A/N: You see the kind of person I am with people I can't stand. Of course I'm not mainly hard cold like I am to Snow Villiers, but you know he just ticks me off over the past five chapters. But you guys know the kind of person I really am to other people like Serah, Hope, a little bit from Vanille, unless I'm going soft on the girl like Lightning does for Hope in which case that's a lot. Now we're in the Sunleth Waterscape, where we see how Sazh and Vanille are doing.

Chapter 6: Sunleth Waterscape

Meanwhile, at the Lindblum, Snow is looking down at the crystal tear from Serah in his hand. Fang walks up to him. "Okay! Time to hunt some l'Cie!"

"So what, we find them and that's that?" Snow asks.

"Don't get all hot and bothered." Fang says. "I know I'm gonna be hunting that friend of yours, for hijacking my ride."

Fang turns away from Snow, Snow does the same, then looks down at the crystal tear. "Serah...Am I doing the right thing?"

[Flashback: Day 12 - The Seaside City of Bodhum]

The Bodhum Vestige screeches loudly as Snow and Serah makes a run for it with PSICOM troops chasing after them. "There they are! This way! Stop them!"

Snow and Serah doesn't stop running. As they run, Snow spots the Velocycles and hijacks one, with Serah on his lap. I make my leave from the Farron house, there, I can see PSICOM troops running. I make a run for them.

Snow activates the Velocycle. the Velocycle catches some air. I see what Snow's doing, and run faster. "Villiers! STOP!" Snow drives the Velocycle around the ground floor then it takes off to the sea. "Shit!"

The PSICOM troops makes their way to the edge, aiming and shooting at the Velocycle. "Bring it down!"

I take out my throwing stars, four in one hand. "I don't think so!" I throw them at the troops, one hitting each of them in the back, knocking them out.

The commander looks back to see me. "Arrest him!"

Two troopers comes for me while the rest of them shoots down the Velocycle. Snow drives the Velocycle around over the sea, avoid the shoots. Snow turns the Velocycle back at Bodhum, on a different shore, but he sees more PSICOM troops.

"Hold on!" Snow tells Serah.

"Okay." Serah says.

I fight my way through the two troopers. Punching one of them in the jaw and in the face on the other. As soon as I got the minute, I look to see Snow is driving back to shore. "What the hell is he doing!"

I run quickly to the shore he's heading for. Halfway there, I see that Snow is already above the city grounds, then above me. I stop and follow my attention to him. I can see he's aiming for...The Bodhum Vestige. "No...He can't be!"

I see two other PSICOM Velocycle's coming at them. I look ahead to see one of them is getting ready to take off. I rush towards that Velocycle, pushed him off as I jump on.

"Move over! I'm taking this vessel!" The Velocycle takes air and I chase after the two riders and Snow. Snow flies higher and closer to the Vestige, with the two PSICOM troopers chasing after them.

When I got close, I start shooting at the PSICOM soldiers. One of the Velocycles explodes and falls out of the sky into the waters. I fly closer to Snow as he's right at the Vestige, flying up on it.

"VILLIERS! STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING!" I shout.

Snow and Serah looks back, but when they did, their Velocycle slams on the Vestige, nearly damaging the Velocycle. Snow returns his attention in front of him. I can see one of the engines on the Velocycle is damaged. "Nice going, blockhead!" I say under my breath.

I start shooting for the second PSICOM Velocycle. Snow flies high up to the head of the Vestige, then he starts going down. I take notice and start to worry. "You've gotta be kidding me."

Snow makes his way to the balcony of the Vestige. "Jump!"

Serah jumps onto the balcony of the Vestige, she turns back and reaches for Snow. "Snow!"

Just then, the waters from behind Serah starts to come to life. "Serah!" The waters surrounds Serah, about to get a hold of her. I see the whole thing as I make my way to Snow. "No!" I drive faster, as I drive, I take the rope out of my pouch. I tie one end to the Velocycle and make the other end a lasso.

Snow reaches for Serah. "Serah!"

The waters grabs Serah and starts dragging her in. Just then, I arrive, spinning the lasso above me. "Serah!" I launch the lasso, it rings around Serah and wraps around her waist. When it's like that, I pull the Velocycle away from the Vestige to the side. I reach maximum range from Serah, when I did, I couldn't move any further, and I started getting pulled in a little.

I shift the Velocycle to a faster engine, and use all my strength to pull away from the Vestige. Serah and Snow reaches for each other, they get closer and closer. The Vestige was pulling Serah in pretty strong, but I try harder to pull her away. "Come on...come on!" I say.

Serah and Snow are so close, the tips of their fingers were touching, but then Serah gets sucked right into the waters, into the Vestige, me and Snow are worried seeing that. Snow tries to make reach for Serah and I try pulling harder, but then the entrance to the Vestige becomes sealed.

At that same time the entrance seals, my Velocycle bolts away with full force. The alarm happens as I start spinning out of control and then crash land on the shores of Bodhum.

Snow however is still by that entrance, but gets blow away as an electric field happens around that sealed entrance. Snow screams as his Velocycle falls, he regains altitude for only a second, he makes his Velocycle fly straight but it still falls and then he crash lands on the same shore I did.

I get out of my Velocycle, coughing the smoke out of my lungs. After a minute, I stop coughing, then I look at the rope. I reach for the end when I see it's been cut. "Shit!"

Snow's Velocycle catches on fire, luckily Snow was out of his Velocycle, he's laying two feet away from it. I march my way to Snow. Snow starts to get up on his feet, he looks at the Vestige. He staggers towards it, until he couldn't walk anymore then collapses on his knees.

"Serah..."

That's when I was in front of him to give him a sucker punch in the face, which knocks him back into the sand. "What the hell goes on in that pea brain of yours, Villiers!" I shout at him.

"Look man, I was only trying to protect her." Snow says.

"Yeah? Well great job!" I shout at him. "You did a great job at protecting her from PSICOM...by making her prisoner into the fal'Cie!"

Snow sits up. "Look, I know you're upset-"

"Oh? I'm upset?! What about Lightning? What is she gonna say when she finds out her sister is captured by the fal'Cie?"

"Serah is what!?" I look ahead and Snow looks behind him, there we find the angry Lightning.

I pointed at Snow. "It's his fault!"

Lightning walks up to Snow as Snow stands up. "Listen, I thought if I take her to the fal'Cie, it would help Serah complete her focus."

Lightning punches Snow hard in the face, knocking him onto his butt. "What the hell were you thinking!?" Lightning barks at him.

"That's what I told him." I say.

Lightning glares her attention at me. "Stay out this, Mercenary!"

"Listen, I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you."

"No! Nothing you can do will fix this!" Lightning says. I agree with Lightning.

We stand in silent for a moment, then Lightning turns away. I turn my attention to her. "He-hey. Where are you going?"

"To get Serah back." Lightning says.

I just watch Lightning leave, that's when I decide that I should go and help her. that's when Snow stands back on his feet. "We should go and help Lightning."

"No!" I turn to face Snow. "I'm going to help Lightning. You're staying here!"

"You can't tell me to stay here! I want to help!" Snow says.

"You want to help?" I stand right in front of Snow's face. "Stay out of our way! You've caused enough damage, Villiers."

I march away from Snow, following Lightning, while Snow stays behind in regret.

[Flashback ends]

Fang walks up to Snow, then slaps him in the back of his head, snapping him out of his trance. Snow barely reacted to that bump, but Fang did by shaking her hand. Snow turns to face Fang.

"I knew you were hard-headed, but damn that's one hard skull." Fang says. "Anyways, snap to it! We're rolling out."

"Yeah, yeah. Hunting l'Cie, right?" Snow asks. Snow gets on the Velocycle. He sits in it, looking down at the crystal tear, then he closes his hand holding it. "I will keep my promise, Lightning."

Meanwhile, Sazh and Vanille arrives at the beautiful sunny fields of the Sunleth Waterscape. Vanille just skips ahead, laughing and giggling while Sazh follows her from behind. Sazh and Vanille comes out of the shadows and into the sunlight. Vanille looks at the view of the area their in as she skips and laughs.

A minute later, Vanille stops, she stretches her arms up and inhales deeply, then realizes a peaceful sigh. "Fresh air. Nice."

"So, where we heading?" Sazh asks.

"Don't know." Vanille answers.

"You don't know?" Sazh asks, with a slight surprised tone. "I thought you had somewhere in mind, the way you took off."

Vanille giggles. "I followed the smell."

Sazh is both confused and disturbed to hear that. "What?"

Vanille moves towards the bed of flowers. Vanille bents down above the flowers and inhales deeply at their scent. "It smells nice. All naturey."

Sazh takes a whiff around, he feels unconvinced about Vanille's words. "Just smells damp. And I think something bit me."

Vanille giggles, but that ends as soon as she hears something. "Hide!"

Vanille and Sazh hides in a burrow under a tree. That's when a fleet of PSICOM airships flies by. Sazh looks up, he can see the airships, only very little due to the visibly he could get.

"Skyfleet." Sazh says. All of the airships flies past them. "Closest city that way is Palumpolum. That is not good. I wonder if those two were caught in the net."

Sazh and Vanille comes out of their hiding place, where they look at the direction the airships were heading. "What do we do?" Vanille asks.

"What do we do? Right now, what can we do?" Vanille looks at Sazh, she can tell on the look of his face he doesn't know.

Vanille moves in front of Sazh. "Right, no choice." Sazh looks at Vanille. "We run...the other way."

Sazh turns around, looking at 'the other way' Vanille suggested. "Which would be...to Nautilus." Sazh walks up ahead, Vanille just stays behind, watching Sazh. Sazh stops then looks back. "If we want to get to Nautilus, our roar's through here."

Vanille nods then she skips on the road they're taking. After a minute of skipping, Vanille stops and gasps in horror at the sight of two large Flans in front of her. Sazh catches up to Vanille, and becomes disappointed to see those things.

"Now there's a sight I didn't want to see." Sazh takes out his Pistols and starts shooting at the blobs. One of them wasn't too happy about being shot. Vanille casts her Aero spells at the creatures, blowing them away. The two Flans falls over the road and down into the pit.

Sazh and Vanille stands on the edge of the road and looks down. "Phew. Not so tough, are they?" Vanille asks.

"Yeah. Well, there's plenty more where those came from." Sazh says.

Sazh and Vanille continues on their journey through the wilderness. As they walk, Sazh isn't really feeling too comfortable about this area. "All this dampness is damp." But Sazh just raises his shoulders and sighs. "Well, I guess this is better than homicidal scorpion robots and mountains of trash."

Vanille just laughs, she stops skipping and turns back looking at Sazh as she walks backwards. "Come on, silly man."

Vanille says waving back at him. Vanille turns back around and starts skipping. "I'm coming! I'm coming!" Sazh says at Vanille.

Vanille and Sazh travels on the road in the Sunleth Waterscape, fighting through any creatures that gets in their way. Sazh starts to get really annoyed from most of the fights.

"Ah! Where's the weed killer when you need it?" Sazh asks, shooting at the Flans.

After each battle, Vanille just skips off. To her, she's all, skip, skip, battle while skipping and moving, skip, skip. It's like this girl is a run away train.

EXTRA SENCE

Sazh starts to get tired. Vanille is already about twenty feet away from Sazh. "Well you slow down?" Sazh asks her.

"Gotta keep up." Vanille says. Vanille spots a bush filled with apples. "Oh!" Vanille picks one of the apples and takes a bite. "Mmm."

Sazh slowly catches up to Vanille, panting. After walking, he falls on his butt in exhaustion. Sazh looks up to see Vanille eating an apple from a wild bush. "Uh...you sure you should be eating those?"

"It's very tasty." Vanille picks an apple and hands one to Sazh. "Try it."

Sazh goes raises his shoulders. "Eh, what the heck?"

Sazh just goes ahead and eats the apple. From a far distance, two PSICOM troops hide on a cliff, looking down at Sazh and Vanille.

"I see two people." The first trooper says.

"You think they're l'Cie?" The second trooper says.

"Possible. Why else would they come to this dangerous place alone?"

"Well, excuse me. I didn't know this place is too dangerous for normal citizens."

"Oh shut up...wait! They're on the move."

Sazh stands up and then he and Vanille moves on. "What should we do?"

"We follow them. If they're heading to Nautilus, we're gonna need to call for back up."

The two soldiers gets on their feet and move on.

Sazh and Vanille takes on a group of Spooks that are in their way. Upon their defeat, Sazh and Vanille continues on. As they walk, Vanille decided to talk. "Hey, Sazh, tell me about yourself." Sazh wonders what she meant exactly. "Any family?"

Sazh stops on his tracks. "I have a little boy."

Vanille stops and turns around, both surprised and excited. "Oh! So you're married!"

"Uh...yeah, I was." Sazh says.

Vanille smiles then giggles. She and Sazh takes a few steps ahead. "We gotta get you home. Your son needs you." Vanille stops, she notices that Sazh is looking down upset. Vanille thinks it's because he's a l'Cie and it wouldn't matter, just like Hope was. "Come on, we'll make it!"

Sazh just stops at the edge of the road, looking at the large view. He sighs and looks down. "It's too late."

Vanille places her hands on her hips. "Is it the l'Cie thing?"

Sazh was surprised, then he looks back at Vanille. "How'd you..."

Vanille walks up to Sazh. "You might be a l'Cie, but you're still a daddy."

Sazh should have known she meant him, not his son. Sazh just sighs. "You're right."

"So, what's his name?" Vanille asks.

Sazh doesn't answer, all he does is look back at the view.

[Flashback: Day 11 - The Seaside City of Bodhum]

Everyone is enjoying the fireworks festival on the beautiful night in Bodhum. Sazh is sitting on the beach sand with his son beside him. Sazh looks down at his son as he makes his wish.

"Dajh, making a wish, huh?" Sazh asks. "What did you wish for?"

Dajh finishes his wish. "Well, you're never happy...You never smile." Dajh stands up. "So, here's what I wished: I wished that you'd cheer up and be like your old self again!"

Dajh just laughs afterwards, that's when Sazh get on his knees and hugs his son. The little chocobo pops out of Sazh's hair and chirps. "How about that?" The little chocobo leaps off of Sazhs hair and onto Dajh's shoulder as Sazh lifts his son to sit on his shoulders. "Your wish came true!"

Dajh laughs, then he and his father watches the fireworks. Dajh is amazed at the exploding lights. "Wow!"

Sazh now looks down with a sad expression on his face. "Okay, now it's my turn to make a wish."

Dajh looks down at his father. "What for?"

"That's my little secret." Is all Sazh answers.

[Flashback ends]

"Sazh?" Sazh turns around to see Vanille sitting down, looking up at him with concern. "You all right?"

"Oh. Yeah."

Vanille stands up. "Come on, pops! You've really got to keep it together, okay? So...let's go?"

Sazh sighs. "Now I've got kids looking out for me." Sazh watches Vanille moving on ahead. "Some dad I am."

Sazh and Vanille moves down on the path. This area is crawling with large Scalebeasts. When they made it down the cliff ledge, they see the Scalebeasts. The one they face is soundly asleep.

"We can sneak by these things." Sazh whispers.

Vanille nods, and that's what they did, they sneak around the area, passing the giant creature. When they make it past, they sigh in relief, then continue on, but then suddenly stopped seeing more of those large beasts.

Sazh grunts in quiet frustration. "You've gotta be kidding me!"

"We can do this." Vanille says. Vanille sneaks her way through the beasts. Sazh follows her from behind. After a few minutes of sneaking, they make it past the resting place and continue down the road.

The enemies they now encounter are the Spooks. Vanille does her Fira spells while Sazh does some shooting. Two of the Spooks avoids the shooting, they rush up to Sazh and attacks him. Vanille blows those creatures off of him with Aerora, then she shifts into Medic and heals Sazh.

Sazh and Vanille continues on. Vanille takes a good look are the scenery as they move on. "It's so beautiful."

"Whatever you say, where's a camera when you need one?" Sazh jokes. Vanille just laughs at Sazh's joke. Vanille starts skipping over small islands in the middle of a river. Sazh does the same, just in jumping.

They make it cross the river, where they arrive at a wide open area. Vanille walks up to a tree and just stares at it. Sazh moves beside Vanille and sits on a large root. Sazh sighs in exhaustion.

Vanille puts her hands on her hips and looks at Sazh. "You look tired. Not enough sleep?"

Sazh just sighs. "I guess."

"Not surprising." Vanille starts to turn from Sazh. "Cute girl like me, it's hard to close your eyes, huh?" Vanille giggles.

Sazh shifts himself so he's laying on his side, facing away from Vanille. "I'm just gonna lie down for a bit."

Vanille turns, watching Sazh as he sleeps. Vanille moves aside, she stretches her arms in the air and yawns. The little chocobo flies out of Sazhs hair and flies towards Vanille. Vanille finds a big root and sits on it. She sees the little chocobo and laughs at it. She cups her hands together for the little fella to land on her hands.

Vanille raises her hands in front of her, facing the little chocobo. "Being made a l'Cie, it's not easy. I mean, look, even I'm kind of worried." Vanille smiles at the little chocobo. "But even if we don't know what'll happen, we have to keep our dreams alive." Vanille starts to look up to the sky. "Have something to look forward to, you know?"

Sazh talks in his sleep. "Next stop is Nautilus, city of dreams."

Vanille was surprised to hear Sazh speak, she figured he could have heard everything. She just smiles and nods. "Yep."

The little chocobo flies out of Vanille's hands, then flies into Sazh's hair. Vanille stretches her arms in the air. She lays down on the root, falling asleep.

About an hour later, the little chocobo starts chirping, flying around Vanille as she sleeps. Finally, Vanille wakes up as the little chocobo moves in front of her face. Vanille gets up and turns around, to see that Sazh is gone. "What?" Vanille sits up, looking around. "Sazh?"

Vanille looks at the little chocobo standing beside her. The little chocobo flies off the ground and flies towards the path ahead. Vanille watches it fly off, then follows it when it goes far enough.

"Hey, wait up little guy." Vanille says.

Vanille follows the little chocobo to the lake, where Sazh is just staring at the lake. Vanille seems worried for him. "Sazh?" Sazh turns around, startled, to see it's only Vanille.

"You scared me." Sazh says.

Vanille tilts her head curiously. "What's up?"

"I'm just thinking." Sazh says.

Vanille could probably tell what he's thinking about, probably something about being a l'Cie. "Don't blame yourself. You know, you can't control who a fal'Cie picks for a Focus."

"My son Dajh." Sazh becomes silent for a moment, then spoke again. "He was picked. He's a l'Cie. He said he wanted to see a fal'Cie. So, I took him to go on a tour of the Euride Gorge plant. Thought I'd surprised him with a chocobo chick to take him, but the second I turned my back...into the energy plant he went."

[Flashback: Day 5 - Euride Gorge]

Sazh rushes down the hallway in the energy plant, calling out for his son. "Dajh! Dajh, come out here!" There's no answer. "Dajh! I know you're in here!"

Sazh enters the energy plant. "Dajh!" Sazh waves the smoke away from, coughing. "Where are you? Say something!" Sazh looks through the smoke to find his son unconscious on the couch. "Dajh!" Sazh rushes up to his son. "Hey! What's wrong? Dajh!"

Dajh starts to wake up, the first thing he sees is his father. Dajh smiles. "Daddy."

Sazh sighs in relief. "It's all right. You okay? You're not hurt, are you?" Sazh checks Dajh's body for anything, but then he notices a marking on Dajh's hand. "What's that?"

Sazh soon realizes what that making means, he's now a l'Cie. PSICOM troops come in, they surrounded Sazh and Dajh. They try to take Dajh away, but Sazh stands against them, and they get into an argument.

[Flashback ends]

"Apparently, those Pulse l'Cie had snuck in and tried to attack the Sanctum fal'Cie. It did the only thing it could, and made Dajh a l'Cie to protect it. My son, he got picked by a Sanctum fal'Cie. He's a hero." Vanille starts to feel guilty just hearing this story. "But we're Pulse l'Cie, Dajh's enemies. However, after he was made a l'Cie, Dajh had some way of sensing things from Pulse. He was the one who found the Pulse fal'Cie. But the kid can't fight. So, that's why I put myself on the train to Purgeville. I figured his Focus had to have something to do with destroying that Pulse fal'Cie."

Sazh turns around and starts walking. "Thought I could do it for him, and, well..." Sazh looks down at his brand on his chest. "You know you rest. If I was right about his Focus, he's probably a crystal already. Of course, if he was supposed to take out that thing's l'Cie..." Vanille turns around to see Sazh taking out one of his guns. "Then either we die, or he's a Cie'th."

Vanille stands up. "Die? Really?"

Sazh holds the gun in front of him, looking at it. The little chocobo jumps out of his hair and lands on the gun. It faces Sazh with it's wings spread out, shaking it's head. Sazh sighs. "It's a pickle all right." Sazh lowers his gun, the little chocobo jumps off the gun and lands on his shoulder, facing Vanille. "But the bird...the bird says no."

The little chocobo jumps back into Sazh's hair as he walks off. Vanille looks up, seeing Sazh moving on towards the cave.

They walk down the caverns, taking the road, skipping through small islands. They make it through the caverns and enter a large trench, where they're greeted by some Spooks.

They take down the Spooks, only shortly after defeating those little creatures, a giant Wyvern. Sazh complains. "Oh great! Just what we need."

Vanille shifts into Saboteur and casts Imperil on the creature. "Come on, Sazh. We can take it!"

Sazh sighs and aims his guns at the monster. "If you say so." The Wyvern spits acid at Sazh, poisoning and weakening his defenses. Vanille shifts into Medic to cast Esuna on Sazh, until he's completely well.

Sazh shoots at the Wyvern. Vanille shifts back into Saboteur and casts Deprotect and Deshell on the monster. The Wyvern flies in front of Vanille and dives at her, snapping its jaws repeatedly at her. Did quite a number of damage on the girl.

Vanille shifts back into Medic and casts Cura on herself. Vanille now shifts into Ravager and starts casting Fira and Blizzard at the monster. The Wyvern screeches in agony then dies. Sazh sighs and Vanille cheers.

"We did it!" Sazh doesn't say anything else. Vanille just looks at him and starts dragging him. "Come on, pops!"

Sazh's feet starts to catch up on Vanille's dragging. "Okay, okay! I'm coming!"

Sazh and Vanille makes their way by the river, facing the Flans and a few single Wyvern's. Their battles against the Wyvern's were pretty rough. Would have been much easier if they had a third party member. (Am I right?)

Sazh and Vanille defeats their last Wyvern and they walk down the cave it was guarding. The cave leads them to another wide open trench that's crawling with more Flans, Spooks and Wyverns.

"Oh my! We just can't get a break!" Sazh complains.

"Oh come on, Sazh. This is nothing!" Vanille takes out her Binding Rod and starts running to the group of Spooks.

"Vanille!" Sazh sighs as he walks up to the fight Vanille ran into. "I just can't keep up with this kid." Sazh and Vanille fights their way through the monsters. After defeating the third Wyvern, Sazh is pretty exhausted. He just sits on his butt.

"Can't take this anymore! Wish Lightning and the others are here!" Sazh says.

Vanille shifts into Medic and casts cure on Sazh, hoping that'll boost him with some energy. "Aww, come on, Sazh! Pull yourself together!"

Sazh just sighs and stands up. "I guess you're right. We're almost there anyways."

Sazh and Vanille takes the trench path, they only faced a few Flans and Spooks. After shooting and burning those creatures, they start climbing up the small cliff. After climbing up the cliff, they run down the path.

They arrive at a small open area in the trench, where they see two snoring Woodwrith's, Enlil and Enki.

Sazh and Vanille takes a look at the monsters, they ain't too pleased to see them. "Uh-oh. That's not good."

"What do we do?" Vanille asks.

Sazh starts to whisper. "All right, I got it. We sneak."

Vanille nods. "Right."

So Sazh and Vanille sneaks by the two large creatures, tip-toeing, silent as a grave. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough. The two creatures snorts and starts to wake up. Sazh and Vanille starts to panic as the two creatures are up on their paws.

Sazh just grunts in frustration. "Just too much to ask to cut me one break, isn't it?!"

Sazh and Vanille takes out their weapons. "Come and get it!" The two monsters bellows at Sazh and Vanille.

Vanille shifts into Saboteur and starts casting Poison, Deshell and Deprotect on Enki, while Sazh shifts into Synergist and blesses himself and Vanille with Faith, Bravery only on himself, Haste and Vigilance. Enki does Waterburst on Vanille, spitting a bolt of water. Enlil does the same to Sazh, only as Thunderburst.

Sazh and Vanille both shift into Ravager and starts casting offensive spells at Enki. Enlil charges at Vanille and swipes her. Sazh shifts into Commando, he cast his Ruin spells at Enki. Enki leaps at Sazh, causing Sazh to fall down on his back as the creature lands on him.

Vanille blows the creature away with her Aerora. She had to blow a strong one since the creature was pretty big and heavy. Sazh gets back on his feet, and starts shooting at the monster. Enki starts to enrage, strengthening itself with Bravery and Haste. Vanille casts Fira and Thundara at Enki. Enlil does Thunderburst at Vanille. Vanille shifts into Medic and heals herself.

Sazh shoots at Enki, killing it. Enlil becomes enraged seeing it's partner fall, strengthening with Bravery and Haste. Vanille shifts into Saboteur and cast the Imperil, Deshell, Deprotect and Poison on Enlil. Enlil does Raging Tempest, charging it's body with electricity until he unleashes it all in a thundering nova.

Vanille shifts into Medic and heals Sazh with Cura. Sazh shifts into Ravager, he casts Fira and Aero at the creature. Enlil swipes at Sazh and Vanille. Vanille does a quick cure on herself and Sazh, then shifts into Ravager and attacks the creature.

Enlil leaps at Vanille, smashing her to the ground. Sazh attacks Enlil with Fira, then he shifts into Commando and shoots at it. Enlil weakens, but then dies from the suffering of Poison.

Vanille and Sazh puts away their weapons and sighs in relief. Sazh and Vanille takes a look around, they find a ledge path leading upwards to the cliff. "A hop, skip and a jump and we're in Nautilus." Sazh says.

Vanille looks down smiling. "The City of Dreams."

"If only we were dreaming up those clouds." Sazh says.

Vanille nods, then she and Sazh moves on. They walk up the road, until they arrive at some large electric fence. "Well, climbing over's out." Sazh says.

Vanille takes a look around that fence. Near the end, she sees a spark at the fence. Vanille runs up to it and takes a close look. "Oh! Over here!"

Sazh follows Vanille to that spot of the fence, there he sees a hole in that fence. Sazh carefully walks right through that hole, not to get electrocuted. Vanille does the same, following Sazh from behind.

Up ahead, they see a station near the docks. "We can board the ship over there."

Sazh and Vanille approaches to the station. Halfway there, it started to rain. Sazh covers himself to protect himself from the ran, he and Vanille runs to the station. They stop to catch their breath when they're drying under the roof of the station.

Vanille takes a seat on one of the chairs. "When it rains around here, it pours. And then it rains some more." Sazh says.

"Sazh?" Sazh turns to look at Vanille. "Do you hate Pulse?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Sazh answers, as if the answer to that question is completely obvious. "Look at this mess it's gotten us all into!" Vanille looks down in sorrow and guilt. "Of course, that's not to say I always hated it." Sazh takes a seat at one of the chairs. "Seemed fishy. All that Sanctum ranting about the 'threat from Pulse. Only a matter of time before they strike. Pulsed infested with monsters.'" Vanille's expression doesn't change. "Scare after scare, and not even a shred of proof." Sazh looks at Vanille. "Tired old cynics like me, we don't just swallow that tabloid crap. No, no. Not me. I figured the Sanctum was up to something crooked." Sazh looks down and sigh. "At least until I got dragged in.

Vanille barely turned her head towards Sazh. "Yeah..."

Sazh and Vanille are silent. Sazh gets on his feet and walks towards Vanille. "Now that I think about it, all this Purge business...It really only happened because Dajh found that Pulse fal'Cie."

Vanille could barely kept it a secret anymore. "You're wrong...don't blame him. It was all..."

Vanille could barely let it go. She lays her hands on her lap, shaking them in guilt. Sazh sighs and turns around. "Yeah, you're right. It was that scum from Pulse behind it."

Vanille feels broken hearing that. She sobs a little, gets up from her seat and runs outside, out in the rain. Vanille just stands there. Tears are filling her eyes, she tries to fight them, but they fell.

Sazh just watches Vanille from behind. "You're getting soaked."

Vanille turns to face Sazh. "I'll be fine." Vanille looks up, letting her face get soaked. "It's only water..."

EXTRA SENCE

The ship for Nautilus arrives. Sazh and Vanille gets on the ship. The whole time, Vanille just looks sad. Sazh notices, but he doesn't bother her. The ship leaves, when it does, the two PSICOM spies shows up at the station.

"They're heading to Nautilus all right." The first one says. "Should we go after them?"

"Negative. We'll call for the elite force." The second soldier takes out his communicator. "This is PSICOM officer 00293-BQ. There are two l'Cie's heading to Nautilus." The solider turns off his communicator. "We'll just wait for the forces to answer our message."

On the ship, Vanille is just sitting on the head of the ship. Sazh yawns and stretches his arms. "Well, I'm gonna turn in. Was tiresome to get all the way over here."

Vanille looks at Sazh, she nods and manages to offer a smile. "Okay. Ciao."

Sazh makes his leave. As he does, the little chocobo pops out of his hair. It flies towards Vanille. Vanille cups her hands together for the chocobo to land in her hands. Vanille looks at it with a sad expression.

"What am I gonna do? What would he think...if he found out the truth?" Vanille asks it.