I do not own any of the characters portrayed in this writing, all base characters are property of Riot Games, the rest is my imagination.
Confused. Yes, that was it, Kog'Maw was definitely confused. The poor little Mouth of the Void huddled back into what seemed to be a cage, drawing further away from it's opening. A head popped up at the entrance of the cage, Ahri, the Nine Tailed Fox, was looking desolated at the sight of the scared creature:
"Koggy sweetie come out, it's mommy", she said in a concerned voice whilst reaching her hands inside the cage. Kog'Maw let out a gurgling shriek as he tried to back away further inside, only to trap himself against the wall. Ahri, visibly worried to make her little bundle of void panic, pulled out. She roared at a group of champions standing nearby:
" You just HAD to focus him didn't you ? You HAD to lock him down, and chain ALL the stuns in your possession ?!"
Looking down, Malphite twiddled his thumbs while taking the full blow of Ahri's rage, he was the tank after all. Yet he wasn't the only one to blame for the incident. Alongside him Blitzcrank was also silently taking the majority of the the fox's agression in the frontlines. LeBlanc however was hiding behind them, she liked Ahri to death and seeing her so upset just crushed her; but she also knew her too well to know that she couldn't handle the NineTails fury if it kept building. Next to her was a dazed looking Fiddlesticks, not that he actually was. The Harbinger of Doom was just simply like that: inactive, void of emotions and most of all easily controlled. He had followed orders, that's what Fiddlestick did, and there lied all his cares in the world, if he had any. He looked blankly straight ahead and with a slightly gaping "mouth" breathed heavily. He was quite the creep.
"Shame on you all! Attacking a poor defenceless little critter like him!"
"Defenceless ?! Women you have got to be kidding ! The damn thing spits acid for crying out loud!" retorted Graves as he stepped forward branding his tattered cape, but Ahri wasn't impressed, instead she huffed
"Oh I'm sorry Graves I mistook you for a man, don't worry I'll make sure to tell everyone to go easy on you from now on, boy."
Graves was not amused. Not in the slightest. He didn't understand what the big deal was, so what if the creature suffered from getting CC'ed too hard during the fight, it was a voidspawn not an actual person. Graves was about to mutter those very thoughts to Ahri, who he believed was much too concerned about a voidling, when LeBlanc finally decided to step up whilst pushing Graves aside:
"Look Ahri, we're all very sorry about what happened to Kog'Maw", she shot a mean look at Graves who was about to voice his actual opinion, "But I'm sure there's something we can do for him, why don't we call over Malzahar…Or…Or Kassadin, heck why not the other Void Creatures, maybe they'll know how to fix him up eh ?"
Ahri sighed; " We'd have to get him to come out of there first…"
"Initiate Grabbing Sequence ?", inquired a certain steam golem
Ahri's eye locked with Blitzcrank's who suddenly lowered his arm. She turned her attention back to her sweet little voidspawn who had been moaning this entire time. The Mouth of the Void was backed up against the wall, uttering gurgling cries at everything that came close to the entrance of the cage. Each of them prying at Ahri's heart. She didn't understand why her little companion had started acting so weird after a fight on the Rift earlier this morning; although she highly suspected that the other champions many blows had to do something with it. Obviously it couldn't have been an actual wound as those were instantly healed by the Rift's magic, but it could have affected the critter on an emotional level; which seeing it's distress, seemed probable. As she lowered herself and tried to crawl into the cage Kog'Maw gave off a panicked shriek and started running against the wall, pushing himself into a corner, his tail between his legs. At his reaction she flinched, scared that she might break the bonds she had with her Koggy. She shot back out of the cage, absolutely fuming at the champions who had done this.
It wasn't the ideal time to laugh at the beasts shrieks of terror as Graves found out, letting out one of his owns whilst clutching his manhood and sinking to the floor. The blow was cruel, not to mention powerful, even the living mountain had cringed at that.
"Assessed Damage: Critical. Diagnostic: Painful. Reaction: Ouch." Remarked Blitzcrank.
However Ahri was just getting started, LeBlanc knew that if she didn't get her "Koggy" back, they might not get to see the light of day ever again. She glanced across the atrium and spotted what could possibly be her saving grace. She distorted herself to said target in an instant, grabbing him by the antenna
"Hey! Wait wha-"
She distorted back, her solution in hand, partially sprawled on the floor and dizzy due to the sheer speed of his travels
"Wuooooooo~~" He snapped out of it, looking up at a positively enraged Ahri and a muttering down-and-out-for-the-count Graves "Helloooooo", LeBlanc tried her best to smile convincingly at Ahri, this HAD to be the solution… Or else she might have to Distort and never comeback. The foxy lady let go of her anger almost instantaneously as she fell to her knees and looked up with begging eyes at the Voidreaver
"Kha'Zix…Please do something about Koggy! He's…He's…He's been acting so very weird since the Rift match earlier. He keeps running away, scared by everyone, even me! He's managed to crawl into one of Rengar's Yordle traps and he simply won't come out" Kog'Maw let out another agonisingly sad gurgle as to confirm Ahri's words at which she began to sob at. A small crowd of champions and summoners alike had started to form around the scene after the Nine Tailed Fox's multiple outbursts and the pressure of the crowd's gaze started pilling up on Kha'Zix who had just begun realising what was going on as he stood up.
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In the meantime, one of the champions in the crowd had made his way to the crouched Graves and repeated swiftly Ahri's flawless kick before walking away whistling innocently. Happy to be getting away with hurting one of the biggest pains he dealt with on a regular basis
"Look's like Lady Luck was smilin' "
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Kha'Zix kneeled down to peer into his friends hideaway but he was only answered by another crying moan. The Voidreaver backed off quietly, plunged deeply into his thoughts. Kog'Maw was most definitely scared, but why would he be scared in the first place ? If he didn't recognise the champions he use to know, why would he be scared about them? Sure he was now in a cage, but according to the group of champions, he had been running around freely for a while, so it couldn't have been just because of the fear of being cornered. Besides, he knew for a fact that Maw's tended to be very curious of their surroundings, gobbling up everything in their path to fulfil their curiosity. The oversized bug folded it's arms and started to scratch it's chin with one of it's claws. Surely he should have reacted differently to his presence, he came from the void as well after all, Kog'Maw by pure instinct should have known about him. Kha'Zix began to ponder if his little friend could see him properly from the back of the cage, or if even payed attention to him last time around. In flicker, Kha'Zix was gone, the crowd went silent, mostly dumbstruck by where the Voidreaver went. Of course, they knew of his ability to turn invisible, but why was another reason entirely. Suddenly the winged praying mantis of the Void came flying in direction of the cage, landing just in front of it with a loud thud, followed up by Void Spikes that shot like fireworks
"FEAR THE VOID!"
The crowd was taken aback, not prepared for a show from Kha'Zix, especially not Ahri that went livid.
"Aaa-aa-are you MAD ?! He doesn't need to be scared even more then he is!"
She pointed a finger at the cage, which made surprisingly little sound. Her eyebrow raised, she posed a questioning look at Kha'Zix who finally thought he knew what had happened to his friend. He approached the cage once more but was greeted by another cacophony of whimpers and cries. He sighed deeply and looked around the crowd. He was looking for a volunteer for his plan. He wanted someone to go in there and get eaten by the Mouth Of the Void. Of course, he knew no actual volunteer would come up if he asked but he had a specific champion in mind. One that had been here only a few minutes ago. In fact, that champion hadn't moved at all since the beginning of this little fiasco.
"Where's Fiddlesticks ?"
The crowd around the cage began to move, looking for the Harbinger when someone spotted him only a few meters away. Whilst the crowd had actually gathered around the cage, his teammates with it, Fiddlesticks had just stood in the same spot for over 10 minutes now, he hadn't been dismissed.
"Fiddlesticks ?" The bug said, pointing his claw at his own feet.
"What are yo-" Ahri looked confused herself now as she turned around to see the Scarecrow's reaction. Said Scarecrow turned it's head slowly to the Voidreaver, breathing heavily in the process, looking creepy as Fiddlesticks always did. He acknowledged the command and started hopping to the Bug. The crowd split to let the Hay-Man pass. Kha'Zix was almost bitting his lips, god that Scarecrow could be slow sometimes… Finally Fiddlesticks was at the feet of his current master, breathing heavily, awaiting command. Which he got none of, Kha'Zix did not feel like waiting for the Harbinger. Instead, he grabbed the hay figure and shoved it in the cage, contorting the poor scarecrow into a very weird form. Kog'Maw shrieked. His gurgles got louder and louder has Fiddlesticks was being pushed in, ever closer to him.
-SNAP-
A piece of wood flied out of the cage as the atrium went silent. There was now a significant crowd gathered around. Summoners gasped at the Scarecrow's fate, forgetting, unlike the champions, that Fiddlesticks was not actually "alive" to begin with. Instead, champions, who payed more attention to Kog'Maw noticed a sudden stop of gurgles… Or noise in general. Ahri's face went livid, tears welled up in her eyes, she was more worried then ever before about her bundle of void. Meanwhile, Kha'Zix looked rather please, claws on his hips he walked up to the small metal cage and with a swift strike broke the thin roof of it, revealing the two champions inside. No movement came from the box but the few champions that had stepped forward could now hear something. The Voidreaver motioned Ahri along. She gulped and peered over the destroyed roof of the cage, but before her eyes could see what was within her ears picked up on an annoying chewing sound, almost like… Her eyes went wide, was Kog'Maw nibbling at something ? She took the final step to look over the roof of the cage…
"FWETCH!"
Bursting out of the roof Kog'Maw came out with one of Fiddlesticks arms in his mouth. He jumped over to what he considered his owner and spat the arm at her feet, waging his tail excitedly, flailing his arms happily, gurgling with joy now
"FWETCH!"
Tears did end up creeping back into Ahri's eyes but this time they were of joy; she was finally reunited with her little bundle of Void. She squealed excitedly as she knelt down to hug him
"Koggy!"
"BLAH BLEUUH BWAAHHHH" Yelled happily the Voidborn.
Tension finally dissipated from the room and most of the crowd left the scene, going back about their normal business. Summoners and Champions alike ended up being almost unphased by the whole sequence of events. The Institute of War was quite rowdy as it turned out and incidents like these happened quite regularly, the only difference this time was that it went on in the main hall of the Institute. The main hall, a large pink granite atrium with yellow limestone roman columns garnering either side of the main walkway, extended for almost a half a football pitch before splitting into a three way staircase, of which the middle path lead to a glowing blue portal and the two others looping back around to meet each other to advance further into the building. It was aptly named the Grand Hall, and allowed circulation of over hundreds of summoners and champions alike, in this case, it also allowed a significant build-up of on lookers seeing as it was a area with high traffic.
However, Ahri was not completely satisfied, she looked up to Kha'Zix, still hugging her adorable voidling;
"Ho..How did… What…?", she mumbled confusedly
"Maw's, they rely on their stomach to feel. If they don't literally eat it or chew it, they don't understand it.", the Voidreaver sighed as he noticed Ahri hadn't gotten the gist of it, "The stuns must have stirred something in his bowels making him unable to understand things once so ever. Almost as if he was blind. When I jumped him, I got close enough and made enough stirring in the air that he could taste it, but not as well as if he had chewed on me. That's also why I forced him to chew on Fiddlesticks."
Ahri blinked, and Kha'zix clenched his forehead with his claws, a faceclaw if you will;
"Kog'Maw's brain is his stomach, the CC disturbed the stomach and stopped him from feeling things, and he got scared. By forcing him to feel, he wasn't scared anymore and can approach us like he usually does. Capiche ?" The bug raised an antenna at the fox, who looked around her only to see the remaining champions arms crossed, eyes closed and heads nodded. *Oh for crying out loud…"
Kha'Zix knelt down and patted his little friends huge head before ditching the group with a wave of the claw *seems like what they say is true, only voidspawn can understand one another…*
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Meanwhile Graves was still huffing and puffing from the last blow he had received. He was unsure as to whom had did it but then again most of his brain was preoccupied by residue pain. The sight of a certain woman let a wave of relief wash over him, he tried to sound as pleased as possible when he groaned;
"Ah Sarah Glad to see y-"
The stilts dug deep in his groin.
"That's for missing our date!", she twisted her heel, "and THAT 's for forgetting our 6 months!"
That being said, Miss Fortune began to strut away angrily whilst Graves whimpered softly on his side;
"Why me~~~?"
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-Yo'! I'm this (for now) small fanfic's writer Fate. I think first and foremost I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you'll leave feedback, positive or negative; as both are good for me to take in. I don't really have a long term plan or timeline set-up although I do know I plan on writing this for a while... You should probably expect a "Slice Of Life"-esque series from me on this one, where we put the focus on champions and their day to day struggles and comedic stunts. Ah, yes, did I mention I'm trying to make this funny :D? Hopefully that'll work out for you guys and maybe with a little luck you'll want more, in any case I'll be writing more,
Ciao!
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