My name is Flare and I, along with Master Lightning, am riding up to a space station where my little sister Sakura and several other small orphan children are being taken. After

our parents died I was all Sakura had and she only had I. That only changed when we were taken in by the orphanage and after that we met Master Lightning, but at that time

I didn't know how much it would change. Master Lightning was visiting our world very briefly on a quest of her own. She had a sister as well, whose name was Serah, and she

was trying to find her but that was all I knew. As we approached our destination I started thinking back on my time with Sakura back in Hoshido, the land ruled Lord Ryoma. We

may have lived in an orphanage but, thanks to all Lord Ryoma did, it was by no means uncomfortable. The two that ran it went by the names of Hinoka and Takumi, the

younger siblings of Lord Ryoma. They were both very caring and, even though Takumi was sometimes mean, all of us orphans were happy. Then there was the day Master

Lightning came. I approached her myself and, seeing that she was strong, asked her to train me to fight. She took me into the forest to test me and this is where I learned of

her goals as well as the fact she came from another world on something she only referred to as a "spaceship". After a few hours or so she decided to stop her test and had a

good feel of how strong I was. She started taking me out to train frequently and beneath my sister's notice. However, when we had returned one day. The orphanage was under

attack and the only thought in my mind at the time was my little sister Sakura, who was still inside. I ran in but I was too late as I saw her being loaded onto something, which

I thought might have been one of those spaceships, and lifted off into the sky. Lightning grabbed my arm, too stop me from following them on foot.

"You want to save her don't you?" She stared at me with a bit of a cold gaze and I only nodded in response. "Well you won't be saving anyone being reckless. Come with me, I

know who took here and where they are headed." She pulled me back into the forest and towards her strange looking thing. "This is the ship I told you about. Get in and let's go

after them" A door opened up after she pushed a few buttons on something she called a remote and pushed me inside. After going in she went straight to a chair in the front

and sat down. She pulled a few levers after sitting and told me to sit down myself. The ship was decently sized, definitely big enough for everyone from the orphanage to fit. It

did however look a bit smaller on the outside than the inside, maybe that was just me. The ship took off and now I'm watching the stars go by the window waiting for my

chance at a rescue attempt.

"We're here." She stared at me with as sharp a gaze as ever. In my remembering everything I had barely noticed that we had stopped moving. She opened that door and we

both ran out. "Stay close to me!" She said that as if she was by no means kidding. This place was dangerous and I knew that so I did as she said and we kept moving. The

enemies had strange weaponry that shot things called "bullets" but they were no match for Master Lightning. As she cut down more and more of them, deflecting what ever

bullets came near her sword or shield. The difference between us became more and more apparent. Unarmed as I was I felt helpless and too reliant on Master Lightning's

protection, staying close to her side as if I were no more than a lost puppy. We stopped in a small square room for only a moment then something I can only call a monster burst

through the floor. She fought against it but this one was different. It wasn't going down as quickly and she even appeared to be having trouble. I had to help her, I had to find a

weapon myself. I remembered some trays in a previous room and went to scourer through them. The first one I checked had nothing useful in it but the second one had

something that looked similar to the things the bad guys had but was larger and had a bit of a funny shape. I picked it up and pulled the small lever on it, Master Lightning called

this a "trigger" before, and fire shot out from the tip in a continuous stream. I could help Master Lightning with this. I decided that, since it reminded me of mages that throw

fire with their tomes, I would call it a flamethrower. Flamethrower in hand, I ran to the next room where Master Lightning was fighting and kept the flaming spray on the

monster dodging any attacks from it that came my way. "That's enough. It's dead." She put her hand on my shoulder and, startled, I ceased my fire. She then pointed at the

"gauge" that was on the "gun's" "display screen", all things I knew nothing about. "Your ammo is low. Your weapon will be useless if it runs out. Now let's keep moving." She

went through a door that seemed to go into the main chamber. There were lots of boxes around with those display screens on them, I think Master Lightning said this was a

"computer room" so those boxes must have been computers. I took a look at my flamethrower's own screen and noticed the number next to it's max ammo was increasing now

that I had stopped using it.

"Look Master Lightning, my ammo is regenerating." I talked as if I even knew what those numbers really even meant.

"Must be some of their tech." She stopped walking and pointed off into the distance. "Those your friends?" I nodded in response. "I see. Go gather them and I'll meant you after

I've found and taken out the head running this place." My imagination ran wild at what that meant but I knew I had to focus so I gave a firm nod and ran off towards the

children's direction as Master Lightning ran in the opposite. One of the kids met my advance and I tried to talk to him but he didn't have much to say, I thought he might have

been sick but I wouldn't know from what. Sakura was always better at telling that kind of stuff than I was. I pulled out a map I had received from Takumi to see where everyone

was. The map itself is special and everyone that lives in the orphanage will appear on it, mainly incase anyone gets lost. I noticed that directly ahead of me, there she was, my

little sister Sakura. I looked up and saw her in the distance, just standing there.

"Sakura!" I shouted to her, as I ran towards her, causing her to turn my way.

"Big brother?" A smile appeared onto her face. "Oh, big brother it is you!" She tried to run to me. Tried because as soon as she moved she was gunned down where she stood. I

ran too her side, staring down at her now recent corpse. I was in shock but this wasn't the first time I was forced to watch this very same scene. We were playing in the woods

one day. Sakura told me how dangerous it was but I didn't listen. We climbed up a large tree and started walking along the branches. The branch we were walking on, however,

wasn't sturdy so it broke and Sakura fell to the ground before I could grab her hand. She fell onto her head and I heard a sickening snap. Damning myself for not listening and

convinced I had just lost my only family. I was in hysterics, I didn't know what to do. I got down from the tree and ran to her side. I approached her corpse as I'm doing now and

picked her up holding her tightly against me. That's when I discovered something special. After trying to pour what small amount of mana I possessed into her. I actually did it, I

managed to revive my sister. She had coughed a few times and looked up at me. Her eyes filled with life again and her body looked as if had never happened. After we learned

that she too possessed this power, not that I remember her finding out, but there was a catch to it. Once we found someone who know of this power they told us, we could only

revive each other, no one else and should we both perish we won't be revived unless someone that mastered the spell of giving new life to the dead were to come.

"Don't die on me!" As I did that day I gave her my energy. Though she didn't move I could tell her life had returned to her. I turned to her attackers. "I won't give you a chance

to kill her a second time!" In my rage I threw down my flamethrower and charged her attackers. They fired their guns at me in attempts to stop me but I dodged every bullet.

"Sakura, I'll keep you safe now." I punched the closest one in the sternum hearing a small crack before he crumpled in a heap on the ground. The next I jumped knocking him

over but as he fell I grabbed his legs and started too brandish him as a weapon. I had never felt this strength before but I was in no mood to think on it. I swung the man wildly,

sometimes hitting the others with him and sometimes hitting the floor, a table, or a small wall. Once he himself was thoroughly beaten I decided I was done with him and I

threw him at two approaching men. I had taken out all but one at this point but the one remaining was headed directly for Sakura. I ran and got there first, picking up the

flamethrower I discarded earlier. I swung it as hard as I could hitting him in the head knocking him out. As if coming out of a trance, all of my rage vanished and I turned too

Sakura. I kneeled down next to her and gently shook her. "Sakura, wake up. Are you alright?" Her eyes slowed opened and she looked up at me, as she did the first day she

died.

"Big brother, what happened?" Her eyes snapped open and she sat up and started examining me. "Big brother, you're covered in blood! What happened? Are you okay?" She

noticed at the same time I did. In the fight I may have not dodged ALL the bullets. Pain was now shooting through my body, maybe it was the whole time I was fighting, but I

couldn't make my little sister worry.

"I'm fine Sakura." I lied. " No need to worry about anything."

"Okay, I trust you but just in case..." she put her hands onto my wounds and a warm glow came out of her palms. "I'm going to heal you the best I can." The pain started to

subside little by little. After I was fully healed, or healed as much as I could be at least, I picked her up and had her sit on my arm as she put her arms around my neck. We

heard an explosion from one of the upper floors and I remembered that I was to gather the others. In all of the fighting I had forgotten about them. As I set about gathering the

children, giving Sakura my map so she could tell me where to go. I saw a bunch of men, wearing the same suits as the Sakura's attackers, run in the direction where we had

heard the explosions earlier. I only turned and faced them directly when I heard them scream. As I turned I saw Master Lightning standing over their unconscious bodies.

"Have you gathered the rest of the kids here?" Lightning asked me. I only nodded in response.

"Who is this big brother?" Sakura was staring at her inquisitively.

"Your ride out of here. Now let's move." Lightning took off running and The other kids and I struggled to keep up. As we got to her ship the door was already open. "Everyone

here?" after being asked that I looked around and gave Master Lightning another nod. I checked my map for assurance and it had shown me every child was in her ship. "Good,

it seems we both got what we came for. You needed your friends and I needed this organization's information. I'm engaging lift off, try not to get sick." She pulled the same

levers as she did before we left and, being that our escape was closed off, blew a hole into one of the walls that was big enough for her ship to fly out of. On the way back I talked

with my sister and the others what had happened to them but none seemed to remember. "We've returned to your home." Lightning opened to door on her ship and all of the

children left, except Sakura and I. "Aren't you two going with them?"

"I want to stay with you Master Lightning." I stared her in the eyes. "You helped me rescue Sakura. I have to return the favor.

"I want to stay with my big brother Flare. If he wants to help you, so will I." Sakura sounded really determined.

"Even if it's as dangerous as today? Maybe even more so?" Lightning was staring us down with a serious face but we weren't backing down.

"Yes!" Both Sakura and I said in unison.

"I did find this flamethrower and it would be a shame if I couldn't use it more." I smiled at Lightning.

"And I can heal you if you get hurt." Sakura said making her own serious face, too which my smiled almost broke into a giggle but I prevented that from happening for Sakura's

sake.

"Alright, you two can stay" Lightning's face softened a bit. "but if you two start to become a burden, I will take you straight back here. We both hugged her.

"Thank you Master Lightning" Both Sakura and I said. Surprising me but then I only assumed Sakura called her master because I did. After we stopped hugging her, she

motioned to the two chairs behind the navigator's chair. This prompted both me and Sakura too sit in them as she sat into her chair preparing the ship for lift off. Sakura smiled

at me and I returned it. Shortly after the ship began it's lift off and shot back into space. I felt an uneasiness in my stomach but I knew, with Master Lightning and Sakura

around, everything would work out.