"Prompto... Your eyes," Noct tells her, pointing to his own eyes. Prompto turns to the prince clueless.
"What?" she asks, what do her eyes have to do with her answer?
"Here," Iris say rummaging through her pockets, she pulls out a hand mirror tossing it over to the blonde who catches it. She looks through it to see herself. Her eyes look normal. She stares at her face longer, it's like her freckles are spreading more across her nose and cheeks.
"Nothing's different but I think I have more freckles." she says looking up, ready to hand the mirror back.
"Try thinking about protecting Astrum." Regis suggest. Promote nods, looking back at the mirror. Oh man, her hair looks bad, worse them when she wakes up with bed head.
No, focus. Her eyes. What if Astrum needs protecting? What type of protecting because she's not going to cause a fuss over him tripping and falling, people trip and fall, he's gotta learn somehow about the world is but... her mind goes to the young girl in the alley, what they did to her. What they planned to do to her, how they almost did it to her. The world is dangerous, unpredictable and often times unfair but if someone dare to raise a hand with the intent to not only cause physical but also emotional harm to her baby no one, and she means no one, not even the Astrals themselves will be able to calm her down and stop her rampage. No one will be able to stop her till she is satisfied. Usually she hates violence but she's willing to throw away her beliefs for her baby.
Prompto grips hard onto the mirror, the edges cracking, just thinking about a hypothetical situation burns a rage inside her, she catches it a second before the mirror cracks fully, her eyes turning magenta. Shocked she throws the hand mirror away, out of her hand as she jumps back in her seat surprise replacing the anger. The hand mirror crackles with lightning then burst into a blue glow, a cold wind passes by them all. Snowflakes scatter around where the mirror land.
Astrum laughing covers the silence of them all staring at the mirror. The mirror that belonged to Iris, who only lent it to the blonde. Before Prompto can apologize a small explosion caught her attention, looking back at the mirror as it combusts. Iris and Prompto jumping to their feet in shock, looking around to find something that will extinguish it. Ignis throws his napkin on top then an empty plate on top, placing it upside down.
"Sorry about the mirror." Prompto says as she and Iris sit back down. Both have never seen something magically combust in front of their eyes.
"You were right Ignis." Regis says, the blonde looking at Regis then Ignis.
"What just happened?" Noct asks, so so lost.
"Was that me?" Prompto asks, it couldn't be. She would need Royal blood to use magic and she hasn't completed crownsguard training to be connected to the Crystal like most are.
"Just learned about this fact today. When we walked towards Prompto in the street protected the young girl her eyes were glowing magenta." Ignis explains, staring at Prompto but making sure Clarus, Iris and Noct understood also.
"Scared the shit out of me." Gladio says leaning back on his chair.
"But... like... how?" Prompto couldn't wrap her head this might be happening, it can't be reality.
"I get Astrum but Prom?" Noct says. "Is that possible?" he looks to his father for an answer, sure his father would have it. He always does.
"I've never heard of this happening before. No king or queen in the past has written about this happening, or possibly happening." Regis shakes his head. His eyes narrow as a thought comes to mind. "Maybe the one we thought that suddenly got connected to the Crystal months ago wasn't Astrum but actually Prompto."
"What?" Prompto asks having no clue what he is talking about.
"Every Royal born is connected to the Crystal after birth." Ignis tells her. All their mostly finished plates cold now.
"The council also knows that someone is connected to the Crystal but not who and they are worried." Gladio finishes for Ignis.
"We thought it was Astrum." Noct says.
"Okay but why?" Prompto asks.
"There must be a reason or cause." Clarus says looking at his friend. They all nod. There must be but how do they find what?
All eyes go to the young brunette girl as she laugh. Gladio and Clarus give her a warning glare.
"The councils head are going to explode." she says causing Noct to grin. He would love to see that. Gladio nods, yeah he can see that. Ignis sighs along with Clarus, both slightly defeated with pressure of the job. Prompto just stare at everyones face, one at a time, who are these council people and why would their heads explode, and what's with the mix reaction?
Regis clears his throat, everyone looking at him, even Astrum as he calmly but almost tired sat in his grandfather's lap. "We need to discuss what to do now." He points out. Ignis nods.
"Discuss?" Prompto asks.
"It's too dangerous for you to be out, what if something were to happen to you and you injure someone? Or yourself? Not to mention you'll catch the attention of everyone." Ignis points out.
"No wait, I've been fine for months..." she about to argue more but remembers what's been going on lately. It all started when she saw the face of that man. One thing after another. "Oh man." Prompto whines dropping her head into her head, letting out a groan. Things once again got complicated.
"She should learn to use and control her powers. Right now they seem connected to her emotions." Gladio says drinking his glass of wine.
"Why not have Prompto train back with the crownsguard?" Regis suggest. Ignis makes a face, that's a very good idea.
"But I have my online classes and my part time job, I can't add crownsguard training on top of taking care of Astrum." Prompto argues.
"We can hire a babysitter to take care of him while you train." Regis says.
"No." Prompto answers not a second after Regis finish his sentence. "I am not letting Astrum be taken care for by a random person. He's going to be taken care by either family or someone I know personally and trust. No one else." She says firmly, blue-violet eyes turning slightly magenta. Regis and Prompto staring at each other. Noctis looking between his father and Prom. Should he side with someone? Or does he keep quiet?
Also holy shit Prompto is staring down his dad, the king!
Prompto breaks contact first when she felt something tingling between her fingers. She sees the small sparkles. She shakes her hands trying to shake it away. Gladio is right she does need to learn how to control her new found powers.
"If that's what you wish." Regis says in defeat. There are many things he will never back down from but not backing down from a mother is not one of them. "But you still need to train and like you said you can't do everything." he adds.
"Why not quit your job?" Iris suggest. Prompto shakes her head.
"I need the money, how else will I buy Astrum things and my school supplies?" she says.
"Your school is flexible. I'm sure we can change your schedule." Ignis says, that look on his face screaming he thought of something, very similar to his 'I thought of a new recipes' look.
"Guessing you already have something in mind." Gladio smiles at Ignis, that face one of his cute ones. Ignis nods.
"It may work and it's the best option." He says.
