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Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 32-Book City


The small gummi ship made it's way across space as it zoomed toward Book City. Once again, Cedeile, Aru, and Ryu were smushed into the small cockpit, waiting to get to their destination so they had enough room to breathe again.

"Ryu, can't you make this thing bigger?" Cedeile complained.

"Oh, would you stop it! You're not making my job any eaiser by complaining."

"If the stupid ship wasn't so damn small than I wouldn't be complaining now would I?"

"Well, forget it, because I'm not changing this ship, okay? It's my ship to begin with, isn't it?"

"I guess." she shrunk away in defeat. Suddenly, the fragment radar went off. Ryu looked out at the space in front of them and used the world radar to identify the world before them.

"We're here, ladies. Book City-'A world of books and story characters.' Let's get ready to land." He brought the gummi ship closer. Cedeile and Aru looked out the window to get a better look at it. It wasa stack of books that the world rested on top of. There was a tower made of books on top of a hill.

"Looks exciting." Cedeile remark sarcasticly. "At least they named their world right, unlike McFuzz Town."

"Maybe we'll find something about the fragments there." Aru said, watching the world come closer.

"Alright everyone, we're ready to get off. Anyone against this mission, speak now or forever hold your peace." he switched on the landing gear as they decended onto Book City.


It was like night-scratch that, it was night in Book City. A cresent moon hung up in the sky near the book tower on top of the hill. A 'street' they were on was made of giant books and were lined by giant books stacked two high on top of each other, like walls. They were standing at an intersection, where under an arch made by two books leaning against each other another street went off somehwere else. The tower made of books sat in the darkness, light showing through the windows.

"Great. It's a really exciting world in here. I don't see how the people who live here STAND all the excitement." Cedeile said annyoed, rubbing her arms to get warm. "It's freezing! Aren't you guys cold?" she asked, looking to each of them.

"Not really." Aru anwsered.

'Thats right. Aru has her warm robe, and Ryu has that cloak. Here I am with a tee shirt and shorts. Figures..." She suddenly felt something dropped around her soulders. She looked to find Ryu putting his cloak on her.

"Ryu?"

"You're cold, right? You can use this for now." he said, smiling at her. She smiled back gratefully.

"Thank you, Ryu."

"Guys, someone's coming near us!" Aru shouted suddenly. They watched, waiting for the sound of footsteps to come to them. Soon, two people rounded the corner, running from something. It was two girls- the taller one had long brown hair that went past her waist and was tied near the ends. She wore a white shirt, over which crossed a green belt that attached to her short black shorts. On her left leg was a red pouch attached to a band. Her boots were red. Her glove on her left arm was black and had red bands that crossed over once. The glove ended at her knucles. On her right arm, the black glove nearly went up to her shoulder. On her hand was a baggy red glove, and over the knucles was a huge metal guard.

The other girl was shorter with short, light brown hair. A string of beads came down from her hair. She wore what looked like a kimono, except sleeveless. The skirt was a dark purple, and the sash around her waist was a light blue color. She had on black boots and carried a tall staff that was taller than her.

Behind them were five of the fat heartless, and they were chasing them along the road. The two girls ran only slightly faster than the heartless, the older one looking more paniced. As they got closer, the girls noticed the group in front of them.

"WAH! Look out!" the taller one yelled.

"Hell!" Cedeile cursed. They dodged into the side street, and the two girls just made it behind them as the big heartless tumbled along the street. They watched them until they disappeared down the hill. The taller girl wiped the sweat off her forhead, sighing.

"Phew, that was a close one." she said with relief.

"I didn't think we would make it." The shorter one said. The group noticed that her one eye was green and the other was blue.

"Are you two okay?" Aru asked. The shorter one nodded.

"Yes, I think we'll be fine. But we haven't introduced ourselves yet!" she stood and bowed. "I am Yuna, one of the book masters of Book City." The older girl stood up.

"And I'm Tifa Lockheart, Yuna's guardian!" She exclaimed, winking.

"I'm Cedeile, this is Aru, and this guy here is Ryu. We're fragment hunters!"

"I'm a fragment hunter, Cedeile. You're just tagging along."

"I am so a fragment hunter! I'm hunting the fragments, therefore I'm a fragment hunter!" she argued.

"You haven't been through the training! You aren't offically a fragment hunter just because you look for them!" Aru shook her head and laughed.

"Come on you guys! We can sort this out later." She tried to seperated them. "Besdies, we have buisness here."

"That's right!" Ryu said, remembering suddenly. He turned to Tifa and Yuna. "We need to look through your books for information on the fragments."

"Why don't we take you back to the Book Tower. That's where all our records are stored. It also our home." Yuna explained.

"We'll have to be careful." Tifa warned. "The heartless are everywhere. They might try and follow us back."

"Let them. Once they face my heartblade they won't stand a chance!" Cedeile said, getting ready for a possible battle. Tifa and Yuna pushed Aru and Ryu out of the way to get a better look at her.

"You're the heartblade master?" They exclaimed at the same time. Cedeile sighed.

"Isn't fame great, guys?" She joked, laughing. Ryu and Aru sighed from the ground.


Tifa looked around them before opening the massive door to Book Tower. They silently slipped in, and then the two girls locked the door behind them. Cedeile, Ryu, and Aru stared in awe at the interior of the tower. Despite looking like a stack of books from the outside, inside it was like a library, the tall walls lined with trillions upon trillions of books. Before them on the ground floor was a huge fireplace that cast a warm glow over everything. It's stone work went all the way up the wall to the top. Everything was open, and the floors above them were like lofts. A window on the very top floor let in blue moonlight, making it look very eerie. Around the fireplace were comfy look chairs. The wall the fireplace was on did not have books, put had the potraits of many important looking people, the biggest was mounted on the stone of the chimney above the fireplace mantel.

A short staircase across from them lead to a study that had desks with small lamps on them. Yuna picked up a huge black kettle and hung it on the metal bar over the fire.

"Welcome to our home." She said politely.

"What's ours is yours!" Tifa added, throwing herself into a chair. The three sat down as well.

"So, how long have the heartless been here?"

"A few months ago they came in and started taking over." Tifa began. "All the book masters decided that they could fight-I mean, they looked weak enough! But one by one, they fell..." She folded her hand together and rested her chin on them, elbows on her knees. Her brown eyes looked serious.

"And then the High Book Master fell to them. Now, I'm the only Book Master left." Yuna finished sadly.

"How old are you, Yuna?" Cedeile asked. The young girl turned to them.

"I just had my tenth birthday last weak." she anwsered solemnly.

"You're just ten?" Cedeile exclaimed.

"She was studying to become the next High Book Master. You see, the old guy is her grandfather!" Tifa explained. "We're the last two people in this world. Everyone else kicked the bucket." The kettle hissed as it spit out steam. Yuna sighed.

"The heartless must've gotton stronger." Aru said softly. Cedeile clenched her fists.

'Riku...'she thoguht angerily.

"These fragments you're talking about, do you have any or are you trying to find where they are?" Tifa asked. Ryu took the bottle out of his coat and showed it to Tifa and Yuna. Yuna held the bottle delicately in her small hands.

"There they are, well...nine of them at least. They were scattered around the worlds, and they've got power to them. The heartless might be drawing power from one of them." Ryu told them. They gazed in wonder at them.

"These little peices of glass?" Tifa questioned in disbelief. "I've never heard of such things!"

"I might've read about them somewhere." Yuna said, standing up suddenly. She ran up the stairs and then up another flight of stairs. They waited until she came back down with a huge book that was almost as big as her. She put it on the floor and turned the pages swiftly until she found the right one. She scanned down the page, and then pointed to a paragraph with her finger. "Here it is! 'Long ago, fragments of light flew across the sky of every world. Every person saw them and watched in wonder as they flew...'"

"We heard that story already!" Cedeile yelled.

"Cedeile, don't bite the poor kid's head off!" Ryu yelled at her.

"Sorry, but I hopeing for something else that might tell us something about the fragments, like why they got scattered or what the lines on them are."

"Ah!" Yuna exclaimed. "I know what you need!" Yuna ran up to the study. The four followed her. She looked speedily through all the books, stepping on a step ladder to reach the ones higher up.

"Yuna, I haven't seen you act this hyper since the Christmas party last year." Tifa said, putting a hand on her head.

"This is it!" She yelled suddenly. She pulled out a small, thick book and carried it to a nearby desk, flicking on the light. The cover read 'Book of Fragments.'

"'Book of Fragments', huh. I guess someone else knew enough about them to write a whole book." Ryu said, leaning against the shelves.

"It says that they were scattered shortly after their creation 500 years ago!" Yuna read.

"They're alot older than I thought." Aru remarked.

"No wonder people don't know much about them. I bet no one from that time thought much of it, since there's barely anything on them." Cedeile said, looking at the book. Aru stepped back from the group slowly, becoming silent.

"500 years ago...that's also when the legend of the Keyblade supposedly occured. And then the worlds were set apart." Tifa added.

"What the legend of the keyblade?" Cedeile asked.

"Back when the worlds were all connected, a great darkness came upon everything. That's when the keyblade master came. Some legends say that he brought a great light and saved everyone from the darkness. But other legends say he brought ruin upon the worlds and total chaos occured." Yuna told her. Cedeile nodded.

"What's it say about the heartblade?"

"There is little information about the heartblade. Even less than the fragments. But what is written is that the heartblade worked beside the keyblade, and their masters drove the darkness back to the west."

"Figures." Cedeile muttered, disapointed. Tifa flipped through the fragment book some more and stoped, reading a page.

"Hey! Here it says something about an image that the fragments form when put together. It says that the image is most likely that of Disney Castle, the castle of the king. The king at the time of their creation was the great King Arther, a wise and noble king who united all the people together. His reign was peaceful until the castle and town around it were attacked by heartless. That must've been why the fragments were scattered, to keep them away from the heartless. Their purpose is thought to be to seal away something, and since the image is the castle, it must seal away something realative to it."

"Like the keyhole!" Ryu and Cedeile exclaimed.

"That must be it. King Aurther wanted to stop the heartless from destroying his world, so he took the keyhole and broke it into several peices." Ryu thought out.

"No, that's not true!" a new voice sounded from behind them. They all turned. Aru was standing there, looking at them all. She seemed frightened.

"What? Why are you all...looking at me?" She asked, shaking.

"Did you guys hear that?" Cedeile asked.

"Someone else is here with us." Tifa said warily. Aru stepped back from them.

"Aru, what's wrong? You seem upset." Cedeile asked. Aru shook her head.

"I guess that voice scared me too. It sounded like it was right behind me is all. I guess I just didn't expect it."

"None of us did." Ryu said, eyes narrowing.

"Nevermind that." Yuna said. She closed the book and gave it to Cedeile. "You can have this if you want."

"Thank you Yuna. It'll be a big help." She said, accepting the book. She turned to Aru and Ryu. "We should try to get to the bottom of this. See what the heartless are doing here, you know?"

"We could help Tifa and Yuna." Ryu added. Aru nodded.

"You'd do that?" Tifa asked.

"Sure, why not? It's our mission anyway."Cedeile said, taking out the heartblade and resting it on her shoulder.

"You're very kind to help us. We'll join you in battle." Yuna said.

"Alright! Let's battle!" Tifa shouted excitedly, gripping her fists.


6H:Hah ha ha! I'm so evil, ending it there! By the way, I know that Tifa and Yuna's descriptions are different. I figured that every other FF character in KH got a little revamping, so I decided to do the same for Tifa and Yuna. I drew a pic of Tifa in her new outfit and it came out pretty good. I'll try to post it on my website, but my scanner isn't scanning my pictures how I want it too.

Anaretsu: It must hate you, like I do.

6H:You probably gave it ideas.

Anaretsu: It learned from me, it's master.

6H: It's my printer/scanner!

Anaretsu: NOT ANY MORE!

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