So, Zed and Syndra have always been in the anti-hero role and always appear to be scary and power ful in Summoner's Rift, but what if we go deep inside their daily life at the Institute? Let's feel it.


Ringggg...

Zed slammed his hand so strong that the alarm clock broken. He jumped up and away from his bed, warmed himself up by creating his shadows across the bedroom and rapidly changed his position with them. This is not Summoner's Rift, no cooldown, infinite shadows! Fabulous!

"Woo hoo!." Zed shouted cheerily. He could feel that his body was full of energy. He shadow-blinked to the bathroom, pick up his toothbrush, put some toothpaste on it and created a shadow to help him in brushing his teeth. After completing, Zed washed his mouth and told the shadow. "Well done, dude."

He and the shadow high-fived, and on the moment both hands touched each other, the shadow evaporated. The toothbrush dropped onto floor.

"Ha ha, sorry!" Zed apologised.

Without paying any care to the brush, he got back to his room, put on his ninja suit, his helm and his mask. Then he shadow-blinked to outside corridor. From there, he could see that snow was falling in the garden, full of snow. He continuously blinked along the corridor in order to reduce his time running. At the cafeteria, he speaked loudly to anyone who would like to listen to him. "Snow day!"

That was how Zed be when he was happy. In less than one second, some of the champions have speaked back to show their support to him.

"Snow day!" Miss Fortune replied.

"Snow day!" Ahri cried.

"Snow day!" Lux shouted.

Bard shouted, er, no, rang his chimes.

"Snow day!" Teemo raised his high tone.

"Snow day!" Draven roared.

And finally, Graves and Twisted Fate bellowed. "SNOW DAYY!"

Zed blinked outside,to the snow yard and the champions who supported him followed him, too.

Lux suggested. "For equality, we should divide into teams."

"There will be nothing called 'equal' or something similar to it. This'll be a chaotic fight!" Zed said.

"That's how a fight be!" Graves agreed in reply.

"Yeah, but there will be no explosives, all will be snow!." Miss Fortune said. Ahri asked excitedly. "So, can we start now?"

"Of course!" They replied all together. Everyone splited to their position on the yard. Lux said loudly. "Ready! Three, two, one, start!"

A rain of snow fell to many different directions. Zed, on his own, taken 'damage' from the snowballs from three or four directions. He created his shadows everywhere, they picked up snow, made snowballs and throw them across the yard. One landed right on Ahri's face, the other made Graves dropped his Destiny, another one, which Zed had no idea about where it gone but he could hear Draven shouted. "Oh, my ****!"

The fight continued with other people joined like Olaf, Ashe, Tristana, but none of them used their main weapons, there's only three things: snow, snow and snow. Miss Fortune loaded some snowballs into her candy cane pistols and released waves of snow from them to the fight. Everyone tried to run away from it but it's too late. Almost everyone fell to Miss Fortune's storm, except Twisted Fate but she couldn't realise him. She yelled. "Yay, I won!"

As soon as Fortune completed her words, her face was buried in Twisted Fate's snowball. He shouted. "I am the winner!"

Every other champs looked at each other. You know what we have to do right now! When they rushed to Twisted Fate in order to taught him a lesson for cheating, he used his magic card to teleport away. They must got angry of him.


Zed was sitting and was thinking about the fight. At that time, he was sitting at the cafeteria, drinking some alcohol with Jax. People no longer afraid of Zed like how they used to be, they have became friendlier to him. Some of them, at least. Zed sighed. It seemed that Jax have realized something beyond Zed's mask. He asked. "Are you thinking about something, Zed?"

Zed nodded. "Jax, have you ever experienced the feeling of being alone? The feeling that none even pay a care to you, live in the community but get treated like a monster, or worse, like an invisible man, like you are not exist?"

"Of course I did." Jax grinned. "This old man have experienced it. I lost my family, my friends, my hometown. I just don't want to remind those awful memory. But you seems to not be alone, why are you asking me this?

"I don't understand." Zed contemplated his bottle. "I've got everything: fame, money, power, and I also made friend ưith many champions, but, I feel like I am missing something very important. I have no idea about it."

Suddenly, Ahri came to take her seat by Zed's side and Graves took his seat by Jax's side, that's why Zed got stuck with Ahri. She said. "I know the thing you miss."

"So, what is it?" Zed grinned in reply.

"Not what, Zed, it's who." Ahri slapped her palms to each other. "A girl, Zed." She said with a cunning grin.

"If you are going to seduce me..."

"Shut up you fool," Ahri interrupted Zed immediately. "I have many other hobbies rather than seducing a men, and you are not in my favorite list as well."

"Oh, ok," Zed said guiltily, "but what make you think that I need a girl?"

Ahri sighed. "I know a lot about men, Zed, they drink even when being sad or happy, in your case, it's sadness. You've got many things you want." She listed. "Money, fame, power, friends. In short, you've got almost everything. In this case, the lost in love has made you sad."

Zed was surprised. He wondered why Ahri's words was so exactly. She have answered the questions that he asked his own mind. "So, which girl do you think will fit me the most?" Zed asked.

Ahri snorted. "Let me tell you, she's on the lakeside, having fun with her snowballs." Zed stared at the direction that Ahri has said, but the distance was too far for him to see properly. Ahri took Zed's half vanished bottle of alcohol, poured all of the liquid inside into her throat, then she gave a comforted sound. She said. "Let me take you there."

Ahri picked Zed up and set him on her back, then she dashed with an anti-gravity speed to outside. Irelia, who was unfortunately sitting near Ahri's path, shouted in anger. "Ahri! Have you been playing with methamphetamine recently?!"

Ahri didn't even care about what Irelia said and she just kept going straight with maximum speed. When they arrived at an elder tree (a type of tree, not a tree at old age), she put Zed down.

"How can you be so strong?" Zed asked while breathing hastily.

"If I have some alcohol, then I'll even be strong enough to pick this tree up, dude." Ahri giggled. "Sadly there's no alcohol in Summoner's Rift shop."

"Er, okay... So where's the girl you were talking about?" Zed looked around. Ahri pointed her index finger to a place that was ten meters from where they were standing, the lakeside. Zed looked at the direction, and he startled.

A girl, who was sitting by the side of the frozen lake, was wearing a white winter coat. She commanded big snowballs to fly around in the air and then rushed ro each other which made them explode. Then pieces of snow fused into other snowballs and started again.

"Are you mad?" Zed scolded Ahri. "She's the last one I want to meet!"

Ahri blinked strangely, then it changed to a disappointed look. "Ahhhh, so you end up just to be a senseless ass." She said.

Zed were kind of silenced. "Have you forget it, that you two, you and Syndra, used to be best friends." Ahri continued. "You two have many points similar to each other: both possess a forbidden technique of Ionia; both were torn away from Ionian social; both killed your masters and finally felt regret doing it. Both of you have the ambitiousness of being on the top; both have the same sadness, same feeling of being alone. You and Syndra used to talk countless times; I have witness it through the Crystal Ball of Memories; those words, how sincerely, honest and truthful they are!" Ahri chucked to smooth her words and said. "Weirdly, those feelings just paused at friendship at that time." She sighed. "You two used to always be with each other, helped each other. You, the one who saved Syndra when she was attacked by phantasmal wolves at midnight. You, the one who appeased Syndra when those phantoms insulted her without being punished by Syndra herself. You, who shared your stories with her when she had no one to talk. Syndra repaid you many times as well. Who bandaged you when the wolves hurted you? It's her. Who calmed you down when your servants didn't do like what you said? It's her. Who cooked food for you when you were lost in the forest? Also her." Ahri contemplated the sky as she laid her back on the elder trunk, and she went on. "Those moments affected you both, even more efficiency than friend conversations. And that was the time you two started to have feelings on each other, like apricot blossoms under the dawn light, like a flame that slowly burnt the abandoned charcoal, like an almost clemmed deer what managed to find a pure stream." And Ahri started to raise her intensity. "You and her loved each other naturally like it had to be from the beginning! But you, you made friends with some people and you left Syndra in pain and grief, and she bacame lonely! You just look at her like that and do nothing for her, the girl who shared happiness and sadness to you, much happiness about that?!"

...

Zed looked down, before Ahri's words, couldn't say a thing. Only now did he realize that he was to bad. No, he can still fix this, on his own.

"I see," Zed said, "I will go talk to Syndra right now."

Ahri sighed. Zed walked toward the girl who was sitting by the side of the lake.

He said quietly. "Syndra..."

Syndra startled and turned her head around, and as soon as she saw Zed, she lifted herself up to the air, face-to-face him.

"Zed, why are you here?" Syndra echoed.

Zed looked at Syndra, said." Syndra, I'm here to say sorry..."

"About what?" Syndra choked in pain. "I think you have never commit any mistake to me, have you?"

"Syndra, listen to me, I know you are upset about me, but please forgive me, I'll tell everyone to welcome you."

Syndra looked at Zed for about one second, then she looked up and started to laugh. An icy, humorless laugh. She looked at Zed again and said cruelly. "Welcome? You are trying to fool me, Zed. You are actually going to play around and get your damn friends to come and laugh at my face, Zed. I know that you already forgot me since you got new friends."

"Syndra..."

"We have no more to say, go away before I get mad!"

"No, I won't go until you listen to me!"

"Ha, you asked for it, as you wish!"

Unexpectedly, a snowball flew into Zed's face, which made him took a few steps back. It was not a fun snowball. His helm and mask were dropped away and he could taste the blood in his mouth. Without cooling down, Zed felt something, not like a snowball but was like a cannonball, rushed into his stomach, and he were knocked backward for like ten meters. After a few minutes, he stood up hard. Syndra already flew to the other side of the lake. Zed was knocked to the elder root, in which trunk Ahri was laying her back.

"Ahri, can you take me to the Institute's infirmary?" Zed asked.

Ahri laughed drily and bitterly. She shook her head. "You deserve it, Zed, for a hundred times higher!"

After hearing that, Zed limped toward the infirmary. "You are right, I deserve it." He said to Ahri before going.


"Why did you come to her?" Akali said angrily while she was pouring a kind of thick potion into Zed's mouth. The nurse had said that term for like millions of time in a few hours.

Zed swallowed the potion and replied. "It's none of your business, stop asking."

Suddenly, someone knocked the door.

"Come in." Said Akali.

The door opened and Ahri stepped in. "Akali, can I visit him yet?"

"Don't hesitate to do so. However, in order to discharge, Zed need permission from . I think I'm gonna come to talk to him right now." Akali said. Then she got out of the room, left Zed and Ahri back.

"Ahri, now I know how much Syndra had to suffer." Zed said. "I have injured her soul! Why, why was I so stupid?! I shouldn't be living anymore!" He shouted bitterly.

"And only now did you realize it. I think that's a big appeasement for Syndra." Ahri derided.

Zed looked at her, and she quickly, slightly waved her hand. "Just kidding, it's not too late yet. As soon as you discharge, go talk to her. The thing you need is your words to take her faith and her love." She said.

"She didn't even let me explain..."

"That's the problem, when you meet her, land the first strike, don't give her a chance to hurt herself. Use your first strike as a pedal to go on, then you can explain to show your heart, there's no use sitting here and cry!" Ahri saliva-swallowed. "You know, Riven had said one thing that hardly anyone heard it: 'I'd redeem one time to realize the purpose of my life, rather than being penitent for ten times but do no help to the society!' She was right, being penitent does no help if you don't redeem by your act. What does we enlight the truth to ourself for, if we don't bring that truth to everyone?"

Zed brainstormed, then he nodded. He said. "I'll do my best to bring Syndra back."

As soon as he said so, Akali opened the infirmary door and said. "Shen has just give you permission to discharge from the infirmary, and, er, remember to stay healthy. That's all. Oh, I forgot, your helm and mask have been picked up, too."

Ahri whispered to Zed. "Prepare a present for Syndra, it's Snow day."

"I don't know what to gift her." Zed whispered back.

"I'll tell you, but you have to fight to her mouth in order to gift her."


"Zed, she's there, quick!" Ahri cheered. Zed could see Syndra, again, was sitting on the lakeside. He hid the present box into his suit, then walked toward. When almost arrived, he called. "Syndra!"

Syndra turned her head around. "Why are you here again?!" She screamed. "Go away, I don't want to see your face! You wanna take it again?"

"Syndra, you have to listen..." Zed hesitated.

"Listen your d***, that's all enough, I don't want to listen!"

"Syndra..."

"I told you to go away! Or you want to enjoy another sphere?!"

"SYNDRA!" Zed roared. Syndra was like stunned before the words.

"You dare..." She said shakily.

Zed interrupted her. "I know I have done many unforgivable things to you, I'm not here to conjure for forgiveness. I'm here to show my heart, I'm not so senseless as you thought. For a long time, just for my friend, I had forgot our feelings to each other. Yes, I'm foolish. I were too foolish to realize how my actions and my words hurt you. I deserve a punishment, and I'm here to take it. But before you do so, please think it over, because even if you are not going to forgive me, I'll still be with you to protect you, from now on and to ever. If so, I can feel that I could do something good to you."

"So, what if I kill you?" Syndra asked.

"No problems, but my soul with then come to you, not to harm, but to protect you, again. We can't leave each other and no matter how far we separate, our figures are still in our hearts. That's the duty which Nature gave us and we took it naturally and instinctively. I have to complete my duty, no matter how much I'll have to sacrifice, no matter in the role of your lover, your friend, or your bodyguard!"

...The two silently comtemplated each other. Zed was waiting for a reaction from Syndra. And then, after one minute or more the thing he was expecting for has came. Syndra slowly stood up, walked towards him, pulled his hand to make him be on the lakeside.

"Sit down." She ordered. Zed did it, and Syndra sat down beside him. She asked. "Where did you get those words from?"

Zed grinned. "I have never prepared for a talking paragraph. These words are all from my heart." He said.

Syndra looked to the farside of the lake, comtemplated somewhere faraway. She sighed. "Good words. You have just said that you'll sacrifice your own sake for me, right? So prove it."

The term 'prove it' was what Zed was waiting for; he took the box of present outside from hide and gave it to Syndra. She looked at the box and grinned. "Sacrifice much, huh?"

Zed laughed. "Just open it."

Syndra tore the paper layer of the box, and a thin sapphire board appeared before her eyes. There was a cut went along with its side, gave a sign that it was two extremely thin boards sticked their surface. She opened the two sapphire layers, and startled. Two boards, one had a photo on it, Syndra was the main feature of the photo. She was bareheaded, was wearing a long purple robe;her right hand raise equal to her shoulder, her middle and index fingers were raising to make a V-shape; her thumb, her little and ring fingers were holding a lotus stem with a lotus on it; her left hand were holding a lotus leaf pad umbrella. She was standing on a rock in lotus swamp, which was during its season, with pink lotus blossoms and round green pads. The other board had a golden line on it, it said: 'Merry Snow day, Synny! Zed.'

Syndra looked at Zed. Zed said. "That's the photo which you like the most!"

"But... there's only one like this, and it was burnt already."

"Ahh, I think, I have many other Snow days, I can wish for myself next year."

"So you sacrificed your wish this year for me? Wait..." Syndra narrowed her eyes, "how could a wish certainly become truth if it nearly impossible?" She asked in care. "May I see your wrist?"

"Er, I think you will not want, I..." Zed hesitated.

Syndra pulled Zed's arm to panic-struck saw a clean, deep cut on his wrist.

"You idiot!" She shouted. "Am I that important for you to sacrifice your wish and an additional half litre of blood to certain your wish? Am I deserve for you to do it?!"

"I told that I will sacrifice my own sake for yours." Zed said. "I know no matter how many times I redeem, your wounded soul can never be healed completely. However, I'll do everything I can to prevent the wounds from getting wider."

Syndra looked worrily at his wound, said. "Let me bandage it." And as she was saying, she shot a deep purple energy flux from her palm. The flux then covered Zed's wrist and bandaged it. Zed could feel memories rushing into his mind, when he used to be at the Celestial fortress with Syndra.

Upon completion, Syndra said. "May I see your face again."

Without Zed's allowance, she place her hand on his mask and his helm, gently removed them. She caressed the scar on his cheek with her index finger.

"Sorry." Syndra said. "I did it to you."

"No, that's what I deserve."

Syndra looked at Zed's face for a moment and smiled. "I have a present for you, too."

"You... have one?" Zed surprised. Syndra nodded.

"Close your eyes!"

"I'm..."

"Just close them!"

Zed closed his eyes, nervously waited. After a few seconds, he could feel Syndra's arm were closing on his nape and embracing it, and his lips sunddenly felt hot. That was taste was difficult to describe: sweet as honey but spicy as chili, hotter that magma but colder than true ice... After a moment that only gods know how long it lasted, Syndra pulled him away, and he opened his eyes. Their lips and tongue weren't touching anymore but Zed could still felt the taste, mostly changed to bitter.

Syndra smiled. "How is it?"

"Great!" Zed smiled in reply. "May we start again?"

"The kiss or our relationship?"

"Both, I think."

"You are so greedy!" Syndra giggled. Then she pulled Zed hear to her and gave him another passionate but bitter kiss. Zed wanted this moment to last forever. Is there any other things could ruin this moment of him?

...

Haha, actually there is, but I won't mention it right here.