Ignite My Heart (Ignis X Reader)

Chapter 33

Noctis bends down to pick up the sword. He walked towards Ravus's body and stabbed the glaive into his metal arm, "Spare me your sycophancy," his voice was ominous, almost like...

He turned around and smirked at Ravus's dead body. He kneels down on one knee and gets right up in his face, "I've indulged your false heroism for far too long."

His voice suddenly changed into that familiar, charming, and sick voice, "You tried to save the world in my stead, but it wasn't enough. The Crystal chose me- not you."

He then stood up and as he did his form suddenly changed. Noctis was replaced with Ardyn.

He reached into a pocket in his jacket and threw a few papers on the body. He then began heading out the door and mumbled, "Rejection hurts, doesn't it?"

The camera cuts to static and then shuts off.

"Was that Noct?" Ignis asks

Gladio crosses his arms, "No, just that scumbag chancellor posing as him."

I start clenching and unclenching my fists, and then I stop when I realize something.

"How did the chancellor use the crystals magic? ...and what did he mean by, 'the Crystal chose [him]'?"

All of us remain silent for a moment, "Could be another one of his tricks," Gladio finally answered.

I don't respond. I'm not quite sure if I believe it was a trick.

We continue on in silence to an elevator lower us down further. When it opened we were in a wide space filled with boxes and other storage containers.

"Some sort of cargo bay?" I ask.

"Perhaps the Crystal passed through here at some point in time," Ignis responses.

"Could be stored somewhere nearby..." I whisper mostly to myself.

We hear a loud noise and look on to see a large gate across the room opening up. Probably the chancellor leading the way again.

Before we can approach it an Iron Giant climbs out of the ground.

"What is it?" Ignis calls out.

"An Iron Giant!" I answer.

"Do we fight?" Gladio asks?

"We are two men down. This is too big a risk."

I grab Ignis wrist, "Then we make a run for it,"

We try to run around the monster and to the open gate. Gladio stayed back a moment to stun the enemy, giving us a head start.

The giant quickly regains its composure and stomps toward us. We try to run fast and once we've reached the next room we look around for a switch to close the gate.

I find a big red button and big green button. I hit the red one as fast as I can, but the gate is very slow. I start to smash the button hoping it would speed things up.

"Come on. Come on!"

The giant reaches out to grab one of us but the gate closes on its arm. It tries to pull its arm out but fails. In anger he begins swing it around to hit us.

Gladio then steps in front of us and summons his sword, "Get to the elevator!" I turn to see a large elevator in the middle of the room, much bigger than the others we've ridden.

I grab Ignis' arm and we run for it, Gladio following behind as he keeps looking back at the gate.

When we're all on the elevator Gladio smashes one of the buttons and we quickly descend to the next floor.