A New Plan
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Emerging through the other side of the portal, Iris and Marlena were carrying Zashi, and they laid him down on the ground, his breathing had become shallow. "What's wrong?" Iris looked over him, waiting for a response, but when the light from the sun hit Zashi's eyes, he screamed, quickly covering them with his arms. "he must have been in the Realm of Darkness for a long time…" Marlena said, putting a hand on his forehead, feeling his temperature, "we need to get him inside, he's burning up!" they picked Zashi up again and carried him towards the door, Iris using her foot to bang on the door, Leon opened the door and quickly moved out of the way, "Zashi!" he said shocked. They carried him to the bed and laid him down. "Merlin, he burning up with a fever, is there anything you can for him?" Marlena asked, he wandered towards the trio and put a hand on his forehead, "there is nothing I can do for him… His heart is fighting the darkness, this is a thing only he can do."
Iris looked down at him and her eyes went wide, "where…" she started, looking over his neck, "where is his necklace?" "What?" Marlena asked, looking over him as well, noticing the missing accessory, "maybe he lost it in the Realm?" Marlena asked, but Iris shook her head, "it was a gift from me…he wouldn't go and loose something like that…" Marlena lowered her head, "your right. I wonder where he lost it…" They covered Zashi with a blanket and let him rest, with him sweating and shifting in the bed. Iris turned to Merlin, "I don't like sitting here while Zashi suffers…is there anything we can do?" He closed his eyes and shook his head, "I believe I already told you…He must fight the darkness inside his heart." Marlena paced around the room, with her right hand on her chin, "what exactly does Xenmas want with hearts anyway?" Iris shook her head, "he didn't reveal that at all…he just said they were part of an experiment…" Marlena turned to her, repeating the last word, "wait…didn't Ansem use darkness for experiments?" She thought to herself as she stood by the window, looking out to the blue sky. "Iris…what was there when you met Xenmas?"
Thinking for a moment, she said, "well…there was a massive castle, and a giant heart…floating in the sky like the moon…" Marlena turned to her, "a giant heart?" Iris nodded, "that's what I saw…" Marlena walked to a chair and sat down, "all right…this is a little far-fetched…" she said to herself, drawing everyone's attention. "Namine told me a long time ago that when people become Nobodies, they loose their heart to darkness and only their bodies remain. When the Keyblade destroys Heartless, it releases their heart to go back to Kingdom Hearts… But…" "but what?" Leon chimed, pushing Marlena further, "what if someone or something made an alternate Kingdom Hearts…kind of like a detour…" then Merlin asked, "but what would a Nobody do with another Kingdom Hearts?" Marlena shook her head, "I have no idea…WAIT!" She stood up, knocking the chair down, "that's it! That is what Xenmas is doing! He made a different Kingdom Hearts to find his own heart!" "Wait…" Iris asked, but was reminded of her encounter with Sora's Nobody, and Iris also stood from her chair, "all Nobodies want to be whole again, that's why when I met Sora's Nobody…he told me he wanted to be his own person…Actually…last time I saw him was in the ruins of Hollow Bastion!"
This brought a big smile to Marlena's face, "really?" and Iris nodded, "All right, we are off to the ruins, we need to find Sora's Nobody ASAP!" she thanked everyone, and left with Iris and started to make their way to the ruins. "Aw…it doesn't look that far away…" Marlena said, and started to make her way down the path, "oh…if only Marlena knew how far away it really is…" Iris thought to herself and sighed and followed her friend.
All right...let me first do this falls to the floor I AM SO SORRY for making all of you wait. I kind of let my other story take a life of its own, and then Anime Expo happened, and then I found the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and all kinds of other stuff. But, I PROMISE from the bottom of my heart that I will finish this trilogy no matter what! Life and limb! Death and Suffering! I will finish this. Also...Thank you everyone for hanging with this story for so long...I didnt mean to make you wait. Honest. I just got caught up in other things, but Im back.