Authors Notes: Hey a bit of a shorter chapter, but we get some insight with all of the characters so I felt satisfied with it. I have just learned of another story called 'In the Shadow of Legends' that that I think you would all enjoy, very interesting concept. Anyway not much else to say, leave a review if you like the chapter.
Rupert yawned as he stretched out his arms. He opened his eyes which were crusty and his vision was blurry. He slowly sat up in his bed, wiping the sleep from his eyes. He looked at his room as a light shined through his window. The bed he had slept on wasn't the most comfortable bed, but it wasn't bad. He got up and started to get dressed. He decided that he may as well wear what Quinn had given him.
He grabbed the green shirt and red vest and through it over his head. He put his legs through the brown pants and looked at himself with the mirror in the room. He laughed a little at his reflection barely able to recognize himself. It reminded him of a preppy school uniform on Earth however, the material looked a lot more expensive. His brown shaggy hair didn't match with the outfit which reminded him that he hadn't been able to shower for a while. He would have to ask if they had utilities on the ship as he straightened his hair the best he could.
He decided to go check on Caitlyn, she had saved his butt countless times now and he wanted to thank her properly. He made his way to her door, making sure to knock due to the past experience he had.
"Caitlyn, you awake?" He called out from the hallway.
"Yes come in." She replied.
Rupert slowly opened the door and saw Caitlyn sitting on her bed. He waved before taking a seat next to her on the bed.
"Nice clothes." She said looking him up and down.
"You like them, Quinn gave them to me. I don't know how I feel about them yet." Rupert laughed.
"Needing something?" she asked.
"I just wanted to thank you for saving my ass. I haven't gotten a proper chance to say it and frankly, without you three I would have been dead."
Caitlyn looked to him and smiled.
"Don't worry about it, it's my job as an officer to keep people safe, even though we mess it up sometimes."
Rupert leaned back onto the bed and sighed.
"It's weird, back on Earth I had a few friends but only to show that I wasn't a complete loner. We hung out sometimes but we weren't super close we basically just played League of Legends. But I've been here just a few days and I feel like we have known each other for years. I guess having someone save your life can do that." Rupert said, looking at the ceiling.
Caitlyn also fell back onto the bed staring at the ceiling. She let out a breath and turned her head to Rupert.
"Rupert, you haven't told me much about yourself. I guess I'm in the same boat but how about you start?" Caitlyn asked.
Rupert thought of where to begin but as he spoke it all just came rolling out.
"Well, my name is Rupert North, and I'm 23 years old. I lived by myself in Seattle and was working as a cook. I had gone to school for 2 years but dropped out as I felt like I wasn't enjoying it." Rupert said. "In my spare time I would either walk around the city, play the guitar or play video games."
Rupert tried to think of anything important that he missed about himself, but was satisfied and looked towards Caitlyn.
"How about you, what's your life like?" Rupert asked.
"Well, I am 21, and am the sheriff of Piltover along with my deputy Vi. We have been protecting the city as well as balancing participating in the League of Legends. It's tough work but I just want to make it safer for everyone."
"Wow, don't you ever get a break from all that work?" Rupert said, shocked with how hard she must work.
Caitlyn shook her head and laughed a little.
"Nope, crime never sleeps and the League is very sporadic when they do call me in. Normally it is to deal with in fighting between the factions or if there is a dispute over land and they have to settle it on the field." She replied.
Rupert nodded his head understanding.
"Well I guess the League is a little different on Earth." Rupert said. "People all over just play it for fun and there is no dispute over land and stuff. Although, people do end up raging a lot if they lose." Rupert said chucking at the last part.
Caitlyn also laughed a little which made her feel good. Normally everything was so serious and you couldn't make a joke. Her job was so stressful and you couldn't slack off or bad things would happen. 'Which is exactly what happened back then.' she thought.
Rupert hadn't laughed in a long time too. More often than not people would yell at him, whether his boss or his friends. He was happy that things weren't so serious even though he was on a mission that was supposed to save the world. He wished he could just stay here all day but he knew he should let be Caitlyn alone.
"Well I'll let you get back to whatever you were doing." Rupert said turning to leave.
Caitlyn waved goodbye before he shut the door. He started to go back up to the deck to see if anything new was over the horizon. He climbed the stairs and pushed open the door, squinting from the bright light. It was another bright sunny day with only a few clouds in the sky.
He noticed Ahri was also on the deck looking over the ship. He started to walk over to her. He felt weird from yesterday still unable to get the image out of his mind as he looked at Ahri. He pushed it as far back into his mind trying to forget the whole ordeal.
"Hey, what's up?" Rupert called to Ahri.
Ahri turned around and saw Rupert and giggled as she saw what he was wearing. She covered her mouth with her hand as to stop herself but chuckles still made their way out of her mouth.
"Quinn picked it out for me, I'm guessing you don't like it." Rupert said.
"Quinn is good at a lot of things." Ahri laughed "But fashion is not one of them."
Rupert also laughed a bit. He continued to look at Ahri, avoiding looking at her breasts. Her tails reminding him of the clouds, so fluffy and white.
"Wanna play a game?" Ahri asked looking very excited.
Rupert gave Ahri a puzzled look.
"A game, what kind of game?" He asked.
"You have to catch me, and maybe I'll let you seen these again." Ahri said, pointed to her boobs.
Rupert's face became red again. Somehow he didn't think Ahri would let that thing go anytime soon and probably hang it over his head.
"Minus the last part, how is that a game, there is nowhere to hide?" Asked Rupert.
"Bet ya can't do it, or are you scared you'll lose." Ahri said pouting out her lips making her look unbelievable cute.
"Fine, what do we start now?" Rupert said making his way over to Ahri.
Ahri dashed past Rupert and ran towards the bow of the ship, facing Rupert and taunting him while waving him over with her tails.
Rupert ran towards her and was just about an arm's reach from her. However, she held out one of her tails by his leg tripping Rupert causing him to stumble over as she dashed away again.
If it wasn't for the railing, Rupert would have fallen off the boat and plummeted to his demise. He slowly got up and turned around Ahri was now at the stern of the boat, where the wheel would be if it had one. He ran over and climbed the stairs leading to the top deck. Ahri was facing away from him and he thought he could sneak up to her. He slowly inched closer to her, he held out his hand and grabbed one of her tails. Ahri dashed away as her tail slid between his fingers allowing her to escape.
Rupert was growing tired of this game as well as leaving him out of breath. He saw Ahri where they had originally talked and ran as fast as he could. When he thought he was close enough he jumped to try and tackle her to the ground. Ahri turned and was frightened to see Rupert barreling towards her. Within a split second she wrapped her tails around them before they rolled onto the floor.
To an observer there was a large mass of white pillows pilled on the floor as it slowly rolled to a halt. Within Ahri's tails, Rupert felt like he had just been smothered by a cloud as he rested his head on one of her tails.
"Looks like you got me." Ahri said as she giggled.
The two of them were encased in a cocoon, more comfortable than any bed Rupert had ever slept on. He hugged one of her tails to his chest as he relaxed back into the fluffy appendages.
"Hehe, enjoying yourself?" Ahri said noticing Rupert.
"They are so soft and fluffy, I've never felt something so comfortable in my life." Rupert said letting go of her tail.
Ahri giggled again. "They don't get like that by themselves, it takes me a long time to brush them, and they are a nightmare to get dry. It gets annoying sometimes when people try and grab them. It hurts you know, they are attached to me."
Ahri then released them from the tail cage and the two slowly got up. Rupert and Ahri walked over and looked out over the sky.
"Rupert," Ahri said "Does Earth have any pretty girls?"
"Not as pretty as you." Rupert said, clutching his mouth. 'Did he just say that' it had just come out without his knowing.
Ahri giggled softly pretending she didn't hear that.
"What's Earth like, it sounds amazing, are there big forests, or beautiful cities? I would love to see it for myself." Ahri asked.
Rupert laughed at her wonder about his planet. He had wished to escape his planet at times and wished he could be somewhere else, I guess it was similar here.
"All of those things and more." Rupert said "We have forest so large it could take weeks to go through it. We have mountains so high that some planes can't get to them. Our cities are large and at night all the lights light up the entire city."
"However," Rupert said "We have a lot of fighting on my planet too. Our nations are always competing with each other and don't always get along. But other than that it's normally fine. You would fit right in Ahri, minus the whole tails, and ears and magic, actually the whole fox thing might scare people."
Ahri looked at Rupert strangely. "What do you mean they wouldn't like me?"
"Well people that knew about the League would probably like you, but most people would probably get a little frightened. We don't have any people with interesting features, everyone basically looks like me except sometimes skin colour changes. If people saw a half human half fox they would probably get scared." Replied Rupert.
Rupert turned and looked at Ahri
"You were a fox before right that must be kinda weird?"
"Ya it was horrible." Ahri said facing Rupert using her hands to emphasize her point. "As a fox, you have to sleep outside in the cold and sometimes wet. If you're hungry you have to go kill something and hope you can find it. Also lots of running, running away from wolves, running after rabbits, lots of running.
Ahri acted out what it was like.
"As a human, you are so lazy. You get to sleep inside a nice cozy bed. If you're hungry you grab it from a fridge, and things run away from you it's so great." Ahri said, grabbing Rupert's shoulders and looking like and excited school girl.
"The only down side are these stupid things." Ahri said adjusting her clothes. "Why do you humans wear these, they don't make any sense. They restrict you, you have to clean them, and I don't care who you are, they are not comfier than not wearing anything."
Rupert laughed at her remark. She had a point, they were a pain at times and I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't mind not wearing clothes.
"Privacy I guess." Rupert said.
"Privacy," Ahri said looking at Rupert and grabbing her breasts. "I don't care who sees these and I know you liked seeing them." She said with a smirk
Rupert tried to focus on looking at Ahri's eyes as best he could, but it was harder than it looked.
"You humans try and act so pure." She said "But your minds are all dirty when you see someone sexy. Take some advice from us animals, let your primal urges out. There is no sense bottling it up, we can all see through it." Ahri said as she wrapped her arms and tails around Rupert.
Rupert found it interesting what Ahri was saying. But he knew something human had that animals didn't. Ethics, humans understood consequences and what would happen in certain outcomes. Rupert knew that doing what you wanted wasn't always the right thing to do.
Lux then came walking behind them and stood next to Ahri.
"Ahem, what are you two doing?" Lux inquired.
Ahri looked at Lux and noticed a hint of jealousy in her eyes. She tried to tease her more by resting her head on Rupert's neck. Rupert who was starting to get used to Ahri's antiques was getting a little uncomfortable as Lux watched them.
"We were playing." Ahri said, smirking trying to further tease Lux.
"Hmph, well I was sent to ask if you wanted to get something to eat, there is a bar downstairs as well as other things?" Lux asked.
Rupert spoke up feeling his stomach growl at the sound of food.
"I would love to but before that, do either of you two know if there is somewhere I can shower, I haven't exactly had an opportunity for a while?"
"Yes there are change rooms on board, same floor as our rooms we will meet you at the bar its one floor down." Lux replied.
Ahri unhooked her hands from Rupert and walked with Lux down to the bar.
Rupert walked down to where Lux had directed him and saw the male change rooms. He walked in and noticed a bucket with clean towels and grabbed one. The room was quite big having around 7 showers each with walls that separated each other. He was in here by himself so he took off his clothes and stepped into the closest shower. He turned on the water as it blasted on his head.
"Ahhh, cold, cold!" He screamed and jumped from the shock of the temperature.
However, it quickly warmed up and he relaxed in the shower as he could feel the dirt wash down off his body.
Ten minutes later, he had managed to get dressed again and started down towards where the other three were presumably.
"You want me to do what?" The red head said.
"I told you, I want you to try and befriend Quinn." Captain Norwood said.
"Why the hell would I want to be friends with that bitch? I'm not doing it, I refuse to cooperate with Demacian scum." She replied.
"Katarina, you need to do this, we need information from her." Replied Captain Norwood. "There are some things I do not think they would tell me."
Katarina scoffed at his remark. "And you think they will tell me, I'm Noxian, you know, their biggest enemy."
"That is the point, a call for peace, in exchange for what she knows." He replied.
Katarina still didn't look convinced. "And what if I refuse?" She asked.
Captain Norwood signaled for the carriage to stop.
"You will not refuse, and even thinking about such would be treasonous." Captain Norwood said.
He paused for a moment letting silence fill the carriage. His troops had stopped marching and the only thing you could hear was the quiet wind in the tree's and the heavy breathing coming from Katarina.
She had become nervous, she wouldn't normally make an outburst for something he would say. But this was different it was a preposterous idea and she didn't think she had much choice but to bring light to his decision.
"Because if I ever heard you were to refuse." Captain Norwood continued. "I will have you killed right where you stand." He said behind gritted teeth.
He leaned over and started to whisper in her ear, making her even more nervous.
"Don't think about crossing me Du Couteau, you won't like the outcome, because out of 10/10 of them, it always leaves you on the floor begging for me to end your life.
Captain Norwood turned back to the carriage driver and signaled for them to start marching again. The carriage became very silent after that, not a word was shared after that. Katarina soon figured out her place and realized that he really was in charge.
Authors Notes: Well are you can see I've tried to do a better job at devolving the characters. I also had a little more information about Captain Norwood but that is about to ramp up in the next coming chapters. Rupert seems to be getting a lot closer to the girls as well which I'm sure many of you are happy about. Anyway make sure to review and will see you in the next chapter.
