6H:PIZZA!

Anaretsu?

6H:I wanted to start off this new chapter with something new and exciting.

Anaretsu: I can tell it failed misserably.

6H: Hey!


Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 53-Cornered


Ryu was awkened by Mindy coming into the room bright and early the next morning. He had decided to sleep 'outside' on the lawn, because he found it more peaceful. But now he found out his plan backfired before Mindy found him right away.

"Here's the groom! Are you excited?" she asked him.

"Oh yes, I'm just bursting." he anwsred sarcasticly.

"Oh good! Now where's the bride?" Mindy looked down at the house as Risa sowly came out.

"I'm right here, Princess..." she said. Mindy picked her up carefully.

"The two of you will be very happy together!" she said, excited as if it were her birthday or something. She placed them back down on the ground and ran over to a trunk against the wall. She began digging through it.

'Now's my chance to run!' he thought. He made a dash for the house.

"What are you doing?" Risa asked him.

"No offense, but I really don't want to get married, even if it is just pretend."

"Why is it such a big deal?" she asked him.

"Two reasons. It goes against my family's teachings and I'm already in love with someone else..." Risa smiled at him.

"I see. I wish we could help. But everything is as Mindy wills it."

"Look, all of you treat her as if she were a god!"

"She is our god now. Her hand is the will which moves us through each day. And even though none of us like it and want to resist, we can't, because we want to live to see our families and friends again." The preacher said. Everyone agreed.

"If it makes you feel any better, Ryu, I don't want to go through with this either." Risa admitted nervously. "Is there anything we can do?"

"Yes, but you all have to follow my plan!"


Cedeile and Aru broke into the castle, ready for anything that was thrown at them. It was all the same- the usual hordes of heartless. Metalbodies rose to confront them, along with Minjors-mineing heartless armed with pick axes and shovels.

"Ready, Aru?"

"Ready! EARTH SHOCKWAVE!" Waves formed around a few of the minjors and up from them sprouted rocks, like fountains.

"HOLY PURIFICATION!" The cross of light wiped out two metalbodies.

"AQUA PILLAR!" Aru yelled out, making it around herself. From the inside she watched as the heartless came to attack her but were killed by the swirling waters. Cedeile took out the last few and the two ran up the stairs like they had the night before, except this time they were down one person.

At the top of the stairs, they were confronted by even more of the same. They stopped dead in their tracks, staring down their foes.

"What do we do now?" Cedeile asked.

"I'll take them out in one shot." Aru drew her hands in towards herself and squeezed in hard on air, as if pressing down the air itself. Suddenly, a small black hole formed. Aru raised it up above her, letting it grow before shooting it at the heartless. "GRAVITY!" It slammed into them and they all were eleminated. "It works like that on them because they are rock based. The gravity crushes them."

"Wow, Aru! Where'd you learn that one?"

"Donald taught it to me while we were in Atlantica. He didn't think I could master it, but boy was he wrong!" she laughed. The two stood outside the door to the room the doll house was kept.

"Well, this is it. Either we save everyone or go down fighting. You ready, Aru?"

"Yeah. I'm putting my trust in your plan, Cedeile."

"We'll use it on my signal." They proceeded to push open the doors.


Mindy had dressed up Risa in a white, sparkling dress for the 'celebration', and had set up a lovely garden wedding. Ryu stood next to the preacher under the white arch, still in his normal clothes.

'Too bad this party's going to be crashed.' he thought. Mindy placed Risa next to Ryu in front of the preacher. Mindy made the preacher say everything she had ever heard of that had to do with a wedding, which wasn't much that wasn't already well known.

"Okay! Now you have to kiss and eat cake!" Mindy exclaimed. Ryu looked at Risa with raised eyebrows.

'I'm not doing this.' he thought. Risa looked at him worriedly.

"I...can't do this..." he turned up to Mindy. "This is wrong! You're forceing us to live in this 'paradise' that you rule over. You make yourself a god over us, and keep us trapped here when we need to get back to our families and friends!" Mindy glared down at him.

"You're just my doll now! You have to do whatever I say!"

"Says you! Sorry princess, but I'm breaking the rules!" he said, drawing his sword. Mindy went down to grab him, but he jumped out of the way, running up her arm to her wrist. Her found the fragment and raised his sword above his head. "Let's get rid of fragment number one!" he yelled. Just as he was to strike down on it, he got smacked into the air and flew into a wall of the house, and then landed on the ground.

"Ryu!" Risa yelled. Ryu cracked open an eye.

"...Cedeile?" he murmered, thinking he saw her for a moment.

"Okay, this is where it ends, Mindy!" Ryu's eyes went wide as he pushed himself up and looked to the other side of the room. Aru and Cedeile stood there, Cedeile with the heartblade at the ready, and Aru looking like she was about to shoot of her Fira Shot spell.

"Well, well, well...I thought I taught you two a lesson yesterday." She stood and went to reach out for them.

"Aru, run!" Cedeile yelled. The two split up and went in oppisite directions. The magic hands broke through the doors instead, sending splitners of wood flying all over. The two girls postioned themselves on either side of the girl. "NOW!" Cedeile yelled.

"AQURA!' Aru yelled, sending water at her. Just as predicted, she blocked, but Cedeile jumped up in the air and came down, useing a purification spell. It hit dead on. Mindy cried out, recovering from the attack, when Aru cast a new spell.

"Fira Arc!" she yelled, running around her like planned.

"Holy purification!" Around and around they went, until Mindy was on her knees and fell over on the ground, fists clenched. The two girls stopped, looking at her prone form.

"Is that it?" Aru asked. Cedeile didn't dare to move. Suddenly, Mindy slowly lifted her head and glared at the two of them.

"How dare you! Why are you picking on me?" she whined at them angrily.

"Mindy, release all your captives now before I'm forced to hurt you worse than you already are!" Cedeile threatened.

"It's not fair! Why should they all get to have families and people that care about them that they can go home to at the end of the day and always hae near them? Why was my family torn away from me when I'm just a little kid! See all them! That's my family now! I'm keeping them forever!" she cried.

"Mindy, they all have friends and families who miss them, you know? And you have my friend, and I want him back. If you can understand what it's like to be apart from your family, then you can understand the kind of loneliness these people feel as you keep them locked up in there." Cedeile said. She reached out her hand for the girl. "So, what do you say?" Mindy looked at her hand for a moment and then glared at her.

"I say I'm not finished yet!" she yelled, standing up. From behind her the dollhouse began to emit a dark aura. All the people began to run from it as Ryu watched in change into a monster. The house served as the body, and long arms and legs came out of it. A crude looking face snarled at them. Cedeile took out her heartblade and got ready to strike. It brought one of it's huge arms down on her, put she jumped and began wacking at it hard. The places it hit erupted in light. Mindy was about to interfear, when Aru jumped in.

"Wooda!" The vines tangled up Mindy, so that she was lifted off the floor and her hands were kept apart. Aru walked over and pulled the fragments off her wrists.

"Hey! Those are mine!"

"Sorry, I'm taking them!" Aru said, sticking out her tounge at the girl. She sneered at the magician. "Cedeile! I have the fragments!"

"Good! Now let me take care of this freak and we can save the villagers!" She yelled. But in her distraction she got slamed into a wall.

"Cedeile, get up!" Ryu yelled. Cedeile looked down at him.

"Ryu?"

"Cedeile, make sure you defeat him, okay?" She nodded and flipped up in the air when the monster house struck down at her. She landed smoothly behind it and turned, flinging the heartblade at it.

"PURIFY TYPHOON!" she yelled as the spinning heartblade flew into the monster's shoulder. One of it's arms fell onto the ground. All the villagers cheered. Mindy looked in horror.

"No! Get stronger now!" she yelled at it. It stood back up again and regernated it's lost arm. Aru turned back to the girl.

"But how can you do that!" Aru exclaimed. Suddenly she got a horrible jolt and felt an evil aura hanging around the girl. 'She's being controlled! An evil force has taken over her mind and heart!' she thought. Cedeile got thrown on the ground again. The monster brought it's curved hands together and then produced a sword.

"Great. This thing makes it's own weapons." she murmered to herself. It struck down at her and cut into her side. She cried out in pain as blood stained her white shirt. She growled at the heartless and it's new weapon. She deicded to use her new attack again. "PURIFY TYPHOON!" she hurled the heartblade and it spun towards the beast. It deflected the attack with it's sword and threw it back at Cedeile, turning the purifying light into dark energy. It hit Cedeile at full force, sending her flying. Mindy laughed, and pulled on her bonds, breaking them. She snapped her fingers and the heartless came over and slashed it's sword at Aru. Besides getting a gash going up her arm, she escaped unharmed. She hid under some wreckage to regain some strength, but the door she was hiding behind was blasted to pieces. She ran to a chair and kneeled behind it. When the heartless came closer, she came out from behind it.

"FIRAGA SHOT!" she yelled. She sent several good sized fireballs at it in sucession. After a few minutes of rapid fire, she stopped, planning on surveying her damage. The smoked cleared and she gasped-the heartless fiend was unharmed. It made a black orb in it's hands and sent it down to the magician. Aru became trapped inside. The two fragments she had taken from Mindy fell out and onto the ground. The princess walked over and picked them up, placing them back on her wrists.

"My power returns at last!" she declared, and began laughed triumphantly. Energy swirled around the monster as it and Mindy began to increase their power from the fragments.

"Damn!" Cediele cursed, trying to think of a plan. She looked over at Aru, who was still trapped in the orb. She shot a beam of purifing light at it, but it bounced off and hit the ceiling. Cedeile cursed again. "Damn it! Now what the hell do I do?" Before she had much time to think, she got knocked off her feet and flew into the wall again.

"You should pay attension!" Mindy said, gripping her hands into fists. "Now my demon! Attack that girl!" she said to the heartless. It obeyed, moving towards her. It paused above her for a moment, and then blasted a darkness attack on her. She screamed in pain and tried to move, but her body refused.

"Cedeile! Come on, get up!" Ryu yelled, doubting she could hear him. "It's no use... there's nothing I can do..." Suddenly, he remembered something. He went into his cloak and took out the bottle that held the fragments in it. "That's it!" He popped off the cork and took out a handful of fragments. Closing the bottle up and shoving it back in his cloak, he took the fragments in his hand and pressed them against his sword. "Come on...work..." he growled at them. Suddenly, a light erupted from under his fingers and grew, pushing back his hand. His blade sparkled with a new light. "Just as I thought! When I was shrunk down, so were the fragments that were with me. And I have a hell of alot more than Mindy." The light grew brighter. "Cedeile, CATCH!" he flung his sword as hard as he could and it flew through the air and towards Cedeile. She spotted it and gripped it firmly in her hands as it grew to normal size. When the light dimmed out, the blade rested in her hands, the metal shining like never before.

"Ryu?"

"Listen to me, Cedeile. I've infused my sword with the power of the fragments! The doll house had fragments in it, I'm sure. That's why this monster is so strong! With the extra boost from the fragments you should be able to weaken that heartless enough to purify it! Do you understand?"

"What was not to understand in that statment, Ryu?"

"Hey, you never know with your stupidity levels..."

"Do you want me to save you or what?" she retorted, standing up. "If you do, then shut it." Mindy looked at her, aghast and stunned.

"You have fragments too? That's not fair!"

"Tell me, princess-how many fragments are in your possesion right now?"

"I have four. Why?" she asked, unsurely.

"HA HA! We have thirty six! That's ten times more than you! HA HA HA!" Ryu smacked his forehead. Risa looked at him curiously.

"I think she meant to say 'nine times', right?" she asked.

"No, she meant ten. It's how screwed up her brain is." he anwsered, exasperated at the heartblade master.

"I know my math better than you!" Mindy whined at her. "So I'm gonna win, even if you do have more fragments!" She yelled. The heartless moved for her, but Cedeile lept up, bringing Ryu's sword over her head. She slashed it downward, leaving a beam of light in it's path. The light was gold and sparkled like nothing any of them had seen before. It was an even stronger light than the heartblade gave. It cut off one of it's arms sucessfully and did some other major damage to it's HP. Cedeile rejoiced in her moment of glory, but didn't get long to celebrate as the creature turned behind itself and went to smack her with the other arm. Cedeile jumped away in time and rolled on the floor to regain her balance. Aru watched from her floating prison inbetween useing different spells on it. Ryu and the other villagers made their way over to her.

"Aru, what's with the dark orb thing?"

"Very funny, Ryu."

"Is there anyway we can get you out?" he asked. Aru thought for a moment.

"But you don't have any other weapons to use-"

"Rule number 1 of being a fragment hunter-always carry more weapons than what your enemy suspects you to have." he replied, pulling a plain silver sword from underneath his cloak.

"You have everything under there, don't you?"

"That's what I've been told. Everyone, get a weapon you can use to pop this bubble!" The miners picked up their shovels and other tools, and others grabbed wooden splinters from the doors. Ryu led them forward and they all began to slice and stab at Aru's prison.

Meanwhile, the battle between Mindy and Cedeile was not going well. The black haired girl was just barely dodging the attacks of the monster house and the assults from Mindy's magic hands. She ran from the monster as it chased her, but ran smack into something invisible. Mindy laughed.

"It ends here, heartblade master!" Cedeile turned in time to see the remaining of the monster's giant hands swing down on her.


6H: How was that?

Anaretsu: Bad.

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