Hey everyone,

this chapter's content feels in the first half maybe a bit repetitive, because of our guys talking about the same subjects as in the previous chapter - but I want to make sure that everyone understands in which direction the plot is flowing, so please bear with me for a little longer :).

ben4kevin: thanks x3. I look forward to the game's story, as I think there will be some kind of Etro's Knights mentioned as well.

LisAlice: haha, you are right, guilty as charged xD. And yes, you will see from my writing, that I simply do not like major drama, abuse, angst, jealousy and the whole package of troubling things and always try to avoid them. I love to get the characters into intense or embarrassing situations, fun and fluff, and happy endings. I want for the readers to feel good and just enjoy the ride, because real life is hard enough as it is. There is no need for the characters to suffer endlessly, just for the plot to become more interesting (which for me, needless suffering does only destroy a good plot, and I did read a lot of promising stories, only for them to end up in an endless loop full of misery (Harry Potter fandom is the best example). But this is just my opinion, so, yeah. :) That's why Gladio is not mad at those two and that's why Ignis is so accepting towards their relationship.

And lol to the "several times over"-thing. To be honest, this was just a spur of the moment quote, that somehow made itself independent and started to appear more frequently, haha. Not -my- fault, really. You are welcome anyway :D. And about your stories, as soon as I have more freetime I'll read them and let you know if I liked them. Thanks again!

everyone: I might repeat myself, but please, do enjoy this chapter :).

Warning: yaoi (m/m sex)

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Chapter 5 - Deep Bonds

"Tonight, I met my father."

Gladio stops teasing me instantly as we all hear Noct's softly spoken words. The serious and somewhat nervous expression on his face is telling us that he is not joking.

Ignis is looking around first, before saying: "Wait, let's go back inside of the caravan. Prompto, help me quickly take our breakfast inside. We can't speak outside about something as significant as this. You never know who could be listening."

God, Noct met his father? But how? I rush as fast as I can to help getting everything inside, then everyone is sitting down on their beds and prepare their own breakfast to eat while listening to Noct's news.

Gladio goes first, after eating a few bites of his bread. "Noct, what did you mean? Meeting your father would be not possible, he ... is dead, right?"

I glance at Noct, as he is chewing a bite of his favorite strawberry marmalade coated bread and then swallows down, a bit of the marmalade now sticking on the upper corner of his lips. A few seconds long I fight with myself to keep calm, to not react to that. Oh, what the hell! Without my consent, my body is already leaning towards him to lick it off and Noct is staring totally surprised at me as I draw back, then I smile smugly to myself, as I resume my sitting position, and continue eating my own sandwich innocently.

Now I hear Ignis clearing his throat and Gladio is giving us a chuckle, while he is bumping my feet with his own. "Focus, love birdies." I can see from the corner of my eyes Noct flushing a bit red in his face, then shaking his head in disbelief.

After a while Noct seems to be ready to talk, as he is now sitting cross-legged across from us. "This night I have, for the first time that I can remember, slept very deeply. I am sure, that this state of body and mind, made it possible for me to suddenly become aware inside my own Astral Body. For the first time, I had enough energy left inside of me, to wake up beyond the mortal veil while deeply asleep in this reality. And there, on the Astral Plane, the spirtual world where the dead and higher beings dwell, my father was already waiting for me."

My eyes grow wide in understanding - I knew it! The messages I kept getting through my dreams, were intended for us to make love and through this act Noct's magical resources would fill up considerably. And he slept very soundly for the first time in ages ... Heaven! Suddenly I can't stop a stupid grin to show on my face. I am so happy that now there is a (pleasureable) way for us to cure his sickness and that I can help him somehow to become even stronger.

"I have heard about the Astral world. There were many tales told about the Astral Shards, that they one day all of a sudden appeared on Earth. One already existing right next to us, here in Duscae, as we already know. This means that Titan, the Archean, is originally from the Astral Plane. There probably is a deeper connection, that is escaping us at the moment." Ignis, the detective has spoken. And then he is asking the question of the year: "But, that does not explain, how you suddenly slept deeply for the whole night. What was the catalyst for this?"

Oh oh.

Noct and myself suddenly look at each other, conversing through our eyes, if we should mention what happened tonight between us, or not. I shrug my shoulders, letting him know that I don't have a problem with Ignis and Gladio knowing. His relief in his eyes is obvious, he doesn't want to keep secrets between all of us.

I just smile encouragingly at him, as he turns his head back to them and then answers in a blunt manner: "Sex."

Gladio is choking on a few bread crumbs, coughing his lungs out, trying to breathe, while furiously grasping after a bottle of water to gulp the whole content down. I need to stifle my laugh, which is trying to bubble up my throat. Way to go Noct! And Ignis, as always cool and collected, is only adjusting his glasses on his nose and is furrowing his brows deep in thought. I admit, I am a bit dissapointed at his calm reaction.

And here I feel like it is now my turn to explain some things. "A few weeks ago, I started to have some important dreams about Noct and me. The scenes I have witnessed there, could have been either distant memories of a past life, or visions of a probable future - I am not sure. Anyway, they changed in flavor after a few days, the dream-Noct made love to my counterpart there and ... then I understood that someone was sending me a message. From reading and remembering a book, where once there was mentioned Sex Magic, in which were descriptions of various techniques to manipulate life force through making love, I could connect these dreams to Noct, who was suffering nightly on insomnia and kept himself dragging along in a constant sleepy state throughout the day. Connecting the dots to him living on low life energy, day by day."

I clear my throat. "For him to refill his life force in a normal manner, he would have needed to sleep very deeply each night. But as his sickness always prevents him from falling deeply asleep, obviously, he has been living frequently depleted. With no hope for a cure. It is a miracle, that he managed to live through these exhausting consequences and for him to still be so healthy and powerful. So, the messages from my dreams have been telling me, for us to become lovers ..."

My ears are burning and my face must be totally red, so I add: "Imagine Noct suddenly have all the energy he needs, for fighting, for summoning, for living in constant awareness and think with a sharp mind every day. To see him never again falling into the stasis state. The sleepy-Noct-days could be over." Then I take a quick look at Noct and I can see recognition growing in his beautiful eyes, and then nodding at me.

Then he is telling us: "My father has mentioned, that Prompto and I are so called soulmates. Our attraction to each other goes beyond that of the usual lovers, as there is an ancient connection between us that is transcending death and rebirth. This would explain, why I also had those dreams Prompto was having the nights before and of why I felt so compelled to ... finally touch him. My inner power has been recognizing this deep connection for a long time, while I myself did not understand what it was trying to tell me. It has been looking for Prompto's own life force, to merge with it, to refill my energy. Now I understand, that this alien force inside of me has had no bad intentions all along. It intended to protect my health ... and I always tried to fight it off, to repress it. I became so afraid of it, afraid of this insane power consuming me if I would let my guard down only a little. It always felt so -intense-."

So this was it, this was the reason of why he was always restraining his desires - his fear of the unknown, his fear of loosing himself to lust and his fear of hurting me has been holding him constantly back. I suddenly lean forward and lay my hand down on his knee to look into his eyes, to say that I understand now, and that I am not afraid of his power, that I do trust him deeply.

And then I get a very relieved and very beautiful smile in return. His face looks suddenly so much younger, as if a great burden has been lifted from his shoulders. I gulp down and fight once again against my urge to tackle him and kiss him silly, so I do myself the favor and get back to my original sitting position, biting my lower lip, my glance at Gladio and Ignis becoming unsure, because they have been staring at us in silence all this time. I need to scratch behind my ears to keep my hand occupied, to not do something completely stupid infront of them.

"I see ... Sex Magic." Gladio says teasingly, then is crossing his arms and grinning up at me widely. I glare at him, knowing that this is something he will never let me live down.

Ignis then is all of a sudden standing up, grasping his backpack to take something out. And I gasp in disbelief. "The book! This is the Sex Magic book I have been talking about!" I lean forward to take a better look at the cover. "It truly is! Where do you have it from?" I ask pointing at it totally gobsmacked. I then see a naughty smirk appearing on Ignis's face, and at that I become afraid of him for a second, my body shivering in foreboding.

"Who do you think I am? I already saw your attraction long coming into fruition, many years ago. Being the intelligent guy that I am, I started to look for answers in my own way. And stumbled over this book. Which by the way, you left it's pages open in the library and I thought that something in your subconscious might have given you a profound sign, which the you at that time did not fully understand yet. And from then on I kept it. I anticipated the day, where the content would become important for both of you. I guarded this book very fiercly.", he whispers the last part and is stroking with a gleam in his eyes over the old book's spine, then looking at Noct.

I can only stare dumbly at him, when he is tossing the book on Noct's lap. "Study it."

Noct is looking at him aghast and is opening his mouth to protest, but Ignis is instantly halting him midway with his hand: "The content goes beyond the bees and flowers. Take it seriously. When applied in the right way, we may have a real chance of getting the Crystal back and for your revenge to be successful." I see Noct looking doubtful at the cover, his jaw clenching and unclenching. "I do mean it. Take my advice. We are all grown ups now and talking and reading about sexual techniques shouldn't be shameful. The creative forces of life are too relevant for your personal growth and well being, so do me a favor and swallow down your misplaced pride."

Wow. I never heard Ignis talking back to Noct that way. Like, never. I guess, this is really, really important. Thanks to Ignis, I think I get the true meaning of this ...

"I understand ... thanks.", says Noct softly after a while and nodding seriously. I can't keep myself away from him any longer, so I slide on the bed sideways to sit myself comfortably with my back on the wall, spreading my legs apart and opening my arms to pull Noct's chest from behind, for him to sit inbetween and to lean on my chest. I embrace him tightly and lay my chin down on his right shoulder to get a better view of Gladio and Ignis.

Then Ignis returns on the bed and is leaning himself back on the opposite wall as well. "Now that we have this subject out of the way, tell us more. What happened on the Astral Plane? What else did your father say, did you get useful information?"

Gladio then is making himself comfortable as well and looks at Noct with a curious expression on his face. Then Noct starts talking, about his senses being very clear, about the mystical place only mystics and sages have been talking about before, about his deep feelings of meeting his father again. And then he is explaining to us how our bodies are functioning, the purpose of each energy body, that we are in truth immortal spirits, being constantly reborn and then die, only to be reborn again, to learn and grow and become stronger and wiser. Then he is telling us of the White Knights, who have since ancient times made pacts with evil Darklords from higher planes to manipulate us and to rob us from life force through unspeakable acts. How these contracts must be abolished, or humanity will never be free to evolve out of their own strengths.

And then he stops, his hands formed into fists very tightly. I can feel his inner anger at the unfairness of it all. My own hands caress his chest downward to grasp his hands into my own and to soothe him, to show that we all are here for him. A shuddering sigh is escaping him, he takes a deep breath and then resumes his telling.

I can almost see in my mind how majestetic the portal infront of him must have looked like. We all laugh with him, as he is recounting his confrontation with Riaan. This guy must be a bit crazy and I instantly like him, as he seems to be as impulsive as myself. Then he is telling us of Leyhen, how this guy was incredibly powerful. Then of Oruaar, who by the way is the twin soul of Gladio.

"And then I met Niell. She is very beautiful, is fierce and delicate at the same time, holding herself up with a grace of a true warrior. Ignis, you should have seen her, I wish I could show you what she is like. Long red curly hair, intriguing and intense jade coloured eyes ..."

I rise both of my eyebrows as I can see Ignis becoming instantly interested. "Who is she?", he asks Noct. And Noct just simply says in a bored voice, as if it were a normal occurence this day and age: "She is your soulmate."

For the first time I see Ignis become flustered, looking aside and clearing his throat. Noct is then adding: "She misses you terribly." Now I can see Ignis become sad with longing, then he answers as if in a trance: "I know ... I felt it all my life. My heart, is already belonging to her. Even when I do not remember what she is like." Then he is sending a thankful look to Noct. "Thank you for telling me, I appreciate it."

Then a thought pops up in my mind. "This sounds to me, as if every human being has a soulmate. Like the old tales, where it was told of lovers searching endlessly, living life after life in longing for each other. Somehow, this makes me sad. I wish for everyone to find each other and be together forever ..." Noct is clutching my hands more firmly.

We all are silent for a few minutes. Each of us dwell on our own thoughts, when Noct is speaking up once more. "The spiritual masters have told me about the Goddess of Death, Etro, that she is real. That all of you, my family and myself, had been for many generations before fighting on Etro's side to keep the balance between the darkness and light. We are all called Etro's Knights. If my father would not have been standing there by my side, somehow still alive, I do not know if I could have believed everything they told me."

"You mean, it has always been our destiny to serve the Goddess of Death?", Gladio asks and I hear that he doesn't like this one bit.

Noct immediately steps in: "Not in the way you are probably thinking right now. We might not remember, yet. But long ago, we all have agreed on our own freewill to assist her in keeping the darkness at bay. No contracts and no obligations."

Gladio is nodding in relief. "Okay, sounds good enough to me."

"They also said, that we will remember in time. And once we know about our past, Etro is going to call us before her. I still can't grasp the thought of her being a real entity ... imagine all the lies that have been propagated by the White Knights, for everybody to stay asleep and to never wake up to search for the truth."

"Divide and conquer.", says Ignis. "I wouldn't be surprised, if the fights over the last Crystal were staged in a purposeful way. It was no coincidence of Niflheim invading at the night of the piece agreement ceremony, of all things. Now that Insomnia has fallen and Lucis is in the hands of the Imperial Army of Niflheim, with King Regis death, the last Crystal in their hands, people all over the world are in a state of terror and panic. Just imagine, how many would be willing to give up their very own freedom, in exchange for safety and material goods? After a long week, it has become clear as the day, that nobody is interested in resisting Niflheim's invasion to risk their own hides. Even if surrendering would mean giving away their very own power and land."

I nod my head bitterly. Ignis is right. "Yeah, they literally are selling their souls away."

Noct is then grasping my hands tenderly. "But can we blame any of them? They do not know better. All they knew in their entire lives were lies, and more lies - it made people naive and superstitious. One could say, they are in a constant state of fearing their own shadow."

A loud sigh is escaping me and I let my forehead touch Noct's warm shoulder infront of me. "So, what now? What can we do? Suddenly I feel as if the whole world is pushing down on our shoulders."

"Well it is obvious.", Ignis is leaning forward. "We still have a big cat to slay. We still need to pay off the repairs of our car and Noct is going to study afterwards the ancient book in his lap, so that he can gather more information from his father beyond our mortal world. Noct, as your powers will become stronger, and make no mistake, you -will- become stronger as soon as you join with Prompto - oh for the love of God, quit giving me embarrassed looks!"

I have to snicker into Noct's shirt at that. I love it when he is so bashful, but as soon as we get down to business he is totally a sexy beast, devouring me completely. I shudder at the delightful feelings, that the reminder of what has transpired between us a few hours ago is giving me right now.

"You are going to need special training to handle all the magic inside of you. I am going to look for books about meditation and similar topics, as soon as we can get away from here. You surely remember the escalating episode from over a week ago, where you couldn't reign in your emotions, and in turn you were almost frying up the lands around us as easily as crispy chicken. Good thing that Prompto was there, to ground you and cancel off the anger and powers inside of you." Ignis is shooting me a thankful glance. "To prevent such events from happening again, you need to learn everything you can about your inner force."

Gladio then is standing up and saying: "By the way, I heard from Cidney, who in turn heard it from the three pervert guys last evening, that there is a cave full of Goblins, south of Duscae. There are rumors of a strange power dwelling deep inside of it. Maybe we should check it out first, before confronting the Behemoth. It's just my gut talking here and I'd like to follow it. What do you all say?"

"Great. Let us start there." Ignis is closing up his backpack. "And Noct. Thank you for sharing everything with us. Your news is giving us hope. Now we can be sure, that there is a way to stop Niflheim once and for all." And then he is following Gladio out of the caravan.

I wait for Noct to move and stand up, but he is just leaning back into me and I hear him sighing out softly.

"What's wrong?"

He is closing his eyes. "I don't know ... everything is a little bit overwhelming."

"Yeah, it is ..." My finger start caressing the skin of his palm in thought.

...

"What the hell?!"

This cave is the creepiest thing, that I have ever seen! There must be thousands of bats just taking a flight outside, and they scare the shit out of me!

"It's cold, it's dark, it's creepy! I want to go home!" I wail like a small baby, pressing myself at the wall aside of me. "I absolutely refuse to go any step further inside!"

Noct is smirking, Ignis is shaking his head and Gladio is laughing at me. "Get your shivering ass down here! Either we all go in together, or you go alone."

"Gladio, you are so mean!" Then I instantly shut up, as we go in further, and we can hear more creepy sounds coming out of the cave. I jump up in fright, then stumble over a pocketwatch and I pick it up, taking a closer look at it. I feel my blood run cold at the sight. "Don't say they eat humans ..."

"Ah, I heard that the Goblins come out at night to steal things. Let's take a closer look at our surroundings, we may find some useful things lying around." Ignis starts looking at the corners, while Noct is the first to lead us further into darkness. My hero.

After walking for a little bit, all of a sudden a dozen of creepy Goblins appear out of nowhere. I take my gun out and instantly start shooting at them. I can see from here how one of them is creeping up behind Noct, so I jump quickly to his side and with my hand leaning on his shoulder I jump high up again to kick the creepy critter as far away from us as possible, deep into the dark abyss. Noct is then nodding in relief at me. "Thanks." And then immediately we fight our way through the first half of the cave, all of us starting to breathe harder in exhaustion.

"God, there is no end to these little monsters, or is there?" I gasp outloud, as I take a moment to catch my breath. Noct is looking around, then stepping further into the darkness, making himself ready to squeeze through some of the cave's narrow walls, then I hear him cry out in shock. "Look out!"

Great. My day just became a little bit better! More creepy Goblins are crawling their way out at us! Damn it! Gladio is calling out: "This cave's hidden power better be useful!" And I can only agree with him, then force myself to forget my exhaustion to help out fighting them off.

After what felt like an eternity, Noct is the one saving my hide this time, slashing and blasting a Goblin straight into the wall. Then I cry out "Noct!", and quickly roll over sideways on the ground to shoot one of my blocking bullets into the Goblin that is sneaking up from the side at him, so that he has enough time to turn around and slay it into hell and back. And after that, Noct is stepping closer to me with a sexy smirk and is reaching out his hand for me to grasp it. He is pulling me up forcefully from the ground, pressing me close with one arm to his hard breathing body, and we look intensely into each others eyes. Both of us slowly closing the distance between our lips, wanting to kiss each other mindless. When all of a sudden one last screeching Goblin is jumping high out at us and we roll simultaneously our eyes in irritation. Just when Noct is about to strike the pale fellow down, Ignis is already kicking his daggers with his feet at it from afar, hitting both weapons precisely into the Goblin's spine and we all look in bizzarre fascination, as it's body is slowly dissolving into black smoke. Both of us stare at Ignis, as he is adjusting his glasses and smirking at us.

Ignis is just too cool!

Phew!

Finally! No more Goblins coming out! As Gladio and Ignis move forward, Noct is grabbing my bottom, pulling me hard into him and not one second later I can feel his soft lips claiming mine with fervor. It might be the adrenaline still pumping in our veins, but heaven and hell! This kiss is ferocious with passion! God! I can't think, I can't move, his wet tongue doing forbidden things to my insides that I am in immediate danger of imploding in my pants any second now! Just from a kiss! At once he is wrenching himself off of me, I hear him breathing very, very hard now, and with a last all-consuming look into my eyes he is turning around to follow Ignis.

Dear God! What happened here?! I give a whimpering moan. The kiss was so intense, so raw with want, that I need a few moments to clear my mind (and adjust my pants). Because right now, my brain has been shortcircuited once more by a very, very hot Noct ...

After I succeed pulling myself together (more or less), I walk on the side of the opposite wall where Ignis already is checking out the ground for treasures, and this time I stumble over something of a bigger size. When I lean forward to look, I gasp out in surprise. "Noct, look! It's a Phantom Sword of Lucis." I grin brightly when he is stepping beside me to look at it in wonder. "What is it doing down here?" He touches the handle and immediately the sword is becoming translucent as it is merging with his power.

Ignis is laying his hand on Noct's shoulder. "We should probably look outside for more. As your father is no longer here, the swords seem to have scattered themselves around now, and you are going to need every single one to aid you in your future fights."

Noct is then wondering outloud: "Maybe I can find a way to summon each one at my side. We do not have time to search after the remaining ones."

I give a nod. "Good thing that they can't be stolen by Niflheim. Well, let's go on, the sooner we find the mysterious hidden power, the sooner we can get the hell out of this creepy place!" I shiver at the cold and damp air. "This cave is going to give me nightmares for years!" Not looking back to see if the guys are following, I start walking deeper into the cave.

Gladio is then shouting suddenly: "Prompto, watch out!"

I let out a scream.

A big snake-thing has caught my vest with it's fangs and is now dragging me forcefully further into the darkness. I struggle to become free from it's clutches, shouting, try to kick with my legs as hard as I can at it and I let out a loud curse as my flashlight suddenly falls out from my pocket to land God only knows where.

I try to take my gun out of the holder on my waist, only to realize I lost the damn thing as well!

Great.

Now I can't see anything and I can't fight back!

My heart is beating madly in fear.

I can only hear the huge Viper hiss and screech, as it is moving along on the damp ground and now I really, really fear for my life.

"Help! I am here!" I shout and scream, in hope that my voice will be enough for the guys to find me. "I can feel water under my feet! I think it's pulling me into it's nest!"

Not a second later the gigantic snake is throwing me down on the freezing ground and instantly I try to crawl away from it as far as possible. The terrible hissing becomes louder and I cry out in desperation, as my back is touching the wall and I realize that I can't escape. It's face must be very near to mine, because I can smell the putrid stench of it's breath and I let out one last scream for someone, anyone, to save me!

And just when the snake-thing is about to attack me, a huge ball of fire is engulfing it's screeching body and from the glowing light I now can see the ugly face and huge fangs. My body is shaking like crazy, feeling absolutely terrified and my hands reach up to my ears to block off the loud screams. I close my eyes firmly to protect them from the heat and sparks emanating from the flames.

"Prompto!" Noct is calling out for me and I open my eyes to slits, searching for him through the flames and smoke. "Noct! I'm here!" I pull up the end of my shirt up to my nose, careful to not inhale more smoke and just when the snake-thing has stopped screeching, a huge water spell is cast over the fire to stifle down the blazing flames.

My harsh breathing is doing nothing to calm me down and all that I can manage is to sit myself down, with wet clothes curled against the damp wall, not believing yet that the gigantic viper is dead.

Then finally Noct is at my side, crouching down on the wet ground with his knees to embrace me fiercly. "God ...Prompto. Everything alright? Are you hurt?" His hands touching me softly everywhere and looking for wounds. "I'm not hurt. Everything okay." I just hug him tighter, very tightly, and breathe in his comforting scent, trying to calm down my terrible fear. Then I whisper, relief obvious in my voice: "Thank you ... for a moment I thought ... I really thought that ..." His warm lips reach my forhead and he is kissing me tenderly all over my face. "Shh ... I got you. It's dead now. You have nothing to fear." I give out a sob, as I hide my face into his neck, the strands of soft black hair tickling my face, and suddenly I feel ashamed of depending so much on his strength. I want to be stronger, I want to be the one protecting him! Tears of despair are now rolling down my face. "I am sorry. So sorry." Then I feel his comforting hands on my face, pulling me up for him to have a better look into my eyes. "Don't apologize. None of us could have known, that this creature was living down here." His warm lips kissing me softly. "I am so glad you are alright ... if something would have happened to you ... " I feel his lips connecting with mine once more and his tender ministrations making me forget everything around us. I just try to savour and feel each other to be alive and breathing. God, I love him so much!

"Prompto! Noct!" Ignis and Gladio are running towards us. "A herd of Goblins have held us up, is everything alright?" Noct is giving me a final sweet kiss on my cheek and then he is helping me up from the ground. "Yes, we are alright. I managed to kill this thing with Firaga. It was huge."

Ignis is rushing up to me, immediately casting a Cure over my shivering body, just in case I was hurt anywhere. "Thanks Ignis." He is nodding at me in concern.

"Heh, too bad it is already dead, I would have loved to see it scream. How dare this thing hurt Prompto!" Gladio is kicking the remaining ashes away and then smiling at me. "Be careful next time. Glad you are alright!" I just nod at him, once again feeling ashamed. "I'm sorry." Gladio is then coming over to ruffle my hair. "Nah. Keep your chin up."

My heart is swelling up with so many emotions! I simply love these guys, really!

"Let's go. I have a feeling that we have reached the place with the artifact. The power is calling me." Noct is holding my hand with a smile on his face and I follow him towards the clearing.

We all gasp at the beautiful place, full of vegetation, butterflies flying in circles and the sunlight shining from above. Such a tranquil atmosphere, I take a deep breath and feel the leftover of panic and fear inside instantly dissapear. Having now calmed down, I can't wait to see what kind of power is waiting for Noct a bit further away. Like a kid on Etro's Eve I look ahead with wide open eyes at the alien looking artifact, fascinated with it glowing all green and pulsing softly.

Noct is letting go of my hand and steps forward to reach out to it.

Time seems to stop, as a wave of light is shooting directly into Noct's outstreched arm and I can hear him groaning out, hoping it isn't painful. I can see the power flowing into every magical vein inside his body, measuring him, caressing him and then finaly merging with his own inner force, leaving only shimmering particles of magic flying around us. It's so amazing! So beautiful!

Noct is then turning around in our direction, flexing his hands as the glow on his veins lessens. His eyes became once again fiery red, glowing brightly, as his powerful gaze is searching out mine and capturing me.

My knees become weak in an instant.

Good God, he looks amazing! His powerful presence is ablaze right now and is literally taking my breath away!

I gulp down, as a sudden, uncontrolable lust is emerging from deep inside. It's like his power has just woken up. Through merging with the alien power from before, it has intensified in strength twofold.

And it is looking out for more, reaching it's tendrils out and now it has found an additional source: me.

A moan escapes me, as his intense and beautiful red eyes wander and caress every inch of my still clad body. I can feel his power touching me everywhere at once and if this feels that good now, I am not sure to survive what it is promising to do any minute now ...

Ignis seems to realize what is happening and is dragging a confused Gladio away from here. I hope he is taking him very, very far away - because I don't think I'll be able to repress my voice this time around. I think my body has never been -that- aroused, without having any kind of physical stimulation before!

I can see Noct slowly walking towards me, my whole body and mind shaking in anticipation, goosebumps all over my skin. His lips are smiling slightly, sexy, seducing me, as his eyes are devouring me from the inside out, while coming closer and closer. God, I instanly feel the difference, between the Noct from yesterday and this Noct now.

He is not repressing his desires, at all!

I can't even finish my thoughts, because as soon as his body touches mine I already feel lightheaded and I give a loud moan as our lips crash into a bruising kiss!

All hard, wet, greedy.

The tendrils of his power already burning their way under my skin, and I need to groan out at how arousing this feels! Like a drug it's making me addicted and high. Making my heated body totally aware of it's essence and I need more!

There is nothing soft and tender, as Noct is opening both of our trousers, pushing the fabric down until our groins are visible, then grasping with his strong hands my bare bottom for me to circle my legs around his waist and all at once he is pushing me hard against the vegetated wall, still kissing the breath out of me. His hips start to move against mine right away, and I give out a sob of want at the feeling of our bare groins rubbing together.

More!

Please, I need more!

Our tongues are stroking against another erotically, I groan outloud into his mouth in appreciation, as he is simulating with his tongue what he intends to do now. Diving it deep inside my mouth. In and out. In and out.

Yes! God! I want him! I want everything!

As if reading my mind, his power is reaching inside of my veins, flowing down to my groin, burning up my sensitive cock there for a long moment and just when I think I can't hold on anymore I cry out, captivated in lust, as it is making it's way further back straight into my anus and piercing it's way inside!

Noct is then breaking the kiss, breathing very hard, as he is looking with his red gaze burningly into mine, focusing, and a gasp of surprise is escaping me, when I feel that the tendrils of his power have somehow loosened up my hole and are preparing me for him to take me. Good God! They are now constantly stroking over my prostate and I cry out for Noct!

"I need you! Now!"

I clutch my fingers firmly into his back, when he is taking a hold of his hard cock to finally take me in the way I always dreamed of him doing!

Heaven! Nothing can describe the feeling of being sensually streched beyond limits, of him touching that agonizing point inside over and over, of his power focusing on my groin and making me entirely delirious with every stroke inside of me. It's too much! It's not enough!

I think I go crazy!

Just when I feel myself close to coming, one of his hands is grasping tightly around my leaking cock to stop it once again - all the while still piercing inside of me in abandon and making me cry out in carnal hunger! My fingers are probably hurting him right now, I need to hold onto him that tightly, or else I'll loose my mind!

He is leaning forward to latch his hot lips on my throat, licking and sucking the sensitive skin there, his wet tongue leaving trails up to my earlobe and nipping and biting and I can hear his aroused breaths, puffing erotically against my skin. God! And then we are looking into each others eyes again and I shiver at his beautiful, red as ruby, hungry gaze. His entire presence capturing, enticing me further. And then his hips are speeding up in thrusting, my lips open up in silent rapture, my head leaning as far back into the wall behind me as possible, as his hand is now letting go of my almost painfully engorged cock and his power is concentrating on every sensitive region in my groin! Everything becomes too much, that I instantly need to cry out my pleasure as I reach the strongest climax my body and mind has ever experienced! And as if this is still not enough, his power is all of a sudden latching strongly onto my climax and fueling, burning it's way higher! Making my eyes sting with tears of untold pleasure, as it is merging with my life force, licking and sucking and caressing, and all of a sudden my vision before me becomes all dark ...

...

".. mpto?"

I feel hands shaking me. Something cold and wet is caressing my hot skin, and this feels so good. I hear the sounds of nature around me, water lapping against walls, birds chirping.

"Prompto!"

My eyelids feel so heavy, can't bring myself to open my eyes yet. "Hnnh ..." I moan out in answer. My whole body is vibrating in sweet afterglow. Still shaking from that overworldy climax my body had endured. God ... am I alive?

"Are you alright?"

I can only nod once, licking over my dry lips. Then I feel wet lips touching mine, kissing and wetting the dry skin there very gently.

"Don't you dare apologize ...", I say to him with a cracking voice, the instant I feel his intention of opening up his sweet mouth and say something stupid. "God ... do you know what you just did? You took my brain out, wrapped a red ribbon around said brain, and sent it somewhere far, far away out of this galaxy ..."

I hear a soft chuckle from him. "I don't mind. I am only after the rest of your body. Who needs a brain for sex?"

Then I laugh out loud.

"Noct?"

"Hm?"

"I love you."

A soft kiss on my lips.

"I love you, too."

...

until next Chapter :)! Thanks for reading everyone.