Chapter 11

The Feeling of cold steel against Galven's throat was uncomfortable. Galven turned a little bit to see if he could get a better view of the man behind him but as soon as he did that he felt the knife cut the skin on his throat. "You might not want to do that Gladiator God." The man behind him said.

"Who are you?" Galven asked with a deadly tone.

"Since your going to be dead soon, might as well tell you." The man behind him said. Galven turned around so they were face-to-face. The man that was holding Galven had a cut all the way down his right eye, making it so he couldn't see. "We were hired by people in bilgewater, are job was to track you down and kill you. They told us nothing about the woman you're with." The man broke his attention from Galven and looked at Ahri with a devious smile. "First we are going to have are fun with her then shoot you." Right after he said that Ahri's face turned white.

"Leave her alone, this has nothing to do with her." Galven said with a deadly voice.

Hearing this made the man laugh loudly. "Now tell me 'Galven,' why would we pass up a fine piece of ass like her?" Hearing those words made Galven angry. As fast as he could Galven grabbed the man's arm that had the knife to his throat and twisted it awkwardly. The result of doing that was a loud crack. Screaming in pain the man grabbed a gun off his belt and pointed it at Galven with his good arm. Lunging forward Galven grabbed the gun out of his hands and threw it out of the man's reach. While raising his first to strike the man in his face he felt immense pain in his left side. Looking down he saw that the knife that was in the man's hand was lodged straight into Galven's side. Trying to regain his thoughts, the man he was on top of threw a punch directly into Galven's right cheek. The blow knocked Galven on his left side, were the knife was embedded. The knife cut even deeper into Galven, screaming in pain he ripped the knife out and stuck it into his attacker's throat.

After all of the pain that just happened Galven just wanted to lay down and sleep. Pushing those thoughts away he stood up to see Ahri standing up with the man who was going to kill her on the floor, lifeless. The man had no wounds on his body, not even a scratch. "Galven we gotta see if they have a infirmary on the ship, you're bleeding out!" Ahri screamed as she wrapped an arm around Galven's shoulder.

While walking to find some help Galven breathlessly said "How did you kill… How did you Kill him?" Ignoring the question for know Ahri ran him inside of the infirmary and explained what happened to the nurse.

"We were attacked! He got stabbed we need help!" Ahri pleaded. Nodding the nurse help Ahri get Galven into a bed. Right away the nurse cleaned Galven wound and started to stitch it up. Seeing there was nothing for Ahri to do she laid down on the chair next to the bed that Galven was on and tried to calm herself.

"He's going to be fine, I need to know what happened when you guys got attacked." The nurse said calmly.

"We just got back from the pool, then these some sort of assassins attacked us. Galven attacked them but got stabbed, he pulled the knife out of his side and stuck it right into the man's throat. I managed to kill the man who was trying kill me. We escaped and made it over here." Ahri said, she was still in shock.

"Why would there be assassins wanting to kill you?" The nurse asked as she wrote stuff down on the note pad.

"Because we are weapons of war for Ionia, well at least Galven is." Ahri said as if she was uncertain of herself. Hearing a loud groan, Galven sat up slightly and took in his surroundings. Ahri was sitting on a chair by a older looking nurse. "How are you up already? You just woke up." Ahri said astonished.

"I don't know." Galven said while rubbing his eyes.

"I'll leave you to be." The nurse said. Almost silently she walked out of the room and shut the door.

"Those men that attacked us, they were hired by someone in bilgewater. Why would bilgewater wanna kill me?" Galven questioned out loud.

"I don't know, isn't there tons of assassins in bilgewater?" Ahri asked Galven.

"Yeah there is." Galven said matter-of-factly. "I can't believe there are assassins already coming after me."

Watchful Galven sigh out loud, Ahri felt like it was her job to comfort him. Standing up Ahri walked over to Galven and sat down on the bed with him. "Let's just talk about something else." Ahri said as she laid down and curled up against him. "Ok here's a question, when did you figure out you were the gladiator God?"

Hearing this Galven faced Ahri and laughed.

"I'm sorry we switched subject so fast I thought it was funny. Anyway I was 14, a bear was chasing me, huge brown bear. It manage to corner me. I thought for sure I was dead but when the bear lunged at me I actually tried punching it in mid air. Thinking back on it now I don't know how it would have help me." Galven said with a wide smile. "My tattoo glowed and I punched it. The bear feel on the ground and tried to shake the punch off. Taking this opportunity I stabbed it in the side of its stomach, as fast as I could I grabbed a huge rock on my side and smashed his head in. After that I figured it out because I think most people can't punch a bear and practically knock it out. Not to mention killing it with a rock." Galven said as he traced a scar along his arm. "This is one of the scars he gave me. Anyway now it's my turn to ask a question, how old are you?"

With a serious face Ahri looked at Galven and said "3 years old, or in human years 21."

"My girlfriend is a 3 year old. That's funny." Galven said as he laughed a little.

Ignoring it Ahri said "my turn, are you an only child?"

"No I have a younger sister, she is working at a college in Demacia. She would adore you, try to be your friend immediately." Galven said as he swooped in for a kiss. "Now my turn, do you miss your parents?" Galven asked as he traced his hand over her arm.

"No, I hardly knew my parents when I was a fox. It's normal for foxes to leave their kids soon after they're born." Ahri said with a sad look on her face. "Now my turn, I kinda know what it is but can you explain to me how it works?"

"How what works?" Galven asked curiously.

"Sex." Ahri said plainly.

"W-wait wait, I thought you knew what sex was!" Galven said with a huge blush on his face.

"Well I do, I have seen it happen to other female foxes. I was just wondering how it felt." Ahri said while a small blush creeped onto her face.

"I don't know, never have done it." Galven said while looking into her golden eyes.

"Wanna do it then?" Ahri asked with curious eyes. Right as Ahri said that Galven eyes widened then looked at Ahri.

"Ahri do you even know what happens during it?"

"Yeah a man puts hi-"

"Alright! that's enough." Galven said with a red face. "From what I have learned people do it when they're ready, and I don't think neither of us are."

"Fine I get another question then, how old are

you?"

"22." Galven said with a solid answer. "Do your tails ever get annoying?"

"Never, if they are ever in the way I just wrap them around my body. Or when I sleep I wrap them around you or me." Ahri said as she wrapped her fluffy tails around Galven. She touched the knife wound and Galven groaned slightly. "Sorry, anyway my turn. You told me when you were younger and you got kicked out of your village people thought you were an abomination right?" Galven shook his head up and down. "Why didn't you just tell them you were the gladiator God?"

"Because if I didn't even know that I was. Also I probably would have been killed for calling myself it." Galven answered. "Alright Ahri let's go back to our room. As slowly as he could Galven stood up. "Let's go." After awhile of walking slowly they made it back and layed down on the bed. Pulling off his shirt, Galven let Ahri cuddle up to him. Soon Galven let sleep overtake him.

Hearing muttering and feeling something move around, Galven looked around and saw Ahri smiling in her sleep. She was talking to someone in her dreams, Galven couldn't make out the words because they were mostly mumbles. Wrapping his arms around Ahri's body Galven leaned in and kissed her cheek. "Galven…"

"Shh… We don't have to get up yet." Galven said as he traced his hand over her face. Pulling away Galven used his arms and lifted Ahri on top of him, so she was laying on top of his chest. Feeling the heat radiating off of Ahri's body Galven's once again wrapped his arms around her and cuddled with her for a while.

"What time is it?" Ahri's said as she got off of Galven. As soon as she saw the clock she just ignored it and laid back down on Galven.

"Ahri you kinda are on my wound." Galven groaned. Realizing she was, Ahri shifted so she was laying on her side next to Galven. "What do you think Ionia is going to have us do when we get there?"

"I have no idea." Ahri said as she snuggled up to him. Laying her head on his chest she closed her eyes and said "wanna do the question thing we were doing yesterday?" Hearing Galven grunt a 'sure,' Ahri leaned up and kissed him. "How long have you liked me?"

Slowly Galven ran his hand up and down her arm. "I don't know, probably when I first saw you. You're quite pretty. Why do you ask?" Galven said as he ran his other hand through her hair.

"I was just wondering when you fell for me." Ahri said with a cheeky smile. "Your time for a question."

"Do you miss being a fox?"

"Not at all, being a fox was boring. Just repeated the same stuff everyday, eat and sleep." Ahri said as she picked at her nails. "How did you learn to fight Galven?"

Galven thought about it for a minute "How did I learn to fight?" Galven repeated the question to himself. "I guess I never really thought about it, I have trained and fought a lot so that's most likely why. I should probably go take a shower" kissing Ahri once more, Galven stood while buckling his wound. After about a 10 minute shower Galven got dressed and walked out to see Ahri sleeping. Slowly waking up to the bed Galven bent down and whispered "You can go take a shower now."

"Hmm" Ahri practically hummed back. Thinking of something funny that his dad did to him when he wouldn't get up, Galven leaned forward and put his hands in a cone shape leading directly into Ahri's ear.

"HMPH!" Galven grunted as hard as he could, this made Ahri jump straight out of the bed and looked at him with weary eyes.

"Goddammit…" Ahri muttered. Galven was in a fit of laughter.

"The look that you had on your face was priceless." Galven said while laughing. Pissed off Ahri started walking over to the shower and punched him lightly in his wound, not hard enough to do more damage, but hard enough to hurt. Grunting out loud Galven gave Ahri a look that almost said 'touché.' Smiling to herself Ahri walked into the bathroom and took a shower. After a long shower and combing her long hair Ahri walked out of the bathroom only wearing a bra and panties. This immediately got Galven's attention. Trying to think of a distraction from looking Galven grabbed his bag and found a shaver and shaving cream. Walking over to the bathroom he sprayed the cream on his hands and rubbed it all over his chin and neck. Washing the shaver he slowly started to bring it down his chin, almost as if it was dissolving the cream. Reading he made a mistake since he left the door open. It gave him a great view of Ahri, who was bent over pulling clothes out of her bag. The view of her ass was hard to take his eyes off of, he made the mistake of shaving while watching. Which made him cut his right cheek. Dropping the shaver in the sink he shut the door and continued to to shave. While shaving Galven remembered what Ahri said yesterday about if he wanted to have sex with her. Why did you say no! he thought to himself. Shaking those thoughts out of his head he sighed out loud. It wouldn't of been right to take advantage of her, especially since it would of been her first time. Besides, they literally just got together.

Walking out of the bathroom Galven was relieved to see Ahri fully dressed. "What do you wanna do today?" Ahri asked as she was digging through her laundry.

"The ship has a restaurant, we could go eat breakfast. Wanna do that?" Galven asked Ahri. Seeing Ahri nod in approval they left to room and started walking towards the restaurant.

-Somewhere unknown-

Two men sat in a fancy looking office, they had a bottle of expensive wine and two wine glasses across from each other. "So tell me, how strong is this gladiator God?" One of the men asked as he took a sip of his wine.

"To strong." Was all the other once said.

"Listen, if bilgewater wants him dead then I need to know how strong he Is." The hooded figure replied back angrier.

The other man let out a loud sigh and took of his glasses, looking directly at the assassin and said "He could kill anyone he wants to, and no one could stop him. If the Gladiator God trains well enough and gets stronger he could take army's out easily. Legend has it that he could destroy the void."

"What about the dark sovereign, doesn't she pose a threat to?"

"Not nearly as much as the Gladiator God." The man put his glasses on again and continued his paper work.

-Ahri and Galven-

"How's your side?" Ahri asked as they were walking to the restaurant.

"It's still the same, Ahri we need to be really aware of assassins. If you see people following us a lot tell me." After breakfast the captain of the airship said that they were going to be arriving at Ionia soon. "Let's go pack our stuff up."

-Authors note-

on this chapter I really tried to focus on Galven and Ahri's relationship, I wanted focus on them getting to know each other more. Right now the story is really slow but I plan on the next few chapters full of action! Review are awesome please leave them. See you guys next time.

Ps thanks for all of the reviews DarkFirepower!