My Light

t w e n t y - t h r e e

"Are we seriously marching into the capital empty-handed?" Akiko asks as she crosses her arms, and looks at Noctis. "And with no assurances the Crystal can beat back the demon hordes." Ignis says. "Guess we'll find out the hard way. No turning back now, right?" Glaido says and Noctis nods in agreement. We walk on the train tracks seeing a train car on top of some things, and looking like it could tip over. "This thing could come down at any time." Gladio says as we look at the unstable train car. "Let's be quick." Ignis says from behind us. "This way." Noctis says as he grabs my hand, and pulls me with him. As we were about to walk under the car, it suddenly moves a bit making us stop, and look to see if it would topple over, but luckily it didn't. Noctis and I make it to the other side, but the train car starts to fall and blocks Aileen, Akiko, Gladio, and Ignis from crossing. "Hey!" Noctis calls out to the four, but there was no answer. "Ignis! Gladio!" Noctis calls out to his two companions. "Kiko! Aileen!" I call out in worry, then out of nowhere, demons appear and I look around in fright. "Look at you both. All by yourselves." we hear Ardyn's voice blare out on an intercom as Noctis grabs my hand and drags me with him to escape from the demons. "You again. You know, for an imperial chancellor, you are one sick son of a bitch." Noctis says as he drags me along with him through a train car.

"Although I agree with that, we can't keep running forever, Noct." I say to him as we duck from a demon trying to pounce on us, then run again. "I know, but there's nothing we can do without our weapons." he says, and I had to agree. We turn to the left to exit the train car, avoid more demons, and run up some stairs. We dash inside of the capital, and I shut the door behind us to block off the demons. I lean back on the door, and slide down as I pant, and put a hand to my stomach. "Aura!" Noctis calls me in worry as he kneels in front of me, and cups a hand to my cheek. "I'm fine. Exhausted, but fine." I say as I take a deep breath, and sit up. "The ring." I say to him, but he looks at me in confusion. "The ring, Noctis. I think it could help us." I say, and he widens his eyes in realization to what I was talking about. He shoves his hands in his pocket, grabs the ring Luna gave him, and stares at it. I put my hand on the his hand that held the ring, and he looks into my amethyst colored eyes. "I know it still hurts to see this and not think of Luna. I'm still hurt, too. But Luna would want you to put this on right now. To protect us. All of us." I say and he looks down to my stomach, then me, and nods. He slides the ring on his right hand and screams in pain. I look at him with worry, but then he looks at me with a reassuring smile which calms me. "Are you ok?" I ask him, and he nods. "I'm fine." he says, and we both look at the ring as it glows a bright blue color. "What about you, and that choker?" Noctis asks and I raise a brow as I pull the choker out of my shorts pocket.

I haven't put the choker on yet since we were too bombarded with thoughts on how to take the capital down, how to get Prompto back, and being attacked by demons. I place the choker around my neck, and a bright light fills the room, blinding both Noctis and I. Once the light was gone, I look at Noctis, feeling a bit different than when we first came here. "Let's go." I say as Noctis helps me up, and he nods. A demon suddenly appears, and Noctis lifts his hand with the ring, and a dark aura surrounds the demon, seeming to suck the life out of it. I look over to Noctis seeing his eyes turn and glow a pink color, then fade back to his natural blue eyes, while his skin turned gray and left what looked like vein markings, but also disappeared. "Does it hurt?" I ask Noctis in concern. "A little. I'm fine though." he says, and I nod. We walk through the bulding, but I turn to my right to look out into the capital. "Noctis!" I call him, and he walks up to me seeing what I was seeing. I then noticed that there was a possible way down below. "Looks like it's connected below. Might be our ticket to the top." Noctis says. I look up at him as he looks down at me, and I nod. "Noctis, I can't help but feel like something bad might happen." I say as I cross my arms and frown. "Don't think that. Everything will be fine. We'll all come out of this safe. Akiko, Aileen, Gladio, Ignis, Prompto, you, me, and our baby." he says putting a hand over my stomach as his other hand cups my cheek. I give him a small smile as I nuzzle into his hand. But even with those reassuring words from Noctis, I still couldn't help but feel like something would go wrong.