Twisted World
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Hearing a faint beeping, Zashi slowly opened his eyes, and took a look around, out the window and into the infinite darkness radiating from the world that was hovering in his view. Feeling something heavy on his chest, he saw that Marlena was still fast asleep against him. Zashi smiled and put a hand on her shoulder, "hey Marlena… its time to wake up…" he said gently shaking her shoulder, and she stirred, but quickly moved back to her seat, "Sorry Zashi…I didn't mean to fall asleep on you like that…" He simply shook his head, and pointed out the window, "We are here…I'm surprised that we are still in one piece…" Marlena was also looking out the window, "Uh…don't get comfortable yet…" and pointed to the multitude of ships that suddenly appeared in the inky black.
Confusion washed over Zashi, "huh? They are not attacking or anything…" looking at the ships, but he grabbed the controls and slowly descended to the planet, trying to make sure the Heartless ships did not attack them, flying through the atmosphere, the ship suddenly dropped, as a loud beeping came from the controls and buttons flashed constantly. "What's happening!" Zashi shouted to himself as he tried to regain control of the ship, but Marlena turned to look behind her, and saw the blaze gem had shattered, being only a fine, red dust. She turned to Zashi, "the blaze gem is shattered…" Zashi looked at Marlena in panic, "WHAT?" and turned to see, and sure enough, the crystal was gone, only dust in its place. Zashi started talking to himself, "what are we going to do…" Suddenly a idea came to Marlena, who summoned her keyblade, and started bashing it against the window, "MARLENA! What are you doing?" Zashi shouted at the top of his lungs, she turned back to him for a moment, "getting us out of here! We probably have a better chance of surviving if we are not trapped in the ship!"
With those words, the glass of the window suddenly broke, and Marlena slowly started making her way out of the ship when she turned back for Zashi and extended her left hand, "Take my hand!" He looked at the hand, and then into Marlena's eyes, and he took off the seat belt and grabbed a hold of her hand, and they gently floated out of the ship, which started falling faster toward the ground. Falling through the clouds, they finally saw the edge of the continent they were falling towards, when Marlena looked at Zashi smiling, feeling the wind rush around them, Zashi took notice and also smiled, but Marlena moved the keyblade in front of her, and a thick beam of light shot from the tip, and started to spiral underneath them, and formed a slide, leading right down to the ground.
Sliding on the light, Zashi couldn't help but smile at the fun he was having, and as soon as the light appeared, they finally planted their feet on the ground, and heard a tremendous splash coming from the ocean, turning to look it was the Gummi ship, totally wrecked and pieces sinking to the bottom. Marlena looked from the ocean to the horizon, which was totally different than anything she has ever seen, the sky was a blood red color, and black clouds gently moved across the sky. Looking at the ocean once more, she saw that the ocean had turned stagnant, and the water had turned a deep shade of purple, and she turned to see Zashi had taken a few steps away from her. "Zashi…what's wrong?" she said walking beside him, but her eyes went wide when she looked at the rest of the city.
"This…" Zashi started, "this is Melanie's home world…" looking at the buildings, however they had become twisted, like thorns from a rose, the roofs grew into a sharp point, as if reaching for the sky. Other buildings had been turned inside out, with many sharp edges protruding from them, and some of them had simply turned black. Looking around, they saw that all the plants had weathered and died, and the ground had become cracked, as though the very life of the world was being drained by the darkness. "Are you sure this was Melanie's world?" Marlena weakly asked, Zashi nodded his head, and pointed to a park bench about 25 feet away, "that's where I met Melanie for the first time…" Then he really looked at the bench, "It's the only thing that's not been touched by the darkness…"
Laughing started echoing throughout the whole world, and made Zashi and Marlena's hair stand on end, "Well…who would be stupid enough to try and attack me head on?" Zashi instantly knew the voice, "MELANTHA! Come out!" he shouted, pulling out his sword, but then Marlena pointed to the highest building, spotting Melantha. "I must admit: You've got courage…but nothing else." With that, she raised her left hand, and multitudes of neo heartless started to morph from every shadow cast by the buildings, and even from the dying ground, the heartless leaped into the air attacking their victims, a blue-black blur made a streak across them, and they disappeared…
