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Does This Count As A Haunting?

Who; Nida & Ignis
What; June Event
Where; Around the city
When; June 25th
Warnings; CW: Event typical violence, traumatic memories, attempted murder

Always Shadowed By Your Memory [Closed to Ignis]

It starts with a flash of a certain shade of red metal. The glint of light, caught when Nida was walking home after a shift, stopped him in his tracks. He sensed the wafting power of magic, but as ever couldn't tell what it was, just where. In the same direction as the flash of light.

Nothing could make Nida keep from moving at that flash of color. Because in his mind it equated with one thing and one thing only. Which was, sadly enough, a man that he desperately wished wouldn't show up here. So he began to follow, a slow prowling follow after a figure that with, more time and attention, he found to be wearing a red coat, not to mention the red hair. And that was enough to make him feel sick to his stomach.

"Elijah," he mumbled under his breath as he saw the figure pause and look around, catching sight of those brilliant blue eyes.

And that was when Nida made the worst mistake possible. Once Elijah disappeared into the alley, Nida went and followed. The red-clad figure was there, further ahead of him, almost in the reach of a quick blade. Nida came to a stop and then saw the man turning around to look at him. The cocky smile was there, the perfect curve of lips that once held Nida at the end of a hook, looking for more.

Which was when Siren screamed of wrongness in his head and the illusion faded. Nida was too stunned by that to do much but stare in shock as a 'fist' made of broken pieces of cobble stones pounded against his head.

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Nida was late coming home. Ignis had come home from work and found the place empty. Not allowing that to ruin his day, he turned to face the task of making dinner. He kept half expecting the man to come in through the door and that didn't happen. Perturbed, Ignis finished dinner and tried to call Nida on the tell phone. The man didn't pick up which was even more unusual and started him worrying.

So the advisor turned everything off, wrapped the food carefully and bedded Hibiscus down away from the two felines who knew better but Ignis sectioned him off anyway.

Heading out the door and locking it after him, he took to the streets, going towards the Guard headquarters. Repeatedly he took out his phone in an attempt to call and the more it went unanswered, the more worried Ignis got.

This wasn't like Nida at all.

The air was off which was normally pleasant and for whatever reason, the strategist found himself doing double time. He went the normal routes that Nida did and something told him to turn back around.

"Nida?"

Where had the man gone?

Fights for his life weren't a new thing for Nida. He was just used to them not coming on him out of nowhere. The creature swung and Nida's head spun but he still ducked and rolled away. The creature roared in fury and Nida did the only thing he could do with shaking hands.

Nida called forth his magic, calling a cure into himself. Not that the spellwork was flawless. The low level cure didn't do enough for every pain he was feeling, but it was enough to take some of the edge off. Enough of the edge for him to thrust his hand out toward the creature and the motion unleashed the thunder spell. A bolt of electricity struck down from the sky, cleaving it from a clear sky, to strike the ground in front of the creature.

Sounds of battle were coming from his left, so Ignis hurried that way. Had Nida gotten himself into danger? And with that thought, the advisor did double and triple time to try and reach the source of the din. It wasn't far now and he kept running. Fear lanced through him and worried that he might be too late, but he couldn't allow himself to think like that as he hurried more

And that was when he saw the lightning and just knew that had to be Nida. He hurried the rest of the way and spotted his beloved in a fight. Ignis didn't give it a second thought, and summoned his Drain Lance to come down on top to shove it into the creature's head.

The problem, of course, with a being made out of bits and scraps and rubbish? Even a lance through the head doesn't fully take it down. The thing stumbled forward toward Nida, then its arms (or what passed for them), reached up to try and knock Ignis away.

Nida, seeing a possible relief from his pain, thrust forward with another spell, this time ice to freeze the creature's feet to the ground.

He caught a bit of the hit but at least it would give Nida time to heal himself. Ignis had confidence that his lover knew what he was doing in battle so that didn't worry him. And even if the other got in a bind, well at least he wasn't fighting alone anymore.

They'd fought together before and the advisor had remarked at how good a team they made so he was definitely sticking to that point. So he dismissed his lance and readied his daggers.

The thing's attention was fully on him so he would run the distraction or even go in for the kill..whatever..or whoever this thing was.

With the ice holding the thing in place, all it could do was reach out to swing at Ignis, who was inherently closer. Nida, meanwhile, tried to stagger to his feet as the thing threw out a swinging arm.

The protect spell went off just in time.

"Careful, it hits like a behemoth. Those arms are pure cobble!"

"What in the bloody hell is this thing?" Ignis asked, narrowly avoiding that arm. He moved around with his daggers with the plan of piercing it in the back. But he had to keep its attention and was relieved that Nida was now back on his feet and giving help.

That would even the odds here at a considerable level.

"No fucking clue. But it looked like Elijah when I was following it."

Elijah. The name they hadn't mentioned since Nida had told the story of how he'd ended up so broken. Of course he'd followed the ghost of his torment. And now? Now the creature that it had truly been was attacking Ignis. Not that it could turn easily to defend itself.

Nida pushed the rest of the way to his feet, and with his hands and legs too shakey to be relied upon for a good fight, he instead dove back into his magic. He didn't trust the lightning with Ignis so close, and Aero wouldn't do much when the thing was anchored. He didn't have a lot options, so he chose fire, hoping it wouldn't soften the ice too much. He grabbed the spell and threw the fireball, this aimmed for the more wooden core of the creation.

"Elijah?" Ignis asked, alarmed. He knew that name and he knew the history so now it made sense as to why Nida had followed it. His stomach churned at the thought of the other following a man he thought to be..well he didn't want to think about that right now.

Instead he turned and slashed his daggers at the arm that swung. Now he was angry and confused and not sure how to feel. But he did know one thing, that questions could very well wait until they were done with this..thing.

He saw the fireball hit and nodded, turning his daggers to Fire and working on moving close to the wooden center to help the damage that was already being done.

The heat from their fires had finally won the thing free of the ice. It took a plodding step forward then turned to swing at Ignis with all its might. Nida couldn't do much, but he could throw and water spell in it, catching the thing up in a ball of water to take as much momentum and force from the blow as possible. He lifted the orb up and then brought it slamming against the ground.

"Go ice, love!"

He wished Noct were here with his spells so he could throw one of those balls of fire that they'd used more than a few times. He took a slight hit from the creature and raised his gloved hand to his face to use one of his precious healing potions so that he didn't have to worry about not keeping the thing distracted.

However, when Nida went and used the water he nodded with the instructions and changed his daggers to Ice.

Oh Ignis, don't use your potions when Nida can cure you later. But sometimes you did what you needed to do.

"How familiar are you with freeze thaw cycles and their affects on stone?" Nida asked, backing away form the creature as it worked to get back to its feet.

"I am..somewhat familiar." Ignis replied, keeping his eyes on the thing and trying his best to mentally calculate how far and fast this thing was going to be able to move and reach.

He's experimented on spells with Noct when they were away from Prompto and Gladio. Those two were always busy wrestling and being themselves. However, when he could, Ignis got Noctis alone and worked on studying how the Prince's (at the time) magic worked.

"Keep the ice up, the water will freeze and force open cracks. I can use fire to melt it, then slam it with water again. I can spare the spells for now."

ANd spells were easier to target in this space for him and in this moment than a weapon.

And speaking of the 'it'. The thing stood now, fully, and raised cobbled fists that were actually cracking a little. It moved toward Nida, not Ignis, swinging at his head.

Ignis scowled as it advanced on Nida and ran after it, jumping onto its shoulders and crossing his ice daggers in front of where he figured its throat would be to make a cross slash at it as if to sever the head from the neck.

He couldn't let this thing get near Nida, and if that didn't work he would be more than ready to pull his lance back out and attempt to run it through. For now though he waited and fought to hold on and keep its attention.

The creature, animated rubble as it was, didn't really stop from the cut. Sure, the dead vines and rope that held up the 'head' gave and the head toppled off, but that didn't stop it from continuing to advance.

"Iggy, get off of it!" Nida suggested. "I can run toward the ocean. We could try and get Siren involved."

Hearing Nida call to him, Ignis moved. It wasn't a hard jump but he was worried about his fiancee'. While he himself was no tank like Gladio, he still would prefer to be the one to take the hit instead of the other.

He wasn't sure of this plan, but he had to agree because of Siren. "I'll follow behind."

With his lance, ready to jump.

And here Nida was, a tank by virtue of kiting things around, and normally by being able to use his weapon to keep tthings at a distance. Oh well.

Nida's head still spun but he moved closer to the creature and it lunged for him. Nida immediately rolled out of the way and started to move forward.

"Herd it with jabs if you have to."

It was time to find the ocean and let Siren sing.

Ignis wasn't happy with this play in plans, but at the moment he was out of other options. So he nodded and dismissed his daggers. He wouldn't summon his lance until he needed to, as this could hinder his movements and carrying the weight would be burdensome at best.

But he followed along and kept Nida in his sights.

Nida wasn't moving as fast as he otherwise might, so no doubt it would be helpful for him if Ignis kept pulling attention back so he could continue darting forward. THe longer they moved, the clearer his head was, and he called back toward the other man from time to time.

"We're coming up on the street. Can you move around hte edges to keep people back? I'll have to stay closer to it."

He had no idea what Nida meant by move around the edges, so he summoned his lance and jammed it into the thing's back which slowed it down. No one was following them in the slightest it seemed, and Ignis had its attention by pulling his lance out of the thing's back.

This was definitely more chaotic than he'd like it and he scowled as he had to jump back away from it.

People might not be following them, but they did have to keep people out of the creature's fight. Nida didn't want innocents caught up, and as he came out on the busy street he heard people gasping and shouting in shock, clearly aiming to get away. The people definitely caught the creature's attention, and it started to try and lay about itself at hte nearest person.

"Hyne take you," Nida hissed, moving closer to try and get the creature to not run at a nearby child.

If the creature was focused on Nida, Ignis didn't hesitate to jump on it. But when it focused on other people, if he could clear the innocent civilians that was priority. And whenever he could, the advisor focused the creature on himself so that Nida could clear the innocent bystanders.

"This reminds me of Altissia." he declared, working his Fire daggers at the damn thing. That was where he, Gladio and Prompto had to clear out the citizens there for for Lady Camelia Claustra per her pact with Noct, in order to make way for Lady Lunafreya and the subsequent summoning of Leviathan.

"You'll have to tell me about Altissia," David called back. They were nearing the docks, and people had mostly cleared out by this point. It was interesting, but Nida loved how easily they were working together.

"We'll swap stories. I can tell you about Fisherman's Horizon."

"Bloody wreck of a city..." Ignis replied in a low tone that couldn't be heard as he pulled his fire daggers out of the thing's arm. It then got a bit too close and he kicked one of his daggers at the chest.

And while he had no idea what Fisherman's Horizon was, it did remind him of Noct and his love of fishing. But he had mere moments to think on it before it turned to dash after Nida again.

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