercly. "But I WILL purify Kairi when the time comes!" Riku's eyes turned hard as he glared at her.

"You're just like Sora. YOU'VE FORGOTTON YOUR TRUE FRIENDS!" he yelled, summoning great power. His sword came to his hand as he came forward to her. She blocked with the Heartblade, holding him back. She felt her feet slipping slightly beneath her and her arms felt like they could snap under the force. "Cedeile, why have you forgotton us?" he growled.

"I haven't forgotton you, Riku. But,if you've been through the things I have...if you've touched people like I have...then you would know why I CAN'T give this to you. This power that I've been given...I have to use it to save the heartless from oblivion!" she told him, straining to hold him off.

"How would you know about oblivion...espically my own!" he cried. Cedeile finally gave in and fell to the ground, a terrible cracking sound filling the air. She looked at her Heartblade, which happened to be in two peices in her hands.

"Ack!" she cried in disbelief. Riku came for her again and she scrambled away. "Holy Hell!" she exclaimed, running away and dropping the bottom half of the heartblade. She jumped up into the air and grabed onto some stringy thing that was hanging lose from the ceiling. She grabbed it, feeling the sticky ooze soak through her glove. She winced at the feeling and looked back down to Riku, his anger flaring. She looked to the other half of her weapon in her hand. She sighed, closing her eyes in thought.

'What the hell do I do now?' she thought to herself. 'I'm in one hell of a situation, aren't I? I can't attack Riku because one, he's my friend, and two, my weapon is busted. Stupid heartblade. Stupid Riku's sword that doesn't have a name. Stupid Monstro and his colorful insides.' she sulked, hanging in the air. Suddenly, she felt herself slip down. "Oh hell!" she cried, looking above her. The cord she was grabbing onto was breaking apart. She tried to scramble further up it, but it only unwound faster and then broke. She slipped down it and then her hand slipped off. She landed on the soft floor, the other half of the heartblade flying across the room. Riku stood above her.

"Now it's too late. Kairi can't be save because the heartblade is broken." he said dully.

"Riku..." she gasped out. He looked up again, an enraged look on his face. He struck her. Pain filled her body as she clutched her shoulder. She scrambled backwards, but he struck again, and again. Cuts appeared on her face and arms as she tried to protect herself. He picked her up by her shirt, lifting her off the ground and above him, her feet dnagling in the air. She grabbed onto his wrist that held her up with both her hands. "Why are you doing this Riku?" she asked with hardness in her voice.

He looked at her blankly, like he didn't know who she was, but that he only want to kill her.

'Those eyes...they're not the ones I know. It's like he's two different people-a kind, loving Riku and a violent, angry one. But neither is the one I used to know from Destiny Islands. Which is the real one?' she looked at him, wincing as her own shirt burned into the back of her neck from being held up by it. 'Wait, maybe Riku's in trouble or something? And his kind side is reaching out to me, but his angry side has taken over. He's being posessed! That has to be it!' she sneered at him as she suddenyl twisted his wrist. He yelled in pain as he dropped her. She fell to the ground and bounced slightly.

"Damn!" he cursed.

"Riku, wake up! The dakrness is trying to take you!" she called to him. He thrust his sword through her shoudler. Her eyes went wide in pain as she clenched her teeth. He place his foot on her chest as she pushed her to the ground, at the same time removing his sword from her body. She winced and shut her eyes painfully. "Riku...why are you doing this?" she asked painfully. 'The darkness must be blinding him. I can't reach him without the heartblade...' she thought. She felt the blood gather around her. 'I don't wanna die!'


Ryu ran blindly through the different chambers of Monstro. He panted from being tired, but he ignored it. The only thing going through his mind was trying to find her. Images of last night went through his head.

"I'm not smart, remember?"

"Why are you mad at me?"

"So, whenever you see me in danger...you see your brother dieing again. And it haunts you at night because you know there is something you could of done to change things."

"Thank you. I take that as a compliment."

'I won't let her get killed because of me! I won't let anyone else die on me! Not after Sekei gave his life for me!' He thought franticlly. He burst through into another chamber when he saw a pile of white laying on the ground. He ran over to it.

"Aru!" he yelled. He knelt beside her and gently lifed her up. "Aru! Aru wake up now!" he yelled, shaking her. Her crimson eyes fluttered open as she looked at Ryu.

"Oh, Ryu, you're okay..." She said, sitting up on her own. She looked around him. "Where's Cedeile?" He bowed his head down.

"She got captured." he pounded his fist into the floor.

"You're trying to find her, aren't you? Because you're worried." he looked up to the short magician. "It's because you care about her." He looked at her in wonder. "Ryu, I'm short, not young. I am the same age as the two of you."

"But, how did you know?"

"The look on your face, and the frustration you feel...' she placed a hand on his shoulder. "You care about her alot, don't you?" He sighed.

"I thought I knew...but after last night, I'm not too sure." Aru nodded.

"You still have some thinking to do, but you'll have to do it later." she said, standing up. "We should go look for her." she added, smiling. Ryu stood as well.

"Come on." The two darted off to head forward.


Cedeile looked up at Riku, waiting for the last blow to be dealt. It seemed as if time was frozen for a long while, Riku standing above he not moving. His hair hid his face, so she couldn't see what expression he wore. She shook slightly with fear, waiting to be killed.

'I'm really screwed here.' she thought. 'I guess this is the end. I'll never keep my promise with Sora. I'll never find the fragments with Ryu and Aru. I'll never know what the final purification is, or who that person is I can save. Only I can save him, huh? He might've been better in someone else's hands.' She thought in what she believed to be her last fleeting moments. Suddenlly, Ryu came into her head-the way his arms felt around her from last night, his face in her hair, the wamrth in that cold water...

'Great. Does everyone get so pathetic and sappy before they die?' she asked herself in her head. Riku raised his sword above his head, his eyes still hidden by his silver locks. 'Well, goodbye everyone.' she thought as the sword came down and she closed her eyes.

Death never came for her. She heard a clang of metal and cry of pain. She opened her eyes-Ryu had thrust the end of the handle of his sword into Riku's back. Riku, in turn, had dropped his sword on the ground.

"Move Cedeile!" Aru yelled. Cedeile rolled away as Riku turned for his sword and Ryu drew his own. They clashed in a shower of sparks, the two boys eyeing each other dangerously. Aru knelt down next to Cedeile, who propped herself up on her elbows, watch the battle in wonder. "You okay?"

"Huh, well, I'm only purfusly bleeding, but otherwise I'm great." she replied sarcasticly.

"Yep, you're fine." Aru joked, while using her magic to cure her. "I'm sorry Cedeile, but my MP meter is jammed. I can't fully heal you."

"It's fine. Just heal my shoulder. That's all I need."

"Why weren't you using the heartblade on him?" Aru asked.

"Well, if ths stupid thing hadn't of broken I wouldn't be on the ground covered in blood, now would I?"

"It broke?"

"In half." She responded.

"What do we do now?"

"Don't ask me!" Meanwhile, Ryu and Riku were in a deadlock, their strengths even.They growled at each other, trying to get the other one to break. Cedeile watched with worry. "Hey Ryu! Don't hurt him too bad! Riku's one of my friends from my world!"

"What?" Ryu exclaimed, turning from his opponent. Riku seized the oppertunity and burst through Ryu's defences. Ryu stepped backwards to avoid his sword and struck with his own blade, forcing Riku back from the force of the larger weapon. Ryu held his huge sword with his two hands, it's silver surface shining.

"You think you can defeat me?" Riku asked.

"Nope. I KNOW I can defeat you. In the name of the fragment hunters!" he charged forward and swung at him. Riku manged to dodge, but only just barely, and came back strong. Ryu deflected the attack with his sword. The two glared at each other.

"Why should I waste my time with you." He stood up straight, and his sword disappeared. He turned, walking away from them.

"Wait! Riku!" Cedeile called, reach out to him. Riku turned, looking sadly at her.

"Cedeile...I'm so sorry..." She heard his voice in her head. She gasped as he disappeared in a flame of darkness. Suddenly, they were surrounded by a vast amount of heartless. Ryu glared at the new challengers and Aru swallowed hard.Cedeile stood up, her lep shaking beneath her.

"That boy...his name is...Riku?" Aru asked.

"Yeah." She anwsered. Aru nodded to herself.

"I've met him beforein here. Twice. But this time he seemed...changed."

"He is. He's being posessed by darkness. I can feel it. Now I know...Riku is the one I have to save, and he is the one I'll pruify at the final purification." she said.

"How'd you figure that out?"

"It's easy. Just put 2 and 2 together, right?" she asked, grinning.

"You're guessing?" Aru asked.

"Girls! Less talking ,more killing!" Ryu called, as he slashed through some heartless coming towards him. Aru ran into the horde.

"FIRA SHOT!" she yelled, shooting down several of them. Cedeile stood against the wall, feeling completely useless without her heartblade. She watched as Aru and Ryu fought like mad, getting beat up and losing strength against the endless hordes. Cedeile clenched her fists at her sides.

'Come on. There's gotta be something I can do...' she thought angrily. 'Here I am with the purest heart and I can't do a DAMN THING!' Ryu took at hit in his side and Aru was running low on MP. Cedeile shook with anger. 'I HAVE TO HELP MY FRIENDS!' Suddenly she erupted in a burst of violent light. The heartless froze and Ryu and Aru turned to look.

When the light cleared, Cedeile stood, completely healed, and holding a new heartblade. It's handle was still the same color, but it was longer. The heart at the top had changed to silver and was more curved than before, it's ends curling inside the heart. Spheres were at either side of the outside of it, out of which hung long white ribbons. Cedeile raised her head, her dark emerald eyes burning with anger.

"Be purified! EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU HEARTLESS!" She thrust the new heartblade down to the floor. "LAST SECOND MIRACLE!" A dome of light erupted from the point of impact as the whole of Monstro became engulfed in the light. When it faded out. Cedeile stood still. The heartless had all vanished. Ryu and Aru stood motionless.

The heartblade master lifted her head up and smiled at her friends. "That's it..." and she fell forward. The heartblade reverted back to normal as it lay in her hand. Ryu and Aru ran to her.

"Is she okay?" Ryu asked.

"Yeah. She just used all her strength. That attack was incredible. Didn't you notice all our injuries were healed after that. And every single heartless was purified."

"She couldn't even harm those new heartless before...Last Second Miracle, huh?" he thougth. Suddenly, Monstro's body lurched horridedly.

"What going on?" Aru asked, panicked.

"It's Monstro. The attack must've effected him too! Maybe we can get outta here!" Aru lifted Cedeile up as everything shook again. They felt something force them forward as they flew out of the room.

"I guess he's like throwing up or something." Aru excalimed as they flew through his throat to his mouth. As luck would have it, Ryu's gummi ship was resting in the mouth.They landed on Monstro's tounge softly, and then ran quickly to the ship.

"Better out this way then the other." Ryu joked. The got in, Ryu holding up Cedeile's head with one hand, controling the ship with his other, and Aru clutching tightly to him, since there was only one seat still. "Hang on, Aru!" he yelled as he started the engine. It roared to life, ready to get going again. Ryu waited for a few moments until the huge mouth opened.He slammed his foot down on the gas and the ship propelled forward. The force nearly threw them through the windowsheild again. They sped away from the space whale and headed back to Traverse Town.

"Nice piloting, Ryu." Aru complemented.

"We're out of that hell hole!" he said excited. "Now let's get back to Traverse Town before we get eaten again." So they sped off, away from the huge whale.


6H:Hope You all enjoyed! Sorry about the length, but I really got into this chapter!

Jack: This was a great party!

6H:It's not over yet! I want to do a few little special spoofs for you! And I decided to do a short humor story for you all! So, if your eyes aren't too tired, I'd like to present to you a bonus story! It doesn't really fit into the story, but is just for enjoyment.


Extra Fragment A-Don't Tell Ryu!


Cedeile looked out the window of the gummi ship, bored out of her mind.

"How much longer?" she whined.

"Would you shut up! That's the twenth time in a half-hour!" Ryu yelled at her. She sighed.

"But I'm so bored!" She retorted. "Can't we stop somewhere?"

"Yeah, when I see a rest stop along the road, I'll pull over." He said sarcasticly.

"Come you guys, don't argue." Aru pleaded."I'm sure we're almost there." Suddenly, the world radar went off. Before them was a small field floating in space.

"Oh, a world!" Cedeile exclaimed. Ryu looked at the radar.

"The world is called "Flat Piece of Land in the Middle of Nowhere.""

"How specific!" Aru commented.

"Can we stop? Please?" Cedeile begged.

"Do you have any idea what that thing could be?" Ryu asked, annoyed.

"A flat piece of land in the middle of nowhere?" She suggested to him. Ryu sighed.

"If you'll shut up, then I guess we could stop." Ryu gave in. He prepared the ship to land as Cedeile sighed happily.

"Finally, I'll get the blood ciculating in my legs again!" She sighed. Ryu shook his head and Aru laughed. They landed on the small world. It was a simple, small, green field with one tree providing shade. It was pleasently warm and the sun was shining. They walked off the ship, Cedeile smiling at the new found freedom from the small ship.

"Happy now?"

"Ahh! THE LIGHT!" she cried jokingly. Ryu rolled his eyes.

"Why don't we have a picnic?" Aru suggested.

"Might as well. It'll make our time useful." he said. They walked to the tree where Aru conjured a magical lunch of all kinds of wonderful sandwiches, lemonade, and cakes. Cedeile drooled as she watched the food come into view ontop of the magic blanket that had appeared below them.

"Enjoy, everyone!" Aru said when she was finsihed.

"Thank you Aru! You're my saver!"

"SavIOR, you idiot!" Ryu yelled as he bit into a sandwhich. Cedeile grabbed the nearest availible peice of food and engulfed it, accidently bitting her fingers.

"Hell!" she screamed as she waved her injured fingers.

"Stupid, don't eat the whole thing at once!" Ryu yelled. Cedeile pouted at him while Aru laughed. Suddenly, a faint beeping sound came from the ship. "Must be the fragment radar."

"Are you sure the ship isn't gonna like blow up or something?" Cedeile asked, shaking.

"Go get the radar and bring it here." Ryu told her.

"You just wanna see me get blown up!" she yelled at him.

"It's not gonna blow up, you fool! Why would it? Just go get it!"

"'Go get it 'what?" she stood up before him, waiting for him to say more.

"Go get it or you will blow up!"

"Alright I'm going!" Cedeile ran back to the ship. Aru shook her head, chuckling.

"You shouldn't be so mean."

"If she wasn't so annoying all the time I wouldn't." he told her, leaning against the tree and bitting his sandwhich. Aru sighed and drank from her cup. Cedeile walked on board and looked at the control panel where the fragment radar sat in it's cartridge. She grabbed it and looked at the screen.

"There must be a fragment around here! Hah, stupid Ryu! This'll show him!" she began to walk to leave the ship, but the radar was still attached by wires to the control panel. So, as a result, she fell flat on her face. "Ow! That's wasn't fun." she pushed herself up, but saw little peices of brown plastic on the floor. She looked below her. The fragment radar was smashed! "NO! This is the worst possible thing that could happen!" she cried, lifting the broken radar up and looking at it.

"Hey! Maybe it still works!" she exclaimed. She pressed one of the buttons on the front of it, but it exploded in her hands and the remains floated down to the ground. Her mouth dropped in shock as tears flowed from her eyes."NO! Now Ryu's really gonna kill me!"

Meanwhile out on the flat piece of land, Ryu and Aru began to wonder what was taking Cedeile so long. Ryu sighed.

"She's been gone a long time, even for her." he remarked.

"Why don't I go check on her." Aru said, getting up and walking to the ship. Ryu sighed and rested against the tree with his eyes closed. Aru walked over to the ship and walked into it."Cedeile?" she called. She stepped in and found Cedeile trying to peice back together something that was broken. "Cedeile? What are you doing?"

"Ryu! I didn't do it, I swear!" she yelled suddenly, hiding her project. "Oh, It's just you Aru." But her work crumbed apart again in her hands.

"What's wrong? Why are you so nervous?"

"Aru! Please please PLEASE don't tell Ryu!" she begged.

"Don't tell him what?"

"I BROKE THE FRAGMENT RADAR!" she sobbed, her tears erupting like waterfalls. Aru knelt down and patted her shoulder comfortingly.

"There there, Cedeile. We'll figure this out. I mean..." she picked up what was left of the radar. "...how hard could it be?" Cedeile smiled, wipeing her eyes.

"Thanks Aru. But maybe you should keep Ryu occupied while I fix it, okay?"

"You can't fix it by yourself. Here, we'll switch around every ten minutes or so so Ryu won't get suspicious, okay?" Cedeile nodded.

"Alright, but I'll go back first. I've already been gone a long time. Good luck." Cedeile ran out of the ship while Aru studied the radar. Cedeile walked back to Ryu, hands clasped behind her back, a big fake smile put on her face. Ryu looked up at her, seeming annoyed and then puzzled by her strange expresion.

"What did you do with Aru?" he asked.

"Aru? Oh, she...thought she saw a spider in the cockpit and decided to kill it for you is all!" Cedeile lied, sitting down next to Ryu.

"What took you so long?" he asked, leaning back against the tree, his eyes closed.

"Oh! Well, um...I was trying to figure out how far away the fragment was."

"Come to think of it where is the radar? You were supposed to bring it back here."

"Oh shit!"

"Huh?"

"I mean-" she stood up suddenly. "I have to...take a sh- I mean, I'll be back! No peaking!" she yelled, running back to the ship. He shook his head, resting against the tree. Cedeile sped off to the gummi ship, bursting through the door. "Aru!"

"Cedeile, that was barely five minutes!" Aru exclaimed.

"I'll take it from here. But first, do you have any tape?"

"Tape? Um..." she made a roll of scotch tape appear. "Here you go. Oh, and don't tell Ryu, but I had to take out the cartridge in the control panel."

"Good! Get out of here!" She pushed Aru out. The magician stumbled a bit and then went back to Ryu. He looked up at her as she sat down. They sat in silence for a little bit, Aru fidgeted nervously.

"Where did Cedeile go?" he asked her.

"I wouldn't know. Wasn't she here with you?"

"She left a little while ago. Did you kill that spider?"

"What?"

"The spider? Is it dead?"

"Is that a code?" she asked, confused.

"No. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine! There's nothing wrong!" she insisted. Ryu rolled his eyes. Aru looked back to the ship.

"Maybe I should go check on Cedeile..." he said. Aru paniced.

"No! I'll go!" Aru said, standing. "I'm sure she's fine." And she walked back to the ship. Ryu couldn't help notice that she walked a little too fast. She went in the doorway to find Cedeile trying to tape the fragment radar back together.

"Aru, you're back!"

"Cedeile, what are you thinking? You can't tape it back together!"

"It's working so far."

"But it won't work when Ryu tries to turn it on." Cedeile sighed.

"Okay, I'll go back. Don't tell Ryu, but I took some wires out of the control panel to try and get the radar to work again." Cedeile ran out the door and back to the blanket. She stopped before Ryu, panting and trying to catch her breath.

"You can't get any weirder, can you?" he asked sarcasticly. She sat down on the blanket. "Where's Aru?"

"She uh...dropped her glasses." Cedeile said, nodding to ensure the truth.

"You didn't stop to help her?"

"I should've?" Ryu smacked his forehead. Cedeile searched her brain franticly for an idea. Suddenly it came to her! Men could be blinded by the seduction of a woman! "Hey Ryu...how about we play a little bit...?" she asked in a flirting tone. Ryu looked at her in shock. She flipped her hair and slid off her red vest.

"Cedeile, you're really scaring me." Ryu said. Cedeile crawled over to him, wrapping one arm around his neck and resting the other arm on his chest. She looked up innocently at him.

"Oh, Ryu...you know how to make a girl cry, don't you?" She said, drawing invisible circles with her finger. He looked at her, confused and surprised at her suddent change of actions. Cedeile gulped to herself and slowly moved closer to his face. 'Sorry Ryu, but I'm not gonna let you kill me for breaking the fragment radar. Not that I want to do this, but...' Their lips almost met but Aru cleared her throat behind them. Cedeile turned to her.

"Hi...you guys?" she asked, clearly confused about the sudden occurance.

"Aru! Just in time! You know what, I think I lost a gumball on your ship! I'm gonna look for it now!" Cedeile said, jumping off of Ryu and grabbing her jacket.

"Gumball?" Aru whispered as Cedeile passed.

"Got a better idea?" Cedeile retorted as she ran to the ship. Aru sat beside Ryu, smiling nervously at him. He smacked his forhead and shook his head.

"What was that all about?" Aru asked innocently.

"Wouldn't I like to know." Ryu replied. Aru laughed nervously. "You know what, you two have been acting strange since we got here. Is there something going on?" he asked.

"Why don't I see if Cedeile's found her...er,gumball." Aru said.

"I'll come too. Something's up with her."

"NO! I'll go. You...have cake!" She pushed a plate of chocolate cake in his face by accident as she got up and ran a fast as she could. Ryu wiped his face clean, licking his lips of the chocolatly flavor.

"Hey, not bad for magic cake." he remarked. Then he stood up and ran after Aru. Aru reached the gummi ship out of breath. Cedeile gasped as she looked up.

"Ryu's coming!" she cried.

"No! I haven't fixed it yet!" Cedeile cried, showing Aru the radar.

"It's in more pieces than when I had it last! But here, we're almost done..." The two tried to franticly put the radar back together as Ryu's footsteps came closer. He stood in the doorway and then entered, looking down at the two girls hunched over their work.

"Alright, that's enough! What the hell is going on?" he yelled at them. Aru and Cedeile turned, still hiding the radar. Aru began.

"Well, Ryu...you see it's really funny..."

"Go ahead Aru. I'm waiting..." he crossed his arms. Cedeile trembled.

"It's..."

"NO! It's my fault! I DID IT, OKAY?" Cedeile yelled, kneeling at Ryu's feet and crying.

"Did what?" he asked, confused. Cedeile gingerly lifted the broken radar and showed it to him, standing up to face her punishment. She put it in Ryu's hands gently.

"I went to take the radar, but I forgot to unhook it from the control panel, so I fell and crushed it by mistake. Then Aru came and I asked her to help me fix it, but we only made things alot worse. But don't blame Aru-it's all my fault. I'm so sorry Ryu." She stood with her head down, waiting for him to explode at her.

"Why didn't you just push the reset button?" he asked. She looked up at him surprised.

"W-what?" she asked, shocked that she wasn't deaf by now from yelling. Ryu laughed and shook his head.

"You could've just brought it to me to begin with and then I could've pressed the reset button." he told her. He pressed the aforementioned button and a poof a smoke appeared in Ryu's hands. When it's cleared, the fragment radar was sitting there looking like new. Cedeile's eyes were wide while Ryu laughed. Aru fainted on the floor.

"I could've saved myself the agony of trying to fix it if I brought it to you? But I don't get it? How come you're not mad at me anyway?" Ryu stopped laughing and looked down at her.

"Well, even though you broke my radar, you tried really hard to fix it."

"So?"

"I think that was really sweet of you is all." he said, ruffleing the hair on her head playfully and smiling at her. She smiled.

"Well, you're welcome Ryu! And in return-"

"Not yelling at you wasn't enough?" Cedeile suddenly grabbed him by his cloaked and pulled him down to her. She glared at him menacingly.

"-never EVER tell ANYONE I tried to distract you by flirting, got it?"

"Deal. That was creepy." She let him go and they looked at each other, and then slowly began to laugh again at the funny adventure they had gotton themselves into. So it turned out to be quite an adventure at Flat Piece of Land in the Middle of Nowhere, with plently of laughs and food.

"Hey Ryu."

"Yeah?"

"Aru's still out cold." They both looked at the small magician who was still on the floor.

"She might need the sleep to recover from the trauma."

"You're right. Hey, let's go eat cake!" Cedeile yelled as she walked out the door of the ship.

End Extra A-


6H:Hope you enjoyed. Sorry about this whole chapter being so long. But I've NEVER EVER written anything 30 chapters long, so I was really proud, and I wanted to thank everyone by giving them a little extra. Thank you all for coming to my Special Chapter 30 party. This chapter is for all you guys who've read this story and continue to be a part of it. I look forward to reading your remarks. See you in chapter 31!

Jack: Bye for now! But I WILL return!

Anaretsu: Would everyone shut up! This chapter's been long enough already!