Kingdom Hearts

Memories-

Contrary to thought, she remembers it all; life before the darkness, before Hollow Bastion, before now.

At times, memories come back randomly. After watching a red cat run by, picking a large marble, or even looking at the sunset. Things come back, from then. She remembers Avalanche, Sephiroth, her friends, materia, Geostigma, and Wutai. She remembers that she was one of those who saved the world on multiple occasions. She remembers that she was a princess, and not just any ordinary princess, the princess of Wutai, Materia thief and the Greatest Ninja of all time and she wonders what happened to it all. And then she remembers.

Remembers when the darkness came, how it came so quick, so unexpected. How there was nothing that could be done. They had fought, had retaliated, had all banded, even with those Turkies, but there was nothing that could be done. The more they fought, the more quickly the darkness reappeared, with one down came 3 more. Even soon, their materia stopped working, and soon they all fell, one by one.

As she watched, there was nothing that she could do, she saw all her comrades fall; Tifa, Cloud, Nanaki, Cid, Barrett, Reeve, and Vincent. All one by one, all in front of her eyes, she remember being alone, in that darkness waiting for something to over take her, to take her somewhere else, away from the darkness and misery. But it never came, instead she was the only one left, all alone in the true darkness that those creatures couldn't bring. She couldn't see anything, anyone, beyond the black in front of her eyes, surrounding her, tempting her to fall to them. She wouldn't. As long as she was Princess of Wutai, member of Avalanche, and the Greatest Ninja Ever, she wouldn't be defeated to something like this. She would live to avenge her comrades, her friends, her family.

Eventually, she, too, fell to the darkness against all her might, and instead of dying, she ended up in another world or so she was told. Hollow Bastion, she was told, and saw the dreariness of the town and decided it couldn't be much worse than the darkness she had come from. But then she saw them, the ones she thought were gone. Aerith, who had died right before her eyes stood in front of her with an understanding look, as if she knew what had happened. She kept expecting her to suddenly disappear again. Cid, Cloud, and Tifa, too, had shown up in this new world, but she kept wondering that everyone would come back, all safe and sound, with a smile on their faces like the darkness had never existed. But they never came. She kept smiling on the outside, trying to keep hoping. Hoping that she would just wake up and it would be all a dream, that this had never happened, that she would wake up and see the 7th Heaven and the Edge and Wutai, and everything that was her home. Was. Was she already believing the inevitable? That there was no more home, they were always in danger, always fighting, there was no home Here. Home was gone, gone with Then, and now came the world of black and grey, the now.

What more could she do? Give into the darkness? Let it laugh at her failing? Do exactly what it wanted, to crack and lose hope? Even if she had lost her home, she wouldn't give in to the darkness, she would keep fighting. Even if she could never go back home, she would never forget. Never forget the Then, never.

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Hi, This is NinjaPower. This is a oneshot, but I'm thinking about continuing this. If you think I should, send me a review telling me so. Bye!