Awakening of Power

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Iris…Iris… A voice called to her, she turned in her makeshift bed, and sat straight up. "ZASHI!" she cried, with her eyes wide open, and her breathing heavy, she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked, there was a teenager, with white hair, and a black blindfold over his eyes, and also a hooded black cloak over his body. "Where am I?" she whispered to herself, holding her head in her hands, "Your safe with us…don't worry." The teen said next to her, he lifted her up to her feet and she looked around the room. It was a massive room, with candles all around, giving light to the majestic paintings on the walls. "This is the Castle Oblivion, you can stay as long as you like…" Iris got off of the bed and wandered around, taking in the sight of the white marble walls, and the gold candleholders, she turned to the blindfolded teen and asked in a squeak, "do you know what happened to Zashi?"

He turned away from her and simply said, "he has fallen into darkness…" Iris looked at him confused, "into darkness?…" He turned around, and started to walk out of the room, he motioned for her to follow; they passed a narrow hallway, and up a flight of stairs into another room. This room was very plain compared to the other; it had columns in the four corners and a glass ball in the center, on a pedestal.

"From here, we can see all worlds…" he waved a hand over the ball, and darkness swirled around inside, then it came to an image: Zashi. Iris cried out his name, but he did nothing, then from the left side of the sphere, came another person: Anti-Sora. "This…abomination has control of your friend, if you want to save him, you need the power of the Unknown to free him." Iris lowered her head, and her eyes shifted back and fourth in thought, there was someone else…what was her name? I spent the night at her house and we played Kingdom Hearts until 1'oclock! What was her name? "How come I can't remember?" she whispered to herself, then the blindfolded teen spoke, "inside Castle Oblivion, you loose your memory, its only little things at first, then its people, then… You forget yourself." She looked at him with fear in her eyes, "all my memories?" He simply nodded, and then another voice came, "there is great power in forgetting." They turned to see another man with a black cloak, with yellow and blue symbols painted across his cloak, and a red mask.

"Allow me to introduce myself, I am DiZ, I keep watch over the Unknown, which they sometimes get out of…control." Offering her a hand to shake, she took it, and then she looked into his eyes, which were a beady orange. She turned away slightly, back to the blindfolded Unknown, and said, "If I become a Unknown…Will I keep all of my memory?" "No…you will only get to keep a partial memory, Unknowns travel the road between light and dark, keeping the balance. In return, they must give their memory of their former self." Iris turned back to DiZ and said, "I want the power to save Zashi from the darkness…I want to become an Unknown." He nodded his head and said, "very well," and he raised his hands, and light shot from one hand, and darkness shot from another at Iris, and a brilliant flash of grey pulsed from her.

She moved her head in her own black cloak, first to DiZ, then to the blindfolded boy, then her hand came to her neck, and felt her necklace, given to her by Zashi. Zashi…I've gained power, but will you attack me when you see me in person because of what you've become?