Fragile
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Marlena took a step back, saying, "there's no way Cloud could loose to you…" Anti-Sora grinned and gave a menacing laugh, "They are truly even, both in strength and in mind, but he is still trapped in a illusion." Marlena repeated to herself what he had said, then turned to Zashi, "Zashi we need to get out of here! Don't you remember the game? Ansem is evil!" He did nothing, with the exception of a quick wink; he stood still like a statue. Marlena caught his drift, and fell into her attack stance again, with her key blade out in front of her, looking over the man with the angel wing, she said, "so is he an illusion too? Or the real thing?"
Within a split second, her key blade clashed with the massive katana, and she jumped back, reeling from what had just happened. "He moves so fast…I can't even see him!" The man grew a long grin on his face, and vanished again, and again there was a clang, but it was not her key blade that defended herself, it was Cloud! "Sephiroth…I thought you were done for in our last bout." Cloud said, glaring at Sephiroth, who stood and said, "Remember we are equal, and no mortal can match our strength." With that, they both vanished, with constant, large clangs of steel against steel, and blurred images of the two flying around the room, trying to deal a swift blow to the other.
While watching Cloud and Sephiroth fight, Marlena ran toward Zashi, but was stopped by Anti-Sora appearing in front of her saying, "If you want your friend back, you will have to defeat me!" She tried to swing at him, but it flew right through him, like mist. Anti-Sora held out his left hand and created a key blade, which was identical to Marlena's except it was black. Rushing toward him, her key blade clanged against Anti-Sora's, Marlena swung the key blade low, trying to trip him, but it was no use, it left her wide open to his key blade, and she was sent flying back, about four feet from him. "Realize that your resistance is useless, you are not the real key blade master." Marlena got to her feet, and flung her key blade at him, making it spin rapidly, however he dodged it, but did not expect a second throw, and faster than the first. It knocked him to the ground, running past the heartless, Ansem turned around, grinning saying, "Dear child, you cannot defeat the Darkness, it will consume you." Just then, his eyes went wide, and he slowly turned around, to find Zashi with a key blade, "you think you can harm me?" He gave a menacing laugh as Marlena tried to swing at Ansem with her key blade, but is was blocked by a massive heartless molding behind him.
Marlena looked at the massive heart-shaped gate and shouted to Zashi, "we have to go into darkness to defeat Ansem!" Zashi took his attention away from Ansem and started running toward her, but a hand fell on his shoulder, he turned around to see Ansem! "Don't worry, this wont hurt you at all!" With that, he passed into Zashi, who turned black and fell to his knees. He clutched his head in his hands, and started screaming at the top of his lungs, making everybody stop; moving his hands away from his head, he slowly rose to his feet. Lifting his head, his hair had now turned into dark gray, and his eyes were now a eerie dark green and his voice had now blended with Ansem's.
"You are a fool to try and stop the Darkness, it will consume all!" Turning to Marlena, he now had darkness extending from his joints and fingers, his clothes turned into a dull grey, and a heartless symbol appeared on his chest. "ZASHI! YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT HIM!" Marlena shouted, lifting his right hand, he tried to reach her, but instead a small light started to shine from Marlena's hand, then it drifted across the room, and into Zashi's hand, closing his hand, he looked up to her, with a grin on his face "I am the rightful key blade master, remember you were just the carrier." Turning away from her, he looked at Anti-Sora, he started to walk toward him, saying, "You are now worthless to me." With that, he waived his arms, and a small heart came from the darkness, which it looked at, then it faded to dust, holding the heart in his hand, he turned to Marlena, saying, "The heart is a fragile thing. It can be broken with a single action, or even something as simple as a word. It is weak." Crushing the heart in his hand, he pushed Marlena away from the portal, and walked right through, into the darkness. "ZASHI!" She shouted, banging her fists against the portal, trying to force her way in. Trying to summon her key blade, she realized that it was gone, taken by Zashi.
Defeated, she sat down on the steps and put her hands to cover her face and started to cry. Her tears fell like rain and she couldn't stop.