Talon sighed as he sat near Katarina
"So what now?" he asked "Its been a week already since that happened, we can't stay in this think forever..."
"I know" She answered with dried eyes, already left with no tears to cry. "But... Where do we go?"
Its been a week already since the destruction of Noxus. Even though it seemed like not much except the city itself has changed, it was wrong.
People in the land of Valoran became more... careful.
Mistrust and greed took control of most people, even the ones who who were known to be goodhearted.
Well, Most people did not include in the citizens of Zaun, already filled with such horrible aspects.
The effects of the city's destruction did not reach the foreign champions that lived there either. They were all too busy to care anyway.
Aatrox even came back a day after Jinx.
Meanwhile in Zaun, they trained the "recruits" with their skills.
Zed taught them close combat, the art of stealth and the ability to throw shurikens with ease and accuracy.
Syndra taught them to use their own orbs. They were of course not as powerful, large and easily manipulated as hers, but were still deadly and heavy enough to kill.
Diana taught them speed and magic, showing them what true force there is through melee combat with the moons magic.
Jinx as well decided to help teaching, showing them that whenever they use a ranged weapon, and I quote, "It doesn't matter WHO you hit, as long as its not yourself and the explosion is big and pretty!~"
Sejuani showed the meaning of the shield and true force, giving them teaching of pain, and showing them that they should feel none of it.
To his request, Viktor was left alone in his laboratory.
In his time he upgraded his minions, giving them a variety of weapons all over their bodies.
They weren't even humans, so who cares.
Mundo was finally done, together with Singed, each on his own creation.
"DONE!" they both shouted.
Mundo finally finished his cleaver, a weapon he created to himself that when thrown it will automatically return to his hand after a certain range.
Singed, on the other hand created something far more scary and dangerous.
"Yes..." he whispered to himself with a cunning smile.
"Y...yes what, sir?" A small scientist helper near him asked as Singed looked at the large glowing tube in front of him.
"Hehehe..." He maliciously smiled "Nothing, Its just that Spin is done..."
The growl of an old female was heard inside the Witches castle the the Freljord.
"Oh.. Oh gods..." Anivia had her conscious returned to herself "Whats going on her?"
As she spoke, she looked around. All over there was true ice, just laying one over the other as if it was nothing. The rare materiel which both she and everything ice and ancient was made of was surrounding her with the carras of Nostalgia. And as she felt the warm, a sudden realization had hit her.
There is no such place
She then looked closer at the ice, she noticed it had a darker hue to it.
Oh no She thought. She already had her image in her mind, that's what she was most afraid of.
In her ear, she heard the sounds of crusting ice, bashing one another,
getting closer and closer.
Anivia already saw it coming, so she flapped her wings and tried flying away.
It was no use. She looked down and saw her legs encrusted in black ice.
The ice was not the only think that encrusted her, fear was as well.
And as the echoing sound of crumbling ice got stronger, so did Anivia's fear.
She did not want to confront this abomination, not again.
not again
And as these thoughts went through her mind, they vanished in an instant with the sound of opening doors.
She looked straight ahead, and saw two massive doors made of true ice opened.
In between them, stood the witch.
Behind her was a purple-haired creature surrounded by animal pelts.
"Anivia, how lovely." The witch spoke "It's been a week since I have been found under the snow.."
"Ahem" The creature behind her coughed.
"Err..." She looked back at him, then back to her guest "We, have found you. Now, please do tell us what you were doing in my area?"
Anivia looked away, as if the witch was not there.
The lady of ice smirked. "Cyrophoenix, do you really think of me as such a weak think?"
The witch lifted her right arm, the true ice followed.
From the ground under Anivia, the ice lifted as a giant spike. It got close to her neck, just an inch away.
"Do not forget, My powers are just as powerful as Avarosa's and Serylda's. Although..."
Lissandra lowered her arm, and so did the spike.
"There is a reason why you are here, correct?"
The phoenix looked at the creature near the witch.
"Trundle..." The witch spoke "Leave this room."
"But..." He tried resisting.
"Leave"
Trundle went back and closed the doors behind him.
"Well?" The witch spoke "What is it?"
"Lissandra... He is back."
"Who is?"
"He... He took her away... She actually agreed to go with him..."
"Anivia, Who is it?"
"She still... She doesn't even know what he can do..."
"ANIVIA!" Lissandra shouted. "Who. Is. It."
"I... It was Aatrox"
Lissandra felt a chill in her icy spine. The name and memories rushed in and put fear inside her mind.
"Are you sure..."
"Sadly speaking, I am, Lissandra. I remember seeing him talking to Sejuani."
"Serylda... Your descendants have made a huge mistake..."
"Lissandra, there is no time thinking about the past, we..."
"It is not the past I'm worried about, Cyropheonix, its the future." The witch released the clench of her claws from Anivia's feet.
"Anivia. He is the Warbringer. He will bring this world to an end if we stay aside..."
Anivia sighed. "What are you trying to say?"
"We need to fight. All three nations... Sejuani left them, so the Winter's claw must have a new leader."
"Are you truly suggesting we can work together?"
"No one is stopping the winters claw from war, The frostguard will agree to my command. What's left is the little princess..."
A portal appeared in Noxus, followed by flowers and vibrant colors of pink and green.
Out of it, came Veigar and Lulu, The only two Yordles to survive the war on Noxus.
Veigar breathed heavily "DIE!... Ha?" Veigar was surprised by the sudden change of scenery from the dark purple of his magic into the ruins of something familiar.
"Where am I?!" He shouted.
"Where are we, you mean." Lulu looked at him, finally seeing his face not as insane, but now it was more like fuzzeled.
"B..But Noxus!"
"..." Lulu didn't say a think, just looked around here.
Veigar understood.
"It was all ME? YES! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! witness TRUE POWER!" He laughed with joy.
Lulu sighed heavily with disappointment. She then had a small smile on her face, yet it wasn't a smile out of happiness.
"You know, Veigi..." She started telling him after going on her knees. "I thought I could change you for the better. I thought I could make you a better person..."
She looked at him "I guess I was wrong, you maybe are evil..." She got up "So evil you even made me believe i made some kind of change. In the end, all you did was destroy all hope for me about you, just as you did to this city."
She started walking on a path away from Veigar. "Goodbye, Veigi, I hope that someone else will be able to do better then me."
Veigar was struck by her words for the whole time, he couldn't even answer.
She just walked away, While Veigar looked at her getting further away.
"COME OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON YA BASTARDS. GIVE HIM BACK." Draven shouted at Thresh and Mordekaiser.
The four were walking towards the beach on the other side of the continent.
Draven was forced to carry his brothers body while Thresh and Mordekaiser were empty handed.
"AT LEAST HELP FOR GODS SAKE"
"We cannot help you, Soul Reaver." The metallic giant said.
"WHY?!"
"We are getting something that is wrong here..."
"AGHHHHH" Draven furiously dropped the body which he dragged over his shoulder for the last few days. "DO YOU THINK I CARE?!"
"Wait..." Thresh took out his Scythe. "Morde, I think he is here..."
Singed had called minutes ago all of his new allies.
He sighed while thinking of the amount of people. A large amount of company was never a thing that Singed was fond of.
"Welcome, everyone" He spoke "As you might probably know, we are soon to be going to war... So i think before getting on with this coversation, i should probably also introduce everyone to the other. First of all, we shall start with me. My name, as you might probably know, is Singed. My associates in Zaun are Viktor..." He moved his hand towards his Zaunian ally " Dr. Mundo..." And so he continued, pointing at each person he said his name "And...er... Jinx... I guess. Near them there are Sejuani, Diana, Syndra and Zed. To their left, Swain and the Black Rose corps."
As singed spoke of 'Noxus', All the eyes were averted towards Swain and Le Blanc, which stood near him.
Most of the thoughts that went through the Champion-ally forces were Something like "Living Noxians? How?"
"Err.." Swain groaned "For all those who think about why are we alive, we escaped before the explosion happened."
"Yes... Anyway, I am here to bring an explanation." Singed spoke.
"You see, most of you here were training different units here, things that look human but are not. They are stronger, more powerful and most of all, fearless. These things are a newer, better version of an old experiment that came out... greener then expected. That experiment was... well..."
A scream of pain was heard, followed by silence.
"Taken care of..."
"What are these things?" Viktor asked "When I upgraded them, they followed and did whatever i wanted with them. The have not screamed, nor have they resisted. What are these?"
Singed smiled, he hoped for someone to ask this question.
"As you might know, We also had Z.A.C., Zaunian Amphibious Combatant, as our first experiment. He has failed us because he was able to learn emotions, we had no control over him.
Yes a few months ago, i have made a small discovery through my experiments in this very own laboratory. As i was searching for something, I have accidentally created an artificial Z.A.C., yet this one Could only copy the meterial that was given to him. Let it be Vitamins, Minerals, Blood cells or Organic creatures of its size, it could copy it and learn all of its abilities.
At first i couldn't believe, but when i tried it on Pheromones, it worked... I could copy a Hormone and use it as I want... So i kept developing it, making it bigger, better, smarter. I have created the perfect battle machine. They were Darker, better, and plainly stronger then Z.A.C., and such i have given them a new name. P.I.N., Personal-Impure-Node. These Pins of ours will control what will come... I have never known that all you needed to do to create such things was to add just a tad bit of a Zaunian Touch, and it all becomes better."
The men of science were intrigued by Singed's words. Viktor and Mundo listened Carefully to each and every word of this discovery. As scientists, they believed that one Discovery helps another. And so they had to listen, just so Their discovery will be listened to as well.
The soldiers of magic and war did not understand a word. Diana, Aatrox and Syndra did not even care about what and how these things were made. All they knew was that their soldiers are close to them, and they could soon do as they will.
Zed let out a loud sigh "I did not understand much of what you said, neither have I understood you Zaunian arts of Science, but know I understand that we have an army. What are your plans to do with it?"
"Do you remember the letter i sent you and Syndra?"
"Yes."
"I gave you the option, i have given you the TOOLS, to do as you will."
"Don't avoid my question. What are your plans to do with these... things?"
"I am planning to make peace to myself. I want a quiet world where I will be able to do my experiments by myself in silence. Maybe a few helpers here'n there... But overall, I want silence."
"But, your letter said..."
"What my letter said to you means nothing, Zed. I do not care what you do with this army after the war is won, as long as you leave me be..."
"War?" Sejuani asked with a vicious smile.
Prince Jarvan the IVth, was sitting on a table inside the Royal house near his Father, King Jarvan the IIIrd.
"Father... What should be of me now? Where do I even go?"
Jarvan saw something from the corner of his eye, and as he looked under him he saw blue shiny rings constantly surrounding around his body.
"WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?!" The prince shouted as he tried stabbing the rings with his spear.
"Hmmm... That's quite odd, Why now?"
"FATHER WHAT IS THIS!?"
"It's..."
"FATHER I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS HELP ME!"
"You're being summoned, Good luck prince." The kind said with a smile
Prince Jarvan the IVth was summoned to the institute.
In Ionia, Karma was meditating.
Blue rings appeared around her as well.
As her eyes opened, she saw them. After letting in a breath she was summoned into the institute of war.
Katarina and Talon were about to finally leave the cave they were living in for a week. They had made their decision and nothing could move them astray from it.
"Err, Miss Katarina?" Talon said as he looked at her feet "What's going on?"
"I don't know, but i think its some sort of Teleport spell. Apperantly you will have to start the hunt without me, Talon, good lu..."
Katarina Du Couteau was summoned to the institute of war.
Lissandra looked down new her Ice, she saw Blue rings surrounding her.
"What is it?" She spoke as she cancelled the spell with a simple movement.
"I just moved and it disappeared, but it seemed to have a target place..."
The witch summoned a straight blue mirror near her "Might be interesting, ill watch what it is."
"I can feel them... I can feel them nearby..." Lucian took out his guns and was prepared to a fight.
"Lucian..." Pantheon tried calming him down "Relax, I doubt your ghost-buddies are here..."
"DON'T. CALL THEM. MY BUDDIES."
"Ok... Wait, Guys, this is important"
Pantheon saw blue rings appear around him and all of the allies around him.
"Guys, relax, we are going to the institute of war, we are just being summoned in there." Pantheon tried calming everyone down.
After a few seconds, Lux, Xin Zhao, Shyvana, Leona, Pantheon and Lucian were summoned into the institute of war.
Anivia landed near the icy palace in the Freljord.
She tried rushing into the castle to talk to Ashe, "QUEEN! WHERE ARE YOU?! WE MUST SPEAK!"
As the phoenix saw Ashe, It was almost too late. She saw the blue rings under the queen and knew that she would leave soon.
"Oh, Anivia. I'm being summoned." She spoke softly.
"WHATEVER YOU SAY THERE..." Anivia shouted, trying to make sure she will hear it before it was too late "LISSANDRA IS ON OUR SIDE!"
"Wh..."
Ashe and Tryndemere have been summoned into the Institute of war.
"No... This is wrong, I'm telling you..."
"Vi, Relax. Nobody died in a week, just be happy about it..."
They both laid in bed, naked. They were right after the act, they did not expect what happened next.
Caitlyn saw a bright blue light under the bed.
"Vi..."
"Yea?"
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
"Like wha..."
Vi and Caitlyn were summoned into the institute of war.
Heimerdinger was spinning in his chair, Singing to himself.
"Ladadadadi~ Ladado! SCIENCE! Weeeeee~"
The secret computer screen on his desk opened.
"Hmm? What does this mean? Why did this open up?"
"Welcome to the Mothership Desktop board. How may i help you?" The program from the machine spoke.
"Err... Explain, why did you open up now?"
"Processing answer... Processing answer... Answer ready. Congratulations HEIMERDINGER. You are now the new commander of the Mothership. What are your commands?"
Heimerdinger saw the blue rings under him.
"Wait for commends until I come back."
He closed the computer.
Heimerdinger has been summoned into the Institute of war.