The morning light shined through the stained window glass. The heat of the sun reflecting off the glass touched the man's face. It had been so long since the last time he could remember feeling the warmth of the sun shining down on him.
"Noctis..." He heard a feint voice of an older man call his name. It sounded like a small voice in the air.
He was resting peacefully on his throne, undisturbed. His mind was slowly beginning to wake after feeling the light shining through his closed lids. He could feel his fingers move across the smooth arm of the chair, and hear the quiet sound of him breathing. How long has he been in slumber? He couldn't even remember when he fell asleep... As he grew more conscious, his eyes started to twitch, and slowly open.
All he could see at first was a bright light, making it hard for him to open his eyes. He squinted his eyes to the bright light, until it finally ceased a few moments later. He could at last see where he was, and look around him.
His blue orbs shifted around the room, seeing what looked to be the Lucis kingdom... his home. He moved his eyes down to see where he was sitting. He was in fact in his tower, sitting on his long awaited throne. He also noticed he was wearing the Lucii ring on his finger. "What's going on?" He asked himself, only making out a quiet, mumbling tone.
He carefully arose to his feet and stood over the staircase. "How did I get here... and when?" He whispered. The place was so empty and quiet... not a voice to be heard.
Maybe they were all outside he thought. He started to walk down the stairs, more of a sprint actually. He reached the giant doors and pushed his hands on half to open it. Still empty... not a person in sight! It was morning too, so the citizens couldn't be sleeping. He felt fear rush inside him, and begun running anxiously through the outside of the palace, and searched through Insomnia for a sign of life.
He made it through town, he came to a sudden stop! His heart felt like it stopped beating for a minute, he couldn't believe what he saw... "People!"
He watched the people who were all over town, walking around in their own manner. This means he wasn't alone, where ever he was.
He couldn't contain his excited relief of this and rushed over to the nearest human. It was a small boy, by the age of ten no doubt. He was carrying an ice cream cone, and was about to lick it, until he saw a strange man running to him. The boy lowered his cone and started to tremble.
"Young boy! Where are we?" King Noctis asked the boy, sounding much out of breath.
The boy didn't answer, but instead took a few steps back to look for his Mother. "Moooom?" The boy called out.
His Mother was walking to him a few feet away, she noticed how frightened her son looked and asked, "What's wrong honey?" The small boy brought up his shaking hand and pointed it to the strange man.
Noctis looked a little surprised by this and cocked his eyebrow at him. The Mother looked to the man her son was pointing to, her face turned pale. She dropped her paper bag filled with groceries on the ground and shuttered.
"Huh?" Noctis questioned looking confused by the ladies reaction. "Is something wrong?" He asked her in a soft tone.
The women just stood there and shivered, even more than her boy. "Y-youre..." She managed to mumble out in her breath, but got cut off as she suddenly let out a horrified scream! She grabbed her son by the arm and dashed away as fast her legs could move, screaming frantically.
Noctis was shocked to see what had just happened. What were they so afraid of? It couldn't be him... could it? His mind was still left to wonder what he was doing here, why he was here... and why he couldn't remember anything. The display of the Mom and her son running like that only made the lonely king more confused. "Man, I wish I knew what in the world I was doing here." He mumbled through his gritted teeth. He was beginning to feel hurt, and sorrowful. He took a deep breath and held it in, then slowly exhaled to calm himself. "I've gotta get to the bottom of this..." He exclaimed in a more serious tone.
He tried it again and walked up to a man walking in his bakery, he called to him to get his attention. The man heard him and turned around to answer. "Yes?" He looked to see who got his attention, he saw a young man in royal Lucis clothes. He looked a little troubled, but didn't say anything.
"What is it?" Noctis asked him hesitant, hoping this guy wouldn't run off like the last citizens did.
"Oh, uh... nothing. I just- have never seen such attire before. Not for a very long time that is…"
Noctis looked down at his clothes and did notice he was wearing his royal suit. "My clothes? Who cares?" Noctis said in a nonchalant tone, getting annoyed.
"I remember seeing clothes like them back in the day when there were people living in the palace... they're like... royalty." the man brushed his fingers through his small goatee
"Maybe because I am royal." Noctis said shaking his head in disbelief by the man's foolish behavior.
The man's eyes grew wide, as if his small mind just grasped onto something. "Y-you mean... Y-youre..?" The man said shivered with fear, while pointing his finger at the king.
"What... royal? I guess. I'm Noctis Lucis Caelum. Heir to throne, son of Regis... what about it?" He just rolled his eyes and sighed, with a small smirk across his face.
"But how!? You're..." the man froze.
"I'm what!?" Noctis started to feel impatient and tired of being treated like this.
When he looked back up to the stupid baker, he noticed the man had run off! He was already half way through the other side of town. "Okay..." Noctis said completely confused. It seemed the people in the city were scared of him! But he'd done nothing wrong, so why?
He did it a few more times, they all turned out the same. Some just saw him from a distance and began to shutter. "This is ridiculous!" Noctis murmured to himself. "Is it really the clothes?" He took his big coat off, and threw it down. Now he was just wearing his black striped suit that was underneath it.
He went up to another person, this time concealing his identity and not saying who he was. "Excuse me Ma'am?" He spoke up in an unusual polite tone to get a middle aged lady's attention.
The lady looked up and answered. "Yes?" Finally, a normal behaved answer! She looked up at him and actually didn't shiver or turn white with fear.
"Could you... tell me where I am?" Noctis asked her. He knew it looked like Insomnia, but maybe it wasn't.
"Why, this is Insomnia of course!" the lady laughed. "Who's running the place, if not a king?" He further questioned her. "The president. You really don't know this? He's ran for a year now, he's the president of all Lucis and Niflheim. Actually- All of Eos!" Her mouth turned into a grin.
"What!?" Noctis couldn't believe this. That did not seem right, or familiar to him. There's never been a president in Lucis. He tried to think of how he remembered Lucis, he couldn't remember anything! No memories at all of his past… he only was just now realizing this. No wonder he had no idea how he was here, he didn't even know what he did yesterday. Not even going to bed. "Strange…" He held his hand over his chin covered in stubble, as he tried to think. He has so many questions, and once he remembers, he'll probably have even more questions.
The lady held her hand over her mouth started and giggled to herself and teased, "What, have you been asleep for the past year?"
He actually had no idea anymore. Where has he been while this all took place? "I… don't remember." He admitted.
The city lady looked confused, and could see that the ravenette was actually telling the truth. He really didn't know what was going on. His eyes looked clueless and very troubled. "Oh." Her smile turned to a frown, as she started to feel sorry for the young man.
"Where can I meet this 'president'?" He asked, hoping he could find the person and get a better idea of what was going on.
"In the tallest Insomnia building. It used to be a place used by the old king's of Lucis, for secret purposes. It's been changed and redecorated now. They decided to use the tower instead of the old, big mansion the Lucis family lived in." She pointed him in the direction of the tower.
"Ok… Thanks for the help." He replied, and thanked her for the information. He never looked at her, his eyes were set on going to the tower. He walked away without another word, with a new agenda now.
((Chapter one! My first fanfic. Still trying to get used to it… poor Noctis, waking up to a whole new world! Nothing is like how it was when he lived there. Will he ever gain his memories, or find his friends? Wait and find out in the next chapter!~ And thank you for reading and sticking with me til the end of this chapter . Btw, should I add optional music to the story? music always helps me read and feel what's going on.))