Spoilers: The beginning of KHI?
Disclaimer: I own nothing Kingdom Hearts related but a couple of figurines and the game, both of which are set up in lewd positions.
Challenge: 168 - Room 317 (for kh(underscore)drabble(AT)LiveJournal).

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"take a child from his mother, impossible."

The Heartless didn't feel, weren't conscious, couldn't possibly have understood. They were simply drawn towards that with power over them, the strong beating of a heart or the flash of a shining weapon.

They swarmed to the island that night, waking a young boy from his slumber and pulling him from his home with their unearthly song. The boy wandered, cold and alone, calling for friend and family alike, but no human heeded his call. Instead, his voice hastened the coming of a stronger Heartless, a being commanding those who are small, those without minds.

With a snap the boy was gone, ensnared in another world without a person to love or cherish him. His family awoke the next morning and wept, assuming their boy was lost to the night's black seas, capable of tearing a heart asunder like the claws of a thoughtless beast.

Though the boy's mother outwardly wept and screamed, cursing the ocean for taking her light away, inside her mind there was serenity; a single shred of acceptance. For she knew that though the life of the boy had been lost, she could think only of the fact that his lifelong dream had become his sombre reality. The boy had always stared into the distance day and night, imagining a bright new world, where the sand and the sun were not the only earthly friends he would know.

So though her heart was broken, her mind stood strong, for she placed her faith in the new parent for the boy, one which could bring him what she thought he had always deserved: a better life.