"Thanks, but who are you?"

"Not surprised you don't recognize me, but still I can't believe that incompetent Emperor didn't suspect anything strange with me, by the way nice to see you again sister"

With that the disguise comes off and one Ravus Nox Fluret is seen as alive and in decent shape

"Ravus!"

"But...but how? I saw your execution"

"I know, but the day of the execution was the day you first tried to escape right? I took advantage of that and managed to arrange things with my clothes so that I didn't actually die, and then decided to remain hidden and believed dead for everyone's sake including yours, I'm actually part of how you ultimately escaped though you wouldn't have known"

"I see...well what now?"

"Now we get Noctis to the Crystal and deal with that Chancellor, the Emperor is dead"

"Yeah that's the plan"

And so the group heads to the Crystal and once again Noctis is absorbed inside of it. The rest of the group heads back to Lucis and starts to get ready for ten years of darkness and also takes care of bases having finally discovered what Ardyn had been after this whole time, he had been trying to make a weapon to not only destroy whole cities but also drain any crystals used by Lestallum for energy. Time passes and it eventually it was one year to the day since the miscarriage and Ignis and Aranea were simply remembering their loss when suddenly Ignis slipped out of Aranea's grasp and went to one knee

"Aranea, this past year has been a rough one for the two of us, and I'd understand if you were too scared but, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife and trying for another child someday?"

Aranea looks at Ignis in shock and then says just one word

"Yes"

Ignis puts the ring on Aranea's finger and both agree to just a month long engagement which shocks those that don't know them. They don't really have a honeymoon due to the circumstances but they do get a couple of days alone together two months after they're married. Nine months after that Ignis is simply cooking when he hears Aranea's shouting

"Ignis!"

Ignis runs in and the sight scares him and takes him back to two years earlier (to the day though he's unaware of that fact). Ignis rushes Aranea to the hospital and once in the emergency room Aranea grabs Ignis' hand and speaks up

"Ignis I'm scared, what if...what if it's happening again and we're losing our baby, the baby we didn't even know about?"

"The doctor will let us know shortly"

Ten minutes later the doctor arrives and checks Aranea and then says something unexpected

"OK Aranea looks like you're fully dilated, when I give you the word I want you to push as hard as you can until I tell you to stop, now...push, push, push, push, push!"

And so for fifteen minutes Aranea pushes and then all of a sudden they hear a baby's cry

"Looks like a healthy baby girl"

"Not done"

"Just the placenta dear"

Five minutes later and the doctor was proven wrong with Aranea giving birth to a boy and then delivering the placentas and an hour after that the two were told that their twins were nearly full term and were allowed to hold them

"So do you have names for these two?"

"Not yet, we didn't even know she was pregnant, um by the way what's the date?"

When they hear the date they are visibly shocked

"Specs that's...that date means..."

"It's been two years to the day since the miscarriage"

That's when the doctor speaks up

"If that's the case then today might be mixed emotions in the future because you lost one baby but gained two in return"

Aranea is the one who speaks up

"That may very well be the case, but we'll try to remember the joy of having these two instead of thinking what we lost in regards to their older sibling"

"Well in any case mom and babies are going to be here for a few days"

"Understood, Aranea I'll go make certain phone calls that are needed, what do you want me to tell them in regards to..."

"You can tell them about the two little surprises we had today but that I don't want any visitors until tomorrow"

"Understood, is it because..."

"Yeah if he can't be the first person to see them then the rest are going to have to wait until they can as his substitute"

"I'll tell them and...thanks for understanding that I wish he was here and would want him to have first visitation rights"

The next day the small group of warriors met the newest and youngest members of their little group and while everyone was happy for the two of them Cor eventually had to bring up a very valid issue

"I know this is a little soon considering that they were just born yesterday but what are your plans now regarding..."

"I'm staying home until they're at least four years old, maybe five while Specs plans on initially just short term and distance missions while eventually getting back to normal missions"

"Does that staying home include..."

"Yeah, I'll be last line of defense, maybe when they're about two years old"

"And once your twins are older?"

"So long as I don't have any more kids between now and that time once they reach that age I will take and remain on short term and distance missions until..."

"Until that day comes"

"Exactly, and then...

"Yeah and then, so long as you don't have any young children"

Nine years later

"So Iggy, I don't see Aranea and yet Cor said he got a recent report from her, he also said that you two were married so where is she?"

"Follow me"

And so Ignis takes Noctis to where Ignis, Aranea and their children were staying and leads him to a closed room and so Ignis knocks softly and waits until he hears Aranea tell him he can come in and once he does he goes over to her and asks a quiet question

"How is she?"

"Just put her down to sleep, went straight down after eating"

"I see, I brought someone here who wants to see you and might also want to see her"

Aranea looks to the door and sees Noctis

"Your majesty welcome back, I'm afraid I can't join you on your trip to take back Insomnia but I would like to introduce you to our youngest child Hope Scientia"

"Youngest?"

"Her two older siblings Sarah and Justin Scientia are currently at what passes for school and by the way they're twins"

"I see, how old is this little one?"

"Not even a month old"

"Understood, your duty is here Aranea, and I understand that completely, in fact if not for the fact that you'd argue and ultimately disobey me I'd order you to stay behind as well Iggy"

"You know me too well"

"Well now let's set off to finish this once and for all"

"Not yet Noct, we should catch up first"

"Very well"

And so the group catches up before they left and that's when Noctis learns that all three of Ignis' children had been a surprise, with the doctors confirming an old suspicion that the drugs given to Aranea had been reversed in regards to the fact that Aranea could get pregnant but her pregnancy never had any symptoms until the day she went into labor

"Well now, let's set off to finish this once and for all"

The next week was hard on Aranea but eventually she received word that her husband was back and she rushed out hoping that everyone had survived the fight for the returned dawn which many still couldn't believe it was real. She went to the gates and saw most of the group return and as soon as she finished greeting Ignis she asked her question

"Where's Noctis and Cor?"

"Safe, alive and simply helping the surviving Glaive begin the process to see if rebuilding Insomnia is even viable, Noct simply sent us ahead to spread the news about the possibility of rebuilding the city"

"I see, that's...that's good to hear"

It wasn't easy and it took three generations to complete due to various issues bu eventually Insomnia was rebuilt, it was different from before but for the most part it was a good different and while there was still a King or Queen of Lucis the way things were done was different from before it's fall. This was due to Noctis and Luna who instilled changes while their children were still young. Gladio and Prompto had married also during the years of darkness but since they were in the later years they didn't have children until after Dawn's return and while the tradition of the Amicitia was passed down in regards to being a Shield of the ruling monarch there were changes in that regards too, it wasn't just passed down to the eldest Amicitia and training was no longer mandatory, this was due to the fact that after Dawn's return Iris met and married someone and thus started her own branch of Amicitia Shields though they were held in reserve in case the main branch wanted to be Shield. Prompto's children would also follow in his footsteps in regards to being part of the Crownsguard. As for Ignis and Aranea, their children followed their father's footsteps for the most part though also their mother's footsteps on occasion since after the Dawn returned Aranea went into politics. As for Ignis and Aranea themselves they would ultimately have five kids, two more would be born after the Dawn and just like their older siblings there was no warning that she was going to have children. Instead what happened was that a year after the Dawn returned Aranea was helping with the rebuilding process when suddenly she felt very, very wet and then doubled over in pain, Iris was with her at the time fortunately

"Aranea are you okay?"

"My pants, need to get them off"

"What for?"

"Think I'm in labor"

Once her pants were off Aranea asked Iris to check and see if she saw anything and Iris replied quickly

"Yeah, I think I see a head, did you know you were going to be due soon?"

"Nope, surprise kid number four, need you to catch them because I need to push"

Fifteen minutes later and Aranea is done delivering another set of twins, but she's rushed to the hospital due to severe bleeding and the doctor's have no choice but to do an emergency hysterectomy which meant that there would be no more children for Ignis or Aranea unless they adopted or chose a surrogate

"I'm just happy that you and the babies are okay"

"They're okay?"

"Yes, little early according to the doctors but okay"

"You know that means all five of our children were slightly early"

"True, now then time to tell the others?"

"If Iris hasn't already"

"Good point"

Iris had actually kept what happened a secret from everyone including Gladio knowing that the two parents would want to spread the word themselves. As for the last twin Scientia's they were ultimately close in age with the first of the new Lucis Caelums (Noctis and Luna had twins the first time around and only one child the next two times around) and so became Adviser to the twins one Adviser for each and while the youngest of the Lucis Caelum's wasn't meant for the thrown originally the eldest sibling and their spouse insisted on there being three rulers, two visible rulers and a shadow ruler who would be forced to become Regent when the two known rulers died when their own child was still too young for the throne at only six years old and that tradition of a shadow ruler being ready to step in at a moments notice would stand for a long, long time though generally speaking the shadow ruler shared an Adviser with the main rulers

I know I glossed over their PTSD towards the end but I wasn't sure how to incorporate it as I went further and also because of the fact that they were in the ten year period of darkness. To wrap things up they did ultimately continue to have PTSD even after the Dawn's return but as they got further away from the changes their episodes were less frequent and less intense even though they continued to have episodes up to their deaths they were much better than before. As for how long before their deaths that they had a PTSD episode, Ignis had one only two days before he passed away in his sleep, Gladio's last episode before his death was two years, Prompto last had one five years before his death and Noctis last had an episode the day he abdicated the throne to his eldest child ten hours before his death (he and Luna both died on the way to Hammerhead to visit Cindy's granddaughter) as for how Gladio and Prompto managed to have longer periods between an episode and death was because of medical conditions that didn't take away their memory but the doctor's were forced to give them medications that actively affected PTSD in ways that the doctors never figured out