Face to Face with Darkness

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Looking around on the other side, they were engulfed in darkness, but they kept walking, but it started to get cold, rubbing her hands against her arms, Marlena pressed on, trying to figure out where the path lead. "Iris…Where are you?" her voice echoed throughout the darkness, looking around for her friend, she could not see, and did not hear a response. Slowing her walk, she used her hands feeling her way through the cold rock walls that surrounded her, she came to a purple light coming from a hole. Making her way to the light, she passed through it, and saw an endless sky of all kinds of shades of purple, leading into the violet horizon.

Marlena stopped to look around, trying to find Iris, but could not see her, she reached for the necklace and started rolling it around in her hand, "This looks exactly where we left off when we were playing Kingdom Hearts at my house…" Marlena thought to herself as she started walking toward the horizon; however it seemed to move farther away from her the closer she got. Finally reaching the horizon, a brilliant purple light shot from the center, blinding Marlena and whisking her to another level of darkness.

When she opened her eyes, she looked at her surroundings and realized that she was back in Traverse Town. However it was not like she remembered. Buildings had turned a deep shade of purple and they were being ripped apart, by an unknown force; taking the sight in, Marlena carefully walked to the center of the town, looking into the sky, seeing that it too had become purple. Heartless crawled out from the buildings, waiting to pounce on her, just then, the heartless with wings and swords appeared, charging toward her, and the others jumped from the walls and floors. Seeing the yellow eyes, she summoned her key blade and started attacking the ones with wings first; they were much harder to deal with than the normal ones. The swords and key blade clashed with a loud clang, and moving at lightning speeds, she managed to dispatch three of the seven heartless with wings, some of them flew back a few feet, almost fearing the ferocity of her attacks, but the rest went charging after her.

After all the winged heartless were defeated, a dull green light erupted from the town square, Marlena looked it over, then cautiously walked toward the light, and she was blinded again and transported again. Opening her eyes, she saw herself in complete darkness, but a simple stone hallway, leading toward a massive heartless symbol. Walking with key blade in hand, she came to the symbol, lifted her key blade toward it, and a beam of light shot from the tip of the blade, and into the emblem, causing it to crumble, almost turning into dust when it fell to the floor. Moving past the dust, Marlena peered into the darkness, and saw a faint glimmer of light, which she started to gravitate towards.

Walking for what seemed like hours, she finally came to the light, reaching out with her left hand, the light started to expand, and turn purple, blinding Marlena again. Her mouth fell open to what her eyes took in: It was her little seaside town. Turning to the right, she saw her house, just a couple hundred feet away, and turning to the ocean, watching the waves roll in and out, however there was no wind blowing through her hair. She turned to watch the street, but there were no cars, no people sitting on the benches or in lawn chairs. There was no one. Marlena ran to the ledge separating the soft sand from the boardwalk, and looked down both ways, trying to find someone—anyone. "HELLO!" She cried, using her hands to make her voice travel longer, but there was nothing.

"Who would have ever known one of the key blade masters would be residing in this tiny place…" Marlena instantly knew the chilling voice; she slowly turned around to see Ansem, looking into the ocean. "You three dreamed of adventure, a life not bound by your world…" While Ansem spoke, the ocean turned into a deep violet, and the sky into a shade of purple. "Look where your journey has left you: one of your friends belongs to Darkness, while the other wanders in non-existence."

"I will rescue both of my friends!" Marlena shouted back to Ansem, who responded with, "so naive… You do not realize that you have lost. You cannot save your friends, because you are powerless." Angered, she summoned her key blade to her right hand, and pointed it toward him, saying, "I am not powerless." Ansem glared at the key blade, and he lifted his hands into the air saying, "You are foolish to try and impede the forces of Darkness!" Gently floating into the air, a heartless appeared behind him, having white eyes, and blue claws for hands, and a menacing grin. "I will teach you what Darkness is!" Ansem shouted as he charged toward her…