Chapter 11 – The Near and the Curse
Vi and Jinx were seen together. Apparently Vi got her fists blocked in some elastic threads and Jinx was cupping her face with a pervert smirk. "You caught me, fat hands." She slaps Vi`s face demanding her power over her now. "Or shall I say, I caught you?"
"It`s not like I won`t rip your ass when I get free!" Vi smirks back dealing with the threads. They were spider threads and they were placed around the dark corners of the training area.
"This motivates me to play with suppressed you now." Jinx grabs her hair rudely pulling her face closer, while Vi growls in pain.
Elise was there watching from the dark corner. Right near her, Le Blanc came from nowhere lighting the corner with her magic scepter. Her gross made up face was grinning with a superior attitude. Her hand was clenched in Vayne`s rough pony tail as she was breathing hard at her feet.
"Good job, Le Blanc." Elise crosses her arms proud, but her eyes were on Jinx and Vi. They turn heads and googled at beat up Vayne.
"Hey, Jinx. Where they looking at us all this time?" Vi drops her jaw funnily.
"I think so..."
Le Blanc looks at Elise a little concerned. "What are we gonna do with these two?"
"Make them forget they see this." The spider nun looks contented by her priestess powers and didn`t mind her spider threads caught Vi.
Le Blanc understood what Else wanted, so she shrugs waving a finger to the two vulgar girls. Her magic reaches them and made them kiss each other. Meanwhile Elise and Le Blanc leaves the room and Vayne was dragged after the magician woman.
Katarina returns in Talon`s room with a letter. She was furious and jumps on his bed raging. Things changed in her mind after Elise started to play her erasing game.
"Talon!"
"What is it?" He didn`t feel the best, but he healed at the best.
"Talon!" The red head growls again at him.
"What?!" He gets up rubbing his cold chest. "For how long..." He frowns and lifts from bed, as Katarina answered him already.
"For a week." She sighs in relief. "I`m glad you feel good. Now you received a letter to leave the league for your own good."
"Kat." He didn`t care her rumbling, so he comes to her and grabs her hands, forcing her to stand right in front of him. She was shorter than him, but he felt good to see her under his breath like in old times. "Do you feel like forgetting things too?"
"Yes, but..." She tilts head looking in the empty room.
"But what?"
"I want to stay in the Institute of war. You can go if you want to." Katarina lifts head determined and looks right to him.
"Kat, here is no place for you." He feels bad that he can`t help her. He already checked the place for any provement that general would leak and there was none. He also took good care of her, but he felt like he forgets the reason he fights for. He wanted to protect her for not a real reason and the general`s face started to vanish with day by day. It was cruel for him to watch over Katarina who forgot about her sister and she only sticks together with him because they were similar assasins.
"Talon..." She understands there is a missing link between them, but she didn`t mind her internal urge to kiss him. She grabs his chin and kisses him for a short moment in his astonishment.
"Kat?"
"I trained my whole life to be useful in battles. I raised my status in military under Swain`s hand. I can`t return in Noxus when the war in over. This place is my home now and I will fight for the league, even if you agree this or not."
He expected that, so he steps aside from her with a painful smile. "If this is what you want, Kat..." He starts to pack his few things into a box keeping silence and not facing her again.
So he left the next day. Only Cassiopeia came and hugged him in that day. No one other could remember what was the link between them, but he knew that she was his sister in law. After that, it was forbidden for him to check over what`s going inside. His memories were still tainted, but not all of them.
He returned to the new house that Katarina brought and he finds it broken. He forgot for how long he stood in the Institute of war, so everything seemed unclear. There was nothing to remember about the vampire who sold it, so he had to return in slums. It was sad that everything about his past with Katarina was just vanished like nothing was there before.
The night before the institute closing up, Elise summoned the Blood Moon members inside the training zone. The Institute members were attacked and dragged to be devoured by the masked men. From behind, the spears of vengeance inflected them and another hand was dragging them with a hook. They were Kalista and Thresh helping each other in their own benefits. Her hallow growls matches his insane laugh perfectly.
"Their screams is music to my ears."
"Hah. Don`t flatter me, Thresh. I`ll bring revenge for everybody!" She growls hitting Morgana from behind. The dark angel attacks Kalista back, knowing the Blood Moon member.
"Not her, stupid." Thresh facepalmed, being catch up from Shen and Akali.
"Don`t worry, we`ll finish here." Said Akali who jumped in the fight and eliminated Morgana.
"Wh-...?!" Thresh stood there confused. He knew that Morgana was by their side even if she didn`t join their organization.
"What is going on, Thresh?" Shen stood behind watching.
"I don`t know what is playing Elise, but this is getting stupid." The male specter didn`t agree, but he was there to collect souls in his lamp. He kept silent and did his job ignoring the problem.
"She knew too much." Akali added lifting her mask.
As for Shen, everything was confusing and he stood behind attacking only if the league members will attack him.
Elise was there watching, sending her spider babies to inflect poison and help the four Blood Moon members to finish quickly. Her reason was simple. Le Blanc couldn`t erase all memories and some of the champions were dangerous. It wasn`t as planned, but those who already knew too much couldn`t bring peace. This was everything she could do to stop the war outside the league`s gates.
"This is wrong! What are you doing?" Evelyn made herself visible in front of Elise.
"Women shall not talk." Elise demanded.
"There is no reason to do this to all of us!"
"Step aside, Evelyn, or I`ll kill you." The spider priestess grits her teeth sending a few spiders after the shadow female.
"I may not mix in your business, but I`ll get out of here." She made herself invisible again and run from the siege. Everywhere she stepped were dead bodies. Her eyes marked Teemo and Katarina very close. The long red hair was painted with mud. It started to rain and the other runners stepped on her body too. "Poor thing..." Evelyn sighs and gets away faster embracing her invisibily.
In Talon`s spare chamber in slums he finds Katarina`s golden watch. It`s a shame she left it at his place once again. Maybe he has to check on her like before. He runs where the institute was supposed to stand and finds nothing.
It`s been already 2 years. This was not supposed to happen to anyone at Katarina`s young age. This year she should turn 25 if she would be alive. "Katarina Du Couteau" Talon`s eyes were filled with tears as his knees reaches the ground before her grave. At least their built them graves. Maybe their bodies were not even there, but the funeral stones were places in lines. Who did this though?
"I see you looking for Katarina." A hallow feminine voice came from nowhere, but her body shape turns real hanging on the noxian assasin`s grave.
"Who...?"
"Evelyn." She smiles placing a hand on his head and carelessly taking his hoodie off. "The Institute of war dealt with traitors. The Blood Moon organization did this." She smiles sadly playing with human brown hair. "no one wanted t know about the Shadow Isles and what really happened there. This will happen to Valoran too if the Blood Moon will not find its peace..."
"What is Blood Moon?" He lowers his head wiping his face. It was visible that he didn`t have time to enjoy her presence.
"It is a long story..." She started to vanish, while her voice leads near a certain grave. It was writen "Amumu" and near by it was a dig hole. The little mummy was set free. "Haha. He was already dead." She laughs behind, playing with Talon`s sharp attention.
"Mhm." He started to get sick of her rolling around.
"Look, over here."She points at some other graves. "Here lays Jinx, Poppy..." She stopped, when he could grip her arm and pulls her rudely.
"Why are you showing me all of this without even carrying?"
"I was born dead. There is a place where life is none existent." She turns invisible again and her voice started to surround the noxian again. "I am still hiding from Elise. We share the same origins, but I am not part of her master plan." Evelyn seeks for fights, breaking the rules from shadows, hurting humans with small treads, while Elise wants peace using to murder for this goal.
"Mhm."
"This is haunted place after they all died." She looks at him from behind without his knowing.
"I can say that too."
"Blood Moon wanted to shut them forever, so Elise ordered to kill them all."
"I understand." He growls and her hand touches his shoulder.
"It`s too late..."
He cuts her turning to face her. "It`s too late for tears. I got it."
"You can`t do anything now." She back off her arm rubbing the cut. There was no blood to shed.
He let her be, looking down ignorant. His knees couldn`t play by his side and he falls down, griping the dirt in his hands. He couldn`t express his lose for Katarina, but he couldn`t do anything. Blood Moon organization was a ghost organization just like all the Shadow Isles creatures. "What is this Blood Moon organization...?"
"It won`t help you to know. It`s a secret curse behind everything." It looks like her voice was excited to see him this way.
"What curse...?"
Evelyn comes near and he lifts his head. She points her finger over his lips. "It`s a secret."
"Heh. I guess I understand what you mean." He smirks at the idea that he used to hide a secret back then too.
She smirks back silently. At least he was the same like her. Sharp minded.
A week later, at Katarina`s grave, a well dressed woman wearing funeral black clothing and a black cover over her eyes came and left a red rose. She was the leader of Black Rose organization from Noxus. She was clear and meditated. Le Blanc.
"You did it well. You fight them like a real noxian. Though you died. But no one blamed your lack of skills. You trained for the glory of Noxus and now everybody is talking about your great performance in the Institute of war. Cheer up, noxian." Le Blanc didn`t call her name not even once. She bows and places the rose better on her grave. Her eyes notices a piece of paper half covered in mud. She picks it up and reads it with a half smile. "Kat, when you`ll met general, tell him I couldn`t keep the promise. Talon"
[What happened next?]
Well, Le Blanc returned in Noxus and killed Talon He was the last link who knew what happened there. Though Evelyn continued hiding in shadow, the story of Blood Moon remained alive.
The x memorial day for Noxus heroes and a brunch of slum kids were playing in the merchant place. There were a boy looking at the new statue who was just revealed. There wasn`t any other statue in slums before, so this one was wearing "Katarina Du Couteau" name.
The kid chuckles looking at the french name and behind him the other kids started to call his name. "Hey, Talon! Come over here."
Behind the crowds, there was a hoodied someone watching over the slums. On his right arm landed a bird. "The last one under Du Couteau`s name." He pets the bird.