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Is it wrong to to seek for answers?

Chapter 1: Pilot

SOMEWHERE – SOMEWHEN

"Uh, Where am I?" asked Noctis tiredly after opening his eyes, still feeling his headache. While trying to remember what happened, he realized he was inside a bedroom, but where?

(OPENING THEME: HIROYUKI SAWANO feat. Eliana - S_TEAM)

Then suddenly all his memories returned. The fight with Ardyn, how he sacrificed his life to save Eos, Everything.

"I`m alive?" he asked himself while he tried to look around his body, all his clothes on except his jacket and Shoes.

Noctis looked at his trousers, hoping he had anything that could help him somehow.

His smartphone was gone, that's for sure. That didn't surprise him at first, since he practically died, but then again, he had his old clothes as a 20s year old guy on him.

They were so many questions he had, but then he felt something like a sheet of paper in one of his pockets.

It was the picture of him, Prompto, Gladio and Ignis on a camping side somewhere in Cleigne.

He also remembered choosing the picture over the others to show to Lunafreya in the afterlife, at least that was the plan.

Before Noct stood up from the Bed, He realized there was a window on the left side. He opened and looked outside, still holding the picture.

He saw the sun rays coming up from the Horizon, which means it's early in the morning.

Noctis couldn't stop, but smiling while looking outside. He missed the sunlight, so much for everything that happened. It made him happy, he looked at the picture again, thinking of his comrades.

"Still, I need to find out where I am, " he said to himself. Before taking his jacket and shoes which were on the wooden chair near the bed, he put the picture back into his right pocket. He saw the door behind and opened it.

'God thank's it's not locked' he thought. He entered a small corridor. While walking he saw another door on his right. He stopped at first, because he wanted to know who was inside, since he could feel a strange presence.

'That feels familiar ' he thought.

At first he wondered what could it be, then he remembered,

'Is it an Astral?!',

Feeling nervous, he didn't want to open that door and went straight to where the stairs are leading down. Who or whatever was inside that room, didn't want to be waken up early since it was early in the morning. Noctis knew that most beings don't want to be bothered while sleeping, including himself.

"I need the toilet, " he thought, which led him down the stairs.

'It seems that's it' Noctis realized while seeing the waterfall symbol on the door.

After entering, he saw beside the toilet bowl a large mirror, a basin and even a shower, what's more the bathroom was apparently quite large.

But then he frightened in front of the mirror.

'What the f***' he thought while looking scared at his own Image. He touched his face and his hair. There was no mistake.

"I'm also 20 again?!", Noctis couldn't believe it. Was that why he still had his old clothes.

When he finished his "business"(he couldn't believe that too), he was about to go outside to find out where exactly he was. Whoever was living here, he didn't want to bother him or her anymore, but then...

"I see you've woken up, " said a gentle female voice Noctis heard behind him. "Don't worry, I won't do anything to you"

After turning his body around, he saw a woman with a simple kirtle and a long skirt coming towards him. It was the presence from the other door, he felt.

When she came closer, Noctis saw her long walnut brown hair, gathered together behind her head along with deep indigo eyes, which looked directly into his own. Noctis got concerned with the situation.

"My name is Astraea, a goddess and previous leader of the Astraea familia, and you?"

'What did that woman just say, she's a Goddess'?, even thought Noctis assumption about an 'Astral' hit the bull's eye, he still looked in disbelief at her, and he also never heard of the so called Astraea Familia.

Now he became more careful and serious while looking at her.

"I'm Noct, Noct Gar" he said. There was no way he would tell someone his real name to a complete stranger, let alone to a woman claiming to be a Goddess, even thought he knew she couldn't be a mortal being.

Then the so called Goddess started to smile a very little slightly vicious, which Noctis realized immediately. He also felt some small anger on her.

"You know It's very impolite to lie in front of the women who brought you inside her house, don't you agree"

Noctis's face paled. How did she see through his lie.

"I also can see that you probably don't believe me either. I guess you want to play it safe, which I can't blame you, since you also feel a little bit disoriented, and you prefer avoiding difficulties, am I right?"

That sentence caused Noct's jaw to open.

"I have an idea" Astraea guessed, "I will make us some Tea, you can sit on the couch right there and when I come back, you will tell me everything, what do you say?"

Noct still looked at her in disbelief, "what.. Oh sure, sounds good, " he quickly answered.

"Alright, " she said happily before going to the kitchen while Noctis went straight to the couch.

Noct saw the larger window near the couch, he could also see the sun rays coming from the left side. He also realized that, besides some trees, there was mainly grassland, no sign of other houses, which indicates that he must be somewhere in the countryside. It was truly beautiful.

Then it hit his mind. What if he wasn't in Eos, but somewhere else, another world?, It's possible since he already experienced that kind of travel, also that beings from other worlds/dimensions traveled to Eos. But then again, he shouldn't be alive, let alone 10 years younger than supposed to be.

'So what's going on' he wondered, still sitting and looking out at the countryside.

„Noct" Astraea called, she saw that he seemed to have dozen off,

„NOOCT", she called louder.

„Uwaaah", he came back to reality, seeing Astraea brings two cups of tea.

„Oh, thank you very much" Noctis said as much as possible in a polite form, because he didn't want to anger that so called Goddess like minutes before.

„So, mind telling me about yourself, 'Noct Gar'?" Astraea asked while looking deep into Noct's eye

„I will, but just that you know, you probably won't believe what I'm about to tell you" Noctis clarified before he was about to start.

„I'm all ears, " she just said with a warm smile.

As Noctis started, he firstly said that his real name is Noctis Lucis Caelum, and that he's the crown prince of the Kingdom of Lucis, and lived in it's capital City called Insomnia. Then he told Astraea about his father Regis, his 4 long life friends he had a large adventure with, but also many other people he met there. He also told Astraea about the crystal, which has been protected by the Kings of Lucis. His journey started around the time, when the crystal has been stolen by the Niflheim Empire, which also destroyed his home. While explaining about his life, Noctis also explained about Eos itself and everything he experienced there as much as possible, especially about animals like the chocobos.

Noctis also remembered, that he had a picture of his friends, which he took out, showing it to her.

Astraea couldn't believe at first, but as a Goddess, she realized immediately, that he was telling the truth. She also could feel that Noctis was really strong, maybe stronger than any of her previous children.

She saw the picture: four guys, Noctis included. Then also a rather muscular guy with tattoos, whom she recognized as Gladio, then a man with glasses, probably Ignis and of course Prompto, the cheerful 'goofball', as Noctis described him.

She continued listening and realized that Noctis face slowly saddened.

Now he started to tell about the not so positive things he experienced. About the Nifleheim-Empire, about how he was about to marry his bride to be, Princess Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, but was killed by a guy called Ardyn. But later, when Noctis found out, that he was not only more than 4 centuries alive, but also the brother of the First King of the Lucis's called Somnus, who backstabbed Ardyn and turned him into a Daemon, because Ardyn was supposed to be King instead of him, Noctis could understand Ardyn's anger. After defeating him in the mortal world 10 years later, Noctis had to sacrifice himself to release his homeworld Eos from the eternal Darkness. After also defeating Ardyn in the Astral Space, he died, or that was what he thought until he woke up here.

„And that's my story, in a nutshell" was Noctis last sentence

„Wow…" was Astraea's only word she could say right now.

Astraea couldn't believe it, despite knowing that he told the truth. This man here lived basically a whole life before and also remembered how he died.

„The one thing I expected the least to hear was about Bahamut and Shiva" was her second statement.

„Because they were one of the first Gods to disappear from Heaven, which never saw or heard being in this world, now I know why"

This surprised Noct, „wait you know Bahamut and Shiva?".

„Yes, but to be honest, I wasn't very fond of them, because they were weird back in Heaven" Astraea answered.

„Heaven?" Noctis asked, shocked, she didn't mean THAT heaven as the afterlife, right?

„It seems it's my turn to tell my story, " she said before drinking her Tea, while Noctis did the same.

Astraea started her story when she was in heaven, where she was next to be descending down here to the lower world. She came soon into Orario, also known as the Labyrinth City. It's a City known for its strong adventurers and the Dungeon, a labyrinth complex located under their large Tower known as Babel. While explaining about her story, Astraea also explained about the lower world a bit, like about Demi-Humans like, Cat People, Dwarfs and especially Elves for instance.

By telling her story, Noctis realized that this world wasn't as technologically advanced as his world, since she described things like horse-drawn carriages and postal services quite funniest thing Astraea told him was about the belief of adventurers duties, to pick up girls in the dungeon after protecting them from monsters.

After Astraea found a Human called Alise Lovell, they started the Astraea Familia. Many others, only females, joined her familia as time went by. They became one of the strongest Familias and were also popular among the citizens of Orario and acted as its police force.

Then Astraea's face suddently fell.

One day when her famila was exploring the Dungeon, nearly all her Children died, except one, the Elven Girl Ryu Lion. It was believed that another Familia, the Rudra Familia, was responsible for their death, because they were highly suspected to be part of an group of radical Familias, called Evilus. With that in her mind, Ryuu decided to kill the Entire Rudra Familia on her own for Redemtion.

But when it was later found out that the Rudra Familia wasn't really responsible for their comrade's death, therefore Ryuu was excommunicated from her Familia and was never allowed to join a familia again. Astraea herself couldn't do anything about that, even thought many other influential gods were on her side in that case. She also blamed herself for the occurrences, but also because she wasn't able to let Ryuu alone.

After telling her Story, there was a big Silence in the living room. Noctis could see that it wasn't easy to tell her story, as the same it was with him.

„So,... What happened after that, did you find any new members?" Noctis asked slowly as much tactful as possible.

„No, after that event, my family was disbanded and I was forced to leave Orario " she said while looking down at the table.

„And that Elven girl, Ryuu?, what happened to her?" Noctis asked, but afraid to hear something very uncomfortable.

„She's still in Orario thank heavens" her sadness slightly disappeared, „she works at a pub, called 'Hostess of Fertility' "

Now this was a relief for Noctis, because he thought he was about to anger her because he realized he was too curious for asking too much.

„You said that Ryuu is an Elf, does that mean she has like one arm long pointed ears?" he asked so that he could stop her being sad, and that was only one way he knew.

And it seemed to work since she started to laugh.

„No, no, Ryuu, as for other Elves I've met, doesn't have that long ears, but yes, they are pointed" she answered, „now that I think about it, Ryuu will come here tomorrow, I can introduce you to her, if you want"

„Really, that sounds interesting", Noctis got really excited since he was about to meet a real Elf, like on the mobile game 'King's Knight' he played with Prompto back in Eos, but then he remembered that he forgot to ask the most Important Question.

„Um, how did you find me, I doubt that I appeared right in the room, didn't I?", Noctis wanted to know, since he didn't see any damage inside the room he woke up.

„Oh, right, you fell from the sky and landed right there on the pasture" Astraea said while pointing with her fingers outside the window.

„Outside?" Noctis asked in disbelieve again while looking out of the window again.

„Yeah, at first I believed you're another god descended from Heaven, but right after I saw you, I knew you were no God, then I took you immediately inside my home" Astraea explained while Noctis looked again outside the window.

„May I look at the crash site?", Noctis was curious, maybe he could find any clue how he came here.

„now that I think about it, I need to go on the market square since my food supplies run short, " she remembered, then happily looking at Noctis again, „while I prepare everything for purchasing, you can look and wait outside".

„Alright", Noctis nodded before going outside the House.

Between the House and the grassland, there was a soil road, probably for the traffic. Noctis wondered what kind of new adventure will await him in this new mysterious world.

(ENDING THEME : KARMINA - WALK YOU HOME)