Chapter 12: Memories And Missions
After Ashe awkwardly suggested that everyone head back to the Institute, the champions left the destroyed restaurant a large sum of money and an apology note.
"Well, that was certainly an evening to remember…" Irelia said to Riven as they walked to the Institute. "Although I'm still extremely confused about you being a guy…"
"Don't be!" Lux piped up. "Ashe, tell them the story!"
Later that night…
Riven tossed and turned in her bed, trying to get some sleep. Which was already impossible at that point, but then…
"OW!"
Someone disturbed her restless state even more.
The Exile bolted upright, leapt out of bed, and grabbed her sword. "WHO'S THERE?!" She shouted. Her eyes roved the room, taking in details in the dim light.
It was 6am (or so her digital clock said); her clothes were on the back of her chair–she was wearing clothes, don't worry. The window was open- wait what?
She was sure that she'd closed it the night before.
Lying in a heap underneath the windowsill was…
"IRELIA?!"
The Will of the Blades slowly sat up, rubbing her head. "... Hi!"
The two stared each other down, suddenly remembering being in a similar situation.
Dark night.
Dark room.
Snowdown.
*DRAMATIC FLASHBACK TO LAST SNOWDOWN*
"Caitlyn, truth or dare?" Vi asked, wiggling her eyebrows. The Sheriff shrugged. "Truth?"
"If you had to kiss someone in this circle right now, who would it be?"
O_O
Caitlyn looked around the all-girls circle: Ahri, Vi, Irelia, Leona, Sona, and Sarah Fortune.
"P-Pass…" The Piltovian stammered, picking up a cup and chugging the contents. Vi shook her head disapprovingly. "You got no guts, Cupcake."
"*hiccup* I'm not answering that question!" Caitlyn exclaimed. "A-Ahri, truth or dare?"
The fox smiled and stroked one of her nine tails. "Truth~" She purred.
"I truth you to-"
"That's grammatically incorrect." Irelia sniffed. Caitlyn glared at her and kept going.
"If you had to make out with someone in this room, who would it be?"
Vi scoffed. "Stealing off of my questions, Cupcake."
Ahri ignored her and appraised everyone in the room with her golden eyes, giggling. "Sona."
"..."
"Cat got your tongue?" Ahri teased the mute, who was as red as Sarah's hair.
"*cough* ok, Ahri, your turn…" Sarah interrupted their silent staredown. The nine-tailed fox flipped her hair over her shoulder and stretched out on the floor. She lifted her feet and playfully kicked them in the air. "Hmm… Irelia~" Her golden eyes locked onto the Ionian, who shifted nervously under her stare. "Truth… Or dare~?"
"Dare, then." She did not want to answer a make-out question. What came next was even worse.
"I dare you to kiss someone, but they have to be willing as well. But at the same time unknowing of the dare." Ahri said, breaking out into laughter.
*DOING* the make out part.
"PASS!" Irelia immediately grabbed a cup and downed the drink. Leona sighed. "This is no fun; you guys always chicken out."
"Yeah!" Vi agreed, glaring at Caitlyn.
Ahri shrugged. "Meh."
Sarah huffed. "Your dares are too extreme."
The fox had dared her to ask Draven out on a date.
*Sarah shivered at the thought*
Sona said nothing.
"Shit!" Irelia exclaimed as she accidentally knocked over a cup, the contents sloshing all over Leona. The Solari didn't look mad. Instead, she looked… Excited?
Everyone knew the rules.
The Will of the Blades sighed. "So what's the bet?"
When someone spilt a drink on someone else, the two must have a bet (This was later changed to a truth, after this Snowdown).
The Radiant Dawn was feeling quite evil. Ahri's original dare for Irelia in mind, she spoke.
"I bet that you can't get someone to willingly kiss you if they don't know about the bet."
Irelia's jaw dropped. "That's not fair!"
"Rules are rules." Caitlyn sighed, feeling sympathetic towards the other woman.
"UGH!" Irelia complained.
Leona smirked. "Loser has to eat one of Teemo's mushrooms."
'Now there's no way that I'm going to lose this…' Irelia decided. Being poisoned was not on her bucket list.
She sighed. "Fine."
*END FLASHBACK*
"So what are you doing here?" Riven wondered as Irelia mentally recalled her bet. The Ionian blinked.
"I… I wanted to talk." She said softly, standing up. "I couldn't sleep, and I guess you couldn't either."
Riven laughed, discarding her sword. "Sneaking in through my window probably wasn't the best choice, but at least you didn't fall and hurt yourself."
"You live on the first floor, Riven…"
"Riiiiight."
Irelia walked towards Riven. "Do you still remember last Snowdown?"
The Exile laughed. "Yup…"
*EPIC FLASHBACK*
"Draaaaaven has such adoring- hey, wait, where are you all going?" The Noxian was confused as to why everybody ran down the nearest hallway when he walked… No, correction, sauntered… No, strutted, into the room. Yeah, strutted.
"Quick! HIDE!" Jayce exclaimed, pulling Caitlyn and Vi into the closest room. Ezreal leapt through the door next to theirs with Ahri, and Irelia shoved Riven into a closet before heading in with her.
The door shut, leaving the two in darkness.
5 minutes later…
"Ok, I think the coast is clear!" Riven breathed, stumbling towards the door in the near darkness. She reached for the doorknob and turned it.
Nothing.
She jiggled it. "The doorknobs jammed!"
Irelia swore. "Let me see!"
The Ionian tried to open it with similar results. "Shit!"
"Let's just bang on the door until someone hears us." Riven suggested. She raised her fist to knock on the door, but Irelia stopped her. "NO!"
The Exile was confused. "Do you want to be stuck in here for who knows how long?!"
"Do you want to die when the door opens?!"
"... What?"
The question seemed totally out of context to Riven.
"Riven, you do realize that we are next door to Sejuani right now, right?"
"So?"
"Sejuani. Is. SLEEPING. If we wake her up…" Irelia didn't need to finish her sentence.
"Oh. Well… shit."
10 minutes later…
"Hey, I think I found something!" Irelia exclaimed. A second later, the lights flared to life. Riven hissed at the sudden brightness and ducked her head into a bucket.
*END FLASHBACK (Due to things happening in the present)*
KNOCK! KNOCK!
Irelia and Riven started out of their shared reverie and glanced at the door. Then at each other. And then at the door again.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
Riven snapped to her senses. "IRELIA! HIDE!" She hissed, and the Ionian immediately dove into the open closet, hiding herself behind jackets, dresses (*gasp of shock*), and scraps of armour.
Riven opened the door to see an impatient Leona.
"Hi, Leona. Can I help you?"
The Solari crossed her arms and sighed. "Have you seen Irelia?"
The Exile panicked, feeling a sense of déja vu. "NOPE! NEVEREVENHEARDOFHER, WHAT'SANIRELIAIHAVENEVERMETANIRELIAINMYWHOLELIFE. NOPE. NUH UH."
Leona looked at her strangely. "Are you ok, Riven?"
"JUST DANDY!"
"... 'Kay then… Bye!" Leona hurried away from her friend.
Meanwhile…
"Ok, ladies!" Ashe cracked her knuckles. "Even though we are few in number, we can do this! Anyone got ideas?"
"... Ideas for Operation Rescue Akali Privately by Eloping or for more people?" Lux asked.
"BOTH!" Ashe exclaimed, bringing out her whiteboard and writing 'Operation Rescue Akali Privately by Eloping' on it.
Caitlyn cleared her throat. "ELOPING?"
"Uh, yeah. Why?" Lux asked.
"You do know what that means, right?"
"Ezreal said that it meant kicking ass in the name of DEMACIA!" Lux chirped.
Caitlyn facepalmed. Ashe ignored her.
"Great! Operation R.A.P.E is underway!"
Meanwhile, in the West Wing…
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"What is it?!" An angry voice yelled from within his room. The door flew open.
"Hey, Ezrea- Why aren't you wearing a shirt?" Leona stared at his scrawny figure and raised an eyebrow. Ezreal flushed red and slammed the door. He opened it a few seconds later, once he'd put something on.
"Hey, Ezrea- Why are you wearing a bra?" Leona stared at his bust-less chest, where a lacy white bra hung. He shrugged. "Why wouldn't I be?"
"... Aren't they for girls?"
Ezreal flexed his arm. "Sexism."
"... 'Kay then, bye!"
Leona ran out the hallway, only to bump into Yasuo. And knocked him over.
"Oomph! Oh, sorry Yasuo!" She helped the swordsman to his feet.
"It is ok, Leona. May I ask why you were in such a hurry?" Yasuo wondered. Leona coughed. "Ezreal… Was wearing a bra…"
His eyes widened. "Did you take a picture?!"
"... No, why?"
Yasuo whipped out his smartphone. "INSTACHAT IT!"
A couple minutes later…
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"What is it?!" Ezreal called again, yanking the door open.
"Got it!" Yasuo whispered excitedly to Leona, both sitting on the ceiling rafters (courtesy of a couple of wind techniques).
"Humph." The Prodigal Explorer shut his door and went back to… whatever he was doing.
Back to Riven's room…
"Ok, Irelia! I think the coast is clear…" Riven said, opening the closet door. Irelia looked up from a piece of Riven's undergarments.
"You know, I think that black suits you better." The Ionian said, putting the panties back into the drawer and walking out of the closet. Riven reddened.
Irelia continued on, oblivious to the Exile's discomfort. "You know, that kind of reminded me of when Leona walked in on us…"
*EPIC/DRAMATIC/ANOTHER FLASHBACK #3!*
An hour had passed, and still no one came to their rescue. Both had left their phones to charge in their rooms. The closet was cramped, small, and starting to get very warm.
"Ugh. It's like a sauna in here." Irelia complained. Riven nodded. "Feels like when we went to Ionia to-" She cut herself off, remembering that Irelia was Ionian… And part of the war.
The Will of the Blades grimaced. "Yeah…" She whispered.
5 minutes later…
"I'M SORRY!" Riven sobbed, burying her face into Irelia's shoulder. Tears streamed down the Ionian's face as well.
"I-I told you, it's not your fault!" She wailed, hugging the ex-Noxian closer. "You have proven that you want nothing to do with Noxus!"
"But you're wrong!" Riven cried. "I want to rebuild Noxus, not disconnect from it!"
"SAME DIFFERENCE!" Irelia weeped.
They pulled back, staring into each others eyes, amber to green.
"You Ionians are so… Understanding." Riven sniffed. "If you were a Noxian, I'd be lying in a pool of my blood with the word WEAKLING scrawled on my forehead."
"That's… Harsh." The Will of the Blades responded, not quite sure what to say. Tears drying on their faces, they slowly leaned closer to each other. The Exile closed her eyes as their lips touched, caught in the moment. And then…
"HOLY SHIT WHAT?!"
Leona was standing in the doorway.
Flustered, the two women jumped back from each other, Irelia slipping on a mop and falling with a loud CLANG! onto the bucket (you know, the one that Garen got his head stuck in). Riven leapt right into the wall and fell into a heap on the ground.
The Radiant Dawn wolf-whistled. "Classy."
*END THIRD FLASHBACK*
"I ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT!" Irelia cried, ducking her face into the Exiles shoulder, which were shaking with sobs. "So many lives! So many!" She wept.
"On your side or mine?" Irelia managed to say.
"SAME DIFFERENCE!" Riven wailed, pulling Irelia closer to her.
(Yep. Déja vu. All that's left is…)
KNOCK KNOCK!
(Ok, I was waiting for the part right before that but FINE! I guess that works too!)
"RIIIIIVEN!" Ashe called. "OPEN THE DOOOOOOOOR!"
Riven groaned. "Not again!" She complained, releasing Irelia. "Hide, I don't think we need people questioning why we were in here together… Crying."
"'Kay." Irelia replied, wiping her tears off and going to the closet to flip through Riven's clothes again. Such fun!
The Exile made herself look presentable and opened her door to see Ashe, Lux, and Caitlyn standing there, looking expectantly at her.
"*sniff* what?"
"Riven, we need you to join us on Operation R.A.P.E!" Lux provided, bouncing up and down with excitement. Caitlyn rolled her eyes.
"... Operation Rape?!" Riven gaped, not wanting to join in on the Frost Archer, Lady of Luminosity, and Sheriff of Piltover's crazy schemes if it involved raping people. Speaking of which…
"Sheriff, how can you be a part of this?!" The astonished Exile asked. Caitlyn sighed. "R.A.P.E stands for-"
Ashe cut her off. "Resue Akali Privately by Eloping!"
"Uh, you do know what eloping means, right?" Riven raised an eyebrow.
"THAT'S WHAT I SAID!" The Sheriff threw her hands up.
North Wing- Operation: R.A.P.E
"Alright guys, you know the drill." Ashe said, slinging her bow onto her shoulder. Lux, Riven, and Caitlyn nodded.
"On three?" The Frost Archer checked. Everyone nodded.
"THREE!"
After a brief delay, they charged towards the door and bowled it down, falling in a big pile on top of it.
"Unnghh… I think we could've thought that out better." Caitlyn groaned, feeling the weight of Riven's armour on her.
At least she was lighter than Kayle.
Lux leapt to her feet. "SURRENDER AKALI TO US OR IN THE NAME OF DEMACIA, I WILL PUNISH YOU!" She screeched, brandishing her baton at…
Nothing.
"Something tells me that this isn't Katarina's room…" Ashe said, looking around. "Not unless she has a thing for birdcages, which I don't think she does."
There were at least ten iron birdcages strewn around the room; hanging from ceilings, above the bed, by the bathroom, you get the idea.
"Hey, what's that?" Lux wondered, walking over to a giant portrait.
"Uh… A mutant bird-thing?" Riven suggested.
"Looks like Beatrice." Caitlyn said.
They came to the same realization at the same time.
This was Jericho Swain's room.
The reaction was as if they had just realized that they were in a radioactive barn.
"Don't. Touch. Anything." Ashe breathed, slowly inching backwards towards the door.
Caitlyn and Riven followed suit, while Lux examined something on Swain's bookshelf.
The light mage reached a hand out and Ashe nearly had a heart attack. "LUX! DON'T TOUCH IT!"
Too late.
The Lady of Luminosity had pulled out the copy of The Demacian Diaries.
Said bookshelf spun around, revealing a bunch of monitors.
"What the hell?" Riven whispered, walking over towards it.
"This is creepy…" Caitlyn said, realizing that the monitors all showed real-time footage from all the Noxian champions rooms. Each monitor had a label on it to differentiate.
"Hand of Noxus." Ashe read aloud. "Probably Darius. Snake… Probably Cassiopeia. Annoying bighead… Draven?"
"Or Katarina!" Lux offered. Caitlyn shook her head.
"I really don't think that the Sinister Blade would have pictures of Draven in her room…"
"That's true." Lux conceded. "And this one's probably Katarina's." She pointed at a screen on the bottom right.
The label read, in capital letters, ANNOYING REDHEAD.
They all turned their eyes to it, and to the scene playing out before them.
Caitlyn widened her eyes.
Lux gasped.
Ashe choked.
Riven fainted.
"What. The. Actual. FUCK?!" Caitlyn yelled.
Meanwhile, in the library…
Shen felt a disturbance in the balance of the universe.
But his magazine was more important.
Flipping a page, the ninja felt a buzzing in his pocket. He pulled his phone out to see that he had a text message from Leona.
Sunknyght13: SHEN YOU GOTTA SEE THIS XD
'One photo attached'
Ninjaboi7: What is it?
Sunknyght13: Didya look at it yet?
Ninjaboi7: No, i don't trust you. Now what is it?!
Sunknyght13: Ezreal wearing a bra.
NinjaBoi7: WTH? O-O
Shen clicked on the image and dropped the phone laughing.
The mess hall…
"Morning, Ezreal." Irelia yawned, grabbing a plate. The Explorer nodded to her and continued attacking his eggs.
The Will of the Blades sat down at a table by the window, eating and thinking.
There was a lot to think about.
THUD!
"Heyyy Irelia!" Kennen said, sitting down across from his fellow Ionian. "What's up?"
Irelia snapped her head up. "Wha- oh, nothing much."
He raised an eyebrow. "Is everything ok?"
"Yeeaaah…!"
More than a little suspicious, Kennen left to find Shen and Akali after saying "Cya later then!"
The North Wing- Operation: R.A.P.E
Caitlyn, Lux, and Ashe watched Katarina and Akali watch tv.
Or, more accurately, watch Draven. Which was why Riven fainted.
The two appeared to be watching some sort of torture network, as their screen was taken up by scenes of Draven admiring himself in the mirror, flexing his muscles, yelling, "DRAVEN IS NUMBER 1!" and trying to dance seductively.
What made it even more horrifying was that they were laughing.
"She… She's been brainwashed!" Ashe whispered.
"Now we have to save her!" Lux whispered back.
"Why are we whispering?" Caitlyn whispered.
The North Wing- Katarina's room
Akali turned to look at Katarina, and found her laughing at something on her phone. She was laughing so hard that she actually dropped it onto the ground, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Are you ok, Kat?" Akali wondered, scooting further away from her 'captor' on the couch.
"BAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, I-I'm fine- AHAHA!" The assassin managed to say before erupting back into laughter. Curious, Akali picked up the fallen phone.
The ninja fared no better than the assassin, immediately erupting into laughter.
"E-Ezreal! In a BRA!" She choked out. Katarina hugged her stomach. "He looks so stupid!"
"YES!" Akali agreed. Finally, after a minute or two, they composed themselves.
Katarina took her phone back. "Screenshotting."
"You better!"
The Sinister Blade took a screenshot and then eyed the tv again. "Eww, Draven. Must've accidentally sat on the remote or something."
Akali took one look at the tv and started gagging. Katarina eyed her. "I should've used this to torture you from the beginning." She lamented. The Fist of Shadow sat up, eyes wide. "NO! PLEASE NO!" She begged. The Noxian laughed and shook her head. "Ok, fine."
Akali relaxed and curled up next to Katarina. "I wouldn't mind the fuzzy cuffs though." She giggled.
Suddenly, the door burst down.
"SURRENDER AKALI TO US OR IN THE NAME OF DEMACIA I WILL PUNISH YOU!"
Ashe groaned. "We should have thought it out better this time too." The Avarosan was stuck underneath Riven and Caitlyn.
Katarina hissed and jumped up. "I hope that I won't have to hurt you. Violence before lunch is bad karma." The Noxian narrowed her eyes at them, knives already in hand, playful demeanor gone.
Caitlyn gulped. "Maybe we should-"
"NO!" Lux cried, brandishing her baton. A red laser appeared. "DEMACI- OW!"
The laser disappeared. Lux's baton went flying across the room, along with a small knife.
"Whoa, guys!" Akali cried, appearing in front of her friends. "No need to fight!"
Ashe glared at Katarina, who had teleported to a corner of the room, another knife in her hand already. "Of course we don't need to fight. If she gives you to us, we will go in peace.
Katarina shrugged. "Ok then. Take her."
"I didn't think s- wait what?" Ashe's blue eyes widened.
"I said, take her." The Sinister Blade repeated. "Are you deaf?"
"N-n-no, but-"
"Ok then, thank you let's go!" Caitlyn interrupted, grabbing Akali by the arm and dragging her out.
Operation: R.A.P.E
Operatives:
The Frost Archer
The Lady of Luminosity
The Sheriff of Piltover
The Exile
Status: Complete, successful
"I feel like that was too easy…" Lux said, once they'd exited the North Wing. Caitlyn and Ashe agreed. "Something seems off. Akali, shouldn't you be more happy?" Caitlyn asked the Fist of Shadow, who shrugged.
"Sure."
"What exactly happened there?" Ashe wondered. "When we got there, you weren't bound or anything. In fact…"
She told Akali what they'd seen on Swain's monitor.
The Ionian shrugged again. "She… Well, I guess I was scared and stuff at first. But after a while, we started talking and… Realized that we had a lot in common. Kind of bonded, I guess. Katarina is really different in private, you know."
"..."
"See, I told you. Brainwashed." Ashe whispered to Caitlyn.
"Where's Riven?" Caitlyn whispered back.
They froze.
"Oops." Ashe said.
A/N: IMPORTANT!
Wrote that in pretty much one sitting (2 hours). Brain. Hurts. Agaagawaadawa!
Cameo's: Jayce, Vi, Miss Fortune, Sona, and whoever else showed up.
Ahri requested by ahriiiiiiii!
Ahh so guys, I was thinking on whether or not I should get a Beta Reader. Should I? And if any of you are interested, just PM me :)
If people seem a bit OOC this chapter, sowwy! And if you're confused about the Akali and Katarina thing, let's just say that they are on friendly acquaintances now. Yeah.
Cya next time!
XOXO~ Creator0fWords
