Chapter 2

Test Day:Leftovers

The students were all grouped up into their teams while the champions stood in a line in front of the two groups. Each of the students had chosen their respective roles and had relayed the information to the others in their group so as to not cause confusion.

Avis had decided to fill whatever role was left open, and surprise, surprise, surprise. The role left open was support, not that it was a problem. Every student had been trained in each role so as to have a fall back plan should their preferred role be occupied.

"Team one will have the privilege of the first pick," began Lavon, "Afterward team two will get the next two picks. This will continue until team two has the final pick. Begin!" Lavon nearly shouted the final word which caused Avis to jump slightly and he could have sworn Thresh chuckled.

Team one sent their first teammate up to make their pick. The young girl walked right up to Ezreal and said his name aloud to make her claim heard. The two then proceeded to walk over to the side and wait for the others.

Now it was Avis's team to pick. Two young men, one tall and the other of about average height were the first two to pick for Avis's team. The tall one swaggered right up to Miss Fortune and held out his hand as though he were asking her to dance with him. She accepted his hand in a similar manner to that of a woman accepting the invitation in a graceful manner.

The other man was different. He took his time checking each of the champions he felt comfortable with. The first one he walked by was Nasus, then Rammus, finally he stopped at Amumu and knelt down and whispered to the little yordle with an outstretched hand. Amumu took the student's hand and the man picked up the little yordle and placed him on his shoulders and walked over to the other two to wait.

At this point Avis had met Thresh's gaze, at some point during the second pick of his team the warden had started staring at Avis and now he was feeling unnerved. The warden however, looked away as the next two student's walked up to the line to make their decisions. Of the two, both were males, though one was a Yordle which Avis found as odd. The human walked up to Rammus before going down the line and stopped at Thresh. The student looked up at the ghostly figure and the warden down at him.

The student quickly moved on down the line in fear of the warden and stopped at Nasus who he looked at and felt calmed by. He stretched out his hand to shake and the two made their way back to Ezreal and the female summoner. The Yordle had been standing in front of Rammus during his teammate's ordeal with the warden and had been staring at Rammus until Nasus and his companion walked by upon which the Yordle quickly took Rammus's arm and tugged him in the direction of his other team members.

Now it was his team's turn again. The next two were one older gentleman and a young woman of about Avis's own age. The two made their way together towards the line that had now slimmed down considerably. The two passed Thresh in a manner that was obviously uncomfortable to the two of them as they were no doubt terrified of the champion like the other boy. The two stopped in front of the two champions after Thresh. The older gentleman in front of Yorick and the young woman in front of Morgana. Both held out their hands.

Yorick took the gentleman's hand first. Morgana looked at the woman's hand then took a glance at Avis. Their eyes met for a couple of heartbeats before she looked back at the woman and nodded. The four walked back past Thresh who was now looking at Avis who could swear that even though the specter had no flesh to make a smile out of was still, in fact, smiling.

Back to the last two picks of team one. The first being a skinny young man and the second a younger looking woman. The young man walked right up to Ryze and stretched out his hand while the woman wasted no time in walking up to Sona. Figures, thought Avis as he watched them walk to their teammates and as Thresh looked at Avis.

The whole room became louder all of a sudden with the students whispering amongst themselves. Some making bets that Avis would bail on the match. Others were chatting sympathetically for him. Avis however didn't take his eyes off the warden, his face set in grim determination. Thresh returned his stare. Both began walking towards the other at the same time without breaking eye contact until they were each standing in front of the other for a moment before turning to join their team.

"Very well. The two teams are ready. Now, team one, you are to enter that room," Lavon said as he motioned to a door on his right "And team two, to that one," he finished as he motioned to the door on his left. "There you will summon your champions to the field, Summoner's Rift."

As Lavon finished both teams turned to take up their respective places in the rooms. The room Avis entered was dark with a feint light emanating from five runes engraved on the floor of a large platform in the center of the room. Avis and his team took up their respective places in this room with their champions standing in front of each summoner.

Thresh was waiting patiently for Avis to begin his summoning. It wasn't until after he had begun to chant the spell of summoning that Avis began to worry about entering the mind of Thresh. A bead of sweat rolled down the side of his forehead as he stared into the specter's eye sockets. Suddenly a blue light engulfed the Chain Warden and he was gone, but in his place was a small blue orb that overlooked the Warden as he stood on a platform with four of the other champions.

Avis continued to chant, finishing the portion that would connect their minds together so that he could communicate with Thresh. As he did so, Avis could feel the Warden's presence as though he were standing in front of him.

Avis began the next and final part of the summoning spell by chanting the portion that would connect him to his teammates so that he could communicate with them.

"Welcome, to Summoner's Rift," came a distant feminine voice that marked the completion of his connection to his champion.

Avis looked around at the other four champions, Miss Fortune and Amumu were still at the merchant's stall while Yorick was limping away up towards an opening in the surrounding wall. The wall had three openings, to the left was the one Yorick was limping to. Morgana walked up to Thresh and Avis could hear her voice.

"Hurry up Chain Warden, we don't have all day," and Avis could hear Thresh groan with irritation as he heard the Warden's words in his mind, Come on boy, to the damn stall already.

Avis quickly checked the stall and looked through the contents of the stall, most of the contents were sorts of enchantments that aided the champion in one way or another, however there were some actual items in the stall. A few Trinkets of which Avis bought the totem one, and some wards, and potions. After his little shopping experience Avis turned to see Amumu heading left towards Yorick and Miss Fortune was heading down the Right path. Morgana was headed towards the center path glancing over her shoulder towards the Warden.

Thresh's reaction was to muse aloud, hmmm, that's interesting, he thought and before Avis could ask he heard the summoner next to him speak, "Are you planning on standing there all day Thresh, or are you going to move your ass and help the team?" the summoner had been Miss Fortune's and he was looking right at Avis as he did so. Avis told Thresh to move down the right path with Miss Fortune to aid her as her support.