[Oh hello there. Long time no see. I know, if you're returning to my little corner of FFN, it was probably The Arcana Game that got you here... and I've hit a wall with that story that I'm trying to work through now that I have all this time on my hands.

And for those of you that are simply here for some LoL lore, Hi! Welcome. This is inspired by the Warriors cinematic mostly but really all of them honestly and my take on how the alternate universes of the Leagueverse are intertwined and connected.

Enjoy.]

"Kai'Sa, you had the dream again. You were talking in your sleep about a tear and telling someone to run. Are you taking care of yourself?" Evelynn asked her bandmate as she slid a hot cup of coffee across the kitchen island to her.

"I think I'm going crazy. Do you know? I could have swore that I saw him at our last fan meet. It's like, he was there one minute and then gone in enough time to blink."

"Who?"

Kai'Sa shrugged, "I don't know his name. I don't know any of their names. The people from the dreams apart from Akali and Yasuo. It feels like I know them, though. Like, we were fighting to protect something... together."

"You think maybe you've just been watching Netflix way late at night too much lately?"

Kai'Sa shook her head. Akali had the dreams too, about a girl in red ribbons leading them in to battle. She had described it exactly the way she had dreamed it before she even told her that it was part of her dream. Ahri had also experienced similar dreams of being in a forrest fighting for her life against a large metal beast.

"I know I sound crazy."

Evelynn shook her head, "I don't think you're crazy, just... overwhelmed. You have so much on your plate these days. When do you an Ahri start filming for Arcade 3?"

"Next month."

"Yowza, that soon? Hmmm, let me take you out for a spa day, Bokkie."

Kai'Sa sighed with an apathetic grin, "I guess that does sound nice. Should we ask the others?"

Evelynn was already typing away in her phone sending a text to Akali and Ahri.

Returning from the spa, Kai'Sa was feeling much more relaxed. She plopped down on the couch next to Akali and snuggled up to their youngest member, "Can I confess something to you?" she asked quietly.

Akali nodded curiously before Kai'Sa looked over her shoulder to make sure Ahri wouldn't overhear them while she was on the phone with her cast friend from Star Guardians and the second Arcade movie.

"I haven't actually seen any of the Star Guardian episodes or the first Arcade movies."

Akali's eyebrows shot up in shock, "You're about to be in one of the movies, Kai'Sa! And a major role at that!"

Kai'Sa shrugged innocently, "Ahri did most of the work. The producer and casting director only wanted me as a visual and to bait our KDA fans in to buying more tickets and word of mouth advertising. The fact that I can actually act was just a perk."

"Wow, sleazy. I actually haven't watched them either. I wanted to finish reading the comic before I started Star Guardians."

Kai'Sa chuckled in agreement and took the remote from the coffee table flicking on to the main screen for Hulu. She found the first Arcade movie and pressed play.

At the very end of the credits when the teaser for the second movie revealed Ahri's character along with a blond haired boy resembling the one from Kai'Sa's dreams, she clutched Akali's arm tightly.

Akali stared at her shaking friend barely recognizing him from her own fuzzy memories of the shared dream, "No way. He just has one of those faces, he's a blond pretty boy. It could be anyone."

"No, that's definitely him. You know that feeling you got in the pit of your stomach when you met Yasuo for the first time?"

Akali nodded and sighed, "Well, you're about to be working with him and he's pretty close to Ahri. Maybe he's had the dreams, too. You already know how weird it is that Yasuo and I were able to recollect the same dream without you ever mentioning it to us, at least the parts that more vividly pertained to us."

The weight shifted on the couch as Ahri plopped down next to them, "Getting all caught up on the movies before your big debut?" she asked tickling Kai'Sa's sides lightly. She stopped abruptly noticing the frame that the movie was paused on and Kai'Sa's face as if she'd just seen a ghost.

"EZREAL? Is the boy from the catacombs in that freaky menage-nightmare between the two of you and Yasuo?!"

"We aren't sure but you've also had weird nightmares!"

A look of guilt flashed across her face, "Fine. I'm calling him back, though."

Kai'Sa grabbed her arm, "Maybe, don't? What if it isn't him after all? It just shook me up because he looks so similar."

Ahri shrugged, "Okay. I was just going to ask if he'd had any strange dreams lately. Although, he doesn't strike me as the type to even remember his weird dreams. He's sort of... all over the place. You'll see when you meet him."

Kai'Sa then began the second movie with an uneasy feeling in her stomach. Akali and Yasuo had bonded over their sharing of the odd dream and they never treated Kai'Sa strange about it because of the similarities. They even went as far to say that maybe they were memories from past lives and because they all had met each other in this new life, those memories were knocked loose in the form of these odd battle dreams.

And that's what made Kai'Sa nervous.

What was her past life like? And what if she wasn't ready to relive it?

Meanwhile, in a lofty apartment the next city over, a txt message alert went off on a young man's smart phone as he exited his shower.

"Hey! It's Ahri and I know this is going to be an odd thing to ask but I've been experiencing some weird deja vu recently. Do you ever have weird dreams that feel so real? Like you've lived through that experience before... and then you see a face in a crowd... of a person that was in that dream with you? Even though you've never met?"

The man read the text over again taking in the message completely before glancing to the corner of his room where a golden gauntlet laid atop a tattered leather bound log book on his bedside table.

He smirked and typed his reply back.

"Nah, I don't have dreams at all, Ahri. My mind is a well oiled and finely tuned machine. ;) Maybe lay off the snacks before bedtime, princess? See you soon."

He sat on his bed and placed his phone next to him. He turned on his side to look out the window with a tired sigh, "Well, looks like the League is waking up... again."