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Welcome to the Academy

It was a sunny day, perfect for their first day at the academy. It would be a lie to say they weren't nervous since moving from their old school to a new place was kind of a challenge, being the new ones meant to be observed until everyone considered you weren't a creepy person and instead some cool guy. Leaving all your friends behind is sad and trying to find new ones is sad as well since you don't know how many would share your interests or even if they were going to be friendly, that was the mentality this two kids had in their minds and after hearing some interesting facts about the students they couldn't have a happy thought. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't try, on the contrary if they wanted to fit into this new `society´ they had to do their best efforts.

¨I know you are nervous, but you don't have to be silent about it¨ The girl at the side of brown haired boy smiled ¨It's a new school but-¨

¨Academy¨ He immediately corrected her.

¨Academy… yes, but it's nothing to worry about¨ She looked through her window from the car ¨I am nervous too but am I freaking out?¨

The kid turned his head to the right just to have a small glance of his friend ¨I'm not freaking out, it's just… something new. You and I heard about weird stuff at that place and yet I'm still wondering why did our parents allow us to go here?¨

¨That's because your parents heard that it had a good educational level, Reginald¨ The female driver spoke up ¨We also discussed with Sophie's dad and thought it was a nice idea¨

¨Great¨ Reginald sighed ¨Now our parents are against us…¨

¨Relax Ren, what makes you think this will go wrong? Maybe we are exaggerating and things are not that bad¨ The long raven haired girl relaxed on her seat and waited for them to arrive to the academy.

¨Thanks mom!¨ Sophie waved as the car left the two new students by the gates of this enormous place.

Despite seeing pictures on the internet the entire academy campus was huge, the main building on the opposite side and with the different wings at each side gave the feeling that the place was a fortress, although instead of soldiers and generals there were students and teachers. The amount of people going through the gates was massive and they were all spreading out, meeting with their friends and talking about how they spent their vacations. Both Reginald and Sophie hoped to see anybody from their group of friends but unfortunately there was no one they recognized, only unknown people for them.

The majority of the students were wearing the uniform while just a few were quite the rebels that had a single piece of the regulated clothes; however none of the teachers seemed to tell them otherwise. Sophie was wearing a short-sleeved white shirt with a red-pinkish tie and a gray formal jacket on top; she also had a checkered skirt with small details in black, short white socks and a pair of black shoes; on the other hand Reginald had a similar attire except that he had dress pants with the same style and color and instead of a short sleeved shirt it was a long one along with the gray formal jacket. Both of them were carrying their backpacks with just a few pens and a couple of notebooks.

¨You think we'll fit in?¨ Reginald asked, being overwhelmed by the amount of people all around them.

¨It's not going to be bad… I mean, it will if we act weird or something similar we might get branded as such¨ The girl with brown eyes muttered, holding to her backpack.

¨I haven't seen so many Yordles in a single place…¨ The green eyes from the kid were amazed at little humanoids walking around and talking with people not only from their kind but also humans as well. He raised his sight and saw that far away from this big crowd there was a stage where a man as going to talk, sitting at each side of this person there were other adults, probably teachers, looking at the students ¨Look at that, come on¨

This two friends tried to get past the horde just to end up in the middle of it but they were able to look and listen at the man on the stage. He was old and didn't seem like a friendly person, the gray hairs on his beard made it look as if he was a wise person also the pipe in his hand and the glasses hanging from his neck tried to put more weight onto this trope. Before he spoke the man tapped on the microphone, only a few people paid attention while the rest were still talking ¨Students!¨ The voice of the old man was heard through the speakers and the entire campus went silent.

¨Thank you¨ The man cleared his threat before spewing more words into the microphone ¨Welcome to a new year here at Runeterra Academy, I can already see some familiar faces and some new ones, let's hope the newcomers don't step into detention so often¨ Some laughs could be heard from the crowd, including a few teachers ¨Before starting this day we want to address something important, there have been rumors that started last year on regards some problems that ended up in the police coming to the academy's premises. Let's try to avoid that again, especially the spreading of those fake rumors, it wouldn't surprise me that it started as a joke from any student and later it became a serious topic. That being said, I once again welcome you to Runeterra Academy¨ The old man finished his speech and walked away, leaving another teacher to organize the horde of students.

It took quite a while to make everyone retreat from the big green area and to the classrooms. Sadly for Reginald and Sophie they weren't in the same class and they even were on different parts of the academy.

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The boy was assigned to classroom 205, second floor of the left wing. Most of the seats were occupied so he had to choose one that was by the windows, he unpacked his materials and left them on the desk while waiting for the teacher to arrive.

¨Hey…¨ Ren turned his head to his right and looked at the guy who called him ¨You're new here right?¨ The young man smiled, his blue eyes and golden hair shined against the sun coming from the window.

¨Yeah… this… this is my first day here¨

The other student extended his hand to greet the newcomer ¨The name's Ezreal¨

The brown haired boy did the same to greet the blond ¨I'm Reginald¨ He looked to the front, seeing as the last remaining students entered into the class ¨So… what are we supposed to have today?¨

¨I don't know, we know which class we get after the professor enters¨ With those words the adult they were all waiting for crossed the door to the classroom ¨History…¨ Ezreal sighed, returning to his normal position.

¨Attention class¨ The teacher was a bald man but with a black goatee, he used glasses and a black two-piece suit; he brought with himself a big book as well as a folder, after leaving everything on the desk he stood in front of it, looking at all the students ¨I see new faces and old ones…¨ He shook his head ¨For those who don't know me my name is professor Ryze, you can call me by that name or even professor, if any of you dare to call me you `bro´ or `dude´ or any of the slang you kids use I will send you to detention, keep doing it and it will leave a mark on your record¨

Everyone looked at each other silently, Reginald turned to Ezreal who shrugged. The new kid decided to lean towards the blond's seat ¨Are all the teachers like this?¨

¨Definitely not, but last year many people claimed Ryze was one of the hardest teachers in this subject, they said his exams are close to impossible since-¨

¨Ezreal…¨ The teacher crossed his arms and raised a brow at the blond who immediately stopped talking to the brown haired kid.

¨Yes professor?¨ Ez's voice was shaky, afraid of what kind of punishment he might receive.

¨Tell your talking partner to come here, he's a new face and as such he should introduce to the class¨ Everyone laughed and Ren stood up, walking to the front while Ryze sat on the chair behind his desk.

¨Um… hello, I'm Reginald Miles, this is my first day at the Academy and I uh… hope I can get along well with everyone¨ His presentation was not the best one as he earned a few applauses, although all of them were mostly sarcastic ¨(This will be a horrible year…)¨ He though and returned to his seat, seeing as how another student went to the front.

¨We want to know a bit more about you miss…¨ The French teacher known as Miss Fiora Laurent was sitting on her desk, crossing her legs and fixing her black skirt.

¨Miller… Sophie Miller¨ The girl said, she tried not to sound nervous even if on the inside she was ¨I'm 17 years old and… and I'll try fit in here, I like the academy and all even if it's my first day and I hope not to disappoint anyone, not even the professor¨ Sophie turned to see Fiora who didn't seem too eager to have the class interrupted by unnecessary talk ¨I'm… I'm going to return to my seat¨ The teacher nodded and told somebody else to come to the front.

Before she could even reach her seat, the newcomer felt someone's leg near her ankles and causing her to fall to the ground, the loud thud made everyone in the classroom laugh. Sophie raised her eyes and saw the cyan haired girl, her two ponytails, loose tie and colored fingernails gave the impression this one was either a bully or a rebel, maybe both. When the black haired was able to stand up again the guilty one just smiled.

¨Welcome to the academy darling, I'm Jinx¨ She whispered and saw Sophie sitting on her desk; it was going to be a long year and with someone like this rebel sitting just next to her it will be quite the pain.

So yeah, I guess my retirement is not so much of a retirement but a hiatus that I took. What can I say? My writing might be shit but it keeps me occupied with something.

Now before going into some questiions and other stuff I'll talk about this fic:

I've been working on this story during my hiatus and had the idea from a long time ago, even before the announcement of the new Star Guardian lineup; originally it was going to be an Arcade themed one but after doing some changes here and there it ended up being something along the lines of Academy-Star Guardians. There will be NO schedule for this fic and I will be posting when I have the chapters and such, no rushing.

I spent some hours reading theories and stuff about this AU in the game and got inspired to do this story, let's see how it turns out in the long run!

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Now let's talk about general stuff, if you are an old reader you might be wondering: 'What is going to happen with Heroes & Legends?' I'm not going to delete it and I will try to update it, got some ideas for the next chapter and I hope to finish it. I won't talk about when the chapter will be released as I learned that trying to make a schedule and keeping a close eye to it just killed me and the results of the chapters ended up being quite poor or just bad. With this, I plan to put a close to that universe once I upload the last chapter of H&L, no pre-sequels, spin-offs or anything similar. If I do upload a chapter it will be just small stuff, nothing else.

As always if you want to talk you can find me on Discord at Discord dot gg / UpMHen3 , there are many authors there from fics you might recognize so feel free to hang there and have some fun!.

That is all, it's kinda weird to be here even if I said I would retire but after two years of writinig I just feel I can't leave it just like that, and if I do, I want all of my stories to have an ending. That being said... oh I missed saying this words:

See you in the next chapter ;)