He awoke to the sound of his phone vibrating to a text message from sona "Which room are you in? Sorry,we all got a bit too excited when we saw the rooms and all the neat stuff this place had" He had been asleep for a little more than an hour, "I'm not sure which room number but I can meet you in the hallway?" he replied.

Sona responded instantly, "Heh, well were all kinda exploring the house a little bit. Jarvan told us that would would play a practice match in about 20 minutes. Just meet me at the Arena in 15 minutes and we can go over a game plan together. You remember how to get there right?" He replied to her text without thinking "Okay, cya soon!" and toss his phone on his bed.

*They seem to be enjoying themselves, I'd hate to pull Sona away she always gets stuck helping me. I don't remember how to get to the Arena! I should have paid more attention during the tour. I guess I'll manage somehow* He carefully removed his shirt and unwrapped the medical tape, looking out himself in the mirror. He reached in his bag and pulled out another roll of medical tape and slowly began the process of re wrapping himself. *This is a lot harder to do by myself* he thought looking down at his progress so far.

He was about halfway finished when he heard a knock on his door, he opened door and Ahri stood before him, he felt his stomach drop in nervousness. She had changed into her uniform, a red and white dress with golden ribbons hanging from the sleeves and a gold band wrap around her skinny waist. "Hey, I noticed everyone else has already left for the Arena and just wanted to make sure you knew how to get there yourself" she looked him trying not to laugh at his tape job.

*Where's Sona or Vayne when I need them!* he thought to himself regretting not asking Sona to come help him. "I'll walk with you, I honestly can't remember where it is" he admitted to her. She smiled back at him, "Good deal! Do you want a little help with that? You seem to be struggling." she placed her hand over her mouth and giggled. He looked down embarrassed, he was reluctant at first but eventually she convinced him, "If you don't wrap it properly you'll end up hurting yourself out there." she scolded as she finished wrapping his tape.

He could smell her perfume again as he watched her golden yellow eyes tentatively nurse him up properly. He had never smelled someone so good before in his life, his body was stiff. Ahri made him more nervous than anyone he had ever been around before, just her presence in the room with him alone sent butterflies to his stomach. "All Done! I'll wait out in the hallway for you. The path to the Arena is heated so you can wear normal clothes by the way." she said making her exit. He watched her nine tails swish back and forth as she walked.

He let out a sigh of relief, he felt mentally taxed just from being around her for 5 minutes. *There is something, different about her I just can't put my finger on it* he finished getting ready and met the young fox girl outside his room and the two left for the Arena. She led him down the stairs to a door that led to another flight of stairs "We'll take the tunnel since it's snowing outside."

They reached the bottom of the stairs, it opened into a much larger well lit path that stretched for about 100 feet. On the other side of the tunnel was a silk cloth covering a door way, they pushed past it and were suddenly standing in a small lobby where the rest of their teammates were talking. Sona, Vayne and Lux looked over at Ahri and Ez and watched this intentively "Thanks for leading me here" he said as he joined his team who were all still staring at him.

"Hmph, what was that all about? Lux questioned suspiciously. "It's nothing, she just showed me how to get here. It's no big deal, anyways what's going on?" he asked trying to avoid further questioning from his teammates. Jarvan explained that they would play just two practice matches today. But, starting tomorrow they would play best of 5's for the remainder of the week here. Ezreal looked over at the display board:

Shyvana's Knights:

Top: Akali

Jungle: Shyvana

Mid: Ahri

ADC: Ashe

Support: Janna

Jarvan's Crusaders:

Top: Vayne

Jungle: Jarvan

Mid: Lux

ADC: Ezreal

Support: Sona

*This team has a huge advantage over us. I wonder how Vayne will do against Akali though I'm more concerned with Lux against Ahri. Just looking at them, Ahri seems lot more composed* he thought as Sona tapped him on the shoulder. "Don't push yourself too hard, and don't worry about the other lanes. Let's just play our game and see how it goes" her voice rang in his ears. *I guess she doesn't want to make Lux nervous.*

"Welcome to Summoner's Rift" the announcer shouted as the match began. Ezreal felt slightly sluggish from last night but started strong pulling away with a 12 CS lead, 5 minutes into the game. Ashe and Janna were playing pretty passively which allowed him and Sona to bully them to the turret, Jarvan placed a pink ward just outside the dragon pit protecting them from any possible ganks from Shyvana.

In the 8th minute of the game, a failed gank attempt by Jarvan resulted in a double kill for Ahri, sky rocketing her ahead of Lux who was already 30 CS down on her. The game stayed relatively close in the other lanes as Vayne and Akali continued to passively farm and Ez and Sona continued to push their advantage again Ashe and Janna.

In the 20th minute of the game, Vayne and Akali broke into a duel leaving both of them with about 10% HP though neither of them wanting to back continued farming waiting on their cooldowns. Ezreal took note of this and went aggressive on Ashe and Janna, Arcane shifting forward and starting to auto attack and mystic shot both of them taking them both down to 40% while sustaining their damage with Sona. Ashe shoot her arrow point blank range toward Ezreal and Sona as they quickly flashed into the bush, Sona ult'd both of them stunning them while Ezreal charged his Trueshot Barrage immediately killing both of them. "Double Kill" the announce shouted but the action wasn't done yet as Ezreal's Trueshot barraged headed top lane.

Akali dashed to Vayne trying to land the finishing combo on her but Vayne immediately tumbled to the side condemning her into the wall as Ezreal's Barrage finished her off for the unofficial triple kill. Ahri and Shyvana both nodded their heads in respect, *I guess I shouldn't expect anything less from him* she thought to herself as she killed Lux for the 4th time.

Ezreal and Sona managed to accrue their team a large enough lead and ended the game off a risky tower dive on the inhibitor turret, Ezreal dealt the final blow the Nexus as it exploded. They all shook hands and walked off the Rift for a 10 minute break. Jarvan and Shyvana both huddled with their teams and quickly talked about the strategy for the second game.

The second game went quite similiar to the first, there was no real action for the first 12 minutes of the match though Ezreal and Ahri had both gained a 40 CS advantage on their opponents. 14 minutes into the match, Ahri managed to land a charm killing Lux just outside of her own tower. Ahri pressed her advantage even more invading into Jarvan's jungle and killing him at his blue buff. The game started to spiral out of control as Ahri roamed bottom from behind Ezreal's turret double killing both of them.

Ezreal and Sona returned back to lane as the minion wave met their turret only to be dove again by Ahri, Shyvana, Ashe and Janna. This was the nail in the coffin as Ahri spent the rest of the game punishing Ezreal and Sona each time they came back to lane. 20 minutes into the game Ahri had 15 kills and Jarvan's team threw in the surrunder vote.

"Phew, I told you their a good team" Jarvan reminded them as they walked back into the lobby. Ezreal stood there looking at the game, Ahri really did a number on them in the bottom lane that game. She ganked them 7 times in a matter of 7 minutes all while staying ahead of Lux. Ashe could be heard talking to her team, "He's so impressive, even with his injuries he manages to have godlike reflexives and beat us in CS. If it wasn't for Ahri carrying that second match we might have lost that one as well."

Sona and Ezreal looked at each other "We did pretty good, I should have warded more. We'll do much better tomorrow' she assured him as they all headed for the tunnel to head back to the boarding house. The 10 of them all were in the kitchen, Shyvana, Sona and Jarvan helped warm up a big pot of ramen for dinner. The teams ate to their fill, "You guys should give the hot spring a try tonight instead of a bath. It's for ladies only sorry Jarvan and Ezreal" she teased. "Ahhhhhhhh yessss! Sona, Vayne please come with us! Are you guys coming too?" she asked pointing to Ashe, Janna, Akali and Ahri. Shyvana and Ahri declined, Shyvana and Jarvan went off down the hall into library to talk about the games and Ahri claimed that she had something important that she had to finish before midnight.

Sona looked over at Ezreal who had started heading toward his room, "What are you going to do?" she asked curiously. *I want her to have fun with the others today* he thought to himself, "I'm going to go take a shower and lay down for a bit and ice up. Go to the hot spring with them , you and I both know you deserve to have a little bit of fun every once and awhile. If I need anything I'll just ask Jarvan or Shyvana they're sticking behind as well." He convinced her to go with the rest of the team. He headed up the stairs and starting looking for his room *Gaah, they all look the same I can't even remember which side of the hallway I was on* he thought. He looked at the door for the awhile before giving up and just choosing one. He turned the knob and pushed through the door. He was met by Ahri who had just walked out of her bathroom humming to herself with a towel wrapped around her head, and a silk pink bathrobe on.

He gasped covering his eyes "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't see anything I swear I'm so sorry!"

Ahri looked at him with his hand over his eyes standing in her doorway, "Eh? It's fine! I'm dressed you don't have to cover your eyes" she said confidently as he removed his hand and took a better look at her. He apologized some more before trying to leave to go to his room across the hall, "Wait, I was just about to get you. Please come and have a seat, I want to talk with you if you don't mind"

Ahri offered him a seat on her bed while she continued drying her hair. He looked around nervously, her room had light pink walls that matched her furniture. Her bed was firm but forgiving and smelled just like her. He watched her closely as she sat down near the other side of the bed. "Sorry, for having you sit on the bed, my room doesn't have a sofa like the rest of them" she apologized to him looking him right in the eyes.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" he asked nervously. She smirked back at him, "I want to help you with your problems."

"What problems?" he asked earnestly. She looked at him, his body slightly trembling in her presence. "Your fear of women, your lack of self control and confidence" she replied boldly. He looked down at her chest which was popping out of her bathrobe before looking down at the bed "What do you mean? I lack a bit of confidence but other than that I'm fine" he replied defensively.

"Oh Ez... there's no need to be in denial even now you're terrified of me. You've been peeking at my chest and staring at my legs since you sat down. Do you know why women always get their way with you?"

He slid back a little further away from her, *What does she expect wearing such a short bath robe... I think I need to get out of here immediately!* he thought to himself "I don't know why?"

"It's because you're so approachable, you always let them have the first move and you lack the control fend them off of you. If you really love Sona and Vayne as much as you say you.." he butted in "How do you know?!"

"I know a lot of things. Even about some things that you wouldn't want your friends to find out." she threatened flirtatiously. He looked at her with a helpless face "What do you mean? What do you want from me?" he pleaded feeling trapped in a corner.

"Help me with my research and you might just end up not hurting your friends anymore than you already have." she asked nicely.

"And if I refuse?" he asked defensively.

"Then I let Sona and Vayne know what really happened last night with you and Caitlyn"

*How does she know!? Does she really know!? There is no way, are Caitlyn and her friends or something? Ugh, regardless it's pretty obvious I don't have much of a choice.* "Fine"

Ahri reached under her bed and pulled out a little black book and began to jot down some notes about him.