Kingdom Hearts: Final Hours (pt 1)

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Catching up to Ansem, they floated in front of him, Marlena equipped with her key blade, and Iris with a sword. "We wont let you take Kingdom Hearts!" Marlena shouted, pointing her key blade at Ansem, who simply started to laugh, saying "I am not looking for Kingdom Hearts; I am seeking the Darkness within it!" With that, he waved his hand, and a wave of darkness flew toward them, knocking back the girls, but not Zashi. "Ansem…I know the power you hold, and I wont be hurt by the Darkness." Narrowing his eyes, he summoned the heart blade that Marlena had before; regaining her balance, Iris looked at Zashi, floating with the heart blade, with fierce determination across his face.

Within an instant, Zashi flew towards Ansem, blade first which was blocked by his hands, Ansem gripped the blade, and threw Zashi aside as if he were a rag doll. Both Marlena and Iris rushed towards Ansem, who met their weapons with his hands, after several blows, he pushed the girls away and floated down to the path leading into darkness. Slowly walking down the path, Ansem's face grew into a massive grin as he walked, knowing that ultimate power was right in front of him; turning around he looked at the trio and said, "There is no possible way you can defeat me; You are in my domain."

Turning back toward the path, he walked down, Marlena took the opportunity, and hurled her key blade at him, which he batted away with his hands, Ansem stopped and turned, saying "You have no power. I control darkness here, and your weapons have no effect." Marlena fell to the ground, slamming her fists thinking, "Why? Why can't we stop Ansem?" A single tear fell from her eyes, splashing the black pathway, and then, suddenly a voice echoed throughout the darkness, ringing only into Marlena's ears, "don't cry. Your heart is the greatest weapon of all, you are the one who will seal the door." Marlena slowly stood up, key blade in hand, and pointed it toward the path toward darkness.

A single beam of light shot from the tip, illuminating the path, for as far as the eye can see, and it kept on going, seemingly forever. Marlena lowered her key blade, saying, "There is always light, even in the darkest of nights." With that, Ansem slowly turned around, his orange eyes locking onto her, and with one swift motion, he grasped her neck, raising her high up into the air, with her feet dangling. "I will give you the same torture that Sora received when he tried to lock the door!" Black, liquid matter started to flow from Ansem, and into Marlena, who squirmed, desperately trying to block the darkness, Iris appeared beside Ansem, and tried to attack him, but he simply used the dark energy to knock her back, and concentrate on Marlena again. Feeling her body grow colder, her sight started to dim, and she was loosing conscience, she was fighting the darkness with everything she had, but it was a loosing battle.

However, she stirred, and woke up, looking around, she saw brilliantly made stain-glass floors everywhere, some having stairs that go both up and down, she wandered to the edge, and peered over, only to find darkness, then a soothing voice came, "I've been waiting for a long time for the next key blade master." Getting up from the ledge, she turned and saw Sora! "Sora…What are…Where are we?" Marlena kept changing her questions, but he raised his left hand, saying, "I know you have a lot of questions, but let me talk." Taking a few steps toward her, "Marlena, this place is your heart, Ansem is right, there is darkness in every heart, but its up to us how we deal with it. Take for example Zashi, he's accepted the darkness in his heart, he's learned to use it to his advantage."

Marlena slowly walked toward Sora, with a hand stretched out, but he backed away, saying, "Now for why I'm here. I'm here because all the key blade masters are connected. We all have the same drive to rid the worlds of darkness. Look how many different stairs there are, they all lead to different hearts, all connected by the key blade." Looking again at her surroundings, now there were many different stairs leading into all directions, some going up, and others going down. "When Riku created the copy of me, he did something to my heart, which I can't explain, but I am tied to the darkness, like he was. Ansem breathed life back into the copy, and sealed me inside the darkness."

Marlena put her right hand to her chin, saying, "Wait. Your tied to the Darkness? Like Ansem?" All he gave was a simple nod, "I know it's the strangest thing, but I guess that's what happens when you're around darkness all the time. But I think I know of a plan to defeat Ansem." This perked Marlena's interest; she was waiting to hear the plan, Sora took a moment and cleared his throat, "This will sound crazy to you, but I think it's the best shot we have. The copy of me still exists in darkness; Ansem would never destroy it, because he likes to have it around. This is the idea: We let the copy take over your body, and try and contact me from inside."

Marlena was stunned at the thought, "Let myself be taken over by the darkness? What is Sora on?" She turned from him saying, "I'm not sure if I like the idea of me being taken over by Darkness. It sounds like a shot in the dark." Sora walked in front of her saying, "If Ansem is not stopped, he will continue to devour all of the rest of the worlds!" Looking off into the distance, she blankly asked, "What if it fails? Then I'm part of Anti-Sora for as long as I live!" Sora shook his head saying, "No…I know this will work, because you have your friends with you." Marlena looked at him wide eyed, "He's right…My friends are with me…But what if it doesn't work?"

Ok...I realize that this chappy is WAY, EXTREMELY, overdue, and don't worry, more will be comming very soon. I wanted to get this up before I went to Anime Expo!