The Star Guardian and her Darkin
Lux did her best to ignore the stares that she was getting but in all honestly it was impossible. Ahri was all but one inch away from her face scowling at her.
She didn't want to meet her eyes right no but she had no choice, she finished taking a bite out of her meal and looked back at her with a awkward smile "Hey Ahri…"
"Hello Lux I see you're a mess as always" Ahri said with a frown as she looked her up and down. Lux for once didn't disagree with the fox, her bright pink pajama was covered in her own blood, alien bug blood and leftover pizza; she was not the poster girl of a proud Star Guardian right now.
"I can explain" Lux started only to be cut off by Soraka who literally shoved Ahri out of the day, her soft eyes filled with worry.
"You're bleeding!" she said as she quickly tended to her wounds, Jinx approached her friend and kneeled down next to her. She put a hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"It's going to be ok Lux, you did fine don't listen to this b…"
"I would prefer if we don't insult one another, not when there is a member of the guardians bleeding out on the floor and we have no idea why" Janna quickly intervened not letting Jinx finish. The loose cannon simply snorted as she kept her glare leveled at Ahri who had turned to look back at Sara Fortune.
"Found anything?" she asked making her teammate nod quickly.
"Sure did, multiple bugs. Small and dead ones, they will fade in about two minutes but what I found was a concerning amount of blood, I guess I don't tell you from where it came from" Fortune said making Poppy grow concerned.
"Is Lux all right Soraka?"
Soraka shook her head and stood up "She will be she is mostly drained, she has a few bites here and there but what worries me the most are the wounds in her hand they aren't healing, the cuts are deep and yet they aren't bleeding is so bizarre"
Ahri let out a sigh and sat next to Lux "Look sorry to act so aggressive, but all of us got worried when we felt a portal open and our worries only increased when we got to your house, so please would you mind telling us what happened"
Lux blinked tiredly but nodded nonetheless, she looked down at her hands and flinched at the sight. Large red gashes ran all across her pale hands.
"I just got home from school and stayed inside the house for a while then I felt something odd coming from the yard, I didn't expect all of those bugs and the portal… and that sword" she said. Ahri raised an eyebrow and looked at Ezreal.
"Ezreal know a lot about artifacts Lux, can you describe the sword"
"Big, it was so big, the middle pulsated like a heart and when I touched, it felt as if I had fallen into an abyss and then… I don't remember" Lux said as tears welled up in her eyes, holding her head with her hands.
Weak.
Lux whimpered and shook her head, now was not the time to have inferiority problems "The sword shattered and I grabbed one of the broken pieces and stabbed everything… it happened so fast, then I got so hungry that without even thinking I came to the kitchen and then… here I am" she finished.
Ezreal gave her a sad smile and nodded "Don't worry Lux I will start researching that thing as soon as I can"
Ahri nodded and stood up "And we will be going, you handled an entire small scale invasion on your own Lux, maybe you're not as useless as I thought"
She gave her a smirk as her team left.
Stupid thing I will rip out your eyes and shove them down your throat!
Lux shook her head and made a noise, what was wrong with her she didn't want to kill Ahri she was just being… herself. She must be really tired.
"Lux" Janna said making the young leader look at her. Her entire team was looking at her with various degrees of worry. Lux flinched and lowered her gaze.
"Sorry for making you guys worry" she said, Jinx rolled her eyes "We're not mad with you for that dummy, we're your friends we will worry no matter what; we just want to know if you need anything?"
"Getting me into bed would be nice, I feel really tired" Lux said, Poppy immediately picked her up from the floor and started to carry her to her room. "You don't have to worry about a thing Lux, you don't even have to go to school tomorrow if you don't feel like it, Soraka might have healed most of your wounds but you must be tired from all of this" the blue haired girl said as she set her down on the bed.
Lux nodded and smiled as Lulu planted a big cup of tea in her nightstand "If you need it I made some tea!" Lulu told her excitedly. Janna put the staff that Lux had forgotten on the kitchen next to the cup of tea and Jinx had "borrowed" a large blanket from the room next door.
"Jinx you shouldn't that's my parents" she said but Jinx simply shook her head "They're not even around to use it and it's the comfiest thing I have ever slept in, don't ask when don't ask me why"
Lux smiled gratefully at all of them "Thank you, I really mean it, I would do my best to see you tomorrow at school"
"Don't push yourself to hard Lux, we will care for you no matter what… but a well-rested leader is a more effective leader" Janna said with a playful smirk. Lux giggled a little and closed her eyes.
"I know, thanks again for doing all of this"
"Like Jinx said don't thank us, if you need anything just call, goodnight Lux" the lights were shut off and she heard the sound of her team leave the room.
Lux didn't move until she heard the door of her house close. She stood up and looked around making sure there really was no one around. Then she blinked in surprise.
"Why am I doing this?" she wondered out loud. With a tired sigh she plopped back into her bed, today had being a very weird day, first she got a surprise math test, then Ahri started to be mean to her (again) for no real reason and then the freaking bugs rip open a portal right in her yard!
"Ugh and that stupid sword too…" then realization hit her, she remembered. Things didn't only grow dark when she touched the sword, the creature trapped in the sword… that monster. She looked at her shoulder and to her relief there were no claw marks.
"What was that monster?"
Not monster, Darkin
Lux gasped and fell of her bed, she grabbed her wand and started to look around the room "Are you here?"
"Oh I am here, but not in this room" the voice answered her back. Lux gulped and her heart started to accelerate, she felt as if she might faint.
"Quit worrying woman! You will kill us both of a heart attack" the voice said making Lux stop looking around the room, she looked down at her hands and shook her head in horror.
"So you know what is happening, well, that means I won't have to…"
Lux then punched herself in the face and tried to elbow herself in the gut. "GET OUT OF MY BODY!" she yelled as she kept hitting herself. She was about to land another blow when her hands glowed red and without her moving them she punched herself in the face only this time she almost fainted at the strength of the blow.
Lux felt blood drip down her mouth and her vision couldn't focus. She laid on the floor for a minute before she started crying. "Please… don't kill me…" was all she managed to whimper, but the voice in her head only growled angrily.
"I WASN'T TRYING TO!" it yelled making Lux hold her head in pain. She felt a massive headache coming.
"And just so you know I tried to kill you, I tried to consume you, to get myself back to the mortal realm and I COULDN'T! I can't corrupt you into my image, I only have small control over your body and that MAKES BEYOND ANGRY, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!"
Lux whimpered once more and hugged her legs, rocking herself back and forth repeating the same words over and over again.
"This isn't real, this isn't real!"
"IT IS REAL! Stop crying and listen to me!" the voice yelled once more, but this time Lux didn't cry, she screamed back.
"I WONT LISTEN! You're a monster!"
All was quiet for a moment but soon enough she heard a growl that grew by the second. Pain erupted from her left arm and she looked down horrified as from her wound black bone like material grew. She wanted to scream but something stopped her.
When everything was done the bone like material had grown on her palm and the wounds where nowhere to be seen.
"There I healed one of your stupid little wounds, now LISTEN TO ME!" the voice screamed once more but Lux wasn't paying attention. She was moving her hand, surprised at how this material seemed to be almost like a glove.
"What is this?" she asked the voice.
"Blood magic from the ancient Shurima, we Darkin mastered it a long time ago" Lux was surprised and touched it, it was smooth to the touch. She closed her hand and looked at the window.
"Who are you? What do you want from me?"
"I am Aatrox, the Darkin, you mortals know me by many names but the one they have recently started to use is the world ender" Aatrox replied, Lux gulped at the tittle.
"I have never heard of you, are you here for the power of the Stars?"
"No, I have never even heard of such a thing, I was searching for death girl, not just mine but the dead of all things. The living betrayed me, drove me mad in a prison, forgetting how me and my brothers drove back the Void and saved all of Runterra from its demise!" Aatrox said his anger rising.
"So you were a hero?" Lux asked quietly, Aatrox didn't reply immediately, for he didn't know the answer himself, so he settled on something far simpler.
"I was a warrior of the light once, we fought the greatest evil there ever was but in the end I was no hero, simply a soldier; but none of that mattered in the end"
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be, I hold no love for anything of the past, present or future all I want is for this to end"
"End?"
"This putrid existence of mine! I was once a powerful being, I was a GOD! Then they ripped me of even my ability to die, trapped in that sword for all eternity, I was not even able to die! THEY TOOK THAT FROM ME! And now my prison is a little girl that cries at everything!" Aatrox, the last part making Lux frown.
"I don't cry at everything and YOU should be thanking me! Didn't I save you from certain doom?" Lux said making Aatrox laugh.
"No I have lived in hell for a millennia, what you did is give me hope. Maybe I won't be able to get my full body back but I am finally free of that sword, I only need to find a way to create a new body for me to use and then…"
Aatrox didn't finish that sentence, Lux rose an eyebrow at the quietness of the being that had been so loud earlier. She waited for a few moments before coughing into her fist.
"And then?"
"I… I will see… as soon as I get my body"
Lux shook her head "You don't know?"
"I never thought I would be free of my curse, but soon enough all will come into place"
"And where do I fit in all of this, you can just possess me, you tried already, so what now?"
"I wait, I will see with your eyes if there is a source of magic strong enough for me to use, I cannot risk the aspects of Targon targeting me, not while I'm in this weak body"
"Targon?"
"The tallest mountain in the planet, do not be stupid little one, everyone knows of Targon"
Lux frowned and stood up from where she had been, she grabbed a book from her shelf and started to search.
"What are you doing?"
"Proving you wrong, I didn't study so hard all semester only to be called stupid and in my own house no less" she said and smiled when she reached the page was searching for. Mount Everest the tallest mountain on earth.
"See here it is, the tallest mountain on earth is Mount Everest, I don't know what Targon is but it sure isn't the biggest mountain there is" Lux said allowing herself to be a little smug.
Aatrox on the other hand felt confusion and fear grow on his heart. Lux flipped some more pages and all of those things looked beyond alien to him.
"Can… can we see your village?" Aatrox asked.
Lux shook her head "City and no, we can't, it's too late and I feel very tired from all the things that happened today, maybe tomorrow I will give you a tour since we are stuck together I guess"
"Tired? Feeling tired is for the weak" Aatrox growled and started to work his magic once more, Lux felt as if she had drank ten gallons of coffee and mixed them with an energy drink.
"Oh my God" she managed to say making Aatrox chuckle.
"Feeling tired still? Hurry, this is very important, I have a feeling that you might be right about the mountain"
"You can't just do that! Is my body you don't get a say in what I feel!" Lux protested, Aatrox didn't reply.
Lux stood still on the middle of the room waiting for an answer but when none came she slammed her foot down onto the floor.
"Fine, but only because I forgot to buy some groceries before… stupid Dark or whatever" Lux huffed as she put on a coat over her pajamas. She exited her house and shivered, it was far colder then what she expected. But she needed to move.
"Tell me a bit about your country" Aatrox said as they walked the busy streets. Lux seeing that she had nothing better to do proceeded to talk about things that she knew from her country, Aatrox hummed sometimes but that was the only interaction she got out of him.
He asked about wars, weapons and magic, but as far as she knew star guardians where the only ones that used magic on earth. Aatrox went quiet after that, Lux didn't push him much.
She already had a feeling he was otherworldly, is not every day that a giant sword falls out of magical portal. Lux felt a semblance of pity for him, trapped in another world with no way back. She didn't even want to think what she would feel if that happened to her.
They remained in silence until they reached a small grocery store, Lux quietly placed items into her basket, quietly singing the music that was on. As she placed the last item on the bag, she smiled as and ide came to her, she knew just what she needed to cheer this weird alien.
"Hey do you want anything?" she asked, Aatrox didn't respond at first but soon came an answer that made Lux smile.
"Meat, whatever type just make sure it's fresh"
"But that's so plain, don't you want like a burger or something?"
"Burger?"
"Yeah, it's great, can you even taste things now that I think about it?" Lux asked, placing the items on the checkout. The clerk stared at her as if she was crazy but said nothing.
"I assume I can"
"Good then prepare yourself we are going to Riots Burgers, its close by" Lux said as she paid for her items, with a wave at the creeped out worker she left with her new destination in mind.
The burger stand was completely empty save for a bored looking young man and an old lady, Lux cheerily made her way to the worker and asked for the biggest burger they had.
He raised an eyebrow at the petite looking girl ordering such a thing, but customer orders are law or something like that.
Lux stared in awe at the giant thing that she had just ordered, a smile made her way to her lips. This was just ridiculous, here she was talking alone, eating something bigger than her head that she would have never even dreamed on ordering before.
"Looks, interesting" Aatrox commented from the depths of her mind. Lux nodded "Trust me, Ezreal loves this, so how do we do this?"
"Just bite it, I will know"
Lux shrugged at the response and dug in, at first she didn't know if Aatrox was even tasting anything when a satisfied sigh resonated within her head.
"This is… fantastic, more"
Lux laughed startling the old woman.
"Glad you liked it, I don't know why I feel so hungry, I hate half a frozen pizza, is that your doing?"
"I wouldn't know, but less talking and more eating girl, it's been hundreds of years since I have eaten"
"All right, no need to rush me" Lux said and took another bite. The doors where flung open and two shady looking people entered the restaurant.
Lux lowered her head and tried to keep her cool, she stole a glance and cursed under her breath. They had sky mask, but that could just be because of the cold right?
"Put all the money on the bag, NOW!" the sound of a gun firing into the roof echoed on the empty restaurant.
So much for that, Lux tried to hide under the table but Aatrox decided to speak at that moment.
"What are you doing?"
"Hiding! They have guns!" Lux replied in a hushed tone.
"Hiding from mere bandits, aren't you supposed to be a powerful mage? Didn't you kill monsters before?"
"Yes! But I cannot use that power to hurt people, what do you want me to do? Punch them?!" Lux asked and froze in fright when Aatrox chuckled.
"Precisely, I'm not sure how this works yet but I think I can fight for you, would you allow me to?" Aatrox asked. Lux but her lip and looked at the thugs. In all honestly who care if they stole some money? It was a massive chain of restaurants, they would be just fine.
"All right grandma, give me your purse or you get it"
Lux gripped the edge of the table tighter and looked at the floor. There people in danger here.
"Aatrox, if you are going to possess me forever can you at least save this people?"
"Yes"
"Then do it" Lux closed her eyes and felt as if het whole world was burning, when she opened her eyes once more everything looked the same. Except when her head moved when she didn't want to.
It was as if she was stuck in a videogame or movie, Aatrox was in control. He looked down at her (his) hands and proceeded to get out of its hiding place.
He punched the table drawing the attention of both thugs.
"Look at what we have here Bob, a pretty looking thing just made our night even better! Why do you look so mad girl?" thug number one said as he approached them. Lux felt her breath quickening as he took out a knife from his pocket.
"Now be a good girl and give everything you got… ten we can move to something more fun"
Lux almost screamed, but to her surprise Aatrox laughed. He sounded so odd using her voice she realized.
"Fun? Is this fun to you?"
"Don't play games with me girl, you don't know me!" the thug said as he tried to slap Aatrox. He grabbed the arm with ease and then without a warning he crushed the entire hand as if he was crushing a bug.
"You don't know who I am" Aatrox said to the screaming man, the other thug pointed his gun at Aatrox.
"Don't move or I will blow your head to pieces!"
"Do it, see what happens" Aatrox challenged making Lux gasp.
"Do you want to get us killed?!"
"That won't happen" Aatrox said simply and walked next to a table, the gun still aimed at his head.
"You asked for it!" the thug yelled but in a flash Aatrox flung the table at the thug hitting him square in the face. He screamed in pain as blood erupted from the wound and he dropped the gun to his feet.
Aatrox smirked and walked towards the downed opponent, he grabbed him by the neck and smashed him against the ground. Lux cringed at the sound of flesh being mashed against the floor.
Aatrox chuckled "Lament the day you crossed me mortal" the Darkin then slammed his foot against the ribcage of the thug. It made a horrible cracking noise that made all of the cringe.
Aatrox heard something behind him and grabbed the same table that he had used and destroyed it against the other thug that was trying to escape. The man only let out a pained whimper as he hit the floor. He wasn't dead, but he was in great agony.
Lux waited to see what Aatrox would do, but he simply walked back to the table they had been and proceeded to devour the burger.
"This is good woman, I appreciate your choice in food" he said, Lux felt a relieved sigh leave her lips and just like that she was back in control of her body.
"How did…"
"I relinquished my control of your body, now finish the meal" Aatrox demanded.
"I… we need to talk about what you can do" Lux said a she shook her head, grabbed her meal and groceries, she thanked to the guy working behind the counter as she left who nodded dumbly at her. Lux heard sirens nearby and walked slightly faster.
"Thank you Aatrox, it means the world to me that you helped those people out and stopped those criminals"
"… I never leave a promise undone, eat woman"
"I have a name you know; it's Lux if you were wondering by the way" Lux commented as they walked in the dark of the night.
A/N: Hope you like this new experiment of mine, I noticed that there weren't that much crossover in the League multiverse so I decided to put my own spin on it. A little cliché sure, but I think it works to great effect with the anime feel that Star Guardian has. Thank you for reading!