It's a typical Noxus night. The streets are empty and every house's lights is going off. A mansion stood out for its size; it was the DuCouteau's Mansion.

The DuCouteau household has been as empty as the day DuCouteau's disappearance was confirmed.

It had happened a few weeks ago, Talon had just arrived from an assignment he, surprisingly, could not complete. He had been asked by DuCouteau to find and assassinate a local murderous jester that had been killing people simply for the pleasure of doing so. His patterns were odd, he never had a way to mark victims, and any person would just do. Every time Talon was stalking him, he always ended up being the one feeling stalked and every single time; he would lose sight of this jester. This jester was known by Shaco, and he was the main reason why many noxians do not dare to walk out of their homes at night.

Talon didn't feel too good about not completing this assignment, but he didn't feel bad either. He has always hated uncertainty and not being in control of the situation, which sort of made him relieved not having to face this dangerous entity. It wasn't obligatory anyways; it was just a 'if you have time' assignment from DuCouteau. Talon returned to the mansion, which seemed deserted, wondering why there were no guards at the entry, as it was supposed to be.

There, he found his main coach awaiting his arrival.

"What happened to the guards?" – He asked.

"I am sorry Talon. General DuCouteau has disappeared and is presumed dead, and due to such, Jericho Swain has stripped the DuCouteau house from all of its possessions…" – he said, with a regretful face.

"Wait a second, Marcus is presumed dead?" – Talon said, surprised – "If there is one thing I know for sure, is that General DuCouteau would not die that easily! Also, if he is missing, shouldn't Katarina take his place?"

"Talon… Katarina DuCouteau is mourning her father's disappearance, and Noxus' leadership has seen it as a sign of weakness. They will not allow her to take his place as the General."

It was then that Talon knew, Swain had definitely something to do with his master's disappearance.

"I now am a property of the state, and will proceed to train other assassins, just like I trained you…" – he confessed.

"Follow the path you believe is right, your destiny is to train more assassins like myself." – said Talon, encouraging the old man.

"I'd be honored if someone else I trained were to be at least a quarter as good as you, Talon. Now, farewell dear student. Take care of Miss Katarina..." – He finished, while leaving the house.

Talon felt nothing upon his leaving, he felt like the old man never left at all. Somehow, he knew that the general was still alive and that if he were able to bring him back to the house, everything would come back to normal. I suppose you could call it hope.

"I wonder where Katarina and… Cassiopeia are…" –he mumbled.

Cassiopeia was no longer the cute blonde girl with beautiful blue eyes, she had been turned into a half snake half woman with yellow snake eyes by a Shuriman Guardian's venom, at none other than the age of 18. She had started to become manipulative before, using her good looks to control even the hardest hearts of Noxus for the empire's interests. Now she does it in a more visceral way.

Heading up the stairs, Talon proceeded to Katarina's bedroom, hoping to find her there. Upon rotating the door's handle and consequently opening it, he took a peek inside. Katarina was nowhere to be found. He saw, however, an open window. He quickly deduced that she would be on the roof taking a look to the sky's stars.

Heading out through the window, climbing his way up to the roof through the mansion's outside well placed vines. Talon found Katarina sitting on the roof's edge. She heard him climbing up, and thus turned around, standing up, and said:

"How about we go for a little adventure?" – she said, carving a smirk on her face.

"What?" – Talon asked.

"You know… To find my father. Knowing him, he's just waiting for us to find him and rescue him, there is no way he's dead. He'd kill an entire village's worth of soldiers before getting killed. What do you say? Are you up to it?" – She anxiously asked.

Talon placed his right hand on his forehead, hiding his eyes and mouth with the palm, only to contain his smile and slight laugh.

'This isn't a 'mourning' Katarina, that's for sure.' – He thought.

He removed his hand from his face and left.

"Sure, let's do it" – he finally replied.

"Alright!" – Said Katarina, enthusiastic – "Go get Cassiopeia, we're heading for the League Quarters."

The League Quarters were some sort of recruitment group which measured a person's skills to determine whether they can be a champion in the League of Legends or not. It would be a fine place to look for Marcus and question Swain in the process.

Talon swiftly entered the mansion through Katarina's bedroom window, heading straight for Cassiopeia's bedroom. Opening it, he entered the dark bedroom, barely seeing Cassiopeia in the dark.

"What do you want, Talon?" – Questioned Cassiopeia, with her ragged voice, looking at her nails with her yellow colored snake eyes.

"Katarina and I are planning on looking for your father. Would you care to co-"

"No." – She harshly said, interrupting him.

"Come again?" – Said Talon.

"I said no."

"I don't even know why I even bothered asking. I'm taking you with us whether you like it or not." – Replied Talon, blankly staring at her.

"Oh my Talon, you suddenly turned rather cold, could it be that you're trying to impress me?" – She commented, now staring at him as she rose her height with her tail.

Talon fought with himself to keep a cold look.

"Cass" – he said, causing a reaction on Cassiopeia, who raised her eye lids a discrete bit – "I do not think it is right to leave your father behind, after he took care of you with such love, even after you turned into… what you have become. Do not dare to turn a cold shoulder to him when he needs you the most."

Cassiopeia lowered her height by curling her tail on itself, leaving the end of it out, shaking it like a rattlesnake.

"Whatever, I'll go." – She finally agreed.

It was by dawn that the three current owners of the DuCouteau's Mansion left Noxus Prime.