Keyx POV

It had been almost two days since Namixas left and I was beginning to worry. I was walking home when a dark portal appeared. My heart jumped as I ran over to the portal thinking it was Namixas. Instead of the person I was hoping for, three fully grown women stepped out. I hid behind a palm tree and watched ever closely, as an uneasy feeling came with their presence. The first one, with long black hair and red highlights, was obviously in charge as I watched her order the other two around.

The other two girls blankly looked at each other as their leader hurriedly walked off. The other two had distinct features and anyone could tell that they weren't from around the islands. The second girl had a high green ponytail and green bangs, though the rest of her hair was black. The last girl had short, choppy black and blue hair. I quietly followed as the two women walked into a nearby restaurant. These two women were wearing the same outfit as Namixas did, so I followed them into the restaurant, figuring they knew his location. Not many people walked around late at night in creepy black cloaks. These two women were different than their leader, not so serious, and not so harsh. I watched as they chose a booth towards the back.

Right after they sat down I walked and made contact. "Excuse me! Uhm people!" Both of them turned and stared at me with blank expressions and it made me nervous, and I felt my face shade into a deep red. "Uhm, you guys know Namixas, right?" The women with the short black and blue hair grinned brightly towards me, and I shivered with nervousness. I chuckled and flipped my bangs to the right, trying to ease the awarkwardness of the silence. The green haired girl spoke up. "Ya, we did know him..." She looked at me and seemed to examine my face. "How do you know him?" She spat out the word you.

I proudly spat back, "He's my boyfriend. And you two have on the same jackets he wears. Do you know anything about him? Where he is, or when he'll get back?" I asked the two of them, my tension getting deeper and hotter. The two stared at each other again and mouthed something I tried to comprehend. "Not really. Hey do you want to sit with us?" The green haired girl asked and motioned towards the seat next to them in their booth. I didn't see any harm in it so I agreed. "Uh okay." I said as I sat down at the table. They both told me there names as they first tried understanding my being. They asked about the nearby islands and thus I began to explain to them my home land.

They told me that they had a friend that I needed to meet quickly. I figured that they meet their leader I observed earlier and quietly agreed. They gave direct instructions to meet her and handed me a black cloak to hide my face. The girl with the blue tips was named Rexeal, or Rex for short. The girl with the green hair was named Lixcea, or Lix for short. Rex told me not to take the hood off my head, no matter what.

They explained that their friend was in the same jackets as they were and I nodded to show that I understood. Lix walked outside for a moment, and Rex looked at me. "I'm telling you, do not take the hood off." Her green eyes glared at me, almost with warning. "I need to use the restroom. If Lix gets back here before I do, please remember don't take the hood off. We don't want anything extreme happening." She walked towards the door to the right. After a few minutes of sitting by myself, Lix walked back in with the girl I had seen with them earlier. Lix walked up observantly, looking for Rex, carefully walked the leader up next to the table.

"Lixcea! Rexeal went to the bathroom. Just so you know." Lix spoke back, but not to me. "Max, this is the new friend I mentioned..." Max... hmm. So that's her name. 'Max' leaned down and glared at my eyes from under my hood. I shuttered as her green eyes pierced my emotions directly to fear. Max started to speak up.

"I'm Max, it's a pleasur-" Suddenly a loud crash was heard at the front of the restaurant, a waiter had dropped an entire tray of dishes. The quick movement to observe the loud noise was enough to blow the hood off of my head. I panicked, desperately trying to pull the hood back up, but it was too late. My hair rushed back to where it should have been in the first place. Suddenly Rex appeared out of no where and stood in front of me. Max's eyes got bigger as she stared at me. Suddenly her face got rough, mean and harsh. Suddenly she held some sort of weapon towards me. My body became stiff and I shivered from fear.

Rex suddenly pounced on Max knocking her straight to the floor. "No! Max! Wait! Don't do this!" Lix moved quickly over in front of me just like Rex had a few minutes ago. Max finally got up and free from Rex's grasp. "What the hell is wrong with you guys?" Max screamed at her two friends. "Get out of my way!" She practically threw knives with her words.

"No, Max! You can't kill her!" Rex replied. "I will carry out the mission Namixas couldn't. Don't make me do this!" "We need her alive! Get to know her and you'll see why we cant kill her!" Rex screamed back. My heart was racing, and so were the questions forming inside my head. I meet this girl and she wants to kill me? Nothing was adding up, and I didn't know if this girl really was a threat. Max turned and spat at Rex and Lix,

"If that's how your going to do your missions, you'll end up just. Like. Namixas. Dead."

The words hit me like bullets through my heart. My body went numb as I finally managed to say, "Dead?" I leaned past Lix and Rex and looked at Max, my hair whipped by from turning my head so fast. "He cant be dead!" My mouth went dry and my voice cracked. "He is. I made sure of that myself." Max said calmly. I felt my mind take over, I had no control. Despite my shakiness somehow I managed to attack Max, screaming louder than I had ever before. We both fell to the floor and everyone in the restaurant was staring as I attempted to inflict damage upon Max. I felt a new feeling I had never felt so strongly – defense, anger.

"Why? Why did you kill him? Why did you take him away from me?" I couldn't take it anymore, I was so weak, but yet so angry. I rolled off and hid my face in the floor and started to cry tears that felt like fire and burnt my face as they went down. She killed my other half, my better half. I felt a hand on my back, but I didn't care, and I wouldn't care about anything ever again unless Namixas came back. I couldn't feel my body. I couldn't feel anything, I felt so.. Pathetic. I wanted to die.

Sora POV

I walked into my room later that night. On my bed was a note, folded up and placed on my pillow. I opened it up and was shocked as I read it.

Sora,

I was given orders by my leader Xemnas to kill your daughter. But as you should know I could never do such a thing. They want her pure heart, and her death that way they wont be able to be defeated again. Im going back to the Organizations castle today to tell Xemnas I refuse to do such a thing. I will try and defeat Xemnas, but I do not know if I'll be able to return alive.

Can you please keep Keyx safe if that is to happen. . . I know you will.

P.S. Keyx knows nothing of any of this.

-Namixas

I dropped the paper and lightly it fell to the ground. I ran to Keyx's room, but it was empty like always. No, I told myself, I would not lose my child. I was not going to lose my baby girl, not to the demons of my past. I ran outside the house but was stopped by a familiar figure. "Don't worry. She is safe." I could only watch as the figure disappeared into a tunnel of darkness. I knew I could still protect my daughter, but how would I find her?

Keyx POV

Eventually the tears stopped. My body was cold, emotions almost dead. My mind was clear, in order to ease the pain. Rex and Lix had dragged me out of the restaurant because I was 'scaring the customers.' I sat against the wall, lifeless, the water in the background. "What should we do?" Rex asked Lix looking away. "I guess she can just stay with me. We cant leave her here – Xemnas will just send someone else after he finds out that Max backed down. She's not dangerous as they make her sound." Lix said slowly pulling me up to my feet. "Not yet shes not. Shes just not trained. She's been hidden from her own Destiny."

Rex quietly said. I looked up at the two women with my wet face. "No! You can't take me anywhere!" I pulled away harshly, confused and unsure of what to do next. I needed to get back to our place. He would be there waiting for me. I knew he would. "Let go of me!' I screamed at Lix. Lix sighed and wiped away one of my tears, not relaxing her grip. She was much stronger than me, an un-natural power. "You poor girl. Xemnas went to far this time." "Xemnas will do anything to ensure his success." Rex added.

I managed to pull hard enough away that she lost her grip and I lost my balance, falling face first into the dirt below. I could see our place, not far away. Lix pulled me up, holding tighter this time, and opened a dark portal. "If you stay here, your going to get killed. Come on. I got a place for you to stay so that you cant be harmed." And with that she pushed me into my new found world of darkness, a world that would change everything I once knew, a world that would form into my new life. My limbs became weak and I no longer wanted to go own, but Lixcea kept me moving.

Finally, I could see a light ahead and we were moving towards it. Suddenly we were outside a small house, and I could hear a large waterfall. I turned around and that's exactly what I saw. There was a small sign that was poorly inserted into the ground that read Healin. The surrounding environment was simply amazing; I had never been off my island before. Before I could get a good look, Lix firmly helped me up the stairs to the porch, and into the house closing the door behind me.

The house was plain, simple. It was mostly empty, the furniture looking new and not touched. The kitchen and the living room were merged into one, a bar separated the two. The walls were a bare white, no hanging pictures, and the floors were hardwood. The TV and the other few items in the house were very dusty, so it was obvious things weren't cleaned very often.

"Reno baby! I'm home!" A person with red hair, spiky at the top, a ponytail in the back, popped out from around the corner of a wall, the person I expected to be Reno. "Baby!" He screamed and ran over to Lix, practically shoving me out of the way and shoving his tongue down her throat. It got intense.

In fact, the ended up having sex right there on the couch. I walked out of the room before it started, but I could hear it. Gross. About 2 hours later Lix and Reno walked into the room I was in, there hair going in directions no one thought was possible.

"See! You found your room!" Lix said. "Yup, Yup, hey there Ramen." I said to Reno. "Ramen? Who the hell is Ramen?" "Its you, you old fart!" I screamed at him. Lix just laughed and walked away as Reno slammed the door. "I don't even know her name and she's making fun of me!" Then I screamed through the door, "That's right you ugly chicken!" I heard whimpers.

"Lix. . . Am I really an ugly chicken?" "No darling. . . You're a beautiful chicken. " "Oh, okay."

I laughed a little, then felt the empty feeling inside of my heart. Normally right now we would be at our place. Holding each other and embracing the feeling of love. The more I thought of Namixas the more my emotions became unstable. Tears and pain grew in my heart and the empty feeling seemed to overwhelm me. Even the simplest memory could start pain, and re-open my wounds. I felt the first tear slid down my cheek and then gave up. They came flowing down, in rhythm of my silent sobs. I cried myself to sleep. For once in my life I felt lost, no were near the great feeling of light.

Everyday pretty much went like that. Lix and Reno were both gone a lot so most of the time I had the house to myself. I could never find the inner strength to do much more than lay around the house. Every now and again Reno would stay home from work, but it was rare anyone was ever at the empty house, besides me, that is. One day though Reno had the day off. I was just resting in my room when I heard two voices coming from the other room. However, the other voice wasn't Lix's. No, it was a mans.

I ignored it and went back to doing nothing, still searching for a light to feel my empty heart. Then my stomach growled and I had to force myself to get up and get more food. When I walked into the other room, Reno was talking to a man with long, black hair, red eyes, and a red torn cape.

It took me off guard. He was so. . . So. . . I ran into the wall. I rubbed my head as I heard Reno laugh. I stuck my tongue out and walked towards the kitchen cabinet. I started searching for something - anything; then I found ice cream.

"Reno, who is that?" The dark man whispered to Reno. "That's . . ." I cut him off. "I AM KEYX!" I screamed as I flung ice cream directly at Reno's face. "I am the defender off this house and conqueror of Reno!" I laughed and started walking towards my room.

"You're annoying, that's what you are!" Reno snapped as he wiped the ice cream off his face. The dark headed man suddenly jumped up and held my door in place so I could not get it open.

"Wait just a second." he said, as he got closer to my face staring in my eyes. I was stunned, his red eyes held me there in a mysterious hold; I was unable to move away. I just wanted to stare forever.

"Who are you?" He asked me. Finally, I slapped my door open. "Excuse me." I said raising my voice. I slammed the door in his face.

"Reno." I heard the dark muffled voice say in concern. "Hey man, you want her, you can take her." "Reno, is she really who I've heard she is?" I heard footsteps, as I lay emotionless on my bed. The jolt of Reno kicking open my door startled me; a shame since I knew it would happen. He picked up my bag on the floor and tossed it at me, his thin red ponytail swung behind him. "Get up. You're moving in with Vincent!"

Slowly and silently, my panicked heart jumped as I found the courage to speak up. "I don't want to! Reno, I don't even know him!" "I didn't even know you when you moved in! I still don't know a damn thing about you, besides who your fucking parents are!" I stood up and began throwing my things into my bag. "If Lix were here things would be different." I said with venom as I picked up Namixas' picture, gently putting it in my bag. I didn't really care so much as to who I was living with, I wasn't planning on living life any different any time soon.

I walked out of the room and passed Vincent, blowing him off. "Want me to get your bag-" "No. Thank you." I said, refusing to even make eye contact.

I couldn't understand why Reno hated me so much. From stories I've heard from Lix, Reno has lost his love before – you think he would be sympathetic. I couldn't just stay bunched up in my room, depressed and emotionless: at that point, death could overcome me by taking control of my loss, and that is why I would pick on him so much. I couldn't help it if he was the only social contact I had.

I walked out of the house, upset and Vincent followed me out. He put his hand on my shoulder and I turned just enough so he could see the seriousness in my eyes. "Don't. Touch me." Slowly he took his hand off and walked in front of me, leading the way to who knows where.