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There were soldiers in black and two guys in front of them, the other guy had blonde hair and he was wearing white shirt with a grey vest, his jeans were grey too. He was holding a shotgun on his other hand.
The slightly bigger guy had a really dark blue hair; Lightning could barely see that his hair just wasn't pitch black even though it was dark outside, she saw that it had that bluish hue.
All his clothes were very dark colored too, everything was black. On top he had black leather jacket and a biker glove on the other hand. He was also wearing a pair of black military boots.
Lightning stared at him and smirked.
Fang glared at her.
"Well, well what do we have here?" The guy in black asked mischievously.
He sounded really tired but at the same time his voice was smooth and silky.
"Is he sick?" Lightning thought. He was really pale and he looked like he had not slept for ages. He had dark circles under his eyes. But still he maintained to look…good." she thought.
Fang punched Lightning's shoulder. "Stop daydreaming." She whispered.
"We are just visiting, we have the permission to cross borders." Fang lied.
"May I see it?" The blonde guy asked and smirked.
Fang acted like she had forgotten something and she wasn't good at it. "I guess we lost it." She said.
"I knew that." The blonde guy said and smiled.
"Excuse me?" Fang stared him in surprised.
"Damn it, the guards must have detected us without us knowing."Lightning cursed in her mind."This isn't good."
A strange dark aura was starting to surround the guy in black. He looked very serious and then he just swept his hand through the air and a sword appeared to his hand, out of nowhere.
Lightning and Fang stared at him with a slight fear on their faces. Only the owner of the crystal would have that kind of skills.
"Uh-oh" Fang said.
"I can summon more swords, so if your soldiers attack on me you're pretty much dead. You don't want to that to happen right?" He said "Who's the leader in your group?"
"I am." Lightning said.
"Oh, that little girl? I've never seen a girl leading an army." He mocked.
Lightning was pissed off. She hated when somebody compared started to compare men to women.
"You look little like a girl too. Why are you so skinny? Don't you ever eat anything?" Lightning smiled. He wasn't skinny at all, but she couldn't come up with anything else to mock him about. She wasn't good at it.
"Okay. Let's fight so we'll see who's the girlier one." He said and teleported so close to her that she couldn't drew her sword.
"What the fuck?" Lightning was puzzled and she stared at his deep blue eyes for a moment confused.
"You're pretty." He said and took a step back so he could attack.
Lightning was quicker. She drew her sword and tried to hit him with the sword to slash his neck open.
His and hers swords clashed against each other. He stumbled back a little.
"You seem to have poor balance." Lightning mocked.
He gave her a smug smirk. "Not so quick, I'm not ready yet."
"What, are you asking me to give you a time out?" Lightning smirked.
His eyes turned red like flames for a moment but then they went back to normal.
"Shut up already! Get out of my kingdom!" He shouted to her.
"Who said to you that this is your kingdom? That's funny, have you escaped from mental hospital?" Lightning laughed. "Or are you just trying to talk yourself out of this situation, because a girl is going to kick your ass? How embarrassing."
"I'm the prince, so show me some respect bitch!" He clenched his teeth. "Prompto, take care of the other bitch!" He shouted to Prompto.
Lightning froze for a moment and stared at him, then she realized that she couldn't be staring at him all the day.
"Prince is getting his ass kicked by a girl." Lightning mocked
Prompto nodded hesitatingly and loaded his gun.
Then the troops attacked on each other.
"I didn't command you attack!" Noctis ordered and summoned more swords, they floated in the air. As he summoned the swords, he got surrounded by a defensive barrier, to avoid himself getting hit.
Lightning's eyes widened and she dodged when he raised his hand to command the swords. He swept his hand calmly from right to left slaughtering his and Lightning's troops just like that.
"What the fuck? He killed his own army. Is he crazy or something?"Lightning thought.
Now there was only she and Fang and against them.
"What did you think of that?" He looked down to her.
"This guy is such a jerk, he's so full of himself "Lightning thought
"I think that you didn't have the courage to face them without using your ridiculous skills, so that you wouldn't get killed." She mocked him.
His eyes flashed red for a short time and then they turned to dark blue color. "You shouldn't have said that." He dismissed the swords around him.
Lightning tried to strike him immediately, but she was too slow. He grabbed her by her wrist before she could finish her strike.
"How can you be a soldier, if you're that slow? I'm amazed how you're still alive." He held her wrist tightly. "This thing here is dangerous, you shouldn't be carrying things like this around, you might get hurt." He mocked as he took her sword of her hand and threw it away.
Lightning took her change and punched him in the throat with her left hand. He didn't have enough time to dodge; his coordination was slowed down by the alcohol. The hit the ground hard, holding his throat.
"Aw shit!" He tried to get the words out of his mouth, gasping for air.
Lightning pinned him to the ground and took her knife which Serah had given her. He used it for self-defense only; she hadn't ever killed anyone with it.
"You know, this isn't really the right time and place for this." He wheezed and looked at her a smirk on his face.
Lightning stared at him astonished and slapped his cheek.
"Ow! what was that for?" He held his cheek.
"Quit playing games jackass, where's the crystal?" Lightning pressed her knife against his throat.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." He tried to look innocent.
"What a waste" She thought
Lightning slashed his throat. He moaned of pain.
"Dammit get off me!" He tried to keep the knife away from him. He squirmed in pain.
Lightning felt a bit regretful; she didn't like to see other people suffering but she had to do this.
She had got him off-guard, there was no way he could summon his swords when his hands were pinned on the ground.
"This is my last warning, where is the crystal? I know you have it. Don't make me kill you." Lightning grit her teeth, she was getting really irritated.
"You won't dare to do that, bitch." He mocked.
She couldn't understand what he said. He was pretty much begging her to kill him; but she didn't really want to kill him, for some odd reason. He made her confused. She didn't even notice that she rose up for a bit to see his eyes. She saw hatred and sadness in his eyes, it made her even more confused.
"Why would he be sad, he seemed like a coldblooded killer."Lightning thought
She had loosened her grip on him, so that he could get his hands free. He quickly raised his upper body and pushed Lightning off him. He rose up and swiped the dust off his jacket. The blood was flowing down his neck.
"That was a dirty move you know?" He spoke heavily breathing, he didn't seem to care about his wound, he was severely bleeding.
"Damn it, I can't stand to watch that." A voice in her mind said.
Lightning just wanted to punch herself for making him to suffer. He'd bleed to death at any moment.
She was off-guard, she was thinking too much. Then she felt horrible pain what made her drop down on her knees holding the right side of her waist. He had managed to hit, now she felt stupid.
"Fang, go back to Serah to tell what have happened!" She shouted to Fang.
She felt the warmness of her blood. A huge pool of blood was forming on the ground. Then her vision started to dim.
"Dammit."
"No, I don't leave you here dying!" Fang shouted.
"Just go, it's my last wish. Let her know. I'm too severely wounded." She gasped for air.
Everything went black.
0o0o0o0o0o0
Lightning woke up; she was in a huge room, laying on a bed. The bed itself was so big that at least four people would fit in it. The walls were painted black with a little burgundy details near the ceiling. The sofas were also burgundy too. The floor was made of marble, shiny black marble. The room was dark. Lightning didn't like the room, it was distressing.
"Where am I?" Lightning thought.
She tried rise in sitting position, but the pain made her to drop back down. Her wound on her waist was aching; it felt like it was burning. She couldn't do nothing but to trying to endure the pain.
"Great, am I a prisoner or what?"Lightning sighed in her mind.
She heard someone walking down the hallway and the door opened. The blond haired guy stepped in. Lightning was horrified.
"Good morning beauty, are you feeling any better?" He smiled warmly.
"Stay away from me!" Lightning shouted to him and tried to get in better position, if she needed to defense herself.
"Wow wow, calm down. You're hurting yourself." He said concerned and walked next to the bed.
"Don't touch me, or I'll kill you!" Lightning tried shouted to him, and moaned of the pain which slashed her every time when she tried to move farther away from him.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to make sure that you're okay. I won't hurt you." He said.
"How can you think that I'm okay? You two just tried to kill us!" Lightning glared at him.
"Noctis doesn't like visitors from other kingdoms. He overacts sometimes, I'm sorry." He ran his finger through his hair.
"Who's Noctis?" Lightning asked.
"He's the prince." He said. "Oh and I'm Prompto, nice to meet you!" He stretched his hand out to shake her hand.
"So the prince's name is Noctis, were his parents drunk when they named their son?" She thought and snickered.
Prompto stared at her trying to find out what was she thinking.
Prompto stared at her for a moment to get a better look at her, she was really beautiful.
"What are you doing?" Lightning asked tiredly.
He blushed. "Nothing, I was just thinking."
"Can you tell me where am I, this room frightens me." Lightning asked.
"This is one of the many guest rooms in the castle." He smiled.
"Is this Noctis' castle?"
"Yes." Prompto answered.
She was astonished, why was she here and why was he concerned of how she was doing?
"I can't sit in this room for the rest of my life. What happens if I run into the prince?" She knew that horrible things would happen if she would meet him. But why was he in his castle then, why would he care?
"Where's Fang?" Lightning asked.
"The other girl with you?" He asked.
"Yes, what did you do to her?" She almost shouted.
"She pretty much kicked my ass at first and then she started to head back after you ordered her to go back." Prompto said.
Lightning was relieved. Now her family and friends at least knew where she was.
Or they more likely thought that she was dead, after what Fang had seen.
But at least they knew what happened to her.
Lightning yawned.
"Oh, I guess you should get some sleep. I'll come later to change your bandages." He said while he was walking towards the door.
"What?" Lightning shouted.
"What is it?" Prompto turned around and looked at her.
"I don't want you to come any closer to me than you just were, I'm quite sure you have something in the back of your mind."
"Noctis ordered me to do so, I don't want to make him angry. I'll be pretty much dead if I don't follow his orders." He said to her and left the room, closing the door behind him.
"He ordered to take care of me? I can't understand what he's trying to achieve. She almost killed him and he almost killed her, it doesn't make sense."Lightning was pondering.
She couldn't keep herself awake anymore, she felt really weak, she must have lost a lot of blood. She tried to make herself more comfortable by turning on her other side. God that hurt, but at least the bed was soft and comfy.
She wrapped herself under the blanket and fell asleep.
0o0o0o0o0o0
Noctis sat in front of his working table. It was full of papers and letters and other paperwork.
He rubbed his neck where he had gotten gashed. He flinched. He didn't wasn't too sure how big the wound was. He didn't have mirrors in his castle. He hated mirrors; he didn't like looking at himself.
He had to take some painkillers to make the pain bareable, he would have wanted to take a drink too, but he knew he shouldn't start using drugs and alcohol at the same time. Now he was sober, he hadn't been sober for a long time. But now he had horrible withdrawal symptoms.
"Why is the whole world against me?" He sighed and laid his head on the table and hit his fist against the table. His stomach growled. He had to eat something, sometimes he had so much to do that he forgot to eat or then he was too drunk.
He sent a message to the kitchen to prepare some food for him. He could use it 24/7, there was always some chefs, in case of he wanted to eat something. He had tried to cook by himself once, but he almost ended up burning the whole kitchen. But he would be happy to learn to do something by himself too, he was quite bored that he would get anything he wanted just by asking.
He called to the kitchen. "Get me some food here now and make some food for the girl too, and ask a maid to bring it to her room. Her room is in the east wing." Noctis spoke to the phone.
Silence, the chef must have thought who was he talking about, but then he answered. "Yes your highness."
Noctis hung up the phone.
0o0o0o0o0o0
"Get away from me, now!"
"No, I can't help it, I must follow Noctis' orders, or I'll be gone for good." Prompto sat down on the bed. "Now come here."
"Just stay away from me, it's easier for both of us." Lightning said.
"Okay, let's do this into the hard way then." He climbed on the bed laying the bandages and other stuff on the bed.
"Wow wow, I think that I'll be fine without changing 'em." She tried to convince him.
"You'll get an infection."
"It's prince's fault then" Lightning said "Why is he keeping me here anyway?"
"I'm not sure, he doesn't talk a lot." Prompto put it simply. "Now, pull your shirt up."
"What?" She shouted.
"How do you think I'm going to change them otherwise? He smirked. "I can help if you need it."
"Shut up, pervert."
"I can call Noctis, if he would like to lend a hand." Prompto said with a slight laughter.
"Hell no."
"What if I get you a kitty?"
"Prompto, stop behaving childishly." Lightning rolled her eyes.
"No, I'm serious. Wait." He ran out of the door.
How are all the people here so weird?Lightning thought.
About 30 minutes later he came back with a house shaped basket.
"That's ridiculous." She said.
"No it's not, all girls like cute things, like kitties." Prompto laid the basked down.
"I don't" Lightning said.
"You should relax a little, it's not like I'm going to hurt you or something." Prompto said.
"It's hard to –"
"Here, look!" He lifted up a little white kitty with a red bow tie around her neck.
"…Are you serious" Lightning said with a questioning tone.
"Yes, what do you think of it?"
"It's pretty, thanks Prompto. Lay her down, you can't treat her like that."
"Oh, sorry. What king of name you want to give her?" Prompto asked and sat down on the bed.
"Does Melody sound stupid?" Lightning asked, she didn't really mind that he was so close. He didn't seem any hostile.
"No." Prompto answered and lifted himself up on the bed, crossing his legs.
"I can see what you're trying to do."
"I didn't do anything." He rolled over next to Lightning and laid his head between his hands.
"Hey, don't come so close. You're in my private area." Lightning said to him
"I knew you would finally give up, you just don't want to admit it." He smiled at her. "Okay let's change the bandages!"
"I didn't give you a permission to do that."
"Ahh, well let me at least have a look, so I can tell Noctis if you're dying or not." Prompto sighed.
"I'm not dying."
Prompto poked her. "Does this hurt?"
"Ow! Please leave me alone." Lightning moaned of the pain.
"Is that a yes?"
"Please keep your hands away from me, you're hurting me." She said.
"Right, well I guess that's enough for this day. Enjoy your kitty." He rose up and exited the room.
"He isn't so bad as I first thought" She thought
Melody meowed.
"Oh sorry, I forgot about you. Come here." Lightning said to her. The kitty came and sat on Lightning's lap purring. "Be careful where you step." Lightning stroke her.
She indeed was cute and cuddly.
0o0o0o0o0o0
Noctis walked down the hallway. He was on his way from the dining room to his room, when he saw a white kitty running down the hallway and entering one of the rooms.
"What the fuck" Noctis said out loud.
He walked followed the kitty to the room she went in. He thought that it was some maids room or something, he didn't even know what all the rooms looked like, since there was so many of them.
"What the fuck are you doing in my castle?" He shouted to the kitty hissed at him.
"Shut up, little prick." Noctis muttered and tried to kick the kitty, but she was faster and ran back to the hallway.
Someone rose up a little in the bed. Her hair was messy and she looked very tired. He had woken her up.
"Whoops" Noctis whispered to himself.
She rubbed the sleep off her eyes.
"Sorry?" She said.
His eyes widened.
"Oh shit" Noctis thought, it was the girl he brought into the castle. "Uh umm, I think I have to go, bye!" He said quickly and went to the door but he stopped when she asked:
"Wait, who are you? Are you Noctis?" She asked.
"Uhm, well in I guess so." His breath whined.
Lightning tried to get in sitting position, it hurt a lot. She moaned quietly of the pain.
Lightning was terrified, she was vulnerable. She couldn't move.
"Oh god, why is he here and what is he going to do to me?" Lightning thought.
Lightning could see that he was in pain, she was pretty good in reading body language. Then her defensive barrier dropped and her caring side took control. "Are you okay?" Lightning asked.
Noctis clenched his fists. "Uh, I guess so." He tried to leave.
"What's wrong with him? Why is he behaving like that? It was like he had many different personalities" She thought.
"Can you look at me when you're talking at me?" She asked, just to make sure it was him.
"Sorry I have much paperwork to do." He said
"I don't care, just turn around."
He turned around, trying to avoid her gaze and trying to keep his head down, so she couldn't see the wound. He didn't want to show her that he was vulnerable, he was known as coldblooded killer, he didn't want to show that he could get wounded too.
Lightning stared at him. The wound on his neck was long and deep. It was dark red and the skin around the wound was red, he got bruises too, it must be infected or something.
Lightning felt bad. She ignored the change that he could now easily kill her while she was in this state.
"Can you come closer, so I can have a good look." She asked.
"Should I go to her or just get out of the room?" Noctis pondered.
"I'm not going to hurt you." Lightning sighed.
Noctis wasn't too sure what to do, but he decided to go. There was nothing to lose, she couldn't really hurt him more in that state. He went next to her bed.
"What do you want?" He asked
"Just kneel down a little so I can speak to your properly." She tried to make excuses, but she ended up making herself look stupid. She just wanted to see how much damage had she inflicted to him.
"I'm the prince I'm not kneeling in front of anyone." He said arrogantly.
"Don't behave childishly, it's not too much to ask."
Noctis lowered down onto her level.
Lightning raised her hand to raise his head a little. He flinched. "Don't worry." She lightly touched his wound.
The wound was burning under her hand. He had to exert himself to not to moan of the pain, but at the same time it felt good how she carefully slid her warm smooth hand on his skin, along his neck. Then she let his head drop. Noctis blushed.
"Does it hurt? Have you shown it to a doctor?" Lightning asked.
He looked at her. "Why does she care?" He just attempted to kill her the other day. She should be afraid of him.
He couldn't look into her eyes, he was too shy. His cheeks turned red.
"No, I'm okay." He muttered.
"Are you sure?" Lightning asked, she was worried of him, she noticed how much it hurt him when she touched him.
"Yes, bye" He rose up and were about to walk out of the room.
"I'm sorry" She whispered.
He didn't believe what he heard. He turned around, staring at her.
"Can I ask something?" Noctis looked at her.
"Yes, what is it?" Lightning said.
"What is your name?" Noctis asked.
"Lightning."
She was a little surprised because he decided to ask that.
"Uh, okay. That's cool. Please feel free to use the services of my castle and ask me if you need something." He muttered. And went into the hallway and headed to his room.
He felt uncomfortable with her. He wasn't good at talking to girls; she couldn't look at her without blushing. He started stuttering and acting ridiculous around girls, he didn't know what to do. He only dared to talk to girls when he was drunk. Now when he was using some drugs to relieve his pain, he couldn't drink.
It made him feel vulnerable. When he was sober, he was blushing all the time and he behaved shyly.
"I need a drink." he said to himself.
His veins were full of adrenaline. He needed to calm down.
He went to his room and took a drink. And another and another...He ended up feeling nauseated.
He got a headache.
"Damnit Noctis you're so stupid." He wanted to punch himself. He holded his head.
"I'm slowly destroying my own body. I can't continue like this."
He went to his bed and laid down. He tried to sleep a little, maybe the headache would disappear.
He fell asleep and woke up almost right away.
He felt really hot. Drops of sweat were running down his chest. He was sweating a lot.
"Oh shit!" He cursed.
"What the fuck is happening?" Noctis was a little afraid.
He called to Prompto and explained to him what was happening.
"Just don't drink so much idiot, your liver can't process all the alcohol." Prompto answered frustrated.
Noctis hung up. "Like that would be so easy." He muttered himself and went in the bathroom to take a shower.