Reunion of Friends
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Marlena brought her key blade to block the heartless, but left herself completely open to Ansem's fist, which knocked her almost a yard away from him. "You are powerless here. Even with you key blade you are still nothing." Ansem said to her as he started to float over to her, however she jumped to her feet, and started slashing at him with her key blade in a mad fury. All of her efforts were in vain, as Ansem simply dodged each of them, and the heartless came from behind him, knocking her back again onto her back.
"Marlena! You've got to get up!" A voice called to her. At first she thought she was imagining it, but it came again, "Come on Marlena! Your not just fighting for your friends, your fighting for the all worlds!" It was Iris's voice in the back ground, running toward her! Ansem looked to see her, equipped with a sword. "I am surprised to see that you have found your way out of darkness." Marlena slowly got to her feet with the help of her friend, "Iris…What took you so long?" She looked at her and said, "I got a little lost in the darkness, but I found my way here when I heard your voice." The girls looked at each other, then they glared at Ansem, and ran toward him, weapons first.
Iris's sword caught the blow from the heartless hovering behind Ansem, and Marlena's key blade struck Ansem in the chest, which sent him reeling back in pain. They continued their charge, beating him back, and making his summoned heartless useless, their weapons simply a blur against him; Ansem started to float away, but Marlena threw her key blade at him, striking him, and returning to her like a boomerang. He slowly fell to the ground, breathing heavily, then he got to his feet and turned around, saying, "Remember, I have taken over Zashi's body. If you defeat me here, then you will defeat him also." Marlena charged toward him, saying, "then we will have to get him out!" pointing her key blade toward Ansem's heart, a beam of light shot from the end of the blade and into his chest.
Being frozen by the beam, Ansem's eyes grew wide as a sphere was made around his body, and a light outline of Zashi was splitting away from Ansem, and left the sphere. Iris ran to get Zashi, helping him out of the way, the sphere began to shrink around Ansem, who was still stationary, then it exploded in rays of brilliant light, which quickly grew dim. Marlena ran toward Zashi, holding his head, "Zashi are you all right?" she looked over his body, but couldn't find any wounds, he stirred, then slowly opened his eyes, "Where… Where am I?" He sat right up, and looked at Marlena saying, "This looks like home…but there is no one here…" she nodded her head, "I know…Ansem was destroying this place, until me and Iris got here to stop him."
A cold voice came from all around, "Did you really think that simply taking the host away could defeat me?" The trio looked all around to find the voice, but they couldn't find anyone; just then, the world started to quake, the sky gave way, crashing down on them, tearing the world apart. Their world started to fade, being crushed by the darkness.
When Marlena opened her eyes again, all she could see was darkness, looking around, she found that her friends had not strayed very far from her. "Where are we?" Zashi said, looking around, but a voice echoed from the darkness, "This is the heart of your world. Look around, see that there is no light to be seen, and know this is were I reign." Suddenly taking his normal form, Ansem appeared from the darkness, and with a massive grin he pointed to a path, leading through the darkness, "Through that path, lies eternal darkness, with such power, I shall be able to conquer all worlds!" With that, he started to float toward the path, Marlena tried to take a step after him, but instead started to fall deep into the darkness. All kinds of thoughts ran through her mind, about Iris, and Zashi and Cloud, but then a familiar voice came to her: Don't give up hope; it's the only thing you have.
Marlena's face changed from worry, to determination, and she started to fly, just like Ansem, she looked over to her friends who were still falling. Flying as fast as she could, she caught up with Zashi first, then Iris, "Come on guys, don't give up hope, it's the only thing we have!" After Marlena had said that, they started to stop, then float. Holding her hand in between her friends, she said, "Ok, lets go and get Ansem before he becomes all powerful, and get home!" The others put their hands in, and they took off, flying back to the path leading to darkness.