Chapter 1: Awakening
The night was high. The moon was upon the crystalline landscape of Lake Bresha. The only thing that didn't seem to fit was a crashed airship and a small group of people crawling away from it.
"What happened? Sazh, any idea?"
"Wish I knew! That silver wave of energy must've screwed up the engines or somethin'...I don't have much of an idea!" Sazh replied, in a state of panic and confusion.
"Guys...This is Lake Bresha!"
"You're right, Hope. Where everything began." Snow said, muttering the last part to himself.
"Our nightmare...and where Serah is resting."
"Whoa!" Hope cried out.
"Hope!" Snow exclaimed, turning around.
Hope unintentionally tripped, and cut himself on a smaller, jagged crystal. When his blood dripped from the crystal, it suddenly caused a brilliant light to shine, nearly blinding him. The others helped him get back from the light. It swiftly faded, revealing a beautiful woman just...standing there.
The woman that was now freed from her crystalline slumber was the picture of beauty. Her hair was long, silver, and nothing held it back. She had a pale blue sleeveless dress on. Her hands were covered by blue gloves, and she wore pale blue boots that went all the way up to her knees. On both of her wrists, there was one gold band. On her right shoulder, there was a crescent moon-shaped birthmark. It was black with a blue aura. Attached to her back, there was a bag. She opened her eyes, revealing ice blue orbs.
INTRODUCTION: Innocent Starter by Nana Mizuki
Hiza wo kakaete Heya no katasumi
(Hope is sitting in a corner, his knees curled up to his chest.)
Itsumo fuan de Furueteita
(Sazh's chocobo chick flies down to his shoulder, and gives him a gentle peck. He looks up, and smiles.)
"Hontou" wo shiru koto ga kowakute TOBIRA wo tojita
(Cut to Hope alongside the rest of the L'Cie. Selene is standing away from them, glaring at them.)
Yasashii uso ni Ibasho mitsukete
(Selene looks to the moon, her hand over her heart.)
Yume no naka ni nige konda
(She prepares to fight Lightning and her friends.)
Dare mo shiranai Kodoku no umi wo
(Lightning draws her Blazefire Saber, and charges to Selene.)
Fukai ao ni someteku
(Cut to a shot of Selene standing on water, eyes closed, her hand closed over her heart. The water is slightly disturbed by Selene standing over it, and it ripples faintly.)
Sabishisa kakusu Ichizu na omoi
(Cut to the group fighting a Fal'Cie. Selene is standing on a nearby pillar.)
Kimi no KOKORO wo kizutsukete iru
(Selene blasts the Fal'Cie with her magic. Vanille turns to face her and smiles.)
Hitomi no oku no himitsu
(The camera pans into Selene's eye as a tear falls from it.)
Suikomare sou na
(She looks towards the sky, everyone at her side.)
Egao no ura no shinjitsu ni
(Cut to a shot of Lightning and Selene standing back to back, with shots of their faces behind each of them. Lightning's face is as cold as usual, and Selene mirrors it.)
Yawaraka na ai
(Sazh's Chocobo chick comes to rest on Selene's shoulder, and she looks at it with some degree of wonder.)
Boku ga todoke ni yuku yo
(She slightly smiles, and she releases the Chocobo.)
Furetara koware sou na
(Cut to repeated shadowed flashbacks of what appear to be battles.)
Nukumori ga ima
(Show that some of the warriors are L'Cie and Fal'Cie, and show the Lunarian brands.)
Kako wo hanare afuredasu
(The flashbacks disappear in a wind, and Selene's face shows determination.)
Zutto soba ni iru kara
(The rest of the group walks up and joins her. Sazh's chocobo chick flies and rests on her her shoulder.)
Kanashii kage ni madowanai de
(It ends with the group facing the audience, the Fal'Cie behind them with evil smiles on their faces, the two known deities behind the Fal'Cie, and a shadowy figure behind them. It is all on a black background.)
"Who are you?"
"Ummm...My name's Hope…"
"I am Selene of the Lunarian Empire. Tell me, what is this place?"
"This is the crystallized version of Lake Bresha. A Fal'Cie that we all defeated crashed here and crystallized it...after...well...turning us into L'Cie."
Her face turned to hatred. Hope looked at her in confusion.
"Fellbloods, eh? Very well then."
"What's a Fellblood?" Hope asked.
"You are!"
At that time, a flash occurred in her hand, and while it was empty previously, she was now holding a pair of silver shurikens!
"What are you-" Hope began before being interrupted. She tossed them at Hope!
"Woah!"
He ducked just in time to avoid being bifurcated by the two spinning blades. He jumped aside, but soon realized the throwing stars weren't stopping just with that. They were spinning and flying all over the place the party was standing on!
"Watch out!"
The first shuriken flew past Snow and Lightning, nearly grazing both of them by the shoulder. Lightning pulled out her Blazing Edge the moment she ducked to evade, and she didn't let her eyes off Selene, knowing that Selene was out for blood!
"Hm!" Lightning grunted.
"Hey!" Snow yelled as he barely dodged the unfamiliar weapon. After all, no one on Cocoon or Pulse had shurikens, and no one was quite like her! The other shuriken flew at Vanille next, and she just narrowly jumped to dodge it, holding her skirt as she landed. The shuriken flew past Sazh, and he ducked down to evade. He could almost feel the shuriken slicing up the top hair in his afro. The chocobo chick that was hiding in his hair jumped out in order to evade.
"Ah!" Vanille shrieked.
"Damn, woman!" Sazh cursed.
It is worth mentioning that neither of the thrown weapons seemed ordinary: they both released some kind of sparkling effect that lit their blades brightly as they spun, making them look almost like a pair of tiny UFOs. The effect ceased as soon as they flew back into her hand, where she grabbed them without the slightest scratch.
"What was that about?" Hope wondered.
"Hope, get down!" Lightning ordered.
Hope just barely got a glimpse of Lightning, and the first thing he saw was her aiming her gunblade, now in gun mode, at Selene. And since he was in the way, he only had seconds to react before the soldier lady released a barrage of bullets upon Selene. He jumped aside just in time, now with his boomerang at hand, and watched if Lightning's fire on Selene had any effect.
It didn't.
Selene's quick arm motion blocked and sliced every bullet sent her way, using her shurikens now as daggers to repel the fire. It was insanely fast-one could only follow the changed position of her arms, but not the motion that lead to it!
"So fast!" Hope said in awe.
And once she was fed up with gunfire, Lightning morphed her weapon back into a sword, then charged magical energy into her other hand…
And released a powerful sphere of magic called Ruin, aiming it at Selene. It blew up right in front of her face, and set her sights in smoke.
"The early bird catches the prey." Lightning said.
"Or so they say."
"What?"
As soon as the dust settled, Selene revealed that she was in no way harmed even from an impact that large. Another thing that was evident was a thin layer of shiny matter that she cast in front of her, as a forcefield of sorts.
"So this is the magic of the Fallen. It's my first time seeing it." Selene admitted.
"She survived?" Vanille said in shock.
"No, more like the attack never hit her in the first place." Sazh said in turn, deducing from the barrier.
"Why are you attacking us?!" Hope demanded.
"I don't know why the Fellblood's drip awoke me, but I will not owe you anything for it." Selene replied. Hope was only puzzled by her mystical words. He'd only figured out one thing.
"Fellblood… You mean l'Cie?" Hope asked.
"Like it matters!" Selene exclaimed. She threw her shuriken at Hope, only this time he deflected them with his boomerang. Soon afterwards, he tossed it at her…
Only for her to deflect it in the following manner: she simply swung her hand, and in turn, a powerful gust of wind pushed the boomerang aside. Hope immediately knew it was magic.
"Magic? Is she a l'Cie too?" He wondered.
"Chia!" She exclaimed.
Selene swiped her hand again, only this time, instead of wind, she created a series of crescent-shaped lights that flew in the Hope's direction.
"Watch out!"
Snow managed to push Hope sideways just in time, and the crescent lights impaled the crystal structures behind them, either slashing or crushing them in the process. Snow picked himself up, along with Hope, before cracking his knuckles.
"Something's telling me she is not the kind of person to be persuaded with sweet talk. Fine then, looks like we're gonna have to beat some answers out of her first." Snow reasoned.
"Cover me!"
Lightning charged when she gave Sazh this order.
"I'm on it!"
Sazh pointed both his guns at Selene and started firing like it was the front line of a battlefield. Selene simply put her barrier up again, and blocked every last bullet.
And that's when Lightning came close enough to engage in melee combat. Although Selene appeared to have been startled by her near presence, it didn't seem to matter: as fast as Lightning was trying to slash and slice, Selene simply evaded every attack. Eventually, she jumped backwards, and readied her shurikens again…
But someone was a bit quicker. Snow grabbed her by the wrist, much to her surprise…
"Have a nice flight!" He said, smiling.
And tossed her like a wet towel! For someone with Snow's physique, it was the same as throwing a spear.
"Oh yeah! Did you see that?"
But then he looked up to his thrown victim.
"Eh?"
And saw this: Selene was falling very slowly, in an upright position. As the matter of fact, it didn't seem like she was falling at all, she was literally stuck in mid air, glaring at Snow.
Ending: Inori no Kanata (Beyond the Prayer) by Akiko Shikata
awaki sora no hazama hitohira no hana wa kobore
(A beautiful flower's petals tear off into the wind. They flow past Selene and the L'Cie.)
mai tatsu kin iro no kaze ni hirari yura re
(Snow holds Serah's crystal tear close to his heart. Selene looks at the back of her hand.)
doko e mukau
(Cut to the back of Selene's hand, with a L'Cie brand and a tear on it.)
mawari dasu toki no haguruma
(Cut to a closed-eyed Selene, standing on a crystal pillar in the moonlight. The camera zooms to her face, revealing a single tear from her left eye.)
karamiau omoi oikakete te o basu
(Lightning and Selene stand back to back on the same pillar just seen, in the moonlight. They both hold their hands over their hearts.)
ori na sareru mirai to kako no kawaranu negai yo
(Cut to a scene of a nude Selene in chains.)
donna kurushimi sae mo koe te kanata e ha ga takeru
(She breaks free, and flies to a full moon in the distance.)
aoki hitomi no soko hitotsubu no shizuku kobore
(Selene looks down in doubt, and she is crying.)
sazameku gin no izumi yurare yurete
(Pan out, and reveal that she is levitating above a silver fountain. Her tear disturbs it.)
nani o utsusu
(Show her reflection in the fountain. It is disturbed by her tear, which turns to crystal.)
tachi kire nu kanashimi no wato
(Selene's tears form chains that bind her.)
wasurare nu tsumi no wabachi o ima toki hanatsu
(Vanille wipes her tears, and she breaks free of her chains, flying away. The two arrive to meet the rest of the group. They look towards the full moon in the sky.)