A/N: Late update! So sorry about that. Unfortunately, my mom got me a summer job. So, I'll be having less time to update this fic. Besides! Who knew that I would add a little of SHINee in this fic. HEHE! Also, I would like to thank those who reviewed especially Luxuria De'Voire for the tips!

Kamsahamnida for the reviews~

Chapter Five
.Oh Maiiiiii GOSH~!.

"Everyday I shock! Every night I shock!" Lightning woke up from the sound of her phone's ring tone. She had slept quietly since her neighbor was invited to a party. Unfortunately, the bed was so hard that she can't sleep comfortably. She glanced at her clock. 3:00 A.M. it read. She picked up her phone lazily. Who would be calling at this time in the morning? "Hello."

"Hello, Farron." said the caller. It sounded like the director. Lightning straightened up and sat. "I would like to inform you that you passed the exam. I was quite impressed by your skills." She just nodded. She was still tired but tried to listen to the rest anyway. Minutes had passed until it was already two hours since they've talked. Lightning yawned quietly. She glanced at her clock. It was almost five. Her lids began to feel heavy and slowly, she was shutting her eyes. Suddenly, she heard a loud chuckle on the other line causing her to be wide awake.

"All of the SOLDIERS are men. Watch out or they'll try to flirt you." He teased. Lightning rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, good luck tomorrow." With that, he hung up. Finally! She cheered mentally. Lightning put down her phone and went back to sleep.

The next day...

"Hey Cloud." said the black haired man with spiky hair. "I heard there were two new SOLDIERs!" The blonde man with spiky hair, who appears to be called Cloud, looked at his black, spiky haired friend with a straight face. "So?"

"They're in the first class man! After taking such a difficult mission and the test!" The blonde simply went back to cleaning his huge sword.

"Gentlemen." said the director as he walked in the room where all the first class SOLDIERs would gather - which include the black, spiky haired man and the blonde guy named Cloud. It also seemed that he brought a black haired man with him.

All eyes fell on the director as he began to announce. "I would like you to meet Noctis Lucis Caelum. He's new so please be nice with him." The black haired man just looked at the room, not caring to say a simple "Hello"

"I'll be attending a few errands so I'll leave him to you Angeal." The tall man with broad muscles, whose black hair is slicked back except for two bangs of hair with one on each side, just nodded. Taking another glance at the "newbie", he left.

Lightning ran as fast as she could to the building. She woke up more late than yesterday thanks to the director's phone conversation earlier that morning. But the good thing is that all the running made it an exercise -and a warm up - for the trainings and missions that will happen on that day. However, the bad thing is that she was new and not to mention late in work. What would happen to her if she arrived later than now? Whether something good or bad is going to happen to her after this, the only thing that was on her mind was: run...like hell.

She entered the building and ran into the hallway. She ran into a couple of SOLDIERs who were just passing by her. Some gave her glares for bumping or making them throw their papers in the air. Others...well, let's say they gave her this hey-hottie look which were the ones she ignored the most.

She didn't pay any attention to where she was going until she paused as she arrived at an intersection. All this panicking made her lost which was absolutely a bad thing. Now that she thought of it, was she going in the right way? Or, most importantly, where is the director?

"Farron?"

Lightning turned to her back and saw the director. Man, I'm so in trouble again. She thought. Her face remained calm and composed and she didn't show any signs that she was running just because she was late. Amazingly, she did not pant nor sweat at all.

"You just came in time. I have to introduce you to-"

"Ring ding dong ring ding dong diggi ding diggi ding ding ding~"

"Excuse me for a moment." The director moved away from Lightning as he talked on his phone. Lightning had very good ears and she could hear their conversation a bit. Their conversation was quite suspicious for her but it seemed like it didn't involved in anything bad. The director went back to her. "Come now. Let's introduce you to the others." With that, she followed him.

They past by a few men. Some would greet them "Good morning" and the director would flash a smile. Others would wink at Lightning but eventually she ignored them.

As they arrived at the door of the room where the director had lead her, she sighed. Will everything be alright if she's in SOLDIER? Being the only woman didn't bother her that much since she can kick their butts off if anyone tries to mess with her. She let out a heavy breath as he opened the room which revealed a group of men doing their own businesses. Their attention was caught by the director as he began to speak once again. "Gentlemen. I would like you to meet your new comrade." Lightning, who was still outside, was right behind him. he could see all the first class SOLDIERs. The director gave way for her to go inside. As she entered the room, she was quite amused by the shocked expressions on their face with the exception of Genesis since he had met her and knew that she would pass from the very beginning. Hah! Who said a woman isn't so strong huh?

"This is Lightning Farron." The director said, also amused by their faces. "She'll be training and working with you from now on. Good luck to the two new SOLDIERs." Right after that, he left. Lightning watched as the door was slammed shut. Genesis was the first one to come up to her. "Welcome to SOLDIER, Farron." He said as they both shook their hands. "You can call me Lightning if you want." She said. She had to admit it, she missed being called by her name."Alright, then Lightning it is." he replied as he let go of the handshake.

"Hey, I remember you." Lightning turned to the owner of the voice. He had a black spiky hair and a sword on his back. Wait, wasn't he the guy she just bumped into yesterday? Is it her or is it the people she bumps into would actually turn out to be her comrades or something like that? "I never knew you would become a SOLDIER!" He beamed.

"You know her, Zack?" said a blonde man who seems to be cleaning his sword. "Well, not really. We bumped into each other yesterday." The guy who appears to be Zack said as he scratched the back of his head. "How rude of me. I'm Zack fair. You're Lightning Farron, right?" She nodded. Sheesh! She just acts like blondie. Zack thought and turned to the blondie he was referring to in his mind. "And, oh, this is Cloud."

"Cloud Strife." He said as if he was correcting him.

"Yeah, whatever kid."

As Lightning was about to scan the room, her eyes narrowed at a boy with raven hair leaning against the wall. There was a strange aura around him that bugged her. "Light?" Lightning snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Genesis. "Hm?"

"You seem to be thinking of something else. Is everything okay?"

"I'm alright. Don't worry about me."

"Anyway!" Zack began to put his arms around Cloud's and Genesis's neck. "What about we go at 7th Heaven and celebrate for the newcomers?" Genesis shot him a death glare as Cloud gave Zack an annoyed look. Lightning just watched as the two struggled.

At training...

The training wasn't in an arena or anything that has a limited space. It was in a deserted area in the outskirts of the city which was many kilometers from civilization. The SOLDIERs have separate rides. Each had a vehicle with them. Lightning was forced to be on Cloud's Fenrir but she summoned her Eidolon, Odin, instead. Odin turned into a majestic horse and began to catch up with them. Amazingly, Odin was able to be ahead of the rest who were all riding in their vehicles. Talk about horsepower.

As they arrived at the training area, she got off Odin and began to scan around the place. It looked like a gloomy desert with nothing but cacti and sand. You might wanna include those ball like bushes that would roll over or whatever it is called. Lightning looked up to the sky and narrowed her eyes since the sun was shining brightly. The sky was clear blue.

Zack curiously went towards the horse Odin. "This is unbelievable. Does it talk?" When he was about to touch Odin's hair, it gave him a hard kick in the stomach and send him flying. Fortunately, he was only a few meters away when he landed on the ground. "He doesn't like to be touched by other people rather than me." She said.

"I guess he's dead." Genesis commented as he poked Zack with the random stick he just picked. Cloud just stared at the two. "Nah he'll wake up soon." Angeal said.

"So... I think we should train in pairs since Noctis and Lightning are new here." Genesis said while looking at Lightning and the raven haired man who appears to be Noctis. Angeal nodded in agreement.

"I'll partner up with Light!" Zack said as he got up from being unconscious. He looked at her with the cute puppy look. Lightning rolled her eyes. He really reminded her of a certain blonde guy named Snow only much worse. This was getting pretty annoying. She turned to him. "Alright."

"YAY!"

"But only if you keep your mouth shut." She said in warning tone and gave him a quick glare. He didn't seemed to mind the glare she had sent him. "Yay~" He whispered childishly. The group watched him as he swung his sword over his shoulder and took a pose with a grin on his face. Oh man...

"I'm gonna protect you, my dear Lightning." He said as if he was a hero and Lightning was the damsel in distress. Both Cloud and Angeal facepalmed. Lightning still kept that emotionless face on her. "I can handle things by myself actually." She said in a cold way. Zack's confidence was slightly fading when she said that since she sounded like she mean it. "Aww... You're ruining my act!" He pouted. She ignored him and turned to Angeal.

"So what's this monster that we're going to face?"

"Don't you know?" Zack suddenly had this aura that made everyone shiver even Noctis who had kept his mouth shut the whole time shivered slightly. "Wh-What?" Lightning asked.

"Of course it's no other than the CHOCOBO! OF DOOOOM!" He exclaimed with with his arms stretched in the air like an evil villain. A little touch of gloomy clouds and lightning as a backdrop would add a little more effect to this...idiocy. Lightning sweatdropped. Errr...that sounded random. Cloud and Angeal, once again, facepalmed.

Suddenly, the earth began to shake. The group managed to keep their balance. this wasn't a normal quake since it was slowly increasing. Lightning turned to see enormous chocobos heading towards them with a glint of insanity in their eyes. Zack wasn't kidding after all. There was no time to do nothing for who knows what will these insane chocobos would do to them when they caught sight of the group. Lightning smirked and got her gunblade ready. "Time to fry some chocobo"

They all charged to the target. Zack was the first to attack. Swiftly, he managed to cut and slice some chocobos who were attacking him. Cloud did the same thing only he managed to kill more than Zack did. With a jump in the air, he stabbed the chocobo who was heading towards them. Genesis killed one after the other also did Angeal. Lightning was the fastest of the group since she wighed more lighter than the others. She leaped into the air and began shooting them in the heads. When she landed landed safely on the ground right next to Angeal, he was impressed.

"The name's Angeal by the way."

She smirked. "Isn't this animal abuse?"

"They're insane and they'll cause trouble when they reach the city." He replied. A chocobo was heading towards them. They snapped out of their chat and began to attack it until it was down. With a snap of her fingers, a blue energy began to appear on her and she swiftly broke the law of gravity as she attack the chocobo on her right.

"Awesome move." Zack commented. She smirked and attacked the one that was once on her left. When she was about to attack another one - in air - that was in front of her until it ducked. Before she realized it, she was heading towards Noctis who seemed to be attacking the same target - who was attacking in air also.

In the blink of an eye, everyone's eyes widened in shock. "Oh. My. God." Zack said amused and shocked.

CLIFFHANGERRR! :3

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A/N: Alright, I made the Author's note pretty much shorter since it is kinda unfair that the A/N part would make the story/chapter a little longer. But that's just me. And I also know there are people who are bugged by long notes so I've decided to make them briefer and shorter. But anyway, thank you to those who reviewed!