I really don't like how this chapter has turned out. It feels to rushed and try's to cover to much without really settling on anything for more that a few seconds but ive run out of patience with myself so here it is. Let me know what you think in the review section.

It's been 2 days and she's barely gotten any better. Yet here we are, on our way to awaken the Fulgurian. Luna insisted that we awaken him as soon as possible. And despite the fact that she can barely do so, she insisted on walking without my help. 'Independent... and hardheaded.' I think to myself. I told her to wait at least one more day before trying to push herself and she keeps a slow pace as she struggles to move any faster.

'Yet here we are... what drives you Luna? It can't be for recognition, perhaps because it's the right thing? Or maybe it's all for his sake.'

I look down at the white dog walking next to us. Apparently named Pryna, it's seems quite saddened by the state of its owner. 'She is crazy, that was the first god and we are already doing the second.'

When we reach the Chocobo outpost I immediately notice the chain and barbwire fencing. When we get into the area it is only midday. She walks over to a table and sits down. I walk up to the chocobo ranch owner.

"Hey what's going on? All the chocobo rental stations are down and there is barbed wire all over the place." I say to the man. He turns around to me and I get a good look at him.

He was an older man with a stout build and gray hair and beard. He is wearing a gray flat cap, a gray shirt with sleeves rolled up, a brown vest, a yellow scarf and white trousers.

"Real sorry. But chocobo are not able to go out. There's a behemoth named deadeye in the area that's been scarring all our birds, and until someone deals with it I'm fraid I cannot rent them out for use." He explains to me.

I raise my brows. "A behemoth you say? Any idea where to find it?" I ask.

"It's den is right behind this outpost but- hey!" He says as I start walking away. I walk up to Luna who was now having a small lunch. "Hey I'm gonna go deal with something. You stay here." I tell her.

"Where are you going?" She asked concerned. I continued walking and without turning around and yelled "I already told you. I have to go deal with something." I heard a huff come from her but nothing more.

As I walk around the chain linked fence and into the forest I notice the smell of blood in the air. I walk farther in and hear the sound of heavy branches breaking.

The trail takes me into what looks to be a narrowing pathway with rocks on ether side. "As if." I say jokingly. I warp onto the top of one of the rock walls and begin walking along it. I hear the beast moving around in the den. Sight is becoming limited very quickly as a heavy fog rolls in. I jump off the rock wall try to find the beast.

I finally spot it just as it leaps over the rock wall into what appears to be some ruins. I hop a small fence and land in the ruins. Strangely enough the fog stops just outside of the fence. I notice the beast walking into an open area in the ruins the only thing noticeable in it is several oil drums and a shambled stone wall. The only part of the wall still remaining was the pillars and some rubble in between them.

I warp to the edge of the clearing. The behemoth must have smelled me because it quickly turned around roared in anger. "You're hardly a challenge." I say to aloud.

I warp directly in front of the behemoth and it stands up on its two back legs before swinging at me with its giant paw. Fifteen different weapons all simultaneously appear in-front of the swing, parrying the blow with relative ease. The behemoth stumbles back. I raise my hand to the floating weapons and twist my wrist. Axes, swords, katanas, scythes and other weapons all quickly turned to face the behemoth.

I flicked my hand towards it and the weapons followed suit, flying towards it before implanting themselves into its chest. I disappear from the spot and warp to each of the weapons. One by one ripping them out of its hide and taking a quick swing before disappearing to another, leaving the weapon once again in its skin. My speed gradually increases as I warp from weapon to weapon, tearing into the behemoths flesh time and time again. The behemoth finally gets sick of the onslaught after almost 30 warps. It does a full 360 spin, knocking away all the weapons breaking some of the weaker constructed ones.

I warp back before the spin could hit me and reappeared on top of one of the pillars. I summon my ultima sword and raise it in the air. The ten remaining weapons rise up into the air and stop. I concentrate for several seconds and more weapons begin to materialize. A total of twenty-five different weapons collected throughout my journey had materialized. I then bring the sword down pointing it at the behemoth and all twenty five weapons lodged themselves into its back.

It lets out a great roar of pain and begins to stumble but doesn't quite fall down. I grab my ultima sword with both hands and jump down before bringing the sword down on its neck. The blade cuts deep. The beast falls to the ground letting out one last weak roar before completely collapsing never to rise again.

All of my weapons glow white before disappearing back into my armory. I was Quite happy that It did manage to give me a heavy workout, the more weapons a caelum can control at once represents the amount of strength and power they had. not necessarily meaning the amount of weapons but rather the amount being controlled at once. I summon a mace before slamming it against the behemoths horn, breaking it. I take the piece with me back to the chocobo outpost.

Storm clouds began rolling in much quicker than natural. It immediately started raining the second the clouds passed overhead. The Lightning began with it but strangely enough it seemed to have some sort of noticeable pattern.

"N-no." I say quietly to myself. "She wouldn't have." I say again more firmly, as if that would some how convince me. "I was only gone for 2 hours." I say to myself. After several seconds of standing still I broke into a sprint back to the chocobo outpost. "No she fucking didn't."

I reach the outpost and Look around but find her nowhere. I go up to the man renting the trailers and ask him if he's seen her. He tells me he hasn't.

I run up to the chocobo owner and throw the horn at him. "Behemoths dead, I need this." I say as I jump onto a chocobo. The man tries to argue but I already have the chocobo jumping over the fence and running into the woods. I searched all over the area but couldn't find sign of her anywhere.

But then I heard a bark right next to me. I look over and see pryna barking at me. "Alright show me where." I tell her. She turns and takes off in a sprint. I am actually surprised at how fast the dog is but the chocobo has no trouble keeping up. She leads me to a trail that abruptly cuts off. It's then that I see her. Leaning heavily on a tree right in front of a cave mouth. I feel the adrenaline quickly leave me as I realize she was alive although after doing two covenants back to back she can't be in good condition. I bring the chocobo up next to her before jumping off.

She doesn't acknowledge my presence. "I thought we were going to wait a few more days." I say to her. She just stands there not saying anything as the rain hits us. I stare at her thinking of something to say. I want to be angry but there's no telling how well she is doing.

I notice she has many cuts and several bruises after assumably going in and out of that cave full of deamons. "How did you even get through that cave? That's what I was for. Remember?" I ask her. She still doesn't respond.

I reach over and lightly grab her shoulder. "Ahh!" She yells out in pain as she flinches away from my touch. She falls into the tree before letting out a shout of agony. She falls away from the tree and I catch her. She struggles in my arms as if my hands are on fire. "Luna stop!" I say as I hold onto her as lightly as possible.

She ceases her struggling and simply stands there quivering whenever a larger raindrop hits her. It's then I notice that she is ice cold as well. I quickly decided the next corse of action had to be getting her to a doctor immediately. I hold her up with one arm as I take off my jacket before switching arms and taking it off the other arm. I feel the rain hitting me As I gently put her arms into my jacket before zipping it up.

"Man, at this point it's like I don't even have a jacket at all." I say jokingly. She lets out a small chuckle. 'That's good. If she can laugh that means it might be fine.' I think to myself. I look over at the chocobo before telling it to sit. I carefully picked up Luna before sitting her upright on the chocobo. The chocobo stands back up as I hold an arm on her to keep Luna steady. I mount the chocobo, sitting behind her. She leans back against me and I grab hold of the chocobos reins from ether side of her to hold her upright.

I look back down at the dog who lets out a small wine. "I'll get her help. Don't worry." I say to the dog. I have the chocobo go at a slow pace as to not hurt Luna. The dog pryna walking next to us.

"I can't believe you went in there by yourself." I tell her quietly. She doesn't say anything for some time and I had almost believed she had ether passed out or didn't hear me before she made a quite reply.

"Most gods aren't so forgiving of slander towards them as the Titan was. I decided it was best not to bring you." She tells me. I think about it silently for several seconds.

"That is fair, but what you did was just foolish." I say to her. Suddenly I heard thunder strike remarkably close to us from behind. Luna lets out a scream when the chocobo lurches but I hold onto her as I turn to see what was struck. I see a large square bolder roll off the top of the hill but lose sight of it as it falls below the trees to where I presume the cave entrance was.

'Guess the god is picky as to who gets to visit him.' I think to myself. The chocobo takes a moment to calm before I have it going back towards the chocobo outpost once again. Soon the outpost comes into sight and the chocobo owner comes running up to us once we come into his sight.

"So, wanna explain what that was about? I had this checked out and found that it's genuine behemoth horn but that doesn't mean you can just take one of my birds." He tells me as he points at me with the horn.

"I had to track down my missing companion here." I said motioning towards Luna. The man looked at her for several seconds before a realization struck.

"Lunafreaya?!" He questioned. She opened her tired eyes gave him a small smile and nodded before wincing again from the movement. I had the chocobo sit down before I got off and picked Luna up bridal style. I sat her down at one of the chairs for dinning at the outpost.

The owner and I sat down in two seats next to her. "I need to get her to a doctor immediately." I tell the man. Luna opens her mouth to speak up but a quick and hard glare from me keeps her from arguing.

"I'm afraid you out of luck. Lestallum and old lestallum are the closest places you can find a doctor around here and with the barricades back up lestallum is out of the question." He tells me.

"What?! But that's a whole days ride from here!" I say in anger. He nods his head in agreement before confirming the bad news. "Im afraid those are your only options." He says.

I turn to look at Luna. Her tired eyes meeting mine. We hold eye contact for several seconds. 'Ugh! Why do I even care?! This isn't even my world! I barely even know her. I think to myself. 'But I do care. And I know why. It's been my weakness and greatest fear for a long time. And it makes me sick.'

I turn back to the man. "Take the some of the bounty money and prepare our chocobo." I say to the man. He looked me in the eyes for several seconds. Analyzing me. He glances up at the sun before looking back at me.

"I hope taking down Deadeye by yourself wasn't just a fluke." He says before standing jogging off to get us chocobo supplies.

I turn back to Luna and I think she already knows what we are doing. I open my mouth to speak but something catches my eye behind her in the distance. It takes my brain several seconds to register what it is that my eyes spot but when it does I freeze like a deer in headlights.

Adrenaline begins pumping.

My heart pumping faster.

I feel my stomach churn.

Anger is my most prominent emotion. Fear being second.

I hear a voice in the back of my head.

'Kill him.'

I wish nothing more than to sink a sword into him but I realize that I can't do anything here, now. Not with Luna. He turns his head towards this direction but someone walks infront of him blocking us from his line of sight. I see my one and only chance getting us out of this and I take it. I disappeared from the spot landing on the roof of the building... having left Luna behind.

The person walks out of the way of his view and he spots Luna who was looking around in confusion. Holding an umbrella over himself, was a man dressed in a long, black jacket that has a white and gray trim, and matching trousers. He wears a red scarf and a hooded, gray and white mantle and a black fedora sitting on top of his red-violet hair. His amber eyes were locked on Luna and he began walking towards her. A sickening smile on his face.

Arden Lucis Caelum sat down in a chair across from Luna, startling her. My heart pounding in my chest drowns out the sound of the rain as they two lock eyes. In the short time I had, just about every conceivable scenario went through my head, but after everything I imagined him doing or saying he once again catches me off guard. He closes his umbrella and says. "Why hello dear princess! Quite the strange weather we're having! Wouldn't you agree?" He says jovially.

'End him'

She looks at him in surprise but quickly regains composure. "Chancellor Ardyn. What a surprise. Come to take me in?" She said

'Arden is ardyn in this world... that's a weird change.' I think to myself but quickly find myself listening again. "No my dear. I'm afraid not. I was just nearby and thought I'd tell you how your dear Noctis is doing." He said with a grin.

She looked at him in surprise. "What did you do?" She asked, almost aggressively. His grin seemed to widen.

"Oh me? I simply saved them when meteor disappeared. I let them on my ship and dropped them off nearby. They should be arriving soon considering they will be needing chocobos as replacement for their car." He said to her.

"Noctis is coming here?!" She said in surprise sitting up quickly. She yelped in pain before falling back into the chair.

Ardyn made a clicking noise with his tong. "Oh dear Luna you've been a reckless girl! 2 covenants in a row? It's amazing you can move at all... but yes you shall see your beloved prince soon." He stood up and opened his umbrella.

'Do it now! Gahh-!"

I push the voice away.

"By the way... that jacket." he said as he stared at my jacket that Luna was currently wearing.

'Oh shit.' I thought quietly. Luna, for what it's worth, didn't even flinch at it's mention.

After several moments of staring he finally said "... black really doesn't suit you dear." He quickly walked away afterwards before getting into a salmon car and driving away.

I warped back down to the table, receiving a short accusatory look from Luna as she slouched back into her chair in pain. "You could have warned me." She said in annoyance.

"No. I couldn't." I say as I stared off into direction the car went. I wanted nothing more than to cut him down... I hear Luna shiver where she sat. 'But I've got something else to take care of.' I think to myself.

I look over at a small weapon shop at the entrance of town. I think about my Arsenal for several moments before walking over to him.

"Hey. What can I do for you?" He says to me. I spent several seconds looking over the weapons he has displayed.

"I would like to buy everything you have that isn't a gun or machine." I said to him, his face turned to one of surprise as I hand him a bag full of almost all the Gil I have. He quickly counts it before looking up at me and nods. He opens up the side door of the shop showing me all of his weapons.

"You forming an army or something?" He asks me as my eyes scan over the weapons. Short swords, javelins, daggers, shields, broadswords are all shown to me. I touch them all with my magic and they begin disappearing into my Arsenal surprising him.

"No, they are all for me." I tell the man as the last of the weapons disappear. I walk away towards another shop and use the last of my money to buy several potions and a few elixirs.

When I get back to the table I see Luna being helped onto the chocobo by the owner and I thank him before climbing onto the bird behind her. "You two take care of my bird now, and good luck." He says. I offer the man my thanks and then we are underway.

I take the bird as fast as it can with two people. The rain continues to pore down soaking me. We travel through the woods for a short time, weaving in and out of the trees making sure to avoid any wildlife.

The trees come to an end and the rocks begin. The crater made by the meteor making a rocky Terran for the chocobo. I avoid any jumps as Luna is already in enough pain as it is. Despite the rain I feel a great amount of heat coming from the meteor. Luna actually stops shivering for this part of our journey. I take the chocobo quickly as it will go through the rocky cliffs, and it is eventually startled by something.

I hear them before I see them and stop the chocobo as a loud howl sounds out in the rocks ahead. Then 6 havocfangs make themselves known by running out from behind some rocks.

I immediately disappear from my spot on the chocobo. Reappearing in front of one of the creatures I summon a broadsword and with both hands take a quick swing at the group of them. I hit one and kill another as the rest of them dodged my strike.

I immediately switch to a javelin before preforming a quick warp towards the injured one, perching in in the belly with the spear. I turn and throw the Spear at one of the beasts that was about to lung at the chocobo with Luna. The havocfang prepares to pounce but is suddenly pierced in the head by my spear.

I hear a growl and turn around just in time to have my ears blasted by a loud howl from one of the havocfangs. It's like I'm suddenly seeing stars and everything is backwards. The three remaining creatures stalks around me realizing that I'm the primary threat and I'm now vulnerable. I calm myself and begin to analyze.

'When I try to move my left arm, my right leg moves. When I try to move my right leg, my right arm moves.' I continue analyzing as quickly as possible as the havocfangs get ready to pounce.

'Left leg moves my Neck. Right arm moves my left leg. Right Elbow bends, my left knee.'

The havocfangs behind me growls signaling its about to pounce.

'Left shoulder, left hand. Neck, right elbow.'

I hear it behind me jump towards me.

'So that means, Right arm!' My left leg tenses up and pushes of the ground putting me in a spin and the havocfang flies past me. Another to my side lunges at me.

'Neck and right leg!' I think to myself. I summon a sword in my right hand and my arm sloppily swings upwards slicing the havocfang's head down the middle.

'right arm.' My leg moves spacing it out from the other. I summon a spear in my right hand. 'Right leg' the spear flys at the beast. My poor aim doesn't kill it but injured it.

'Left le-' my thought gets cut off as a havocfang lands on me and begins tearing into my skin. Without a solid thought process I can only flail as I try to get it off of me.

Suddenly a silver trident stabs into its head killing it. I look over at Luna who is panting heavily as she attempts to take the trident out of the creatures skull. I look at her in surprise and she turns to me.

"I'm not some child who needs your protection constantly." She says in a shaking tone. I can tell she is about to collapse but that doesn't take away from my surprise. She uses a healing spell on me and my confusion is gone. I break a potion for good measure. I push the creature off of me and turn to the last one. I summon another spear and throw it lodging in its neck killing it.

I help Luna back onto the chocobo carefully regardless of what she says. After climbing back onto it, we are once again underway. Luna seems much more tired than before. We continue through the rocks until we reached an opening in the rocks at the foot of a place called coernix station. Then suddenly the rain stopped. I barely paid any attention to it but was glad I was no longer getting anymore wet.

I turned left and began following the road as the mountain was to steep for the chocobo to climb. We continued along the road before I eventually turned the chocobo right following the road. I stopped the chocobo when I saw the blockade. There were several magiteck soldiers and 2 magitek armors.

"Wait here." I told Luna. She replied with a tired nod. I ran up to the barricade, the units began firing the moment they saw me. I summoned my weapons and they effectively blocked the bullets that came my way.

I grab a double sided sword out of the air and cleave two magiteck troopers simultaneously. I switch to my ultima blade and decapitate another before spinning and cutting right into another trooper behind me. I disappeared just a a rocket from one of the magiteck armors hit the ground where I once stood. I appear in the air above the troopers and flick my arm towards the armor. The 12 weapons surrounding me all flew and sliced into the armor knocking it over.

I fell bringing down my sword into the head of another trooper before warping to the next and firmly lodging the sword into its chest.

I hear a rocket fly towards me and call back the weapons just in time to block the explosion. Some of the weapons shatter and fall to pieces at my feet but I simply summon more to take their place.

I bring a closed fist to my chest and it glows blue before I outstretch it towards the armor. "Thundara!" I said and Lightning spell flew from my hand into the magiteck and down to the ground effectively destroying it.

I finish off the last few troopers before climbing back onto the chocobo. I look to the sky, and realize it's already almost 8 o'clock. 'Were not going to make it before nightfall.' I think to myself.

I go through the now unoccupied barricade into a tunnel. The sound of the chocobo running is the only noise I hear. The tunnel is long and it takes us some time to get to the other side. I know what will be waiting for us when we get to the other side but we don't really have a choice.

We come out of the tunnel and upon a large bridge. The chocobo doesn't stop until I hear the sound. Grinding metal.

It comes to a halt as a giant fist appears from the ground pulling itself up. On ether side of it are 2 dark shadows taking form.

'Two ronin and a iron giant. No problem.' I think to myself.

I jump off the chocobo and summon a shield just in time to block the swipe of a ronin. I bash it with the shield but it only stumbles. I summon a spear in my other hand I attempt to skewer it but it knocks my spear to the side and stabs into the opening it created. I barely move out of the way fast enough to dodge it. I summon two swords and preform a spin jump at the ronin . It is sliced several time by my attacks but doesn't die.

I parry a stab from the other ronin knocking its sword to the side and stabbing into it with both swords. I jump away as a giant sword cuts and crushes the ronin and destroys my swords with its sword. I jump onto the sword and run up to the iron giant summoning a shield. I bash the giant as hard as I could before jumping back onto the ground. I bring my hand out pointing my palm at it and throw a Blizzard spell at it to slow it down.

I summon a great sword and go to swing at the giant but am forced to block as the remaining ronin appears in a haze next to me and swipes.

I am forced to block several more strikes before I can counter with one large swing slicing it in two.

I turn back to the giant and roll in order to avoid a fist that slams into the ground where I once stood.

I summon a multitude of floating weapons and slam them all into the giant. It falls down dead.

I stand there panting in order to catch my breath when I notice something in the distance. A Giant figure holding a staff that seemed to be generating Lightning. 'Ramuh.' I think to myself.

He brings down the staff and I can see the damages it causes from even here. Lightning flew everywhere and the land that was seeable became scorched. I don't spend to long on it as I call the chocobo to follow me as I warp along side it to keep up.

Before long two cryogen and a mindflayer appear. "Come on! We're not even at the end of the bridge?!" I complain. I warp into a cryogen with a flame spear and stab into it. It lets out a cry of pain as I sliced the spear through its body. I turn and throw it at the other cryogen. I summon a dagger a flick it at the mindflayer. The creature floats out of its way but I warp to the knife and slam another dagger into the beast.

I summon a sword and stab through its tentacles into the ground locking the deamon in place. It attempts to grab me with its arms but I jump backwards. I then summon a trident and throw it at the monster. The weapon makes quick work of the deamon when it stabs into its head.

I look over at Luna as we begin moving once more. Her overall condition clearly not improving as she now slumped over on the chocobo, barely awake.

I call the chocobo and it begins to follow me as I continue to warp ahead. I notice a shift in the air as we continue. It's something that no regular hunter could notice but something the more experienced ones dread. The deamons should be attacking us but they're not anymore. That's a definite sign of something I feared.

'Something Strong is keeping the others away. Something dangerous.' I think to myself. We make a turn and the town becomes visible in the distance. Suddenly a bright light appeared in the sky pointing towards us. I shield my eyes from the sudden brightness.

'A magiteck engine?' I internally question. The door opened and magiteck solders began dropping out. I summoned two daggers and threw one at a falling trooper. I warped to the troop but quickly realized my mistake as a sword sliced into my shoulder. I warped back several feet but landed in an unceremonious heap, clutching my shoulder.

'Assassins!' I realize in alarm. I pick myself up and break a potion over my arm. The wound heals up well leaving a healed scar showing through my now ripped sleeve. I bring my attention back to the troopers just in time as they sprint at me.

I summon an large axe and slam it in the ground stopping a spinning trooper swinging his swords in a circle. I duck under the swing of another assassin and roll backwards to avoid a stab before summoning the battle axe and slicing a trooper in half.

'4 left.' I think to myself. I warp above another trooper with a mace in hand and bring it down on its head knocking it down and crushing it. I summon a shield as I block a stab. I am forced back as another trooper swipes from the side. I let the shield disappear before summoning a large sword. I swing at both of the troopers but only hit one as the other one jumped back.

The trooper goes to the ground. I reach my hand out and summon several spears In annoyance before they all rushed the assassin, killing it. I summon a crossbow and turn towards the last one as it ran towards Luna and the chocobo before stopping short as a bolt went into the back of its head.

It was now, in the silence that I realized that the feeling from before wasn't gone but in fact was stronger than before.

I summon my ultima sword. I walk slowly and quietly towards the chocobo, never letting my guard down for a second.

I finally saw something when I was just a few feet away from them. A floating smoke cloud appeared above me. I quickly raised my sword in a block as a figure appeared out of the smoke cloud bringing a sword down towards me.

The blades clash against one another and I push back with all my strength as I get a look at the creature. I can't help a gasp when I realize what it was. 'An ayakashi?! Here?!?'

I push its sword to the side and when I go to swipe it disappears. 'This isn't ideal, It took all 5 of us to take this thing down before.' I think to myself, remembering Stella and ignis not walking out of this fight unharmed. I look over at Luna just in time to see her falling off the chocobo, unconscious. I warp to the birds side and catch her Before she can hit the ground. 'This isn't good. I can't watch her and fight.' I look around and see the ayakashi standing a few feet away as if it was waiting.

The realization soon hits me that it doesn't care about her. 'It wants an challenge.' I lay her down on the side of the now sitting bird before standing back up to face the deamon.

"You want a challenge? I'll give you one." I say as I kneel down to the ground. I place my right hand to the ground and begin concentrating.

The air shifts. White floating crystals begin appearing in the air. They begin clumping together in large chunks. The crystals all begin to form the shapes of many different weapons floating aimlessly in the air. I continue concentrating before finally the weapons solidify. Dozens of swords, axes, spears, tridents, daggers, maces and shields all float in place waiting for use.

I stand up looking up just in time to see the deamons blade inching towards me. The blade almost reached me before I warped upwards grabbing a spear several feet above me. I bring the spear down drawing several of the nearby weapons with me towards the creature. The weapons all crashed into the ground as the deamon is replaced by a black cloud of dust.

I grab the spear with both hands and yank it out of the ground I bring the weapons in-front of me and block several of the coins it threw at me. A spear in one hand and a sword in the other I run at it, the weapons in-front of me continuing to block the projectile money he threw. I reach him and he pulls out his sword from its sheath. In a single swipe he breaks the weapons guarding me, knocking them away. I take the opportunity and stab the spear into its chest before swinging the sword cleaving off its arm.

I release the spear and warp back grabbing a axe as the deamon swipes where I once stood. It puts its sword back into its sheath and I watch as black mist appears around its missing appendage before it forms a new arm for the ayakashi. It grabs the spear in its chest before ripping it out and snapping it in half. The wound on its chest heals similar to the arm.

I throw the axe at it and several weapons fly with it. The deamon disappears in a black mist and appears on the other side of the weapons and runs at me. Pulling its weapon from its sheath it stabs at me. I push it to the side with my ultima sword before stepping towards the creature. I grab hold of its clothing and slam my boot down onto its foot before stabbing into its chest with my sword.

The creature, not caring that it was locked in place switches into a reverse grip and attempts to stab me. I command all the weapons in a close vicinity to aim and fly towards it from all directions.

The deamon stops its attack short, before taking its sword and stabbing it into the ground. Black spikes spring out of the ground at high speeds crashing into the weapons shattering them. Looking down as I feel an unimaginable pain in my chest I see a black spike coming out of the ground and into my abdomen.

I look up and see several of my weapons protruding from its chest through its back. I look up even higher and see the eyes of the The warrior that once was. Unwavering and uncaring it stared down at me.

I ripped my ultima blade from its chest before stabbing into its chest again, and again. The creature twists its blade and I feel several more spike stab into me. This time I can't help the cry of agony that escapes me. "Gaaah!" My grip on the blade loosens. The creature takes its blade out of the ground and the spikes disappear leaving me to fall to the ground in a heap. The deamon steps back.

I manage to get to my knees. I look to see several heavily bleeding holes in my chest. I look up at the deamon and it flick its blade out ready to strike. I reach my hand into my back pocket but the creature swipes up, slicing into my chest.

I feel my strength leave me as I fall to the ground. I go limp as my hand opens up to reveal a glowing orange feather broken in half.

The ayakashi steps away as the my weapons begin falling from its back. The feather bursts into a light flame that quickly covers me. All the wounds on me close and I feel my strength return. I stand up quickly and call my ultima blade back to me. 'God, it was so much work to get one of those.' I think to myself.

Feeling the effects of the pheniex down I point my blade at the deamon, ready to fight once more. "Round two?" I say jokingly. It bends its knees getting ready to strike. I bring my open hand to my chest and the remaining weapons that I summoned all come to me and form a circle surrounding me.

The ayakashi disappears in black smoke and reappears in front of me. It swipes at me and I use my ultima sword to block. I command the weapons and they respond. They quickly begin tearing through the deamon and my attacks seem to be starting to hurt the creature.

It pushes my sword away but instead of jumping back, I run into the deamon. I ram my shoulder into it causing it to stumble. I grab a second sword out of the air and jump at it preforming a spin. I slice it multiple times all while my weapons continue to pierce it. I let go of my weapons after the spin and outstretch both of my hands. All the weapons stop and turn to it. I clap my hands together and every weapon pierces the creature from all angles.

It falls to its knees and stays there. I pull out my ultima blade from its chest before lobbing its head off. The ayakashi falls to the ground before disappearing into black mist leaving my weapons crashing to the ground.

I finally relaxed as my weapons begin turning back into crystals before vanishing completely. I walked over to Luna and pick her up. I pull her up on the chocobo with me and ride it to town.

The lights of the town are blinding but comforting. I receive some conserved looks before a hunter confronts me. He brings me to the doctors home. After knocking hard on the door a woman opens it. "Unless someone is dead or dying then I don't-" she stops to look at me and Luna. "Is that lady Lunafreya?" After a tired nod she tells me to come in. "Just treat her. I'm mostly fine." I tell the woman. But almost immediately after laying Luna down I collapse on the ground and fell into unconscious from exhaustion.

Mirrored fate

From an outside view I see what looks like me shirtless and leaning heavily on a trident. I'm standing in a fire scorched area surrounded by giant flameing dogs with three heads.

I look confused as I frantically look around before looking at the trident in my hands dropping it in shock. I see a Luna's unmoving body covered in blood. I notice the trident has blood on it as well and realize what has happened. "I've done as you've asked." I say to seemingly no one. "Now give it to me."

I am on the top of the Cindale. I see my dad. Walking towards the crystal. "How many must die before you are satisfied?" He says.

A malicious and mutated voice replies. " I have seen many deaths, but now I am only looking forward to one, then I can rest." It says.

"He will take responsibility, you know." My father replies.

"As must we all."

"...May the gods forgive me, and so may he for dragging him into this."

I dropped down clutching Luna before screaming into the sky.

"NOOOO!!!" I yell as I wake up in bed. I hear the door of the hotel burst open and see gladiolus had broken down the door. He scans the room before looking at me having calmed down.

I see Prompto poke his head out from behind Gladiolus. "Dude I told you we have to stop letting him sleep late." Prompto says taking a moment to look at the door. "And was it really to much trouble to use the knob big guy?"

Gladiolus huffs before pushing past Promto and walks back to his room. Prompto closes the door and stands there starring at me strangely. "... wanna talk about it?" He asks.

I shake my head before looking down at my lap. I hear Promto let out a groan. He walks over to the bed and sits down. "Come on man. It's me. I'm not gladiolus who expects the world of you or ignis who would just tell you to take better care of yourself. I'm your best friend. And while there's no way I could ever give you any sound advice, it would probably help to get it off your chest." He explains to me.

I look up at him my eyes meeting with his. "I... I killed Luna in my dream... Or it looked like me but something was off, I can't place it. But it's been a reoccurring dream leading up to this." I explain to him.

"Well That sounds ominous but I'm sure it's nothing. Not only am I sure she's fine but she's got that guy protecting her." He explains to me.

"Right, that guy." I say.

I look up at Prompto as he seems to be quite. His brows are furrowed as he examines me. "What?" I ask

"Dude? Are you really jealous of a guy you don't even know?" He asks.

"What?! No!" I quickly denied.

"Hahaha, you totally are! You afraid some big strapping man is getting all Cozy with your fiancé?" He says laughing at me.

"I told you I'm not jealous." I denied again. I pick up a Pillow and beam it at Promto it hits him but he continues to laugh.

He finally calms down before attempting to reassure me. "Dude. You've got nothing to worry about. Not only do I doubt Luna would be swayed so easily, but what would he have that you don't? Your a prince with the Power of the kings and the gods on your side." He says semiserious. "Bet you he doesn't qualify for any of those."

While I knew he was joking I did feel a little better. "Yeah. Sure. Let me get dressed and we'll head out to meet up with Iris and the others." I tell him. He stands up from the bed and walks to the door.

"All right then. Nice talk." He says jokingly. Before walking out and closing the door, only to have it slowly swing open again as it was broken.

I quickly put on my clean clothes and bush my teeth before heading out of the hotel.

I expect to see Prompto or someone waiting for me when I walk out but the town is mostly barren weirdly enough. I walk around looking for any of the guys but don't see them. I get to the main walkway of lestallum when I notice a large crowd all watching something in the sky nearby.

'What is that?!'

I see a large flying machine a few miles southwest. It's clearly imperial in origin but larger than anything I've seen them use before. It looked diamond in shape and was completely white. Smaller magiteck engines could bee seen coming out of the sides of it.

"Zegautus keep. The flagship of the imperial fleet and pride of the empire." I hear ignis say to from my side. I turn to him in surprise.

"But I thought it left after insomnia fell? Why would they need it here?" I ask.

Ignis adjusts his glasses while thinking. "My best bet would be they have found lady lunafraya but even for such a thing this seems a little excessive." He tells me. I can't help but agree. I understand she has the ring but that alone shouldn't have warranted such a response. But if Luna is truly there, fighting the empire...

I hear my advisor let out a sigh. "I suppose we will be going then?" He asks. I give him a nod.

"Where are Gladiolus and Prompto?"

Ignis begins walking and I follow, "Gladiolus said he was going use the telescopes at the front to attempt so see anything we can't already. Prompto went with him." Ignis explains to me as he quickly guides me to the front of the town.

I look and see Gladiolus putting gil into the telescope, Prompto next to him.

"What's happening over there?" I ask Gladiolus as we descend the stairs.

He continues putting Gil into the machine before answering. "Hang on. The Timer ran out, but from what I can tell, someone is giving them a hell of a time." He tells me, before stepping away from the telescope. "Take a look for yourself."

I walked past him. And put my eyes up to it and my eyes quickly adjust. I can make out magiteck engines descending from the flagship but I quickly notice one of them explode in a ball of fire. I also barely make out a shape of a person appear on another engine before seemingly jumping off. A huge bolt of lightning shot from the figure into the magiteck. The Lightning arcs to 3 other engines nearby it before they exploded in balls of fire, falling towards the ground. The figure disappeared from the air and I was unable to locate him again.

I hear Gladiolus let out a low whistle. "I guess it's a Safe bet that Luna has a glave with her." I hear Prompto say.

"A powerful one at that." Ignis points out. "I could make out that Electro from here clear as day."

I feel a churning in my stomach. The number of glave there were before the attack were quite limited, and considering this one could pull off an electro without a flask, something even I can't do yet, I should at least know who in the ranks could have been that skilled. But unfortunately my mind drew a blank.

I pull back from the telescope. "Well whoever is no one can keep that up for long. We need to get going." I begin walking towards the car when I realize that no one else is moving with me. I turn back to them and see the hesitation on their faces, well except Ignis who was looking at the map.

"We really just gonna rush into this, head first without a plan of any sort?" Gladiolus asks. Prompto nods in agreement. "Yeah, I'm all for taking on the empire and getting the crystal back, but I don't think charging right into the enemy is the greatest plan of action." Prompto explains tepidly.

"Well we cant just sit here and do nothing!" I argue.

"Do calm down your highness. No one was suggesting that we do nothing." Ignis says. We all turn to him as he continues to study the map. "But if we are going to fight the empire at their fullest, then might I suggest a small detour?" He asks as he turns the map towards me to show a red circle on it with the word 'tomb' written over it.

"We don't exactly have time to go dungeon spelunking right now." Gladiolus points out.

"Well, it a good thing it's not in a dungeon. It's actually right next to the road." Ignis explains.

"Alright then. Lets go." I tell him as I once again begin running to the car, this time with the others following.

"I'm driving." I practically demand. I hear no arguments although ignis did comment. Something about not rushing despite The circumstances.

I already have the engine going before the others even begin climbing in but The second Promptos door shuts, I hit the gas. 0 to 70, with the help of Cindy's modifications, in less then 8 seconds. I push it no farther than 90, as we go through the tunnel. I hear Ignis yells in the backseat but I simply reassure him I'll be careful.

We quickly arrived at the parking lot and I immediately noticed that I could in fact see the tomb nearby. I hop out of the car and the others follow suit but not nearly with as much haste. I quickly run up to the open area and am met with a large pack of sabertusks.

"We don't have time for this." I say in annoyance.

I hear Prompto stop next to me, "yeah, Tell them that. I'm sure they'll understand your in a hurry and just leave us be." He jokes.

I summon my engine blade and warp strike towards the nearest one. I whipped the sword out of its side and it lets out a howl before I cleave its head off. I hear a growl from next to me and am forced to phase backwards out of the way of a lunging sabertusk.

I prepare to counter but Gladiolus beats me to the punch as he charges into the side of it with a shield before bashing it again. The creature gets up and retreats back. It doesn't get far as several cross bolts hit it in the side killing it.

I take note of the remaining numbers, 7. Summoning two daggers in my hands, I call out. "Ignis lets make this quick!"

Ignis runs up and stops next to me before summoning 2 of his own daggers, Lightning sparking and jumping off of them.

"Finally through charging head first at the enemy?" He asks sarcastically. I simply give him a lighthearted scoff before we both take off with near immeasurable speed.

The Particles and Lightning coming off the two of us make an X through a sabertusk and huge gaping wounds appear on it just as we appear behind the creature. I hear a picture being taken as Prompto remarks, "Now that's a money shot!"

I hear Gladiolus yell. "Prompto! Pay attention!"

Again we disappear in trails of lightning and particles quickly killing another sabertusk. One jumps at ignis but a gunshot rings out and the creature falls dead. "Don't worry big guy! I'm an expert at multitasking." Prompto says.

Ignis suddenly disappears in a flash of lightning reappearing between Prompto and a sabertusk that had lunged from behind Prompto. He stabs both daggers into its throat, killing it.

"Yes but it seems we need to work on your spacial awareness." Ignis says.

I simply chuckle. I spot my next target. I crouch down lean forward and push off my back foot with a full force warp.

I suddenly stop halfway, completely losing control of my magic. The unexpected stop before my destination causes me to trip and fall dropping my daggers. 'What was that?!' I don't spend to much time on it as I sit up and resummon my daggers.

I see them disappear from the spot on the ground ahead of me, I feel them reattached to my soul and pull them outwards... but they don't appear, they almost feel like their stuck somehow. "What?!"

I don't have time to ponder it as the sabertusk that I had previously made my target lungs on top of me. "Noct!" I hear Gladiolus yell out to me. A ball sized stone stikes it on the side of the head. It falls off of me and shakes it head from the pain. Prompto quickly helps me to my feet.

"Dude?! Whats wrong with your magic?!? My gun just vanished!" He asks panicked. I once again try to pull a weapon to me but I can't. "I don't know!"

Ignis and Gladiolus stop next to us as the remaining sabertusks begin stalking us. Ignis quickly decides the best corse of action. "We best make to the tomb. They wont follow us in!" We all begin running to it the sabertusks keeping a small distance as they waited for an opening. We make it and begin descending the stairs before we turned to see the sabertusks stopped at the edge of the stone structure.

We stand there for several seconds catching a breath. Prompto was the first to say something to break our silence. "So... What now?"

I turn and open the door to the tomb. "Well. Might as well see if this still works." I explain to them.

I see a silver shield sitting in the hands of the stone king. 'Dame. Thats a shame.' I think irritated. It may very well be the only weapon we will have to use. I put my hand on it and it immediately disappears before reappearing with my other royal arms. The five weapons all glowed circling me before disappearing. I call the shield to me and it comes forward without any difficulty.

"It'll be a bit difficult to take the empire on with a shield." Gladiolus remarks.

I hear ignis hum and turn to him. He has his hand on his chin as he thinks. "Noct. Perhaps... its best we not engage the empire." He says to me seriously. "Gladiolus is right, under these Circumstances I seriously doubt we can do any lasting bus to the Empire circumstances I seriously doubt we can do any lasting blows to the empire."

I close my eyes in thought. Luna is out there and every second we waste, they are one step closer to her. But... I turn to my friends, all of them waiting for my decision. It's then in the silence that I realize I can no longer hear the fighting in the distance.

"Alright... we won't be fighting them today. But I still think we should at least go to see what's happened. Try to find Luna if she is not already caught." I tell them.

Gladiolus raises an eyebrow. "Wow, a plan. Cause you know, those never have problems." He says sarcastically.

I roll my eyes. "Come on. I'll take care of the sabertusks."

Mirrored fate

'Why do you bother?'

I lay on the ground in pain as my focus comes and goes. I'm Barely able to maintain consciousness. That woman, Areana, really didn't waste time when my powers stopped working.

'You could squash all of them like insects.'

"Yes sir... no sir. She isn't here." I hear her speaking. I move my arms in an attempt to push myself up but they feel so heavy. "We don't need to. He had the ring on him." She says.

'You've done it before. Surely you remember how.'

"I don't understand why she so import-... understood sir. I'll continue the search." She said. She looked at me as I tried to push myself up.

'But alas you insist on this foolishness. Ether way, your will shall waver soon.'

She walks over to me looking down at me. "Nighty night sweet prince." She says before kicking me in the head sending me into blackness.

'And I will be waiting.'