Chapter 1: The End
Prologue
A long time ago, the world was fought by Ten Monsters that possessed incredible power. After they battled on the land next to Valoran, the area was called Conqueror's Land before its disappearance from the world, now named Conqueror's Sea, was completely destroyed and the monsters had rid of each other with the last one sealing their powers into runes. The people of Conqueror's Land had used some magic to make the surrounding area impassible saying that they would return to Valoran again one day. The country evolved, technology advanced quickly, the country flourished and prospered, and finally one day war had broken out as the country hit their peak. This war started because one man was able to unlock a rune and used to overthrow the now corrupt government. This man was named Rocco, but was always preferred to be called Roc since he always claims it, rune power was the power of earth. The war was almost over when a man on the Judge council, which was the leaders of the country and the biggest reason to the corruption of the country, unlocked a rune and completely overthrew the revolution. After so he dedicated the next five years of his life to fixing the broken government on his own. The man now known as Judge who stands as the supreme overlord of the Country before becoming the dictator of the country, had found a rune to steal anyones strength and use at his own. After the five years he had discovered about the history of how it was claimed that the country would return to Valoran. He learned the spell to unlock the barrier and successfully unlocked the barrier not knowing how big of a mistake it would be. What else the Judges of the time had truly said before they shut the gates to the country, was kept secret from all the people and was eventually lost. When the barrier was opened, six of the ten runes were unlocked. This is the story of six men who unlocked runes and have made their way to Valoran for different purposes, but all had found their way into the institute of war. It was time that chaos would find Runetera once again...
"Once mortals learn how to successfully harvest the power of the runes, ten new monsters shall be born"
Piltover- Day of 'Fall of the Barrier'
It was a slow day in Piltover. No crime that day, no incidents leading to injuries. Men, women, and children ran across the streets while cars had the normal traffic jams. Workers stepped in the dirty, sloshy snow in their heavy boots as they loaded the cargo into the truck. Vi sighs and lays back in her seat in police hexcar, putting her hands behind her head and her feet up on the dashboard. Her partner, Caitlyn, driving the car notices her partners agitation. "Vi, everyday isn't going to be mess. Look on the bright side, you can go home a relax off after we get back to the station" Vi still with unrest complains "I didn't think this job would be this dull most of the time, I just want to punch some criminals up y'know". Caitlyn already annoyed by her partner says back "No, no I really don't know". Vi comes back with "Fuck you too, Cupcake". The rest of the car ride was silent as they went back to the station.
Caitlyn parks the car outside in the parking lot of the station. The women get out of the car to go to door to let them in the building. Caitlyn shuffles through her keys until she finds the one right for the door. Vi with impatience opens the door right as the lock clicked signaling that the door was open. Vi walked speedily to her locker before throwing her uniform in with her gauntlets that she didn't take that day on patrol. Caitlyn looks to Vi with displeasure "Vi, I wish you would stop your violent mockery". Vi slams her locker shut and walks up to her partner "Violent! You want to see violent Cait!" Caitlyn slaps Vi across the face "Do you ever think about what say or do. Bloody hell you're going to get yourself killed because of the way you act" . Vi chuckles darkly "What i'm thinking? You really want to know Cupcake?" her partner nods her head "It would help sometimes if you could stop being so stupid, and so impudent, and stop being such a damn Sociopath!". Vi now yelling at the top of her lungs "Maybe it would be better if you just backfired your gun and burned in hell already!".
A violent, ear-rupturing explosion is heard outside. Caitlyn steps back, frightened by the noise. "W…What the h-hell was that?" Caitlyn says, Vi responds "I-I don't know either. Cait, your really pale right now, and your shaking. Cupcake, you all there?". Loud sirens go off in the distance, this only meant one thing… Caitlyn puts a hand to cover her eyes "It's probably just Jinx at the Piltover Treasury". An officer starts speaking in the radio, "All of Piltover's police force, we are in high alert. I repeat high alert. Four separate gangs have came together to rob the Piltover Treasury. The leaders of these gangs are the yordle Shrimp, the biological fighter Big Daddy or known as BD, the one with the top hat Fancy Joe, and the maniac only known as Psycho. Also to be noted, a strange man in all black are with the group of the gang leaders. Man is heavily armed and still a mystery to our scouts. All police forces come immediately to the scene". Caitlyn grabbed her gun as Vi got her gauntlets as they rushed for the car to get to the scene.
Vi and Caitlyn jump out of the car and rush to the scene. The closer they got to the scene, the louder the gun shots got. Once they were right in front of the building, they saw what was going on. Multiple trucks were blocking as a barricade were used so that gang members could shoot from while the police were using the hexcars for cover. Bloodshed. It was everywhere, all they saw was dead men lying around whilst nameless gang members with mask were being torn apart with bullets as did the police. Caitlyn grabs Vi by the wrist "Let's take the high ground" Vi nods her head "Agreed". Vi kicks open an office building without thinking heading straight for the roof. The door opens to the roof top with Caitlyn peering out at first, before signaling Vi to follow as they go to the corner of the roof where Caitlyn sets up her rifle. Caitlyn looks into the building seeing the leaders walking out as they see all four gang members and the mysterious black clothed man. "I'm loaded and locked, Vi" Vi looks puzzled by this "Isn't the correct phrase, locked and loaded?" "Not the time Vi!" Caitlyn responds quickly. The five men open the glass doors, exiting the building. Shrimp, the ugly brown yordle with a disgusting looking eye pulls out a detonator. Vi shouts out "Cait shoot him before he presses the button" Caitlyn aims quickly and takes the shot. Right before Shrimp presses on the button, Caitlyn's bullet passes through his disgusting left eye. "Damn nice shot Cupcake, style points for shooting the eye" Vi says congratulating her partner. "Vi, save the congrats for later, we have much to talk about after this incident" Caitlyn says back to her partner. While talking BD picks up the detonator and presses the button. A new explosion that now blew up the correct spots of the building that were originally designed to explode, exploded. The building fell apart oddly, Caitlyn had a feeling this had to do about getting the gold out of the treasury. The mysterious man in black steps forward, he grabs to massive weapons attached to his back. They looked like to smaller versions of miniguns, both with their own magazines rather than a belt fed system in a backpack. The technology looked way beyond all of Piltover techmaturgy, it must've been a secret Zuan prototype Caitlyn thought. The barrels didn't even need to wind up, they starting spraying bullets everywhere. The man in black started to take the fight into his hands and turned the tides of battle immediately. BD through concoctions across, but due to his very large figure got shot and began to run across to the cars even while still being shot before detonating into a crowd of police officers and killing all of them with fumes or the explosion itself. Psycho also got himself killed since he tried to fight in melee range with axes, successfully putting fear into the police since he killed about ten of them decoratively before being shot down, but still terror drove through officers seeing the ones they once knew heads being smashed in. Fancy Joe was just trying to stay safe as he hid behind trucks taking shots from his position with a huge revolver. Which meant Caitlyn could only get a clear shot on the man with machine guns, who hadn't even been grazed yet apparently. Caitlyn aimed for the head and fired a round. The man dodged it with ease as his magazines fell to the ground. Caitlyn's eyes grew wide as she was facing a man who could simply dodge a bullet easily. Vi noticed her partners anxiety, "Caitlyn, whats wrong?" Caitlyn slowly says "The man in black… Just dodged my bullet... Easily". The man in black dropped his weapons and started making a beeline for the building Vi and Caitlyn were in. He pulls out the two swords strung to his back that he had to pull up since of the guns he was carrying with it. Once his swords were back in position, he looked up from his hood and charged pulling out his swords before dashing with his two arms out cutting off two police officers heads. The man unconsciously kills men, staining his swords with blood before going into the building and heading for the top. Caitlyn feels her heart race as she picks up her gun and points it at the door way to the rooftop. Vi senses someone behind her and punches behind her meeting two blades moving like a whirlwind hitting her mechanical fist. Vi punches at his chest which is blocked by his forearm after he puts away his swords. She meets metal, and sees the blades that are like Nocturne's, just black with holes in it which were probably the size to fit heads in and it all curved one way rather than some odd design Nocturne has. He now starts doing slashes at Vi, then he pounces like an animal at the two of them like an animal. Vi blocks the blades as Caitlyn takes a shot that the man still is able to dodge. "Back off my partner" The man smirks, he takes off his hood showing his long black hair that reached down to his chin. "You two are quite the interesting pair, the lady with a sniper rifle and the one with mechanical gauntlets" he steps forward as his eyes blood vessels pop out as he grabs his cheek pulling away from his face "But this is where you die" Vi uses her signature Assault and Battery on the man who seemed to dodge, but Caitlyn uses her Piltover Peacemaker that actually hit the man this time scraping his rib cage. Vi's shield protected her from Caitlyn's attack. The man who now was bleeding at his side speaks again "You're both skilled. To get past my shadows is very hard, so it's time to use my rune ability to its fullest" the man sprouts two wings like Morgana's and steps off the roof. Caitlyn shoots at him, but shoots a shadow again. He flies off to the helicopter that had picked up the vault. Fancy Joe had been shot down, and so as most of the gang members of all the crews. The man now on vault watched as the destroyed building, the burning and blood filled streets, and the police officers still trying to shoot at him. He pulls out two weird shotguns, both black, with a two shot magazine, but it looked like a sawed off one barreled shotgun. He looked determined this time as shot his guns with dramatic effect, and then reloaded at a very fast pace. Crack! Bang! Crack! Bang! Reload. Crack! Bang! Crack! Bang! Reload. Crack! Bang! Crack! Bang! Reload. Crack! Bang! Crack! Bang! Then it almost looked like he made a decision as the helicopter started to fly towards Caitlyn and Vi's position. Quickly he dashed down to Caitlyn before punching her across the face, he took her gun before flying facing her back as she turned around. The man pointing the gun at her in midair says "Luck. Runs. Out." The crack of the gun leaves a ring as the shot makes its way into Caitlyn's ribcage, obviously to get even with her. Caitlyn falls to the ground as the man makes his way back to the helicopter as he grabs onto one of the cable lines carrying the vault as his wings morph back into his body, and he flies away. Vi now on Caitlyn's side, who had passed out from the shot, almost in tears saying out loud "Fuck, fuck, fuck! Cupcake don't die on me!". Vi scoops her up as she runs down the building only to be screaming "Medic!" as she runs with her partner dying in her hands as tears run down her face.
'Who was that man… And if I ever see him again...' Vi thought...