(NOTE): hello dear readers,
Finally, this fucking writer uploads a chapter. Had to get that out of the way .
I just want to thank everyone that followed and liked the story so far. Thank you peeps so much and I hope you enjoy the chapter. My free time is really limited, so writing is kind of hard.
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Chapter 7: Fight.
They were searching for not too long. Whomever the person Vayne is relying on, is giving them accurate information. It was way too easy. Katarina did ask Vayne again and the question was left unanswered. It doesn't help build a trust between them, how the hell am I going to trust her with my back?
The institute was a diversion. They had a portal at the ready and left to the tomb. There was this strange feeling of Ashe is near her, unlike when they were traveling to their destination. The tomb of the lord was in the middle of the chanted forest. Vayne warned her of traps, but they have avoided them all. Darkening sky pressing down. No stars, little moon light. It is cloudy, but no humidity in the air, so no rain.
They find the entrance. It is as the resource described it.
"You need to slow down" the Night Hunter's came from behind her. Katarina was stiff as a board, her muscles all rigid and her neck is corded.
"We have to hurry up" she spoke through her teeth with forced restraint. Her jaw was at pain.
"We also have to be careful" Katarina releases an impatient snort. She looked behind her to the Hunter that was supposed to be far away from her, but surprisingly, Vayne was directly behind her. Her heavy crossbow in her arms and her eyes were scanning every inch of the area around the entrance of the tomb.
"She might be-" Katarina stopped before she finished her sentence. What if she was hurt? What if something had happened to Ashe and it would be all her fault. And where the hell did all this short-temperedness come from?
She takes off and runs inside of the tomb. Runs inside of the dimly-lighted corridor. There are no heartbeats around. Except for the one following her from behind. She registered the calm beats as Vayne's.
The woman was talking to Katarina, but she doesn't have the luxury to even halt and listen to her warnings. Katarina left trail of blood behind her every time she came across a guard or something she cannot sense. Her throat was dry and vision clouded. She did hear Vayne, but she was to fast to even realize it.
A trap activated and all she could see, was the dust and the wind blowing from behind her.
The tunnel collapsed and Katarina barely escaped the rocks falling.
"Guahh" she turned around. Katarina cannot tell if Vayne was hurt or actually fine. She can hear the woman's heart accelerating in its rates.
"Night Hunter!" she calls.
"I am fine" Vayne calls back "Go ahead, I will find another way" Katarina thought for a moment that Vayne was buried under the rocks. Was that her humanity kicking? The Hunter did say something about embracing them. Remember the feel of your human self and not the beast within. Katarina is aware of her feelings when it came to Ashe. She wants to see her. She wants to find her and the first thing to do, is apologize to her. Find Ashe and correct her mistakes.
Her heart hammers into her ribcage. She stops and takes in steady breaths. Katarina feels the sweat coating her face. I'm tired!
Okay, calm down. Where are you? Ashe, please where are you.
On the other side of the rocks Vayne was on the ground, on her back and there is someone on top of her. They are invisible, but not their touch, not their familiar lips pressing on her cheek.
"What are you doing here?" she says when the woman on top of her removed herself. Vayne stood up and cleaned her clothes from dust. She fell right on her hips and now they hurt like a bitch.
"And miss the grand finale?" she passively answers as her form comes to view.
"I asked you -and not to mention politely, to not interfere" LeBlanc smirks evilly and places her hands on Vayne's shoulders. She tip toes and kisses Vayne on her cheek, again.
"I promised not to interfere between Ashe and Katarina. Doesn't mean I am not allowed to save you, you said nothing about saving you" LeBlanc pulls Vayne down and slams her lips on Vayne's. She begged LeBlanc not to involve herself in this one. Was I talking to a fucking mirror image?
"Don't do this now" she breathlessly says against her lips.
"I am not doing anything, Night Hunter."
Katarina walks like her limbs don't really belong to her and each step is a negotiation rather than an order. Everything hurts now. Every damn thing. The ache of her own heart made her wince to cross the floor, heading to Ashe. How much of it does she have to endure alone? Sharing what Ashe is feeling had to be done. Katarina wanted for her legs to hurry up already and make her stop.
Then suddenly it is all gone and what Katarina sees is something out of this world.
A baby girl crying in a woman's arms. The baby is as white as snow.
'Her name shall be Ashe' the woman carrying the baby says. She looks unearthly. Her beauty is unrivalled and there was this light shining from behind her as if she was made by the star and everything pure. Is that a celestial being? she was kissing the baby and saying things Katarina couldn't hear.
The heavenly being gave the baby to another woman and it was taken away. Katarina doesn't understand why she is seeing this. This must be a dream and it is so not hers. Is this one of Ashe's?
It feels as though her heart is dancing around her chest; and a hole, she was never aware of the fact that it has been partly filled. A space she created over the past years and without noticing, Ashe managed to fill some of it. Is it the curse that liberated her from her loneliness? Or the woman herself with her presence.
It might explain the way Ashe is looking at her. It might explain the way she stands there looking at Ashe. She finds her surrounded by a barrier, imprisoning her from the outside.
"You came for me?" her voice is so soft.
"It was beautiful" Ashe looked at her with widening eyes.
"You saw it too?" Katarina nods and as she stands directly next to the barrier separating her from Ashe "I cannot get out" she says and Katarina doesn't even know how to remove her eyes from Ashe. She is examining her body for injuries, wanting to give herself another reason to just rip the basterd's heart out and rid him of that useless organ. She can't tell if Ashe is hurt, wait she actually can. Katarina steps inside of the circle and took Ashe's hands with hers. The touch on its own made her take every inch of Ashe's hands into her memory, knowing it is the medication she needed to survive the corruption inside of her. she leans in, into Ashe's neck taking in that aromatic resinous substance, finished with nuances of vanilla, the skin is caressed in a warm veil of opulent sensuality that makes the scent truly unforgettable.
"Please, you cannot" In time Katarina had realized that Ashe could never resist the urge to just remove that pain she had. But her voice and words helped make Katarina resist her hunger for it.
"It is hurting you" no, it was not her hunger. It was Ashe that was hurt and she just wanted to help her.
"He wants you to remove it" she is not listening anymore. It is your fault, damn it. You are making me do this. Her tongue licks and fangs are about to sink in. "Katarina.." this has to be the first time her name was spoken "Resist it" then she says the words Katarina needed to hear, In all the world there isn't another like her. They are two souls who feel like ones upon another. Ashe was holding on the sleeves of her jacket as a form of sustain. The clinging acted as a plead.
"I am trying" Katarina feels her jaw clench in anticipation and already she is resigned to the discomfort that follows.
The ache is a dull, as if some lazy torturer is standing right behind her, only applying enough pressure to be an annoyance. It sits there, just to the side of the right shoulder blade toward the spine. Katarina could imagine it would be like this lying on a large glass marble; perhaps at first it would be pleasant yet soon it would be just like this pain of hers.
"Finally, and here I thought, I used the wrong blood to bring you here" Vladimir came from behind her. There was this red orb hovering in the air just above his hand. "Good to have you here, Du Couteau" he smiles and walks closer to them. Vladimir touches the orb with his other hand and it glows bright red.
"You are so dead" Katarina walks to him, but then she was unable to leave the circle. She tries again but her efforts were futile. He laughed and began channelling something in the orb.
"This my dear, will make you hate me even more" the barrier brightens as he lifts up his and. Katarina stands ready with her daggers in hands. If anything is to even think of jumping on their direction, it will die, again.
The Noxian assassin was about to fight the blood mage, but her movements halted. Her body stiffened in its place and she turned around. Her posture is uncomfortable, as if she has no control over her own body. She was fighting something invisible that controlled her movements. Ashe stared at her.
"Katarina… are you…alright?"
"Don't touch me" she shouted and Ashe jerked away her hand before it could make contact with Katarina.
Her dagger was slowly moving towards Ashe and she backs away.
"All you have to do, is injure her. She will invite you to heal her and I will extract the pure essence from your body, proud assassin" his voice is like poison in Ashe's head.
The dagger makes contact with her stomach. Ashe closes her eyes and holds on to Katarina's jacket.
"I can't stop" she is fighting it. Ashe can see the guilt in her green eyes. Her terrified orbs vibrating in their place about to spill rivers of tears. "Ashe.." it is killing her. The dagger was thrusted inside of her. The strike radiating pain in a way that shatters Ashe's brain - or at least that's what it feels like. She lies so still, breathing shallow. All anyone sees is her form on the assassin's.
"Make it stop…please" she begs her. Ashe cannot take the pain anymore. It resides inside taking advantage of the dagger that slowly inserts her inners.
"Yes, noble Du Couteau, make it stop. Drink out her essence and relieve her from her pain. How can you be so cruel to the one that feeds you their life?" Vladimir pushes her in further. Controlling Katarina and every movement is not her own command.
"It will stop the bleeding" she says as the Avarosan beauty gives Katarina access to her pulse. Katarina can feel herself again and removes the dagger then throw it on the ground. She lowers her head, buries it in Ashe's neck, taking everything the Avarosan is offering. She bites harder and Ashe whimpers in her hold. Her arms are around the small of Ashe's frame. She drink from the holy grail. Her fingers aching, tingling with the need to touch. She brushes Ashe's hair out of her face when she pulls out. The wounds are closing.
Vladimir is using the orb to suck the essence out of Katarina and he laughs madly at his accomplishment.
Katarina falls on the ground and Ashe catches her. Katarina tiredly stares at the woman that has her head in her lab. She lifts up her really heavy arm, her hand touches Ashe's face. Reddish lips were pursed into a thin line and a tear fell down on Katarina's cheek.
"Why are you crying?" she speak weakly and smiles right back at her.
"You just saved my life and you will lose yours."
"I was doing what's right" came her response "Come here" she pulls her down and places her lips on Ashe's forehead.
"You're acting as if we had won" Ashe shakes her head as her tears fall down. Katarina wipes them away and smiles again. Her eyes are like a glacial blocks of sold water, liquefying on the heat of the sun.
"Just wait for it."
"AAAHHH" she wiped her head to the source of scream. Ashe's eyes widened when she saw Vayne, the Night Hunter, impaling Vladimir with a silver bolt. She fired for the second time after reloading her crossbow and took out a third one.
Vladimir has not lost all his powers yet, but the gates of the graves were opening for him. He wants to extract all his currant powers to open the gates, and then he will receive the new ones waiting for him. The process made him vulnerable, he should have expected this Demacian whore to be here. Damn it all, he should have killed her when she fell right into his traps two weeks ago. But the bitch just magically disappeared without leaving a single trail behind. He tortured all his servants if they were the ones that helped her escape, but no one knew how she'd even left the ground without warning the hounds.
Vladimir uses the last portion of his powers to chant a force field that he sent her way. The Night Hunter made impact with the invisible spell and flew across the hall, her back hitting one of the great pillars of the hall. She was not moving.
Vladimir removes the silver arrows that impaled him to the wall. One of the two projectiles was hard to remove, but he needs to find a place to recover.
Ashe sees Vladimir limping away from the scene and she wanted to follow him and finish the job. Before she could stand up, the woman laying on her lab stopped her and shook her head. "Don't get involved in it" what does she mean? Vayne is still recovering on the other side of the room and he is running away.
"He is getting away."
"He is not, trust me. You don't have to see it, stay here and everything will be alright."
The hemomancer leaves the great hall, good, out of sight. He caught the Avarosan coming after him.
"My, my. What have they done to you, my dear" that voice.
His eyes rapidly blinked to adjust his field of vision, wanting to catch her form. Where the fuck is she? What is she doing here? He kept his back to the wall and focused on what's in front of him. He wanted to get rid of his inability to speak, Vladimir fell a relief fall in his body. At last, an ally.
"Matron, great timing. I am being cornered by that Hunter, I should have killed her when I had the chance. Why did you-" impossible. Then her silhouette became clear when she walked to him and he focused on that evil, mind shattering, fearful smirk on her lips. She is the one that freed the Night Hunter. LeBlanc is the one that freed the Hunter from her imprisonment and he got suspected for it.
"What's the matter dearie, cat got your tongue?" he panics when she gets closer, this woman is the most dangerous mage in entire Runeterra, and he truly feared her. The most powerful in the circle of the Rose, the leader.
"Why? How could you? I don't understand" he shakes his head and chokes on his blood.
"Well, first of all" chain made out of gold and platinum shackle him. They vine around his neck and pull him up in the air. "Yes, I freed her, because I can't just let you kill the one person that matters to me."
"You betray the Black Ro- guaahh" she tightens the chains around his neck.
"Don't cut me off" she uses the chains to impale him with the silver bolt he removed from his body.
"I am calling it 'destroying what Emilia had built and create something new' maybe it's a long name, but simple enough for idiots like you to understand."
Vayne came running to the corridor and found Vladimir hanging on the wall by her great silver arrows. She catches movements behind her and turns around.
"Hey, love boat" Evaine says with a forced smile on her lips. Vayne removes her night goggles and to stare at her. "Don't look at me like that. He asked for it."
"I didn't say anything. But are you alright?"
"I am answering this question after we return the princess and her lover to the institute then we clean this mess" Vayne hums and walks to her "I also have to explain everything to Swain… are you listening to me?" she pushes her before she had the chance to touch.
"Yes, keeping going" not even interested in LeBlanc's speech.
In the great hall Katarina still has some of the powers given to her. She hears that fucking annoying voice that belonged to LeBlanc. Well, who would've thought that these two were actually working together. She still cannot move a muscle and her eyelids fell really heavy. She surrendered to the feeling of safety when hands like made out of silk rub on her face and reassured her to let go.
Ashe watches her fall asleep. Her breathings are quite and the fall and rise of her chest were soft. Her expression lightened and she found her beautiful in that moment.
"Is everything alright?" Vayne came to her and whispered, not wanting to wake up the sleeping women in her lap. Ashe nods and felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to look at the Night Hunter.
"There is a portal waiting for you. It will take you directly to Soraka. From there, she will take care of both of you."
"You say it as if you are not coming with" the Night hunter helps Ashe carry Katarina to the other side of the portal, once there, Soraka greets them with hushed movements. They were in the healer's private courters and not the medic room of the institute.
"I have to go back to clean up the mess. If anything happens, Soraka will help. So try to stay out of sight for the time being until we solve the problem."
The Hunter disappears into the portal and it closes after her. Ashe took a seat on the sofa and exhaled softly, releasing all the tension in her body. Watching with half-lidded eyes how Soraka is tending to the person that saved her. She touches her side, right where the dagger was inserted inside of her. not ever a scratch is left behind. Katarina did save her from her terrible hunger.
(NOTE):
2 more chapters then I will need time to figure out what the hell am I going to do with it.
Leave it or continue?
But after the 2 chapters I will upload a new story. It's about Vayne & LeBlanc. The same from this story. The uploads will not be as shitty as this one, because I have wrote everything. Yes, I know. You people (me too) have struggled with updates and I am so sorry for that. its just every time I sit and write, I get distracted by everything. The FBI story, LB & Vayne, I also wrote lots of fucking oneshots about LB & Vayne, more Vayne plots. Fuck I have to really focus on one thing.
Now, thank you for reading and until the next chapter.
