A/N: 2014... Two months and ten days more until 'Lightning Returns' arrives, I'm so excited and solemn about its release I could use it to deepen some characters personalities and stories or whatever for later chapters if this fanfic isn't far in or done. But I can only update as fast as I am able though, which will be when I can, still I hope everyone had a great year last year and an awesome one this year. Well enough with the greetings and whatnot, enjoy!

Battle Sequence Engaged:

The thick clouds obscured the visions of whoever was caught in the blast and dulled their senses, the vibrations of the underground waterway shook violently water churned drastically and splashed out of the pools, if another attack came about a cave in would occur and kill the three similarly to the victims in Alyssa's dream were killed. Serah and Noel made it out of the blast with simple scrapes and bruises, a small trickle of blood dripped here and there, and jumped out of the blast and onto the stairs they took to get down here. When they landed Serah collapsed from bodily fatigue and pain from the exercise she previously endured.

"You alright?" Noel asked kneeling down beside the tired girl, Serah looks up and Noel and nods.

"I'm fine, we have to get out of here otherwise we will be living someone else's nightmare."

Noel picks the girl up and carries her out toward the exit, far enough to get away from a powerful gale surrounding the interloper, the clouds dissipating from sight and destroying the waterway from the flood, Mel stood alone with her golden blank eyes fixed to the pathways she and her comrades had taken. A ghost like presence wraps its deadly chains around the teen in a satisfied embrace and whispers eerily,

"Kill them."

Mel feels the presence lessen and in false control again follows mechanically after her friends turned prey.

Outside the tunnels completely caught by the falling rain again the two suddenly stop and looks around for cover. At their slow pace they wouldn't make it far for help if they were being chased, however there was a certain 'Chocobo' woman leaning against the wall with her head down who they could get help from.

"Chocobolina!" The two cried simultaneously, their voices startling the poor, unknowing woman awake. Jumping out of her feathers Chocobolina looks up and spots the duo limping hastily towards her, she smiles again awaiting to do business. But as she sees their current condition something serious was going on and she knew it, change of plans.

"Oh, it's you two again! you look like a few monsters chewed you up and spat you out! Well being my favorite customers I have some X potions on me, use it it's free of charge just don't let anyone else who comes to me for supplies know." The feathery woman says cheerily as she hands the two each a canister sized glass bottle with glowing blue liquid inside, the two adults opened the cork and slowly drank the liquid feeling the peppermint taste cool and burn their throats soothingly as their injuries and energy were taken cared of instantly. Putting her 'hands' on her ones Chocobolina leaned forward to examine her current patrons and curiously asked them,

"What really happened to you guys? I doubt monsters were the culprits in doing a good number on you like that." Serah, Noel and Mog look at each other and closed their eyes in contemplation, trying to figure out why they were attacked as suddenly as they were down their by their friend.

"I got an idea!" The pinknette cried as soon as an imaginary lightbulb flashed above her head and turned to the three before her.

"Mel is training us obviously! And figured to do a preemptive strike for the later fights that we might encounter as we progress through our journey, the answer was right there in front of us and neither of us saw it down there... I think we got a bad score on it for running away, actually..." Serah explained as she hung her head in the end of her sentence, Noel nervously chuckled and scratched the back of his head at the realization to what a cowardly act they committed when they were being tested, however the brunette felt a small thing that differs from the smaller girls conclusion.

"Well I can understand that Mel was training us in order to defend ourselves from an enemy that catches us from the back but why do I have this feeling like we were going to die down there?"

Just as he stopped talking a great explosion occurred from the structure the party exited from, debris fell like hail with thin smoke following behind aiming in all directions of the blast and within the vision of the moon obscuring the pale light with her frame and wings was Mel looking down then finally catching sight of her prey with feral eyes, canines protruding past her lip by and an inch in a half. Her hair looked just as pale as Weiss Schnee, from RWBY, and black armor replaced the teens clothes and the blue glow of the buster blade turned crimson red. Something was wrong but the two couldn't figure it out.

"Mel looks different! Lightning told me he took different forms based on the powers he was given, this must be the dark abilities he carries." Serah says sternly while she observed her teacher. Noel grabbed his weapons and stood in his battle stance with a scowl written on his face.

"Yeah? Well looks like someone wants to play bad guy, and he really is taking this way too far. Serah get ready, he's coming!"

Serah obeyed and Mog became Starseeker in an instant and readied an arrow at their opponent. Mel sensed defiance, let out an animalistic shriek and swooped down towards the two like a vulture ready to kill.

Battle Sequence Engaged:

Mel, being exploited subconsciously, did an aerial dive at a blinding speed with her mechanical arm stretched out ready to rip someone's throat out. With much quicker reflexes than his companion Noel pushes Serah out of the way to fall upon the ground while he rushes upward along the wall of the structure behind them and jumps off and over Mel, completely missing her target. As the Interloper missed her attack went through the structure with ease as she passes through with red ooze melting the walls like very powerful nuclear acid in resemblance to the slime from the first 'Parasite Eve' corrupting what it touched and dissolving everything to nothing.

"Holy shit! What kind of power does he need to train us!? That stuff looks lethal!"Noel cried as he run towards his fallen comrade and pulled her away from the building. Watching the slime drip and move a loud groaning noise was made, soon the structure of the ruins becomes engulfed by the slime completely and began to set ablaze, leaving nothing not even ashes in its wake but standing amidst the smoldering black char of the once great ruin stood Mel charging up an attack.

"Hit him hard and fast, that's our first option but stay away from him as much as possible!" Serah commanded and Noel obeyed the pinknette summoned fira spells through her bow and launched them while Noel attacked with a mixed tactic of fire, water, wind and ice. The attacks didn't distract the teen from charging up, the impacts of each hit made no difference, that by the time the charge was complete Mel threw her arms back with her head positioned high and her mouth agape. Crimson black energy formed from her mouth and grew the suddenly she fired the blast in a split second. The blast grew great ruining everything in its path as the energy lifted whatever was close by in mid air, delivering a powerful case of power being summoned, this energy aimed at the two left them stunned long enough for a critical hit to land upon the pair. Serah and Noel let out a horrible scream of severe pain being inflicted upon them as they wait for death to deliver them from this agony.

Grinning at the two in deep satisfaction the energy died to nothing, rubble and a large crater in the form of beam with a large portion of the ruins gone in smoke, was revealed after the damage had been done. Clothes were torn here and there, blood escaping out of grave, deep wounds as the party tried to move but with just a slight twitch of a single finger brought agony an despair while the two look through damaged eyes to see their assailant ready to remove them for good. Serah forced herself to endure the excruciating pain, failing miserably but still trying anyways, to lift her bloody hand up as if pleading for mercy.

"D- do, dohn't... Pl- cough cough... Peese..." Mel's golden eyes were empty, no traces of sympathy were there. She savored the ecstatic feeling of blood being spilt, removing her weapon from the belt sheath on her back Mel raised her weapon high above her head with the dark essence surrounding the blade enveloping the moonlight from above to figuratively destroy what light these two held in their hearts. Despair finally settled in the time travelers hearts as they waited to let death guide them, they were in really sorry states from the blast that nearly eradicated them and they were powerless to defy their fate now. As tears fell from Serah's eyes one clear word escaped her quivering pale pink lips.

"Lightning..." And the blade was thrown downwards.

Instead of feeling more pain or cold steel touching her flesh Serah slowly opens her eyes and notices the tip of the blade is right in front of her face, inches from piercing her skull. The blade appears to be trembling as much as Mel is too, her body shakes to the point of violent body spasms the glow in her eyes seem to flicker on and off like a child playing with a light switch, groaning in pain almost as if fighting something inside of her Mel withdraws the blade to the destroyed ground around them putting her hands to her head clawing at whatever she felt was there, letting out a defiant scream.

"STOP IT!" Mel shouted to the heavens as she moved backwards, indecisive like a madman wanting to attack but remain cowering in fear of his caregivers. Gaining what little control the interloper stole back Mel looks at Serah and Noel with regret and shakily aims her scarred hand at them sending a very powerful healing spell their way. Once the light enveloped their bodies and vanished in an instant Serah and Noel got back to their feet no longer holding their previous conclusion with any thought of this being training. Their weapons, stances and eyes were dangerous and low with betrayal being a factor of this new resolve as they were torn between hatred and doubt to their teachers actions.

"Please..." Mel said shakily with a demonic echo following her voice.

"Stop me... Please stop me from this madness! Don't let the darkness consume me! Please..." Mel cried out as tears of blood replaced the tears of a human being, her voice trembling with anguish.

"Why should we even help you!? You nearly killed us not too long ago, you destroyed Bresha Ruins and you want us to help you after all that crap?! Bullshit! I'm going to end your life right here, I knew I couldn't trust an Earthling!" Noel cried and charged swinging his blade ferociously and powerfully. Out of instinct Mel countered each attack with ease and did whatever in her power to restrain the urge to gut the man attacking her with her free hand. Sparks flew from metal crashing upon metal and Serah stood on the sideline watching as carefully as she could manage.

'Something is certainly wrong here, not too long ago Mel was seconds away from ending our lives and that dark tension surrounding his body had stolen everything from me. Right now, he is different. How can that malicious feeling from before be immediately replaced with this new feeling of very heavy penitence emanating from his being? It's almost as if something is manipulating him... Making the decisions and has no choice but to obey and is now fighting for control...'

"Almost like a puppet...!" The thought suddenly dawned upon Serah as she realized why her friend turned against them, closely watching her friends fight there was restriction in Mel's movements while she noticed Noel was letting loose and she has to warn Noel.

"Noel! Mel is nothing but a marionette! Something's controlling him against his will! We have to save him!" She screamed as the pinknette shot a strong enough arrow to knock the struggling teen onto her back away from Noel, his breathing was laborious.

"He's just a puppet?! No way in hell I'm taking that pill and swallowing it like that, Serah! Come on! Open your eyes and face reality here! He almost killed us, and if we don't fight back Lady Luck won't help us again!" Just as the brunette turned his attention back to his enemy a heavy boot met his face with tremendous force it shook the ground once more upon impact knocking the man who was struck out cold. Serah tried to rush to her friends aid but Mel, still fighting the alien influence within her, stood in her way. Serah was overwhelmed with fear as those pleading brown and gold eyes looked at her desperately with the dense feeling of death chaining her down to the earth. Once Mel moved as quick as an arrow whistling through the wind her blade was raised and came down upon Serah, luckily Mog transformed in time to defend the attack and the girl screamed from the strain that traveled through her pain filled body, craters erupted below the crying pinknette as more pressure was put upon her body, weapon and mind.

"Serah... Please! Stop me, kill me, do whatever you guys have to to keep me from destroying more... Please! I don't want to lose myself to the darkness! I don't want to become a monster!" The pleading sounds more urgent, more of a command than a request, however the action contradicts the words as the craters deepen and the blade Serah wields begins to crack. Grunting in frustration Serah finds the heart to relax and concentrates.

"Aero!" She cried and air magic swirls around the two and pulls the interloper away from her prey in seconds, she starts off staggered for a few seconds then recovers shaking her head away from the daze. Seeing the girl on the ground with difficult time trying to stand herself the corruption finally takes back control and moves in for the kill, just as Mel's shadow dawned upon the defenseless sister of the Champion a loud crack to the back of the head erupts the teen slumps forward into the ground with a small piece of skull poking out beneath silver, turning brown, hair blood oozing from the hit down into the flowing rain. Everything about the interloper reverted back to normal, besides the hit to the skull, and Serah could only look on in horror.

"Serah, you okay!?" Noel asked as he suddenly appeared from behind the teen trying to calm the shook up girl. Gasping and talking through breathes Serah finally spoke.

"You... You killed him, Noel! How could you!?"

Noel replied with a shake of his head and answered with words.

"It was the only way to protect ourselves, besides he said it himself, ' do what you have to in order to stop me.' Not like I had a choice." Staring at their once good friend Noel shook his head again as he puts his fingers on a wrist of their dead friend, checking for a pulse.

"He's unconscious... His pulse is weak but it's still there. I say we heal ourselves up and leave him to die... That what he really deserves."

Grabbing his arm desperately Serah tries her best to talk him out of it.

"We can't leave him like this! Please, Noel! We have to help him, it's just not right!"

"I'm sorry but we are leaving him whether you like it or not, and if you continue to help him by trying to convince me otherwise I am taking you back to Alyssa and I will have to make you come back to your senses!" Noel wraps both strong arms around Serah, trying to kick her way out to no avail, and drags her away from the body.

"Remember why we are doing this, we have to save the future and find your sister. If we have to leave her friend gone crazy to die from keeping us from our goals then we have to!" By the time the protests were gone nothing remained but the sound of the dreary rain splashing within the puddles around the dying Interloper.

Mel's POV:

'I remember seeing Lumina and she kissed me again but she took over my body, her taint corrupted me. I attacked Serah and Noel and nearly killed them TWICE! I swore to Lightning that I would protect her and I really f**ked up very bad! And right now I could acknowledge the feeling of betrayal from them but I felt so much more guilty that in the end Serah was still trying to help me, even after the pain and shit I made them go through. Physically I excel but mentally and emotionally that is what made Lumina twist me into becoming her puppet. I am no fit to protect anyone if I can't control myself from someone I can't fight directly or not, damn her for looking like the Farron sisters if she didn't I might have killed her without hesitation, but no matter what kind of hell I've been through I am still weak hearted... Go ahead and sue me for that I don't give a crap! I failed Light, failed Serah but mostly I failed to myself, and I deserved to be abandoned for my crimes...'

Just as though all light had faded from wherever I was blinded by something, when the force faded the world around me was white and standing in front of me was Lightning.

'Oh, shit...' I thought to myself as looked up, I was face down until she came so... Yeah.

"What are you doing? Your just lying there with misery stinking up the room here, Mel." I sarcastically laughed, monotone, before replying,

"Very funny Light. What, did Fang teach you that or did you make that up yourself?" Usually I would be scared for dear life but right now I'm going to accept the consequences that are coming my way for being so easily manipulated. But what Light did just shocked me. Her hand rested on the back of my head where Noel had hit me, granted the wound wasn't there but when she touched it the pain was there somehow. Her cerulean eyes looked into mine but what she felt right now was a mystery, but the expression she wore was soft and not very strict.

"I saw what happened and I don't blame you for attacking my sister and Noel but I won't forgive you for attacking her while letting someone else control you because you can't control your own emotions!" my head dropped in shame, yeah I won't let you forgive me so easy Light, no one should anyways. For my sake.

"You're right, and I don't blame you for not forgiving me. I thought I was strong, stronger than anyone from my world, that I could overcome anything but as always I was wrong... I don't deserve your forgiveness, not anyone's, I just want to help set things right! But I want to be free from my role as a tool of death, Light!" I explained heart broken and I realized how much I messed up with the delusion that I could play God in a different world, I knew this from the start I couldn't do that but I just did it and I couldn't just accept what was ahead of me, where the Impossibles could be reached. And for my delusion it sent me to my death. Light came close and her arms were wrapped around me in comfort, her armor made me shiver since it was cold but I don't care I just want to feel safe again.

"Please, don't pity me, don't anything me. I deserve to die..." I told her defeated.

Light tightened her embrace and her head was buried in my neck, she smelled like roses, but I hate her, I hate you Light don't show me any sympathy just let me be!

"I'm not going to let you give up just like that! You want to know why? Three years ago when we said good bye I thought about our journey together and for most of that expedition we went through you wouldn't let us drop into the hands of despair no matter what. Your heart showed me your intentions to continue even after you lost your limbs, when it was time to go. You even pulled me out of the dark a few times, so as long as doubt begins to be nurtured in your heart I'll be there to pull you out."

I looked at her soft pink hair since I couldn't see her face, tears filled my eyes as the white area became a field of white and yellow flowers it reminded me of 'Final Fantasy: Advent Children'.

"Why, Lightning? Why are you doing so much for me when its your sister that desperately needs you? She needs you more than me, you know?" I asked feeling more scared of her answer than I was when we were hiding at her house in Bohdum that night.

"You know I can't help her while I am here in Valhalla, and I can help you because..."

She was silent for eternity until she spoke again, her words made me feel deaf and my heart stopped when she said those words.

"Because I love you."

The world around me began to drop like Sora did in 'Kingdom Hearts' but Light released me and let me fall. Finally letting the questions come to me last minute it was now or never.

"How do I make amends with your sister!? Why do you 'like' me, of all people!?" As Light faded into the world above growing more and more distant with the darkness surrounding me her voice only managed to answer one question.

"Just tell them the truth." And my eyes were covered again.

Back in Bresha Ruins I woke up standing with the pain and fatal injury to my head healed and gone, no trace of it remained. I looked up to see Atlas was gone and the rain had stopped, I walked around the corner of the building I destroyed when I was under Lumina's control and there stood Noel and Serah behind Alyssa staring at the grave she dreamed of. The grass crunched under my feet as I walked towards them, when they looked to see who it was Noel immediately drew his weapons pointed at my throat and I stopped. I breathed deeply from guilt and looked at the two square in the eyes, ignoring Alyssa, and finally found the courage to talk.

"I own you guys a really big explanation, huh?"

A/N: man this chapter was so freaking long for me to type out! Crap, I had writers block since last year and now I can post some more stuff! I really hope this was a good chapter, I had help from another author 'Deiru Tamashi' that gave me this great idea today and it really helps. I am open minded to anyone's ideas if you all have something in mind, if any of you have ideas just let me know I'll review it and see how it goes for History Rewritten but it's all up to you guys, not forcing anyone here but you know, yeah. Oh big thing; Lightning confessed! Damn, SOLDIER girl... Why you like Winters huh? Eh, did this just to change the pace from so many Flight and I think 'Lanille' I'm not sure but you know how pairings go. Well, Hope this was good, leave a like, review, comment, flame, etc. the usual and I'll see you all the next time, hopefully the next chapter won't end in another cliff hanger, so until next time, Ciao!