#and i love those places with spare vegetation and that weird spring area

[autisticsonic]

Actually I need to talk about this. I really dislike Chaos Island in Frontiers. I just hate like, the vibe of it. The place has been abandoned for thousands of years, and vegetation made its way there. There should be more! Maybe less so closer to the volcano, but the thing is, volcanic soil is very good for plants!! They should be thriving further away from it!

We could’ve had a more jungle-esque thing, with green patches of forest and brush at the outskirts and some choice places. Perhaps one of those small side islands could’ve been a dense jungle that makes it harder to move!

The plants could be in a vibrant, yellow-tinted green (Like some plants on the island already are), oranges and reds. It would work well with the more bluish and gentle green of Kronos, and the golden sands of Ares. There’d still be dark earth and ash but at least it’d look alive.

AND Sonic would get to reminisce about SA2! Since there was a jungle-covered volcano island as well!

[chocobostrinket]

Chirp Chpt 6: Darn Magpie

Link to AO3

Rating: General

Word Count: 2372

Chapter Summary:  Ignis alerts Nyx and Libertus to the situation with Rhea, and Noctis overhears.

Notes:  This was fun to write, but I clearly lost where I was going with it. lol The next chapter, thankfully, will be better with a better resolution. Shorter than normal I'm afraid, but I've been sitting on this for so long it's time to move on I think. (Watch out for typos and weird grammar. Sorry!)  I miss doing prompts and things, and would love writing more in this verse. Also, where do you guys want this fic to go? I've been thinking of doing a time skip soon. Maybe after these next three chapters. :) Either way, thanks for reading! :D

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It was too early for this, Nyx decided.

It was morning, right before he, Libertus, and Crowe were to report in for training. The sun had just barely risen, which meant he’d had time to grab something from the fridge before heading off. And as he stared into the fridge, everything stared back at him. Every single egg, carton of juice, food container, and vegetable had eyes on them. And with how tired he was, he froze upon seeing them at first. However, his mind was soon functioning enough to realize that their food hadn’t suddenly come to life. He reached in and grabbed one of the eggs, staring at it for a moment before shaking it, and watching the eyes on it jiggle as well.

Googly eyes. He just had to be sure.

A sigh left him, and he placed the egg back with the rest before shutting the door. Perhaps he’d have time to run to the café in the visitor’s area of the citadel before going off the training. He didn’t trust the food right now. Later, when he was more awake, he’d be able to make sure there weren’t any other surprises. But not now.  He just wanted breakfast.

Nyx, then realizing that their ‘beloved’ prince Noctis was probably behind this, went over to the edge of the hall and yelled down to Libertus’s room.

“Magpie alert.”

He waited for a response but could only hear curses coming from behind Libertus’s door. And when it opened, he could see nothing wrong. Libertus was in uniform and nothing was out of place.

But then Libertus pointed to his mouth and said, “Too late.”

Or rather, that’s what Nyx thought he said. It came out a little slurred, almost like the words were undefined in his mouth. Nyx frowned as Libertus passed him by, dropping a small tube into his hand. It took a moment for Nyx to realize what it was, and when he did he shook his head. It was a small tube of mouth numbing gel, with tooth paste around the opening.

“Did he really manage to spike toothpaste?” Nyx muttered, and then wondered what they’d ever done to deserve Noctis’s pranks.

He could only imagine what the rest of the glaive…

Oh no.

“If he got us, do you think…”

Libertus grimaced and that was all the response Nyx needed. The captain was sure to be in a bad mood today. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was limited to just the glaives, he’d laughed at more than one of the pranks, but Noctis somehow managed to find his way into the captain’s office these days. No matter how many times they changed the lock. How he managed to get by a ton of trained frontline soldiers, supposedly the best of the best, the elite, without waking a single soul up, no one knew. Nyx shook his head as he headed toward the door. Behind him he could hear Libertus open the fridge, huff, and then shut it again before joining him.

“How does he even get in here.” Libertus said, shaking his head as they walked, following Nyx as if on auto pilot.

In response he shrugged, “If the captain can’t keep him out, what hope do we have?”

Before Libertus could answer, they’d arrived at the end of the hall they were stationed in. Crowe stood leaning against the wall, waiting for them undoubtably. And she had a grin on her face that made Nyx narrow his eyes.

“You look pleased this morning.”

She smiled ever wider at his statement, and shrugged, “I had a good night’s sleep.”

That alone was suspicious, and for a moment, it crossed his mind that perhaps it had been Crowe who’d played the pranks instead. But he put that out of mind. They all had a sense for each other, and there was no way she’d have been able to get into their shared quarters without Libertus or himself noticing. His eyes were still narrowed at her though, as they began walking. She knew something, didn’t she.

The three of them walked together in comfortable silence then, heading toward the café. Crowe never cooked breakfast, usually skipping unless Libertus caught her. This was the sibling’s compromise. Café food in the morning. Though, Nyx liked cooking on his own. Not this morning though. He didn’t want to think about what else could be lurking in their fridge with the googly eyes.

It was a simple matter of getting their food, eating it, and hurrying on. Crowe, meanwhile, talked about Prompto’s first night with them. Nyx looked a little alarmed, having actually managed to forget about their new charge, but she quickly reassured him that he was with Noctis for now. And not alone. Libertus and Nyx looked at each other and realized that was something they needed to settle soon. Who would guard Crowe, and who would guard Prompto from now on. Would he be returning to the high school he attended?

“Oh boy.” Libertus’s voice cut into his thoughts and he looked up, seeing that the glaive’s section was open.

A silent signal that Noctis had been there.

“So we weren’t the only ones bothered last night.”

“Far from it.” A voice called behind him.

The three turned and found Luche and Tredd walking up to them. They looked normal, for the most part. Libertus raised an eyebrow at them and Luche gestured to Tredds shoes. And when they looked down, they saw he was wearing normal sneakers. Crowe snorted, but Nyx frowned.

“Dare I ask…?”

“They’re stuck to the wall with glue.” Tredd shrugged helplessly. “Think the captain will allow ‘I was pranked by the prince’ as an official excuse now?”

Nyx opened his mouth to answer, but then Sonitus had walked up behind the pair. His mood was as dark as a storm cloud, and his kingsglaive mask was on despite it being before training.

Luche turned and said, “Yeesh, you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?”

Those three were also a circle, Nyx recalled, and if Nyx could feel Sonitus’s mood from where he was, he wondered at what they were feeling from him. Rather than answer Luche, Sonitus lifted his mask slightly, enough to rub his thumb on the inside of his mask, and then with a firm movement, pressed it against Luche’s cheek and dragged it down his face. Behind it, a dark trail of ink was smeared on Luche, who nearly fell backwards once he realized what Sonitus had done.

The two quickly fell into bickering then, or rather, Luche complained at Sonitus, while Tredd laughed, delighted he wasn’t the only one who’d been hit. Both groups continued on, hurrying into position before the captain arrived. From there, it was business as usual. Though, they were a little confused by the captain’s good mood. Maybe Noctis’s hadn’t gotten him.

By noon, they were all worn out from training, and grateful that the rest of the day was supposed to be free training. Which usually meant being able to take advantage of the training room for sparing. However, Nyx was interrupted by the sight of Ignis hurrying over to their group, a troubled look on his face.

“Pardon me, Nyx, Libertus? Could you join me for a moment?” He glanced around nervously, as if something was going to spring out. Which didn’t make sense, considering he was potentially in the safest place.

“Yeah, sure.” Nyx agreed.

Ignis nodded in acknowledgement, and then turned to Crowe, “And Crowe? The king would like to speak to you. He’s in his office.”

At that, everyone frowned, and the atmosphere grew heavy around them. Crowe didn’t seem too bothered, but behind her, her wings had gone stiff, betraying her worry.

“Alright, I’ll be on my way then.” She said and then left at a quick pace.

The two then followed Ignis into one of the smaller training rooms, often used for private sessions between the prince and his retainers. It was only when the door was closed that Ignis seemed to relax slightly. But not by much. He turned to face them and began to speak.

“I’ll be brief. Last night Prompto’s home was broken into.”

The pair looked at each other, trouble on their faces, and then back.

“Was anything taken?” Nyx asked.

Ignis shook his head, “No. However, do you remember his neighbor? She… Well she’s currently stable, but from what I’ve been able to find, she might have gone to confront the person who broke in. And was thrown with enough force to level the fence between their yards.”

A hiss of sympathy left Libertus then and he couldn’t help the concern, “If nothing was taken, does this mean that Prompto was the target?”

“Potentially. As such, we will be implementing a schedule, so that when outside the citadel, the two of you will be guarding him, while Crowe will have to remain in the Citadel with either the king or prince.” Ignis stated, glancing at the door as if someone was there.

Nyx knew that Barn owl patterns were easily unsettled when younger, due to their odd ability to track danger. But it also could cause some anxiety when there was no need. He’d heard it was hard to separate the two. Of course, it might have to do with the rustling that Nyx heard above them. But that wasn’t anything dangerous, he was sure.

“Something wrong?” Nyx asked, unable to help himself.

Ignis glanced at him and then back at the door. “No, it’s nothing.”

They waited for a moment, and Ignis huffed, giving up the pretense, “Well, actually I feel like I should find Noctis, though I can’t figure out why. So, if you’ll excuse me…”

Ignis trailed off and began walking toward the door. When he pulled it open, he frowned and looked down at the floor, as if remembering something.

“Oh…” He then turned to look at the two again, “Please, until we know his neighbor is going to be alright, don’t let Prompto know. There’s also a potential that the King might raise the threat level by one for Kestrels. Just… Keep an eye on both Crowe and Prompto when you can.”

“You got it.” Nyx waved a hand at him and watched him leave. Libertus stood next to him and sighed before deciding to go and find Prompto, since Crowe would be with the king. One of them should be with him starting today if there was an actual threat.

Nyx decided to stay behind, making up an excuse of wanting to run through some forms while he had the room to himself. He waved to Libertus with a smile, watching him leave, and then turned back into the room, and looked up into the far-right corner.

There, perched in the rafters, was Noctis, his eyes wide with surprise that Nyx noticed him.

“Mind explaining what you’re doing up there, your highness?” he called up with amusement in his voice.

Noctis opened his mouth, but no sound came out. And the next time Nyx blinked, there was only the after image of the prince where he’d been sitting. With a sigh Nyx turned toward the doors and saw Noctis making a run for it. Two could play at that game though.

Rather than chuck a knife at the prince, Nyx quickly kicked off his shoe, grabbed it, and threw it. Mentally he said thanks to his mom for his impressive accuracy and warped after it. The shoe hit Noctis on the back of his head, hitting him surprisingly lightly for how hard it was thrown. That didn’t stop him from letting out a shocked cry, nor did it prepare him for Nyx crashing into him at full speed.

While Noctis wasn’t prepared for him, Nyx was. He wrapped his arms around his waist, careful not to ruffle his feathers too badly, and lifted him off the ground. Noctis flailed for a moment, before simply going dead weight, caught and accepting defeat.

“Nothing good I take it.” Nyx muttered, and Noctis let out an almost petulant sounding tweet in response.

He released Noctis, who immediately glared at him and went to setting his wings back in order.

“You don’t know that!” He snapped, annoyed more than anything else that he’d been found.

Nyx only shook his head with a laugh and let Noctis fix his feathers. While he did that, he began looking through the rafters. Upon seeing no one else up there, his brows pulled back down into a frown. “Isn’t Prompto supposed to be with you?”

Noctis’s hands paused in their movements for the slightest of seconds before he answered, “Dad called him up to the throne room earlier today. Said it was to go over some of the details of living in the citadel. Also, to see if we could get in touch with his parents to explain. Though… I supposed that wasn’t true.”

Noctis’s eyes locked onto Nyx’s with an almost accusing look on his face.

Nyx held up his hands in an almost surrendering manner. “Don’t look at me like that, I just found out a bit ago.”

Noctis stared at him a moment longer before going back to what he was doing, though he was almost finished. It was after a beat of silence when he spoke again.

“Prompto deserves to know.”

At that, Nyx couldn’t say much, other than agreeing, “He does. But it’s for his safety that he doesn’t. Just until we find out if he was the target or not.”

Noctis stares that the floor for a moment, before nodding as if he’d also made up his mind, “Yeah, I suppose…”

Nyx breathes a sigh of relief, “I’m glad you understand, I mean I would-“

Before he could blink Noctis had warped away and was out the door, calling back to him, “That we’ll have to agree to disagree!”

“Son of a-“ Nyx warped after him to try and catch him, nearly running a few glaives over in the process.

“Hey Nyx! Where’s the fire!?” One called after him, mildly upset about being knocked into.

“Magpie!” Was all Nyx called back before chasing after Noctis.

[crashpaddiaries]

Dear Crashpad Diary #23

Talking about: On drugs the way down / Helicopter at the avalanche risk area / The odds of getting a tour / Having a restaurant not knowing how to cook / Where is the last day?? / back to the madness / Sleeping tractor

Hi beast!!! what´s up?? All sweet and great yeah!! =)

Meantime our fantastic adventure through the Himalayan range kept going and as all the mountaineering acts, after suffering, huge efforts, troubles and tough decisions, you reach your summit and…. time to go down!! hahah

Something like: “Oh… we made it!! Cool!! Well… lets start going down cuz you know… the weather… the descent is the most dangerous part of the climb/hike…. bla bla bla” hahahahahh

To us it worked a bit better… we go there… I took few pics while the guys were inside the tea house warming up… after that we grabbed some food… went to the proper base of the Annapurna…

What a massive and beautiful piece of art…. the mother nature worked incredibly well on that one… sitting there for between many peaks, you perfectly understand why that mountain, among all of those, has something special….

We took as many pics as our frozen-to-be hands could and started our descent alongside with the huge mountain and through the valley… Dunno if you remember but Lara and Fabio had given up cuz she was feeling pain in her knee. By that time I lent her my knee brace and ibuprofen cream, the one I was carrying for the way down… as I have a known problem in mine… well… she gave up and forgot to give me back… As a result, I had to walk down on drugs and dealing with the pain… and the worse is that all the stairs we got going up we were getting now going back… I´d like to thank the one that created the painkillers… love you guys!! hahahahah

Passing by Deurali, Luh got a new adventure with toilets… we stopped to catch a breath and he got inside the toilet… suddenly we started hearing a weird and loud noise… sth that none of us understood well… and… as we were around the avalanche risk area I yelled at him to tell him to get out of there quick! So he did get out not  understanding much hehe

After few secs we got it… it was the helicopter that we saw flying earlier that day… it seems someone needed to be rescued… fair enough… the trek and the environment are indeed pretty aggressive to those that are not prepared both… mentally and physically!

Going down that day we reached to one of the last guest houses… the places in the ABC are quite similar but that one was under the average… weird!! Just for you to have an idea… we got there starve (once again) and the guys ordered an fried noodle… the chowmein that we have been eating pretty much everyday and I have to agree that it was a good call cuz all of them were scrumptious… I didn’t want another one though… so I ordered a simple omelet with chapatti… or as it was written on the menu…. Omlet… haha we have so much fun with the mispellings… not in a bad way tho… they are fun… like Watermillion!! hahahah

Well… getting back to the lunch…. my omelet came fast and right… ok… it´d be harder mess up with a simple food like that!! But when the chowmein came we couldn’t believe… actually that´s what happen when you order noodles with vegetables and eggs and they deliver old-taste spaghetti with tomato sauce…. what?????¿¿?¿? hahahaha

And the best part is that when we complained the guide thought we were wrong… seriously??? hahaha

We asked to change the restaurant for all the other meals and the guide told us how the things work up there… you get the rooms for free if you have all the meals in their restaurant… Ohhhh…. now I got why we have been eating at the same place we were sleeping for the entire trip!! haha in fact the food in all of them was awesome… that was our first “not pleasant” experience! Odds of getting a tour right!!?¿?¿? but considering the trek I still think it´s way better hiring a guide rather than going on your own to somewhere that requires knowledge and maybe becoming stats like many of the trekkers that got lost in the Himalayas…. sad but happens fairly often… =(

Cool… the second most wanted part of the trekking was around the corner… last day of trek… we got finally to the hot springs… hoooooray… resting… chilling and getting warm… what an adventure!! I can´t be grateful enough to the universe!!!

The day after we walked a lil bit and then went back to Pokhara… funny enough… we realised that we were arriving there earlier than the expected… our pace must´ve been good I thought!!

We met Lara and Fabio down there… got some food and discussed few things…. when we were up there, Tulu, the guide, had told us about a tour that he could organise after getting back to Kathmandu… going for one night to a place that we could see the Everest. We got excited… actually we would have gotten excited with anything up there though haha

So.. when we got to pokhara he said that we had a spare day, we could go around the next day and then he would organise the other tour for the upcoming days… as we would be going soon to Thailand we decided for not going then… What made the guy change suddenly his behaviour… he told us then that he could leave us the day after and would go back to KTM… we could do it whenever we wanted…. the way back was already paid…

When we enquired about the day after… that was supposed to be a tour day… with all inclusive and seeing sth else… he told us that when the group is too fast normally the last day is forgotten and in his words “rich people doesn’t´t care about the money they paid for that day”… What??? haha

It´s funny how people assume that just because you are backpacking in their country you have money to burn!! It gets me pissed of… you work as hell to travel and some people´s job is getting your money as easy as possible… fuckers!! haha

I don´t actually know whats worse… trying to get our money whiteout not even provide the service, assume that our parents are paying for our trip or changing the behaviour just because we didn’t do what he wanted…. Shame on you man!!

After long argument he agreed that he would comply with the things that we paid for… but we headed back to KTM anyways the day after… a small con among the ocean of pros and incredible experiences we got in Nepal…

Happily and surely, these people will never affect our fantastic trips!! I just wrote it as a side note, maybe an alert to all the travellers…

In its essence, going up to the Annapurna Base Camp has been and overwhelming trip even more with great friends and my best one… my beloved brother!! What a way to start our trip together!!

That was it… we took the bus the day after… as usual… to get 130 km done we took 10 hours and finally got back to the dusty Kathmandu… time to pack and go to Thailand!!

We all were looking forward to a good night of sleep at the hostel… got the same room… well… the entire time we were there before, it was a quiet stay… we thought it’d be the same… but NO… haha we arrived and there was a thai couple… really cool guy… talkative and all… super kind!! what we did not know is that during the night he plays a tractor!! hahahah I´ve never seen… I mean… heard someone snoring so loud in my life… Even though I had the beats on… I could not sleep… he was sounding like an earthquake inside our room!! hahaha We were so happy when he left the day after… poor guy… its not his choice but we would go mad with that tractor sleeping at the same room one more night hahaha

Sweeeeeeet!! Our last night in KTM was good… no surprises… no one snoring or trying to piss on us… we had all packed and the only worry was how much fun and which adventures Thailand was reserving to us!!

Venga pad thais and climbing… beaches and shakes… so long Nepal… next time I´ll come for the Everest!! Cheers!!

Haha… another long post… sorry…. loads of stories and great memories…. can’t help!! =)

Hope you all are awesome and having a great life!!

All the best vibes and talk to yous soon!!

Namaste!!

Evan