The Hacker, The Shotgun Guy, and The Prince

Author's note: I'm so sorry this chapter took a long time to finished, I have back to school and I'm being busied recently so I have almost no time to write which torture sooooo much! Also, this is getting old, but really really really need your reviews and flames because I don't I can make this story better if I don't get building reviews and critiques. So I'm very beg to you please review this story, it's okay even you just write 'update soon' because it's really important to me. and I'm happy for it. Anyway, despise my babbles please enjoy this newest chapter. I hope you will like it. :)

Summary: Agi Frontier wasn't so-normal Toronto's teenager. Not after she threw to another world where she must help Noctis cs to protect the crystal & find a way to go home. But can she do it when she slowly attached to one single person she not expected?

Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy Versus XIII forever, except of course for my OC.

Pairings: NoctisxStella, PromptoxOC.

Chapter 03: PROMPTO

Prompto walked back and forth with an uneasy gesture. Occasionally he would stop paced and glanced at the hallway to found not a shade of a certain figure he had been waiting. He leaned at the nearest wall then exhaled to relieve his worries.

The blond haired young man felt slightly anxious at his friend. About few hours ago, they received urgent information from their soldiers that a squadron of enemy had been spotted in their way with palace as their main target. As a protector of the crystal, Noctis decided he would wait for them and finish them by himself. He asked Prompto together with Ignis and Gladious to guard inside the palace while he would confront the enemies. It should be over by now yet he still didn't show up. He wondered what had happened out there. Then his ears perked up as he heard faint echoes of steps. It grew louder each second passed. He quickly straightened his body, hi grip on his shotgun hardened in anticipation.

Then from the hallway he saw a figure he had been waiting for past few hours. Relief overwhelmed him as he half jogged to approach his friend.

"Hey, Noct!"

The prince was stopping on his track to lift his head at the source of the voice. His tense figure went relaxed as he saw a figure of Prompto jogged at his direction.

"Prompto." He sounded relieved. He allowed a smile formed in his lips. "Glad to see you're fine."

"Hey, I'm the one who should say that line. I take you have take care of them?"

"Hm-mh…" the black haired young man nodded.

"Good to hear it. Man, you go quite long t..."

He stopped talked as he spotted an unconscious girl on Noctis's carried. She was pretty with her braided blond hair. She dressed with grey shirt, blue pants, grey shoes, and black long jacket with elbow sleeved and hood. In other words she dressed almost like a boy and must be presumed as the one if only she didn't have a pretty face and long blond hair. Her long blond hair was above her waist. She tied it into a loose braid. Prompto also noticed Noctis had a medium size backpack hanged on one of his arm and green umbrella in one of his hand grip.

"Noct, who is she?" He gestured at the girl with a questioning look.

"She is a civilian. She...happened to be in wrong situation." Noctis looked at the girl guiltily.

Prompto startled. "How can?"

"She was kind of lost when she ran at me."

"...Lost? She is?"

When Noctis broke his stare at the girl to fix his eyes at his friend, Prompto could see his jaws was firm and his eyes flashed sharply; signified he serious about this.

"She was in there when I fought them."

Oh.

Oh. Oh. Now that what he called as a serious problem.

"Then what happened next?" he asked in wary tone.

"She saved me from one of the soldiers in near end and she almost get herself killed in the process from another soldier if I'm not helped her."

Prompto's eyes widened in disbelieve. "She saved you? But you said she is a civilian." Prompto's mind jumped in everywhere. This girl had one hell of courage to jump into the deadly battle if not incredibly stupid.

Noctis had not bothered to answer it; instead he made a request at his blonde friend. "Prompto, I need to ask a favour for you. Can you do it for me?"

"…You want me to keep an eye on her, Noct?" Prompto asked straight.

Noctis nodded firmly. "There is something I want to check on her but it have to wait as I have something to do right now. I will return as fast as I can. Until then, please accompany her in the guest room while I'm gone." He handed the girl into Prompto's opened arms and relayed her things as well to him. Prompto noticed she was lighter than she looks. Her body a bit smaller despise she could be categorized as tall for a girl on her age. Is she really eaten enough? Prompto took a note to feed her properly once she wakes up.

"I will do the best thing I can, Noct. Make sure you return."

"Aa. Thank you, Prompto." And with that Noctis took his leave and gone into the hall.

Prompto exhaled in amusement and took a glance at the girl on his arms. "Now, let's get you to the guest room so you can rest peacefully without being disturbed."

He made his way into the other hallway, carried the girl carefully so she wouldn't wake up from her slept.

Her world was a pitch dark.

She couldn't see or feel anything at first. Yet slowly and surely, her eyes began to use in the darkness as dim light blue lights started appeared in everywhere. Agi stood in the darkness of nowhere, her feet stepped in floor of hard earth. She astounded at the sights of pillars of crystals surrounded her, scattered in everywhere as far as her eyes saw. A lot of them glowed in same light blue light she had seen from the-gone- to- nowhere- necklace. Others glowed in calming blue, golden, purple, and green lights. Illuminated the dark land where she currently stepped. She got closer to one of pillars and touched it. She felt a cold sensation of crystal on her skin. Agi put her hand down then looked around her.

"This is..."

"The Realm of Dream. Or you humanity call it by another name as Realm in Between." A feminine voice answered from behind. Agi almost jumped and rotated her body to meet a woman. The figured stood few feet before her was a stunningly beautiful woman in dark attires. She didn't have a word to describe it but the woman before her was somehow beautiful with dark and gloomy clothes. How the woman stood in there without she even realized, that left as a mystery.

"Who are you?" she eyes the woman warily.

The woman lips curved into a small smile. "My name is known as Etro. And I'm known as a goddess of death. Nice to meet you, Agi Frontier."

Agi narrowed her eyes in puzzlement at the woman. "Goddess...of death?" she repeated as she scanned the woman figure. She somehow felt familiar with her. "And do I know you?"

"Yes, I am, at least in this dimension. No, you don't know me yet, but I'm know you, child." She replied in amusement. "I'm here because I have to tell you something. But I cannot do it while you're awake, so the only way to contact you is through the Realm of Dream when you're sleeping."

"But why you only can contact me when I'm sleeping?"

"Because death and sleep go hand in hand. I'm sure you had heard this before; sleep is death for a moment but death is an eternal sleep..."

Agi stiffened at the sentence. "Let's get not starting it from heard; I'm even too familiar about that sentence..." she replied ironically.

Etro chuckled softly. "I took it as yes, dear child."

She blinked rapidly. Looks like she really familiar with this woman but in where she had met her before? Then it hit her hard. Her voice. It was same with the whispers she heard when she found that necklace in the alley!

"You! You are the one who did it, aren't you!" Agi accused sharply. "You are the one who brought me to this place."

Etro looked apologetically to the blonde girl. "I'm sorry for took you suddenly into an unknown place, but please trust me...I do it for a reason."

"You have said it before. You said you have to tell me something. What this has something to do with me?" she was feeling incredulous and intrigued.

"Because...only you who can help the Prince and his friends to protect the crystal from those greedy peoples. That's your task, for only you who can do it with your ability."

She startled at the mentioned of her skill however she more confused at the mentioned of Prince. "Prince? What Prince? And what skill you're talking about?"

Before Etro could answer that question, her body slowly became transparent started from her feet then up to her legs. She gaped at this sight then lifted her head at the goddess.

"I'm afraid I can't answer your question. Your time in here is almost up. It's time for you to back, dear child. Go and fulfill your duty, for only you who can do this..."

"Wait! Wait! There are many things I don't understand yet! How will I meet you again...!" she was starting to became transparent as she started to woke up in living world.

The goddess of death only gave her a soothingly smile, they stared at each other for the last time before she back. "You will know about them as the time pass. You will have their helps as an aid. Don't have to worry...when the time is come, we will certainly meet again. And once you fulfill your task you can go back to your world."

Before she could ask another question, she already went from the realm of dream at the time her whole body disappeared, back to the world. Almost in the same time however, Agi managed to hear the last bit of Etro's words as she returned to living world.

"I'm counting on you, Agi Frontier...no, The Silver Owl."

She slowly opened her eyes, revealed lime green colour to the world. She blinked few times to clear her blurry vision.

A dream? It's so weird seems it's so real...

After her vision went clearer than before, Agi found a face of a young man she didn't recognized stared back at her. He has blonde hair and a pair of dark blue eyes. He wore a white tank top, no sleeved grey jacket with a hood on it, and dark grey jeans. He sat on the chair near bed and grinned when she woke up completely.

"Hello there! How are you feeling? Are you hungry?" He greeted cheerfully.

Agi stared blankly at him. A second later her eyes grew widely as same as saucer then screamed and in jolt she pushed the blonde guy hardly from the chair. Prompto fell on the floor in a loud thud and hurt his back as a result. He groaned as he rubbed his throbbed back.

"Owww..." he groaned in pain. That was hurt. And this girl had such strength to push him hard to the ground which impressed him a little.

Meanwhile the girl stood up above the bed rotated her blonde head frenetically. She looked panic for a reason and ready to rush from that place in any moment give. Her lime eyes then darted at him. She grew tense as she took a step back.

"Who are you? And where am I! What is this place!" she asked in shaky voice. She scanned the room frantically.

Being cautious and not wanted to scared her further, Prompto stood up on his feet and waved his hand soothingly.

"Woaaa! Hey, calm down! It is fine, you're safe in here!" He tried to calm her. She yet not calmed a single bit.

"Here! Here in where...! It could be anywhere within the city! And where is my things!" Agi half demanded.

"That's why I told you to calm down. I will tell you unless you calm down, 'kay?" And it worked as she quieted despise the tenseness not gone completely. He took this chance and explained farther. "You are in Kingdom of Caelum. Or to be precisely you are in the one of guest rooms of Caelum Castle. Noctis brought you here. Don't you remember?"

Although the girl eyed him suspiciously she stilled for a moment; her expression showed she was in deep thought before a realization came to her. "...Is he the guy with black hair, sky blue eyes, pale skin, and wore those dark clothes?"

"Yup. That's him. I'm his friend. He will be out for a while but he did promise to come back so he asked me to take care of you. As your bag and umbrella, I put it near table. See?" He pointed his forefinger above the table which not far from him. As he said before, both her backpack and green umbrella had been put and had not a single of damage.

Hearing that, Agi slowly calmed down and sat down and sighed deeply in relief. Well, that information had relieved her a lot. At least she indeed safe...for now. She flinched at the thought. And what the hell was Kingdom of Caelum? She never heard it before! Just what is this place exactly!

"So...you believe me now?" he asked carefully tilted his head.

Agi nodded hesitantly. "You seemed honest to me and I don't think you say a lie since you mentioned...Noctis."

"...You are easy to suspicious, aren't you?"

Agi shook her head. "It's not like that. More like I wary about people and place I don't recognized at all. I'm easily scared for this matter."

Prompto intrigued at her statement. It seemed contradiction from what he heard from Noctis. "He said you saved in the last minute...and nearly killed in the process before he saved you. I think its need more than braveness to jump in that kind of situation."

"I'm not a brave people." She retorted softly.

He couldn't help but felt curious.

"Then why you still help him? You could have run and save yourself from the trouble."

Green eyes met blue eyes. "He also asked the same thing to me."

"Noct did it?"

'Noct? Is he means Noctis, the guy from before?' she thought. "...He did." She quieted a moment, carefully search a right word. "Of course I'm wanted to run. Who not after they heard countless sounds of guns from distance as if they are in war or in secret mission to wipe out terrorists? But I will not forgive myself if there is someone or civilians like me who got shoot by stray bullets and no one give a help. And as a scout I can't let that happen. So yes I went check in there." Agi winced. "Do you think I'm stupid?"

Prompto was speechless. This girl... was really something else. A smile curved before he ever realized he smiled. "No. I think it is what a brave person with a sense of humanity will do."

The smiled he gave infected the girl immediately. She smiled at him finally trusted him completely.

"Now think about it, we haven't introduced properly." The blonde guy then offered his hand friendliness to shake. He smiled cheerfully at her. "My name is Prompto. What is yours?"

Agi stared at his hand for a moment before she took it and shook it. "I'm Agi Frontier. Just Agi will be fine."

He raised an eyebrow in question after their hands a part. "That's a weird name for a pretty girl like you."

Agi found herself blushed in embarrassment. Oh how she ashamed to had a- boy- like- name. It was also the reason she often mistaking as a boy when she was a little. Not to mention her hair shorts that time, usually play with her brothers than her girl friends...and she had a tomboyish character, added more excuses for adults to have a right for mistake her as a boy. So often she been mistaken until in age of thirteen she decided to act a bit more like a girl and grow her hair so she appeared like girl rather than boy. Even so until this second people still found her name weird for a girl. "Do you think so?"

"I found it weird since that name too boyish. But I think it suited you well."

"My father was the one who named me." She defended, shifted into a more comfortable position. "And before you really think it is a boy name, actually it's an ancient name for a girl. He was a religious man and therefore he like everything about ancient things despise he dedicated his life for technology. He was work as a programmer."

Prompto had deadpanned. Why she used past tense to descript her father? Could it be...? Before Prompto could ask her, the sound of opened door had gained their attention. They focused their eyes to the door, revealed a black clad figure they both recognized. Prompto grinned widely.

"Yo Noct! I was beginning to wonder when you will come." Prompto stated cheerfully.

Few minutes before...

He walked fast down to the hall of guest rooms. He was in hurry and he felt slightly annoyed. The business he must attended went longer from he expected. And that made him late for the promised time. Sometimes it such a pain to take care political matters and all that connected to it. His mind then went to a certain lime eyes girl. The girl, namely Agi Frontier from her introduced, had made him confused successfully and grew many questions within him. He didn't know how he should explain it but he had a strong feeling the girl wasn't coming from this world. For a first hint, her aura somehow felt entirely different from other peoples even though she claimed as a normal civilian. The crystal power inside him had confirmed it as well. It had an unusual reaction toward her despise it responded positively, signalled that she wasn't an enemy. Second hint, well, he must admit it felt wrong and yet he couldn't help but to look at her student card. It kind of coincidental actually. Back there in the outside of palace, when he tried to lift the girl and took her in, her wallet fell from her pants pocket. He about to took it and placed it back to her pocket...if only the wallet not opened and revealed the student card on it. Curiosity peeked on him as he took the wallet. He read the card in silent. Apparently she still in high school and had a normal family –a mother with two brothers-. Everything seemed normal to him. Until he read both her home and school addresses.

His sky colour eyes widened in shocked at the addresses. The addresses stated a capital namely Toronto which placed in Ontario, Canada. The last place surely was a name of a country for no doubt. The main problem was; he never heard a country with a name of Canada. He even had Ignis, who being accompanied by Gladiolus to check it but in the end they got nothing. They also checked about her family and herself but no information which mentioned them. As if the girl came out from... nowhere. He felt disturbed by these unusual peculiarities. Same thing happened with Ignis and Gladiolus. Unfortunately they job unfinished yet, however they promised him to catch up with him when they had finished. Their owned his full explanation after all. Noctis must ask the girl frontally if he wanted an answer and he would do it now, or never. He hoped nothing bad happened while he was away. He arrived in front of the guest room in no time, in same time he heard a faint noise of chat. One voice he recognized belonged to Prompto and the other one... Noctis allowed a small smile formed in his lips as he heard the girl's voice, Agi, came a second later from inside the room.

'Looks like she had woke up and fine enough.'

His hand reached the handle of the door and opened it. Two pairs of eyes fixed on him when he entered the room.

"Yo Noct! I was beginning to wonder when you will come." His friend greeted as he entered the guest room and closed the door.

Noctis rolled his eyes. "It wasn't my decision if the business went longer than I have expected."

"Talking about business, where are Ignis and Gladious?"

"They still have things to do. If not they who come here, we are coming to them."

"Hey, I know you. You're really that guy from before." The girl cut out, realization dawned at her previously clueless stare. "Your name is Noctis Lucis Caelum, isn't it?"

Noctis smiled. "Yes, I am. But you can call me Noctis or Noct if you want." He approached the bed. "I see you have wake up and meet Prompto, Miss Frontier. Feeling better already?"

"You can call me Agi, I'm feeling old if you called me miss. And yes, I'm feeling better now, thank you for the hospitality although..." as if she remembered something she had her eyes widened and turned her head at Prompto. "I'm sorry! Did you still hurt!"

Noctis narrowed his eyes. "Hurt?" he stared at the blonde guy, asked for an explanation.

"She pushed me hard from the chair when she woke up." Prompto answered somehow reluctantly.

Amusement invaded the black haired young man. "She pushed you when you're caught off guard?" Noctis stifled a laugh as his guess hit on the right place. Prompto grumbled at him.

"Shut up, Noct."

Agi lowered her head, not dared to look at them. She felt so embarrassed to the point she want to hide under the blanket and gone from their view. "I'm sorry..." she apologized guiltily once more.

"Hey, it's okay. You just pushed me not punched me or something. I'm obviously very much fine. See?" Prompto stretched both his arms.

She relieved a bit. "Then…that's good..."

"Prompto, may I sit in here?" Noctis gestured at the chair as there was only one chair in the room.

"Sure, no problem." The blonde guy allowed him.

Noctis sat on the chair while Prompto preferred to sit comfortably on the edge of the bed near her.

"Agi, can I request you something?" Noctis asked politely.

"Sure, I mean, why not? Go on."

Noctis cleared his throat. "Alright. First of all, I want you to introduce yourself once again, if you don't mind it."

She slightly clueless at the request yet she trespassed it. "Uhm..., my name is Agi Frontier. I'm 17 years old and the second child from three siblings. I'm the only daughter on the family. My mother is working in the jewellery shop."

"What about your father?" Prompto shoot out the question which bubbled inside him. She didn't say a word and her expression didn't change at all, yet both of the young men could see a flicker of sadness in her eyes. "He worked as a genius programmer but he had passed away...after went disappeared for a few years. He died in accident." Her weird tone and strained voice went noticed by both Noctis and Prompto. They had a suspect something serious had happened between her and her father. But for now they decided to let it go since it seemed like a sensitive subject for her. It seems their uneasy behaviour went noticed by the blonde girl.

"Hey, you don't have to feel sorry about me. It was an old story, I'm pretty much fine now." Agi waved her hand absentmindedly.

"Are you sure?" Noctis asked, not completely convinced by her words.

Agi shrugged. "I would be lie if I'm not missing him but we had to let go what had passed and keep moving forward. Besides he gave me enough nice memories for me to remember him, although I wish for him to stay a little longer."

Both of the young men looked thoughtfully. "That's tough..." Prompto commented sympathetically.

"It was...Anyway, my mother then began to work to support our lives after he's deceased. I was eleven years that time. My older brother, Dean took a part time as a martial art teacher to help her."

"Martial art? Is he also teaching you to defend yourself?" Noctis mind played a flashback when she did a martial art moves back there, defeated the soldier who tried to sneak behind him.

"Yes, he is, until now. We have a different four years among the others. He's now a college student. Keith, my little brother is a hyperactive boy. He is pretty normal and a good kid but sometimes I wondered what's wrong with him since every time he does something, usually it will end up as a big mess. Me and Dean have to watch him if we don't want him to messed up everything." Prompto snickered inaudibly as Noctis smiled in amusement.

"It seems he's like a typical little brother that hard to handle with." Prompto commented.

"If only you know him, Prompto, then you will know how hard to keep him afar from troubles in home..."

Noctis smile faded. "Speaking of home, where are you coming from?"

"Me? I'm from Toronto."

Noctis shook his head softly. "No. I mean which country you are come?"

The last question had made the frown increased inside her. Okay, this was getting weirder. She sensed something off and she didn't like it somehow. Judged from his odd question plus the statement she got from Prompto, she had a strong feeling she wasn't in Toronto or Canada anymore. Still she has little evidence-if she included this Kingdom of Caelum Prompto talked about- and it extremely worried her. What in the name of God she had been brought into? "...Why you ask it?"

"I want to make sure something, so first of all I want to know your background and from which country you are come." he saw she narrowed her eyes in confusion but she kept answered it.

"I'm originally from Canada. You know, the big country which lied in Continent of America." below Noctis and Prompto's questioning stares, she explained more as she suddenly feeling extremely uneasy about their reaction. "It bordered with United States in the south, Alaska in the northwest, and two oceans in the west and north. You never heard of it? Come on, it is a big country for God's sake! Otherwise I just acknowledged about the Kingdom of Caelum for the first time today."

Noctis fell into an uneasy silence as he exchanged glances with Prompto. From his observation all this time toward her he took a conclusion. That...could be one possibility. And it supposed to be impossible. But he had too many evidences to back up the conclusion. And no way the girl was lying, she even looked had no any idea where she was now.

"Agi," he began in serious tone. "As far as I know there is no country with a name of Canada."

Agi choked. "What? What do you mean?" That's impossible! Canada was a big country which bordered with United States so Canada almost as famous as United States itself. And this man claimed he never heard of it! Just where the hell she was?

He looked guiltily. "Your wallet fell when I wanted to bring you who still unconscious to inside, and I saw your student card coincidentally. Which ultimately lead to your home and school addresses."

Agi stared dumfounded and she felt her mouth gaped like a goldfish. "You then went checked it?"

"I had my friends to check it. And we found nothing about this Canada. So are the data about your family and yourself." He leaned forward from the back of the chair. "Not only that, I sensed your aura is different."

"Aura?" Agi repeated as question marks appeared above her heads.

"I...can sense aura for some sort. You had see my power back then, right?"

"Yes, I saw it. It is...I don't think any words can describe it except incredible. Normal human can't do those actions, let alone facing many soldiers in one time." she concluded.

He corrected his position as he stared directly at the lime eyes girl. "Agi, what I'm going to tell you is a classified matter. A high priority secret. Promise me that whatever I told after, you must not tell this to anyone and keep this as a secret, because its will endanger many innocent civilians. Included you. And I want to reduce these numbers as much as I can. Understand?"

She frowned at mention of 'endanger many innocent civilians'. "Noctis, while...I understand your reason, why you want to tell me this secret?" She felt clueless and incredulous. His explanation disturbed her.

"Because...this has a connection with you."

Agi pointed her forefinger at herself, speechless. "...Me?"

"This kingdom...is the only one still possesed the power of the crystal. This crystal is a gift from the goddess of death to humanity. It has a great power within it. Long time ago, the other kingdoms had it as well but they battled to each other with the crystal's power...until their crystals lost forever."

"Why would they do that? It's pretty useless war for me you know."

"Not everyone thought like you, Agi. Sometimes there are reasons which you considered as stupid, non sense or you will not understand it until the end. Politic problems are never ending. Now back to the story, only the royalty who can have and protect it. My father is a King of Caelum therefore I'm a prince and therefore have the power of the crystal since I'm the current protector. The crystal can sense who the friend is and who the foe is as one of its abilities. In other words, I can sense your aura through the crystal's power. Your aura is different from most of the peoples, including Prompto despise you've stated you're a civilian no more and no less. Otherwise even if you're coming from another country, you supposed to have a same kind of aura as us but you're not. It's like your aura is mixed with something and have a different texture. Got it what I mean?"

Agi get the idea pretty well but she had thought something wasn't clear...yet. "Which means...?" Agi asked in anticipated for an answer she would get. But the unexpected answer he gave had more than enough to devastate her.

"Which meaning you're not come from this world, Agi. If my assumption is correct, you're come from another world besides this one. Which it will explained why I can't find a country with a name of Canada, why I can't find any data about you besides your student card, and why your aura is different from us."

Prompto almost forgot how to breathe. He stared at Agi in disbelieve. Agi...was not coming from this world? Is this meaning she came from another world?

As for Agi herself, her mouth gaped like a goldfish. She wanted to open her mouth but then she closed it as she stared him in disbelieve, she had a slight thought wanted to retort when her mind rewind the occurrence that might triggered this whole chaos. That damned necklace! And the weird dream she had last time! The goddess of death, the prince she had mentioned, the crystal, the weird and dark city where she stepped for the first time, everything make sense now.

Her shoulders slumped down, she almost couldn't believe it yet it really happened to her. From all people! Now it was all clear and connecting to her in such impossible way. Etro, through the necklace or the crystal -Didn't Noctis said that the crystal had a great power? Besides it gave from the goddess to humans as a gift- to be precisely had dragged Agi with into a different world like a science fiction or fantasy movie you usually watch. The goddess of death gave a task she must fulfill and it must her who does it. But Dear Our Beloved God, so help her; this wasn't a freakin' movie! This was a reality! And it didn't excite at all! And why her! There were thousands of girls like her who seeking for an adventure like this and fell in love with the prince of charming and married him and live happy ever after. She didn't have any special skills which prove could help...except for that one and she doubted it gave her many advantages.

"Oh I knew it. I should have known it. I knew something was not right when I got to this city. I should have known that necklace will bring misfortune." Agi muttered drily. She missed the alarmed expression from Noctis and Prompto.

"What is this necklace you're talking about?" Prompto demanded.

"A stupid necklace with a crystal as an eye necklace." Agi face palmed and groaned regretfully, she once again missed their expression. "If I know something like this would happen, I will never, ever pick up that necklace in any circumstances. No. Way."

"Agi, slow down. Can you tell us from the beginning?" Noctis gripped her shoulders and squeezed it to ease her. She lowered her hands and exhaled few times before she completely calm. She told them how she got here from her world, how she found a beautiful necklace in rainy day, how the jewellery started to flashed a bright light, how she deserted and lost in a unrecognized city until the moment she met Noctis and fell unconscious to woke up in here.

"...The rest is history. And one more thing...I have this weird dream recently and I deadly sure it may have connection with you."

Noctis not bothered to show his startled expression. "Why?"

"In this dream, somehow I ended in a land with crystals in everywhere. And in there I met a beautiful lady named Etro. She claimed herself as a goddess of death. Do you know her?"

They seemed surprised at this revelation.

"Etro? The goddess of death, Etro!" Prompto repeated with gasp. "You meet her!"

'Note, how stupid I am. I mean, how can I didn't notice that they mentioned the same goddess?' Agi sweat dropped.

"Then?" Noctis urgently asked.

"She told me that I'm in the Realm of Dream. She met me in there because she couldn't contact me if I stay awoke. Since I'm alive the only place she can contact me is inside the dream. The necklace I found in my world…it seemed to be hers. She brought me to this place through that necklace. I recognized her voice was same with the echo which came from the necklace. I thought I dreamed when I heard it. She said I have to help the Prince and his friends to protect crystal. She mentioned you obviously; I don't know any Princes who have crystal except you. She said I'm the only one who can help them with…my skill." She swallowed. "Before I can ask her farther, I woke up from my dream and found myself in this room."

Noctis placed a hand on his chin thoughtfully. "I...see…"

"Noct, what should we do?" Prompto queried softly. "If Etro really send her to here, then…"

"…Let's meet Ignis and Gladiolus. We can't decide it with our self. First, we must tell the others about this and from there we must decide either she help us or search a way to turn her back to her world."

"But…what if she can't go back?"

A pause overwhelmed them. Agi clenched her pants unconsciously. Honestly she didn't want to know how high the possibility she couldn't return. Despise this thought; she couldn't ignore it so easily and forgot it, since the possibility would always exist. Agi felt extremely anxious. If she couldn't go home…then what about her family? They would look after her definitely and worried for now.

"…Agi, can I ask you one more thing?" Noctis successfully draw her out from her conflicted thoughts.

"Yes?" she replied unsurely.

"She said you have a task to help us. Is she had said something else?"

Agi thought hardly, searched inside her memory. "…Actually she had, I remembered it. She said once I fulfill my task, I can go back to my home. She also said we will meet again in the future."

Another pause.

"Then in the end…looks like you have no other option than come with us, Agi." Noctis sky blue eyes met Agi's wide green eyes once more. "If Etro did say that, I'm sure she'll hold her words. She is a goddess after all. In order to go back, first you must do the task she gave to you. Got it what I mean? You can return to your original world, yes, but you have to do Etro's task since she was bringing you to here for purpose. Once you made it…"

"I can meet Etro and meet my family back." Agi continued automatically. There was a trace of hope in her voice. So she still had a chance to return.

Noctis nodded. "You have a chance to return. We still have to talk with the others as well, but for now... have you eaten anything since you woke up?"

"Huh…I…" a grumble sounds came from her stomach when she about to answer Noctis's question. She blushed furiously as Prompto boomed laughter and holding his stomach. Noctis even snickered although he covered well it with couples of coughs.

"Errr…"Agi opened her mouth and nothing came from her mouth since her mind suddenly blank.

"About time. I guess it's a time for a lunch." Prompto stood to take a tray full of sandwiches, a big bottle of juice, and few empty glasses from another table across the bed. "I have asked the maids to make these since I don't know how hungry you are when you're up. I hope you're like sandwich."

Agi smiled sheepishly as she accepted the sandwich Prompto's offered. "Thank you. I don't mind it. I loved sandwich in fact."

"Noct, want some?" Prompto took another sandwich and handed it at the smiled Noctis.

"Sure. I was thinking to take a break and eat for a while. You have no idea that those duties took a lot my energy, Prompto." Noctis accepted and took a bit of it.

Prompto snickered. "Figure it out."

Agi chewed the sandwich as she watched the friendliness talk between Prompto and Noctis. She couldn't help but felt lighten even just a bit. Perhaps all these events weren't always bring bad effects at all. For the first time after she landed in this world, Agi grateful that she able to met nice peoples and probably...help them to protect something important to them.

And finish. This...is the longest chapter I ever write for this story. I was planning to make it maximum 10 pages but it increased more than I expected! Geez! -_-' At last but not least Agi finally meet Prompto, face to face. You know, I kind like this guy. I adore his cheerful nature and he was funny person to my judgement. I think too badly if he didn't have any girl she liked so I made one for him. I know it's silly, I can't help it. Okay that's enough for now. I see you in the next chapter. This story needs reviews and critiques so don't be shy to send it to me. Thank you! :D