Welcome back all!

This bit is slightly weird as I am writing this on Monday. The chapter before this has not even been released yet in the time of writing. So this is quite fun.

On with the notes once more!

Number one: The structure of this chapter is going to be slightly different as it's going to have less detail on each day. Basically there's something coming up which is getting me really excited and I want to get to it as soon as possible. I won't spoil it but the next chapter after this one is going to be… odd. But in a good way.

Number two: Zed will return pretty soon but I'm still counting him as having broken bones after the fall so he's going to be irritated.

Number three: I have a few plans for writing some more about Nocturne and Morgana as well as Shen and Akali. It may not happen for a while but it's going to happen eventually.

Number four: We're going to meet some more champions soon. I'm excited about it.

Number five: I'm a happy and excited right now. Can you tell? It's such fun.

And… end of notes!

Guess what…

On with the chapter!

Chapter 13: On tour

19:30

We once again sat together in the hot springs on our desert island. It was one of the only places where I could get him to ease up a bit. Zoh had tried to convince me that he was only here with me because it made me happy but we both knew that was a lie.

I was quite pleased with myself as I had almost definitely beaten my previous time of getting next to Zoh.

"We appear to be making this bathing time a sort of habit."

"I enjoy it and you enjoy it so I would say that it is a good habit. Plus you are at your least annoying when we are here."

"Good point. I'll make sure to focus more on annoying you when we are here."

"If you do that I will make your life so very difficult for as long as I can."

"Guess I won't be doing that then."

"How about instead of that you can be more romantic for a while? Today has been quite… mundane really."

"Don't expect me to apologise for being a bit less 'friendly' after you tried to force me into something I wasn't comfortable with."

"How about next time you confront me properly when I go too far instead of just saying a bunch of snarky remarks then getting pulled out the window? It's not like I wouldn't listen."

"I always go into these situations with the belief that you are just joking and that if I act the way I did then we can laugh it off and continue on. When it gets to the point that I realise you are not kidding well… you know how that went. As for you listening I know for a fact that you were not in a mood to let me speak for long."

"I'm not really in a mood to let you talk now yet still we are having this conversation."

"We don't need to be speaking about this now. You, as always, have a good way to stop me talking any time you want."

Taking the hint I moved over so that I was sitting on Zoh. Staring down at him I pulled his hands up and placed them on my sides. I lowered my upper half down so that I was barely an inch away from him.

"Actually I have two ways. I can tell you or…" As I finished I pressed my lips against his. He quickly began doing the usual. I gripped tightly on to the back of his head to stop him from pulling away without my permission.

It took me a moment to realise my tails were trying to wrap around him. Remembering back to what happened last time they did this I let a few of them sit lightly on his shoulders while the rest fell back into the water. Doing that seemed to assure him that I was in control of my actions so he pulled me in closer and un-tensed his muscles.

A few seconds later Zoh pulled away stared at me for a while before muttering:

"I'm still in quite the talkative mood. Seems you need to try harder."

"I think I can do that."

Before he had a chance to reply I pulled him back up to me pressed our lips together. A split second later I wrapped my arms around him and held him firmly against me. All of my tails that were not holding onto his shoulders moved to his arms and made them work over my body faster.

This time I broke away to see his reaction, though my tails kept his hands moving.

"How about that?"

"… You must really want me to shut up."

The next morning (09:00):

My eyes blinked open and took a few second to adjust to the light. Immediately upon regaining my senses I realised where I was. Zoh had insisted that I slept in my own bed for once, however it was really quite easy to get him to join me.

This was one of the few times that I had actually woken up before him so I decided I may as well enjoy it. I was about to try something when I had a much better idea. If ever there was a time for revenge it was now.

I shook Zoh slightly too almost wake him up. He turned over in his sleep to face me. Once he was settled again I carefully moved my hand so that it was right next to his ear. Flicking it harshly he practically flipped over and fell out of bed. I stifled a laugh before turning over and pretending to be asleep.

"Ugh god what happened?"

"… Ahri?"

I could not help but giggle a little at how un-aware he was. There was no way I could pretend to be asleep any more so I turned to face him with a smile wide across my face.

"I may have wanted revenge."

"Revenge for what?"

"You flicked my ear so I flicked yours. Except I flicked yours much harder. Like an eye for an eye but instead of an eye you lose an arm."

"Hey I will have you know I did that in the name of science."

"What kind of science requires you to flick the ear of an innocent fox-girl?"

"My kind of science. Just be thankful you didn't explode."

"I don't think I would have exploded from that."

"Yeah that's what they said about the cow back on my planet…"

"So I could have exploded yet you still did it?"

"It was a really stupid idea wasn't it?"

"The worst idea you have had in a while."

"When you think about it most of my ideas are bad. Some just so happen to be better than others."

"Right now a good idea on your part might be getting up off the floor. I imagine it's more than a little cold down there."

"I don't know it's quite comfortable actually."

"More comfortable than me?"

"No but I'm too lazy to move right now."

"Get up now or I will introduce you to all the people watching me sing. I'll make it the most embarrassing moment in your life."

"Why do you want me to get up so badly?"

"Because it's lonely in here without you."

"I think it's about time that you got out of bed actually. We have to get to Piltover by eight PM so we have most of today to practice whatever the hell the summoners have come up with for you to sing."

"How do they even know I can sing in the first place? Only you have heard me."

"They cloned you and got the clone to sing while I distracted you."

"Couldn't they just ask me?"

"You are able to say no. The clone was not. And we all know how you feel about the plan."

"Does no-one trust me to be civil?"

"Obviously not. We better get a move on if you want to spend some free time in Piltover. Last time we were there we did not exactly have time to explore."

A many hours later (17:00):

After quite some time practicing the songs the summoners had made for me we asked to go to Piltover early to spend the last part of the day there. The streets in the main part of the city were very different to what I remembered the outskirts being. Back then the buildings had seemingly random bits and pieces of technology dotted around them. Here, entire buildings were made of technology. The tops of the buildings could barely be seen behind the clouds and every window seemed to emanate light into the streets. Despite all this there was a lot of space between everything and all the streets were relatively clear, thanks in no small part to the walkways which crossed overhead.

We had been walking for a while now in search of something to do. I had received a few stares but for the most part they appeared to be out of curiosity and not lust. The summoner who teleported us here had assured me that the police department had agreed to forget about what happened last time we were here.

Eventually we reached a large park which looked like it held all of the vegetation the city had to offer. Zoh signalled for me to sit down at a bench while he did the same. The view was quite strange really. Surrounding the park on all sides were buildings which dwarfed the trees massively and the entire area was bathed in an un-natural blue light.

Zoh must have realised that I was being more quiet than normal as he pulled me in close and spoke for the first time in a few minutes:

"You seem as bored as I am."

"This city seems so strange. I'm used to the wide open spaces of Ionia. I spent my entire life there until a week or so ago. Ever since I became mostly human most of my time has been spent cooped up in the halls of the League. It's quite depressing really."

"It's just one of the things that humans do. We restrict ourselves to a specific area then feel the need to cram as much into that space as possible. How about we go on a holiday at some point to Ionia and spend some time there?"

"That would be nice."

"Also one more thing. Calling yourself 'mostly human' really annoys me. I have explained to you before why that is not true. Say it again and I wake you up every day by flicking you on the ear for a week."

"That seems excessive for something so small."

"You have made it a pet peeve. It wasn't before but you made it happen. It's like if I were to call myself half-turtle or something."

"That would just be a lie though."

"So is you calling yourself half-fox. Think of it this way: you are one hundred per cent human and thirty per cent fox. You have all the human parts and some extra fox stuff."

"That doesn't seem to work in terms of maths."

"I don't care I'm a scientist!"

Twenty minutes later (17:30):

"So what floor is our room on?"

"Seventy. The top floor. Great for us if there is an earthquake."

"Thanks for that Zoh. Really calms my nerves."

"It's just what I do."

The door pinged and opened. I peeked around the corner nervously while Zoh walked right past. Taking a few steps out of the elevator I followed Zoh as he walked around the large room. From what I could tell there didn't seem to be any doors to our room which confused me quite a bit. The elevator was right in the centre of the large room and everything else looked open. The walls had been almost completely replaced by windows which gave a three-sixty degree view of the city.

Finally my curiosity got the better of me and I tugged on Zoh's arm to get his attention.

"Where is our room?"

"You're standing in it."

"This whole floor is our room?"

"Yeah. Remember that you are famous now so get used to stuff like this."

I took a second to look around the room. The room had chairs dotted around and a lot of technology. It was split into four separate areas but the only things between the parts of the room were white curtains which were almost see-through. The last thing I noticed was the large bed on one side of the room where Zoh was lying casually. I skipped over to him and lay down next to him.

"This is really nice but what if someone decides to go to this floor?"

"I locked it when we came in. The elevator can't get up to this floor. So no-one is going to walk in on us."

"Wonderful I can walk around in my birthday suit then."

"Not yet you can't. We are going to a restaurant in a few minutes."

"So we came all the way up here to this amazing room just for you to take me back down again."

"I just wanted to see your face when you realised it was all our room. By the way, it was priceless."

"Fine then let's go to the restaurant. You're paying though."

"Don't worry about that, the summoner has got us covered."

"They really don't leave much for us to sort out ourselves."

"Yeah I was talking to one of them about it and apparently another champion did something similar but failed terribly. A few people died, there was a lawsuit it was just… just terrible."

"I think we are better than to do that."

"We would almost definitely do worse."

I thought about it for a second before realising that there would be many explosions and lots of fire if we were left to our own devices.

"Let's not think about it and just go get food."

"Oh yeah I should mention it's a fancy restaurant so we should get changed into something more… fitting."

"Is that true or do you just want to see me in a dress?"

"Both."

"Where did you put our stuff?"

"Over there." He replied while pointing next to the door.

After some time and many attempts to irritate Zoh I was dressed and ready. He also got dressed and we were about to go downstairs when a summoner appeared in front of the elevator.

"Hello both of you. It has been decided that to keep up a good image Ahri you will be required to look as you will when singing. Please stand still while I do the spell."

"Surely I don't need to have golden hair and pink tails when all I am doing is going to dinner."

The summoner chanted a few un-intelligible words then stopped. I picked out one of my tails to confirm it was pink. Throwing it back with a sigh the summoner gave a bow and disappeared.

"Don't worry about it you look great. Although I will admit that your tails look really un-natural."

"Why do I have to look like this and you get to just be you?"

"I'm not keeping up appearances with people. Also you're not the one who is apparently going to be made to wear pink armour."

"Are they really going to make you wear that? Seems like it would look terrible."

"Yeah basically I am getting that, armour made of cooled magma and some sort of robotic stuff. I am terrible with robots though so I'm not sure how that will work."

"So you have something girly, something evil-sounding and some robot stuff as your skins and I get pink tails and gold hair? I get the feeling that they put more effort into your skins than mine."

"Oh don't worry about that you are getting some more and one of them just so happens to set your tails on fire."

"What? That would really hurt!"

"Your problem not mine."

"I'm going to have words with the summoner who came up with that damn idea."

"Come on we should be going now. The sooner we get back up here the less time we spend getting irritated by the press."

"Why would they even care?"

"Because you have a concert in the city tomorrow so anything they can get to make you look bad will be great for them."

"If I get seen with you then they will wonder who you are. Which can only go well in terms of getting them to announce you early."

"It doesn't matter that much. I really doubt the assassins will even try to get me by this point."

"The one we met did seem surprisingly calm about the whole thing. Maybe she will decide it's too much effort to get all the way over here to care."

"Hopefully. Last thing I need right now is to get killed."

We opened the elevator door and walked in. Zoh pressed the button to take us to the ground floor while I tried to keep my stomach down. The feeling of movement in the elevator was very uncomfortable and the height we were at made it even worse. I had avoided looking out the windows of the room for too long out of fear. This was the highest up I had ever been and I didn't very much appreciate it.

Eventually the door pinged open and we walked out. The lobby of the hotel reminded me of the main room at the League. Pillars lined the sides of the room and red carpets marked where people were supposed to walk.

I remembered that next to the hotel was a very nice looking restaurant. Unfortunately we had to go outside to get to it and I didn't exactly want to get recognised. We began walking to the door however about half way there Shen walked from the side to block us. He was wearing his normal mask but had a suit on and an earpiece over where I assumed his ear was. He also had a badge confirming he was security.

"I am obliged to inform you that there is quite the crowd outside. It appears that people have already discovered your location."

"That was fast. Back on my planet it took about a day for this to happen."

"The information was leaked by your fiancée Zoh."

"Son of a- how did she even know we were here?"

"That I have yet to find out. My best man is working on it though so expect an update soon."

"You have people working for you?"

"Master Yi has wanted to do this kind of work for a few years now."

"Tell me as soon as he finds something. We could really do without every assassin in Piltover knowing our whereabouts."

"Caitlyn has assured me that Piltover's population of assassins is the lowest in Valoran."

"I guess I have to take her word for it on this occasion. Anyway have you got any ideas as to how we can get to the restaurant without problems?"

"Some favours had to be called in but it should be getting sorted now. We may want to watch this. It should be quite the spectacle."

Me and Zoh exchanged glances before he shrugged and we walked behind Shen who was hastily making his way to the door. Clearly even he was somehow excited by what was about to come. We reached the door and I could see through the slightly tinted glass that there was indeed a huge crowd outside. Shen opened the door for us and the moment we walked out a metallic roar drowned out the noise of the crowd. Everyone turned to see a huge robotic creature with red light glowing from inside standing behind them. Most ran instantly but the few who did stay were easily swiped away by its cannon-like arms. Shen walked up to the creature as it dropped its head to meet him face-to-face.

Over the distant cries of the still screaming people I could hear what they were saying.

"Well done Cho. Consider that one less favour you owe me. Only forty nine to go."

"I could eat you where you stand for implying I owe you anything more."

"Last time that happened I wounded you so badly they turned you into a robot. What do you think they will do with you this time?"

"Argh I'm going to go destroy a building or two. This has irritated me."

"Look at it this way, you no longer owe me an automatically growing top-hat. I would count today as a success if I were you."

At that the robot grumbled angrily and walked away, knocking down half a building with its tail while it went. Seeing as the crowd was well and truly gone I took Zoh's arm into mine and urged him to walk.

After a very short walk we reached the restaurant and as Zoh opened the door we were greeted by a room void of life save for staff. By the looks of it people had hurried out without even finishing. It didn't take long for me to realise that 'Cho', as Shen called him, had not only cleared the crowd outside.

"I guess we can sit wherever then." Zoh muttered.

"You have to hand it to Shen. When he says he will get us some space, he gets us some space."

An hour later (19:00):

Out of the window I saw the sun setting over the mountains. The last rays of sunlight just barely reaching the city. Apparently this is a romantic time so I thought it would be a good idea to try something with Zoh.

He was sitting at the end of the bed reading a book, which made my job much more difficult. I got onto my knees behind him and positioned myself so that he would not notice I had moved. Holding my breath so that he didn't hear me I darted my hand around him and flicked the book away. As it hit the floor I got my other arm around Zoh and pulled him backwards. He continued to make no sound as I kneeled on top of him.

"You made me lose my page."

"Is the book more important than me?"

"Could be. I haven't finished it yet."

"I want to be mad about that but it would just make my mood worse."

"So don't be mad about it, get off me and I can try to find the page again."

"I'm not sure if I like those manners Zoh. Or the lack thereof in this case."

"Please get off me."

"No."

"Why did you even mention about manners if it doesn't matter if I use them or not?"

"I was just doing a bit of harmless stalling."

"Stalling until what exactly?"

A second after he said that I let out a quiet 'aha' of success as my tails managed to un-zip the back of my dress. It fell down enough for me to kick it off and over the side of the bed.

"That. Turns out un-zipping something with tails is difficult."

"Exactly what is this supposed to do? The view was nice enough before."

"Just making sure you know what you are missing out on."

"Is that in terms of mass or something else?"

"Something else? Thanks for being specific."

"You know what I mean."

"It's about the fun that you are missing out on. The same fun you are making me miss out on."

"I'm not forcing you to miss out on it, you chose to. By the way I do appreciate that. It shows me you do actually care and are not just using me for laughs."

"Don't worry about that I care and I use you for laughs."

"And I stick with you because?"

"Apart from what we are doing right now I have no idea."

"This isn't part of why I stay with you."

"…"

"Okay it's a small part."

"…"

"A third."

"…"

"Just under half."

"That's more like it. I see that look in your eyes when I do this. Right now I can tell just how much you are struggling."

Zoh lifted his hands from the bed and placed them just above my hips. For a moment he appeared to block a thought from his mind by closing his eyes and breathing deeply. He opened his eyes and stared up at me.

"I will admit that I struggle quite a lot. The two halves of my head are fighting each other over what I should do. You make this so very difficult for me."

"It's not all my fault."

"Says the naked woman sitting on top of me."

"Maybe if you didn't make it so much fun when I do then I wouldn't."

"This is fun for you?"

"No. But this is…" I whispered as I lowered down to kiss Zoh.

The rest of the night went by in a similar way to most. It could be counted as a failure considering I couldn't get Zoh to go any further than normal. If so it was a very enjoyable failure.

The next morning (08:00):

That morning I was woken by Zoh shaking my shoulder lightly. I opened my eyes and stared into his which seemed to be trying to decide if they wanted to stare back or stare at the rest of me.

"Now that is an okay way of waking me up. Why not do that more often?"

"You were more agreeable than usual last night, so I thought that you deserved it. However I can think of a few different ways that you might enjoy as much, if not more."

"So long as none of them include my ears I'll be okay with it."

When I mentioned my ears he immediately looked as if he had remembered something.

"Now that you bring them up can I just try something? It isn't a bad thing. In fact I think you may like it."

"Uh, sure…"

He pulled his hand from under the covers and moved it to behind my ears. I was really confused for a moment when suddenly he did something very nice to the back of my left ear. For some reason it felt really good and I instinctively moved closer towards Zoh. It took me a few moments to realise that I was making a low purring noise. He continued for a few more seconds before removing his hand and wrapping it around me.

"I'm surprised that worked."

"What did you do and why was I purring?"

"Actually I think this is going to be a secret for me to know and you to knot find out. As for the purring I have no idea. It was really cute though."

"I'm not trying to be cute I'm trying to be seductive."

"Right now having you cuddled up against me is a really weird mix of both. I think the longer I look at you the harder it is to decide."

"Did you wake me up just to try that?"

"No I just had a few things I wanted to do before we went to the concert. I don't plan on doing this stuff alone."

"What stuff could be so difficult that you can't do it alone?"

"It's not that this stuff is difficult it's just I enjoy having you with me whatever I am doing."

"You treat me exactly as I hear other people treat those they love in that way, yet for some reason you're still undecided about the whole thing. It's really getting on my nerves."

"Think of it this way: I have only ever felt the sort of un-conditional love people have for family. If I was not related to my dad I would have probably killed him. Same for my brother."

"How come you never talk about your mother? You do have one don't you?"

"She's a sad story and nothing more. There's nothing else to say about it."

"There is a lot about your past that is very sad Zoh. I think the best thing you could do is forget about as much of your old life as possible. All those memories seem so negative. How about we create some new memories for you that can replace the old ones?"

"Sounds good. It's going to take some time though."

"If you remember correctly we have as much time as we need. Literally we have as long as this planet lasts. Now make yourself useful and get back to my ear."

At that he smiled down at me and put his hand back behind my ear. Immediately I began purring again and buried my head into his chest. He brushed some of my hair off his hand then gave me a kiss on the top of my head. I brought my legs up to my stomach and held him closer to me with my arms.

"I'm getting a strange feeling that this will be useful in future."

"Oh no please don't use this to get me to sleep with you. That would be terrible. Oh no." I replied with as much sarcasm as I could.

"Maybe in a few weeks I will."

"Better be worth the wait."

"That is for you to decide. I'll try my best though."

"The same as or better than last time would be great."

"Next time, if there is one anyway, I will be doing it out of choice so it should be better."

"Good. Now if you would be so kind as to focus on the task at hand it would be lovely."

An hour later (09:10):

"What the hell is this place supposed to be?"

"From what I can tell it's a supply store. Exactly what I was looking for."

"Why do you need supplies?"

"To build stuff. Obviously."

"Okay then but I'm not quite sure how I am supposed to help with this."

"Basically you just keep your eye out for stuff on the list and if you're feeling helpful you can carry something."

"Is this some sort of payback for when I brought you shopping with me?"

"No don't be ridiculous. You don't have to help but I would appreciate it if you did."

"I probably won't. But who knows maybe I will decide to be helpful at some point."

We walked through the many rows of the store. All of them were lined with materials and pieces of technology which I assumed Zoh knew how to use. Every once in a while he would pick something off of a shelf before continuing on. I had to admit that I was not really being very helpful. It wasn't that I didn't want to help; it's just that Zoh would always see everything before me and none of it looked light enough for me to carry.

A while later the pile of stuff that Zoh was holding out in front of him was almost at the point of obscuring his vision so we decided to go. After paying for it all we walked out. Standing there was Shen who was still wearing his security uniform.

"We have found how Lita knew of your location. It appears that she has become an ally of a very powerful summoner and he has been able to find out everything about the tour."

Zoh threw the pile of stuff to the side before replying:

"So what you're saying is she has a summoner on her side who can pretty much do anything in terms of magic. Wonderful."

"That is not all however. The very same summoner has recently bought a small prison in the Freljord. We have absolutely no idea what he plans to use it for but we do know that in a hundred years of use only one person has ever escaped. Given his recent alliances it is fair to assume that they plan to use it against you."

"Surely he can't imprison someone in the Freljord and get away with it?" I asked. Now I had a real reason to be concerned for myself and Zoh.

"Unfortunately one of the things that the summoners seem incapable of is detective work. Also it is well known that the council prefers not to punish its own people."

"Knowing Lita this is probably a small part of a much larger plan. This and the assassins are linked somehow. Ask Master Yi to try and find a connection."

"I shall do that as soon as possible. Right now, however, I suggest we leave this place. It won't be long before people realise we are here."

"Minor problem there being that I have to haul this stuff all the way back to the hotel. It's going to take some time."

"That is not a problem. Summoner. Send this pile back to his room at the League."

Shortly after that the pile disappeared in a blue light. Instead of wondering how we both accepted it and turned back to Shen. I was the first to get back to the conversation.

"Can he always hear us? If so we may have a bit of explaining to do."

"No there is a law against that. I can talk to him through this earpiece I found in Zoh's room."

"So you just took it from my room without asking?"

"Yeah. I was looking through it for helpful devices and I found this. I also took some explosives and an apple. Hunger got the better of me." Shen replied as he began to walk away towards our hotel.

I shrugged and followed him, leaving Zoh standing there looking slightly annoyed. Seconds later he caught up with us and turned to Shen.

"Shen that apple had a black hole in the middle of it. How are you still here?"

"No-one eats the centre of an apple. Except for my uncle... but anyway I just threw the core away."

"Somewhere a bin man is having a really bad day."

We walked for a while more until eventually we reached the hotel. Shen left us before we reached the door saying something about Akali requiring him back at the League. Me and Zoh went into the hotel and up to our room. I walked straight to the bed and lay down.

"I'm going to go get a book or something. I'll be right back."

"Okay then. One question though do you remember anything from our last match? I can't recall anything."

"Strangely enough I don't either. Guess it must be a summoner mess-up or something."

Zoh walked behind the elevator to where his stuff was. I watched as a flash of blue light came from where he was. He emerged from behind the elevator whispering some obscenities under his breath.

"What happened there?"

"Oh, uh, nothing… just some… technological issues."

"There's technology in your books?"

"Books? What are you talking- ah! Oh yeah. The books. Never-mind them."

"You're acting a bit odd. Has something happened?"

"No nothing happened. I'm just a bit on edge right now. The next few days are going to be strange and I have to be careful with the assassins."

"Well if that is the case then what are we going to do for the rest of the day? There are still a few hours before the concert."

"Hmm let me think… we can basically do whatever we want. What do you want to do?"

"Wait a second what about all the things you wanted to do?"

"Those things? Uh I think they can wait actually. Unless you have a specific one you want to tell me about now."

"You didn't tell me any of them so how could I tell you?"

"Forget about it. What would you do if you could do literally anything?"

"We both know what I would do in that case."

Zoh smiled down at me and got onto the bed next to me.

"You won't understand this yet but I haven't got much time left so… do what you want."

"I'm not going question your motives for this, despite how confused I am on the subject."

I barely finished my sentence before Zoh pulled me towards him. Something was clearly up when he darted his tongue into my mouth and began pulling my clothes off.

Many hours later (17:00):

We walked into the back of the huge stadium. I could already hear the crowd but they were quiet enough for me to hear Shen jogging up to us from the side.

"You two are late."

Me and Zoh looked from Shen to each other awkwardly.

"We had some… other, things to attend to."

"Thank whatever gods you may have that a few explosions in the city delayed the concert."

"Explosions? From what?"

"Her name is Jinx. She recently joined the League and she has an incredible ability to cause havoc. You had better get going now Ahri before the crowd gets irritated."

"Fine. Also don't think today has changed anything Zoh. You still owe me for making me do this."

"Yeah I know, I know."

The concert went on without incident. After what felt like many hours I finished and walked back-stage. I wiped a bit of sweat from my brow and found Zoh. When he saw me he threw away a newspaper he had been reading and walked up to me. Giving me a hug he spoke up:

"From the cheering and what I heard that went well."

"Yeah but it's really tiring doing this. And I still have four more cities or something."

As we broke apart Shen hurried in, looking around the room cautiously.

"There is a problem. Some of the guards have been found with their throats slit. We have to get you out of here now."

"Go with Shen now. I'll get the rest of the people out. No-one else dies today."

I tried to stop him but he was already in his armour and running to the door. The last I thing I saw him do was draw his axe.

Zoh POV

There they were. Two assassins standing ahead of me with more confidence than I was comfortable with.

We stared each other down for a few moments before the woman spoke up:

"Since your friend is known all over Valoran it seems we can only kill you. Not that I'm complaining though. We get paid either way."

"Don't expect me to plead for mercy or try talk you out of it. Assassins are all the same. So you, like all the others who have tried to kill me, will meet your fate very soon."

"I make my own fate. Now I shall make yours." The man declared while drawing his weapon.

In an instant the he had disappeared and I felt something ping off the armour on my back. I turned only to be met by a strike to my helmet. Catching a glimpse of him to my left I struck with my free hand. The punch connected and knocked him onto his back. Within milliseconds he was back up and diving towards me. Using my axe to block the attack I rotated it so the handle hit him in the side.

The fight was going well until I felt something smack into my shoulder. I turned my head to see a knife imbedded in the shoulder-guard. Not thinking much of it I turned back to where the man had been to see him standing at quite some distance. He ducked behind some cover and as he did so I felt what seemed like hundreds of needles impacting my armour. To my right was the woman assassin who was spinning and throwing knives in all directions. They all failed to get through my armour until I felt all of my armour dissipating away. Instantly I knew that the summoner Shen mentioned had managed to remove it.

Soon all my armour was gone as well as my axe and the last knife the woman threw stabbed into my chest. Grunting in pain I fell to the floor facing upwards. Above me stood both assassins looking quite proud of themselves. The woman reached down and yanked the knife out of me causing a burning sensation and my vision to blur.

"Finally something a summoner is good at. Let's go Talon. He won't last long."

They both walked away leaving me bleeding on the floor. Time nearly slowed to a stop and I felt myself fading fast. The pain was becoming worse as the adrenaline wore off and I clutched at my chest to make it stop.

A few seconds later Ahri appeared above me on her knees with tears forming in her eyes. On my other side was Shen.

"Zoh you're going to be okay. Just don't give up!"

"I would love to find anything okay about this. As far as I can tell it's all bad."

"You said you would never leave me. Don't go back on your word."

"I'm not leaving Ahri. Just think of it as a vacation."

The world grew black and the last thing I saw was Ahri crying over me.

I said something big was going to happen didn't I?

So yeah… one of the main characters is dead. This is fun huh?

Not really anything to say apart from you have all been spectacularly lovely with all these delays and everything. I have a reason for it this time though. Basically my birthday was recently and so I have had all that stuff to do so yeah.

One more thing that I should mention is that this may become a weekly thing. This whole 'write 6400 or so words in 3-4 days' thing is really damn difficult.

As always I hope you loved the chapter and I will see you next time.