This is just a small skit of how I think Lightning might have acquired the pendant that she wears in the game that is hardly ever acknowledged.

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A Memento

"Hey Cl-, Light?" Serah said timidly with her hands behind her back. She had just started to become more accustomed to her sister's new name; her previous one already sounding foreign.

Lightning was sitting at the kitchen island, occasionally gazing out the window to a warm spring day of the beach front of the city of Bodhum. She was sorting through the last bit of paper work for being recruited in the Guardian Corps, being their youngest recruiter at only 17.

"Yeah?" her sister muttered.

"Well, I know tomorrow's the big day for you going into training and..."

"You don't got to worry about anything Serah, they always recruit a bunch of dumb kids that can't even hold their own weight, much less a gunblade" she grunted.

Serah had seen all the work her sister had put in prior to entering into the program. All the hours she spent in their garage with weights or running along the beach shore only to come home and crash on the living room couch where she had slept most often now. Her then soft and thin sister was now armored in muscled and held a fierce fire in her eyes that she feared might burn her if she stepped too close.

"Yeah, I know," Serah laughed. "I just, I was out with a few friends from school and we stopped by this jewelry store and I found something that reminded me of you."

"Oh..." Lightning had set down the pen she was writing with and gave her sister her full attention now.

"I know you're not really into this kind of stuff, and... well... even if you don't like it... you don't have to-"

"Serah, just spit it out," Lightning said holding back a grin. It was only her sister that could make her crack a smile or laugh with her timidness.

Serah let out a short breath revealing the small black velvet box she hid behind her back and held it out to her sister.

"Huh..." gently, Lightning took the box from her sisters hands.

"I just thought that... it could serve you as a memento... for everything you've done to get to where you are now. For everything you've done for me." Serah said fidgeting.

Shifting the box with her other hand Lightning slowly opened it and found a small silver pendant in it's contents. The pendant was in the shape of a lightning bolt with two pieces of gold and black rhodium accents on the right side. She also noticed that in the center was a small indented space where three gemstones were confined in and were moveable when shifting the pendant at certain angels.

"Wow, Serah... it's beautiful."

"Does that mean you like it?" Her sister smiled while her fidgeting had ceased.

Lightning had given Serah her own bright and honest smile, one that Serah so rarely ever saw now, "No Serah, I Love it." Rising from the island Lightning brought her younger sister into a warm embrace.

Serah was a bit surprised by this gesture, but immediately accepted it. She had missed the older sister she had before all of this had happened, but now she knew that the young woman whom she was embracing now was still that same girl and no matter what else had happened she would always love her and be grateful for everything she had done for her.

Perhaps this gift she had given to her sister would serve as a memento for her as well.

Hope this was a nice story for you all! :)

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