Kidnapped!

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Zashi took his attention away from Melanie for a second; Heartless had begun to crawl out of the shadows and cracks in between the stones of the buildings: moving closer to Melanie. "They follow their leader…" Rizu said with a smirk, which scarred Zashi, "Melanie, are you ready to fight?" He whispered, and turned to see her nod, and slowly raise her hands into the air and mumble a phrase, and lightning rained down from above, destroying a good number of Heartless, but for everyone destroyed, two would take its place. Zashi put out his hand and summoned Oblivion and threw himself towards the Heartless, he found he was making quick work of them, Melanie also drew her weapon and started attacking the Heartless head on. After a few minutes, they had fallen back to back, fending off the Heartless, "how are you holding up Melanie?" Zashi asked, turning his head to see her reaction, she looked back at him, "I'm ready for more if you are…" With that, she held out her hand and let loose a fire ball, blasting through a shadow, and split attacking two others.

Lifting his keyblade into the air, Zashi threw it the Heartless, cutting through them like butter, but then it clanged against a sword; he turned to see what had deflected his keyblade. It was a Heartless with a sword and a pair of faded purple wings, summoning Oblivion back to him, Zashi rushed towards the different versions of Heartless, clanging echoed through the tiny town. After he had defeated that one, three others appeared and rushed toward him, knocking him back five feet, tumbling head over heels. Zashi slowly got up and rubbed the back of his head and saw Melanie, transfixed by the battling, her yellow eyes seemed to faintly glow, but Zashi dismissed it, and jumped back into the fray.

Rizu calmly watched the battle from afar, and then noticed Melanie, "I knew it! She has part of the Heart!" He thought to himself as he watched her, he leapt from the rooftop he was standing on, and fell right into the battle, and formed a replica of Sora's keyblade and started to walk toward Zashi. Seeing Rizu walk toward him, the other Heartless slowly moved out of the way, as if making room for him. Rizu grinned, then Zashi ran toward him, keyblade first; his attack was blocked and Rizu returned one of his own, hitting Zashi on the back, making him fall to his knees. "It looks like you are inferior to me…" Rizu chuckled, then Zashi swung, his attack being deflected by Rizu, but did not expect for him to strike low, and he was swept to his feet. Falling flat on his back, Rizu simply used the darkness and molded into the ground and disappeared, looking around, Zashi didn't anticipate that Rizu would appear behind him, suddenly feeling a sharp pain in the back of his head, Zashi fell to the ground; trying to keep conscience. "What a fool to think you alone could conquer the darkness…" Rizu simply said as he slowly walked toward Melanie, who hadn't even noticed that Rizu had joined the battle.

Getting up slowly, Zashi lifted his keyblade into the air, and threw it at Rizu, who turned in time to block it with his weapon; however it passed right through and struck a solid blow to his head. Rizu took a few steps backwards, lowering his head, "Just for that…" Rizu responded lifting his head, revealing blood red eyes, "YOU DESERVE TO BE UTTERLY DESTROYED!" Disappearing from view, Zashi looked around, but suddenly felt hundreds of strikes all over his body, from his stomach to his head, and fell to the floor. "Like I said before…you are inferior…" Rizu growled as he walked toward Melanie, who had finally noticed what had happened to Zashi.

"ZASHI!" Melanie shouted, however he did not hear her, Rizu had finally made his way across the battle field to her. "What did you do to my friend?" Melanie shouted, but that made Rizu shake his head, "He is inferior…he can never defeat the darkness by himself…" This made Melanie angry as she held up two open palms and thick shards of ice shot from her hands; hitting Rizu, who took a few steps backwards from the magic. Rizu shook his head in disappointment, and raised a hand, and snapped his fingers, and suddenly there were six more of the Heartless with swords, who grabbed a hold of Melanie's arms and legs. "See…Its like this: You have something I want…" Rizu grinned, looking into her shimmering yellow eyes. Suddenly there was a cough, and Zashi looked up to see Melanie being held by Heartless and Rizu standing next to them. "Some hero you are…You can't even protect the ones you care about…" Rizu said with a low chuckle, Zashi tried to stand to his words, but his body would not obey, and laid on the ground. "Well your friend here has a very special heart…" Rizu said, turning to Melanie, who tried to struggle, but the Heartless' made their grip tighter.

A black portal appeared behind Rizu, "The next time you see your friend…let's just say…She wont be feeling like herself…" With that, the Heartless carried Melanie through the portal followed by Rizu, while his laughter echoed throughout the battle field…