As the lane continued on, Tahm sat in one of the nearby tall grass bushes and watched the events of the lane unfold, subconsciously mimicking the one called Braum, who seemed to be doing the same as him, waiting for the correct moment to strike. While he watched Braum seemed to enter a bush and instead of seeing the rustling of grass or hear the noise of shuffling, the bush remained undisturbed. This was surprising, and Tahm assumed it was due to some magic the institute had set up to allow guerrilla tactics. Whatever the purpose, his thought process was cut short by Draven suddenly throwing his act sideway, seemingly out of impatience, which sent it slicing through the minion wave and shoving Jinx to the side. Seeing his opportunity, Tahm stepped forward and launched his tongue out at a surprising velocity, where it struck the unfortunate criminal on the skinny forearm.
Tahm's eyes widened as time seemed to stand still. All at once, he had experiences a veritable rush of emotions and regrets, past and present of this individual, including a view over a cityscape that seemed oddly familiar. and then he realised. It was Piltover, with the same spindly towers and ramshackle roofs as the Piltovarian-Zaun section of the town outside these stone walls… and as she watched the vision, the feeling of boredom grew to excited as it showed a pale hand clutching a …clockwork monkey? It met his eye with its own glassy ones, and seemed to be playing a melody as it clashed its symbols. At once, the hand pressed a button in the back of it and the eyes lit up as the world outside exploded at once into a thousand fire clouds, the stench of chemical fire and smoke filling the air as Jinx's firebombs detonated the cityscape. A gleeful laugh ended the memory and just like that, he was back in the lane with Draven and… her.
Minion's attacks battered at his belly and shins as he waddled forward, eyes widening and teeth elongating as he sought his first meal in a week. He needed... NEEDED that taste! That feeling of boredom, solitude and the lack of empathy towards others... it was intoxicating.
What he didn't notice was the tall man from before jumping out from the brush nearby and landing with a thud, his shield's blue ram eyes flaring as he landed next to Jinx, a swirl of protective frost covering the two as he grabbed her arm and raised his shield to block the two incoming champions.
"Hah, you thought you were in trouble!" he yelled jovially as he punched the back of his shield, a swirl of true ice materializing and being shot out towards the hunger-riddled Tahm, who didn't notice until the ancient magic assaulted his senses. The ice shattered on his belly, and he felt the reverberations of the magic slowing his movement, and covering him in ice shards which cut his thick skin. He stopped and looked to Draven, who threw another axe at hair-splitting speed towards the two. It bounced harshly off Braum's shield with a screech of metal and a flash of sparks, and into the air, where Draven jumped to the side to catch it. This put his out of the cover of the minion wave, and he caught a zap blast in the chest from Jinx, who was peeking from behind Braum with a large excited grin. Draven stumbled backwards, his armour smoking. Tahm shook himself out of his reverie and waddled over to Draven, who was being battered with bullets from Jinx's lavishly pink minigun and seemed close to collapse.
Tahm groaned inwardly as he opened his jaw wide, swallowing up a screaming Draven and cringing at the taste of grease, sweat and narcissism. It was unbearable, and so Tahm ignored the two confused-looking lane opponents and waddled over to their tower, spitting out Draven with a groan, who bounced off the stone construct of the tower and landed in the dirt, his hair wet with Tahm's saliva and he forced himself to his feet.
"Eurgh. I didn't sign up for this! What was that for, fishstick?!" He fumed, turning and lancing Tahm in the sensitive chest with his finger. Tahm regarded him with a bored stare, and motioned with his wide head to the encroaching minion wave. Draven realised he'd been saved and groaned deeply, turning away and sheathing his axes and pointing to the sky half-heartedly. Tahm regarded him with a mix of amusement and bemusement until he saw blue magic fall down upon Draven until he teleported away.
He was left feeling ill under tower, and whipped a few minions down to low health before grasping one of the larger one with his tongue, launching it into its peers and making them all collapse before he felt the tickling in the back of his head from his summoner urging him to recall too. He met the eye of Jinx who was last hitting, and winked at her with his pus-yellow eye before the blue magic swallowed him up.
He'd had a taste of one of the champions of the league, and it was far from the last, he hoped. As he bought new items and felt their strength flowing through him, until a surge of the taste of Draven reach the back of his throat and he turned to vomit into a nearby bush. That was one meal he wasn't too eager to repeat.
Hey Guys, Kawaii here. I'm glad to see this fic still grabs attention, 200 pageviews on the first day it was uploaded, that was very surprising after so many months of updates. I wrote this chapter quickly while in university and was wondering, do you guys prefer these smaller bite-sized chapters or longer ones?
Also, some review responses (These are probably very late, bear with me):
Creaturemaster: Hail, indeed! I'm glad to see you are enjoying the story and want to see more ^^ I was looking to write some more fights and a big teamfight involing more champs, or a tower falling/dragon fight. How does that sound? I'm gld you like how I wrote Jinx, Draven and Braum and I actually forgot about Kalista a few chapters ago, damn xD Thanks for reminding me~
Mr E: I plan to! I'm not sure hwo often how I'll update but I don't want this story to die, and I'm with you on the sad fact that tahm doesn't get enough love. I literally listened to The River King and fell in love immediately.
Thanks for reading guys, and please leave a review if you still read or want to pitch on on those questions I asked! I appreciate every re view, big of small, just the acknowledgement is enough for me.
Peace~
