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Due to not knowing if those who left the airship were coming back, Aerith had decided to go back to the city too. The thought of leaving bothered her more then she thought it would. Midgar was her life, where she spent most of her life, and where the grew up with her adoptive mother. Her home was destroyed, which only devastated her along with the entire city. For now, she would go see avalanche. mansion and hope the defense system had kicked in to protect it from any destruction.

Sure enough.....The massive castle was still standing, with not one single scratch. The barrier and steel blast doors that had activated protected it through out the devastation. Sighing softly. Aerith began to head to the doors. The defense system had shut itself down as soon as the threat was over, which unlocked all the doors and windows. "Thank goodness......"

"I'll come back..when it's all over.."

(( OOC: Got a new picture for the mansion on the first page.))

"Actually, we would like to know as well.." A voice came from behind the group. Zola and Riotala Tenacia had entered, their usual facial expressions of near-emotionless dour present. The emerald-haired male set his young sister down on her feet. "Go gather our belongings. Clyde's as well, alright?" he requests of Rio.

"Yes, Brother.." Riotala nods, before heading upstairs.

Zola turns back to the four females present. "..To put it simply, grand mechanical monsters did a lot of redecorating.. We can only hope the amount of deceased isn't higher than, what, ten-thousand?" He looks away. "..At least, I hope so.. But then, even the Shinra Building was no match for these machines.. I am not certain of their source, but I am very certain of their purpose; Midgar was attacked, and for the most part, Midgar lost..."

He looks up, sighing quietly. "...I got here after the attack, with my friends... I'm ashamed, actually. I wasn't here to do any justice... But of course, what was I to do, were I to witness the event?" He gives a small, sad smile. He wasn't teary-eyed, just...grieving a little. "I would probably be one of the deceased... But why am I expressing this aloud?" he asks, chuckling a little. "I suppose triviality is common in this time of grief.."

Kiyoshi walked out into the courtyard, his mind was empty of any thought. He wanted to hold onto a peacful state of mind so he can focus on only one thing; his training. He found a place where therewas noone watching and leaving his sword on his back he begain to do his hand to hand kata arts. He closed his eyes and focused only how how he was moving his body and each precice movement and step he took. He felt the energy with in and flowed it with in him like the ebb and flow of an ocean. Kiyoshi had been in meditation for a while and he felt it was time for his arts to be brushed up on and further perfected. He thought of the many events that had happened recently along with the events of Midgar. He felt a slight frustration at his own abilitys, Kiyoshi wanted to get stronger and it showed as Kiyoshi's movments became far more rapid and aggressive.

However there was something else that was botheriing him that not even Kiyoshi knew about and in do time perhaps he will find out what it is. Kiyoshi did find his mind was wandering into the thoughts that are holding him back and he shook his head to shake it off Emptying his head again his motions became more calm and fluent. At the end of his kata he looked over to support piller near him and took his sword off his back andsat down infront of the pillering leaning his back against it while the flat of the sword rests on his right shoulder. His eyes staring downward unblinking.

Isabel Mercer

Isabel followed his gaze to the young girl as he said those words. "At least..you have each other, right? That's what is important.." She said softly, managing a small smile. "I pray they do find some..Surly there will be.." They could hope,pray and believe there was. "Maybe I should go back out there, and help them search while..keeping them both as safe as possible." Not in the ways of battle, but healing, of course. Isabel was no fighter, what was to be expected for an holy Angel?

Then, his words of not knowing Roy, caused a faint frown to show upon her features, though his next following words of hope would earn him another small smile from her. "...He...He is very strong...That's true.Thank you,.."

(( OOC: Do they know each other's names? lol. ))

Isabel Mercer

Isabel smiled softly. That was true, it may take a while, but with everyone's determination to fix the current situation and not completely just give up on Midgar, or the other many area's devastated, things would return to normal some day. "Yes...I believe it will..! I don't believe anyone would just turn away, we are all here to protect the people who live in these city's...Though, our enemy's tested us and won, we can't give up and let them think they could continue these horrible acts.." Isabel said before he soon introduced himself, and was about to do the same for his sister until...

'Another' girls voice cut him off. Wait a second...

Isabel blinked, now looking completely confused. This was the same girl she seen going up the stairs? But she was just a little girl then! Now, she appeared to be in a young teenager. ".....I think i'm a little confused? " She looked to the pair now, it was until the teen said her last words that she began to understand..."...This is another form of yours? ...Then...How old are you? I mean....If you don't mind me asking! "

Then, after a brief pause, Isabel rested her hand to point at herself in a common gesture when introducing. "Oh..! I'm..Isabel Mercer..Although i've seen you before, I know we haven't really spoken very much. So, I just wanted to say it's nice to be here speaking with you and really getting to know you better.." The blond smiled..her spirits having lifted since she began talking with Zola.

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Isabel Mercer

Isabel turned to Shikyo, noticing the two youngsters in her arms before they were set down on the rug where they could crawl around safely. Seeing as she was still holding her little sister, she too, decided to let her join Yuki and Akina, who had all already known each other from the day-care that day with Eve. Giving a small smile, she set her down with them. "I'm Isabel Mercer..And this is my little sister, Aiyana. " The blond women said, smiling faintly. It was a great relief to see there were other avalanche members safe, especially with little ones. "Were you all in this city when....everything happened? "

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Zola blinked. "Shikyo... I'm glad you survived." The emerald-haired male gives a small smile. "I can see, even with all this going on, you're still doing very well. It's a rather admirable sight.. Riotala, what are you doing?"

The teenaged shadow stared at the young children as they crawled. Something similar had happened on the cruise ship traveling the Island of Trinity, when Riotala had first encountered the babies. She just stared at them, as if she were staring at a hidden picture, trying to find a sailboat or something..

"..Riotala, you can play with them if you wish."

"Wh-What?" That got her attention. Bonus points for the sudden blush.

"You'd probably want to revert back to your child form, though. Your current appearance might be a little on the scary side for them.."

"I-I do not 'play', brother." Riotala stammered nervously.

"Yes, yes, I know, you 'analyze, examine, et cetera'.." The eldest of the Tenacia siblings gave a slight smirk, which only succeeded in the glare she gave him intensifying. However, he was immune to those sorts of things, given the strength of his own glares... In the next few seconds, Riotala had headed back upstairs hastily, as if embarrassed.

"Hmph.. Whether she's physically thirteen or not, she's still acting childishly." Zola smiles a little. "I wonder why she went upstairs, though.."