Lira: Hi everyone.

Hope: What are you doing?

Lira: Lightning is still chasing the author, so I'm taking her place.

Hope: Oh, okay.

Lira: So anyways, I hope you enjoy-and don't be shy to leave a review.

Lightning: -Sits back down with a smile on her face-

Me: -drags my self to the room with lots of scars- Seriously no one's reviewed
yet. -faints-


Protection

By: PeachyPockii/Haikairi

Lira's View

While walking with Hope, I looked through my pockets for hints-but all I had
was a staff. I sighed;how was I going to find my crystal like this: lost and
ironically hopeless with a man named Hope. Why was I brought here to fight? I
had no special talents that I remembered or knew of. I once again looked at Hope;
he was holding a boomerang, ready to fight, and he carefully hid his knife in
his back pocket. Lightning; that word rang in my head. It was probably a clue
for him; if I never found mine, I at least wanted him and everyone else to find
their crystals.

"Hey kid, are you okay?" I flinched he must of noticed because he caught me off
guard, I nodded and continued walking as I saw Cosmos.

"Welcome warriors." She probably talking about Hope and I, though I thought
there would be more of us.

"Where are the others?" I asked as confused as ever; I did just lose my
memories a few hours ago.

Cosmos responded by showing us a portal with various images of people, a
majority of men. "The cycle has already begun." In various images, there were
people attacking using spells and magic. In one image, it showed a
huge display of a person freezing a man's feet to the ground to cause

disability.

Hope and I exchanged glances of fear before he replied, asking a question. "How do we
stand up to that?" he was of course referring to the powerful display of

magic.

Cosmos started focusing on her hands, mumbling once in a while. Her hands started
glowing blue, and got brighter-the more time it took, the shinier and more
radiant it looked. She quickly separated her hands and the magic shifted to
two smaller sizes, and she sent them flying to us. Though it wasn't as painful
as I thought it would be, it actually felt energizing and I felt powerful. I
looked right at Hope's hands he was delicately holding a flare of fire his
features indicated that he was calm but I saw his eyes secretly sparkle in
amazement, like a little girl looking at amusement park (ironically in this
situation, it's anything but.) I tried it only to conjure a tiny flame that blew
away almost immediately, I put my head down in embarrassment and saw Hope look
at me with an it's okay look and Cosmos looking at me "Don't underestimate
yourself Lira." What does that mean? I mean, I could barely cast a simple water
spell without it evaporating instantly. Why was I chosen to fight?


Hope's View

Lightning... that word continually rang through my head. I heard a feminine
voice, "Lightning: it only destroys." I looked over at Lira; though
it was feminine it wasn't her's, it sounded more mature-not to say she's
immature, I just meant it sounds older. Lightning... Lightning...

Lightning...

"Hope, are you okay?" I nodded as I pulled myself out of my trance. I wondered what
kind of magic she could use? Obliviously Lira couldn't use magic well, but I saw
the potential for it. Fighting didn't seem to be her best feature, so
what was?

"Hope, you're dozing again." I flinched as I saw we had already arrived-a
plain desert, a sky that was shades of yellow, orange, pink and blue, and the sun
was on horizon, just on the verge of setting. I looked back to the way we
walked through; the portal disappeared no where to be seen.

"I guess the journey begins." I saw Lira give a genuine yet nervous smile.

"Yeah I guess." I gave back a nervous chuckle along with a smile as we watched
the sun; the sky was a little more blue now, and we saw a couple of stars set out on
the sky.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Lira was sitting on one of the large boulders scattered
over the dessert. "Want to join me, Hope?"

"Sure." I climbed over the top of the boulder and joined her as we watched the
horizon. We watched for a good fifteen minutes; by then the stars were shining and the moon had replaced the sun. I heard a yawn coming from Lira; her eyes were kind of baggy.

"Hey kid, maybe you should sleep." She nodded as she saw rock arc, and she gently brushed through her skirt and sat down there, though she didn't close hereyes.

"What's wrong?"

She replied tiredly barely managed to stay awake. "Can't we be ambushed?" She was right, but I didn't want her to stay awake-we
had a big journey ahead, and the last thing I needed was for both of us to be

exhausted.

"Don't worry, I'll take watch." She looked concerned but nodded anyways, then
closed her eyes and leaned on the arc.

When I knew she was asleep, I pulled the mysterious knife from my pocket, trying my best to remember why I had it. Lightning... It only destroys. Those word continued to ring through my head. Lightning... what could it mean?


Lira's View

I secretly watched him holding the knife; he was
mumbling the same word. "Lightning"-he did it constantly, over and over again.
I smiled in the inside. He needs to find the hope he was named for. I know he
doesn't want to talk about it but maybe later I still have problems I need to
solve on my own-like how to survive.


Me: Well I don't know about you but for me it's the last day of spring break,
and anyways thanks for reading and Thanks to my beta Holly-Batali who I still
need to send this to.

Lira: So this is probably going to take longer to publish right?

Me: Right.

-Group Cheer-

Me: Hey!

Lance: Well you did freeze me and Lightning crystal and made Hope and Lira
lose there memories.

Me: -sweat drop- When were you here?

Lance:-Shocked- I was always here how could you not notice your own OC.

Me: Well you are you never talk and you don't seem to do much in these author

notes.

Lance: Well your the one who writes what I say.

Me: True, but anyways bye.

(Ps: Later in the story Lightning will have a huge role but not in the early
chapters maybe in the next chapter(s).)
Edit: My beta fixed the grammar mistakes and errors and I'm thinking of making it an Hoperai. 5/11/12