Written by sukura123. Enjoy!

Chapter 7: Afterwards

While still falling towards my possible death, I heard a cry of "NOOOO!" from Hope. Snow yelled his anger as well. I was wondering weather, he would save me or not.

Suddenly, the beam broke and he fell too. Nora I knew fully well was not going to survive. I started to scream, and had flashbacks of the good times in my life including my best friend Raven.

The last thing I felt was a pair of strong arms that were wrapped around me before I blacked out.

With me being out of it, Snow had to somehow save us both. He wasn't ready to give up yet. Right before we hit the pavement, he put me in front on his chest and took the full force of the fall.

A few minutes later he opened his eyes, he checked that he could still move, and he felt okay, except for the fact of a major migrane later…

He lifted me off of his chest, and made sure I was okay, which thankfully I was thanks to him.

"Krystal? Krystal wake up!" he urged. He shook me gently by the shoulders. I came to.

"Wha…Snow! We aren't dead?" I asked. He grinned and shook his head.

"Hey, girl, we are survivors." He held his hand out and I took it to get back on my feet. I looked up to see a big ass spaceship with a bunch of lasers. It was making some anouncement about people and Cocoon.

Snow got to his feet, and looked up at the big thing. He stumbled foward, "Serah!" He wasn't about to give up finding her.

"Well, um, thanks for saving me." I said shyly. How the hell he survived that fall, I didn't know and guess I never will. He just smiled again, and began to check his surroundings. He saw his friend Gadot a few feet away and ran over there. He lifted him up halfway.

"Come on. Come on!" Snow exclaimed. When Gadot didn't respond, Snow kinda slapped him a few times.

Gadot held his arm in pain. He looked around and seen the dead bodies littered on the floor in front of him. He instantly become worried, "What about the others?" he asked.

Snow sighed heavily. "They didn't die! They couldn't have died!" Gadot panicked.

"Of course not!" Snow knew his friends were tough to take down. Gadot got up and noticed Snow worrying about something.

"Get a grip man! What's wrong with you?" Gadot aked.

"Get him home"...Get who home?" He asked no one in particular.

I spoke up. "Hope, thats her son." There was a rumble on the ground beneath us. Apparently, ship pilots don't know how to fly that well... While I was lost in thought, Snow gave Godat a gun and he pointed it at me and Snow.

"What are you doing?" Snow asked getting in between me and the gun.

"So, what are you afraid of huh? Your supposed to be the hero." What the hell was Gadot's problem? He smirked and then gave a smile and said, "She's waiting there ani't she? Your bride-to-be".

"Come on Snow, lets move out." I said leading the way. Gadot grabbed my shoulder to stop me from going further because of the guards possibly ahead.

We began to walk when Snow said, "How could they?"

"Stop that sulkin and get your game face on!" Gadot exclaimed. I chucked in response. Way to lighten up the mood Gadot I thought.

We ran up to a pack of dogs and PSICOM soilders and engaged in battle. Snow threw a lot of granades, and I just fired away, I would need another gun soon though, my ammo was getting super low.

We ran further and finally our destination. We were gonna steal those flying cycles. Snow peaked around the corner to see how many PSICOM soilders there were. "On my count." He said. Gadot and I nodded.

On Snow's command, Gadot stepped out and fired a bunch a shots while Snow and I ran out to take on the rest. Gadot got in one. Snow went toward the other one and motioned me over there.

"Snow, these look like they can only take one person."

"Well, I'm not gonna leave you here, so hop abroad." I took his hand and somehow, we both fitted in the seat together. The boys decided to have a race without informing me about it.

As soon as we landed, I pushed Snow off hard. "What the hell man? No word of warning?"

"Heh heh, sorry about that Krystal, its an old habit." Snow rubbed the back of his head. "Hey guys its us, we are here!" We met up with Snow's other teammates. While Snow was chatting with his friends. I saw Vanille and Hope in the back. Hope seemed upset, and he looked at Snow like what happened was all his fault.

"Hey!" I heard Vanille yell, but she was cutt off by the roar of Gadot's engine. Snow was heading somewhere else to check on other people. I was fine staying behind with the others. They were cool. I ran back there with Hope and Vanille who was telling Snow to wait.

"Hey guys, sup?"

Vanille answered, "Hope had something to say to Snow. But he's gone." She frowned. Hope didn't say anything. Vanille and I went to the other hoverbike, and just messed around till Hope came up.

"You okay?" Vanille asked Hope. I feel bad for him, he did lose his mom and saw our predicament.

"I wanna tell him. Its just that-" Hope grabbed her arm. An idea popped in her head, and I automatically knew what she was thinking.

"Hey, do you know how to fly this?" Vanille asked.

"Yeah, I think so." Vanille was so happy that she shook Hopes hands up and down really fast. She turned him around and pushed him toward the hoverbike.

"Come on Krsytal, it'll be fun." Vanille said with a twinkle in her eye.

"Umm...I guess. Its gonna be a tight squeeze though." I got in behind Vanille who was behind Snow. Snow is gonna kill us.