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Some moments upon Hiyori and her new 'friend's' arrival of her home, as things calmed down, and the beast fell into his sleeping world locked into her special dome to keep him there, Hiyori's fox-like features began to disappear, and she would return to her human form completely. In those few moments it took her to take a few pictures of him, and a brief recording to ensure anyone who looked at the video would see it was no fake, Hiyori finally set her camera down, making one last check of the security hold of her guest, before finally settling down into her overly large chair, she was so tiny compared to it.Making some of this even more humorous then it should be. The beast caught by a tiny little child.

It was so big in fact, she was able to curl up in the seat, and eventually drift off to sleep her self. She was a little tired, it seemed.

Sometime later, Hiyori was now standing in front of the special glass window's over looking the beast as it slept inside. "Hey, mom...Can this count as a Birthday gift to you? I caught him...At least, I hope so. Heh..Who knows, right? Maybe i'll be seeing you soon.." When it came down to it, she knew she couldn't really be this lucky. For all she knew she just set herself up for the mark of death. If he was all powerful as everyone said, her holding area wouldn't match his own strength or power, and he would simply escape with ease. But not before killing her. She thought about these possibilities, but she also liked to think positively, that she did get him in a situation he, or it, couldn't get out of. Only time would tell what fate Hiyori faced once he awoke.

Whatever that fate would be, she would find out. For now, Hiyori eventually walked away from the room, exiting through a narrow hallway to a smaller room, with a bed, dresser and desk in place, it was clear this was her room. Nothing fancy, and nothing that would fit a child of her age. It was completely plain. Sitting herself into her desk chair, she picked up a pencil and slipped out her journal. From there, she began to write....

"February 7th, another Birthday with someone important to me that I couldn't celebrate with. Mom is gone, taken at the hands of the Beast, who I now am holding prisoner. Will he be able to escape? Who knows. Subject is currently sleeping soundly in his confined, special chamber. What my fate will be should he escape is beyond me, all I can say is, I tried. Death doesn't scare me. I thought I was useful, I thought I could help everyone if I learned lots of things to be of help but in the end i'm pretty useless. Everyone that was important to me ether doesn't want to know me,was scared off, or is gone. I would rather not have the beast as my forever company, so I would much rather him kill me. It is funny, though.The only one who did see me as someone who could help wasn't Mom or Dad, it was a Turk. Cissnie believed in me, but I was still turned down by someone who didn't want to.So, if this is to be found then I guess it was true, the beast escaped and what everyone believed was true,I was useless to help anyone or protect this world. " She ended it with her signature, and closed the book, setting it away back into her drawer.

Then she left the room once again, where she would leave to the what she called the computer room, where all the fun gadget's were, the area she spent working in the most. She had somethings to do yet.

To bad for Terra, it was when Hiyori checked behind her, that she stopped instantly. It was strange,feeling like a sneaky child, when she was the adult trying to check on her young daughter! Her young...highly intelligent daughter..This wasn't something that she found herself getting used to at all! What eight year old child had her OWN place, a lab, at that? None. Sure, she kind of took it over after Ryosuke was forced to leave with haste. But it still seemed to be Hiyori's now. Seeing her so independent was even a little painful to her heart, she barely got to see her so much she barely knew her. Anyone close to Terra knew how much of a motherly person she was at heart, and how much she loved and cared for children, but her own children? It went far beyond that.

And here she was, working on a impossible process to save both herself and her fellow traveler, Ike. What if..she wasn't able to find a cure? What if she couldn't make one in time? Terra's heart began to pick up in beats.. "Hiyori..." She whispered softly, sighing as she began to walk up to the locked door, stopping to look through it's window. She couldn't exactly see her daughter perfectly, she could just barely see one of her blonde twin tails as she worked.

But, as Terra's eyes scanned the rest of the room...They would soon spot out a familiar figure laying on the ground, seemingly unconscious. The moment it hit her who exactly it was, a hand shot up to cover her mouth which unfortunately didn't hide the sudden gasp. "Oh my goodness..!! She...wasn't lying?! " Because Hiyori always lied! Not...But how on earth did she manage this? "He's..bleeding..." Or at least he was, it was just the blood from her knife-to-the-head earlier.

It was probably a good fifteen minutes worth of work, and a few more of waiting for the antidote to settle and be ready, before Hiyori asked Soren for a set of two small bottles across the room, neatly set into the large oak shelf filled with many empty bottles. Had he brought them to her, she would begin the careful process of pouring the antidote into the two tiny bottles, they appeared to look similar to any other potion or elixir bottles all of them were pretty familiar with. Once they were filled up, she set the cork topper into one, but not the other. Instead, she gave Soren a glance while handing him the sealed one. "Just in case, i'm going to assume with how much you care for Ike, you might be suspicious? So, i'll take mine first so you can see there is no danger and that it isn't some kind of poison.." She wasn't sure he was having these thoughts, but, she did think anyone else would be. She was just a kid he didn't know. How was he to know of her intentions? With that said, Hiyori lifted hers to her mouth, and began to quickly drink it as fast as possible. This was NOT a good taste to have in the mouth! But it would heal them, and that was all that mattered. A little horrible drink was worth it if it meant to save their lives.

The look on her face may of been something of slight amusement had he stayed to watch if it had any affects. "God it's disgusting..." She said with a sour face,shuddering a little. It tasted like something of the likes of the bitterness of an orange skin, mixed with many other strange tastes. Some of which had the taste of grass! "Tell him to drink it fast, otherwise it's harder to drink once you get that taste.." And being a big man like he was, it wouldn't be very hard to just chug it down in one gulp!

Setting the bottle away into a section to set things to be cleaned up, Hiyori slid down from her chair. Yes it was an interesting sight, to see a girl who's feet didn't even touch the floor when sitting, to be doing all this. Already, she could feel herself feeling more energy return to her, her pale face gaining it's color back. "Well, go on! " She grinned, setting her hands behind Soren to give him a push forward. Oh yes, her energy was most certainly returning! To quickly, even! As soon as he was near the door, the young cheery blond set in the code, not bothering to hide it for obvious reasons and opening the door once more. Letting him through Hiyori was quick to follow along when.......

The alarms began to sound! At first it was quite loud, but soon it began to settle into one single room, the main computer area to the right of the living area everyone else was in. "..Er...It's okay, that's just my alarm for the portal..uh, the tear. You know, what everyone's coming from..When this goes off, it means it's active, and someone or something is about to come through..." She gestured for anyone who was curious, to follow her to the computer area where they would see a few screens, but only one of them stood out the most, a larger near sixty inch screen showing the very tear. They would be able to see and hear everything going on there. "Hee,hee...The idiots are there, and they still haven't found my camera's! " At the large pillars surrounding the tear, she had placed up her little spy system to keep watch for new comers, so that she could be of help to them. There was a lot of time Hiyori had to herself to do some very crazy things, that was for sure. As she kept watching, she noticed the troops gathering and preparing for the new visitor's arrival, while the energy within the particular area of the tear began to radiate and go wild, most new that the wilder it got, that meant a larger object was coming through, not just a regular human as it typically got.

Hiyori began to punch in a few keys, what was she up to now? "Should be coming now. " And in a matter of seconds after she stated those words, there was a sudden brilliant flash of light that would even kill the vision of the camera's feed for several seconds, and in those seconds they while they couldn't see anything, they would hear the sound of a horse crying out in pain, and the gasp of a females voice in panic. And then, the camera feed returned to that of a young teenage girl of long swirled blonde and violet highlights, wearing a black and pink slightly armored dress to what they could see. Though she was now on the ground, far more concerned of her horse then to notice anything or anyone around her. The fall from the tear wasn't gentle, and as they came in it ended in her steed falling dangerously onto its fragile leg, it didn't appear to be broken, though sprained was more likely. Still it couldn't get back up.

"....That was not expected..." Hiyori began to say, glancing around the room a moment. "Can I even fit a horse in this place? " Whatever she was to do, she would have to be quick with the troops there now advancing toward their new arrival. "Guys, stand back...There SHOULD be enough room in this area..It's about to get really crowded in here.." Boy, never in her life would she think she would be teleporting a horse into the labs. Pushing another bottom to her computer, back at the tear, the girl along with the soldiers would hear a voice speak through hidden speakers. "...Girl, stay there, Keep your hands on the horse. I'm going to bring you somewhere safe. " One could only hope she followed those orders, Hiyori didn't know this girl, or how troublesomely slow she could be sometimes.

Upon feeling the slightly cold cloth come suddenly to rest over her forehead, Hiyori jumped slightly at the sensation, it wasn't -that- cold, but she most certainly didn't expect it. The small jump was brought on by the sheer surprise of it all, the faint cold to the concern to her she strangely didn't get much of. Blinking, she couldn't help but look up at the dark-haired Archsage, why did her heart suddenly feel a warmth it hadn't felt in some time? It even felt like it was even a little elevated, though maybe that was due to the little surprise there. Or the poisons, ether one! Whatever the case, Hiyori's face seemed to light up a little, shining with the smallest smile. "...T-Thank you..." Looking down to her project again, and in the nick of time to as her cheeks began to flush a little pink. She wasn't used to this kind of treatment, the results were a shy Hiyori. ".,.Sorry..You don't have to do that..I'll be fine, i'm going to get this done fast! So I won't be a bother...I'm..really grateful for your kindness though. " She had to say, she didn't want to seem rude!

As she had finished, and he began to talk further, Hiyori just kind of paused, looking at him as he spoke. More unbelievable, kind words coming from someone she barely knew. She almost didn't know how to respond! Was it possible this was a part of the poison's affects, was she hearing things? "..." There was a silence that lingered in the air after his words, it took a little shake of her head to clear her self of her own strange and confused thoughts to get herself to speak again! "...That..um...I'm sorry! I don't usually have such a hard time talking...You're just ..you're being so nice to me sincerely, You would think maybe i'm allergic to niceness! It's just, I guess I don't hear a lot of compliments...Stark is the only one who ever really...ah, never mind.." Shaking her head softly, her face returning to that faint smile. "I don't know, there's still a lot I got to learn..And I like to learn new things, maybe.....maybe you can teach me some tactics one day? When we defeat our biggest threat, and a little enjoyment can be had again..W-would you like to? I guess I can talk to you then. I mean I wouldn't mind talking to you anytime..Whenever you want! " Well, she certainly had no problem with that thought. While Soren did have Ike, she could see even he needed someone more then just Ike, maybe that someone could be her, and in the end they could help each other out and find a new friendship in each other. Before Soren could get out the door fully, while they still had their privacy here, Hiyori quickly slipped her arm around him, which was mostly hugging his lower body, before letting go again and giving him a playful grin. "Thank you for everything, Soren..I look forward to spending more time with you. We smart people should stick together, right? " With a wink that followed, Hiyori giggled softly before heading out of the lab area, into the next room.

Then, the alerts went off and their next new worry would come. It wouldn't be long before the entire room knew that whom ever they were watching on the screen, was someone close to Owain. "I'll get them both here! " She wasn't about to go into details of how bad it would be sending him there, instead, it would just be that much easier to bring her and her injured steed right to them. Trying to block out Owain's worried voice, she concentrated on the panel in front of her. "Okay, um..Elise? " She repeated, as 'Odin' called her. "Hang on, don't move and maybe close your eyes....Now!" They would see on the screen what looked to be a sphere-like-dome completely form around Elise and her steed, this would protect her from any sudden attacks of the men there, while the magic would start to work it's course. It was just in time, too. With the threat of their visitor escaping, they were ordered to open fire, put her near death and revive her back in ShinRa. Unfortunately for them, that wouldn't happen. The dome protected her, and no later did the sphere with her and the horse, disappear completely from their sight.


Only to reappear........Right there to the back of the room. The transparent sphere began to fade away, leaving Elise left to regain her surroundings. That was probably a new experience for her, maybe. Lord knew she would be extremely confused. The horse properly fell into a sleep, which Hiyori was quick to cast a simple sleep spell so as to inspect the massive animal so that she could get to another round of fixing something up to help heal the animals leg.

God, it was so crowded. Her lab was now a stable and home to many people. .........It wasn't bad at all. "I put your friend to sleep, for a little bit while I go make something to help it, okay? So don't worry. Go have your happy reunion! "