A/N: This isn't related to the other story I'm currently working on in any way. As for why it exists...blame Tumblr.

All was quiet as the moonlight shone over the Institute of War. The main residents of the Institute, the Champions and Summoners, had long since gone to sleep so that they could prepare for the possibility of battle the following morning, realising that being too tired to battle properly would result in disaster and a lot of painful resurrection. And every single Champion in the league thought sleep was more important than resurrection. Except one.

Approaching the top of the tallest tower of the Institute of War and cradling a container that weighed as much as the armor she was wearing, Diana marveled in the beauty of the stars in the night sky. In the daytime, it is nothing. But in the nighttime, it is so much more. Because of the moon. Placing the container on the ground, she eagerly opened it.

The people from Piltover are selfish and primitive, every one of them. But their technology is irreplaceable. She had become fascinated in Piltover as soon as she had heard the futuristic city existed, only to discover nothing but the mockery she had always despised. They can mock the Solari for being primitive…but they cannot mock me. Soon, they will know the truth. Slowly taking out the instrument, she began to set it up in front of her until it was finally complete. After days of pestering, finally I can use this…. She paused. What was it called again? Ah yes….this telescope. Looking through the telescope for the first time she nearly gasped at how detailed at how it made the nighttime actually could see clearer and further into the darkness than she ever had thought she could. It's beautiful. Entranced, she looked through the telescope for hour after hour, her tiredness slowly growing until she was nearly asleep, and eventually she thought she even saw something like a meteor flash into existence through the telescope lens. Probably me seeing things due to how tired I am. Because I am…..feeling…rather tired. She thought. Maybe…I'll just…lie….down for a few…..minutes….


Itch

Trying to get to sleep, Syndra rolled over onto the other side of the bed. Fucking itch. I compete on the Fields of Justice and what do I get? Two losses and an itch. Fucking useless teammates...

At least I can finally get some rest.

Itch.

ADSADSFAGH!

Sitting up, Syndra summoned a sphere and threw it across the room.

How does this always happen to me? I take perfectly good care of myself and yet I get completely infested with freaking bugs!

Itch.

DIE!

Her coffee table flew into the door of her room and left it in shreds. They take me away from my castle, and infest me with bugs!

I'm going to make them pay for this… In her fury she was nearly halfway towards the summoners quarters, when she realised something. Whatever animal infested me I must have come across in a League match. And I've only had two matches today. So…..

Changing direction she stormed towards the library and paying no attention to the closed sign, threw open the doors. Nasus looked up at her resentfully.

"You mangy little flea ridden son of a bitch!" She roared, not really caring what Nasus thought but just wanting to release her anger.

Nasus looked at her and grabbed his staff. "What did you just say?"

"I said….keep your fucking fur to yourself!"

Nasus growled at her "I am an ascended, and do not, and will never have…fleas!"

Suddenly another voice came out of nowhere.

"You dare insult my companion like this?!"

"This is between me and him, birdface,"

"My face is irrelevant. Begone!"

Syndra tried to figure out what that meant, only for a wall of warriors to slam into her, knocking her out of the library. They'll pay for that. In the meantime I need see Soraka about this fucking itch! Hang on a minute... She thought a little harder about who she had fought on the fields of justice and something occurred to her.

Time to pay the Yordles a visit.


After getting lost in the woods multiple times, Syndra finally approached the small Yordle dormitory.

Only took me an hour to find this place. Who builds a dormitory in the middle of the woods? I mean come on...

Now, which of these rooms would he live in? Presumably it looks like it's been hit by a truck.

Let's see…no…no…no….she stopped by the room with a broken window. Perfect. Dark sphere…..the wall collapsed revealing a very confused looking Gnar. Force of will…..Scatter the weak.

"Yiiiiiiiip…"

Watching Gnar fly off into the horizon, Syndra felt much better. Walking off she failed to notice the feline cry around when he landed or Mega Gnar coming back, until it was too late.


High summoners council room, that night.

Kolminye, the official arbiter of the summoners and the head of the entire Institute of War, stared at the report in front of her. One of the champions, the more unbalanced ones, had done something stupid. Again. She was going to do something about that. Whether or not it involved the 8 delegates sitting in front of her,was another matter.

"This is completely outrageous!"

"I'm well aware of that Thorin. Coffee?"

"Absolutely Kolminye. Completely outrageous!"

"I understand you are interested in the health of your delegates but Syndra is an exceedingly powerful mage. There is no protection against her spells."

"Well what on Earth is she doing here, threatening Yordles?"

"We can't just abandon her to Ionia, that would be nearly a death sentence. We need to come up with something else. Some way to change the attitudes of these….nutcases."

Across the table more voices piped up from the delegates. "We could try a shining lights program!"

"Typical Demacian way to show off."

"The Yordles could always stop being flea infested dirtbags."

"Not helpful Sayle…..What's a shining lights program?"

"You match the champions that show the best behaviour with the ones that show the worst and they change!"

"Tha's the dumbes' thin' I ever heard!"

"And he's from Freljord."

"There aren't any well adjusted champions in the league anyway. If anything it should be a dimmed lights program!"

"That's only because you lot can't run your cities properly."

"Ye wanna pick a fight do ye?"

"Shut up you two. I think the Zaunites onto something. What's a dimmed lights program?"

"Well…you match all the champions with the worst behaviour with other champions that they don't actually want to kill after a few days."

"And how is that any better?"

"Well…..

The Zaunite representative paused, as if considering his options.

"Because if you pair them right you can halve the total amount of work!"

There was a loud thunk as a enormous pitcher was slammed on the table.

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

"Arrrrr!"

"Agreed!"

"For this to pass we need at least another vote."

"If I have absolutely nothing to do with this once it's passed…I agree."

"Here's to the dimmed lights program and halving our workload!"

"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Silently, Kolminye wondered how these people could possibly have been chosen for the most powerful positions in Runeterra.


Silently, Syndra sat on the edge of a hospital bed. I don't believe this. One Nidalee spear and I get sent to the hospital. I mean I'm perfectly fine! Almost!

And yet I have to sit here and listen to Soraka go on and on because I'm an evil person blah blah blah.

Stupid Nidalee. Stupid Gnar.

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"C'mon you lady hore I haven't got all night!"

"What was that?"

"I said C'mon you lady horse I haven't got all night!"

"I'm not a horse. Don't be rude."

Syndra sighed. "Look I'm not sure how to get this through to you. Am. I. Better?"

"No."

"Why not?'

"Because if you hadn't thrown Gnar at her, Nidalee wouldn't have thrown a spear at you. Just wait there. I'll be back soon."

This is ridiculous. I'm not even sore anymore, and its not like this affects my chances of getting summoned anyway.

Bzzt. The summoning alarm suddenly sounded in her head.

Speaking of which...

Bzzzzt.

"Beensummonedbye."

And before Soraka could do anything in response, Syndra simply zoomed out the door.

"Wait..."


Bzzzzt.

Diana opened her eyes, only to nearly be blinded by the light streaming in.

AAH WHAT TURN THAT FUCKING LIGHT OFF.

Desperately groping around for a light switch she was surprised when her hand hit a railing instead. Where the hell is the light swit- Suddenly she realised it was broad daylight, and then realised where she was. Oh right. I'm on the balcony. Where I must have fallen asleep. Which means that it's the sun. She walked over towards the telescope and began to deassemble it. I'm stranded up here with the sun until I finish my research. How ironic. Could this possibly get any worse?

At the top of the staircase someone coughed. Turning around, Diana was nearly blinded by the armor. FU-

The Radiant Dawn stared at her in confusion.

"Are you done?"

"What are you going to do, execute me?"

"Other people need to use this tower too."

"Well I'm sorry I interrupted your bigoted worship of the sun then!"

Leaving the rest of the telescope behind, Diana stormed off past Leona and a very confused woman holding a bird, towards the summoners chambers.


Staring as Diana stormed past, Quinn turned to Leona. " So Thanks….for helping me move her I guess."

Leona smiled. "It was nothing. Really."

"Do you mind me asking what that was about?"

Leona sighed. "It was nothing. It's just ….she's just different."


Throwing open the door to the summoners chamber, Diana was thinking of something rude to say until she noticed around 20 other League champions in the room, and managed to refrain herself. Looking around she realised they were in an auditorium and briefly wondered if someone was going to be executed on the stage. Not that anyone would attempt it with this mad an audience.

Well this is interesting. I wonder what I've done to deserve this?

As she took her seat next to Morgana and Maokai of all things, a heavily shielded summoner walked onto the stage.

"Ahem. Is this thing on?"

"Geeeetttt on with itttt…"

"Maybe if I use fishbones he'll speak faster!"

"Ahem. As half of you are obviously aware of, your behaviour in and surrounding your entry to the League has been terrible."

What? For insulting people under my breath? And insulting Leona when I was drunk? Please.

"As we cannot dismiss you from the League without modifying your behaviour…

We have simply decided to pair you with other champions with better behaviour."

Yeah right. Considering most of the champions in this room aren't paying the slightest bit of attention...

"And if we refuse?"

"There are incentives to accept the offer. And punishments if you don't."

A reward. That's more like it.

"And without further ado, I will announce the pairs!"

"Alistair Elise"

"Maokai-Zyra"

"Morgana-Mordekaiser"

If I brought my blade I could at least pay attention to that...

"Rumble Veigar"

"Graves Jinx"

Looking up, Diana suddenly realised nearly every seat was empty.

4 people left in the auditorium. Me, Vayne, Vi and Syndra! and there's no way on Runeterra Syndra's sane. I can live with being on the bad behaviour list if I get paired with Vayne or Vi.

"Vi Vayne"

Wait what did he just say?

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?" Vi lunged at the summoner preparing to punch him, only for Vayne to trip her up midway.

"And that leaves Diana and Syndra."

Me…..and Syndra. I have to help Syndra with her behaviour.

I have to help a mage who tears dormitories apart and tries to kill champions for petty revenge, with her behaviour.

Turning around, she saw Syndra floating next to her and instantly got a pit in her stomach. Standing there waiting for Syndra to introduce herself, she suddenly realised that Syndra was waiting for the same thing, and the pit widened to take up nearly her entire chest.

"Hi…."

That was bad. That was bad. Why on Runeterra did I spend my entire youth reading!

"Hello there…..weakling."

I can't talk to her like this…I need to think up an excuse, fast!

"I need to go do something…..do you want to meet up in an hour?"

"Yes…that suits me. Go ahead and do your….thing. I will meet you outside my apartment in one hour."

"Ok….bye?" Turning around she saw Syndra floating in the other direction and cursed to herself. Talk about making a shitty first impression. I need to at least be able to talk to her properly to have any chance of making this work. Which means….I think it's time I hit the bar for a few hours.


As Syndra made her way back to the castle she began to wonder why she was attempting this pointless game. Any reward the summoners can offer me is useless compared to the power I seek. Although….Diana could be interesting.

From what she'd already heard and seen of the woman from before they met and when Diana actually made her entrance, she knew that was clearly the complete opposite of what she had seen just then. Now she just needed to test her a little and see what she was actually like. And if that means throwing a few obstacles in her way...so be it.

Did I mention where my apartment was? I don't think I mentioned where my apartment was.

She smiled.

This was a good start.