Secrets Within Hollow Bastion

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Suddenly, they were again surrounded by hundreds of Heartless, and Zashi clutched his chest in pain, trying to keep conscious. "It seems you two are powerless against me." Rizu said, taking a step toward the pair, Melanie took a step forward, "you don't scare me." Glaring at the Heartless, Zashi looked at Melanie, and grew wide eyed, remembering Marlena, and he got to his feet and said, "Your tricks wont work on me anymore Rizu." The heartless grinned, saying, "Then I will simply destroy this world, along with you two." With that, he lifted his right hand; the skyscrapers crashed to the ground, which was being ripped apart, and the rolling ocean turned into a deep purple, and stood still, in Rizu's hand, a small, black sphere started to form, which gently floated up into the sky, and started to pull everything toward the center; growing larger.

Zashi looked at the sphere and shouted to Melanie, "We need to get out of here!" Digging into his pockets, he threw the cube just a few feet away, and they started running for the Gummi ship, soon the ground they walked on started to give way, floating up into the sky, their running slowly turned into a snail's pace as they tried to escape the billowing winds toward the sphere. Just as they reached the Gummi ship, Melanie started to float off the ground, only being anchored by Zashi, who was still trying to reach the ship. "Zashi! You can't make it with me!" Melanie shouted over the howling winds, he turned around and redoubled his efforts and shouted, "NO! I won't let you be taken by the darkness!" With that, he inched toward the Gummi ship, holding tightly to Melanie, only a few feet away, the ship started to rattle, and slowly inch toward Zashi, the ship fell into its side, and rushed toward him, knocking him off his feet, and they flew towards the sphere….

"No…I wont loose you again…" Mumbling in his sleep, Zashi woke sitting straight up, and he looked around, where ever he was, it was not the world he was just on. Getting slowly to his feet, he looked around, he was at the bottom of a massive chasm, and the water around him defied gravity, and flowed upwards toward the top. "Where am I?" Zashi wondered aloud as he was climbing the rocks, rising to a particular floating island, he noticed the small pond, with the archway, and he paused for a moment. "This is where Riku finally met Sora, and took his key blade…" Looking to the sky, he saw a massive castle, with the heartless symbol built into the castle, with gears turning, and purple smoke coming out of the various shafts, "That must be Hollow Bastion." Zashi told himself, and started to climb toward the castle, when he couldn't climb any farther, he saw a zip line, and within an instant, a platform appeared right in front of him.

Swallowing the lump in his throat, he steeped onto the platform, which zoomed to the entrance of the castle; lightly stepping off the platform, it vanished out of sight. Zashi inched his way slowly to the massive doors, and pushed the right one open and walked inside. Seeing the circular room with the stairs to the side, he cautiously entered the room, waiting for something—anything to happen. Holding his breathe, he wandered to the left side of the stairs and entered the door to his right, which lead him to the library. Wandering through the volumes of books, he made his to the stairs, but something had caught his attention: It was a book. Stopping, Zashi reached for the book, he hesitated for a moment, and then pulled the book from the shelf. Opening the book, he flipped through it, not really reading the words, but something crossed his eyes: it was written that in the void of the heart; light, dark and non existence would come together to open Kingdom Hearts.

Zashi held the book open for a moment and thought back to his childhood, how they had all met each other. He remembered it was a foggy day, and he wondered until he found Marlena and Iris. "Was that us? Marlena for light, Iris for non existence, and myself for darkness…" He held the book open in his hand for a moment, "What are you doing here?" A teenage voice came from left, making Zashi jump. Quickly turning to look, it was Sora his eyes narrowed and a scowl on his face. "I was looking for my friend, but I was attacked by Rizu…" Zashi responded, confusion washed over Sora's face, "whose Rizu?" He put away the book and turned to Sora saying, "he's the heartless version of you." This surprised Sora, who turned a quarter away from Zashi and mumbled something to himself, and started walking away, "hey have you been able to find your friends yet?" Zashi called after him, but Sora just stopped and shook his head and said, "Nope…not yet." With that, he started running out of the library. With that, Zashi walked up the stairs, and saw the hidden passage and walked through; the tunnel was dark and damp, but he kept walking, and eventually reached a room that was circular to his right, and rectangular to his left. Walking right, Zashi found another passageway, and walked into a massive room; to his left and right were six giant pillars supporting the ceiling, and as he walked further into the room, it sparked his memory and he realized he was in the Grand Hall. Suddenly, he heard some voices coming from behind him; he ran and hid behind the first pillar to his right.

"You have done very well eliminating your foes Rizu." "Thank you for giving me the opportunity…however…" Rizu let his voice trail, listening to the footsteps, Zashi moved as quietly as he could to the other side of the pillar, "something seems to be troubling you Rizu. Speak." "Well. There was a girl with the him." The footsteps stopped, "a girl?" The other man sounded angry, "don't worry, it was not the one we are looking for." Rizu commented, and the footsteps resumed, with Zashi moving to the front of the pillar, facing the door. "Very well Rizu. I will entrust you to finish the final task…"


I realize this is EXTREMELY, WAY and UTTERLY overdue. X.X I am trying my hardest to bring my series back to life, but its kinda hard with Work and School both at the same time around with Finals too. Hopefully I might have something else around Turkey time. Hopefully