CHAPTER 2 - THE NEW L'CIE

Annie the Hedgehog Nautilus Park, Cocoon

"So this is a chocobo." Annie said with a quaint smile. "It's pretty. Can't say the smell is the same though."

"Yeah." A man beside her said softly. "I wanted to get Dajh one for his birthday, but he turned to crystal the moment I found him."

"I'm sorry to hear that, Sazh." Annie softly said back, giving him a calm, helping look. "No wonder the little chicobo likes you so much. You been through a lot." Suddenly, one of the chocobos ran loose upon Nautilus. The giant, golden bird nearly knocked Sazh and Annie over.

"Let's see if we can catch the bird before it unleashes hell on Nautilus, shall we?" Annie asked Sazh playfully, gripping her knuckle glove in her pocket.

"I've got the reins." Sazh said, pulling out lime green leather straps that smelled as bad as the chocobos themselves. "We can use that." The two headed out for the main square of Nautilus, which turned into a city full of L'Cie and PSICOM soldiers. It made the place a bad place to live, except for back in the park district.

"I saw him!" Annie said, snapping her finger to cast a Haste spell on Sazh. "Follow me."

"Alright, Let's get that bird!" Sazh said childishly. After that, the two raced down the road to catch the chocobo.

Hope Palumpolum, Market District

Hope had watched Amy go from market to another all through Palumpolum. With a humored sigh, he walked alongside Lightning and Tails, who were looking for particular shops. Tails was looking for a scrap-parts shop, while Lightning saw a new gunblade out for sale at the workshop. Hope - being the patient kid he always is - waited to find the workshop. He overheard Light talking about giving Hope her old gunblade as a birthday gift, as it was coming up soon. What they didn't know was that Tails and Amy's arrival unintentionally caught the attentin of some rogue PSICOM soldiers still believing that L'Cie were the enemy. No one knew it at the time, however, so the group was off guard. Until . . .

Out of nowhere, a Behemoth raged into the market district upon the unsuspecting L'Cie. Hope was glad he kept his boomerang around for problems like this. He was just worried about what would happen to the new faces in town.

"Look out!" He shouted, throwing his boomerang at the behemoth's head, almost knocking out its horn. "There's a behemoth behind you, Amy!"

"Lightning" Claire Farron

Lightning saw the behemoth before Hope had pointed it out. Within seconds, she was upon it, raining down blow after blow with her magic and her gunblade.

'Why is there a behemoth in Palumpolum?' Light thought as she brought the cous de' grace down on the behemoth, making it distentegrate into a purple mist. 'This isn't Gran Pulse.'

Amy Rose

Amy was strolling down the market street when she heard Hope call out her name. She looked around her to see Lightning attacking a giant monster with a blade for its horn. Terrified, she drew her hammer and stunned it with a powerful, targeted blow to the forehead. Shortly afterwards, she noticed Lightning finish the monster off, only to have it vanish into smoke. The split second scene was seemingly familiar to her, as if she knew someone like that.

Tails

When tails made his purchases at Lenora's Garage, He was exited. He recieved a high-quality engine, a Perfect Cunductor, a handful of digital circuits, and a large supply of Chobham Armor. It ran up the credit bill Light gave him for the supplies, which worried him. When he left the store, he noticed he missed a fight.

"What happened?" Tails asked, nearly dropping a piece of Chobham. "You look like you fought a giant."

"Try a behemoth." Lightning said as she twirled her gunblade into a heavy pistol and holstered it in her case. "Strange how an Ark monster would attack Palumpolum."

"Ark monster?" Tails asked, cunfused. "I'm still fresh here. I don't know any of the terminology." He noticed Light give off a sigh and turned around to see Hope catch his boomerang. It returned to him with such force that it knocked him back about a foot. He then noticed a horn on the ground, and some sort of glitter. This glitter rose up from the ground, and in an instant, was absorbed by Lightning and Amy.

"I never got your name." Light said softly, looking at Tails with an adult look, which reassured him he was safe.

"Miles Prower." Tails said, carrying the heavy load of his ship gear. "You can call me 'Tails'."

"Well then, Tails," Light said in a curious tone. "Why are you carrying upgrade parts?"

"I'm going to make a plane." Tails said proudly.

Pulse Serah's House, Oerba, Gran Pulse

"What did you just use, Serah?" Pulse asked, sensing the magic emenating from her arm. "How can you use Chaos Energy like that?"

"I don't know what Chaos Energy is." Serah said honestly. Pulse could tell. "I just used L'Cie magic." She showed her glowing tattoo and gave an innocent smile.

"L'Cie magic?" Pulse asked.

"You're new here on Pulse, aren't you?" Serah asked kindly. "I'm sorry for the confusion."

"It's nothing." Pulse said. "I'm just used to aura and Chaos Energy."

"May I ask what Chaos Energy is?" Snow asked. "You seem to know a lot about it."

"It's like the magic that Serah used." Pulse explained, making a long story short. "It actually gets more powerful if you have access to what is called a 'Chaos Emerald'."

"Ok, wait." Snow said, thinking about something. "Is a Chaos Emerald the same thing as an Eidolith?"

Before Pulse can say the next sentence, a pair of women showed up running from more Cie'Th. One was dressed in a pink top and a fur-lined skirt. She had a case on her back that looked she was carrying thorns. The other woman was dressed up in a blue, satin cloth and had a staff on her back. The first one had fiery red hair curled into faerie-locks, while the other's hair was dark and sraggly.

"Time to fight." Pulse said, drawing his sword.

Oerba Dia Vanille

"Help!" Screamed Vanille as she and Fang ran towards Serah and Snow. She also noticed two small animals around her friends. One was a small, blue hedgehog, standing against a wall catching his breath, while the other one was a crimson wolf with orange stripes going down his back, and he pulled a sword out from his sheath. "Help, Serah!"

Upn saying that, a group of Varcolaci and a Vetala appeared in front of them, blocking their path. As soon as noticing them, the Cie'Th raged upon Vanille and Fang, and they were soon hit by the Varcolaci's miasma.

Snow Villiers

Snow witnessed as more Cie'Th appeared in fromt of his old friends Vanille and Fang.

"Vanille!" He shouted as her griends were caught in the toxic daze of the Cie'Th's breath. He ran up and tried smashing the head of the Vetala in, but that big, yellow Cie'Th created a barrier that brushed him off and knocked him to the ground. The wolf rushed up and blasted away the shield with a blue orb of energy. Snow saw his chance to destroy that thing. He got up, ran behind the Vetala, and decimated it's head, making the Cie'Th die in a purple smoke. He then noticed that Sonic started glowing, and after a split second, a thunderbolt crashed down upon the remaining Varcolaci, dissapating them all.

"Was that magic?" Snow said, awestruck at the attack.

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