Under the Cover of Night

A Kingdom Hearts fan fiction

By:

Chison

"Mareo…" A female voice echoed in the distance, "Mareo, wake up!" Sitting straight up, Mareo rubbed his eyes and looked around, "oh…its you Alena…" he quickly got to his feet, Alena following suit, letting his eyes adjust to the darkness, Mareo focused his eyes on Alena, "oh wow…I guess I was asleep quite a while…" Alena simply nodded her head, "This is our best chance to get into the goblin city. Lets go." and she started walking back towards the gate where they first entered Bastok. He quickly came to walk beside Alena, "Got everything you needed?" Mareo asked, she nodded with a smile, "yes, and I got to meet some of my friends who live here." Alena's smile was contagious and Mareo smiled too, "What were you dreaming about there?" she asked tilting her head back, referencing to the tree, however he gave a shrug, "I don't really know. I don't dream very often…But when I do…its always about my childhood." "Your childhood?" Alena questioned, and he nodded, "well…its hard to tell about it because its…" he stopped looking for the right words, "kind of personal. It hurts."

Passing under the archway in silence, they made their way into the rocky desert; using the light from the stars to guide them. However, Alena stopped, taking a few steps in front of Mareo and then slowly lowered her body to the ground. Waving her hand down, he did the same and crawled up beside her, "What's wrong Alena?" he asked, but was quickly shushed. "Mareo, goblins have incredible hearing remember? You've got to keep it quiet…" Mareo breathed an 'oh' and kept his voice down and Alena turned to her back, pulling out a small cylinder from her backpack. "Alena…what is that?" he whispered as softly as he could, and she smiled, "this is one of my Ninja tools. It allows us to move around without making a sound. Its well known that Goblins have horrible vision." Mareo's eyes grew as big as Alena began to chant several words and a strange, grey smoke started to pour from the cylinder.

It slowly found its way to Alena and Mareo, and began to cover their whole body, sinking through their clothes, going straight to their skin like a gentile mist. After the smoke disappeared, Alena got up from the ridge and started turned to Mareo, "all right, this wont last very long," she whispered, "we need to pass the three goblins guarding the entrance and make our way into their city." With that, Alena raced down the ridge in a blur, with Mareo trying to follow her. She quickly passed the guards and Mareo trailed behind her, tying to catch his breath from trying not to fall down the ridge and quickly followed Alena inside. Running into complete darkness, Mareo kept going, until after a few moments of running, he saw a light at the end of the tunnel and slowed to a jog, coming right beside Alena, who turned to him, nodding, "nice…I didn't think you could keep up with me…" It took a moment for Mareo to respond, "I guess the Keyblade was right to choose me…" From their vantage point, they saw the entire Goblin city.

The entire cavern was lit by torches; hammered directly into the wall with a massive tower of wood and metal twisted together, moving slowly to their right. Many goblins were wandering around on the catwalks they had made directly to the opposite ends of the cavern most were using pickaxes and chipping away at the rock, looking for precious metals or stones. "I've never seen anything like this…" Mareo whispered to Alena who simply nodded and looked to her left, and her mouth fell open. "Uh, Alena?" he asked, waving his hand in front of her face, she simply grabbed it and pointed it in the direction she was looking; there was a massive hole in the caver, that was filled with darkness. "No way…" Mareo started, taking a few steps forward, then turning back to Alena, "they dug their way here?" All she could do was nod her head when a small sizzling sound emitted from both Mareo and Alena. He looked around, "What's that sound?" Alena's eyes when wide when the grey smoke evaporated from their body, forming a sphere and raised up into the cavern. "Mareo." she said, walking up to Mareo, "my Ninja tool is done, we are sitting ducks here…" Panic washed over Mareo, "well what are going to do? We cant exactly go out the same way we came in…"


AHHA! I am over my infamous Writers Block! Booyeah! Expect more frequent updates since my Finals are right around the corner and life is going to be back on track pretty soon! Thank you everyone for sticking with this story for so long! Bows deeply