Shingi: Hey guys. Hope you all have been enjoying the story so far and I hope to improve and continue to entertain you. I'm still waiting for a response from Radio Shack.
I don't own League of Legends.
Fear not what hides in the dark. For it fears what does not hide with it.
-Chapter 11-
Gangplank's boat would arrive at the Shadow Isles at dusk which Gave Katarina a few hours to prepare since she herself had never been. The attire that Miss Fortune left her with really made her feel like she had become part of this pirate crew. She had gotten a hat and an eye patch that she had the choice of wearing which she did. She also washed the silver dye out of her hair to now put black dye in it. After that she put on a long coat that felt a little too long to her so she cut it just above her lower back. The sleeves she folded above her elbows for a little more room for her to move around. The final piece was a red strap that held the blade she kept on her back. All and all she felt like it wasn't as bad as when Miss Fortune had shown it to her. The clothes were nice but it hadn't kept her entertained the whole trip so she decided to leave her room and roam the ship.
She had seen the living quarters on her way out, the kitchen, the fuel room, and the bridge. The final room was where she guesses they had meetings of some kind though a little shocking that Gangplank would demand such order. She walked out on the deck where she found most of the crew huddled together. One of them noticed her and called her over. She was hesitant at first but complied as she soon joined the huddle. Gangplank was at the other end as he had begun whispering among them. Whatever they were discussing Katarina became updated on and caused her to grin almost madly.
"I like where this is going."
Miss Fortune had been looking all through the ship for anyone who could tell her to find Gangplank but it seemed like they were nowhere to be found. She even stopped by Katarina's room to find her missing as well. She walked by the kitchen to see all the lights off. She was about to continue on until she heard some laughing coming from inside the dark kitchen. It was a familiar laugh so believing it was a crew mate she attempted to cut the lights on but it didn't work.
"Real funny guys! But just because it's my birthday does not mean I won't shoot you down if you try and surprise me! The same goes for you Kat!" There was no response besides that laughter that seemed to taunt her in to the kitchen. She pulled out both of her guns before shouting in to the darkness. "Alright you all were warned!"
She slowly entered inside the kitchen aiming around corners as she saw a door with the light on inside. She kept checking around herself the best she could in the dark as the laughing seemed to be coming from the pantry. She looked through the glass in to the pantry and saw a quick shadow move inside before the laugh was heard again. "I won't you to know that I wasn't joking about blowing you away if your trying to surprise me! I don't like surprises!" She kicked the door open aiming at the entire pantry while barely stopping herself from squeezing the trigger on anything inside. Her eyes noticed an average sized box on the middle on the floor that seemed to stand out from everything else in the pantry. It looked well crafted and the design made it look quite expensive.
"Well this has my name written all over it." She smiled as she crouched placing her hand on top of the box. She began opening it as something forced it the rest of the way. Miss Fortune fell back aiming the gun she left in her free hand at it but saw that it was a small jester head with a note attached to it. She lowered her gun and shakily reached for the note. When she thought she was close enough she snatched it expecting something to happen. When nothing did she looked towards the note but quickly looked at the box just to be sure before she went back to the note. The were only a few word but that was all she needed to feel the blood drain from her being. She knew why the laugh was familiar. She had seen this box too many times and felt foolish to have forgotten who this box really belonged to. She knew what she had to do. She had to get up and run, find someone and let everyone know who may be on board with them. She knew what to do but soon all of that was forgotten as she heard the same laughter she had been hearing since she came to the kitchen. She now felt even more foolish because the few words on the note that she held in clear bold writing stated "Look Behind You". She turned around aiming right behind herself but she ended up moving her hand in to a blade cutting her hand and losing her grip on Shock sending it across the room. She was now face to face with a grin so wide it made her face hurt and blue eyes that seemed to glow. The rest of this things figure was covered in the dark of the kitchen while the light from the pantry showed the parts of him that she saw. She also noticed the blade partly in her forearm.
"Do you want to see a magic trick?" She didn't answer as another hand came from the dark and placed itself in front of her just hovering in mid air. It waved once over the ground revealing a box just like the one that held the message. She smiled a little painfully due to the pain in her arm.
"Cute trick but-" The box sprung open scaring Miss Fortune but also revealing a little jester head that cocked back before shooting forward firing a single. She raised her hand and it stuck her in her hand causing her to scream out. It fired another needle but she moved to the side dodging it and finally moving the blade out of her arm as she put her body against the side of the shelf as the box fired more needles in to the shelf. It wasn't long before it stopped. She was hesitant to look around the corner to see the box head go slack while Shaco laughed over some joke he seemed to be the only one to understand. She aimed the only gun she had an unloaded on the clown watching the bullets tear through him as he continued to laugh with his body jerking wildly from the force of bullets. She stopped as his body fell to the round laughing and choking while he bled out. She came from around her corner and stepped on his chest causing him to cough up blood. His laughs turned into chuckles. She aimed the gun at his head as he continued to cough up blood.
"Your insane. Laughing as your about to get a bullet through your head. Someone- no. Something like you should have been put down long before you ever got a chance to join the league." She was about to pull the trigger when she felt the tip a blade pressed against the back of her neck. She bit down on her lip knowing who it was. Shaco began to mimic a tone like the one she had before.
"Your insane. Talking to someone-no. Something like it's real. Stupid people like you should have been killed long before you got a chance to join the league." He was grinning from ear to ear. Before he had the chance to shove his blade through her neck he felt a longer blade press against the front of his throat. This did not take away his smile. He felt someone breathing by his ear before they spoke.
"And someone like you who lets their guard down because their so focus on something is someone I consider truly stupid." Miss Fortune couldn't hold back her smile as Katarina's voice reached her ears. However it was short lived as Shaco started laughing again. Katarina didn't understand how he could be laughing with the situation he was in.
"What's so funny clown?" His laughter died down as he answered.
"You beat me so the game is over but I did have so much fun. We should play again don't you think?" Before she could respond his clone that Miss Fortune was standing on raised both his blades into it's stomach. As this happened Katarina removed her blade from Shaco's throat and push herself and Miss Fortune out the front of the pantry doors as the clone exploded firing blades in all directions. With both of them low they were fortunate since none of the blades stabbed but did leave a cut or 2. Katarina looked up to see Shaco no longer in the pantry that had blades in all of the cans and other food items inside.
"He got away!" She slammed her fist to the ground but noticed a pair of hand that weren't her's or Miss Fortune's. She turned to see Shaco also looking at the pantry clearly looking for something.
"Darn we almost had him!" There was a long silence as the 2 ladies looked over at Shaco who was unfazed by their stares. The kitchen lights came on as Gangplank and the rest of his crew came in.
"What the hell is all the gun shots and WHY the hell do I have a pantry the looks like your friend got frightened and threw blades every which way!" He seemed to just noticed Shaco kicking his legs back and forth like it was some kind of sleep over. "Why is there a clown on my ship!"
There was an exchange of words, blades, smoke, gun shots, and rope before the ship seemed to quiet down. By the end Gangplank and the crew looked like they had gotten into a fight, Shaco looked beaten as he was tied up sitting on the floor, as Katarina and Miss Fortune just looked angry. Gangplank was first to speak.
"So maybe-" Katarina cut him off.
"No."
"But if you-"
"No."
"Lets just ta-"
"No." Miss Fortune sighed.
"We don't have a choice considering we need all the help we can get." Katarina looked at her like she grew a second head.
"You can't tell me that your really taking this as a serious choice. He's psychotic! Maybe we should see if Nocturn or even may Renekton want to be apart of this madhouse you want to start." Miss Fortune looked over to Katarina.
"We are headed to an area we are not familiar with and enemies we do not know of yet your concern is with the beaten tied up clown that can help us fight the same enemy who will soon take his home as well. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and right now we need a LOT of friends who can hold their own." She gestured over to Shaco. "He can be one of those people if we at least give him a chance. If he won't then we can throw him over board and just leave his fate to the sea. Does that sound good to you?" Katarina seemed like she was still unsure. "I'll put a bullet in each leg and you can cut his throat before he goes over just to be sure fate goes our way if you want." Katarina smiled at this.
"You have a deal." They both walked over to the still smiling prisoner. "We have a preposition for you." Shaco looked towards them as they explained what they wanted from him. What would happen if he did and didn't accept were also explained. This caused him to smile harder it seemed.
"So you want me to kill these things for you?"
"Yes." They both responded in unison which caused them to look at each other before back at Shaco. He thought for a moment looking towards the ceiling before looking back at them.
"Under one condition." They both looked hesitantly at first. "I get first blood." They both looked at each other again and nodded their heads before agreeing to his condition. Shaco was so happy about it he jumped up out of his ropes and held out his hand. Everyone looked at him astonished. "Shake on it and we have a deal." Katarina shook his hand with zero fear. As she finished shaking his hand he vanished in a cloud of smoke. As Katarina coughed mostly from the surprise of this she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned and saw it was Gangplank.
"Seems to me you just made a deal with a devil." She stopped coughing and smiled.
"No. Just made a deal with a new friend." A bell was heard coming from topside. "What is that?"
"Looks like we have arrived! Lets get to it you land lubbers! Everyone prepare to dock at the shoreline!" As he did everyone began to run up to stairs to get to work but before Miss Fortune could she felt someone stop her. It was Katarina.
"What is it? We just arrived here you know?" Katarina pulled out a small long box from behind herself giving it to Miss Fortune. "What's that for?"
"Well I heard from a Pirate that today was you birthday and I'm not very good at this so... Happy Birthday Sarah." She gave her a quick hug before she herself left Miss Fortune alone with her gift. She looked at the long box for a moment before deciding to open it. Inside was a small blade that looked like the ones Katarina kept on herself. She smiled.
"Nice thought but I won't ever get the chance to use one of these with Shock and Awe by my side." She put the blade away in her chest pocket as she walked over to the far wall in the kitchen where Shock had been tossed and put it away in her holster as she silently left the kitchen hitting the switch for the light. This time it worked as the light went right off. She walked up the stairs as the hallway was now silent. If someone would listen carefully enough they would here Shaco's ghostly laugh coming from almost everywhere before fading back into silence.
-End Chapter-
Shingi: I have been accepted. New employee of Radio Shack. :) More importantly I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I will try to update soon but until then later super cool people :p. Also plz review so I know what you think and Ty.
