In between going to Pulse and Oerba. No spoilers (except one: Lightning's real name) just another side quest of some sort. The story is from the point of view of Hope Estheim and Lightning Farron. Indicating HopeXLight...
~Hope Estheim~
We were in Pulse, or what Vanille and Fang called, Gran Pulse. We were at the base camp near Yaschas Massif. Snow was sleeping on a log, Sazh and Vanille were looking at the chocobo chick playing around while chit chatting with each other and I was just talking to Light. Fang went to go find some more wood. Its for the night she says.
Nothing much was happening until we heard Vanille's stomach growling really loud. "Sorry! Its just...I'm really hungry!" said Vanille. No one said anything. Light was the one who broke the silence. She got up and told (more like order) me to go with her to get some behemoth meat. It seems that behemoth meat tastes quite good when burnt or smoked. I know it because i ate it the other day.
Light and I went to the Archylte Steppe since thats the place where loads of behemoths were, according to Fang and Vanille. Well, at least I got to hear Snow snoring. When we reached the Archylte Steppe, we were spotted by a large behemoth almost immediately. It was nearly double the size of a normal behemoth, It charged towards us, too bad it didn't know what we could do to it. I immediately cast Fira at it and burnt it's outer skin. The behemoth roared in agony and started thrashing about. Light went to finish the job by slashing the enraged beast. After it fell down, dead, we had to drag it, since it was enormous.
Halfway dragging it, I saw a glowing object in a distance. The way it shines, it reminds me of Serah's crystal tears. I started walking towards it, entranced by it
~Lightning Farron~
I saw Hope walking towards that glowing thing, it seemed like a crystal. I shouted at him not to be reckless, but he was so close to it already. I ran towards him and told him not to touch it since I have such a bad feeling that something bad was going to happen. Just when I shouted, he looked back, but accidentally touched the crystal.
~Hope Estheim~
I looked back at Light. She was shouting at me not to touch that crystal but while looking back, I accidentally touched the crystal. Suddenly everything just paused...like someone is controlling a movie. Light stopped like a statue holding out its hands to me and almost immediately, I was engulfed with a strange light. All I could see was that i was going further away from Light and away from everyone. After the light...nothing.
After I opened my eyes, I had to squint my eyes to see that I was in Cocoon, in Bodhum , the one that Snow, Serah and Light lives in. I was confused. Everyone looked at me like I'm just any other kid, like they don't even know me. I'm a l'Cie, everyone should know me already!
It was then I saw her, Serah. But she looks like a kid, probably only eleven. But why? Isn't she suppose to be a crystal? Then I saw Lightning chasing after Serah. And when I looked behind Light, there was a couple. The woman had pink hair and the man had normal brown hair, it could be Lightning's parents. But how is that possible? I thought they died.
Lightning passed by and then turned around to look at me. From the looks at her face, she doesn't even recognize me. A word slipped out of my mouth. "Lightning"