Summary: Death is ugly, Noctis thinks as he drops to his knees next to Ignis.

Note: I totally blame Seito and Lulubugg for this. Absolutely. It's all their fault.

Warnings: Game Mechanics, Lack Of Phoenix Downs, Technically Major Character Death, [Prompto Voice] #SorryNotSorry.

Disclaimer: Don't own FFXV.

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Death is ugly, Noctis thinks as he drops to his knees next to Ignis, whose only response to Noctis' approach is merely twitches and gasps bursting through his blood stained lips.

Noctis wraps his arms around Ignis and raises him into a seated position, cradling him carefully, mindful of the gaping wound in Ignis' middle.

They'd run out of potions half an hour ago, the last two elixirs being used not too long after that. Prompto had used the last Phoenix Down they had on hand to revive Noctis mere minutes ago.

"No- Noc-" Ignis starts, wheezing, one hand rising to weakly grasp at Noctis' jacket.

"Shhh," Noctis murmurs, tears welling in his eyes as his brain races to find a way to help Ignis, but to no avail, "Conserve your strength, Ignis, don't talk."

Ignis stubbornly shakes his head and nods furiously, the arm lying across his middle twitching, he gasps as incoherent syllables sound from his mouth, and tugs weakly at Noctis' jacket.

"Ha-highness." With a final gasp, Ignis goes still, head falling sideways to rest on Noctis' shoulder, eyes staring ahead unseeing, fingers unclenching from the fabric of Noctis' jacket and hand falling limp to his lap.

"Ignis? Iggy?" Noctis shakes him, probably more roughly than he should, given Ignis' wound, but Noctis doesn't care about that at the moment, not when he's faced with the possibility that he's holding onto Ignis' corpse, "Ignis, this is not funny! Ignis, please-" His breath hitches and shoulders shake as tears spill from his eyes and he weeps silently.

He feels a hesitant hand land on his shoulder. He doesn't have to move his gaze from Ignis' face to know that it's Prompto.

"Dude," Prompto says quietly, "I think he was trying to tell you that he has a Phoenix Down in his pocket."

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Epic Fail Moment No.78685