Chapter 3: A L'cie's Duty

"So how exactly are we supposed to do this?" I panted as we crouched behind a corner of a building. We had spent the last twenty minutes running blindly through Cocoon, or at least I think we were. I could only tell you we weren't in Eden anymore.

Lightning just smiled as she counted the guards, "Just follow my lead Kairi." she said as she pulled out a weapon that looked like a sword with a gun attached to it.

"H-hey wait!" I said. "I don't have a weapon, how am I supposed to fight?"

She just shook her head at me, "You're a L'cie now, use your magic." was all she said to me before she charged into the battlefield and started taking out the guards. I held out my hand to call out to her, but I only chocked on my words, so I shook my head and charged in after her.

It was only when I was in the path of chaos that I realized I had no clue what I was doing. I froze in place as one of the guards chased after me. In that moment I let my body take over as a fiery red blade appeared in my hand and I slashed through the guard easily, once he fell to the ground I continued my charge.

By the time I was able to take out ten of the guards Lightning had taken out the rest. She gave me a smile of approval and nodded her head at the door. I followed her with a bit of a smile on my face. "Did you see that?" I asked excitedly. I couldn't believe what I actually had done, I was powerful.

Lightning nodded, "Yes I did, you have one hell of a power." she admitted, "Just use it wisely." she advised as she continued down the hall to...wherever we were going.

"Of course I'll use it wisely." I said rolling my eyes. How else was I going to use them, rob a bank or something? "So Lightning, why do you want to try and beat your focus?" I asked.

She sighed a little bit. "Kairi, have you ever had anyone you'd do just about anything for?" she asked. Before I had the chance to answer she continued, "I'm doing this for Serah, she asked me to protect Cocoon."

"But Serah's dead isn't she?" I asked confused. I was actually surprised that she could keep going after that. If I'd lost anyone that close to me, I don't think I could keep going.

"Not forever." She replied. After seeing the look on my face she explained, "There's a legend on Cocoon saying that if a L'cie completes their focus they're granted eternal life. It's true in a way, once your focus is complete you turn to crystal and you'll wake up eventually."

I nodded started to understand what was going on. "So you never gave up on your focus or life."

"Wrong." she said, "In the beginning I just started wandering around, waiting to become a Cie'th. There was really no point to anything then. But then I found out Serah would wake up eventually, I started fighting for a way to live and rid us of our marks for good."

"You really have something worth fighting for." I smiled.

She gave me a bit of a smile, "I'm sure you do too."

"Like what?" I asked teasingly, it wasn't like she knew much about me.

"I'm sure you have a family you'd like to be with again, you also like you're friends...like me."

I looked at her with surprise all over my face. "We're friends?"

She nodded, "And I'm sure Serah will like you too."

I smiled then, "We'll be there together when Serah wakes up."

After that we finally reached a huge door at the end of the hall, which opened automatically. "We'll that's convenient." I admitted.

Lightning froze in place, "A little to convenient, as if they were expecting us."

"Yeah right, they're not that smart to expect us, especially since we just made the decision." I laughed as I kept walking forward.

"Kairi, stop walking right now!" she yelled at me.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I turned around, only to see a dark door of darkness starting to swallow me. "Lightning!" I screamed as I reached my hand out. But it was too late, the darkness swallowed me and I started falling. I wasn't sure how far I fell, but I fell for a while before there was a light and I fell through, hitting my head on the floor. At that point everything went black, my body felt numb and I lost consciousness.

Authors Note: Sorry if this chapter is really short. I have writers block right now and I really couldn't think of anything to write. I promise the next chapter will be longer.