6H:Alas, my friends, our story is coming close to the end.

Anaretsu: YAY!

6H: (glare) Anyway, there's only a few worlds left. The next one is a new world with many famillar faces...


Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 55-Broken Moon


The ship touched down on the cool rock and it's men emerged, working in the shadows of this dark place. The captain of the ship, Captian Hook, emerged from the cabin, survying his men. A figure followed him, waiting behind the man and staying still.

"Ah...a darkness like this I haven't seen in a long time..."the captain said.

"This is one our worlds...one that we took over?" the boy asked.

"Yes, it is. And no finer a place exisists in the galaxy. The perfect sinnister hideout...Hey, you over there! Get that cargo moving faster! We haven't got all night, you know!" he yelled.

"Yes sir, cap'n!" the man replied. Hook began to move about, watching the crew and making sure they didn't slip up.

"You over there! Get off yer bum and do something! And you-bring that crate to the hold. You there, cast the sails, and you, man the anchor! I don't want to spend too long here, if you know what I'm saying! Boy, you see the kind of work I put it? You have to be dedicated and hard working to be a captain of a fine pirate crew." The boy seemed unamused. "I believe I have to take this ship all the way to Hallow Bastion, correct, boy?"

"Yes. That is where Mallificent is waiting for us."

"Then we'll wait for the supplies to come and then head up for Hallow Bastion imdiaetly. It essential for us to get there as quickly as possible without being spotted." Hook jumped over a few crates, running to stand open the bow of the ship, and took out a golden telescope. After flipping it up in the air and catching it with ease, he extended it and looked up at the sky. "Ah, seems I need the lense replaced in this, otherwise, the moon is broken! Ha ha! Boy, I've never seen such a fantastic moon. It means good sailing to Hallow Bastion! If only these men would hurry it along! Smee! Come here!"

"Yes, cap'n?" the first mate replied, scurrying over to Hook.

"Can't you get these men to work faster? We don't have much time before we have to ship off. Even though this world is under our control, any one of those blasted masters could come here and disrupt our proceedings!"

"We're working as fast as we can, cap'n! The men have almost moved all the new freight into the hold." he replied.

"Well, Smee, almost isn't gettin us off this hunk of rock, now is it? And what are you doing jus' standin' here! Get to work!" Hook yelled, and Smee went scurrying off again. Soon, all the crates had been moved below deck. The crew released the sails and were about ready to cast off.

"Hook, hold on a minute!" the boy called. Hook, who was standing by the ship's wheel, looked down to the main deck, where the boy stood.

"What is it, lad?"

"I'm going to stay here for a while. I have a feeling something big is going to happen. One of the masters might come...anyway, I'll make it to Hallow Bastion on my own, okay?"

"Lad, I had strict orders to bring you to Hallow Bastion!" Hook called to him.

"I know. But I can't lose this chance."

"Fine. But I'm not comin to pick up yer remains!" The boy nodded and walked off the ship's ramp and onto the firm solid ground. "And what about yer girl?"

"Mallificent will know what to do with her, okay?" The boy said, just glareing at the ship from the corner of his eye. Without another word, the ship pushed off, rising into the sky with brillance. It soared towards the blue moon hanging in the sky above, and boy thought, for a moment, it really did look like the moon was broken.


Mallificent shooed away the image before her of the heartblade master and her friends with her hand. The projector went blank. The leader of the heartless looked to the darkest corner of the room, sneering.

"Still leeching off other people's darkness, aren't you?" she asked the hooded figure.

"You speak so lowly of me. You wouldn't even have gotton this far if I hadn't stepped in to help. You're down to your last few lackies. Few worlds are under your control, you know."

"I am aware. But there is nothing you control, save for one lonely boy. And he is not even aware you are killing him off slowly..." The figured laughed.

"Huh. I am close to devouring another heart, and gaining a new body of which to work with. But he still remains stubborn. But, you shouldn't talk. Must I remind you of Lady Chain, your mask monster, Kana, Nabuki, Ursula, Boogie, Hades, Jafar and the others who are now gone for good because of your poor planning? Besides, the two masters are too brainless to find the roses, anyway. Even if we lose the princesses, their roses are already ours. At least...six of them are."

"When the last girl gets here I will make sure the white rose becomes ours! She is just a lifeless shell now. It shouldn't be too hard."

"True, Mallificent...but are you really sure the last rose rests within her heart?" The witch looked back at him curiously.

"What do you mean?" she asked, confused. "If she is the seventh princess, than she must have the white rose! I haven't been ignoring you the enitre time, have I? You said that within the princesses' hearts are the seven roses!"

"I know that, and that has been proven over and over. But there is only one rose for each princess, and the only way the princess receives it is if the princess before her passes down her rose."

"So what? What does that have to do with the white rose?"

"What if the last princess of the white rose never passed hers down? What if she was unable to?" the hooded man asked. "As in, what if she never 'died' persay-she might have ceased to exist as a normal human, but what if she was still somewhat alive?"

"That is nonsense, and you know it! According to your research, the last seventh princess died 500 years ago."

"That is what I thought, but now...I have reason to believe she still lives- and her heart is well and good, very much so. And it's right next to one of the masters..." Mallificent turned to face him. Her raven fluttered down and landed on her shoulder.

"You forget that you've fallen from your place. It is I who lead the heartless now!" Her raven spred out one of it's wings, making Mallificent look like a fallen angel. "You are nothing more than a broken shell of a man who created the essence of darkness to get you to rakuen(1) and failed so that your body was ripped to shreds. What do you have now?"

"Rakuen isn't completely out of my reach, even now!" he declared. "I will find a way there, and the seventh princess will take me there! I'm only a hairbreath away, that's how close I am to apotheosis!(2) Soon, I will be enraputred in darkness!" Mallificent grinned softly.

"I see...is that so? Seems that you may have lost your heart, but you haven't lost those silly, human desires. You could never make it...you have too much...light in you." She almost seemed to flinch at the word. "Is this the product of what you did to yourself many years ago?" The empty darkness under the man's hood didn't anwser her. "I see. Well, then, we can at least start something with the six roses we have now, can't we?" She walked over to a glass sphere, in which there floated six roses in a circle. One was red, one was orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, and one violet. It was like a rainbow in this cold dark place. "A great power has already begun to form here, you see? Even if we don't obtain the seventh rose..."

"We MUST get it! It's power will activate the others! Even though the princesses are in our hands, their hearts still have a hold over their roses. But if all seven were to unite here, then their hearts would not be able to contain the great power. The white rose has the most power of all."

"Yes, it seems proper that you would know of the seventh rose so well." The hooded figure took a step back.

"I have NOTHING for that girl." he said. "If she weren't so important, I would get rid of her now."

"But she is needed to complete the keyhole. You wouldn't want rakuen to slip away from you, now would you?" He remained silent. "I thought so." she sneered, touching the impenitrable glass that imprisoned the roses. "It will all come in due time. For now, you can just settle for feeding off a boy." The hooded man clenched his teeth in rage, but simply walked away from her. The witch smiled to herself and stroked her raven. "Yes...everything is almost complete. The only thing that could put me in a better mood is the blood of the masters..."


Back in Traverse Town, the trio had deicded to hang out at Cid's shop, where they found Yuffie, Leon, and Cid waiting for them. Aerith soon came later with a basket of many goodies. Being completely starved from their last battle, Cedeile, Ryu and Aru ate gratefully...maybe Cedeile a little more than the others.

"So, a little girl used the power of the fragments..." Leon said in wonder. " I guess I underestimated their importance a bit."

"It was rough. Being one of her 'dolls' was boring! I had nothing to do while trapped in that house!" Ryu said. "However, it was the hooden figure that bothers me. Why would he give a princess who's barely six a cursed doll house to turn people into her play things? What was he trying to gain?" he thought.

"Sounds like trouble ta me." Cid said, leaning on the counter he stood behind. Yuffie took a bite out of her sandwhich and chewed in thought.

"Maybe he's with the heartless." she said with a half full mouth.

"Hmphf mpft uhgm num!" Cedeile said with her mouth full, making bits of bread fly everywhere when she spoke.

"Cedeile!" Ryu hit her in the back of her head. She swallowed hard and rubbed the new sore spot.

"I said-'He was on my island!' And he knew that I was going to be the heartblade master! The next day, the whole world disappears off the maps in the blink of an eye and my whole world gets thrown upside down!"

"I thought it disappeared." Ryu said sarcasticly.

"That doesn't matter." Aru broke in. "Maybe he wasn't with the heartless, but a new enemy all together!" Everyone went silent.

"That would be a serious problem. We know of the heartless, but another enemy? And we hardly know anything of them. The same goes for the heartless." Aerith said.

"Hey! When I first got here, you told me all that crap about the heartless, and now you're saying you hardly know anything?" Cedeile exclaimed.

"What I told was all we knew. And it was all from experience..." Leon said.

"Seven years ago..." Cid said randomly. Cedeile nd Aru looked at their friends, confused. But Ryu knew the significance.

"That's when your world got taken over, right?" The four looked at him, surprised.

"How did you know?" Leon demanded. Ryu looked over to him.

"Yuna told me back in Book City." he replied. Leon's eyes went wide.

"Yuna? That little angel?" Yuffie asked, tearing up. "We thought she got killed when Braska got seperated from us to look for Lulu. We never did see them again."

"So she's okay? And Braska, what of him?" Aerith begged of the three.

"Tifa...she died at Book City. She was alive when we got there...she died in battle." Aru said unsurly, looking at Cedeile, who turned away. Aru wasn't about to say the reason why Tifa died.

"And here's another thing-Braska's not so good as you thought he was. He fell in love with a demon and had a kid with her. The half demon girl was named Kana." Leon nearly gasped out, but instead, hung his head.

"I killed her Leon! "

'Nabuki...'

"So, the mother dies and he's left with this cursed child he doesn't want. Apparently, he found some way to Book City and tried to kill her by pushing her off Book Mountain. He thought it worked, so he married another woman and had a new family, erasing his past. But Kana lived and sought vengence on her father, so when he came to Book City with Tifa and Yuna, she took over Book Mountain. Then she teamed up with the heartless and killed off everyone, inculding her father, who became High Book Master, I might add. Tifa and Yuna were the only ones left. Her goal was to get rid of Yuna and completely erase every trail left by Braska. Thankfully, she didn't suceed with her plan. The bad news is Yuna's the only one left to protect Book City." Everyone, excluding Leon, was stunned. Aerith held a hand over her mouth.

"Ya mean Braska...was a dirt bag?" Cid asked. "He was one of the most just and honest people I have ever known. He was really wise and noble...I don't believe he woulda done all that."

"Kana said it herself. She used to live in the same world as you guys." Ryu said.

"When did you find all this out?" Cedeile demanded.

"When you were out cold from your injuries. Yuna and I had to talk about something, and the whole thing was really on my mind. It bothered me, you know? That a father would want his child dead."

"I refuse ta believe it!" Cid said, banging a fist on the counter. "Braska was my friend, and I'll be damned if he lied to all of us about his past!"

"Cid, come on! If Yuna said it-!"

"You can't trust a half demon to tell ya the truth! She must've made it all up ta trick ya!" Cid aruged loudly.

"Kana was crying that day!" Cedeile yelled back, standing up. "She was crying when she told me about her father trying to kill her!"

"She musta faked somehow! I-!"

"STOP IT ALL OF YOU!" Leon yelled. They all looked over to where he sat, head down, long hair blocking his face.

"Leon..." Yuffie whimpered.

"It's the truth. I'd know it better than all of you."

"How's that, kid?" Cid said, doubtfully.

"Because...Kana was my friend when I was a really little kid. She told me her dad started to hate her, and then one day she disappeared for good and I never saw her again." he growled. He stood up and swiftly left the shop.

"Leon! Come back!" Yuffie called, going to run after him.

"It's no use, kid. He needs to be alone now..." Cid said to her. She looked back at the shopkeeper, unsure.

"Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to say everything I knew." Ryu said, shaking his head. Cedeile gulped down another sandwhich.

"No, it was the right thing. Perhaps we needed to know that." Aerith said, reasuring him. Cid sighed, leaning against the wall.

"Well, if you're looking to stop the heartless and Mallificent, you should head to Hallow Bastion now."

"Now? It still feels like we have alot more work to do." Cedeile said, confused.

"Yeah, but recently there was an increase in heartless activity and power. Plus, I checked out yer radar in yer ship there, and found that the world had appeared. Your close to it now. It's in the west-the Land of Death." he replied, chewing on the toothpick in his mouth.

"It's dangerous there, you know. The heartless there are strongest, and it's Mallificent's main hang out." Yuffie told them. "But Sora's definetly heading there. You'll probably meet there or along the way."

"Please be careful there too. I wouldn't want something bad to happen to you." Aerith begged.

"Don't worry! We've been through alot of crud, but we can handle anything, right guys?" Aru and Ryu nodded in agreement.

"If we want to meet Sora there, we should head out now." Ryu said, lifting himself off the couch. Aru follwed suit.

"I guess you're right. Heh. We'll see you guys later, after we get rid of Mallificent once and for all! Thanks for the great food, Aerith!" Cedeile ran to catch up to the guys, who waited by the door for her.

"See you later." Aru said.

"Yeah, later." Ryu replied. The three pushed the door open and went out into the night. The doors came closed and the shop seemed very quiet without them here.

"Well, girls, are you going to head home?" Cid asked.

"Yes. It's about time we got back anyway. Are you ready, Yuffie?" Areith asked, standing up with her basket.

"Oh, I'm coming!" she said. "What about you, Cid?"

"I'm gonna close up the shop. You make it back safe, okay?"

"Sure thing." Yuffie replied. The two left and now everything was silent. Cid stood there, not sure of what to do. So, he found himself remembering that horrid day seven years ago.


6H:End of chapter!

Anaretsu: yay. SNORE!

6H: Aren't things getting interesting? Believe me, your KH world will be flipped upside down once I get finished with this story. And after this one are two more! At least! But you'll love it! It's nothing bad, I swear!

Anaretsu: It's just sucky, that's all.

6H:SHUT UP! Oh, and my footnotes too!

(1) Rakuen is the japanese word for 'paradise'

(2)apotheosis-raising to a divine rank or to the rank of a god