Chapter 20: Memories shattered

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(In dream)

Catastrophic screams of the cadets, the Eidolons are dying, the light from Alexender shines on the enemy, many cadets have fallen.

Enix widened her eyes in horror, as she walked closer to the fallen cadets they sacrificed to summon Alexdaner, including the fallen Commander Kurasame. In front of her, Lady Caetuna transformed into a crytal stasis, shakily stepped forward, embraced Lady Caetuna's crystal stasis and began to cry. Suddenly the crystal stasis Lady Caetuna naturally broke and the crystals shattered.

Then she found herself in another place, everything around was dark then a bloody hand grabbed her hand. Looking at the owner of the hand, no one else was Ace, then there were many hands clinging to her then pulling her down, the ones pulling her down were Class Zero, her teammates, her family and more. All are the ones she loves and they were screaming:

-Why Enix! Why!

-How can you do this to us!

-You kill us!!!

Before she was drowned she saw a person wearing a phoenix mask looking at her with those red eyes, she didn't know why she felt so familiar. She speaks:

-You are the one who killed them.

Enix raised her hand to that person and started screaming:

-NO!!!

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-Enix wake up!- Ruka

She awoke from sleep because Ruka called to her, sweating and breathing heavily. Her whole body was trembling, after all what that dream was. Why did the woman say that she was the one who killed everyone?

-Are you ok?- Ruka ask her worriedly

-Y.....yeah, i'm fine......just have a nightmare. I guess i should take some air

Enix stepped out of Class Zero, finding that nightmares became more and more realistic. Since combining with Phoe, things have become so scary she is slowly losing herself. Suddenly her head ached, she held her head and heard the voice:

-Come on, follow me.

Everything around became red, everything froze as time had stopped. Enix saw the woman in the dream, she began to follow him, the figure of the woman stopped in front of a door and disappeared. She pushed open the door, inside was a completely different class from the cadets here that were unaffected by the time spent looking around, this was Class Three.

Then suddenly, she saw a familiar figure that was none other than Commander Kurasame but much younger, so she guessed this was the past, because she could see both Emina and Kazusa but there was another person talking with them. A girl with red hair and long ears, when the girl turned her head to Enix and smiled, before Enix saw her face everything stopped and she dissapear.

Everything changed, she found herself on the battlefield and once again she saw that red-haired teenage girl but she did nothing but just watched.

She then saw Commander Kurasame's friends die, the red-haired teenage girl just watching. In the next scene, she sees Commander Kurasame along with the other cadets sacrifice to let Setsuna summon Alexander. The red-haired teen girl walked closer to Kurasame's body and stroked his cheek:

-Poor and also so weak, an experiment failed again. Am I right, Enix?

-Y.....you......

-What you see is all yours, or rather, your memory.

-My.......memory?

-A little confused, right? But that's the truth, look Enix. Isn't everything chaotic? War, death, and blood are all horrible and disgusting. Everything at this Orience, are the souls imprisoned here.

-How.......how can this happen?

-Why not try asking yourself why there are familiar feelings, why you are here, why does everything happen just like what is in the dream?

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-Can't answer? Let me answer more clearly, it's you. You are the one who created this, you are the one who wants to open that "Gate", you are the one who imprisoned the souls here.

-No......no......

-To open the "Gate" you want the spirits to provide the power to be able to open it. Say, how many times have you been reborn and destroyed Orience?

-No, i'm not.........

-Not want to deny? So how many times have you let the people you love die? How many times has Class Zero died?

-Stop it.......

-You are not a Miqo'te or a l'Cie, but you are..........

-SHUT UP!!!!- She banged on the ground and everything was broken like glass

-A fal'Cie.

Her tears started to flow, she hugged herself. Now that she remembers everything, she is a Fal'Cie Phoenix whose purpose is to open that "Gate" to a place called "Unseen realm", only Agito has enough power to lead there. But on many occasions, there was no progress, so she went to Orience to observe and promote everything but still didn't work, until she was split into two. One is that Phoe holds the memory, the other is Enix holding the power, both holding half the power, but Enix is born in the family and Phoe is only in the form of a soul. When both became and continued their work at this Orience

She felt deeply regretful, when she was reborn in this world, she felt many emotions such as crying, hating, fear, joy, laughing and love. Her heart sank, she didn't want everything to be the same. Now she just wants to live happily with everyone, a life without war, a normal life in a cozy family, to meet friends, be loved and become a family. But they were all too far away for her.

The red-haired teen lifted Enix's chin and she transformed into a woman with a phoenix mask:

-If you want everything to end once and for all, that's possible, but the price is too much, would you want to do that? Or do you want everything to come back like the other times?

-...............If I had to sacrifice this life to save the world of Orience, then I accepted.

-Very good, then everything is decided. Spread your fiery wings!

The masked woman turned into fire and entered Enix. She felt her body heat up, her hair was fiery and her golden eyes turned red, the l'Cie brand behind her back glowed and spread all over her body. She opened her eyes and said:

-I have arrived.

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