A Slight Detour

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Struggling for breath, Zashi slowly opened his eyes to find himself still on the ground, in the battle field where Rizu had kidnapped Melanie. Pushing himself from the ground, he rolled over onto his back, and starred into the twilight sky; with much effort on his part, Zashi managed to pull himself to a sitting position. His body ached, he held his head, still dizzy from sitting up; and he tried to get to his own feet, but they would not respond, and he tumbled back down onto his face. "I wonder what Marlena would say if she saw me like this…" He thought to himself about his predicament, but suddenly he heard a familiar voice, "Zashi! Are you all right?" Kairi turned him over, "I saw the fight and didn't do anything at all…I feel so useless…" He closed his eyes and shook his head, "I feel useless all the time…like right now…" Kairi helped Zashi up, when they heard another voice from a few feet away, "it looks like your hurt Zashi." They turned to see Cloud, who was using his sword as a crutch, standing over them, "Kairi. Stand back, I'm going to use some magic." She moved a few feet away, Cloud closed his eyes and muttered a few words, and suddenly a green light enveloped Zashi, his wounds and pains melted away in the light.

Standing to his feet, Zashi looked at Cloud, to thank him, but he had other things on his mind, "where is Melanie?" he hung his head low and sighed, "Rizu kidnapped Melanie." Cloud put a hand to his chin in thought, but was interrupted by Kairi, "We should get back to the room, its getting chilly…" holding her arms, she started to wander back to the hotel, with Cloud and Zashi following behind her. Opening the door, Cloud sat down on the bed, and rested his sword against the wall, Kairi took a blanket and wrapped it around herself, and Zashi took a chair to sit on. "All right. We know Rizu kidnapped Melanie for a reason…the only question is why?" Cloud asked Zashi, who shrugged his shoulders, "I have no idea…" Zashi and Cloud were in deep thought, "Well…I think Rizu would take her to Hollow Bastion." Zashi spoke, catching Cloud's attention, "When I journeyed with Marlena, there was a portal from the mansion to Hollow Bastion…I wonder if its still active…"

The two of them got up to leave, "Wait…what will I do?" Kairi asked softly, they looked at each other, and then Zashi walked to her and held her hands. "The best thing…I guess is for you to stay here and wait for Sora…" she shook her head, "I don't want to be useless anymore!" Zashi looked back at Cloud, who didn't say anything. "Kairi…I know its hard, but it's the best thing to do right now…" he spoke in a soft tone, and reached behind his neck and undid his necklace and placed it in her hand. "I'll be back for this. You can count on it…" Kairi jumped from the chair and hugged Zashi, with tears streaming down her face; "Thank you…All that Sora left me was an empty promise…Now I have something to hold on to…Thanks." She whispered, and let Zashi go, and waved goodbye to Cloud, and they left the building.

Walking in silence, they reached the iron grates of the mansion, looming over them. Cloud pushed the gate, and let Zashi lead to the door; he grasped the handle, "Zashi. The last time Marlena and myself went through this mansion, we had to deal with lots of illusions. Be on your guard." He nodded his head, and turned the handle, and opened the door; slowly walking inside, the air was stale, and the walls seeped with water running down them. The path split into two ways: left and right, Zashi pointed to the right path, and Cloud simply nodded his head and followed behind him; after ten minutes of walking, they came to a dead end. "Looks like I choose the wrong way…" Zashi quietly said to himself, but noticed something molding from the wall, soon Cloud noticed too, and it finally molded into a door handle. "I wonder if this is an illusion…" Cloud said aloud, and Zashi slowly reached for the handle, "well…it's a door handle, it must open a door right?" he asked, and Cloud simply nodded, and Zashi turned the handle, revealing a blinding light, which took them over, and they tumbled out of another door.

Zashi was the first to get up from floor, opening his eyes he looked around. "Cloud…I don't think we are in Hollow Bastion…" Looking at the massive walls, they had a pattern of clouds and blue sky that wrapped around the whole room. Turning to his right he saw a plastic loop, and various toy chests and a closet; in front of him was a massive door, which seemed to tower over him, and to his left, there was a giant chest, and a window that seemed simply out of his reach. Turning to look behind him, there was a massive bed, and they were only tall enough to see under the bed frame. Cloud got up and rubbed the back of his hair, when his face went pale, "my hair…" he started, Zashi turned around to see what he was talking about, but was too stunned to speak, "my hair is made out of plastic…" Cloud finally finished his sentence…


KUDOS to you if you can guess the World they have landed in!