Ignite My Heart (Ignis X Reader)

Chapter 12

"I still can't believe it. I mean, shouldn't the car have turned up by now?" Prompto asked. We stood outside the caravan at the Chocobo Post. It had been days since our run in with the Archaean. The empire let us go, but the Regalia had been stolen. We had asked Cindy to help locate the car for us, but she had not gotten back to us.

"Obviously the empire has," I said, rather annoyed by the situation, "Either that or the Archaean destroyed it." We began discussing how we would get around without the Regalia when Prompto interrupted us suddenly.

"Look, its Umbra," we turned to find a beautiful black dog looking up at us. Umbra is one of Lady Lunafreya's messenger dogs. Noct started walking towards him until the dog sprinted into the woods barking.

"Let's follow him!" Noct said running after Umbra. The four of us hesitated for a second before doing as he said. We didn't get far before losing the adorable animal in the woods surrounding the outpost. Noct looked around for the dog and stopped when he saw a gorgeous woman with her eyes sealed shut standing before him.

"Gentiana..." There was something about this woman that felt inhuman.

She began whispering to us in rhythmic speech. She explained that Luna had been awakening the Six so that Noct can obtain their power and the Stone of the Six. The stone is one of the objects he needed to become the one True King and purge the darkness from our star. She then told us that Lady Lunafreya has awakened the Stormsender, Ramuh, the next God Noctis needed to speak to. Then we would need to head to Altissia where Luna would be waiting to awaken the Hydrean, Leviathan. After that she disappeared before our eyes.

"She's a Messenger, a spirit faithful to the Oracle," Ignis explained.

Umbra came out from behind a tree then and had a notebook tied to his back. Noct quickly grabbed the book and flipped through the pages. After landing on a page he read it and looked both relieved and distraught.

After writing something down and retying the book to Umbra's back we discussed what to do next. We decided we would obtain Ramuh's blessing and then ride a boat from Cape Caem to Altissia. We also planned on getting the Regalia back, but we'd have to wait for Cindy to find it.

Gentiana began speaking to Noct just like Titan had and told him where we would need to go to in order to receive the Stormsender's blessing. We walked back to the post to rent some chocobos. Before heading out all of Duscae was in a total down pour.

"Think the 'Stormsender' is up to this?" Gladio asked as he held out a hand, catching the water droplets as they fell from the sky.

"Probably," I answered.

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We managed to find a runestone at two different locations. Noct managed to absorb Ramuh's power from each stone, and now it was time to find the last one in some hidden hallow.

The hallow had been just like all the other caves we explored for the royal arms, but of course it was more dangerous. Hours after entering the hallow we heard Prompto scream.

"Prompto?" We all called out nervously. It was quiet at first, but soon we heard him crying for help.

"Why did it have to be a snake!" He yelled. We ran around the cave trying to follow his voice. Eventually, we found him with a giant snake wrapped around him. The creature had a Medusa like head and a snake body. Prompto managed to wiggle free from its grasp when he saw us. He ran toward us and coward behind Noct in fear.

"Do something, Noct!"

"Where's my baby," the monster asked in a demonic voice. We had no idea what she was talking about.