Darkness Vanquished

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Marlena suddenly stopped at the loud clang, and looked to Zashi, wielding a keyblade. A smile broke across her face, and she jumped in the air, and looked at the rest of the Heartless. They had turned their backs to her and were watching the battle between Melantha and Zashi unfold, Marlena rushed past them, staying off the urge to destroy one, fearing the whole army would be set against her she ran to the site of the battle, and her eyes went wide. Flashes of white light and darkness flowed, clanging against one another, echoing throughout the world.

Zashi suddenly jumped back, slouching and breathing heavily, he lifted his head to see Marlena, which made him smile, but a beam of darkness shot past his view, "I will deal with her when I'm done with you." Melantha mocked him, pointing her black keyblade at him, he readied his keyblade and ran towards Melantha, and she blocked his attacks, but suddenly Zashi lunged forward, and swung his keyblade from under his body, knocking Melantha into the air. Leaping after her, Zashi attacked Melantha mercilessly, after a few blows, he brought his keyblade on Melantha's head, rocketing her back to the ground making a small crater where she landed. "Way to go Zashi!" Marlena shouted with joy, jumping into the air, watching him slowly land back on solid ground, he looked at her, and gave a smile, but suddenly a pillar of darkness erupted underneath Zashi, sending him flying through the darkness, he quickly looked around, but his vision was hindered by the darkness, and suddenly he heard a chilling laughter.

Pain raced through Zashi's body, Melantha had merged with the beam, and was attacking him. Hearing him scream, Marlena looked at the pillar of darkness, but could not see what was happening inside, "ZASHI!" she tried to shout over his screaming, but it was no use. A side of the pillar broke, with Zashi flying backwards, and tumbling like a rag-doll, rolling 11 feet away from the pillar, Marlena witnessed what happened and ran towards him. She dropped to his side and lifted his head, "Zashi! Come on Zashi! You've got to wake up!" she shouted, trying to wake him up, and his breaths were short, Marlena stood up and looked at the pillar of darkness, which faded to reveal Melantha, "It wouldn't be so painful if you just surrendered." She said with a smirk on her face, however Marlena had lowered her head, "Zashi…I need to borrow your keyblade for a moment…" she whispered to herself, and held out her left hand, and she concentrated on Zashi's keyblade and a beam of light shone in her hand, revealing the keyblade.

Fear replaced the smirk on Melantha's face when Marlena lifted her head, "Don't you dare hurt my friend!" She shouted, and flew towards Melantha. Attacking her with all her strength, Marlena gave a war-cry as she attacked, hitting her with repeated blows with the keyblades, and two balls of light formed at the tips of the weapons, Marlena aimed at Melantha and she let them loose, creating a massive explosion of light. Slowly floating back to the ground, Zashi's keyblade suddenly disappeared from Marlena's hands and she turned back to see him slowly get up from the ground. She ran towards him, and slid to her hands and knees, and grabbed him, "Zashi! I thought that Melantha had gotten you for good!" With her assistance, Zashi stood on his feet, and he turned to meet her gaze, "nope, it will take a lot more to take care of me…" with that, he suddenly fell to his knees, and he wrapped his arm around Marlena's neck for support.

They started walking away from the battle, only to face an army of Heartless, however Marlena simply shook her head, "I've had enough of you guys…" strangely, all of them disappeared, and Zashi looked at her, "wow…you've got a way with words…" She smiled, but suddenly Zashi's eyes went wide, and he pushed Marlena away from him. "ZASHI!" Marlena screamed, falling away from him, with her left hand reaching out to him, but a beam of darkness suddenly engulfed him. "I wont let this end with a happy ending!" Melantha's voice echoed, her eyes burning with rage. Marlena quickly got to her feet and ran towards Melantha, with her keyblade ready, but when she got there, she felt a cold, metal bar hit her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her, and she fell to her knees.

Slowly turning around in the beam, Zashi looked to see Marlena lying on the ground when a voice suddenly came to him, "there is light within every heart, just as darkness…" he stretched out his right hand, and a small sphere of light formed in his hand, and the light grew into a beam, which formed into a keyblade. With great effort, Zashi pointed the keyblade in front of him, "MELANTAHA! THIS IS YOUR END!" with that, a single beam of light gradually made its way through the darkness, Melantha screamed, pouring more power into the beam, trying desperately to stop the solitary beam of light, which wavered from the extra energy in the beam, but it slowly crept towards her.

Finally reaching Melantha, once the beam touched her skin, the light raced all over her skin and clothes, she screamed louder from the light, which radiated out from inside her, and a massive explosion of light and darkness swept over the entire world…