Concerns from the Heart
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
"Zashi…" a female voice called to him, "Zashi! Come on wake up!" A different voice echoed, and he sat right up in the chair and looked around, seeing Aerith and Yuffie's face in his view. "What's up?" he questioned, and stretched his arms, and cracked his neck, first to the right, then the left making Aerith cringe and Yuffie gave a big grin saying, "well sleepy-head, Marlena is finished with the ship and is ready to go." Zashi got up slowly from the chair, feeling his bones creak from sleeping in the chair, "I guess its time for me to go then," Zashi smiled, and waved the girls goodbye and left the house, "hold on." A male voice came from behind him.
Leon moved from leaning against the house and walked towards Zashi. "do you even have a weapon?" he questioned Zashi, who smiled, "Namine said that a keyblade should be coming to me soon…" Leon nodded, "right. But you need a weapon to defend yourself right?" With that, Leon moved his left hand behind him and tossed Zashi a long object wrapped in a white sheet. Taking off the sheet, the metal glimmered in the light from the street signs, it was a sword, with a white blade and a red hilt, outlined in black. "I found that in the waterway here in Traverse Town…" Leon said, and Zashi looked the blade over, and swung it a few times, "thanks Leon." He simply nodded his head, "no problem."
Carrying the sword, Zashi made his way down the steps and walked to Cid's lab and entered. "Ah! Zashi! The ship is all ready to go." Cid said giving a wave, Zashi returned one and looked at Marlena, who turned away, "Marlena…what's wrong?" Zashi asked, but she mumbled her words so he couldn't understand, "are you ready?" Marlena's words came clear as a bell, and Zashi nodded, and she climbed into the cock-pit of the Gummi ship, "that's weird…I've never seen Marlena act this way before…" Zashi thought to himself as he grabbed a hold of the railing, but another hand was placed on his, turning to see, it was Cid, "Listen…when you two get back…" he started, "just tell me one thing…" Zashi tilted his head, "what?" Cid gave a big grin, "Just tell me how she handles." With that, Cid let go of Zashi and he climbed into the cock-pit, with Marlena sitting in the passenger seat.
Waving to Cid, Zashi looked at the controls, and grasped the steering stick, and slowly the ceiling started to move backwards, showing off the dimly lit night sky. Moving his right hand from the steering stick to the throttle, Zashi took a deep breath, and pushed the mechanism forward, launching the ship from the laboratory, pushing both Zashi and Marlena back into their seats. Leaving Traverse Town, Zashi let go of the throttle and watched the few stars in the sky pass him by, he pushed a button that said, "Auto Pilot", and turned to Marlena, "what did you want to talk to me about in Cid's lab?" She panicked for a moment, then looked out the window, "Zashi…do you remember the opening movie for Kingdom Hearts?" This took him back, seeing Sora running towards Riku, and being thrashed by the tidal wave, "yeah, I do." He finally said, she moved her attention from the window to Zashi, "I had a dream like that…but a few things were different…" He looked into her eyes, "like what?"
Marlena's eyes moved all over the place, as if trying to find a starting point in her mind, "well…All of us were back in our city, you and Iris too…" This caught Zashi's attention, and she kept on going, "well I woke up in my room, and raced outside when I saw it was our town, and talked with Iris, and I asked her were you were, and…" her voice trailed, "I was standing in the water?" Zashi guessed, and she nodded, "right, when I ran towards you, I stopped for a moment, and turned to look behind me, but there was nothing…and looking to you, everything was still picture perfect, and you did the same thing Riku did in the movie…" Zashi put a hand on hers, "but after the wave struck, everything was black, except for you…because you had turned into a Heartless…" by now, tears were running down her face, "and you said, 'come with me…'" With that, she finally broke down, and started crying into the seat cushion. "Marlena…" Zashi moved his hand from hers and to her shoulder, "its all right… Namine sealed the darkness in my heart remember?" She turned from the cushion, "Zashi! The Darkness is still there! Melantha could open it, and change you into a Heartless!"
Opening his mouth to speak Zashi tried to formulate speech. However, nothing came out and he simply rubbed Marlena's shoulders as she sobbed, but instead of the cushion, she planted her face against Zashi's chest. He simply smiled and continued to rub Marlena's shoulders, "I will never be turned into a Heartless…" Zashi whispered to himself, looking at the faint star still in the distance…
