Destiny JENOVA: Before Advent
Prologue
It was a long and tense evening for me, resting here in the Lifestream and watching over my beloved son, Sephiroth, as he desperately fought against Cloud Strife yet another time. I kept my eye unblinking as Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz helped carry what little physical remnants were left of me on the Planet, until the three of them united and Sephiroth was reborn. I couldn’t give young Sephiroth a direct rebirth, as too much of Shinra and Midgar knew too much about him and what both of us tried to accomplish. So, I birthed three new sons to aid us in his place. I didn’t want to sacrifice them after all their hard work to help me and get me back, but at the time I had no other way of giving Sephiroth another chance. It was a difficult and painful decision, but it had to happen. And since it was too easy for humans to recognize people who share my blood, I knew attention would be drawn sooner or later no matter how much my children try to hide themselves. Bringing new life into my legacy was no longer risk free or free of sacrifice in any way since too many people on the Planet knew all about me and Sephiroth what we’ve tried to do. My name… is JENOVA. I came to this world from a Planet faraway in distant space. My home Planet was destroyed by a mortal enemy to my kind, and when I laid notice on this one, I began to see a glimmer of hope for my race, and decided to target this world in order to bring the cetra race back into greater existence. There were too few of us now; and with only me and Sephiroth, and these other three young ones, this time around could very well be our last chance. The people of this Planet knew too much, which further threatened the cetra with extinction. But back to the present, I reside here in this Lifestream, because I am too strong to be consumed by it; no different than young Sephiroth, who works hard and does all he can to make me happy. However, as I watched Cloud and Sephiroth fight each other, I gasped; Cloud had landed a direct hit on him with his omnislash, and Sephiroth bolted his wing before he began to wither away. Before I knew it, my poor son had fallen once again. I felt tears stream down my face “No… Sephiroth…” Shortly thereafter, my three new sons also withered away despite trying to hang on and finish Cloud while he was exhausted from fighting Sephiroth. I moaned and shut my eye, then shook my head “My children…” After that, I had no choice but to come up with a new plan to throw the enemy off guard once again. But since my first two plans had ended in failure, being the most obvious and simpler solutions, I had to double my creativity this time if I truly wanted to win the next fight. Unfortunately, these two defeats left me no choice but to take a back door a second time to avoid drawing too much attention. By reviving all three of my remnants, I would draw too much attention to them. So, I decided to revise that, and focused on changing the overall development on Yazoo and Loz to get my family going again. Of course, I planned to revise Kadaj’s development too, but I needed to be extremely thorough in order to redesign him in an ideal way. I couldn’t risk sending all three of them to the Planet simultaneously without changing anything about them; we would be caught too quickly, and the enemy would make haste to eliminate them. Yazoo and Loz didn’t require a lot of revising, so I managed to complete their rebirths quickly, but there were too many important things I needed to do to Kadaj in order ensure our success, so I ended up taking more time on him. My first words to my two reborn sons were “Hide in the shadows, and don’t let them see you.” Then, I gently released them and left my newborn boys in a place where they would be able to safely sleep. After that, I returned to the Lifestream and left quietly, and focused on initiating Kadaj’s rebirth carefully. Little had our enemies known, their battle against me… was far from over. My legacy was not dead, but nearing its true beginning.
Prologue
It was a long and tense evening for me, resting here in the Lifestream and watching over my beloved son, Sephiroth, as he desperately fought against Cloud Strife yet another time. I kept my eye unblinking as Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz helped carry what little physical remnants were left of me on the Planet, until the three of them united and Sephiroth was reborn. I couldn’t give young Sephiroth a direct rebirth, as too much of Shinra and Midgar knew too much about him and what both of us tried to accomplish. So, I birthed three new sons to aid us in his place. I didn’t want to sacrifice them after all their hard work to help me and get me back, but at the time I had no other way of giving Sephiroth another chance. It was a difficult and painful decision, but it had to happen. And since it was too easy for humans to recognize people who share my blood, I knew attention would be drawn sooner or later no matter how much my children try to hide themselves. Bringing new life into my legacy was no longer risk free or free of sacrifice in any way since too many people on the Planet knew all about me and Sephiroth what we’ve tried to do. My name… is JENOVA. I came to this world from a Planet faraway in distant space. My home Planet was destroyed by a mortal enemy to my kind, and when I laid notice on this one, I began to see a glimmer of hope for my race, and decided to target this world in order to bring the cetra race back into greater existence. There were too few of us now; and with only me and Sephiroth, and these other three young ones, this time around could very well be our last chance. The people of this Planet knew too much, which further threatened the cetra with extinction. But back to the present, I reside here in this Lifestream, because I am too strong to be consumed by it; no different than young Sephiroth, who works hard and does all he can to make me happy. However, as I watched Cloud and Sephiroth fight each other, I gasped; Cloud had landed a direct hit on him with his omnislash, and Sephiroth bolted his wing before he began to wither away. Before I knew it, my poor son had fallen once again. I felt tears stream down my face “No… Sephiroth…” Shortly thereafter, my three new sons also withered away despite trying to hang on and finish Cloud while he was exhausted from fighting Sephiroth. I moaned and shut my eye, then shook my head “My children…” After that, I had no choice but to come up with a new plan to throw the enemy off guard once again. But since my first two plans had ended in failure, being the most obvious and simpler solutions, I had to double my creativity this time if I truly wanted to win the next fight. Unfortunately, these two defeats left me no choice but to take a back door a second time to avoid drawing too much attention. By reviving all three of my remnants, I would draw too much attention to them. So, I decided to revise that, and focused on changing the overall development on Yazoo and Loz to get my family going again. Of course, I planned to revise Kadaj’s development too, but I needed to be extremely thorough in order to redesign him in an ideal way. I couldn’t risk sending all three of them to the Planet simultaneously without changing anything about them; we would be caught too quickly, and the enemy would make haste to eliminate them. Yazoo and Loz didn’t require a lot of revising, so I managed to complete their rebirths quickly, but there were too many important things I needed to do to Kadaj in order ensure our success, so I ended up taking more time on him. My first words to my two reborn sons were “Hide in the shadows, and don’t let them see you.” Then, I gently released them and left my newborn boys in a place where they would be able to safely sleep. After that, I returned to the Lifestream and left quietly, and focused on initiating Kadaj’s rebirth carefully. Little had our enemies known, their battle against me… was far from over. My legacy was not dead, but nearing its true beginning.
