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Chapter 12 : Choice
Like the doctor had hoped Belle's illness had disappeared when she had reached twenty, much to the joy of her family. But, in spite of this good new, Belle felt very uneasy for the last week. Deep down, she know that something would happen to her soon, and she dreaded it. She loved her life the way it was and she don't wanted for something to change. She also wanted for Hope to keep his word. She don't have forget the promise he had made to her a few years ago. And she wanted for nothing more but becoming his true wife.
It was this hope who had helped her to fight her illness, because even if none of her loved one were aware of it, Belle was very ill for the last couple of months. She had hided this fact very well, but often only her pride had helped her to prevent her tears to fall free. She was in so much pain, back then, that she had wished to die for the pain to stop. But, fortunately, after a whole month of hell, she had become better, and now, her pain was just a memory. And she was so glad that she don't have alarmed nor her parents, nor Hope. Because the later can be tenth time worst than Serah can be.
Belle had also hided the fact that a young soldier had asked for her hand in marriage. Of course, Belle don't have think that he was serious, so she had answered him kindly that she can't marry him. But after a lot of asking, she had let her temper take the better of her, and the last time she had knocked him out after he had asked her one more time. Belle was just happy that the soldier was so angry with her for knocking him out, that he don't have go to her house to speak with her parents. Belle don't know what she can say if her parents asked her how she was able to fight so good.
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The night before her fifth anniversary, Belle go to bed very early. Sooner in the day Hope had asked her to a date for the next evening, and she wanted to felt rested for that date. Hope had looked so serious when he had asked her out that she can have felt her heart beating faster only by the look on his face. She hoped for his to ask her the question she so wanted to say yes about, but at the same time she wondered if he don't have heard about the soldier. She was very cautious of not talking about him when they were together, but some of their friends could have been less cautious than her. Maybe Hope wanted to broke up with her, but why wait to her birth day to say it to her ? It was with a mixture of hope and dread that finally Belle fall asleep.
Like the last time, Belle found herself in Obera. But not the Obera she had seen with her class, but the Obera of the past. She looked around in search of the old woman she was sure to meet. And assuringly, the woman was there. She was currently talking with Vanille, and Belle made a double take at this. How this woman can know her L'cie friend ? What the hell happened there ? No answer come to her but the old woman turned her face to her and a bright smile appeared on her face.
" So." She said. " You have made your choice."
For once it was not a question but a statement. And the woman was right, but belle will be damned if she let her win this strange game.
" I do, don't I ?" Answered sweetly Belle.
" Yes, my dear, you have. That's why your parents were sure that you are their child."
" How is this possible ? Do you have done something to them ?" Asked a worried Belle.
" I don't have do anything. You have."
" Me ? That's impossible ! I don't have any power !"
" Yes you have. Your ancestor have this sort of power too. the one who don't have this power were choose to become a L'cie. Your family tree go very further in the time."
" What do you mean ? Can't you be more explicite for once ?"
" To understand who you are, you have to go five hundred years ago. At this time there was two sister, one was powerful, and the other had become L'cie. They were very respected, both of them. But the war with Cocoon had changed this. The sister l'cie was powerful in her way, but the other sister can had seen the future. she had saw that grand pulse will no longer be inhabited. So, when her sister had gone to fight Cocoon her sister had gone with her. She was pregnant with her first child and she had lost her husband during the battle, so there will be nothing for her to Grand pulse anymore."
Belle was so interested by what the woman had to say that she forgett to ask the lot of question she still had.
" The sister L'cie and her friend have tried to protect the pregnant woman, but unfortunately, the friend of the sister had completed her focus sooner than the sister and she had become a living crystal. Being alone, the two sisters can't have fight the soldier of Cocoon for too long. They were captured and the pregnant woman gave birth to her son in a jail. All of these battle have made her weak and she don't have survived of the birth of her child. Her little sister was so devastated by this that she had ran away and let her power explode. That's how the war between Cocoon and Grand pulse had ended. The people of Cocoon were so angry with what the L'cie had done that they don't have spared any inhabitant of Grand pulse."
" And what had happened of the baby ?" Asked a very interested Belle. " Does he was dead too ?"
" No." Answered the woman. " In fact he was saved. One soldier had go to the cell after the escape of the L'cie and he had found the baby barely alive but still breathing. The sister L'cie must have thought that the baby was dead too when she had leaved the cell. The soldier had take the baby with him and him and his wife have raised the boy. When he had grow up, the boy had meet a woman, married her and have children of his own. He had never known fron where he had come, and he had leaved his life believing that he was the son of the soldier. The soldier's name was Farron."
" Like me and Serah ?" Asked belle.
" Yes, you are the descendant of this boy. You have also meet your aunt too when you were a L'cie."
" My aunt ? what are you talking about ?"
" The boy real name was Eclair ni Obera. He was the son of Lily and the nephew of Vanille."
" Vanille ? Like the Vanille who had travelled with us ? The nineteen years old girl L'cie ?"
" Yes. She had asked me to help you when the right time will come. And now, it's your turn to use your power."
" Who are you ?" Asked a now angry Belle. " How can I use a power I don't am aware I have ?"
" I'm a friend, that's all you need to know. And as for using your power you just have to let your heart guide you, like you have done for the past five years. The potion you have drank had just help you to open your mind and heart to your power."
" How becoming a baby again and growin up can have helped me to open myself to my power ?"
" Because if you have stayed the way you were, then you would have fought your power. You have your heart so locked that even your own love can't win against your will. Like you can have seen, Belle is very different from what Lightning Farron was. Now you can use your power without it destroyed you."
" And what will happen if I used my power ? What if I don't wanted to use it ?"
" If you don't use your power then it will hurt you like it had done for the past two months, but in worst. In the end it will kill you. But if you used your power once, but consciously, then after you would be able to control it. Your power is different from the power of your ancestor. You can just erase some memories, but it had to be done. Now you have to choose which life you wanted to erase."
" What do you mean ?"
" You can choose to erase the life of lightning Farron or the life of Belle Villier. The choice is all yours. But before you made this choice you have to know that the life you chose to erase would be forever. If you choose to erase Lightning's life, your friends would still remembered her but they also will be certain that she was dead five years ago. On the other hand, if you choose to erase Belle's life, your sister and her husband would thought that your illness had killed you. You can no longer have two life. Now made your choice."
" What about Hope ? He love both of us very much. How can I do something like this to him. I have swear to protect him. I can't hurt him."
" He would not remembered his feeling for the people you chose to erase. We don't have much time left. Now, make your choice !"
" All right ! I choose..."
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When she wake up this morning, she felt very refreshed. She looked at her window and see the sun in the sky. Never before she was so glad to see it. At her side her husband was still sleeping. She looked very fondly at him. There was time when she had doubted that he will become hers, but she was wrong. He had proved her wrong, and she was very glad of it. She can heard her son and her daughter whispering at their door. the two child wondered if it was wise to ran and jump to their parent now. They were not aware that their mother was alert and ready to stop them from waking their father like they often done. A wicked smile come to her face when a plan formed in her mind.
Hope was faking his sleep. He loved the way his wife looked at him when she thought that he was asleep. He see the smile on his wife's face and he can't help but feel sorry for their child. He know his wife so well that he know it was for the best if he looked asleep during all of what will happen. One time was enough for him, and he rather let Snow be at the end of a punch than him. Who would have thought that Serah can punch this good. It was surely a family trait and he hoped for his daughter to not inherit it. With a hided smile he let his wife have her fun with their children.
In their crystal, Vanille and Fang were looking at the family.
" I'm very proud of them." Said Vanille. " Lily would have been too."
" Yes. But really, it the last time that I play the old woman for you, Vanille. It had take age for her to made the right decision."
" But, in the end she had. It was for the best. They always were mean to be."
" Yes, indeed. It's a shame that you can't have told her who you really were to her during our travel."
" No, it's not. I was glad to be able to travel with her. She was my friend, and that's all mattered to me."
" You are too kind sometime, Vanille"
The sound of some laugh and cry stopped their conversation. The two L'cie smiled. And the same idea come to their mind.
" It was for the best".
End.
I have finished ! I let you choose which one you wanted for her to become : Light or Belle. I know some of you wanted for Light to come back, but at the same time I think that Belle deserved her happiness too, and I can't choose between the two. So, choose the one you wanted the most and it will be her. I hope you have liked it. For now, I will not write any FF13 fanfic for some time, because I have two very long story to post for He-man and Smallville. But don't worry, I have some idea for an other fic with Hope and Light, but it had to wait. I will post it later, then it will let me time to work it out. Don't forget to give me a review. Good day to all of you, and thank you for reading me.
