Disclaimer: If I owned either FF13 OR FoZ this would be canon

The follow up for Louise's life is a game

Posted on Doomsday: Sorry but I have plans with my life that involve waking up tomorrow, maybe next time Mayans.

People referred me to The Hill of Swords…which I already read and loved. I was really just going to blow this fic off as some random crack fic…but then people asked for a plot so I said hell why not? let me see if the crack author can try a new trick so hear you go.

Chapter 1: Sustained by Hate

~Louise's Room~

After reviving Colbert, the man explained what the runes were on Lightning's hand. Lightning had been pissed when she realized she was forced from a war that would determine the fate of her world by the little pink haired girl. She quickly forced back her glare when she saw how afraid the girl had become when she unleashed it. Maybe it was the pink hair, but it reminded her too much of herself and Serah when they found themselves all alone in their harsh world. So she allowed herself to become this girl's familiar, at least until she found a way back to her world.

So now we find her in her master's room staring at a pile of hay in complete disbelief. It was probably the first time Louise saw her familiar completely lose her cool façade.

"Hell no." Lightning bit out making the short girl back up a bit cautiously. "If you think this is how things are going to work out between us, this will be a very short relationship." Louise didn't like the way her familiar was eyeing her sword and decided to speak up in her defense.

"Don't blame me familiar, it's not like I knew that I was going to summon a Magic-knight." Louise pointed out, not unreasonably. Still she knew she couldn't make a high ranking soldier of possibly another country sleep on a bed of hay. "Listen familiar, my bed should be big enough for the both of us we can share it."

Somewhere in another world, Saito had the sudden urge to curse loudly.

"Fine. By the way you will address me as Lightning, not familiar, if I hear that one more time…" Lightning trailed off as Louise gulped at the not so subtle glances her familiar was sending to her blade.

"U-understood." Louise stuttered out. Suddenly something clicked in her mind, and finding unimaginable amounts of courage she asked. "Is that your natural hair color?" She was caught off guard by another harsh glare.

"What?" Lightning snapped as her master jumped back in fear. She had been asked that question by too many men in her life who we're attempting to pick her up.

All those men are now gay.

"I-It's J-just that the only people with pink hair I know are related to me, so I was curious." Louise answered with wide eyes, calming Lightning down. She knew it was a personal question, but surely her familiar didn't think she meant it like that.

"Yes, it is both I and my sister have it." Lightning spoke after taking a deep breath. Feeling safe again, Louise opened her mouth again, but was stopped by a raised hand from Lightning. "No, Lightning is not my real name, and no I will not tell you, no offense but I don't trust you." Lightning stated simply.

Louise closed her mouth.

"Inquisitive little brat, isn't she?" Lightning thought with a little humor as the girl continued to remind her of her little sister. Suddenly, Lightning frowned and leapt forward while drawing her blade.

"What-"

*Clang*

Louise was startled as her familiar suddenly jumped forward with her blade drawn, and held her tightly to her chest with one arm. Lightning released her grip on Louise and the younger girl gaped at what she saw. A white haired man holding a strange "L" shaped object was parrying her familiar's sword. Lightning glared at the man harshly.

"You-"

"-saved your life." Rebuke cut her off before pushing her away. Louise watched in awe as Lightning sword transformed in to a weapon that had a similar shape of the intruder's weapon.

"My world will be in ruins!" Lightning growled out as Rebuke yawned while looking at her as if he would rather be somewhere else.

"Calm down and I'll explain some things to you…both of you." Lightning glared a little longer before nodding her head. Both put away their weapons and Rebuke leaned against the window as Lightning leaned against a nearby wall. Feeling a headache coming, Louise just sat on her bed watching the man warily.

"Explain." Lightning demanded causing Rebuke to roll his eyes.

"Okay so you see this brat right here." Rebuke began bluntly while pointing a finger at Louise, getting an angry 'hey!' from her. "Tried to summon me to become her familiar, but I have shit to do; Important shit. So I went to your world and had the portal swallow you up instead." Rebuke said making the two pinkette gape at him.

"What do you mean world. There is only one!" Louise said as the man raised an eyebrow.

"Sorry pinky…" Both women twitched at the name. "But there are many worlds that exists and I just happened to give you the strongest warrior from her world." Rebuke said as he nodded his heads towards the scowling woman.

"S-strongest?" Louise stuttered out as she looked at her familiar with wide eyes. She knew the woman practically oozed power…but to be the strongest of an entire world? It was kind of humbling for the young mage.

"A world that you now doomed." Lightning interrupted. Rebuke rolled his eyes before snapping his fingers. The females watched in fascination as images of kids playing and Lightning's comrades smiling appeared. After a minute the images faded away.

"What was that?" Lightning asked shocked making the man snort.

"I'm the good guy here. I was just going to leave it alone because it cost me sixty fucking dollars, but I realized that you would be a powerful ally." Rebuke began before turning to the younger pinkette. "Both of you." Rebuke said as switched his attention back to Lightning. "So I decided not to be such an asshole and fixed your planet for you." Lightning gasped at his words as he continued. "I freed those two crystal chicks and-wait is there something going on between them? Because that would be fuckin' awesome." Rebuke trailed off as he gained a faraway look.

"Focus!" Lightning snapped at him, although she had wondered that herself at some points when she traveled with them.

"Anyway. Everyone is happy, except Hope and your sis, because obviously you're not there." Rebuke continued. "I told them you wouldn't be back for about a year or two but they still miss you."

"Thank you." The Lightning said before catching herself and realizing what he said. "Wait why do I have to wait?"

"Because of this bitch right here!" Rebuke said as he lost his composure and glared at Louise, shocking her.

"W-what did I do!?" Rebuke took a deep breath before explaining.

"Listen, in the multiverse thanks to a certain Goddess." Rebukes voice got dark "If you die without reaching your full potential you are reincarnated with different circumstances and have to try again, obviously you don't remember your previous life, but that's how it goes."

"E-etro?" Lightning questioned with wide eyes, making Rebuke shake his head.

"Something much more dangerous." Rebuke stated simply. "Anyway because of her curse every fucking time Louise dies she comes back, which means she does the ritual again, which means she tries to summon me again. WHICH MEANS I HAVE TO ESCAPE AGAIN!" Rebuke shouted with an eyes twitch as something finally clicked in Louise's mind.

"Wait you mean you're my familiar?" Louise gaped while Lightning widened her eyes slightly. It was a very surreal experience for the girl; seeing her real familiar after already binding another one.

"So why don't you just accept her summoning and help her reach her full potential yourself?" Lightning questioned, not unreasonably.

"Because have important shit to do like, oh I don't know, stopping an insane goddess from destroying existence!?" Rebuke said as if he were talking to a child. "That actually brings me to why I originally came here. In order to pay me back for helping your world…" Rebuke began before snapping his fingers. Lightning watched as her armor and weapon transformed (Think her Outfit from FF13: Lightning Returns, if you haven't seen the 'debut trailer' switch tabs, and watch now.) She had a new shield that had the emblem "X7" on it and her weapon became a very long black and red blade.

"I didn't think it was possible, but she looks even more intimidating!" Louise thought in disbelief. Rebuke coughed and tossed Lightning a white and red magnum while looking embarrassed.

"Design flaw, I don't know why but that's not a gun-blade so you'll have to use that." Rebuke said sheepishly making the woman roll her eyes. "In order to pay me back you will join my army of heroes and train Louise until she is as cold and badass as you." Rebuke began making said girl pale at the very thought. "Then, you will go home, be happy with your life and then wait for me to call you to help me fight the goddess."

"Wait!" Louise interrupted him making him raise an eyebrow. "Why am I so important? I'm Louise the zero. I can't cast a spell and I can't fight! What do you expect me to do." Rebuke deadpanned at the girl while Lightning frowned at the girl's self-hating attitude.

"I'll just beat it out of her in training like Amador did me." Lighting thought as she planned a training regimen. If all it took for her happy ending was to make a girl as strong as her then she'd make the girl able to attain her rank in the guardian corps.

Or the kid would die trying.

"My headquarters is not only light years away from here but is protected by a barrier I designed to repel all energies…yet you've already almost summoned me fifteen times." Rebuke said with an eye twitch while Lightning, the only other person in the room who could understand the distance, was shocked to say the least. "You are potentially the strongest void mage of all time, fuck Brimir." Rebuke told her bluntly. He didn't have time for all the secrecy involving that fact, Trillions upon trillions of lives depended on it.

"How dare you! There's no way I'm a void mage!" Louise shouted as she hopped off of her bed and glared at the man. "If you think this is a joke-"

"Joke?" Rebuke repeated glaring right in to her eyes. "I have no time to be leading you astray. There are FIVE elements. Your explosions, which are fucking powerful, prove you have magic. If the first four elements didn't work…guess what bitch, it's the fifth." Rebuke bit out and Louise couldn't find any fault in his logic.

"Oh founder…I'm a void mage." She said shocked as she set back on her bed as her head began to hurt she took a deep breath before passing out.

"Here's your sign." Rebuke deadpanned as a cardboard sign hung from Louise's neck that said" Void mage"

"I'll train her." Lightning said as she looked at the young girl, who now bore a large responsibility on her shoulders.

"You have to do more than that, train her, protect her, care for her." Rebuke began as he looked at Lightning tiredly. "You need to be her friend, sister, and mother. This girl comes from a large and powerful family, but besides one of her siblings she's all alone." Rebuke knew he hit a soft spot when he saw her eyes soften.

"Her mom..?"

"Is a soldier." Rebuke deadpanned making Lightning look at him helplessly.

"So am I."

"Serah is proof that you are so much more." Rebuke stated simply, stunning the woman. "Did you know that Serah not only would have completed the journey you sent her on…but also die from it?" Lightning gasped as Rebuke turned away. "She had no regrets and would do it again. THAT is why I saved your planet." Rebuke said as he walked forward.

"You care about her don't you?" Lightning asked as she watched him walk away. Rebuke stopped and gave her a sad smile.

"I'm her familiar; the bond will always be there runes or no runes." Rebuke said with a chuckle. "But, the kid has heart and deserves so much more. I no longer have a heart thanks to the goddess. I would drop that innocent girl in a second to complete my goal, which is why you are protecting her. Protect her from everything…including me if it comes down to it." Rebuke ordered before fading away. The unconscious Louise curled into herself as tears left her eyes.

"I will." Lightning promised when the man was gone. After a few moments of silence lightning decided not to wake the crying girl and went to the closet to grab a night gown. "This will be the last time I do this." Lightning swore as she got the young noble in to her sleep wear. After a while Lightning felt bored decided to go out for a stroll to at least map out the building they were in. It was an old fashioned building but nothing really spoke out to her. It was empty except for some blonde kid hitting on a brown haired girl. Lightning returned to her room and removed her armor.

*Thud*

"Oh that feels good." Lightning thought as she stretched for a bit before climbing in to the bed and taking some much needed rest.

-The next morning-

Getting up proved to be a struggle as lightning found her new master wrapped around her with an iron grip.

"If she's this strong already, it shouldn't take too long to train her." Lightning thought with a sigh before glaring at the sleeping figure wrapped around her. Thinking quickly she remembered what she did when her she had the problem with Serah. "Little pink pest removal tact twenty two it is then." Lightning gave the girl a quick but strong poke to the ribs, practically making Louise leap from her.

"W-what, where-who are you?" Louise asked in confusion as she looked at the half naked woman in her bed. Lightning just quirked an eyebrow at her until a look a realization crossed the young girl's face. "Oh founder…it wasn't a nightmare. I really am a V-void mage." After struggling the last two words Louise looked as if she were about to faint again.

"Let's get you cleaned up and ready for the day." Lightning spoke up sounding amused? Louise narrowed her eyes before turning away with a huff. "Stubborn, she could pass off as a Farron. That's for sure." Lightning thought with a barely noticeable smile before she got up and began to place her armor back on. "I'm going to do the laundry; it wouldn't do either of us any good if we walked around wearing dirty clothes." Lightning said stunning the girl. When she was younger she cleaned and Serah cooked; that was the arrangement so she didn't mind picking up an old chore. Besides there was no way Louise would know how to clean her armor so she might as well just get the girls clothes too while she was cleaning hers.

"O-okay." Louise stuttered as she gaped at the older woman's back. Honestly the thought had crossed her mind to order the woman to dress her and clean her clothes…

…but then she remembered that she'd probably end up dead and decided not to push her luck. She would dress herself and since the other woman volunteered to clean, who was she to say no?

"But you'll come with me to learn how to do it right." Lightning added making the girl grimace, but she didn't complain. "If I'm going to turn you in to a strong woman you need to at least know how to take care of yourself first."

"But what about class!?" Louise asked as she watched Lightning pick up a basket. Lightning raised an eyebrow at with her hand on her hip.

"Can any of those classes teach you how to save the world?"

"Of course not-"

"Then it's irrelevant." Lightning said bluntly before turning around and walking away. Louise gaped at her for a second before sighing and following the woman out of the door.

-Later-

After a few minutes of walking Lightning spotted a wandering maid and asked her to help her with something.

Well asked is a wrong word. It was more like Lightning saying: "Follow me" and walking away without waiting for a response. Either way the group of three reached a small creek just outside of the school grounds.

"Umm miss what do you want me for?" Siesta asked nervously as she looked at the incredibly intimidating woman warily.

"I need you to teach Louise here how to wash clothes. Something basic like that is important to know in case I'm not around." Lightning said making both girls gape at her. Honestly after seeing how young some of the cleaning staff we're, Lightning began to get an idea of society worked in this new world.

And she didn't like it one bit.

So her first lesson to teach her young master, besides basic life necessities, was that all people we're equal. She needed to show the girl that feelings of superiority often led to arrogance, and arrogance cost many on the battlefield.

Just ask all of the PSICOM soldiers that died trying to fight Hope

"What! But she's a commoner-"Louise stopped talking at the glare she was receiving from her familiar.

"Louise." Lightning said simply, shutting the girl up. Siesta watched the exchange in awe. "I'm going to find a clearing that I can train you in so please behave until I return." Louise nodded her head weakly and the woman walked away.

"L-let's get started shall we?" Siesta said awkwardly as Lightning disappeared in to the forest.

-30 minutes later-

After much frustration and grumbling from the young noble, Louise finally began to get the hang of it much to the relief of the maid, who didn't want to face the possibility facing Lightning's ire for not completing the task. When asking how the young maid got so good at housework, Louise found herself trading childhood stories with the commoner.

And oddly enough, many of the commoner's stories interested Louise

Wiping her sweating forehead, Louise began to fold the articles of clothing like Siesta had taught her.

"There you've got the hang of it Miss Vallière." Siesta congratulated the noble with a smile that, oddly enough, reminded her of her older sister's.

"Thank you for your help." Louise found herself saying, and what shocked her was that she meant it. The two decided to continue their conversation while waiting on Louise's familiar to return. As they talked animatedly Lightning, who had returned fifteen minutes earlier, stood behind a tree with a small smirk.

"Looks like my plan worked." Lightning leaned on the tree, deciding to give the girls a few more minutes.

Bronze trophy Unlocked: Stick removal (Remove a stick from a noble's ass)

+ 500 gold.

"W-what the hell was that!?" Lightning thought in surprise as the voice rang through her head. She took a stealthy look back at the girls and noticed that neither of them heard it.

*Bzzz*

Feeling her cell phone buzzing, Lightning pulled it out and frowned.

"I still get service out here?" The soldier questioned before placing it to her ear.

"Yo sparks!" Rebuke greeted cheerfully making Lightning narrow her eyes. "Don't worry about the voice, only you can hear it for now. It's something I added to make your mission a little easier but whenever it mentions award, PAY ATTENTION!" Rebuke told her before hanging up.

*Click*

Lightning closed her phone and put it away, it was then that she noticed a small white pouch attached to her hip. Opening it up she gasped as she saw it filled with gold.

"At least this Job pays." Lightning thought while shaking her head as she once again tried to figure out what mess she had got herself in to this time. Grabbing a hand full of the coins, Lightning closed it back up and walked to the girls.

"I'm back, we'll begin training tomorrow; same time." Lightning told Louise before flipping over the creak next to a wide-eyed Siesta. "Here's for the trouble." Lightning said as she handed the maid the money. Louise felt slightly dismayed as she remembered that the other girl was only spending time with her because it was her job. Siesta looked at the money before shaking her head with a smile.

"Keep it; this time was actually interesting for me. Just make sure you two come to me if you need any more help." Lightning shook her head in slight wonder as she put the gold back in the pouch.

"It never fails; the ones with the biggest hearts are given the harshest lives." Unknown to Lightning for the first time in Louise's life, the young noble was having frighteningly similar thoughts.

"Why do people like Kirche get luxury when Siesta has to work her fingers to the bone?" Louise was honestly confused about the lack of fairness. "Why would the Founder allow that?"

Neither Louise nor Lightning knew it, but it was because of this day. This outing to teach a spoiled girl how to wash her clothes, that would lead to a new Void mage being preached about at the soon-to-be former Church of Brimir.

-Later-

After bidding Siesta farewell, the Pink duo were on their way to the dining hall for lunch when a voice called out to them making Louise groan. Lightning, noticing her master's reaction, looked up to see a busty red-head.

"W-what the hell is up with her chest size?" Lightning thought in disbelief while keeping a cool expression. Before Lightning could be the badass woman she is today, she had to first overcome being an awkward teenager going through puberty, and like many girls was self-conscious about her bust size, but eventually her body grew up and her hormones settled; allowing her to become the perfect soldier. So with Lightning's phantom feelings of envy, coupled with the fact that the Kirche reminded her of a mix between Jihl and Fang it should come to no one's surprise that Lightning already didn't like Kirche on sheer principal alone.

"Louise where we're you today? I was worried when nobody blew up." Kirche said with mock concern, making both Louise and Lightning glare at her.

Yes lightning really didn't like this bitch.

Before Louise could yell at the taller girl, Lightning placed an armored-clad hand on her shoulder and gave her a firm look.

"Louise, if you want to waste your time on trash then that's your choice, but don't waste mine." Lightning said coldly, shocking both girls, but the softening of her gaze and the gentle squeeze on her shoulder conveyed the real message to Louise.

"Don't waste your time on trash."

Nodding to her familiar Louise brushed past the stunned Kirche and continued her walk to the dining hall. As they were walking Lightning spied a familiar blonde boy and frowned slightly, noticing this; Louise nudged her slightly.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm not sure…but I think I saw him before." Lightning said as they continued walking.

"Who? Guiche?" Louise asked while raising an eyebrow as she gestured to the boy.

"Yeah, I think I saw 'Guiche' trying to pick up some brown haired girl in the hall of the dormitory last night." Unfortunately Lightning said that just as they were passing Montmorency, said girl whipped her head towards her in anger.

"What was he doing!?" The blonde asked angrily making Lightning give her a perturbed look. She wasn't used to anyone just yelling at her for no reason but shrugged it off assuming for there to be a reason as she looked at the girl's slightly hurt eyes.

"That kid right there." Lightning said blatantly pointing at the boy now; gaining his attention. "Was trying to pick up a brown haired girl last night." By now it had gotten deathly silent as Guiche gaped. It wasn't long before his girlfriend began shouting at him and he found himself backed in to a corner.

Little known fact: When put under pressure…Guiche makes some pretty dumbass decisions.

"You we're obviously lied to!" Guiche defended himself as he grabbed her shoulders. "This fiend is obviously just messing with you! What else would you expect from the Familiar of Zero!" Louise flinched as she heard her nickname "And I'll prove it to you by defeating her in battle and forcing her to tell the truth!" Various looks of disbelief were sent at Guiche as everyone looked from him to Lightning then back to him.

"Are you an Idiot, Guiche?" Some random student asked seriously. Even Louise stared at the blonde as if he lost his mind.

"Guiche! We have to get you to a nurse you know you're not supposed to eat the mushrooms growing next to the shed!" Louise shouted in concern making her familiar quirk an eyebrow at her.

"Is he a friend?" Lightning asked making Louise shake her head.

"Founder no, but if he dies it'll be brought back to me." Louise deadpanned making the older woman nod in understanding. Guiche however wasn't afraid after all; Knight or not Louise summoned the woman, so she couldn't be that strong.

"Familiar." Guiche spat out like a curse making Lightning glare at him. "Go to Vestry Courtand meet me for a duel!" Trying very hard to prevent a possible feud with her family, Louise tried a different approach.

"Duels are forbidden between Guiche!"

"Ah but she is technically a familiar now!" Louise curse silently in her head.

"He just committed suicide!" Louise thought in horror. She had never seen her familiar in any real action but when your mother is Karin and you meet someone that scares you more than that woman without doing anything; you tend not to question their abilities.

"Damn, damn, damn!" Louise muttered as she watched her familiar follow Guiche to a court yard followed by the rest of the school. She lifted her head when she heard someone running towards her.

"Miss Vallière! What's going on?" Siesta asked in concern as she ran to her new friend.

"Guiche just challenged lightning to a duel." Siesta blanched as she heard the news. Not because she cared for the boy, but if the boy died Louise might need to give up a lot of money and that might remove any chance of her selling her contract to the young noble. God help her if she was going to was going to work at the school for the rest of her life.

"Do I need to get a medic, did he eat the mushrooms again!?" Siesta asked frantically making Louise sigh.

"Let's just go Siesta, maybe we can stop her from inflicting any fatal wounds." The maid nodded and the pinkette to the court.

-Minutes later-

"Any last words familiar?" Guiche asked while the crowd continued to gape at him.

"Just four." Lightning said sounding bored.

"Then say them."

"Are. You. Fucking, Serious?" Lightning questioned before reaching to her back and pulling her new blade off. The sheer size of it made many of the students pale at how easy she was holding it. Her runes began to glow, but because she is Lightning she didn't really feel any noticeable differences, if asked later she would mention that her vision cleared up a little bit.

"Of course!" Guiche said bravely as he summoned three bronze Valkyries. In the crowd Louise turned to Montmorency.

"Please look in to your heart, he didn't mean it! Take him back I swear he's changed!" Montmorency looked at the girl with a sad smile.

"Thank you for trying to make me happy…you're a true friend. If it means anything now I want to say sorry for how I've treated you and maybe after we can start over." Montmorency said sincerely and Louise would have been moved if she wasn't trying to get sued. "You may not have great magic…but you have a great heart." The blonde said as she poked Louise in the middle of her chest.

"It's over." Louise thought as tears fell from her eyes. Mistaking them for tears of joy, the blonde felt her heart twist and pulled the shorter girl in to a one armed hug.

"Aww come here."

Lightning continued to stare at the three Valkyries with wide eyes. She just couldn't believe how weak they looked; even when she first started her journey as an l'cie she faced scarier monsters. She's fought things many people would consider GODS. And this boy-

No.

This bitch thought three tin cans were going to stop her? It was then that Lightning felt a strange feeling in her stomach. The foreign feeling was spreading to her face at an alarming rate and for the first time in years Lightning laughed her ass off.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Lightning began laughing as she used her blade for support while wiping at her eyes.

-White room-

Rebuke did a spit-take as he watched the impossible.

"My God…that was unholy." The game master gasped.

-With Serah & Snow-

Snow looked as his wife in concern as he felt her shiver slightly.

"You okay, babe?"

"I felt…a disturbance…" Serah whispered in a strange voice.

-With Noel and Hope-

Hope and his new assistant were doing paper work when suddenly hope's head snapped to a window.

"You okay Hope?" Noel asked as the silver haired man narrowed his eyes.

"I feel as though I missed something that I've wanted to hear for years…"

"That sucks."

-With Fang in Vanille-

"Someone's about to get fucked up." Fangs said with a strong Australian accent, before rubbing her shoulder after Vanille hit her.

"Fang, Language!"

-With Sazh-

"Aw hellllll naw. I'm too old for this shit." Sazh complained before getting up from his workplace and beginning his trek back home.

-With Caius-

Caius was sunbathing with Yeul on a beach bot had on sunglasses and we're relaxing when Caius felt a cold shill crawl down his back. Sitting up, Caius put his hands together and bowed his head.

"What are you doing?" Yeul ask sounding slightly bewildered

"Praying." Caius said simply.

-Back to Lightning-

"I'll give you ten seconds to get more out." Lightning said while attempting to regain her composure.

BGM: Flash- Finally Fantasy XIII

"Take this!" Guiche exclaimed as he summoned ten more Valkyries. "How do you plan to stop my Army, Familiar?"

"Easily." Lightning began as she rushed forward at blinding speeds. "Because I am a Legion of One (1)" Lightning finished as she sliced a Valkyrie in half vertically, when two more rushed both her sides. Lightning blocked a slash from the left Valkyrie with her shield as she stabbed the one on the right through its chest. Ripping her blade from the suit of armor she spun and sliced the Valkyrie she blocked, in half.

"Oh founder" Louise thought as she watched her familiar fight. It was like Lightning was dancing as she destroyed the suits.

Lightning stabbed her blade in to the ground before she jumped to the right while pulling out her gun and aimed at three suits of armor.

*BANG* *BANG *BANG*

Hitting all three in the head, Lightning back flipped over the slash of another Valkyrie and aimed at its head mid-flip.

*BANG*

Lightning holstered the gun, before landing on her feet and grabbing her blade and bursting forward at a charging Valkyrie. The Valkyrie swung at the pinkette, but was too slow and missed Lightning as she ducked underneath the blow and used the momentum to knock the suit of armor twenty-five feet in the air. The students and Guiche watched in awe as Lightning leapt into the sky and met the suit of armor at the peak of its assent. Lightning hit it with a barrage of slashes before piercing it through the chest with the blade. Suddenly the body lit in a golden flam as lightning placed both of her hands on the hilt. Lightning swung back her blade bring the body with it as she fell towards the remaining Valkyries.

"AHH!" Lightning roared as she descended.

*BOOOM*

BGM: END

The crowd watched in a stunned as a pillar of light exploded from the place of impact and sent a shockwave across the court. Even Tabitha was shocked from reading her book as she gazed at the scene. Louise was stunned way more than her peers because she knew.

Oh she knew.

Lightning didn't even try.

The crowd watched in silence as Guiche lied in a crater with the remainder of his Valkyries while Lightning calmly strode to her master. When the soldier reached the mage they stared at each other before lightning spoke.

"You will be that level by the end of year one. Now come, your training starts now." Lightning told her master simply, shocking all those who heard her. Lightning then turned to the maid. "Please bring us some water. I fear that Louise will be exhausted when I'm done with her today."

"R-right away." Siesta agreed as she hurried to fulfill the request.

"That was pathetic, if it was to the death I could have just shot him in the head and been done with it." Lighting thought as she glanced back at the awe-struck face of Louise. "This is the result of their teaching? Louise can't get stronger here we'll have to leave and travel across this world if we want to see any development." Lightning stopped before turning to her master. "Tell me did your mother ever tell you what you need to be perfect on the battle field?"

"Honor and strength right?" Louise asked as Lightning shook her head.

"No you need to be able to close of your emotions properly, and the only way to do that properly is to experience them all and understand what they are." Lightning began as the younger girl widened her eyes. "I have no fear in battle because I know what fear is and can block it off. But I also know how important the emotion is and know when to release it."

"When would fear be important?" Louise questioned her familiar curiously.

"When you are about to do something reckless and could get yourself or someone you love Killed, When you are about to fail a mission and know the consequences so you force yourself, and finally it's important to remind you that no matter how strong you are…you're still human." Lightning's eyes softened at the last one making Louise wonder what exactly Lightning had done in her life…she didn't look any older than twenty one years of age.

"Oh…" Louise said as she gazed at her familiar.

"There are two emotions that can be used to sustain the lock on your emotions, it's when you lock them with fear that they can later be reopened and you can smile when the storm is over."

"What's the other?" Louise asked curiously Lightning sighed before giving her a sad smile.

"Hate." Lightning said making the girl gasp. "If you hate something enough and become consumed by it…" Lightning thought of the horrible mistake she made when she didn't prevent Hope from attempting to kill Snow and all of the battles she had with Caius. "Your emotional lock may never be opened again."

"Oh Founder…" Louise gasped as she realized what may have happened to her mother.

"There are both good and bad emotions that you need to feel, sadly enough I suspect you've already felt all of the bad ones." Lightning said as she gestured to the school making Louise flinch slightly. "Which is why in two weeks' time, we WILL leaving to explore the rest of this world together." Lightning revealed making Louise step back in shock.

"But what about school?"

"Maybe you didn't hear your would-be familiar." Lightning said as Louise grimaced at the thought of the white-haired man. "Countless lives are at risk, the chance to say no ended the moment you we're born."

"C-can I at least write to my family while we're gone?" Louise choked out as tears filled her eyes. Lightning brought her in to a one-armed hug and squeezed her gently.

"You can but not frequently, we can risk them chasing us down we need you to train in peace." Lightning said before turning as she heard Siesta approach them.

"I brought the water." Siesta said happily making Lightning nod in appreciation.

What neither pinkette knew was that the maid had heard every word.

PAUSE

(1) Legion of one is Lightning's feral link ability in Final Fantasy XII-2

And there you go many people wanted this chapter to come out so I tried to jot down a simple 1.5k word chapter….that grew…and grew you get the point.

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