"Well hello little bird, lucky you. You get to be with me. And who wouldn't want that.' he boasts.
"Right...can we just go pack our stuff...dear 'escort'" I snort.
"Of course, follow me." He grins twirling his axe around in his hand.
He leads us to what seems like his room, it's a little heavy on the decoration. He calls a servant over and orders some food and bags.
"So we are just gonna let the servants do the packing for us?" I question him.
"Packing is boring, killing is the fun part" he laughs while playing with his long mustache, I shudder. I had the unpleasant time eating a meal with him as he tells stories about himself. The hours felt like an eternity. I wondered what Zed was doing, I missed him. As the third hour approached we started heading for the docks, where Swain's infiltration ships were located. We went ahead and boarded one. Swain and Zed were already present, I had to restrain myself from wanting to touch my dear Zed again, to feel his shadows around me. We then waited for the others, no one was late thankfully and we set sail on time.
Swain was talking about plans and strategies with Miss Fortune, Zed and Darius. Le'Blanc and Draven didn't seem to care much for listening in as they just kept watch for anything in the horizon.
"I see them, over there" Le'Blanc stated after a few hours.
Swain took out his eyeglass and looked.
"That's the Bandle ship alright." he paused and looked in a different direction.
"And that would be Gangplank" He hisses "riding my ship." He makes an annoyed and frustrated look as he compacted his eyeglass. "Slow our sail, we need to arrive at the Yordle's ship right after Gangplanks first few attacks."
We drifted closer but Gangplank's ship moved much faster towards the Yordle's ship. We were just outside of firing range when Gangplank fired his cannons and they hit the Yordles.
"On my mark, fire between the two ships." Swain said.
"Ready….Fire." He said and Swain's hextech cannons shot out and hit the water and created huge waves between the ships, pushing them away from each other.
"Full speed." Swain demanded.
"Quinn, Zed, Le'Blanc, I need you three to board the Bandle ship and bring all the yordles to this ship so we can get them back safely, their ship is too damaged to tow." We nod and look as their ship as we saw it beginning to sink.
"Darius, Draven, Miss Fortune and I will distract the pirates best we can as you do this." He says as we sailed and are within jumping distance between the two ships.
"Go." He spoke and they jumped and landed on the pirate's ship to attack and distract.
Before I could get off the ground, Le'Blanc and Zed were already aboard the Yordle's ship. I followed suit and made many trips back and forth between the sinking ship and our own. There were many Yordle's aboard. About twenty, only two of which I recognize, Tristana and Heimerdinger.
"Swain!" Le'Blanc shouts and he gives the sign to retreat. They jump back on board before the engines roared and we sailed out of there fast. It would take a bit before we reached Bandle City. Tristana and Swain went to his quarters to talk. The yordles thanked us for the rescue, all except Heimerdinger who seems to have not even noticed he switched ships, he is far too focused on that little metal machine he has.
We eat, luckily Swain brought enough food and water for us and the yordles. The evening of the next day we end up in Bandle city. The yordles exit out ship and I see Tristana lead swain to what I'm assuming in the military headquarters for the yordles. The rest of us stay on the ship awaiting Swain's return.
A few hours later he returns with Teemo next to him and gives a sly smile towards Le'Blanc who gives one just as devious looking back to him.
"The inhabitants of Bandle City are grateful, they will help us on our mission to take back what's ours from Gangplank. Some of their best champions will help us. Heimerdinger will come to but he will stay on the ship with his turrets." Swain says to Darius.
"Yes, sir." He replies.
"In the meantime, Teemo says you can relax a bit within the city. Don't make them angry." Swain says sternly as he and Teemo head into the captain's quarters to talk strategy.
We see many yordles begin to strengthen their ships and sails, and arming their ships with weapons and tech I have never seen before. Small but scary I suppose. We help them out on packing and taking things to the ships. They seem surprised and skeptic that some of us are helping them. They seem to not be as cautious with me or Miss Fortune though. After what seemed like forever, Teemo and Swain exited the room and stood before Bandle City, us and it's inhabitants.
"So here is the plan…" Both took turns unraveling the plan they decided on. It was elaborate and detailed.
"Quinn and Ziggs, you two handle the bombs, be unnoticed and discrete."
We nod.
"Then after.." They continue.
"Once in position.."
'That's when we go in." They spoke with great confidence which seemed to spread like a virus towards those who were listening. We just might be able to pull this off. And I'll be of use to Zed, I will help him get his artifact back, his Jagged Knife.
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