gran_pulse | the loss of hope

who: lightning & hope
summary: hope has been cleansed by Bhunivelze, efficiently possessed by him.

Hope had been missing for nearing one hundred years. No one went to go look for him, no one went to see if he was still alive and many thought that he disappeared in the Chaos. Unfortunately, he was found by Bhunivelze and continuously tortured until he succumbed to the mental, physical and emotion wounds and gave into the tormenting God. Now that he did not have direct control, he also was finally able to leave the Arc on his own -- but only for Bhunivelze's search. Hope wanted to find Lightning, but the Bhunivelze's wish was to revive the savior prematurely and force her into a sense of trust.

Finally, he was able to find her within the depths of Valhalla, somewhere in the chaos he saw a single, blinding light. The light was the only source and he pulled out his boomerang and emotionlessly walked in the direction of the light until the brightness had enveloped him. Hope rose his head back, tilted it back all the way until he saw Lightning's face and Hope nearly lost control of his emotions but the means of possession. Hope had not seen Lightning in so long that his heart fluttered in his chest and his first reaction was to slightly curve his lips into a smile.

"I found you. It is finally time, awake savior." Hope moved his left hand, pressed it down against the edge of her leg and pushed inwards. A brilliant light set from his hand and forced the crystal to break there, a smaller amount of force was applied against to create more fractures until he pulled his hand away. Hope awaited the uncrystallization to process, his face a vacant expression and arms by his side with both eyes attuned to the location with the fractures.

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Hope stood there in the chaos with her and raised his eyes to the sky before he replied.

"One month." He said without a single ounce of conviction on his tongue. The following question came with much insecurity on his part, but he would need to reply adequately to make it believable that he needed her for this. Hope's own heart wished a similar fate, but not at the expense of Light. He snapped his fingers and pointed from the direction he came from. "We must find a way to erase the chaos from the past, to correct the timeline and find a way to stop certain events from happening at all to slow the chaos down. I am able to go with you, he has presented me with powers to do so." Hope smiled genuinely at her, both of his arms outstretched this time.

"It has been a long time, could we travel as we did centuries ago?" Hope opened his arms, which was partially resisted by Bhunivelze's influence but Hope's will had overtaken that part of him. Hope wished to show her that he did her no harm and that he, especially of the others, had missed her in his own right.

Listening to the silver haired male tell her that they have one month, Lightning heaved a heavy sigh as her Aqua eyes focused her gaze on Hope at the moment. "Hope. Where are we supposed to go to do so?" She asked him, using an emotionless tone of voice. She then saw his gesture of him snapping his fingers as the rose haired female remained silent for the time being. She started to listen to the male explain that they must find a way to erase the chaos from the past to correct the timeline. This caused Lightning to be a bit confused at the moment. "Didn't Serah do this? Didn't Serah do that and it caused her to die?" She asked him, as she looked down at the ground for a brief moment. She wasn't quite sure how she can correct the timeline within a month. She then looked up at him when he mention that Bhunivelze had given him. The powers to go with her.

"So you have the powers to go through the timeline and correct it?" She asked him, as she heaved another sigh. "Yes.. It has been a long time since we've traveled. Many centuries ago, if I remember right." She responded to him, before noticing him opening his arms. She didn't know what to say to Hope's gesture at the moment. She wasn't quite sure how Hope, when he was younger, had felt about her. She had remembered giving him her knife during that time that Hope had his grudge against Snow for his motheer's death. She then remembered him giving her the knife back telling her that he didn't need it anymore. She had remembered it all.

"Hope.." Lightning said his name, before she took another step towards the silver haired male. "Hope.. Lead the way.. Take me to where you intended to take me. If this is to save Serah, then so be it. I know that she is gone, and that her death is my fault." She said to him, still using the same emotionless tone in her voice. She then held her hand out to him, her aqua eyes still gazing at Hope.

Hope shook his head back and forth. "No, Light. We are removing the most concentrated forms of Chaos in an effort to keep it from flooding the world until Bhunivelze can finish the world he is building. When she mentioned that he also had powers of his own, he did not mention the type of powers that went with this nor did he mentioned exact what thing he would be using it for.

"I have the touch of a God, it is similar to a purifier. It appears that I can give life to the gates again, even ones that have been without life for a very long time.." When she suddenly took a step forward and began to to discuss how she felt about Serah, her death and how she wanted to right that. "I will do my best to not let you down, Light." Hope was happy to take her hand, but he was unable to smile and show how happy he was to be doing so.

Using his right hand, he pulled her with him into the floating chaos before using his palm to open a strange opening that showed them the Historia Crux. Once they were in, the two were floating there in the space in time.

"When do you believe there could have been an influx of Chaos in the past?"

Lightning simply nodded to Hope, heaving a soft sigh, as she then crossed her arms over her chest. She never knew that Hope had powers of his own, though she wasn't quite sure what type of powers he could possess. She didn't really know that Hope was possessed by Bhunivelze, and that the God of Light was using Hope as a puppet. She also didn't know what Hope would be using those types of powers for. All she heard from Hope was that they're going to be removing the most concentrated forms of Chaos to keep it from flooding the world. She had known that chaos had flooded the world ever since Noel had stabbed Caius Ballad in Valhalla all these years ago. It had been 500 years since she had went into a crystal stasis, though she had just been woken up by Hope.

"The touch of a God?" Lightning asked him, as she continued to look into his eyes. She heaved another sigh, as she had taken a step forward. She had already told him about how she felt about Serah. "I know you won't let me downs, Hope. At least I hope you don't." She said to him, her facial expression remaining emotionless. If Hope allowed her to do so, Lightning would place her hand on his shoulder and looked into his Emerald eyes with her Aqua eyes for a brief moment. "Hope.. I trust you.. Let's do this. Let's remove the concentrated forms of chaos to keep it from flooding the world. I want to see Serah again. I never got to say goodbye to her when she passed. I feel that it is my fault. I feel that her death is my fault, so I need to make things right with Serah." She explained to Hope, before she then removed her hand off his shoulder.

It was then that Lightning had started to follow Hope into the floating chaos before watching him open a strange opening. She then started to enter the Historia Crux, glancing her Aqua eyes around the area for a brief moment. "This.. This must be the Historia crux. Is this what Serah and Noel had used to get to Valhalla? Is this how Noel and Serah had started to attempt to save the future?" She asked Hope, now being curious on the Historia Crux. She had never knew about this due to being in Valhalla fighting Caius Ballad in Valhalla. As she heard Hope's question once more, she glanced his eyes towards him, whilst floating in the space of time. "I believe it started around 500 AF." She said to him. She had known that when Serah died, Hope and Noel were in 500 AF and that was when the chaos was spreading.

the loss of hope

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Claire "Lightning" Farron

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Claire "Lightning" Farron