A new week started and classes continued as normal. Reginald and Ezreal were presented with a difficult situation. Talon offered them a spot on the athletics club and even though they wanted to join a better one, they had no other good options so in the end they accepted and waited for the first meeting of the club to happen. It was Monday and all club activities were forced to start on that day, as soon as the regular schedule of classes ended they would need to attend to the track course. However as they expected all of the periods were quite slow and boring, leading the two students to painful day.

After many hours and a recess, the two companions found themselves at the cafeteria during lunch time, however this time they were planning to stay away from Talon, Katarina and her gang. One of Ezreal's ideas was to meet another of his friends to expand Ren's circle of friends and despite the latter actually trying to avoid another possible incident the blond pushed him to give him another chance. This time they went to a different part of the cafeteria and sat on one of the empty tables, it was weird that this `meeting´ already started with the person missing.

¨I swear that if this ends up with another girl going insane…¨ Reginald commented, grabbing his fork and pointing it at his fellow student.

¨Relax, this guy has no connections to anyone that is crazy… well…¨ Ezreal took the water bottle from his tray and unscrewed the lid ¨He does know some people that might not be sane but they won't bother us¨

¨Can you promise that?¨

¨Yeah sure I can promhmh¨ He finished the sentence by drinking from the bottle and looking away.

¨You can… what? I didn't hear you¨

¨I said thatipromise¨ This time Ezreal said the words in a quick succession, still not looking at Ren.

¨Hey Ez¨ Another person approached the table and sat in front of the two other students. He wore the gray jacket and the dark red pants along with a loose tie; his skin was dark and the hair white but what made Miles raise an eyebrow was that this new kid had a strange picture in his face, it was white as his hair but it had the shape of an hourglass ¨This is the guy you told me about?¨ He looked at the person he never met before and smiled ¨I'm Ekko¨

¨Reginald¨ They both stretched hands ¨Have to say… you already passed my first impression, unlike last time¨ He frowned and turned to the blond who remained silent; he had to look away to avoid the killer eyes from his new friend.

¨Last time? What happened?¨ Ekko looked back at the blond who sighed and shook his head.

¨Well… I told him the same: He needs to meet more people and expand his friendship circle… turns out that when I presented him to Talon, things didn't go as I originally planned, Katarina and the rest came and-¨

¨Oh, wait, say no more, I don't need to hear the end of the story¨ Ekko said jokingly, it wasn't the first time Ezreal made that kind of mistake, and even if that happened in the past he hasn't learned anything ¨So Ez told me you are new at the academy, quite an interesting first week you had here, right?¨

¨Oh what can I say? Met my classmates, got to know the place, the monsters, the Star Guardians¨ Ren nodded and stabbed one of the baby carrots from his plate ¨Seems pretty normal to me¨ Even though his tone was calm on the inside he really felt scared, the attack from that creature was terrifying with Sophie almost getting killed by it he wished that no more monsters would attack the academy again.

¨Well for us it is, thankfully the Star Guardians are always there to protect us¨ The white haired kid started to eat part of his meal, unlike Ez or Ren he ate quite fast ¨By the way, have you found a club yet?¨ His mouth was full and trying to understand what he said was difficult, after he digested he repeated the question.

¨Oh, uhm… yeah we did, we are on the athletics club¨ Ren answered and got a confused look from Ekko.

¨Wait… you got in?¨ He chuckled ¨You two are the luckiest people I ever met, you ended up in a decent club, the best ones were full the day that monster attacked¨ The white haired boy took a sip from his bottle ¨At least you got a good club¨

¨Ah, don't tell me you got unlucky¨ Ezreal asked as the last person who joined the table nodded ¨So what you got?¨

¨Let's say… I didn't have other option but to join the theatre club¨ immediately after he said that Ezreal almost choked with his food, he took a long drink and then started to laugh ¨Yeah keep laughing, I know you won't be able to run a lot like… you have chicken legs¨

¨That ain't true!

While both Ezreal and Ekko kept discussing, Ren pulled of his phone and looked at the chat history, there were some conversation from his friends from the previous school, one with Ezreal and the most recent one was with Sophie. There were two new messages from her so in this `dead time´ he wanted to talk to her.

`Where are u?´

`Cafeteria, lunch with friends´

Reginald's head looked up and around, there was no trace of the girl, however the entire place was big so he wouldn't be surprised if they were in opposite sides of the room.

`Can't see u, lol´

`I'm with the lit. club. I can't see you either´

This just caused some surprise to the boy; Sophie wasn't the type of girl who would be into reading many books, unless those that were mandatory by the institution, maybe she was also unlucky and had to join whatever club that didn't seem too bad.

`Meet up at academy's gates after club hours?´

`Yeah, see you there´

After that message Ren just smiled and put the phone back on a pocket of his jacket, he then looked at the other two students who were still discussion about the club issues. He joined the conversation and the three of them talked until lunch time was over and everyone had to return to their classrooms.

Another two boring hours passed until the last bell at the academy rang, sadly not a lot of people left the academy since it was time for the clubs to start with their schedules. Both Ezreal and Reginald had the issue to walk to the track course which was outside of the `walls´; they just walked out of the classrooms and met up with Ekko who had classes on the room to the left. As they walked on the corridor the trio met another person that was near the staircase, it was the brown haired boy who offered an invitation to the athletics club to the scared boys from the last time.

¨Well well, trying to skip the first meeting of the club?¨ Talon commented and stepped in between Reginald and Ezreal, putting his arms around the necks of the two students ¨I'll be surprised if you were able to run away, you don't seem like the type of people who would get too far, nor the ones that have a lot of speed. Tell you what: You try to run to the gates and I'll try to catch you, yes?¨

¨What's your point Talon?¨ Ezreal frowned, trying to escape from the grasp from the member of the club.

¨Nothing really, just a warm-up for today¨

¨Uh guys…¨ Ekko said but no one paid attention to him.

¨Come on, we weren't going to escape, we just had the (bad) luck of meeting you right here¨ Ren tried to escape as well but the man was stronger ¨Can you please… let us… go?¨

¨Guys…¨ Ekko tried to get the attention of the other three, this time there was a female scream down the hallway that only a few people noticed, of course none of the members of the athletics club listened to it.

¨Oh I will, once we get to the course, until then you'll carry me there, see if you actually have strength in your shoulders¨ Talon said with a grin in his face and tried to push the other two members to move forward.

¨GUYS!¨ They now turned to Ekko ¨You heard that?¨ After that question they remained silent and were able to listen to the sound they ignored before.

The female scream was heard once again and a random student ran past everyone yelling about a monster. It didn't take long before the rest of the people in the hallway to scream since one of the weird creatures that attacked the academy last week appeared once again. Unlike the other ones that appeared this one was a different type of enemy; it had a slim and small body, the color was still dark purple. Unlike the other ones this seemed to be the closest to a human due to the legs and arms it had, however unlike actual arms the monster had scythes that glowed in a bright green, whenever it touched a wall a glowing green mark was left there.

¨Oh shi-¨

¨Remember, T rated!¨ Ekko interrupted Reginald as the four of them started to walk back, the monster was getting close but it wasn't running.

¨You wanted a warmup Talon? This is probably better than us¨ Ezreal tried to chuckle at his joke but it was eclipsed by his heartbeats almost deafening him.

¨Shut up and run!¨ The other member of the club shouted at them and they all turned to escape from the creature who jumped to their position, thankfully it missed all of the students who were escaping in fear.

Panic was spreading throughout the entire Runeterra Academy, all of the students running in fear towards the exit, some were already out but the huge horde was still inside. They thought that they could escape just like that but they all noticed that the ground shook by the main entrance. A huge hole opened on the grass and from there a gigantic hand emerged from it, then another until a big body that connected them both appeared; the head was small (in comparison to the rest) and glowed in the toxic green, it was the biggest monster everyone has seen but it didn't came alone. From the hole many small of the otherworldly entities came out and tried to seek out the nearby students, the initial reaction the horde did was to scream and run in the opposite direction in search of a new escape route since the main gate was blocked by the new enemy.

As they tried to run back to the building they found themselves cornered by many more of those small monsters along with two the ones with scythes and two that spitted the weird liquid off their mouths. This was completely different; a full-out attack that could mean the death of many students although they had hopes that their saviors would come.

¨I just hope Sophie is ok…¨ Reginald whispered, he was trapped in the middle of the crowd along with Ekko, Talon and Ezreal.

¨I actually hope the Star Guardians come…¨ Ezreal was the one who talked now, he tried to hold his ground since the students from the back were pushing as not to get attacked by big creature or the small ones that were by the gate.

Ezreal's words acted like prayers and the monsters in front of them were pushed away by a mysterious force. As everyone looked at the creatures flying away to the other side of this massive group, they all turned their heads back to the front and saw their saviors, although the team was not complete. Only four out of the five members were there: the two Yordles, the pink haired floating woman and the one with a crazy look and long ponytails.

¨Everyone, hide!¨ The armored Yordle yelled and the students followed the orders, seeking refugee but at the same time trying to have a good view of the fight, this also included Ahri who learnt her lesson from the last time and was trying to get as much footage from a safe distance, she seemed happy since this could net her a lot of views in her blog.

After everyone found a shelter from the upcoming combat, the fifth and last member of the team appeared. The pink haired leader stood in front of her group and gave instructions but the creatures didn't wait; the scythe monsters jumped and tried to attack the guardians but the flying girl used her shield to bubble the leader from the incoming, this gave the crazy girl the enough time to use her weapons to shot at the creature and push it away. Sadly none of the other enemies stood there watching, instead they followed with a big attack; the spitter used its acidic projectile to disperse the group while the other scythe creature went for the isolated targets, this along with the small thingies disorientated the Star Guardians.

Unfortunately for them the big monster also moved but before going towards them it swung one of its arms and destroyed the front gate, rendering it unusable as an escape route. As the guardians kept fighting the creature growled and used its strength to push all of the saviors against a wall, no shield or barrier protected them as this heavy hit did a lot of damage to them. Another growl and all of the enemies turned towards the downed Star Guardians who were slowly trying to get up; they were injured and trying to recover would take some time so instead of fighting some tried to avoid and lure them away from the people. However the leader's orders weren't as effective as they expected since the armored Yordle and the gun-guardian charged towards the horrible entities, only to get damaged and in the process hurting their companions as well.

Unlike the last time they were now gravely injured, half of the team was on the ground while the leader and the green-haired Yordle just stood up, despite their damaged bodies. Everyone looked in fear as their protectors were going to be defeated, who knows what would be their destiny after the Star Guardians were gone, probably not a good one.

However in this desperate moment a small glint of hope shone over the academy. The almost-defeated guardians were enveloped in a green light that made their wounds disappear. As they stood up the eyes of the students went from the combat to the opposite side where they found another person wearing a similar style of clothes to the other protectors. This girl had a moon-shaped staff and the flying animal that was resting on her shoulder didn't seem happy to see the fellow members of the team getting injured; the girl's look was accompanied by a white horn on her forehead, instead of legs she had hooves and a large and fluffy light-green hair. She was different; it gave calm and hope by just looking at her, but for the monsters it was a beacon that must be destroyed, an isolated target but it won't be easy, the other guardians were already ready to fight.

They were decided not to lose, and with their newest addition to the team they were certain of one thing:

They will protect Runeterra Academy and their students.

Wonder who this new guardian is, right people? LUL

Well this had a fair bit of action, but the next one will have even more, especially since it will all be from Sophie's PoV! And yes, transformation time! We are also getting close to the end of the arc.

What? Yes, the story will be divided into arcs and each arc will have an epilogue; chances are the next one will be last one from the first arc and trust me, I have plans for the next one, you just have to wait.

Now time to promote this thing alright? Discord people! Discord dot gg / UpMHen3 you can the Fanfiction server and talk with many authors and readers, shitposting ensured as well as fun memes and nice talking. More people are join so why are you not there? :D

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See you in the next chapter ;)