For some reason...fanfic deleted the original chapter so I had to redo it...fun times...sorry 'bout bothering you all. I'm working on the new Project chapter, I swear.
(BELOW THIS BREAK HERE IS THE ORIGINAL CHAPTER AND NOTES!)
Now for some not so dark stuff...because I tortured poor David enough in that last one. I will admit that I drew from Chronobreak and from Lullaby for both chapters. There is more Ms. Grace...mainly because I love the old lady taking care of David.
Chapter 2
David yawned as got out of his bed. He was still unbearably tired even though he'd rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and part of his mind seemed awake. Seems like his Champion was still sleepy.
"Five…more minutes…" came the mumble as David rubbed his eyes again, "Don't wanna go to the sump today…"
David shook his head as he shambled into the kitchen, sniffing the air just to smell coffee and…bacon and cinnamon?
He frowned, going farther just to see Ms. Grace at the stove, pulling out a pan of cinnamon rolls from the oven while putting some bacon on the plate.
"Ms. Grace?" he asked.
The old woman turned around, giving a brilliant smile as she lay the plate on the table.
"Good morning, Davey," she smiled, "I see you're finally up,"
David rubbed the back of his head, feeling the still healing scars from the surgery. He lowered his hand as he sat down at the table, Ms. Grace sitting down beside him. He reached out for the cinnamon rolls and took a bite of one. His tiredness immediately went away.
"What was that?!" a young male voice asked, "That's amazing!"
"I swear your cinnamon rolls get better and better every time I have them," David mumbled through a mouthful of dough and icing.
"No talking with your mouth full, young man," Ms. Grace scolded, rapping him lightly on the head.
"Cinnamon rolls? Huh, sounds like something Elline would make," Ekko said, "Mom would like it…"
David gave a sad smile and continued eating.
"Oh, uh, sorry, David…I know that's still a sore spot for you," Ekko apologized, "I'm still getting used to all this…it's kinda disorienting. Leona wasn't lying when she warned me about getting a Chosen,"
"Leona has one too?" David asked softly as Ms. Grace took all the plates and started putting them away.
"Yeah, Leo was one of the first ones," Ekko told him, "It's really hard to tell the two apart though…just the eyes. You can always tell who's in control based on the eyes. Leo's Chosen's are blue, not gold,"
"You and I'll be hard to tell then," David chuckled.
"Heh, yeah, prob'ly,"
"Thanks for breakfast, Ms. Grace," David said, catching the older woman's attention, "I'm gonna take a walk, won't be back until later,"
"Be careful, Davey," Ms. Grace told him, "Please, don't do anything to land you in the hospital and don't do anything to strain those scars…"
"I won't, I promise," David replied, getting up and walking back to his room, digging around in his dresser until he pulled out a small, cylinder with an hourglass-like contraption inside.
"Yes!" Ekko grinned, "Let's have some fun…"
David chuckled, taking the Z-Drive and its belt and strapping it around his waist, letting it rest naturally against his hip.
"Feels like it was made to go there," David remarked.
"Well, yeah…you're me now!" Ekko laughed, "This is my distinctive style…you think my own invention wouldn't look good?"
"Alright, alright, I get it…you're a peacock,"
"…What's that?"
"A bird that struts around being proud of itself," David teased.
"…You mean a Piltie…" Ekko bristled, "I'm not a Piltie and never will be a Piltie. Vi mighta sold out to them…but she's still Zaun. I'm still Zaun, I'll always be Zaun and no one's takin' that away from me,"
"Ok, sorry," David told him, "Guess that's a sore spot for you too,"
Ekko was silent for a second before giving a dry laugh.
"Heh, guess we know what triggers us now," came the sigh, "Anyway, let's go outside…we've been cooped up in here way too long…ah, man, my parents are gonna kill me…"
"Think they'll be worried?" David asked as he walked out the door, pulling his jacket over his frame.
"Think? HA! I know they well...I mean, they were afraid when I told 'em I was joining the League. They've got a bit of a better life…but…they still want me to go to that academy," the venom in that statement was stinging, "They know I'll be gone for a while…but I dunno how time works here. It's weird, seconds here are days there, but seconds there could be days here…I don't know how it works and it bugs me because I wanna know…"
"Time obsessed perfectionist much?" David teased.
"Hey, Mom didn't call me Time-bug for nothin',"
David froze mid step, painful memories flooding through him.
"Your mom called you that too?" he asked quietly.
"Yeah, she never stopped…heh, that's one reason why I was drawn to you, David. Also your personality. You never really lived for your full potential. Everyone deserves a second shot…and me? Well, I've got unlimited amount of tries,"
"Heh, yeah, guess you're right," David nodded, "So, let's go see if we can find a murderer…"
"I agree,"
David walked down an alleyway, Ekko humming a soft tune in his skull as the light started to fade from the sky.
"Nothing today looks like," David sighed.
"We'll find something, I know we will…" Ekko reassured him.
"Ekko, it's getting late…if we don't get back to the house, Ms. Grace might call the cops,"
"Yeah…you're right…" Ekko sighed.
The sound of a can getting kicked made the newly Chosen jump high, hand on the Z-Drive's chain.
"I don't like this…" David muttered.
"That makes two of us,"
The Chosen looked up just to see a group of big burly men walking towards him.
"You're in my territory, bug," the biggest man growled.
"Was just leaving, man, take it easy," David said, "I don't want any trouble,"
A meaty hand grabbed David and hoisted him into the air.
"I don't like your attitude, punk," came the snap.
"Dude!" David yelled, "Put me down! I didn't do anything!"
He swung, his fist cracking into the guy's nose and sending blood spraying.
"Nice!" Ekko praised, "But I don't think we're gonna get outta here unhurt…at least…the first time…"
As soon as he said that, David was launched backwards into the wall, his back colliding with a metal trash can and making a harsh clang. David yelled in pain, reaching for the chain on the Z-Drive.
"Go!" Ekko yelled as a hand reached for David again.
David yanked the chain…
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A meaty hand grabbed David and hoisted him into the air.
"I don't like your attitude, punk," came the snap.
"Dude!" David yelled, "Put me down! I didn't do anything!"
He swung, his fist cracking into the guy's nose and sending blood spraying. The guy dropped David and swung. David dodged out of the way, his right hand outstretched as a blue-bladed 'bat' materialized in his hand while a pale, hour-glass mark faded into being on the bridge of his nose.
David swung the bat, colliding with the man's side as a ring of silvery-blue light blazed around him. David swung again, a second ring coming into being…
His eyes turned a darker shade of brown, shot through with specks of blue-green. Ekko laughed.
"Someone's day is about to get wrecked," he grinned, with a cocky smile that mirrored David's own.
"You're gonna pay brat!" the big guy snarled, charging.
Ekko leaped upwards, dashing quickly to the side before teleporting back and smacking the goon with his bat for a third strike.
"I like hitting you though!" he grinned, dashing away again and laughing brightly before casting out a small device, "Catch!"
He was quick, lightning in human form. He'd had to be…in Zaun…it was move or die. Ekko leaned on his bat, daring the first guy to come at him…
Only for a trashcan to get thrown at him, knocking him down long enough to get pinned.
"Cocky much?" David growled.
Ekko rolled his eyes and brought his arm up just enough to turn the Z-Drive on…
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Ekko leaped upwards, dashing quickly to the side before teleporting back and smacking the goon with his bat for a third strike.
"I like hitting you though!" he grinned, dashing away again and laughing brightly before casting out a small device, "Catch!"
He was quick, lightning in human form. He'd had to be…in Zaun…it was move or die. He dodged from the trashcan thrown at him. He flipped a switch on the Z-Drive, a ghostly, glowing outline around him.
"Step right up!" Ekko grinned as he dashed away and the goons walked into a flashing circle right as the time ghost tossed up a ball and smacked it with the bat.
A dome of blued light shimmered into being over the goons as the temporal energy created the parallel convergence. Ekko toed the line, freezing the goons in place, laughing before dashing forwards, jumping on top of the tallest man's head and vaulting over the fence behind them, separating them from their enemies.
"Ta-da!" Ekko grinned, giving a mock bow as his mark faded and he dismissed the bat in a splash of blue sparks, "Pretty cool, right?"
"Yeah…" David agreed before Ekko gave him back control, "But uh…let's not do that again,"
He rubbed his back where it still hurt from being thrown into the trash can.
"Yeah…uh…unfortunately I can't rewind injuries," Ekko shrugged, "Found that out at the memory wall…the Vigilnaut attacked me when I was…"
He trailed off and an overwhelming sense of grief flooded David's soul.
"I shouldn't have sent Ajuna off alone…" he growled, "I shoulda just gone with him. Three minutes, forty-one seconds…I was three minutes, forty-one seconds too late…"
Anger flared through David's being and he slammed his fist against the wall, the hour-glass mark reappearing as Ekko's tears streaked down his face.
"You and I both know what it's like not being able to save someone you care about," Ekko growled, "I could never get the guy who killed Ajuna…I'm going to help you get the guy who killed your mom. I swear,"
David tiredly made his way into the house, just to hear Ms. Grace in the kitchen again…but judging by the voice…it wasn't just her. He walked into the kitchen just to see Ms. Grace sitting at the dining room table with a young woman with reddish blonde hair. The woman radiated a sort of energy that made David's hair stand on end.
"Davey!" Ms. Grace smiled, and the newcomer looked up to see David, "I'm so glad you're home!"
David shuddered as what felt like two pairs of eyes stared at him from the newcomer. Two sets of eyes, one body.
"She's a Chosen," Ekko said, "You've got that look too…its why a lot of people don't like it when Chosens look at them…because it's that two person, one body stare we have,"
"Really," David deadpanned before looking at the guest.
"Don't get that tone with me young man. I've been worried sick," Ms. Grace scolded, seemingly thinking the 'Really' was directed at her.
"Sorry, Ms. Grace," David apologized, "So uh…who's your friend?"
"David Allen, that's not a way to greet your friends," Ms. Grace sighed, "Miss Noble says she's a friend of yours…a Beta Tester for that game company,"
"She is Chosen!" Ekko yelled, making David flinch, "That's the lie you have to tell people who don't know about us,"
"So uh…which Champion do you have uh…jurisdiction…control…whatever over?" David asked.
Miss Noble gave a smile, blinding like sunlight.
"Leona," she said simply, "There's been some…bugs…with Ekko,"
Ekko huffed in annoyance.
"I messed with the time-stream once and Leona still hasn't forgiven me for that," he grumbled, "Neither did Pantheon or Diana…although, they did get a kick outta hearing Taric was from Targon…yeah, Panth basically Sparta-kicked him off the mountain,"
David tried not to laugh, but that image made him snort.
"Sorry," he said, "So uh…you want me to come in? When?"
"Preferably now," the other Chosen replied, turning to Ms. Grace, "I'll have him back soon, I promise,"
"Take good care of him, dear," the old woman told her, "He's all I got,"
"I will make sure of it, ma'am," the now golden-eyed Chosen nodded before walking out the door with long, swift strides that David could barely keep up with.
"So you're Leona?" David asked as he and the woman walked out, "I guess you've got a first name…right?"
"Cira," she told him with a smile, "Cira Noble. And…I was sorta lying. I do need you to come with me…mainly because you're being Summoned within the next few minutes. I didn't want you to scare the poor old lady in case she had a weak heart. I'm here to train you,"
"Ekko said you're one of the first Chosens…"
"Not one of the first," came the reply from the golden eyed Chosen, "Cira was the first. I was the first Champion to have a Chosen. So, who better to teach new Chosens than the first…and her Chosen who was a teacher to begin with,"
"You're a teacher?" David asked.
"Choir teacher," Cira told him, wincing slightly as her hand shot to her midsection and slight pain shot through David's system.
"What's goin' on?" he demanded as the few strands of hair he could see turned white.
"You're being summoned," Cira told him as she fell to a knee, her fingers digging furrows into the freaking concrete, "I'll explain in a bit…just…patience,"
She exploded into sparks of golden sunlight and was gone.
David's head cast around as he looked, trying to figure out what to do…and his world suddenly burst into blue-green light.
When he opened his eyes, David found himself in a tall ceilinged room, windows three times his size letting in golden light from a blue sky.
"Like the view?" a voice asked, slightly metallic as the faint clank of metal on stone caught David's attention.
David looked around to see a white-haired, golden-circuited female figure.
"Cira?" he asked, "Is that the Project Leona skin?"
"Yep," came the smiled reply and she tilted her helm at him, "You look different too, y'know,"
David looked down at himself, at the tan tank-top, the red scarf and baggy shorts, at his much, much darker hands. He looked in the mirror on the wall just to see Ekko's signature white hair and Mohawk reflected at him.
"This is…so cool," he breathed, touching his face and seeing Ekko's reflection do the same,"
"You haven't seen anything yet," Cira smiled, offering her hand, "C'mon, let me show you…then you can go anywhere in Valoran. Could have Ekko show you around Zaun if you want. After all…"
Ekko took control, the flecks of blue-green fire appearing in his eyes as he gave a wide grin.
"We've got all the time in the world,"
Time fights...kinda tricky to do. At least, the rewinds. I need to do them more often so I get the hang of them. Anyway, I'm just going to tell you guys now...Jinx is next (Cira's cousin...so I didn't do a thing where Andrew comes in...because it wasn't expected), but I'm taking a little bit of a break from doing character arcs. Something's come up. I'll still be writing...but uh...Characters are gonna be on the back burner.
For you people wanting Chosens, here are my requirements:
What Champion
Character's name ( 1st and last)
Age
Family?
Physical Description
Personality
Why were they picked by the Champion?
How did they become the Champion(why did the Champion choose them and what were the circumstances that made the Champion choose to bond with the character? *doesn't have to be tragic accident, but I still want to know why they're the new Champion*)
You will have one month to get me a description of your Chosen before the Champion goes back into the pool. You can have multiple Chosens (my requirement is that they are related/know each other) Limit is 3. I CAN decide whether or not I will use your Chosen, I'm pulling the 'My story, my rules' card. If I see that someone has a very good reason for that Champion, then I will show preference for them mainly because it's easier for me to write.
Champions already taken:
Ahri
Akali
Ashe
Aurelion Sol
Azir
Bard
Brand
Braum
Caitlyn
Camille
Cassiopea
Darius
Diana
Draven
Ekko
Elise
Evelynn
Ezreal
Fiddlesticks
Fiora
Galio
Gangplank
Garen
Gnar
Gragas
Hecarim
Illaoi
Ivern
Jarvan IV
Jhin
Jinx
Kalista
Katarina
Kayle
Kha'zix
Kindred
Kog'Maw
Lee Sin
Leona
Lissandra
Lucian
Lulu
Malphite
Malzahar
Miss Fortune
Mordekaiser
Nasus
Nautilus
Nidalee
Nocturne
Pantheon
Quinn
Rakan
Rek'Sai
Renekton
Ryze
Shaco
Shen
Sion
Sona
Soraka
Syndra
Tahm Kench
Taliyah
Talon
Taric
Thresh
Twisted Fate
Twitch
Udyr
Urgot
Veigar
Varus
Vel'Koz
Vi
Viktor
Vladimir
Volibear
Warwick
Wukong
Xayah
Xerath
Yasuo
Zac
Zed
Zyra
Anyway, hope you liked it. If you did, please let me know!
Qui vállë tóquetë, ván tecë (If no review comes from y'all; no story comes from me)
Máriessë ar mára tecië
Farewell and fair writing
Elhini Prime signing off.