My Light

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I wake up to the chill of the air and arms wrapped around my body, trying to keep me warm. I open my eyes to see a dull colored sky as my first sight, then I see a sleeping Noctis in front of me. Although I would love to sleep more, but my stomach had another urging feeling. I carefully stood up and ran to a bush, feeling the food from last night come right back up again. It wasn't a pretty sight. After I had puked, I walked away from the bush and sat back trying to collect myself. These were symptoms of a pregnancy, so maybe what Aileen said is true. I could be pregnant. I stand back up and made my way back to camp seeing everyone was up and looking at me with concern, except Ignis. "Aura, we were worried!" Aileen says as she walks over to me with a frown. How long was I gone? "Where'd you go?" Akiko asks me and I look over to Noctis as he looks at me worriedly. "Nowhere. I had morning sickness. Had to find a bush, or something." I say and they nod. "We should get moving. You both ok?" Prompto asks Ignis and I and I nod at him. "I'm fine. Don't mind me." Ignis says and Noctis walks over to me, grabbing my hand, and we make our way back to the control panel. "You sure you're alright, Aura?" Noctis asks me and I look over to him with a small smile. "I'm fine, Noctis. Don't worry." I say to him and he sighs with a slight nod.

As we make our way to the backup generators, we run into more demons and the others fight as Ignis and I stay behind once again as I shoot arrows. I block a demon headed for Ignis and I with a force field, and Noctis takes it out. "Let's keep moving." he says grabbing my hand and we continue to walk. When we get to the backup generator, a huge demon stood between us and the generator. "Well, this isn't gonna be easy." Akiko says with a sigh and I look at her with furrowed brow. "When has it ever been easy?" I ask her and she nods knowing that I had a good point. Once again, the others fight as I shoot arrows at the demon with Ignis behind me. The demon releases green smoke to conceal itself, but nothing could stop us from attacking it. Once it was gone, Ignis and I make our way over to the others as Noctis and Prompto look over the generator. "Where is it?" Noctis asks as he looks around. "Right here." Prompto says to him. "How does it look?" Ignis asks Prompto as Noctis makes his way to the control panel. "She's wired and ready. Give it a go!" Prompto tells Noctis. "And don't blow it up." Gladio says to him and I sigh as I roll my eyes. "Thanks for the advice." Noctis says sarcastically and I start to feel angry that these two were both still at each others throats. Noctis turns the generator on and the light turns from red to green. "Did it work?" Ignis asks us. "Yep. One more to go." Prompto says and we nod.

We make our way down a staircase and see a generator a couple of flights down, then Noctis turns it on. "We've got the power!" Prompto says and I cross my arms. "Might not have it for long, though. Hurry up and move the machine." Gladio tells Noctis. "Yes, sir." Noctis says and I shake my head as I stare at the two. We make our way back, which wasn't far, we just went down the stairs, and make our way to the control panel to move the machine. More demons appeared around the panel, and we fought them. After all the demons were gone, Noctis walks over to the panel to move the vehicle. "Hurry up. Ain't got time to waste." Gladio tells Noctis and I shake my head as I roll my eyes. "Think I don't know that?" Noctis says as he makes his way up the steps, then turns the panel on. We hear the vehicle move and Noctis turns to us. "Did you hear that?" he asks us. "Sounds like we're clear." Prompto says to him and I nod in agreement.

"Grand." Ignis says.

"Then let's move." Gladio says.

Noctis grabs my hand and we make our way through the path. "Hold on." Gladio says, stopping us from going any further. "You sure you're ready for this? You go what it takes?" Gladio asks him and Noctis turns to face him as he continues to hold my hand and I look between both men. "To do what?" Noctis asks him. "To face your ancestors and convince them to lend you their strength. Got a long road ahead." Gladio says as he walks up to Noctis and crosses his arms. "Can you see this through? To the end?" he asks Noctis and I look at him as he squeezes my hand gently. "Can and will. Whether I like it or not, I've got a duty to fulfill... as king." Noctis replies to Gladio, to which he smiles. "You're damn right, you do. Then that means you'd better start taking this seriously." Gladio says, then walks away. Noctis sighs deeply, then turns to look into my amethyst colored eyes. "Can you keep going?" Noctis asks me and I nod. "I might be pregnant, but that's not gonna stop me from helping you." I tell him and he smiles. He presses his lips to my forehead, then pulls me along with him as we follow the others from behind. "Good to go." Noctis says to the group with a nod. "We did it! Together!" Prompto says with excitement and Akiko nudges him slightly, then he wraps his arm around her.