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We took another short break, just to solve this puzzle.
"Okay, if we don't know our Focus. How do we complete it?" Lightning pondered.
The girl with the pigtails looked over, "I think...I saw it."
"Saw what?" Lightning asked.
The man walked in, "That is how a Focus comes down, people. The fal'Cie? They don't spell it out with clear-cut instructions. All you get is a hazy glimpse."
Snow and Lightning took the same pose, and looked over at him suspiciously.
Then it occurred to me, even though the two didn't really get along well, they were so much alike. But no thinking about that right now, we've got a Focus to worry about.
The man hesitated, "Well, that's what they say. Legends and all." Then he started muttering about the whole legend thing.
"Did you see anything?" Lightning asked the boy.
He looked a little surprised, probably because of how we blew up at him earlier, "I..uh..I just..It's all kinda foggy, but...I saw this big...I mean towering-"
"W-wait a minute. Hold on now. Did we ALL have the same dream?" The man asked.
"Ragnarok," Snow, Lightning, and I said simultaneously.
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The vision went over again in my head like a broken record, it was something you couldn't forget. It scared me, thinking that's my Focus.
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"I guess, we all saw the same thing," I said.
"We all heard that same voice," The man said aswell.
The boy walked over, "So that was our Focus? But, how are we supposed to know what to do from that?"
"That's the tricky part. The dream's the only hint the fal'Cie gives us. Figuring out what to with it, thats our job." The girl with pigtails said.
"Wait, wait...we're Pulse l'Cie, right? Enemies of Cocoon! So, does that mean our Focus is to...Are we supposed to-?"
"Save her," Snow cut him off.
"Say what?"
"Our Focus is to protect Cocoon." Snow tried to convince us.
"Oh really now? Now why's that, hero?" I asked Snow, almost sounding like Lightning.
"Serah told us. Let's do it. We're all in this together. I'm gonna look for Serah, she oughta be nearby." Snow walked off.
The girl with pigtails gasped, "I'll come too!" And she ran off after him.
"That boy can't stay still!" The man said, and followed them.
"Really," the boy mumbled just loud enough for me to hear.
Lightning didn't follow.
"Sis? I know your mad at him, but don't you want to find Serah?" I asked her.
She sighed, then nodded her head. She followed me as I followed the others.
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Snow held his fist in the air, "We fight it! Ragnarok! That's the reason we're l'Cie! To stop it! To keep Cocoon safe!"
"Yeah, then why don't you give us one reason to believe that? One reason," The man held up his index finger.
"Serah," Snow flat out answered.
I gave a short chuckled, "You think everything is because of Serah, don't you Snow?"
"Yes ma'am I do! She said to protect Cocoon, then she turned to crystal. That's the proof right there! She completed her Focus! That means ours is to protect Cocoon. Serah's fal'Cie was the same as ours. Our Focus has gotta be the same! We were chosen to be guardians, to defeat Ragnarok. It makes sense!" Snow yelled.
"The hell it does! You're grasping at straws, son! Pulse fal'Cie are Cocoon's enemies! We just got recruited by one of them! If I were a betting man, I'd put us on the other side." The man said.
Snow stomped, "So Serah's an enemy to? Well I don't buy that!" He ran over to Lightning, "We have the power to save Cocoon, if we work together to and carry out our Focus-"
Lightning put her gunblade up to his neck, "Our Focus? The fal'Cie took Serah from us! And you want to help it? What side are you on?"
"Freeze!" PSICOM soldiers surrounded us.
"Place your hands behind your heads," one of them told us.
We did as told, except for Lightning.
"Sis, do what they said," I whispered to her, and she dropped her gunblade.
"You fall off the Purge train?" One of them ask sarcastically.
Lightning put her hands behind her head and smirked, "Maybe."
"Are you talking back to me?" The soldier ran up to her and put his gun up to her neck, "Ah?"
She chuckled, "Nice gun." She slapped the gun out of his hands, and kicked him in the air.
"Get her!"
"Stop her!"
"Freeze!"
She kicked her gunblade into the air, and caught it. She snaked through the soldiers, and battle commenced.
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Afterbattle
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"I thought they'd be tougher than that. These guys are PSICOM, yeah?" The man waved his hand over the soldier to be sure he wasn't just playing dead, "Thought they were cream-of-the-crop."
"Yeah, well PSICOM's an anti-Pulse task force. Haven't fought a war in centuries. Bunch of rookie troops swinging around over priced toys." Snow replied.
"So, what you're telling me, a regular ol' soldier got more training than special forces," The man looked over at Lightning.
"Nothing for us l'Cie to be afraid of-"
"Cut the crap," Lightning interuppted Snow, "Their grunts might be green, but PSICOM elites are cold blooded beasts. They hit the field and it's game-over."
"Oh-oh! Then let's run away! Ciao!" The girl with the pigtails pointed in the other direction, and ran.
The man followed after her, then the boy, then Snow.
I would've followed, but I knew something was bothering Lightning.
"Listen, let's just go along with him. At some point, he's going to be right, and you're just going to have to accept that!" I told her.
"He's an idiot, he's never going to be right. Was he right when he said he was going to protect Serah? No, he wasn't, so how could he be right about our Focus?" Lightning retorted.
"Please, just give him a chance!" I yelled back at her.
"No." She flat out told me, and headed in the direction the others went.
No. No. No. Is all she can say is no?
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"Weird, isn't it? Of all the messed up ways to meet, might as well make introductions. I'm Snow..Snow Villiers," Snow started, "Short stuff?"
"Hope. Hope Estheim," the boy replied.
"What about her?" the girl with the pigtails pointed over at Lightning, who was no where near our conversation.
"Bodhum Secruity Regiment, goes by 'Lightning'. Last name's Farron, first? Anybody's guess. Although.." Snow looked over at me.
"Nope, I'm not telling you anything about her that you don't already know. I'm Faith Farron, nice to meet you!" I smiled, trying to hide the fact that I don't really want to smile.
"I'm Vanille," the girl with pigtails said.
"Sazh Katzroy, good to meet you," The man said, another thing I didn't know about him was that he had a baby chocobo with him!
Like Snow said, of all the messed up ways to meet. We all meet in the Vestige, get turned into l'Cie, now we are on a crystal lake.
