(Volume 6) Chapter 3: Where It All Began

SOOOOOO you're all looking at this blue naked lady and YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! You glance around at the snow frozen in midair around you to distract yourself a little from staring at her.

Jinn:"I am Jinn, a being created by the God of Light to aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. I've been graced with the ability to answer three questions every one hundred years. You're in luck, as I am still able to answer-"

Ozpin:"That's enough!" Ozpin abruptly yells...you all look over at him...gah Ozpin just what are you hiding...wait...an idea pops up in your head...

Jinn:"...Two questions this era." She says continuing "It's a pleasure to see you again, old man." Jinn looks over to you "And it seems even the Chronicle has arrived in this era..." She then glances at Sophie who is hiding behind you. She smiles "...How interesting." She knows? Well...of course she'd know since she's created BY THE GOD OF LIGHT also what does she mean by 'how interesting' ?

Ozpin:"Ruby, please... Don't." Qrow glances at Ozpin before steps forward.

Qrow:"Hey." Suddenly Yang, Weiss, Blake and Raiden draw their weapons at Qrow defensively out of nowhere as you're actually QUITE shocked by this, Sophie is h...y-you understand being defensive towards Ozpin but QROW!?

Qrow:"Do whatever you think is right, kiddo." He says in a resentful manner 

Ruby:"Jinn?" Ruby turns around to face Jinn, who has a curious look on her face, you glance over at Ozpin who's gritting his teeth in anger. "What is Ozpin hiding from us?" That's what you wanted to ask he- 

Ozpin:"NOOOOOOO!!" Your thoughts are completely thrown through a loop after hearing Ozpin yell as Ruby gasps and Ozpin lunges forward, you're about to warp over to stop him before he touches her as when you warp and look around you're...alone in a blank white space??? OKAY THEN...this place kinda reminds you of the inside of your Soul...

You:"W-wait..." You realize no one's here...where is everyone? You call out to them "Ruby? Sophie? Raiden?" You look behind you as suddenly, an entire area manifests, a massive castle formed in the distance you...can hear a woman humming? Doesn't sound anything like Jinn, or anyone you know for that matter.

Jinn:"Once upon a time, there stood a lonely tower..." You hear Jinn's voice narrating to you... You glance down to see smoke wrap around you as you're in a different location...you look behind you "...That sheltered a lonely girl." you look up to see...a woman? She's sitting in front of a mirror and she's actually, quite beautiful? You walk up behind her "Named... Salem." Your eyes widen and jump away from the woman out of instinct

You:"That's Salem!?" ALL OF A SUDDEN COLE POPS UP NEXT TO YOU OUT FROM THE SMOKE

Cole:"Seems so."

You:"HOW'D YOU GET HERE!?"

Cole:"Seems Jinn's power has brought me out of your Soul for a while...I suggest listening in, young Chronicle."

Jinn:"Locked away by her cruel father, Salem was a girl who desired but one thing: freedom." Salem walks away with sadness as she passes straight through you. Which surprises you to say the least"She lived in a time when kings and their kingdoms were plentiful, when men and women were capable of greatness, and magic was a gift from the gods that all could wield.

Salem sits down and leans against the vanity. She holds out her left hand, using ACTUAL magic as four magical spheres with a magic circle in six colors appear over her hand. So...magic was an ACTUAL thing back then...wonder what happened to it

You:"Wait, do you have magic Cole?" Cole laughs lightly

Cole:"I'm not THAT old, (F)."

You:"Tch. Darn, was hoping I could do that..."

Jinn:"And yet, there she sat within her tower." Salem looks down, as blue smoke wraps around Salem and then you and Cole as you both reappear outside of the castle. "Until one day, a legendary hero came to brave the challenges within the tower's walls." You see a young man in armor and a cape wielding a...cane? Wait...is that...Ozpin? He's standing in front of the castle confidently "The people of the lands knew him as Ozma." WELP THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION!

You:"Man...Ozpin's old..."

Cole:"Pay attention." He says, closely analyzing the scene.

Jinn:"Unlike those who had come before, this warrior was not driven by the prize of the young maiden's hand. He fought only for righteousness, and his pure heart and courageous soul prevailed." Ozma walks up to the tower, other warriors falling in battle. As blue smoke reforms the scene once again, showing Ozma using his scepter to strike down some armored guy. Ozma then opens up a door leading to Salem's room, she stands up, smiling at him. Blue smoke reforms the scene once again as it shows them fighting together using their magic.

Jinn:"They escaped the wretched fortress, and yet something bound them together." Smoke reforms the scene showing Ozma and Salem running away from the tower holding hands together... Oh this is gonna end badly, you can tell...

They keep running until they're far away from the fortress as they both stop to catch their breath before looking at each other.

Jinn:"Ozma had been ready to give his life for justice countless times, but now saw a woman worth saving it for. And Salem, to her surprise, found her freedom not in the outside world she had yearned for, but in the eyes of the man that had saved her." Aww that's cute but...seeing how things are now...

Salem:"So, where should we go now?" Ozma offers his hand to her

Ozma:"Wherever you'd like." Okay, gotta admit that's pretty sweet

Jinn: The two fell deeply in love, planned adventures around the world, and lived happily ever after." Smoke covers the area around Ozma and Salem as the two hold hands. The two disappear into a bright light of white space.

You: "Wait...that doesn't seem right..."

Jinn:"Or at least that's what should have been." Oh there it is. Smoke then reforms the scene showing Salem kneeling beside a bed with Ozma in it, unconscious. Salem holds Ozma's hand and is sobbing... damn, that took a turn... "Ozma, the infallible hero of legend, fell ill. And where all the beasts and blades of the world had fallen short, a single sickness prevailed." Man, screw illness...Ozma's body disappears in smoke as Salem continues sobbing, holding his scepter in her hands. You sigh, that's rough...guessing this is where things take a turn for the worst

Salem:"How could the gods let this happen?" You look down...before noticing two spheres, one bright gold and the other a lavender color circling above her head.

Jinn:"The gods, brothers of light and darkness, creation and destruction. Salem prayed they would see the injustice that had befallen her love and make things right." The two orbs above lower down, as the two join together in front of you. A bright light and blue smoke covers the area, now you're...at a brightly lit place with a stairway leading up the mountain. Why does this place feel familiar...

Jinn:"The Domain of Light was a sacred place." Salem approaches the stairway, placing down flowers. She holds Ozma's scepter in her hand.Jinn: It was here the elder brother dwelled beside his fountain of life and creation, along with the gracious Leviathan who imparted healing on those who ventured there." Wait, Luna? "It was here... where mankind would fall to ruin." Salem walk up the stairs as smoke envelops the area again, Salem's now at the top of the mountain as she looks upon the Domain of Light, it's a valley filled with flowers with a pool of water and a divine-like tree at the center...you see Luna's in her Leviathan state, wrapped around the tree, resting as leaves blow from the tree and encircles above the water when... a being of pure Light rises from the pool...that must be the God of Light...He walks forward to Salem. Salem falls to her knees

Salem:"Please... Please, bring him back to me." Luna raises her head, looking towards Salem. 

God of Light:"I understand your pain, but you demand of me that which I cannot make so. Life and death are part of a delicate balance."

Salem:"So... you won't do it then?" Oh no...

God of Light:"To disrupt the cycle of-" Salem interrupts him

Salem:"But that's not fair... That's not fair!" Salem's voice echoes throughout the Domain...she just yelled at a freakin' ACTUAL GOD...oh and Luna too you guess...

God of Light(sternly):"Let. Him. Rest." The wind picks up, as Luna shines lightly, leaves and golden particles swirl around Salem. Suddenly, she finds herself back at the bottom of the stairway leading to the Domain of Light. She looks at Ozma's scepter in her hands before looking up angrily.

Salem:"No." Blue smoke covers the area again, this time showing a dark, decrepit area with a stairway leading up the mountain, this...place seems familiar as well...

Jinn:"The God of Darkness..." Oh no...Salem looks at some of the skeletal remains at the bottom of the stairs... "None dare to enter his home, as men knew what monstrosities emerged from his blackened pools of annihilation." Grimm...and Solar no doubt...Salem walks forward, approaching a blackened pool of tar-like liquid from behind her she hears the hiss of a Serpent as Solar bares her fangs at Salem as Salem steps back from her, fearfully.

Jinn:"And so you must understand the Dark Lord's surprise when he found a lone woman kneeling before him." From the blackened pool, the God of Darkness himself emerges, his body twisted and contorted. You winge as you feel cold looking at him...the God of Darkness crawls toward Salem in an unnatural-like way. Yeah, hell no to that...Grimm and Solar is circling around her, getting closer to her. "Salem understood it well. She told him of her loss and professed that she knew only he could answer her prayers, all while careful to make no mention of his elder." You can see Salem telling her story to the God of Darkness holding out Ozma's scepter to him.

God of Darkness:"Rise, child, and let your faith in me be rewarded." Salem rises as the God of Darkness then conjures a lavender sphere, and from it, Ozma's body appears. Wow, he actually brought him back...could've sworn he was simply gonna use her...Salem approaches him, and Ozma gasps back to life.

Ozma(Panicked):"Where am I? What is this?! WHERE AM I?!!" Poor Ozma...Salem's smiling

Salem:"It's okay! Everything's going to be okay!"

Suddenly, the God of Light appears with a sound of thunder at the top of the stairs leading into the God of Darkness' domain. Behind him, Luna's now much larger in her Leviathan form, visibly worried

God of Light(Angered):"What have you done?"

God of Darkness:"I have done what I please, brother. You may bask in the powers of creation, but you do not own them." Solar has gone beside the God of Darkness, hissing while baring her fangs at Luna as Luna's growling at her.

God of Light:"This is not creation."

God of Darkness:"Do not lecture me!" The Grimm and Solar are slowly approaching the God of Light...

God of Light:"I will do what I must to maintain order." The God of Light puts his hand out, and an orange aura surrounds Ozma's body, as he disintegrates in Salem's arms. Dear lord that's horrible...

Salem:"No! No! What did you do?! BRING HIM BACK!"

God of Darkness:"You dare enter my domain and show such disrespect!" The God of Darkness makes Ozma's body appear again. 

Salem:"Ozma!"

God of Light:"I am abiding by the rules we agreed upon!"

God of Darkness:"Rules that I now see are ever in your favor. And yet the day a mortal comes to pray at my feet before your own, so do you arrive to lay your judgment upon me!" The God of Darkness twists and transforms into a nightmarish, dragon-like form that snarls at the God of Light as the Grimm and Solar dash forward and try to attack him, but a bright light emanates from him, wait...you've seen that light before...back when Beacon fell and you saw that bright light at the tower...it destroys all the Grimm in the area as Solar screeches, her body smoking as Luna also screeches in pain. He transforms into a bright, beautiful oriental-looking dragon.

God of Light:"I know we have our differences, but I have not come here with the aim to control you. The same, however, cannot said for her. This woman came to you only after I denied her pleas. Pleas that would have disrupted the balance that you and I created. Together." The God of Darkness thinks about this

God of Darkness:"Then it seems I owe you an apology. Allow me to correct my mistake."

Salem:"No!" The God of Darkness fires a massive lavender beam from his mouth, disintegrating Ozma again...man, they were toying with Ozma's life... Salem watches as Ozma's ashes blow away out of her hands.

Salem:"You... You monsters! Give him back to me! GIVE HIM BACK!!" Salem activates her magical abilities. Suddenly, the God of Light rushes forward and devours her. Salem then wakes up falling from the sky. She falls in the God of Light's pool, drowning as an aura-like shimmer covers her body. Suddenly, she rises to the surface of the water, catching her breath. She looks up and notices both the God of Light and the God of Darkness are standing side by side. Luna and Solar beside their respective master.

God of Light:"When you first came to me, I did pity you. But it is clear now that your selfishness and arrogance have led you astray." She stands up

Salem:"What did you do to me?" The aura-like shimmer is seen from her hands.

God of Light:"I have made you immortal."

Salem:"Immortal?" Wait does that mean she's still immortal today???

God of Darkness:"You cannot die. You cannot be with your beloved."

Gods of Light and Darkness: "So long as this world turns, you shall walk its face." Salem stares back at them in disbelief.

God of Light:"You must learn the importance of life and death. Only then may you rest." Salem tries to reach out to them, but then finds herself transported to a vast open field...

Jinn:"Salem was a prisoner once again. Her fruitless attempts to reunite with Ozma eventually became nothing more than acts of spite and defiance against the gods." You're back in Ozma's room as Salem's about to stab herself, you turn away as you hear the stab take place, you look back as you see that the suicide attempt didn't work..."But perhaps the gods were not as powerful as they seemed..." Salem walks to a window, still holding the sword she tried to stab herself with.

Jinn:"She had lied to them, turned them against one another, they... were fallible." Salem looks over to a castle in the distance "If she were to turn humanity against light and darkness, she could rid herself of their curse, or at the very least... she could make them suffer." This isn't gonna end well...not at all...Salem then throws the sword toward you as you flinch as smoke envelops you right before it could hit you. Now there's you're in a castle, you can see a king standing up in surprise as a bloodied ax is thrown to the ground. "Salem traveled from one kingdom to another, telling tales of how she stole immortality from the gods, welcomed any swordsman to cut her down, and demonstrated her powers." Salem's speaking to various kings and queens of kingdoms, "With the kings and queens in awe, she pulled them deeper into her scheme. She painted them pictures of a time when they would no longer have to watch their loved ones wither and die, when they could claim the powers of their creators for themselves, and in turn, perfect their own design." As Salem finishes telling her story to a warrior king, she kneels before him. The king draws his weapon and lets out a battle cry, with his people cheering along with him...this all gonna go HORRIBLY wrong...The combined forces of the kingdoms are then shown launching an all out assault on the Domain of Light.

Jinn:"All they needed to do was destroy their old masters." As the warriors run in, the God of Light emerges from the pool in his dragon form. Luna reluctantly uncoiling herself around the tree, ready to fight. "The gods had hoped that Salem would learn from her eternal curse, and she did. She learned that the hearts of men are easily swayed." The leaders of the kingdoms Salem had spoken to stand infront of their people approaching the God of Light, The God of Darkness, also in his dragon form, then appears alongside his elder brother, Solar rising beside him.

God of Light:"Who has led you down this path?" Salem walking through the crowds of warriors as she makes her way to the front of them. She glares at the gods.

God of Darkness:"You..." Both him and Solar roar at Salem. Salem launches a magical attack, and the warriors all send out their barrage of magic as well at the God of Darkness...he easily catches them all into his hand, absorbing them into a lavender sphere of energy. Everyone looks in shock. "My own gift to them... used against me." The God of Light looks away in disappointment, Luna looking down sadly, Solar roaring in anger as the God of Darkness crushes the sphere within his hand, creating an ENORMOUS shockwave that COMPLETELY envelops the world, destroying everything and everyone in its path. You feel a chill down your spine...Humanity has been turned to dust like it was nothing...only Salem remains...

Salem:"No... no..." Salem gets knocked back by the God of Darkness stomping his foot in the ground.

God of Darkness:"You thought there was no greater punishment we could bestow upon you?"

Salem:"I'll come back. I'll tell the rest of the world of this massacre! Build a new army!"

God of Darkness:"You do not understand. There is no one left. You are all that remains of humanity." Salem's expression turns shocked at this revelation.

God of Light:"This planet was a beautiful experiment, but it is merely a remnant of what it once was. We will learn from this failure. I hope that you will learn from yours." A remnant...your entire existence is simply that...a Remnant.

The God of Light disappears into a bright light of dust, Luna looking down, sad her mission to protect Humanity was nothing but a failure as she's engulfed by ethereal golden particles, disappearing from sight.

Salem:"No! You can't leave! You can't leave!! COME BACK!"

God of Darkness:"Still demanding things of your creators..."The God of Darkness and Solar disappear into a beam of dark Lavender and black light that shoots up into the sky and out of the atmosphere...the moon shatters as the beam tears straight through it...Moon fragments rain down like meteors back onto the planet's surface. Salem falls to her knees and lets out a scream of despair...Seems you were slightly right about your theory that a God was the cause of the moon's destruction...not entirely right though, but still.

Jinn:"Once again, Salem was alone..." Salem is walking alone. She walks by a pair of deer eating grass, as well as abandoned villages that are now inhabited by Grimm...how did humanity ever come back then... "She cursed the gods. She cursed the universe. She cursed everything, everything but herself. She wandered the face of the planet, awaiting a death that would never come..."

Salem then stands on the edge of an overhanging cliff in the land once inhabited by the God of Darkness... She looks down at the blackened pool below her.

Jinn:"Until fate led her back to the Land of Darkness. This was it. This had to be it, the brother's Grimm, the pools of black that continued to give rise to horrific nightmares. If the fountain of life granted her immortality, then surely, the pools of Grimm will finally take it away." Salem falls forward and is submerged into the blackened pool."...She was wrong. This force of pure destruction could not destroy a being of infinite life." Salem is thrashed around by an unseen force. "Instead, it created a being of infinite life with a desire for pure destruction." Salem crawls out of the pool...her skin a pure white as well as her hair. She opens her eyes, a pure red color with the white's of her eyes a pitch black. Your eyes widen...and there's the Salem you all know today...weird to think Raiden's the only one on the team to have actually met her...

Jinn:"And in time, she would find her adversary..." Ozma is shown waking up in a white space. He takes a look at his surroundings. You wander around, looking at the empty white void before hearing a voice.

God of Light:"Ozma." Ozma turns around seeing the God of Light in his dragon form, before turning back into his regular form.

Ozma:"Where am I?"

God of Light:"We are between realms. I'm afraid a tragedy has befallen your home at the hands of my brother. We have chosen to depart this world, but in our absence, I would like to offer you the chance to return to it."

Ozma:"I... don't understand."

God of Light:"Mankind is no more, yet your world remains. And in time, your kind will grow to walk its face once again. However, without our presence, they will be but a fraction of what they once were." Suddenly, the God of Light conjures four objects: a staff, a sword, a crown, and a lamp..."Creation, destruction, choice, and knowledge were the ideals upon which humanity was made." 

Two beacons of light and darkness form beside the God of Light...Luna and Solar arising from the beacons. "Finally the Leviathan of Mercy and the Serpent of C͏͞h̵͢͞͡ą̵o̴̢s̴͟͞͝, these beings were originally a single entity. Created by my brother and I but in doing so brought upon two distinct personalities which affects every being, Now I leave them and the Relics behind with the hope that you will learn to remake yourselves." The four objects are conjoined together into a yellow sphere of energy. As Luna and Solar shine brilliantly, an enormous flash of light reveals...a massive mythical, beautiful golden and lavender dragon flying above the God of Light...that's Luna's true form?

You:"...Luna?"

God of Light:"If brought together, these four Relics will summon my brother and I back to your world, and humanity will be judged. If your kind has learned to live in harmony with one another and set aside their differences, the Dragon would have reformed and then we shall once again live among you, and humanity will be made whole again. But if your kind is unchanged, if you demand our blessings while still fighting amongst yourselves and while the two halves of the Dragon are run amok, then man will be found irredeemable and your world will be wiped from existence. Until your task is complete, you will reincarnate, but in a manner that ensures you are never alone." Reincarnation...Ozma falls to his knees as he comes to terms with this ultimatum. 

Ozma:"I'm sorry, but... that world just isn't as dear to me without her. If I may, I'd rather return to the afterlife to see Salem."

God of Light:"You will not find her there."

Ozma:"You mean she isn't gone?" He says while his eyes widen

God of Light:"Salem lives, but the woman you hold dear in your memories is gone. Heed this warning... where you seek comfort, you will only find pain. So, will you-"

Ozma:"I'll do it." He says abruptly as the God of Light looks in surprise.

God of Light:"Very well. Our creation rests within your hands." The God of Light disappears.

Jinn:"And so Ozma was reborn." Ozma reincarnates into a man with a tanned complexion and pale blonde hair, he had just stabbed a Beowolf with a pitchfork, causing it to disintegrate. Ozma looks down at his new body and surroundings. He looks up and sees people screaming and running into the forest he sees a burning village in the distance.

Ozma:"Where am I?" Ozma hears a man scream, and looks over to see him flailing a sword at a Beowolf, which slashes at him to the ground, disarming him. Ozma's previous soul takes over and runs forward, grabbing the man's sword and slaying the Beowolf. The man gets back up.

Man:"Thank you. Please, tell me your name. Who are you?" Ozma has trouble speaking, and throws the sword to the ground in horror. Oscar watches the scene before him.

Oscar:"He didn't know..." You hear Oscar's voice echo, you look around but you can't see him...Ozma walks down a street, seeing along the way Faunus locked up in cages, and a pile of Dust crystals on top of a table.

Jinn:"Ozma had found himself in a world completely unfamiliar to him. Cities looked different. Creatures known as the Faunus wore fangs and claws and were locked away in cages. And without the blessing of the gods, no one could perform magic like mankind was once capable of, no one but himself and woman known as... the witch." The area around Ozma changes from the city to a forest as he comes upon a lonely, cottage in the woods...huh, the cottage looks like the one told in the story of the Four Maidens.......oooooohhhh...

Jinn:"During his years of travel, he heard the same frightened whispers that spoke of a terrifying sorceress who commanded dark powers in the wilds among the beasts and monsters. Ozma was convinced that this witch was Salem, and decided he needed to see what she had become." Ozma stands at a distance from the cottage. The front door opens, and from the darkness beyond, Salem emerges, wearing black robes as...you're not gonna lie she's actually beautiful...you don't know how to feel about that...... ANYWAYS, she gives an angry glare while exiting the cottage, but suddenly, her expression softens when she sees Ozma. Ozma smiles back at her. "Call it magic or call it something stronger, but in that moment, the two knew exactly who it was that stood before them." Ozma and Salem walk towards each other, the two hold each other's hands, holding each other's hand affectionately. 

Ozma:"What do we do now?"

Salem:"Whatever we like." Time passes, the cottage changes from its decrepit state to a much better condition, Salem and Ozma are conversing with one another at a table on the front porch.

Jinn:"As Salem and Ozma recounted the events which had brought them back together, each withheld parts of their story. Salem, fearing Ozma would reject her, blamed the end of the world on the gods. Ozma, still unsure of where the truth lay, kept his task and the Relics a secret. Though time passed and all seemed well, Ozma's conversation with the God of Light still lingered in his mind. He had found happiness, but humanity seemed more divided than ever before." Salem and Ozma head back inside the cottage, still talking to each other.

Salem:"Are you surprised? This world is quite literally godless. These humans have no one to guide them. Perhaps that's all they need."

Ozma:"What are you saying?"

Salem:"We could become the gods of this world. Our powers surpass all others. Our souls transcend death. We can mold these lands into whatever we want, what you want, create the paradise that the old gods could not." ...Ozma seems troubled by this at first, but then smiles in agreement with Salem. The two of them look each other in the eyes as Salem places an affectionate hand on Ozma's shoulder.

Jinn:"The hearts of men... are easily swayed." A village is shown under attack by a Nevermore. Suddenly, a lavender energy surrounds the Nevermore, causing it to be bent and folded into unnatural ways. The Nevermore disintegrates, and the villagers watch as Ozma, wielding his scepter and wearing his old robes, and Salem levitate into the air side-by-side above them. They all bow down to them... You walk up to a statue of Ozma and Salem, narrowing your eyes...again, this isn't gonna end well obviously...

Jinn:"The two amassed a following. That following grew into a prosperous kingdom." A castle then appears, you're in a large room with a painting of Ozma and Salem together. "And at the head of that kingdom blossomed..." four little girls then appear in the painting, oh nooo.... "...a family." 

You look to see that Ozma and Salem are watching their four daughters playing together, the little girls all wearing bright colors that...remind you of the Four Maidens if you're going to be honest. One of their daughters comes up to the two of them holding a stuffed horse plushie, playfully tugging on Salem's robe. You...notice that the daughter who's tugging on Salem's robe has Silver eyes...hmm...The two parents smile at her before smiling at each other. Blue smoke envelops the area, now a massive conflict between people is being observed inside a crystal ball by a Salem smirking. Ozma stands a short distance away from her looking outside the window.

Ozma(troubled):"Are we sure this is right?" Salem looks over to Ozma

Salem:"You said we needed to bring humanity together. In order to do that, we have to spread our word, and destroy those who will deny it." Ozma seems shocked hearing these words. He turns to see his reflection on the window, which suddenly talks to him.

Ozma:"What are we doing?" Ozma staggers back in horror seeing his reflection ask him that question, briefly becoming his original incarnation, before looking over to Salem. "This isn't what he asked of me..."

Salem:"What did you say?" You hear a door open, one of their daughters enters the room excitedly.

Daughter of Ozma and Salem:"Mother, father, look!"Their daughter then conjures multicolored wisps that fly in circles in front of her. Salem has a proud expression on her face, Ozma looks on in surprise, but looks down with his troubled expression again.

Jinn:"It was a miracle, their children could perform magic. But what should have been a joyous occasion was short-lived..." Smoke envelops the area again, Ozma is now telling what he knows to Salem in his study...and this is where things are gonna REALLY fall apart, huh?

Jinn:"Ozma told Salem everything, the true reason the God of Light had brought him back, the Relics that they scattered around the world, the mythical half entities roaming across the land and the day of judgement he had been told to prepare for." Ozma finishes his explanation to Salem.

Salem:"Don't you see? None of that matters anymore. Why spend our lives trying to redeem these humans when we can replace them with what they could never be?" Salem offers her hand out, but Ozma hesitates to take it, backing away in disgust... Smoke envelops the area again showing Ozma trying to flee with his daughters through the halls. The youngest daughter looks down the hallway, noticing something.

Youngest Daughter:"Mommy?" Oh no...you look over to see Salem standing at the end of the hall menacingly. Ozma protectively stands in front of his daughters. Salem, realizing what he's doing, angrily fires a red beam from her hand. Ozma uses his scepter to counter Salem's attack, launching a green beam. Their attacks clash, engulfing the area with a bright flash. You watch, feeling devastated as Ozma and Salem fight throughout the castle. Their battle causes the castle to collapse and be destroyed in the process. A charred horse plush toy is on the ground......did...they not make it out? You try picking up the horse plush...but your hands simply go through it...you sigh sadly.

Ozma weakly crawls on the ground, blood pouring out from behind him. Salem then reappears behind him undamaged due to her immortality, and angrily walks over to Ozma. She kicks him over onto his back and holds him down with her foot.

Salem:"We finally had freedom..." Ozma weakly looks up at her.

Ozma:"I-" A blast of fire from Salem engulfs Ozma, killing him once again...

Jinn:"Thus began a long and painful cycle of death and rebirth for Ozma." You see various reincarnates of Ozma shown, a frail man weakly walking by many gravestones, then a man walking in the rain, drinking his problems away. "Some lives were spent in mourning, many were spent attempting to forget it all." Finally, Ozma reincarnates to a dark-skinned man with glasses who starts off slouching, but then eventually stands straight up and determinedly walks forward. "But no matter what, his mind would eventually turn back to the task he had been burdened with." Ozma's newest reincarnate is serving a meal to his wife and two children, you notice they BOTH have Silver Eyes.....hmm...

Jinn:"And as the centuries went on, Ozma began to learn the importance of living with the souls with which he had been paired." Ozma then hears screaming outside. He opens the door and sees villagers running around in panic as Grimm attack. "But no matter where or how he lived, her presence was always felt." Ozma looks back to his wife, who nods at him, before going out with a mechanized cane into battle.

Jinn:"If humanity were ever to stand a chance at being united, one thing was clear...

You:"He had to destroy Salem..." ...Smoke then envelops the area showing Ozma's reincarnation many years older now, tinkering with his cane in his workshop.

Jinn:"Knowing he could never rid the world of her through any mortal means, Ozma sought out the power of the Relics.The elderly tinkerer then places his cane inside a metal cabinet, closing the door on it. The door opens again showing Ozma's newest reincarnation, a well-dressed man, picking up the cane where he last left it in his previous life. "Armed with my knowledge, he believed he could fulfill his promise to the God of Light." Ozma is holding the Relic of Knowledge, summoning Jinn for the first time. You glance to see that you can now see the rest of your team all watching Ozma 

Ozma:"Where are the other Relics?"

Jinn:"He asked me his questions."

Ozma:"What powers do they possess?"

Jinn:"And though I gave him my answers..."

Ozma:"Where are the Leviathan and the Serpent?" He asks one final question... "How do I destroy Salem?"

Jinn:"...Not all of them were to his liking." You look closely at Ozma as Jinn gives her answer to Ozma. "You can't." Your eyes widen. Ozma falls to his knees in despair, as you glance over to see Ruby, Weiss and Blake all have shocked expressions, with Yang closing her eyes in anger and Raiden looking incredibly pissed. Ozma remains on his knees as Jinn disappears before him. Ozma forming back into Oscar as everything is back to normal...

(BOY EXPOSITION, EXPOSITION, AND MORE EXPOSITION, LEMME TELL YOU REWRITING ALL THIS EXPOSITION IS ROUGH JEEBUS. Heh, well ANYWAYS, I hope you all enjoyed, and apologies for the long delay, dealing with Senior year is pretty rough with college, Prom, and all this other junk happening soon in my life, anyways I'll keep trying to update as quick as I can, thanks for listenin' to my ramblings!)