"Lightning, Keep up!!"

Sazh and Snow roared ahead of me. Even when we were younger I was always the slowest. Even that year ago, they were a few yards ahead of me We raced toward anb area Of Cocoon still under mass construction. They stopped next to a large crane.

"Why did we--" Sazh put a finger to his lips.

" Over there."

Snow pointed to a mine. We raced over, avoiding the heavy security. We barely made it in the mine when I was flabbergasted with the sight in front of me.

The mine was filled with Crystals.

Thousands and thousands of Crystals.

"Oh my Yevon...." I could not believe any of this. it was like a dream. I walked up and pulled on one of them they broke off easily.

I then had an idea, an idea that set the stage for the utter devastation of my life....

I began rapidly pulling and pocketing Crystals.

"What are you doing?" Asked Sazh confused.

"Are parents are having money troubles. Right Snow?"

"Well yea, but how did you--"

"Then this is all it takes to solve their problems. You gonna stand there or you gonna help me?!"

We each grabbed as many as we could and ran back to Sazh' house.

** Unbenownst to them, a pair of workers, Vaanashe, and Balfran, watched as the 3 teens ran away.

"Security Breach," Vaanashe muttered and prepared to hit the alarm,but was stopped by Belfran."What are you doing?"

" We could hit the alarm..." A twisted Smile settled on Belfrans face. " Or we can deal out or own brand of justice...."

With those words, Vaaanashe joined in and they prepared to deal out "Justice".**

We settled on the steps to Sazh' house."Hey guys," Snow asked uncomfortably. " gimme your Crystals. If we get caught, the last thing I want is for all of us to go to jail." Sazh and I thought about it and handed over our Crystals.

"Come on, Lets head back to your house. My dad'll kill me if he catches us with stolen goods" said Sazh.

We got up and headed back to our house.. And Snow asked the question burning in all of our heads:

"Are we doing the right thing?"

"Of course we are! We need this to save our house! Our parents are gonna absolutely love us."

We arrived at our front door.

" Watcha gonna tell em'?" asked Sazh.

"Leave that to me." I said " Our parents are celebrating Snow's 19th birthday today, So they won't get mad." I opened the door.

And saw a blood bath.