The League of Legends is an institute that requires two kinds of participants in order for it to work as intended. The first kind, the Champions, are the ones who do the actual fighting on the battlegrounds, the Fields of Justice. They consist of very powerful or very eager individuals who come there for training or for revenge. Soon the 120th Champion will make its way to the grounds. The second group, far more numerous than the Champions, are the Summoners. They control the Champions on the Fields, and it is for them, the weaker people wishing to achieve glory without having to risk their lives, that the League had been founded in the first place. The Summoners use a ranking system of different tiers to show their prowess in battle. Bronze for the inexperienced, up to Diamond for the outstanding, with each tier divided in 5 subcategories. Some had indeed gathered mountainous fortune through the League and had gained a division of their own, Challenger, but for one of them, things weren't really going her way.
Her name was Helen and she was currently fighting a losing battle. Having started a 5v5 match on the League's oldest and most celebrated Field, Summoner's Rift, on her last promotion match from Bronze to Silver with two lost and two won. Sadly, her team wasn't doing well. She was controlling a rather recent addition to the League's Champions, Jinx, the Loose Cannon. The rest of her team consisted of Darius (top laner), Ezreal (mid laner), Warwick (jungler) and Morgana (support). To begin with, the match seemed a good thing, with Jinx her favorite champion. Sadly, the enemy team turned out to have the late game with them (Mordekaiser top, Swain mid, Wukong jungle, Caitlyn adc and Soraka support) and her team hadn't responded kindly to the numerous lost team fights.
Morgana and Jinx won their lane quite easily, but Darius, while holding his ground against Mordekaiser by himself, ended up dying to Wukong ganks often (trading one for one most of the time, it should be said). Ezreal, however ended up dying to Swain with nothing to show for it, and Warwick didn't help much. Swain allowed the rest of his team to get kills on Helen's, basically putting the enemy miles ahead of her team. They had fallen back to split pushing after ther mid inhibitor fell. It should be said that Ezreal and Warwick were ready to surrender at 20 minutes into the game.
It should be said that Ezreal and Warwick were ready to surrender at 20 minutes into the game, but Helen snapped them out of it through Jinx.
"Oh, no you don't", Jinx said, "I'm doing well. I want to see more stuff blow up."
"Oh so you want it to be a bigger scandal?", Ezreal protested, with his Summoner's blue eyes glaring at Jinx, indicating it was his Summoner now speaking through him, "Look at the map. Our Nexus is exposed since half an hour. We're as good as lost. We won't survive another push. There's no point in wasting time."
Helen started speaking through Jinx, turning Jinx' pink eyes into her own green ones. She walked towards Ezreal, while saying: "You fed Swain. Then Swain started roaming and gave kills to his fellow laners, and we were SUPPOSED to have an awake jungler. None of us could stand up to him, so because of you their whole team is fed." She paused to let her message sink in, then said menacingly, Jinx's face inches from Ezreal's: "You got us in this mess, you're going to help try.. No, you WILL help get us out until the very end."
"But... what's the point of fighting if we're going to lose in the end...", Ezreal stuttered in a feeble attempt to come up with a counterargument.
Helen was not impressed. "For the love of...where's your sense of honor, Summoner? We fight. We might even lose. But NEVER surrender."
Darius, quite impressed, was there when Helen gave her team this scolding/pep talk. And for a second, his dark, black eyes met met the deep green color of Helen's eyes, before they flashed back to the ordinary pink of Jinx's eyes.
"Okay, let's go kill them. I'm itching for a fight." Jinx's maniacal old self had been returned to her.
After that, Ezreal kept complaining but never launched another surrender vote, and if Warwick had any reservations, he kept them to himself. As the late game arrived and they started losing more and more teamfights, anger and frustration reared their heads. The Summoners controlling Warwick, Morgana and Ezreal were arguing extremely loudly and viciously, losing their focus on the game. The most recent team fight had left them in shambles, where only Darius and her had managed to escape death by a mere sliver of health. The match had lasted for over an hour and respawn timers were up to 80 seconds. Having won a three-for-zero exchange, the enemy team decided to kill the monster Baron Nashor, so the next team fight would a a snap for them should they not be able to finish in time. Jinx and Darius stood in their fountain waiting for their health and mana to replenish.
" We're not going to win this, are we? " Darius dejectedly told her.
"Don't be like that," Jinx snapped back, "Look, we have fought well, and we may lose this, but I don't want you giving up. It's not over till it's over."
"Sure, but what can we do?"
Jinx sighed, then added, " Besides, this is Helen's fifth attempt to get out of Bronze. I'm willing to keep going for her as well as for the rest of our team".
"So your Summoner's a girl?" Darius said, surprised since female Summoners were uncommon. "She's pretty good from what I've seen her do with you. Ok then, count me in. For all the good it'll do."
"Look, bottom lane is pushed out. I'll go there and backdoor. You stay here and defend our Nexus."
"I'll try. Go for it."
So she did. By the time she reached the minions, however, the enemy team had converged around the Baron pit. Jinx launched her Super Mega Death Rocket in an attempt to kill someone there. Then she started attacking the inner turret. The rocket hit Mordekaiser straight on, but instead of killing someone, the blast of the rocket dealt the final blow to Baron Nashor, so Jinx and her team recieved the buff, while the enemy team went hungry.
Still, they weren't about to give up. As Jinx destroyed the inhibitor turret and moved on to the inhibitor itself, they started appearing in their base. The enemy team made straight for the inhibitor, realising Jinx was setting up a base race and ignoring the rest of her team. Darius, however, did not. He went for Caitlyn first as she would deal the most damage to the others.
"An enemy has been slain", sounded across the map.
As Jinx finished the inhibitor, Darius turned his attention to Wukong, the second largest threat to the Nexus.
"Double kill !", sounded out.
By now the enemy team had taken down and was getting sick of the pesky Darius with his double kill. No longer caring about the Nexus, they went straight for him now. They attacked him and drove him back to the fountain. With quick thinking, though, Darius turned around, hooked them on his axe and pulled them into the fountain. The Nexus Obelisk fired and killed Mordekaiser with Swain and Soraka managing to escape the Obelisk's range.
"Triple kill !", Jinx heard as she destroyed one of the Nexus turrets.
" YES! " ; echoed Helen's voice in Jinx's head.
Swain was out of mana from the the chase to the fountain and being the largest threat, the now fully healed Darius went for him. Swain could do little as Darius attacked him without mercy. Soraka's heal came too late for him.
"Quadrakill !", sounded as Jinx brought down the other Nexus turret.
Soraka stood no chance against Darius, so she kept attacking the Nexus with the two nexus turrets down. Darius wounded her a lot faster than she could heal herself however.
"PENTAKILL !"
The enemy's Nexus was already at half health, but the super minions raged on Jinx. She was on 1000 HP already, however she didn't stop shooting the Nexus.
" HELEN I'M ABOUT TO GET EXECUTED! "
Two seconds later, both Jinx and her team were treated to the amazing and believed-to-be-impossible sound of the enemy Nexus exploding, winning them the match against all odds.