From Dusk Till Dawn – Chapter 1: No More Heroes

The sun was still out of sight while Udyr, Yasuo and Jin were walking back to their original meeting place. Udyr and Yasuo felt pain from leaving, but Jin was a different story. Jin came home that night to a horrifying sight:

Jin opened his door, and saw a twisted reaper laughing while holding out a lantern. "Who are you?"

The reaper looked over, and put down his lantern and chain. He opened it up, and took out a soul. "I'm sorry; I think I stole this from you without your permission."

"What is that?" Jin looked closer, to see his wife and children screaming for help. Jin's eyes widened and he was filled with rage when he realized that this man had captured them inside of that soul. "You…you MONSTER!"

"Don't worry, Ionian. Your family will reside safely in my lantern." The man put the soul back into the lantern, and used his chain to whip Jin to the ground. "I wouldn't try and fight me. You won't win."

"TRY ME, YOU FREAK!" Jin shot out two lightning bolts from his palms, but the man absorbed the bolts with his lantern. Jin tried rushing him, but he was thrown backward by his chain. He screamed in pain, and clenched his head.

"Pathetic. I was hoping I didn't have to do this, but I think I'll leave you with something nice to sleep to…ahahahahahah." Jin closed his eyes, and he felt a sudden flash. He was in a room with a bunch of souls, and the room was extremely dark. Jin started running to a light, but when he approached it the light became enveloped with darkness. The dark spoke out:

'No…more…heroes…'

Jin got back up after falling to the ground. 'WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?'

A soul came behind Jin. It was the voice of a dying elder. 'Leave this place. Save yourself.'

'What is this place?'

'Hell…if I know. There is no fighting the shadows of dawn, or else you will end up like us.'

Jin saw many images in his head. He saw his wife, Krystal, and she was holding their children. She was trying to run away with them from a man similar to who Jin saw. Krystal fell to the ground when her feet were hooked to the ground and she screamed in pain. The vision ended with the same laugh.

'That fiend did all of this? I have to do something!'

'You can't. Run, before you lose everything. Just…give up…'

'Never.'

Jin held his fists up, and his dream was broken as he woke up in the same position. Jin was relieved that he was still alive, but he had a grim look.

"This has to do with Zed. Every one of them…I'll kill every one of them."

Jin was at the station before Udyr and Yasuo showed up. He held the same grim look on his face as before. The only one who hadn't received a vision yet was Yasuo, who still had his doubts about the mission. From everything that Yasuo had undergone, he wouldn't have even been bothered if he had seen something horrifying

"It is time." Udyr said, as they set out for the Shadow Isles. They thought surely there would be some meaning to their messages in that place.

Yasuo stopped Jin. "You don't seem normal. Did your wife disapprove of you…uh-"

Jin looked back, with his grim face. "I don't know where she is, but by the end of this mission I'll be sure to ask her."

"I'm…really sorry for asking that. I had no idea."

"Don't be sorry. The only who should be sorry is those bastards who took my family from me."

Jin wasn't ever like this at all. He felt that his family was something he would never see again when he was in Noxus. After so many years of work and exhaustion, he came back to Ionia. Yasuo only hoped that Jin wouldn't try and go too berserk for his own good.

Udyr felt a disturbance near. "Keep your guard up. Something is near."

The wind came by, and the ground began to tremble. They heard the screeching sound of ghouls in the air, and then they felt stuck to the ground, like they were in quicksand.

They heard a loud command from a distance. "Rot."

Udyr looked down, and saw hands reaching up and grabbing all of them. "Watch it, Yasuo, Jin! It's underground."

"Haunt."

'Where is that voice coming from? It sounds like it is commanding the zombies to attack. If we manage to take it out, then we should be freed.'

"Arise, ascended PHOENIX! Go back to hell, you terrible creatures!" Udyr shot out a mega inferno blast that burnt the zombies to a crisp and freed Yasuo and Jin. "Yasuo, find whoever is calling these zombies out. Jin, you take care of the rest of these undeads with me."

Yasuo was first to react. He went straight forward from where he heard that commanding voice. Then, he heard it again.

"Have you come to dig your own grave, just as your brother, Yasuo?"

"Who the hell said that?!"

Yasuo was hit to the ground in the back of his head by a large shovel. Yasuo turned over, and saw Yorick. He blocked Yorick's next attempt to knock him out. "How do you know me?"

"The Order of the Shadow knows all, swordsmen. You seem distraught fighting me, so I'll have my minions finish you off."

"You underestimate me, gravedigger!" Yasuo raised his blade, and ran straight at Yorick for an opening strike.

"Summon." Yorick raised his shovel, and conjured the ghouls around him to raise a specific minion of his. As soon as the zombie was conjured, Yasuo fell over in fear.

"That's…that's impossible!"

"Yasuo, you should've killed me when you had the chance…" It was Riven, the Exile.

Yasuo feared that it was a reanimation of Riven because she had her sword with her, but it looked too real. "You aren't real. YOU AREN'T RIVEN!"
"You insult me. I have to kill you now." Riven landed all of her broken wing slashes on Yasuo, who was in too much shock to even attempt a block.

"How can a reanimation be exactly like the original?"

Yorick snapped his fingers, and Riven fell to the ground. She dropped her blade, and looked up in confusion.

"Er..Yasuo? What am I…or what are we doing here?"

Yasuo couldn't contain himself, and he ran straight for Yorick. "YOU SENSELESS MONSTER; USING SOMEONE AS YOUR PUPPET!"

Yorick blocked every steel tempest from Yasuo, and Yorick went on the offensive once again. He knocked Yasuo's blade out of his hand, and Riven was still incapable of moving. Yorick choked Yasuo, and laughed.

"You never stood a chance to the Shadow Isles. Where there is light, darkness will always overcome it."

"Wrong." Yorick was shot in the back of the head, and fell over in pain. "I've come to purify you living demons to bring light back."

Yasuo caught his breath. 'Who is this man? Why did he save me?'

"Lucian…aha, you couldn't even save your wife, and you expect to save these Ionians? You are only prolonging death."

Lucian didn't even change his tone. "Rest in peace, you bastard." Lucian executed Yorick with one last shot. "Waste of bullets." Then he looked over to Yasuo. "Are you okay, sir?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Who are you?"

Lucian gave out his hand to Yasuo and helped him get up. "We have no time to talk. I'm Lucian, and I'll give you the rest of the details after we get out of this hellhole."

Yasuo tried to go back. "Wait, RIVEN!"

"That's just a reanimation, don't be fooled!"

Riven got up, and with it she took her sword. She tapped on Lucian's shoulder. "Excuse me?"

Lucian looked back, and was surprised to see that she was still capable of moving. "Insanity, you survived the living puppet curse?"

"I don't know what that means, but I am alive and fully functional."

"I'll have to explain that later, too."

Yasuo pointed out Udyr and Jin, who were still fighting the undead. Lucian shot a round of bullets past their heads to take out a big group of them.

"What, who?"

Yasuo signaled them to run. "We have to run; they will just keep coming unless we leave."

Udyr transcended, and Jin took down his power level. They followed, and got out of there. It was a long way back to home, but they stopped soon after they were long gong from the Shadow Isles. Riven was exhausted by the time they finally reached a stopping point, and fell unconscious in Yasuo's arms. Yasuo sat down with Riven.

"You didn't deserve this, Riven."

Lucian came over to comfort Yasuo. "Is this your wife?"

"Oh…no. My wife is at home."

Lucian put his guns up. "You're a lucky man. My wife was taken from me by those bastards at the Shadow Isles. Whatever prejudice you hold against them, just know that I'll be right by your side taking down all of those monsters."

Udyr and Jin finally came over to where they were. "We can stop here for now. The sun is coming up as we speak, so we should rest for a bit until we are all at 100% again. Now that we are here, can you formally introduce yourself?" Udyr pointed to Lucian.

"Yes, I'm sorry for the sudden complications. The Shadow Isles isn't a place where one person could take down an entire army of zombies and live; hell knows I've tried countless amounts of times. Like I told Yasuo, my name is Lucian, and I want to join your mission in destroying those chumps who took away my life."

"You have a strong will, and a fighting spirit. It is easy for me to tell that you would be a great teammate for our journey. However, for now we need rest. You can fill us in on any of the other details later."

Lucian took off his jacket, and went to sleep where Yasuo and Riven were. Jin decided to stay awake and keep guard. Udyr wanted to, but he wasn't going to argue with Jin in his state of mind.

'Life has given me many obstacles to my goal, but a true warrior will not be defeated by fear alone. The Order of the Shadow will have to try harder to get me to stop ripping those demons a new one. I only hope that my son is okay, and Nidalee is safe. If I can know this…then I can finally…rest…'