Chapter 9: Trust….
(I know the fact of akali, shen, and viktor being in Noxus proves weird, but I have something planned, I promise it serves a huge purpose, so hang in there :D and I never said who caitlyn's observation subject was ;D)
The two strolled back into the room through the slider and closed it to find Talon missing. They looked under the bed, and in the closet. Nothing. He had seemingly disappeared.
"Talon, come on out" Riven said impatiently. Then she realized the bulge under the covers on the bed. He was headed back to sleep again. The man could sleep like a rock! She walked over to the side of the bed and shook him awake. He groaned and sat up.
"What do you wannntt?" Talon said with a bit of strain in his voice.
"You and Caitlyn are gonna go out for a bit, and I'm going to stay here and… chill I guess." Riven told him.
"Umm alright." Talon said as he shimmied his way out of the bed and stood up.
"Where we goin'?" Talon asked.
"Back to see Viktor" Caitlyn said as she gave a smile.
Talon nodded and walked out the door with Caitlyn following shortly after. The door clicked shut. Riven was alone, yet again. She clambered into bed and wrapped the blankets around herself and stared up at the ceiling as she started thinking to herself.
'I hope they're not gone too long...'
After a few minutes of walking Caitlyn and Talon reached the hospital, but from a different side which appeared to be the left wing.
"Shouldn't we just go in through the fro-" Talon was cut off by a rag over the front of his mouth and nose. Figures, knockout fluids. After the next few seconds his vision went dark.
Soon after he awoke again, handcuffed to yet another chair.
'Shit, welp, back to square one again.' Talon thought to himself as he looked around.
Caitlyn had seemed a bit nice from right off the start, a bit too nice. He should've known to run a few more 'Trust exercises' before even giving a sliver to her. He look around the room he was in. It was obviously in the hospital, just a white room with a door on the far right side. No windows, just white walls, tile, and lights. He heard the door click and saw it swing open. Surely enough Caitlyn and company came walking in. There before him stood Caitlyn with Shen, Akali, and Viktor.
"So Talon…" Viktor prompted. Talon didn't reply and stayed silent.
"You've been getting in some trouble lately, and I heard the institute isn't too happy with the choices that you've made." Viktor prodded. Talon still remained silent, looking at the floor.
"Well, you're probably wondering what we're doing here in Noxus in the first place, am I correct?" Viktor asked. Talon gave a small nod while still looking at the ground.
"Well, we were told that some suspicious activity was going on here in Noxus, something like a rebellion against the peace that held Valoran together. So the Institute sent us to observe the city for a few weeks. We haven't found anything recently, y'know, except for you killing two of the institutes champions…" Viktor said with a biting tone.
"That doesn't concern me. However, you have stopped any chance of us gathering any further information on said rebellion, and have to accept the consequence of this. This coming directly from our commander for this operation: We're going to be sentencing you to Exile.
Talon looked up at him in shock.
"Are you kidding me?" Talon growled.
"Afraid not, and goodbye young one" Viktor finally added as he and the ninja left the room. Caitlyn walked over to Talon with a syringe in hand with a blue colored liquid in it. She stuck the needle in his right arm and slowly injected the fluid. The world began to seem dull to Talon. Last he saw, Caitlyn was walking out of the room.
|| Back at the Inn ||
Riven was a snuggled up in the sheets asleep when Caitlyn returned. Caitlyn stood outside the door, waiting for the right story to come to her of what happened to Talon. She took a deep breath and put her acting face on, and barged in the room loudly, which shook Riven from her sleep.
"Something's gone horribly wrong" Caitlyn said in a fake worrisome voice.
"What?!" Riven said alarmingly.
"He's gotten captured, and by now, I'd imagine executed…" Caitlyn said while 'Tearing up'.
Riven sat in shock and denial.
"No, you're kidding, right? Hah good one!" Riven said not wanting to believe.
"He's gone Riven" Caitlyn said in a lower softer voice.
Riven's eyes became strained and her throat dry. She didn't even get a chance to say anything to him before he had gone.
"No… why?" Riven asked.
"A patrol walked by and happened to recognize that he was wanted for the killing of two champions." Caitlyn lied.
Riven frowned as her eyes became welled up.
"It's okay, I have something to help you with this." Caitlyn replies to her facial expression.
"You can come with me to the Institute, and enlist as a champion…" Caitlyn offered.
Riven looked up at Caitlyn.
"I just wanted a chance to do something, but I don't even get one…" Riven choked on her words.
"It's okay just come with me, we can talk it out later." Caitlyn said gingerly while putting her hand on Riven's shoulder.
When Talon woke up, he was only left with his clothes. It was starting to get dark out…. and he was in the jungle. No weapons, no nothing. He looked around only to see tree's that were only found by the mountains of the Great Barrier, which was right below Demacia. This wasn't the first time Talon had been stripped of everything, so he stood up and looked around at any materials readily available. He saw some vines, Huge tree's that rocketed into the air, and small saplings that were still growing. Talon peered through a clearing in the trees to find one about his height, and decently thick. He searched the ground for any rocks that were decently sharp. He found one that was nice and straight and started chipping away at its edges to make it sharp. Once he had done that, he headed over towards some of the vines, cutting about 3 feet off in length for each of the 3 pieces he cut. He thought to himself next
'I need a weapon, and somewhere to stay safe'
He then remembered the tree he saw, he ran over to it and began working away at it. After he was done chopping, he had worked up a sweat and made his presence clear to the jungle for sure. He then eyed the tallest tree closest to him and immediately scaled it to the nearest supportive branch and layed on it with his back to the main trunk of the tree. He started carving the piece of wood he collected for several hours. Once he got through with the project, it was dead silent, and dead dark. Talon used the vines he had cut earlier to fasten his crafted wooden armblade to his right arm. It was nice and light, but not as sharp as steel, but it would still get the job done. Talon looked down at the ground, he was quite a ways up, and didn't feel like scaling it back down this late risking any predators be down there, so he decided he'd go to sleep for the night. He had never slept 20 feet above the ground before, so it took him awhile.
In the morning when Talon awoke, he was greeted by a spear lodged in the trunk above him. He stood up on his branch cautiously and examined the spear. He then looked up to the nearest branch which was about 6 feet above him to see a sticks across in a platform which seemed to be holding some kind of figure. Talon had no clue what to do. He was more panicked than anything, he'd never been in this kind of environment before. So he scaled his way down the tree to finally reach the ground. He looked back up, only to see that the spear and platform were gone.
He whipped his head to his surroundings, back placed against the tree scanning the foliage. He didn't see anything moving in particular so he proceeded on into the forest towards the mountains. He walked and made his way along the forest floor until he heard some rustling in some tree's to his right. He stopped to look at where the sound came from only to see a spear whizzing right towards him. He leaned back to dodge the spear as it hit the tree to his left with a thunk. He looked back where the spear had been thrown from and started running in the direction he was originally headed. He kept on running as he took a quick glance to his left he could see a form running on all fours right next to him for a few seconds. He kept running and readied his armblade. The form peeled ahead for a split second and lept out of the bushes right at Talon. It seemed like a cougar was leaping at him. Talon saw this and slowed down a tad raising his armblade up. It seemed to come in contact with the cougar's face but only lightly leaving a scratch. Talon kept on running as did the cougar. A minute of running passed and Talon started to tire, and the beast seemed to sense it. So the beast leapt from the right side this time, nailing Talon right in the side causing them to roll on the ground for a few feet. In the roll the beast seemed to have transformed into a woman who now sat atop Talon who was pinned to the ground by the emerald green eyed woman. She was wearing a lengthened loincloth and some primitive form of a super short shirt that only held her chest up. She was tan and had white tattoo stripes going up the sides of her body.
She ripped the armblade off of Talon's right arm and tossed it into the foliage and returned her gaze to him. Talon saw where he had grazed her on the left cheek. Her face was slim and she had long black hair with emerald green eyes and a few more stripped tattoos on her face.
"Nice game" She said in a low purring voice. Talon tried to move one of his arms up to no avail.
"I guess so, I don't mean any harm, i was dumped here by some people and I'm trying to get back to where i came from." Talon grunted.
"They deserted you here, alone?..." She trailed off.
"Yeah, real cool people." Talon scoffed.
"Well you're here now" She said in the low purring voice again. "And you will be for awhile"
