Memories Fade

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

Slowly opening his eyes, Zashi turned his head to the right, then the left, but all there was to see was darkness. "Hello?" his voice echoed endlessly, and he took a step forward, but he stopped, "What's going on here?" Zashi felt as though he had dropped something important, and looked around for the object, but there was nothing, when he heard a voice behind him, "Hey," he quickly turned around to see Melanie, and a smile flashed across his face, "Melanie! Its good to see you!" looking around for a moment, he turned his attention back to her, "do you know where we are?" She smiled and gave a nod, "This is the realm of Darkness…"

"the realm of Darkness?" Zashi repeated her words, and she nodded her head, "what you dropped was part of your memory…" He became confused, "my memory?" Melanie nodded and walked past him, "in this place, hearts become empty because of the darkness…" Zashi quickly turned around, "Wait! Sora was here right? After he was turned…" he let his voice trail, and his head hung low. Lifting his head, he looked into Melanie's eyes for an answer, but none came, and suddenly a thought entered his head, "Wait! Does this mean that Melantha is defeated?" She gave a nod, but Zashi did not celebrate the moment, "what's going to happen to me now? To Marlena?"

Melanie slowly turned around, "well…regardless, you are loosing your memory, and I'm not sure what will happen to Marlena once she sees you in your state." Zashi's head hung low again, "I wanted to go home with Marlena… But now…" he let his voice trail again, and a single tear fell from his face, "now I can't get home…" Zashi slumped to the ground, and slammed his fist against the invisible surface, but his fist was caught by Melanie's hand, "movement causes you to forget faster." He looked across the darkness, "the place were those people helped us…what was its name?" Zashi looked into Melanie's eyes, tears streaming down his face, "Sora…Was the lucky one…" she simply nodded and slumped down next to him, and wrapped her arm around him, and let him cry.

"My memory…its fading away…all the wonderful memories of my friends…of Marlena are fading away…" Zashi thought to himself as he cried, and lifted his hand to dry his tears, "well…maybe being in Darkness isn't too bad…I will forget about all the hard times…" trying to sound optimistic, he sighed at his own attempt, "but then I will forget about all the good things that have happened to me too, like meeting you Melanie." He looked into her eyes, and smiled, but she turned away, and looked into the darkness, "but my heart contained Melantha, who destroyed lots of worlds and attacked lots of people…how could that be a good thing?" he shook his head, "no what matters is that I met you and made a memory from it…" Melanie looked over the darkness, "Everything in your heart might be forgotten here…Even Marlena…" to this, Zashi stood straight up, "NO! I will never forget about Marlena! She is the one who saved me from…" he let his voice trail, "who did she save me from?" he questioned, and looked to Melanie, but she simply stood up and started walking away.

"Every memory the heart holds, gets erased in the darkness…" Melanie's voice echoed throughout the darkness, and Zashi stretched his right hand, and took a step after her, but he felt the same sensation of dropping something important, "Maybe she is right…The memories of the heart are erased in darkness…" however, he quickly shook his head, "NO! My memories are precious to me and I can't loose them here!" his voice again echoed throughout the darkness. Watching Melanie fade into the distance, he made up his mind, and started running after her, with every step, he lost fragments of his recent memory of defeating Melantha, traveling to her world, and soon he began to forget the place he called home. "Marlena…I must escape from this place before I loose you too…" Zashi thought to himself, while running through the darkness, trying desperately to find something-anything that resembles light. However he finally stopped, and slumped to the floor, "Marlena…I can't forget about you…" he said aloud, but her image in his mind slowly became faded and distorted. "Marlena…help me…" he said as the image of Marlena began to be replaced by darkness…

"I told you that you'd forget…" a female voice came to him, and he looked up into her yellow eyes, "do I know you?" Zashi questioned the girl, but she wrapped her arm around him and pulled him to his feet, "it would be a miracle if you did…" Melanie responded, and they started walking, Zashi looked around the darkness, "I can't remember anything…Why I am here…or even my own name…" his voice trailed, she turned to him, "do you remember a girl named Marlena?" Zashi looked at her, "wait…why does that name sound so familiar? Was she someone I knew?" he thought to himself, "don't worry, I wont let you wander in Darkness…besides there might be a way to send you back…" Zashi gave her a strange look, "back? Back where?" Melanie looked at him and rolled her eyes, "I forgot, he can't remember anything…" she looked at him, "back to the place where you belong…" Zashi looked into the darkness, "back…to where I belong?" he asked, but she simply looked straight ahead and they kept on walking through the darkness…