The Great Battle

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Blinking for only a moment, Zashi quickly looked around, and found Marlena standing by his side, "uh…where did the Heartless go?" Marlena shrugged her shoulders when they heard a familiar voice, "You need to plan your attack, you can't run in swinging." Cloud said, walking past them pointing to the mass of Heartless. The duo suddenly realized where they were; they were standing on one of the skyscrapers, a swirling blue and black sphere hindered their vision. "Cloud! I thought you were fighting Sephiroth?" Zashi said, he turned to them, "when the wave of darkness reached us, we stopped, and when I turned around again, he was gone…" then he turned back to the Heartless, "This will test you both beyond anything you will have ever known…" Cloud said to himself, and Zashi and Marlena gazed upon the multitudes of Heartless, the ground seemed to flow, populated with yellow eyes. "How many Heartless do you think there are?" Cloud asked.

Marlena and Zashi shrugged their shoulders, and Cloud pointed to a group of Heartless, "look, there must be about 10,000 in that spot alone," looking the battle field over, Cloud put a hand on his forehead, "There are around 2 million Heartless down there…" Zashi's jaw dropped, "That's too many! Besides, Cloud how do you know?" He turned around, "I didn't defend Fort Condor it's view…" Zashi looked at Marlena, who shrugged again, "Listen, you will have to rely on each other to get through this. This is your battle, I can't help since I still have to track down Sephiroth…" Cloud gave a smile, and suddenly they appeared in front of the Heartless army, "don't worry, if anyone can do this, you two can." With that, Cloud vanished.

"I had wondered if you two had chickened out…" Melantha's voice echoed across the world, and Zashi turned to Marlena and held out his right hand, "After this is over…We can finally go home…" She turned to Zashi and put her hand in his, "Just a few more Heartless right?" He gave a laugh and drew his sword, and Marlena summoned her keyblade. Zashi first charged towards the army of Heartless, followed closely by Marlena.

Meeting the army first, Zashi slowly stopped, his sword constantly swinging, slicing through the Heartless, after a short time, Marlena also joined him, they battled towards each other, and when they finally came in contact, more heartless were rushing towards them, Zashi and Marlena put their backs together, going into the defensive. However the Neo Shadows seeped from the floor right in front of them, knocking them apart, Marlena constantly swung her keyblade, but no matter how many she destroyed, ten more would appear to take its place, "Zashi! Its not working!" Marlena shouted over the mass of Heartless, who stopped for a moment to hear, but was struck by a Neo Shadow, and he stumbled forward, and was struck by a different one. "ZASHI!" Marlena shouted as she threw the Keyblade towards Zashi, trying to get rid of the Heartless surrounding him. They faded away, and Marlena ran towards him, who by now had fallen to the ground, catching the Keyblade on its return path she charged through.

Finally reaching him, Marlena crouched down and lifted Zashi's head, he was still breathing, but it was rasp, she looked down at the ground, then to her Keyblade, "I cant stop here…Nothing will stop me…" With that, she stood up, and held the weapon high into the air, and slammed it to the ground shouting, "EXPLOSION!" With that, a brilliant light shot from the keyblade and radiated out, destroying most of the Heartless that were surrounding them. She took the keyblade out of the ground, and turned to the rest of the army of Heartless, and glared at them. Zashi slowly sat up, and looked at Marlena, wielding her keyblade, and she darted off to the army of Heartless.

Quickly looking for his sword, he found it a few feet away, he got to his feet and ran towards the Heartless. Giving a scream as she started disposing of the Heartless, Marlena became merciless, her attacks became more fierce, and fire burned in her eyes, "All I want is to get home…All I have to do is defeat all of you!" she thought as she continued to slice through them. Zashi ran to the Heartless and started swing his sword again, however some of the Neos leaped into the air, trying to attack him from above, but saw their shadows and jumped into the air, and continued to attack. Landing on the ground, he knocked some of the Heartless back on themselves, giving him a little more room.

The adrenaline in Marlena's body started to give out, and her attacks became weaker, and she was knocked back, screaming by two Neo Shadows. Zashi, hearing the scream, raced toward her, destroying Heartless as he went, and saw Marlena lying on the ground. Attacking the enemies around her, Zashi made some space, and looked at her, who slowly sat up, "Zashi…I can't go on much longer…There are just too many of them…" He moved in front of Marlena, "Remember? We have to get home!" Zashi shouted while destroying the Heartless that were rushing towards him, she slowly got to her feet, and summoned her keyblade and mumbled a few words. A flame formed at the tip of the weapon, and with a few more words, the flame turned into a beam of fire, destroying the Heartless that were standing right in front of them. "Listen…I don't have much energy, but I want to try that thing…" Zashi looked at her, "what thing?" Marlena got a grin on her face, "the thing I wanted to do at Hollow Bastion, if we reach Melantha, then she can't summon more Heartless…" He suddenly became worried, "the thing where I fly up in the air right?" She nodded, "I wont give you a count down, since they will move in and stop the spell…" Zashi looked at the multitude of Heartless rushing towards them, when suddenly he found himself screaming, and flying above the battlefield.

Feeling a gust of air behind him, Zashi started spinning in the air, towards Melantha, spinning so fast, he felt like he was going to hurl, but he spread his arms, and he stopped spinning, and flew towards Melantha. Flying for what seemed like forever, he finally spotted Melantha, standing on a pile of rubble, observing the scene playing out before her. "MELANTHA!" Zashi screamed as he rushed toward her, with his sword going before him, she barely noticed him in time to bring a keyblade to block the attack, creating a massive clang that echoed throughout the battle field, along with a shock wave from the impact, knocking Melantha back 9 feet from where she stood.

Falling to the ground, Zashi ran towards the female Heartless, not giving her a chance to react, but she skillfully blocked the attacks, and sliced his left shoulder, making him drop his sword, "That was bold…You will make a good slave…" Melantha mocked Zashi, but he bent down and picked up the sword in his right hand, and charged again, "I will stop you!" he shouted as he swung the sword, but she simply dodged, and attacked him with the blunt end of her weapon right in his stomach, knocking the wind out of him. Falling to his knees, he looked up at Melantha.

"You're a fool to think you can win against Darkness…" with that, Melantha raised her keyblade to strike the final blow, but Zashi moved his hands to block the attack, and a beam of light formed in Zashi's hand, blocking the attack. "What…How?" Melantha questioned the sight, he was holding a keyblade in his hand. Zashi got to his feet and pointed his new weapon at her, "This is the end for you Melantha."


Whew...This took me a while to write, but I had alot of fun writing this chappie, and yes its very long. Much longer than my other chapters, so hope you had fun reading this chapter as much as I had writing it!