"Hello everyone and welcome to Chapter 2 of Helping the l'Cie!"

Sean: "Things are going to get even crazier than they would have now that I've arrived at The Hanging Edge to lend a hand."

"No doubt about that. Now, let's get around to the disclaimer. Take it away Sean!"

Sean: "Drago3511 does NOT own Final Fantasy XIII or any other aspect from any game, show etc. He DOES however own me, my abilities, AND the Phoenix Summoning Contract that was seen last chapter with Reika... which is a nickname for Koreikala by the way."

"Right, now let's get you back to The Hanging Edge to help Snow and his band of freedom fighters! So please everyone, enjoy the fic."

(Sean POV)

Things were just starting to get out of hand. First, the army guys that we've been fighting, PSICOM, have started to step up their game. On our way back to NORA's makeshift base, we ran into these things that they call Pantherons. They looked like a bunch of wildcats that got teched out and had their underbellies drowned in a bunch neon paint. They were pretty vicious, but it was nothing that a couple of grenades from Snow and a few slashes from Oathkeeper and Oblivion couldn't handle.

We eventually got back to NORA's temporary set-up, where there were already civilians sitting around with their heads hung, as if they already lost the fight. "Snow, these people are devastated. I've never see so many hopeless looks in one place before." I said to the trench coat-wearing blonde. Snow himself only slightly hung his head himself, before quickly perking back up with a huge grin on his face. "That only means that we need to try harder to bring these people back to their homes! We need to be their heroes Sean!" I nodded at this and started walking around the area to see if I could help anyone in the slightest way... whether it was to heal an injury, or to just give them a little bit of a moral boost.

I eventually ended up walking back to Snow and his group, who were now in front of a large group of people, some of them even offering to help fight. "Could help." I head Snow say. Gadot then nodded his head and started passing out the guns they had collected to anyone who was willing to fight. "You guys sure about this? I mean, sure they could help our chances... but remember, they could still get hurt in the line of fire. I may be able to heal people back to almost full health, but even I can't heal a life-threatening wound to some extent. People could die out there." I said, but no one dropped their weapon or moved an inch. I just sighed and nodded to all of the people. After my little speech, a woman with silver hair that reminded me of Dante and Nero came up and grabbed one of the guns. "Are you sure?" Snow asked. "Yeah, moms are tough." The woman said, while gaining a firm grip on the firearm.

"Alright, last one. Who wants it?" Snow asked while holding out the last gun. He even tried to give it to a kid who was probably almost my age, but he cowered away from it, as if it were deadly to the touch. Then a girl came up and said, "I'll take it." With a hint of a British accent. Snow nodded and handed her the gun. She took it with open arms and I walked up to her, "Keep these people safe, okay? If we somehow end up loosing, I'm counting on you to protect them all." She nodded and did a mock shot with the gun while childishly saying "Bang." I played along and pretended to get shot in the heart, stumbling over and falling on my back.

Snow and his crew just laughed as I played along with the little act. I got up after my little performance and we all started to move out. Lebreau stayed behind for a little bit to help everyone else get to a safe spot before following us back to the battlefield.

Gadot stayed close to the civilians who volunteered to help fight, while I went ahead and took point with Snow and Lebreau. But I think that was for the best, because a PSICOM ship dropped some sort of bio-mechanical monster in front of us that looked like some sort of hulking beast with a plasma blade stuck in its head. "Heroes don't run from fights." Snow started. I nodded and summoned a different set of weapons this time. On my right hand materialized a silver, demonic-looking arrow gun called Artemis, and in my left hand materialized the motorized blade, Red Queen.

"Guys, let me go first. I've got a new combo that I wanna try." I said, getting a nod from Snow and a curious look from Lebreau. "Alright then ugly, let's get this party started!" I yelled as I charged the massive monster. It tried to claw at me, but I just side-stepped and slid underneath it, getting behind the massive creature. Artemis started to charge with demonic purple energy, and I let it loose. "Lock-On!" I yelled as I pulled the trigger of the weapon. Multiple spheres of purple energy shot out and hovered in front of me for a brief second, before launching forward and striking the monster. It cried out in pain and turned around to face me, completely ignoring Snow and Lebreau.

Snow then chucked a grenade, which Lebreau shot while it landed underneath the beast, causing it to explode and distract it. While this happened, I jumped into the air and then performed an Air Hike by channeling energy underneath my feet to create a solid platform. "Take this, Acid Rain!" I yelled while pulling the trigger of Artemis multiple times, launching energy spheres into the air. The spheres then broke apart into several energy arrows that rained down upon the monster bellow me, dealing massive damage. I then revved the engine/heating mechanism in Red Queen to its max while making my decent. "And for the finishing touch, Double Down!" I cried. I brought the tip of Red Queen down and sped up my decent. The blade ended up making contact with the head of the monster, cleaving it in two right down the middle.

I landed in a crouching position with my blade embedding itself in the metal walkway. The monster collapsed onto said walkway and started to disappear. I stood up and placed Red Queen on my back and dismissed the two weapons.

I turned around to see Snow and Lebreau with looks of shock on their faces, followed by smiles. "Well, I'm sure glad you're on our side." Lebreau said. Snow nodded his head in agreement. "No doubt about that. You make PSICOM and the l'Cie look like toddlers with that kind of firepower. Where'd you get those kinds of weapons?"

"The giant keys that you saw me summon earlier are a part of me, they can't be used by anyone else. The weapons that you just saw me use were given to me by friend of mine. But, they're only mere copies of the real things. The blade I used called Red Queen, was specially customized by its wielder Nero, so that only he could use it properly. Turns out though, I could handle the blade pretty well when he dropped it and was being crushed by a massive demon about maybe eight times bigger than the thing that we just fought. The other weapon that I used was a demonic arrow gun called Artemis. It was found in the Temen-ni-gru by the Devil Hunter, Dante. He let me take it out for a spin when we were dealing with a few deadly lightning demons known as the Blitz. Artemis was best for the job because of the multiple shots that could be fired at once to lower it's protective electric cloak to go ahead and kill them with melee attacks." I explained, Snow and Lebreau wide-eyed.

"Now I'm really glad that you're on our side. I wouldn't want to pick a fight with you." Snow said with a grin. I nodded and turned around to see the still warring area that was The Hanging Edge. "We've still got a lot of people to save and a lot of PSICOM heads to bash in. C'mon guys, let's go be heroes!" I shouted and ran off, with Snow and Lebreau following closely behind.

"And that's a wrap for Helping the l'Cie Chapter 2!"

Sean: "Yes, I finally got to pull off an awesome combo with two awesome weapons! But you should make this a little more challenging for me!"

"And make you seem almost God-like? No thanks, that's not what I'm aiming for. The only reason you were able to defeat that Beta Behemoth in the first place was because of your skill with your weapons, not to mention that they can be powered up by charging the attack!"

Sean: "Fine, I won't push things farther than they should be."

"Good boy. Now, we'll see you all next time for Chapter 3. Please review who Sean should be paired with this time and if he should be able to save Hope's mom so that he doesn't go hell-bent on revenge."