Author's notes: And the Third Chapter is finally here! I'm sorry for update after this long; you see, I'm in the middle of mid test so I have to keep study continuously so I can make it in the test. _; And it is make me stress a lot. Thank you very much for your reviews. Please don't hesitate to keep review this story because I love reviews. 3 And for the reply:

For kitsune630; I will update as soon as possible, meanwhile, please enjoy this chapter, okay . Thank you for your response, it helped so much, you know. I also like both pairing as well. I like TykixEllen pair thanks to Kithren with his/her stories. But I also want to try NoctisxEllen pair, so I need your opinion to decide this pairs. Again, thank for your response.

For Liquid Twilight; Actually, I'm like this pairing but in the same time I quite like EllenxTyki pairing so I decide to vote. I think if they didn't go as lover surely they will be so cute with sibling relationships. ;) I notice they have quite similarities, such as names for an example. Both their name have a meaning of 'light' although they are go from different language. Lucis= Latin for light, Ellen= Greek for light.

For DragonFire Princess; Thank you very much. I'll update as soon as I can but it's also depending on my mood sometimes. Since I'm in mid test, I think the update will be late for a moment. I have to study over and over again and it's gave me a headache. T_T; And here, I have an update for this story and fortunately it is quite long. I hope you like this chapter as well. ;D

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Warning: Gender bender, spoilers, aaaaand bad grammars since English isn't my first language. x ;

The God's Clown and the Prince of the Sky

Story02: FATALI CONVENTUS

"There is no such thing as 'coincidence' in this world."

"The only thing... is 'hitsuzen'!"

(Yuko Ichihara, XXXHOLiC)

'Why!?'

He swung his black falchion and slashed each soldier he had come across.

SLASH!

SLASH!

It was just over five minutes ago he still in the middle of the party. It was just over five minutes ago he attended his father acquaintance's party and he as the represented of his father, must attended it. Just a while ago he talked to one of guests named Stella about the legend of the Goddess Etro, the light that they could see, and why they could see it before she had to go and left him alone in this place.

Then in very stole moment they invaded the building and crashed their airship into the windows. And from there all chaos broke loose. They came from the airships, borrowed the firearms with them, and at the sight of those invaders the guests panicked and started to save themselves. The attendants quickly went to search a safe place and took a shelter. The prince, Noctis had no choice but to fought them once they laid their eyes on him and recognized him fast. So he summoned his black falchion and began to fight.

JRRAASH! SLAASSH!

'Why in the time like this!? Why they do such a low thing like this!'

The rifles aimed at him at fired at the same time. Saw this came; he quickly summoned his invisible barrier weapons to block them. From behind the barrier, the black prince gritted his teeth and cast Fire at one of the gray armored soldiers who managed to sneak out behind him. He was casting his fire magic once more, this time more powerful, at the rest of the soldiers.

BOOOM!

'Damn them to hell! They will pay for this…!'

At the sign of the explosion and followed screams by those soldiers, Noctis then took his chance to run from them and searched his friends. As much as he wanted to beat all of them and he had enough strength and confidence to do it, he must prioritize his friends first. So he went to find his friends. He used the nearby stairs to go down and waste no time to dash down. In behind he could hear faint sounds ordered to after him. The heir of the Lucis Kingdom cursed in his mind as he fastened his dash.

Dammit!

He should have knew those Niflheim would attack this city sooner or later. He hoped Ignis and the others were nearby! There was no way they didn't hear that crashed sounds! His rail of thoughts was quickly disturbed by sounds of cocked gun not far behind him and it followed by few similar sounds. Knew those sounds too well, he ducked his head and kept running down as the place where he just passed were perforated because of barrage of bullets which originally aimed at his head. Gritted his teeth in furious, he raised his right hand at above him and cast Blizzard in full force. Ignored the soldiers, he kept climb down the stairs with head as low as possible in case the invaders shoot him again.

Much to his relieve and his luck, he caught few familiar faces, his friends that seen climbed up stairs and held their own weapons. Gladiolus was the most front and wielding a dark sword. Followed behind him were Ignis with a katana and Prompto with his shotgun. At the sign of their prince came down, their strained and wary stance loosened a bit. Immediately they approached the euclase eyed young man.

"Noct! You okay? Any injury?" Prompto squished the prince's right shoulder in comforting manner.

"I'm fine." He replied drily. "I never thought they would dare to attack us in this place especially."

Before Prompto could ask him further, they could heard the invaders steady steps came closer to them. Ignis narrowed his blue eyes as he pushed Noctis' back with a hurry gesture.

"We better talk about this later. We must go from here, fast."

"You don't have to tell me." Noctis replied in deadpanned but he did what the bespectacled said none less.

They dashed from the stairs and run away from the chasing soldiers that kept in under their trail. They needed to get out from there fast for they had no more time.

It has been more than two months since Ellen and the other Exorcists were moved to their new HQ. Or more precisely it has been more than two months and three weeks since then. Ironically, almost in the same time, two months and three weeks had passed since General Marian Cross was assuming to be killed. And nobody knew who the culprit was. In this calm afternoon, Ellen looked at the window of her room, she had this faraway looks in her grayish silver eyes, and her left hand supported her face. It was an obvious that she was in deep thought right now. There was something she worried about and normally she would think about the certain Musician but this time it wasn't about the Fourteenth Noah and his awakening or the oddities of her master's death.

Two months and three weeks had passed since they had moved to the new Black Order HQ. Two months and three weeks had passed since General Cross was assumed died. In the same time, two months and three weeks had passed since she got that peculiar dream none less. Nothing unusual had happened since then and the beautiful young woman found it disturbed her somehow. At first she was fine with that and she even didn't thinking it much about the dream before. However to her annoyance –and her worry- it grew worse each day passed and to make it worse she began to felt nervous and giddy. She couldn't understand it these feelings. She couldn't understand why she felt nervous and giddy of that dream? Dream was supposing to be not real, right?

So why she felt those feelings and it had gotten worse and now it made her felt disturbed, very if you might add.

As if…

As if she was waiting that young man.

Her thought went to the red eyed young man for the umpteenth time. Ellen unconsciously swallowed quietly at this. It was impossible. There was no way he was real. The dream was meant to be unreal. Normal dream wouldn't disturb or haunted her like this.

Or was it a sign since the very beginning? A Premonition? Ellen's soft and pink lips turned into a frown. Was it really a sign or premonition to more correctly from the start?

Her lively grayish silver eyes narrowed a bit as she continued to look out from the window.

No wonder it disturbed her greatly. Come to think of it, there was something weird about that dream. But she couldn't put it where. Perhaps it was the young man's aura, perhaps it was the chamber, and it could be everything. She then just realized something. She remembered she saw something else inside that chamber but what? Her eyes widened a few moments later.

Behind the young man, beyond the other side of the chamber, there was a dark hallway. Ellen didn't know to where it went as she was too preoccupied with the young man's figure, and mostly his beautiful spinel eyes, but she did felt something faintly came from that hallway. Ellen sensed a calm yet powerful and dangerous aura came across the chamber. Somehow it gave a similar aura with the young man and what baffled her more that she just realized over the fact their resonance almost matched. And it called for her attention.

How come?

Was that dream tried to tell her something?

She sighed quietly and closed her eyelids. There were many questions for this and too few to be answered as she didn't had any clue of it. The snow white haired girl hoped that it wasn't a bad sign for her.

But deep in her heart, Ellen really had a slight hope to meet the young man once more even though she knew that he couldn't be real.

The petite young woman didn't know that she would meet him very soon.

And they would not meet in a normal way and circumstance.

For their fate had been crossed and twisted by the will of Fate and Fortune.

Rapid steps echoed through the hall of Lucis Main Palace, sky colored eyes looked through of it with critical and wariness, expected groups of invaders came up. Black sword with mechanical motorcycle like handle was ready in his hand. His clothes also had changed from dark suit to casual like clothes. His whole body tensioned and in alarm. Few steps behind him, three certain friends of his were following him and scanned their surrounding with critical eyes. Noctis had seen how the situation has gone far in Lucis Kingdom. And it made him devastated for a moment.

It was bad. It was very bad.

In every corner of the city, there were fire blazing in destroyed cars and buildings, destruction, many people hurt and run to a safer place as his kingdom' soldiers instruction. Some of them help the citizens to refugee while others tried to fight back and defended the kingdom. The Palace wasn't even in better situation then the city for it also in under attack. He even met a bunch of white grayish armored soldiers; the invaders, completed with their fire arms in the front of the palace. It took his time and help from his friends a lot to get rid them, but in the end Noctis and his companions managed it.

It made him so sad.

It hurt him very much to saw his citizens were suffering. His heart clenched tight at this sad feeling he felt right now. The black prince set his jaws firm and face lifted forward. He wouldn't let them went farther than this. He fastened his pace as he sensed few of the invaders come to his way. When he saw around two dozen silver armored soldiers, he wasted no time to use his power. Blue sky eyes flickered into red eyes as he roared in anger.

"OUT OF MY WAY…!" Noctis summoned his weapons and sent them to kill the enemy's soldiers.

ZRASSSH!

JRASSH!

SLASH! SLASH!

SLASSH!

Invisible weapons pierced and stabbed the enemies without mercy and as fast as lightning. One by one then started fallen like rag dolls which strings being cut forcefully. Some of them didn't managed to did their supposed act let alone scream. They fell to the black marble floor with clanks of metal and thuds.

The prince went through the fallen soldiers and slashed few more soldiers before they could fire. When he was almost finishing them, he saw that one last soldier tried to shoot him only to be slashed by Gladiolus's sword. The soldier dropped his gun and soon followed his fallen comrades' steps. Gladiolus swung his sword briefly to get rid the blood which stained his sword. Ignis and Prompto stopped near the prince and the scarred man.

"Dear Etro, they even managed to get into the inside palace." Prompto commented as he slightly gasped from kept running without stop from the city.

"They tried to hit us when we're in careless." Ignis complied in dry tone. "Good thing King Regis place more soldiers and guards in entire city otherwise thing would be or could be worse than this."

"Where is Father now?" Noctis asked urgently and a bit with demanding tone.

"Safe with the members of the Senate. Cor is with them as well. They now in the west section in palace, and are guarded tightly."

Although he relieved for his father, another second later he then filled with anger and vengeance for his enemies. Noctis' sky blue eyes changed into murderous red eyes and his bluish black hair changed into a completely dark color like a moonless night. Almost in an instant he was full by intensive killing intent which made his friends slightly flinched at that. His fury in this moment almost matched the king when he was in very, very bad days and normally, it rarely happened. But the damage was done and now he was in the situation where he couldn't control his own anger and itself was a scary sign.

There was no way they attacked the palace without a valid reason. They were after something which being kept by the Kingdom of Lucis. Something which both for he and his father had to protect no matter what happen. If the enemy were indeed from Niflheim, there was only one person, no, one culprit who dare to do this. And if his intuition was right the culprit was already in here and he would be in…

"Noct?" Prompto called his name carefully, obviously uncomfortable to saw his friend in foul mood.

"The Holy Chamber." His voice full in hate and venom, promised those who attack them a great pain they would never forget. "I should've known it since beginning!"

Due to shocked by his sudden change personality, too drastically change even, before they even saw it, he already turned his body and gone far from them toward the most important room in this palace. The room that they must protect it no matter what they cost, the room which the Great Crystal was being kept for generations. The crystal which was gave to them by the goddess Etro herself. He wouldn't let them touch it one bit, not while he was the keeper of it.

"Noct, wait! You shouldn't…" before Prompto could finish his word, the black clad young man had disappeared from the view. The shotgun guy stole a glance at his other friends who lips pulled into deep frowns. "Okay, what should we do next?"

Ignis sighed heavily. He had knew that this whole invade thing had made the younger male lost his patience. And if that happened…..

"Someone have to follow and make sure he's not doing anything he would regret." Ignis replied in obvious tone. "Not all of us can go as the rest of us must hold the invaders. I can't leave the palace filled by those invaders and I need Gladiolus in here."

"Right, so I have to go?" Prompto raised one of his eyebrows sarcastically at the older man.

"I have no choice in here."

"Never mind, I have a mind to follow him, you know." Prompto then dashed to the same direction which the prince went.

"Be careful!" Gladiolus half shouted as he readied his sword at the oncoming invaders that came from the other side.

"I will!"

Right in the heart of the palace there was a room, named as the Holy Chamber that nobody could enter it, except the royal family and their most trusted people. Placed in the deepest of the palace, this room was stored what the royal family of Lucis had protected since thousands years ago. The room was holding a thing that became the main reason why this war started. Something that Etro, the Goddess of Death gave to humankind as a gift. Yet most of the foolish human used those to fight each other until almost all of them lost, except one in the Lucis Kingdom. And with immediately this thing had became the main reason of new war, new battle.

In the middle of that dark and luxurious room, filled with thin layer of clean and cold water on the floor, a huge bluish crystal glowed majestically and elegantly. It gave a unique aura, a mixture between light, darkness and mostly death.

The Etro's gift to humanity.

The last crystal that held the power of the magic and the power of the dead.

The Great Crystal of Lucis.

Stood before the crystal was a white cloaked man with hood covered most of his head. Lips pulled into a small smirk, the hooded figure then started to chant a spell with hushed voice for few moments. And around the huge crystal, appeared a few of magic circles surrounded the magnificent crystal. Looked very satisfied, the white hooded man was about to starting the next phase. At this however, the man's concentration broke as footsteps echoed from behind and approached him. Frowned deeply, the hooded figure turned his head a bit to found that the Prince of Lucis himself who came to this room and confront him with a very dark look in his face. The hooded man's lips pulled down a bit.

Noctis at otherwise had to resisted the very urge to threw his strongest magic at the hooded man he had grew familiar with, too familiar even to be recognized as his enemy.

He came face to face with the hooded man he despised with. The man opened his hood as he turned to face the black clad young man and revealed his shoulder blond hair, but the light from the crystal and the magic circles had shadowed his face. The only things could saw from this man was he appeared to be around Noctis' age and have a same height to him more or less. And from Noct's distaste expression and the man's frowned lips, it was obvious that they were arch enemy.

Narrowed his spinel eyes Noctis kept walking as he raised his power and called it upon to him. As if knew what the prince would do the hooded figure lifted one of his hand. When he raised his right hand completely and directed it to the prince of Lucis, circles of magic formed in incredible speed. Expected this move of the hooded man, Noctis was summoned his black falchion and threw it right into the blond haired man. The falchion was shooting toward the blonde and stopped on the young man's face barely a centimeter. Around the hooded young man, black weapons, such as swords, fire arms, and any others surrounded like a black barrier.

"So it's you." Noctis glared at the young man before him.

The man smirked in cynical in return. "Hello again Noctis. I see your bad temperance hasn't change at all."

"I see your arrogance hasn't change yet." He retorted hotly as he stepped further to the chamber.

He analyzed the man and the crystal quickly and made a calculation from his scan, which turned to be a bad news for him and only made him frustrated more. As he had suspected, the magic this man before him had used was a special magic. He had only ever saw it and read it in the books. The spell of revocation. It used to extract the magic power from one medium and moved it to another's. The surely would used it to take the crystal's power. If this was true then the crystal would be in grave danger. No, the whole kingdom was in grave danger would fall to the doom.

Determined, he would beat the young man before him and if needed, he would destroy him at any cost given. He would make sure of that the man, the bastard before would pay for this.

"You, what do you want this time?" Noctis growled out. "Are you never satisfied to get your hands on the Great Crystal?"

The blonde man chuckled in mirth amusement. "Do you have to ask when you already knew of it, Prince Noctis?"

"Bastard," he spat in cold voice. "I should've known the moment Niflheim attacked this kingdom! You're the one who behind this!"

The cloaked young man smirked slightly in mocking manner.

"Now, now, Prince Caelum, main heir of Lucis line, it isn't a good way to talk to other people."

"I still have my manner to all people but you." Noctis spat coldly.

"Still a hotheaded, aren't you?" The hooded young man sighed mockingly at the main heir of Lucis.

"What are you going to do with the crystal?" the furious black clad young man asked in venom.

"My, you're not patient. That isn't good for you..."

"ANSWER ME…!" Noctis' voice thundered through the Holy Chamber, his patience almost reached its end.

The tenseness grew increasingly and followed by deadly silence between the two royalty members from two different kingdoms that opposite each other. The cloaked man was silent, he shut his mouth and his lips turned in a frown. Seconds passed as the currently red eyed prince glared to him. He huffed deeply as if he had no other choice before he fixed his stare at the prince of Lucis. Gone his previously gentleman tone, only to be replaced by cold and ambitious filled voice.

"Isn't it obvious, Prince Noctis? This is my matter and not yours. I will use this power to rule everything. To destroy anything that blocking my way to obtain my desire included you."

Noctis' eyes went wide with shock but it went quickly as it came and his set his cold mask once more. The main heir of Lucis Kingdom didn't loosen his guard. Instead he fisted his left hand as he kept his stretched arm face the blonde, ready to attack at any given moment if he did a suspicious move. Inside however he was very worried about blonde's statement. Noct didn't like that tone and truthfully he had bad feeling about this... Only one way to find out...

"What do you mean?" Red eyes narrowed at the cloaked blonde.

"Don't you see how great the power of the crystal is? How powerful is the Etro's Gift?" The hooded figure began, took a brief glance at the glowed bluish crystal behind him, and admired its beauty. "With this magnificent power I can create a new era, a new world where the world will be uniting within Niflheim Kingdom. The world where Lucis Kingdom is destroyed, nothing but only legends and folklores."

The statement had gotten Noctis furious. If looks could kill, the blond haired young man would be busted without doubt.

"You're nuts." Noctis hissed dangerously.

"Am I?" the blonde asked him, dared the prince of Lucis.

"I will not let you touch it, furthermore use it for such ridiculous ambition!"

"As much as I want to talk to you, unfortunately I have to finish some jobs in here. So if you will excuse me, Noctis…" his stretched palm then flashed with magic and the magic circles around Noctis began to active.

"Oh no, you don't!" the black haired young man shouted as he moved his power too.

The room was reeks with two different and contradictive magic. It got stronger when both their powers went activated in the very same moment and increased. They were ready to attack to each other.

It was right in that very second that would determine the fate of the last crystal, the black haired prince then sensed something. And from the sudden change of his enemy's expression, he had felt the same too. That's when everything went out of the control and out of both the young man's knowledge. They were about to confront, they about to enter a fierce battle and the next thing they knew the Great Crystal power pulsed, and all of sudden the huge crystal shone brightly and let out its power. The vibration which the power of the crystal gave was sending an earthquake like wave to the entire room. The shook wave was hard to the extent that both princes have their magic undo and kept their body's balance from being fall. Bad for them, the shook was the only beginning from huge event they would encountered very soon. The shook like earthquake was just an opening stage from the whole performance created by destiny. One more player to go and the performance would be complete and started.

"What the h*ll!?" A certain shotgun wielder yelped as an earthquake like vibrations shook the front chamber he just entered.

He tried to keep his body balanced however the hard wave made his effort failed as Prompto stumbled backwards. Luckily he then leaned to the nearest pillars he could found.

As the shooks kept continue, Prompto began to feel anxious. The Kingdom of Lucis was not an earthquake prone area; moreover he could feel some kind of pressure from the deeper chamber, where the Great Crystal stored. So the earthquake wave like most likely came from the main chamber. His thought then went to his prince friend who got there earlier. His ocean colored eyes widened at the worst possibility.

"Oh Dear Etro. You're better being alright, Noct or King would have my head for this." Prompt vowed drily as he straightened his body from the pillar.

Hurriedly he ran through the front chamber and entered the dark corridor. Not for a long he could saw the light that came from the main chamber. But something was wrong. The light was few times brighter than the usual glow the crystal gave at normal circumstance. But again, this was not a normal circumstance. They were in critical condition, very if he might add. His uneasy feeling grew bigger and he fastened his feet.

Prompto then managed to arrive to the sacred chamber when the shook still occurred. Imagine his shock when he found that Noctis was confronting blonde haired young man with white cloak who he also familiar with. But it didn't really matter as his mostly attention now focused at the huge crystal before them. To his devastate, the crystal flashed with unusual brightness and he got this feeling that it was just the beginning. The brightness went stronger rapidly so was the vibrations and that was his cue to get Noct. And most of all, warned him to get away from the crystal.

Prompto then ran toward his friend who stood good few feet before him. Heard rapid footsteps approached him from behind, Noctis turned his head on time to catch a glimpse of his blonde friend with that strained look on his face.

"NOCTIS! LOOK OUT….!" Prompro's voice echoed through the whole chamber and before the prince knew it, the light that erupted from the Great Crystal suddenly exploded and wrapped the chamber with blindfold flash of light. The light then hit all the occupants, it went with no exception with Noctis. But the light or more likely the power of the crystal actually even did more to him.

Noctis felt his power suddenly drained and he loosened the grip on his falchion before it slipped and disappeared with flash of blue light. His eyelids grew heavy despise his effort to tried to kept awake. His body was getting heavy as he lost his strength and balance to stand up. When he couldn't keep his conscious any longer, his body finally gave up and he fell forward before he closed his eyes completely. But strangely he felt like he was being floated as his feet didn't rest on the floor.

The last thing he could hear was Prompto's panicked shouts, called his name over and over again.

Darkness went to his line of vision.

Everything became dark to him and he knew no more as slumber claimed him.

Then nothing.

Ellen who just happened to came back from training season with Link trailed behind her, was opened her jacket when once again she looked at the outside of the window. Her grey eyes scanned the sky which she noticed it happened to had more dark clouds than this morning. She also could spot one or two flash of thunder in there. Ellen head tilted a bit in wonder.

"I wonder if it would rain today..." she murmured softly. She put her jacket to the coat hangers and sat on the chair near the window. And with that her thought went fly to the dream she couldn't forget yet from weeks ago.

Link meanwhile took a sat on his work table and ready to do his paperwork if only the white haired young woman he kept an eye wasn't had this odd look on her face. Actually, it had began from yesterday, but that time time he only thought that she just depressed since her Master was died. But today it happened again and he began to suspect that there was something more. Ellen was thinking of something and judged from her confuse express, it disturbed her enough. But whenever Lenalee or Lavi or even Marie caught her like that and questioned her, Ellen would say that she was fine and dismissed it immediately. Link sighed quietly and put his pen back to the desk and the question was out from his mouth.

"Walker, is there something which bothered you?"

Ellen fixed her stare at the blond haired young man who sat not far from her; apparently he was about to doing his paperwork.

"Eh?"

"I said is something bothered you?" he repeated tonelessly.

"Why you're asking me like that, Link?" Ellen asked back.

"Your face is looked trouble in few times today, including this morning. Moreover you had acted like that since yesterday. So I'm asking you, is something matter?"

"Um… " Ellen seemed reluctant at his question. Sometimes he was pretty sharp for this matter much to her discomfort and annoyance. "No, I'm fine. I'm…"

She was about to answering the braided young man's question when suddenly a memory of a young man, the one who looked at her with such concern and worry of spinel red eyes from her dream, flashed both within her mind and eyes and it made her frowned in confused instead of answered the Inspector. Her white eyebrows lifted in confuse manner.

Why she remembered the black clad young man from her dream out of sudden? And moreover at the time like this?

"Walker? Why you are frowning like that?" the blonde Inspector called her, narrowed his eyes.

"Uh…It's nothing. Just…" Ellen fell silent completely when she then sensed something. Followed later, she could hear a faint tune played by a piano. Her silver eyes blinked, the frown on her lips became deeper. Was this just her feeling or she could sense that Ark was calling for her? But it couldn't be. How the Ark could did it? Was something happened to the said white Ark? As she pondered at this, her answer was coming almost in immediately. Ellen gasped in surprised when her left eye started to gave a reaction. But it reactions became odd also this time. Instead throbbed hard, it only gave a gentle pulse yet demanded attention from her as she felt an aura.

It wasn't an aura of Akuma, furthermore it didn't had any sinister feeling. It was dark and seemed threatening, yes, but somehow it also gave a calm and gentle feeling. It was a familiar aura to her just like… just like the young man she met in her dream weeks ago. Her heart began to beat fast at the memory of the young man. With very incredulous feeling that filled her heart, the young woman tried to trail the aura. Her silver eyes immediately went to outside the window. It was coming from the outside, and what made her anxious, it was coming from the inside of the Ark.

"Walker?" Link called her once more, this time in faintly concern. He couldn't find a word to describe it but somehow he could tell that her attitude today seemed off.

Then suddenly, the young woman leapt from her chair beside the window, startled slightly the Inspector and wore her shoes in hurry.

"Link, I'm sorry, but I've to go!" Ellen then stood up and snatched her uniform jacket to wear it.

"Walker, where are you going to?" Link asked her in frown. He made a move to follow the girl in similar pace.

"To the Ark!" Ellen's voice sounded urgent, worry, and in hurry. Link frowned at her reaction. Something bothered her definitely. Moreover much to his suspicion, she was going to the Ark. It made Link went wary and he couldn't help but alarmed by her acts. Something must be wasn't going right to the white haired young woman, so he had his right to wary too. His suspicion went true when she added more. And it alarmed him immediately.

"Someone's there and it's neither Noah nor one of the researchers!"

Meanwhile…

Inside the Ark, to where the white room with a white piano lied within, a certain shadowy gentleman was playing the keys with elegant moves. His black hands danced smoothly above the black and white keys. Sometimes he hummed the tune he was playing recently. Time kept passed for long enough before he suddenly stopped played. He then stood from the piano chair and turned half his head to a direction. He felt a presence in this place. It was faint at first but it grew stronger rapidly and that's when something happened.

Much of tiny crystal flakes appeared and float to everywhere inside the room, followed by numerous blue lights which looked like a souls of the dead. The shadowy gentleman watched it with deep fascination and somehow giddy motion.

As if he was waiting something to appear…

Then out from nothing, a circle with color of blue sky formed few feet from him. It was designed with runes and others ancient alphabets and symbols and a wing symbol as the main symbol. Above the circle, a shape of something slowly manifested few feet from where he recently stood up. At first it was made transparent shapes, and then the shapes went more visible and real as each second had passed. It kept continue like that until it was completed, revealed the whole shape of a young man with closed eyes, and wore unique black clothes. His body was floated few centimeters above the ground where the circle took in, surrounded by the crystal flakes and blue lights like dead spirits. Then slowly the tiny flakes of the crystal and the blue lights vanished from the sight. Almost in the same time, the circle glowed beneath him began to die down before it lose its power completely left the currently unconscious young man fell into the floor with a thud and out of cold.

Once he saw the unconscious young man that lied on the white and cold floor, the mysterious figure lips slowly pulled into a happy and meaningful smile.

Finally…

"Ah, at last… he got here sooner than I have expected." He mused to himself, voice filled with an amusement.

Finally…

At last what he had been waiting for finally came to him. He couldn't wait to see his dear and beloved niece meet with the one he had call to this dimension, to this world. His smile grew much wider, filled with the giddiness. Everything was according to the plan into this phase.

"Welcome to this world, the Prince of the Sky."

And now he moved to the next phase.

So how do you think? Like it? Hate it? Since I'm in the middle of test and probably will be long before update again, I decide to have this chapter longer. But honestly, I never had any idea that it will be THIS long. My expectation it will be around 5,500 words and now look at this chapter now. It's more than 6,000 words. I had the previous chapters edited to make the chapters more have sense and complete because I had reread them and seriously to me there were some holes in here and there. Also about the pairing, I have quite response, I'm very happy for it, and so far the vote is;

a. EllenxNoctis = 2

And

b. EllenxTyki = 3

But please don't worry; I'm still opening the vote in here, perhaps until the next update since I'm waiting more reviews. So which pairing do you like? EllenxNoctis? EllenxTyki? Please review in here~! XD