Disclaimer: League of Legends belongs to Riot
Writing Aphrodite's POV for NaNoWriMo. This takes place after the first chapter of Fighting Destiny which can be found in my profile.
VICTORY
I clicked CONTINUE and skipped the end game stats.
I sighed, releasing the breath I didn't know I was holding. That game was intense.
"I honestly thought we were going to lose that one," I muttered. I threw my arms into the air and stretched. I didn't realize how tense I was until I felt my sore muscles.
"Naw, we had it in the bag – baited them at level 1 into thinking we were complete trash," responded my duo queue partner.
I rolled my eyes as I thought back to the beginning of the game when we did that stupid invade. Hurtle led the way to the enemy's buff and convinced me to follow. The rest of our team wasn't on the same page since our jungler spammed a bunch of retreat pings and told us not to go. I told Hurtle that we should listen, but he insisted that this was going to be fun. This resulted with us giving up the first two kills to the enemy team – or should I say the enemy AD carry. Whoops. Laning phase was not fun after that.
"Let's not do that again, okay?"
"Oh c'mon Aphrodite," groaned Hurtle, "it was only normals. Trolling never hurt anyone."
I giggled. That was a very Hurtle-like mentality.
"Let's play another game now that we're all warmed up," I suggested, taking a sip from my water bottle.
"Yeah, let me re-invite you."
I looked at the bottom-right corner of my client to accept his invite only to find another notification appear. I rose my eyebrow when I saw the friend request.
The user Adept wants to add you to their list and see your presence online.
"Hm, someone is trying to add me," I informed Hurtle. I typed the summoner name into the search bar, trying to figure out who the person was.
"What! I didn't get a friend request!" Hurtle jokingly complained, "Who was it?"
"Some guy named Adept," I replied, looking at his profile. 'Challenger, eh? Why is he addi—'
"Oh hey, that's the Lucian we were playing with earlier," Hurtle interrupted my thoughts.
"Wait really?" I looked at the person's match history and confirmed that it was indeed the Lucian we just played with. I opted to turn off summoner names so I never bothered to see who I was playing with.
'How did we get matched with a challenger in normals?' I mused before rolling my eyes once more. It was probably because I duo with Hurtle so much.
In terms of ranking, I was currently sitting at Platinum II while Hurtle was #4 in Challenger. When the season started, we were both placed in Gold IV. However, I just didn't enjoy playing ranked games as much as Hurtle. He climbed the ladder pretty high to the point where we couldn't duo queue anymore. That only further demotivated me from playing ranked games since he was generally my AD carry.
Hurtle mained AD carry just like his father did back in the day while I mained support. It's kind of funny how things worked out. It was about five years ago when I swore that I was never going to touch this game, despite what my parents wanted.
Naturally our families were good friends due to years of competition together. Though things are definitely different now than they were when Hurtle and I were younger. When I was twelve, my father, Doublelift had an affair with Madlife while he was in Korea as a guest for Worlds. It was part of the reason why I didn't want anything to do with the game. Despite the affair, my parents stayed together (though Doublelift had to sleep on the living room couch for two months).
On the other hand, Hurtle's parents split ways after our third year of secondary school. His parents WildTurtle and Xpecial claimed that they were just too different and decided it was best for them to move on. This meant many nights with Hurtle crashing at my place while his parents tried to figure out who got to keep him. This also meant playing League of Legends to keep Hurtle's troubled mind preoccupied.
I swear that's the only reason why I started playing.
We had endless nights of grinding games to get me to level 30 and I've spent countless hours learning the game so one day we could play ranked games together. My parents were definitely happy to help me with my studying. But now, finally in our last year of secondary school, I was getting tired of spamming games and climbing the ladder.
Nowadays Hurtle just plays a bunch of normal games with me to keep me company. But when I'm off doing other things, he spams a bunch of ranked games. He was determined to reach the first spot.
"Should I accept his invite?" I asked aloud, not particularly asking Hurtle.
"Meh, he was okay." Hurtle voiced his opinion anyways, but it didn't matter because I had already clicked Accept.
The name Adept immediately appeared on my friends list and I wondered if I should say "hi".
"So when are you going to accept my invite?"
"Oh shoot! Sorry," I quickly accepted the game invite.
"Don't tell me you're falling for another AD carry," Hurtle humored.
"Oh shut up."
"Gosh that heal is so annoying," I complained as my efforts to poke down the enemy Lucian was countered by Nami's 'Ebb and Flow'. Hurtle and I were currently being pushed into our tower. He was playing Jinx while I was playing Thresh. We weren't having a good time in lane with all the poke coming our way.
However, my frustrations disappeared when I heard the ping: On my way.
Lee Sin signaled that he was on his way to our lane. I pinged our tri-bush since it was most likely warded and he decided to walk down the lane. As he neared towards us, I pondered on how I was going to set up this gank.
The enemy jungler showed top lane. 'Okay, this can work.' I felt more confident about this gank.
"I'm going to go in," I informed Hurtle as I clicked forwards.
My champion moved up making it fairly obvious that a gank was going to happen. I watched as Nami sent her 'Aqua Prison' towards me. Flash. Q. I managed to dodge the bubble and shot my 'Death Sentence' forward.
Thresh tugged on the enemy Lucian who had accidentally used his 'Relentless Pursuit' into the hook. I grinned, it was so obvious that he was going to use it so I had aimed it towards the side. I tossed my 'Dark Passage' behind me and took the ride to Lucian. I used my 'Flay' to draw him closer to me, in time for Lee Sin to land his 'Sonic Wave' on Lucian. Lucian flashed too late as he was trying to dodge the skillshot. Lee Sin flew towards him with the second active and used his 'Tempest/Cripple' combo to slow down the enemy Lucian before Nami exhausted him.
As this was happening, Hurtle shot his 'Zap!', stacking the slow that was already on Lucian. He switched over to Fishbones and flashed to get the last couple of hits on Lucian while Lee Sin jumped onto Nami. Using Jinx's passive, Hurtle ran closer and threw down his 'Flame Choppers!' and I exhausted Nami. Due to the unexpected slow, Nami miscalculated her flash and flashed into the traps.
Double Kill.
"Good job," Hurtle praised as we both started our recall animations.
"IS THAT MADLIFE?" Lee Sin typed into chat. I frowned at the sight of my dad's ex-lover's name.
"More like Badlife," Hurtle jokingly replied. I smiled at his comment.
"What, rude," responded the Lee Sin. Hurtle didn't try to defend himself even though he wasn't calling me bad like the Lee Sin assumed. He was actually dissing Madlife. He knew I wasn't very fond of that person, even if his name was supposed to be used as a compliment.
"Thanks Hurtle."
"For what?" Hurtle asked, trying to act clueless. He had a very hard time expressing his emotions, but I knew that it was his way of showing that he cared.
"For being you," was my only response. He didn't say anything after that and we just continued on with the game.
11/03/14
