Sisterly Love Chapter 5: Demons
The next morning seemed to have come quickly for Lightning as she awoke to Serah's squirming, and the smell of bacon. She slowly opened her eyes to see Snow sitting at the fire over a pan
cooking some bacon. Go figure the first thing I see him doing is eating, that's about all he does. Lightning thought as she carefully picked Serah up to not wake her and carried her over to the tent
she had regained consciousness in earlier without alerting Snow. She entered the tent to find Fang lying on her back with her arm over her eyes cursing Snow for getting her up so early.
"Easy now watch what you say his Fiancee is in the room." Lightning joked with her hoarse voice as Fang looked up surprised.
"Well look who's up sleepyhead I saw you by the tree, I gotta say the scene warmed my heart." The suddenly warm hearted Fang said as Lightning layed Serah down.
"I see they did quite a number on you." Fang remarked as she noticed Lightning's hoarse voice and the slight limp she was walking with.
"Right... not much I could do in the position I was in. But to my credit I did attempt a jailbreak." Lightning said smiling, as Fang laughed at the younger girls cheeriness.
"That jailbreak almost got you killed." Fang stated as she walked over and embraced Lightning in a tight hug. Lightning hugged her back and after a few moments Fang released her.
"How so?" Lightning queried as she gave Fang a confused look.
"If it wasn't for her you would be six feet under right now with all of us mourning over your grave." Fang said nodding her head in Serah's direction.
"Wow your nice." Lightning said with a pout as the two of them walked outside the tent to let Serah sleep in peace. Lightning went and sat on a log beside the fire as Snow just noticed her.
"Oh hey look who's up long time no see huh?" he said happy to see her well being. Lightning crossed her legs and yawned before responded to Snow's greeting.
"Yeah and look who's eating." She said before seeing Snow visibly cringe at the sound of her hoarse voice. "Is it really that bad?" Lightning asked as Snow shook his head while saying
"Yeah do you need some water or something? it must kill." Snow said offering her some but Lightning shook her head putting her hand out in front of her to convince him.
"No I'm fine. Really." Lightning responded before wrapping her arms around herself just now feeling the chili air on her skin as she was still in only her skirt and turtleneck from the night before.
Lightning felt some extra weight over her shoulders. She turned around to see that Sazh had put his jacket over her to warm her up. Lightning looked up at him mouth ajar and eyebrows raised.
"God Sazh your so corny." She laughed as he took a seat beside her Sazh put an arm around her and pulled the younger girl by fourteen years closer to rest her head on his shoulder laughing.
"Ha welcome back and the least you could do is be grateful you stubborn little girl." Sazh said jollily as Lightning looked into his face.
"Your in a good mood did the Rams win?" she asked as the older man shook his head smiling as Lightning just shook her head and adjusted the coat around her shoulders.
"Well thanks then Sazh I appreciate it." Lightning sincerely told him as Serah bounded happily out of the tent with a bright smile on her face. She knelt down in front of Lightning grinning at her
their noses about an inch apart. "I told you Lightning." Was all that she stated waiting for her sisters reaction, though it wasn't the one she was expecting.
"Serah what the hell are you talking about?" Lightning asked knowing what she was trying to do. Serah opened her mouth to protest but shut it again before squinting at her sister.
"So I think we should get moving." Lightning said to the group as they were all settling around the food Snow had prepared.
"What no! it's too early and Vanille's not even up yet!" Snow stated as a drowsy Vanille walked out of one of the tents she stopped when she saw Lightning leaning on Sazh.
"Well well look at the two lovebirds!" Vanille teased as Lightning turned bright red and ended up tossing a piece of firewood in her direction. Vanille dodged it and ran up and hugged Lightning.
"Welcome back." She said softly as Lightning hugged back. As everyone ate Lightning went and retrieved her vest from the tent and put it on when she came out everyone was done so they
packed up and headed towards the van. Lightning was leading them through the woods to the road when she suddenly stopped.
"Shit!" Lightning said under her breath when she saw the soldiers searching the van for any sign of them.
"Guys go back." she whispered as they came forward but before she could follow after them one of the soldiers spotted her bright pink hair in all the green of the woods.
"You there freeze and come out slowly." He instructed as Lightning was beginning to go forward Serah caught her hand causing her to turn around.
"Don't go." She pleaded as Lightning's eyes softened hearing her plead.
"Don't worry Serah I can handle them I'll be back in a second." Lightning assured her as Serah shook her head before saying.
"Then I'm staying here." Lightning gave a defeated nod as Serah crouched behind a bush that concealed her. Lightning stepped out of the woods only to have several guns pointed in her face.
"Easy boys." Lightning said raising her hands, as one of the guards stepped forward and grabbed her right wrist, at that moment Lightning quickly kneed him in the gut and did a spin kick
to his face knocking him to the ground. She continued with a front flip high in the air taking out her Blaze Edge in gun mode and filling a couple soldiers full of lead. Lightning gracefully landed
and switched her gun to the sword mode and made some lethal slices on two of the soldiers leaving one left. The final one was able to knock Lightning's sword out of her hand but before
he could bring his own down on her Lightning rolled to the side and sweep kicked him knocking him on the ground. She then retrieved her sword and plunged it into his heart. Lightning got up
from her knees and trotted back to Serah. "Let's go." She said as the two quickly made their way back towards their camp ground.
"There you two are what happened?" Fang asked concerned.
"As we were leaving one of the soldiers saw my hair." Lightning told her shrugging while Snow chuckled.
"Okay where do we go from here?" Sazh asked rubbing his chin in thought.
"Well the van is pretty much useless they'll be looking for it...but there is a airplane hangar near here we should steal one and get away in it...Sazh you can fly one right?" Lightning asked.
"Yeah piece of cake!" Sazh said smiling. They headed in the direction of the hangar while Sazh insisted on telling them all about the Rams game and how he wished he was there to see it.
After a short walk the arrived at the wall surrounding the runway. "Is this military property?" Vanille asked, Lightning gave a nod before snapping her fingers as her gravity shield activated
she jumped and did a flip over the large wall. Seconds later the door was opened allowing the others passage to the runway, she led them behind a giant loading crate and peaked around it.
"Looks like theirs only three guards around the plane." Lightning stated as she turned to Fang, "You take the one on the right, I'll get the left, and Vanille you snipe out the front." their leader
continued with the plan. Lightning and Fang snuck around the end of the crate and slowly made they're way over to the unoccupied plane, Lightning gave Vanille a signal and a second later
she shot an arrow into the front guards head solidly embedding itself in his skull. Lightning then silently ran up behind the guard on the left of the plane snapping his neck Fang did the same
as the guards were dealt with the others made their way onto the plane while Fang, and Lightning hid the bodies. Lightning went to turn towards the plane but something caught her eye.
"Hey Fang look at this." She called out to Fang with a shaky voice, Fang rushed over to check it out. The scene inside the building caused Lightning's heart to jump up into her throat because
what she saw scared her. Jihl Nabaat, and Yaag Rosch were in a room and it looked like Jihl was really livid about Lightning's escape as she was pacing and screaming while flailing her arms.
"Shit, let's go Light." Fang said placing a hand on the younger girls shoulder, Lightning nodded and headed off onto the plane. Ounce inside Sazh turned it on and took off Lightning took a
seat beside Serah who was sitting with Snow, she was surprised to see that they were both uncharecteristicly quiet. "Whats wrong with you two?" she asked as they turned to face her.
"Nothing just kind of nervous." Serah said, Lightning nodded as Fang came over with some ice.
"Here you should ice your leg get rid of that limp." she said as Lightning took the frozen ice and thanked her. She put it on her upper thigh and decided to close her eyes as the fatigue
from the last couple of days caught up with her she fell asleep. As soon as she was out Lightning began to have an odd dream, she dreamt she was in a forest full of black charred tree's
crawling with giant spiders. After a while of walking through this figment of her imagination a voice out of nowhere spoke to her "What the hell are you doing! your wasting valuable time."
A demonic sounding voice snarled at her, Lightning's eyes shot open and she sat up breathing heavily. Lightning looked at her hands to see that they were shaking madly, she took
deep breaths to calm herself down but couldn't stop the shaking.
"Lightning are you okay?" Serah's concerned voice came from beside her, Lightning turned to face her and nodded her head.
"Y-yeah I'm f-fine." Lightning lied trying to reassure her sister. She stood up to hide in the washroom to collect her thoughts she passed a sleeping Vanille who was drooling on her arm.
"Mmmmph!" As soon as Lightning shut and locked the door a leather clad hand was roughly clamped over her mouth.
"Hello dear." An all to familiar voice rang in her ear, Lightning's eyes widened as Jihl spoke. "Thought you could escape me that easy huh? well I'll have to disipline you my child."
"I guess I'll start with the lives of your friends, and your dear little sister thats a good start than maybe some torture I missed my chance for that back in Eden but I won't miss it this time."
"Mmmph!" Lightning struggled but Jihl had an iron like grip on her arms and she couldn't break free.
"Stay still little girl, now punishment number one- the death of your closest friends and only family begins in..."
"3"
"2"
"1"
And with that Jihl held out a switch and pressed the button. Lightning's eyes widened ounce again...and the plane exploded.