Neutral POV

"SERAH!" Snow yelled getting up first from a dreamless sleep. After everybody got up off the strangely crystal ground snow said " is this... for real. Then they looked off the ledge to see the pulse vestige coated in crystal.

"This must be... lake bresha? I guess we fell from up there. And the lake turned to crystal? Help me out here! I mean, did the fal'cie do this? How in the world did we end up here? Sazh asked. "How should I know" lightning said. "Calm down. Please." Amy said "we're alive. How? Vanille asked. "I think this answers that question." Erin said holding the underside of her wrist. "What do you mean?" Vanille asked. Erin lifted her hand to show vanille the l'cie brand "please don't tell the rest. Please." Erin said "ok." Vanille said. "Serah she saved us. No one survives a fall like that without a miracle. She saved us. Snow said. "Serah? Listen it's all your fault she got-" lightning said. "Lightning! Look behind you!" Blitz yelled. Lightning tuck her gunblade out ready to attack it when somthing orange and red flew past her head hitting the cie'th and making it step back. Everybody looked to where the fireball came from see Erin holding a book it one rand and the other looking like she threw somthing with the l'cie brand on the wrist holding her book was glowing. "You used magic! The fal'cie cursed us we're l'cie now!" Hope panicked.

Akane slashed the cie'th with ease using ruin which had great affects. "This magic is amazing." Akane said Suddenly music started to play that healed the party's wounds. "What the?" Phoenix said looking at Amy who was playing a song on a harp.

After dispatching 3 cie'th the party put their weapons away.

"Why me?" Hope asked. "Why did we have to be turned into l'cie? All of this is yours and serahs fault!" Hope yelled at snow. "Watch it!" Yelled snow. Hope fell back and backed into Phoenix who scared hope. "Sorry." Snow said. "It's ok. Everything will be all right." Vanille said. "What she said." Said Amy.

"L'cie now huh." Said blitz "great said Phoenix. "So what's our focus?" Asked Darrius. "No clue" said Amy. "Did you see anything?" Akane said to hope. " I uh-I just... it's all kind of foggy but... I saw this big-I mean towering. Hope answered. "I saw that I think. I think it was ragnarok." Said Erin. "So we all had the same dream?" Sazh said. "So that's our focus. But it was vague as hell?" Said Phoenix. "We are supposed to figure it out. The fal'cie just gives us a hint. Figuring it out is out job." Vanille said. "Our focus is to save cocoon." snow said. "W-what." sazh asked "Ok so the pulse fal'cie cursed us into being pulse l'cie with the focus being to save cocoon. Makes exactly no sense. Why would you think that" Darrius said annoyed. "Because serah told us." Snow said. "So you are going to believe what your fiancé said over logic? We are doomed." Blitz said depressingly. "I am going to scout out ahead." Said snow.

Knowing snow would end up killing himself the rest of the party followed.

"We fight it ragnarok. That's the reason we're l'cie to stop it-to keep cocoon safe. Snow said. "Yeah, why don't you give us on reason to believe that? One reason." Sazh said. "Serah" snow said. "Ok can you give us a reason that doesn't involve a lot of interpretations cause you heard our focus I heard the dying words of a young woman who is most likely to be wrong." Erin said even more annoyed at snows bluntness. "She is right!" Snow yelled. "She is most likely not you damn idiot!" Erin yelled. "She is probably going to be wrong and my bets is that ALL of us need to do the focus so I am not going to be turned into a mindless monster because you want to believe the words of a girl while ignoring basic logic!" Erin yelled stunning everybody "and why should we help the fal'cie it caused hundreds of deaths and took serah from us and you want to help it!"

"FREEZE" a PSICOM soldier yelled. As a PSICOM unit surrounded the l'cie "hands behind you heads." Said the captain. "Fall off the purge train?" Said the captain. "Maybe." Lightning said. "Are you talking back to me?" The captain said

"Nice gun." Lightning said before she knocked the captain off his feet and grabbed her gun blade. The soldiers where easy to exterminate. "I feel humiliated by these idiots."said Phoenix. "I think these are the new recruits that believe they are the elites." Blitz said. "And I thought the sunleth rookies where terrible but these guys take the cake." Said Akane. "Wait how do you three know so much about PSICOM?" Hope asked. "Umm because we are technically still PSICOM." Akane answered. "What?" Hope said terrified. "She means that we were PSICOM before we got turned into l'cie. But sense we were PHICOM we know good things about them and thier abominations they call animals." Blitz answered. "Ok so we got some info now." Said lightning.

After walking far across the crystallized lake "weird isn't it? Of all the ,eased up ways to meet. Might as well make introductions. I'm snow-snow villiers." Snow said "short stuff?" Snow said "hope estheim." said hope "Amy orlai." said Amy. "Vanille." Said vanille. "Sazh katzroy. Good to meet you." Said sazh. "Akane shigaru." Said Akane. "Phoenix." said Phoenix. "Blitz." said blitz. "Darrius Lestrae." Said Darrius "Erin-Erin aera." Said Erin. "What about her" said vanille "Bodhum security regiment. She goes by lightning last names Farron. First? Anybody's guess."

"Why did kids have to get dragged into this." Sazh said "don't worry I'll keep them safe." Said snow "the issue with that is that you're one of them." Darrius said jokingly. "Attacking the fal'cie was the mistake we made." Sazh said. "You helped us. so why did you help us." Snow said. "There might've been somthing. Not so sure now." Sazh said.

After attacking cie'th and surprisingly bass. The party made it to a weird clearing with a crystal there that looked unique. "Serah!" Snow yelled. "I'll get you out of there!" Snow said. Then snow grabbed a sharp piece of rubble to chisel serah out. "I'll help two" said vanille grabbing a small piece of sharp rubble. Sazh and Darrius both grabbed pieces of shrapnel to help. "Idiots how are we supposed to carry that thing out of here if we chisel it out. What if we even can't chisel it out." Erin said

then everybody but lightning disappeared. Leaving lightning to think. "This is goodbye." Lightning said as she turned around. "Wha-your just going to leave her!"? snow asked "PSICOM will be here shortly if they find us we're all dead. You think serah would want to see that? You think you know how she feels?!" Lightning yelled. "If I leave her then ill never know. We'll be fine. I can handle anything they throw at us. No one will die. I'll protect serah, and cocoon. Snow said

Lightning then walked up to snow then punched in the face to shut him up. Dose she look protected to you!" Lightning yelled. "I can save her" snow said right before getting punched again. "WHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY DO!" Lightning yelled. "What ever it takes!" Snow yelled. "You two are hopeless." Said sazh "come on let's go i am sure none of use want to die here." Phoenix said. "I second that." Erin said as she followed Phoenix shortly followed by blitz.

Before the party could split up a damaged machine lands near the party. A spot light lands on blitz. "What the. Oh crab its that machine again!" Blitz said as the machine landed in the clearing to attack the party of 11.

Hope vanille and Amy healed to make sure the party didn't die as snow took the brunt of the attacks. Akane lightning sazh blitz Darrius and Phoenix attack the warmech as it tried to use its laser and Erin attacked the warmech with magic hoping to fry its cables. Chunks of crystal that where thrown at the party knocked hope and vanille out causing Amy to screw up on her song damaging the party. As this happened Sazh shot the warmech straight in the eye causing its circuits to be exposed which let Erin cast thunder into the warmech eyes frying its circuits causing the machine to collapse and finally dying.

After the battle lightning turns to leave. "Your leaving!?" Snow yelled. "We want to help her two you know. But we just don't have the time or the tools to get her out." Said Amy. "So I abandon her to save myself!" Snow yelled. "What about your focus? What happened to banding together and saving the world. Isn't that what you promised. Now you want to forget it and die right here? Snow? Your nothing but talk." Lightning said. "Lightning. I'll do whatever it takes. I'll finish this focus and keep serah safe. That my promise. Snow said. "Good job so far." Lightning said.

"I'm going to go with her." Said Phoenix. "Wait up." Said blitz. "I'm going to follow them. Sorry idiot." Said Erin. "Sorry." Said Amy as she followed Erin. "Keep yourself safe." Said sazh. As he left. Darrius walked off silently. "Get going." Snow said to vanille and hope.

As hope and vanille walked off "I'll get you out off there." Said snow as the party of 10 walked off to complete thier focus.