Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy XIII. Wish I did, but I don't.

A/N: Cool! We've made it to Cocoon and Pulse that means the adventure can really begin! This time it gets kicked off with a big start and it doesn't slow down. I'm not going to make you wait any longer. I hope you like it! Thanks for reading!

Chapter XII: A Safe-ish Landing

"We're heading into the atmosphere." Donald taps on the screens and the rest of us take our seats throughout the ship.

"Serah, where's Eden?" Goofy turns back to us.

"Isn't Eden protected by a shield, kupo?" A shield? Why…

"Oh…you're right Mog. I completely forgot. They won't let us get into Eden with this ship. We're going to have to land outside of Palumpolum." Tobi and I look at each other before asking the obvious question.

"So, where is Palupople or whatever." Good job Tobi, I'm pretty sure you just butchered that name. Well, Serah's laughing at least.

"I don't know where Palupople is, but Palumpolum is a place I do. It's on the surface near the coastline. It's an enormous city. I'm sure we'll see it."

"Well, we can see the ground now." Wow, this must be tough, Donald's using the manual controls. Look at that! The sun is inside the world. Literally, it is inside the shell of this world. That is super cool!

"What is that?" I think Tobi's mouth just fell off. I really love his expressions.

"That is Phoenix, Cocoon's own light in the sky. It's a fal'Cie." I stare at the object…er…fal'Cie that Serah is pointing out. We fly around the massive thing. I can't help but look at it…just…wow… As we pass, the light fades a little bit and I can see below. The whole landscape is inside this shell. Serah said they did, but when you actually look at it, it's so much more amazing. "There it is." I flow Serah's gesture out the window. Wow, that is a huge city. It's almost like the ones I saw when I was on Earth, but even bigger.

"Right, hang on everybody." I listen to Goofy's suggestion as the ship banks toward this huge city. The city gets even bigger. Whoa, there are a lot of people here. What the…

"Goofy look out!"

"Van, Roxas, look at that! It's enormous." The world of Pulse is continuing to grow underneath us. There's a lot of vegetation on it. I don't see a lot of cities or much of anything else down there.

"Yeah, it's big. Where are we going to start?" Van pulls up beside me.

"The white, moogle thing that was with Serah said that we should look at the Pa…pd…the P something." Roxas' voice comes from behind me.

"Right, it was some kind of old city."

"Get closer. We might be able to see it." We all follow Van's command and descend closer to the strange world. Wow, there this massive plain, and whoa! That was huge! It looked like a huge turtle elephant thing. I ended flying between its legs. It was like a hundred feet tall. And look at that, there's at least ten of them! Is everything here huge?

"Look over ther…agh!" Whoa, the world's tumbling around us! And it's getting closer really fast. Man this is gonna hurt!

"What was that?" Our ship was hit by something and we crashed, but everything looks okay, and I'm not hurt. I hope the others aren't

"That was some fall, kupo." Mog's huge head is tumbling around.

"Something shot us. It might have been something from the army." Tobi helps Serah out of the ship as she finishes her sentence.

"Why would they be shootin' at us?" Goofy stumbles out with Donald just behind. Everyone looks okay, well relatively, given the circumstances.

"I don't know. They might've had some problems with those chaos monsters that you were telling me about."

"The Pur…um…the Purple Festival may have put everyone on edge, kupo."

"That's right, the Purple Festival…where…um…well,"

"Okay, Serah, I know you're lying. What's actually going on?" I cross my arms and raise an eyebrow to her. She's looking at Mog again.

"Okay Sora, you're right. Mog was going to say that it has to do with the Purge. I've known it was going on, but I was trying to avoid getting you all involved. It started a few days ago now."

"What's the Purge?" Tobi steps up beside me.

"It is this initiative by the Sanctum to protect Cocoon from the evils of the world below. I was hoping we wouldn't run into it." Serah looks at the ground and then back to us.

"What exactly did we send our friends into? Evils, hellish wastelands? This doesn't sound like a nice place." Tobi folds his arms as Donald, Goofy and I look toward the city in front of us.

Ugh…man that hurt. Where am I? Agh…my head hurts. I don't even remember what actually happened. I remember falling toward the world and then it went black. Are the others still…I push up from the ground. I'm still in my armor, but that probably helped with the fall. I look around. Roxas is right next to me, but he's on the ground. I don't see Van. I remember seeing him fall, but he's not around. Where would he have gone? Oh! Roxas groaned, he might be waking up. I rush over to him.

"Roxas? Are you okay?"

"Whoa, that was…Ven?"

"Yeah, I'm here." I help him to stand up.

"What happened? That hurt. Where's Van?" Roxas pulls off his helmet and I do the same. I don't want to completely take off my armor, but fresh air feels nice. This place is huge. We're in the middle of this big open space with lots of those turtle looking things and grass and other animals.

"Not sure and I don't know. He wasn't around when I 'woke up.' We need to find him though." I look around to try and see if I can see him.

"This thing is huge. How are we ever going to find him?"

"We will. Don't worry. Come on!" I try to lighten the mood. Aqua and Terra always tell me I'm good at that!

"I think we came at the wrong time…" everyone joins me behind a row of crates. We've made it to the edge of the city, but I think we have a problem. There are whole groups of people in armor. They're moving around the city in weird formations.

"It's the army. Something must have happened here."

"Did the l'Cie…come through here, kupo?"

"I don't know what a l'Cie is, but we've got some trouble!" I follow Tobi's gesture toward…Rifters. Or at least I think they are. They look different. Doesn't matter.

"Come on Mog!"

"Kupo!" Where'd he go? Where'd she get that bow from? Whatever, got bigger problems! I run toward the monsters. There are three of them. Tobi and I corner one, while Donald and Goofy have another. Serah has the last one. I'm sure she can take care of her…wow, look at that! I've never seen magic like…whoa, okay, I need to pay more attention. These things can actually kill me. Okay, where'd it go?

"Sora watch out!" Yikes that was close! I have to remember that Tobi still hasn't mastered aiming magic. He got it! That just leaves…none…of…them…okay then.

"Thanks for the warning!" I turn around to my brother, put the soldiers behind me.

"Well, I figured after setting your butt on fire twice now, I thought I'd try to…well, not do that anymore." I match my brother's smile. "Where's Serah?"

"Right here. You don't have to worry about me."

"Cause she's got me, kupo!" Hey look Mog's back from where ever he went.

"Don't forgetta 'bout us." Oh good, Donald and Goofy are headed back.

"Don't worry! After all we've been through, I'd never forget you guys!"

I wonder what happened to Ven. That stupid thing made us crash, and now I've lost him. Aqua and Terra really won't forgive me now. Ugh…here I thought I could finally make things better between us. They said they forgave me and all this crap, but I know they didn't. I know I have to do something to make them know how sorry I really am. I can't let Ven get hurt. I have to find him. I guess I should look for Roxas too. Where'd they go?

A/N: So, did you like it? I hope so! Leave me lots of comments and reviews so I can know how to improve this story! I just want to say thanks to XaccemFlare for all the great ideas!