Final Hours (pt2)

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Marlena debated the idea of letting herself become controlled by darkness, weighing the options that she has before her, however something jogged her memory before she went unconscious, "I will give you the same torture that Sora received when he tried to lock the door!" Looking again at her surroundings, she noticed that Sora had left her, and that the many staircases had merged into one path, leading down. Slowly walking to the path, she looked down, and the first few steps were all she could see, and then it faded into darkness. "Sora!" Marlena called out to the darkness, "Where are you?" There was no answer. Slumping to her knees, tears started to fall to the brilliant glass on the floor, "I don't know if I can let myself be taken by darkness…I'm not sure what will happen…"

Getting up to her feet, Marlena swallowed the lump in her throat, and started to slowly descend down the stairs, carefully one step at a time, but after the fourth step, it dropped off into darkness. Suddenly, the stair under her gave way, barley catching the other stair with her hands, she dangled above the darkness; pulling herself up, back on the stain glass, she looked around, shouting, "Sora! Where are you!" Walking the edge of the glass, she couldn't find any stairs that led either up or down. "Ansem almost got you." A small female voice came from the darkness. Marlena looked around, half curious and frightened, a faint glimmer of light came from just a few feet away from Marlena, she reeled at the brilliance of the sudden light, holding her hands in front of her face.

The light started to give shape to a little girl, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and a small white sundress. "If I hadn't showed up, Ansem would have taken you for sure." Marlena looked at her, "Who are you?" The girl turned away, as if looking at something in the darkness and said, "I am Namine, I'm a witch that can change people's memories." "Change memories? What would that do?" Namine turned to Marlena, "Memories have a major impact on the actions of the heart. They can cause pain, or joy, because of the memories that are there, anchoring the heart."

Marlena took a step toward Namine, and said, "You mean that Ansem was trying to pull me into darkness by using my memory of the Kingdom Hearts game?" Namine nodded, and with a smile she said, "That's right, Ansem has a limited knowledge of how a memory works, but he does not know properly change one. That's why you didn't allow yourself to fall into darkness, because you doubted the memory of Sora." Marlena turned to face the darkness and said, "So…this is all a memory of the game right?" she was surprised when Namine shook her head saying, "No, this is not a memory from anything, what Sora said was true: This is your heart. The stairs however, all led to darkness."

Looking at the brilliant stained glass floor, she saw the adventures she had, from when she first walked through the door of the light, right up to the dark path where she was fighting Ansem. Marlena looked from the floor, "how can I stop Ansem if he has power here? Do you know how?" Namine looked her in the eyes, and said, "I can't tell you how to defeat him…You need to figure that out on your own." Marlena swallowed another lump in her throat, and hung her head low. Lifting her head, she saw that Namine had disappeared, "Namine?" Marlena called to the darkness, but their was no response. Taking a few steps toward the center, she realized the floor had changed again, from her adventures, to a single person: Zashi.

"What could this mean? I like Zashi, but I don't think of him like a boy friend or anything…" however, she couldn't deny it in her heart: she loved Zashi. She thought back to all the times when they had been together, Marlena always too shy to speak what was on her mind to Zashi, keeping it bottled up, being shy about it. Thinking more and more about him, made her heart beat faster, and her head filled with air, however she knew that Iris had a hold on him, but she wanted so badly to tell him.

Suddenly feeling cold, she saw darkness creep into the stained glass like a heavy fog, she moved to the center of the floor, trying to evade the darkness. Crying out as the darkness came in contact with her feet, and slowly crawling up her body, she started to feel cold, her beating heart started to slow down, she tried to cry, but the tears wouldn't come. From cold, her body slowly went numb, she couldn't move any of her limbs, she cried out into the darkness…

I realize that this was kind of late for a sequel, but still dont worry, Im still working on this story. The reason why this one took so long, was I had to set the tone for this chapter, which was kind of hard to do...but still. Its here. Dont worry this is not the ending of the story, just give me about...oh...maybe about two more chapters and it might be finished...