Noctis took a side street and was soon up on a raised sidewalk. The windows in the buildings next to him reflected the incoming air carriers. Great. His phone rang. Ignis's name was on the ID.

"Hello?"

"Noct, the Hydraean has awoken."

"The Civilians?"

"Almost there. We'll join you when we're done." Gladio chimed in. Conference call.

"The empire has the Hydraean surrounded. Hurry, Noct!" Ignis again. Noctis narrowed his eyes and could see the ships ahead of him were getting more concentrated.

"I'm on it," Noctis said as he took off running.

"Then the rite's already begun?" Gladio said.

"Most likely," Noctis said. Otherwise, the Leviathan wouldn't be awake, now would she?

"Time to lend the Hydraean a hand!" Prompto added in. Noctis was forced to hang up his phone at that moment. There were MT's everywhere. Time to fight. Noctis summoned his sword and realized he'd summoned the small sword. He switched to his Engine sword and began to plow through the MT's. He reached a dead-end but he could see more walk-way across a gap, so he warped across and ended up having to fight more MT's. A roar seemed to shake the very ground on which he stood and he looked up to see Leviathan. She was immense and she looked pissed. He hoped Luna was alright. He pressed forwards and in an alley that lead to a staircase, he was attacked by watery clones of the Leviathan.

"Not making this easy, is she," Noctis said blocking the attacks and continuing to fight off more MT interference. A flash of light in the sky briefly distracted him. His phone rang once he ascended the stairs. Ignis. He put it on speaker and slipped it into his pocket.

"Noct, Prompto is heading your way."

"What about you guys?"

"We'll wait below. There's only room for two." Room for two?

"Noct, jump!" that was Prompto. Wait,

"What?"

"No time for questions!" Noctis looked down and couldn't believe he was doing this.

"Man….." Noctis ran at the edge of the balcony he was on, stepped off the bench and threw himself into the air. If he was screaming, he didn't care. There was something coming at him out of the corner of his eye. A hand grabbed him. It was Prompto on some weird thing zipping about on a wire through the air with boosters?

"What the hell is this?" Noctis asked.

"New ride we borrowed from the Nifs. This'll get us in close," Prompto said.

"Serious?" Noctis said. That's when more of the water clone leviathans attacked them.

"Here she comes!" Prompto said.

"I'm on it," Noctis said. He blocked the attacks as whatever it was Prompto had borrowed zipped them about through the air and Altissia.

"She's not really laying out the welcome mat," Prompto said.

"Iggy didn't exactly tell us she was friendly," Noctis said. "Hey, nice job finding this baby."

"Moment I saw her, I knew we'd go places. I'll get as close as I can. Then it's up to you."

"Alright, I won't be long." Noctis saw how close they were getting to Leviathan and she was massive. She made Titan look like a child in comparison to her sheer height. Could he really defeat that? No: he couldn't think like that. He kept blocking the attacks and after a large block he nearly fell off, had it not been for Prompto saving his ass at the last second.

"Dude! Don't let go!" Noctis's eyes widened: the maw of the leviathan was headed right for them.

"Heads up!" Noctis said. It was a near thing for them but Prompto managed to maneuver them out of the way in the nick of time.

"Here she comes….go for it!" Prompto said. Noctis nodded and warped right onto Leviathan's face. Her rumble of displeasure soon followed.

"Leviathan. Hey, your power, give it up!" Angry rumbling. "Don't you understand I'm the King. I need your power!" Leviathan chose this moment to fling Noctis off her head as one might shake water droplets off. Unlike water, however, Noctis's landing wasn't just a splat with little consequences, it was a hard fall that made standing painful. A potion fixed the pain, but one thing had been made clear to Noctis, "So the only way you'll help me is if I take you down? Fine. Let's do this the hard way."

Noctis charged towards the immense form of Leviathan currently wreaking havoc in the bay of Altissia. He tried not to dwell on the walls of water she'd erected around the city. If she felt like it, she could and would wipe the whole city off the map. Whenever he drew closer she roared and her powers created winds enough to rip parts of Altissia into the air and to make those pieces float. That solved his problem of how the hell he was going to get close enough to fight her. Noctis warped to a floating piece of sidewalk and looked over at the Altar. It was ruined but still mostly there, and a form in white looked a bit ragged. Luna. That brief distraction nearly cost him his life. A large fin slammed into the rubble he was standing on. He needed to get his head into the fight or he would die.

Luna weakly watched as Noctis finally arrived to the battle. The blue crackles of his magic briefly lighting the sky as he warped, and even as he used his armiger. It was impressive but the Leviathan wasn't loosing any ground. Noctis was. He was tiring. His body had been through too much in too short a time for him to keep up the fight for very long.

"Now, about that ring." Luna looked over and it was Ardyn Izunia. The man whose very being oozed darkness and scourge.

"If she wouldn't give it to me, Chancellor, what makes you think she'll give it to you?" Ravus! He was here. He offered Luna a hand up, which she gratefully took.

"Noctis will drive the darkness from this world," Luna said.

"Oh, but it would appear he is powerless before the might of a raging goddess," Ardyn said. Luna looked up to see Noctis smashed from the sky. No! Ardyn struck out at Luna, too quick for her to defend but at the last moment, she was pushed aside. Blood splattered her white gown anyway. Ravus. He'd taken the blow for her. Why? Why save the already dying Oracle?

"Well, well, well, this is far more sentimental than I expected you to be, but I suppose I really should have seen that coming. This does leaving me in a quandary. How do I galvanize the "chosen" king to fighting without the murder of his bride. I suppose I could just force him to need to power of the crystal in a different manner, don't you think? A yes, there it is lingering on you both!" Ardyn's hand glowed with dark crackling energy. Luna grabbed it as he let go of it, her magic interacting with his. The Dark energy crackled over her, making her wince, and another bolt of this energy zoomed off towards Noctis.

"When he does drive the dark out, those who are in its thrall will finally know peace." Luna let go and Ardyn slapped her sending her to the ground. With a flex of the hand she'd applied healing to, he merely took off leaving behind a dying Ravus, Luna, and Noctis. Luna knew what she had to do. Her choice was her brother or Noctis.

"Forgive me brother," she said. She put all her power into the trident as she pushed herself to stand. She called for the kings of the past to lend their powers to Noctis now, in this time of need. Golden light shot into the sky and condensed around Noctis lifting him into the sky. Thirteen lights flew into him and the full armiger flashed to life as her trident vanished from her grip. She fell forwards onto her knees.

"Luna, I had wanted to spare you pain, but I was powerless to do anything in the end," Ravus said weakly next to her.

"I know you did," Luna said gripping his flesh hand. She felt something and gasped. "Ravus what are you doing!"

"I made a bargain with Gentiana. I am dying anyway, so I thought I'd give you one last gift before I died." The golden light washed over them and as the light left Ravus's eyes, Luna felt… so tired; she collapsed next to him, too weak to do much more than look up at the sky.

Noctis had nearly watched a nightmare unfold as he lay helpless; unable to stop Ardyn's advance on Luna. He never thought he'd be so happy to see Ravus in his life. Ardyn did something with dark energy that had caused Noctis to jolt painfully, but he was still unable to move. A shadow loomed over him. Leviathan, come to finish him off. He'd failed. Golden light appeared. It felt nice. Noctis was lifted into the air and he could feel strength returning and more power being pushed into his body until his armiger reappeared; this time, it was the full thirteen?

How—

Leviathan was attacking again. Noctis couldn't focus on how for now. He had a goddess to fight. Surging forwards, he warped through the air and began to pummel Leviathan with the thirteen spectral weapons. This time, his power was doing marked damage to the Hydraean. With the great-axe he slammed down, and part of one of her impressive fins was sundered off into the churning waters. Holding a hand in front of him, the thirteen weapons attacked without him needing to do a thing, but they did more damage in his hands. He took off another fin with the greatsword and while she was reeling backwards, a trident came to his hands, far more solid than the other weapons. He had no time to dwell on that either and he surged forwards slicing a glowing slash down the length of the Leviathan's body. Out of the wound spurted water. He'd done it. He'd beaten Leviathan. The powers he'd had command of began to fade. He was finished.

"It's done," he said weakly as he descended. The glow around him distorted his vision and he was nearly passed out. He could have sworn he saw Luna close to his face.

"Blessed Stars and Light." A comforting glow, and he was out.

Prompto and Gladio arrived at the altar with Ignis trailing behind.

"Look!" The lights in the air indicated summoning and Titan appeared. Man he looked short compared to the pissed off Leviathan, but he made temporary walls to block the last attack of the Hydrean. Altissia, though somewhat worse for wear, was saved from being annihilated. The Hydrean retreated into the waters below, and the empire left.

"We need to find Noct and Luna," Gladio said.

"Look!" Prompto dashed forwards and leapt across the gap, scrambling to catch the edge. He hauled himself up and he had seen that correctly. Ravus lay dead on the altar. Prompto wasn't an expert, but he was sure the wound that was currently staining Ravus's Nif White fatigues brilliant red was definitely the cause of death. Though, the guy had been monstrously strong, who could have taken him down like this and why?

"Prompto, get back!" the corpse twitched and the MT arm pulsed a sick dark light as dark tendrils spread over Ravus's corpse. Prompto thought fast and picked up the first bladed weapon he could lay his hand on and slashed at the arm, severing it from Ravus's body. The tendrils evaporated from the corpse but the other tendrils still went about forming the rest of a body. It was a daemon. Prompto felt a burning and dropped the trident he'd unexpectedly picked up next to King Regis's sword. Trident? That mean Luna had to be nearby. Gladio arrived and so did Ignis.

"Get back!" Ignis slid in front of Prompto as the monster lashed out with glowing energy. Ignis's pain filled yell made Prompto flinch. Ignis's glasses were shattered.

"Ignis!" One eye had been marred, but the other seemed to be ok.

"Iggy, get back now! We've got this!" Gladio had made it across and slammed the daemon with his sword sending it into the water.

"We need to get out of here," Ignis said, holding a hand over the burn marring part of his face, the remaining green eye then widened in shock. Prompto followed his gaze and his jaw dropped. On the ground, side by side, were two small forms. Children. Very familiar looking children. Not again!

"Gladio, I think we have a problem!"

"No shit—ah, Hell," Gladio finally saw the duo. Ignis had subspaced the two weapons as Gladio rushed over picking up the two children.

"I'll get them across and Iggy, you get them to safety. Got my back on this Prompto?" Gladio asked.

"Sure thing."

MP:Did you guys really, honestly THINK I was going to kill off Luna?

Wait, don't answer that, I don't want to know if it is totally obvious that I was going to save her. Let me think I was a good and tricky writer pulling out a twist...

Also, if you recognize the dialogue here and there sounding like the game, it is the dialogue from the game when; which, I used when I felt it appropriate.