The Last Straw

[Nox]

Aria started in on him the moment that Connor and Ayden had left. It was annoying that he was having to step between the two constantly. She was like a little child - both of them were. He laughed inside at the thought; he was usually the child - go figure.

But Aria was right, and he'd been stupid for letting them help him. What if they had been seen by another Atharim? He didn't even try to kill Ayden. His name was on the damned contract. Really it was not a good situation. He didn't think he'd contact Connor even though the man had told him to call.

Aria whispered her condolences and Nox wanted to break down. He could do that later when he was inside in his house. In their house. It was going to be a very long night and a very long time until things returned to some semblance of normal. Nox remembered all too well the impact the death of his mother had been on him. It was the moment when Aurora and he started drifting apart. Life fucking sucks!

And then their father died leaving a great big hole in their life. Now Aurora was dead and there was nothing left. Absolutely nothing left of his family except him. Aria was family but it was different. And at the moment Aria was little more than an distraction. Nox didn't want to play cop with her. He didn't want to keep her from herself. He wanted to drown in the darkness. The thought rattled him through and through.

The train lurched to a stop - their final destination and it brought him from his thoughts. They left the train only to find a chaotic mess of people trying to get on the metro. Aria seemed confused as he was. He would have asked her what she felt, but there was too much going on, too many people around.

They walked through the crowd as quickly as they could and as they neared the top he could hear sirens in the distance, much louder as he still had hold of the power. He didn't want Aria prying into his emotions. He was angry at the world and she didn't need any more fuel to feed on. She had her own sense of loss. She almost clung to him like he was saving her from drowning, and all he really wanted to was let her drown and go down with her.

The drama became crystal clear when they were two blocks from the warehouse they had called home. In it's wake there was nothing but a burning pile of rubble. Nox stopped in a daze. The power danced around him like a ballerina teasing him with some epic poetry of movement. It flooded his senses as he dropped to his knees. His family was gone. And now everything he had ever owned was gone - buried in a pile of flaming rubble. His life was shattered and Nox wasn't sure what to do about anything as the power danced around him taunting him to be used. He could see each flickering flame from the two block distance. He could smell the burning.

A secondary explosion went off and Nox knew that the fire had finally reached the munitions he and Aria had stored inside the warehouse.

People scattered and Nox stayed there on his knees, Aria an ever constant pillar next to him. Her hand was on his shoulder as a reminder but he wanted the world to burn, he pulled in the power as much as he could and started weaving fire and earth and air.


Edited by Nox, Oct 26 2015, 12:48 PM.