My King (Noctis X Reader)

Chapter 7

Beep! Beep! Beep!

I awoke to probably the worse noise ever created. An alarm. I laid there alone on the cold hard ground with my eyes still closed, not wanting to get up yet. I could hear someone's alarm from the other tent. After several minutes I scoffed and began crawling out of the tent. Why the hell is it still going?

I had been in a pretty grumpy mood for a while now. After clearing the blockade, Prompto had begged Ignis to let him drive and ended up crashing not far from an outpost in Duscae. We ended up having to call Cindy out here to fix it nearby. Although we did have a bit of money we didn't have enough to pay Cindy, so we had to make camp instead of staying in a hotel.

I got up out of the tent and stomped towards the boys tent. I unzipped it harshly and popped my head inside to see the others staring down at Nocts sleeping body. "Do you mind?" I asked rudely.

Ignis sighed as he shut the alarm off, "Our apologies. A certain prince refuses to wake up,"

"Ugh!" I scoffed, "Then I'll wake him up myself," I grabbed Noct's feet and tried to drag him out as best as I could. He quickly kicked my hands and got out on his own. He looked extremely angry and held one hand to his back. The hard ground must have scratched him up.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He yelled. His eyes were still glued shut and he swung at the air trying to hit me. I backed up as the others crawled out laughing hysterical.

"Well quit being so difficult and I won't have to drag you out of bed!" I yelled back, "next time you'll be waking up soaking wet after I pour ice water on you!"

"Oh yea? I'd like to see you try!"

"Would you too stop fighting already?" Gladio demanded.

Noct sighed and continued to give me a dirty look, "Whatever," he said in defeat.

Ignis looked up at the sky, shielding the light of the sun from his eyes with his hand, "Good day for walking," he said in an unusually happy voice. At least it was unusual for him, "Aren't we lucky?"

We began walking through the wetlands of Duscae in search of game. The bill for fixing the car was ridiculously high, and we didn't have much money. So, we've had to go hunting to make up the cash.

We had heard from a local tipster that there has been a behemoth, named Deadeye, wandering around causing trouble. The bounty was definitely high enough to pay off Cindy, but the fight would be a challenging one. There was a chance we could get killed, but without the Regalia we were as good as dead anyway. Well, even if the car hadn't broken down, we would probably still be doing this, since killing Deadeye would allow the Chocobo Post to let people ride the giant yellow birds once again. And Prompto seems to be in love with Chocobos.

The tipster had mentioned that hunters who managed to escape from the behemoth with their lives reported that Deadeye lived in a large den surrounded by rocks. We fought many creatures on the way to the location. Maybe we could get extra spending money and ingredients for Ignis's dishes.

As we got closer to the location on our map, we found some clues to lead us the rest of the way. We found many giant foot prints in the mud, and there were trails of splattered blood and debris from broken trees, rocks, and any other objects that were unfortunate enough to be in the way.

"Uh," Prompto starts anxiously, "m-maybe we should just raise the money some other way."

"Wuss," Gladio responded as he continued to follow the tracks.

"Don't you see what this thing has done?!" He yelled. Gladio scoffed and continued to walk away.

"Oh, we are so screwed," Prompto said sadly. The farther we went the more nervous I felt. If I still had my powers I'd probably feel much more confident, but right now I felt like our chances of surviving were slim.

Suddenly, we heard a loud crash and the ground rumbled beneath our feet. We all looked around in a panic and then saw a few tall trees collapse in the distance. Little did we realize that we were standing outside a large rock formation. This must be the behemoths den. Noct tried to walk ahead, but I grab him by the collar and pull him back.

"Hey!" I quickly give him a harsh glance and place a finger over my mouth, "what's the big idea?" He whispers.

"There's a good chance one of us could die here," I explained, "better it be one of us than you, Future King." He rolled his eyes, but I ignored it. We all carefully and quietly move through the area in front of Noct. Everything had been completely destroyed. Eventually we reached a blocked off area with a small space just big enough to crawl through. We could hear Deadeye was just on the other side of this blockade.

"I'll go first," Gladio whispered. He crawled through the tight space. Next was Ignis, me, Prompto, and then Noct.

We slowly crawled through until Gladio suddenly turned around and held out a hand, signaling us to stop. The crawl space had many openings along the side and top. We could see the huge beast through these openings. The behemoth had a scar over its right eye that forced it close.

Gladio closes his eye, holds a finger over it and mouths, "Deadeye. The name says it all,"

After waiting a few more seconds the behemoth begins eating something right outside of the crawl space. With his head down, we might be able to get through without him noticing. Gladio then motions his hand for us the come forward. I could hear Prompto whimpering behind me and I kick him to shut him up. Unexpectedly, Deadeye raises his head and turns in our direction. Gladio was just passing under a large opening, so he crawled quickly and turned around to stop us once he was covered again. The beast shoved his nose through the opening. It roared, growled, and sniffed around the opening. It's disgusting breath that filled the space reeked of blood. I closed my eyes tightly and held my breath, wanting to turn back. The structure we were in was very fragile, so at any moment this thing could step on the structure and kill us all.

Soon Deadeye lifted his head and walked away. I let out a deep breath and we continue through the rest of the crawl space and then through the rest of the den.

Eventually we reached what looked like a building, long ruined. Deadeye then perched up a rock structure and fell asleep. We all hid behind some building blocks as Ignis walked us through the plan. Noct will wake the behemoth and lead it towards the rest of us. He'll warp out of danger before Deadeye gets too close. Gladio will then come out from behind and attack the beast by surprise. While its stunned Prompto will shoot a gas tank nearby causing an explosion. Noct will then finish it off with a warp strike.

"What about me?" I whispered.

"You'll stay up here with me. I would let you lure the enemy if you still had your powers, but-"

I interrupt him, "It's fine... Let's just get it over with,"

We set the plan in motion and all goes well. After Prompto shot the gas tank Noct stabbed his blade into the beasts back and it fell limp. We all ran up to him cheering, until the behemoth awoke and threw Noct off its back.

"Your Highness!" Ignis yells as we all run to his side.

He is sprawled out on the ground in pain. As Ignis helps him up the monster charges. Prompto screams and the rest of the boys freeze for a moment. I quickly take out a greatsword and block Deadeyes attack. The beast continuously slams his head down on my blade and tries to knock me out of the way, but I continue to block him so that he couldn't hurt Noct.

"Get the prince out of here!" I yelled to no one in particular.

"Listen, I don't need your help-"

I cut him off slightly and scream, "Would you just go, Noct?!"

I can't hold the beast off forever. And I may hate him, but I don't want anything bad to happen to Noct. I don't want him to get hurt. I glance over my shoulder slightly and see Noct staring at me wide eyed in shock, as if he's not used to being screamed at. Then I realized, I didn't refer to him as royalty. In my panicked state I called him Noct without thinking. This time he wasn't staring at me in anger. I couldn't quite make out what his expression was.

Because my attention was directed at Noct I didn't notice it when the behemoth swung at me from the side with his paw. All of the air left my lungs as I flew.

"Y/N!" Noct screamed. It was the first time I ever heard him say my name. I hit the ground head first and instantly my vision went black.