N/A: IT'S DONE! IT'S FREAKING DONE! YES! AAAAAAAA! I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF! THIS IS AT LEAST THIRTEEN PAGES LONG ON GOOGLE DOCS AND WORTH FIVE THOUSAND, NINE-HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN WORDS! SCREW SCHOOL!
Ahem, uh, anyways, some scenes might be weird and one scene is determined to change—Noct's departing to Altissa.
Enjoy my hard work filled with blood and sweat! Also, there are no weeby words since the movie itself is English.
Edit: Also, thank you for expressing your excitement, Deja-san and xenocanaan-san! Just seeing it made me so touched!
I followed Luna diligently as she pushed my older brother in his wheelchair, Father far ahead of us.
We were visiting Tenebrae, Noctis recovering from his near-death state.
In the midst of our way to catch up with Father, we heard the sounds of ships.
The three of us looked up to the sky, a large ship above us.
Before I knew it, soldiers were dropping in from them and the land was ablaze.
Father rushed to us but an armored man swung his sword down, wounding his back.
"General Glauca." I heard my father say when he turned his head to see who it was.
He summoned a sword and swung at the general, the general stopping the attack with his, and summoned two more swords for more strength. Parrying, Father sent General Glauca flying back and summoned more swords to attack in the air, the general stabbed and pinned with them to a tree.
"Noctis! Rena!" he called to us, picking Noctis up and taking my hand, rushing to flee Tenebrae.
I grab onto Luna's and she runs with us.
"Please! Help us! King Regis!" I hear Luna's older brother, Ravus yell as we pass him.
As soldiers chase after us, Luna looks back to them and lets go of my hand.
"Luna!" I gasped, looking back to her as she stays behind.
"Lunafreya!" Father says.
Both my brother and I extend our arms to her despite our distance.
"Luna!" Noctis yells.
I open my eyes, looking beyond my bedroom window.
That was twelve years ago.
"Rena." Crowe's voice said, behind me. "Your brother is about to go."
"Oh, thank you." I turn around to smile at her.
"By the way, are you fine with this treaty?" the sole female Kingsglaive member asked.
"... I don't." I answer, my smile falling. "It's just feels… unlike Niflheim."
"Heh. We're with you, kid." she ruffles my hair.
"Crowe!" I complain but laugh, smoothing my white hair back down.
I make my way to the entrance of the palace and join my father to see my older brother off to Altissa.
"Noctis!" I called out from the top of the stairs, waving.
He looks at me and I quickly walk down to him, embracing him.
"Hey, Rena." Noctis said, the both of us pulling away. "Wait, why aren't you coming with us?"
"Don't worry, I'll make it there on time when I set off after the treaty." I smile cheerily. "Wouldn't want to miss the moment I get a sister-in-law."
"Good to know." he smiles back.
"Take care, Rena." Ignis said.
"We'll see you there!" Prompto cheerily waved.
"Don't miss it." Gladiolus followed.
"Thanks guys." I smiled. "You all have my blessing for a safe journey."
"As you have mine as well." Father said.
"See you there then, Rena. And I'll see you when I get back, Dad." Noctis replied.
The four got into the Regalia, Father's car, and with waves of goodbye, drove off, Father and I seeing them off with smiles. My smile dropped and I turned to Father.
"Father, I've already warned you of the future." I say worriedly. "Are we really going to play with their game?"
"I have no choice, Rena." he replies. "It is so that your brother is safe. You should've gone with him as I wanted you to."
"Father, as Princess of Lucis, I won't just stand by and pretend nothing terrible will happen to Insomnia when I've foreseen it." I shake my head. "I'll make my own fate."
Father smiles, patting my head.
"I feel that is something your mother would say."
Taken aback by the mention of Mother for a moment, I return the smile with a small laugh.
"So… why are we picking a hairpin out?" I asked Crowe, watching her look at hairpins curiously.
"I'm going to deploy on a mission to escort Princess Lunafreya here, so don't get the wrong idea." my bodyguard responded. "Oh, and no one's supposed to know about the hairpin."
"Luna…" I trailed off, thinking back to when she let go of my hand.
"She was your friend when you were really little, right?"
"Yeah. I still remember the times spent with her so clearly even though I was only four…"
Crowe picked out one. It was simple; made out of silver with a large diamond as its centerpiece and smaller ones around it. It was perfect.
"How about this one?" she asked.
"It's beautiful. And just right." I answer, leaning closer to get a better view. "She'll love it."
"Good." she replied.
Crowe walked to the yellow Speedy Chocobo van and opened its backdoors, checking.
"Hey, Nyx, Libertus." I greeted the two other Kingsglaive members.
"Nice to see you, Rena." Nyx greeted back.
"Hey, Princess." Libertus followed.
The sole female Kingsglaive member opened the box the hairpin I helped her pick out was in, pressing a button on her wristwatch that it beeped and walked over to us with the box in her hands.
"A hairpin. I didn't think you were into that kind of thing." Nyx smiled, Libertus laughing.
"It's not for me, it's a gift for the princess that Rena helped pick out." she smiled back at them, closing the box and putting it in her jacket pocket. "But keep that quiet, nobody's supposed to know."
The driver of the van honked twice to signal Crowe and started the engine.
"Well, that's me."
"Watch your back out there." the hero of the Glaive said.
"And both of you keep an eye on my princess." responded the mage, messing my hair up.
"I'll be fine. Just come back safe, Crowe." I sigh with a smile, fixing her mess.
"I will, promise." she promised.
"I know you're sick of hearing it, but you're like a little—"
"Little sister to you." she interrupted Libertus. "Yeah, I am sick of hearing it."
The woman turned away and walked to the van.
"Just make sure you come back in one piece, alright?" Libertus asked.
"Says the guy in two pieces." Crowe replied, climbing into the back and looking at him for a moment.
She closed the doors and the van drove away, Nyx, Libertus, and I watching it go further and further into the distance.
"Princess Lunafreya is what?" I asked in bewilder, turning to the servant.
"The Princess is here. She arrived with Emperor Iedolas Aldercapt and others, Your Highness." repeated the servant.
"Where is she now?"
"On her way to speak with the King, Your Highness."
I rushed to the throne room, and opened the doors myself without the announcer announcing my name.
There she was in a beautiful silk dress with the palette of silver, gold, and black.
We both stared at each other in the distance for a short while before I spoke first.
"Is it really you…?" I question, walking closer.
"Rena…" Luna says, taking my hands. "I've missed you dearly."
Embracing her, I hold back tears of reunion.
"So have I." I reply. "So have I."
But despite our happy reunion, what I feared of Crowe's fate was granted.
I had rushed to where she would be, walking in on a tragic scene before me.
The expression left on her face before life slipped from her was a shocked expression, her eyes open. Her skin was white, her eyes colored like a blind person's and her eyeshadow streaking down her face as she was in a bag.
Covering my mouth with wide eyes, tears began to blur my vision and I staggered back, using the wall for support.
"Rena…!" Nyx took notice of me.
"Crowe… No… it can't be…" I whisper as I watched Libertus cry by her corpse's side.
The three of us sat in the barracks of the Kingsglaive. Despite how formally I was dressed, it was no matter to me. We sat in silence.
"Crowe's personal effects." Commander Titus Drautos said, handing Nyx a box. "Do with them as you see certain."
"So what kind of mission did you really send her on?" Libertus asked him. "No Glaive ends up dead on a standard escort."
"I'll see the armistice is to not interfere with the investigation." the commander replied. "She was good soldier. Her death will not go unanswered."
He turned and walked away, leaving us.
"One life, huh?" said Libertus. "She was brought up an orphan. Ran out of her village. Still remember the first time I saw her. Scrawny little thing all covered in dirt. Not a friend in the world. But those eyes, damn. There was something about those eyes. She deserved better."
I silently agreed in my thoughts.
"And I would have done anything to give it to her." he finished.
With a sniff, he ripped off the emblem of the Kingsglaive and rose up, struggling with his wounded leg.
"Libertus, wait." Nyx said, following after him.
I got up and watched him grab Libertus by the shoulder.
"Crowe died a Glaive. You can still honor her by fighting as one."
Shoving his hand on his chest, Libertus replied, "You're dumber than me sometimes, you know that? Don't you get it? Lucis killed Crowe."
"No." I objected as he walked pass Nyx. "Lucis would never do such a thing, Libertus. It has to be Niflheim."
"Go back to the castle. Tell the King there's no peace to be had for throwing the weak to the wolves." he told us both. "I'll fight my own fight from here on out. See you around, Hero."
As he left, I noticed three men of the Glaive watching, recognizing them as Tredd Furia, Axis Arra, and Sonitus Bellum. They left suspiciously after Libertus.
"Sorry about Libertus, Rena." Nyx turned to me.
"It's fine." I assure him. "Hopefully he'll stop being blinded by revenge soon. Oh, and Nyx?"
"Yeah?"
"Please be cautious around the members of the Glaive. I don't know but… something seems off."
"Alright."
Saying our goodbyes, I returned to my room, reminiscing my memories of Crowe.
She was a sister-figure to me. We met and got along well when she was assigned as my bodyguard, becoming close. Crowe was the one to introduce me to some of the Kingsglaive members, mainly Nyx and Libertus.
"I promise, Crowe, that we will uncover the reasons behind your death." I quietly said. "So please, rest in peace."
On the eve of the signing ceremony, there was a party held at the resort we owned.
Fireworks bursted in the sky and my favorite song played, Somnus.
I looked over to the portrait of the goddess inside the aquarium, finding a girl in a white cocktail dress and ankle boots with long blonde hair gazing at it.
Turning my attention to Nyx, Luna approached him.
Not wanting to cut into their conversation, I quietly hummed along with the song. Wondering how Noctis, Gladio, Ignis, and Prompto were doing.
Looking back to the portrait, the girl was mysteriously gone.
On the day of the signing ceremony, while I was making my way to the throne room to greet my father, I found Nyx.
"What's going on, Nyx?" I asked him.
"Niflheim." he quickly answered.
"Let him in." I turned to the door guards.
One of them went in but knowing there was no time, we both rushed in, Nyx opening the doors.
"Your Majesty! Please!" he called to Father, crouching down. "Give the order to deploy the Glaive."
The inner door guards following after him, I stopped them.
"You?" Father questioned.
"A Niflheim fleet makes ready for war, twenty miles to the south." he explained.
"An imperial fleet." Clarus Amicitia, Gladio's father, said.
"And they have the Princess." Nyx finished.
"Clarus, post guards outside the treaty room." the King ordered.
"It will be seen as a lack of faith in the peace." he pointed out.
"Which we all harbor." Father responded. "See it done. We may well have to take Emperor Aldercapt into custody."
"Detain him? That would go beyond the new declaration of war."
"We are still at war, Clarus. And you, Nyx Ulric, how soon can the Kingsglaive deploy?"
"On your word. At once." Nyx answered.
"Go then. Save Luna." replied Father.
The soldier nodded and made his way to the headquarters.
"Good luck." I said.
My father walked down the stairs and I bowed respectfully to him.
"I'd like to see to the crystal, Father." I requested.
"You may do so, but be wary and return to my side at once when you are finished." Father granted it.
"Thank you."
By the time I entered the crystal's vault and was sealed with it in the vault, I believe he had made it to the counseling room where the treaty was to be signed.
I pressed my hand against the chamber the crystal resided in, feeling its power. I closed my eyes, silently praying for Luna's rescue and for Insomnia. It'd been awhile since I truly prayed to the gods, or it would be called communing with them.
"Insomnia will fall, Child." multiple voices answered me. "You've seen it yourself."
"I am aware." I answer sadly, opening my eyes.
Hearing gunshots, I urgently turned around and faced the back of the vault. It was silent for a moment and I held my guard up. The vault door opened, Niflheim soldiers ahead of me. I summoned my rapier, unfazed by them and unafraid to kill for the first time. They stayed their ground and I was confused for a moment before behind me and the crystal's chamber exploded.
I groaned, waking up at the sounds of armor and found myself at gunpoint when I sat up. In a split second after staring at the gun pointing at me, I quickly casted Thundaga. With their deaths, I stood up weakly and noticed my hand to be shaking. Clenching my palm to make it stop, my eyes looked at the bodies.
I didn't have much of a choice for blood to shed.
Looking at the crystal's chamber, I saw that ropes had been secured to it and that the ceiling was missing, the Wall broken. Summoning my rapier once more, I was about to cut the ropes until it was pulled out by a ship. In urgency, I grabbed on and was carried up along with the crystal.
The setting sun blinded me for a moment. Turning away, Emperor Iedolas and the Chancellor of Niflheim, Ardyn Izunia caught my eye. Something felt strange in me when I saw the chancellor, but I didn't know why. I climbed the ropes when the hatch of the ship opened and a soldier came out, pointing his gun at me and began shooting. With no choice, I let go and fell from the height back into the Crown City.
Throwing my summoned rapier at a nearby balcony, I used it as a teleportation device and 'safely' got on the ground rolling away from my blade.
"Ugh… How do you and Nyx live with this, Noctis?" I groaned, my rapier disappearing and my mind setting on my father.
And not too soon with that question came Nyx rolling in with Luna in his arms.
I stared awkwardly at the two hence my question earlier.
"You can thank magic for that, Your Highness." Nyx said.
His eyes looked up from Luna to me.
"Rena? What are you doing here?"
"... The same way you did." I answered. "Anyways, there's no time. I'm sure you two are also trying to get to my father."
"Yes, we are." Luna nodded.
"Let's hurry then." I said.
The three of us ran to the room where the peace treaty was to be signed and when we arrived, I felt time stop for the slightest moment somewhat and a man who I recognized as Ravus had his arm on fire, the sound of a ring rolling that I recognized as the Ring of the Lucii.
The fingers of his left hand cut off excluding his thumb, my father picked the ring up.
"Look out!" Luna shouted, rushing to Father as I followed after her, picking his walking stick up and handing it to him as Nyx distracted the armored swordsman, General Glauca.
Helping Father walk to the elevator, he turned to the two battling and said to Nyx, "Quickly! Through here!"
Casting Thunder, the general was weakened, giving the chance for the soldier to throw his dagger into the elevator and teleport in with us.
The doors closed as the general arose.
Nyx breathed heavily, I sighed in relief, and Luna ripped off a piece of fabric from her dress as bandage for Father's hand.
"This leads to a hidden passageway. Follow it." Father said to Luna. "Once you are away, make for Altissa. Noctis awaits you there."
"Your Majesty." she replied.
"You knew this was coming." Nyx followed.
"Yes. But it was the only way to draw their wrath from Noctis." the king responded.
"Then what about Princess Rena?" he asked.
"It was my choice to stay." I answered. "I foresaw this happening, unable to change its course."
"Is that the way of our king?" Nyx questioned Father. "Sacrifice Lucian sons to save his own?"
"To save the world." Luna replied.
"See Luna and Rena safe to Altissa." my father said to him. "This is not an order from a king to his Glaive, this is a plea from one man to another. Please, Nyx Ulric, keep them safe. For the future of all."
"The future…" Nyx responded.
Suddenly, there was a loud sound of destruction, making the elevator shake a bit, and rubbles falling.
"Here, take this." Father said, offering the Ring of the Lucii to me. "It is time it passed to another's keeping."
Carefully taking the hereditary ring of my family, I met him in the eye and nodded to get it to Noctis.
The elevator came to a stop and its doors opened. We walked quickly to the passageway on the other side of the room, Nyx leading us as I followed and Luna took my father's hand to help him keep up with us. Hearing her heels click faster, Nyx and I looked back, seeing my father had tugged his hand away from Luna's. Staring at each other, the realization came to me and I attempted to rush to Father only for him to cast Protect to prevent any of us in going to him, causing me to gasp.
"No, please. Stop!" Luna called after him, her hands on the barrier. "Please!"
"Get back!" Nyx called to her.
"Father!" I shouted.
"Don't leave us!" she pleaded.
"I know your mother would wish the same as me." my father said to Luna. "That you, Rena, and Noctis live happily. All those years captive because I failed you."
Luna shook her head in decline.
"Not again. Locked doors will seal your fate no more."
"King Regis…" she replied.
"And my dear daughter, Rena, guide your brother and Luna if they are ever to get lost. Shape your fate into what you want."
"Father, please!" I pleaded, pressing my hands against the barrier.
A sound began behind him at the elevator, dust falling from outside of it.
Looking behind him and back at us, Father said, "Our hope goes with you now, Nyx Ulric, godspeed."
Nyx paused for a moment before taking Luna and I away from the barrier.
I looked back, General Glauca arriving, destroying the elevator, and walking out to bow to my father while swiping his sword at the floor. An honorable duel was the sign it gave me.
I tugged away from Nyx, running back to the barrier and watched helplessly.
Tossing his cane away, Father faced the general bravely as he charged and casted Thunder, the swordsman hitting the wall but recovering quickly. He walked quickly and the king yet again casted the same spell, this time the general blocking it with his sword and slowly walking closer.
"Behold the King of Lucis… who hoarded tranquility within his precious walls." General Glauca said. "Where is your tranquility now, King?"
He slowly drew closer to Father, until he was close enough to attack.
"Here is your peace, by steel's swift descent."
Throwing the spell off, Father turned by the throw and the general turned around, stabbing his sword into my father and Luna gasping.
"FATHER!" I screamed, tears beginning to fall from my eyes.
Taking me into her arms, Luna pressed my head to her chest as if to shield me from the horrifying sight of my father dying before me.
Hearing General Glauca make a war cry, the sound of his blade plunging deeper into Father pierced my ears and I embraced the oracle tighter.
Turning my head to look at the sight, I could hear Father telling us, "Go."
Life slipped from him, he was frozen in place as the general's sword retreated, his eyes frozen.
The swordsman pushed his body to fall and Nyx, in anger, unsheathed his dagger, about to attempt to break down the barrier.
"No. We must get away from here." Luna said, stopping him. "It is what your king wanted."
Calming down, he turned around and Luna took my hand, leading me as the three of us ran.
Coming to a parking lot, we got into Noctis' car, Luna staring at one of the statues of the Knights of Round before getting into the car with Nyx and I. Drying my tears, I vowed to what Father asked of me, holding the Ring of the Lucii tightly in my hand.
"Ulric to command, come in Captain." Nyx said to his earpiece, pressing it while driving.
"Footage of the perpetrators was captured by a nearby surveillance camera." a reporter said, the news playing on the screen in front. "Here are images of the six suspects. One has been identified as Galahdian refugee, Libertus Ostium, a former member of the Lucian Kingsglaive."
"Damn it!" he shouted, hitting the windshield.
Suddenly, we were being gunned, Luna yelping.
Opening the window, I casted a Protect spell to defend the car.
"Can you drive?" Nyx asked Luna.
"I can try." she replied, taking the wheel and moving a seat over.
"What are you, crazy!?" I questioned while holding the spell as he climbed back and opened the door of my opposite.
"I'll be right back!" he replied, leaning out the door.
"Wait, Nyx! You can't—"
Throwing his dagger with precision, it hit the ship tailing us and he attempted to teleport but was unable to due to my father's death. In his realization, Luna had a bit of struggle and we hit the side of the road.
"Give me the wheel! Go!" Nyx said, securing it, Luna moving back to her seat.
"You are without your magic." she said to him.
"You noticed that, huh? It must have died with the king." he replied.
"The Kingsglaive's magic stems from the king, so since he's no longer with us, your magic is gone." I explained.
"You're making a mess of my city, Glaive." a loud voice said behind us. "I thought I told you not to go playing hero. Leave the ship to me. Looks like you got a royal fare to see to."
Driving to our side, a royal guard shielded us and I casted off my spell as we drove ahead.
Two armed robots landed in our way and Nyx was forced to drive off the road.
Landing roughly upside-down on a building, the car was tipping off to an alleyway.
"Move it!" Nyx urgently told us.
Getting out quickly, Luna got on the building and I had just opened the door to get out, the car falling right then. In a quick reaction, I jumped and hung onto the ledge of the building. Helping me up, one of the robots landed near Luna and I just after. It began to shoot at us and I quickly held a Protect spell as we ran to cover. We ran down stairs as fast as we could and when we came to the lower building, she tripped and the shoulder of her dress tore off. Re-casting Protect when the second robot arrived ahead of us, a ship was afloat above us and shot at Nyx. With the robots' attention away from us, I took Luna's hand and ran at an open door, Nyx following after.
"The hell did you do to piss these things off?" he asked the oracle.
"It's not me they're after, it's the ring." she responded, the three of us running to cover.
"What's so special about this ring? Don't tell me the future's really riding on it." Nyx said.
"He who wears the ring communes with the Lucii and commands great power." I explained.
"What kind of power?" he asked.
"A forbidden one. Sealed within the ring long ago." I answered.
"The Old Wall. I thought that was just a bedtime story."
"It's not."
"Can you wear it?"
"The Lucii grant their power only to those they deem worthy. I may be worthy, but I'm afraid it's too risky."
"So the guy who tried it on back there… I guess he wasn't deemed worthy."
Luna sighed.
"That was my brother." she revealed to Nyx. "These twelve years have changed Ravus. He is bound by the past and lost in his lust for power."
Two large flying, insect-like monsters flew in, screeching after the sound of a Niflheim ship.
"How the hell did they find us?" Nyx questioned.
Battling with one, I aimed a Fire spell at the other and burned it.
Examining the dead monster, he met eyes with Luna.
"Your hairpin. They're tracking it. Give it to me." he realized, walking back to us.
Taking off her hairpin, she handed it to Nyx, my eyes following it as it was the one I helped pick out with Crowe.
I hadn't seen it this entire time because I was too caught up in the major events and was lost in thought for a moment seeing it.
"I had a little sister once. She was killed when the empire came." he said, examining the hairpin. "I couldn't save her. I was as helpless then as I am now. I couldn't show her the future she wanted."
Finding the tracker in the centerpiece diamond, he took it out
"True power is not something that is found by those who seek it." Luna replied. "It is something that comes to those who deserve it. Your sister wanted you to see a future as well. Anyone would wish the same for family they love."
"You don't pull any punches, do you?" he smirked.
The sound of a Niflheim ship came once more, this time with many of the same monsters.
"I'm over here!" Nyx shouted, holding the diamond and running off.
The two of us followed, running out the building.
Luna picked up the dropped tracker and threw it at the engine of the Niflheim ship, the monsters following it and destroying the engine with their deaths as we ducked.
Regrouping with Nyx, we were glad he was alright excluding his leg and made our way to a plaza with caution.
"Don't move until I say it's safe, alright?" he said.
"We won't." Luna replied.
We watched Nyx as he departed to the open.
"Ulric reporting!" he shouted. "I have the princesses. They're alive and well."
A gunshot rang in the plaza and Nyx was shot.
A Kingsglaive member, Luche Lazarus revealed himself, shooting Nyx a second time.
"No!" Luna yelled, running toward him.
"Luna!" I called after her, reaching out.
"Get out of here!" he told her, his hand signaling her to go.
She stopped in her tracks.
"You've got some fight in you, Nyx. I'll give you that." Luche said.
"Run! Now!" Nyx told us, getting up to attack him but had his weapon kicked out of his hand.
"I can't believe you're still moving with that hollowpoint in you." Luche continued, kicking Nyx in the stomach hard. "All Crowe could do was scream when one tore her insides apart."
"You." I quietly said in shock. "You were the one who killed Crowe."
"Why'd you do it?" Nyx questioned.
"Because the Kingsglaive is nothing." he responded. "An old man's battle fodder sent to die in Insomnia's war while our homes are bound and shackled!"
"Niflheim took your home. Took all our homes!" the wounded soldier yelled. "Nothing will ever change that."
"You never were too smart." the armed man said, walking towards Luna and I. "You could've had a new future with the empire."
Knowing he'd think it was Luna who had the ring, I shouted, "You're after me, not her!"
"Rena, what are you—"
"Go, Luna." I interrupted her. "I'll be fine."
Watching as he got closer, I ran to higher ground but was cornered.
"There's nowhere to run, Princess." Luche said. "The ring. Give it to me."
He pointed his gun at my head.
"Why did you do it?" I questioned, clenching the ring. "Why did you kill Crowe?"
"You heard my reason." he answered.
Kill him or not, there was no other way getting out of this.
I'd already shed blood myself.
Giving my hand that didn't have the ring clenched in to drop it in his, as my hand slowly opened, I said, "You weren't smart either if you couldn't believe in my father."
And with my empty, open palm facing him, I casted Fira.
He screamed as his entire body was inflamed to ashes and fell over the railing as I watched.
Hearing a car speeding, I looked down to Nyx and Luna, Commander Drautos also there.
The commander was hit by the speeding car but was suddenly flipped over, General Glauca revealed to be the commander himself.
I rushed down to them, seeing Libertus as the one who drove the car.
"Captain?" Nyx questioned.
Luna ran to him and I followed in case the general were to aim for the two.
"Nyx!" Libertus called.
A Niflheim ship flew above us, carrying a daemon.
"It's over." General Glauca said. "The daemons are unleashed. Lucis has fallen. Surrender the ring."
Taking the ring from me, Luna was about to wear it, but Nyx stopped her.
"Planning to give those kings a piece of your mind, Princess?" he asked her. "You got a destiny to take care of here, remember? Besides, didn't anyone tell you? I'm the hero around here."
I used Protect again to guard us from General Glauca's incoming attack, and while the barrier was forming, time seemed to stop for bit just like when we arrived to see Ravus' arm in flames before Nyx strengthened the my spell with his, using the power of the ring. Casting Thunder after, General Glauca flew far away, seemingly knocked out.
"I'd get used to this." Nyx said, chuckling, seemingly healed by the ring and spitting on the ground.
"Nyx." Libertus approached us. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." he replied quickly. "You saved me. Now I owe you."
"For a change?" the former Kingsglaive member smiled.
Nyx smirked.
"Gonna need another favor." he said. "Meet Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, our prince's beloved bride-to-be and princess' sister-in-law-to-be. And she and Rena has the future of the world in their hands. Keep them safe. Get them out of Insomnia. Oh, almost forgot. You'll need this."
Taking the ring off, he handed it back to me.
"Give Prince Noctis my regards. Libertus will take care of you two from here. Have a safe journey, Your Highnesses."
"What will come of you?" Luna asked.
"What the hell are you doing?" Libertus followed.
"Following the kings' orders." Nyx answered.
"We will see the ring to Noctis." the oracle promised. "The future will be safe, I swear it."
Nyx nodded and behind him, General Glauca had awoken and picked his sword up.
Libertus offered him a dagger belonging to a Kingsglaive member.
"Planning on punching your way out of the city?" Nyx asked. "Keep it. Now we're even."
"No. We'll settle up once you're back in Galahd." Libertus replied. "Me and everyone else will be waiting for you."
"I'm counting on you, Hero." the former said.
As Libertus, Luna, and I quickly walked to the car, I took Luna's hand and gave her the Ring of the Lucii.
"What are you doing, Rena?" she asked as Nyx battled General Glauca behind us.
"I entrust you get the ring to my brother, Luna." I respond. "It is my duty as Princess of Lucis to protect my kingdom and my duty to shape the future into the best I can… as an oracle."
Her expression became both surprise and shock that I too was an oracle.
"Do not worry about me, Sister." I smiled. "Afterall, I will make my own fate."
"Rena…" Luna said.
Despite her wanting to stop me, she allowed me to do as I wished and got into the car with Libertus, and they drove off.
Looking at the battle for a moment and meeting Nyx's eyes, I ran off to get to the Citadel with a smile.
'Why didn't you leave?'
'There is still something I must do, even if it costs me my freedom. When you stop fighting with General Glauca for a moment to speak, awaken the Old Wall.'
'You're all what the prince's got of family now, so don't go on dying easily. I'll do it though.'
'I won't. Thank you, Nyx. I know what you did when you wore the ring, and I know what the price was... So don't die easily… Hero.'
The messages exchanged with that single meeting with the eyes.
By the time I made it to the Citadel, my heels were hurting from my high-heels but it didn't matter.
Breathing hard to the center, I held my hands together, interlocking my fingers, and mustered all the power I had to awaken the Knights of the Round, the Old Wall.
Feeling Nyx doing as I commanded, our efforts combined and awakened them, a war cry sounding.
I nearly fell from the strain after, simply watching through the sounds of destruction as the knights battled against the Niflheim forces and their daemons released upon the capital.
The last thing I could do was only pray for Nyx's victory.
"Hey." Rena greeted, sitting next to Nyx in the rubble, his ashes in the air behind him as the sun rose.
"Thought you'd stay wherever you were." he greeted back.
"I thought I'd come see the hero's victory." she explained.
The hero chuckled.
"He will rule well. I believe it." the prophetess said confidently.
"Is the future bright?"
"... Hopefully."
They shared a small silence.
"Hey, Nyx?" the princess called.
"Yeah?" the Kingsglaive member asked.
"... I'll see you again, right?"
"We will. Promise."
N/A: Well, there it is; my terribly plotted inserted Rena in Kingsglaive.
As mentioned in what convinced me to 'revive' her in the announcement, it was the scene where Regis was going to die that I felt so in-sync with her.
Some parts were awkward, I know, but I couldn't think of anything cooler and Rena even replaced Luna in some stuff because I felt those scenes could be improved with her or would seem a bit more better if it were a Lucian royal. I also didn't proof-read because I'm so exhausted from finishing this and lazy...
And, no, there is no hint at Nyx x Rena. They're simply close friends. In fact, Rena doesn't even have a love interest.
Hm? My insert of Stella's cameo? I'm so mad that Square Enix did not even put an Easter egg like that of her because that would've been so cool! So, I decided to do it myself. If you were thinking, 'OMG! Stella's gonna be in this!?', no, it was my own self-inserted Easter egg.
If you have any questions, wanna see me post Final Fantasy XV crap, hang out with Rena, have questions for her, want to learn more about her, go to eternal-renatus on Tumblr!
I'll see you guys after a looooong rest! *Neck snaps from overworking.*