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AUTHOR NOTE: Hi there, all characters (except my OC) belong to Riot Games. Happy reading. (;_;)
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It all started one day when Lee Sin approached me during lunch after a long late match on the Summoner Rift, I was almost done and it surprised me seeing my friend and teacher sit down in front of me. We talked a lot here in the Institute of War but not during meals or private times, mostly because of my decision to return to the Frelyord after unlocking the four wild Spirits and help Sejuani instead of Ashe in the Frelyord dominance war. I think this was the real reason of our small distance.
"Udyr how is going? Can I ask one little favor quickly, I have a match in thirty minutes but there is a thing I need your help with" Lee Sin spoke calmly.
"All good Lee and sure, it must be important …"
"Not really …" he interrupted "… just a curiosity I should say, it just worries me because, even if I can see resonance, I still can't see it" accenting the " It " strongly.
It was strange because I knew how good my friend was feeling and "seeing" things, even more after his ascendance as God Fist, even if he kept his normal appearance always, not at all like me. Nowadays I always look as the Spirit Guard I rightly am, the base me was before my training in Ionia and before keeping in check the anger raging into me. Lee Sin stood up and I did the same, feeling a bit curios about all this, he asked me to follow him and we exit the meal room where all champion usually eat if they can't return to their countries yet. He brought me out of the Institute in silence but when we reached the end of a small garden I never really cared he said: "Be quiet, I found it by chance feeling a strong will while meditating and I am really curios who it could be…".
So it was a "who" he was curious about and it made me smile seeing him all serious about it. Still, after walking into the trees that were all around the garden and into a hidden small path, I was concerned because if this "who" captured the interest of Lee it must have been unique and important. We walked and right before an opening of the woods he crouched and I did too, doing some more walking like this. And I saw and I didn't understand.
"Lee …. why are you interested in a girl dancing?" trying my best to talk quietly even with my deep and harsh voice.
"So the girl is dancing … I only sense like a fog of strong and clean will, it last twenty minutes then I can finally see the girl resting and going away. I was really curios what she was doing that obscured my vision…"
"Why not going and ask her directly?" I asked, not watching the girl but Lee Sin.
"Because it could have been someone dangerous, even when it all comes clear again I can't recognize her and I never saw her inside the Institute. I would know if she was a Champion but she isn't. So tell me, do you know her? Tell me what you see, please Udyr."
I was so shocked it was just this that I didn't watched the girl more than thirty seconds and so, when my sight went back to her, I noticed how radiant she was…
"She must be 25… young and, must say good body, she's tall and have long free brown hair while her skin… is white but a bit tanned and …" she was beautiful but I was lost watching.
Lee Sin laughed and that brought me back, I watched him like saying what was wrong and he replied "I asked if you know her and how she is dancing, not the detail of how she looks like and how you enjoy it my friend."
I remained stunned, my eyes returned to the dancing girl and slowly without thinking I continued even if my voice betrayed my annoyance " She is just dancing a really traditional Ionian dance it seems and sometimes her motions become bigger and circular, there isn't nothing strange. No magic or enhanced motions. She… has her eyes close and she's smiling".
Her face was serene and I watched carefully her appearance: she had a small nose and under it pink lips, her cheeks were a bit chubby but not too much and it was the only thing like that … her body was slender, long and harmonic. Anyone could see she had a nice woman body with a bit of defined hips.
"So…" Lee Sin said "Not dangerous and you do not sense anything?"
"Yes I shall say…"
"Well now I am just interested… who is she? But I have to go now, let's go…" and there I realized I wanted to stay and watch more and Lee must have sensed it, so he stood up ending the phase happily with "… but you can stay, she comes here around 3 pm everyday it seems."
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Every day that I could I went to watch the girl that danced and it became a regular thing for me. I always arrived when she was already there and then, when she goes away, I wait so to not be seen and take her place into the open grass area and meditate. I tried to find her in the Institute, it have to be the only place she is staying because all the structure is heavily protected both with physic and magic walls so that only authorized people can enter and exit with the concession of the Summoners. It was foolish, I couldn't find her and I didn't even understand why I was so deeply into it. I only know that the Spirits are raging and meditating while she dance and after was helping me. I even talked to Lee about her still unknown identity but not about me going everyday to watch her secretly.
I almost stopped searching after 20 days, every woman I saw around (Summoners, assistants of Champions, politic representatives and Institute of War employees) wasn't her. Until one dinner I casually decided to take a piece of cake I saw at the dessert counter and thought really good, I usually not take anything there, being raised in the wild not really gave me the sweet tooth. I pointed at it not playing attention and the employee took the cake and using a knife carefully with her hand she cut a slice of it, she then took two minutes to add a sweet cream and strangely she decorate the plate with something. So I watched her face while she did so and the woman stared at me back raising her sight. Two big green eyes and a small nose. She smiled with her pink lips making her puff cheeks a bit red and handed over the plate finished.
"If you would like another slice come again and I will cut it for you" she spoke respectfully.
I finally found her and she was always there. I couldn't believe it and so I remained still, causing her to worry. It shocked me, I'm thirty and I'm the Spirit Guard in charge of protecting my land, I'm big enough to scare everyone and my presence is strong for normal human (like every other Champion in the League). Still she is watching me worried, not blinking and handing me a plate with a piece of cake, cream and flowers in it. The green in her eyes is so wonderful. I remained silent and seriously nodded receiving another smile as response while taking the plate. And there I don't know why but I did the movement with my right hand so to touch hers. And it lasted only one second but she didn't do anything while it happened and so I turned around towards my seat. The contact felt good and that worried me.
"Lee … I found her …" I said without greetings.
"Happy to see you Udyr, so she is here in the Institute of War" Lee Sin was meditating under the night sky in a well know garden loved by Ionian Champions for his harmony in the composition of trees and flowers.
I sat down on the grass with him and started talking about how I met her and I decided to open to him.
"I don't clearly understand, when I saw her with you I remained infatuated. I understand this emotion and know what it is but … what I don't comprehend is that this shouldn't happen to me. I am the Four Sacred Spirits and this generation of the shaman line of Spirit Walkers. I should remain clean and fulfill my duty and not feel those things" I spoke angrily and I repeated only at myself "I AM the Spirit Walker".
Lee Sin spoke after a pause "Udyr it seem to me you know what you want to do with this woman and that it is pretty strong and … serious. Do you remember when you came to my Shojin Temple and after two months you were interested in one of our female student? Makia? … And now she is training a new generation of monks. There it was a normal thing but here it seem to me it is stronger. I remember so clearly when she rejected you" He concluded laughing silently.
"Yes I remember" I said and that wasn't the only young adventure I had nor I never passed a night with a woman. But never of it happened after my growth into the Spirit Guard and the realization of my role for my country. I said at my friend this last though.
"Udyr it seem to me that you are confounding your role as a Shaman of the wild Spirits and the role of the monks of the Shojin Temple. Now I know this is delicate but… Did your predecessor before dying talked to you about being obligated to chastity or loneliness to be the Spirit Walker? I know that it is not a role passed from father to son plus he was alone when he took you under his teaching, but that doesn't mean anything."
This statement shocked me a bit, I never thought that because of the premature death of my mentor I could have missed some pieces of the shamanic role I had to take. He taught me how to feel the wildness and the Spirits of the Nature, we trained and fought for years but little did we talked about the life a Shaman has to do. The only memory I have is how the Shaman have to protect Nature and the Spirits of all various Entities. I also know that one day I will have to find a Frelyord child born under the Blood Moon just like me and raise him to take my place, but my mentor was old when he took me so I assume that I will do the same when I will be at the end of my life. But if he had a family, if he loved somebody, if he had children and grandchildren … that will remain unknown forever it seems.
"So I can try to get close to this woman without harm my role and powers." I stated with decision.
"Yes I think so, also I could see you were unstable in this period but now a bit less".
He pauses and I waited with my eyes closed, thinking if what I felt was really attraction. I was curious and I wanted to talk to her, I wanted to know her name.
"So this has to be what I should do" I said firmly.
"You are always strong willed and when you want something you obtain it Udyr, I know you and I must said that maybe this is also part of the Shaman life, can't it be?" Lee responded and I stood up.
"Thank you Lee Sin, you always help me in need."
"It seem to me it all started with me asking you out for help" He joked "Just be careful, you are the Spirit Guard that defended the Shojin Temple from a horde of Demons. Not quite right the man a calm and normal woman could want".