Hello there n,n
If you noticed, I changed the title because I think this one suits better, don't you think so? Hehehe
Anyway, here's a new chapter from me. Maybe it's kind of long on or maybe not.
Just enjoy this ^^
Hikari no Nocturne
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Chapter 2 Applying for the Job
'Accepted or not?'
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"Well, if that's so, let's see first." Lightning crossed her hands in front of chest, made her looked like she was hugging herself. She walked slowly surrounding him. She scanned him from his head till the bottom of him.
From his appearance, Lightning guessed he was actually rich because he could have fine suit like that. In addition, he was having two swords each of his side. At that time, if you wanted to have weapons, you should pay much money to have the permission or the documents of bringing those weapons.
She looked closely to him but still stood on where her place. He had those beautiful blue eyes, that every time she saw them, she was like in the deepest sea. His hair color was somehow confusing. Is it grayish blue? Or it is bluish gray? Whatever it is, Lightning liked the color of his hair and she wondered what it would be to rub that hair with these hands. It felt good, perhaps.
Lightning noticed that his body was well-built. He had those muscular tones, shoulders and body. He seemed used to do the hard job or maybe other activities that made him could gain that perfect body. She knew for some reasons that he was capable of doing this blacksmith thing, refining and forging thing. However, she didn't feel she would like to have him as her coworker. Perfect…maybe because he was too perfect that made her didn't feel it was right
As Lightning scanning him, Noctis did the same too to Lightning, which was not very obvious. He was scanning her. She was actually –no really- beautiful, but he wouldn't just admit that, he couldn't admit that. It wasn't like him. If he were Prompto, maybe he could admit that she was beautiful because it suited Prompto's style. She had that long brownish blonde hair which she let it loosely. He for God knows why really wanted to use those hands to rub that very hair slowly, kiss it to smell the shampoo she used. She was obviously shorter than him for about 2 or 3 inches, but it wasn't hard for him to see her clearly without her notice.
He likedher for she seemed to be different compared to the girls around him, the girls who usually like to flirt him and boastful. She was so independent and strong yet so fragile at the same time. Whatever happened at her past made her like that. In addition, he wanted to hug her whenever she felt weak and comfort her whenever she needed one. He wondered why he felt that he like this feeling, the feeling of having her.
Lightning was now standing in front of him. They were now staring at each other. Brown eyes meet those dark blue eyes. Noctis like the color of her eyes too, they made him felt calm and relaxed.
Feeling close like that, Noctis really wanted to hug her, spoke some words softly to those ears and kiss her! 'Stop it Noctis! It doesn't sound you!' thought Noctis in his mind. Though outside he looked like calm and cold, but inside his mind was mixed to each other, he was nervous inside.
While they were scanning for what seemed like forever, Snow stared at them with sad eyes. He leaned to the wall beside him, crossing his hands in front of his chest, and closed his eyes.
Vanille was still sitting on the chair that she sat before. She glanced to Prompto, the blonde guy, which he noticed and smirked to her back. He flirt her that made her giggled softly with his act.
The time seemed to stop at that moment, the silenced seemed like to stay at that time forever, but of course Snow wouldn't let that. He cleared his throat to get their attention. Lightning turned around to face Snow, she slowly put down her hands beside her. Vanille and Prompto stopped their secret action and put their attention to Snow. Noctis just glanced to him, but back to his own mind again.
Without being told, Lightning knew precisely what he wanted. "Vanille, would you please take care of our guests here? Snow and I would like to have some discussions for a moment." Lightning said that to Vanille with a smile, when she walked passed Vanille to Snow's place. When she reached him, Snow pulled himself and walked to the store room with Lightning behind him.
When they had left, the silence took place once again. "So, what would both of you like to drink?" asked Vanille with a smile.
"Nah, I'm not thirst yet. But perhaps you can tell us where to sit?" asked Prompto to her with joking tone.
"Ah yeah, my bad. You can sit there on the sofa next to the door or maybe you would like to sit beside me here?" Vanille asked as she pointed to the chair beside her.
"I'll choose the sofa." Noctis said with cold tone as he turned around and walked closer to the sofa. "And you know that I'd like to be alone for a moment Prompto?"
"Well, yeah of course, Noct. I know you much." Prompto said and he walked to sit beside Vanille and continued their chitchat. Noctis noticed that Prompto called him with that nickname, but he seemed didn't care about it and ignored it. He sat on the sofa, leaning to it and sighed. He stared to the ceiling while his mind was in somewhere else.
-x-
There was a guy with dark hair standing in front Noctis. He gave Noctis a piece of paper which Noctis quickly took it before even glancing to it. They were in the place that was really destroyed of the war. There were many ruins surround them, the smell of dead body and the smell of something being burnt. Even near their place, they were many skeletons of those people who lived at that place. That place was close enough to Fabula Kingdom, that place couldn't be built anymore for the wreckages of that place were too much damaged. That place called by others as 'The Defunción' for there were many deaths surround it.
Standing at there made Noctis felt dizzy. He even wanted to throw out what he had eaten before. "Hold still, Noctis, I knew it's hard and I knew this placeisdisgusting, but you are strong cause you are our only hope." The guy talked to Noctis slowly and with a smile on his face to encourage Noctis.
"The only hope for us is the blacksmith from Fabula Kingdom,Gladiolus." mocked Noctis.
"Yeah, I know that, Noct, but to gain his trust, we shall need your help too. So, indirectly, you are also our only hope." Gladiolus explained to him. He put his right hand on Noctis shoulder to convince the blue guy even more and smiled to him.
"Why me, Gladiolus? Of all people in this world, in this Kingdom, and hell even in this place, why me, Gladiolus? Answer me!" asked Noctis. He was angry, it was the fact, but he was really smart to control the emotion on his tone and face. People wouldn't know at that time if he was truly angry or not. His face was emotionless, but his tone was a bit higher tough.
"The question you shall ask to yourself is, 'Why not me? Of all people in this world, why not me, Gladiolus?' It's true, Noctis, why not you?" Gladiolus smiled again, he was clever to convince that blue guy. Sure enough now he was more comfortable and relaxed.
"You must hurry though. We don't have much time. The crystals and this world held on the blacksmith and you of course, Noct."
Gladiolus smiled for the last time before he vanished with the light and went from Noctis' view. And for Noctis, he teleported himself by his power to the Fabula Kingdom, but before he went to that Kingdom, he needed someone's help. A help of his friend who knew that Kingdom much enoughand it wasPrompto.
-x-
"Ehem…" It was Lightning who brought him back to reality.
Noctis pulled himself from the sofa and stood up in front of Lightning. His face looked calm and cold yet inside he was panicking and nervous. He remembered an advice he get from Prompto. 'If you want to gain someone's trust, you need to be friend with him.' But, be friend with someone wasn't really Noctis' style, but he needed to gain the trust from the blacksmith. So, perhaps by being the assistant he could at least gain the trust. However, there's still one question on his head.
'Gladiolus mentioned it was blacksmith. He never told me that there'd be two of them. If there're only one blacksmith then I need to find the 'chosen one'.'
"So?" asked Noctis calmly.
Lightning sighed. She never knew it would be this hard to tell him.
-x-
"What do you have in your mind, Snow?" Lightning asked when they have reached the room and gotten inside it. She was closing the door when she asked that question.
"I think we shall hire him." Snow said that calmly afraid it would make Lightning angry because he noticed that for some reasons Lightning didn't like Noctis.
"Your reason?" Lightning raised her eyebrows, she went to the chair in front of her and took a seat.
"Well, remember that our workshop is the only one here and both of us in this very big Kingdom that has so many people are the only ones who could do this refining thing?" He explained that slowly, reminding him about their situation.
Truth to be told, their workshop are the only one. In economics it'd be called as the monopoly market. Fortunately for the people, they were very kind. They never put high prize for their work and they also received food as their payment sometimes. Well, they never hated to have the food because sometimes they didn't know what to eat and didn't have time to do that.
"Well, I know it doesn't really have great effect for you as I knew that you had been working alone before I came and you still could survive." Snow sighed then continued. "But, don't you think those people out there are hanging on us? They need our help that bad to repair their swords, their weapons, and the worst their kitchen utensils. Not mention sometimes the government needed us to make the swords for the soldiers ASAP. If this workshop have more people that can do with iron, won't it be nice? We'll have much time to break and relax. We almost didn't get sleep well for these recent days. In addition, when there're two of us, one did the refining job the other services the customer? Don't you think if there're three of us, it'd be faster? And hell even we'll have better income?"
Lightning sighed. She knew exactly that Snow was right, hell he was very right, however, she didn't like the idea of having him as their coworker. Truth, she felt that he was able to do this job although maybe he needed to be taught a little like what she had done to Snow. And that they needed help so their work wouldn't be piled up at the storage room. However, like she had felt before, he was way too perfect that made her scared. Moreover, she felt unease around him. She knew he was hiding something which she didn't want to know, but she needed to find it out.
Lightning was in dilemma. Hired him would make her felt unsafe and unease. But didn't hire him would make her felt bad to Snow and hell even to Noctis because she thought he was from far place.
Snow was staring him like he was trying to read her mind, but he failed. "Lightning, I don't know what you are thinking, but perhaps I can make some guesses. Maybe you are afraid of him, of what he is hiding, of what makes him really want to get this job, but Lightning, I'm aware of that too."
"Yet you still want him?" She cut him off.
Snow nodded, "Yeah, I don't care about that too much because whatever it is, if he doesn't want it to be revealed, don't push him and we can just ignore. We really need the help to my opinion." Snow was about to continue when Lightning cut him once again by standing up and said, "Don't say anything anymore. I agree with you about needing help, but it hasn't to be from that guy, has it?" She sighed before continuing again, "But, I think it isn't a bad idea to have him. However, if I find something that makes me doesn't like him, I'll fire him no matter what it costs, got it?" She said that with a smile.
"Good to hear, all decisions are in your hand after that, Light." He replied to that smiled too.
-x-
"When shall I work then?" asked Noctis calmly.
"Tomorrow at eight. I warn you, I hate someone being late. Ah yeah, you should thanks to Snow for he seemed to like you a lot that he really convince me to hire you. About your salary we could talk about it later." Lightning put her right hand on her hips and glared at Noctis.
"How much it is, I don't care." 'After all, it wasn't my intention of coming here.' thought him in his mind.
"Alright, then you'll just have 1000 Gennies for first month, we'll see later for the next one. Before that, I need to know your name of course." She gave her hand for him to be shaken.
"Noctis Cerilla and yours?" He received that hand and shook it.
"My name's Lightning Strife. That blonde guy who is my assistant, named Snow Valentine –pointing to Snow and Snow nodded his head which Noctis replied by nodding his head too- and that young lady over there named Vanille."
"His name's Prompto as you've noticed." Noctis introduced Prompto. Prompto stood up and smiled to them. "Well then, I should go now. After all, tomorrow is my work day. Now, I think I shall walk around to know this place well enough." Noctis continued and bid them good bye.
He walked to the door and Prompto followed at behind. They walked out from that place slowly until they were nowhere to be seen from that workshop.
After they were gone, Lightning sat on that sofa, where Noctis sat before, while Snow continued his work. Vanille saw Lightning was very tired and somehow sad. She looked at Lightning for a moment.
"I forgot to ask where they lived." Lightning murmured that slowly and Vanille looked to her.
"Well, Prompto didn't tell me too about where they live, but I guess it won't be too far from here."
"So, you seem very close with this Prompto guy, huh Vanille?" asked Lightning with joking tone.
Vanille blushed, she looked to her feet. "Well, yeah he is nice, very friendly too, but not more than that, Light. He's just…a good friend, that's all."
"Whatever." Lightning murmured and leaned to the sofa. Like Noctis before, she leaned to it and stared at the ceiling. She closed her eyes to relax.
-x-
"So, what did you get from her, Prompto?" Noctis asked to Prompto, who was whistling happily.
"Not much, but I have something good for you." Prompto said with a smirk. They kept walking to their new 'home'. While they were walking, the people surround them were glancing to them. Some of them especially the girls admired them and fond them a lot. Some of the rest wondering where they came from as their clothes seemed to be different and they were new faces at that Kingdom. While the rest were guessing who they were or maybe ignoring them.
"Finally you have something to tell, Prompto." Noctis said reluctantly.
"Well, I always have something to tell, Noct. The thing is whether you want to hear it or not." He chuckled with that statement.
"Not fun, Prompto and don't call me with that nickname." He glared to Prompto.
"Why not? Gladiolus called you with that and you seem to ignore him?"
"Well, he is different case, Prompto." He stated that coldly.
"Well then you need to make me in different case too, Noct." He giggled to Noctis. He circled his arm around Noctis neck. That made Noctis unease and made some of the people thought that they were gay or homosexual or else.
Prompto whispered to Noctis ear, "Vanille said that it was only Lightning who worked as the blacksmith, Snow came just 1 year before to apply that job too. Lightning seems to like him and hire him. He is quite good, but still Lightning needed to teach him." After whispering to Noctis, Prompto took off his hands again from Noctis neck and walked like usual.
'Then it means she is the blacksmith.'thought Noctis in his mind. 'It'd be fun.' He smirked again for the many times at that very day.
The 'God' who divided the Crystals had a prophecy
There would be another war
The war to gain the Crystal's power
The only way to prevent the war is to erase the Crystal's power
There's only one way
One hope
Gaining the trust from the blacksmith
But the only one who could do that
Was the one of the Royal from the Crystal's Kingdom
The Prince
Well, this was really long for me to write n,n
Thank you so much for those who reviewed –*hugging all of the reviewers tightly*-
And thank you too for those who read this story -*hugging them tightly too xD*-
Actually while doing this chapter, I was having Chemistry exam, but I needed to write this chapter because if I don't, I'm afraid I'd be forget about the plot n,n
Err...I thought this chapter has too much italic word and bold word too, but perhaps you could know why I did that n,n
Luph u all xP
eL-ch4n