Final Fantasy XIII:
Darkness Light
By
Skylight96
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Summary:
Darkness had been nothing but my companion ever since the day I was born. Blinding from the light around me as I fell deeply into the shadows surround my existence but yet… light could still reach me since the day I meet her… my light…
My name is Adrian Heathcliff and this is my story…
Disclaimer:
I don't own Final Fantasy XIII and the plot reference by Garrett 67.
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Chapter 2:
Survival Instinct
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"I had a bad feeling about leaving the kid alone" murmured Sazh concernedly as he shifted his attention to me for my opinion which I returned it with a soft pat on his back, trying to ease his tension on his crinkle face, saying "It's alright. It's his choice anyway" smiling softly before turned away to see the pink haired woman leading the group, "He's a hero after all"
"But… don't you think we should've… made him come with us?" asked Vanille as she turned to me questionably, having doubt about our decision of leaving the man behind to the PSICOM.
I shook my head with a soft smile adorned on my lips, "Nothing would have made him leave his fiancée behind. But I wouldn't worry about him so much. He can take care of himself. Right, Lightning?" as I asked to the silent pinkette which she totally ignored it much for my encouragement of pulling her into our conversation.
"Hey, maybe they won't find him!"
"Maybe, Vanille…"
Sash snorted and shook his head in defeat regarding the matter, "He's a bit hard to miss. Guess all we can do is pray he makes it out okay"
"Amen!" I nodded in agreed as I silently pray for his safety and wishing to meet each other again one day. I looked up to the ex-Guardian Cops far ahead of us and hurried to catch up the pace as I thought about Snow's confrontation with the pinkette. I know she's still grieving, I could feel the sadness around him but I knew Lightning well… She was a practical woman, proven by her decision of leaving Serah and Snow to their fate. In this game of survival, weak means death…so we have to move on, trying to be strong as we could in order to survive. That's one of the principal taught in SHADOW as well in PSICOM and Guardian Cops. Survival Instinct.
Finally, we encountered a large group of Terraquatics, a small frog-like creature (which kind of disgusting in my opinion anyway) that brought their prey down as a group and took them out easily. I shifted my gunblade back into its gun mode before Sazh called out to me, looking a little anxious about it, "Err… You're a SHADOW right?"
"Yeah?"
"I mean. You would know all their plans and how they might try to catch us since you're sent to destroy this place right?"
I blinked, "Oh!" and frowned as I hummed in deep thought, "Well, I guess first thing would be set up a perimeter" thinking about the usual point-of-view of an enemy as I glanced around, "Then hit squad roaming around the perimeter in hopes of finding any clue of the enemies. Some would have a tracking device to find it. But don't worry much, it's all depend on how far the Sanctum's willing to go to catch us. I don't think they would go such length in order to find us…"
"Don't worry!" cheered the enthusiasm orange haired girl as she skipped over to us, "They won't find us if we move silent enough!" then skipped away, humming a cheerful tone as she glanced around the unknown place in fascination.
I scratched my head at her departure and laughed lightly at her positive spirit before turned around to the older man beside me with a comfort pat onto his back, "I guess that girl right. I'm sure they won't find us" as Sazh chuckled weakly but firmly believe it as shown in his gaze, "I hope so…"
After hours and hours of walking (for me but it's only half an hour), we came across a large chasm in the crystal, with a large, black tube stretching across the gap, "OMG! I'm not crossing this!" I shook my head furiously, hugging a metal pole beside it in fear as I looked down to the endless pit below. I gulped my saliva nervously and looked up ahead to see Lightning and Vanille already across the tube-like bridge, leaving me, Sazh and Hope behind. Talk about Woman's power!
"It's only scary if you look down!" Vanille called out towards us as I sweating anxiously about it. I know it's pathetic, I mean what kind of Assassin scared of height? Me, of course. My hands were shaking as I looked up at the girls in fear, "I-I can't! It's scary!" yup, I'm pathetic alright.
Lightning stopped her track and sighed in defeat as she turned around to meet me, "Either you crossed it or you're left behind. Your choice"
"B-but… it's too high!"
"…Adrian"
"I scared of high!"
Lightning gritted her teeth and took a drastic measure I never thought in my life she would be doing. She walked back across the tube and grabbed my hand as she pulled me to cross it forcefully. I gulped and slowly squeezed her hand in search of comfort as I looked up towards her beautiful pink locks, admiring her view from behind and slowly descended down from the tube. It surprise me that she also returned it with her own squeeze and finally let go of our hand before headed out again to lead the way. I stared at her in surprised but slowly smiled as I followed her along with the others, "Thank you…" I murmured after I managed to walk aside with her which she returned it with a nod.
"…You're welcome"
Suddenly, there's a cracking sound above me, and I looked up to see a small chip of crystal hit me in the eye, "Ow! Okay, I'm hurt now!" I said, rubbing my ached eyes as I took the crystal away. I pouted and blushed furiously when I remembered the others were around me to witness my embarrassment which I looked down to find something interesting on my boots as Sazh trying unsuccessfully to stop himself from laughing to death, Vanille giggling madly to herself, Hope grinning like a grinning cat in Alice in the Wonderland and lastly Lightning who managed to crack a smile at the event.
"Not funny, guys!" I growled and absently rubbed the sore spot of the fallen crystal chip, trying to stop the unstopping laughter but only to be turned down as I could still hear Sazh sniggered quietly at me. I glared at the afro man and throw him the crystal chip in revenge, "Feel my revenge Afro man!" I exclaimed, aiming for his head which he successfully dodge and guess where it end up to?
If you're thinking Lightning…
-then you're right my friend.
I gasped in horror when the crystal chip hit her… erm… ass and frozen in place along with the others in our little party, watching for the ex-Guardian reaction of the action. She stopped and slowly turned around with her icy gaze, glaring deathly at me as I gulped down my saliva nervously and took a step back, "I-!"
…
A few minutes after…
I finally successfully managed to stay alive from the beating of the dangerously pinkette and walked cautiously behind her as I sent the older man an evil eyes for my misfortunate which he ignored and laughed about it in my face.
"Still couldn't talk to him?" I heard Vanille's voice asking the younger boy beside her in the edge of my sight which I totally ignored it to give the youngster some privacy, "You'll never get past this if you don't say something"
"Words won't change anything" Hope replied, "But next time we meet, he'll learn exactly how I feel" somehow feeling his eyes lingered to me, "At least someone tried to change that" looking down to his hand, "even though he fail…"
I perplexed over the exchange briefly, wondering the meaning behind the words but decided that whatever they were talking about they would share with us adult when they were ready… but I couldn't help had this feeling that Hope was talking about me with the way he looked at me quietly as he talked with Vanille.
I wonder what…
Ahead of us was a long wide bridge and at the end of it was a wall of crystal, blocking our path to the other side of the chamber, "Dead end" I murmured, standing beside Lightning who stared at the crystal as if she could shattered it with her laser like gaze but I think she could, if she get enough time that's it.
"Hey!"
I turned at the voice of the young girl and saw Vanille waving her arms while pointing at the wreckage of one of the Sanctum's warship that still buried under the crystal. Lightning and I went up to examine it, "I think it's still working" I said after take a quick look at its dented and cracked exterior. Like people said, don't judge a book by its cover.
"It will" agreed Lightning as I watched her climbed up to the gun attached to the ship and swiped at it with her gunblade, firing as the wall of crystal slowly break down into dust.
"Nice…" I praised her as she rejoined us which she returned it with a mere nod as I looked up once more at the warship in wonder, "I guess Lady Luck do in our side after all" I muttered to myself, thinking of all the luck we have along our journey to freedom. We crossed the bridge and went through a long crystal corridor which opened up onto a wide expanse of frozen waves. In the middle of it were a giant mechanical behemoth with huge claws and sharp pointy teeth (like any other monster), green armour and two long tendrils writhing from the base of its head.
"Ok, I take it back" I said, drawing my gunblade as the others prepared for battle, "Lady Luck isn't on our side anymore!"
"It's a good experience, though" said the orange haired girl, pulling out her weapon as she flashed me a smile in encouragement.
I shook my head in defeat and sprung to my target, dodging the swipe of the Behemoth's muscle foreleg and craved a deep cut into its vulnerable belly before rolling away to avoid its attacks. As Vanille and Sazh began to attack it with magic, Lightning dashed forward and lunged as I took covered for her. The Behemoth moved surprisingly fast (despise its bulky figure) and dodged sideway from the blade that Lightning intended to impale into the beast's head instead of piercing its large shoulder.
Lightning wasn't fazed by it and launched herself again, dragging her blade across the beast's back. As for me, well… let just said I do a great job of creating a series of cuts into its right foreleg and side, making it immobile for a moment for Lightning to deliver a finishing blow. The Behemoth roared and began to retreat , limping on its injured leg but Sazh decided to end it as he filled his twin pistols with magic energy and fired a series of fire-enhanced bullets flew into the beast's head, killing it as it become a mass of flesh and machinery being burned.
"I think I'm getting the hang of this whole magic thing" Sazh said as he holstered his pistols with a huge proud grin for himself in battle. Even I couldn't help but praised him for his excellent skills, "Good" Lightning said, sheathing her own weapon and turned away, "We'll need to be strong if we want to make it out here in one piece"
"Weak means death huh?" I asked her with she returned it with a nod, "…Survival of the fittest" she murmured, looking back at me knowingly as I smiled at the words and couldn't help but touched the golden brand craving on my black trench coat near my chest. The SHADOW logo.
"Basic survival instinct…"
As the memories of my training flashed inside my mind before a soft pale hand also touched the same place where my hand lingered on, causes me to lift up my gaze to meet a pair of soft icy blue eyes as she caressed the golden tread on my chest, "You must be remembering your survival test…" looking sadly as I smiled, returning her touch as I looked at the yellow strip marking her rank in Guardian Cops, "So are you…" I murmured softly, looking down to the ground, "But memories are nothing but weakness…" as I recalled my superior words, "Weakness could lead to death and death could lead to nothing" pulled away as I fisted my hand, "So, it's better to hide the memories in the deep of your mind or worse… forget everything. You're a tool. A puppet to destroy the enemies"
"That's what they taught you…"
I nodded as I meet her emotionless icy gaze, "My whole life…" with my eyes began to darken as I glared at nothingness before me, "That's my belief… Don't you?" I asked, looking up at her questionably with a sadistic smirk on my solemn face.
Silence swallowed us as Lightning slowly withdrew her hand and turned away, avoiding the spoken question of as she leaded the way. I looked up at her retreating figure before Sazh came by and stood next to me in wonder for the pinkette, "What's up with you guys?" he asked, glancing between us as I smirked and walked away to follow her, "Just a little chat about the past"
"Oh? You know each other?"
"A soldier always knows the other soldier. We have the same belief in life… and the same goals…" looking up thoughtfully as I thought about my past life within the SHADOW, "But some soldiers are different as they change their belief in life hence making them lose the purpose and act as a tool"
Sazh's gaze slowly softened as he patted my shoulder consoling, "Then you must be lose your purpose huh, kid?" he asked knowingly with his fatherly gaze as I smiled sadly for his words and looked down onto the ground.
"All my life…"
The sound of ships rent into the air caught my attention as I instinctively ducked, looking ahead of me as the others were lying onto the ground while Lightning and Sazh prone on the edge of the cliff, peering at something in the valley below. I hurried over them and followed their gaze, crouching down to avoid being spotted by the enemies. In the centre of a mass of PSICOM soldiers was a gigantic battleship, surrounded by the smaller one and some cruisers.
"Look at that" Sazh said, pointing at the PSICOM lurking around the area, "They're sending cruisers, pre-march must be sweating bullets, mobilizing ships like that. They must be hunting down Purge survivor" before Vanille and Hope finally joined us to see it.
"I hope everyone made it out okay" said Vanille worriedly.
"So do I…" I agreed, looking at the passing soldier below sadly, "But nowhere is safe for them now…" as I hung my head down guiltily.
"That's right! Just because they shared a neighbourhood with a fal'Cie… they get treated like Pulse-tainted rats" barked Sazh with his eyes darken at the sight.
"People really hate Pulse, don't they?" Vanille asked quietly.
"Not hate…" I murmured, "More like fear. Ten of millions of people all scared of Pulse fal'Cie"
"But… they Purged that entire town!" argued Vanille.
"It's crazy, I know. But the Sanctum fal'Cie did nothing to stop it" said the elder man as his voice took a depressed tone within every words he spoke before looking down to the crystalized ground darkly, "Up until now, Eden's always stepped in to correct their errors in judgement. Guess human aren't worth the effort" he sighed, "Figure they'll let us kill each other off"
Behind me, Hope stood.
"l'Cie are not human" he said.
I turned to him sadly and walked towards the young boy, "Listen here, Hope" I murmured, kneeling in front of him as I grabbed his marked wrist gently, "What make you say that l'Cie are not human?" I asked, rubbing the mark of the l'Cie on his, "We breathe. We feel. We talk. We walk. We smile. We cry. We die. Isn't that human enough? We have souls. We have minds. We're not a puppet. We made our own destiny. Don't let the fal'Cie control our life. This is our freedom. Once we complete our Focus, we're free. Just keep on believing and you'll find your way" smiling warmly at the young lad as I patted his silver locks affectionately, "Trust me…"
Vanille who standing beside us, nodded in agree for my words as she wiped the tears that had been pooling on the lids of her eyes and placed her hand onto the boy shoulder in support, "Adrian is right!" she cheered, looking at the others among us with her smile, "We're still alive. That's something!"
Suddenly, the ground began to shake as I braced myself.
"What-?"
"Where is it?"
"I don't know-"
The five of us looked up, trying to find the source of the sudden earthquake.
"There!" Lightning called out as she looked up, catching my attention from the boy as I saw several cruisers soared passed us.
"They're sealing the area off!" I shouted, "They're trying to trap the stragglers! We've got to get moving before we're caught in the net!" and got to my feet as I help the others out.
"WE HAVE TO MOVE!"
We moved among the hallways and chambers, trying to avoid as much as we could from the PSCIOM soldier's patrolling area to reduce battling with them and wasting our time, "Do you even know where you're going?" I asked to Lightning as we climbed higher, leaping from ledge to ledge following her lead.
"Lake Breshe was surrounded by towns before the War of Transgression. I think the closest one is that way" she replied, pointing in the distance to our left.
"I see… But won't it be crawling with soldier?"
"Exactly" smiled the ex-Guardian cop, "It's also where they'll keep the ships. We can hijack one and get out of here"
"…You're one crazy hell of a woman, Light"
As we moved closer to what was left of the glorious towns, more debris appeared in our path, sometime even blocking the routes (much of my displease in wasting my effort of jumping and crawling underneath it) and forcing us to detour around them. what worse if these detours put us within the PSICOM range! Sucks man!
"How much further?" I whined as I climb up yet another cliff with a pout on my lips.
"It can't be far, now" answered the leader of our party.
"Please let it be food on the ship" I pleaded under my breath as my stomach made its point by growling the hunger alarm.
We ran… and guess what? Another cliff! Yeah! (note the sarcasm… please) as Vanille hurried ahead to admire the spectacular view. Meh, even I couldn't help but enjoyed it as well.
"The whole place is crystal!" exclaimed the cheery girl as she pointed it out to us.
Sazh walked up to the young girl and looked out at the crystal expanse, "I wonder what it would be like…" trailing off with an amuse smile on his face, "To be a crystal, I mean"
"I don't know" I shrugged as I stood beside him, "Maybe staying young for eternity?"
Sazh scoffed and shook his head as he slapped my head, "Hmph! You and age"
Vanille turned to us and tilted her head to the side, "You guys gonna complete your Focus?"
"Of course" I answered and crossed my arms against my chest as I thought about it thoughtfully, "I mean after all we've been through, we'll get our freedom back right? Eternity doesn't sound that bad"
The rest of us were silenced, all thinking about eternity life given by the fal'Cie. What if we were wrong?
"Hey, Lightning!" called the orange haired girl to the older woman, "Did Serah say anything to you about her Focus"
The owner of the name sighed and shook her head sadly, "Nothing"
"Oh…" murmured the girl solemnly before dashing in front of the grief-filled face of the ex-Guardian Cop to ease her sadness, saying "Maybe she didn't want to worry you-"
"Or maybe she just… didn't think she could trust me"
Then, it all finally dawned to me. It must be hard for her to have dealing with the loss of her sister, Snow's insensitive belief that she could be save and the unknown destiny that she had to be faced- that all of us have to face… how does one cope with all that? I frowned at the gloomy thought and continued our walked in silenced with Lightning leading the way and Hope trailing behind us.
We finally emerged from a cavern to see the remains of the town and all that was left was a huge gate with some archways that were surrounded by ruins, "Whoa" I said, peering around me at the crumbling pillars and wall.
"This place must have looked real nice in its hey-day" said Sazh as he pursed his lips.
"Tell me about it!" I nodded in agreed.
"Let's go!" Lightning called to us men from the distance as we both sighed in defeat for the woman's order.
"I guess sightseeing isn't high on her list of priorities" I whispered to Sazh who grinned at my childish antics and moved on as we fallen deeply into our conversation. Just like I guessed, the ruins were filled with soldiers, and a few bioweapons (like I said, crazy scientist). There was a Behemoth that we successfully managed to skirt around undetected. Yeah! (thumbs up people!)
"Even the flames turned to crystal" Sazh said as he motioned to a cluster of red crystals that clearly (obviously) used to be fire, "This is ridiculous!" and shook his head in disbelieve. I tapped the crystal and chuckled in amused.
We came across a large group of PSICOM soldiers that was being leaded by one of the elites. The elite was much taller than the rest, even me! But it all thanks to the uniform which was almost regal in design. Meh! Shows off. Even SHADOWS doesn't have that fancy uniform. We're given a long black trench coat with SHADOW's seal on it. Talk about stingy.
"Those must be our cold-blooded beast" muttered the afro man as he looked at the leader, "They use some sort of devised for their magic. I don't think it's the same as the l'Cie stuff"
"It's not" I told him firmly, "PSICOM uses man drives to create magic, similar to AMP technology. But it's not as strong as l'Cie magic. Like I said, they all have a bunch of crazy mad scientists in PSICOM"
"Good to know" Lightning said as she crouched lower to view the army from our hideout, "That'll give us an advantage"
Yup! Another point for her practicality.
There was an old corridor that was barricaded by the fallen debris but there seemed to be enough space for us to get through (bliss my skinniness) and emerged on the other side as we dusted down our clothes and wiping the grime from our faces.
I pursed my lips as the small cuts on my cheek and jolted in surprised at the hand rubbing my cuts with a quick healing spell before turned to the side to meet Vanille, "There! All heal!"
"Thanks, milady" I said and playfully bowed like a pure gentleman as I rubbed the unmarked skin, "You're good"
A soft giggle escaped from her mouth and nodded her head, saying "Thanks!" and bounced off to the others.
Man, how much sugar did the girl ate? I mean, how could she be so… optimistic? To me, our situation was all but hopeless, and we were just postponing the inevitable. Even if we DID escape from the Sanctum's net, it was either complete our Focus and turned into crystal or become a Cie'th (which I totally against it *shiver*) either way, there didn't seem too many bright spots on the horizon. Talk about Positive thinking.
We approached a set of stairs (Ugh!) and began to climb as a chill creeping into the air, sending goose bump onto my neck. Scary!
"Something's making the hairs on my neck stand up!" Sazh said as he glanced around the place.
"You've got to stop worrying, Sazh!" said the girl exasperatedly, "or you'll got more wrinkle in your face"
"Nu-uh, kid! I'm getting the 'something-bad's-gonna-happen-and-it's-scaring-the-shit-out-of-me' vibe too" I agreed with the afro man as I placed my hand onto my weapon in case of emergency.
"We outran 'em" Vanille tried to console me (which I didn't believed it as long as the dangerous vibe still crawling inside me), "We'll be okay now"
The stairs opened into a large square space with arches surrounding three sides with crystal fire decorated the entire area. Vanille gasped audibly and running around the area as she examined everything she found.
"Stay close!" I warned at the excited girl as I watched her ran ahead of us adult.
"I want to look around!" she shouted back, slowly disappearing from our sight.
"Ugh! Youngster" sighed Sazh as he shook his head in displeased.
"Tell me about it" I nodded in agreed as I surveyed the unknown area for any threats. Lightning sighed with an annoyed look on her face and turned around to me as if she's about to say something when Vanille's scream of terror made us all look in the direction she been gone through. I narrowed my dark eyes to take a better look and saw she was running back towards us with a bioweapon chasing her from behind. Well, that's just great! (rolling my eyes internally of course!) and pulled out my gunblade ready to fight.
The creature that was flying, swooping towards the ground in an attempt to catch the running girl who luckily managed to dodge out of the way and causes the beast to crash into the wall before it. Ouch!
But sadly, the collision did nothing to stop it. (Aww~)
It roared and flew towards us in alarming speed. I glared at the Garuda Interceptor (the bioweapon) and shifted my gunblade into its gun mode as I turned on my battle-façade. I raised my hand to the girl and pulled her behind me as I shoot the beast away, "Get cover!"
The girl nodded shakily and run towards the back of our group to let us adult to take care of the problem. I crouched down underneath its tail and jumped backward between Lightning and Sazh as I shoot its body, "Next time, please listen to adult when you're about to do something stupid, Vanille" I scolded the young lady over the flapping of wings.
"O-Okay!"
Lightning ran swiftly towards it and sidestepped as the Interceptor lunged forward with its neck while snapping its jaw threateningly. The ex-Guardian Cops dodged and swung her blade to cut the beast open. Sazh was already firing his pistols beside me and leaving a trail of bullet-holes onto its wing. Me? I dashed forward at it and recognised it with a taint of I'Cie magic as the monster collapsed onto the ground, unable to lift its wing by my gravitational spell.
I jumped and brought my blades down to kill it when the creature swept its neck onto me, knocking me over onto the wall. I grunted at the impact and was on my feet almost instantly as I looked up at it angrily, "Stupid lizard!" I grumbled and dashed forwards… again.
My gravitational spell began to wear off and that soon-to-be-dead lizard was in the air again but there's no way I'm letting that beast go again. So, I jumped as high as I could with my blade pointing away from me to its wing. I cut through the thin membrane on its wing and send the Interceptor sank to its side as I impaled more blades into it. Adrian-1, Lizard-0!
As I withdrew the blades, Lightning used the opportunity to slash at it then flip away. Her gunblade shifted into its gun mode and shoot her endless bullet at the creature. The Inceptor roared in agony and swung its uninjured wing at me. I tried to flip over it but the wing was much too big to be avoided and sent me crashing to floor. Adrian-1, Bastard lizard-1! Harsh!
As I was crashing to the floor, I suffered a moment of confusion. I mean, I felt the impact but isn't it supposed to be painful. It barely winded me. It took me a moment to understand as I turned to side to see Hope cast a protection spell that been shielding me and grinned as he saw me unharmed. I sent the boy a grateful smile and stood up once again to return to the battle field.
When I was about to prepare myself for another blow, the Interceptor turned and flew back away from us, crashing through fiery crystal and crumbling ruin alike into another area.
"It's charging up" said Lightning as the spread its wings and began to glow.
"Charging? What are you talking about? Charging for what?" Sazh cried, uncertain for the event that about to unfold. I frowned as a white light began to surround the lizard with electricity crackling in the air around it.
"Its last moment" I breathed out, finally understood the reason behind its action as I rushed forwards to stop it. Lightning run right behind me as the Interceptor had a final attack to perform when it was reaching the end of its life and the attack would probably kill us along within unless we finished it first.
Lightning ran, faster than I could ever imagine. She was the first to reach the lizard-like bioweapon and then jumped as high as she could just as the light began collected on the centre of its mouth. It opened its jaw wide as it could and flew higher from the ground. Lightning wasn't going to make it. I knew it. She would probably be right at the centre of the energy beam.
Still running ahead to help her, I dropped my blades onto the ground and held out my hands in front of me with my palms opened. The energy burst from them as a mighty gust of wind propelled the ex-Guardian Cops up towards the Interceptor as she delivered her final blow. The light vanished, the wings dropped and Lightning wrenched her blade from the Interceptor's mouth as it collapsed onto the ground. Panting heavily for the enormous amount of magic used, I retrieved my weapon and holstered it.
"That… was a close one" I panted and turned to the fearless woman which she returned it with a nod.
"That was some quick thinking, kid" Sazh said, clapping me back in pride for my little trick out there.
"Yeah… Lucky break I guess" as I rubbed my aching back like an old man. Come on! The exertion from the battle had left my entire body aching. Give me a break, man…
"Let's not get into any more fight for a while, ok?"
Vanille giggled at my deadpanned look and then pointed behind us, saying "Hey! Check it out!" which causes all of us to turn.
There, at the edge of the ruin was a lone cruiser, still in a good condition despite the battle that had occurred around it.
"Come on" Sazh commanded as he approached the cruiser to investigate, "Hop to it, let's go!"
"Can you fly it?" I asked, walking towards the cruiser as I stretched out my aching arms above me. Well, I hope he could…because I'm totally not going to fly. I scared of the height remember?
"Yeah, I used to be an airship pilot, before this whole mess"
"Thanked god…"
"What's wrong, kid?"
I shook my head and shrugged it off, "Nothing…" stepping inside the cruiser, "Let's just go shall we?"
"I thought you scared of height" said Vanille as she looked at me weirdly along with Hope.
"Yeah… well, as long as we didn't crash. It's fine by me! Now! Onward my minion"
Lightning rolled her eyes at my childish antics and walked inside the cruiser as the ramp closed behind her. Blue skies, here I come!
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