The Darkness Within

A Kingdom Hearts Fanfic

By:

Chison

"NO!" Zashi shouted to Rizu, who reacted with a smirk on his face, and slowly started to walk towards Melanie. Trying to move his legs, Zashi found that they seemed to be glued to the floor, and he looked in horror as the darkness crawled further up his arm, looking to Rizu, he was only a few feet away from Melanie, he had the two heartless lift her up, and he slowly walked right into her body. The winged heartless let go of the limp body, but it got to its feet, and turned to Zashi, "I control Darkness!" Rizu said, but suddenly, his eyes went wide; and he started screaming at the top of his lungs, "WHAT IS GOING ON?" He fell to his knees, holding his head as his scream became louder, and then Zashi heard a voice he knew; it was Melanie, but her voice had been blended with Rizu's, "Zashi! HELP ME!"

Trying to break free of the magic on his feet, he reached for her, "Melanie! Hold on!" However her body had started to float into the air, with her arms extended, and then her body started to become smaller, then it was simply a black sphere. Feeling he could move again, he rushed toward the sphere, but something stopped him. Streams of black matter started to flow into the sphere, his right hand suddenly reached for the sphere, and the darkness slowly melted away from his hand like ice, and flowed toward the ball of darkness. Looking over his arm to make sure the darkness had left, he looked at the sphere, and saw black lightning bolts streak around the sphere, when suddenly the sphere grew from only being a foot in diameter, to five feet, it gave off a massive wave of darkness accompanied by a strong gust of wind, easily picking up Zashi and smashing him against a wall. Having the wind knocked out of him, and screaming with nothing coming out, Zashi could feel the bones in his body start to break under the pressure of the wind and the wall behind him.

However, it was all over as quickly as it had started, and Zashi slowly fell from the wall, and landed on the ground with a loud thump. Slowly opening his eyes, he gazed around the floor, finding the rubble of his body being forcefully pushed into the wall; he got on his hands and knees, and caught his breath, "What…What happened?" He thought to himself as he looked upwards to the stairs, and noticed a faint light from the top. Climbing to his feet, Zashi slowly wandered up the stairs, using the wall for support, and when he reached the top, he was stunned with fear at what he saw.

A bubbling black mass of liquid and solid floated into the air, however as if sensing another person, it started to convulse, and a pair of legs started to form, with razor sharp feet, then the torso formed into a woman's and the arms sprouted from the torso. The fingers suddenly angled into a point, and seemed to shimmer in the light, first the left hand, then the left, and then the rest of the mass of darkness centered above the torso, and slowly a neck formed, along with a head. With a feature-less face, save for a mouth, the eyes suddenly shot open, revealing a pair of blood red eyes, and white hair sprouted from the head, and defied gravity and floated, as if in water.

The creature suddenly turned to Zashi, "You…Have something of mine." Holding out its right hand, darkness started to form around Zashi, and a tiny sphere of darkness floated from Zashi to the creature. When it arrived in its hands, it suddenly became the dark keyblade, she swung it, leaving black slashes of Darkness in its wake. "Now I have no use for you…" The creature gave a wicked grin, showing off her dangerously sharp, black teeth. She raised her left hand, and suddenly neo heartless started to form from every shadow in the room, "I could let my brothers have your heart…But what would be the fun in that?" Zashi was totally stunned with fear, only able to breath rapidly, she started to walk toward him, and got into his face, "aw…what's the matter? Heartless got your tongue?" "I don't know what to do! She can kill me any time…I don't even have a weapon!" Zashi frantically thought to himself, however she just walked around him, "I don't know what Melanie saw in you…it must have been your darkened heart…" This brought him out of his state of shock, "What do you mean?" The creature laughed uproariously, "Melanie liked, no loved you, but I guess it was only for your heart, since it is being eaten away by darkness…" Zashi turned to the Heartless asking, "What's happened to Melanie?" She narrowed her eyes, "She is part of me now. The Melanie you knew is part of my power over the Heartless and gave me some of my form. She is sealed inside, just like I was inside her."

Zashi took a step backwards in fear, but the creature simply looked at his feet, which were suddenly covered in a black, liquid matter. "Now…What shall we do with your heart?" with that, she plunged her left hand into Zashi's chest. His eyes went wide, and sweat started to drip off his chin, and his body became numb, starting from the torso and spreading throughout his body. She pulled out the heart, and looked at it; the heart was almost entirely black, save for a few spots of orange, "Not much longer until you become a Heartless now…" Zashi's limp body fell to the floor, and his vision started to blur, and sounds became distorted, but suddenly he heard a loud scream. Tilting his head ever so slowly, he saw a mass of brown, white and silver.

The neo heartless had made a path, and a teenage woman was walking down the trail. Having short brown hair, and shimmering blue eyes, she wore a black shirt, with a red vest, covered in pockets and a white pair of white baggy pants with two pockets on the sides, and a pair of black shoes. Lifting her right hand, she pointed the keyblade to the creature, "Don't hurt my friend." She said in a firm tone, and moved closer to Zashi. "Are you all right?" she asked, but when she did not get a response, she looked for the heart that the creature had dropped; she quickly grabbed it, and placed it on his chest. Within a moment, Zashi was sitting up, and looked into the girl's eyes, "Marlena?" He asked, and she slowly gave a nod, "We will have to catch up some other time…" Turning around, Zashi a black hand crawl on the floor, and froze with fear.

Looking at the hand, it slowly returned to the creature, climbing up her leg, and attaching to her limb. "That was actually painful…" She said as she flexed her hand, and turned her attention to the keyblade wielder, "I will have to destroy you first…" The other Heartless became restless, and swinging with their hands toward the pair, "Zashi…" Marlena whispered, "do you have a weapon?" He slowly shook his head, "All right. I will reverse my Gravity spell…and make you fly away with a wind spell…" He was surprised, "Wait…what will you do?" She lowered her head, "I will buy you some time to escape…I can take care of myself…I will do it on Three…" Zashi started to shake his head, "No…" Marlena had already started to count down, "Three…" his head shook more now, "two…" The room grew tense, with the Heartless ready to attack, "One!" With the last word, Marlena and Zashi disappeared in a glimmer of bright light…


WOW...This is two hours of my life I will NEVER regret! This has been poured from the very flames of my SOUL! It took a while to come up with a title, but I wanted to get to his point the whole time, and its finally here! This story will get alot better from here! Expect lots of character interaction, magic stuff, and a MASSIVE battle...So stay tuned!