Exams are killing my soul rn ;-;. Sorry if this feels a little rushed but it is more of just a transition into the upcoming chapters :). I have also been drowning myself in music so I don't have to listen to my own frustrated screaming. Well anyyywayyyy, any support is very, very appreciated and if you have questions I will also be happy to answer them :3.

Hope you enjoy,

Adam stood at the mouth of a cave, the entrance looked crumpled and torn down. The wooden planks that once covered the entrance were now rotted and sagging down from their spot, "Keep out."

'Demon why are we here.' Adam thought.

'If you didn't want to come here we can leave, I just thought with all your talk about dreams you might want to see what has become of this place.' Adam took a step forward and placed a hand on one of the splintered boards. This area had been in ruins for a long, long time. A few hundred years of desolation made this only a place for haunted memories and lost souls.

'This isn't the most pleasant place, but I am glad it's gone now... May we?' Adam asked.

'Sure.'

He pulled his hand away from the entrance. Soon enough they appeared on the other side of the nailed the abandoned mine it was damp and the air felt heavy. He still had some dark memories of this place. He ran his hand along the cave wall. The jagged rock had been roughly cut and chipped away in hope of finding the tiniest bit of salvation among its walls, a gem was worth workers lives. Only a few steps into the long entrance it was pitch black.

'Just a little bit surprised it has not caved in after all of this time.' Adam thought. The demon stayed quiet, letting him take it in. 'I should find the station right, here.' He hand fell on a box, he moved it to the front where there was a lock.

'Can you open this.'

'I should be able to.' There was a tingly sensation on his wrist and a smooth substance ran up his hand to the lock he was feeling. The black liquid clamped around the lock, after a second there was a loud clang as it snapped in half, falling to the floor. The liquid receded back into his wrist.

He lifted open the box and reached in, taking out a few long thin objects in a small pile of moldy hay, stashing a few in his pocket. Then he felt along the edge till he came to a corner and reached down.

Adam lifted the flint out of the box along with some hay. He crouched down and started to strike it hard against the small brick of steel, sparks flew from the bit of metal and fell onto the hay. Soon a small plume of smoke rose and he tilted a candle down towards it. Once the wick was lit he stood up, stamping out the small fire.

'Let me get that.' Adam was holding the candle in his hand as it illuminated the dark tunnel. The blood started to trickle from his wrist and towards the candle, wrapping around the base.

'You can let go now.' The demon said. Adam let his arm fall to his side and the black liquid held up the candle. The thin string of blood was able to support it upright.

'Just be careful of the drafts of wind, we wouldn't want it going out.'

Adam wanted to cower away from the dark stone, every day the grueling work, every day the pitch black and the explosions. Now it just seemed peaceful, the deep intrusions into the mountain merely serving as a sad reminder to the past.

The shaft descended down, far down into the dark. It would be a while until he reached the end. He turned around bends and passed a few discarded headlamps. The footsteps echoed through the cavern, the only sound in the encompassing darkness.

'We would come here every day, the further down we get the hotter it gets. We were in charge of creating new tunnels.'

'How many different shafts are there?'

'It's a giant web, tens maybe even hundreds of them. Although that was not the only entrance to the mines.' They kept moving for the next couple of minutes, letting the darkness block out everything except for the sound of light footsteps.

Adam stopped at the end of a long straight section, there was a small corner.

'This is where we waited when doing the explosions.' He started walking forwards again, the candle held out in front of him. Soon enough there was a ledge on the rock that was a couple feet down. He hopped off, crouching low.

"And this… is the cavern where I fell." He said quietly in a silent reservation.

He moved into the center of the wide tunnel and got down on his knees. In the center of the room was a small pile of stones and gravel. Sticking out of the top was a larger stone. He moved the candle to the light where words were etched in. "Adam, Rest In Peace." He traced the words with his fingers.

His hand glided across the rough stone to dust it off and he let one arm fall to the side. The cave was dead silent, the only change being the flickering of the candle.

The soft sound of droplets hitting the stone rung in the mineshaft.

'Hmm, I really do miss him.' His finger kept tracing the letters as black tears hit the rock face. They slid down his cheek making black streaks down his face as if ink was leaking from his eyes. A small puddle of the substance formed on the floor. He tried to keep his face from crumbling, he could already feel the pressure in his chest.

"I hope he didn't live a lonely life without me," Adam brought a hand to his face and wiped some of the liquid away with his fingers. He rubbed it in between his thumb and forefinger, it felt like water but was darker then it should have been.

'Even in my tears, your magic flows..'

He bit down on his tongue, eyes stinging. Adam wore a grimace on his thinking about what could have happened, then shaking his head. 'Knowing him he would have done something better with his life.' If he had been there it would have been different, if he had been there they both could have been happy.

He sat there on his knees with his head bowed, keeping his mind clear. Minutes passed and he stood up.

'Demon do you know what is at the bottom of this hole?'

'nothing.'

Adam kneeled with his head hanging down, this needed to be done. "Goodbye." The candle was set down at the base of the grave. There was a whiff of wind and a tiny trail of grey smoke rose to the top of the cavern crawling among its jagged surface and eventually fading away into the complete pitch black of the mine, the demon was gone.

The waves crashed against the steep shore, they had appeared on a beach high North of Ionia. A cold wind blew across the water making ripples glide across the surface.

"I just hope that I will never have to see that place again." He looked out to the ocean, wiping off the last bit of tears with the back of his sleeve.

'Sorry if it hit a little too close to home.'

'No, it helped me let go. I live in my little bubble but sometimes reality smacks me in the face again. ' He watched the blazing ball of fire slowly being consumed by the horizon. Adam tucked his knees to his chest and rested his chin on his hands.

'You know what I have planned right?'

'Yes, but we still have time before that comes. Let's rest and let time catch up to us first.'

'We have never been there before, I wonder what it's like.'

'Hopefully, everything that it lives up to be.'

Adam tilted his head and eyes felt heavy, the crashing waves slowly formed a rhythm.

'Every time we had left that small cabin in the woods all we saw was the buildings, all of the corners and structures, all of the wars, but they never seem to see this.' The seafoam blended with the bright white of the sun as the ocean and the inferno became one. Sunset was the best time of the day, the peaceful night being a close second.

'What beautiful twilight.' Adam's eyes glowed, the demon was watching through them too.

'Let's enjoy this before we find somewhere to sleep.' They watched, patiently waiting for the spectacle to end. The sky dimmed from its brilliant blue to a deep purple and eventually to black with pinpricks of light poking through.

Once the sunset had finally completely fallen over the horizon Adam lay on his back.

'Let's go.'

'There?'

'Yes there.'

They stood quietly in front of the short footpath.

'We did this to look back on what we had so we can embrace more to come.' Adam thought.

'Hmmm, nice.' They stood in front of the cabin in the lively forest. He walked along the path and reached the door. Pressing his palm to it, it swung open and he stepped inside. Nothing had changed, the small cabinet, the bed of hay. The cabin he had lived in for so long.

Adam walked over to the bed, dropping the cloak on the floor next to the bed he fell backward. He sunk into the bed with a whump, the prickly hay poking his back.

'Home sweet home.'

The crickets played their song in the calm night.

'Goodnight demon.'

'Sleep tight Adam.' Adam let out a short chuckle.

'You too.'

'WAKEY WAKEY.' Adam's eyes burst open to look around the wooden cottage.

'Nope still empty, five more minutes.' He lay back down and closed his eyes again.

'Ugh do I have to get you up myself, WE GET TO TRAVEL TODAY.'

'Mmmmm wait, resting is more important.'

'Yea I am getting you up myself.'

'Wait, whaaaAAAAAA' Adam found himself plummeting hundreds of feet above the ground towards the forest. His stomach felt like it was rising into his throat .

'See, this is the best way to get someone's attention, I have proved it twice.' Adam flipped in the air, his arms pinwheeled around trying to stabilize him.

"YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION CAN YOU PLEASE STOP," Adam yelled out loud.

'Just a couple more seconds, enjoy the view while you can.'

He kept falling, his measly attempts at slowing down were not helping at all.

'Oh, where should we go?'

"I DON'T KNOW COME UP WITH SOMETHING."

'Hmm, where have we not been in a while.'

Adam was desperately trying to get any control over his motions but to no avail.

'Oh we could go for a nice hike, or we could go back to that village to see how they are doing. Those ninja people were pretty cool.'

"PLEASE STOP HOLY SHI-"

The sky was left empty as they disappeared.

He lay back on the branch of a tree, letting a leg swing in the wind. A few leaves fell loose and fluttered down to the floor. The day had moved from chaos to being sluggish really fast. The village had pretty much been empty, a few farmers here and there. At least it was not as decimated when they had last seen it.

'I am still sad that we couldn't find any of the ninj-'

'Stop.' Adam cut him off. 'It's quiet let's keep it that way.'

'Are we going to move at ALL, it has been an hour.'

'Nope, we are sleeping here.'

'Why? You slept in, sleeping seems to be the only thing you would willingly do.'

'Because I am tired and lazy.'

'But you're not the one doing the work.'

'Than you should be grateful that we are not moving, and this tree is much more comfortable than most.'

'Fine.' The demon sounded somewhat dissatisfied, and in complete honesty, he was surprisingly tired from the amount of magic he had expended over the past couple of days. 'Whenever we have actual time to do something you just want to rest, where is the fun in that?'

'Because whenever we are doing SOMETHING it is batshit crazy, and I prefer to live a little more balanced lifestyle.'

'PPPsshhhh yeah sure, "balanced." At least we will be going somewhere tomorrow.'

'Shhhhh.'

Adam let the calm sound of the waving branches lull him into a deep sleep, if you had asked the majority of the people in Runeterra, they would agree that he was not sleeping in a comfortable position, and many would have thought him to be dead.

'Mmmmmm, sleeeeep.'

At least they would get a chance to see something new.

I am kinda getting dunked in work rn but I promise to keep up with this :D,

Sorry again if it felt rushed .-.

Welp, good night... or good morning... or good afternoon WAHTEVER have a good one, hope to see you next chapter :)