Chapter 2: Everything's Loss
Nixsaro sat with Aranox on the floor of Havoc's Divide looking at the devastated remains of Kingdom Hearts. She remembered being told how Ansem the Wise sacrificed himself to destroy it. For some reason he did not want to allow Xemnas, the Nobody of Lord Xehanort, to get his heart back. Nixsaro could not understand why he was so against allowing a desperate Nobody to become whole once more. But his sacrifice was in vain. Though he delayed Xemnas's plans, it was later discovered that if a Nobody was destroyed and its heart was released by the Keyblade, the original Somebody came back into existence.
When Lord Xehanort realized what happened, he located the Heartless of all the loyal Organization members and led the oblivious Keybearer to them and their hearts were released. Their Somebodies made up Numbers II through VI of the Second Organization. They wanted to recreate Kingdom Hearts so that they could repair their newly restored but twisted hearts. They allowed other Nobodies to aid them in their quest. They said that once their own hearts were mended, Kingdom Hearts would be used to restore the existence of said Nobodies. Nixsaro, Number VII, was the first Nobody to join them, followed by Aranox, Number VIII, and Nix, Number IX.
Nixsaro had joined, wearing the original Organization's black cloak, while all the humans wore a white version it (with the exception of Lord Xehanort, whose cloak was a pattern of black and white). She was joined by Aranox a few days later, as he had taken longer than she to find The World That Never Was. Nix was introduced fourteen months afterwards. So far they were all who had joined, but they were hoping to reach the total of thirteen members that the original Organization had.
That had all been years ago. Nixsaro started thinking back to when her heart succumbed to the darkness. She reached up to touch the scar above and below her eye. She got that scar the same day.
After Sinora turned eighteen she continued to stay at the orphanage until Aaron came of age and was released. The neighbors who gave Aaron to the orphanage had passed away a few years earlier and left their house to Aaron (whom they had kept contact with). He and Sinora decided they would live there after they left the orphanage.
One day a year later, Sinora, who had more freedom than the underage orphans, had taken Aaron out to look for furniture for their house. They were walking back discussing some wall clocks they had seen when a ragged man carrying a bottle staggered up to them and bumped into Aaron's shoulder.
"Watch it!" Aaron snapped at the obviously drunk man.
"Ya should show more re'pect fer yer old man," he slurred.
"Excuse me?" Aaron asked, taken aback.
"You 'eard me! It's me, Consolus!" he smirked, looking triumphant. "Ya think 'ose old fools we lived nex' to di'n' try to make me come back by sending me pictures o' my 'precious son.' "
"So that's how you recognized me…" Aaron trailed off.
"What do you want?" Sinora asked of Consolus protectively.
"Ta take what's mine, o' course. 'E's my son, I should take 'im home."
"You abandoned him! I think you've made it clear what you think of him!" she snapped, her anger rising. Aaron remained silent.
Consolus looked at his son before responding. "Well, if you don' wanna come, I c'n jus' take ya wi' me!" With that, he threw the bottle in his hand against the ground, shattering it. He stooped down to pick up a few shards of the broken glass.
Sinora 's eyes widened, and she pushed Aaron behind her protectively and began to back away, not taking her eyes from the man. She had to push her brother to get him to move, he was still staring at the drunkard.
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YER GOIN'?" he suddenly yelled and hurled all of the glass in his hand at them. As he was fairly intoxicated, all but one piece of it missed them completely.
Sinora cried out in pain as the glass struck her face and stumbled back to be caught by a suddenly alert Aaron. Her vision was obscured as blood ran into her right eye. She put her hand to the cut and felt that the skin above and below the eye was lacerated. She realized how lucky she was that eye itself was not sliced open.
She glanced at Aaron and whispered one word to him. "Run."
He grasped her arm and sprinted in the opposite direction. She had planned on staying behind a moment longer to ensure that they were not followed, and lurched as Aaron pulled her along. Consolus took the opportunity to throw a rock at her. The stone hit Sinora in the temple and her world went black.
When she awoke, the first thing she was aware of was a throbbing at the side of her head, followed by stinging at her eye. That was all her mind could process for a few seconds. Her confusion dissipated suddenly as she remembered what had just happened. Her eyes flew open and she sat up quickly to find herself alone on the sidewalk. Around her, the only sign of the conflict that had occurred was the small drops of dried blood around her. Aaron was gone.
He abandoned her. He ABANDONED her. HE left HER behind. After all she did to protect him, he just ran off once she was hurt. The fool...
Feelings of rage and betrayal filled her mind and made her head ache. She felt a sort of heavy feeling in her chest, and breathing became painful. Her sadness seemed to fuel the flames of her rage. Darkness started to gather around her. Finally losing her internal battle, she let out a scream of rage as the darkness consumed her completely and flung her heart into despair.