Chapter 1: The Charred Path
The charred wood sputtered and creaked as multiple boots lay their soles one after one heading down the burned hallway. Embers fluttering in the air until they find their rest on the creatures lurking in the hallway. This fire wasn't one that normally occurred in the plains just outside of Noxus.
"You two, check the cellar, me and Ramirez will check the attic."
"Yes sir!" The other pair of guards nodded.
Two pairs of metallic suits trotted away and out of hearing range.
"Careful Ramirez, this rat could be anywhere, so keep your eyes peeled"
"Aye sir" Ramirez timidly said as he proceeded down the hall with the captain.
The floor crackled under foot as the two proceeded down the hallway and came to a flight of stairs. The pair paused, and the captain headed up the stairs his read cape snagged on the blackened railing. as the captain turned his attention back to the conniving little piece of wood that withheld his advance. He swung his arm-blade and chopped the railing clean off. The splintered wood fell to the ground with a thunk. Amidst that noise movement was heard on the floor above them. The captain charged up eye level with the floor above him, only to see a figure standing over him. Before he knew it the figure slammed the hilt of its sword down on his forehead, then black.
Vision going in and out, getting brief glances of ramirez holding off the slender figure. The figures strikes were 2 horizontally and 1 large vertical strike. Ramirez not expecting the vertical one had been sliced right in the skull. As ramirez's ragdoll shell fell to the floor the figure gave out a feminine grunt and pulled the sword out of the soldiers skull. She then turned around and moved towards the captain now barely conscious. The captain got on one knee and tried to get up, but got kicked back down as the woman stood over him. She took him by the base of his cape at his neck and proceeded to drag him to the hole at the end of the hallway.
She pulled him up against a wall holding him by the neck. The two were roughly the same height. The woman was wearing a white hood and white armor with teal highlights around the edges, with a broken sword in her right hand. She took the tip of the blade and pried the helmet off of the captain. His hair poured out and covered his face. she brushed it out of the way to see his golden eyes shine back tiredly.
"HEY! GET AWAY FROM TALON!" One of the cellar crew yelled with his partner by his side. The woman dropped Talon. He slid down the wall and thudded on the floor with a clank. The woman removed her hood to reveal a head of white hair and her glistening eyes.
"Stand down, or i shall eliminate you like the rest of your patrol" The woman said in a soft yet threatening tone.
"We will not stand down! release our captain, and come quietly to noxian prison!" The two charged at her with spears in hand. The woman went into a stance with her right arm pointed back. She muttered a few words and the broken sword started to extend out while glowing green with silver in the middle. She yelled a heaving tone as if the sword was 10 times as heavy as it was before, swinging it horizontally in front of her. A large green wave shot down the hallway cutting the two guards in half with the Air wave. She muttered a few more words and the sword retracted to its broken, weak form. She whipped around back towards talon who was now standing and shuffling down the opposite side of the hallway. She jogged to reduce the distance between them, but stopped and remembered to put her hood back on before proceeding to grab him by the neck again.
"Now where were we before we were so rudely disrupted….. captain?"
"We were at the part where you were about to reach hell!" Talon said grunting as he shoved her back and deployed his arm blade. The woman hit the other side of the wall and thrust her blade forward hoping to impale Talon. But Talon not wanting to be impaled dove to the right and rolled to his feet. His vision went out for a few seconds then came back. He saw the woman yanking at her sword frantically to get it out of the wall. Talon charged her, while still dizzy. The woman had found a load of strength now that she was being threatened, yanked the sword out of the wall and slammed the blade across talons arm. Talon grimaced in the pain, and grabbed his arm. The woman then delivered the same blow to his forehead as earlier, knocking him out cold.
When talon awoke they were in one of the inns of noxus, bound in a chair by rope.
"Where have you taken me?"
"Somewhere.."
"Tell me now, and untie me"
"Can't let you little guy" she said with a smirk.
"Should you know that as soon as my officer's hear about this, they'll come looking for me, and you're going to be paying one hefty price when they do find me."
"I don't doubt my defense ability, i'll cut them down as easy as i cut your squad down earlier"
Talon gave a scowl, and she giggled a bit. He thought to himself while he looked at the ropes and the type of knot that was done to restrain him: Maybe if I can push out and relax the ropes will slowly relax their grip and allow me to make a move sooner than later…
"So, what are you doing over there Talon?" She asked with a somewhat curious tone.
"Just checkin' out my sweet muscles, what are You doing?" Talon said mockingly.
"Just watching my little inmate struggle to escape" She smiled.
Talon kept at it, he knew that she had no clue what he was doing. There was no way that she could've derived from him pushing and letting go that it was his goal at the moment. Suddenly an almost silent crack was heard from the back of the chair. Talon thought If i can pull hard enough in one hard grunt, i could break the back of the chair off….. Maybe….
The thought was a good idea however it was highly improbable that he would be able to snap it and attack her directly after breaking it. Though before he thought to attempt such a feat, he observed the room around him. He saw the corner where the woman was sitting in her rocking chair cleaning her nails, and beside her was a bed with a wooden nightstand that had an oil lamp. He turned around behind him to find the closet and the bathroom, next to each other, by those was the exit. He turned back to meet his gaze with the woman's, and as he kept trying to loosen the strength of the wood or the rope made conversation with the woman.
"So, how are you doing ma'am?"
"I'd say I'm alright, just captured my easy target, waiting for extraction, how about you?"
"Well, not very comfortable i can say" He said as he powerfully tugged at the ropes to weaken them even further.
"Well you know, people don't come easy Talon."
"Oh, right you know my name, could I get yours?"
"Ah, I'm afraid not, you aren't worthy of knowing anything, for you are but a noxian dog."
"Well, in that light i guess this conversation's coming to a close"
"I suppose so…" She gazed around the room.
Talon examined the oil lamp, and saw that it's being supported by a nail with a wax like string holding the lamp up, and there was plenty of it. His eyes hovered over to the corner by the left side of the bed where he saw his arm blade, dagger belt, and helmet. He let out a chuckle at the thought that she wouldn't hide them from his view.
"You sure i can't get your name since I'm going to be executed anyway?"
"I guess you can, the names laura croft."
"You're hilarious, give me your real name" Talon said as he pulled up on the chair as it gave a crack, but the sound was masked by the thud of the chair. Success! the chair was severed but the ropes seemed tight still. The back of the chair seemed as though it was still upright and attached to the chair.
"So whats going to happen to me?"
"You will most likely get interrogated, then executed to prevent messages leaking from our cult"
"Sounds like a party"
"Yeah"
"What if i were to somehow, escape this fun little 'invitation' and capture you instead?"
"Well if you even managed to get through step one, i doubt that you could take me for your own prisoner"
"Well" Talon said as he grunted as he stood up as the backrest of the chair fell down to the floor. "You see, you haven't noticed my tugging to break the back of the chair, now I'm going to take you hostage in exchange for information."
Panicked, The woman stood up with sword in hand pointed towards Talon and looked towards him with anger. "I advise you sit back down if you know what's best for you!"
"I'd rather not do that, I'm going to disarm you and take you hostage, for that is my mission"
"Yeah?! Bring it!" As the woman charged towards talon with one leap and a swing of her sword coming down vertically to slice talon clean in half, hit the floor with a splintering noise. Talon had rolled out of the way, before she could even process that, he was behind her! (E Cutthroat xD)
Talon grabbed the woman's right arm and wrenched the blade out of her grasp. He flung it towards the bathroom and it slammed to the floor with a loud metallic thunk. Talon then turned around to catch a hit to the face from the woman. He stumbled back as the woman was about to deliver a kick to his stomach, he reached forward and grabbed her leg and thrust it upward sending the woman down to the floor. Talon followed and pinned her down and gazed into her eyes with his glowing golden ones.
"Now, what was that Miss? I couldn't hear you over the sound of you being captured." He said in a condescending tone to her.
She grunted as she struggled against talons force to try to escape but to no avail.
"Well, it seems you got me" She admitted with a grimacing look on her face.
Talon stood up and dragged her by her hands over to the night stand with the oil lamp on it. He took his foot and placed it at her throat as he broke the lamp off of the wall and took the wax string. He took the string and hog tied the woman up and set her on the bed.
"So who's the prisoner now huh?"
"I am…" She said disappointedly.
"That's right, good job, now you can know your place after all of that" Talon said with a grin.