Me: -Drawing HopeRai picture during class.- Hey does this look cute?
Classmate: -looks- Aww it looks so cute can you draw me one?(using her squealing voice.)
Me: Sure. -Draws a copy-
Classmate: How did you come up with these.
Me:I didn't there from Final Fantasy XIII.
Classmate: Oh, I've heard of that. I bet they're the best couple in the game.
Me: There not even a couple but I pair them up together.
Classmate: What are their names?
Me: Lightning and Hope.
Classmate:-points at Lightning- That's Hope, right?
-Lightning comes bursting through the door and roundhouse kicks her unconscious.-
Lightning: Every mother ***ing time!
(It happened to me during class...expect for the Lightning part which I wished happened.)
Protection
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy Square Enix does if I did FFXIII-2 wouldn't have a cliffhanger ending and HopeRai would be canon.
By: Haikairi/PeachyPockii
Hope's View
I slowly opened my eyes and saw the desert sand along with the various scattered rock you would see time from time. I looked up and saw Lira up and ready to go; not really in a fighting pose, she was standing with her left arm in back of her holding her right and she was casually gripping on to her brown and light yellow staff.
"I guess you're finally awake." She chuckled while she crossed her arms, I nodded and made a barely audible yawn I quickly grabbed my boomerang out of my back pocket and slowly stood up, dusting sand off of my pants and white shirt. I looked around and saw the sun, barely up and to the east.
"We have a long journey ahead." Lira nodded seriously and we headed off.
Lira's View
Hope and I headed east; I was deep in thought; the man next to me looked so strong and handsome (no, Lira doesn't like him.) his messy silver hair sometimes blowing in the hot dessert wind-he probably had someone he was trying to protect, obliviously having to do with the knife. I tried to act as positive as possible; the last thing we need to a depressed person, right? I looked around-nothing much, It was very quiet no signs of life or people just rocks and sand. I guess this is good yet I feel so bored well it's better than being attacked, especially since I can't use it without it evaporating or something. I looked at my wooden staff carved to look flower like with the same yellow crystal that I have on my pendant. I look at the engravings on the side of staff: "Lira Archer" one of the only things I remember about my past in the other world beside my age, gender, basically the obvious thing that almost everyone could tell.
"So you name means balance in horoscope terms." I was so happy he broke the ice it was about to get awkwardly silent. I responded happily with a smile.
"Yeah it does-it's short of Libra." he chuckled and I added more "I like your name, Hope." His full name meant 'hope is home', and it had a lot of meaning to it in my opinion. He put his head down he said in a low voice, "Oh." He looked downright hopeless, and I felt guilt clawing me in the inside.
"I'm sorry it's just.." Before I could finish he added more.
"It's just I need to find some hope." I nodded mutely and started walking back into silence; great, I made things worse. I mentally face palmed myself and sighed. I looked at the sky; it was still early, about an hour passed by of us walking. I stared at Hope-even in this intense dessert heat he didn't break a sweat. I looked at hands, warm and moist just what I expected I tried cast a small water spell but it even reached my skin it evaporated faster than usual; great just what I needed. Hope saw my attempt at this and quickly conjured up water and slowly aimed it at my hands almost instantly cooling them down.
"You just need a little practice." again using his calm sympathetic voice. It seems like he's been through this before.
"How do you do it?"
"I don't know; it's natural to me, like I used this type of power before but I don't know how or when-I just did it." That response was surprising it sounded beautiful in my point of view, it even gave me a little smile, though I smiled a lot during this journey even though it was only 1 or 2 days it wasn't fake it was a smile pure of heart.
"I wished that was the same with me." He smile for awhile and then stopped.
"I'm sorry about earlier." I bowed my head for showing I was sorry, he put his hand on my head rustling my ebony hair.
"It's okay kid I just over reacted." I felt happy as I felt the guilt fade away as it was replaced with pleasure.
"It just this is a lot pressure for us, It's even harder because I don't know who I am." I sounded like he was the apologizing even though I was the one who said sorry.
"Don't worry." I said with a load of confidence that I certainly didn't feel. "We'll make it through and find the hope we need together." he gave another happy/nervous chuckle, I guess everything will be alright.
Lightning's View
I looked around my surrounds columns with crystal and I flinched as the book started glowing. "Hey, what's going on!"
I saw Lance, well at least his spirit, who walked towards me and told me, "Don't worry it's natural." He opened a the book and some of the blank pages were filled with writings and illustrations.
I gave him a quizzical look "What happened?"
"This isn't an ordinary book-it updates time from time." he passed me the book and I read it:
Ut novum cyclum incipit Omnis iam coepit ibi iter duo novum Heroes
Spes Estheim et Lira Archer.
Duo bellatores incipiunt in ibi iter iam adversus motus damnum
sed adhuc administrat ut proactive et administrat ad esse fortis,
iam direxerunt ad lucrum singulis aliis fiduciam in primum quattuor dies sed expectat.
paulo facit puella scire illa suus qui -.
"Oh yeah, I forgot this is the language in Lost time." he translated the book into English:
As the new cycle begins, everyone has already begun their journey but two new Heroes
Hope Estheim and Lira Archer.
The two warriors begin in their journey they have already faced emotional damage
but she still manages to keep proactive and he manages to be brave,
they already managed to gain each other's trust in the first four days but more awaits.
little does the girl know she's the one who will -.
"She will what?" He just shrugged.
"It was scratched off the text" I looked at the pictures of the two peoples, Lira had hair similar to mine but ebony, she had pretty chocolate brown eyes similar to Lance's and fair skin again similar to his. I looked at man he had messy silver hair, sweet green eyes and light skin; he seemed around his mid twenties, sighed she must be the one Lance promised to protect hopefully the man can help. Hopefully in the next cycle they'll be the lucky ones who revive they'll need protection.
Me: Well anyway R/R and the language they write in is Latin.
Lightning: Are you really going to make this a HopeRai?
Me: Not sure maybe.
Lightning:-Sigh- Why it's not like he's likes me right -blushes-
Hope:-blushes- Right!
Lira:-Stares suspiciously and raises eyebrow-
Lance:-sarcastically- Right.
(Anyway I'm a diehard HopeRai fan, pedophile or not! Though I hated AmuTo for that reason before I played FFXIII. Oh the irony.)
