Authors Note: Hello readers I am back after a very long time. I deleted my first story, because of the many many errors it had, and because I simply became uninterested with it. I hope that you like this new one. I've never tried writing in an original character or anything like that, but I think it will go well with this sort of story. Pretty short first chapter but the second will soon follow. Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Bringing a Nightmare to Life
Their whining, their crying. Why does it have to be so very annoying? I realize that being terrorized in your dreams must be traumatic, but I don't do well with tears, or feelings of any sort for that matter.
Two hours of waiting in a crowded lobby, grieving families and summoners alike. Not my idea of a Friday night. My idea of a Friday night is getting wasted with some of the champions and then having the elder summoners scream at me all morning, which still beats this shit. I looked at one of the large windows across from me, and saw that I looked terrible. My short black hair was a mess and my summoners robes were wrinkled. Has it only been two hours?
Hour three and that old man Markus finally emerges from the balcony overlooking this lobby. He smiled, which confused me because there was nothing to smile about whatsoever given the situation.
"Attention summoners and families!" He exclaimed in his usual proud voice, stroking his snow white beard. "To begin, let me emphasize the sorrow and compassion we feel, to those lost in this horrible situation. We have figured out a way to put an end to these atrocities against the institute, and we hope that we can at least avenge the dead. I will need all summoners present to enter to the vacant room. We are ready to put an end to the horrors that have occurred over the past few weeks." He then walked away.
Every summoner including myself then arose and walked through the winding hallways of the institute. Upon reaching the massive nexus room, I entered with about fifty other summoners. In the center of a massive column lined room, was a nexus glowing a dark blue. It had a structure similar to those on the rift, although this one was much larger and radiated far more energy. Around it were various summoners examining the construct, conversing with each other on its condition. In front was what I assumed to be patient 0 of the horrors, who slept calmly on a cot.
I sat in the far corner of the room with my legs crossed inside my robe. I enjoyed the momentary silence until Albus, a summoner native to Demacia, slid beside me.
"Mei how you doing? Beautiful as usual I see." He said sneaking a peak at my breasts.
"Don't you have somewhere else to be? Like preparing that nexus." I said pointing towards it.
"Eh, I'd rather be here with you cutey." He said jokingly. Ever since that red haired perv Albus a year ago he's been so flirty. It annoys me greatly. He's twenty, two years older than me, and still acts like a child.
"We've been over this, I like girls. Stop bothering me." I said in a neutral tone.
"You say that but you haven't even seen the gun show." He said beginning to roll up his violet summoner robe.
"Fuck you." I said walking away towards the nexus.
"Summoners gather around in a defensive formation, we have prepared the nexus and are ready to bring forth what we believe to be some sort of monster." Markus said gesturing the fifty summoners to the center of the massive room. "I will commence the summoning." He said raising his hands high above his head. Blue magic began to encompass him, as well as the five other summoners circled around the nexus. It began to glow a darker blue, and then, that blue turned into a cloudy black. I examined it carefully, still in a defensive pose, one hand in front, palmed, and another by my hip.
The nexus was at this point fully surrounded in black clouds. Some of the summoners stepped back cautiously, others dropped the defensive position and ran back. At this point, I was the closest summoner to the nexus, excluding the five who were now invisible due to the black haze.
And without warning, the black clouds shot into a column around the nexus crystal, revealing five bodies, each torn to shreds, their blood painting the stone exterior of the nexus as well as the white marble floor.
A moment of complete silence passed. The summoners stood completely still, some shocked in horror, others on their hands and knees ready to burst into tears. I stood still, in the same position. The silence…it was bliss. Those few seconds that the room froze in time, only the trickle of blood off of Markus' finger tips tapping the floor like a leaky faucet.
The silence as interrupted by a growl, louder than any noise, more terrifying than any sound I have ever heard. Out of the column of black clouds shot a shadowy being, with red claws flying by my head and into the summoner who was curled in a fetal position behind me. The creature held the summoner above his head, two claws impaled into his torso. He then ripped the poor man's body open, allowing its contents to poor on the summoner below him. The summoner now drenched in the waste of his friend, ran and screamed. He was not alone. Every summoner in the room was now sprinting around the hall in panic, hiding, casting cloaks of invisibility, doing anything to avoid the creatures gaze.
Their efforts were in vain. The monster of shadow mercilessly tore summoner after summoner to shreds, growling with rage, making sure that each of their companions witnessed the horror. I hid behind the furthest column, and casted my most advanced magic barrier around my body.
Albus was running towards me as the creature shredded his teacher, whose name I believe was Alden. He pressed his face against the magic barrier I had formed and begged: "Please Mei please save me!."
I tried, I prepared a second magic barrier, using up the last of my mana, in order to save his poor soul. I was too late. After casting it, the beast's claws were visible through Albus' stomach. He spit blood, and outreached a hand to me. The creature then proceeded to slam a still breathing Albus against the ground repeatedly, and finally set his blank eyes on me. He growled again, and shaped into an attacking position. He charged with an incomprehensible speed, into the walls of the magic barrier I had created around Albus. The bastard was trapped. I released my own barrier to conserve mana, and then sat down, crisscrossed, in front of the imprisoned monster. I stared calmly at my prize. Seeing him writhing, trapped by my own barrier. I bit my lip, trying not to smile, but I couldn't resist. I stroked a pale hand across the shimmering prison, and giggled.
"Thank you, beast." I said staring into his eyes, which seemed to irradiate an inhuman fury.
He howled, and screeched as a response, still slashing at the cage.
"You have given me something I have yearned for a very, very long time."
He stopped, and looked at my piercing red eyes.
"A real challenge. Beast, I am going to enjoy your company at this institute greatly." I said, my face now pressed up against the barrier.
My conversation with the monster was cut short, by a heard of summoners flooding into the room. A few seconds after staring into its magnificent eyes, I blacked out.