Something stood amiss. For a moment in time, the whole world seemed to be much too expansive, much too mysterious for the mind to comprehend. Flickering shadows seemed to bounce up and down along the stems of the brush, laying off to her side. No matter how piercing her light, she knew the air was too quiet for her own sake. Something was definitely amiss.

Lux didn't dare step closer to the edges of the brush. All her instincts agreed with the fact that someone or something was lurking deep within, anticipating the moment to lash out and destroy her. Suddenly, a ghostly echo resounded throughout the battlefield, "First Blood!" Lux gasped, as the image of the capacitated archer filled her mind. The blood of her friend pooled in her dying position.

"Lux, are you okay?" A man reached out to her.

Lux turned around, her golden hair seeming to stick to her armor in a sullen way. Her eyes immediately perked up at the sight of her partner: A rather handsome man wielding an underestimate-able crossbow-hammer. Light seemed to always light his eyes. Immediately, Lux replied, "Ashe…".

"We share our pain among the team, but we must stay strong. If there's one thing we'll lose to, it'll never be the Noxians." Jayce's eyes narrowed at the shadowy edge of the bush. "Something's amiss." Jayce grappled at his godly golden hammer, plucked on a switch, and immediately with a jolt of cerulean light, morphed into an astounding crossbow. Jayce pulled back the trigger, aiming carefully at the edge of the brush, a sphere of deadly blue energy hovered at the crossbow's tip. A heartbeat later, a bolt of energy was released at the target, and both their suspicions were confirmed. Their opponents were stalking them, waiting for the right time to pounce.

Lux grinned successfully at her partner as she twirled her wand once again, sending a bulbous orb of sparkling light into the bushes. With a consecutive twist of her wand, the orb burst into hot white flames, immediately burning her hidden opponents. She giggled quietly, hearing a disgruntled shuffle in the brush. Quickly, Jayce and her returned to farming the opposing minions.

A hooded man with a blade-embroidered cape, lugging an oversized blade waited patiently in the brush. The burning light from the girl barely scathed him, especially when he was in the protection of his cloak. An equally deadly-looking man kneeled beside him. The man's quiver tingled with squirming purple tendrils, yearning for an arrow to be slung to them, to be fired at another's heart.

"Fire your arrow, Varus. Teach them a lesson," Talon hissed to his ally, his voice tinted with malevolence.

Agreeing with silence, Varus poked his head just slightly above the brush, and drew an invisible shaft of arrow that slowly charged into a deadly crimson missile. With a smirk, Varus let his charged arrow fly into the stomach of the Defender of Tomorrow, knocking him to the ground. The warrior's weapon skittered to his side.

"Quickly," Talon hissed. With a quickness similar to that of a serpent, he dashed across to the confused warrior, ignoring the cry of the little girl. Talon let loose a flurry of metal shrapnel, each piece penetrating Jayce's armor, spraying blood onto the grass. With a grunt, Talon seemed to teleport to the bleeding defender's back, sending up another spray of blood. However, before the deadly assassin could deliver the final blow, he was blinded by a bursting flash of light. Oh, how that girl will pay, Talon crooned to himself, after recovering from the blast. His target was on the verge of death, but Talon stood too far away from the retreating stumbling of Jayce. He turned his black pupils on the girl. You're next.

Lux wasn't afraid of this man. She'd faced down so many other Noxians larger and nastier than this man. She couldn't possibly be afraid, but deep inside, she felt the urge to quiver in fright. His beady black eyes reminded her of the darkness within everyone's hearts; the kind of darkness that vanquished the light. But this man didn't have a heart. He had a blade instead. Lux twirled her wand, sending a net of blinding light at he opponent catching him in his gait toward her. She let loose another bulb of light, which stung at Talon's eyes and burned his cloak. The light trapping her enemy soon faded, but he didn't stalk forward anymore. Just when she was about to raise her arm in victory, she felt a tingling warmth in her side. A purple, twitching arrow stuck out from her flesh. The blood pooled around the arrow, and upon that sight, Lux suddenly felt light-headed.

"Foolish girl," Varus commented, empowering another charged scarlet arrow to blast into the girl's stomach. Immediately following his charged arrow, Varus loaded an immense amount of miniature crimson darts onto his bow, volleying them above her head.

Quickly reacting to the arrow that barraged he stomach, she let her wand fly out and disintegrate the arrows about to rain upon her head. Upon catching her wand, her body glowed with light, gaining a safeguard. Lux gyrated her wand again, letting loose another orb of light that sent the archer reeling back in another flash of burning light. The instant her opponent left, she exhaled in relief. She glanced back at her injured partner.

"I'm fine, Lux. I'll make a trip to the fountain, and come back with newly bargained items from that burly shopkeeper." With that, Jayce agonizingly rose up, and placing a rune at his feet, began chanting words of teleportation. Light blazed around Jayce in coalescing ellipses, and within a few seconds of chanting, Jayce vanished into thin air.

Come back fast, Jayce, Lux contemplated, they'll be back soon and I don't want to face them without a friend by my side.