Chapter 2.

It's been a week since Ezreal found Sivir, Azir, and Nasus in the ruins of Shurima and he has now brought them over to Piltover. He now sits in the inquiry room.

"So you're telling me...you are a god that used to be the emperor of Shernia?" Vi asked with a donut in her hand. "For the fifteenth time, it's pronounced Shurima. And yes." Azir replied. Patience he told himself. Patience is a virtue.

"Ezreal are you SURE you didn't find some crack potted birdbrained the ruins of Shurima?" Vi asked Ezreal. "I mean, his heads a damn bird! Maybe his brains the size of one too?"

Caitlyn sighed. She knew they weren't getting anywhere. "Azir, if that's really your name, what are your intentions?"

Azir replied. "Well, I'd like an army of 1,000,000 troops and reclaim my throne of Shurima, but I'm assuming that my order has no power anymore, so right now I'm just looking for a place to stay and gather resources."

Caitlyn, exactly convinced, asks "Let's say you do bring Shurima back. Do you plan to continue slavery?"

Azir scoffed. "Is that what the textbooks say about me? Does nowhere mention that I freed the slaves? Even before that I gave the slave's families a good amount of gold, educated their children, gave them 3 days a week to relax, and treated them like equals! Hell, my right handed man, my brother, was a slave..." Azir stopped. His brother was a traitor.

"Anyhow." Azir regained his posture. "I do not plan to continue slavery."

Caitlyn didn't show a single change in emotion. "Alright then, you, you're great great whatever child, and your big dog guy are free to go. Try finding a job first."

Vi put her hands behind her head and leaned back, stretching. "Welp. If that's all, I'm out. That batshit crazy Jinx just blew up another tower in Zaun. I have to go deal with her shit."

Ezreal nodded. "I have to head back to Demacia too. I have some matters there."

Vi smirked. "Lux?"

"Shut up."

"Wait." Azir said. "Bring me to Zaun. Those people drift around each day without a purpose. As a person who used to be an emperor, I cannot have such people living in such poverty and have their lives compromised everyday."

Caitlyn sighed once more. "Do what you want, "glorious emperor", if you die, don't haunt us. Cause any trouble and Vi and Jayce will shove a hextech weapon up you three's asses."

"Swain! This is urgent news. " Xerath stopped talking when one of Swain's soldiers burst into the room. "Katarina and Talon have escaped!". Swain rubs his forehead. "It was bound to happen, those two are Valoran's best assassins." Xerath was now concerned. People who Swain acknowledged were all but a few and of they get in the way that would be troublesome. Xerath asks "Swain. Who are these two?" Swain looked up at Xerath. "They shouldn't pose too much of a threat. They're just looking for their father, whom betrayed Noxus and left the nation. Since their father betrayed, I was afraid they would too. So I locked them up. Don't worry, even if they are skilled, they are no more than assassins. I'm pretty sure they still hate Demacia, so they shouldn't do anything to our plan. Plus, They are probably headed toward Zaun. I have connections there to stop them "

Xerath felt a bit more relieved. "And Cassiopeia?" Cassiopeia was the one who freed him and brought him here. Renekton shifted on his seat. It seems as if he is attracted to Cassiopeia. Strange, he should only feel rage and anger at his brother. If this emotion becomes a problem, Xerath was unsure if he could kill Renekton, a companion he was trapped with for millenias.

Swain waved his hand "Cassiopeia is loyal to Noxus. She will kill her sister if commanded so without a second thought."

Xerath fell a second wave of relief. "Shall we continue to discuss our plan of attack?"

These two were two of the best tacticians to walk Runeterra, commanding one of the ruthless and strongest armies. Whatever we plan, Xerath, thought, we would be unstoppable.

Zed's head hurt from the sea sickness of the boat. He had never traveled out of Ionia, and so being on a boat was quite new to him. It didn't help that Syndra was chucking dark spheres at the water causing huge waves shaking the boat, and a drunk Yasuo playing his flute with incorrect pitches. "Can you guys like, not?" He asked. Shit, he never felt so weak before ever since his master laid him on a table and whipped his bare ass with a belt.

Suddenly a giant weird monster erupted from under the boat, almost tipping it over. It at least 100 meters big, and had around 7- no, 10 tentacles. Zed had never seen something so huge, except his disciple Kayn's ego. Zed assumes it's because Syndra had been plummeting the water with balls, disturbing such a giant creature. But Zed wasn't going to complain. Such a fight will clear his mind, and heck, he was getting bored anyways.

"Actually, go back to doing whatever you were doing." Zed tells them. "This one is mine."

Zed pulls out the two shurikens from his back. In one swift motion, he throws them at the beast's tentacles, cleaning slicing one off into 3 parts. A shadow of Zed spawns from the shadow made from the sliced tentacles over each other, and teleports there. He catches the shurikens he throws, and throws them at two other tentacles slicing them both into halves. Spawning another shadow, Zed teleports to catch one shuriken and uses the blades on his arms to do a cross slash across the beast's face. The beast rocks backwards, and one of Zed's shadows catch his other shuriken, throwing it back to him. But before Zed could make the finishing move, what feels like 5000 balls of energy come flying at him. If he didn't duck at the last second, his head of cleaning came off. Instead, the ball smashed the beast in the fast, blowing it up into thousands of bits. "Syndra! I told you this one was mine. Are you trying to kill me?" Syndra rolled her eyes. "Yea, yea. I'm bored too you know. Smashing water with balls ain't fun." She didn't deny the fact that she was trying to kill Zed. She and Zed have fought 10 times, and Zed won each one and spared her each time, so the chance to kill him was tempting.

Yasuo grunted. "Well you guys are gonna have a lot of fun." He grapples the hilt of his sword.

Surrounding the boat was at least 20 of the beasts.

Aurelion Sol focuses all his might into breaking the chains that hold him, but is unable to. As long as the crown rests on his head, his power is contained by the Targons. Just as he was about to give up and go to sleep like yesterday as it was midnight, he hears a loud commotion outside his tower of isolation.

"Diana! What do you think you're...?"

"The Sun and Moon can live together in harmony! Why do we only look towards the Sun?"

"Heretic! Kill her!"

A loud clash broke out. Aurelion Sol uses his powers to watch what was happening. He wasn't going to miss a chance to escape. But he was disappointed when he noticed it was just one 20 year old girl fighting a group of soldiers. He sighed. The little one will lose and die. He can feel the power of the sun in the soldiers, the power stolen from him, while the girl had nothing.

Wait. Nothing? But he had blessed all in Targon with power. It was nearly impossible to get to Targon so it was impossible for the girl to be an outsider but her silver hair, her negative energy, felt...strange. The opposite of the stars. This child was blessed with the moon, Sol's opposite.

White flashes filled Sol's eyes, and he tried to close them, forgetting that he as using his mind to see not his eyes. When he regained focus, the soldiers lay dead at her feet, except one girl of the same age who was barely breathing. Diana looked down at the girl. "Leona... I'm sorry. Forgive me." Diana sprinted down the mountain at full speed, but a booming crash fell from the sky and a warrior who's face was hidden by helmet landed on the ground, creating a crater. Even if Sol was wrong earlier, he knew Diana could not defeat this opponent, for it was an opponent he himself had previously lost to. Pantheon, the aspect of war. But Sol saw this as a chance to escape.

"Child. Listen to me." Sol telepathically sends to Diana.

If Diana was surprised, she did not show it. She had to stay calm in this situation. "I know who you are, I can tell you from your energy. Aurelion Sol, the star forger. What do you want with me."

"I wish to help you escape , but only if you set me free from the tower Targon has imprisoned me in."

Diana barely dodged a spear chucked by Pantheon, and rolled into the ruins of the building she had destroyed when she fought the soldiers. "Yea? Let's say I trust you even though I am the aspect of the Moon and you are of the stars. There's no way I can even get up there, let alone free you. You're tower is above the clouds. Pantheon was the one who sealed you there, he's the only one who can get there."

Sol almost smiled. Even though everything was uncertain, he was closer to freedom than he ever was. "Child, I have an eternity worth of knowledge. Follow my instructions, and we can succeed."