Final fantasy 8 word challenge!

A/N - Hey everyone, hope you're all still enjoying this project, you're all stuck with me for this chapter so I hope I can provide you with at least a little entertainment.

My word for this chapter is hope and it is in Ellone's perspective.

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Hope (Noun) - The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.

Do you remember when you was a child, full of energy, hope and excitement about the future?

What did hope mean to you? For many hope is religious, many believe that if you pray for something and then hope for it then it will come true, almost like a wish.

For others hope is what keeps them alive, when things are difficult and you are facing difficulties and problems that you cannot fathom, hope is what keeps a person who is facing misery alive.

For a child hope is everywhere, a child hopes that they will get a new bike for Christmas, they hope that it will be hot in summer, they hope that one day they too will be strong, powerful or beautiful just like their favourite superhero

Even teenagers hope, they hope to find a man or woman that will love them unconditionally, they hope that they will never struggle financially, they hope that they can live forever.

For a small amount of people, hope is meaningless, they've faced some many bad things in their lives that they give up hoping that someday it will all get better. They refuse to get their hopes up, saying that if they don't get their hopes up then it doesn't matter if something bad happens, that if they don't hope for their loved ones to get better, then they might be spared the pain when they die, because after all they never hoped in the first place right?

To me hope is a beautiful thing, a little hope is beautiful, a lot of hope is magical.

To me, hope and determination can make you invincible, it can bring people joy and happiness.

Hope is why we keep on fighting, hope is why we keep on trying, hope is what will help me save Raine and give Laguna his happily ever after.

Since I was a child I have always been a hopeful person, I remember when Laguna used to look after me, playing games with me, picking flowers with me.

Even as a child I could always tell that Laguna liked Raine.

He'd always get all funny around her, shy and quiet and he'd limp because his leg would cramp up, and he'd go pink in the face!
I'd sit there and giggle and talk about them marrying until Laguna would laugh and laugh and laugh, and then we'd be late home and Raine would get cross.

I had hope when I was in the orphanage, I hoped that someday I would have a magical family who would love me lots and lots, and when I saw Matron Edea and her husband Cid hold hands and look into each other's eyes laughing I'd dream about the day when I would marry to an adoring man and have lots of little children running around our house.

When I saw the other children arrive, quiet little Squall who'd follow me around and bossy little Quisty who'd tell everyone what to do, energetic little Zell who was always over excitable and naughty Seifer who'd make Zell cry. Bouncy little Seffy who'd trail after Irvine and pretend that they were getting married, and patient Irvy who would sit and play with Selphie all day long.

When they got sad and lonely I'd tell them to hope, I'd tell them that one day if they hoped hard enough that they'd all have lots of friends and a family and they'd be strong people.

Now I'm on the white SeeD ship and we're being attacked by Galbadian soldiers who want to kidnap me, I'm hoping for a miracle.

That miracle comes true because a ship from Esthar appears and on it is Uncle Laguna and his friends Kiros and Ward they're here to save me and as I bid goodbye to my friends on the white SeeD ship I hope, that one day I'll see them again.

Then I run and jump onto Laguna's ship and I hope that one day if I use my powers just right, by showing Squall and the others the past, I might just be able to change it, so Laguna and Raine can live a happy life together, it's a big and ambitious dream to have but it might just happen, you know why?

Because I have hope.