Darkness
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Everyone turned to Marlena, "what…" Iris started, "what do you mean?" She gave a sly smile, "Namine told me that the hearts of people who wield the Keyblade are connected, so we wont have a problem finding Zashi in the Realm of Darkness. But we still need a way there…" she let her voice trail and Iris spoke up, "I…can open a portal there." Marlena turned to her, "really?" and she nodded, "well…I've never tried, but it's worth a shot." They both raised out of their chairs and wandered towards the door, stopping to wave to their friends and they left the small house and Iris walked a few feet from Marlena and held out her right hand. Within moments, a small black sphere formed in front of her and started to expand, but Iris started to tremble, sweat had started dripping from her fingers, and it disappeared. Falling to her knees, supported by her arms, Iris breathed heavily, with Marlena rushing to her side, "are you all right?" she asked, and Iris gave a nod, "yea…I didn't realize how much energy it takes to open a portal…"
Suddenly Marlena had an idea, "Iris…I need you to try again." Iris looked at her friend and slowly got to her feet, and held her right arm out in front of her again. A miniscule black sphere formed, but a beam of light pierced it, and it started to expand, "All right!" Marlena shouted, "its working!" Iris lowered her hand and saw the small sphere expand into a swirling ellipse and looked back at Marlena who nodded, "you go first, Iris." With that, she passed through the vortex, being greeted by pure darkness. Moments later Iris was joined by Marlena, who looked over the scene; "well…its certainly different…" she said aloud, and then noticed that her Keyblade had started to shine brightly. Lifting the weapon into the air, Marlena pointed it out in front of her, and a single beam of light shone from the tip of the weapon, spanning into infinity.
"Well…now what?" Iris asked Marlena who shrugged her shoulders, "I guess we wait for Zashi…" Iris moved in front of her, "but…if he has lost all of his memory…" she let her voice trail, "Marlena…did you hear that?" Marlena looked around, "hear what?" "HEY!" a female voice echoed throughout the darkness, the woman was leading a man by the hand, who both women recognized instantly, "ZASHI!" they shouted at the same time, rushing towards their long lost friend. Zashi looked over them, "hello." Was all he said, and then looked back at the woman, "He has lost all of his memory…he doesn't remember anything…not even his own name. Oh." She finished, and held out a hand, "sorry I didn't introduce myself, I'm Melanie." Marlena shook her hand, "I'm Marlena, and this is Iris, we've come looking for Zashi…" Melanie smiled, "then it's a good thing I stayed with him the whole time…" she moved her hand with Zashi's towards Iris' "I hope you two can restore his memory…"
The girls nodded their heads vigorously and Marlena lifted her Keyblade, pointing it towards the darkness again, "oh…" Melanie started, "Zashi had one of those too…it was black if I remember right…" Marlena smiled, "that's good. As long the Keyblade is with him, we should be able to get back his memory." With that, a beam of light shot to the black ground, and a vortex morphed from it, and they waved goodbye to Melanie.
After the trio had left, Melanie shook her head, "heh. It will be unlikely they will restore Zashi's memory…especially since he has a Nobody feeding off his memories." Suddenly Melanie's skin turned black, her eyes turned blood red, "Zashi thought a little light could dispose of the Darkness…what a fool he was." Melantha tilted her neck, loud popping sounds erupting from her, she turned around, and clanged two of her fingers together, causing a sharp click to echo throughout the darkness, "What shall we do about Xemnas?" Another voice called, looking exactly like Sora, only having his skin black and his eyes yellow. "Xemnas is not our concern, because he will be swallowed by the Darkness which he likes to tamper with…" Melantha retorted, turning to Rizu, "he will be vital to our plans, he is seeking Kingdom Hearts, and when he finds it…" she gave a wicked smile, "we shall eliminate him and conquer it." "What about the other Keyblade bearer?" Rizu questioned. Melantha turned away from him, "our spy has gathered all the information we require…her strengths, weaknesses. Everything. She will not stop us this time."