Bit of weeding

The story switches back to Sazh and Vanille as they make their way out of the junkyard wasteland, and aside for some fights with Bombs it's uneventful.

Then it goes to Lightning and Hope as they make their way though an odd bio-mechanical forest filled with nasty beasties. Along the way Hope gets more confidant with fighting and tells Lightning of his plan to take revenge on Snow for the death of his mother (who oddly had the same name as Snow's gang). Lightning convinces him that his mother died because of the government's actions, not Snow's, and he agrees to focus on her quest to kill the being running the government.

After much climbing of metal glowing trees they come to the boss battle against a giant animal plant. The fight took for ever and even using the full force of Odin while it was weak didn't even take off a third of it's health. Finally after much attacking and healing I wore it down enough to kill it.