"Still, what if we can't tell her everything?"

"We'll figure things out hopefully, and guys about Aranea...while we can't actually tell her anything at the moment whenever we meet and it gets to a fight we don't want to hurt her too badly agreed?"

"Totally"

They took care of a few things at Ravatogh and then they ultimately meet up with Aranea again and while they don't necessarily go easy on her they also make sure to pull their hits (something they were quite used to doing since their sparring partners weren't as strong as them, even Cor was weaker than Prompto due to their experiences) and then meet up with Ignis once again

"So...let me guess someone escaped...again"

"Indeed, he...he managed to escape...escape the Hunters...and myself...though I...tried to...stop him"

Suddenly Ignis collapsed and when they got to him they saw he had been stabbed in the side and the leg, fortunately Potions would help but they also knew he needed rest and possibly blood as such they decided to get into contact with Dave and asked him how long Ignis had been injured before making it back to base and getting Potions

"Hey Dave, how long was Ignis with you guys?...I see and was he offered a ride back to the base?...I see, how far away was the base at the time?...okay, did you guys offer treatment for his injuries?...oh I see, that's what happened huh?...don't blame you guys one bit, but we do need to take Ignis to the hospital because of his stunt...we'll meet you there then...okay bye"

As soon as he hangs up he knows that Prompto and Gladio inferred from his end of the conversation that none of the Hunters knew that Ignis had been injured

"Let's get him to a hospital and then once he's better we're going to be needing to have a talk with him"

"Yeah, looks like he traded one issue for another"

"Well, it may not exactly be as serious as we think it is, but either way Dave says to take him to the nearby hospital, some of the Hunters are also there by the way so he said he'll simply meet us there and give us more details about what happened"

And so Ignis is rushed to the hospital where the group have a long talk with Dave about what had happened in regards to a key person being lost and the fact that no one knew that Ignis was injured and quite severely at that

"I think I might institute a policy of checking people who help us out after each fight, especially when it comes to you four, you may have things that help heal you but..."

"But we can still be seriously injured, we know"

"Still...I'm sorry we didn't think about it or notice"

"Well he could have said something himself, unless he didn't know also then when he's better we're having a very long...talk"

"You mean lecture, look no one can hear us right now so I'll just go and say it, you're going to give him a lecture and most likely a Royal order considering that you're now the King what with your father's death, you need him alive because he's your friend and for whatever bigger thing you guys have going on and you four know it. As such it might very well be that he didn't realize that he was injured, either that or he might not have thought it was that severe"

"Yeah, well either way the group might be making a few new road rules, oh by the way...I wasn't going to but...I need you to carefully look into what one Chancellor Ardyn Izunia from Niflheim is doing, according to an inside source he's acting off and it might be bad for everyone depending on what's going on"

"You do realize how hard that's going to be right?"

"Oh I know, but if he acts off he might not be doing normal things and that might give us the chance we need to try and figure out what he's doing"

"Okay, I'll see what I can do but..."

"I know, oh and if you run into Cor the Immortal tell him...tell him his newest King is ready to take up that responsibility but can't let the world as a whole know it until later, but that I am giving him a direct order, prepare for coronation for when I give the word, further details will be given about all preparations needed after I deal with a few things"

"Will do, but...I want to stay until we know more about your friend, it was partially my responsibility since he was delivering a prisoner to us and he got injured while with us since he was only trying to keep the prisoner in custody"

The next day and Ignis was awake and allowed visitors and he could tell that Noctis wasn't happy with him, but he didn't know why

"Noct...why are you so upset with me?"

"You almost died Ignis, if you hadn't reached us when you did the Potions would have been useless, you needed blood transfusions just to get more stable than what the Potions allowed for and you didn't tell anyone you were hurt, that is if you even knew that in the first place"

"To be honest I don't remember anything after the first blocked blow with Caligo, I was in a battle rush though I do know I was with Hunters, I guess I don't remember being injured"

Suddenly a doctor speaks up

"That would be because of the poison we discovered in your system, it's designed to kill slowly, keep wounds bleeding and open and quite frankly works with the adrenaline rush of battle to rob you of any memories during the battle including being hit if you weren't hit on the first stab"

"Okay, you're not in as much trouble as before, but once you're released we still need to talk"

"I know and I think I know what the discussion is going to be about"

"Probably do, but in the meantime heal up, oh and Dave was by and said he's glad you're going to be alright, and don't worry about the others with you they'll be okay as well"

"Understood"

And so two days later the group has a very long and involved discussion about what would now be happening post battle every time, they also discussed the possibility of working with the Hunters a little more often until it came time to go to Altissia as a sort of means of protection but ultimately decide not to do that, if they worked with Hunters then it happened by chance or the very rare times that they called for backup, which they hoped they would never have to do