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Everything was going so fast. Xaldin stood and watched silently as everything transpired. Too fast...too much at once.

I need to be alone for a while... He told himself, and he quickly turned away from them all. "I will return...continue on without me, please." The Lancer told them. He needed to clear his head, and he had a lingering daze from when he passed out from the ship. He needed room...he felt somewhat clostrophobic.

Before they could protest, Xaldin took his leave from the castle. He was also having a lingering fear of getting mawled from Beast. So hiding felt nice about now...

((bleh. I have no dropped Xaldin. He walked off so he will not interfere with anyone else in the rp! SORRY D< ))

Beast's Castle-Foyer

Lucrecia sighed heavily and ran a hand through her long brown hair. Still trying to figure out what to do with this current scenario.

The younger remnent had bowed and called her mother as well. She was a bit taken aback by that. These two seemed think she was greater then she really was...

Then it dawned on her.

Sephiroth was completely convinced that Jenova was his one, true mother. Jenova, who he viewed as this great entity that would take back the world from the humans. Kadaj and Yazoo were remnants of Sephiroth, they had the same vision of this great mother they just...didn't know who she was.

Instead, they believed her, Lucrecia, to be their mother; her being Sephiroth's birthmother, they must have reconized that somehow.

It made sense now.

Lucrecia wasn't going to turn the two away, no, she couldn't do that. She wanted to try again, and fix the mistake she made with Sephiroth.

She placed a small hand on Kadaj's chin and gently lifted him up and out of his current position. Lucrecia thought she was the last person anyone should be bowing to.

"Hey..." she spoke softly, a small smile playing at her lips, "You don't need to do that...ok?"

In one of the halls in Beast's Castle, attempting to quiet the two down as to not get mauled.

Marluxia was about to walk farther and ask Larxene if she had seen any movements after her empty threat, when Stitch decided to call out even more names. He sighed, not expecting Larxene to follow up with a few more delightful nick-names for whoever was hiding in the shadows.

As soon as she began her little list of swears, the pink haired ex-Nobody couldn't help but shake his head, his palm hitting his face ((*facepalm*)) in an exasperated way.

"I don't believe swearing at the Heartless will do anything but agitate it, Larxene. You too, Stitch." he looked down at the little blue shark-monster-alien-critter, a very slight amused smirk on his lips visible in the light of the torch's flame.

"And the last thing we want is a very furious Wrath or Sloth clawing at us." he added. It was a wild guess, but he wouldn't be surprised if Wrath sprung from the deep, dark, formidable shadows and attempt to maul them into a bloody heap.

Oh, how optimistic of him to think such a thing.

Beast's Castle - Foyer

Mother's fingers were warm, Kadaj realized as she lifted his chin. They were warm and gentle, like her voice, and the young remnant briefly wondered if that was what all mothers felt like.

"Hey...you don't need to do that...ok?"

Quite surprised and a little taken aback by how...nice she was, Kadaj smiled slightly, a genuine smile that felt strange on him. He supposed he didn't smile very often before. His gaze sliding to Yazoo, he remembered the conversation they had earlier about Lucrecia, and as livid as Kadaj was that Aerith had lied to him, the happiness that finding Mother once again cancelled everything out.

"If at all possible, could we move into another corridor? Off to the side, perhaps,"

Kadaj did not miss the distaste that laced his older brother's words, and simply turned from Mother to nod at him. They had decided earlier that they would separate from the group and take Mother with them, and so it would be.

With a slight nod and a content glance sent to his Mother, Kadaj took her hand impulsively and led her along, careful not to make her stumble, a child-like glee entering his eyes despite their situation. "Come, Mother. Yazoo."

Beast's Castle-Foyer

Lucrecia allowed herself to by pulled along by the younger remnant.

"Alright, there doesn't seem to be much harm in it..."

She didn't know the castle, but she from what she gathered from the others leaving, it appeared safe to venture off. Beast or not.

The former scientist couldn't help but smile at the two boys infront of her. Kadaj seemed to be just a little boy at heart, and Yazoo, who she had spoken to a few times over the internet, was also kind.

It amazed her that the two actually came from Sephiroth...

...But that didn't matter now. It appeared Lucrecia was getting a second chance...a chance to make things right.

And she was off to a good start.

Stiffening at the smell of darkness and the imminent forms of Heartless that now surrounded them, Stitch growled loudly, baring all his teeth even as he cocked his little ray guns.

The little summon wasn't afraid; not really. He was virtually indestructible - well, unless someone dropped him in a large pool of deep water, but chances were that the cantankerous critter wasn't quite about to let any of them near him - with a very bad temper to boot.

And he was hungry.

No one messed with a very hungry alien-evil koala-shark-puppy thing and his bumbling humans.

Scuttling in front of the pair, Stitch stared up at the most human-looking arrival. It was difficult trying to be intimidating when one was less than a foot tall, really.

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Not too far away from Larxene and Marluxia

His superior senses already picking up the presence of more people not too far away from them, Kadaj paused for a moment and glanced over at Yazoo fleetingly. No words were needed to communicate his silent warning, and the younger of the pair let go of his mother's hand - more than a little reluctantly, considering how long they probably spent looking for her.

"Get behind us, Mother," he whispered as he heard a voice speaking. "Well, well, what have we here?"

Brilliant green eyes narrowing at the voice, Kadaj gestured to Yazoo to move forward - shying away from potential confrontation was not what the brothers were used to, anyway - a hand on Souba in case anything went wrong and he needed to kill alot of somethings.