Heart of Darkness

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Zashi stood; gazing out into the horizon, then turned and started making his way to the giant set of doors. After taking a few steps, he stopped in his tracks, and heard a bubbling sound, and turned to see many Darkball heartless appear all around him; starring at him. Suddenly, shadows started to crawl from the floor, but they remained at a distance, and were not paying attention to Zashi. Looking at the heartless, Zashi carefully walked past them, trying not to get too close to them, if they decided to attack, "what's going on? I thought the Heartless attacked on sight?" He spoke to himself, and made his way to the door and pushed the left one open and walked through, coming to a large circular room with two staircases along the rounded walls. Walking to the right, Zashi looked around the room for anything that was odd, but found nothing only suits of armor standing in front of the pillars, and pots sitting on the ground.

Reaching the top of the stairs, Zashi turned to his left and wandered toward the door, and opened it, revealing the library, walking carefully and looking at the volumes on the shelves Zashi started looking for something in particular. "I wonder if Ansem would have anything on this keyblade I have…" however, something else caught his eye it was a large book, with the words Project BLACK written on the spine. Pulling the book from the shelf, Zashi absently mindedly walked through the maze of bookshelves and up the stairs to a small table with a candle. Opening the book, he flipped through the pages, and Zashi was astonished, "These pages are blank…" he thought to himself as he looked through the entire book, and absolutely nothing was written on any of the pages, but just as he was about to set the book back, the black keyblade suddenly appeared in his hand, and it had a mind of its own, and tapped the book twice.

Darkness flowed from the weapon to the book, and suddenly the pages had words written on them, looking through the book Zashi tried to read the words, but they were written in another language, one he had never seen before. "I wonder what this book is about…" Zashi said aloud as he closed the book, but as the cover folded over, the book vanished into thin air, he jumped back from the disappearance of the book and looked around for it, but he could not find it. Getting up from the table, Zashi wandered toward the door, but he head a female voice, "Zashi! Wherever you are help me!" he lifted his head into the air and knew the voice, "Melanie? Melanie! Where are you?" frantically looking around, he saw the passage way in-between the book shelves and walked toward it.

Squinting his eyes to see through the darkness, Zashi put his hands out in front of him as a guide, and felt the wall to his right, and went along slowly for a while. Suddenly after a short time, the wall vanished, and so did the floor, leaving him to fall into darkness. "What's going on? Why am I not afraid of the darkness all the sudden?" Zashi thought to himself as he fell, closing his eyes, he felt himself falling, but then he heard Melanie's voice again, "Zashi! You've got to hurry! I don't know what Rizu is doing!" With that, his eyes shot open, and he shouted into the Darkness, "Melanie! Hold on!" With that, Zashi turned his body to have his feet land first, and he gently floated down onto a dark blue floor with a massive heartless symbol in the center. Finally feeling the ground with his feet, Zashi held out his right hand and summoned the dark keyblade and ran through the room he landed in and started running up the right set of stairs, right to the top.

Suddenly, a low laugh echoed through the massive room, "So the tainted hero comes at last…" Rizu spoke with a wicked grin on his face, Zashi threw his left hand in front of him, "what are you talking about 'tainted'?" Rizu gave another laugh, "Haven't you noticed how the Heartless don't attack you anymore? Or how you can listen to Melanie?" Zashi stood for a moment, then shouted, "I can hear Melanie because our hearts are connected!" Shaking his head from side to side, Rizu chuckled to himself, "no…your heart is being taken by Darkness." Zashi stood shocked, "wha…How?" Was all the words he could speak, but then Rizu pointed to the keyblade, "you honestly think wielding that keyblade, designed for the Heartless wasn't going to affect you?" Clang. The keyblade fell from Zashi's hands, and he fell to his knees and looked at his hand, it had slowly started to become black, like Rizu's skin. "I DON'T WANT TO BE A HEARTLESS!" Zashi screamed, trying to make the darkness go away, but it stopped at his elbow, when he suddenly found his ankles in shackles, Rizu turned around, "This is the greatest moment in the Heartless! Watch as I become ruler of Darkness!" With that, he snapped his fingers, and two muscular heartless with swords were summoned, "Go get her." Rizu whispered to them, and they floated into the massive heartless shaped portal, and came out with Melanie, who had bags under her eyes from the crying she had done. "Mel-!" Zashi started to shout her name, but he had been cut off by a wave of Rizu's hand, "I can't have any distractions."

Melanie was set on the ground, but her body floated gently into the air, "Her heart is an unusual one. She has far more darkness than any ordinary person." Rizu said as he walked toward her, but then he stopped and turned to Zashi saying, "This is the end of everything… I will totally control all Darkness…"


OK. I know that this title chapter is...extremely GENERIC for Kingodm Hearts...but I think it suits it best for whats in store next...