Being a L'Cie
Chapter 1: Waking up a L'Cie
"How do I get myself In these situations?" I asked myself as I ran from the PSICOM soldiers that hunted me down. I can't believe how quickly things changed. One minute I was the new girl on Cocoon, next minute I'm Cocoon's most wanted.
What could have changed in the past couple of hours? I looked at my wrist and saw a brand there that was black with connected arrows pointing up and down. Was this mark really the cause of all this? I came to a jerking hault as my toes dangled off the edge of the roof. "Stop right there L'Cie scum!" one of the soldiers shouted.
"That's just great." I muttered to myself as I turned around and faced the ever growing army. I quickly threw my hands up in the air in a surrendering position but they continued their advance. All I could do was slowly back away until my heels went over the edge and almost had me falling to my death. As they continued coming toward me I quickly counted how many there were...ten, I could handle ten. When I tensed myself up ready to fight the wind suddenly picked up, whipping my red hair around my neck and in my face at an extremely fast pace, so I looked up to see three helicopters carrying more soldiers with them.
"I can't catch a break." I muttered worriedly to myself as the helicopters aimed its guns at me and soldiers jumped down to join the ones that were already there. As they all walked toward me a surge of power pushed out of my body in a red light, knocking the soldiers back...but also throwing me off the roof. I hit a metal trash can hard causing a loud bang sound before I bounced and hit the concrete ground.
"Ouch, son of a..." I said as I staggered up before my mouth was covered and a started screaming.
"Shut up, do you want them to find us." an annoyed female voice said as I was pushed against the brick wall. I shook my head and the hand uncovered my mouth. In front of me stood a woman in her early twenties with pink hair thrown over her left shoulder. She also had blue eyes and wore a white leather vest with a short sleeve brown turtle neck shirt that showed off her belly where ring rested gently in her belly button. She also had a red scarf hanging off her right shoulder, blue fingerless gloves that covered her wrists, a short brown leather skirt and belt. From her waist she had a pouch that came down to her left thigh and she wore brown and black leather boots that almost came up to her knees and in the back was a black sheath that carried some form of weapon.. She also had the body of an athlete.
"Who are you?" I screamed hysterically once she let go, which almost had her backhand me but she changed her mind at the last second.
She glared at me for a few seconds. "I'm Lightning, now we have to get going unless you want to be dead. It's a hard world for people like us out there." and like that she was already running. I ran after her as quickly as possible but that fall did some pretty good damage, luckily for me she stopped running after a mile.
Once we were at a dead stop she roughly grabbed my wrist and looked at the mark. I flinched a little. "Ow that hurt...what are you doing?" I asked.
"Seeing how far along your mark is, luckily for you it's still early. What's your name kid?" she asked.
"I'm Kairi." I answered nervously. Honestly this woman scared the crap out of me, I think I probably had better luck with PSICOM.
She nodded and her hand started glowing a warm green, then it entered my body, healing all of my injuries. Before I could enjoy being pain free she was dragging me off somewhere. "You're coming with me Kairi."
I looked ahead blankly, did this woman ever make sense...and could she seem less mean. "And where exactly are we going?"
Lightning just kept walking, not slowing down our pace. "We're going to fight your focus and change your fate."