Omni POV:
"Who are you?" Serah had asked the figure that appeared before her as she backed away, accidentally mistaken the boy as her older sister. The figure looked at the girl and smiled but lost it as soon as a few mechanical bugs started to charge. They flew towards the two quicker than the average machine could ever move right for the younger Pinknette. Serah turned around and raised her blade but the impact of the hit from her sword sent the twenty-one year old flying backwards into the figure, who caught her with ease. The machines kept coming again and again relentlessly but somehow the new guy, Noel, managed to slice all three machines with ease.
"Hey, you! Watch, Serah for me will ya?" The younger figure asked and lightly pushed Serah to Noel who prevented her from falling in the sand. Noel was about to protest but the person was already running the other way. Serah, however, was surprised the figure had knew her name. Was he told by Lightning just like Noel was? A mystery to be solved later on. Mel looked around, blocking and parrying attacks from nearly all fronts with her mechanical limb, trying to figure out this anomaly. Summoning wind magic to blast the enemy out of her way the Interloper managed to find a rip above the water bringing out more and more monsters, a paradox indeed.
'There! I need to get over to that ripple of reality in order to stop this attack. But am I limited to my powers again?" The Interloper wondered but as she thought of the incantation to summon her wings everything was working perfectly fine.
'Okay, lets do this.' Mel took out her sword and stood in a similar stance as Weiss Schnee wielding her own blade. Ice began to freeze around the blade and Mel thrusts her blade towards the ocean with her following it, ice froze the ocean that made an icy road beneath the teen, monsters tried to interrupt the speed of their attacker but was futile to even try, swerving and weaving out of the attacks Mel jumped into the air and used thundara to attack and electrocuted everything that lived or stood in the water, however nothing from below the water surfaced. As soon as the electricity flow managed to stop Mel pointed her blade at the tear in reality and it suddenly closed before she could do anything about it.
'What?' Was all she thought, dumbfounded, but since the monsters vanished it was time to regroup.
Once the Interloper returned it seemed like Gadot was already on Noel about him being from the future. Rolling her eyes like it was no ones business Mel intervened.
"Your full of it you bastard! From the future!? You say, the world is dying! You say!? Lightning Farron is alive, YOU SAY! Well, you wanna know what I say, BULL SHIT!" Gadot had screamed as loud as he could muster, his massive size intimidating anyone trying to stop the argument but Noel and Serah. A fist ready to hit anything nearby out of anger.
"He knows my sister, Gadot. He may be the only person who can take me to her, please let us hear him out! He did help protect the town." The little pinknette had pleaded but she was pulled aside by Maqui and Yuj so she wouldn't be harmed by the large man in any way or form.
"I'm telling the truth. I met Lightning in person! She's alive and well, she was the one who sent me to protect Serah." Noel cried assertively, not afraid by Gadot's massive size. "We were doing just fine until you and that damn comet arrived." The muscular man said firmly, he lowered his head to meet eye to eye with Noel. Noel met the man on similar level and looked him square in the eyes, no fear or hesitation showed, and said in a slightly cocky tone,
"During the fight you were never near Serah. But I was, and I did a better job at protecting her than you ever had."
Gadot had reached his limits and threw a fist, Noel stood there ready to take the hit with his eyes wide open, but the hand was caught by the wrist in a locking position the man couldn't help but yelp and groan in pain. Looking at his assailant it was the Interloper who appeared to have caught his attack and locked his wrist to let his fist become a hand again.
"Who the hell are you, another weirdo!?" The man cried still grunting in pain. Mel let go and the man whipped his hand down to his side trying to be intimidating but it didn't help.
"I may be a weirdo but I know Serah. And Lightning, Snow and the rest of the former L'cie that saved the world from being destroyed. I was with them after all, throughout the whole thing." Mel said calmly and looked at Serah hoping she would remember their brief meeting years ago. Serah came closer and looked at the boy looking at every detail and felt familiar with the teen.
"We met before, right? When was that?" The pinknette asked not fully certain of this person who said her sisters and fiancé' name. Chuckling Mel bowed slightly and put a hand out.
"Nice to meet you, Serah, my name is Mel Winters. I was with Lightning and the others when you and Dahj awakened from your crystal stasis. My hair was a little longer about a little above my shoulders but my sister cut my hair for, uh, 'special' reasons. You said goodbye when we said hello three years ago." Mel explained hoping that would have helped stir the older woman's memory. Squinting her eyes thoughtfully a forgotten memory resurfaced and saw a figure standing beside her sister, tears of sadness and joy falling from their eyes. And then she remembered.
"You were that boy that Light told me about. Before she disappeared she told me a lot about you, 'a strong and helpful individual who always took the damage for others no matter how severe.' She talked about you with such admiration it seemed like she was hiding something from me, from even herself. But I never had time to ask her about it, or you." Serah began as she held Mel's hand in both of her own hands, smiling at the meeting. Mel smiled back and raised an eyebrow.
"She really spoke that highly of me?" Mel asked as she thought to herself,
'She thinks that I'm a boy... Not surprising, but then again our meeting was brief.' Serah nodded and continued.
"Of course! But I have to admit, you look much younger than I remember when I first met you. Still do. How old were you three years ago? About seventeen, my age?" Serah asked, suddenly excited. Caught by surprise Mel laughed a bit loudly and shook her head.
"Chronologically in your world I am nineteen years old. But, physically, in my world, Earth, I'm still sixteen years old. Time is different for me and your world." The interloper explained. Serah was about to say something but a loud explosion from in front of the crater where the view of Cocoon appeared interrupted the conversation. Noel ran on ahead first and Gadot with the remaining NORA group but Mel managed to convince the team to stay and let the three of them handle the fight.
Arriving to the scene of the explosion in time to see what had caused the force it was another monster with its arm sticking out of a rift with its upper body trying to break free but it was too wide and thick to break free from the prison between the nexus of spaces. It twitched and thrashed its head around and when the trio came closer the monster stopped thrashing and bellowed upon the confrontation.
"Looks like it needs help getting out." Noel said bringing out his dual blades readying his stance. Serah had turned Mog into her default bow-blade an readied an arrow waiting to let it fly. Mel stood weaponless but decided to over see the fight without intervening. Noel saw what the teen did and called her out.
"Hey! I thought you were here to keep Serah safe! Not hang back and watch her die, are you?" Mel shook her head and replied emotionlessly.
"I am protecting her, but this fight will show me how far she will go if she wants to find her sister again." Noel lightly shook his head and muttered under his breath,
"What a spineless weakling." And the fight began.
Omni POV: Battle Sequence Engaged:
The monster stuck in the rift swings its only arm at the duo they moved out of the way with ease but the force behind it created a gale and sends Serah and Noel backwards into the earthy walls of the crater. The two recovered and charged at the beast, Serah sent several waves of magical arrows the attack was immediately useless as a barrier protected the monster from being harmed revealed itself. Noel continued to attack bluntly trying to break the barrier but the hand grabbed the young man from the ground and flung him over the craters walls and past the interloper. Serah's eyes widened in horror as she remained alone in battle but had to fight back, this was her test and hers alone so she has to prove she is ready for whatever lies beyond her home village.
"Mog, blade mode, now!" Serah cried and her weapon changed from a long ranged weapon to a sword and attacked. Running across the dirt field Serah jumped into the air above the monster and raised her blade above her head as she descended from her jump. The monster followed the girls movements and casts Ruin at her, Serah, who was unprepared for battle, decided to block the spell with her weapon. Once the spell connected with the metal the blast became one that would form from a Ruinga spell, sending the pinknette straight into the ground when her shoulders hit the earth first her body rolled backwards several times until she landed on her stomach head facing the monster. Looking backwards to see the young boy looking at her, his face completely blank staring with dreamy eyes, and silent. Serah felt the urge to cry out to him and plead for help but Lightning's smiling face flashed in her mind the girl remained silent. Struggling to stand to her feet Serah pushed forward and got right back up, Noel on the other hand had continued to swing his dual blades with strength and grace, dodging out of the monsters reach with a few shoulder roll and several back flips the monster became infuriated. Noel then saw the barrier flicker and saw and opportunity in the lower corner of the beast.
"Serah!" Noel cried out from afar, Serah looked his way and waited,
"Aim for the lower corner of its shield we might be able to kill it from there." Following the instructions given to her Serah switched back to her bow and fired arrows made of fire toward the flickering corner and hits several bulls eyes.
Mel couldn't stand it, as much as she wants to help and jump into the fight in order to uphold her promise to Lightning she had to remain on the side lines. She had watched the fight from the beginning using a skill similar to 'Eagle Vision' from 'Assassin's Creed Revelations' but it predicts the enemies next move depending on the actions of her comrades, and attacking the barrier at its weakest point is both a stupid and risky move as the results shows the two fighting out of commission for a few hours at most.
'Damn it, damn it , damn it! Think, Mel, Think! Consider your options here; lets see, you don't want to jump in and save the day since this is going to help prepare Serah for her upcoming journey but if you don't do something, anything, the two of them will be out of the fight. And I did promise Light that I would protect her sister, so what should I do?' Mel continued to mull her options over and came to a great conclusion of how she could help defeat the enemy and help Serah and Noel become stronger individually and as a team.
"Serah! Shoot several arrows to the head." Mel shouted toward the fight. Serah skid across the field and looked at the teen.
"The barrier is in the way, it won't hit!" The pinknette argued. Mel looked too serious to go head to head against to Serah complied shooting fire arrows at the head and like past failures they bounced off but caught the beasts attention and looked at Lights sister. Each arrow that struck the barrier the monster followed and now it was time to let the two finish this fight.
"Noel, that thing is distracted. Throw one of your swords toward the weak spot and drive it into the shield with your foot and stab it in the eye once the barrier breaks." Hesitating at the order Noel decided it as his only option and threw his blade, with all his might, at the barrier. When the beast turned around 540 degrees the blade had hit the spot the brunette noticed shimmering from and dug itself deep. Following it closely behind Noel jumped into the air and threw himself from the air to add more momentum to his descent and hid foot connected to the hilt and the blade dug itself so deep the barrier began to crack greatly it shattered instantly. Like his order said Noel climbed the beast and reached its head, being as stealthy as possible he stabbed the monster in the eye and volcanic blood erupted from the gapping hole that was pierced. Bellowing in pain and frustration the monster flailed around so violently the force sent the brunette flat on his back, Serah ran to his aid and saw the enemy was charging a huge ruinga spell.
"Serah take out its other eye, now, while its distracted." Mel had commanded and the woman pulled her sting back but had no view of the monsters head due to the spell growing in size. Feeling hopeless she nearly threw down her attack.
"I can't do it! I don't have a clear shot!" She cried out loud, feeling completely helpless and began to feel despair crawling into her heart.
"Never say can't! Don't you dare quit! Don't forget your dreams and never lose sight of who you are fighting for. You are Lightning Farron's sister, damn it! If you want to see her again never quit. Look up straight ahead, conquer all feelings of doubt and dispel them. Be ready to fight, bring the enemy hell! And most of all, fight until you no longer can that is when you continue when you are down, don't even let death stop you, just FIGHT!" Mel had shouted those words of encouragement and faith to Serah to remind her what she was doing there now and it worked. Looking at the stars the woman felt relieved and renewed, drawing her bow upwards Serah charged a spell of her own and, until it glowed brighter than the moon, let the arrow go and through the ruin spell it went it had penetrated the spell and hit a bulls eye right between the eyes and through the skull. The magic vanished and the enemy fell dead and disappeared beyond the rift of time and space.
Once the enemy fell and vanished Serah felt a wave of confidence and strength crash over her, she did that. She defeated her first enemy with the help of those around her and felt like she could continue to grow stronger each day she trained. She will become stronger and she will find Light.
"Nicely done." Mel said to the two as she pulled Serah out of the shallow but high pit, Noel climbed out himself. Once on the level of the town the trio walked back to cam, the two that finished the fight felt drained and tired it took the interloper time to carry them back to the NORA house.
When they arrived Maqui and Yuj greeted them both looking sheepish for some reason but weren't probed about their attitudes, though they did manage to bring the tired duo inside to rest. Mel, however, sat on the couch of the living room, door open full, watching the ocean waves softly crash over the sand feeling hypnotized by the sound and movement. She felt calmer and at peace again. Maqui stuck his head around the corner to check on Mel and announced his presence of tomorrows plans.
"Say, friend to Snow. Just so you know everything will get sorted out by tomorrow. There are blankets and pillows in the cabinet by the couch, the nights here are brutal so keep warm as you can, okay? See you in the morning, we got a lot to do." Mel heard him but didn't respond, only nodded her head. Feeling intimidated by the teen Maqui chuckled nervously and withdrew back into his own room. Following his instructions Mel did find blankets and a few extra pillows for her to use and pulled them out. Placing a pillow under her head the interloper tried to sleep but something prevented her from doing so.
Mel's POV:
I tried to sleep but it was impossible, something was bothering me but the feeling grew stronger with each passing minute. What did bother me? The fight ended great and should be proud I helped even though I wasn't really involved. What is going on now?
"Your awake then? Good, I wanted to talk to you." A voice spoke through the silence. I looked at the door, now shut closed, to see that girl again. I sat straight up but a cloud of darkness swirled around my arms were chained to my sides as my legs were immobile and thrashing around did nothing.
"What do you want? Isn't it a bit too early to unveil your plans!?" I shouted in a loud whisper, considerate of the sleeping inhabitants of the house. The girl walked towards me, her own bright blue eyes looked calm yet mischievous, and took a seat next to me. I didn't lose my glare as she didn't lose her smirk.
"Just so you know, I'm not the only one who wants to destroy this miserable world to chaos, and your own world with it. I have a partner and she is much more dangerous than me, plus I didn't have time to do this before I departed." The girl began. I felt scared for some reason and was confirmed as she came closer and she was like an inch or less close to my face, she smelled like lavender and vanilla. The two seconds felt like an eternity until she finally pulled away. Her smirk grew wider as her eyes looked at me with a childish and devilish look of lust. Holy! SHIT! What the F**K JUST HAPPENED!? My face felt so hot I wanted to explode and I wanted to kill this girl for what she just did.
"What the hell was that?!" I nearly shouted at the top of my lungs but restrained myself. The girl stood up and walked to the portal of darkness, stopping midway to tease me.
"That was called a kiss, ever had one before? Never mind, judging from your expression that was your first, right?" I felt way embarrassed and ready to kill that girl, if she knows that I'm the Interloper then doesn't she know that I'm not a guy!?
"I know what your thinking, and yes I know your true gender. But then again, where was the fun if you were a boy, huh? Toddles." And she vanished in the darkness and I was freed from my bounds. When I was released I couldn't fall asleep and did the ENEMY just HIT on me and didn't care that I was a girl!? Holy shit I'm more confused then ever now.
"When I see her again I'll make her regret doing what she did to me! I'll kill her, I swear I will!?" I thought bitterly to myself, still feeling embarrassed even fit was just me and her around, she will pay. Indeed that was my first kiss but I didn't want that, I really wish she didn't kiss me, I never wanted anyone to since I am a confused child, but she did and I will hunt her down until she is dead.
'Patience is a virtue, Mel, and you will get back at her for that. Don't forget.' I thought once more and finally found the strength to close my eyes and fall asleep.
A/N: Oh, no! Poor Mel, more problems have been added to the pile. Well, hope this chapter was okay, I am writing this a little late but, whatever watching Catching Fire tomorrow so its worth it. Hope you all like this chapter, sorry the chapters are a little short but hope its okay, please leave a review, comment, like, follow the usual and hope to hear from you guys later, okay. Until next time, Ciao!