Back to the beginning of this story. [Jenova only]

[Yazoo]

Yazoo wandered through the cave. He had felt 'mother' nearby and somehow he was curious. Back at Space Paranoids he had found her, but things had changed greatly since then. Also this time he was alone, there wasn't Naminé who could interfere with more... special conversations. This time he would learn more, especially after having felt the presences of Kadaj, Loz, Sephiroth and Jenova in one place. There was something definitely happening.

As Yazoo moved through an opening to enter a different part of the cave, he noticed Heartless crawling around. So many things had happened since the beginning of this story. Since his return to the world. The remnant passed the Heartless as he looked around at them. The Heartless crawled around, apparently in search. He didn't bother himself with them. he had worked with the Heartless many times now. It reminded him of his first meeting with the Heartless, and most specifically the Human Heartless. Or Horsemen as he had heard. His meeting with Maurelle and, before that, with Xemnas had been confusing and it had been difficult. It was the beginning of his troubles.

Yazoo came into a darker part of the cave. For a moment he thought to see something in the darkness, which brought Zack to his mind. Zack Shifrin was a strange experience. He had changed that time, he actually started to work with others. It was the beginning of his choices. For the first time he thought on his own. But that feeling was lost soon after. He made some 'friends', first Zack, then Keldric and Naminé, finally Kirux.

As the remnant continued he came in a part with piles of gold and jewelry, it reminded him of his meeting with Kirux. As he looked ahead, it seemed the way was blocked. Not bothering continuing for a moment, he thought back. Kirux and he had been stuck on an island with piles of gold as well. But it was a different world. Gold didn't interest him, but when Kirux chosen to disappear, it did bring some sadness.

He had made many choices over the course of his movements. However, after making many conflicts and having gone mad at times, he had made a final choice. He would stay by his brothers' side. He started ultimately with them and he'd end there. He had severed his ties to the Light almost immediately. His ties with the Organization were starting to fall as well. His ties with the Horsemen were kept for now. Any other ties were kept or broken at will.

Yazoo waited calm, then he lifted a hand and before him swirled open darkness. A Corridor ripped open the air in front of him and he lowered his arm as he walked through the darkness. Through that Corridor he walked into a different part of the cave. Closer to Jenova, closer to mother.

[jenova]

Jenova snorted briefly in annoyance. It seems that with the discovery of another sealed keyhole came the simultanious appearance of another dead end. Would she ever find her way into Kingdom Hearts? Jenova was starting to see her choices diminish in front of her very eyes.

She had already come up with a dead end in Hollow Bastion, even though she gained valuable information on the X-Blade. She consequently doubted Kadaj and Loz's value to her. They did promise her the keyblade, but the Calamity saw it as a paper thin promise. Kadaj was starting to show his true colors, and he would prove to be a powerful adversary if he continued. Mother's only chance to stop a complete reunion of the Remnants was the third link in the group, Yazoo.

It was at that exact moment that Heaven's Dark Harbringer caught a familiar scent. It was eerily similar to the two brothers that had just exited her mind. There was only one other alternative...the third Remnant, Yazoo, was here. She knew it wasn't Kadaj or Loz, because they would be after the X-Blade, whether it be for Mother or not.

Jenova was finally going to be reunited with the last of the Remnants. She had one chance to convince the marksman to join her and the Angel, and only one shot. If she failed, then it would surely end up with the Remnants versus Sephiroth and herself at some point in the future; therefore, it would be prudent for the Harbringer to either recruit Yazoo or see to his demise.

She silently listened as the dark portal opened behind Mother. She had her back to the portal, as she was eyeing the Keyhole suspiciously. Her attention, however, was fully on her son's entrance. The keyhole could wait for another time, but her son couldn't. Jenova spoke before Yazoo could even fully emergy from the corridor.

"Yazoo, how good of you to join me this evening! What brings you to your Mother's side? I know you have not come to this simple desert town in search of anything valuable."

Mother then slowly turned to reveal herself to Yazoo in her full glory. She would answer any questions Yazoo had with complete and total honesty, something Kadaj had proven he did not deserve. The next few minutes would determine not only his usefulness to Jenova, but the length of time he would continue to breath his precious oxygen.

[Yazoo]

Yazoo listened to Mother's words. It had definitely changed. Somehow he didn't expect her to remember much of their last meeting. Especially since that time she was still recovering from returning. Or perhaps it was the disappearance of her presence before that made it possible. There were still many secrets in this universe he had started to learn about. His researches kept getting stranger the closer he got to an answer. Each answer raised more questions and more secrets. An eternal hunt it seemed.

As he fully had emerged from the Corridor, the Remnant quickly noticed the Keyhole nearby. Another one? He had found only few, but he had learned each world had one. So far he had learned of five locations. One he hadn't reached, but only learned of. A thought of the Door came up for a moment. There had been some secrets from the Seeker of Darkness. The Door was perhaps an answer, but it was closed. If he was able to find Keldric again, he would have a Keyblader on his side to see if they could open that Door. Or he needed more information. The Keyholes had their secrets as well.

After having been silent for some time, Yazoo finally spoke: "I noticed your presence here, so came to see," he started slowly and walked a bit closer, "how are you feeling, Mother?" There was definitely nothing valuable here, other than the Keyhole. Gold, riches, jewelry, all of it didn't matter. Only when needed to buy information out of pirates or other dark individuels that seemed very greedy when it came to such useless trash.

There were a few questions for Jenova floating through Yazoo's mind, but he preferred to wait. To learn more on her reasons here and what perhaps her plans were. He had met many 'siblings' and learned much about the Projects involving them. It was strange to remember all of what had happened. Out of all his brothers, it seemed he has been longest active since returning. Perhaps some have been wandering about, but he had been guided since the beginning to find the others. To find his brothers and, most importantly, Mother. Only reasons changed with time.

[OOC: Sorry for lateness, I'm back~ Hope the post is okay, lol. Trying to get back into the RP'ing since my inactivity with all the crazy issues around.]

[jenova]

There he was. Jenova’s own son, Yazoo, had paid her a visit deep in the caverns of Agrabah. It seemed he had chosen to come merely on instinct. The instinct was the piece of her lodged deep into the Remnant’s own cells. Jenova had many children, and every single one was created through merging of her cells with humans. It was the only useful task that Gast and Hojo ever accomplished.

The Calamity slowly hovered over towards the long-haired Remnant. It seems he hadn’t spoken to Kadaj or Loz lately, otherwise he’d have heard of their encounter at the castle, Hollow Bastion. The twilight skinned alien tucked Yazoo’s hair behind his ear before she decided to let the Remnant in on her plans.

”I will not lie to you, Yazoo. I have plans to accomplish another Reunion. This time I will unite myself with the powers behind Kingdom Hearts. The Angel will also be accompanying me on my missions to find a way to the Door to the Light. I am at Agrabah investigating a previous means to opening the door. It seems someone previously used seven pure hearts to open a keyhole very similar to the same power you see in front of you.

Will you lend your Mother a hand in her quest for domination? Join Sephiroth and myself and together we will all finally rule together as the most powerful family in existence. You do want to exist alongside us, do you not?”[/b]

Jenova laid it out plain and simple: She was planning on taking Kingdom Hearts. She wanted the universal power she believed was held deep inside the ivory doors. It was Jenova’s destiny to rule over the mortal beings of the Light. They would bow before Heaven’s Dark Harbringer soon enough. History would write of the era of Mother.

She had already gained one immense power since her renewed existence, the Black Materia, and with it the most powerful Black Magic, Meteor. She watched as Sephiroth cast the powerful magic once in the past, almost obliterating the Planet, which was definitely a good thing for Jenova. Her existence used to consist of wiping planets of life and using the empty shell to move to the next world. She had since moved on to more important matters, the complete and total control of all life.

[Yazoo]

Yazoo watched mother come closer. He didn't move, his expression remained calm as the alien that was referred to by his brothers and he as 'mother' came before him. Some memories of Sephiroth flashed by of when he took Jenova from her 'prison'. Sometimes he wondered if he had made the right decision when he joined forces with Genesis. When he opened himself to Sephiroth. All his decisions since his return. The first thing he had done was only search, not for reasons, but the same thing as he did before he died. Mother.

He had met many of Jenova's 'children'. These ranged from the members of Project G with Genesis, Angeal, Weiss and the Tsviets to the 'black sheep' Cloud and Zack of Project S. He was only a remnant, a part of Sephiroth's remaining spirit after he died. As his 'allure', he had difficulty deciding on his own at first and only searched, but now he had changed. However, no matter how many changes he went under, nothing changed in that he was her 'son'. His research had brought him further than any would expect. He had believed himself as incomplete, but others referred to him as 'complete'. Still he felt not entirely 'complete'. The reunions will continue.

When Jenova spoke, Yazoo listened calm and learned another thing he had not known before. Yet, perhaps he should've known. His research still continued. A Door to the Light, a Door to the Darkness. The Keyholes, the Keybladers, the Heartless, there were many mysteries behind them all. The seven pure hearts, the seven Princesses of Heart. Kairi, Cindrella and Alice were three of them. He had known of them for long and had some conflicts on area's with Kadaj back then. His brothers were still very precious to him.

When Jenova came with the question whether he would join her and Sephiroth, his thoughts stopped running on all the conflicts and questions. When she had ended, only one question rose into his thoughts: what happened between her and Kadaj? And Loz? He couldn't see how Loz would actually betray mother. What exactly could have happened. A silence followed. "Door to the Light? I've known of a Door to Darkness that I've seen..." He started slowly while tilting his head a bit as he looked at Jenova. "Me and... a 'partner' investigated there some time ago."

Slowly he made a bit of a short bow to mother. "Perhaps it might be of interest to you?" He continued calm, "it was within the Heartless world, End of the World it is named, I believe," he said slowly, "I have much information gathered. It might be of use... Of course I will follow you, mother," he ended calm. He then calm and slowly asked a single thing: "Have you... spoken Kadaj and Loz?"

[OOC: Mèh! Sorry if my post sucked, not one that worked out too well. Expected more out of myself, but failed, lol. xD;; Sorry.]

[jenova]

[XD I definitely confused the Door to Light and Door to Darkness]

If Jenova were human, the heat of the dessert would definitely be a problem at the moment. She could feel the power that the sands held over humans in the thick hazy air. Stuffed deep inside the earth in the Cave of Wonders definitely didn’t help matters any. The Calamity was above such things as heat exhaustion and hypothermia, mostly because she had a history of invading planets with the most severe of temperatures, including frozen wastelands to burning oases.

Her youngest son stood before her spilling valuable information about the Door to Darkness in the End of the World. The Door to Darkness? How did that relate to the Door to Light Jenova had heard of? The Calamity was astonishingly perplexed for once, she had only heard of the Door to Light, and she had made the assumption that it led to Kingdom Hearts.

“Yazoo, my son, I think you have introduced me to information that is not stale to my ears. How does this Door to Darkness differ from the Door to Light?”[/b]

Of course the Harbringer had not forgotten the major question that was left for her. Had she spoken to Kadaj or Loz? A flashback ran through the twilight-skinned alien of their encounter and near battle at the castle of Hollow Bastion. It was there that Jenova reunited with not just Kadaj and Loz, but she also had the opportunity to speak with her Angel one more time. The other two Remnants had decided to leave the grand castle in search of the X-blade for Mother. Jenova planned to use this supreme key at the door to Kingdom Hearts to gain access to all its magnificent power.

So had she seen the eldest Remnant? Definitely. The only problem was conveying the message to Yazoo. He was definitely the most level-headed of the three and the most likely to think things through logically. She would have to give the Remnant hollow truths to give herself hope, hope that she could recruit Yazoo towards her plans for domination. After allowing Yazoo time to explain the difference between the Door to Light and the Door to Darkness, which Jenova listened intently, she decided it was finally time to tell Yazoo at least a piece of what happened at Hollow Bastion.

“I have seen Kadaj and Loz. They made their presence known at Hollow Bastion, and I sent them to find the X-Blade. Destinies are being written, Yazoo, and all of my children hold a very important piece to the puzzle of my supreme rule over the Light. You and your brothers are my knights, the face of my desires. People will see you three and know that Mother is watching their every move.”[/b]

Yes, that was perfect. She decided that she would make the Remnants feel they held a very important piece to her plans. Of course, the One Winged Angel held the most important piece. He would wield the X-Blade and open the door. If this were a game of chess, Sephiroth would play the role of the Queen, the most powerful piece on the board. Jenova, would hold the center piece of King. Jenova did not lie when she said the Remnants served to be her knights. She would use them just as a Dark Age king would use his own knights, to accomplish his own dirty work. She would have her Remnants gathering intelligence and retrieving the powers she needed.

[Yazoo]

[OOC: I'm nearly reaching a hundred threads, I've done loads of research and been longest active of all Remnants, lol. I know fully well about the Door to Darkness and the Door to Light. Though, Yazoo's research only has gotten him to the Door to Darkness, which he couldn't open. (Well, it was Silv who tried to open it.)]

Yazoo listened to his Mother. A question what the difference between these Doors were. From his research he had understood that the Door to Darkness led to the Realm of Darkness. He could only assume that the Door to Light would lead to the opposite, meaning the Realm of Light. He had understood that within the Realm of Darkness laid Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds. The Keyholes, like the one he saw now before him, was a way to a single heart. This one would lead to the world of this world, much like the Keyholes of each and every world would lead again to their own hearts.

"The Door to Darkness leads to the Realm of Darkness. With that also to Kingdom Hearts," he started slow and then pointed at the Keyhole behind Jenova, "that Keyhole is actually a gateway to this world's heart." He then stopped talking for a moment and walked slowly and calm to the Keyhole. "In the Realm of Darkness resides the Heartless. I believe that this 'Door to Light' actually sends people from the Realm of Darkness to here," he explained and turned to mother as he calm continued, "within my research with Naminé, a Nobody outside the Organization, I learned that this 'realm' is the Realm of Light."

With that he ended his explanation. He had done research on many worlds and learned things from many people. His help from Naminé was definitely one of the most valuable ones. But many others have helped him on his way as well. There were still many things he did not understand. Especially the World That Never Was, Twilight Town and a mysterious third world he had seen, but never visitted yet. They were surrounded by a darkness that seemed to be disliked by his Gummi Ship. Actually, he learned during a visit on Twilight Town from Organization XIII that it was another Realm. The Corridors were just as confusing, they were named the Corridors to Darkness, so it must mean that he travelled between Light and Darkness. Yazoo suspected a third Realm.

Yazoo listened to Jenova's story of Kadaj and Loz. About something named an 'X-Blade'. Another thing he knew nothing of, it made him wonder if it was another piece of the puzzle that led to Kingdom Hearts. "If I may..." he started calm as he walked back from the Keyhole, "this... X-Blade... None of my information mentions this blade. Is it a Keyblade?" The last part suddenly came up to his mind, that perhaps there was a Keyblade that needed no Keyblader to wield. It seemed hard to believe, but it might be possible. Otherwise he'd do his own research. Everything on their time, he supposed.

[jenova]

Jenova was honestly perplexed as to how she could possibly learn so much in such a short time. Her Remnant son had just explained to her the differences between the Door to Light and the Door to Darkness. It seems she was actually mistaken in her information. The Door to Darkness was the ‘entrance’ to the Realm of Darkness and, conveniently, Kingdom Hearts; meanwhile, the Door to Light served as the ‘exit’ to the Realm of Darkness. It was all starting to make sense now. Though she would never show the weakness of admitting her mistake to her son, especially with the extreme probability of Kadaj’s uprising on the horizon.

“I see my source of information was either ill informed or someone who didn’t want me to know the truth. I’ll have to send his heart into the Darkness.”[/b]

With that, Jenova nonchalantly switched topics from her failure to accurately retrieve the correct information to a summarization of Yazoo’s own words.

“So the Door to Darkness is the entrance to the Realm of Darkness, while the Door to Light is the way out. However, you could not open this door yourself, which means that in all possibility you must need a keyblade to open the entrance to Darkness. That would probably prove to be the likely scenario for exiting the realm as well.”[/b]

Yazoo was the one to switch topics now. He began to speak of the X-blade, and his lack of knowledge on the subject. That was a shame, because the only person who had the intelligence on the weapon was the person Jenova was most concerned with at that very time, Kadaj. She wasn’t worried, but she did not want to fight the Remnant. She wanted to convince him to join her and his brothers. With him, Loz walked uneasily between the two powerful Dark entities. Loz would probably be easy to convince, but Kadaj was thick headed and his own anger was his most powerful weapon. Yazoo would hopefully be as easy as Loz to convince, although Loz was very emotional, and he began to weep at the mere sight of Heaven’s Dark Harbringer. Yazoo was the only rational being of the three. He would hopefully see that his brothers were wrong in their uprising, and convince them to join Mother. A plan started to outline in the deep caverns of Jenova’s mind.

“I know very little myself about the weapon, so it is of little concern at this moment. Your youngest brother is retrieving it for me at this time. He was my source of information on the topic. You’ll have to make your presence known to Kadaj and Loz if you wish to learn more.”[/b]

Perfect, hopefully that will prompt Yazoo to confront his brothers and convince them that I am the chosen being to control these worlds. It is an extreme risk. Kadaj can be just as influential as myself, and he could easily reunite the Remnants under his own banner.

Jenova stood eerily still throughout last few moments. She was not human, so she had no use in breathing or odd human mannerisms. While she waited for Yazoo to reply to her lack of information on the topic, she merely stood still like a bronze feature in history’s great societies. The comparison was one that Jenova often saw in herself, she knew that somewhere down the line, people would respect her just as they would their own gods. Minerva had nothing on her, and she would eliminate ‘goddess’ if she had the chance. She was the one true maker now. No one would stop Jenova in her quest for complete and total domination over the Light. The time of Jenova was slowly climbing the staircase to fruition.

[Yazoo]

Yazoo listened closely to what Jenova told him. She now had more knowledge about the Doors, which didn't bother him at all. He planned to get through the Door to Darkness once he had been able to locate Keldric again, but so far he was unable to find him. Also Silv had started her search for a Keyblader that would be 'willing' to help them. However, he couldn't rely on the murderous woman. Especially since she was changing all the time, but she still owed him some... but he couldn't see her as one who would return a favour. Especially as she was planning to ascend to a 'goddess'.

As Jenova explained that he needed to speak his brother for information on this X-Blade, he supposed he should do that. Perhaps it was an idea to search for Silv as well, but he knew how to find her. By placing the pieces together he could think of what to do after. He trusted his brothers, but since his return there has been troubles everywhere. It was best to keep in touch with one on the same 'side'. Even if he could not trust her fully, Silv was a valuable ally as long as she saw need for help from Yazoo as well. The Heartless are not to be trusted, but as both former pawns of the Heartless, we have some common ideas, a grin flashed on Yazoo's face.

"Then I will seek out Kadaj for information on this 'blade'," he started slow and calm, then thought for a moment, "they ain't that far away, I will be able to get to them shortly. After I will seek out more information by accessing my... 'sources'." There was one place he still needed to investigate, but the world had given him a strange feeling so far, so he suspected he would need some help. In his head he formulated his next actions, he would seek his brothers first, then Silv and investigate more information on the Doors... and the X-Blade.

Yazoo looked up at mother, "is there something I can do for you, mother?" He asked calm. So far he had been giving some information and given some information. What was left was to learn if mother needed him for something.

[jenova]

Everything was beginning to fall into place. It seemed that Yazoo would indeed be willing to consult his brother on the mythical X-Blade. The blade was Jenova’s one surefire way into Kingdom Hearts, and, if need be, she’d pry it from the Remnants’ lifeless hands. Absolutely nothing was beyond the reach of Heaven’s Dark Harbringer. She wanted into Kingdom Hearts, and she would have her entrance.

She snapped focus back towards the scene at hand. Yazoo asked her if she needed anything else. Now was the final chance for her to think her agenda through. If she sent Yazoo towards Kadaj’s side, there was a chance he could mellow his hot-headed brother out, a least a little bit. However, there was also the grave chance that Kadaj could fully reunite the Remnants, and that would prove bothersome for Mother and her Angel.

The other task Jenova could send Yazoo on was the capture of a keyblader to open Kingdom Hearts for them. There was the possibility that the One Winged Angel would be unable to wield the mystical weapon, and, in that case, she would need to find a host suitable for being her vessel into Kingdom Hearts. It was doubtful that any keyblader could overcome the might of Jenova and her family of scientifically engineered Horsemen of the Apocalypse. She was certain that her sons could be categorized as the legendary bringers of pain. Kadaj would be War, due to his violent nature. Loz and Yazoo were perfect for the roles of Famine and Pestilence; meanwhile, her Angel would be the one true bringer of Death.

Now Jenova was left with the decision. Would she risk Yazoo’s defection for a chance that Kadaj could be brought back to her side, or would she keep the long haired Remnant away from his brothers as long as possible? It took Jenova several moments to finally answer, but when she did, her plan had finally become clear.

“Yazoo, I will send you on a mission, just as I sent Kadaj and Loz on a quest for the blade. Your calling to gather your brothers and meet Sephiroth and myself at Radiant Garden. There, we will finally declare war on the Light. The might of our family’s union will bring everyone to their knees, begging for my mercy, and when they ask, I’ll stare them in the eyes and say no. We are the ones destined to rule this universe. Yazoo, my knight, gather our family, our declaration stands on the horizon!”[/b]

The declaration of war would, obviously, be a ploy if Kadaj could not be integrated back into her extensive agenda. She wanted to make herself known; therefore, an appearance at the Light’s biggest center of population would prove to be beneficial towards her plans to assimilate the Heart of All Worlds as her own vessel.

Should the Remnants attack the Calamity and her Angel, she would bury them in the site of their defection. Bury them with the power forged in the lifestream of the Planet. Bury them with Meteor.

[Yazoo]

Yazoo listened to the mission he was given. With that also made him clear of his possibilities. He would need to tell Silv some parts and send her out. After that he would immediately meet up with Loz and Kadaj. The presence of Kadaj was currently in Hollow Bastion while Loz' was moving through the Corridors. I will get Loz first then, I guess, he figured as he calm thought of what they would discuss.

"I will go and find them, then meet with you, mother, and brother..." he said slow and calm while his expression had remained entirely neutral. There was no time limit or exact destination, but he knew where to meet them on Radiant Garden and would know when they were meant to be there.

The Remnant nodded his head a bit as he turned while lifting a finger. In front of him a Corridor to Darkness opened up. "I will go find my brothers and gather them in Radiant Garden. We will meet there, I will know when the time is due." With that he started to move to the Corridor.

[OOC: If you need to say anything else, then reply, if not, then act like Yazoo leaves through the Corridor and this thread has Ended.]