Written by me sukura123

Chapter Five: Battles and Consequences

Snow led Hope's mom and I down the path which resembled something like a highway. My brown eyes were scanning the area the whole time while running. He introduced us to his teammates Gadot and Lebreau. We ran passed a blocky looking area, and slid through a tight space. This is where encountered our first battle.

The fight ended in only a matter of seconds - Snow did most of the work using his fists. We encountered several more battles as we made our way to wherever our destination was. Using a gun was pretty easy for me. I was a natural. It was nice to be a part of a cool team. I quickly learned that Hope's mom was called Nora. She proved herself to be a very strong woman.

We passed a floating ball thing. I reached out to touch it and it stopped spinning and opened up for me. I found a bangle.

We passed several people who either had on normal clothes or in the same robes as Vanille and Hope. They looked so sad, like there was no room for hope or anything positive.

"Here Nora, you can have this." I said giving the bracelet to her. She smiled and thanked me and we caught up to Snow. I understood that he was the "hero" type person and thought he could take on the world. He was a cool guy though, always looking out for Nora and his friends.

Striking up a conversation, Snow asked me, "So your name is…?"

"Krystal, and Vanille said I fell from the sky or whatever."

Snow raised an eyebrow. "Okay. Well, it's nice to meet you. Considering the circumstances, this isn't really the best time to chat. Let's get moving you two." He said.

In the distance I saw a solider standing on a pillar shouting orders. "Mobilize the beta force. Put down the resistance." Then he aimed his gun in the air and fired a few shots as if he was signaling someone.

The sound of an airplane or hovercraft caught my attention. It was carrying a rather large beast. It was called Beta Behemoth. It jumped down toward the surface and landed a few feet away from us. Calling it big was an understatement, it had its teeth bared and its glowing red eyes frightened me a bit.

I started to inch back a little bit, when Snow said. "Heroes don't run from fights!" His tone was every bit of confident and bravery to the max. He did his signature punching- his- hands- together- thing.

I put on a brave face. Right! I thought to myself. Nora had the same level of confidence as Snow. The beast stood up and was tall as hell. What the- I began to think, I had stopped due to shock. And it had the nerve to charge at us!

The battle began. The beast went first and swiped at us with its huge claws. We all staggered back from the blow. Lucky for me, it wasn't as painful as I thought it would be.

"Don't worry ladies, we can do this!" Snow said recovering instantly and landing a few good punches here and there. Nora and I were firing our guns constantly trying to help. With our combined teamwork, the behemoth was defeated. I breathed a sigh of relief.

We came into an all-out war shoot out. Cilvilians were shooting at the PSIcom guys. Snow's friend Gadot stepped in and eliminated a few of them. Meanwhile, Nora, Snow and I crouched down behind the resistance group.

All of a sudden a hovorcraft rounded in front of all of us and began shooting. The pounding of bullets hit most of the resistance force in their bodies and sent them to their deaths. I turned my head away and closed my eyes, it was horrible.

Gadot looked toward Snow and yelled, "Snow! We got trouble!"

Snow looked around frantically or shook his head and said, "Yeah, no kidding."

He turned towards Nora and I, we were still crouched down. "Stay here." He ran off towards the gun in the middle of area. I turned my head to look at Snow as he dived forward to try and retrieve the gun.

He missed and looked kinda pissed. Snow looked in front of him and in the middle of hovercraft was a humongous gun aimed at him. Utter defeat was Snow's facial expression.

"Snow!" I called out to him. He closed his eyes just as the gun was about to fire.

The hovercraft was hit by a small rocket and lost its balance. Snow opened his eyes and looked back to see Nora. He knew she saved him, and silently thanked her.

"I told you didn't I?" She reached down and gave Snow a helping hand. "Moms are tough." She gave him a small smile.

After helping him up, I looked up and saw the hovercraft getting ready to shoot again.

"Nora, Snow, LOOK OUT!" I yelled running over there.

The blow came fast and hard, creating an explosion behind Nora. Because of its great force, it caused her to fall forward, I had to sheild my eyes from the brightness it radiated.

After I opened them, out of the corner of my eye, I saw two figures on the other side of the area. They both gasped.

I looked around literally everywhere and called out, "Nora, Snow?"

To my relief, she landed on Snow, and he gently eased her up and held her. I was instantly at their side. I saw Snow look up and shake his head in disbelief. I followed his gaze.

Oh my god! I thought. Part of the brigde was slanted downward in front of us; we had no way of access to the other side.

People were trapped and falling to their deaths. I felt tears starting to form in my eyes. As the section of the bridge began to break even further to form a ninety degree angle, people fell into what looked like a bottomless pit of doom. The part of the bridge we were on lurched forward and we all began to slide off. Snow held onto Nora with one hand, and the other was strongly gripped to broken rail that was sticking out. I had my hands gripped on Nora's ankles.

Nora woke up instantly, quickly realizing the situation, she said, "Get him home...please..." she pleaded. She also noticed me still hanging off her ankles.

Snow was struggling to keep his grip. "Hold on." he said. Nora gave a sweet smile, and instantly tried to get out of his grip. Snow had a look a determination on his face as he tried to somehow pull us both up.

"Woah! Nora, it doesn't have to end like this!" I cried. I knew Snow was gonna lose his grip soon, but Nora would go first.

She looked at me and gave me the same smile. "It's alright Krsytal, but what you need to do is reach for Snow's ankles. Please look out for Hope." She clearly wasn't thinking straight in this situation. I mean how the heck was I supposed to do that.

"You're prepared to face death...," I already knew there was nothing I could do to prevent her or hell even all of our deaths, but I still had to try. "I-I'll do my best." I said choking back tears.

I prayed Raven was in a better situation than I was. As soon as I attempted to move one hand, Snow lost his grip, my brown eyes widened with fear and both Nora and I fell.

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