Game

"I don't hear it anymoar!" - blurted out Gragas, as he was fighting a wave of mindless creatures that didn't even seem to care about him. Shen was with him, watching out for their safety.

"Hear what?" - he asked.

"Them summoner!" - answered Gragas with a tone telling he considered it obvious. He stopped beating the minions and continued:

"That voice tellin' me whatta do. It's gone!" - he paused for a few seconds. - "Well, I'll drink for that!"

Gragas pulled the cork out of his cask and gulped down almost half of it's content within a second.

"You drink for anything you can name..." - answered Shen - "But you're right. I don't sense my summoner either."

He sheathed his blade and looked around on Summoner's Rift. As far as he knew, both nexuses were still standing. Made sense too, it was only twenty five minutes into the game.

"Well, da match is over!" - said Gragas - "I'm goin' back to the nexus. I have a friend waitin' in the inn anyways."

"The winner team would have been announced" -started Shen but he couldn't finish, because a raging bear broke out of the nearby brush and ferociously charged at them.
Shen drew his sword in a flash and stood between Gragas and the ganking bear (that turned out to be Udyr) to cover their retreat, but Gragas pushed him away.

"DUDE!" - he yelled - "Them summoners are gone! Ye can have some for that"

He hurled his cask straight into Udyr's face, the rims broke and the barrel exploded, pouring wine everywhere and flushing the bear a few good meters away. Udyr stood up coughing.

"What?! What the ... Gragas, your summoners disappeared too? I thought it was just mine having some problems, but I was coming to steal blue and saw the lane was pushed and ... and what is going on then?"

"Da game is OVER! We can continue it at the inn sometime if you like, but I'm goin back now to da nexus. Gettin' out of this Rift for now."

"No, this is not how a match ends." - Shen stepped forward - "There's something seriously wrong here. The summoners never leave us just like that. And when did you lose connection, Gragas? A good minute ago. We'd be back at the Institute by now."

"Well you can keep fighting if you like, I'm outta here. You're taking this way too seriously Shen." - said Gragas as he walked away, already drinking from another cask he got somewhere. Shen looked after him, then back at Udyr.

"Actually" - the bear started - "It's Summoner's Rift and you're pushing my toplane. Why shouldn't I just gank you?"
"This is not a game anymore Udyr." - answered Shen coldly - "It seems like the summoners are no longer in control, and our death could be a lot less illusionary by now."

"Hmm, my instincts tell me you're right. If that's the case, it's best to head back to our nexuses and recall to the Institute. Check on them hooded fellows. If they really screwed something up it doesn't worth dying for."

"Reasonable" - Shen nodded - "I hope our teammates will come to the same conclusion. Without the summoner, I don't have contact with them."

"I'll look around in my jungle" - suggested Udyr - "maybe your jungler wandered in with a brave idea. Let's warn them that the summoners probably lost control over the game and that includes death too. I am the jungler in my team but I'd still appreciate if you'd check your woods too."

"Agreed. Let's have no one die today."

Shen watched as Udyr retreated into the jungle, then he also turned around, and started carefully walking into the woods. The sight of the blue golem slowly emerged from the trees' shadows as Shen neared it. It stood still, maybe too still. No one around it. Shen went on, ready to draw his katana any second. The wolf camp. Shen approached it. All of them were asleep.

He crossed the midlane to check the other side of the forest. Wraiths missing, but the lizard was alright. No one from the enemy team. Even his own midlaner was missing. Maybe he's back at the nexus already - thought Shen. Somehow the Rift was gloomy like never before. He walked up the stairs to his base and headed to the pool. He stood on one of the symbols and started recalling back to the Institute of War.

Author's (long) note: So this is a story I started back in 2012 03. 03. and I got stuck with it during the summer and on. Now I'm planning to continue it, and therefore I posted it here to get some reviews and (hopefully) some positive feedback as well, because I need motivation that badly to write.

The first chapters are a bit dump I know, but this is my very first story and later on I feel I got the hang of it, so chapters have increased in lenght and quality.

The main goal of this story was to create a realistic and believable atmosphere while maintaining an intrigueing and exciting storyline.