My King (Noctis X Reader)

Chapter 10

After waking up the next day and getting ready I entered the boys' room through the door joining our rooms together. When I entered I surprisingly found Noctis already awake and putting his sneakers on.

"Morning," he greeted me with a smile.

"Good morning," I responded.

"Just in time!" Prompto started, "We were just about head to the outlook."

I furrowed my brows in confusion, "I thought we were checking out the Disc,"

"We're just gonna see if we can spot anything from there," Gladio answered. I noticed he had been standing beside the door I had entered through.

"Okay. Let's go," I said.

"Uh, Y/N." Prompto started.

"Yes?"

They all looked at my quizzically. All except Noct. Finally, Ignis finished, "What time did you turn in last night?"

My thought for a moment while rubbing my eyes, "I'm not sure. Do I look tired?" I asked.

"Yea, you've got big bags under your eyes" Gladio answered as he leaned in close to my face to observe me.

"No way," I said as I rushed towards the mirror hanging above the dresser. Sure enough, big dark circles lined the bottom of my eyes. Geez I shouldn't have stayed up so late.

"Are you gonna be ok?" Prompto asked.

I held back a yawn, "I'll be fine. Let's just go."

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When we reached the outlook we saw a familiar, ominous figure peering through one of the view finders. The man we had met at Galdin Quay looked up to notice we were there.

"What a coincidence," he said.

A part of me felt like he had known we would be there. It was strange. It had been weeks since we were in Gladin. I never thought we'd see this man again. It would make sense for this to be a coincidence, but something about him made me think otherwise.

He stepped towards us and continued, "Aren't nursery rhymes curious things?" We all looked at him in confusion, "Like this one:

'From the deep, the Archaean calls.
Yet on deaf ears, the gods' tongue falls,
The King made to kneel, in pain, he crawls.' "

His rhyme sounded similar to the headaches that Noct has been having. How would he have known we came here for the Archaean? And how did he know about Noct's pain?

"So how do we keep him on his feet," Prompto asked.

The man told us that we must visit the Archaean at the Disc and listen to what he has to say. He then offered to take us there. We all discussed to ourselves whether or not to take the offer. Finally, we chose to at least follow him by vehicle.

He smiled impishly and began walking towards the parking lot behind us, "I'm not one to stand on ceremony, but such an occasion calls for an introduction. Please, call me 'Ardyn'."

When we reached the parking lot, we saw that Ardyn's red car was conveniently parked next to the Regalia. Strangely, he requested that Noct drive the Regalia. We didn't question it and did as he asked. I ended up sitting in between Gladio and Ignis.

As we drove I noticed Noct seemed really on edge. Normally, he was relaxed and seemingly carefree, but now he was tense. He gripped the wheel tightly with one hand as he propped the other on the car door.