Final Fantasy XIII Novelization

by The Fantasy Man

After thirteen days of fates intertwined, the battle began. The story of six people trying to change their fates and save the world. Lightning and Snow trying to save their sister and fiancee respectively, Hope a young boy with vengeance on his mind, Sazh seeking a way to save his son and Fang and Vanille two Pulsians trying to solve their focus and return home. Part 1/3

6. Chapter 4

Final Fantasy XIII

Part One: The Hanging Edge

Chapter 4: The Warpath Home

Summary: The Purge is a Sanctum initiative designed to protect the stability of Cocoon by forcing potentially dangerous civilians to relocate to Pulse.

However, the relocation is simply a façade to cover the massacre that ensues. The government's true goal is the brutal extermination of all possible threats to a peaceful society.

Having discovered the horrific truth, Snow leads the members of NORA against the government soldiers of PSICOM.

Inspired by the brave actions of this handful of brave young men and women, the beleaguered civilians take heart and join the battle in hope of returning to a normal life.

Among the citizens who stand against the forces of PSICOM is a mother who wishes for nothing more than to protect her son.

Nora and Snow were just about to head off when she remembered about her son Hope, the boy she was fighting for, the future of whom she was fighting for. She gave him one last look and he stared right back at her, the glance between the two of them expressing what they wanted to say more than words ever could and then their contact was split. "Time to go, kiddo." Lebreau said and forced Hope up by the arm and making him walk off to safety with the non-fighting Purge deportees, whilst she rejoined Snow, Gadot, Maqui, Nora and the other Purge deportees as they once again fought the PSICOM forces to freedom. Hope looked once more at the back of his mother as she moved away from him and out of his grasp and then he turned away himself making his way with the other deportees to safety.

Snow turned to face Gadot, Lebreau, Maqui and Nora who were still with him and said "We're not losing to PSICOM, you hear me?" Lebreau nodded and said "This'll be a piece of cake." Snow smiled at the eagerness of his fellow NORA member and one of his best friends. Now it's time for the heroes to do what they do best and that's fight.

Snow walked over to a nearby treasure sphere and opened it to reveal and Iron Bangle, a very common accessory in Cocoon. Snow already had one equipped but it might become useful in the future so he pocketed it and continued on the path he was on, ready to fight every PSICOM soldier in Cocoon if that's what it took to save the deportees and make the Sanctum realise that what they were doing was wrong.

The team of five moved up the pathway where they saw some of the new recruits hiding behind some blocks whilst using them as shields and firing at the enemy soldiers when it was safe too. Snow decided that they would take care of it for them and charged at soldiers. In total there were four soldiers, two PSICOM Wardens and two PSICOM Enforcers. Snow ran at one of each rank and pummelled them with his fists and then threw them into the other two soldiers causing them to fall back as they were dazed. The other's then took this as an opportunity as Gadot, Lebreau, Maqui and Nora shot one of the soldiers each. Gadot took one of the Wardens, Lebreau one of the Enforcers, Maqui the other Enforcer and Nora took down the last Warden, all of them killing the targets easily and allowed the recruits they helped to move up the pathway and continue to eliminate the PSICOM soldiers up ahead.

As Snow moved up ahead he shouted back behind himself, "Lebreau, back us up!" Further up, they came across a Pantheron and three PSICOM Wardens and Snow's advice came in very handy as whilst everyone took their own target; Snow punched a Warden, Gadot shot a Pantheron, Maqui shot a Warden and Nora shot the last Warden, Lebreau finished off all the targets with a stream of bullets from her machine gun. With all four enemies defeated and dead it was safe for the five of them to move on, which was exactly what they did.

Up ahead a soldier stood on a series of blocks with his gun pointing towards the sky and said "Mobilize beta force! Put down the resistance!" and released several bullets into the sky. A PSICOM military aircraft then flew overhead and on top of the aircraft was a Beta Behemoth which jumped down from the aircraft and landed with a heavy impact down on the platform and stared at the footsteps that it heard run towards it. Snow smirked at the Behemoth and said "Heroes don't run from fights," and this statement seemed to anger the creature as it charged straight at the group of five as the battle began.

The Behemoth swiped its claws at the group, who easily dodged it and Snow ran in first charging at the Behemoth and gave it two hard and heavy blows straight to the forehead of the creature. The Beta Behemoth went to retaliate but Snow jumped and flipped in the air and this caused the Behemoth to miss completely and then whilist it was distracted by trying to attack Snow, it got hit by several bullets, coming from everyone's guns, hitting the Behemoth in different areas as they were all in different areas on the certain area of platform.

Gadot remained in front of the Behemoth as he opened fire covering it in a shower of bullets causing some serious damage. Nora and Maqui both shot the Behemoth in its sides as whilst it was distracted by Snow they ran to the far left and far right respectively and let loose on the unsuspecting Behemoth. Lebreau however didn't try to get behind the Behemoth, instead she jumped into the air and let loose a stream of bullets which hit it straight in the back causing the monster to cry out in agony.

Snow then borrowed both Gadot and Lebreau who had just landed back on the ground guns and let loose a double stream of bullets which caused the Behemoth to collapse to the ground barely staying alive and then finishing it off with a hand grenade in his pocket which he pulled out a threw straight at the opponent, the gigantic force of the explosion causing it to fall over the side of the platform and disappear into the darkness.

However, after the Behemoth was defeated several PSICOM Wardens appeared and started shooting back at the Purge deportees as an all out war began between civilians and the military. No one was managing to get a hit on anyone apart from Gadot who took a risk by running to the middle of the platform and opening fire, luckily managing to kill one of the Wardens.

Sadly for the civilians, their luck ran out as the same airship that originally carried the Beta Behemoth over to them to fight them came back with a vengeance and activated it's turrets and shot at several of the civilians, killing quite a few of them. "Snow! We got trouble!" Gadot shouted alarmed by the sudden turn of events. "No kidding." Snow replied angered at the lack of mercy the government had for their own people.

Snow looked around the platform and noticed a Rocket Launcher and turned to Nora who was still with him and said "Stay down!" Snow ran out into the open to get the rocket launcher and the airship noticed and fired at him with the full intent to kill him. Snow jumped to avoid the bullets and tried to reach out and grab the rocket launcher but missed and ended up with his body on the ground, the rocket launcher out of reach and the airship opening up it's main cannon and getting ready to fire and destroy the main platform and kill Snow, Gadot, Nora and anyone else who was still there and trying to resist PSICOM and the Purge.

Then a miracle occurred… a missile appeared out of nowhere and struck the airship causing a giant cloud of smoke to appear and the airship to start crashing down, it's power source destroyed when the missile hit the airship. Snow turned around to see Nora holding the missile launcher who said "I told you, didn't I?," She then reached an arm out to Snow and said "Mums are tough." Snow grabbed onto her arm and she pulled him back up, but there troubles weren't over yet.

Another aircraft appeared and shot a giant missile at the bridge which exploded upon impact, several people dying as the explosion went off and other's dying as they rolled down the platform into the darkness below as well as the bodies of the deportees who were already dead.

From across the way, Hope and Vanille watched the catastrophe as they saw the bodies of all the deportees who tried to fight, get massacred by the missile or those hanging on to live by a small thread falling to their deaths. Snow and Nora were on the other side of the platform, still on stable land, with Nora currently unconscious but Snow was awake and as he saw what had happened he could only say "No…No!"

Then another missile struck, this time hitting the platform Snow and Nora was on, striking the connecting part of the bridge causing the two of them to tumble down the platform. They had just reached the edge of the platform and were about to tumble into the darkness below when Snow managed to grip onto a piece of metal sticking out from the platform and grabbed onto Nora's hand to prevent her from falling to what would definitely be her death.

Nora regained consciousness for a second and looked up at Snow and pleaded to him saying "Get him home… Please…" Snow trying to convince her not to give up said "Hold on!" Nora just gave Snow one last smile and closed her eyes, falling slightly lower as Snow tried to pull her up. Snow continued to try to pull her up with his gloved hand, but he just couldn't find the strength to do it and she fell from his gloved hand into the darkness below. At the same time two people both shouted "Noooo!" One of them was Snow who had just failed to save another person's life.

And the other was Hope who had just watched his mother, fall to her unstoppable death. Snow continued to grasp onto the metal that was sticking out of the platform, only able to look down at where she fell and then he fell as well. The metal dislodged itself from the platform and he started falling through the air, his arms flailing about trying to reach out for anything so he could save himself.

Hope and Vanille were still looking on at what had happened, the massacre that had just ensued that had taken the life of Hope's mum along with numerous others. Hope's breathing had become disjointed and heavy but he was not hyperventilating. Still rooted in place, Vanille put her hands on his shoulders and said "Come on!" When Hope remained standing in the same place, she slapped him and said "We have to move!" Hope nodded and said "All right!" The two of them ran off, Vanille dragging Hope by his arm as she ran, both of them trying to escape the government proposed massacre that was the Purge.

Author's Note: That's Chapter 4 out of either 6 or 7 chapters done. What do you think? Should I make the Hanging Edge 6 or 7 chapters? Anyway please continue to read and review if you want to give any criticism or tell me if you liked anything. Till Next Time, The Fantasy Man.