The Dark Key blade
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Listening to the footsteps fade, Zashi slowly walked from behind the pillar, and followed the maroon carpet to a set of stairs on the sides of the walls; taking the left he slowly walked to the top. Looking around, he walked to the center of the circular room, and looked to the massive machine with the heartless symbol in the center. "I remember this room…" Zashi said out loud to himself as he turned, he remembered falling under Ansem's control. He clutched his chest when he remembered, the pain caused him to fall to one knee, taking deep breathes, he slowly got back on his feet and looked toward the heartless symbol. "I used this portal to enter the darkness…since its not activated anymore…I wonder where it will take me?" Thinking while he walked to the symbol, he placed a hand on the symbol, but it passed right through, like an illusion.
Walking through the portal, the passage way was dark, without any light to find his way, he used his hands to feel the wall, when he reached an opening to his left. Suddenly, a light shone from above, revealing a massive machine, with the heartless symbol positioned on top. Walking toward the machine, he looked at the levers and buttons, but something else caught his eye; climbing onto the machine, he saw a key blade. Having a black blade and a silver hilt, it seemed to shimmer in the room, carefully reaching it with his right hand, he grasped the hilt; he waited for a moment to see if there was a security protocol but there was none.
Zashi swung the blade around a few times, and the blade began to feel warm in his hand, loosening his grip, the blade disappeared, and extending his right arm, the key blade came back to him. "This is like Marlena's key blade…" Thinking to himself as he wandered out of the room, feeling the walls again, he ended at a dead end. "Great. Now what am I going to do?" Speaking out loud, the blade gently lifted into the air, and plunged into the wall. Zashi looked at the blade, and gripped the hilt, and turned the blade to the left; suddenly a small portal opened, with light shining in the room; without a second thought, Zashi passed through the portal.
Trying to get his bearings, Zashi looked around for something familiar, however nothing came. Passing through the spirals of colors and many colored shapes, he finally saw the exit, and started running toward it. It seemed to take forever to reach the exit, and when he passed through; he collapsed and was short of breath, "Mental note: Learn more about portals before going through them…" Zashi thought to himself as he felt his eyelids become increasingly heavy.
"Hey…are you awake?" Hearing a voice, Zashi started to stir, and slowly opened his eyes, to find Melanie hovering overhead. He slowly got up, "Melanie! You didn't get caught in the vortex!" She just smiled, and sat on the bed saying, "I know! I'm lucky to have landed in Traverse Town." Zashi took his attention away from her for a second and looked around, "this is Traverse Town?" Melanie gave a simple nod, and rose from the bed and walked toward the door in front of them, "I don't know what you did, but you need to rest up. We still have to find your friends." With that, she opened the door, and shut it behind her. Looking around, the walls were decorated with Eastern dragons, and many light boxes hanging from the four corners of the room, "I know I've just started this journey…But I don't have a clue about where Marlena is…or Iris for that matter." Thinking to himself, Zashi tried to get up from the bed, but his body wouldn't allow him, the pain tremendous. He let his body flop down to the bed and he closed his eyes and started to dream…
