Hello everyone! This is the third story of my series. The main two characters are Nasus and Warwick this time. I really like this ship, because I always portrayed Nasus as a caring, wise man and Warwick as a person who wants to express himself, but can't (after his rework). As you probably noticed, League's lore was always present in my works, this one is no different. I know some of you guys enjoyed my previous works, because I used two very rarely seen champions (Rengar and Kha'Zix), but don't worry, you'll see some scenes with them here, too. Ofc they won't be the main subject of this fanfic, but I intend to use them as many times as I have used Nasus and Renekton in "Best Enemy" or "The True Meaning of Strength". Enjoy :)

Chapter I

Winter came quicker than anyone would guess. First snow caught everyone off guard, but positively. Annie was already building a snowman with Amumu and Lulu outside. Overall mood of everyone has improved, well, almost everyone. Renekton still had problems with his waking up. Because he overslept, Nasus decided to replace him in his match, even though he wasn't particularly happy about that.

When he finally managed to crawl out of his bed, he went to the kitchen. He picked up a note from the table and started reading.

"Dear Lazy Brother,

This is the last time I'm doing you such a favour, next time I will literally drop a bucket of icy water on you if you oversleep again! I'm getting sick of your behaviour, I won't be there to help you every time something happen. I just hope you'll repay me somehow.

~ Nasus."

Renekton yawned. "Caring as usual.", he thought. After their every argument Nasus, despite looking angry, changes his attitude and starts lecturing him about his poor life choices. It's not like they are doing it very often, quite otherwise. Renekton threw it into the trash can and started doing his morning duties.

"That's bad…", Nasus thought as he realised Darius was just baiting him. His jungler, Twitch, appeared behind, successfully blocking his way to safety. Nasus was not only out of mana for his ultimate but also he had a quarter of his life missing. Twitch on the other hand was almost full and had a red buff.

"So greedy. You're getting old Nasus, I always considered you wiser.", Darius mocked him. His words did not make any impact on Nasus, in fact he didn't even notice that he said anything. He was focused on the best way to get out of this situation. He still had ghost, but the red would slow him down anyway, also he could use his empowered strike only three times or he could wither someone and use it once. Before Twitch got close enough to attack, Nasus quickly entered bushes.

"Don't just stand like that, do something! Don't you see I'm injured?", Darius shouted as Twitch hesitated to enter them. They both didn't have their wards, Darius spent the last one earlier and Twitch used his to protect his buff.

"Shit...here goes nothing.", Twitch spoke to himself as he walked closer. The moment he was about to enter them, Nasus bolted out of them to another on ghost. Twitch reacted almost immediately. He threw a vial full of toxins and sent one fast dart in his direction. He heard the sound of piercing a meat, he hit him. With a grin on his face he started his chase. When he entered the second bush, Nasus entered the third, but before that he shot him once again, slowing him once more. At that point he was slightly lower than half hp. Twitch, almost sure of winning, entered the last one bush, just to get struck by an axe. He didn't expect this sudden change of events.

"Accepting your fate so fast?", Twitch asked with a smirk, bleeding slightly from his new wound.

"No, was just making sure that it would be fair, I prefer duels 1 versus 1, even though it is a team match.", Nasus replied. Twitch looked at him weirdly, but then his expression changed when he realised Nasus had almost no mana left. He didn't attack him with his Siphon Strike, yet his mana decreased. With a shock on his face, he quickly glanced over his shoulder. Darius was slowly walking towards them, he was pissed. Purple curse was surrounding him, he must have withered him when Twitch wasn't looking. When he looked at his opponent again, he was already standing before him, an axe high above his head. He stroke him once and immediately slashed again with his empowered attack, healing himself slightly. Twitch collapsed under the weight of his weapon. Nasus prepared his next attack, but Twitch rolled to the side and quickly retaliated. He quickly crouched and shot another darts in his direction. Nasus tried to ignore them, but those stinging wounds were inflicting more and more toxins into his body, making him slightly dizzy. His vision blurred, but was still able to see. He noticed that Twitch received some serious injuries, too. He himself was on the verge of death. Nasus felt that in a moment he will be able to use Siphon Strike once more. He couldn't miss. He quickly lunged towards Twitch and swung his axe at him and just as he did that his magic forces came back and he used them to attack him once more, this time ending this. Twitch gulped when he realised his axe was deep inside his belly. He coughed with blood and smiled slightly.

"Well…*cough*, I guess I got outplayed…", it was all he could say before his lifeless body collapsed. Nasus sighed, from both relief and pain. The red transferred to him, negating the poison damage. As he wanted to escape, he got pinned into the wall by someone's hand. Nasus wanted to fight back, but he was exhausted and wounded. Even Soraka's attack would end his life.

"I must admit, I was wrong about you. Even in situation like that you found a way to gain some profit. Sadly it ends here.", Darius spoke, mostly to show his superiority. Nasus just accepted his defeat, it wasn't that bad, he still got one kill. He closed his eyes and awaited the sweet embrace of death.

Suddenly the pressure on his neck vanished and he heard loud, metal object land in front of him, he opened his eyes, it was Darius' axe. Then he heard repressed scream, and then only the shredding sound. He looked inside the bush and saw someone literally ripping his guts out. He recognised the glass container on his back. It was Warwick. When he was done, he quickly calmed down, stood up and faced Nasus.

"I guess I was just in time.", he admitted, judging from his injuries. Nasus just laughed slightly.

"Yeah, I owe you.", Nasus replied. He peeked at Darius' corpse, if he didn't know that it was him, it would be hard to say who he was. "Woah...nice.", he added. Warwick only raised his brow.

"You're...enjoying this view?", he asked, slightly confused.

"Well, not the view of a massacred body, but the view of Darius' massacred body.", he quickly clarified. "I hate this guy.". Warwick smiled slightly.

"Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about him this way.", he admitted. When they left the bush, they noticed their whole team gathered on top lane.

"What are you exactly doing here?", Nasus asked surprised by their sudden appearance.

"Well this is the last lane that hasn't been pushed yet, so we decided to help you.", Lux spoke cheerfully. He noticed that Ezreal was extremely fed, he probably swept enemy team without blinking. They started destroying their tower.

"So...I'm just gonna go back to jungle.", Warwick spoke and started heading towards camps. Nasus looked at him weirdly and stopped him.

"Wait, we are about to win, we can just end it.", he explained.

"Uhh...but you know, everything might happen, it is better to keep fighting as if they were about to come back.", Warwick replied. Nasus didn't really buy it, but even though he didn't know him well, he knew not to push him. Instead he tried to persuade him.

"But Warwick, you cleared all the camps on the way here, also if what they say is true, there is no lane to push.", Nasus replied, checking how he would react. Warwick opened his mouth slightly, but closed it right after.

"I...guess you're right, but…", he started, but the information of enemy team surrendering interrupted him.

"Well, that wasn't very hard.", Nasus spoke. He shrugged and smiled. Warwick smiled back and then they all disappeared in a magic cloud. When they opened their eyes they all were on teleportation platform. Enemy team was arguing over who fed Ezreal. Nasus ignored them and chose to return to his room, but then he realised that since Warwick lives on the same floor, they could return together. He quickly came to him and started chatting.

"Hi, I wanted to thank you once again for that help. Even if we were about to win anyway, it was nice of you.", Nasus spoke, trying to start a nice conversation. Warwick looked at him surprised, he wasn't used to talking to anyone when not on the Rift.

"Oh, I uhh...no problem.", he replied, unsure of his words. "Now if you excuse me…". Nasus recalled that he once escaped him using this excuse, so now he tried to prevent it.

"You're going to your room, right?", Nasus asked. Warwick just nodded. "Oh that's excellent, we can go together. We live on the same floor, I'm sure you remember.". To be truthful, Nasus just wanted to know what was going on with him. He was never talking with anyone, he was kind of worried. He seemed to be nice, but for some reason he decided to isolate himself from others.

Warwick just remained silent. He looked as if he tried to make another excuse, but just sighed.

"Alright, to be completely honest.", he spoke. "Nasus, you're a good guy, but please, don't bother. Talking to me will not bring you any good.". Nasus tilted his head slightly, surprised.

"I'm...not sure what to say, but…", he paused, "...the one thing I am sure of that you are a good guy as well, I just wanted to know why you are so...lonely.". Warwick opened his mouth to say something, but just closed his eyes turned his head to the side, breaking the eye contact. His words got him slightly.

"I'm...not lonely. I just…", he started, but just sighed. "You won't give up, will you?". Nasus smiled.

"Nope, I most certainly will not.", he admitted proudly. Warwick just rolled his eyes.

"Let's go then.". Then they entered the hall of the Institute. People seemed to be somewhat more alive recently. Probably because of the change of weather.

"So…", Nasus spoke casually, attempting to get some knowledge about him, "Any hobbies?". He knew it wasn't the best way to start a conversation, but he didn't have anything to hook on, he was a walking mystery for him.

"Ehh...I don't have...well, maybe books, but-", Warwick replied, and then Nasus interrupted him.

"By Shurima, I found another book reader.", he spoke, not believing his ears. Warwick was surprised, too.

"Woah, you like reading? I wouldn't tell.", he spoke.

"Yeah, and neither would I tell it about you.", Nasus replied. They both chuckled slightly. "You don't even know how much I want to talk about many books with anyone. Stella used to talk with me about them, you know, our librarian, but we have talked about every possible topic, so...yeah, I'm probably making you bored by now.". Nasus was aware that his babbling could be quite boring, but he was forgetting about it from time to time.

"No, actually since it's my only hobby, I always wanted to discuss it with someone, too.", Warwick admitted. Nasus then smiles widely.

"So what about we meet in like ten minutes and, you know, discuss it? I'm sure we both have read at least some same books.", he suggested.

"That's not a bad-", Warwick spoke, but then he stopped. He scolded himself in his mind for being so careless. "I...sorry, but it's impossible. I have to go now.". Nasus looked at him confused, "Why would he change his mind so suddenly?", he thought.

"Wait! I'm sorry if I said something improper, I just-".

"No, it's perfectly fine, it's not about you, it's about me…", Warwick admitted faintly. Nasus raised his brows and walked closer to him.

"Do you...wanna talk about it, whatever it is?", he asked him. Warwick looked at him and sighed.

"Alright, fuck this shit, since you have already devoted yourself to disturbing me today, I think I can tell you. Come to my room.", he spoke and lead him. Nasus was curious what it would be. When they entered his room, he noticed that his home was extremely clean. "He must have so much free time", he thought.

"Okay, sit there.", Warwick spoke and pointed at the chair, "Coffee, tea, water?".

"Tea, please.", Nasus replied.

"Two teas then.",Warwick spoke quietly and filled the kettle with a water. When he left it to boil, he turned around to Nasus.

"So...as you probably remember, those "things" are Singed's little toys that he left in me…".

"Renekton, we're gonna be late to greet a new champion, again! Also, Rengar is waiting for us!", Nasus quickened Renekton who was still in the bathroom.".

"Just a sec!", Renekton yelled through the door. He was always waiting to the last moment with everything. Matches, meetings, visits. After a moment Renekton left, ready to go.

"Finally!", Nasus spoke totally irritated.

"Don't dramatize! We still have some time.", Renekton replied.

"Yeah, some. Now let's go, I wouldn't be surprised if Rengar decided to go alone.". Then they left their home. Surprisingly, Rengar was still there, waiting.

"I thought you would never leave. Let me guess, Renekton.", Rengar spoke, slightly annoyed himself, but not that much.

"Yeah, nevermind, let's just go.", Nasus spoke, stopping Renekton from saying anything. As they descended, they saw someone on the platform. His ears were very long, he wasn't human. He looked like a werewolf, but something was off. As they were inspecting him, they noticed some kind of a container on his back with a huge needle on top. Also they were concerned why two summoners were accompanying him.

"So...I guess I should say something about myself…", Warwick spoke quietly. "The name's Warwick, I'm, how you would describe it, a chimera. I'm a failed experiment of a mad scientist.", he spoke. "I'm from Zaun, I was a human before, and...well, I wasn't a good man to be honest…maybe I deserved it.". Suddenly someone from the crowd spoke.

"What a coincidence, we have one scientist from Zaun here, his name is Singed.", said Garen. When Warwick heard that name he froze in one position, his eyes widened. He looked at the crowd and noticed a bald man with bandages on his jaw. He was looking right into his eyes.

"N-no...impossible…", Warwick spoke quietly. His expression started changing drastically, from shocked he started getting more and more angry. The green fluid on his back started getting red. He grabbed his head in attempt to snap out of it.

"Take me...away from here…", he spoke quietly to two summoners with him. They immediately assisted him and took him away. At this point everyone was just asking questions without answers.

"What...was that?", Rengar asked.

"No idea, really.", Renekton replied. Suddenly Singed headed towards the platform and tapped the microphone.

"Attention please. Oh, ok, it works. Ekhm, so as you can probably tell, I'm the one who created the beast that Warwick is now. I will answer every question related to him.", he spoke. Then he was flooded with questions. Nasus was just looking at the corner of a wall where Warwick disappeared with two summoners.

"So...it is like a liquid rage, fury or whatever you want to call it.", Warwick spoke in between occasional sips of tea. "It can activate through very strong emotions, and also when I smell blood.".

"Yeah that's how one of your skills works.", Nasus commented.

"Right, except I can't control it...when it activates, I just...have to kill someone...or just wait till it's over.", he spoke, upset about it. Nasus remained silent, he had no idea that he could not control it at all. "I didn't want to hurt anyone…".

"That's why you were isolating yourself…", Nasus ended for him. Warwick only nodded. He accepted his fate long time ago, but it sucked anyways.

"So…you want to say that technically you're safe until you smell blood or get really pissed?", Nasus asked.

"Well...technically, yeah.", he replied.

"Great! Then I have nothing to worry about!", Nasus spoke again, cheerfully. Warwick looked at him in shock.

"Wait, don't you get it? I'm a literal ticking bomb! You risk your life!", Warwick shouted at him. Nasus ignored his angry tone, he knew he wanted to protect him by making him leave.

"You may be a ticking bomb, but it must be activated first. Believe me, I'm good at disarming.", Nasus chuckled. Warwick just looked at him in disbelief.

"Your foolishness will kill you someday.".

"Maybe, but don't worry, not from your hand, trust me.", Nasus placed his hand on his shoulder, his face has gotten more serious. "I know that you don't want to have blood on your hands anymore, but I don't want to see you suffer because of it. I can be your friend, I'm not afraid.". Warwick just listened in silence. He closed his eyes and just sighed. He looked at him again and smile lightly.

"Okay then. One raging wolf-chimera and a canine with a deathwish, sounds pretty good.", Warwick spoke. Nasus chuckled at this comment.

"Not particularly a deathwish, because I don't intended to die anytime soon.", he spoke. They drank their teas and Nasus spoke to him.

"So...there's that one book I always wanted to talk about…". Warwick rolled his eyes and smiled. He pointed at the couch and said.

"Let's sit there. And say the goddamn title, I don't want you to spoil me anything in case I didn't read it.".

This is like a pilot chapter, nothing special happened, I wanted to introduce you to Warwick's backstory and his problems first. If you want to know more about Warwick, I encourage you to read League's official story about his origin, because this is exactly what I used here. See you next Sunday :)