The Reactor Explosions

They arrived at the Aerith home as John and Nesiara were on the flower fields with Elmyra. Aerith ran towards them and the adults sigh in relief as they see them alright.

Elmyra hugs Aerith while Nesiara and John walked over towards Nora and Kieron as they gave them a hug.

After breaking up the hugs John asks, "What happened up there?"

"Some shadows appeared out of nowhere. Then a man with long silver hair appeared and grabbed me by my foot slowing me down. He would have died if Great-Grandpa didn't interrupt him," says Nora as she explained what happened on her side.

"What about you son?" asks Nesiara as Kieron explained that he was helping the people in the sector before joining the other two.

"You did good," says John as he puts his hand on Kieron's shoulder before looking at Nora and asks, "The man had a big sword?"

"It was pretty slim but it was quite long," says Nora as Nesiara's turned red from anger until John put his hand on her shoulder to bring her back.

"He isn't here at the moment. So try not to show your anger," says John as he was angry too but hold it inside.

"You know very well what he will di in the future," says Nesiara angry at John.

"And we are here to stop him," says John back.

"There was also another man he had a broadsword and short blond hair. He was with Aerith when we caught up with her," says Nora as Nesiara and John knew who that was.

"He should be one of terrorist," says John when suddenly Nora and Kieron began to radiate an aura that John stopped as he continues, "Not really that kind of terrorist even if they blew up the Reactor they are doing it because of the planet. I know that I sound weird but you will find out sooner or later."

"That doesn't excuse the giant explosion in the middle of the city," says Kieron angry because he saw the chaos first hand.

"I know that," says John as he looks at Kieron seriously since he wasn't happy at all that they would drag the civilists into the chaos.

"We are not going to do something against them?" asks Nora as Nesiara shakes her head.

"They aren't the enemy. Our enemy is the man you encountered," says Nesiara as Nora looks confused at them.

"He was quite weak to be your enemy," says Nora as both John and Nesiara smiled at her.

"He shouldn't have his full power yet," says Nesiara as Nora now understood why Jack appeared to take him away.

Then Elmyra and Aerith walk over as Elmyra takes both children in her arms while Aerith smiled at this when suddenly she feels a hand on her head petting her while two arms surrounded her in a hug.

"I hope the shadows didn't do anything to you," says Nesiara as Aerith returns the hug to Nesiara while she smiled at John.

"I'm alright. It wasn't the first time I encountered the Whispers," says Aerith as she smiled at them worried.

"Yui should be back soon. How about we stay together tonight," says Nesiara suggesting it as Elmyra nods.

"Yes, it would be for the better," says Elmyra as the explosion of the Reactor did make her feel uneasy.

They entered the house and Elmyra found out that the house was now bigger than it was a week ago as she asks, "How comes the house is bigger than it looks?"

"John made some modifications to it since last week. He increased the room in the house since he needed some rooms to train his skills in smithing. Then there are rooms for us to train either together or alone," says Nesiara when the children see the egg on the table.

"Where did you get this Egg?" asks Kieron as Elmyra and Aerith notice it.

"It's a Chocobo Egg. Where did you find it?" asks Aerith as she was curious.

"The children gave it to me as a reward for taking the Hedgehog Pie King out and saving two girls that were trapped by it. But everything went well," says John as he walked towards the table and looked at the egg before saying, "I will have to ask one of the people that work with the Chocobos on how to get them out."

"Are you really going to raise a Chocobo? Fang will be sad about that when he hears that," says Kieron as he smiled imagining a grown adult crying because he won't be spoiled anymore because he now had a little sibling.

"It should be alright since it will take time for it to grow big and strong until then we should have found a partner for it," says John as he was hinting something to them.

"So the next family member will be its partner," says Nora bluntly.

"That's right. Now then its quite late so let's prepare a little barbecue," says John as walks to the fridge and takes the meat out.

Then he walks the stairs up until reaching the balcony where the barbecue grill was. He began to roast the meet as the people began to sit on chairs and began to feel the wind pass through their hair.

"This really feels nice maybe I should have asked my late husband to build the house a little higher," says Elmyra as she looked quite younger than she used to since Aerith wasn't only her worry any longer.

"You really look younger now that you don't have to worry about Aerith the whole time with Nora and Kieron around," says Nesiara as Elmyra smiles.

"I would be happy if I could give her away to a family like yours," says Elmyra as Aerith's face didn't change much while Kieron almost choked on what he was drinking when Elmyra says as a joke, "What's wrong boy. Is my daughter not good enough for you."

"She is. But shouldn't she decide who she marries," says Kieron nervous as Aerith smiled at him making him go red.

"If it was up to her she would wait until her first love return," says Elmyra as now Aerith turned towards her mother.

"Mother!" says Aerith as Elmyra smiles at her.

"What, I was just stating the truth. You need to forget him, girl, or you won't be able to find someone else. I and your father also had our first loves before we met," says Elmyra lecturing Aerith while Aerith was quite red as she never was thinking about love until now.

"Sometimes first love does become true," says John as Nesiara rolls her eyes.

"Not always. My first love got crushed pretty fast because of a certain someone betraying me," says Nesiara as John looks away towards the meat.

After some minutes Yui arrived and was quite relieved when she saw all three safe and sound when she hugs all three before saying, "The children were quite scared about what happened today."

"Everyone would child. We were no different," says Elmyra as Nesiara and John only smiled at that.

"Well since everyone is here how about some nice food," says John as he takes a pot and puts the meat inside so it would still be warm even after some hours.

Then he puts the pot on the table as the people began to eat the food while drinking some cold beer while the girls drank some wine that Nesiara secured the last time she went hunting.

"The food was quite good. Not as good as Nesiara's and mine but better than Aerith by far," says Elmyra while Aerith stared at her mother now making the family smile as they finished eating before going to sleep.

The next few days nothing really happened when one night another Reactor was destroyed making the people become really stressed because the explosion was quite loud and over their head. Many believed that the plate would fall over their head.

For Elmyra and Aerith that wasn't much of a problem since they just could move towards the other house that had everything.

The next day after the explosion Aerith wanted to go to the church and dragged Kieron and Nora with her to help her.

They went together as Kieron took care of some monsters that were looming around when he asks, "You know why don't you grow them beside the house?"

"Because they wouldn't grow there. This is a special place after all," says Aerith as she entered the church and stopped on her tracks.

"Is something wrong?" asks Nora as she followed Aerith and looked inside the church finding the man she encountered before in Midgar when she reunited with Aerith.

"The terrorist is here," says Nora as she was quite angry with those terrorists that blew everything up and don't care for the normal people.

Kieron entered as he followed the gaze of both finding the man lying in the flower bead making now Kieron really angry. He walked over towards the man and grabs him by his shirt and lifted him up out of the flower bead.

"First you destroy the city and now you destroy the flower bead. What do you want to destroy next!" says Kieron angry as he didn't notice that the man was still out.

"Kieron, I think he isn't right?" says Nora as she was seeing the man struggling against something.

She walked over before Kieron could throw the man against the ground breaking the bones of that man.

She makes some hand seals before placing her hand on the head of the man as Aerith asks, "What is she doing?"

"She is looking at what nightmare he might have," says Kieron as he put the man slowly to the ground while Nora sat down.

"It seems he didn't destroy the whole bead," says Kieron as he looked at the flower bead.

"That's because they are stronger than they seem," says Aerith with a smile as she kisses his cheek while saying, "Thank you for worrying about them and us people."

"That's my duty after all," says Kieron as Aerith smiled at him. Kieron then takes the sword from the man and takes a closer look at it and says, "It resembles a bit one of the swords my father has but his is made out of seven while this is made out of one."

He copies the sword as he stores the copy away while Aerith asks, "Can you do that with every weapon?"

"Yes, but I need to get a glance at it. My skill is quite better than that of the two masters that taught me. The one who taught me how to use this skill had some limitations while I have none every weapon is fair game for me as well as armors and accessories. I really drove both crazy because they couldn't distinguish between real and fake any longer," says Kieron making Aerith smile as she imagined it.

Then suddenly Nora and the man opened their eyes and the man tried to attack Nora when Kieron stopped him while Nora had Excalibur on the man's neck.

The man didn't even notice Kieron's aura until Kieron says, "You fucking bastard isn't worth to life if you even attack the person that was helping you."