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"Hmm hmm...I guess I got here just in time! " A cheery little fox-girl's voice rang out, she was in the slums of Midgar, just at the entrance to what was well known as the orphan's safe haven. It wasn't pretty, there was barely any real shealter there but a awning over-head, crates and various trashed items were tossed in this area, all of which the homeless, parentless children made use to. There were still a lot of them all over the city, but the lot of them tended to stay in this area. "Hi everyone..." She smiled brightly, she was told my a nice woman her smile was infectious and seemed to get even the most quiet children to smile. So, she would live up to that and hope to see everyone with a smile. "I wanted to get here on Halloween, but..well, it's always after it that everything goes on sale. So I could buy lots of things for you to enjoy with what I have.." She stood beside something, something quite large. Something...one didn't see very often being trailed along a bicycle. A very large pumpkin! It was filled to the top with goodies, and even small plush animals could be seen mixed in there. The pumpkin itself was a fake, just hallowed out to carry all these gifts. Alone, the pumpkin was about the size of a motorbike, so one could imagine how much left-over goodiess she went around buying from all the cities she could. Everything was sorted out, there were gift bags all filled with many kinds of treats and candys, some even had tiny little plush animals in them.
She began to pick them out, and hand them to the kids who had no doubt, quickly swarmed her! Thankfully, she was able to keep them in line so they didn't just try to grab everything in her pumpkin cart. It seemed they respected her enough to not do such a rude thing too. That was good, concidering there were a lot of kids here yelling and making all sorts of excited noises as the recieved their gifts. The younger ones all would get a cute kitten, puppy, chocobo or moogle of their choice, she liked to save the best for the little ones. It really made their eyes light up! For the boys, they had their choices of regular gift bags of just candy or a small plush as well. It took a good ten minutes to hand out their gift bags and toys, and by the time she was done with this section, she was about half empty of her little gifts. She still had plenty for the rest. Hiyori really knew these area's well and all who lived alone or had no home or parents, so no one would be missed if she could help it. "Okay, there's still more around the city I need to give the rest to. I hope you like your gifts, and remember, repay the kindness one day when you get older. Helping other's is the best part of life, I think you'll understand soon enough. " She smiled, turning back to her little bicycle. Did it look silly? Sure it did. But she sure didn't care! She kind of made it herself, so.. "Just call me...Pumpkin clause! Spreading the happiness in the form of sweets! " She grinned, her silly little smile before getting back onto her bike. "Bye! " And like a halloween santa clause, she was off for more gift giving. The lot of these kids didn't get a single thing for Halloween, the poor children of Midgar tended to be pushed away at any chance they had to try. Hiyori wasn't having that...

Within the largest toy store in the city of Midgar, was a heavily entranced young teenage girl, browsing through the vast isle of endless plushies, there were so many, it was really amazing! And of so much varieties she could seriously be here for hours just looking through them. She really , really loved soft cuddly things. When she had a little extra GIL to enjoy for fun, she would get some cute stuffed animal for herself. Her room within the mansion really didn't look like a teenage girl lived in it, but a child. Loaded with everykind of cute stuffie, pastel, cute soft colors everywhere. And her bed was covered in many more of them. As she slowly walked the isle, petting some cute ones she would spot, she noticed something in the distance, up a little higher then she would like, a dark colored plush. As she got closer, the curious teen reached up. She couldn't reach.

Again, she tried. Still no luck! Her last attempt was stepping up on the bottom shelf, and pulling herself up to the next where she was able to grab a hold of the unique plush, and hop down before something terrible happened.Upon closer inspection of the plushie, she was unable to hide her gasp of surprise. It was a dark furred wolf, with almost glowing vibrant blue markings along it's fur, and a brown colored scarf wrapped around it's neck. But that wasn't it, it even had little wings that folded down, held by velcro if one didn't want them to be to noticable while playing. ".............Oh my gosh...!! It's...Dad! ..." She beamed, her face lit up like a cheerful child who received the best gift ever. Rather people were watching was of no worry to her, she clutched the little plush to her chest, cuddling it like never before. "You look just like him..! So cute! Your already my favorite! " Yes, she was most definitely getting looks. The plush was of a Christmas theme, the blue markings were to look icy, while the scarf topped off the cold theme just for a cute enough look that wasn't to overly done.

"...I may not have my real Dad anymore..I guess I have no right to call him that, but...I'll have you. I'll remember all those good times with daddy forever...even if i'm no longer part of him.." She said softly, sliding down so she was sitting there on the floor, holding the plush as if it were something so dear to her."..We had so much fun...Daddy and me both would play fight in our wolf forms, and mom would yell at us to stop..But we would only go out of sight and keep fighting until one lost...heehee..That was once my future. But now everything has changed, and i'm alive somehow even though I shouldn't even exist." She hugged the plush tighter. "Someday it will catch up to me I guess, and i'll vanish..but until then, i'm going to try to live this life and have my fun...." Lily sighed softly, her chin resting at the top of the wolf plush's head. "While all the other kids get their Christmas wish, all my wish is for my family back.." She really had quite a few onlooker's, many of which were laughing, while some seemed to feel sorry for the girl. "But i'll have you as my family now.." Poor Lily..

She seemed to sit there forever, just holding her new most dearest possession. Several long minutes went by, until eventually, a now silent Lily left to pay for her item, before leaving the store completely.

We were blessed with a gift Suki
It's a power to protect
A power to save lives

A sigh escaped the confused blonde as he gazed around, poor Lucian generally at a loss at what they should do. They we're a foreign group in a strange land, something had to come to mind but didn't. He looked about at the cities people, it was such a shock to see so many that he couldn't even bring himself to ask them anything about this place. Suki looked at her poor brother and shook her head " it's ok Lucian, I know your not good with people, I'll gather info just try and get the lay of the land that's were we should start." And with that the fair haired girl ventured into the crowd of people asking around about the town.

While Suki was gone Lucian pondered what to do and the best way to get the lay of the land. His mind drifted back to the wind shrine and a conversation he had with its guardian Kira. "What do you mean the eyes of a bird Kira?" A young Lucian questioned a small green haired girl. "That's obvious you dolt, get as high as the birds fly!" Lucian slipped a small chuckle from that memory, it was from his youth as a training warrior. He looked to the building near him and nodded "well time to go as high as the birds fly" he said as he walked up to the building. He looked up its vertical walls and examined to for foot holds eyeing several that would suit him, cracks hear and there perfect gripping point. He then began his ascent up the building, climbing it quite quickly as he had much training in his world with climbing. It didn't take the blonde long at all to climb the building and reach its roof. He caught his breathe for a quick second then looked out on to the city and smiled "Kira your still right, birds have the best view of the world." He examined the streets of the town as far as he could see seeing several builds nearby he could easily transfer to so he could get many angles on the city, learning as much as he could of its layout. He noticed many things from giant buildings with unique markings to massive structures that's seemed to dwarf even his village in their size. He soon made his way down the building back to the streets, many people talking about him in low whispers. "Lucian you know you stuck out like a soar thumb up there, I'm trying to get info and your climbing walls" Suki said with a giggle, teasing her brother for becoming the talk of the street. "Well.... I just went as high as the birds fly Suki, any ways did you learn anything on your end?" He asked laughing a bit. "I learned enough, enough to get by for now." She said smiling at Lucian quoting their old friend. "This city is called midgar, it's a rather large city broken up into many districts and locations vary from a market to well....the slums. But the best tidbit I got is a home for strangers to this place"


Lucian pondered on her words as she spoke then she mentioned a home for world travelers. "A place full of people like us? Do you think anyone from our world is there?" He asked Suki, he had his doubts the odds were slim in that regard. "Well the best way to find out is to go their Lucian, apparently it's a massive building called the Avalanche mansion." Lucian had recalled he saw a rather large building that could of been that "possibly I know were it is, it's a stretch though so we might need more info if it's not the place." Suki nodded to Lucian's words then pulled his arm "wells let's get our feet a going!" She cheered as she tugged her brother along "h-hey slow down you don't know where it is!"

((Both exit to the mansion))

I bend the elements into a blade
A blade meant to protect the innocent
A blade to purify darkness

Walking awkwardly through the isle, young Hiyori was pushing her own cart, that which was much taller then herself, which looked darn rights silly, but at the same time, many ladies passing her by found it to be the cutest thing. She could hear them gasping and chattering away about 'how cute' she looked trying to push a tall, huge cart! One even commented that she was so cute trying to act like a grown up! Gosh, it was......hm, how did she really feel? Her ears were kind of perked up. As if she somewhat enjoyed the attention she was getting, while at the same time, there was that side of her that didn't want to look little as she truly was. "............." With a brief struggle, she managed to get the cart turned to the next isle, the...........toy isle, well, more like plushies isle, filled with many cute stuffed animals of all kinds, dolls, and other popular children's cuddly toys. There was no one she knew here, thank god, so for the time being she was safe so long as she hurried along.
With everything she had in the labs destroyed, she had to get herself new things! She was just glad she had the abilities to fight on her own, otherwise money would be nonexistent to her.

After she had gathered her desired picks of adorable plushies, kittens and unicorns the most, she moved onto the clothing department area. Yes, Hiyori was surely independent...

Ariel just left her house after spending most of the day in her room, the lot of that time was spent sleeping, until she woke up and just..laid there for even longer periods of time. She spent most of the day laying there in bed, her mind full of thoughts, memories, even ones she would rather not remember. It was as if it was impossible to turn off her thoughts! Most of those thoughts though, were those with Kaden. From the happy times, to all the way when she began to act very, well, stupid. While some wasn't quite her fault, there was still a lot of it that was.It took her a lot of time to really realize everything, to wake up and see how good she had it,before she blew it. The saddest part was it took all this time to figure that out, and to realize just how much she really loved the Serenitian prince....How could she mess something that could have been the greatest, most precious future many dreamed of?
As her thoughts continued to take their toll on her mind, and her heart, Ariel had come to a decision that absolutely needed to be done. It was the only thing she could do at this point. That was to seek out ether Unisha or Jake, though she hoped to speak with the both of them, she would take ether one..

Midgar was massive, but she was sure the two probably weren't here. Her best chance to see them would be to go to the kingdom of Serenity, the Kingdom the pair ruled over, right? Of course they had to be there....
With her decision made, Ariel made her way to the chocobo stables not far from the mansion, this was their own chocobo stalls, rather then going all the way to the farm. That's when a tinge of pink stuck out from the side of one of the chocobo's, like a strand of hair sticking out. Was someone hiding behind one of the large birds? Blinking, a curious Ariel moved a little closer..and there, low and behold, ducking behind the chocobo as though hiding behind it, was Aiko. "..Ah..! W-what a coincidence! Hi Aiko..! " She smiled, taking a step closer as if she was about to go hug her. She was always very close to little Aiko, and it had been a long, long time since she last seen her! ".......Go away.." Aiko's face, was hardly a darling little smile. It was nothing like Ariel may remember. It was cold, and full of...hateful eyes.. "..Don't you come near me! " She glared at her. "And don't you even think about going near any of my family, ever again! " She must of read her mind. "...W-what??? Aiko...I-It's me...Ariel..Don't you remember me?? I...I want to talk to your parents..I wanted to apologize for everything, for all the trouble I put Kad--" "DON'T SAY HIS NAME!" Aiko practically screamed! Even the Chocobo was frightened, and promptly ran away from her! "You...You have no right to speak his name. My brother.." Her eyes were so full of hate, and all of that hate was directed right into Ariel's very soul. "My brother was just fine, he was happy, he wasted way to much of his life crying over you in our future, he was depressed terribly, all the time...And then...We came here. And here you were, what would turn out to be his greatest curse! Do you know how much he LOVED you? He was the best, and you just lead him into despair all over again. It was YOU that changed him. It was YOU that killed him. YOU are the reason my brother was killed! I will never forgive you. Not ever! You and me are enemies, nothing more. I want you to stay away from my family, and that means FOREVER! I promise one day, I will get my revenge...And if you don't go away right now, I'll hurt you myself!" She -could- do at least some damage. She wasn't quite so small as Ariel once remembered, and being as Ariel could do absolutely nothing to protect herself, Aiko definitely could.
"...Aiko..." "GO!
That...was the sword through her heart. She kind of just stood there, completely in shock.This...was Aiko? She had built up this much hate? Or was it all just piled onto her, and only her? Unfortunately for Ariel, that was exactly how it was. Aiko loved Kaden to death, and really didn't seem all that close with any of her other siblings, she always felt a special bond between them, nothing like Teresa or the others. One could only imagine how hard it was on Aiko when she learned of the news, no one was really there to help her, her parents were busy people, her siblings had their own lives, no one had time for young Aiko. All that sadness she had felt, soon began to grow into hate, and all that hate was set on the only one she deemed responsible..Ariel...Did she deserve this much? Probably not. But there was no really stopping how she felt now.. "...I'm so sorry, Aiko......" She tried to say through her voice crackling a little, she was doing her best not to end up in tears. So, with that, she quickly turned around....with out another word to Aiko, Ariel left the area of the chocobo stables..where she would aimlessly walk the city for the rest of the night in total disbelief and a even more broken heart.

It was like a beacon from the heavens, a soft blue light shone down from the sky as far as the eye could see, settled in a area not far from the mansion. Terra was heading for it's direction, the feeling she got wasn't all that comforting at all. This light, it wasn't something guiding her to where her daughter was, it was something much more sinister. As she sped for the location, she noticed another light now, even more brilliant and nearly blinding as it began to speed down the softer blue light!
Terra was getting closer, and with each second her rapidly beating heart became stronger, the light was getting that much closer, and she still felt millions of miles away! Hiyori's figure was now in her vision, along with a woman of golden blond hair. For a second, she caught the womans gaze, just as she flew past her, and Hiyori would suddenly find herself scooped up into her mother's arms, who proceeded to keep a distance from the woman, Terra's enraged eyes locked onto the woman. Had Terra been even a split second late, Hiyori too would have been gone. Time would return to normal for the young Hiyori the moment Terra had grabbed her, successfully breaking the link and concentration of Alithia's power.

"...These foolish attempts to cling to your children...are all but useless. There is no stopping this. You only prolong your time with them, while risk the life of this planet. It will fall, is the entire life of this planet, all that live on it, worth the lives of your children? Can you be so selfish? All of you...are fools...You cannot save them all." And those words were all that was left with Terra, as she once again, vanished from the area..Her victims were endless......And she was going to show that to them, by taking each and everyone of them.

So now, with the crazy time woman gone, all that was left was Terra and Hiyori, who was..to say the least, confused out of her mind. And feeling strange, too. Terra didn't seem to want to put her down, even after returning to her human form.."...I..missed something..." She blinked up at her, looking ever so cute and not actually meaning to! Her tiny form, those perky fox-girls, and those confused eyes were just to cute. Hiyori would always be unintentionally adorable. "...Y-you know, she's gone right? ...You can put me down.." Nope, Terra just held her tighter! "Eee, mommmmm! Your gonna kill me, can't..breath!" Okay, she really could, she was kind of just teasing her at this point. Maybe she liked this rare attention, but couldn't bring herself to show that side of her... After a moment that seemed forever, Terra finally set her down, only to kneel down with her to be more at level with her young daughter. From there, she hugged her again, but this time much more gently. Out of concern and worry, she just wanted her to be close. She did almost lose her! After letting her go, she went on the last worried parent search, looking Hiyori over for any injuries or scratches..."I'm fine! ...I promise...I'm okay.." She took a step back, looking into the direction of where she last saw Aiko before the young princess vanished before her eyes.. "...But, where is Aiko? ..It's like that lady took her. I don't know what happened, a beam of light came down and she vanished..just like that...What happened? Who was she??" Terra seemed to know, though she wasn't sure...

[[ooc: .Time skip a few minutes, they'll be going back to Avalanche mansion. .]]

Graceful and beautiful, the teenage angel of Serenity certainly was. It wasn't long before she had got the attention of several people passing by. It wasn't easy to miss the sight of graceful glowing angel wings. With her unintentional attracting, came few good citizens, while another non-citizen found his way here by the presence of her energy.One of the worst Reaper's known, the coldest, twisted one any of the Serenitains might of known and feared the very sight of. While Hana was unaware and still letting her power freely flow to the hearts of those connected to each wish, the male Reaper was slowly making his way from behind her, taking hold of his weapon.

The still unaware Hana, would suddenly feel the horrible feeling of steel striking through her right wing, just near the top which connected at her back nearest to the shoulders. This was the most sensitive area for angels, and the most painful had they been struck in anyway there.The javelin was thrown perfectly and with such power, it struck through the fountain. She wasn't going to get out of here so easily now. She could not dismiss her wings in this state. "Pretty Angel....Unfortunately, your pure energy stings, just like the pain you are likely feeling right now? " He continued his steps toward her, at this time, those in the area had long run away in fear. Upon reaching her, a gloved hand roughly grabbed her face, forcing her to look into his eyes, while his other hand began to lightly trail along her face.A slight, faint crimson glowing trail following along his finger tips as small energy 'nails' that cut like knives along her delicate skin. This was how Fiore worked. Torture was his number one enjoyment, and this was barely anything yet. The pain in her whimpering voice filled his twisted heart with joy..

That's when Fiore was knocked right in the head with a medium sized piece of scrap metal that was laying near by in attempt to knock him away from Hana. The plan didn't quite work as she hoped, as it was knocked from her hands, and she now would feel the stinging sensation as his hand struck across her body, creating the same slices across her skin and knocking her back in surprise. Who was this mystery 'rescuer'? The one who only just left the mansion moments ago, along her way to the store to pick up more gifts for the kids at the hospital, the path she always choose to take, was not so peaceful suddenly. Of course with no skills to fight, and never having been in battle before, Belle knew she had to do SOMETHING...Even if it was at great risk, she was willing to try. But in the end, this foe was far stronger then she ever imagined....