Chapter 13: Seby's Hope Through a Snow Filled Disaster

I awoke by Fang's spear bashing the ground, "Wake up! we're near Hope now!" Fang announced, Snow fluttered his eyes as if he was in a dream he didn't want to leave. "Hmm? Oh ok, Fang I'll be up in a little…" Snow yawned as he moved his arm on top of me, I was still awake but I didn't want to ruin his happiness so I stayed awake as he slept.

5 minutes later, "Snow, I hate to ruin your fun but we actually have to get up and help Hope" I whispered to Snow, "Wait wha? Oh crap!" Snow shot up, blushing and hid himself behind his forearms, "please don't hurt me or get mad at me! I'm sorry!" he shivered in fear, I slowly walked up to him and smiled, I grabbed his hand and pulled him in the direction I was heading, Snow was surprised " I guess you didn't mind?"

"Well I kinda did, but it made me happy that I saw you at peace like that… I bet the last time you were that peaceful it was with…Serah…" I looked down embarrassed, Snow placed his heavy hand on my shoulder and smiled "Well, thanks, I needed that…" he sighed, but I could tell that even mentioning Serah tugged on his heart strings…We headed out of the ship, "Fang, you stay here with the ship once we find Hope, we'll come back and find the others, guard this ship the best you can" I ordered, Fang nodded in agreement, "well lets go Seby! 'Mr. Leader!' Snow teased as he ran, "Oh REALLY!" I shouted playfully and chased after him.

By the time I caught up to him, we were both out of breath as we scaled the stairs, ahead all we saw was Hope lying on the ground and an electric yellow monster flying above him, "HOPE!" I yelled, Hope turned to me and his eyes weren't happy that he had support…but full of anger. I readied my bow and aimed I focused my mental energy on the tip of my bow, as a flow of energy shot along with the arrow, the energy around the arrow morphed into a bird, violet and glowing it grew to the size of the monster itself. The two titans, the monster and the energy, clashed and the bird fell to the ground upon impact.

"Snow! Go! Hurt it as much as you can! I'll help Hope, when it gets in the air, run! I'll knock it down again!" I shouted, "OK keep Hope safe, don't risk your life this time! You have teammates!" he answered, I took what he said to thought and realized, "I WONT let someone die, because I wanted to live…" I thought.

I ran to Hope as Snow was doing work on the creature that laid helplessly, "let's go Hope", I whispered Hope agreed and walked with me, he winced in pain for every step, so I healed his leg as we walked by concentrating healing powers from my hand to his leg, I gasped realizing I could heal at range now! I set Hope down, "Stay here" I smiled, Hope etched a frown on his face as soon as I ran off to help Snow, the creature revived and slapped Snow with its wings as it rose in the air, Snow flew back with a great force, but too far for me to catch.

I concentrated my energy to my finger tips to make a bubble of energy around Snow's moving body, "C'mon,C'mon,C'mon!" I shouted, Snow was getting closer and closer to the wall at a devastating speed, but at the nick of time I surrounded Snow in a bubble and cushioned him from the crash, I couldn't activate it in time so Snow took some damage. Snow yelled in pain and shocked me out of my focus…I began to not think intelligently and focus my emotions more than my common sense, "Snow!"I shouted, I ran to his side, "your shoulders…they're broken…" I realized, "I'll be fine! Just do what you think is right" Snow alerted, and I did just that, I moved Snow by surrounding him in a sphere of energy and moved him to Hope, "HOPE! Heal him, DO SOMETHING!" I shouted as Hope regrettably obeyed.

I aimed my arrow, "I'll show you! You BASTARD!" I exploded as all of my energy flowed into the tip of the arrow, as it shot the energy was black, and formed into something…and that something was the creature that surrounded cocoon in the image I remembered when we were floating after we destroyed the Fal'Cie.

I came to a revelation, after I destroyed the mythical creature, would I be the one to destroy cocoon? But...it wasn't done…it came back to life and swung it's medieval tail and hit me up in the air I slowly lost consciousness, I fell off the building where the battle took place, but looks like that was the last of the creature's energy, as I fell I knew I left them safe… but in mid-air I saw someone trailing behind me as I fell, too big for it to be Hope or Fang… "oh no…" I whispered as I used the last bit of my energy, the idiot I risked my life for…risking his life to save mine… is he really willing to put my sacrifice in vain? Or maybe he's doing it for a different reason, as a brother? No…maybe there's a hidden reason…

All I could hope was that my sacrifice wouldn't be in vain…