Final Fantasy XV - The Light Of Dawn

Chapter 17: Untold Power

As Nyx and Phoebe sat in the darkness of the offices they had taken cover in, the same roar from before sounded once again as a swarm of very same daemons attacked the two and they stood up, on alert. Nyx stood in front of Phoebe protectively, still holding the tracker.

"I'm over here!" Nyx shouted, holding up the tracker and running out of the room.

Phoebe used this opening as a chance to escape and run outside.

"Do you hear me? Repeat, this is Drautos, Do you hear me? Over!" Drautos' voice rang through Nyx's earpiece.

"You're timing is impeccable, Captain!" Nyx welcomed the sound of his captains voice. "If the Lucii are real, they sure don't seem to mind their city getting torn apart!" he shouted to Phoebe with a hint sarcasm as a magitek armour shot at him, causing him to hide behind a pillar.

"You're to rendezvous and regroup. Understood?" Drautos ordered, unware of Nyx's situation.

"That might not be so easy captain. My wings have been clipped in case you didn't know!" Nyx shouted, finding an opening and ran on top of the armour and grabbed it's antennae then jumped up and grabbed onto the ship above, drawing the attention of the daemons that were after them.

The daemons however had other plans and swarmed him, causing him to accidently let go, drop the tracker and grab onto a foot of the magitek armour. Phoebe, who had escaped the building thanks to Nyx's distraction, picked up the tracker, looked at it and then the daemons, mustering all her strength she brought her arm back and threw the tracker into the back of the ship that had seemed to have been holding the magitek armour in the air. This caused the daemons fly over her, causing her to cower a little bit, and they then swarmed into the back of the ship, causing it to explode and drop the armours it held in the air and caused Nyx to fall, injuring his leg.

He looked up and saw the armour fall towards him and he rolled out of the way, only just making it to safety as the armour hit the ground.

"Ulric! Are you alright?!" Drautos ask in worry.

"I'm not dead if that's what you mean, sir?"

"Head for section D as soon as you can. I'll have an evacuation team ready."

"Don't suppose you could meet me at the gate? I'd kind of like to get the hell out of this city."

"Imperials hold all exits. There's no way through. I'll meet you at section D. Cut all radio contact until then. Make sure you get there."

"It's a date, sir." Nyx winced as he got up, took Phoebe's hand and lead her to section D, slightly limping.

Meanwhile, Libertus walked through the wreckage of what was once a beautiful street. "Ain't no turning back now." He sighed.

Just then he heard voices on a radio talking to one another. The conversation going as follows;

"Status report."

"Ulric killed some good men."

"What about the ring?"

"We don't have it yet."

Libertus then saw the shine from a blade in the rubble and picked it up, the dagger belonging to Nyx. As Libertus picked it up however, he heard Glauca's voice come through on the radio on the ground.

"This is Glauca. King Regis is dead. The ring is on its way to section D. We must recover the ring to realize our goal. If Ulric or the Princess get in the way, take them out. Reclaim our hearth and home."

"Hearth and home??" Libertus mumbled, remember the motto of the glaive and found it very strange that the enemy would use the very same motto but as he thought about it more, the more he pieced together.