6H:Chapter 37! Chapter 37! Chapter 37!
Anaretsu: You sung that in chapter 22 too!
6H: I know. I'm just excited!
Anaretsu:Why? It's just chapter 37!
6H:Yeah. You know, the trailer at the beginning screws everything up, because even though this is chapter 37, it's listed as 38. I consider the Trailer like 'Fragment 0" or something. Whatever, this is a pointless discussion. On to chapter 37!
Anaretsu: I thought it was chapter 38!
Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments
Fragment 37-Not really Human, Not really demon.
Rock exploded in every direction, flying through the air. The crumbling sound filled every void and the smoke and dust was thick. Kana floated above the debris, smirking and pleased with her work.
"There is no way she could've survived..." she said queitly. The smoke cleared and where the path had been was now rubble. Kana became extremely pleased with her work. "At last, something I did that the others could not! I KILLED the heartblade master!"she declared to the mountain.
"I wouldn't celebrate yet..." a voice anwsered weakly. Kana looked down at the mountain path and then to either side of the pile of rubble. Finally, her gaze moved to the part of the path above the part she had just decimated. A figure in red stood there, cltuching her right arm as blood streaked down it and the left side of her face. She cockily smirked at the halfdemon.
"You! How could you survive that?"
"I jumped." Cedeile replied. She knew she couldn't take on Kana alone in this condition. She had no idea how Aru and Yuna were fareing wither, and if they needed her help, they were out of luck this time around. She began to run up the path, straining herself and srtuggling to take each step. Blood splattered on the ground as she went-the dripping was the only other sound besides her heavy breathing that echoed around her. Kana went to follow her, but stopped suddenly. She looked up towards her keep, and sensed a great dark power at work.
"What the?" she murmered and jetted straight up to the sky.
Yuna raised both her hands into the air as she stood up. The small, dark sphere floated above her head and then began to grow, extending on all sides. Aru looked up in awe at the void as it began to attract the heartless as the flew closer, drawn to the imense darkness. They were sucked into the void without ever knowing what had hit them. The other heartless did not seem to head the warning as the were all drawn in mindlessly, not aware of anything around them.
"It's working! Yuna, it's-" The two girls suddenly gasped in horror as Kana appeared before them in the air. She didn't look pleased.
"What is this? Two rats in my keep. I shall have to exterminate them!" she yelled as zapped the void with some kind of red lighting looking magic. Yuna stumbled backwards as the void disappeared.
"No! The void didn't have any effect on Kana!" Yuna cried. Aru gritted her teeth and stood to face Kana, sheilding Yuna from attack. Kana laughed.
"What do you plan to do, little girl?" Kana asked threatingly. Aru stood perfectly still, not moving. Kana smirked in amusement. "Trying to brave now, aren't we? What do you think that will do?" Aru snapped and unleashed a spell.
"AQUA!" She yelled, sending a gushing force of water at Kana. She flung it away like it was only a few drops of rain. Aru glared at the demon as Kana rushed forward, taking out the stone floor beneath them. Both of them screamed as the platform began to crumble. Both reached out for the edge. Yuna manged to grab a peice of the edge, but Aru's hand only clutched air as she fell backwards in the sky. Yuna reached out for her.
"ARU!" she yelled. Aru streched out her hand, but it was no use, Aru fell out of sight. "No, Aru!" Yuna yelled, looking down into the mist. The magician was no where in sight. Yuna hung her head in sadness. But she could not reflect for long, as a sharp stabbing pain came to her hand. Kana pulled her up and held her up in air. Yuna looked up to see Kana had thrust her claws into her flesh, making warm blood gooze down her arm. She winced at the feeling.
"Don't like the sight of blood? It's shame you'll be seeing so much of it-you own in fact!" Kana laughed maliciously at her.
"Put her down, Kana!" Cedeile's voice yelled. Kana turned her head slightly to see the bloody heartblade master staggering up the stone steps to the sanctuary. She panted heavily, spitting blood out of her mouth, and looking as though she could collapse any mintue. Kana smirked.
"I think you should just lay down and die. You look like you could, anyway." she told her in a rather 'go away I'm busy' sort of tone. She turned back to Yuna, whose different colored eyes were drowned in fear.
"Kana! Our buisness isn't finished. You still have to kill me, remember? Mallificent wouldn't like it if I was still up and running." Cedeile taunted. Kana seemed annoyed at this point, and turned back to her. Cedeile glared at her.
"You can wait your turn. This is family buisness I have to take care of." she said. Yuna didn't seem to understand what was going on, but didn't ask questions. Kana slowly walked over to the edge of the platform and held Yuna out over it. Yuna struggled to break free of Kana's grasp. "So eager to die, Yuna?" Kana taunted.
"Kana, don't! You and I still have a fight to finish! You want to save Yuna for last, don't you?" Cedeile yelled. Kana didn't move an inch and ignoring the heartblade master. Cedeile painfully moved forward to stop the halfdemon monster from going through with her plan. It seemed almost if Kana was frozen in time. Her long bangs hid her eyes, so trying to read her emotions was imposible. Yuna looked down at the stone platform, almost as if she understood the pain of the demon she didn't even know she was related to. Cedeile staggered a few steps forward before Kana's grip tightened on Yuna and she held her out higher over the edge. "KANA, NO!" Cedeile screamed. The platform underneath Kana cumbled suddenly. She was taken by surprise as she felt herself falling, but she didn't extend her wings, or do anything to try and stop the fall. Cedeile dashed forward and then jumped forward, slidding to the rescue just in time to grab one Kana's free hand. Kana didn't even notice the stop in her fall as her wide, now empty red eyes looked down to the mist below them and then traveled up her arm, up to the hand holding hers, and then up to Cedeile's face as she winced, trying hard not to let go.
"Why?"
"Huh?" Kana's eyes became watery as she looked straight at Cedeile.
"Why did you save me? No one would've done that...not for a half demon..."she said quietly. Cedeile looked in shock at the tears that came from her eyes.
"Kana..."
"Not even my father would save me. He brought me here once. Ever wonder why the railing had crumbled away? I was leaning on it and it broke. I was dangling here, calling for my father to help me, but he only looked at me blankly. Then he crushed my hand under his shoe and waited until I finally let go. The stupid fool thought I would die..."Kana's eyes regained their malice as she dug her claws into Cedeile's hand, ripping away the black glove and revealing red blood. Kana's hand slipped out of Cedeile's, but she extended her wings and flew above her. Cedeile looked up as Kana soard upward and then landed back on the blacony, throwing Yuna into the wall of the keep.
"Yuna!" Cedeile yelled. She angrily turned back to Kana. "To just let you know, I didn't do it for you, bastard. I did it to save Yuna."
"You wouldn't understand how I feel! Don't you get it? My father brought me here on purpose because he wanted to get rid of me. A mistake...that's all I was to him..." Kana clenched her shaking hands into fists. "I'm not really human...and not really demon...I have no one, I am alone in my own prison of darkness. And it is that man's fault. He and my mother sinned and He made me pay for it! How was I to know? I was just a kid...even though he is dead by my own hand, I can't move on until every last trace of him is gone from this world and killing Yuna WILL DO THAT! Seeing the world he swore would never fall to darkness become mine, his daughter's, must pain him so as he watches from heavan , but my mother must be so pleased in hell. That's where he should be too, only he passed himself off as a good person because he exorcised all the demons. No one ever knew that I exisited-that I was his flesh and blood. Not one of those Book masters knew I was half demon because of him!" she said angrily. Cedeile growled at her and charged, getting ready to try and purify her. Kana smacked her through the doors of the sactuary, and Cedeile hit the floor with a thud. A huge whole hole served as the door, and Kana flew in, avoiding the splinters. She easily spotted the heartblade master and threw her into a wall of bookshelves. Books fell in flurry of pages and shevles collapsed. Kana loomed above the almost unconcious heartblade master. Cedeile turned her head slowly to look up at Kana.
"You're really...such a bastard...Kana..."
"I don't excpet a human like you to understand..." Kana sneered back. She lifted Cedeile out of the books and pinned her against the wall. Kana picked a wooden stake off the floor and held in up in the air. "Consider this a personal message, heartblade master...DIE!" Kana jammed the stake through Cedeile shoulder and into the wall behind her Cedeile cried out in pain as blood flowed out of a new wound. Cedeile tried to summon the heartblade to her other hand. But it weakly appeared and then vanished in a weak glow of light. Kana smirked and jammed another stake into Cedeile's other shoulder. She cried out again, except this time her cry was weaker. "Only one thing left to do and that is to leave a stake in your heart..."Kana smirked, going back to her usual, girlish and 'innocent' self.
"Not so fast, Kana!" A voice yelled. Kana slowly turned to face a tall figure in the doorway dress in a cloak and holding a huge sword. Cedeile slowly opened one eye to look. The light behind the figure made it hard to see. The voice seemed famillar. Kana stood to face the new challenger.
"I thought I did you in already." Kana said.
"A fragment hunter does not go down so easily. I only pretended to be down and out." That voice...
"R...yu..."Cedeile choaked out in pain. Ryu looked over to her, finding it hard to recognize her under all the blood.
"Don't worry, Cedeile! I can take her."
"Give her...hell..." Cedeile whispered. Ryu smiled to himself and charged forward with his sword. Kana attempted to block him, but his attack was a sucess and he was rewarded with some black blood splashing on the floor. He smirked at the demon.
"Well well, would you look at that? It seems I've injured you ." Ryu said sarcasticly, trying to tick Kana off.
"That's it!" Kana yelled. "I've tried to hold back on you all, but you're really trying my patience!" The demon yelled, she extended her wings and claws. She dashed forward and Ryu got ready for his counter attack.
"Kana, stop!" a voice came from the shadows. Kana froze instantly, and planted her feet back on the ground. She looked over to the dark corner that the voice came from. Ryu looked as well, but Cedeile just listened, as she had no more energy left. "Kana, what do you think you're doing?" the voice asked as the figure emerged from the shadows.
"Oh, Lady Nabuki!" Kana gasped, throwing herself into a bow on the floor. Nabuki, however, kept her hard glare. Ryu watched in confusion.
"What are you doing, fool?" Nabuki asked in a stern voice. Ryu noticed that her voice didn't really fit the maturity of her apperance-it sounded like the voice of a child.
"I'm doing away with the heartblade master, my lady." Kana anwsered respectfully.
"Hardly. You can barely hold them off. And you're wasting time. Mallificent isn't the only one who wants this world to fall."
"I know. Don't worry, I already got rid of one of their friends, and as soon as these two are gone, that bastard Yuna will be dead. She's outside right now, laying in the rubble, waiting for me to finish with these two."
"No, she isn't you idiot. She escaped. And the magician isn't dead." Nabuki raised her eyes to Ryu. Ryu was shocked at her human looking dark brown eye. "Isn't that right, fragment hunter?"
"Y-yeah...Aru is just knocked out...not dead." Ryu replied nervously. Nabuki looked back down at Kana.
"You have failed miserably and I won't tolerate anymore." Kana looked up, her eyes begging.
"Please, Nabuki! I have come so close to killing the heartblade master for you! She's only clinging on to life by a thread! Please, just let me finish the fragment hunter off and they will all be dead. The magician is nothing, and Yuna will be too frighened all alone. Just-"
"Shut your mouth, wretch!" Nabuki yelled. "I've had enough of a half demon who cannot keep her promises!" Nabuki's index finger glowed blue and she aimed it right down at Kana, who looked up in fear.
"Oh no...please, not that..."
"To hell with you..."Nabuki said softly, and a flash of blue light filled the darkness. Ryu sheilded his eyes against the explosion and winced as her heard Kana's screams. The light faded and Kana lay limp on the floor, black blood oozing out of numerous gashes. Slowly, her body disentigrated into nothingness. Ryu looked slowly at Nabuki, who was...smiling.
"You..."Ryu got out. Nabuki smiled-a true, geniue smile of joy- and then disappeared. He stood in shock for a few moments and then looked over to the wall, where Cedeile was slumped up against. "Cedeile!" Ryu yelled as he ran over to her, dropping his sword. "Cedeile, are you alright? Cedeile? God, don't be dead!" Cedeile slowly opened her eyes and looked up at Ryu.
"Kana...she's..."she said softly.
"It's alright now Cedeile. Kana's dead."
"How cruel...to die like that...Nabuki, was it?"
"Yeah. Now hold on. I'm gonna pull these stakes out of you. It'll hurt but..." He placed his hands over one of them and tugged it out in a swift motion. Cedeile gasped in pain as it slid out. Ryu looked sick as blood spurted out.
"God..."he murmered before moving to the second one. It came out similarly to the first. Cedeile slumped forward now that nothing held her to the wall. Ryu caught her and held her gently. "Now hold on. Yuna told me to go to Book Tower when I found you...just hold on, okay..." he told her. Cedeile nodded. He grabbed his sword and placed it back in it's scabbard, then he lifted the blood soaked girl in his arms and walked out of the dark library.
6H: Oh, gruesome chapter, huh. Lot's of bloodshed. Don't worry, a whole little saga with Nabuki is the next challenge!
Anaretsu: YAY BLOODSHED!
6H:Oh, shut up, baka yami!
Anaretsu:No! You finally write a half-way decent chapter and I'm gonna celebrate!
6H: Y-you're complementing me?
Anaretsu: In a weird way...yes. But you still suck!
6H:Thanks alot...well, review!
