Just a short oneshot. This is told from Noctis' Point of View. This could be possible spoilers from Final Fantasy 13 versus.

I don't own Final Fantasy Versus or any of it's characters.

All my life, I'm supposed to protect the last crystal that everybody outside the kingdom so desperately wants. They only want it for power.

I knew what people do with power such as this and they would probably use the crystal as a weapon. However others might want it to conquer other countries and possibly the whole world.

I wasn't going to let that happen. No way in hell at all.

Recently, there had been talks of a peace treaty between the countries and I believe that this was a good thing for me. It would make my task of guarding the crystal easier than this. However, a group of marauders are beginning to break it.

I knew what I had to do about this, I had to find the ones who are doing this and kill them myself.

Yet, even if I kill them and restore the treaty, their deaths would be a burden to me. A burden I had to carry and endure like all the others burdens I had.

Hell, I wonder sometimes if being a prince and leading a country was even worth it at all.

Sometimes I think that if life would so much easier for me, if I was just a normal boy, I wouldn't have all of this happening to me, I could just live life to its fullest. Someone else could take my place and see how they like it, only to find out later on that it wasn't all fun and games.

Recently I met this girl at a function, she was very beautiful and she had long, soft golden hair and soft gold eyes. I later found out that her name was Stella Nox Fleuret. The two of us were later supposed to battle due to certain circumstances and honestly, we don't really want to fight with one another, I for one don't really wish to. However this can't be avoided apparently, due to fate.

Also Stella and I were similar in a way, but possibly the most common thing about the both of us is that we had both had seen the light.

Yes, that damn light…

Damn it, you know here I am leading a damn kingdom and guarding the last crystal, then I meet this really cute girl and then I find out I'm supposed to fight her even though I don't want to at all.

Man, God must really hate me to put me in a life like this. I just wish I could throw it all away.

Now the upcoming fight with Stella might just at any day. Another burden to add to all the other ones.

Why? Why does things like this always happen to me? Why does everyone push things on me? Just because I'm some prince.

These things can't avoided. I'm just young man for god's sake. But yet, I feel like I'm already an adult. A kid who has all the responsibilities and burdens of an adult.

I just want to be free of all these burdens coming down on me.

I just want to spread my wings out, even a little would suffice.

Maybe I might never be free of these burdens at all. Maybe I'm meant to carry them until the day I die.

That's what most of my being believes, but yet, there's a tiny part of my being that says that I'll be free one day.

Maybe that could be true. Maybe one day I could be free of my burdens. One day, I might get to spread out my wings like…

like..

like an angel.

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