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Warning: Genderbender, spoilers, bad grammars.

The God's Clown and the Prince of the Sky

Story01: UTRIMQUE

There is nothing either good or bad…

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…But thinking it makes it so.

(William Shakespeare)

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Black.

Dark.

It was dark at first.

It was a pitch black color.

At the beginning she thought that she still had her eyes closed. But after she tried to open her eyes and blinked few times, she came with a conclusion that it was no light since the very start.

She couldn't see anything in front of her. She even couldn't saw her own hands. She began to ponder either to use her Innocence or not. It was dark not for long though. Then slowly, the scenery began to appear around her. There were blurry colors around her and they began to shift into more solid colors and shapes. The girl watched it in deep interest and curious, wondered what kind of scenery which would appear around her. The sharpened colors and shapes finally took a form as some kind of dark room with dim light from neon. The neon lamps were being put in each pillar in the room. The room, no, the chamber itself made from black stone and smooth black marble, made everything in this chamber harder to see. And it was cold.

Ellen noticed that the thin layer of water flooded beneath her shoes. She blinked in acknowledge. It was clean and gave the cool sensation, added more the cold temperature this room already had. And it flooded nearly the whole chamber stone. Her lips pulled into a thoughtful frown. No wonder the room was cold, aside from the lack of light and made from stone and black marble of course. She felt something else too. But she didn't what it was. She lifted her head a little at the only source of light which came from the above center. There was a window from glass and it shaped like a circle. The light from the moon, indicated it was a nighttime, hovered far above the window shone the middle of the chamber. At that very moment, Ellen just realized that she wasn't alone in this cold and dark chamber.

There was a chair right in the middle of the chamber just below the window. And it was the only area that didn't get flood by water. The place was a little higher than the flooded floor. Sat on the chair like throne, was a young man in his early twenties by his appearance, he wore all black and dark color from head to toes. His pale skin went contradicted with the clothes he wore.

He appeared to be slept since his eyes closed and he had one of his gloved hands supported his head as he leaned to the chair. Felt the curious grew, Ellen approached the sleeping young man with slow walk so she didn't made him woke up. Carefully she stepped in the thin surface of the water. Step by step, she walked quietly toward the center of the chamber. Just right before the seated young man, she then made a stop. Now with the distance of each other gone, she could saw more clearly the face of the black clad young man.

His eyelashes were dark and long, oval face, crescent shape eyebrows, perfect shape of nose and mouth, odd style hair like chicken's tail which somehow fit him. His black hair looked soft and silky. His skin was pale yet not as pale as hers. His semi formal clothes gave a firm appearance, not to mention how those were similar a bit with army uniforms. He was good looking, yes. However the silver eyes young woman had a feeling there was something more than that. Something about him was different.

Ellen had seen a lot of handsome men but none of them similar with him. Her master was-as much as she didn't want to admit it- a handsome and an attractive man. Everything about him screamed sensuality. Kanda more like a pretty boy rather than handsome man but she wouldn't deny that many woman and girl or perhaps even man –since he with his long hair was so much like girl- who attracted to him even though he didn't acknowledge it. Tyki...well, Tyki had a similarity with his master except he was younger, charming comportment, and his appearance made him looked exotic in England's women. Not surprising since he was the Noah of Pleasure. And he quite attached to her and somehow even protective –a.k.a possessive- to her. Despise he was a Noah, he had quite nice to her actually. Ellen unconsciously blushed at this then shook her head hastily. She then stared at the young man once more.

But this man, this young man before her had a different type of handsome.

He had his own gracefulness. He had his own attractiveness. As if he wasn't a completely human. Everything about him seemed… ethereal. If the girl didn't know better, she would be thought that he was a black angel in human disguise due to his dark and calm looks. As her curiosity peeked, Ellen traced his figure further.

From his height, she assumed that perhaps he was in the same height of Kanda if not taller a bit. His expression was calm and soft yet it lined with firmness. His mouth clenched shut and his jaws held firm. He had his eyes closed and even though he appeared to be sleep, deep in her heart, Ellen had a feeling that he didn't sleep completely.

Then much to her surprise, the young man suddenly opened his eyelids, revealed a pair of red eyes which stared straight into her direction.

The beautiful silver eyes girl held her breath. Sharp red met with soft silver. Suddenly Ellen could felt herself shivered at the sharpness and the intensiveness of his gaze at her. His eyes stared so deeply until as if he could saw through into Ellen's mind. It made the snow white haired girl shivered slightly at that thought.

Strangely, even though she should be scared at those eyes, Ellen in fact didn't. The snowy haired girl instead found those eyes as one of the most beautiful color she ever saw. Rather than the color of the fresh blood, his color of eyes more resembled the color of gems, just like the spinel stone she once saw in India when she still with her master. She liked it so much despise that she didn't want to admit it because she was still ashamed with the previous thought. But then she sensed it once more. It was that aura again but this time clearer than before. Her face was blank for a while, confused. Before she could sensed it more further, the young man shifted his body slightly, catch her attention back to him.

The young handsome man narrowed his spinel eyes in confusion. The sharpness and the intensiveness lessened. In exchange his red eyes showed a curiosity and slight concern. The firmness in his face softened a bit. He straightened his position and put his once supported hand away. Then he opened his mouth. His voice was deep and quiet however there was an obvious puzzled emotions in there.

"Who are you?"

Ellen was caught of guard. She wasn't expected the young man would ask her. And in fact, she didn't expect to be questioned by him. Ellen could hear her own heart beat rather loudly in her ears. Saw the young woman before him not answered; instead kept frowned, the young man raised his eyebrows in concern manner. He then rose from the chairs slowly and stood up before her. His face looked down at her, worry, curious and mostly concern was written in all over his face. The petite lady stared at him. She couldn't look away from those eyes. He then opened his mouth, asked her once more in more concern and softer voice.

"Who are you?"

The silver eyed young woman was distraught by his soft voice. It was soothing her and calmed her. She didn't know how to answer the question. This young man before her distracted her very well. The young woman was captivated by his appearance, especially those beautiful red spinel eyes.

"I'm..." she tried to answer but she could think of none. The young man tilted his head to right, seemed puzzled. Ellen began to felt nervous again. So she tried to answer him in firmer tone.

"I'm..."

Then at that very moment a voice which she was very familiar with, echoed and called her name. Her vision then went blurred before it all went pitch black.

"...Ellen? Ellen? Ellen...?" her green haired friend's call had woke the petite young woman from her sleep. "Ellen, wake up."

Ellen stirred from her sleep before she slowly opened her eyes. Blinked few times, she rose and sighed deeply. Her silvery blue eyes fixed on concerned purple eyes which belonged to Lenalee. Behind her stood Link who wore his brown vest above white shirt and dark pants and he eyed the female pair. Ellen then just realized that the whole event she just experience was no more than a dream. She was in her bed, in her room with Link and already uniformed Lenalee stood beside her. She also just realized that it was morning already since the sunrays enter through the window. The snow white haired young sat up from her bed and gave her friend a soft smile and greeted her.

"Good morning, Lenalee."

The green haired Exorcist frowned for a moment before squished her grip on the younger female while she tilted her head and smile equally.

"Good morning too. Are you alright? You just muttered something in your sleep."

Ellen blinked in clueless. "I am?"

Lenalee nodded once.

The petite girl closed her eyes and exhale quietly. "So it was just a dream after all..."

Her voice quite indeed but Lenalee could hear it. "Dream? Do you have a nightmare or something like that?"

Ellen quickly shook her head. "No, nothing. It wasn't a nightmare, really."

Purple eyes narrowed. "Really?"

"Really, Lenalee! I'm fine." she couldn't help but laughed a bit. "Now I have to go to the wardrobe and change my clothes. Can you wait me outside, please?"

The older female smiled in defeat. Lenalee hugged the silver eyed young woman briefly. "Make sure be fast, okay? It's almost breakfast time; sure you didn't want to miss it, right?"

"I'll be there soon."

Lenalee waved at her and disappeared to the door few moments later. Link who stood still and had his mouth locked since Lenalee was here finally broke his stance and stole a glance to her.

"…Walker, are you sure of this?" His voice lack of emotion but there was a slight concern in there if you listened carefully.

"What?"

"You didn't tell her the whole truth." Link pointed out.

Her smile turned grimly at his statement. "Just keep this secret, okay? I don't want to make her worry. Besides it's really a normal dream. Not those dreams."

He kept silent at the mention of the said dreams since he had an idea of what kind of the dreams Ellen's talked about.

"A really normal one?"

-Who are you?-

The young man's question echoed through her mind. The young man in her dream…although she was sure that it wasn't one of those dreams, the dreams about the Fourteenth Noah, it still disturbed her how the owner of the spinel eyes appeared to be…so real for a normal dream. Ellen remembered clearly how the way the black clad young man stared at her with concern. Even until this second she had a weird feeling about it. As if… as if she knew she would meet him again in future sooner or later. But that was impossible it was just a dream for God's sake. How she even knew that the young man was real?

"Who are you?"

Despite the obvious confusion written on her face, she nodded her head and made those silver locks of her swung gracefully.

"A really normal one. Can we stop this now? I'm hungry and I want to go to the breakfast, fast."

"Who are you?"

His face looked down at her, worry, curious and mostly concern was written in all over his face. He then opened his mouth, asked her once more in more concern and softer voice.

"Who are you?"

"…."

"…ct. Noct? NOCTIS…!"

The euclase eyed young man finally snapped from his sleep a.k.a his dream. The color of the sky opened to meet a pair of concerned ocean colored eyes. They were owned by a young man in same age as him, stylish short blond hair, white shirt with hoodie jacket that had no sleeve, black pants, black shoes, and wielded a shotgun on his right hand.

Behind him, was stood a pair of older looking men. One was a bespectacled man with spike brown hair and blue eyes. He wore black jacket above white shirt, black pants and pantofel shoes. The last one was the oldest looking man between them. He had a scar on his face, it marred across his left eye, long black hair reached his shoulder, and a pair of black brownish eyes. He also had a strong build and the tallest between them. He wore black t-shirt and short sleeved dark jacket, a necklace, a silver bracelet on his right wrist, black pants and black shoes. They had this similar worried looks in their eyes. They were currently at the city's plaza which place in the heart of the Kingdom of Lucis (Author: the building which similar with Saint Basilica in Venice). It was a nice day and warms enough to go out with family or friend. Although, they were walking for a different reason.

"Prompto…" the black haired young man looked at his blonde friend.

"Hey, Buddy, are you feel okay? You're dazed a lot today. You're even just sleep while standing up now!" The blonde chimed. "Not for long though."

"He's right. Are you being sick or something like that?" The scarred man asked in soft voice, despise his scary looks and strong muscle body.

The young man shook head in dismissed manner. "Gladiolus, listen. I'm pretty much fine. Just…taking a nap, that's all. Nothing is serious."

Which was half true, since he decided to not to tell them about the short dream he had just a while ago. Not to mention the dream was peculiar enough… He better didn't make them more worried than necessary.

The bespectacled man narrowed his brown eyes, not completely convinced. "Are you sure, Noct? We can go back now and…"

"Ignis," Noctis cut him before he could ever finish. "I'm fine. Thank you very much. Can we go now?" He added firmly and it left them no room for question.

Ignis stole a glance at his scarred friend who shrugged and smiled in sympathy at him. The spike haired man finally sighed and decided to let it go for now, knowing how stubborn their prince was. Besides he hadn't any choices, had he?

"… As your wish. Just make sure you're keeping your healthy in check or I'll have to drag you into a doctor, let your father to have few maids to watch over you, Noct."

Noctis rolled his eyes in annoyance because the older man had gone as far as brought his father to this topic but not saying a word otherwise. This action triggered a snicker from Prompto and a smirk from Gladiolus. And quickly, the prince shot a glare to his friends, his flashed sky blue eyes told them to shut up already. Gladiolus coughed few times to disguise his amusement while Prompto went to a wide and mischievous grin. Oh, how the black haired young man wanted to pinch both the blonde cheeks and snap them.

Ignis coughed in order to stop them from further and childish acts although the tempting to see them interested him, a bit.

"Okay, Gentlemen. You better stop your acts. We have a business to do in here." He reprimanded them.

This got their attention. They went more serious and back to their previous state.

"Do we have everything we need in here?"

"Just a few more and we're back to the palace, Buddy." The blonde answered the main heir of Lucis Kingdom's question.

Noctis sighed tiredly at this. So much for doing family things. "Let's get this done already."

He started to walk to another place, followed by his blonde friend, his bespectacled friend, and his scarred friend on tail. They then left the city's plaza and for the rest of the day they were taken care the rest of the business they had to do.

And further that day Noctis tried not to think about his odd dream. He managed it of course. He wouldn't remember that dream for now.

However little did he know that he would met her, soon, very soon, and with a way that he would never expected, even in his wildest dream. He would affected many people. He would have his own test in this. And his path would be decided by this.

What do you think? Do you like it? I'm sorry if this chapter shorter and had a fast or hasty plot than the first chapter but right now I'm currently didn't have any idea to write with. Please forgive me; I'll try as I can to update this story. I'm planning to bring Stella to but I need your opinion. Do I need to bring her or not? Next, about pairing, I'm already having few pairings but I'm pretty confused about the main pairing. Is it;

a. EllenxNoctis, TykixStella,

or

b. EllenxTyki, NoctisxStella.

Which pairing do you like? Please review in here!