The leap to the cloud was a long one but with the help of the wind, Yasuo made it. The blonde woman smiled at him and raised her white staff. The wind picked up and slammed the windows shut after them.

"See? Nothing to worry about." She said, seeing Yasuo still examining the cloud. "It's solid for us. It's a nimbus cloud. It will carry us wherever I want to go."

"Okay… Who and why?" Yasuo asked, looking up at the blonde woman as the cloud started to float up.

"My name is Janna. I protect this region of the world from harm when I'm needed." Her smile was a little bit too calm for the situation. She looked very comfortable on her cloud, just sitting cross-legged with her white fabric robes waving in the wind like a flag. But her smile was genuine and had a strange effect in the situation. Yasuo actually started to calm down by just seeing how relaxed she was. "Anyway," Janna continued after a moment's pause. "I'm a tempest. I can control the weather. But I could not get rid of this storm for some reason. It was like something was making it stronger against my will."

"I think I figured out what that was. Singed was using a big purple guy like a battery. I have no idea how."

Janna frowned. "That's terrible! But you freed him right? Before I got there?"

Yasuo paused for a second. "Uh no. I couldn't. I had to put him out of his misery instead." Janna's mouth opened wide in shock.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry I wasn't there in time," she said, looking very upset with herself.

"Well you saved me," Yasuo said, grinning a little and grabbing a bottle from his bag and biting out the cork with his teeth. "Want a swig?"

"Oh, no thank you… what was it?"

"I'm Yasuo."

"No thank you Yasuo. I don't like to drink alcohol."

"Why not? Good for your troubles."

Janna shook her head. "Not really. It helps you forget your troubles, it does not have the power to fix them."

Yasuo nodded solemnly. "I guess." He took a sip, not taking his eyes off of his companion partially because he wasn't fully sure he could trust her and partially because she was amazingly beautiful with the wind blowing like it was against her. And she controlled the wind too! Yasuo sighed to himself.

"What is it?" Janna asked.

"Oh, uh nothing. Just uh, you are an ally to the wind too."

"You are?" She asked, looking away from the clouds and back to Yasuo.

"Yeah. Only one left. Or so I thought."

Janna smiled brightly. "I guess there are two of us then!"

"Three."

"Three?" Janna asked, excitedly. "Who?"

"An assassin who killed my village elder and pinned it on me." Janna did not react for a moment but the turned back to looking at the sky and raising her staff. The clouds started to clear away at her movement. When she was finished and the clouds were gone, she turned back. "I must say, that's legitimately disappointing."

"Hah, you're tellin' me."

"Anyway, Yasuo. Where would you like to be dropped off?"

"Oh, uh anywhere is fine. I'm just walking to Piltover."

"I'll take you all the way there!"

Yasuo furrowed his eyebrows and looked at the strange woman. "All the way to Piltover? That's a week's walk."

"Or a couple hours on a nimbus cloud!" Janna replied happily. "Don't you see how fast we are moving?" Yasuo looked down and was surprised to see that Zaun was already far in the distance.

"Wow, well. Thank you Sarah."

"Sarah? It's Janna."

"Oh yeah," Yasuo laughed. "It's just, I had a friend who gave me a ride a while back called Sarah. My mistake. I apologize."

"That's quite alright! You know, I bet you could make us go even faster! If we work together I'm sure we can speed up this wind current!"

"Won't we get knocked off?"

"Yasuo, the wind knows better than to knock us off. Have some faith."

Yasuo was confused again. "It doesn't know better. It's wind. It doesn't think."

Janna shrugged. "No, but if you let it know what you want it might just surprise you." Yauso didn't quite buy it but he calmed himself. Closed his eyes, and prepared to channel the wind.

'Don't knock us off, don't knock us off, don't knock us off!' he prayed in his head, opening one eye to check what was happening. To his surprise, they were moving even faster and now Zuan was but a speck on the horizon."

"See? You're doing it!"

"But how?"

Janna laughed. "You opened yourself up Yasuo! Remember, you aren't alone! The wind is your ally and it will help you if you only ask!"

Yasuo had never really thought of it like that. But he smiled and continued to focus on the wind.

A few hours later, Yasuo could see the fantastic cityscape of Piltover in the distance. The golden city had buildings higher than he had imagined. He was breathless just looking at it.

"Never seen the city before?"

"No. I'm not exactly local."

"Oh," Janna said, perking up. "Where are you from?"

"Ionia, but I'll tell you that some other time," Yasuo said without taking his eyes off the skyline.

"Alright. Well, whenever you are done in Piltover, I can come and take you wherever you need to go in this area. I could at least get you part of the way home," the hopeful look in her eyes made Yauso feel warm for the first time in over a month.

"Deal. Thank you so much Janna. How can I repay you?"

"Oh it's nothing Yasuo. I am just so glad to meet someone else who knows the wind like I do!"

"It's nice for me just to have a friend," Yasuo grinned. Janna giggled.

"Alright Yasuo, I'm going to give you a cloud to ride down on. It won't last long so land fast okay?"

"Wait what?!" Yasuo said, panicked by this sudden turn of events.

"I'll see you soon! Just guide the wind!"

"Agh!" Suddenly the cloud they were riding on split in two and Yasuo started to descend onto the city. He looked up and saw Janna waving and smiling from her cloud, the long white strips of fabric that clothed her flowing in the wind. Yasuo smiled back, distracted if only for a moment from the plummeting cloud he was riding on.

As soon as she was out of sight, Yasuo turned his attention back to landing. The cloud was descending very quickly and he could see the edges of it dissipating into the air. His ride was getting smaller by the second. Then a bright flash lit up the sky around him.

Yasuo whirled around to see several giant rockets flying at him. He leaped up as one came past the cloud, missing it by inches. "Oh no. no no no no!" Yasuo yelled, noticing that his cloud had stopped in mid air but with all the momentum, he hadn't. Yasuo started to fall in the midst of all of the missiles.

'Help help help!' To his amazement, the wind actually did help by guiding him towards one of the rockets. Yasuo desperately grabbed onto the side and scrambled on top. Catching his breath, Yasuo scanned the sea of rockets and spotted something strange. There was what appeared to be a person on top of one of the further away ones. It was the silhouette of a woman with long braids wearing shorts and combat boots. She was standing up and riding it like a surfboard! Yasuo gawked at how much skill she must have to maneuver like that. Then again, the rockets were probably hers and they were headed straight for the city!

With haste, Yasuo leaped from his rocket, this time in control of his fall and signaled an updraft to break his fall. Nevertheless, the fall was rough and Yasuo slammed into the ground forcefully, hitting as the rockets connected with a tall building in the center of the city. As the walls came crumbling down the girl who was riding the rocket slid down the debris, laughing and clapping. A huge wave of dust surged through the air and over the two as their eyes met. Yasuo started to stand up, not sure what to expect from this girl.

Author's Notes: Hey, I just wanted to give a quick shout-out to a few of the reviewers from l last couple weeks! First and foremost, Carbon839. I have to thank you and all of the other people who have read every chapter a lot for the support and for continuing to read. As I've said before, that is what is keeping my going most. To Umbree: Thanks a lot for the review! Let me know if you ever figure out what you think is "off." I'd love to hear what I could do to be better.

Sidenote: I am working on a spin off project with Diovolo currently that will be a 3 chapter side-story that fits in with The Unforgiven. The difference? This time it is told from the perspective of the elder's killer. I won't be rehashing anything that has happened to Yasuo and he will only be making a brief cameo in part 1 of this trilogy but I hope you enjoy it none the less. It will be released as part of The Unforgiven periodically over the rest of the story. Part 1 will be coming quite soon. I hope you are as excited as I am.

Well folks, we are in Piltover now! I hope you're ready to get Jinx'd in chapter 12!