Awww my reviewers are such sweethearts :) Thanks once again for all your sweet comments on this, you all rock! I've actually been trying to draw Adeline, but I can't ever get the eyes right when it comes to drawing people xD Haha so bear with me on that, I'll just put a description of her on my profile now. It has been such a busy week at school, but thankfully I get a three-day weekend thank goodness!
BTW Adeline's weapon looks similar to Ivy's weapon (she's from Soul Calibur). If you haven't played that game, totally recommend getting it! But yeah so her sword-whip (for those who don't know) is like pretty much what it is. A sword that turns into a whip, though Adeline's probably going to use it more as a whip.
Enjoy reading chapter 3 everybody3
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I've Got You
Chapter 3: My Hero?
"Seriously....is there any other way to get to the other side rather than this?" Sazh sighed reluctantly.
"Afraid not," replied Lightning, "stay behind for all I care." She slowly, but confidently started to walk on a super skinny tube. Wow. Is there anything that she's afraid of?
Another dilemma! How surprising...not. This day has been full of surprises. Almost dying, meeting all these other l'Cies, fightning a giant snake thing (well...technically I was watching everyone else fighting...), and now of course there's more! You see, there's this big skinny tube thing that is the only thing we can cross at the moment. When I mean skinny, I mean it. I don't mind it that much, actually. Yeah...I'm not afraid of heights, but I'm afraid of snakes...and drowning. I don't even know if that makes me sound brave or like a wimp....or both! At the same time! Nice.
"Okay, do not shake the slippery tube! We cool on this? DO NOT shake the slippery tube!" Sazh said, panicking a little as we all started to slowly cross the tube.
"It's only scary if you look down! You should close your eyes." Vanille replied cheerfully as ever. Even at situations like this, she was still full of her perkiness and what not. It's kind of nice to have someone like that, especially at times like this.
"Close my eyes? You must be crazy!" Sazh was totally panicking. It made me laugh a little. At first I thought he was your typical mature, responsible, strict adult. Wrong. Total opposite. He's probably the most carefree person I've ever met. However, he does have his moments of showing he really is a mature adult occasionally.
Whoops spaced out there for a minute. It was my turn to cross. Slowly and carefully I managed to walk on this steel cold tube without any problems. Well, that wasn't so bad! I thought rather cheerfully. Whoa, wait a second. I just sounded like Vanille at that moment. Eh, so she's kind of grown onto me. I mean, it has been I while since I've hung out with one of my girl friends, and I'm pretty sure Vanille thinks of me as one considering the fact that she's always happy around everyone.
"Good job! You didn't look down once!" Speak of the devil. Vanille was jumping up and down out of excitement. There's probably never going to be a dull moment with her, I can bet.
"Come on, Hope! You better hurry or else we're going to leave you!" She teased. Oh, I almost forget he hasn't crossed yet. I saw him looking a little nervous at the intimidating tube.
Hope was a really shy person. Not to mention, he has a lot of fears. He's scared at....well everything it seems. I don't know what happened to him really. Maybe I could ask Vanille...should I? Meh, curiousity killed the cat.
"Hey Vanille...do you know why Hope always acts so...shy?" I asked
Vanille grinned playfully. "Hm? Do you like him or something?"
"W-what? No! I don't even know him! I was just curious..." I replied a little jumpy. She caught me off-guard, that's all. I just met him today anyways. Not even my type. I mean, he's scared of everything, way too quiet, and too innocent. And cute. Wait, no. Not cute...well not like really cute. Ugh I hate fighting with my concious!
Vanille giggled. "Calm down, I was just kidding! If you really want to know....." her smile turned into a slight frown...Vanille frowning. That just doesn't go togoether... "Poor kid. He was really shy when I first met him when all the Purgees in Bodhum were gathered. You see, there was an accident at the Hanging Edge...and his mom died there. So that's why he always looks a little down."
Oh, well that makes a lot of sense. Poor Hope...I guess he and his mom were really close. Me and my parents were never really close....little too late anyways. I saw him finally getting across the tube. I looked a little shaky, guess he was afraid of heights. No surprise there.
"Well about time you made it!" Vanille said smiling. "Let's go, we don't want to get left behind!" I looked to see Sazh and Lightning walking way ahead of us.
"Heeey! Wait up!" Vanille yelled grabbing my wrist and Hope's once again, dragging us with her.
For the rest of the walk I was kind of talking with Sazh a lot. He was a pretty cool guy, you know, for an old man. Haha, kidding, though I have been making fun of him since he's always wanting a break. Even is Chocobo agrees with me! Aww I love his Chocobo, he's so precious. Yeah...Sazh is an interesting guy! He really was getting a little tired though, so I just stopped talking to him for a while. I can be a little too talkative when I start, trust me. Soo....what to do...what to do. Talk to Lightning? ....No she seems a little too focused right now. Besides, she kind of scares me. I'm sure she means well and all, but you know...I'll just leave her alone for now. Okay....well there's Hope and Vanille? No...right now they're kind of talking quietly with each other. Actually, not that quiet. This is probably as quiet as Vanille could possibly be. Well....they won't know that I'm eavesdropping so.....
"Still couldn't talk to him?" Vanille said to Hope. Him? Wait...does she mean Snow? "You'll never get past this if you don't say anything."
"Words won't change anything." he said. "Next time we meet, he'll learn exactly how I feel."
Uhh yeah no clue what they're talking about. I'm just guessing they're talking about Snow probably. He does seem to get a little tense around him....but whatever! Huh? We stopped. I looked to see a broken part of an airship.
:"Looks operational." Lightning spoke. The next thing I knew she was jumping on top of it. She pulled out her gun-blade to give a good hit at the part where the guns fired. It started to shoot, breaking down a huge, crystalized wall that looked like it was blocking our path before. As it started to break, a group of Bloodfang Basses came hopping towards us. They didn't look so happy about the loud noise we they were on the brige, hopping and croaking loudly. Blocking our way. Challenging us. I saw Lightning taking out her gun-blade once again and Sazh getting his pair of pistols ready. Okay, this time I am soo ready to fight. Quikly, I took out my sword-whip.
Vanille looked at me excitedly. "Alright! It's about time you start using that!" As she took out her rod, I looked back at Hope, wondering if he was going to give it a shot. He looked frightened. Okay...nevermind. Vanille and I quickly rushed over to help out Lightning and Sazh. Nasty little things, though they weren't really as challenging as they seemed. I saw one jumping straight at me. Luckily, I managed to get my whip around it's neck, pulling hard so the blades on the whip would sink into it. After a few seconds, it fell to the ground. I actually got one! Yay.... Hm, I've been a l'Cie for quite a while now, but I haven't accidently tried to see what power I could possibly have. Was it possible to use magic? I guess I'm just going to have to find out next time.
We crossed the bridge. As we continued to walk, I decided just to look around. Everything here was complete crystal. It was kind of pretty in a way. Brice would've loved it....mom and dad would've too....I sighed. Too late. I shouldn't even be thinking of them right now. I already know there's nothing I can do about it anymore. We can never be that happy family I once wished for so much. Still living in Eden, happy, Brice....Ugh, snap out of it. Right now I have to think about finding out what my Focus is and completing it. Was it really what Snow said? To defeat Ragnarok, and to save Cocoon? Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.
I snapped out of my thoughts once I realized we arrived at a ruined looking city. It was completely empty. Probably only monsters lurking around. Even the once burning flames were crystalized. What happened here?
As if he read my mind, Sazh sighed, "Even the flames turned in to crystals. This is ridiculous."
"Well, we might as well check this place out!" Vanille said. That's exactly what we did. This place was ridiculously huge. It's a shame most of it has been destroyed. It's got that place-with-a-super-ancient-history feeling to it. It was just amazing.
So we continued to walk around. Still quiet....goodness can't anyone just randomly start up a conversation here? I would...but I've been doing that wat too much ever since I decided to tag along with them.
As if it were just my lucky day, Vanille spoke up, "So Adeline, were at Bodhum that night the Pulse fal'Cie were discovered?"
"Um..yeah I was. I went there for vacation with my aunt and uncle. They were really looking forward to seeing the fireworks." It just occured to me, were my aunt and uncle alright? I haven't seen them since...that night I left. It was the best for both of them. It was bad enough they were going to have to be Purged, but what if the PSICOMs found out they had a l'Cie with them? I never even bothered to tell them. It's better that way, isn't it? They're probably worried sick about me though....but they'll be okay, hopefully.
"Hm, that's weird, I don't remember seeing you when all the Purgees were being grouped," Vanille said. "But that's pretty much every single person in Bodhum! So I guess we all got on a different train?"
"Yeah..that's probably it." I said. What Vanille didn't know is that...I never got on one of the trains. That night where everyone was to be boarding on a train the next morning, I tried to run away, but PSICOMs got me, threw me in their airship. The next thing I knew I was at Lake Bresha, still tied up in the airship while the PSICOMs were scouting the area. It was my chance to escape, so I managed to get myself untied with my sword-whip and ran. Now, I'm just following these other people who got turned into l'Cies. How much stuff can a fourteen year-old possibly go through in just three days?
Just then, we walked into this huge area part of the ruins. Incredibly breathtaking. There were huge, beautifully crafted pillars still standing all around us.
Vanille walked ahead, looking around this place in awe. She was excitedly zooming all around the area.
"Stay close." Lightning told Vanille.
Vanille turned around smiling. "I want to look around!" she said happily. Lightning sighed and rolled her eyes.
She didn't wander off too far. The rest of us just stayed and looked around a bit, taking all of the beauty in. Suddenly, we heared Vanille screaming and running back over to us, with a huge, bird-dragon like monster right behind her. It was a dark purple color with a bit of light blue. It's eyes were a piercing slight greenish white color. It's wings were thin, but huge. The most distinctive feature of it was probably it's huge pointy red horn and it's skinny light-blue tail.
Vanille hurriedly hid behind Sazh. The monster was right in front of us now. Not good. It gave out a loud roar, showing off all it's pointy teeth. Looks like it thinks we've invaded it's territory or something. Guess we have no choice but to fight it. I took out my sword-whip, everyone else following the action. I gave a surprised look at Hope, who took out some sort of boomerang. Well, he picked a really good time to start fighting now, because it looks like we're going to want all the help we need with this big dragon.
Sazh, with his new l'Cie powers spent the first part of the battle pretty much putting these veils around us which protected us a little bit from the dragon's big swings. While he was doing that, Lightning, Vanille, Hope, and I went all out offense. It took a while to get it weakened, but overall it wasn't that bad. The monster's wings were getting lower and lower by the minute. We were almost about to finish it. However, just as Lightning was about to take one final blow at it, it started to fly around in circles rapidly. We all back away slightly as it began to glow with a light blue aura around it.
"It's charging up." Lightning informed us all.
"Charging? What are you talking about? Charging for what?" A yet once again panicked Sazh asked. Oh Sazh....
"It's last moments." She said. Sazh took out his pistols. Looks like we're going all out on this. Even as we were all attacking it at once, it didn't look like it was taking as much of a hit as before. Then I wondered....what about our l'Cie powers? I didn't even know how to use them though, should I try. I snapped out of my thoughts once I heard Vanille yelling at me.
"Adeline! Look our!" She screamed. The dragon was flying straight towards me, ready to attack. I screamed. I closed my eyes and held my arms up, using them as my only protection. I heard a loud blow hitting the monster. I opened my arms and slowly put my arms down as I saw it backing away, trying to shake a few flames of fire off of it. I didn't do that do. I looked around and I saw Hope slowly putting his hands down. Even though it was covered up by his wristband, you could see is l'Cie mark glowing. So he was the one who pretty much saved me. I'm going to have to thank him later.
I used my whip to try to hold the dragon down. I wrapped it around it's neck trying to suffocate it while the blades restricted it from trying to make a move. Vanille also held it's body down with her rod and Lightning, Hope, and Sazh were finishing it off. A final shot from Sazh's pistols finished the big beast off. It fell to the ground, blood seeping everywhere on it. It tried to get up, but fell back down in defeat. Not making a single move anymore. It was dead.
We all were a little exhausted after all of that. Each and everyone one of us panting loudly, trying to regain our breath. Vanille, obviously the first one to become completely energized, ran over to the airship a few feet infront of us. Just our luck.
"Check it out!" she said excited as ever, pointing at the ship.
"Come on. Hop to it let's go!" Sazh said.
"You know how to fly this?" I asked.
He scratched the back of his head, "Sure do! But knowing our luck, it's probably missing an engine." he said jokingly.
Vanille frowned. "You shouldn't be so negative."
"And you shouldn't get your hopes up." he countered. She pouted as we all boarded the airship.
The ship looked rather cozy. Or maybe that's just me. Well, hey, I've been walking all day! I took a seat down and stretched tiredly. Hope taking the seat right across from me while Vanille and Lightning were in the front. Oh right...I should probably say thanks.
"Hey, Hope?" I said trying to get his attention. He looked at me. "Thanks for helping me back there. You've got to teach me how to do that sometime." I said giving him my happiest smile.
He look a little flustered. He tried hiding it...it wasn't working. I giggled. How cute. My giggling didn't really help that much since he started to blush a little. Then he finally spoke up, giving me a slight smile, "You're welcome. I..I'll try to teach you how do do that maybe sometime." I smiled.
"Okay guys! I might be a little rusty, but no worries!" Sazh said as ge started up the airship. We fkew straight up. Great. Other PSICOM ships were surrounding us.
"Hold on tight!" Sazh yelled as we sped up. Everyone including me was pretty much screaming the whole ride. Too much turning...way too much spinning. I was getting super dizzy. This was worse than any roller coster Ive been on for sure. For a second, it seemed like we got them off track. A bright light was shining straight at us. All eyes widened in awe.
"A Sanctun fal'Cie up close and personal." said Sazh. "Cocoon's own light in the sky."
We only had a few seconds to glance at it as two ships behind us were shooting.
"Fly in." Lightning commanded. "We'll lose them in there."
Sazh did as he was told and flew straight into the fal'Cie. The other ships behind us followed us in and exploded inside the Sanctum.
Sazh gave out a hearty chuckle. "Heh, I like this fal'Cie!"
Just then, out ship got hit pretty badly as it started falling down. All of us screaming....blacking out.
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Ohh snap cliffhanger! So next chapter will be where you find out Adeline's past. Yaaay. I promise if I have free time tomorrow I will definitely try and update, if not the day after tomorrow for sure :D So yeah tell me guys what you think! You know I love y'alls reviews so much, they make me the happiest person ever :)