"Get down." Whispered Sazh he crouched deeper into the woods as a vampire scout flew overhead. "So I assume we're saving the world again?" Asked Snow. "Well, I'd say we have a better chance than anyone given our experience." Answered Hope the full moon illuminating his silver hair. Lightning sat stonefaced watching the vampire fly over just past a pulsian mountain until it was out of sight.
"Come on." She snapped as she started jogging towards the lakeside outpost of Nimona. The others followed pushing their way past the dense jungle. "How far?" Asked Hope. "Half a mile." Answered Sazh as two vampires dropped down from a tree infront of Lightning making her fall back. "Look Vendral, More food sacks." One of them chimed to the other its compound red eyes examining them it stood hunch backed with its wings hanging down its back its pointed catlike ears twitching in the excitement of having a human for dinner. Its body covered in short gray fur.
"I'll be food to no one." Lightning replied forcefully. "Like you have a choice girl." as the vampire hissed lunging at her Lightning quicklly side stepping it and kicking it off to the side giving Sazh a clear shot it let off a screech as a silver bullet pierced its head it dropped to its knees dissipating into a cloud of dust.
"Die foodsack!" The other screeched as it jumped onto Lightning pinning her trying to wrap one of its three fingered hands around her neck. "Get off me you bastard!" She yelled headbutting it in the face knocking it off then jumping ontop of it pinning it to the ground. She raised her gunblade running it through the vampires chest it let out an incredibly loud scream as its body turned to dust Lightning got up with a grunt tired from the struggle. "You okay?" Snow asked. "Yeah. But we need to hurry." She replied panting as she continued jogging towards Nimona.
"It's them, open the gates!" A man wielding a sniper rifle yelled as the four approached. A makeshift gate made of scrap metal harvested from pulsian knights parted slowly. As the four entered a blue haired girl walked towards them "did you get them?" she asked, her labcoat brushing against against the ground. "Yes Guthie." Hope replied. " Yay! Then come on, the meta esscence is almost depleted." She chimed happily.
Hope, Sazh, Snow, and Lightning followed her to the center of the outpost where a makeshift lab stood. "I'm going home, to see Serah" Snow said as he walked off. "I guess I better go too." Lightning commented. "Will you be fine, Hope?" "Yeah." He replied. "I'll see you at home then." She said as she walked off in the same direction as Snow. "And I'm gonna go rest. My old bones can't take this." Sazh said as he walked off.
Guthie opened the heavy lab door and walked in Hope followed walking into a circular room the lights glowing a dim red with all manner of wires and cables hooked into a computer and sensors around a stone pedastal floating above the pedastal was a purple crystal, a salve crystal, a mysterious substance that could be altered to repel vampires and give off energy.
"I've redirected the esscence to power the buildings in sector one and three." Guthie Said. "So all sectors have power then?" Hope asked "Yes, as soon as you replace the crystal...And how many were there at the site?" She replied. "Only two." Hope replied knowing they would only last a short time, at the most two weeks. He approached the pedastal pulling down the crystal as it left the pedestal it faded becoming transperant then pulling another crystal from his pocket, he held up one of the charged crystals as it zipped from his hand like a magnet and took its place above the pedestal. "Okay, it's aligned." Hope announced.
"I have to make a few calibrations come over here." She ordered, Hope complied standing beside Guthie, she then started started typing in things on the computer. "Okay...mmm...let's see...okay...mmkay...hmm...maybe if I do this." A spark shot from one of the sensors. "Oh, that wasn't it. Let's try thisss." she said thoughtfully to herself brushing a strand of her blue hair out of her face the computer screen reflecting off her black framed glasses, she tapped in a few more commands on her computer as the red lights in the laboratory illuminated to white.
"There we go, got it!" She smiled widely the lights now illuminating her green eyes making them more visible. Hope laughed. "Counting on a little girl to keep the power on. That's the life." He commented to himself. "You're not that old youself! And I'm fifteen in 4 months. You're only a year older than me." she replied annoyed. "Still a little girl." Hope smiled. "Whatever, Get out of my lab." She smiled sideways as Hope left bound for his home.