A few months into the War.
A lightning bolt crashed down on the road.
Dark, dusty, wet bits of pavement shattered into sharp shards. Each of the small sharp and heated rocks flew and cut through each rain drop with ease. They embedded themselves into the speeding dark vehicle that had barely managed to pulled the quick maneuver to dodged the furious force of nature from destroying them.
The lightning flashed menacingly, angry that it had missed its target.
"Holy crap!" The frightened squeal of the blonde young man echoed through the roaring lighting storm that pursued them. His legs quivered, his combat ready Crownsguard suit stained by both sweat and rain. He desperately and tightly held onto the thunder shield over his and the light brunette driver's head.
The shield was specifically design for this kind of situation, to ward off such attacks of electricity. Unfortunately, it was up to debate if it was made to deal with the current electrifying problem.
"Shit! Shit—! To close, that was way to close!" A big and muscular man on the backseats bellowed out, his massive hands held onto his own thunder shield with great strength. His body swayed from right to left as the car took very sharp turns to avoid any of the deadly lightning, yet he didn't lose his balance. His feet were firmly rooted on the vehicle as he glared at their foe.
"Gladiolus, do please not stand on the car seats like that!" The brunette said, his glasses glowed briefly when a lightning bolt crashed in front of the vehicle. He took another sharp turned to avoid furious bolt, the muscular man stumbled forward at the sudden turned.
"Not the time to be worrying for dirty leather!" Gladiolus howled, he righted himself and kept his shield to protect him and the car from the heavens.
"Ignis step on it!" A raven haired young man ordered as he held onto his own thunder shield. His royal clothing ripped and dirtied, his cape swayed violently as the winds suddenly picked up.
Crystal particles surrounded the young raven haired man, they shattered into tinier pieces as the weapons above the car protected everyone from any stray lightning. Thirteen Royal Arms moved at incredible speeds, a trail of light formed from the ends of the weapons as they kept up with the car, the Regalia, and protected the vehicle.
"I am going as fast as I can Noctis." Ignis said, his eyes focused forward. He noticed a glow, it took him a fraction of a second, but he managed to pull a dangerous turned just as a bolt of lightning hit the road where they were short seconds ago, and destroyed the road there.
"Whoa!" The blonde screamed as the car swerved sharply and he stumbled backward towards the dangerously sharp broken glass of the car doors.
"Prompto!" Noctis yelled out, he launched him himself towards the blond and caught him by the arm. The raven haired young man pulled him back.
"Whoa, okay, okay, that was way to close!" Prompto yelled as crouched down, shield over his head.
"That would've been an embarrassing way to go! Fighting a god and you bite the dust because of sharp glass?" Gladiolus mocked gruffly as he glared at the one who was causing their current problems.
Up on the sky, a giant human-looking god glared down on them with his orange eyes. The god's long white beard swayed through the harsh winds along with its dark robes. This was the Astral being of the skies, the Fulgurian, Ramuh.
A simple movement of the god's hand and more lightning pursued the escapee car.
"Seriously what the heck did we do to pissed that guy off!" Prompto yelled as more lightning crashed around them.
"I do not know, but it does shows of the god's rather electrifying temperament." Ignis replied tensely with his eyes forward.
"Oh come on Ignis!" Gladiolus screamed in disbelieve at the sudden pun.
"Are Iggy puns that shocking, big guy?" The blond asked with a little bit of humor despite the situation.
"Damnit Prompto! You still don't know jack about what the Crowsguard do! So, focus at the tasked at hand and shut up!"
"Don't worry Gladio, I think Promp is finding the entire experience enlightening!" Noctis called out much to the displeasure of Gladiolus who glared at him.
"Gods damnit!"
Not even a second after those words left Gladiolus's lips, a large bolt of lightning crashed right atop of the moving car. The Royal Arms that protected them from above were blown away, they spiraled away and shattered into small crystalize particles as they were dismissed from the sudden punishment they had taken.
Gladiolus, Noct and Prompto were all sent to their knees as the bolt met their shields. Even though the shields managed to protect them from being shocked to death, they still felt as their limbs clamp shut from the massive bout of thunder that crashed into them.
The Regalia, spiraled out of control as the lightning strike caught Ignis off-guard. He flinched as he felt the car be pressure down. He heard the way the front and back of the vehicle had scrapped through the road. Every glass on the car shattered completely because of the pressure. He heard one of the tires blow out from the powerful impact and one of the rims was dislodged. He barely caught sight of it as it rolled off through the streets.
The door on Gladiolus's side opened as the secure lock broke.
"Hold on!" Ignis screamed as the car spun around the wet road, bolts everywhere barely hit them. The glass wearing Crownsguard gritted his teeth and managed to right the car, a violent tug sent almost everyone stumbling down as the car sped on.
"Th—gaahh!" Gladiolus screamed as he stumbled back from the sudden speed, his back hit the door. His eyes widened in horrifying realization as felt door opened completely and how it hadn't broken his fall. "Shit!"
His shield was sent tumbling out of the car as he lost his hold on it as he tried to desperately grab into something to stop his fall.
"Gladio!" Noctis and Prompto screamed in unison.
Noctis let go of his shield, he let it fall into the leather sit. He lunged forward, arms wide and grabbed the muscular man by his feet and the waist. Promto threw himself whitout care, the seat where he had been leaning in to support him got on his way but he managed to grab the man's tattooed right arm with a firm grip, the blonde's shield still held over his head with his other hand.
"Come on…big guy, the lightning is already doing enough damaged to the streets! No need to have it take any more punishment!" Noctis grunted out as he pulled back with great force.
"What the heck do you eat big guy?! When did Iggy start cooking behemoths!" Promto yelled, his arm felt as if it was about to be rip straight out of his shoulder as he pulled back.
"Ha, ha, ha, just pulled me in will ya?!" Gladiolus roared and was finally pulled in. He felled on top of Noctis, who lost all air from his lung at having the massive man fall on him. Gladiolus shook his head, noticed the discarded shield, and quickly grabbed it. He got to his feet to defend the car and his royal friend.
Noctis coughed, inhale a large amount of hair and got to his knees. He used the backseats as support to get to his feet in the limited space. He looked up at Gladiolus with a grimaced.
"Your welcome!"
"Not the time for your fucking bitching Majesty!"
"Is the cursing really that necessary!" Prompto screamed, Gladiolus clicked his tongue and gave the blond a look of disbelief.
"Are you being serious right now?! How old are you! Ten?!"
"Hey, I just like to think we are in a teenage story here!" Prompto answered back, he flinched when another bolt of lightning hit far too close to the speeding car.
"In what way does this remind you of a teenage story?!" Noctis questioned in disbelief as he gestured towards the storm Astral on the skies, who's glare intensified in annoyance at the lack of four dead corpses.
Prompto shrugged helplessly.
"Uh…the fact that we are getting attacked by a god and still haven't gotten kill?"
"Everyone…" Ignis cut in as he noticed the decreasing amount of lightning and the sudden strong glow behind them. But his voice was still too low for his arguing companions.
"Prompto enough with the damn jokes! Just keep that shield up or I swear to the gods th—!" Gladiolus was cut off when a giant bolt of lightning crashed to close to the Regalia's right side. The color was scraped away and the metal had melted from the heat in less than an instant.
Everyone present winced and held their breaths at the close call. Noctis just sent an annoyed glare at Gladiolus.
"Can you stop swearing on 'their' names?! You're just pissing them off more!"
"Tsk, sorry, just a habi—!"
"Can everyone stop bickering and look at our godly foe?" Ignis snapped as he glared at them through the rear view, the man then let his eyes wonder beyond them as the brightness increased even more.
The three males followed his gaze and paled.
Ramuh had raised its right armed and a large amount of lightning began to converged on the limb. The lightning that had been attacking them had stopped chasing after them completely as they converged on the god's hand.
A few seconds passed and a large staff began to formed from the gather thunder. Lighting sparkled through the giant staff and sparks flew as it finished forming.
The Astral being held the newly form staff over his head.
"O…kay…I mean he looks old and all, but why did he bring out his cane?" Prompto asked as he looked at the god glare down on them and pulled its armed back.
"The Judgment Bolt, I believe that is what it is call. More than capable to raise a lightning storm through the entire country of Luci's and destroying everything on its path…or so I have read through the Cosmology books." Ignis explained, nervous sweat poured down his passive face.
"Please tell me that's just an exaggeration…" The blonde whined as he looked the astral with pure horror. Gladiolus grinded his teeth.
"'fraid not…what? Were you expecting that he—I mean, the great god of the skies and lightning and whatever would just leave a few meter-wide scorch mark when he prepared his ultimate techinique?"
"…well one can hope, right?" Prompto asked pathetically with a broken-nervous smile. Noctis looked at his blonde friend and then back at the god.
"Okay, I think it's time to cut this guy power out." Noctis said as he put his foot on the leather sit of the car and stood atop of it, the rough winds smacked against him as he was on a higher altitude and thanks to the velocity the car had been going.
Gladiolus glared at him.
"Get down from there you moron, this is not time to be playing around!"
"Your right, I guess this is the time for the King to step up, huh?" Noctis said absent-mindedly, he brought his right hand up, on his middle finger was the Ring of the Lucii. Noctis closed his eyes and focused as the Ring began to shine with powerful light.
The other three's eyes widened as they saw what their friend planned to do.
"Whoa, whoa, buddy, do you really need to use it?! I mean you know what happened last time…" Prompto trailed off as he looked at Noctis, Gladiolus gritted his teeth but said nothing. Ignis let out a shaky breath, but remained composed.
"Noct, the consequences of using the ring are high…but inaction in this situation is nothing but suicide. For that reason, I implore you to not overuse the Ring and make it short."
"I know." Noctis replied as Rhe ring's light grew brighter and bigger. The young King could feel it, the overwhelming power pressure his body down. Prompto looked in discomfort at his raven hair friend when he noticed him winced in pain.
"Noct, just be careful…because I'm really don't want to be the youngest in the group!" The blond exclaimed something ridiculous in hopes of distracting his friend.
It worked as Noctis let out a nervous chuckle. Still, he felt uncomfortable at the truth on the words.
"Yeah? Well I really don't wanna be the oldest in the group! That's Gladioluss job!" Noctis bellowed out loudly as he felt a sudden rush of adrenaline crash into him as he felt the ring reached its climax.
The Kings power were brought to the level needed to face against the Astral.
"Then make sure it stays that way Noct! And make it quick! Here it comes!" Gladiolus bellowed as a flash of lightning illuminated the entire sky.
Ramuh unleashed its godly judgement upon the group.
Gladiolus growled as he held his shield up, even though he knew it would be pointless.
Prompto screamed and did the same as Gladiolus.
Ignis focused on the road as the impending doom reached them.
And their King…
Pointed his ring toward the Astral and gave out a command.
"Kings of Lucis! Come to me!"
And everything was engulfed in white.
Hello to everyone who clicked this story! First thing first I wanna say is that I love FFXV, it's a fun game with fun characters and I haven't stop playing it since I got it on the Christmas!
Still, even though I had great fun with this game, even though I've played hours upon hours of it, I've noticed that the story is rather lacking. It's a good story, don't get me wrong, but the way its told make it feel as if I was missing a ton of information! I had to replay the entire story again to try and see if it was just me that had missed a ton of information. Admittedly I had, but the feeling of it being rush was there.
Still though, that ending made me cry so…yeah, you did that then it means you did something great.
On to detail of the story, yes, this story will be slightly AU, not by much and don't worry about any OC characters, I've found myself preferring to play with existing characters and extending their roles in a story. The AU in this story will be more with me playing around with lore information and changing stuff and events of the game too, as you can see by the prologue.
Anyway, I just started my new Semester of college this week and I just found out that I have classes from Monday to Saturday…ah, great…I will use my irritation at the fact to fuel me into write more chapters.
I hope all of you enjoyed. Please leave a review and tell me what you think! I really wanna know what you think!