Be happy my old readers that had followed the sword's calling! I have decided to restart this old project and fix all the bad plot holes that I had. Making sure I break it into much easier arcs to follow and much better easing into different parts of the story.
I do not own any of these characters, all rights go to Riot games. Except my original characters.
With that! Let the story begin!
Chapter 1: First day at the institute
Headphones that were set on our main character's head with the newest style of music that was started by Sona due to her start of her DJ skin taking off a couple years ago. Zero De Lanna a young man that stood five foot, ten inches tall with silver hair and dark red eyes. He was wearing a light blue shirt with a grey jacket with a light blue leather sleeves to protect him from the wind, and a pair of black jeans with high tops. He was then stopped at the gates to the institute of war by a guard and motioned him to take off his headphones.
"Greetings, young man. What brings you here to the institute of war?" The guard asked Zero after he took off his headphones and turned down the volume. "I am here to become a summoner sir. I already had messaged head summoner Devanna that I would be arriving today." The guard nodded and did not question the fact that Zero had mentioned the head summoner's name. He looked over to the other guard and they both opened the gates. "Thank you gentleman, enjoy your day." The guards replied with a similar response to Zero. Before he started to put back on his headphones, his ears perked up as he began to hear footsteps that seemed like someone was running. By the time he was about to put them back on, *WHAM!*
Before he knew it Zero was on his back, then felt someone soft that smelled like dragon fruits and coconuts was on top of him. Opening his eyes from the sudden run in, he found a petite figure slowly getting up, she wore a green short sleeve hoodie and pants and a myriad of small pieces of armor covering her outfit. The most notable part of her outfit was her right arm as it had more armor needed than her left arm. The woman had light silver hair compared to his and had dark hazel eyes, this woman was known as Riven the exile.
She looked down at Zero and then blushed heavily to see that she was straddled upon a man, getting up quickly she bowed a couple times while saying "I am sorry!" before Zero had gotten up. He cricked his neck a bit and dusted off the dirt that had gotten on his clothes. "Don't worry it's fine, things happen. You must be in a rush aren't you? Better hurry up and get to where you're going miss." Zero said with a small smile, "Are you sure? This doesn't happen a lot." He stepped to the side, creating the perfect sprinting lane for the exile.
"Yeah I am sure, get going. I'll see you around somehow, I am a new summoner here anyway." Riven gave a small wave as she took a few steps forward. "Alright then, I'll see you around guy. I'm Riven and welcome to the institute!" She took off running and Zero cupped his hands, "My name isn't guy! The name's Zero!" Riven turned around and waved at him before turning back around then took off at full speed into the town outside of the institute. Zero continued to walk towards to the main building and passed a couple of summoners and champions, he looked to the right and saw an old friend from Piltover.
It was the Prodigal Explorer, back then Ezreal just known as the troublemaker and a great friend to Zero. Ezreal caught a glimpse of Zero and pondered for a moment while he was sitting with some of the Demacian champions, then began to figure out who was that guy that walked by.
Zero stopped as he finally gotten up the massive stairs that led to the building and took a deep breath, his journey here was an easy one but with the amount of planning he had to do and packing to make sure his things were picked up then sent here was a journey in itself. He continued walking towards the entrance and then entered the halls of the institute, but he never imagined the halls were nearly half the size of the massive building. He stopped at the door that literally said "Head summoner Devanna", "Looks like this is the room." He knocked twice and heard a woman say come in. When he opened the door a middle-aged woman with brunette hair and blue eyes, wearing a purple robe lined with gold threads and embroidered with several gems was sitting on a desk.
"Welcome young man, are you Zero De Lanna by chance?" She asked him as a young woman who nearly looked just like her came by and set down a cup of tea then left. "Yes ma'am, it's a pleasure to finally meet you in person." He walked over and held his hand out for a greeting handshake, she liked the gesture and shook Zero's hand. Then motioned him to take a seat. "Yes, I had heard many things from the people of Piltover about you Zero. Though some were mostly about your troubles you caused with your magic and weapons. Hopefully here you control them and fulfill the responsibilities of a summoner." Zero smirked when she had mentioned his trouble making back home.
"Well hopefully I do." Devanna handed Zero a scroll that contained a map that was for the institute and his location on it, "This scroll will make sure you won't get lost here. The magic set into it is rather simple, it has the entire setup of the institute within it and has your magic essence to show where you are located. It also has where you will be staying from here on out. Since you are a summoner from Piltover you are gonna be place in the neutral dorms, all champions and summoners that hail from none war factions stay there." Zero stood up and bowed, then thanked her for giving him a brief explanation on how things were run here. She did mention to him that a mach summoning test to gauge his abilities will be within a weeks time. He nodded and left the office, Devanna took a sip of her warm tea and looked out the windows towards the cliffs. 'Something tells me that things are going to get crazy here...'
Following the map to the neutral dorms, he noticed that it had also read what room he was staying in. "Oh great the fifth floor..." He murmured and began making his way to the elevator and pushed the button, then began waiting. He could still his music playing from his headphones as the elevator doors opened, stepping inside he pressed the button for the fifth floor. As the door began to close a metal glove with a jewel stopped it from fully closing, and the door opened back up again. "I know that silver hair and getup anywhere, how are ya Zero?" Ezreal finally remembered his old friend and stepped in, then the doors closed.
"Well what can I say? This ain't like the old days where we got into fights with the bullies because we looked scrawny. If you hadn't noticed I had gotten pretty muscular since you left for your explorations." Ezreal took a good look at Zero and noticed that his body build was pretty similar to someone else that kind of looked like him but couldn't hit the bulls eye. "Eh... Kind of reminds me of someone else... But it is good to see you bro, let's catch up sometime!" Arcane shifting at the fourth floor as it came up, Ezreal left small sparks of arcane magic as he began walking to his room.
The doors opened and Zero walked into the hallway that lead to his new room which was 508, following the signs he finally reached his room. Which wasn't too far from the elevator, he examined the door and it looked like it can only be unlocked by his magic essence, just like the scroll could give his location. Pressing his hand against the door it opened and walked inside, it wasn't bad it was a good sized room for two people living here, he noticed there was a second room but didn't care who's name was on top of it. He headed for the room that had his name and repeated the same thing he did with the first door. Pushing that door opened he saw all of his things that he had picked were arranged to a pretty organized fashion to make sure he felt at home.
Zero unloaded all of his personal belongings that he chose to carry during his journey and set them aside. Moving towards the closet he opened it to find all of his clothes were hung in the same fashion his room was set up, along with a couple summoner robes. There was also a note placed on one of them. 'Wear these at all times, they react to magic essence and can be turned intangible or vice versa. This is to make sure you are a summoner, they are pretty light weight and will not slow you down if you are in a rush. -Tailoring' Taking off his sweaty clothing he had worn during his journey Zero switched to a more casual style of clothing. A dark blue shirt with a black collar shirt and gray jeans, with low top sneakers, and threw on the summoner robe and made it turned intangible with his magic essence.
"Time to check the town and see all the shops around." Zero grabbed his hextech music player and headphones then left his room to head to town. Good thing he took the scroll too since it was early into the afternoon. After leaving the dorms and passing the gate, he had arrived in the town outside of the institute. Heilfram, a town made by many passing merchants that decided to stay when the institute began to get more popular and saw the potential wealth they could make by having shops for champions and summoners alike. Zero was amazed by the amount of people that walked the streets with the shops and homes as well, he decided to take a small break at the town center fountain and sat on the wall.
While he sat there and listened to his music with his eyes closed, he felt someone was standing in front of them. But he noticed a familiar scent from earlier blow from this person. 'Dragon fruit and coconuts...' Opening his eyes he saw the same woman from earlier smiling from ear to ear with her hands behind her back. "Hey! We meet again!" His eyes widened for a moment as he could hear her over the music, then took off his headphones. "Y-yeah, Riven right?"