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Post by Lightning on Dec 3, 2009 22:26:07 GMT -5
Why was she apologizing now? Glancing black at the monsters it was because of the mess she made, well technically it was the Bloodbath that did all the destruction but still she felt slightly responsible to apologize for that at least.
"It seems we keep running into each other with these un expected meetings… don't get me wrong I didn't attack for protecting anyone they merely came at me so I had to fight back that is all…"
She stood in her place taking in everything that’s been said and done thus far. The girl Vanille though didn't turn to her as if she didn't notice she was there. Was she ignoring her? It might be unintentionally but then again she didn't really care. She noticed then how Vanille smiled and acted cute in front of Noctis but all Lightning did was remain silent as she looked at the two.
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Post by Noctis Lucis Caelum on Dec 3, 2009 22:40:34 GMT -5
"Understandable." Noctis could not force Lightning to accept his rare gratitude on behalf of the people, he was meant to take care of and protect; she surely was insensitive to this type of vague presentation of thanks just like he was.
"It seems these unexpected meetings should have significant meaning. Though, I do think I have learned much more of you from now, than I had before." Not to say the conversation was completely futile, they were both not conversation holders, he found it safe to reckon.
He found it quite strange, that Oerba had deliberately blanked and erased Lightning's existence from her view. All she seemed to want to do was talk to him and persuade him to follow into her flirtatious manner, of which he was relatively void from. Though he was glad she was genuinely happy so to speak, but he didn't understand why she was simply from his offer."Oerba Dia Vanille...This is Lightning." Firmly, Noctis found his voice and declared Lightning's arrival to Vanille as though to indicate how much he approved of Lightning's work and presence. Her silence was respectable, but he couldn't read into how she must think of the scene and he sought to rectify this.
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Post by Oerba Dia Vanille on Dec 3, 2009 23:03:36 GMT -5
"Yeah I know her she's Serah's sister." Oerba said. Oerba looked at her, and she's just didn't want to tell anyone that she knows that she would make sure that nothing went wrong. She just looked at him, and she became silent she just didn't know how well she wanted to be around Lightning. She just looked at him. "I decided to live with Noctis." Oerba said. Oerba looked at Noctis. "If you like silence fine I won't talk at your palace at all I won't get in your way." Oerba said.
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Post by Lightning on Dec 3, 2009 23:39:27 GMT -5
"Maybe there is a meaning behind these meetings I don't really know but I don't think they can be considered coincidence that we crossed paths twice already. Still I have a lot of unanswered questions about you but I too have gained some information from this meeting" She gave a small smile before letting it fade and turned to Vanille once Noctis introduced her.
"Yeah I know her she's Serah's sister."
"What…?" Her expression went blank at those words. She knew her sister… "Do you know where she is… where Serah is?" Her tone and expression changed at the mention of her sister. The worry showed in her eyes but without another word she waited for her response hoping she would provide the location of her sister or at least assure Lightning that Serah was still alive and well.
She replied but that wasn’t the response Lightning hoped to hear. Turning to Noctis then back to Vanille "So you two are together…"Lightning only assumed that by how Vanille acted and announcing that she would be living with Noctis.
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Post by Noctis Lucis Caelum on Dec 3, 2009 23:58:40 GMT -5
If only the world could see Noctis' face the moment Lightning asked if he was together with Oerba. What on earth did she mean by together ? He wanted to know and to think he had tried so hard in his inexperience to treat this situation and Oerba's fluctuating feelings towards him, with a balance; nothing prevented this expression.
Noctis wanted to vanish as he could choose to, it was only unreasonable to do so. All that mattered to him now was what craziness Oerba directed at him and his own rationale about what may come with the future. There was a pressure that build up at his temple and looking up at the sky, he listened to the pounding sound of his heart beating in his chest.
"I never said you are in my way. Where is the sense in being someplace you might dread?" It was a rhetorical question, unless Oerba didn't get it or just wanted to stand out from the crowd and make an answer anyway. Turning to Lightning, he lowered his gaze."No..." Wait a minute...why did someone like Lightning even suggest such a thing, regardless of observation and evaluation, he had never done so and now this was more to question. "I have never come across the notion of 'togetherness'. There is no true 'one' even in a costellation made up of many aspects."
Now this was honest, what more could Oerba hate in him anyway, he was everything she wasn't and in retrospect, he must've done a bout a million things she disliked by now. The part about Lightning having a sister was completely brushed -off though he still made note that here was a secret he was untold of. Lightning's face gave away her worry and care for her sister, as did Oerba's sadness about being in a silent home. It was all a hair-tearing situation Noctis repelled salvation from; especially the salvage from the offense he possibility placed on Oerba.
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Post by Oerba Dia Vanille on Dec 4, 2009 18:25:30 GMT -5
"I don't dislike you, Noctis I can never dislike you." Oerba said. Oerba looked at him, and she smiled at him then she turned to Lightning. "Go look somewhere in another world she is there." Oerba said. Oerba looked at her she just said what Lightning would want to hear from her. Oerba looked at him, and she looked at Noctis with a smile on her face. She just smiled the same way she did before when they first met. If he meets someone else I be happy. Oerba thought. Oerba just wanted the best for Noctis. She just smiled she swallowed her frustations, and her anger down she just wanted to stay happy for Noctis.
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Post by Noctis Lucis Caelum on Dec 4, 2009 18:47:49 GMT -5
Surely Oerba didn't know how dislikeably misunderstood he always was, and that there were good days and bad but he still acted the same. It was going to frustrate her alot if she really thought she could never dislike him. This left him speechless though and he looked at her while she smiled at him the entire time, coming to terms with the doting way she treated him.
There were quick transits between how she switched her attention between him and Lightning, and he tilted his head to the side slightly. Ultimately forcing himself to say something to break ice that he felt, was forming; Noctis' silence was his comfort zone but they couldn't all just not speak and he did so with no ease when he could not balance interaction."If she is there, how did you know her Vanille? I...take for granted that you can't dislike me, as you say you can't... but I ...appreciate it."
Somewhere in another world? There were two steps that Noctis took in his pondering, Vanille had to be a figment of his imagination because he was appalled by her and yet bemused because of her. Though judging by her character, he guessed she only said what came to her on a whim, and Lightning would actually follow whichever direction someone led her to if she believed it was true that her sister was in another world. There was a lot happening between three people; Noctis never entangled himself in this type of an 'affair' and he wanted to roll his eyes but they only flickered to look at an inanimate object as he waited to hear what Lightning had to say about her sister's whereabouts.
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Post by Oerba Dia Vanille on Dec 4, 2009 19:21:48 GMT -5
"I met her once, and Noctis I would always like you no matter what happens." Oerba said. Oerba looked at him, and she just wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong. She just wanted everything to be fine. She wanted to stay by Noctis's side. Oerba looked at him, and then back at her. She just wanted to make sure that nothing happens to anyone. She just wanted to make sure that she does what she could do.
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Post by Lightning on Dec 5, 2009 11:14:58 GMT -5
Lightning paused maybe she spoke out of place when she said that those two were together. The reaction on Noctis's face clearly said it and showed his frustration but he controlled his emotions and acted as he always did.
' There is no true 'one' even in a costellation made up of many aspects' those words Lightning heard them before but only they were coming from her own mouth. Every time she was asked about that. "I see I made a mistake then… I am sorry about that assumption"
"Serah…" Was she really in another world? Lightning sighed thinking about that possibility the way Vanille said it was as if she wanted her to leave still her sister came first above all and she needed to find her. "Alright my sister might be in another world but there are so may out there. Do you know where I might start looking?"
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Post by Noctis Lucis Caelum on Dec 5, 2009 11:41:26 GMT -5
Oerba was relatively helpful to him but he failed to comprehend that her friendliness towards him required reciprocation. He wanted to respond, and could only think of a thanks...but no way to spill the word from his mouth. Neither was he sure he would feel the same as she did, so it was very neurotic for him. He did however, press his lips in a very faint outline of a smile for a minute. "It is a coincidence, but I take it you both have also met earlier...?"
Noctis's ears pricked up, not literally, but the apology Lightning had given washed over like a bucket of ice. She did allow him to clarify himself and his position with Oerba in the light that she asked such a question, so ideally she had no need to say sorry. Sometimes he made assumptions ...mostly due to him not being talkative. Despite his objection to it, he did not argue or try to reassure her; he felt that it wasn't anything to take personally and so merely made a face. It was a face to say It is nothing and I don't care but I know you'd take this the right way. A heartbeat later and it will all be in the past.
Just why would her sister be in another world...to be exact, unless she was captive or estranged to Lightning, there is no sense that she would not stay close to family... He had no family. Therefore, Noctis almost compared himself to Lightning's situation, wondering how far he would go if he found out that someone he was close to was elsewhere in another world and unreachable, but needing to be reached. He was missing contact and missing that type of bond. Unconsciously, he held his breath as though it was a breathtaking possibility for him too as he contemplated.
Randomly, he interrupted. "Is she part of l'Cie?" From the day he had met Lightning, he remembered the entire story about fal'Cie and L'cie though it did mind boggle him at first.
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Post by Oerba Dia Vanille on Dec 5, 2009 17:02:09 GMT -5
"My sign of that is hidden of course, so I'm a l'Cie." Oerba said. Oerba looked at him, and she sighed. "You could try Wonderland she was there the last time." Oerba said. Oerba looked at him, and then back at her. She didn't want to tell anyone that she is a l'Cie because she would wanted to do what she always did before. The sign of Fal'Cie is hidden on her body so she can be acting normal.
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Post by Lightning on Dec 5, 2009 20:08:41 GMT -5
Shaking her head Lightning glanced at Vanille then back to Noctis. "No we haven’t but as I said before there are only so few of us l'Cie we know each other even when we have never met." She paused crossing her hands as she stood there the thought of her sister… The only remaining family she got there was no way Lightning could lose her. She scarified everything including her name for her sister's sake and so she had to protect Serah with everything she got.
"Wonderland…" Lightning repeated the name of the world. Was that really where her sister was? Why would she leave without a word to Lightning why would she go so far? Serah wasn't that type. She knew her sister well and Serah wouldn't leave without a reason to follow that is if she truly was in wonderland but the only way to find out was to go there and search.
"Yes she is" She turned to answer Noctis's question. "Serah was the first l'Cie and the reason why I became one." The day they met Lightning explained her story and the part about the fal'Cie but with everything that happened she never mentioned her sister until now.
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Post by Noctis Lucis Caelum on Dec 5, 2009 21:46:13 GMT -5
So they had some sort of psychic bond between them... The first theory came to his head, but then Noctis reprocessed what Lightning said again and found that knowing and meeting is not the same...also if they all did have that, Serah would never be 'lost'. He had never expected Oerba to be a l'Cie not even when she had a weapon and could kill a bear by herself. They both have light hair...is this common in their worlds or just a l'cie trait? It was hilarious, he pursed his lips for a moment to contain his amusement with how he was trying to link clues to everything. "Wonderland is far from here...?" It was all he knew from hearing and reading about the place but he had never been there; it seemed his wit was only the depth of holographic books.
"You must find her then ... is that it, Lightning? You would need to be chartering there as soon as possible." Serah must've been 'special' or somewhat part of a prophecy, he didn't know she existed and with both shocking pieces of information out now, Noctis' mouth formed a tiny O then closed. He didn't want Lightning to leave, he had given her his secret about his Crystal and it was just a shame, regardless of the way he treated her. Noctis always disliked parting, but then got so used to have to part that after the parting, he would prefer never to meet another and get close to them; he himself needed protection from familiarity and duty still came before all else. Oerba on the other hand, had declared she wanted to stay with him so he thought about it as though they were all going on an adventure but he was right where he started.
"The l'Cie seem to be finding refuge here popular...Vanille, you..." summon a bahamut, of course! "too 'became one'?"
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Post by Oerba Dia Vanille on Dec 5, 2009 22:39:58 GMT -5
"According to the mark that's on my thigh yeah." Oerba said. Oerba looked at him, and she didn't want to be a l'Cie. She looked at him, and she just looked at him she just wanted something to be done. She just didn't know what he would do. "What you do now since you know about me?" Oerba asked.
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Post by Lightning on Dec 6, 2009 0:25:19 GMT -5
Lightning nodded yes she needed to find Serah as soon as possible. There was no time to waste, even though her sister was a l'Cie she still wasn’t skilled in combat and always relied on Lightning to protect her. "I try and protect her at the cost of everything even my own life… just as you would protect your crystals" She added remembering the conversation they had a few months ago.
Glancing around to consider the fastest way to Wonderland maybe she could use the airship she came here with. Lightning has never been to Wonderland though and only heard it from the citizens of Cocoon. One thing she did know that it wasn’t a safe place to go to especially for her sister. "Think it's my time to leave… but who knows we may meet again in the near future."
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