Shingi: Hi again. Before I begin I would like to apologize for the way I ended the last chapter. I didn't really get to show where Kat is fitting into the story so I will do that in chapter 5 or 6 but as a writer I should know not to put things up befroe they are ready. Once again I am sorry and will do better in the future to not leave places for readers to not have to ask questions. Also in this I would rather have people see Shyvana in her Iron scale skin as she is included. It just feels more Demacian to me. Ty.

I don't own league of legends.

-Chapter 4-

Outskirts of Demacia: Grasslands by the entrance to the Bubbling Bog

General Pov

Shyavana and Taric had travaled about a day as it was now becoming dusk. Reason being they were told to find Lux but also to find if she had any affiliation with the darkness attacking and taking people. Their team was sent up north but only as far as The Bubbling bog. Jarvan was able to get in contact with Ashe in Freljord. She had already told them that nothing has happened in the area and Lux has not been seen in quite some time. They had received word from Vi that Lux was in Piltover and had attempted to steal a book of sealing spells and had to break through certain ones.

Shyvana didn't care because it did not tell her if Lux was the cause behind all of the destruction that has been happening to Runeterra all around. These thoughts alone kept her quiet during the journey but she was brought out of that as soon as the moon began to rise.

"We will stop her for the night. The bog is hard enough to see in light and everyone is tired Shyvana." She turned around and looked at her squad of 5 besides her and Taric. They did seem tired.

"Alright. We will rest here until sunrise. Sam will keep look out, then Morisa. After her Jake and Shauna. Finally Taric and me. We will keep 1 person at watch at all times and change every 30 minutes so that after someone has finished their shift. Whatever it is that has attacked our people will be brought down. If it is Lux who is the head or just a part of this evil snake of tricks she is won't be treated any differently than any other criminal." Everyone besides Vayne seemed a little worried about this. As Shyvana took her leave from everyone's attention Sam spoke up.

"But the king said to bring Luxanna back unharmed-"

"If possible." Vayne cut in quickly. "She has aloud herself to fall into a darkness that she has chosen herself. It would be best if you just consider her lost. At least that way my arrow can help guide her to salvation." Again silence followed. Everyone just began to set up their own tents and go about there own business. Jake started a fire once his tent was set up as Taric removed the top half of his armor showing his cloth blue shirt. He sat in front of the fire with his shield by his side as he cleaned of his hammer in the fires light. Sam began making a stew with th supplies he had brought with him. Vayne had put the final touches on her tent when Morisa approached her.

"How did you turn out so..dark." She choose her words carefully feeling as though Shauna would put an arrow through her if she hit a nerve.

"My life was bright once. Then someone dark came and decided she liked to her those with a nice bright life should see how dark it can become. She tortured my family before killing them. I hid in a cupboard that was going to be fixed that day. Stupid thing never closed fully because of a nail. I saw everything she did. The only thing I missed was how she could have missed me. After she was gone I got out and saw my family's tormented faces. I could still hear their screaming in my head so I ran out of that house. As fast as I could crying. Years later I heard that the woman who attacked use to be a pure of heart kind of witch. Something changed her apparently. My family was the first she killed. Who knows how many more bodies are left in her wake but I do know this. Anyone can be taken by darkness. This means anyone can be my target. This goes for anyone here including you." Morisa looked mortified. "What did you expect me to say. Some story about how I was abused or taken advantage of. No that was never my life. I had and lost everything. I won't allow that to happen again. If I find Lux and she seems as though that her path is even a little shaded I will strike her down." Morisa spoke shakily.

"How can you so easily talk about this with someone you barely know?" Vayne tightened the final rope on her tent.

"I made peace with my demons long ago. If you ask me something I will answer honestly. I have nothing to hide." Morisa looked down thinking of what to say next before looking back up at Shauna. She tightened her grip on her bow and took a deep breath.

"Will you teach me to fire my bow as you do?" Vayne stopped moving and took her hand off the rope. She turned to Morisa.

"That depends on where you stand now about everything. Would you be willing to do what is right even if everyone you know would see it as cruel, brutal, and even at times wrong when only you know what is right? If everyone turns their back to you because of the life you would have to live just to pick up your bow much less fire you arrows? If you yourself doubt anything about right and wrong how will you know what your aiming at with that arrow? It's easy for me to do what I do because I don't have anyone anymore but I bet you do. I see it in you but don't answer me now. Just go eat. It seems dinner is ready." Shauna walked past Morisa as she seemed lost in thought and sat down next to taric. Morisa followed after a minute and was passed a bowl of the stew by Vayne.

Jake cleaned off his blade repeatedly as everyone ate. Everyone seemed to lighten up and told a few stories. Shyvana told a few jokes that everyone laughed at. Taric made a joke and everyone became silent. Then laughed hysterically do to the fact of how unfunny the joke was. That's what he was aiming for. Jake seemed to smile at everyone becoming cheerful at a time like this but it made him nervous. All it would take is someone to strike now when their guard was down. Taric's hammer and shield were a little to far for him to reached as he danced arm in arm with Sam and Shyvana. Even the arrow Vayne kept on her back was by her tent. So he felt if no one else would be ready he would at least by them time. He wasn't the strongest in this group but he sure as hell wasn't the weakest. That's what he told himself as he sharpened his blade.

After everyone began to hype down the told a few more stories. Some funny and some scary(Vayne) but all in all were ready to turn in. Before they could Shauna heard something. She walked over to Shyvana. She whispered to her as she seemed to give her a goodnight hug. This surprised Shyvana,

"What are you-!"

"We are surrounded. Don't alert everyone. Just hug back and listen." Shyvana hugged her back hesitantly at first as Vayne began to tell her what should be done. Shyvana looked around behind Vayne and her eyes became slits to help her see better in the dark becuase it showed the heat that the bodies gave of making a general outline. Her hand fell lazily to Vayne's lower back. She had counted off 4 behind the small hill. They were shaded by a tree but seemed humanly shaped. Vayne stopped whispering and backed away to look into Shyvana's eyes.

"Do you get it?" Shyvana smiled as she grabbed the top of a vial Vayne kept behind her.

"Yes but just remember to alert everyone before you try to take it all on by yourself. I can handle a few myself." She placed 4 fingers a little harder against Vayne's back as Vayne pressed 5 against her's. "Yea that many won't be a problem." She eased herself towards Vayne's face.

"I'd like to see who finishes first." Vayne moved her head closer to Shyvana. Clouds blocked out the moonlight. As their lips almost made contact the dark enemies made their move and ran over the hill almost at the tents which were a few feet from her and Vayne. Shyvana slapped Vayne on the butt hard. Vayne got the signal and dodged to the side as Shyvana pulled the vial out and dropped it. As it landed a large smoke screen blinding the view of the attackers. Shyvana surroundered herself in flames as she charged into the smoke. As Vayne dodged to the side she fired off 3 arrows from her wrist killing one of the enemies that were a few feet behind Shyvana. They had not made it to the tent yet. She was lucky. This made all of them sitting duck.

When the smoke bomb dropped it made enough noise to make everyone come out of their respected tents. Taric came out fully armored hammer in one hand and shield in the other. He could not see but he knew what it felt like to be in a battle and he was in one. He heard someone scream out. He turned around in time to toss someone over his head with his shield slamming them on the way down. Whoever it was didn't get up. He looked down to what looked like a bandit. Just a mask with matching clothes that were as dark as they could get. Sam came out with his broadsword which seemed large to his smaller arms. He couldn't see to well in this smoke so he ran to the nearest opening he could see out. He took 2 steps and was at the end of an arrow. Morisa lowered it.

"We're under attack!" She shouted as she shot behind him causing a bandit to fall to Sam's side.

"I noticed and it looks like bandits!" He got behind her and slashed one killing him instantly. "We need to find Jake!"

Jake was unlucky. He knew that much when he been assigned to being a grunt soldier. But being caught outside the smoke screen by 3 of these bandits was just the universe saying he is screwed for the rest of is seemingly short life. He was lucky to grb both swords as he came out of his tent to this situation the universe had set up for him "Come on I don't have all day!'

As if on Q they all tried to strike him down with their swords and 1 dagger. He blocked the blades that came down with his right and blocked the dagger from the bottom with his left. Right now he felt good about himself taking on these guys 3v1. The thing was the all pushed and he was getting pushed back. He pushed back but he couldn't take all 3 of them with his strength alone. The blades got closer and closer as he lost more and more of his strength when all of a sudden 1 of the guys stopped pushing and stiffened up. Then another stopped leaving the guy with the dagger pushing alone. Jake brought his sword down in a stabbing motions in between the bandit's neck and shoulder. The bandit coughed a few times before falling like his allies had. He looked to see that the other 2 guys had arrows in their back. He looked to see who had done it and saw Vayne.

"That should be the last 1 on this side of the camp. Lets move so we can help our friends shall we." He didn't need to be told twice as she took off running towards the smoke screen that was now fading away revealing a large dragon tossing 2 bandits high in the air letting them fall wherever they land.

They came back just in time to see the dragon surround itself in flames as the flames became smaller and clear away showing Shyvana standing straight seeing if all the bandits had been dealt with. She heard footsteps behind her and saw Taric drop 2 bodies in a pull that Sam seemed to had started with the 1 he tossed into the center of camp. Jake and Vayne stopped running seeing that everyone was ok.

"Looks like your plan worked well Vayne." Vayne crossed her arms and smirked.

"Did you expect any less?" Shyvana laughed lightly.

"I guess not but is everyone alright?" Sam spoke first.

"Alive and well captain." Next was Morisa.

"I fine. What about you Jake?" He was about to speak but Vayne cut him off.

"He was fighting 3 of these guys when I found them start to get the upper hand. So I helped out a little bit but he did pretty well." He looked at her questioningly but then Morisa and Sam ran up to him.

"Really 3 by yourself! That's amazing! How did you do it!?" Morica followed suite.

"You must have been so scared. Did you really just take them all on?" He didn't know how to respond. All of a sudden he was the center of attention. He felt more confident in is ability now. Shyvana snapped him out of his ego trip.

"Well as a reward you can take first watch. I'm sure someone of your caliber can handle anything that may attack us." She seemed to smile as Jake's face drained at the thought of how hard he just fought and not being able to go to sleep for at least another 30 minutes. He sighed.

"Yes captain." Everyone was heading to their tents as Shyvana called Vayne out causing everyone to look but still get ready to sleep.

"Why did you use...well that for the signal?" Everyone looked curiously as Shyvana gaze seemed to look up. Her cheeks also seemed a little pink. Vayne smiled and answer politely.

"I figured they were waiting for us to drop our guard before they attacked. The situation that I made us look like we were in is usually the best way to look like our pants were down don't you?" As Shyvana looked at Vayne to reply she winked at her causing her face to become red and leave her mouth open unable to reply. "People usually fall for those kind of tricks the easiest. Even people who you wouldn't think would allow themselves to be so easily...tempted I think is the best word."

Shyvana looked over at Vayne again and cleared her throat.

"Well very good. It worked very effectively and you saved all our lives with the vigilance and strategy. We owe you our lives and thank you." She was still blushing a bit but the Morisa spoke up.

"She's right. Without you we would have been caught to easily and probably killed. So I would like to thank you as well. Jake scratched the back of his head before speaking.

"Well yea if you hadn't found me I would really be dead now. I don't know a hundred percent about everyone else but I know my life is something I can trust you with. Anyway I'm just trying to say..thank you Shauna." Taric and Sam joined in.

"Thank you for saving our lives as well." They both said in unison. They looked at each other and laughed. Morica looked at them and laughed as well. Jake saw them and couldn't hold his laughter back any longer. Vayne chuckled a little and covered her mouth to not be too loud. Shyvana smiled at her squad. These were good people. Hopefully they would all live through this.

The cloud that had been blocking the moonlight finally let the light shine on their camp. As it shined on the bodies darkness seemed to rise and Shyvana seemed to be the only one who noticed this. The dark energy streamed towards her team. She jumped in the way while summoning fire to her gauntlet and shooting it at the stream of darkness. Everyone turned to see what was going on as a full scale battle of flame and darkness were fighting to see which would give first. Shyvana turned to Taric.

"Cover everyone!" He wasted no time getting behind Shyvana and in front of everyone as she lost her footing being sent flying back into his shield as the energy pour on at her forcing her against his shield. "Don't let up I got this!" She turned her head towards the dark power as it shower her with its overwhelming power. She summoned her flame again to both her gauntlets and made the dragons head with them firing a much larger and more powerful flame than before. It tore through the center on the darkness and seared the bodies. The dark power stopped as the bodies burned. everyone looked at the pile of burning bodies. All except Vayne.

"Burn the rest of the bodies! NOW!" Everyone grabbed a stick from the almost burnt out campfire. They managed to burn all of them without incident as they all came back to the center and looked at Shyvana. She looked extremely tired. Sam reached out to her.

"Captain are you okay?" She looked at him and began to sweat.

"I'm fine just a little dizzy and i feel hot." She held her head with her right hand. That's when Vayne saw the large mark that had been made by the dark blast. It was large and went along her forearm looking almost infected.

"No your not. Jake and Sam get her to her tent. After that Jake keep watch like you were ordered too. Sam your going to hellp Taric with anything he needs. Taric see what you can do about her arm. Somethings not right with it. Morisa keep guard. If anything approaches this tent but me shoot it and shoot it to kill. I don't want any warning shots given. You can't afford any doubts right now. I'm going to my tent for some supplies I'll be back in a second. No one leave her alone and for the love of Demacia please don't do anything that strays from the orders I gave you now go!" Everyone seemed shock for a second on how fast Shauna took command but followed her orders quickly. She headed to her tent and ran through her bag.

"When we thought we had the upper hand they pulled something like this. I swear Luxanna Crownguard will pay for this darkness she has brought to this land!"

-End Chapter-

Shingi: I have nothing to say about this chapter because I feel like I will be giving spoilers lolz. Plz review and tell me what you guys think though. I want feedback and I want to know what you guys as readers want to see more of. TY for reading and I'll try to get the next one up soon. :)