Gathering of the Fates
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
It was a sunny day on the coast, the sun beaming down on the people in the water, and those sun tanning. There was a little girl, only about 5 sitting in the car, watching the scenery and people fly by, listening to her mother's voice, "don't worry you ll make lots of new friends here, just like in the big city…." She was tuning her out, and just started out the window.
The car pulled up to the house, although it was not large, but homely, as her mother said, and hired moving men came and put their stuff into the house, "mom, can I go outside and play?" Marlena asked her mother, who gave a nod, and the child ran out the door, and took a deep breath of salt air, and started to wander along the coast. She looked to the sky, when she heard her mother's voice in the distance, "don't stay out after sundown." Marlena kept walking, picking up shells as she walked. She would walk to the water to wash off the shells, and continued on her way.
Rolling from the distant horizon, a sudden fog swept over the beach, and reduced Marlena's vision to almost nothing. She dropped her shells and looked around, only finding the mist of the fog. Wandering around for what seemed to be hours, Marlena thought her eyes were playing tricks on her when she saw a figure looming in the distance. She ran toward it, and came face to face with the shape. As she was running, another shadow appeared from her left, and they found their way through the mist. Marlena looked at the two other children, one was a boy and the other a girl. They looked at each other, confused, but the boy spoke. "I'm Zashi." Pointing to himself, the girl spoke up as well, "I'm Iris…" Marlena looked at the two of them and said, "I'm Marlena, I just moved here from the city."
Suddenly, the fog retreated back to the ocean, and the moon was hanging in the sky, "Oh no! I told my mom that I was going to be back by sundown!" Marlena waved a hand to the other kids and started running off to her house. She rushed home to apologize to her mother, and to tell the exciting news about her friends.
For the next 14 years, they would play together, laugh together, and grow up together, in the sleepy seaside town. What the of the children didn't see that night were the Heartless, looming in the mist, waiting for the perfect moment to take their world, but something had repelled them, keeping them at bay...