The Piltover Sheriff looked around her camp with her fellow friend, Vi. "Whats wrong, Cait?" Vi looked deep into Caitlyn's eyes.
"Nothing," Caitlyn murmured, "But I hear footsteps." She stood up and looked past a few trees and into the forest. Her eyes were narrowed. Vi nudged Caitlyn suddenly. The sheriff of Piltover looked to her friend. "Yeah?"
"A shadow's over there," Vi said, pointing to a figure hunched down over something. Caitlyn squinted towards that direction and stepped a little closer towards the figure.
"Its Jinx," Caitlyn recognized the skinny figure and the long blue braids, "If we hurry, we'll be able to kill her." Vi nodded, grinning.
"Punch first, ask questions later," Vi quoted from herself, punching her fists. She didn't have her gigantic hands, but she was good with hand to hand combat anyway.
Caitlyn chuckled and rolled her eyes. She drew a slightly long knife, more like a machete, and began to approach Jinx from behind. Carefully... Cait stopped immediately, when she heard bushes rustle. She looked to Vi, but the Piltover Enforcer was paying no attention.
Out of nowhere, Vi leaped to Jinx, her left fist raised to punch the girl. Caitlyn rushed forward at the same time, but slowed as quickly as she could, when she noticed the familiar device in Jinx's thin hands.
"VI RUN!" Caitlyn screamed, and grabbed her partner's arm. Right when Vi realized what was happening, it was too late. Suddenly, an explosion seared sharply into Caitlyn's whole left leg. She felt death coming straight for her, pain filling her senses. Everything went black, and she could hear three cannon shots in the distance.
Meanwhile, with Yasuo, Master Yi, and Riven...
Master Yi was peacefully meditating, his eyes closed in concentration. The Games were the times Yi went without his goggles and his mask. Yasuo sat under the shadow of their shelter, his eyes narrowed. Riven leaned against a tree trunk, and yawned in boredom.
"Can't we just go hunt for champions?" the Exile complained.
"That will not be wise, Exile," spoke Yi, opening one eye to look to Riven, "Teams there may be." Riven snorted and turned away from the Bladesman. Yi sighed and closed his eye.
"Why don't you look, Riven?" Yasuo said, standing up, "I'll come with you."
"Then I shall keep a watch on our supplies," Master Yi opened his (brown? blue? green?) eyes. It had a slight twinkle in the depths.
Riven was nearly jumping with glee that she would be able to go walk with Yasuo, alone, and could barely contain it. Yasuo just nodded and shrugged slightly. "Lets go," he didn't sound so enthusiastic, which made Riven slightly disappointed. (Huehue)
Riven nodded and followed the Unforgiven through the forest. It was quite peaceful, despite the horrendous situation the two were in. She could obviously see that Yasuo was deep in thought, since his brown (I think his eyes are brown :\) eyes were distant and unfocused.
"Hey, Yasuo-" Riven began, but Yasuo raised a hand for silence.
"There is motion nearby," he said in a low voice, "I shall check it out. Stay here." And Yasuo disappeared into a bush, headed somewhere.
Riven sighed. She couldn't even start up a conversation in this situation (Yes i meant for it to rhyme). She looked around, until finally, she saw a glimpse of pink hair. 'Huh,' she thought curiously, and slowly approached, 'Could be Vi...'
She looked through a small space between a few leaves, and truly, it was Vi, and her partner, Caitlyn. They seemed to be focused on something Riven could not see. Perhaps she will get an easy kill for the first time.
Riven slid closer, until she saw the familiar blue braids of Jinx. "Sh**!" the Exile cursed as she rustled the leaves of the bush she was in. Vi was several feet away, and Riven forgot her weapons back with Master Yi.
Suddenly, Vi lunged forward to Jinx, and so did Caitlyn. Riven watched, ready to launch herself into the throng, when Caitlyn suddenly yelled, "Run!" Puzzled, Riven realized too late, similar to Vi.
An explosion rocketed Riven straight into the air, where she slammed against something hard in a tree, probably a branch. But when she heard the familiar buzzing of bees, she knew she was in trouble. Her stomach already was blown and burned, and she couldn't run.
She tried to call out to Yasuo, hearing his footsteps coming closer, a slight difference in the pattern, probably to investigate the explosion, but her eyes closed in pain, and everything went black.
Several minutes ago...
Yasuo took one last glance to Riven, and noticed that she had run off. 'Stupid girl,' he thought, but knew she wouldn't go off too far. He sighed, and stepped on something hard. When he bent down to see what it was, he realized he had stepped on a trap, and it had clamped its jaws around a poor rabbit.
'Free food,' he thought, and pried the rabbit free. He set it down, and headed farther along. Suddenly, pain seared in his right leg. He nearly screamed in pain and surprise. He had been caught in one of those traps. His leg stung with pain, and he managed to free his leg. His calf was torn and bloody, but he continued.
Soon, he found the source from where the traps were. A pile of them lay unused on one side of a clearing. And in the small clearing, was where it seemed Caitlyn and Vi were sheltering. There was a few pieces of what looked like overburnt meat, laid out on a flat stone. A fire had been extinguished, only leaving a pile of blackened sticks.
'Caitlyn and Vi must be somewhere,' Yasuo thought, and stiffened when he heard a yell. It sounded feminine. He reached for Caitlyn and Vi's medical equipment and was halfway through wrapping his wound with gauze when a large explosion, extremely close by, nearly blew Yasuo a few feet away.
"Wha-" Yasuo began, before realizing Riven had run off to check something. Had she run into that explosion? Did she survive? Yasuo never liked Riven anyway (HAH), but she was a comrade, so he stood up, ignoring the pain in his right leg, and ran towards the direction of the explosion.
"Ri-" the Unforgiven began, crashing into the clearing where the explosion had came from. His eyes widened when he saw the destruction that lay ahead of him. 3 cannon shots were heard in the distance. The ground was blackened and burned, covered with three bodies. From what Yasuo could recognize from the corpses, it was Caitlyn, Vi, and Jinx. Jinx was barely unrecognizable, her whole front side burned from the explosion. Her eyes were pure white, and her braids of blue hair lay on the ground.
The scent of burning flesh came to Yasuo's nostrils, and he gagged. Covering his nose with his hand, he approached the nearest body to him, Caitlyn. Her whole left leg had been blown off, revealing some things that Yasuo could not get away from his mind. (And writer-sama doe not want to do gore)
He slowly stepped around Caitlyn, and crouched down beside Vi. The poor girl had her whole side blown off, and the reek of blood and soot was a little too overpowering. Yasuo stood up, nearly gagging as he took in a slightly longer breath, and was about to leave the clearing, when he heard the buzzing of bees.
"Oh no," Yasuo muttered, and added a few creative curse words from Ionia. He ran, headed to Caitlyn and Vi's camp, hearing the swarm of angry bees. He grabbed the dead rabbit, and headed straight for the small waterfall.
His injured leg made it hard for him to run, but he did anyway. He saw the bright light of the sun reflecting off the sparkling water, but he didnt take any time to process the beauty of the waterfall, since he could hear the buzzing of the bees. Not even caring about his clothes or anything, Yasuo leaped into the water and dove into the depths.
The cold was extremely shocking, and Yasuo kicked towards the surface. He saw that the bees had gone and sighed with relief. He swam to the shore, and heaved himself on the pebbly shore.
Yasuo coughed out the little water in his lungs, and stood up, wincing as his injured leg stung with pain once more. He sighed and looked around. All clear, needless to say. With that, he staggered in the direction towards thier camp, and during the trek back, he finally realized he had left Riven.
Back at the camp, meditating...
Yi opened one eye when he heard the bushes rustle loudly. 'Certainly not Zed,' he figured, a heartbeat before Yasuo staggered into the camp. Immediately, Master Yi stood up, his eyes alarmed.
"Got into a fight?" Yi said, helping Yasuo sit down, "Where is Riven?"
"Explosion," Yasuo said, not even going to add many words, "Rabbit traps. Three deaths. Bees. Water." As if that explained everything, which it surprisingly did.
'Explosion meaning caused the three deaths,' the wise Yi thought, 'Rabbit traps explain the rabbit in his hand, and... His leg probably from rabbit trap. Wound looks from claws or fangs. Bee swarm from explosion probably came to Yasuo, he ran to water, which is why he is wet. Hm. Good way of putting things.'
"So are you just going to stand there, or are you going to do anything about the bleeding mess of my leg?" Yasuo's impatient voice cut through Master Yi's thinking.
"Ah, yes," Yi nodded and rummaged around the various medical supplies they had. "Who died?" He asked as he began to patch up Yasuo's leg wound.
"From what I saw, Jinx, Caitlyn, and Vi," Yasuo grimaced as his leg stung even worse.
"Ah, I see," Yi mused, "Have you scavenged anything?" The Wuju Bladesman paused and looked up at Yasuo.
"Just the rabbit," Yasuo replied, sighing, "At least we have some food."
"Ah, at least you made it alive," Yi shrugged, "Things could have been worse. Also, where is Riven?" For the millionth time, Yasuo looked guilty. Too many things have made him guilty, killing his brother Yone, and things that Yasuo did not want to recall.
"I had told her to stay at a place when I was checking a place out," the Unforgiven replied, his voice brisk, "She slipped away and I didn't know where she went. Perhaps she betrayed us and went with another group. Who knows?"
Master Yi raised an eyebrow. "I would have figured that you would sound more worried than that," he commented, "She is from your District."
Yasuo sighed. "Not particularly," he said, "Honestly, I don't care about anyone except myself and-" he abruptly paused his sentence.
"And...?" Yi motioned for his comrade to continue.
"And myself," Yasuo scoffed and limped to the shadows of his shelter and plopped down, closing his eyes, sighing once more.
Master Yi blinked a few times. Yasuo had already said himself. Who could this other person be? He shrugged off the question. 'Perhaps meditating shall help,' he thought, and closed his eyes in concentration, unaware of the watchful eyes coming from Yasuo.