Hey again guy's. Thank's to everyone who left positive review's of the first chapter. I hope you enjoy this one.
This chapter is a lot more serious than the last one, but the stories mainly going to be a romance/comedy until later chapters.
I OWN NOTHING. You know what i would do if I did.
Now please enjoy chapter 2=)
Chapter 2: Powerless
Blood slid down Lightning's forehead and leaked into the corner of her eye, causing her to wince in pain. She bent down on one knee and looked around at the aftermath of the explosion that just occurred, the whole scenery looked like a post apocolyptic world. She gripped her sword tightly as she looked up at the man that had given her the wound on her forehead, his long white hair almost covering his face as he looked down at her from the ledge he stood on.
"Who the hell are you!" she hissed at him.
He inhaled deeply before grinning at her and replying, "You know the supression unit you sent into the tunnel's."
"What the hell are you talking about? what about them?" she asked him, bordering somewhere between confused and enraged.
"They barely even put up a fight when i cut them into pieces..." he chuckled before taking his katana in hand and beginning to unsheath it.
"You..." all the men that she sent into the tunnel, all their face's flashed in her mind, causing her face to contort with rage, "You son of a bitch!"
She jumped off the ground, sending herself soaring at the man with godlike speed, he simply smirked as their sword's met, easily deflecting her attack with one hand.
"Every single one of those men had a family!" she began, still blinded by rage, "They all had someone waiting for them back home!"
"As do many men," he began, before palming her in the stomach and sending her flying back down into the ground where she jumped from, crashing hard against the solid concrete, "Their death today was fate, it was inevitable," he continued, jumping off the ledge he was on and landing a few feet from her, "They were weak, so they fell."
"S-son of a-" the pain was so intense, she couldn't even finish cursing him off.
"And soon, you shall fall by my blade as well," he pointed his sword at her.
Lightning's vision began to blur, she tried to sit up, but failed miserably, falling back to the ground, "...shit."
"Lightning!" was the last thing she heard before everything faded to black.
"NO!" She yelled as she woke with a fright, covered in sweat and shaking terribly. She looked around the room, and once she realized it was just a nightmare, she turned the light that sat atop the nightstand next to her bed on before laying back down.
"Fuck..." she mumbled to herself, rubbing her temple's before propping herself on her elbow and looking around the room, "That dream again..."
And this headache... this has to be the most violent hangover i've ever had... she thought to herself. She was about to sit up from her bed until the sound of a woman moaning stopped her. She blushed and looked over to see a gorgeous tanned woman laying in her bed, her skin shinning brightly due to the reflection of the sun that poured in from the window. For a moment she was taken aback by the woman's beauty but she quickly shook the thought out of her mind. Lightning began to put two thing's together: i was drunk last night... fang's laying in my bed... what the hell. The corner of Lightning's eye began to twitch slightly, the anger welling up inside of her and slowly beginning to surface, and once it reached it's peak Lightning shoved Fang off the side of her bed with her foot, causing Fang to wake up abruptly with a fright.
"Huh? What? What's goin' on?" Fang questioned, looking around the room frantically before her gaze settled on Lightning whom was looking down at her from the bed, penetrating the Oerban woman with her gaze.
"What the hell are you doing in my room, Fang?" Lightning demanded to know.
"Well Good mornin' ta you too, sunshine," Fang chuckled, scratching her head before standing to her feet and stretching.
"Answer the question, Fang, now!" Lightning demanded, standing up and staring directly at the other woman.
"What do you think i'm doing here, Light, you were pretty drunk last night after all," Fang said, a devilish grin stretching across her face.
Lightning's cheeks turned a light shade of red before she looked away from the tan woman, "We didn't... You didn't... with..."
Fang took lightning's hand in her own, causing the soldier's eye's to turn to her in surprise, "Don't worry, Sunshine, nothing serious happend, I promise, i would never take advantage of ya' in that way, you're to important to me."
"Fang.." Lightning breathed, surprised at the other woman's actions and words.
The two stared into each other's eyes for several moment's, without saying a word, untl the silence was broken by the sound of Light's door opening. The two looked over to see Serah standing there, staring at both of them in surprise. She looked from Lightning to Fang and back again, causing Lightning to quickly swat Fang's hand off of her own.
"Um sorry, did I interupt anything?" Serah asked timidly, a blush spreading across her cheeks.
"No you didn't," Lightning said turning away from both of them and crossing her arm's, "Fang was just leaving."
"Well that would be pointless considering we're all going to nautilus together today, and Fang brought her bags with her last night." Serah stated pointing her index finger in the air as if she was disproving a scientific theory.
Damn, I forgot about the trip... Light thought to herself. Lightning looked over at Fang and the woman nodded at her with a big grin on her face, "Where are your bag's Lightnin'?"
"Both of you get out of my room, i need to pack," she said walking over to her closet and beginning to toss random article's of clothing over on to her bed.
Serah rolled her eye's, walking away from her sister's room, "Just hurry up, Claire, we have to leave in an hour," Serah yelled from down the hallway before disappearing down the staircase.
Fang stood in Lightning's room awkwardly, trying to think of a way to talk to her and break the silence, staring as the pink haired girl continued to toss article's of clothing about. I need to tell her how I feel... but i don't know how to approach this...
"So... Lightning... I wanted to-" the woman was interupted when a pair of airborn pants landed on her head.
"Fang why are you still here? And take those pants off your head." Lightning said, grabbing a suitcase from her closet and turning around to look at the woman, whom still had pant's on her head.
"Listen, Light, I want to talk to you about something..." Fang said, tossing the trousers onto Lightning's bed.
"What is it that it can't wait until later, Fang?" Lighting asked coldly, while she walked over to her bed and placed the suit case on it, folding clothes up and putting them inside.
"Lightning I'll be blunt..." Fang began twidling her too index finger's together and looking away for a moment before looking back at Lightning, "I like you, there I said it."
"What... you... what..." She said as her body stiffened up like a board and she slowly turned around to look at fang.
Fang took both of Lightning's hands in her own causing the woman's cheeks to turn bright red.
"I have feeling's for you, Lightning, I have ever since I first met you..." Fang explained, her cheeks also turning a light shade of pink as she confessed her love to the other woman.
"Fang... I... I don't know what to say... I...," Lightning stammered until Fang let go of one of her hands and placed a slender finger on her lips.
"Shh, it's okay, sunshine," Fang whispered before she slowly began to lean her face in toward Lightning's.
"Fang..." Lightning breathed as she began to lean up toward the slightly taller woman.
Their lips were centimeters from each before Lightning pushed Fang away, and quickly turned around so her back was facing her.
"I can't... Fang... I can't," Lightning began, hesitating slightly before she continued, "I don't feel that way about you..."
"Lightning..." Fang said sounding as if her heart just got ripped clean out of her chest, "I understand, I'll be leaving now," Fang said as she made her way out of Light's room, closing the door behind her.
It took all of Lightning's power to not go after the heartbroken woman, but she didn't let herself give in. You know you like her too, you idiot- she thought to herself while she sat down on her bed staring into space.
But how can I deserve anyone... After I failed them... After I let them all get killed... I just hurt the people I get close to... and all they do is make me weak.
"I just don't get it," Fang said, slamming her cup of coffee down on the kitchen table, "I thought she felt the same way... I just don't get it..."
Snow pulled out a chair and took a seat next to Fang, placing a large hand on her shoulder. "It's fine you know how sis is, even if she did like you, shes just doesn't like getting attatched to people..."
Serah walked over, plopping down on Snow's lap, "Fang, between you and me, I have a hunch that she does like you..."
"Really, what make's you say that?" Fang asked, before taking a sip of her coffee and looking over at Serah.
"The way she looked at you when we were in Claire's room, Fang," Serah began, "I know my sister, and the way she looked at you, lets just say that, i've never seen her look at anyone with those eyes... I can't explain it Fang, but don't give up."
"I won't, I mean we are all going to Nautilus, I'll take her to the beach! and too see the chocobos!" Fang said, pumping her fist into the air as if she just beat the last boss of Devil May Cry 3 on Hard mode.(FUCK THAT DUDE!)
Snow and Serah bursted out into laughter, "What?" Fang asked.
"Nothing, Fang, I've just never seen you drool over a girl like this before," Snow said through fit's of laughter.
"And she HATES chocobo's, Fang..." Serah added with a giggle.
"Yeah, yeah. laugh it up; I've got it bad for her... and I'll keep that in mind, Serah" Fang admited, "Oh but... one thing, I understand Light's been going through a lot, but why has she been drinking so much lately, not that I mind considering she's cute as hell wen she's like that, but isn't it getting a little out of hand."
"Well ever since she got out of the hospital two week's ago, and she was put on temporary leave from the GC... she just hasn't been the same... you know that, Fang..." Serah explained, a depressed expression on her face, "And no matter what we do, she won't talk to anyone about it at all..."
"She still has no idea that you were the one who saved her from that maniac, Fang," his usually goofy and happy expression becoming completely serious.
"She doesn't need to know anything... beside's its all i could do to save my own ass too, he's stronger than anyone i've ever faced, I felt powerless..." Fang said, causing a look of surprise to come across Snow's face, because this was one of the very few times that he could see fear in the huntress' eyes.
Serah stood from Snow's lap, cutting the strange air in the room, "I'm going to go get Claire, its time get going, the others are already waiting at the airship station for us," She began to walk out of the kitchen but stopped for a moment and turned around to face the two, "We have to stop thinking about what happend, and help Claire forget too," she pause for a moment and her voice turned happy and bubbly again, "this trip too Nautilus is gonna be the best time ever!" she said before skipping out of the room.
"It's certainly gonna be one hell of a trip..." Snow said looking at Fang and smiling.
"Damn straight," Fang smirked, tapping her cup of coffee to snow's in a toast. For now... we just need to pretend that nothing happend that day... and I need to be there for Lightning.
~End~
All right guy's well that was chapter 2, I hope you enjoyed it.
I decided that this isn't going to be a plotless fluff story, and it will get a lot more serious later on. But the next few chapters are gonna focus on LightxFang's relationship, and their and the other's antic's in nautilus.
The next chapter's will be a good deal longer than the first two, i was just gettin the plot set up nd what not.
Well thanx for reading, hope you continue too.=)
And lemme know how you feel about the story. Cya wen chapter 3 come out guys.