Garen had been fighting for a long time. Whether for the defence of Demacia or in the Fields of Justice he knew what to expect and how to win, and as such was surprised when he saw a young girl in a blue dress standing beside the opposing teams turret on the bottom lane.

Minions have spawned!

Garen looked the girl over from a distance. She wore a blue one piece dress that had white detailing across its entirety and her hair was bright blue. Floating behind her was about six strange crystals or gems, and the girl herself seemed to hover and float about a foot to two feet off the ground at all times.

Garen smiled as he slunk into a large area of brush and watched as the minions came up behind him and toward the opposing team's minions. The blue haired girl looked to the minions in wonder before rushing over and watching them in heavy interest.

Just from the way she was acting Garen could tell it was likely the girl's first time on the Fields of Justice, but that did not matter. He had once made the mistake of taking a young opponent lightly, and it ended with him being mauled by a flaming bear. He wasn't about to make that mistake again.

The blue haired girl kept looking at the minions until one came up to her and swung its axe toward her. The girl saw it and dodged the blow, quickly following up by punching the minion in the face.

The girl jumped back from the minion, to right beside the bush Garen stood in. Garen brandished his blade, prepared himself, and rushed out, intent on gaining the first blood advantage.

"Demacia!"

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Sanae looked out through an archway as the strange little creatures popped out of the stone structures and waddled down the pathways. They didn't seem to have much magic in them, and no matter how she concentrated they did not feel like youkai. Were they some sort of construct? A robot maybe?

First Blood!

Sanae spun around, looking all over as she heard the strange speaker sent message (it had to be a speaker, right?). "First. . . . Blood? But that means this is a death game!" Sanae said to herself in horror as suddenly a flash of light burst forth from the stone circle they had appeared on. Running over to it and up the stairs Sanae was shocked to find Cirno sitting in its center, rubbing her head. " Cirno - chan? What happened?"

Cirno shook her head and looked up at Sanae for a moment before leaping up and fluttering above the ground like she usually did. "I went down the pathway and found these really cool looking towers! Then these little purple impy things began fighting each other, and a purple one even attacked me too! Then this weird big silver guy with a sword attacked me! I tried to freeze em, but I couldn't seem to use my Spellcards, then he sliced me in half!" Cirno explained happily, her vigor in explaining such a thing seeming strange to Sanae.

"D-didn't it hurt!"

"Yeah, but being exterminated by you and the red-white hurts more!" Cirno said with a smile as she fluttered around Sanae. "I'm confused as to why I couldn't attack him though?"

"Did you remember to allocate your initial point to your skills?" the merchant by the stone circle suddenly said rather loudly.

Sanae looked at the merchant, "What- what do you mean?"

"And here I thought maybe it was just your friend with the bad memory. To prevent the battle from being too imbalanced, all champions have their abilities locked to a certain extent. In addition to the class or classes the champion can be part of; all champions have their skills and abilities separated into one innate ability, three regular skills, and one ultimate skill."

"And we unlock these . . . . How?" Sanae asked while looking at the merchant like it was an obvious question.

The merchant sighed. "Explaining this stuff is more tiresome than I thought it would be. You unlock your skills by gaining levels from killing minions and enemy champions, duh. Doing that also gives you money. And before you ask, you allocate points to skills, by thinking about it. If you think about it you should be able to see your skills and allocate your first point to one."

"He's telling the truth, Sanae!" Marisa's voice said as it came from the purple crystal in Sanae's pocket. "I just did it and I seem to now have an infinite supply of my ecological bombs!"

"Marisa-san!" Sanae yelled in surprised. "You can hear through these crystals!" She asked as she pulled out the purple crystal and shook it about, expecting to get a jingle from it like a cellphone.

"Yeah, you can it seems. And the thinking about your abilities thing works too. It even tells you your class, statistics, and gives a weird almost map like interface saying where we all are. Yuuka's in a patch of forest by the way. It looks like she's killing wolves for the fun of it."

"Ah, but that's-."

"Check your stats and class, choose and ability to upgrade, and go help Cirno on the bottom lane, Sanae!" Marisa said intelligently. "She'll need the help more than me, Yuuka or Flandre."

"Okay, let's go then!" Cirno exclaimed as she fluttered off back to the southern pathway, leaving Sanae alone by the merchant, a dumbstruck look on her face.

"B-but this a death game!"

"Death game? Girl, you sure you're alright? Or did you not see your friend appear back here?" the merchant asked.

"Cirno's a fairy, she can't die anyway!"

"Girl, no one can here in the Fields of Justice. If you lose you just reappear back here after a few seconds so you can get back into the fight. I can tell just from looking at ya that you're likely a support class, so go support your ally already and quit camping back here!"

Sanae looked at the merchant in complete shock. "You're all insane!"

"Just go, girl. Losing your first match in the League is pretty normal, but if you don't do a damn thing you'll get a bad rep, and that'll get you nowhere."

Sanae just sighed and began walking toward the bottom lane, cursing herself for arguing more.

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Marisa shook her head as she slipped the purple speech crystal (as she was calling it) back into her dress and looked around her. The central lane seemed a bit shorter than the other two, at least from looking at the mental map she saw, and a large river seemed split by it down the center. Their teams 'minions' where currently brawling the other teams minions, and she could occasionally see a short burst of light flash from a nearby bush and strike her minions, wounding and sometimes killing them.

Using her broom to propel her as she sat casually atop it, Marisa went around the group of minions and threw an ecological bomb, blasting the enemy minions with light damage and debuffs.

Looking back at the bush she could still see blasts of light coming out of it, so it was likely an enemy champion. The rules of Danmaku didn't apply here, but it had its own rules of battle, and Marisa had her own as well; allowing herself to be ignored was not one of them. Flying through the fighting minions and firing small magic bullets at them Marisa neared the bush, and threw a bomb right at it.

The bomb flew through the air and dropped right into the bush, and as it did the person in the bush flew out, partially propelled by the bombs blast. The girl rolled out of the bush, smoking slightly, and landed behind her minions, though Marisa could get a good look at her. The girl wore what looked to be a deep dark blue full body suit with pieces of shaped silver armour on her legs, chest and arms. She held a strange short wand like baton in her one hand, and her hair was as brilliantly blonde as Marisa's.

"What the heck!" The girl yelled angrily as she stood up and looked to Marisa. "Who the heck tries to kill each other at the start of a match!"

Marisa smiled. "You're teammate did, or didn't you hear the first blood announcement?"

The girl looked to her side, almost looking ashamed as she spoke. "Well, yeah, brother's a little aggressive that way. Err, never mind that! I don't recognize you, are you new to the League?" the girl asked, changing the subject.

"You could say that, why does it matter?" Maria answered as she fired off a magic bullet to one of the girl's minions, killing it outright in a small blast of light.

The girl scowled at Marisa's personality. "Well, I think introduction are in order is why it matters!" The girl stated as she fired a pulse of light to one of Marisa's minions, killing it by causing it to explode with a magical blast.

"Oh, okay then," Marisa said as her hand pulled out an ecological bomb. "Then introduce yourself as you dodge!"

The girl moved to the side and just barely dodged Marisa's bomb, then firing a ball of light toward Marisa that struck her and rooted her to the spot as she spoke. "I am Lux, the Lady of Luminosity. A mage and support class champion of Demacia, and you?"

Marisa smiled before tossing another bomb as she spoke. "Marisa Kirisame, just an ordinary magician. A mage class champion from Gensokyo's Forest of Magic!"

Lux looked at Marisa with a confused face. "Is that part of the Kumungu jungle?"

"Never heard of the place!" Marisa said as a small ping of sound made her smile. "Ooh, another level, let's blow you away then! Masteeer Spaaark!"

Not knowing what to expect Lux did not move, and was blasted backwards into a tree by Marisa's laser. As she got up she shook her head and almost swore under her breath. "That looked like my . . . you're a light mage!"

"Nah, I'm just an ordinary magician," Marisa replied. "One who never thinks of losing!"

"Well, what a coincidence then," Lux said as she got up and looked to Marisa. "I never think of losing either!"

Both blondes smiled for but a moment before rushing toward each other, blasting skills and attacks at both each other, and each other's minions with a cross between challenge and enjoyment.

Authors note: considering how much Lux takes her lore, background and other parts of her character from Marisa, it seemed absolutely impossible not to have them fight each other! It'll be so much fun when they get their ults, don't you think? Of course what will also be fun are the other lanes of battle, but I'll leave that for you to see!