« Thirty seconds until minions spawn »

As always, the same voice was covering the rift. Ahri wondered as usual where it was coming from, imagining multiple answers while she was running to her lane. He very special mid lane, with this very special tower she coud rely on when she was in trouble.

Today, she was playing with some of her best friends. Indeed, game after game, all the champions started to create strong bonds with the people they were feeling the closest to. Even some of the most famous rumors, known in whole Runeterra started this way.

Ahri was surrounded by Vladimir (who everyone knew made his goal to date the fox girl), Sejuani, Lucian and Thresh. Although these two are the worst real-life ennemies, during games, every single emotion has to be put aside. It's the rule number one.

As minions arrived in the lane and started their eternal battle, Ahri's team was able to know who they would have to fight this time. One by one, Shen, Hecarim, Akali, Ashe and Sona made their appearance.

They were battling for fifteen minutes before they noticed something was wrong. Sona started to feel the ground was very lightly shaking. She first thought that Jarvan IV made a cataclysm somewhere on the map but she reminded herself that he was on neither of the teams. She wanted to inform her teammate Ashe, but she didn't know how she could do it. She had never said a single word… So she tried to use a different combination on her instrument, but Ashe could not understand what she wanted to tell her. At least, she understood there was something happening, because she had never seen Sona like this… She was the most calm person she ever met.

At this moment, the light ground shaking became much more intense, and the sky became darker. Really dark. Even Thresh's heart wasn't as dark as the atmosphere of the field… The trees became scary, the water started bubbling, the dragon was flying in circles around his pit. And finally, after several minutes of panic among the champions, the ground totally collapsed, and everything became as dark as oil.

Ahri felt a terrible pain in her leg. She couldn't concentrate, she couldn't think. She was feeling like every tiny piece of strength she had in her whole body left in the dark. But despite all of this, there was still a little battling spark in her soul, that commanded her to focus and understand was was going on. So she opened her eyes.

First, everything was blurred. So she closed them, and opened them again several times until she could see and recognize something. Then, she noticed she was in a kind of a cave, dark, but her eyes were getting used to it. She saw what was hurting her leg; rocks were covering half of her body, so she tried to push them aside with the slow regain of energy she had. After several tries she understood it was way too heavy for her tiny arms, and thought she would have to stay here forever. That's when she heard something, like rocks moving behind a wall. Slowly, a little light appeared in front of her, two meters above the ground where she was laying. The light was becoming bigger as the sound of stones was coming clearer to her ears. Her eyes were not used anymore to this kind of strong light, and she finally had to close them, hearing someone walking slowly next to her.

« Ahri? » said a deep, friendly man voice.

She couldn't answer, her throat was burning. But she nodded to let him know she can hear him.

« Are you okay? Can you move? »

Ahri tried to open her eyes, and after several seconds to get her eyes used to light, she recognized who was talking to her : Shen. She saw a big relieve on his face when she nodded again to say that she was okay. And with her hand, she showed him the stone that was keeping her legs from moving. Immediately, the ninja used all his strength to try to push the rock, breathing heavily, until he finally managed to move it enough to let some space to see Ahri's full body. The fox felt again this horrible pain and she let out a cry of pain that alarmed Shen.

« I will try to take you out of this cave, okay? I saw a river very close from her so I will give you some water too. I will try not to cause you even more pain but… » he said, and his voice seemed not very sure. But Ahri knew that there was no other solution, and she would have to be brave.

Shen took her carefully in his strong arms, and together they got out of the cave.