Meeting the President
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Alena nodded, "yes, I've taken care of what I needed to do here. Now we can meet the President and ask him for passage into the last place where the goblin city was." They left the consulate and wandered through the city towards the president's building. Finally coming to the door, Mareo grasped the handle and swung open the door, allowing Alena to enter first, and then entered, shutting the door behind him, "I presume you came to see the President." A female voice echoed throughout the hall way, they turned their heads to see who was speaking, and Alena took a step forward. "I am Alena, personal bodyguard to Prince Pieuje, with me is my companion Mareo." Her voice seemed to echo and a slight chuckle came over the room, "Pieuje? Of San d'Oria? What business do Elvaan have here?" the woman came from behind the left wall, "If you are to have any business with the President, it must be first passed through me."
The woman had black hair with a brown headband, and was equipped with full samurai armor, painted in red, and a long purple katana. Alena narrowed her gaze, "Ayame. I recognize that sword from anywhere." Ayame gave a grin, "Alena…you were always sharp as a tack…" Mareo quietly walked beside Alena whispering, "Alena…do you know her?" She gave a slight nod, "Yes. Ayame and I were in the same training grounds in the East. She excelled in swordplay, while I became a Ninja." He simply nodded his head and took two more steps past Alena, holding up his right hand, a beam of light shone, and when he grabbed it, it formed into a Keyblade, "we are here to see the President about the Abyss, and a way to the goblin city." Ayame took a step backwards, looking between Mareo and Alena; she slowly stepped out of the way.
Walking past her, they came to another set of doors, Alena opened it, inside the circular room was a desk, with various bookshelves and paintings hung on the wall. Moving inside the room, the door was slammed behind them, making Mareo jump, and after taking a closer look, there was a man hunched over the desk, apparently writing something, "please sit down. I heard everything that happened in the hallway." The man's voice rang in the small room, and the duo sat down in a pair of chairs in front of the desk. The man lifted his head from this desk, wearing a purple beret, lined with gold, his dull brown eyes seemed to gaze at the both of them; wearing a white, collared shirt with a red neckpiece. "I am Karst, President of Bastok. You have to excuse Iron Eater there, he is my personal bodyguard." Karst said, pointing behind them; showing the massive Galka, having black hair and a pair of black eyes with white colored skin. He wore blue armor with various designs embedded with gold, he towered over both Mareo and Alena. "Alena…" Mareo whispered, "is that a Galka?" She simply nodded.
"I understand that you are looking for the goblin city." Karst said, getting their attention, "yes sir, we have already spoken with Kam 'lanaut and he said that you would have the information we need." Alena spoke, handing him the map. Karst nodded, looking over the sheet of paper, he lifted his head, "Yes, Kam's information is correct, there is a secret entrance to the Goblin city, however; its guarded by patrol day and night, it will be very hard to enter." "Well…how many are there? Could both of us get in there?" Mareo asked, pointing to himself and Alena, however Karst shook his head, "Goblin's hearing is extraordinary, they would hear you coming from a mile away…" Alena's eyes lit up, "I have some Ninjutsu tools that can reduce the noise that we make." Karst pointed to her, "that might be an idea, if you can use that to sneak past the patrols, then you can gain access into the city." Both of them nodded, and Karst grabbed a pen, and made a circle on their map, "I have marked the location of the last known location of the goblin city; but since they are constantly moving, I do not know if they are still there." Alena got up from her seat, "Thank you President, we will go and do this right now." With that, she started walking out the door; Mareo panicked for a moment, then got up, "Thanks a lot for your help." Mareo said, turning back to Karst as he left, chasing after Alena.
"Hey Alena!" Mareo shouted, getting her attention, finally catching up to her, "what do you think we should do? Wait until nightfall to go to the goblin city or wait until tomorrow?" Alena put a hand to her chin in thought, "I think we should go tonight, and use the darkness to our advantage." Mareo nodded his head, looking to the sun in the sky, "well…it looks like its about noon…what are we going to do until tonight?" She still had her hand at her chin, then shook her head, "I don't know…we should probably get some potions and antidotes for the trip." A smile came across her face, as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a round, gold earring. Alena walked towards him, grabbed his right hand, and dropped the object into it; Mareo looked at her confused, "Uh…Alena? What's with the earring?" She chuckled, "Mareo, this is called a Linkpearl, it allows anyone who wears it to talk to another person." His eyes lit up like a child, "really?" She nodded, "this one is special, it lets us talk to each other, as if I were standing next to you, no matter how far apart we are." Mareo looked down at the earring, "All right, I don't really know how to put one of these things on…on my world, mostly girls wore earrings…"
She wandered to his right, and touched his earlobe, "All right Mareo, this might hurt a little, try not to jump…" He swallowed a lump in this throat, and feeling a sudden stab at this earlobe, it too every ounce of control not jump all over the place, "there. Its all done, all you have to do to talk to me is touch it." Alena said, touching the round portion, which began to faintly glow, and touched it again, turning it off. Mareo took a few steps away, turning back to Alena, "I want to see if this works," and turned back, touching the earring, "Alena…are you there?" he said to himself, "yes Mareo, I can hear you just fine." Alena's voice rang in loud and clear, "wow…we never had stuff like this on my world…" he said turning around, discovering Alena had disappeared, "Uh…Alena? Where did you go?" She giggled, "I'm just at the markets, buying potions; we are going to meet up tonight at the place where we entered Bastok all right?" Mareo nodded his head, "OK, I know where that is…but what do you want me to do?" Alena giggled again, "I don't know, explore Bastok, I might be a while I'm haggling people at the shops." With that, he couldn't hear Alena's voice again, turning off the Linkpearl, Mareo looked around at the town, "I wonder where I should go first?"
