6H:Time for chapter 63!

Anaretsu:...well this sucks.

6H: Remember Mallificent the dragon? Remember how annoying it was to beat? Now you get to relive it all...heh heh...


Kingdom Hearts-Shattered Fragments

Fragment 63- Turn Over


"Ansem? That dude who was studying the heartless and was supposed to be this great king and all? That's you?" Cedeile asked, amazed. "Then why would you be evil?"

"Quiet, girl! It seems Mallificent isn't entirly dead yet. I shall go and give her an option she can't refuse. An option that the boy couldn't refuse..." In his hand appeared a black keyblade with red handle. Cedeile gasped in shock, but he payed no heed to it. "You better not try and escape, my precious mockingbird. I shall return as soon as I have finished off Mallificent..." and with that, he was gone.

'Great. I'm stuck here with a dead Kairi. Similar to the end of Destiny Islands. In situations like these, there's only one thing to do!' she thought. "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..."


They found themselves in the chapel, the sunlight coming in and illuminating the place. It had deteorated beyond recognition as a chapel. The walls had crumbled away in some places. The roof was half gone. Mallificent staggered away from them, panting and gasping like an old man. Riku appeared behind her.

"You wish for more power, don't you?" he asked. Sora's eyes widened at what rested in his friend's hand.

"Is that a-?" he got out before Riku continued.

"This is a keyblade of darkness that opens peoples hearts." he said, not really to Sora and the others, and not really to Mallificent either. He raised it up in the air, and then jammed in into Mallificent's vile and twisted heart. "Come! Receive true power! Open your heart to darkness!" Green flames burst up around her, empowering her with a force she had never felt.

"Do you feel that, Donald? That huge, tremendous force that carries nothing but the essence of hell along with it and leaves silence in it's wake. What terrible power." Aru said to her rivial magician. Donald could only nod, he too being overwhelmed by darkness.

"I don't even have any magic in me and I can feel that power. It's that blasted keyblade." Ryu muttered under his breath. Sora's own keyblade pulsated again.

'That other heart I keep feeling. I felt it when I lost the keyblade to Riku, then when we fought over the keyblade, and now I feel it again. It's almost like it's in pain...' he though in his mind as the feeling still lingered in his fingers.

"Ahh! The power of true darkness!" Mallificent exclaimed as Riku removed the keyblade from her. Smirking, he disappeared into the darkness again. Mallificent burst into huge flames and the flames grew to tower over them. The flames then cleared away and revealed a huge, black dragon.

"Hey Ryu! It's one of your cousins!" Goofy exclaimed.

"Shut your mouth." Ryu growled, restraining himself from hitting anyone. Aru and Sora snickered in spite of themselves, and then they all got prepared for battle. They charged at the creature's front legs, but didn't seem to be doing any damage. Ryu thrust his sword into the dragon's underside, but was nearly crushed. As he slid out from under the beast, he felt something in his arm crack. As he got up, his feelings of dread had been confirmed-he'd broken his arm. "Damn it!" he exclaimed as he had to dodge a thunder bolt. Aru stood a small distance away, searching the dragon for a weak point.

"Come on...come on..." she urged herself. Finally she found it. "Sora! The head!" she yelled to the keyblade master.

"Thank's Aru!" He said as he dodge an assult from it's jaws and tried to jump high enough to land a hit. Ryu stood up and went in to help but the dragon turned to him and caught him in it's evil, golden eyes. He suddenly froze, unable to move. His sword slipped out of his hands and clanged onto the ground. His navy eyes were peiced with unexplainable fear.

"Ryu? Are you okay?" Aru asked him from where she knelt. He didn't respond. The dragon opened it's mouth and out came a black mist. The mist slowly blew towards him, and he didn't even attempt to move.

"Ryu! Move now!" Sora yelled. There was no response. Instead, the mist engulfed him, and then disapated. He was gone. The dragon didn't let them be shocked for long, for it began it's brutal assualt soon after. However, none of them could shake off the feeling that the fragment hunter was in real danger.


When Ryu could see again, he felt his body unfreeze itself. He bent down to retrieve his sword and held it in front of him. It was strange, but for a moment, in that dragon's foul eyes, he saw something he had hoped never to see again-the bloody corspe of his brother. He would never be able to erase that image from his mind. Shaking his head, he tried to push it from his mind for now. The sound of footsteps came to his attension. He turned in the direction they were coming from and watched as a figure suddenly came into view.

Blood...death...destruction...

"Who's there?" he asked sharply.

"Ryu...did you forget me already?" a voice replied. The figure came into view and he dropped his sword, hardly being able to speak the name of the girl in front of him.

"...Cedeile?"


"36 bottles of beer on the wall, 36 bottles of beer! You take one down, pass it around, 35 bottles of beer on the wall. Come on Kairi, join me! Oh right...you're kind of...dead or something." Cedeile said to the sleeping girl. "This is boring...where did Ansem go, anyway? I wonder what he was going to do to Mallificent."

"That is none of your concern, child..." Riku returned through a portal simillar to that which he left through. "But be assured that it will stop the keyblade master in his tracks." he sneered at her.

"Yeah right. Sora is stronger than that. And besides, he's got Ryu with him, and Ryu would never give up, no matter what! Ryu is strong...he won't let Sora quit."

"Ah...you put alot of faith in this Ryu...is he someone important to you?" Riku asked her, looking at her from the corners of his eyes and smiling slyly. Cedeile slightly blushed.

"N-no! He's my friend is all...nothing more...he's helped me out alot. I guess he sort of believes in me..."

"You're thinking about him, and no doubt hoping he'll come to your resuce." Cedeile was about to interupt him, but he went on. "However, I don't think you'll ever be seeing him again. Mallificent is getting rid of him in a very...special way, we'll call it...it'll break his soul and he will die. Why don't you watch the fate of your precious fragment hunter?" He snapped his fingers, and a mirror appeared in front of her. In it ,she saw Ryu standing in some dark place. But he was't alone.

"Wait! That's me! How is that possible?"

"It's a copy of you. Mallificent is using her magic. She will destroy him with what he cares about most."

"Are you nuts? Ryu and me aren't like together or anything like that! We're just friends! Hello, are you listening to me? You, guy in the skirt, hello!" she yelled at him, but he ignored her, watching the mirror. She looked up and watched to, able to hear every word that was spoken.


"I was looking for you! Are you okay? Riku didn't do anything to you, did he?" Ryu asked, glad to see his friend again.

"No I'm fine, Ryu. I'm glad you came to save me." she responded.

"What happened to Riku?"

"He ran off somewhere. I'm not sure where, though..."She looked off to the side. "Maybe he left Hallow Bastion..."

"Maybe. Do you know where we are, Cedeile? One mintue I was with Sora and them, fighting Mallificent, and then the next I'm here with you in this darkness..." He looked around, seeing if there was anything else in this space. "Anyway, we should try and leave here. It's not safe, and we need to help the others." he went to grab her wrist, but she pulled away.

Cold...darkness...endless chaos...

"I'm not going, Ryu!" she said. He looked at her, confused.

"Why not?" he asked.

"I'm tired of all the fighting. I'm tired of having to worry about everyone else. Right now, I just wanna think about me and relax. No more fighting the heartless, no more blood, no more watching people get killed because of me, and no more fighting Riku!" she yelled.

"Cedeile, I know it's hard for you, but all those things are nessicary components needed to fulfill your mission. If you don't fight, then then heartless will take over everything and there will only be darkness left." Ryu told her.

"But wouldn't it be better if everything was neverending darkness?" she asked. Ryu stepped away from her. Suddenly, everything felt much colder.

"What do you mean?"

"The light, even though it's beautiful, is harsh and cruel to all who wish to be apart of it. The darkness, however, is cold and unchanging. It is not easily swayed, and is deep...very deep...a comforting depth that you just want to sleep in forever. But I don't just want to be alone in this darkness. I want to share it with you..."


"Now hold it! I would NEVER say anything THAT lame! This is one bad copy you made of me. Ryu would never buy it!" Cedeile yelled at Riku, who kept his back turned to her while he watched.

"It's not meant to be accurate. It's meant to tempt the boy. Now hush and watch the show..." he told her.


"Cedeile..." he said softly. He walked up to her and hesitantly put his arms around her, holding her tightly. She gripped the back of his cloak. "Honestly, I don't know what to say to you. I want to be with you here, but you need to fight. What about finding the fragments?"

"No. It only brings pain. There is no pain in the darkness. Aren't you hurting? Your brother is dead...and you feel like it's all your fault. If you stay with me in the darkness, then there will be no pain, only emptyness..." she told him. He felt himself drifting in and out a conciousness, and it seemed like there was some sort of scent in the air that was making him drowsy. He sighed contently.

Emptiness, endlessness...blood everywhere...

"I missed you. I was so worried about what had happened to you...now, I just don't want to let go of you..." The real Cedeile watched all this in awe, and then let a few tears fall for her friend. She wanted so badly to be able to burst through the mirror and snap Ryu out of it. She wanted to destroy the fake image of her. And, maybe just a tiny bit, she wanted to be that fake Cedeile...

"Ryu, you need to rest. Isn't your arm broken? If you rest, the pain will go away..."

"Alright..." he agreed, already feeling like he was asleep. He felt like nothing mattered anymore, and one by one, he let everything drift away from him and released all his burdens. He was losing control of himself, and in the back of his head, being covered by darkness, was voice that was yelling at him to snap out of it and that something wasn't right. But he didn't care anymore, he just wanted to stay like this for awhile.

Blood was everywhere, it covered his hands. But it wasn't his blood...

He winced and tensed up, but Cedeile whispered to him gentlely to calm him and he felt relaxed again, like he was losing himself. An eturnity in darkness didn't sound so bad...

'What am I doing? No, just shut up. Just let everything fall away and empty yourself of everything...this doesn't seemright.Or does it? I don't know...I just want to be here with Cedeile...'

The fake Cedeile smirked and slightly released the grip on the back of his cloak to let sharp nails extend from her fingers. He was so out of it right now that he would fall easily to her. She dug them into his back, jamming them into his skin. Ryu's eyes snapped open as the pain came over him. He felt blood drip down his back.

Blood...pain...the stench of death...

"Cedeile?" He looked down at her, only to be gripped tighter in her grasp. He yelled out in pain, clenching his eyes shut. "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing's wrong with me..."she replied, her voice deeper.

"You're...not Cedeile!" he exlcaimed.

Dying...someone was dying...

"Ryosuke! Promise me!"

"My, aren't you a smart one?" taunted the fake. He pushed her away and she staggered back. "That's funny. You said you didn't want to let go of me." she laughed at him.

"Well, my arms were cramping..."he retorted. The fake Cedeile shed her diguise and appeared before him a twisted, black demon with several mishapened legs and red, peircing eyes. The heartless symbol had been emblazoned on it's back. "It's figures...you're one of those damn heartless. You think if you pretend to be Cedeile you'll get me to spill out my soul and use it to destroy me. I'm not afraid to kill you..."

"Not only that! I've taken something from you. Do you know what it is?" it asked him. He thought for a moment. "Give up? I've stolen the one most important thing from you that you've had since you were a child." Ryu's navy eyes went wide.

"You stole my memory of my brother, Seiki, didn't you!" he yelled. The heartless laughed at him.

"Indeed I did. But isn't it better to let the pain go away forever. But, it was the bond that kept you tied to your mission, wasn't it?"

"You bastard. I'm going to kill you!"

"Are you sure you want to do that?" Before the monter appeared Cedeile again, her long nails the same ones that pierced his back. The spider like heartless grabbed her with one of its long legs and clenched her tightly. "I didn't lie to you-I was Cedeile. This form I hold here represents my former self before I became a heartless."

"Cedeile...no..."

"Yes, it is I, Ryu. The former heartblade master. You weren't quick enough."

Blood...a hand reaching out...a promise...

"You batard..."

"If you kill me, you kill me for good. I won't be coming back if you destroy me. Only Riku can undo what has been done."

"Ryu it's not true!" Cedeile yelled from her captive postion, able to see everything as it unfolded. "I'm right here, Ryu! Don't listen to that twisted monster!"

"Quiet! You'll miss the show..." Riku said slyly.

"You creep! You're going to kill him by sicking this heartless on him!" she spat at him. He didn't move, but only watched with intrigue at the scene in the mirror.

"Silly boy." Riku said. "He thinks that's the truth."

"So it is a lie. You're telling him nothing but lies!" Cedeile yelled. Ryu glared at the heartless.

"You have two options, Ryu...destory me to save yourself..."-it gripped the image of Cedeile tighter, and she whimpered-" and kill Cedeile for good, or be destroyed by the one you held so dear..." Ryu glared at the monter and looked to Cedeile.

"Promise me you'll gather all the fragments and be the best fragemnt hunter ever..."

"I promise! I promise, Seiki!"

'I promise...Seiki...Cedeile...' He smirked and looked back up at the heartless, It was taken back by his expression.

"Save it, bastard. The real Cedeile would never say such lame things as you did back there. 'I want to share this darkness with you, Ryu...'" He mocked. Cedeile cheered, watching his speech in the mirror. Riku glared at the boy.

'Hmm...maybe he isn't so easy to break...' Riku thought.


Suddenly, the dark mist came back and Ryu popped out of it, his back covered in blood. Everything stopped, inculding the dragon's attacks.

"Ryu? Are you alright? What happened?" Aru asked.

"Yeah. Where did you go?" Sora added. Ryu shook his head and got up, supporting himself with his sword.

"Long story. I'll tell you later, but right now, we've got a dragon to finish off!" They all faced the dragon and unleashed a slew of attacks on it. After a long struggle, it fell to the ground and erupted in a fury of green flames. The gang ran out of the chapel to avoid the blaze and went back through the portal. As the flames cleared, a hooded figure stepped appeared.

"That boy looked like...him..."


6H:HA HA HA! another chapter completed!

Anaretsu: whatever...

6H:Anyway, you know what comes next! Sora versus Riku for the last time! And a disaster happens!