My Light

t w e n t y - f i v e

Once the elevator opens, we look to see a the hallway in front of us, but it was dark. "Power must've gone out." I say to Noctis as we walk along the hall. "First keys, now power. What next?" Noctis says, and I know how frustrated he must be. We turn right on the hallway and make our way to a door that was open and turn the power on. Once the power was on, we see a the winged demon from before, and we run away from it only to see the dead MT's on the ground now standing. "Do that thing with your ring again while I hold off the demon." I say as my hands light up, and I throw light at the demon. Once the MT's were gone, we ran away from the winged demon, and into the next room only for the power to go off again. "You serious!?" Noctis says angrily. I sigh in frustration, hating this place more and more as we continue to walk through the corridor into another room. "Let's just go find a way to turn the power on, again." I say and he nods as we turn right to walk down another corridor, but out of nowhere a giant spider-like demon appeared. Noctis summoned his sword as I threw balls of light toward the demon.

Once the demon was killed, it disappears from our eyes, and we keep moving. We walk through the gated doorway, and walk through the hallway to find a the control panel. We make our way into a room, and see the control panel on the right. I flip the lever, but suddenly feel Noctis pull me behind him. I turn to the doorway to see the large bat-like demon standing there, and the Magiteks powering up. Suddenly, the power comes back on, and the demon disappears. " Ain't much, but it's better than nothing." Noctis says as he summons his sword to fight the Magiteks and I nod. I summon my sword to my hand, and fight the Magiteks off with Noctis. Once they were gone, we head back down the hallway only to see that the demon reappear, and we run. We turn right where we had seen a door, and we run through. As we run, I was suddenly snatched up by a Magitek that had powered up. "Noctis!" I yell as I struggle to get out of the Magiteks arms, hearing it whir behind me sounding like it was about to explode. Noctis tries to pry the Magitek's arms from around me, and once I was free, we ran only to hear an explosion behind us. We ran into a room where the demon wouldn't follow us, and I notice an elevator ahead of us. The doors open, and we walk in, taking in a breath to try to calm down. "Are you ok? You're not hurt?" Noctis asks worriedly as he cups his hand to my face. "I'm fine. I'm not hurt." I say and he nods in relief.

When the doors of the elevator open, we walk out and walk through the hall, heading into a room with a door that was lit green, meaning it was accessible. "The empire made considerable inroads into the science of demons. Well, after I showed them the way, of course. We'd manage to make demons right here." we heard Ardyn's voice say over the intercom. "Make?" Noctis asks in confusion, and I felt the same way. How was the empire able to make demons? We both look at all the control panels, but they had required a keycard. Noctis inserts the keycard we had, but it didn't work. "I think each of these control panels requires a different keycard." I say and he nods. "I'll find the keycard. You stay here, ok?" he says, but I look at him with furrowed brows. "No, I'm going with you." I say to him, but he shakes his head. "Aura, stay here. At least when your here, I'll know your safe."  he says to me as he grabs my hands, and rubs his thumbs on the back of my hands. "Noctis, we're in the empire's base. We don't know where it is safe or not." I say as I look into his blue eyes. "I know, Aura. Just please stay here. I'll be back soon." he says, and I sigh in defeat. "Ok. Be careful." I say, and he nods. He kisses my forehead gently, then heads over to a door ahead of us. He walks through, and I just stay in the room with the control panels. I keep watch to see if any demons appeared, but nothing came. 

When Noctis came back, we insert the cards in the panels, and pushed some buttons, then we head out. We both head into another room, only for a demon to appear. Noctis uses his ring to get rid of the demon. We walk through another door, and walk through a hallway. "Oh, well done my boy." Ardyn says over the intercoms and laughs. We walk into a room, only to hear Ardyn's voice yet again, "The most fascinating tidbit about your dear Prompto..." Ardyn says and I furrow my brows in confusion. "What--?" Noctis asks him, sounding a bit angry. "Turns out, he's not empty either. He's got quite the "skeleton in his closet." Ardyn says, and he cackles. We walk through the door on the other side of the room, only to be greeted by an MT. Noctis grabs my hand, and drags me with him as we dash through the hallway passing doors, trying to avoid the MT. We dash through the corridor to see the door, but it glowed a red color, meaning that it was not accessible.