Chapter 1: The Unconscious Boy
Sunset – The Road To Sun Beach City
Noctis and the crew were heading to Sun Beach City to a hotel that they reversed for 3 days. Ingis, in the driver seat as usual was of course driving as Prompto was sitting in the front passenger seat, messing with the radio as Gladio was sitting behind Prompto looking at the ocean as Noctis himself was passed out asleep behind Ingis. "Man…there's nothing good on the radio these days." Prompto sighed as he laid back. "Prompto, if you are done with changing the channel, please put it back on the news." Ingis said as Prompto flipped the radio back to the news. "I still can't believe after we got the car fixed, we had enough gil to afford a 3-day hotel stay in." Gladio said as Prompto turned around with his knees on the seat, smiling. "Yeah! We finally get to rest after a long day of fighting monsters and slaying robots!" "Prompto, be quiet. You're waking me up..." Noctis looked at Prompto as he was awake by Prompto's loud excitement. "Haha~ Sorry, Noct. Didn't mean to wake you." "At least Noct will have a better time sleep on a bed than in the car." Gladio patted Noctis' back as he groaned alittle but chuckled. Noctis looked up as he saw the sun also completely gone. "Ingis…how much farther until we reach the city?" "Judging by time, we should be arriving within 30 minutes." Ingis answered as Noctis nodded and sighed. "…We're almost there then." "I wonder if we'll see any cute pretty girls walking around at night." Prompto giggled as Gladio leaned over putting his hand on his shoulder. "You really are something, aren't you Prompto." Prompto chuckled as he leaned back with his hands on the back of his head. -An hour before the Night- Ingis continued driving to Sun Beach City as the rest of the gang were asleep. "Ah… it's getting closer to nighttime." He looked up as he saw a sign saying, "Entering Sun Beach City. Welcome." "Ah. We made it. Huh?" Ingis slowly came to a stop as there was a lifeless body. "…Hmm." He looked at the group seeing them still asleep as he got out of the car and walked over to the body. As Ingis kneeled down to get a closer look, he saw it was a young boy about Noctis' age and height. Ingis turned him to his back and was surprised to see that the boy had been beaten to near death. Bruises were shown on his face, neck, and head. Cuts were also shown on his face as well as his body. Clothes were torn and ripped. "Looking athis wounds…he's been through a tough fight with someone….or something." Gladio walked up behind Ingis looking over. "Hey..what you find?" "This boy has been into a recent fight. His wounds are fresh." Ingis put two fingers on his neck as he felt a pulse. "Ah, surprising he is still alive." Gladio kneeled down, looking at him. "His clothes… I never seen them around." "Yes, I don't believe he's from here." "Well, shit. We can't leave him here. Let's take him back to the hotel with us. We can ask the receptionist if we can get a room with one of us to look after him." "Good idea Gladio. You'll have to have him sit on your lap until we reach the hotel." Gladio sighed as he gently picked up the boy as him and Ingis headed back to the car and continued the way to the city. -Sun Beach Hotel- -Nighttime- Ingis pulled up infront of the doors as he pulled the car in park. "Wait here. I shall return." He exited the car as Gladio looked at the boy who was covered in a blanket that he wrapped on the way to the hotel. "…You poor boy… what the hell happened to you…" Prompto slowly woke up as he yawned. "Mmm..are we there yet?" "Yeah we're here. Ingis is checking us in." Prompto turned around to look at Gladio but then he saw the boy in his arms as he blinked. "Hmm? Gladio? Who's that?" "I have no clue. Ingis found him on the road on the way here. He's been beaten pretty badly." "Whoa…that's so not cool, man." "I know. But lucky for us, he's alive…just out cold. Ingis doesn't even know what hit this dude but I'm thinking it was the As the door unlock with the key card being used, Gladio walked in first still carrying the boy in his arms. "Set him on the bed. I'll begin a bath to clean him up." Ingis said as Gladio nodded and set the boy gently down on a soft white bed as a gush of water was heard from the bathroom. Gladio turned on the lights as he took the blanket off of him as walked to the bathroom, looking at Ingis who was kneeled down, feeling the water's temperature. "Hey, anything else you need me to do while you're at it?" Ingis stood up and sighed lightly. "No, I can handle it from here, thank you Gladio." Gladio nodded as he sighed as well, scratching the back of his head and went over to the beds. Ingis dig around the bathroom as he saw some lavender bubble bath. He took it and pour some in the warm bath as he mixed it around and it made some bubbles along with a hint of lavender smell filling up the bathroom. Gladio came back with the boy in his arms again as he set him down on the toilet seat. "I figured I bring him here so you didn't have to walk back and forth to places." "That's very thoughtful of you, Gladio. Thank you." Ingis nodded as Gladio nodded as well and left, closing the door. Ingis started to take the boy's clothes off and setting them on the counter as he lift up the boy and gently set him in the bath, reached for a small cloth and began washing him. First, Ingis began with his hair. He wet the hair as he pour some shampoo and gently massaged the scalp and hair with his fingers. "I wonder what happened to him… He looks like he might have been attacked by the