A/N: Now it's part IV of the story. Things are getting pretty crazy, wouldn't you say? I feel bad for Hope for unexpectedly seeing one of the women being abused. I remember when that happened to me the very first time...in Health Class. Mr. Armstrong was seriously twisted. I still have the nightmares. Moving on, let's see how the group's doing now, especially Serah and Snow since they're at a death zone. With special guest star: Yuna from FFX/X-2

Snow and Serah were startled as the door slams loudly. They both see that it's Cain. Serah pretty much knows they're in danger, but Snow isn't since he's unaware of who Cain is, other then being Lightning's enemy.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Cain moves his hands behind his back. "I must admit, I'm shocked. I was expecting Claire to come to the rescue." Snow seemed a little confused at the word 'Claire', but figured he could mean Lightning. "I take it you're the hero I've been hearing out."

"The name's Snow Villiers, and I am." Snow says. "I take it you're Cain?"

"In the living flesh." Cain says.

Snow positions himself to fight. "You are going to pay for kidnapping my baby!" Snow says.

Cain just laughs at Snow. "Your arrogance is insignificant, Villiers." Cain takes out his axes, spins them in his hands then grips them. "But you have no idea who you're dealing with."

"I'm not afraid! The heroes never die!" Snow charges. Cain just stands there in place, like a statue. Snow makes the first strike, Cain blocks the hit. Snow makes other strike, Cain also blocks it. Cain makes a swift strike, Snow ducks, but not fast enough. He didn't get hurt, just bits of his hair got cut off.

Cain gives Snow a hard kick in the stomach, knocking him back. Snow crashes against the wall next to Serah. "Snow!" Serah is worried about her boyfriend. Snow groans as he sits up. He looks at Serah and gives her a smile, that's meaning he's okay. "Snow, forget me! Save yourself and Lightning!"

"No way. Not until I teach this guy a lesson!" Snow gets back up and charges at Cain. Cain puts away his axes then pops out the steel blades from his wrists.

Snow and Cain strikes at each other, blocking and parrying their attacks. Cain jumps and sweep kicks for the face, Snow dodges the kick. While dodging, Snow grabs Cain's foot. Cain is startled when he felt the grip, then Snow pulls Cain over him and slams him on the ground. Snow lifts Cain back up over Snow and slams him on the ground, then for the third time.

During that third time, Cain reaches at his free foot for the gun. When he lands on the ground, Cain shoots at Snow. The heating laser hits Snow in the shoulder. Snow groans in pain and staggers back.

Cain gets back on his feet and runs towards Snow. Before Snow could react, Cain punches and kicks Snow real hard. For the final blow, Cain's metal wrist extends and coats his hand with metal, and Cain gives him a hard punch under the chin.

Snow gets knocked back and crashes onto the ground. "Snow!" Serah shouts with worry.

The metal on Cain's arm returns into the wrist. Cain walks up to Serah, kneels down to her. He grabs Serah by the back of her shirt, taking out his sword and holds it right in front of her throat.

Snow moans in pain. He sits up and puts a hand over his head. Snow takes a moment to recover, then he worries to see the situation Serah's in. "Serah!"

"Snow!" Cain pushes the sword close to her throat. One single side move, and a cut is made.

"You are defeated!" Cain says. "Summon Claire, or she gets it!"

Snow gasps, he doesn't know what to do. He wants to save Serah, but he doesn't want to give Lightning away. "Don't do it, Snow! It's a trap!"

"Shut up!" Cain barks, jabbing his knee into her back.

"Stop! Don't hurt her!" Snow says. "I'll do it."

Serah gasps hearing that. Snow takes a brief moment, but not too long to temper Cain's patience. He takes out his communicator and speaks into it.

"Lightning, can you hear me?" Snow asks. There's no answer. "Lightning? Are you there?"

"Snow? What is it?" Lightning asks.

"I uh..." Cain raised his eyebrows with his angry look, mouthing 'do it!' "I found the dungeon Serah's in...but she's not here."

"What?!" Lightning sounded surprised. "Where is she?"

"I found this note on the wall. Cain wants you to meet her on the roof, or else she gets it." Snow says.

Snow can hear Lightning growling. "I'm on my way. Find Hope and get him out of here."

Snow lowers his communicator. "There! I did what you said, now let Serah go."

Cain smirks, as he reaches into his pocket. "As you wish..."

Cain takes something out, but it's covered in his fist. He slowly moves it to the cuffs on Serah's wrists, but then quickly throws it on the ground, releasing a large puff of smoke. Snow and Serah coughs from the smoke. They can't see anything, but they do hear the sound of the door opening and slamming shut. The smoke clears and they see that Cain's missing. Snow also notices his communicator is missing.

Snow looks surprised, then realizes what happened. He rushes to the door and slams his fists on it. "Let us out!"

Cain locks the door on the outside. "No way. I don't want to be late for my date with Claire." Cain says. "But don't worry, at least you two love birds will be together...forever." Cain laughs evilly as he leaves. He also crushes the communicator in his hands.

Snow just bangs his head on the door, he can't believe he didn't see this coming.

At the bottom level of the basement, is a large wide open area. In the center of that room is Yuna. The Songstress is gagged and bound and chained with a dozen elite guards surrounding her. Wrists cuffed, upper arms chained, her elbows chained to the floor, collared and collar chained to the ceiling, ankles cuffed together and to the floor, thighs chained together, and wearing gloves with the fingers stitched together and having metal bars in the gloves that prevents her from bending her fingers.

In other words: Yuna is completely immobilized.

The Songstress has lost all hope. There's no way of getting out of this situation. She's gonna end up being a sex slave.

Hope and Fang are at the far entrance of the room. They stand against the wall, look over the corners into the room. Fang looks at the situation while Hope focuses on Yuna. He can't believe he's seeing her in person, but also feels bad for the situation she's in.

"I can't believe it's really Yuna Akimura in person." Hope whispers, with a little bit of excitement.

Fang looks directly at Hope. "Stay focused, kid." Fang looks back at the group. "The girl's heavily guarded, we're gonna need a plan."

Hope looks around the room, thinking of a plan. He finds the power box on the side of the wall behind some creates. "I've got it. There's a power box over there. If I can get to it, I'll kill the lights, then you rush in and knock out the guards in the dark."

"You sure this will work?" Fang asks.

"I'm sure. I did it back in Palumpolum." Hope says.

"I like you're thinking, kid. Gran Pulse style!" Fang says with a smirk.

"Okay, just need a distraction." Hope takes out his boomerang. He throws it at the box of creates on the other side of the room of where the power box is at.

The boomerang knocks down the piles of boxes, which startles the guards and Yuna. "What was that? ...Go check it out!"

Nine guards went that direction while three of them guards Yuna. Luckily, the three guards aren't facing the entrance Hope and Fang are at, or directly at the power box. Hope sneaks in with little haste. The loose guards look at the mess, trying to find any intruders. Hope runs out of sight behind the creates.

He finally reaches for the power box, opens it. Hope carefully looks past the creates, he can see the outside guards have returned to the Songstress. Hope pulls the lever. The lights go off, it's completely dark.

The guards muttered in confusion, wondering what's going on. Just when things couldn't get any worse, noises of people screaming in pain and physical blows are happening. The guards are shouting questions about what's happening, they didn't bother to fight or be on guard in the total darkness. Pretty stupid of them.

When there's nothing but silence, Hope puts the lights back on. Yuna seems surprised, there's a single warrior woman standing in the middle of the dozen unconscious guards. Fang looks down at the guards. "Tch. Bunch of chumps." Fang turns her attention to Yuna. "How you doing, love?"

Yuna tilts her head and muffles in confusion.

Hope runs up to Fang. He kneels down to the one of the guards, getting the keys. "All right, now let's get the girl and get out of here." Fang demands. She walks off to the entrance, keeping an eye out for any soldiers.

Hope has a slow start to releasing Yuna from her bondage. The kid is acting like he wants to savor this. He couldn't believe he's actually with Yuna, of course he does try his hardest to stay focus on the mission, he knows he has to get Yuna out fast.

After the first five minutes, Fang starts to get impatient. "Hurry it up!"

"I'm trying!" Hope shouts at her.

No trouble came, and within a few minutes, Yuna was finally free. When the gag was removed from her mouth, all that came out was a deep exhale then a sore moan. "Hrnngg...Thank you." Her tone was tiresome as well, almost like she's disappointed. She's not really upset about her freedom, her body's just pretty sore from the tight chains and the uncomfortable position.

Yuna takes the moment to recover some strength, then she stands up. When she stands, she stretches her arms and legs, her muscles and bones crack from finally leaving that uncomfortable position. "I'm glad you both came. I had lost hope of a chance of escaping." Yuna looks at Hope, she notices the staring blank expression. "Uh...are you okay?"

Hope doesn't say anything. Fang walks up to Hope, slapping him in the side of the face, returning him to reality. "Don't mind him. I hear he's a fan of yours."

"I get that a lot." Yuna says.

"Sure you do." Fang holds her lance, resting the top part of it over her shoulder, then walks off. "Let's get moving."

Yuna and Hope follows Fang. While moving, Hope takes out his communicator. "Snow. Me and Fang got Yuna. What's your status?" Nothing but static noises are coming, after a moment, Hope stops. "Snow. Can you hear me? Snow!" Fang and Yuna stops, looking back at Hope. Hope bangs on the communicator, trying to get it to work. "Snow! Answer me!" There's still no answer, then Hope gives up and looks at Fang. "Something's wrong, Snow's not answering."

"Sounds like he must have gotten himself in a pickle." Fang says.

"Right. Let's go find him." Hope walks ahead, taking the lead. "He's probably with Serah in 3NE:219."

Lightning runs down the hallway on the highest floor of the castle. There are no guards in her way, even if they are, they would ignore her since Cain gave order to let Lightning pass since he's meeting her. Lightning would ignore them as well since she's concern to getting to her destination as soon as possible, just to save her sister.

Cain stands in the roof top of the castle. He's on the very edge, looking down at the courtyard. He watches as more trucks come in with female citizens that are being abducted.

Cain thinks back about what happened seven years ago.

Claire Farron was his girlfriend. During the whole time they were dating, he was secretly taking notes of her. He really wants to abduct her, to own her, abuse her. If only he had predicted what happened next. If he ever did, he could have left Claire alone to avoid that tragic event. It's a tragic to mostly Claire. The only tragedy there is in that event for Cain was his face.

Cain feels a cold, hostile presence. "So, you have arrived."

Lightning walks towards Cain, with her weapon aimed at Cain, ready to shoot. "That's right, I have."

Cain turns around, facing Lightning. "I'm not surprised you survived the Svarog Vemon. You are too stubborn to die."

"Funny. I usually say that to Snow." Lightning says, her tone still hostile. "You made a terrible mistake bring Serah into this."

"Is that so?" Cain says.

"You are a dirty bastard, Cain O'Neil. You can deceive me, abduct me, abuse me, kill my parents, hunt me down, kidnap Hope, kidnap the Songstress...But when you take away my sister, that's where I draw the line." Lightning's tone gets louder and anger with each word in that sentence. "You want your revenge, don't you. So take it, and leave Serah alone! I may have come here for Serah, but I came here...TO END THIS!"

Lightning charges at Cain, shooting at him. Cain charges at Lightning as well, deflecting the bullets with his metal wrists. When they're close, Lightning shifts her weapon into a sword and Cain metal blades pops out of Cain's wrists. Lightning makes the first strike, Cain dodges it then makes two strikes. Lightning parries at metal blades.

Cain sweep kicks, but Lightning backflips, avoiding the attack. Lightning lands and sees Cain charges at her. Lightning charges back as well. Cain strikes, Lightning dodges, but gets hit in the head by Cains sweep kick. Lightning falls down to the side, but lands on her hands and knees.

Lightning takes a moment to recover, then she wipes the corner of her lips with her hand, that's quite a hit Cain made. Lightning looks at Cain with a mean glare, then stands back on her feet. Cain takes out his axes, spins them in his hands then grabs them, making his fighting stance. Cain leaps towards Lightning, making the next strike. Lightning blocks the hit just as Cain was above her. Lightning does fall back from the impact. She lays on her back, with Cain above her, pushing her weapon towards her.

Lightning kicks Cain off of her. When he's off, Lightning gets back on her feet. She charges towards Cain. Cain puts away his axes, taking out his sword, and charges as well. They both leap towards each other, and strikes with their swords clashing.

Guards are patrolling down the hallways on the third floor. Fang, Hope and Yuna are hiding in a blind spot of the hallway. Hope moves his head over the corner, taking a look. He knows that they can't be spotted, especially Yuna. If the soldiers find out the Songstress is escaping, boy, that'll be trouble.

When it's clear, they move on ahead. However, in the basement levels, Hiroshi is making his way to Yuna's imprisonment. He usually checks out the Songstress every half hour, just to make sure she's still bonded. However, he wasn't prepared to see the results:

The guards are knocked out or dead. And to top it all off: Yuna's missing.

The trio walks down the clear hallway. They are near to Serah's prison, when an alarm goes off. They were startled by it, then Hiroshi makes an announcement.

"All units! The Songstress is missing! I repeat: The Songstress is missing! I went all units on their feet! No one rests until the Songstress is back in her place! No exceptions!"

"They know." Fang says. Yuna seems really worried. "Let's hurry this up."

The group arrives at the Northeast Wing. Hope rushes past the dungeon doors, looking for the one that Serah's contained in. He finally finds it, at the end of the hallway. "There!" Hope rushes to the door, with Fang and Yuna behind him. "Serah? Are you still in there?"

Inside the dungeon, Snow is surprised to hear a familiar voice. He rushes to the door. "Hope? Is that you?" Hope is surprised to hear Snows voice.

"Snow? Is that you?" Hope asks, surprised.

"Hope! Listen!" Serah shouts. "Lightning's in danger! She's fighting Cain on the roof! You have to save her!"

Hope is surprised to hear all this, then looks at Fang and Yuna. Fang tilts her head at the back direction. "Go on. Help her. We'll handle these two."

Hope nods. "Got it."

Hope runs down the hallway. Fang looks at the door, getting an eye. Yuna looks at Fang with a confused look. "Just how are you gonna open it?" Yuna asks.

Fang looks at Yuna with a smirk. "Don't worry, love." Fang looks back at the door, stands back and spins the lance above her. "All it takes it the proper leverage." Fang jabs her lance in the bottom hinge of the door. She positions herself to pull the back of the lance down, but looks at the door. "If you're by the door, you might wanna stand back!"

Snow can tell she's talking about him, and he backs up. With all of her strength, Fang pushs her lance down, popping the door up a little. Fang removes her lance from the hinge, then kicks the door down. Fang walks inside. "How's it going, love birds?"

"Nothing much, just trapped in this dungeon." Snow says.

Fang just chuckles. She sets her lance into the chains that's bonding Serah's wrists to the wall, and breaks them, setting her free. Snow helps Serah stand up. "Thank you. Come on, we have to go help Lightning."

Serah runs ahead. "Serah! No! You need to..." It's too late, she's long gone. Snow groans in irritation then chases after her. "Wait up!"

When Snow's gone, Yuna and Fang follows Snow.

Lightning and Cain fights on the roof. Cain strikes at Lightning repeatly with his metal blades, but Lightning dodges and parries them. Lightning makes an impale strike. Cain catches her weapon in his blades, just when it was about to make contact with his face. They stand in his position for a moment, Lightning trying to push with all of her strength while Cain uses his to resist.

Cain pushes the sword away with all his strength, Lightning makes a sweep kick, raising her leg to hit him in the head. Cain blocks her kick with his metal wrist, then quickly grabs her leg. Lightning seems surprised, she's in trouble now.

Cain lifts Lightning off of her her feet, having her hanging, then slams her in front of him. Cain lifts Lightning again and tosses her aside. He chases after her. Lightning takes the moment to get up, the moment she's on her feet, Cain starts punching her, very hard and repeatly. Lightning only staggers from each blow.

For the final strike, Cain lifts Lightning above him, throws her down in front of him, with his knee in place to hit her in the spine. That did some serious hurt on Lightning. It'll probably leave with a back injury. Lightning lays on the ground, moaning in pain. Cain stands over her, grabs the turtle neck of her sweater, then holds back his free arm with the metal blades out.

"Now it ends!" Cain shouts.