Blue Fire Consumes Me

Chapter 2: The Princess Is a Pheonix

           Third Person's POV:

As the day seem to continue to drag on Noctis and his friends found themselves exhausted no thanks to Prompto's inability at driving the Regalia thusly causing it to break down. And for the last couple of hours found themselves pushing the car to Hammerhead where they had already spoken to an old friend of the King's. He was a mechanic and owner to a garage there and was willing to help out with the problem. All that was left was getting there. And according to his Granddaughter she had someone there whom they had been looking after who could greatly use their help.

"So.... who do you think this person Cindy was talking about is?" Gladiolus questioned with a grunt.

"I'm not sure but from what she said it may just be the missing princess. But the question is, why is she in Hammerhead and if she hasn't been kidnapped then why hasn't she returned to Illumin?" Ignis responded looking at the map as the garage finally came into view.

Those simple questions swirling within their heads in hopes finding the answer. Silence ensued as Prompto, Noctis, and Gladiolus continued pushing to get to the destination. The Prince though had been thinking up the many possibilities as to the lost Princesses situation, after all what could have happened to have made her go missing in the first place. Within no time they had successfully pushed the car into the driveway of the truck stop with Noctis leaning against the back left wheel. Prompto found himself lying on the ground exhausted while Ignis and Gladio were standing on opposite sides of the Regalia. Cindy laughed lightly at them briefly before approaching them with her usual smile decorating her features.

"Hey there, y'all sure can keep a girl waitin'! Now which one's the prince?" There was no response as he simply stood up from his comfortable position. "Aha! Hello, your Highness. Congrats on your weddin'." Cindy cheered.

"Not hitched just yet." Noctis sighed.

"Lady Lunafreya's Groom-to-be here in Hammerhead. Royals are just attracted to this here garage." Cindy exclaimed.

Before Noctis could make a response at her rather strange statement Ignis spoke first making an apology.

"Apologies for taking so long." Ignis apologized cutting the Prince off so as they could get the topic of the repairs out of the way first foremost.

"You best save your apologies for Paw-Paw." Cindy dismissed as she looked the car over.

"So then that makes you..." Gladiolus trailed off.

"Cindy- Cid's grease monkey granddaughter." Cindy introduced simply with a smile.

"Roll 'er in while I'm still young." A sudden voice called out approaching the group with a bland almost scowl like expression adorning his features. "Didn't yer Daddy tell ya? She's a custom classic, not some beat up ol' clunker. Prince Noctis." Cid hissed.

"Uh, Yeah?" Noctis answered unsurely.

"'Prince.' Like they took your old man and kicked the dignity out o' him." Cid sighed as he began to circle the expensive vehicle ignoring Noctis as he began to stare at him with hatred for his words.

"You got a long way to go, son. And that slack jaw ain't gettin' you nowhere fast. She's gonna take a while. Y'all roll her in and run along." Cid proclaimed after looking at the car briefly and then proceeding to walk into the garage.

Cindy sighed at her Grandfather's sharp tongue. She couldn't seem to understand why he was so upset with the young prince when he could be so kind to Princess Yuki. Sighing she left him be before gesturing for the boys to do just that and showed them where exactly to put the car. Once done she stood outside the garage waiting on Noctis to give him a little information on the area as well as let him know about Yuki. She had remained unaware of their mission so when she heard the Prince of Lucis was coming to Hammerhead with a broken down car she figured that he would be most helpful in providing aid to the young Princess whom not only needed help with the problems her kingdom had but also in hopes of being able to find companionship with them considering her social skills were terrible and given her old state it was only natural.