Never Deal with Goblins

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic

By:

Chison

The old goblin smiled, "the information you seek is worth far more than strange coins." Alena turned to Mareo, but he turned away from her back to the elder, slowly raising his right hand, a beam of light shone, and solidified into the keyblade, scarring the other goblins as well as the elder. "you…posses the key…" Mareo nodded, setting it down in front of the goblin, "will that be enough for you?" Alena grabbed Mareo by the shoulder, quickly turning him around, "What are you doing?" she whispered, "trust me this is the only way to get the information we need…" Alena's angered expression disappeared when she saw a twinkle in Mareo's eye, "to give the key of worlds…you are true about your intentions…" The elder's voice echoed, "very well, I will tell you how to reach Promathia."

They gathered around the elder, who pointed up, towards the ceiling, "in order to find the way to Promathia, you must ascend to the highest point of Vana'diel…" Mareo held up his hands, "wait, wait…you mean to tell me that we got to the lowest part of this world and now we have to go the HIGHEST!?" The goblin looked at him and nodded, "yes, why do you think we are constantly moving? Its to keep from Promathia from unleashing his wrath upon us!" Regaining his composure, the elder resumed, "the place you seek is known as Hall of the Gods. There will be a way to meet Promathia from there…" "Hm….that sounds familiar somehow…" Alena spoke to herself, however as they made small talk, the elder slowly raised his left hand to a unseen lever just over his head, "now that we are all done here," he gave a smirk, "so are you." Giving the lever a hard pull, the floor under the duo gave way, and they started to fall into darkness…

Both of them gave a scream as they fell, "I know this feeling…" Mareo thought, the wind whipping through his air, his clothes ruffling against his skin, he slowly closed his eyes, letting his body go limp and fall headfirst. "MAREO!" a voice echoed over the sound, his eyes flashed open, revealing Alena holding her hands out. "GO FOR THE TUNNELS!" she shouted and flew towards the closest one to her, and was sucked into it. Giving a loud yell, the force of the wind pushed him through the winding tunnel, faster and faster; when he found himself flung skyward, the sun shining in his eyes. Mareo reached the apex and started to fall to the ground, landing on his feet; but the force sending him head over heels and tumbling for another 10 feet. Opening his eyes, he saw Alena make a much more graceful descent, with her arms stretched out, she did several flips and landed solidly on her feet; after which she quickly found Mareo and grabbed him by the collar and used two hands to lift him in the air, "What are you thinking? Giving the key to the Goblins is like handing over the entire world!"

"Relax…I didn't give them anything." Mareo said with a smile, which confused Alena, "what do you mean?" She asked quizzically, "well…if you would put me down…then I will show you." He said with a smile and he was gently lowered to the ground and took a step backwards and held out his right hand. A flash of light shone in his right hand, and formed into the keyblade. "How…how did you do that?" Alena asked completely confused, "well…the keyblade is attached to my heart, and I cant summon it from anywhere, even if its left somewhere." A smile broke across her face and she reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "you had me worried for a moment…I guess you are full of surprises." Mareo nodded and looked around, "uh…exactly where are we?" Alena took a few steps past him and started to climb a small hill. He followed her, with his jaw dropping from the sight before him: a large mountain range, however the tips had been rounded off with trees in the ravines and the tops of the mountains reached into the clouds. "Come on, it looks like its going to rain her pretty quickly…" Alena said as she started to make her descent down the hill, "wait…how can you tell?" Mareo asked, following her down. She stopped, pointing to one of the mountains: a swirling mass of water was stationed on top of one them, "that's called a Water spirit, where ever it goes, it brings rain…" with that, a drop of rain fell onto her hand, she looked to the sky again, seeing the clouds had changed from a fluffy white to a menacing black color.