.:Chapter 7:.

Wow, I am tired. -yawns- remind me to never stay up until 12 two nights in a row!

Sorry that it's kinda short. Sleep deprivationtend tends to do that to a person...

Also sorry if there are any mistakes! Couldn't be bothered to edit :P

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-Lightning-

"So what happened?" Sazh asked as he and Lightning sat down in her bedroom

"Well Noctis took me to a small coffee shop and we talked for a while." began Lightning

Sazh nodded. "Then?"

She shrugged, "Y'know me, I snapped. I got angry and completely went off at him. Then I used the crystal to teleport away."

Sazh raised an eyebrow. "You? Teleporting by crystal? Wow, you must have been angry."

"After what he'd done, I have every right to be." She replied bitterly

"Which was?"

Lightning looked up, 'Hm?"

"Which was what? What did he do?"

"He…I'd rather not talk about it." She looked away

"A problem shared is a problem halved, right?"

She sighed. He was persistent.

Chirp, chirp.

A sound came from Sazh's afro. Hina poked her feathered head out.

Sazh laughed, "Heck, even Hina wants to know!"

Hina gave Lightning the Bambi-Eye look. There was a pause from the strawberry-blond girl who then sighed. She was a sucker for the Bambi Eyes.

"Ok then." Lightning closed her eyes and reopened then.

Inhaling deeply, she told him of her days as a Keeper and how she and Noctis were friends. She retold Noctis's 'explanation' and what he did to her.

Sazh nodded his head slowly, and she was glad that Sazh was listening.

As she continued to retell the events and her feelings, she didn't notice the tears forming in her eyes. They did not fall; she still had an image to maintain, but her heart ached for the friend

she that had betrayed her.

This was going to be a long night.

-Noctis-

He gazed at the bright blue object that shone before him. It had been a while since he had gone to check on the crystal, but it would be safe. No one knew of this place.

Noctis

It had also been a while since he had talked with the goddess Etro.

Closing his eyes, he focused on his crystal and allowed himself to be taken to her. To a place no mortal man can leave alive.

To the land of the dead.

"I am here." He said, opening his eyes.

He was standing on a dark plane and it was night. It was always night here. Smoke was around his feet and it was misty.

Suddenly, he heard a woman's voice.

"Noctis Lucis Caelum, Prince of Tenebrae."

"Yes?" he replied as a dark shadow approached him

A shiver ran down his spine and his blood ran cold as he figured out what or who it was.

"What I am about to tell you is of most importance."

"I am listening, O great goddess Etro." He had to remember that she was a goddess

Noctis shivered again. He felt cold and empty. Like he was dead.

The goddess nodded and her cold, dead lips parted, "Now, Light of the Night Sky, I want you to listen very carefully…"

-Lightning-

Lightning felt…good. Great, even.

It felt good to let her feeling out like that. She had never done that before, not since Noctis had completely shattered her trust for people.

She liked that feeling. Telling someone the whole story, not just the same short, basic tale of what happened. No, she told Sazh everything. How she felt, how she had lost Aerith and was forced to move to Cocoon. Even how she had once had feelings for Noctis.

"So what are you going to do now? You still have a mission to do." he asked

She shrugged, "I don't know."

She gazed at Sazh's baby chocobo who was now fast asleep on her bed and her eyes softened.

"Do you want to kill him?"

"Yes." She replied firmly

"Are you sure? Do you have no place for him whatsoever in your heart?"

At this, she paused for a moment. Did she feel anything for him? She didn't know. But one thing was certain – she was angry with him.

"Yes." She nodded slowly, "Yes I do want to complete the mission. I want to destroy him."

"Well then," began Sazh while picking up the sleeping Hina and placing her carefully in his hair, "It should be no problem for you to walk up to his front door and carry out your plan, isn't it?"

Sazh made perfect sense. Why couldn't she? She was a brilliant actress; she had proved that in her previous missions, so what was stopping her?

"You're right. What is stopping me?" Lightning nodded

"That's the Lightning I know! Anyway I've got to go. Vanille's making me go shopping with her. She wants to look at baby chocobo clothing with me." Sazh grimaced

Lightning chuckled. "Good luck with that."

Sazh smiled grimly and left.

As Sazh was walking out the door, she thought about what he had said.

'It should be no problem for you to walk up to his front door and carry out your plan, isn't it?' he had said. What was stopping her?

Lightning headed out the door and to the Train Ticket booth just outside Team Nora's base with a determined look in her eyes.

What was stopping Lightning from getting revenge and finishing her mission?

Nothing. That's what.


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