Disclaimer: Square Enix owns the damn set of games. If I indeed owned them, guess what? This girl and the protagonist guy from Versus XIII (who I dubbed as Rain) would be together. So nyah.

Note: This is a crossover fandom between Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. The two main characters are from different games. By the way, this is Lightning's POV. I'm going to frequently switch between the names Rain and Noctus for the Versus XIII guy, okay? Bare with me.

Clouded Dream

Part Two of the Parallel Series

She couldn't remember anything. Something appeared to be blocking her memories from her reach. No matter how many analysis tests they had run on her, the doctors had always told her she had a severe case amnesia. Why and how the questions she wanted answered, but she wouldn't get any replies.

After all, it was her past, not theirs.

Quickly, she shook it off her mind. She had a mission to do. From the cliff, she looked down at the empty railroad tracks. It would be coming soon. She wouldn't fail this; she could not afford to fail. If she succeeded, then perhaps she would get her memory back. Or that's what they kept telling her.

Lightning was her name now. This was her duty.

Who she was and what she before she reached Cocoon was shrouded with mystery.

Your task is to release the Organization members being held captive. The Government of Cocoon has deemed these people as infected. They are just like you.

The electronic informant snapped her out of her thoughts. It spoke through a contraption attached to her right ear. She let out a sigh. Lightning would have to be alone for this one. That didn't matter for things were easier that way.

Train Delta-Tau 00178, bound to the Isolation Zone. Approaching in sixty seconds.

Counting down the time, Lightning walked a short distance away from the cliff before turning back around and broke into a sprint. To catch her ride, she would have to jump. The wind played with her dyed light-pink hair as she leapt off the edge of the cliff. She only had a few seconds and one chance to get this right.

Fear tried to grip her, but it would never hold her.

Fearless was her middle name.

She grunted as she landed on one of the cars farther back of the train. Lightning glanced at her ankles, which ached, reminding herself to get that checked. She was still human, after all. She began to run forward on top of the moving train.

Your mission objective is right beneath you, but there are guards. Deal with them and take control of the train.

As soon as she heard this via the contraption in her ear, she swore she heard voices from inside the car. The guards. A small smirk played on her lips as she knelt down to open the escape exit. Then, she felt a drop fall from the sky. She looked up slowly and blinked.

It was oddly comforting. And it was strangely familiar.

"Rain…?" A name left her lips. The way it had rolled her tongue was familiar, but why? Was it her past? Drops of water fell from the sky, drenching her entire being. Being soaked this way felt extremely familiar. She pressed her lips together.

She had a clue to figure out her clouded dream. "Wait…Noctis."