whew! finally it's here! XD seriously this chapter was sooo hard to write -.-' but it was worth because of kind people like you ^w^ by the way do ya think i should add romance too? for my Oc lyra? if so then who? XD don't forget to R & R kupo! ^w^

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

It all began at nightfall; serah was having some strange dream about her sister, lightning. She was in a place called Valhalla and was fighting a man named Caius. She also saw another man there, with short brown hair. His name seemed to be Noel.

"MISS FARRON! MISS FARRON! WAKE UP!" Lyra cried as she shook Serah. Serah woke up and found that her clothes had changed into strange garments. What's going on?

"Lyra, what wrong?!" Serah asked as she got worried. Lyra grabbed Serah's hand and said, "Miss Farron, come quickly! The town's under attack!"

Serah didn't waste another second and ran outside. It was true; New Bodhum was under attack. There were Hordes of monsters. Serah was shocked. It was a long time since there were any monsters in new bodhum, and to see them all come back so different and suddenly, frightened her.

Suddenly right before serah's eyes, new bodhum changed into a wasteland and then returned back to normal. But when it did, time stopped. Serah was now more confused than ever. Is this a bad dream? She kept asking herself. Then time resumed and a meteorite hit the ground.

"Miss Farron, watch out!" Lyra cried out as a monster charged at Serah. Serah was cut off guard, so she fell down. As the monster wanted to attack her, she shouted, "Lightning, help me!"

Then Lebreau came to her rescue. She used her gun and shot the monster multiply times. She grabbed Serah's arm and shouted, "Snap out of it! Lightning can't protect you anymore!"

Lyra ran towards Serah and asked, "Miss Farron, are you hur-?" Lebreau cut her off and shouted, "I told you to protect, Serah! Not lead her straight into-!"

But suddenly a monster attacked Lebreau. She fell and few feet back and fell unconscious. Serah and Lyra both shouted "Lebreau!"

Soon monsters started to surround them. Lyra took out her sword and started fighting. She managed to take down two monsters but the rest of them were too much for her to handle.

Lyra took a few steps back and stood beside Serah. "I can't keep this up much longer, Miss Farron!" Lyra cried out. Serah looked at Lyra disappointedly and looked back on the monster that was about to attack them.

As the monster took one step to attack, an arrow hit it and killed it. Both Lyra and Serah looked up and saw that the arrow was shot by a strange looking man with short brown hair.

Could he be the one that I saw in my dream? Serah thought. The man jumped down and handed Serah the bow he had carried.

"I…I saw you in my dream...you were with my sister!" serah said to the man. He nodded and said, "The name's Noel; Noel Kreiss. I'll explain everything later but right now, we have bigger things to handle!" He took his double blades and started to attack the monsters. Serah and Lyra did the same and started fighting.

Serah used spells while Lyra and Noel focused on short-ranged attacks. Noel kept on dodging and blocking the monsters attacks, much to Lyra's surprise.

He's good…no REALLY good…good as in great! She drifted off. Then a monster used a lightning spell on her. "OUCH!" she cried out. The spell had burned her arm. "Ok…that is so NOT cool!" and she charged at the monster. She kept on hitting it until it was dead but Lyra did not let go and continued hitting it with her sword. "Take THAT! And THAT!" she kept shouting with every strike.

"Lyra, it's over. They're all dead." Serah told her. Lyra paused and looked around her. It was true; the monsters were all gone. She laughed nervously and said, "oh…so…uh….I should stop now, huh? Yea? Ok...hehe."

Serah couldn't help but giggle. She looked back at noel and said, "thank you for your help. If you weren't here, who knew what would've happened."

Noel chuckled and said, "Don't thank me. Thank this little guy here." Serah looked confused since he pointed to her bow. Suddenly, the bow turned into a moogle.

Lyra became so mesmerized with the moogle that she forgot her pain. She squealed and said, "Oh, it's so cute!" she jumped up and hugged the moogle. The moogle squirmed and shouted, "KUPO! KUPO!"

Lyra let go of it and said, "Well it's not my fault you're so cute!" The moogle let out a tired 'kupo' and started circling serah.

"His name is Mog. Lightning told me to give it to you." As soon as Serah heard her sister's name come out of his mouth, she asked, "Lightning?! You saw her?! So she's alive? She is, isn't she?!" Noel nodded and said, "She's in a place called Valhalla, far away in the future." Serah and Lyra became confused. Serah looked at Noel and asked, "The future? But How?"

"Come with me" Noel responded. He led them to the fallen meteorite. He put serah's hand on it and the meteorite began to transform into a strange looking portal.

"see? It's a portal and she's waiting for you at the other side." Noel told her. Serah couldn't believe what she was hearing. Was it true? Was her sister really in Valhalla? Even though he just met Noel, she believed him, and every word he said but she couldn't help but have doubts.

Suddenly Gadot came and said, "well, Lebreau's wound isn't too deep; so she'll be ok after a goodnight's rest.'

'We should talk.' Serah told Gadot. After half an hour or so, everyone gathered at the NORA house. Noel explained to all of them about his encounter with Lightning.

He said about things called artifacts and that they are needed to open the portals of time. No one in NORA seemed to believe him, except Lyra.

'Am I hearing what I think I'm hearing? IT IS! It's the sound of the start of an adventure!" Lyra said as she jumped up and down.

Noel ignored Lyra for now and said, "Serah, come with me! I know where Lightning is and I know she wants to see you and-!" but Gadot became angry, so he cut Noel off and shouted, "You're full of it!"

The others agreed as well. Yuj said, "No way… Lightning 's gone, man." Serah stepped in and said," Gadot…" Gadot looked at Serah. The look in her eyes told Gadot that he should listen to what Noel had to say.

Serah looked at Noel and said, "You said that for us to open the gates, we need to have 'artifacts'; so how do we find them?"

Noel paused for a moment and said, "I'm not quite sure…but we need to find 'fragments'. They are clues in which we can find the artifact. We can search for them in the morning."

Serah nodded. She looked back at Lyra, whom was still occupied with playing with mog, and said, "You should get some rest as well."

Lyra pouted and said, "aw, Miss Farron…can't I stay up just a little longer?" Serah shook her head and said, "Nope, you're going to bed young lady."

Lyra bent her head down disappointingly and said," yes miss Farron…" after that she said goodnight to everyone, gave mog one last hug and went to bed. Soon everyone went to sleep as well. Serah's mind was still clouded with questions and doubts. She couldn't even sleep at all, since she was afraid she would wake up and see that all of this was a dream.

The next morning, serah woke up and found that Lyra wasn't there. She went towards the entrance of NORA house and saw that Noel was there instead.

"Good morning." He said with a smile. "So are you ready to begin our search?" Serah paused for a moment. She had forgotten what she was supposed to search for today.

"Search for what? Oh! You mean the artifact! I guess I am." She said as she recalled last night. Mog suddenly appeared behind Serah and said, "Kupo!"

Serah giggled and they went on to their search for the artifact. Meanwhile Lyra was exaggerating about her little adventure last night to her school mates.

"…and there I was…surrounded by ten!-no- one hundred! -no no no! – Millions and bizillions of monsters! I used my awesome secret technique and defeated them all in a slash and once again new budhom was saved from the clutches of evil by ME, Lyra, official member of team NOR- AHH! SPIDER!"

She cut herself off when she saw a spider. She hated and was frightened by spiders. She never knew why but she just didn't like them.

Her school mates burst with laughter. One of them said, "Look! She's already scared to death with a bug! She's not brave!"

Lyra turned red and shouted, "I'll show you how brave I can be! I'll go and defeat the biggest, meanest, most horrifying monster you'll ever see! Hmph!" she stormed off as the other continued laughing.

At that moment, Serah and noel found something interesting with Mog's help; they found Lightning's knife. According to Noel, it was a fragment. Once serah picked it up, they saw a vision of the day that Serah and the others were released from their crystals and that Lightning was gone. That day, Serah believed with all her heart that her sister was there.

"She smiled. She even gave me her blessing to me and Snow…" Serah told Noel. The vision ended and they all continued on their search.

"o-oh Miss Farron!" one of her students said, nervously. Serah knew instantly that something was not right. Serah looked at the boy kindly and said, "Is something, wrong? You know you can always tell me." But the boy panicked and ran. Serah and Noel went after him. In the end they got the boy cornered at the edges of new budhom.

"I…I…"the boy stuttered once again. Serah looked down sadly and said, "I hope you're not misbehaving… it makes me sad when I see my students misbehave."

The boy hesitated for a moment and said, "Will you promise not to get angry, Miss Farron?" Serah nodded so the boy looked down and confessed.

"Well…you see…I stole something from Maqui and now he's very angry. I…I thought it belonged to you, Miss Farron." The boy handed out a pendant to Serah and ran off. Serah looked at it and said, "It's…Snow's necklace! He gave it to me as a promise that he'll return with lightning one day…" She closed her eyes. She remembered that day like it was yesterday. He had determination in his eyes as if he could've brought Lightning back the next day; but it never happened. days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months; and soon a year just passed and there was still no sign of Snow.

Noel looked down and said, "I'm sorry…I know how it feels like to lose the ones you love." Serah looked at Noel and smiled.

"it's ok." She said.

Noel looked around himself and said, "well…there's still no sign of the artifact, what now?" Serah started thinking and said, "well, I haven't seen Lyra this morning…she might've gone out this morning to find some clues for the artifact. We should head back to the NORA house and see if she's there."

Noel nodded and they went off. When they got there, no one was home. at the corner of her eye, serah saw something glowing in her room. "what's that?" she thought out loud. She went inside her room and saw that her mirror was the one that was glowing. She stepped closer and then a strange looking crystal appeared infront of them.

"It the artifact!" Noel said excited. Serah nodded and looked down and said, "But we still haven't found Lyra. I'm starting to get worried about her. she could easily get herself into trouble…"

Noel looked at her curiously and said, " so… why is it that you care so much for this girl?" Serah looked at Noel and said, "Maqui found her one day, washed ashore. She didn't remember anything, like who her parents were or where she was from; she remembered nothing except her name. then we took her in and made her a member of NORA. Ever since I felt like she was my little sister and I had to be one responsible to look after her. maybe it was because lightning did the same for me, now I know why she was so protective of me…"

Noel looked down and said, "Poor girl but she is luckily to have found someone as good as you." Serah smiled and they left the house with the artifact. Just then one of her student came up to serah and said, "Miss Farron! Miss Farron! Lyra's gonna get herself in trouble again! I wanted to tell you sooner but I didn't find you! You must hurry!"

"oh no…" serah said worriedly and started running towards the outskirts of new budhom

Meanwhile, Lyra reached a cliff at the outskirts far away from the town.

She was only a little further to the gate of time. She sighed and said, "I came all this way and still no sign of a single monster. I'm starting to believe that even monsters think I'm no match for them…" suddenly the whole ground just shook before her feet. She looked behind her and saw a huge and terrifying monster. She froze.

"he…he…" she couldn't even call for help. The monster let out a horrifying roar. Lyra fell down. this time she was in big trouble…

Suddenly, Noel and Serah showed up just at the nick of time. "Lyra, are you alright?!" Serah asked worriedly, Lyra nodded as she got up on her feet again. Noel took out his blades and said, "it's Gogmagog!"

All of them prepared for battle. Noel charged at Gogmagog, slashed him and did a back flip. Serah kept on hitting Gogmagog with spells and arrows.

Lyra did her best to heal Noel and serah when they were wounded. It was hard for her since she hardly ever used magic. She only knew one spell and that was cure. Gogmagog got furious and he swept his giant hand at them.

Lyra suddenly noticed a weakness in Gogmagog when serah and noel simultaneously hit Gogmagog with a fire spell and a melee attack.

"Serah! Noel! I know his weakness!" Lyra had finally called Serah by her name. Serah looked at Lyra and listened carefully.

"tell us then! We can't keep this up!" Noel shouted back. Lyra pointed at Gogmagog and said, "On my count you and I will slash Gogmagog with our swords while serah uses her fire spell!"

They nodded and Lyra started her count down.

"one…two…now!" noel and Lyra charged and Gogmagog and serah used a fire spell. The fire spell raced with noel and Lyra. When they clashed with Gogmagog, so did the fire spell. Gogmagog was defeated and they ended up victorious. All of them were panting. Mog returned to his normal form and let out an exhausted 'kupo…'

"whew…we made it…" Noel said. Lyra looked down guilty and stayed quiet. Serah looked at her and asked, "Lyra…why did you want to get into trouble? And more importantly, why did you put yourself into danger?"

"I…I just wanted to be brave…" Lyra said with a sad tone. Serah hugged her and said, "if anything happened to you I wouldn't have ever forgiven myself…"

"Lyra…" Noel said with a serious tone in his voice, "I know you want to be brave, but going straight into trouble isn't called bravery, it's called being reckless. That's a lot of difference."

Lyra looked down and said, "sorry…" she brought her head up and asked, "By the way, did you find the artifact?" Serah nodded and said, "sure have!" she showed Lyra the artifact, and Lyra jumped up in excitement.

"alright then we can leave right away!" Lyra said as she started to walk towards the gate. Noel grabbed her by the shoulder and said, "whoa, wait! Who said we? Serah and I are the only ones who are going."

Lyra pouted and asked, "what?! Why!? I want to come too!"

Serah looked at her kindly and said, "it's too dangerous for you to come. Besides, you're needed here."

Lyra didn't want to stay. She wanted to go with serah, she didn't want to be coped up in new budhom forever.

"so leaving already without saying goodbye?" a familiar voice said behind them. It was Gadot. The others were there too. Serah grinned and said, " for course not!" Lebreau smiled and said, "Take care, Serah."

"yeah, and be careful of those monsters! They are sneaky things they are!" Maqui said. One by one the others said goodbye.

"Gadot, take care of Lyra for me, ok?" Serah told Gadot. Gadot grinned and said, " don't worry! I won't let get an inch away from my view!"

Serah smiled and waved goodbye to her friends. And so serah and noel stood infront of the gate.

Noel looked at serah and asked, " so, are you ready? There may not be a way back, you know?" Serah was definitely ready so she nodded.

She would do anything to see her sister again. As the gate started to open Lyra didn't hesitate and jumped inside the gate before it was closed.

And now their Journey begins…

Of course I had to jump into the gate! I wanted to find answers and I couldn't have found them at new budhom! I thought that if we could change the future, I could've find out something about my past, maybe my family or maybe where I belong… maybe what I really wanted was to prove that could do something right…

yes, i have changed some minor things in here like the fact that noel and serah face gogmagog 2 times and some other things i forgot . so sorry if it annoyed you ._. -avoids the tomatoes that are thrown at her- T_T i said i was sorry.

don't forget to R & R kupo!