Sorry to keep you guys waiting as I had to do some studying and some more research on final fantasy XIII and also needed to add some of the plot from XIII-2 but don't spoil yourself if you haven't played the game but I'm gonna make a few changes- enjoy-P.S the first chapter was one year before the events of final fantasy 13

Chapter 2 Return of a Hero

One year after the events of Zack's death, Lightning now has become a l'cie and his fighting for her life with her new comrades that have also been turned into l'cie. Before the day she went to be purged she went to a site where she had laid the buster sword but realised it was gone and was replaced by a white material which she had never seen before.

"Was it him?" she questioned herself but realised that it was ridiculous since he was gone.

While on the journey to defeat orphan, Lightning had wondered off in gran pulse abit far from the others until she was joined by Hope.

"hey Light" he started

"Yeah"

"How come you're sitting by here yourself aren't you the one who said that we shouldn't take breaks" Hope questioned

Lightning then gave a little smile as she remembered how Zack use to always complain about not having a break.

"Yeah you're right" she said as she got up

"Let's get going then Hope"

"Huh, oh okay" surprised to see lightning like this, he still followed her to catch up with the others.

It was getting dark and the group settled down to rest for the night

"if anyone needs me I'll be out taking a dump" shouted Sahz which made Snow laugh under his breath until he noticed lightning sitting by herself with her knees slumped to her chest and arms folded. He then went to join her to brighten her mood.

"hey Lightning, what's up I know you look moody most of the time but I've been realising this every night" Snow asked

"It's nothing"

"No its not, is it about Serah because we did promise to see her again remember"

"yeah I know but I'm not sad about that"

She looked more gloomy than ever and Snow could not tell what was on her mind then he came out with a random guess

"are you… missing someone"

"sort of"

"if it's Serah don't worry because I'm her hero remember and we will bring her back" he explained triumphantly. The word hero brought even more sadness to Lightning as she put her head down to hide away any tears that would show. Seeing that she is distressed he was going to leave her alone.

"you remind me of him you know" she murmured

"of who"

"Zack"

Snow looked very confused as he had no idea who she was talking about and went next to her to find out.

"Zack? Is that someone close to you"

"yeah you can say that"

"how close were you….. like friends , relatives…. Lovers"

She nodded her head to the last point he gave which made Snow give an astonishing look as he never imagined Lightning as the romantic type

"oh! Ok so is he like far away or something?"

"he's dead" she replied hastily

"he died trying to protect me from PSICOM, they tried capturing us for their experiments to make super soldiers to exterminate l'cie"

Snow then went glum himself

"I'm sorry Light that I asked"

"it's alright after all you're planning on dying like Zack as you plan to stay with Serah for a long time right?" Lightning said which made snow smile

"damn right" Snow cried in a light tone

"but you and him have one thing in common" Lightning stated to Snow who tilted his head in confusion

"and what's that"

"you're both heroes" she said with a smile

With that Snow stands up and tells her she should rest and she agrees. While he walks off to get settled, Lightning looks up to the star covered sky and tugs on tightly to the white material that is in her pocket but few minutes later falls asleep

The group head out to orphans cradle where they realise this is where they shall complete their focus. They all step forward enthusiastic until they are confronted by barthandelus where he tries to break the groups will by showing them their most dire moments. Snow saw a crystallised Serah which was then shattered but he stood strong and realised it was an illusion

"don't fall for it it's just a trick "encouraging the others who listened except Lightning who was on her knees as Barthandelus showed Lightning Zack being gunned down by soldiers and how she could do nothing to stop it

"no, no stop" she begged but Snow woke her up to reality while Sahz started shooting at the illusion of barthandelus.

"we've come too far to be stopped now" Vanille shouted trying to give courage to the others

They all nodded and went ahead to face orphan once and for all.

After a long battle with orphan. They had succeeded in defeating it. Cocoon was destined to fall but Fang and Vanille made their sacrifice by becoming ragnorok and crystallising Cocoon while the others remained Crystallised once they had completed their focus.

They suddenly broke out of their crystal state to find that their l'cie marks have disappeared. Also to see that Serah and Dajh were running towards them which made Sahz and Snow run right back at them.

There was a long and bright smile coming from Lightning until that changed until she noticed the ground beneath her crack and was dragged in by chaos erasing her from her world.

Lightning then wakes up to find herself in Valhalla were she was chosen by the goddess Etro to be her guardian. She is then given new armour and a new modified gunblade. She goes to the balcony and sees her new enemy which was Caius who had summoned monsters to battle Lightning who jumps off the balcony, summoning Odin in mid-air then riding him to face off against Caius. Lightning gives it her all and fights valiantly against Caius but catches her off guard at one point knocking her off Odin.

While she lay on the Ground Caius was ready to finish her off until the material that Lightning held started to glow. Caius ignored the glow

"I will not be fool by such small trickery"

And when he was about to strike a giant sword appeared before him. Lightning looked amazed as she recognised that sword then next and object fell fast from the sky and landed in front of Lightning and Caius.

Lightning recognized the figure to be the man she had once cared about

"Z-Zack!" she shouted

"hey Light" Zack said with a grin then turned to Caius

"goodbye ugly dude"

He lifted his gigantic sword and tried to attack Caius who blocked the hit which knocked him back.

"you came back" Lightning said as she was getting ready to fight alongside him

"of course I did, I still owe you one date"

Well that's that of chapter two hoped you liked it, I know I may have made Lightning seem like a burden but that will change really Plz review

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