Here's chapter three guys, only one Chapter till finish, yay! enjoy
Action from the past
Fang, Vanile and Hope were just in sight, ready to move on as this happened, Lightning had hit Snow once then left, but Snow wasn't going to let Lightning to have her way, he chased her to the door to see it slammed in his face. Seeing this, Fang realised that it must be Snow talking about Serah.
"Hey, do you think Snow will ever learn how not to piss off Lightning?" Fang had seen this display before, to her it was funny. She thought in a few minutes everyone would have made friends and be fine again, but Snow was still looking for an argument.
Snow wanted to put an end Lightning's hateful attitude whenever he said the name Serah, however his chances normally against Lightning were at best, very low, and this wasn't at best. Lightning was stressed out before she heard him, and not prepared to take any advice to calm down, or even listen to what Snow was saying after making a "mockery" of Serah. All Lightning wanted Snow to do was shut up, but Snow wasn't going to let Lightning win again.
By now they were well outside, with Sazh looking from the house, keen to stay out of it. Fang realised that this time was different, when Lightning through another punch at Snow, but instead of taking it he caught her fist, and hurled it down. Very annoyed by now, Lightning punched again, the same result, Fang blocked Snow when he was about to hit back. Hope attempted to do the same with Lightning, but only resulted in a softer punch on Snow.
"Stop it, both of you!" Fang yelled, she knew that Snow and Lighting could overpower the rest of them, she and Sazh could stop Snow together , but Vanile and Hope on Lightning? No chance.
"NOW!" Fang's yell, snapped some sense into the two. There was a Brief silence, just eyes fixed on each others.
"you ever joke about my sister again, I'll kill you" An opportunity to end the argument arose here, but Snow was spurred on to make his voice heard
"I can't even talk about my wife to be? Serah wouldn't want that" This was Snows point, everything he does is for Serah. He was right, but at this moment it was about the worst thing to say.
"What Serah wants? You think she wants to be a crystal? You think she wants to be laughed at? You think she wants to be marred to an over obsessed moron! You don't know what she wants, you never have!" with this she stormed off into the wilderness, leaving one hell of a punch for Snow to remember.
It took a moment for Snow to come round, he was on the sitting ground, his sight was blurred for a while but his hearing was fine, good enough to hear Hope yell "why the hell did you do that?" Then run after Lightning, now gone.
Snow himself didn't really know what made him stand up to Lightning, but Vanile had a theory: "you should be able to talk about your own fiancé whenever you like." The talk they had must have done it, Vanile knew this was why. Making Snow feel good for a few minutes had caused this, another few lives to add to the tally, another few memory's to haunt her. She didn't know in detail what had happened but they all knew Lightning wasn't going be coming back and everyone be friends within a couple minutes.
"What happened between you too?" Fang wanted this to be dealt with fast, the group was in enough trouble already, without Lightning hating Snow. Snow shook his head, still on the floor and replied.
"she's crazy, I can't even talk without her getting pissed off" Fang saw that this was going nowhere so turned to Sazh, Sazh had stayed out of it until Lightning stormed off, he knew she wouldn't be too happy with him either, laughing at Snow's jokes. Now with Lightning gone, he was safe to approach.
"Hey, Sazh, you were with Snow when this all kicked off right?"
"yep. Snow was talking about how he missed Serah, he started by saying how wonderful and magnificent she was" Snow interrupted Sazh's sarcasm
"hey, you talked about Dajh as well, saying how brilliant he was too"
"Snow, you are trying to piss off everyone today aren't you?" Fang was still in a humourers mood.
"Is that what made Lightning that mad?"
"Not really, I cheered Snow up with a story of how I went nuts when I lost Dajh for a while. He started telling some funny story's about Serah, then Wham! Lightning kicks the freaking door in and all hell breaks lose"
"Snow am I right: You think she's crazy because she beat you up when you made a joke about Serah?"
"No, she doesn't even let me say her name, that's why she's nuts, I told her that, and now look, she's ran off with Hope."
Fang started thinking, what was the best way forward?
"Snow listen, your right, but your still gonna have to say sorry. I think Hope's calming her down, so you just go and reason with her and we can all move on. I'll come to, in case she kicks off again."
"Good idea" Snow replied "The last bit at least"
"Hey, you want Lightning hating you forever?"
"No"
"then lets go. Vanile, you and Sazh stay here, I don't think Sazh going's a good idea, and we can't leave him alone"
"Hey!" Vanile laughed at this.
"You too will be fine on your own right?"
"Course we will" Vanile said last waving them off.
It was late afternoon, Vanile and Sazh were sitting together on the steps outside the house, they had expected finding Lightning and saying sorry would take no more than an hour or so, but it had been much longer, and Vanile kept thinking about how it was no longer thoughts of the past that would haunt her. The sun was low and she knew that Sazh and her would mange a night alone, so Fang and the rest wouldn't come back in the dark. If they weren't back soon, they wouldn't be until late morning tomorrow at earliest.
Sazh snapped her out of her thoughts with one word.
"Cie'th!" Vanile looked forward, they were four of them ahead, she sprung into action only to hear Sazh call "I got these, you take the others" The others? Damn. Sazh had seem three more heading round the corner of the house, she whipped out her Binding Rod and attacked.
Sazh thought it would be best if he dealt with the bigger group, but he had only seen the other Cie'th briefly, he didn't see that three more Cie'th were round the corner, now he was dealing with four, oblivious to the fact that he had left Vanile to deal with six, even Lightning would have trouble with six.
Sazh's Vega 42s took out his Cie'th fast, he was down to the last one when he heard a squeal from Vanile.
"Sazh, help!" Vanile had started well, she had taken out two but now she was encircled, constantly blocking, she had taken in blows before calling for help, and as Sazh reacted by shooting the Cie'th she took more blows, Sazh aimed high anywhere and fired, his remaining Cie'th was easy to avoid, and the four on Vanile were easy to kill by them not seeming to care about getting shot. Sazh could barely see Vanile but he could tell she was not much more than a punch bag by now.
As Sazh finished off the last of Vanile's Cie'th then his own he ran over to Vanile, she was under the shot Cie'th, Lightning had lectured the group about how to deal with being encircled, all she seemed to talk about was battle tactics but it was clear to Sazh that Vanile hadn't listened. She had tried to block all the attacks instead of taking one blow in and getting out of the situation. Sazh had big problems moving the Cie'th off Vanile, and an unconscious body was the prize at the bottom.
This is now the longest thing I've ever wrote :D Has anyone got why the title's called Deal With It yet? And how come every other story seems to have reviews and I don't have one? Come on peeps, what's good and bad, or am I just "average"?
