Me: Hey! Its me! I have returned! Once again!

Starla: You just never take a break do you?

Me: Noooop gotta keep writing! ^o^

Starla: ….lets just

I look around, my eyes were still adjusting to the darkness. I had a feeling that I should just turn around and leave but I couldn't. I had that feeling were you think something is going to happen that you will regret forever and ever. My eyes widened as I looked ahead of me. I slowly lost grasp of Hope's hand.

"So this is… the fal'Cie" He said in astonishment.

To me it was big yet it didn't look like it could do anything. We approached the machine and stared. I stood by Lightning and pointed at the machine.

"This is the…fal'Cie?" I asked

Lightning looked down at me, then up at the machine.

"Don't judge a book by its cover, Starla" She said walking past me.

"Serah is a crystal now, You gave her a focus, and she did it! You got what you want! Now let her go!" Snow started

I rolled my eyes. Talking to a machine wasn't going to do anything. This was hopeless nothing was going to make Serah have her life back again. It was useless. Nothing was going to change anything nothing.

No response.

Snow fell on his knees. Getting into a begging position.

"Please. Turn her back!" Snow begged

I felt so…weak. Even though I thought it was hopeless I still should keep trying even if I do think it will never change Serah back.

Snow sat up and touched his heart with his right hand. I was worried what he was going to say.

"I'll be your l'Cie instead!" Snow screamed at the machine.

No response again.

I looked up at Lightning, she had this irritated look on her face. She sighed and pulled out her sword.

"Fine, you go on begging. Like this thing gives a damn what we want!" Lightning screamed and slashed the machine with her sword multiple times.

"Lightning" Snow called out

She grabbed her arm and started panting. She took a deep breath and looked at the machine.

"its this things fault that the purge started, and its people who are dying. Serah told us to save cocoon. That means this thing needs to die" Lightning protested getting back into her fighting position.

I opened my mouth but was cut off by the machine starting to glow bright yellow. The floors were starting to turn on. As a matter of fact everything was starting to turn on. I looked all around me and observed what was happening. These metal spinning tubes came out of ground from each side of the machine. They were light blue and had different designs on them.

The machine started opening, making a blind light so it was hard to see. Lets say the thing looked like a transformer?

Lightning got in her fighting position and stood there.

"Come on now, you really think you can kill a fal'Cie?" The afro guy asked.

"I'm doing this for Serah" Lightning said swinging her sword and back into a fighting position.

Snow nodded his head and got into his fighting position.

"Dajh…" The afro guy muttered. I turned to him with a confused face.

"What's your name?" I asked the afro guy.

He looked at me and mumbled his name.

"What! I cant hear you!" I said

"Sazh" He mumbled.

I nodded and smiled

"That's an awesome name! mine is Starla" I introduced.

I pulled out my gun and smiled tightening my gloves. I smiled and pointed my gun at the fal'Cie.

"Alright I'm in" Sazh said

I smiled and nodded my head at him as he took out 2 guns.

"As long as you don't mind a amateur" Sazh said standing by my side.

"Got these things, might as well use them" Sazh suggested

"Thanks." Lightning mumbled

I smiled and I looked at everybody. Hope and Vanille seemed to be somewhere but I couldn't find them. I turned back to the machine and smirked.

"Lets do this" I muttered loading a bullet into my gun. I pointed it at the machine and snickered.

I shot as quickly as I could. I shot a bullet at the main. I watched as lightning went up attacking the main part of the machine. I stayed in my spot and shot more bullets at its main along with Lightning. Nothing seemed to be working. I ran over to one of the arms and started shooting at it. The machine started to growl. I know that might sound weird but that's what it sounded like.

Snow followed me and started grabbing onto the fingers of the machines hands. I started shooting along with Sahz who followed where I was shooting. I shot bullets at the other arm and it fell down.

Snow and Lightning ran to where a big round ball of light was shining. The monster was trying to grow its arms back. Snow and Lightning kept stabbing it and punching it as much as they could. I squinted one eye to get a good look at the ball of light. I looked at my gun and saw that there was 1 bullet left. I frowned. I had a lot of ammo in my pouch I just couldn't change it that fast enough. This was my only chance to show what I could do. I pointed the gun at the ball of light.

"bulls eye" I mumbled and shot my last bullet.

The bullet seemed to go in slow motion everything did. I widened my eyes as I saw the bullet go straight into the ball of light and hit it. I squinted my eyes and realized that the ball of light wasn't really a bal of light. It was a block of bright white crystal.

The bullet shot at the crystal and I covered my mouth. I was so…so…proud? Nervous? I couldn't explain this emotion. But I felt something creep up my back. A feeling was coming, a feeling telling me I chose my path and it was too late to turn around and leave. What was this feeling telling me?

But soon enough everything began shaking and it became white.

We were floating? I looked up and saw a clear crystal shining. I looked all around me, observing the scene. Everybody was floating, in mid air?

"Where are we?" Lightning asked.

"I wish I could answer that question" I responded

I looked all around me. I really did wish I could. But I just didn't know where we were or more importantly what to do.

I- I mean we heard a ticking noise and right when it ticked everything started shaking. Each tick the crystal light got brighter and made everything shake even more. It would be dark for a second then imminently turn bright from the crystal.

"What's going on?" Snow asked.

I looked all around us. Well I really couldn't because I was floating upside down.

I looked at Hope and saw he was trying to come up with answers as much as I was. Hope was sitting up straight. Ugh! I could feel the blood rushing to my head.

Suddenly, the crystal above us started glowing brighter and created a buzzing noise. We all watched in horror and saw that the light from below the crystal blew its way up hitting the crystal and slithering its way up to the machine we 'destroyed'

My eyes widened. I watched in horror as the machine, The fal'Cie machine slowly got up and stood up straight. Everything was dark. The only thing that lit up the room was the fal'Cie that stood there staring. We all gasped. The fal'Cie was bigger and looked a lot stronger.

I looked over at Hope and grabbed his hands. Hope flinched but then saw it was me. I suspected that he thought it was some mysterious thing creeping up on him or something. Hope intertwined our hands and brought us together in a hug. I was shocked Hope was hugging me. It was weird but yet he felt warm. I felt like everything was going to be okay around him. I felt safe.

The fal'Cie or how I like to call it: monster. Shot these bright tentacles at us. It was so fast that it was like shooting a bullet at someone or something.

I wasn't even noticing what was happening, Suddenly I felt something grab onto my ankle and jerk me away from Hope.

"Starla!" Hope called out

Hope grabbed onto my arm and tried as hard as he could to pull onto me. The tentacle wouldn't let go of my ankle. I started screaming from the pulling, mostly the glowing tentacle. I could tell Hope was struggling. Another tentacle shot at my other ankle and pulled me away from Hope.

"Starla!" Hope screamed

Snow turned and saw me being wrapped around in the embrace of glowing tentacles swarming around me.

"Starla! No!" Snow shouted trying to reach out for me.

It was hopeless through this gravity. Even though we are floating it seemed as if we couldn't walk or move. Just let the air glide us around when ever or where ever it wants.

"Starla!" Lightning called out

Lightning tried to move towards me but failed she started getting an irritated look on her face. The tentacles wrapped around me tightening their grip on me.

"Ahhh!" I screamed out in pain

"Starla, hang on! Damn it!" Lightning screamed out

Soon more tentacles shot out. But not at me. I turned my head and saw everyone struggling to get out of the grasp of tentacles. I jerked left and right. Right and left. No matter what I did I couldn't get out of its grasp. I looked up and saw it open something and make a beaming noise.

I felt pain shoot at my stomach. A burning sensation that made me want to

Fall over and die. I screamed out in pain as everyone else did. I looked down at my stomach and saw my tank top had been ripped and a mark was forming on my belly. I felt like fire was dancing on my stomach.

The tentacles let go of me and let me fall. My eyes were wide open I saw a monster. Things braking. I saw those tentacles again. But why was I seeing these? They were flashes of slides. They were going by to fast. I couldn't understand what was happening. I think I saw a vision?

I suddenly felt weak. I couldn't do anything anymore.

I felt like the life has been drained out of me. My eyes started becoming lazy and were starting to close I slowly felt myself fall into darkness once again. I wished Hopes embrace was still around me

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