Here is part 7 of Living forever! I'll be here everyday when I can. -Wears sunglasses-
Before sunrise, Noctis has guided Prompto to his kingdom. He had amusingly taken pictures of the kingdom as he explained about how everyone now uses camera's or their phones to see images instead of paintings. As they entered, Prompto, had seemed to be so entertained by the beauty inside the kingdom. Flashing lights as he was taking pictures felt like it could blind Noctis but only it didn't but surprised him.
When his eyes came upon a giant portrait painting, Prompto had stood there looking at every details within it. Noctis had stood beside him and looked at the painting with him.
It was King Regis himself. He looked younger in the portrait, but sitting on his left lap was Noctis as a child. Their eyes were a beautiful sight to Prompto as he said he loved whoever the painter was.
The kingdom was speck clean and every directions they went there was slight signs of dents, decomposition and missing items. Candles would light up to the present of Noctis. Coming to the prince's room, it was also very clean but what the blond noticed was the lack of a coffin.
"Usually vampires sleep in coffins?" He questioned shortly to their entrance of his bedroom.
"I uh, kind of broke it. Prompto, you don't mind me asking for some questions do you?"
Noctis picked up a bag of clothes and went behind a frame to change out of his bloody clothes. Once out of them he saw the other sitting on the steps of the bedroom observing the room.
"Nah I don't mind, if you don't mind if I do too?" Prompto asked politely.
"I'm fine with that." He came out from the frame in new clothes, sitting on a chair closets to his bed. Prompto turned to face the prince, remaining to sit on the floor now legs crossed and leaning forward.
"Well, I suppose my first question is how old are you?" Noctis asked first. Giving Prompto the time to either feel comfortable with it or not. He gave a sigh though with a slight smug on his face.
"I'm actually thirty years old. Despite the fact I may seem like I'm probably twenty, but I was turned eleven years ago when I was eighteen. I'll, be honest I don't remember how I became one, but it wasn't long until I found a civilization of normal or half vampires around Lestallum. Some among them are slightly in my situation, while others were born vampires." Prompto said with his smug.
"I think Lestallum is a great place, never been there but why did you leave?" When the prince asked that, Prompto's smug turned into a small smile.
"There was a leak information that vampires were in one of Lestallum's hotels. The, human's took no shame in what they done and decided to burn the entire place because there was too many buildings and no one had said a pacific hotel. I was out hunting at the time with a group. But we were also on the run. I happen to come upon Lucis by chance. Someone had said Lucis was a risky place to stay at only because the kingdom was at war three centuries ago, and that one hundred years ago the entire kingdom went through a full vampire cleansing. But because I was a half vampire it doesn't mean I couldn't fit in. I can basically stand in the sunlight without burning."
The thought made Noctis go silentfor awhile. All this seemed to be happening by chance for sure. But it also made him questioned about how all this came to.
"I'm sorry if this was too much to say?" Noctis looked back at the blond who shook his head.
"No I'm sorry, I was just, jabbering because I never told anyone...But, now its my turn to question, how old are you anyhow? You seem roughly around my age?" He tilted his head, his fluffy hair bouncing down slowly. However it was the question that amused Noctis.
"I can't say, I've been asleep for fifteen centuries I don't even know what day it is."
"Oh! I can help you with that, we don't need papers to do math anymore; we got cellphones with calculators to do that! Just give me the date you were born, than we subtract that by the current year."
As Noctis gave the other the information he needed; Prompto dotted down with his fingers on the screen of the device. A shocking look on his face when the number came to.
"I, maybe doing the math wrong or you are over twenty thousand years old? It sounds about right cause we just minus two more zero's and leave the twenty!" Prompto's face lit up bright as his cellphone making Noctis feel he'd really had a friend like him. It was hard to hate Prompto already despite the fact he talks a lot.
"So your highness, how did you survive the night of when Lucis was under attack? I'm kind of curious." Prompto was now hugging his legs and sitting forward. His curiosity speaks out from the way he tilt his head. Thus the prince sighed gently and leaned back into his chair.
"I have been asleep. I'm more so surprised I even survived. Honestly, my maid must had protected me when I was in slumber during the attack. She died by my door there, and I suppose it seemed like a surprise attack to whoever approached her. Of course, there was no way of opening a crypt as hand crafted as mines. It's enchanted with a seal that will protect whoever is inside the crypt. However, the only ones allowed to open the crypt would be those of real noble blood. Some of the nobles were not really born from royals. They were bitten by one and given the blood to rejoice the bloodline elsewhere if there was certain vampires that could not successfully mate." Noctis explained shortly, wide eyed Prompto seemed very surprised to a new information.
"So vampires can mate." The question made the prince pout a little embarrassed.
"Well of course?! Life mates like there's no tomorrow and no matter what everyone is bond to have children's?" The prince held his hands up like explaining the balance of life.
"Not all of life if you're gay or lesbian! A boy and boy can't get a baby, and a girl and girl can't either? It'll take an opposite sex to make one for the other?" Prompto was doing the same actions as Noctis.
"I-I do not know what terms you're talking about?"
Noctis face was blooming red to the newest information given to him. It was like running away from his fathers general, who was his teacher for some time. And in one point he had explained a sensitive topic to Noctis that he ended up running away crying to his father. Someone had told him loving a girl will give you bat cooties for life. Thus being one of the guards. But this information, Men can love a men while a woman can love a woman? He couldn't understand how that worked!
"P-Prompto I think we're getting too hard of ourselves here!" He decided his mind couldn't take in the information and try to turn the topic elsewhere. But even if he wanted to he was also curious of how it was possible.
"Sorry sorry it was just so sudden! But what do you mean If they succeed?" A huffed sigh from the prince as the topic was dropped just slightly.
"S-See, sometimes for vampires, mating is very risky and highly dangerous for mostly the females. There's not a lot of royal females who had survived the process of delivering birth. That is, how my mother came to die from. I remember my father saying that, even if she didn't lived, she was happy I would be born. At one point, I have heard that some kings died of heartache of their lovers, and their children's would grow without a parent and passed to another royal. But my father promised me he'd always be here for me. Even when Lucis was attacked...He was always here...probably waiting for me..." Noctis looked down at his hand, clutching inside was a clean vial from which his fathers very own blood was in.
"Your highness, are you really going to stay here in Lucis?" Prompto was now closer to Noctis with a hand on his shoulder. The light weight of the other assuring not to pressure him. Noctis, looked down to the floor. Eyeing a tile.
"I'm willing to because I would never travel further from Lucis. I don't, exactly have it in me to leave my home." With a sigh, he hopped the vial in his hand once and catch it quickly, placing it on the table next to him.
"Besides, I don't see you leaving either. I'm not alone in Lucis anymore Prompto." It was a small smile he gave the other, who was feeling happy that Noctis wasn't lonely. Even deep down, he wasn't lonely.
"Also, there's someone here that I happen to become friends with. I'd like to know him some more." Noctis whispered looking down again, thinking of Ignis. He was maybe, afraid of approaching him again. But it was as long as his hunger doesn't take the best of him again. The taste of Ignis blood still lingers on his tongue. And he felt his self drooling again. Pressing his lips together just so he'd stopped himself from looking hungry. He'd better drain it down with blood.
"By the way Prompto, how do you survive?" The prince went over to his mirror, opening it to open the cool insides that holds the vial of bloods. Prompto was surprised at the sudden secret door.
"Well, once I while I would need blood. But I can also eat human food. Sometimes either one call fill me up. Once awhile I would pour blood in my food." The thought of food mixture in with blood made Noctis gross out a little. They laughed about it as he handed the other a vial of blood. The two drink'd the red liquid down without pause. however, it was Prompto's turn to look disgusted.
"Ew! What was in that?! It tasted like old food pushed aside for weeks!" He rubbed his mouth against his sleeve nearly at a point of balling his eyes out.
"Oh, sorry I should had warned you, this is a blood bank kept fresh for probably nearly ten thousand years old. It still tastes good to me? Unless its one of the few blood supply I found elsewhere."
Noctis explained shortly, as Prompto was at a point of rolling on the floor covering his face in horror. He was short of serious about how disgusting the blood was, but was amused that the prince could drink such thing.
"I suppose you better go home Prompto. I'm sure you got your daily morning routine?" The prince shrugged on one leg and folded his arms together, Prompto sat up again and shrugged a little.
"Well honestly I'm off for today anyways. I bet I could spend a day with yah and we can go back to town when night falls your highness?"
The thought was really nice. So Noctis nodded in agreement.
"By the way, there isn't anyone here. You can call me Noctis. Or just Noct." The two grinned at one another and nodded. Noctis decided he may had been awake for too long and decided to sleep now. Prompto decided to take the sofa, laughing to himself how soft it was as he laid down in it. Noctis laid down in the bed of his bedroom. Dosing off slowly as he rested his head against the soft pillow.
Ignis woke up to a loud pounding on his door. He groaned gently, tossing his head aside once, before he opened his eyes to realized he wasn't in his bedroom. In fact he was asleep on his couch. Despite couch was comfortable. It would also be a lie due to the fact he had both legs crossed over the other on the arm of the couch. While his head rested on the other with a pillow under his head. And quite a small one too.
He sat up feeling his back hurting a bit, while his neck was also the most in pain that he had to stretch it off. The pounding of the door did not stop for a few minutes later. And so, he stood up and walked all the way to the door still a bit sleepish as he adjusted his glasses up the bridge of his nose. He opened the door without looking to see who it was, greeting him up front is Aranea. She looked up at him with a grin.
"Oh? Someone must had slept in." Looking him up and down, there was wrinkles on his shirt and a button open indicating he hasn't changed his clothes, in fact slept in them. He groaned rubbing his sleeping eyes.
"Why, good morning to you too miss Aranea." Ignis said shortly.
"Isn't it funny that you're the only youngest looking fellow calling me 'Miss' Aranea? Funny we haven't slept together yet." She joked.
"The only reason I won't sleep with you is because you are overly bossy and I'd prefer to sleep on a bed not the floor." Ignis replied without hesitation. Earning a tisk and hiss from the woman.
"Its no wonder you don't get laid pal." Thus offending him, he crossed his arms against his chest and stood up right.
"Can I please ask why you're here. I hope its not to fill your empty stomach because I got two others who wont pay their meals on time." He was being serious with her. As she was full aware of it. She shrugged to one side with her hand on one hip. Looking at him meeting his.
"Last night there was another vampire activity. But we missed the damn thing by a half minute when they reported about it. It was near this area really." She spoke out but in a hush tone. Ignis was quite surprised at this. And his thoughts were worried about Noctis. Was he alright? He had to know.
"And, who was the victim?" He questioned but not to seem very panicked if it was Noctis.
"It was Adam Granule the wood carver. He was sucked of his blood. He was still alive but by the time we got there he had a reaction to a vampire virus after effect. He died in on the way to the hospital. You know what that mean Ignis..." And he did. Vampire virus. It was a deadly thing certain vampires possessed. Noble vampires. Bitten by a noble, there was a twenty percent chances of survival for humans. But the sixty percent of instant death.
"Are you telling me, there's a noble here in town?" He was given a gentle nod from the light brown haired woman.
"Yes. And I'm only giving you the details because we might need eyes and help around. A noble like this, is probably a very strong one. I don't think most of the hunters have it in them to being able to hunt it down or even take it down. I'm requesting for help on this Ignis. It's not taking you out of Lucis at least."
Aranea looked him in the eye with no slight movement at the least. He could see a hint of begging from the way her eyebrows knitted together. He didn't sigh or make a movement, but bowed his head slowly down.
"I can't promise to always be there. But I will keep my eyes open and only give my report to Gladiolus. Satisfied?" Ignis looked at her again with a tilted head asking for either an agreement or disagreement. Aranea however, smiled and nodded her head.
"Agreed. Just don't do anything foolish. Remember, this is probably a rogue Noble or a deadliest one. We have to be careful..."
Aranea was leaving without the need to add any further details. Her silver heals clacking against the cement ground and still echoed slowly as she was gone down the street. Ignis finally let out the sigh waiting in the back of his throat to get out.
A Noble...
He slowly made his way to one of the large paintings closets to the stairway. Slowly pulling it down hidden by it was a thirteen inch by inch square door. He pulled from his pocket a key for the lock on the small door, twisting the key once, twice, and the door opened. He pulled out from inside a covered object in a wrap. Opening it was pure silver long inch and sharp edged daggers. They have never rusted nor the need to be polished. It still looked as beautiful as he had left them.
He had to be careful now. Couldn't believe he was going to be involve again in the hunt for a vampire. But it was to ensure they wouldn't force him from his home, it was better than nothing.
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