Hopes Quest
A breeze blew through the night air kicking up small grains of sand on the shore of New Bodhum stars filled a cloudless sky the light they emanated refracted off the beach oddly making it look silver. A young boy and a pink haired woman stood on a balcony overlooking the shore, the moon's light reflected off his silver hair strangely.
"Light, thank you..." Hope said smiling widely. "It's the one I used when we were L'cie." Lightning replied with a small grin. "It's beautiful." Hope commented running his hand over the silver blade then giving the gunblade a small downward swing silently remarking at how natural it felt in his hands. "The advancement you've shown is remarkable Hope." She praised. It only took him a month to master the gunblade a weapon that took years for Lightning to master herself.
"You refinished it?" Hope asked noticing his reflection in the blade. She nodded. "It's been two years." Hope said more to himself than Lightning. Lightning nodded, "Since orphans fall." she finished. "Lightning." Hope said. "Hope?" She asked. Hope shook his head. "Never mind." Lightning started to urge him to tell her but decided against it. Hope turned back towards the beach looking at the crystallized Cocoon even thousands of miles away it was clearly visible.
Hope felt something peck his ear. "Huh?" He woke up from his sleep and looked around seeing the vast fields of Gran Pulse the sun hurt his eyes for a few seconds until they adjusted to the light. He felt Sazh's baby chocobo pecking him from his right shoulder making chirping noises. "Sorry." He apologized to the bird. "Just dreaming about old times." Hope scratched his head taking out the gunblade Lightning had given him and laid it across his lap then ran his hand across the silver metal, it gave him comfort to know that he had his weapon, the weapon that once belonged to the love of his life, to Lightning.
The field in front of them seemed to alternate from green to yellow as gusts of wind blew through it causing the tall grass to wave back and forth sometimes revealing prowling monsters laying in wait for their next catch. "Pulse is so beautiful..." He sat back in his seat seemingly mesmerized by the plane of grass as his mind drifted off to Lightning.
"I miss her." He said to the bird as he leaned back further into the leather seat of his velocycle it had only been a few days but it felt as if he'd been gone from his home for years. The bird jumped into his lap Hope looked down at the golden hued bird that was now the size of a small falcon. He smiled. "We've all grown a lot in the past two years haven't we?" The bird chirped in agreeance. Hope stroked the bird then placed it on his shoulder. "Ready to go?" He asked the bird who chirruped happily in response. "Okay, then." Hope responded tapping the touch screen control panel navigating through the interfaces of the velocycle.
He felt even more home sick as the NORA insignia came up onto the screen, he tapped a few more places on the screen. "Heat factor zero percent." a monotone voice came from the velocycles computer. He and Snow had built the velocycle from scratch and it was the fastest and most manueverable vehicle of its type in all of Pulse but it had cooling issues they were never able to wrap their head around.
He tapped a few more sequences into the control panel. "Please present ignition code." The computer asked. "Seventy-two twelve." Hope replied to the computer. The aircraft roared to life its two rear thruster's flaired brightly as four bottom mounted thrusters allowed it to ascend straight up the back thrusters tilted sideways allowing the machine to rotate and orientate itself towards Cocoon. Hope felt his ego swell that his custom design worked so well. The sunlight shined off the aircraft's red paint brightly.
"Hold on tight." Hope told the bird feeling more than a little gutsy as he slammed the forward throttle to one hundred percent the bike took off going from zero to five-hundred miles per hour in mere seconds G-forces pushed him back deep into his seat. The chocobo squawked angrily. "Don't like it?" Hope shouted over the ferocious winds blowing through the cockpit of the vehicle his silver hair whipping wildly behind him a huge grin crossed his face. The bird let out another angry squawk.
"Fine, be no fun." Hope said curtly flicking a switch causing an invisible aura to form around the cockpit of the vehicle his body relaxed as the G-forces released him and the wind stopped. He looked down at his gauges to see the speed they were going, the control panel read eight-hundred miles per hour, the theoretical maximum speed they could go with the engines they were using. He tapped a few commands into the computer "Ghost pilot engaged." The computer announced. Hope sat back in his seat as the vehicle flew itself.
He scratched his head his finger nails dug into a jelly-like substance he pulled it out and sat it on the dashboard. "Where did you come from?" He asked the tiny yellow flan who replied with a growl. "Hehe, that's cute." Hope said grinning. It oozed into itself and growled trying to scare off the predator.
"Hey, hey relax, I'm not going to hurt you." Hope told it then went to stroke its head but jerking his hand back as he felt a static shock. "Oh, did you just use your thunder on me cute little guy?" Hope grinned then taking out a piece of candy from his back pocket. "How about some food?" He sat a red piece of skittle like candy on the dash infront of the flan it eyed it wearily. "Look, it's food." Hope told the baby flan taking out a few more pieces of the candy and putting them in his own mouth.
The flan oozed closer to the piece of candy putting its face infront of it then a jelly like tongue emerged from its mouth and it licked it up swallowing it whole. The flans expression seemed to turn into a cute looking grin. "Oooh, you like it do you." He sat a few more pellets in front of the creature who licked them up hastily. Its grin widened as the candy sunk deeper into its gelatinous body. "Best way into a monsters heart, candy." Hope said to himself grinning and watching the candy sink into the monsters stomach.
Hope was on a personal mission, and he didn't expect to make any friends along the way, especially not a baby monster, but he did. The velocycle began to slow down and eventually stop.
He looked up to see a large planetoid, Cocoon in front of him Hope could see Titan stomping about in the mountains a few miles away and not even his humongous size compared to Cocoon Hope stuck his head out of the side of the aircraft and looked up, Cocoon ascended much higher than even the highest clouds. He felt homesick. "I wonder if they're worried about me." His mind wandered back to New Bodhum.
He shook himself back into reality. "No time to day dream now." He told himself then leaning back into the aircraft. "And now, to find a way in." He said to the bird and flan. He gripped the handle bars tightly a sense of anxiety filled him.
A/N:What do you guys think, Should I continue?
