My Light

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We were still wandering through the cave, but getting confused as we tried to find our way around. Suddenly, something falls out of nowhere only to see that it had a body of a snake, and a woman's head. Noctis pulls me behind him protectively as we stare at the demon. "See? I told you! There she is! That's her! Do something, Noct!" Prompto tells Noctis as we stare at her. "Don't ask me. Do it yourself!" Noctis says and I furrow my brows at him, but she suddenly growls. I feel a splitting headache as the demon speaks, "My baby... Where..." she says and I look at her. "Aura, what's wrong?" Noctis asks me as I open my eyes to see his blue eyes connect with my amethyst ones. "She's asking where her baby is?" I say as I hold my head in my hand. "I'm sorry! We don't know where your baby is!" I say as I still hold my head in pain. "Oh, you can... by becoming mine!" she says and pounces. Noctis grabs my waist and pushes both of us out of the way. "Can you fight with your headache?" Noctis asks me and I look at him. "You said not to fight." I say to him with furrowed brows. "I know, but forget what I said. We're gonna need your help with this one." he says and I nod. We both stand up, and dash over to help the others. I summon my sword to my hand and start attacking the demon.

I feel something snake around my ankle, and I was suddenly thrown to the wall. I crash against the wall hard, I fall to the ground, but then get up, and dash over to the demon. I jump up and slash the demon's body with my sword, then summon my bow. I start shooting arrows at the demon until it finally goes down, and dissipates, but not after leaving a splitting headache as a gift. "Bring back... my baby." she says and I shake my head as the headache starts to disappear. "What'd she say?" Prompto asks me and I look at him, and the others. "Nothing important. Just to bring back her baby, which I have no clue who this "baby" could be." I say as I rub my temple. "Well, we don't have to deal with her anymore. So, let's keep moving." Noctis says and we keep walking through the cave. "You feeling better?" Noctis asks me as we start walking down the path again. "Yeah. Don't worry." I say to him trying to assure him that I was fine. He suddenly weaves his fingers into mine and holds a tight grip on my hand. "I'll always worry about you when you get hurt, Aura." he says and I blush as I look away with a smile as his lips gently press against the hand he was holding. "Break it up, lovebirds." Prompto says and I see Noctis roll his eyes as he pulls me along with him.

We eventually see the last runestone ahead of us, and I felt relief knowing that it meant that we could finally get out of this cave. Noctis lets go of my hand, and walks up to the runestone, holding his hand out, and absorbing all the power. I suddenly get a vision of Luna with her trident in her hand as she speaks with Ramuh. The vision then goes away, and I was soon back in reality. I look at Noctis seeing him walk over to me and grab my hand once again, then we start heading out. "This is it... the power of the Storm." Noctis says as we make our way out. "Eh. I expected more fire and brimstone." Prompto says and I shake my head as I smile knowing Akiko would probably say the exact same thing. "Some gods are friendlier  than others, I guess." Gladio says to Prompto. "But not all of them. Poor, Luna." I say as I look down with a frown and I feel Noctis' grip on my hand tighten slightly as he tries to comfort me. "You would console her in person when we arrive at Altissia, am I correct?" Ignis asks me and I look back at him. "Of course. She's my best friend, and almost like a sister. I wouldn't want her to be hurt in any sort of way." I reply to Ignis.

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We eventually make it out of the cave to see that the skies have cleared of the down pour, and the sun was shining on the green grass, and reflecting off of the wet stones. "Hey, it stopped raining!" Prompto cheers in excitement. "Guess Ramuh finally got sick of showers." Gladio says making me chuckle silently. I suddenly hear an engine and I look around to see where it was coming from. Gladio tells us to look up, and I do as he says only to see a huge Imperial ship fly above us. "Way bigger than the last one we saw!" Prompto says and I nod in agreement. Suddenly, Noctis' phone starts to ring, signaling that he had a call. He lets go of my hand and answers the call. As Noctis speaks to the person on the other line, we just listen to his response to the person. He soon ends the call and puts his phone away, "Who was that?" I ask him curious to who he was speaking to. "Cindy." Noctis responds non-chalantly. "What!? You can't talk to her like that!" Prompto says to Noctis. "Yeah, I can. Just did." Noctis says making me giggle just a little and he just smirks at me. "And did she have any choice words for you?" Ignis asks him which grabs my attention. "Yeah... the Regalia's at an imperial base." Noctis says and I widen my eyes.