Darkness Rising

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Opening her eyes slowly, Melanie looked around the room; trying to move her body, however it was tightly flashed down with black chains. "Don't hurt yourself. You have something of value…" Came a voice to her left, she turned to see, but the inky darkness of the room hindered her vision. "Who's there?" Melanie called out to the room, but there was no answer. "How did I get myself into this mess in the first place?" Her mind went racing, trying to find an answer, then it suddenly hit her: Rizu kidnapped her. Frantically she looked around for something—anything to help her escape; she tried to move her hands, they were chained down at the wrists, and then tried her feet, however they too were chained, right at the ankle. She took a deep sigh then tried to make outlines of the objects on the walls, however the room was too dark, and tried to break free of the chains.

After about 10 minutes, she was exhausted. "It wont work…" A voice seemed to echo over the darkness; suddenly the room was granted light, and Melanie took a look around, trying to get her bearings. The table, which she was chained to, sat inside a massive room, with a heart shaped portal to her left, and machines and computers to her right. Rizu was standing in front of a machine with his back turned to her, flipping knobs and pulling switches; "Why did you kidnap me?" Melanie asked, Rizu stopped for a moment and turned, "Like I said, you have something of value…" She frantically shook her head, "I don't have anything of value!" Rizu gave a hearty laugh, "You may not have anything of value, but your heart does." Melanie was confused, "my heart?" Rizu simply went back to the machine, pulling a knob, he turned around to see the results, and sure enough; a glass sphere was attached from black, metal support beams and it lowered closer to Melanie.

"What is that thing?" she asked, swallowing the lump in her throat, Rizu looked at her, then back at the sphere, "It's a device to take the heart from inside a body and examine it." A bead of sweat ran down Melanie's face as a whirling sound started from up above her, then it slowly made its way down to the glass sphere. Rizu had been looking over the machine, nodding and saying something to himself, then he placed his hand on a lever, "Don't worry…this wont hurt you…much." With that, he threw the switch downward.

Melanie's eyes grew large as she felt suddenly cold, her hands and feet were the first to go numb, then it followed up her arms, through her legs and eventually reached her torso; however she felt two different pulses, and watched her heart part from her body and gently float to the glass sphere. Rizu slowly approached the sphere containing Melanie's heart and started to look it over; and something caught his eye: it was a black spot on her heart. "So the experiment was a success! Ansem is a genius!" Rizu thought to himself as he found himself starring at the heart, and quickly lifted the switch, setting Melanie's heart back into her body. Now Rizu had a fixed grin on his face from what he had seen; "You don't realize what you are…" He said, trying to make her feel uncomfortable, which it did instantly. "What I am?" She asked, trying to get an answer from Rizu, however he had gone back to the machines and was flipping through some sheets of paper. "Ansem was a genius…" This perked Melanie's interest hearing that name, "Ansem…he sounds familiar…" Rizu stopped his rummaging through the papers. "He should…he is the one…" he let his voice trail, "Its best not to tell her that she was 'created.'" Rizu thought to himself, cutting his train of thought, however Melanie's voice echoed throughout the room, "Why are you so interested in my heart?" He stopped again, and turned to her, "You have Darkness in your heart… Not just a little bit like other people. Enough to rule over the Heartless, and I want that power." Fear swept over Melanie, "why do I have darkness in my heart?" She thought to herself, trying to answer her question, but Rizu spoke softly to a whisper, "He doesn't have notes on how to undo a seal on ones heart… He found the Heartless…shouldn't he have notes on it?" He kept looking through papers, and pacing back and fourth between machines, looking into various books the evil philosopher had written.

Rizu suddenly turned from the machines he was working with, and looked into the heart shaped portal; then back to Melanie. The table suddenly faded away, leaving her in chains, lying on the ground; suddenly two large heartless appeared, with heart shaped holes for their torso, and they picked her up by her hands and feet, and carried her to the portal. "Wait! What are you doing?" Melanie shouted at the top of her lungs, Rizu simply grinned, "this will be your holding cell until I can find Ansem's notes on what I need…" with that, the pair of heartless threw her through the portal. Landing on the other side, Melanie noticed that the chains had come off, and ran toward the portal, but an invisible force kept her from escaping, he banged on the barrier with her fists, but it was no use. She slumped to the floor and took in her surroundings, which were many brilliant, flowing colors into a black keyhole; getting up from the floor, Melanie inched her way to the keyhole, hoping to find an escape, but nothing she did made the hole react.

Slumping down to the floor again, she held her knees close to her torso and began to cry, "Zashi…where are you?"


Okies...I know this is a little late. Ive started Spring college classes so expect a slight slow down from here on out...since its kind of hard to keep up with school and fanfic writing too...