Nine years past, and so goes the innocence of childhood. Jade is 15 now, and the darkness in her heart seems immeasureable. All through the years, she spent her time training herself in the chapel, and on the odd occassion, Ansem would send her to another world so she could lead the heartless to it, so they in turn would find the keyhole and shroud the planet in darkness.
It was a long time to wait to take revenge on those who used her, but Ansem had taught her patience. She understood that rushing in would only lead to her own demise. She would wait, and keep training herself while putting up with the small group of outsiders that Ansem had let into the castle. These outsiders, Jafar, Oogie Boogie, Ursula, Captain Hook and Maleficent, had no clear objective in Jade's perspective, besides to help Ansem spread darkness throughout the universe. She was definitely suspicous of them, so she went to consult Ansem about them.
"They are weak, but efficient, Jade. What ever they wish to accomplish will end in failure." replied Ansem idley without removing his gaze from the computer he was working at when Jade approached him. "They will hasten our progress towards our goal of spreading the darkness, and then they will be consumed by it"
Jade thought about it for a moment. They were basically using them, just like Jade's 'friends' used her. Well, she no longer cared why she wanted revenge anymore. She just wanted to make everyone pay for everything they did to her, and she didn't care what path she took as long as the path would lead her to her goal. But there were still other problems.
"I see. But they are annoying. They are using MY training room to plan their idiotic schemes!" Jade shouted, though Ansem barely flinched.
"One must make sacrifices for the sake of progress Jade. You can go train down in the entrance hall." said Ansem dully. He clearly wasn't in the mood to be dealling with Jade's problems at the moment. Currently he had most of his focus on a small screen that desplayed footage of a small cave with drawings of various things on the walls, a large wooden door at the end and a small silver haired boy sitting alone on a rock, holding some sort of sword that looked more like a key.
"They are trying to tell me what to do!" Jade persisted.
"And you will obey them." said Ansem in a tone that told Jade that she had lost the arguement. Ansem finally turned his gaze from the computer screen to Jade, and looked at the girl straight in the eyes, and Jade stared back into the face which was still covered under that brown hood he always wore.
Ansem was aware that Maleficent and the others were making themselves a bit too comfortable, but he didn't have too many people to work with. He could not go out on his own. To reveal himself would be foolishness, and it would also be putting himself at risk. Jade had her own goals, and could easily let her mind stray from any task that he had given her to take out one of her friends. He needed someone reliable.
After a few seconds of staring at each other, Ansem finally broke the silence. "There is another world I want you to go after. Its a small island world so you should have no trouble with it. In the mean time I will also try to straighten out a few of your problems. Go"
Jade, though not entirely convinced that her problems would be solved, nodded, and Ansem made her a portal that would take her to her destination, and she went through quickly.
