So anyway, Serah hallucinated a miserable landscape, walked around for a while, and then unhallucinated, and her village was being attacked by monsters. Snow's gang is trying to save everyone, but Serah is not yet a protagonist, so she is defenseless and squeaky and Lebreau has to save her.

Then Noel arrives dramatically and is all "IF YOU WANT SERAH YOU MUST GO THROUGH ME FIRST" and makes a speech about never lying down to wait to die, which I guess is the same thing as being a defenseless civilian. He gives her the mooglebow and we fight.