The War of l'Cie, ShinRa, and Sanctum
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Wooooowwww ! *stares in amazement at screen* I posted this story like three days ago and I already got 5 reviews? *mouth hits floor* W-o-W. Shocking Thanks though! Okay, now I'll take some time to reply to reviews. First of all!
Thanks to ZaCks for the support and literally making me so happy I was jumping around my room XD (hey! This is new to me! DON'T JUDGE! :P) heh, thanks master of Chronicles my name gave me ideas too ! But I might not use em…. And sadly, no, I have NOT beaten that bastard on the Lindblum. And it is ticking me off soooo bad! I have just attempted attempt #23. STILL A NO GO x(. ummm k, Gagboy. Don't worry, Denzel WILL notice Lightning's looks are similar to Cloud's in the next chapter after this one. And, yah, I know that. I've played the game and watched the movie. But I'm twisting things here to make em fit with my story. Thanks, I try really hard to be as descriptive as I can. And, I think I will do a CloudxLightning pairing here. ', when I said I had gotten an idea for a HopexLightning pairing, I had meant in a different fan fic. Just to make myself clear folks, there will be NO HOPE AND LIGHTNING PAIRING! Got it? Maybe in a different story. And sadly I have not had the pleasure to play any other FF games beside VII, VIII, X, and XIII. So NO OTHER CHARECTERS APART FROM VII AND XIII WILL MAKE AN APPEARANCE. And, master of Chronicles again. Yes, this is taking place after AC. Five months afterwards to be exact. And I MIGHT make the Stigma still exist within certain people….maybe. Anyways, on with the story. Remember, REIVEW REVIEW REVIEW!
From here on out, I will be flipping from Light's story in Edge, back to her friends in Gran Pulse. Be aware, I am not done the game. So stuff on Gran Pulse may be sketchy.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything made by Square Enix. I do however, own this idea. :)
III
Snow's POV
Serah…Lebreau…Gadot…Marqui…Yuj…fal'Cie...l'Cie…C'ieth…Crystals…Lightning…
It had been over a month ago that Lightning had left us. I couldn't help but feel responsible for it, though none of us had a clue as to why the incident had happened.
It was a beautiful sunny day in Gran Pulse as usual. We had just escaped death for the thirteenth time it seemed. Fang and Vanille were ecstatic to be back home, though the rest of us – Sazh, Hope, Light, and I – couldn't feel more alone and hated. We had set up camp by a hill giving us a good home sickening view of Cocoon beside a tall grassy green hill. Though Gran Pulse was beautiful with its greenery and such, my heart ached. I wouldn't mind being down here, I could take care of myself. But…I had also vowed to take care of another. Serah. My bride to be. But, she was on Cocoon, all the way up there, maybe still crystallized on the Lindblum. Or had they moved her to Eden?
I groaned.
"Serah…" I moaned quietly, her crystallized tear in my gloved fist. I held it to my heart. "Please forgive me." I whispered, looking up at Cocoon. "Your hero'll be there soon…I don't know how though…"
"Don't worry." A high pitched happy sounding voice said, patting me on the back – Vanille.
I tore my gaze away from the floating orb in the sky I had once called "home" and turned it on Vanille. Vanille was very up – beat and overly cheerful – though sometimes, her eyes said different. She wore a very thin amount of clothes, and her weapon was a fishing rod. Her orange/pink hair was held up in pigtails, always bouncing around whenever she moved the slightest. She had kind green eyes, but they seemed to cloud over with sadness at times.
Vanille gave me a cheerful smile before turning to face the others who were crowded around a fire that Hope had started, casting fira spells into it every few seconds to keep the weak thing burning and warm.
Maybe a few weeks ago or so, I had discovered Hope was bent on wanting to murder me. Turns out that woman in hanging Edge had meant get Hope home… but now we were friends. Hope looked up to Lightning, Serah's elder sis. Hope was 14, with silver hair and bangs that always went in front of his eyes. He had dark jade green eyes, and was very quiet at times, and was more mature than Vanille most of the time, despite the fact she was over 500 years old. His weapon was his Airwing – a boomerang.
I sighed, pocketing Serah's tear and deciding to try and take part in their conversation – I'd make my way back to Cocoon someway, somehow, and be reunited with Serah…
"So what do we do now?" Hope asked, wringing his hands in an attempt to warm them by the fire.
Sazh, a loyal man with a big puffy black Afro answered, "I dunno. I guess we still try to save Cocoon yeah? That or become C'ieth…" Sazh shook his head and placed it in his hands. He sat upon a stump, shaking his head.
Fang, a raven-haired fierce woman who could even put me out of my misery, stood up angrily and placed an arm around Vanille's shoulders protectively.
"I may not have a Focus anymore," she growled, pulling Vanille into her chest. "But I ain't letting my friends or Vanille become any mother f***ing Fal'Cie."
Hope, Sazh, and Vanille gave a tiny smile and nodded, murmuring their agreement. As I looked around our campsite, I realized that everyone was here but Lightning.
"Where's big Sis?" I asked, trying to joke. Lightning became murderous whenever I called her "sis". But her reactions were hilarious, even if it did result in me getting a severe black eye or broken arm.
Vanille and Fang sat down a bit further away from us. Hope looked up from his cold gloved hands, and nodded behind me.
I turned as Sazh struck up conversation with the fourteen year old. A tall grassy hill that quickly ascended upwards towered behind me. At the very top, was one willow tree, and Lightning. Staring up at Cocoon. I stood up, and was about to head over to her. Sazh jumped to his feet shaking his head.
"You know what she'll do to you if you interrupt her alone time!" Sazh protested, putting his gloved hands on my chest and trying to push me back down. I grimaced and nodded, sitting back down.
We talked for about five minutes, trying to cheer each other up. Fang and Vanille seemed to be catching up on things, giving small shoves of annoyance to each other occasionally. Suddenly –
"LIGHT!" Hope yelled, horrified. His eyes were wide, and his mouth slightly hanging. Everyone froze, and turned to see Lightning on the ground kneeling, hand clutching painfully at her chest. But, something seemed horribly wrong. Suddenly Lightning seemed to shimmer. We all yelled in horror, suddenly knowing what was about to happen. We sprinted towards her, me leading, Vanille and Fang bringing up the rear
Since that tragic incident in Hanging Edge, I've been having nightmares of this happening again, but to someone other than Serah. Suddenly, my nightmares had become reality.
Lightning's pink aura exploded from her chest, surrounding her. She grunted in pain and fell on her side, slightly twisting and jerking.
"DAMN HILL!" I bellowed. We were only half way to the pain filled woman…
Suddenly, her movements became less pained, less aware.
"NO!" Both me and Hope shrieked in anger and horror as my nightmares and my most recent encounter with Serah still awake began to repeat itself – but this time on her sister.
Lightning began to glow even more, until she was like a blinding light. She rose into the air slowly, just as I finally got level with her.
I flung myself forwards, grabbing her ankles, which almost proved impossible with her heavy smooth military – approved combat boots. Using all of my weight and strength, I tried to pull her down as Light's eyes opened in the slightest. They flickered to me, still fruitlessly trying to pull her back down in hopes that this wasn't real, to Hope now trying to help me, jumping up and down beside me, trying to grab hold of her ankles too. His eyes were streaming with tears, and he was shouting in anguish. Her cold – now distant- icy blue orbs flickered to Sazh, whom shook his head furiously, eyes watering, to Vanille and Fang. Vanille's eyes were wide with horror, and she shook her head in denial. She then turned and buried her face in Fang's chest. Fang grimaced, one arm on Vanille's head, the other on her back my grip on her ankles slipped and I fell over backwards, taking Hope down with me. A blinding light made us shield our eyes with our arms. Then, the light was gone as fast as it had come.
"No…no!" Hope wailed, the first to remove his arm from his eyes.
I hesitantly removed my arm to hear Vanille gasp.
"Damn it…" Fang growled furiously.
About a meter or two away from me, lay a crystallized Lightning. She lay in the deep clear crystal in the same position Serah had. Eyes closed, arms folded into her chest.
Though I did not love this woman as I did Serah, I felt as if I had lost a sister. My lower lip trembled and I let out a strangled yell and pounded the ground with my fists.
"Damn it!" I roared, my heart felt like it would explode, my brain buzzing with what had just happened. "Screw it all!" I wailed, pounding the ground again and looking up into Lightning's crystallized calm face. It was unrealistic. This pain. All this loss.
"Impossible…" Sazh muttered, falling to his knees. "Impossible…"
Hope wailed again and punched the ground with his fists. Again, and again, and again.
"LIGHT!" He gave a hoarse strangled wail. His expression was identical to the one when his mother and I had fallen off of that highway in Hanging Edge. Hope collapsed to the ground, whimpering and moaning in loss. The loss of his mother, his life, his home, his right to see his father, and, now, Lightning. The brave but irresponsibly reckless ex-soldier, who had taken care of him and protected him like a brother or a son.
None of us knew how long we had stayed on that hill, morning for our loss. We had stayed with our fearless leader's crystal for many nights. But, we were forced to leave when PSI Com showed up. We all felt horrible as we hid in the shelter of a nearby forest, undetected, as Yagg appeared, a long deep cut on his face. He smirked as he recognized Lightning through the crystal. Both me and Hope had to be restrained as they loaded Lightning aboard the Lindblum where we had just escaped from a few nights ago.
That was the last time we had seen her.
It had been about three months maybe, since Yagg had taken Light away. It was night, and we all slept in a group for better protection. We still didn't know why Light had crystallized back then. If her focus had been to reach Gran Pulse, then she would've crystallized the moment they stepped foot on the grassy plain. I lay against the cold hard stone at the base of a tall menacing cliff, clutching Serah's tear to my chest as I always did.
How many more lives would be claimed in my life? I wondered painfully. Five, six, twelve? First, my unknown parents and family. Then, all those innocent people that had been killed in NORA'S plights. In Hanging Edge, Serah, and then all those not so innocent but vicious soldiers from PSICOM in Lake Bresha and so on. And, now, Serah's older sister. Was I doomed to get rid of all of the Farrons that existed? Starting off with the ones I actually knew?
It wasn't your fault Snow. Serah's voice seemed to whisper in my soul. I still wasn't sure whether this was a result of my guilt, or if Serah truly was alive, and managed to speak to me through her tear. You'll see…
I grimaced and yawned widely then looked around. Everyone else was asleep and the fire was dead.
"I better hit the hay too…" I muttered sleepily. "Night my only…"
And with that, I fell fast asleep.
Little did I know, the Lindblum's engine had been blown up and was spinning in a death spiral towards the ground above some broken down city somewhere far, far, far away in search of more l'Cie. The Lindblum crashed into a mountain close by to the city, illuminating the foreign city as it slowly blew up.
At that precise moment, Serah's tear glowed brightly in Snow's fist as he slept. It shone brightly and "awoke" from its crystal stasis and slowly stopped shining to reveal a true tear that left small traces of Serah's salty water from her eye duct on Snow's leather glove, and drip out of his hand slowly. And disappeared onto the muddy dirt on which he rested on forever.
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