Summary: A collection of one-shots that take place during and after my main story Daughter of Ice. Mostly the rest of the dungeons and various quests. Up first Cindy's Quest for the headlights, and the Menace Boss, Manxom. I'm doing quite a few of the collections to add more depth to Eden and her relationship with Gladio, Noctis, and the others. Plus, it helps me flush out her character more.

Chapter 1 –Crestholm Channels

After speaking to Cindy about some headlights that would help keep the Regalia safe from the daemons, Eden, Noctis, Prompto, Ignis, and Gladio drove towards the Crown City in search of Crestholm Channels.

After visiting Meldacio at Dave's insistence, Noctis met and spoke to Ezma who handed over an old heavy key. She told them that it was a special key to a set of secret dungeons under Lucis. One of which is located deep within Crestholm Channels.

They made their way past the Imperial Troopers at the city entrance, Noctis led his friends towards a fenced of an area that led to a sewer entrance. Climbing down the ladder, the group of five found themselves in the sewers underneath the city.

"Alright, those headlights are probably going to be the easiest to find and then that dungeon door," Ignis instructed, looking around the area.

"Are we seriously going to be searching a sewer for these?" Prompto whined, "This is totally going to suck!"

Eden laughed, "Just try to avoid the water as much as you can." She turned to Ignis then, "By the way, there's a trick to revealing that dungeon entrance. You need to find the five switches first in order to open the door to the first chamber."

Ignis turned to her with a frown, "First chamber?"

She nodded, "Yes, rumor has it that Jormungand is deep in the channels, and you have to get past it to find the door."

"Well now, this is going to be interesting," Gladio rumbled, from his position at Eden's side.

"Let's get this over with," Noctis muttered, before choosing a direction, the rest of his retinue behind him. Taking the left path and up a short set of stairs leads to a control panel.

"Oh, that must be the switch you were talking about," Prompto said looking over at Eden.

The Glaive nodded, "This is the first one. There are others just like it that we need to find, as well."

"Right so finding those is a priority next to those headlights," Ignis instructed.

Nodding, Noctis hit the switch continuing on down the same path; taking out the daemons that covered the area. Making their way through the maze of sewers, the group followed the upper path first, before deciding to follow the current down to the lower levels. Unfortunately, a Nagarani was waiting for them. Lucky for them, the serpent was weak to lightning attacks, which Noctis had thankfully prepared beforehand.

Once the spell wore off the boss was much easier to take down, but unfortunately, Noctis was hit by a spell that turned him into a toad temporarily. Once it was defeated, they made their way towards a chamber with a grated floor where the headlights were waiting for them.

"Now all that's left is the delivery," Ignis noted as he picked up the box.

"Can't wait to see the look on her face," Prompto sighed.

"Not so fast, lover boy," Gladio teased, "we're not done here, yet."

"Yeah, yeah, I know," Prompto's tone was disappointed, "More daemons to bash first."

"Right," Noctis nodded, once more following the tunnels, "Back to it."

After finding the rest of the needed switches, a loud CLANG echoed through the dungeon. "Guess that's all of them," Noct remarked.

Eden nodded, "The way through should be unlocked now."

"So, first we take care of Jormungand, then the Menace Ezma told us about at Meldacio?"

"Yep," Eden turned to Ignis with a determined look, "Let's try to have a plan for him before we enter his chamber, we'll definitely be needing it."

"Good idea," Ignis nodded, "as we make our way there, why don't you tell me all you know about this creature and we'll go from there?" Nodding Eden started to tell him all that she had heard about the serpent-like dragon waiting for them as they continued on towards their destination. Only to pause at a long ladder.

Prompto was the first to speak, "Are you kidding me?"

Gladio moved closer to the ladder, coaxing Noctis and Eden up first, "Don't look down."

Noctis headed up first, once on the next ledge he turned and coaxed Prompto to climb next, knowing that the blonde's fear of heights might get the better of him. " C' mon Prom, you head up next. Just keep your eyes on me."

Swallowing hard, Prompto obeyed, slowly climbing the ladder. Eden followed right behind him, then Ignis and last Gladio. Once upon the ledge with Noctis, they looked around only to see a small ledge leading to a rusty pipe that extended the tunnel.

"No place for a slip-up," Gladio muttered as Noct cautiously approached the edge.

The prince nodded and stepped carefully along the narrow path, Prompto once more following after him. Upon reaching the other side, Noct carefully approached the pipe and tested it with his weight, "Should hold, but watch your footing," he cautioned. Slowly and with careful movements, he made his way across the divide.

"Man, if monsters were to jump us now..."Gladio let the sentence trail off.

Ignis filled in the rest of his thought, "We'd be easy prey."

Prompto groaned, "Why even say that?!"

"Can we please focus on the task at hand?" Noctis snapped, just as his foot slipped.

A yell, "Careful," but he managed to thankfully regain his footing. Eden turned to the boys and rebuked, "no more distracting him!"

Nodding they guys remained silent, finally after what seemed like forever, Noctis made it safely across. Eden frowned as she approached the pipe, "Sure I can't just warp across? I think I can make it..."

Gladio turned to her and growled out, "don't even think about it! What if you miss?"

She shuddered, looking over at the long drop down, "yeah..." She then turned to look apologetically at her boyfriend, "Sorry..."

Gladio shook his head, "forget it. Just follow Noct."

Nodding Eden made her way across, turning back to coax Prompto across after her. "Just keep moving and keep your eyes on me and Noct. You'll be across in no time."

"Easy for you to say," he muttered under his breath. But he nevertheless made it across without a hassle. Once everyone was across, they continued along through the maze of sewers until the reached a large green door with a long watery drop.

Ignis turned to the others, "This is it, the first creature awaits us at the bottom. But before we go any further we need a plan of attack." Ignis looked to Eden before continuing, "According to our info; Ice, swords, and daggers will do the most damage. So here's what we do, Eden and Noct will have an Ice spell ready. Noct if you can, we'll each need a flask, while Eden can use her magic. Prompto will cover us with Gladio helping Noct and I deal the most damage. Eden will use her spells and warping to blitz the monster, hopefully keeping it off guard.

"We'll need to keep Ether's on hand, to make sure neither of them goes into stasis while in the middle of battle." Ignis finished laying out his idea before looking at each of his friends, "Everyone prepared?"

Receiving nods around, Noctis made his way to the open door and followed the water into a large open area. Once everyone's feet touched the murky water the room rumbled and a large horned serpent-like dragon made itself known. "Just like we planned, and watch out for elemental attacks," Ignis warned as the creature made to attack.

The entourage followed the plan, making adjustments as the dragon used fire streams and other fire attacks on the friends. Eden stayed back due to her major weakness to fire, especially once the beast started to set itself on fire to avoid taking too much damage from the other attacks. Using a recently acquired technique, Ignis did manage to poison their foe, doing a significant amount of continuous damage. Seeing an opening Eden quickly conjured a Blizzara spell and tossed it at the dragon-like boss, letting the others know about the incoming spell beforehand. Seeing how effective the spell was, the friends got out of firing range and tossed their flasks at the creature as well.

By now the Jormungand was heavily damaged, and Ignis called out, "one last push should suffice." Nodding, everyone went in with their strongest hit and finally, Jormungand went down. Once they were sure it was dead, Ignis went around to each member checking for injuries. Prompto was uninjured, Gladio only needed a potion for the few burns he managed to acquire, Eden had already downed an Ether that her boyfriend had provided, and Noctis was in the middle of downing an Elixir to take care of the burns and help speed up his magic recovery. Once everyone was healed up, Ignis turned to Eden, "So where is this door that we are supposed to locate next?"

Eden moved past the are that Jormungand had emerged from and led them over towards a long ladder, "here," she pointed, "we need to follow it down and through a tunnel. The main entrance is there."

"Alright, let's get moving," Gladio urged them towards the ladder. "The sooner we take it out the sooner we can leave this place."

Once they reached the bottom, Noct approached the door and used his newly acquired key to unlock the entrance. Watching as the mechanism turned, lighting up each character one-by-one until it swung open revealing a long dark tunnel. Noctis turned to Eden and asked, "Do you know which one is here?"

Eden frowned, "hmm...I think it was Manxom, at least according to the legends. He's a dragon with an affinity for Ice and a weakness to polearms, I think." She shook her head, "the Bestiary for Legendary Monsters lacks quite a bit of information, unfortunately."

Ignis nodded, "I would assume so, given that they are labeled as mythical creatures."

Prompto frowned, "Sounds like Eden's not gonna be able to use her magic for this one, though."

The Glaive nodded, "Yep, I'm gonna stick to just my spear. Good thing I can wield both swords and spears, huh?"

"Too bad, you can't handle the other elements or Noct could give you a flask," Gladio added, turning his attention towards her.

"Yeah, but it's fine," Eden shook his hidden concern off. "I can just blitz attack 'em." She knew that Gladio was worried about her due to her lack of elemental skills, but it was fine. She'd come to terms with her weaknesses long ago, and they no longer bothered her. Her father was proud of her and her King had reason to keep her at his side.

They entered the dungeon and slowly made their way down towards where their quarry lay, taking out Coral devils, Killer Wasps, and the occasional snakes. Much to their relief, the next cave yielded a fire pit, so the entourage decided to rest up before tackling the rest of the dark cave-like dungeon.

Ignis shook his head as he drank his coffee - Noctis had managed to coax Eden into preparing a meal, giving him the night off from cooking. According to the prince and Gladio, Eden was a pretty decent cook. She said that she picked up a few things from all of the weekend gatherings she had with a few of the other Kingsglaive. Going through their inventory of ingredients, it was decided that she was preparing a curry soup, much to Prompto's delight.

He watched as Eden dragged a rather willing Prompto into helping her cook. The blonde was stirring a pot of simmering liquid as Eden, and surprisingly Noctis, worked on cutting up the rest of the ingredients and spices needed.

Gladio was seated in another camp chair watching the trio cook their meal, occasionally he would glance at the book in his hand before his attention returned to his girlfriend. Ignis watched him carefully, noting the movement of Gladio's free hand, as it moved to the pocket of his open shirt.

He decided to engage the distracted Shield in conversation, "Something on your mind Gladio?"

"Huh?" Gladio turned his attention from watching his girlfriend, over to Ignis. "Oh, just thinking about something," he paused and then admitted, "I was planning on proposing when we got to Galdin Quay before everything went to shit. And with everything that's happened since then, there really hasn't been the time or feeling, ya know?"

Ignis nodded, he thought that that was the case. "Ah, I understand." He looked back over towards the others and then continued, "things have been quite hectic, haven't they?" Ignis hummed in thought for a few moments, before he spoke again, "Maybe you can still propose as you want too..."

"What do you mean?"

"After we finish what we came for here, we plan on heading back to Hammerhead to deliver the headlights to Cindy. I can talk to Noct and maybe we can make a quick pit stop in Galdin Quay so you can have that proposal that you want. It really won't be out of our way too much. Plus, I think Dino wants us to search for another Gem, anyway."

Gladio thought over the idea for a few minutes, "Sounds like it could work, and I know that Noct would love to take some time to go fishing after this."

Ignis nodded, "We all could use a bit of a break after this place and Galdin is one of the best places to go, besides Lestallum or Caem."

"Sounds like a plan. I'll work on how I want to ask her when we get out of here."

Ignis nodded, "But for now, let's enjoy their hard-earned work and this small break." Just as he finished speaking, Eden and the others approached both boys carrying a bowl of hot soup. Prompto handed one to him before heading back to get his own. Noctis handed the other over to Gladio before sitting down next to the Shield to enjoy his own meal. Ignis took a bit of the soup and closed his eyes to order to savor the flavor. Though it was different than how he usually made it, he found the flavors quite enjoyable.

"This is soo good," Prompto groaned in enjoyment. Noctis sitting next to him nodded in agreement. Ignis looked up from his meal to see Prompto already standing up to go get another helping.

Eden grinned, pleased, from her place next to Gladio, "glad you like it. Thanks for the help, by the way."

Prompto nodded, "I'll help you cook anytime you want," the blonde practically chirped the words.

Eden laughed, "I'll hold you to that." The rest of the night passed by peacefully as the friends enjoyed their temporary reprieve. But all too soon they were reminded of their situation and had to head back out.

After battling through more Coral devils and snakes, they came to a fork in the road, "So where do we go from here?" Prompto inquired, turning to Eden.

The Glaive looked at each tunnel carefully, before pointing towards the middle path, "This one. Something tells me that what we seek is this way."

Noctis nodded, "Then that's the way we go." As it turns out Eden's instinct was correct as the group headed even deeper into the dark caves. Until they came to an entrance where a roar let them know that their quarry awaited them. Noctis started off the battle by tossing a lightning-filled flask at the boss, doing some damage, but not enough to put it down quite yet. Eden grabbed her Storm Lance went on the attack, Ignis following her movements with his own Storm Lance, it really had been a good investment to pick up those elemental weapons when they were at the Taelpar Outpost.

Eden turned to Gladio and yelled, "Gladdy, you still have the Thunderbolt that you found near the tomb in Malamam Thicket?'

Gladio nodded, "Good idea." A flash of light and the Shield pulled out the needed sword, before once more resuming his attack on the dragon, this time his sword strikes were doing more damage. But it wasn't quite enough, that is until Noctis unleashed his collection of Royal Arms. Manxom quickly fell under the assault of the many weapons, but Noctis didn't fare much better. Wielding the Arms came with a price, but an Elixir negated most of the damage he took from the backlash of the Royal Arms.

Finally after each of the companions dealt a finishing blow the dragon fell to the floor dead. "Whoo-hoo, we're alive! Let's celebrate by eating something dead," Prompto cheered. Everyone laughed at his antics before turning to head out of the dungeon and made their way to Hammerhead to hand over the headlights to Cindy.

Upon arriving at Hammerhead Garage, Noctis and the other headed for Cindy, who was quite happy to see them back safe and sound. "There y'all are! Well, did ya find 'em?"

Noctis nodded, "Yep, got them right here."

Cindy sighed in relief, "You do? Thank the Stars. Whether you keep usin' them is up to you, but give them a test run for me, will ya?"

Ignis nodded, "What exactly is special about this particular headlights?"

"The bulbs pack a punch. The light they shine will have the daemons headin' for these hills."

"Whoa, that's awesome!" Prompto remarked, "Kinda wish there were more of those around."

"I know, woulda been nice if everyone had 'em before the city got walled off."

"Maybe once we take back the Crown City, we can see if there are any around, still?"

Noctis nodded, "Wouldn't hurt to look."

Cindy nodded, "just give me a few to get these babies installed and you'll be on your way."

"Noct, might I have a word?" Ignis inquired, catching the Prince's attention.

"Yeah, what's up?"

"With our recent endeavor finished, might I suggest we head down to Galdin for a bit of a break. I think we could all use it."

"Sounds fine," Noctis nodded. "I could do with some fishing time."

Ignis nodded, "Splendid, I'll let the others know."

A/N: And that is it for this one. BTW, I'll be writing up that proposal scene in another collection called Stolen Moments, if anyone is interested. Till next time.