Um...I kinda had a slight bit of writers block paired with having too much fun on the collab. Sorry about that! Anyways, we deal with some more Chosens, some more hunters and some fun. We meet a new Chosen or two here (one is actually introduced the other is mentioned and 'seen').

Chapter 4

These people are like my family. I've grown up with them and around them and helped them grow as well. I don't want to lose my family and if anything happened to them? I don't think I'd ever forgive myself…

She could feel the faint tremors of the glass wall at her back as her fiancé tapped reassuring patterns on it, hear the harsh hum of the lights above her. But it was still blacker than a Nocturne Ultimate to her. She shifted, the sound of clanking chains scraping across the cold concrete, weighing her down.

The door hissed open and she could hear the click of weapons as someone came into the room.

"You sound mad," she chuckled.

"Delta," came a man's voice, "They were Delta,"

"What, you thought I'd tell you who they were?" she smirked, "One fry short of a happy meal you are,"

A sharp pain came up in the top of her head as someone pulled her hair so she was forced to look up.

"You know…this would probably be more effective if I wasn't blind," Cira quipped.

"Are you ever serious,"

"I'm a high school choir teacher who is in chains and blind. Her daughter is nowhere to be found and her fiancé is in another room so I can't reach him. How do you think I'm going to act," she deadpanned, "Maybe if you switched my eyes back on it'd be more effective and I'd be slightly more afraid for my life,"

"You. Are. Insufferable!"

"And you are an evil mad scientist who likes to pick on kids," Cira fired back before her sightless eyes turned gold and Leona spoke, "Honestly, I don't know what you've done to my systems but I know it's made me less violent and more sarcastic, so whatever I'm doing, it's your fault. Did you disable the Fight and Hunt modes? Wow, good on you, you somewhat managed to bypass Viktor and Jayce's firewalls,"

She could hear angry stomping and the door opened and shut. She gave a wry grin as she laid her head on the wall behind her. While this wasn't ideal…messing with jerks like that was fun.

"Insufferable...How did she know?" the scientist demanded, "I thought she was knocked out,"

"She's somewhat human, therefore probably somewhat self-aware," another replied, "We haven't figured out how to make her completely compliant…I guess that's the Champion's influence. It's a massive firewall combined with magic and we can't crack it,"

"I guess until you guys figure it out, that means back to what we'd been doing," one of the bodyguards stated.

"Change it a little," one of the two scientists said, "Otherwise you're going to spend five days getting it out of her again,"

The door opened and Cira looked up, a blind smirk on her face.

"Oh, look, they sent the soldiers in this time. I can hear your armor against you and your footsteps are a heck of a lot heavier,"

"Names and places,"

"Oh this again? Really? I thought you guys would have given up due to the fact you got your teeth kicked in by four of them," Cira smirked.

"Ma…ma…"

Cira's smug face melted instantly and whatever blood in her face drained.

"You…" she whispered, "Vesper…"

There was a squeal as Vesper was dragged out of the room.

"MAMA! MAMA!" the seven year old shrieked, "MAMA HELP!"

"GIVE HER BACK!" Cira roared, straining against her bonds, the metal cuffs cutting into her wrists, sparks and oil dripping from them as she strained, "DON'T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER!"

"Tell us what we need to know and she won't be harmed,"

"Go to He-"

"Break her arms," the soldier ordered.

There was a shriek of pain and Cira's heart leapt into her throat.

"MAMAAAAAA!"

"Break her legs next," came the calm statement.

"Alright!" Cira screeched, wildly looking around and straining to get to her daughter as her eyes blazed blue and gold, "ALRIGHT! I'LL TALK! I'LL TALK!"

She fell back to the floor, tears streaming from her glass eyes.

"…I'll talk…" she whispered, "I'll talk…"

"Forgive us…" both Chosen and Champion prayed.

Jin was working on his latest masterpiece. The summer night was quiet and warm, perfect for painting. He dipped his paintbrush in the soft, pastel pink paint and put some more touches on the cherry blossoms on the canvas, a faint whirring sound coming from his hand as the pistons in them moved. He hummed softly to himself as he worked, ignoring the faint reddish glow that painted over the canvas for a split second.

"Uncle, there's some strange men outside," his niece, Lian started, looking out the window.

Jin frowned, putting down his paintbrush and joining his niece. Sure enough, there was a group of strange men in what looked to be SWAT team body armor.

"They've come for us," a smooth, honeyed male voice echoed in his Chosen's skull, "It's that group that Noble girl warned us about, Leona's Chosen. They'll kill your niece and then kill you,"

Jin gave a soft hum before putting a hand on his niece's shoulder.

"Lian, go hide," he told her, "I promise that I won't let anything happen to you. Just…"

"But…" Lian stammered.

"Just…" Jin gave a sigh as his voice gained a sudden metallic snap, "Just do it. Go…go now,"

There was a heavy pounding on the door and Jin bolted towards his room, shoving Lian in the closet. As soon as she'd hidden, Jin went to his nightstand and opened the locked compartment, revealing an oddly shaped, ivory, gold and black gun and what looked to be a rifle's scope and barrel. The artist quickly screwed the elongated barrel and scope to the gun, turning it into a sniper's rifle. He heard the door splinter open and he took four bullets, putting them into the rifle's chambers. Jin grabbed a few lotus shaped mechanisms and bolted from the room, dropping the little flowers in various spots while he found a good spot.

"Alright, you know what to do," Jin started as his green and gold eyes suddenly flared a reddish brown.

Booted feet clomped down the hall and Jhin gave a wry smile as he raised Whisper and peered down its scope.

"And now, the curtain rises," he purred as the first of the intruders came in…

BANG!

The intruder was thrown off his feet, a clean hole in his chest where the powerful hextech weapon had punched a hole through it. The second man came in…

BANG!

And a third.

BANG!

And a fourth…

BANG!

The fourth's head was completely blown off, leaving just a stump of a neck as the electric scarlet blooms of roses formed around him. Jhin quickly reloaded.

"You need to be quicker," Jin told his Champion.

"Death should never be quick," Jhin reminded his Chosen as he snuck through the house with four more bullets in Whisper's chamber, "It should be an opera…"

"I'm not letting you take control again…I should have learned from the last time I let you,"

"I don't see a problem with our condition," Jhin snorted as he took another shot, "It just enhanced our performance,"

"Maybe, but I hate the fact that the cold makes my arms lock up,"

Jhin rolled his eyes as a lotus trap detonated. He twirled Whisper around his finger and shot, rooting his target in place. He gave a sadistic smile as red light glowed through the area, a smooth visor of dark glass materializing over his face as a targeting system flickered to life.

BANG!

The last man fell and Jhin got up from his position, twirling Whisper around his finger before Jin took control back. The man shuddered as he saw the carnage around him, the blood spattering the wall like some Jackson Pollack painting.

"Uncle?" Lian asked, starting to come out of the closet.

"Don't leave the closet," Jin ordered, cocking his head to the side and listening, "There's still more…"

Lian quietly did as her uncle asked. Jin turned around, pointing Whisper at the door.

"Alright…let's get this over with…I want to get back to my painting before the paint dries," he grumbled.

There was a bang as the door flew open again and a small shape landed on the floor. Jin didn't have time to say anything as the grenade exploded with knockout gas and the Project Chosen fell to the ground, darkness flooding over his vision.

"Li…an…" Jin though before the darkness took him.

Eva paced back and forth across the floor, waiting anxiously. It'd been five days since she'd seen Dianne. She figured that it'd been because her sister was busy taking Marks…but with Amber here, telling her that they'd been attacked…Eva was less sure.

"So she's been gone for five days?" Amber blinked.

"Mhmm," Eva hummed, twirling a strand of hair as a spider crawled over it and onto her wrist, "She's been gone for long periods before…"

"Five days though?" Amber asked.

"…Not that long," Eva admitted, "You don't think…"

"Has Nick said anything about it?"

"Uh uh," Eva shook her head, "Anthony hasn't seen him either,"

"It's possible," Amber told her, "We've been trying to warn the others that these guys are more aggressive than normal. I'm afraid that they've got Cira…maybe Arthur and Vesper. We found a letter saying 'Noble says there are four here'. And I really don't think that she'd give information of us willingly,"

"What if it's not her though? I mean there could be another Noble…"

"Have you seen Cira at all lately? Even Summoned?"

"No…"

"Then you've got to entertain the thought that she's gone and they've got her," Amber stated, "Same with Dianne and Nick both,"

Eva frowned before freezing.

"Eva?" Amber asked.

"Someone's here," she muttered.

"How do you…" Amber blinked.

Eva gestured to the floor and Amber repressed a shudder as many, many spiders crawled over the floor.

"They can tell me what's around me," she told her, "There's a lot of people outside…I think…"

Her face went white.

"It's them…" she whispered.

Amber pulled out her pistol, eyes hard as she shut off all the lights in the house.

"Are they approaching from all sides?" Amber asked.

"No, the back is still free, but they're heading that way,"

"Go out the back and run," Amber told her, "I'll hold them off as best I can,"

"But…"

"Just go," Amber snapped, "Ha, listen to the Support for once, ok?"

Eva gave a sad smile and nodded, grabbing a backpack and bolting out of the house.

"Well…let's see how long we last until we go see where Cira is," Amber huffed, blowing a bang out of her eyes.

"We'll do fine," Nami reassured her as Amber broke the window with her elbow and started firing.

Meanwhile, Eva was running through the alleys, trying to get as far as she could as fast as she could. It got to a point where she realized she'd go faster if she climbed up onto a rooftop and sprinted across that way.

She gave a shuddering gasp of pain as four spider-like legs sprouted from her back and her fingers became alike to talons. Halfway there. She kept going, pain forcing her to her hands and knees as venom filled her mouth and her hands disappeared, replaced by a single, spear-like appendage.

"You're getting faster," Elise approved as Eva crawled up onto the side of a building, quickly scaling it…

Only to get met with figures in grey that shot a net-like projectile at her as she crested the top. There was a harsh crackling sound and Eva gave a bloodchilling screech, falling down the side of the building and landing, entangled in the net on the ground, her legs curled up around her stomach before she reverted to human form.

Her vision started darkening as more and more forms surrounded her. And it all went dark.

Amber, however, was holding her own. The Navy doctor was taking some fire, but thankfully she'd already managed to flood the house. She'd pay Dianne and Eva back for whatever damages she caused. The water lapped at her feet as she knelt down, letting her wounds heal.

"Don't know how much longer we can keep this up," Nami admitted, "I can't heal you forever,"

"I know," Amber replied, "I'm just really stalling for Eva. I hope she makes it out,"

At that moment, the back door burst open and a jarring shock ran up Amber's frame as electricity made her stiffen and jerk.

"So this is the one that took out our first squadron?" one of the grey garbed hunters asked, getting a choked, gasping growl from the Support, "Not too bright of you to flood the house like this. Not when there's things like electrical wires lying about,"

Amber still spasmed from the shock, her green eyes flaming gold as they brought the handcuffs to her.

"Nami…" Amber started as her legs fused together, forming a fish-like tail.

The Vastayan gave an unnaturally bloodchilling growl as she swept her tail around, knocking a few of them off their feet and forcing them to share the same shocking fate as her.

"Bottom feeders," she scoffed as they twitched, "I'm sorry Amber…it hurts too much…"

And her eyes fluttered shut as her tail broke back apart into legs.

Eva woke up to a knock on glass. She slowly, painfully got to her feet and limped to the door. She peered through the window and looked around her surroundings: glass windows in a steel door, concrete floors…wait, that blond man sitting against the wall next to her. Was that Arthur?

The knock came again, more of a slap to be honest. Eva whirled towards it…just to see a familiar black and white haired form.

"Dianne!" she cried, pressing her hands against the window as Dianne did the same across the hallway as tears streamed down the other Chosen's face, "Where are we?"

Dianne shrugged, tapping her ears and shaking her head and then pointing at her lips. So the rooms were soundproof, but reading lips was an option at least.

"Is that Arthur?" Eva mouthed to her sister, pointing.

Dianne nodded.

"Cira here as well? And Nick and Vesper?"

Another nod.

"What is this place?"

Another shrug as a host of grey-garbed men came through, dragging a red-haired woman, a blonde woman, a blond man and two dark-haired men. One of the dark haired men was Hispanic, the other Asian.

"…Amber, Kristen, Piotr, Fabien and Jin…" Eva whispered, trying to look again, "What is going on…"

Now you've met Jhin's Chosen...and Braum's too. Piotr is Braum's Chosen, expect to see more and more people getting taken. I might have a detailed thing on a couple more Champions if you like this. I have a special idea for Mir and Mya (who are together running), so I hope you guys will like it.

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.