(Katarina)

"Welcome to Summoner's Rift" the announcer boomed over the magic realm. Katarina and the other 9 champions crashed onto the summoning platforms and proceeded to get acquainted before the match started. The summoners had chosen her to play in mid lane this game, Renekton in the top lane, Nocturne in the jungle and Varus alongside Thresh in the bottom lane. It would seem that the summoners had created a rather menacing team and she felt rather sorry for the opposing team. Speaking of the opposing team, the minions were now trekking down the lanes and her opponent had not yet showed. The Sinister Blade hoped for a somewhat easier opponent than usual, it would make it easier considering how puzzled her brain was in the past day or so. It did not take much longer for her opponent to reveal themselves, a razor shuriken flew from the nearest bush and slightly missed her face. Katarina let out a long sigh internally, she was to face The Master of Shadows, Zed. Zed was renowned for being a highly skilled assassin in mid lane, and he was sure not going to give Katarina an easy time.

For the majority of the game, Katarina would block off her mental link with her summoner and disregard their words, however it was quite important to know who else she would be facing in the match. The summoners eventually finished communicating their information, the enemy bot lane was Ashe paired with Braum, Zed of course in mid lane, Vi in the jungle and finally Riven in the top lane. It wasn't wise of Katarina to stand and think for too long, Zed wasted no time in hurling projectiles at her. She thought more about Riven being on the enemy team, unfortunately the Exile was facing one of her tougher opponents, Renekton was known for dominating the top lane, and Riven often fell victim to him. Eventually the Sinister Blade focused on her own lane, which helped the laning phase a lot. The lane mainly consisted of the two assassins throwing things at each other, no interaction came from the junglers either, their focus remained on the bottom lane and in the jungle.

It came to that all important time in the game where Zed would try and kill his opponent. Luckily Katarina and most mid laners knew of this strategy and aimed to prepare for it. Zed took a large stride forward into his minions, Katarina took a step back stumbling into hers and nearly tripping. She panicked momentarily and Zed saw this as his moment to strike. The Sinister Blade cursed to herself mentally as Zed disappeared leaving a shadow of himself behind. The Master of Shadows appeared directly behind the Sinister Blade, she spun on her feet instantly to face him, his heavy breathing audible through his metal helmet. Zed then disappeared again, leaving another shadow before laughing his signature laugh. Katarina had studied this technique several times, Zed seemed to use a significant amount of energy after displacing two living shadows.

This was her moment to strike.

Katarina shunpo'd immediately behind Zed before unleashing a flurry of steel blades as she spun around on the spot. Zed's armor was not designed to take this kind of punishment. In a last ditch effort to save himself, Zed threw a razor shuriken aimed for Katarina. The original shuriken missed, but a mimicked shuriken from one of the shadows landed a deep cut into Katarina's side. The Sinister Blade remained relentless and continued launching steel blades into the assassin, the wound was not enough to take her down and shortly after her opponent collapsed to the ground. All life disappeared from his body, Katarina returned to the safety of her tower and her summoner started to channel the recall teleportation. Strangely enough she hadn't heard the announcer announce first blood, nonetheless she returned to her teams fountain to spend her well-earned gold. Upon arriving she was greeted with the Butcher of the Sands angrily shouting and snarling to himself.

Katarina's summoner communicated to her that the Exile had turned the tables on Renekton and had slain him for first blood.

"This is proving to be an interesting game" she thought to herself.