Beginning of the End
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Holding the heart blade in her hand, Marlena stared out the window, into space thinking, "Who was that…I know it was an Unknown…but which one?" Cloud looked at her and stated, "the heart blade is evil…It can unlock hearts, revealing their true nature." Marlena looked at him, "true nature?" but her mind raced back to the game, where they fought Maleficent, when Riku had used it on her to change her into a dragon. Cloud put his attention back to flying the ship, and Marlena resumed staring out the window when she noticed something: The stars were blinking out. "Cloud look!" she said, pointing out the window, he looked, and saw the stars steadily vanish in front of his eyes. A bead of sweat ran down Cloud's face, and put his attention back to flying, saying, "Ansem has gained a lot of power from taking over your friend. I've never seen the stars disappear so fast…"
Reaching Traverse Town, they walked past the large wooden double doors, only to find Heartless running amok of the city. Large heartless with small wings, equipped with large swords were hacking and slashing their way through, leaving none behind; Cloud and Marlena sprung into action, running to the closest one; Cloud slashed the creature, but the blade went right through, like it was nothing. He took a step back, and looked to Marlena, who had her blade locked with the heartless, trying to gain an advantage, she kicked the heartless away, but it flew toward her knocking her flat on her back. She tried to get up, but the heartless had already put its foot on her chest, making her breathing short, she tried to gasp for air, but the heartless only put more weight onto her, she stabbed the heartless in the chest, it looked at the heart blade oddly, and vanished, leaving behind a glowing heart. Marlena got to her feet, and looked around, many of the heartless were still attacking the citizens, but she felt something coming from behind; she whipped the heart blade around, and it clanged against Cloud's sword. "I can't harm them…My weapons are useless…" Marlena looked at him, "well…get everyone out of here. I'll try and take them." Cloud put a hand on her shoulder, but she pushed it off and ran toward the next heartless she saw.
"I won't let this world be taken by the Heartless…Not when I have a chance to save it!" Slicing through the hoards of heartless like butter, she ran through the city, desperate to try and keep them out. Running past the accessory shop and to the door for the second part of the city, she opened the door, and looked around she didn't see a heartless in sight. Moving quietly, she made her way down the steps and toward the fountain, listening to the running water, she sat on the rail of the fountain, turning around, she saw the keyhole for the world. She got up from the rail and took a few steps backward, when she heard a voice, "The easiest way to reach Kingdom Hearts is through the keyholes." She turned around to see Zashi, floating in the air, but he had changed; he had black hair, and beady violet eyes, and a grey, long sleeved shirt, with a khaki colored vest overtop and a pair of grey baggy pants, with black boots. "Don't even try to speak to Zashi. He cannot hear you, he is in the deepest depths of Darkness." Marlena gripped the heart blade tightly, glaring at Ansem, he simply grinned as he floated over to the keyhole. "There is still supreme darkness within Kingdom Hearts…" Surprise washed over Marlena, shouting, "No there isn't! Kingdom Hearts is light!" Ansem gave a hearty laugh and said, "the path leads beyond the door, and into Darkness." Marlena took a step backwards, reeling from all the information, then she swung her heart blade at Ansem, who caught the blow in his hands. "Hm…this is the heart blade that Riku made when I had control of his body…" He ripped it out of her hands and inspected it, holding it in his hands, he swung it around a few times, and then he made it vanish in front of Marlena. "Now you have absolutely nothing…Let the darkness overtake you." She shook her head and said, "No…no matter how the odds are stacked, I will rescue my friend!" Clenching her fists, a light started to shine in her right hand, and a key blade appeared in her hand!
Ansem took a step back, thinking, "This cannot happen! I had that boy take the key blade from her! From all my research…She should not have one!" Marlena looked at her key blade, however it was different from her older one. The blade was in the shape of a heart, both the rod and the blade were silver and the hilt was white. Ansem stood in front of the keyhole, then he turned his back to her, and waved his hand, and the keyhole grew large enough to let him pass, and he drifted through. Marlena raced after him, but the hole was already too small to let her pass; she pounded her fist against the wall, but took a few steps back, and pointed the key blade toward the hole. There was no light; no beam came from the key blade into the hole…nothing. "Sora makes this look easy…" Marlena thought to herself as she lowered they key blade, but heard something behind her, twirling around, she saw an Unknown, but looking closer, it was Iris.