Xin Zhao was a fast opponent and Shyvana almost got pierced to death if she wasn't quick with her feet. She side stepped to her left and pushed hard on the lower shaft of his spear to lose his grip on it. Shyvana not seeing that she was giving him momentum for him to twirl around and it would have hit her back if she hadn't gotten to her knees with extreme speed. This was making her heart race as these moves were not expected. Shyvana saw that he had exposed his legs and she swung her legs around the ground to sweep his feet. Xin Zhao smiled as she made her mistake as he front flipped landing his feet on either side of her with the spear pointed right at her face.
"Making your enemy a step behind will put you a step ahead." Xin Zhao said with a smiling face as he staggered backwards not to make Shyvana less uncomfortable than she needed too. She frowned a she tipped the gauntlets on the ground to stand up. The guards were in disarray at the fight as they knew Shyvana wasn't fighting her fullest and it was probably because she wasn't angry or fighting with great fury.
"Couldn't you just try to get yourself ahead of the enemy more? That way you disadvantage yourself from being further ahead…" Shyvana was skeptical as she raised a brow at the seneschal. Xin Zhao laughed shaking his head.
"Well if you make your enemy a step behind, than you know what to expect! If you focused all of your quick thinking into making a big plan then what about something they do ruins your plan?" He asked sincerely. She thought about what he said and he was correct, but he wanted to know what Shyvana's input was. Shyvana just frowned starring at the ground. He's right, I had no strategy. He had completely foreseen my movements.
"Dragons don't fight; we just destroy…" Shyvana smiled devilishly as she palmed her gauntlets at Xin Zhao letting out a scorching fireball out at him. The other guards had backed up worried she might turn into something that's unhuman. Xin Zhao surprised at the attack; he spun his spear in front of him quickly to push oxygen in front of it to weaken the blast. The defensive move wasn't effective as the blast seared into his chest making him feel hot and weak for a moment. He staggered backwards and quickly looked up to see Shyvana about to rake at his face with her gauntlet. He leaned back quickly as her attack whizzed over his face.
Shyvana was launching a fury of attacks at Xin Zhao making him step backwards as he side stepped and ducking each blow. Seeing an opportunity to push the dragoness back, he steps toward her pushing her back with the shaft of his spear. Shyvana used the momentum as she whipped around and unleashing another fireball at him, but it just launched at the wall making a burnt mark on the stone. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the spear pointed inches away from her face. How can he be that quick?
There was a small growl coming from Shyvana, "Why you…" she was cut off by Xin Zhao's ice cutting words.
"Enough! You need to stop fighting like you're all dragon. You are human as well and it will help if you think like one." The look on his face was filled with disappointment. Shyvana sighed realizing she was at fault, but her thought was interrupted by one of the other guards.
"Shyvana's half-human at the most, so she can only play of half of what you're saying." The guard said with a sneer. The other guards laughed at the comment and were dumbfounded to hear what Xin Zhao had to say.
"Maybe you would like to fight her than? No? Good, because she could take you all down faster than I could. And I'm not exaggerating." Xin Zhao's voice was cold as ice that put more fear into them than Shyvana could. Shyvana shook her head with a smile. She looked up at the sun overhead almost noon. Is it noon already? This took a good chunk of the day…
Xin Zhao nodded at Shyvana's gazing at the sun. "The prince will probably be wondering why we aren't in the mess hall." Shyvana sighed as her stomach growled and snapped at her. She hasn't been eating well lately.
Cassiopeia laughed out loud with a hiss here and there. She looked at Katarina still in her serious piercing gaze and decided to make fun of the conversation at hand.
"I'm here to negotiate? No? Because it's what I do best sister… Now if we could just…"
"NO! We stick to the plan and we will execute the plan. Listen to me. This is going to set chaos in Demacia for a short time. We kill the guards, grab the prince and were off. It is plain and simple."
"Fine! Whatever means necessary! I don't want to quarrel with you more than I have too…" Cassiopeia was stopped by Katarina's intruding.
"Then let us stop…"
"Dear, you let me finish," The Serpent's Embrace shot quickly at Katarina with her words before going back to her playful and seductive nature. "As I was saying: I have to tell you faults of your plan once more: This will send an immediate response team if not transgressors that would be sent to Jarvan III. Would you kindly explain to why we would kill his elite guard and one of his treasured champions? You realize it's not in our rights to. He will act against this and surely try to enact vengeance… What would we do than sister? Say it was an accident? 'La't de da'? I wouldn't be surprised that Jarvan IV would try to kill you knowing that we killed his favorite pet."
Katarina let out a snarly laugh, "Ha, I've seen her stand outside his door a lot when I'm out to spy on the prince. Sometimes she goes in… It really does amuse me that she would even consider fucking him."
"Really? She is that close to him? You know that is key information as well…"
Katarina roared with laughter for a brief moment than stopping to see Cassiopeia still and unnerved by her comment, "What do you mean 'key information'. It's important to know who the prince fucks? It doesn't seem like…" Katarina stopped talking and realized what Cassiopeia had meant.
"Yes dear. Shyvana is close to the man none the less. So here is what I have to offer. Let me subdue her and which it would put me at an advantage. It could give us key information and the fact that she is alive. Well if she's alive than Demacia can focus their attention on Jarvan which is what we want. It's simple."
"Subdue her? You plan on seducing her? Jeeze Cass… I didn't realize she was your type." Katarina snorted.
"What? No you twit!" Cassiopeia looked down at her scaly tail only for her to shiver a bit of the thought of her transformation. "I have more to offer Noxus now, so I don't have to degrade to emseducing. It would be nice to humiliate her of the slut she is… Ah, but that is not the mission at hand. Never mind me."
Shyvana saw her plate with sausage, bacon, and an omelet. She was eating well for the most part but didn't like the look of the meatless omelet. She sat next to Jarvan and Xin Zhao in a round table that had fine white cloth covering the wood. There were several guards around the table as well; everyone was eating their food as if it would be their last meal.
Shyvana finished her last bite of sausage and placed her fork down on the plate. Jarvan noticed that she hadn't touched her omelet. "You never had eggs before?" Shyvana was confused at his question. emThat's what this is… eggs? Jarvan laughed loudly, "Eggs can be made in different ways. Your probably know them as scrambled eggs, but this is an omelet. It has the same taste as regular food." Jarvan explained.
Shyvana nodded and slowly cut a small piece for herself. She noticed she was getting attention from almost everyone except from Xin Zhao who was enjoying his breakfast calmly. She hid her embarrassment as she took a bite of the omelet. It tasted rich with some salt, cheese, and of course the egg taste. Shyvana wanted to puke it out as it tasted foul to her. She didn't exactly like eggs, but didn't want to be rude. She put on a fake smile as she swallowed the food.
"After breakfast, Shyvana had went off to do her basic hygiene and would come back to depart for their small embassy errand. She met up with Jarvan and other guards and they went off to meet whoever it was that Noxus sent as an ambassador.
Shyvana and Jarvan approached the east pass to exit Demacia. The walk was mostly quiet, but the people in the city busied themselves as they went to work. People would glance at Jarvan in his full golden armor carrying his lance as well as Shyvana. There were six elite guards following and they kept an eye out to make sure nothing suspicious was going on as they walked. It was usual for some of the citizens to glance and stare at Jarvan, especially the women. They would stop starring after they looked at the gray-blue pale skinned Shyvana with fear.
There were many buildings and houses that made up the city. The stone path led them up and around a corner which led into the direction of the stone path to the serpentine river. The guards were talking amongst themselves now sense there was nothing much left to do. Shyvana just walked side by side with Jarvan neither of them saying a word. The world started to move slowly as the half-dragon began to drift into her thoughts.
Shyvana couldn't shake off the feeling with the last dream she had. She descended into darkness and fell. She found light in the dark, but she didn't remember what she saw in it. What was it? Shyvana huffed in annoyance as smoke came out of her nostrils. She started to remember the last time she had a nightmare. She started to sweat trying to recollect what the last time was! Jarvan nudged her shoulder as she snapped out of thought. "We're here," he stated.
The half breed glanced up seeing that they have arrived at a lake. Up ahead was a big noxian tent near a large boulder. The tent and the boulder seemed to be close to the water, but not close enough for the small waves weren't capable of reaching the tent. The tent bore the noxian symbol as well as red stripes that bordered the tent's edges.
"I'm confused… what are we doing again…" Shyvana's voice was soft and low so that only Jarvan could hear her. Jarvan was a bit skeptical when he saw the tent, but after he heard Shyvana's voice he stiffened.
"Alas, this is only an embassy meeting. There are some issues going on with the neutral towns and we are here to discuss it." He assured to the half-dragon. Shyvana only gave a wincing nod.
Before they could approach the tent they stopped in their tracks as Cassiopeia herself slithered her way out of the tent. The serpent always had that seductive smile on her as well as the hypnotic hip motions she made. Thou, what always caught Shyvana's eye was the magnificent gold waist armor as well as the headdress. The talons looked nice as well, even thou they are deadly, but that golden bra piece that covered her…
"Well… If you have something to say beast, spit it out than," Cassiopeia's voice shot at Shyvana like a bullet. The dragoness realized she was starring a bit at the serpent, but shook the thoughts away about the beauty the serpent had. It was unintentional and impulse thoughts; there is nothing positive about her… The serpent had her arms crossed giving Shyvana a hateful gaze, but there was a small smile creeping to her lips.
"I will have none of it! We are here to discuss problems, and don't call her such a thing again." Jarvan narrowed his eyes at Cassiopeia. The lamia threw her hands up in surrender.
"Whatever…" She scoffed, "Please, come in... But your pesky guards can stay outside…" Cassiopeia than slithered out of the way, so that there was an enough room for Jarvan to enter as she gestured him to go in. Jarvan hesitantly nodded before walking towards the tent, as well as Shyvana.
"Leave your lance behind… and your pet dragon too…" Cassiopeia smiled evilly at Shyvana. There was that small twinkle in the serpent's eyes that almost made Shyvana change form and eat her head off. Shyvana controlled her anger and smiled back at the serpent's embrace.
"It's ok; he has a leash for me." Shyvana said with her eyes closed as she barged right past Cassiopeia and Jarvan into the tent. She lifted her head up as if she weren't going to be stopped. Cassiopeia still holding her smile at Jarvan all the while he gave her a look like he wanted to yell at the noxian serpent for her rude behavior. He sighed as he shook his head going in the tent with the lance as Cassiopeia gave out a small giggle.
The Demacians were clueless as they should have scouted the area before arrival. Unfortunately most of the scouts were out seeking other information for Demacia, besides, they were relatively close to Demacia.
Cassiopeia starred out in the distance seeing two figures briefly. She could only briefly see one of the figures before they had dashed away from sight. The figure was lightly armored in blue from the glint of the sun and the blade attached to his right arm.
Hide you fool! We don't want to ruin this plan…
"I will only agree to my solution Cassiopeia. The IronSpike mountains to the Howling marsh will remain a neutral zone and that's final. It's more land than you bargained for! It's not our duty to fight smaller provinces, we are not bringing more provinces to this than we need too. It's just Demacia and Noxus. No one else, not Zaun, Piltover, or anyone else." Jarvan was sure that this would be fair for what Cassiopeia might want. She just continue to write on her scroll with her quill.
"Yes, yes. It. Is. Fine. I can live with this," she said steadily as she continued to write the contract. Cassiopeia looked through it to make sure it was what Swain would want. Politics was difficult for most in Noxus, but to her it was easy for her to understand what Swain would be playing at. She looked at Jarvan who was starring at her firmly with a small sign of worry.
"Dear, what's the trouble?" The cursed woman asked as she went through the contract again. She knew it wasn't her place to ask, but she did it to make him awkward like she always did with people. Jarvan shook his head in disagreement.
"I'm perfectly fine, I am just hoping this is what my father wants. It's a small matter yes, but this is my third diplomacy meeting. The last one my father was very displeased with, so I'm simply trying to make this..." He was interrupted by the loud sigh of the lamia, who in turn handed him the contract. He went through the contract again and again to make sure it's what he wanted.
Cassiopeia turned her direction to where Shyvana was. The dragoness' form was sleeping steadily in the chair she was sitting in. Cassiopeia frowned at this, not because it was rude, but Shyvana was looking a bit disturbed in her sleep.
Shyvana felt weak, her muscles tensed for even attempting to move. She looked around, for miles there was nothing. Nothing at all, except the eternal darkness that leaked everywhere. This was starting to make her mad, but as soon as she did there was a chill laughter in fabric of space around her. She started to see a dark silhouette figure that resembled a lot like the dark legend people were scared of. What was it... The creature opened it's eyes to see the dragoness not afraid, yet. This was problematic for Nocturne.
Ahahaha! Yes! It is me... But more importantly what are you? Nocturne turned starting to circle Shyvana. She was frozen still, unable to move a muscle. She was determined not to show emotion to Nocturne. It's what he probably wanted. To show emotion.
I think there's more to me than you could understand, even with you and your eternal darkness.
Ha... that is when you are wrong... tell me. What's your name mortal?
Shyvana, but what does that matter? It's just a name.
That's when your wrong, your name represents for everything that you stand for. Your history, your present, and your yet to come... Nocturne rushed to Shyvana with his umbra blades and like a ghost went right through her coming out the other side. Shyvana barely flinched, but she frowned at this.
Nocturne let out a cackle as he laughed menacingly through the air as he saw Shyvana's history. Why you're more than a mortal, but one none the less. Father's dead... Mother's dead... His laughing stopped as he too stilled himself in the air. He turned to face Shyvana with a cold stare, which in turn finally cracked her. His stare was hard to look away from, it made her... afraid. He flew so fast it made the dragoness cringe as Nocturne was face to face with her.
You don't know do you?
I don't know what?
Nocturne laughed shortly returning his stare. You are an interesting one aren't you... Shyvana shuddered and wanted to know what he meant.
What is it? Tell me! TELL ME!
Shyvana! Nocturne said coldly as he continued to give Shyvana his poisonous stare.
What? WHAT! TELL ME DAMN YOU!
WAKE UP!
Shyvana jolted her eyes open sweating her self a bit, but took a deep breath to calm herself down. Jarvan had flinched back a bit after waking her up.
"Are you okay?" The prince asked with concern. Shyvana glanced around realizing she was still in Cassiopeia's tent. She had then glanced at the lamia, as always giving the dragoness the seductive smile she had always given her. The stare continued until Shyvana had the nerve to give a cold stare back. Which in turn caused Cassiopeia to cackle.
"She is fine Jarvan, she's probably just tired," Cassiopeia said contently as Jarvan nodded and gave Shyvana a small nudge to leave Cassiopeia's tent. Shyvana gave off a small growl, but just nodded in response as she got up with Jarvan to leave.
Jarvan and Shyvana made their way to the Demacian camp nearby, which got Shyvana to ponder.
"Why are we camping? Aren't we done with our mission?" She asked seriously. Jarvan bristled his hair with his hand as he sighed.
"Well we are done with our part. This action is a two day process. We have our side of the agreement handled, but Cassiopeia is going to give us her counter agreement tomorrow," he answered nervously, hoping it was the answer she was looking for. It wasn't exactly an answer to her. She felt as if it was a statement that she couldn't change. she didn't like this one bit. It's just not right.
"Fine, but I'm guarding your tent. The whole night," the dragoness insisted. Jarvan sighed, he knew he wasn't going to win this fight. The prince starred up into the sky seeing the moon presented itself. He then glanced to where the sun was setting.
"It's almost sundown, I have to take care of some letters and remove my armor and such," Jarvan said as he scratched the underside of his chin. Shyvana scoffed.
"And, such?"
"Yes, I'm not going to sleep in my armor," He said with a smile, "And Shyvana your free to accompany me if you get tired, it's silly you want..."
Shyvana had cut him off, "No, I'm guarding it the whole night. That is final." Jarvan sighed and went into his tent to prepare his letters and for bed. Shyvana went off to make sure that none of the elite guard had went off to Demacia. After a quick inspection through the tents, she was happy to see that no one had left. After feeling sure with herself Jarvan would be fine, she went to the lake that was nearby. It was close considering where the tents were set up. The huge boulder that represented itself as a landmark was standing strong by the water. Her thoughts pondered about her dream as she leaned against the rock.
What did Nocturne mean... Gods... why didn't he just tell me! She stared into the clear aqua water that was very still, reflecting the sunset off the water. The dragoness' magenta eyes very unsure what to think of what Nocturne. Nocturne's being even thought of started to draw her dreary and then finally to sleep.
Cassiopeia was sipping her wine thinking of what Shyvana might have been before she had left. It was troublesome, but it wasn't much of a problem. She heard the someone come through her tent, and she almost hissed. She turned to see Katarina with on of her Jagged blades drawn.
"We are starting the ambush now," the Sinister Blade said contently. Cassiopeia just nodded and gulped down her last bit of wine.
"Go get the Prince," Cassiopeia said seriously, "I'll handle Shyvana."
