Into the Goblin's Den

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

"Well…" Alena said looking to her left, then right, "we can't stay here…" a small army of goblins had assembled on the catwalks, blocking their exits. The goblins wore leather masks, with small glass eyes pieces and several holes around their mouth. Alena leaned closer to Mareo, "follow my lead," she took a step forward; arms outstretched "we mean you no harm!" Mareo rushed toward Alena, "what are you doing?" She turned to him, flipping her arms to her side, "there is no way we can battle an army of goblins…" The army looked at each other and started to mumble in a language the duo had never heard before.

Mareo walked to his right and began pantomiming with his hands, "We…Are…Looking…For…The…Abyss…" with the word Abyss; they all stopped and stared at Mareo. He turned to Alena, "was it something I said?" slowly the goblins made a path and a lone goblin approached, having white hair. "Why do you seek Abyss?" the old goblin asked, surprising both Mareo and Alena, "you…" Alena started, "can speak our language?" He simply nodded and repeated his question, causing Mareo to walk forward, "we are looking for a way to stop the Abyss and find Promathia."

The old goblin's eyes widened, "why do you seek Promathia?" Mareo's eyes flashed with determination, "to stop him from destroying this world using Heartless." The elder raised a brow, "Heartless? Oh, the dark beings…" Alena took a step forward, what do you know about the Heartless?" The old goblin turned to her, with a smirk on his face, "we know many things about them, but we only share information for something valuable in return…" Mareo walked to Alena, "do we have anything valuable?" she turned to him with a twinkle in her eye, "do you have any money form your world?"

He patted down his pockets and heard a familiar jingle and dug his hand into his right pant pocket; pulling out pennies, dimes quarters and the gold-colored dollar coins. Mareo placed the change into Alena's hand and she presented them to the elder, he picked up some of the change and nodded, "your strange coins are sufficient." With that, he raised a hand and the goblins made a path and they followed him. "These, Heartless you call them, are amazing creatures." Alena arched her right eyebrow, "what do you mean?" The elder stopped and turned around, "they do not feel anything, nor do they have blood to bleed."

Mareo and Alena looked at each other and said, "we know, simultaneously. This surprised the elder, "how…how did you know that?" he asked, looking back and forth, Alena spoke first, "I knew they didn't have blood when I first fought them. They simply disappeared in a black puff of smoke." Mareo nodded, "yea, they are only manifestations of darkness…it would be weird if they had blood…" The elder put a hand to his chin, rubbing it back and forth, "manifestations of darkness?" Mareo nodded again, "yes. Heartless are just beings who lost their heart to darkness…" Raising his left eyebrow, the elder said, "Promathia is the god of twilight…it would be easy for him to summon an army of these Heartless…" Alena moved in front of the goblin, snapping him out of his train of thought, "we need a way to find Promathia, we were hoping you could help us."

The elder gave a smile, "we know a path to reach the God of Twilight however," his smile turned into a grin, "we goblins are a race of merchants. We have something you want, and there is a price you must pay." Mareo's eyes narrowed, "how much? What's the price to know where Promathia is?"