Author's Last note:

So I ran out of steam a while ago writing the last chapter. Which was fine since that was the end of the story after all. All it needed was a nice epilogue to wrap things up. But I just couldn't get it together, heh. I probably won't get to either, but there's still some strings that need to be wrapped up. I feel bad. So here's my compromise: The bullet points on all the important things that do happen. You'll have to fill in the blanks yourself and imagine the story from there!

After this epilogue, there's actually a chapter that's been floating around since chapter 6 - The real story behind Higgs. It's an extra chapter, so that'll come after the epilogue. Fortunately, it's been done for years now, so I don't have to pretend I'll write it later ;)


Epilogue


The end of the second arc storyline

-X- The trial goes pretty badly. For Singed. It's a complete massacre inside the summoner halls. The organizer has ages of dirt on singed, meticulously piled up. Turns out Riven and Higgs are called up on the witness stand - for 2 minutes each. Just a few questions and off to the next examples. For your information, that trial ran six hours including breaks. Riven chooses to stay all six hours just to see Singed squirm. Higgs gets bored within a few minutes and really just wants to take a nice long nap. The pair compromise with Riven's shoulder as a pillow for her summoner.

-X- Turns out, the group meets up with another summoner during the trial - the lackey Singed had help him at the hill. When he got knocked down and knocked back to his senses, he teleported his way back home. Where instantly the organizer sent his own lackeys to collect the summoner. To singed, he was a "loose end wrapped up." To the Organizer, he was secreted away into hiding until the trial came where he'd provide testimony against Singed. To the guards that "escorted" him back to the Organizer, he was that crazy paranoid summoner that tried jumping out the window - basically the reason they made sure their next target was shuffled along nicely on their shoulders rather then let loose walking around - Ergo why Higgs was carried into the organizer's office. One wild chase after a summoner was enough thank you very much.

-X- Singed ends up buried in more red tape then he knows what to do with. His mansion in Zaun is foreclosed, his lab is stripped, and he is very disappoint. Very disappoint. During the trial he thought Noxus would stand up for him, but other then a quick speech, they left him alone to his own defense - which was pretty much "Please have mercy on my soul. And don't take away my favorite beaker :[ " - a lot of begging and pleading. Safe to say, it wasn't superbly effective considering how much mercy Singed had shown to his subjects. Riven was practically glowing. All she was missing was the popcorn.

-X- The organizer later reveals Noxus also backed him up in striking singed off the books. Zaun was their ally, but it's always a nervous position when your ally is getting stronger then you are. Politics is a cruel mistress.


Riven and company

-X- Riven continues on to be a league champion once her suspension is over. Her first match is picked by Higgs, and she's pitted against Singed. He's very butthurt and tries hard to butcher Riven during the match as revenge for everything. By the time the match ends, Singed can't even hide under his turrets or behind his allies. And his allies quickly realized standing between Riven and him was a terrible, terrible idea. He never managed to kill her even once. To be expected since while he's been wasting away under house arrest and woe is me, she's been training day and night using the new techniques Higgs trained her with - bringing out her reforged sword. And she can now do it for herself without any summoner assistance.

If you thought Singed had a bad day with his two hands cut off, that match made the new record on his Days I never want to happen ever again list.
On Higg's side of things, it's safe to say his career as a summoner is safe enough now. He's now rich enough to buy back vengeance on everyone who's pranked him this entire time.

-X- Quinn gets incorporated into the league, and her first fight is with Riven and Lux as allies. Lux and Riven fought once, where Lux proceeded to stomp all over the battle bunny while giggling. Turns out, there's no winning move against the demacian gossip mongrel, even in the league.

-X- Jax bets against Riven again, and wins (Again). She's forced to fight in the league with her bunny outfit. Mike approves greatly since his bar will get very very popular. Turns out, she doesn't mind too much once she's in the thick of the fight. It's even funny to her.

-X- As of the end of the story, Jax is still undefeated in bets. Lux also tried to get her moment of glory, and ended up treating him to a nice dinner arm in arm. Not willingly mind you. (He also ordered the most expensive steak.)

-X- Jax finds out about fluffy - after asking Higgs "nicely" about it. Riven is (Without a doubt) screwed now that the rabbit's out of the hat. Last we know, he's taken a habit to flinching the stuffed rabbit and hanging out with it like a good fishing buddy until a certain murder bunny comes to collect - he even bought it's own yellow fishing hat to match his. His antics puts his kleptomania of weapons to shame, and it's also become his favorite hobby too boot - So that makes Riven paranoid enough to travel everywhere with her bunny in tow, with exception to league fights. During those, she entrusts Fluffy to Higgs or Lux for safekeeping. Fluffy is surprisingly popular at the Battle Bunny Bar.

-X- After a certain event where Jax found out Higgs was holding onto Fluffy during league matches, it's now only Lux that gets to keep Fluffy safe. Not to say Higgs didn't put up a good fight when Jax came to collect. There's only so many times you can use flash, teleport and exhaust to escape a lamp-post maniac who seems to know exactly where you've run off to. (As of yet, Riven has not dawned that maybe handing over Fluffy to Jax and asking him to keep it safe during her league matches might actually be a very viable solution.)

-X- Morgana has a footage of Higgs getting kicked out of the league in his boxers. It's part of her treasured collection, right next to photos and newspapers of Kale forced to chase after Jax and Higgs in her underwear after they'd snuck in and stole her shit. (Dear me, that certainly had nothing to do with Morgana as the master planner behind that. Nope, parish the thought.)
Also included in definitely-not-her-plan's plan was the slow sabotage of Kale's room, where vivid magazines and interesting toys were added subtly at first around her room, until pretty much blatantly scattered by the end of the week. Also, most of her clothing was slowly replaced by rather revealing (and black laced) ones. Needless to say, it drove her insane until she'd hired Cait to investigate who the hell was sprinkling her room with such items day in and day out.

-X- Cait was lead to morgana's bakery to apprehend where the henchmen had fled to, where morgana herself threatened to cut off the supplies of cupcakes if she squealed. It was super effective. Unfortunately Jax and Higgs were spotted near the end, and so now have to flee a very angry angel anytime she spots them outside the league. The former finds this hilarious, the latter is just scared for his life as he well should be. It didn't help his case he was caught once with fuzzy cuffs, while loitering just outside her room. After that, it's suspicion city for Higgs.

-X- The misfit's table moves shop to the battle bunny bar. You'd think this would be absolutely terrible for business over there and disrupt everything - but it actually isn't. If anything, the bar began attracting even more people since champions attend to it.

That said, they have a special table reserved far far far back into the establishment, where any shenanigans they pull will just affect one end of the bar. The lady and the other bunnies certainly find it hilarious, and the bar is much safer to the staff with so many champions around. For Mike, it's great business. For the cafeteria, they're just thanking whatever power in heaven saved them from the menace they were.

-X-The mother of all food fights happened the last day before the group moved out to the battle bunny, mostly because fuck leaving without a good show. Never again will such a fight break out in the league. They had to bring out the league guardians to stop it, especially since the Demacian table and Noxian table started getting really into it. As in, hiding knives in the food - to just throwing knives and arrows without caring to disguise it anymore. A few tables had to completely retreat out of the cafeteria.

-X- Sarah joins the misfit's table as a fully fledged summoner. Her initiation goes exactly as you'd expect. Poor girl.

-X- Quinn Joins the misfit's table after she becomes a champion. Her initiation goes exactly as you wouldn't expect. Jax happened, poor girl.

-X- Val and Riven do not get along as they both are fond of Morgana's pastries and sharing food is not a viable option. Also food tastes best when it's stolen after all. Quinn is not on board with this as pastry is definitively not a good addition to a raptor's diet - read: not even remotely good for them. They're supposed to eat meat dammit. The bird is just doing this to piss off a certain battle bunny, Lux concludes.

-X- Lulu joins the misfit's table. She destroys everyone in initiation. Unofficially, she's the new boss of the table. She seems completely oblivious to this. No one really knows, not even Lux.

-X- Jax and Morgana seem to be going out. In the loosest sense of the term. Team Purple is born. Instead of dates, they're mostly just up to no good plotting things for shits and giggles, together. Lulu eventually joins them, but no one knows if it's because she's actually evil on the inside, or just likes the purple. She's the third henchmen. Higgs suspects she's been bribed by cookies to join in.


Higgs

-X- As for our good friend Higgs, well, he didn't win the bet for a stable home during his 3 month exile from the league. (Singed's 'hotel' didn't qualify. Surprisingly) His uniform at the bakery is his boxers, but that was changed to briefs with cupid hearts because Morgana. He was given a sleeping bag and got a nice and cozy kitchen to sleep in. Not exactly what he was expecting but he doesn't have cockroaches as roommates so there's that. Bakery needs people early in the morning, go figure.

-X-The last straw was when Higgs woke up with a stereotypical dog house on top of him, food and water dog trays outside as his breakfast. Fed up, Higgs decides he'll invoke all the awesome powers of a summoner on the bakery and it's nefarious master. Thus begins a prank war of epic scales. It would be pretty vicious from both sides.

It starts slowly, salt and sugar being mixed up. Crosses, garlic, and wooden stakes placed subtly around the bakery as a message. Gravity swapped so that all the tables and chairs were stuck on the roof. Pepper in the ovens. Kale's laundry in the flour pantry. Even an attempt to make Morgana embarrassed, which failed spectacularly as she had no problems baking and selling in her underwear.

Morgana on her end fought back by having more and more dog related items appear around Higgs, up to a choker complete with nametag and rope. (And frilly hearts of course.) Taric quickly became a new regular. So did Kate apparently.

The brilliant/evil part of her plan is that everything appeared when Higgs woke up, as in she'd add her new items during the night in the middle of his sleep - every single time. As he was required to sleep within the bakery, Higgs would quickly cycle through finding any hiding spot to sleep, to simply trying to avoid sleep altogether. Neither option worked.

-X- Ultimately, Higgs moves on and summons other champs as he's supposed to. He does work very closely with Riven, and she's a go-to champion when he wants to pull a win. The two are great friends and remain great friends, up until and even after the league disbands. (THANKS RIOT.) As for her revolution on Noxus, she can count on Higgs as an ally for her cause, though he can't officially help her. That doesn't stop him from helping her against assassins, staging demonstrations, and beating down vile paperwork. He swore he wouldn't jump into the den of wolves that was Noxian politics, but poor Higgs can't really help himself if his friends asks.

-X- Among Higg's most prized possessions, is a small green cup with gold fractures holding it together. A rune for the noxian word "Strength" is the only other noticeable feature on the otherwise simple cup. It was also broken and reforged by the same golden treatment. Higgs is often seen drinking tea from this cup while passing lazy afternoons with Irelia and Riven.

End of Coil

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-X-Much later, Higgs is made aware of his 'other side' by Quinn. Lux and her band together to dig deeper into Higg's person, and they get to read the letter he wrote to himself years ago. (It's written in Chapter 10.) From there, Kate, Riven, and Lux convince him to face his past.

Riven in particular is the backbone behind this. She's fought against her past miserably for years and it wasn't until Higgs showed up with the friendship she desperately needed that Riven overcame her burden. She's moving onwards with her life, and hearing that her best friend secretly has his share of worries only made her resolute in trying to repay that favor back. It would be all ironic however, finding out who he truly was...