More than a Myth

Can I trust you'll be there for Me?

Fang marched down the hallway as she heard the babbling of her friends. Each of them said something like, "We can't just leave her!" or "We have to find her before she gets hurt!" Hope, Serah, and Vanille were tailing Fang as they tried to convince her to find Lightning.
Annoyed, Fang stopped her advance and turned around to face them. "Look guys, I know I am in charge here and it was my idea to send Lightning out there. I know it's my fault, I know we have to find her, and I most certainly know she could be in danger! If you don't think I want to have every Pulse Life Restoration operative looking for her, you're wrong!"
The three youths looked down in shame. Fang felt bad for yelling at them. After Lightning's disappearance, she felt horrible for sending her out there. She wished she had gone herself. "Ok, I know how you all feel. Especially you Serah. When I lost Vanille, it felt like I lost a part of myself. I know Lightning is family to all of us and we need to find her as soon as possible, but Lightning isn't the only person out there. P.L.R. was made to help all people, not just our friends. I can't drop everything just to find her." She looked over the sad youngsters. "Do you all understand?"
Hope said in a small voice, "I get it. But how will we find her?" He may have been seventeen now, but he was still a kid.
"I have no idea. I have a few units looking for her, but no luck so far."
Serah looked at her with sadness, "Just please promise me you'll find her. I don't know what I'd do without the only family I have left!"
"I know, I know. I promise I'll find her. Now the three of you go find somewhere to relax. You all need it."
Serah and Hope turned and left, but Vanille still stood there, looking at the ground.
"What's up, Vanille?" Fang asked, concerned for the person she grew up with.
Vanille threw herself at Fang and started crying. Fang hugged her while telling her to calm down. "It was all my fault, Fang! She was right there and I couldn't save her!" Vanille sobbed. Fang just hugged her while Vanille cried her eyes out. Once she was finished, Fang spoke.
"It's not all your fault, it was an accident. You didn't do anything to hurt her. I promise I will do everything in my power to find her." She gave Vanille one last hug.
"I will be looking for you, Light," Fang mumbled to herself as she began to walk the opposite direction, "and when I do find you..." Fang trailed off before completing her sentence. "...You better be alive."

Lightning glared at Noctis' back as he lead her down a dark hallway. His elegantly decorated castle was a little flashy for Lightning's taste, but she didn't pay much attention to it all. Her eyes sent daggers into the man who took her freedom. She hated him. He stopped walking and opened the door he was closest to. Then he stepped aside so Lightning could walk past him and enter the guest room she would be staying in. There was a twin sized bed with white sheets pushed against the middle of a wall to the right. A tall glass door leading to a small balcony, covered by black curtains on the wall opposite to a grey grandfather clock with intricate designs in the far left corner of the room. Next to it was a vanity that was against the wall to the left. One side of the bed was inhabited by a closet while the other contained a nightstand with a blue lamp. Lightning walked to the middle of the room and looked everything over. Nothing seemed to have any cameras hidden or anything.

"I will ensure that extra clothes are brought to you tomorrow. Right now you should get some sleep." Noctis declared. He stood in the doorway, watching the woman's every move. She was so mysterious to him, he couldn't help but stare.
Lightning noticed his gaze. "Will you stop that." She said. Noctis snapped out of his trance. "Stop what?"
"Staring at me! I'm not THAT strange!"
Noctis could feel his face go red as he realized he had been discovered. "I wasn't" he lied.
Lightning stomped over to him, pushed him out of the doorway and slammed the door in his face. Noctis stood speechless for a minute, digesting what had just happened. He accepted that he was defeated and started to walk towards his room. It had been a long day; All he wanted to do was sleep now.
Lightning paced across the room she had been lent, trying to comprehend all that had happened. She was trapped in a world sounding extremely close to the myth Fang had told her about. This guy, Noctis, was the heir to the crystal kingdom Fang explained as well. She couldn't leave without her weapon and she didn't think she could leave unnoticed anyway.
Giving up on thinking, Lightning sat down on her bed and put her head in her hands. She remembered the look on Vanille's face as she tried to keep her from being pulled into the portal. She was so scared and upset. Hope, Sazh, Snow, Fang, they would all be so sad that she was missing. Hope was just a kid. After losing his mother, Lightning couldn't imagine how he would feel if Lightning never came back. And Serah. Serah would be devastated. Just a week ago, Lightning made plans with Serah to have a sisters' night, just the two of them having fun. Lightning found herself even more upset from the thought of leaving her little sister behind. She couldn't take any more of her thinking. Lightning dragged the sheets over her, wishing that she would wake up from this nightmare in the morning.