A girl with black hair and blue eyes ran through the doors of her home right after her roommate unlocked it. It was finally Friday, the day that everyone always seem to be eager for. She hopped on a chair and turned on her computer. There was probably nothing in the world that could stop Hazel's obsession with computers.

"Skye! You're going to be playing with us, right?" The black-haired girl exclaimed.

Her roommate rolled her eyes and answered, "Yeah, but Hazel, come eat first."

"After one game?"

"No. You have 10 seconds to come to the table."

She couldn't defy Skye even if she wanted to. Skye was the one in charge around the house. Hazel grumpily walked over to the dining table. Her roommate had prepared spaghetti with a side of garlic bread. They started eating with small talk in between each bite here and there. After the two finished eating, it was Hazel's turn to wash the dishes, much to her dismay.

"Finally done…" The black haired girl groaned.

Skye stuck her tongue out and teased, "Hurry up; we're waiting for your ass to get on."

She nodded and started League and Skype up on her computer. Lately, Hazel didn't have the time to even touch the computer because of college. The girl was too busy cramming months and months of work into her head for finals. Now, it was time to sit back and relax. Hazel put on her headset, logged, and accepted her friends' invite to the lobby.

Amongst her group, there was a unique rule they played by. The rule was to pick two city-states and the champions that came from there was their champion pool. Hazel's choice were Ionia and the Shadow Isles, mainly Ionia. There were some occasions where she would play Thresh and Evelynn, but that was rare. She loved Ionia and simply thought that it was the only city-state she needed. Her friends have been pressuring Hazel into playing more Thresh due to her godlike plays but she refused.

A male voice blustered, "Fucking Finally, Hazel. You took forever."

"Sorry, Aaron. Had to do the dishes," She apologized.

Aaron was an impatient guy but he was extremely fun to be around. Inside of League, the boy was a very aggressive jungler who often went in without a strategy. Somehow, he carried games by doing this. His desired city-states were the Void and Zaun. Some of the group members were a little iffy about letting choose the Void since it wasn't a city-state nor a place in Runeterra. However, they let him choose it because it was a part of the game.

Another male voice was heard and it said, "Can we start already? I want to play Garen."

That was Vincent. He was a goofy guy and often messed around, but no one paid much attention to it. In game, he loved deleting people's health bars and being able to do damage when build straight tank. His favorite city-states was Demacia and Bilgewater.

Skye asked, "Well, is everyone ready? Where's Tim?"

Time exclaimed, "Here!"

He was the quietest person in the group. He often stayed quiet until someone spoke to him. The group called him the "male version of Sona" because everyone always forgot about him and Tim was a music prodigy. Most of the time, he was the one making the big plays and Hazel thought he could be a higher rank if they didn't hold him back, but Tim didn't really care. All he cared about was having fun with his friends. Tim took the support role so that he wasn't in the "spotlight" and let his friends enjoy the glory. His city-states were Bandle City and the Kumungu Jungle.

Last, but not least, there was Skye. She was Hazel's best friend and the one that was always taking care of her. The girl was the leader of the group, always calling the shots making sure they would have their best chance at winning. Skye often changed her play style depending on the game. One game she could be overly aggressive and the next the girl could be as passive as a Lulu cupcake. She assumed the ADC position. Her heart lied with Piltover and Noxus, an odd combination.

Hazel turned around to see Skye, with her laptop on her lap, nonchalantly chilling on the couch.

"Start it, will you?" Hazel asked, impatiently.

The girl pressed the start button and the wait to find a match was only a mere second. Everyone accepted the match and was taken to Champion Select. Hazel wanted to go mid and chose Zed. Her eyes filled with glee as Zed played his quote. Her favorite champion of all times was Zed. She was the most comfortable and only felt a certain type of confidence with this champion. Albeit a bit difficult, that made all the more fun to play, despite the recent nerfs that hit him.

Aaron, who obviously was going jungle, insta-locked Kha'Zix. Meanwhile, Vincent chose Garen and Tim chose Lulu. Skye was debating whether she should go Jinx or Caitlyn. In the end, the girl chose Jinx because of her insane personality and the joys of hitting the long ranged permaslows. Everyone was transitioned into loading screen where they could analyze the enemy team. There was a Volibear Top, Rengar Jungle, Katarina Mid, Caitlyn ADC, and Zyra support. It was a very annoying team to play against. Hazel started with a longsword and three potions. Everything was normal until she facechecked the river bush. She was introduced by a flip and proceeded to get attacked. Hazel had to blow her summoners and flash over the wall but to no avail and ended up giving Rengar first blood. Fortunately, they wasted at least 3 flashes and 2 ignites. Kha'Zix and Garen had to flee blue buff and start at enemy blue. After respawning, Hazel went back to mid lane, ready to face Kat; her confidence obviously wasn't phased. She continuously harassed Kat with the shurikens. Aaron was only behind a bit and ganked the lanes successfully despite his rough start. Skye and Tim were winning their lane and always won the trades against Cait and Zyra. Garen was dropping that disrespect in the top lane. Watching him do so made Hazel giggle.

Unfortunately, Rengar and Katarina managed to catch Hazel off guard when she was checking the other lanes. Despite her efforts to stay alive, she died once more. Hazel sighed and bought a Hexdrinker, Vampiric Scepter, and a couple of pots to stay alive.

Vincent taunted, "Wow, Hazel. Feeding much?"

That comment brought her confidence down a bit. The game went on as usual with the exception of Rengar and Katarina carrying their teams to victory. Somehow, they maintained dragon control and map pressure. It was very difficult to move freely without the fear of a fed Rengar jumping out at you. Around 35 minutes, the enemy aced them and pushed mid. They managed to take down the Nexus turrets and proceeded to attack the Nexus. Everyone typed their "GG"s and the most peculiar thing happened. Their Nexus only had one hit left, but the enemies surrendered. Everyone was confused, of course, and the enemies typed "Happy Christmilk, have a free game" and left the lobby. It was mid January. Why were they celebrating Christmas now?

Hazel ended up with the score 0/5/1. She tried her best.

'Maybe the nerfs are effecting me...' She thought.

However, it was only one game and one game didn't mean anything. The night was still young so they decided to keep on playing. The group rotated between from their respective city-states and occasionally switched roles every game. Time flew by quickly and none of them noticed it was 3 am. It was effecting hazel the most since she wasn't used to staying up that late. The girl tried to stay awake but the fatigue was getting to her. At the start of the game Hazel faceplanted the keyboard and went to sleep.

Vincent chuckled and said, "Did she really just fall asleep?"

Aaron laughed and asserted, "Sleep is for the weak."

"Maybe I should have checked up on her before the game…" Skye mumbled as she walked over to her sleeping roommate. She tried shaking her awake but it didn't work. The girl sighed and looked at her screen. Skye raised an eyebrow to see a window with yellow text generating something. The text was too fast to read because you could only see it for a split second. There was a percentage bar at the bottom and it was wasting no time filling itself up. After a few moments or so, the window finished whatever it was doing.

"Hazel, what the fuck did you download this time?" Skye irritably asked whilst shaking her. Suddenly, she heard Tim screen from Hazel's headset.

The girl pulled Hazel's headset from her head and put them on.

She yelled, "What happened to Tim?"

The other two certainly heard it because she could hear the shakiness in their voice.

"I-I d-don't kno-" Aaron managed to choke out before ending with a scream.

"What the hell is going on?!" Skye yelled.

Eventually whatever was taking their friends got to Vincent. Hearing Vincent and Tim scream was rare and it sent a shiver down her spine.

The girl continued to shake Hazel and called her name in attempt to wake Sleeping Beauty.

She managed to wake up but it was too late. Two vortexes opened on their computers and started to pull the two away from each other.

"Hazel!" Skye yelled.

She was still half-asleep to even notice what was going on. Before Hazel knew it, her best friend was gone.