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6:39am. The smell of fresh eggs and bacon filtered the air, as two hungry ventures sat at a round table, eager for breakfast to be served. It was never a struggle to get out of bed when it came to the glorious smell of Ignis’ cooking, the smell of perfectly crisp bacon would always set off the hunger alarm in everyone’s stomach, although it seems like someone had slept through his alarm.
“Where’s Noct?” Ignis asked, joining the others for breakfast, the others shrugged and continued to eat “He probably stayed up until late playing video games, as per usual.” Gladiolus responded, rolling his eyes at the thought. A classic Noctis thing, it was never a surprise to hear that he stayed up playing video games, yet again.
“Would you mind checking on him, Prompto?” Ignis suggested, noticing that he had already finished stuffing his face with breakfast. “Uh yeah! Sure!” Prompto replied.
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“Hey buddy, you up yet?” Prompto pushed his hand slowly on the door, as it creaked open. Dirty laundry tossed everywhere, video game CDs sitting on the console, already collecting dust, and a bumpy, prince-shaped lump under the bed sheets. “Yikes.” Prompto thought to himself.
Muffled groans and creaks from the bed frame were the only two responses that Prompto received, until Noctis’ head poked up from the bed sheets “It’s too early..” The prince said with a crackly voice, scrunching his nose and opening his sleepy eyes gently. Prompto walked around the messy laundry and attempted to make it somewhere closer to Noctis “C’mon Noct, Ignis even made his traditional bacon and eggs breakfast.. th-the eggs are just the way you like them, too!”
“…Alright..” Noctis gradually pulled himself to sit up and pulled the sheets down. Despite the cold weather, n oversized t-shirt and boxers seemed like the most ‘appropriate’ sleep wear to doze off to at 1am in the morning.
“What’s with the late night cosplay? Did you get bored again?” Prompto said with a snicker, his bed hair seemed to have formed the shape of cat ears, scruffy and small, almost casually blending with his normal hair, but the feline tail was obviously fake. Noctis groaned and rubbed his bloodshot eyes “Wh..What do you mean..” He mumbled,
Prompto tip toed the rest of his way to Noctis’ bed and was about to tug on the tail, but it twitched suddenly. “What the..” he jolted his hand back in fright.
“What?” The prince asked, arching his back to stretch out,
“I-It…It twitched!” Prompto whispered, pointing to the tail. Noctis’ bed hair ‘ears’ perked up as he shifted his gazed to the tail “Uh..” He rubbed his eyes again and blinked. Prompto watched as the ears changed expression along with Noctis “You’ve even got ears…” he said, poking them and watching them flicker in annoyance.
“You’ve got to be kidding me..” Noctis whined in embarrassment. His face was crimson from ear to ear “You’ve got to be Kitten me” Prompto snickered , which eventually turned into a laugh, Noctis didn’t seem to enjoy the joke as much as Prompto did. His laugh echoed through the hallway and eventually Gladiolus and Ignis could hear it.
Ignis grew impatient, and decided to deal with the situation himself. “What’s going o- Oh?”
Prompto and Noctis snapped their heads to the doorway, where Ignis stood. Noctis’ ears perked and the fur on his tail stood on end, they both were silent. “Did you wake up on the wrong side of the litter box again?” Ignis said with a monotone voice, his pokerface set off Prompto’s laugh again, while Noctis felt his dignity drop to a new low.
“What happened to you.” Gladio asked, leaning into the doorway with folded arms. “... I don’t know.” Noctis whispered, his head hung low “It’s kinda cute though!” Prompto began to play with his ears and watched them flicker rapidly in annoyance “Wait, does this mean you have cat qualities now too??” He started to scratch Noctis behind the ears, and within a matter of seconds he was putty in Prompto’s lap, purring his way to sleep.
Ignis sighed “We can’t continue running errands with the prince in this state.”
"Y-Yeah we can! Surely we can! It's not like he's totally reformed into a cat, right?" Prompto protested, he didn't want to admit it to the others, but he liked Nyoctis, "Yes.. but it may be difficult to continue like this if he requires much more attention and care than he usually does, especially in future battles." replied Ignis, "And besides, it was enough work looking after one spoilt prince, looking after him in the state like this will be the death of us." Gladiolus added. Prompto frowned "Can we... Can we at least keep him for a little while longer? I-I promise I'll look after him!"
"...Will you.." Ignis folded his arms and pushed his glasses upon the bridge of his nose,
"I-I will! I promise!"
"Alright. Until we get the prince sorted, I entrust you, Prompto Argentum, in looking after the royal feline, Prince Noctis Lucis Caelum."
"Yah-"
"Sh-Shhh!"
" ..hoo~ Prince Nyoctis is safe with me~"