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Chapter 3: Of feeling Blue and games.

The Institute of War, home to the summoners and the champions, important decisions are often taken inside the walls of this huge place. All kinds of claims from summoners and champions appear, and all got their space, the council will decide in the end what to do with every case, small or big, of high importance or small importance, all cases are reviewed.

And what case of great importance is being reviewed in today? Surely something of great importance that will affect everyone involved! Or maybe someone was affected by Lulu polymorph again.

"Reviewing case number 56072-LP from The Fae Sorceress." Said the voice of one of the members of the council, everyone saw the file in front of them.

Subject: My friend is feeling Blue.
Hello! Hope you are all being purple today! I write this…well Tristana assisted me, something of being formal! The point is one of my friends is being all blue! Is a serious condition, as I think all of you know, being blue can lead to serious conditions, I have tried to use all the other colors but I think is something on her head, and my thinking hat is not helping me solve this problem. Please help my friend to not feel blue…

Oh right my friend is Jinx.

The copy of the message was full of small drawings of Pix and Lulu, there was one of Tristana and one of Jinx at the end, needless to say, Lulu messages were often…colorful.

"What does this even means, what do being blue even means?" Summoners were all in silence for a moment, truth be told Lulu messages were often simple things, this was a rare scenario. What do feel blue even means? Was the question hovering in their minds.

"…Sir, what if she means her health is not well?" For a moment the sound of papers resounded through the room as someone found what they were all looking "The Loose Cannon most recent medical checkup shows her health is well…any ideas what does she mean?" One of the summoners made noise with his throat to bring their attention. "I think everyone might want to hear this" He took the file and brought it to them. "Case file 67018-V from The Piltover Enforcer"

Subject: The Loose Cannon is acting weird.

Hey, is something wrong with the Loose Cannon? I had a match against her a few days ago and she seemed really out of it. I tried to say the same stuff as always to get her to perk up to the idea of a match against me, still even though they won something is not well with the mad girl. I think you guys should check on her, she already unstable, last thing we need is a bomb in the institute, is enough with Ziggs already.

Everyone was on silence, two champions reported weird behavior from the Loose Cannon…if it wasn't sickness of the body…could it be her own madness? But how to check on that…

One of the summoners of the council decided to speak what he was thinking "Wasn't The Exile in the same situation a few days ago?" Another one interjected "No, the whole deal with The Exile was anger issues, the last couple of days she has made progress on that problem" ideas bounced over the members of the council, they were proud of their efficiency, every problem was dealt with, even if took time to solve they set things on the road to the solution.

But how to solve this? They didn't really understood the Loose Cannon, they were not… "Hey, The Exile was taken to see a therapist right?" someone moved papers around and found one with the answer "Case file 17209-R, she was sent with the therapist called Cid on Demacia" silence reigned for a moment on the room of the council.

Everyone had understood the meaning on the question, and as tempting as it sounded, it was a big risk. The man known as Cid was a therapist they had heard from The Exemplar of Demacia who said the man was talented in the field of the mind, his abilities relied mainly on his expertise on the field of being able to understand the mind of others, when asked if this ability was a magical talent he mentioned Cid was unable of using any type of magic.

A man who could understand the mysteries of the mind and help to heal it, was a talent the Star Child, the Enlightened One, and the Blind Monk had. But even then they would end up too tired unable to participate in any matches for a long time. The summoners didn't really understood of this process. So the idea of having someone who could help was something they wouldn't let pass.

They hadn't known him for long, so far The Exile had been with him for three days, and in the second day he even recommended for her to be able to use the training facilities, and on the third day she even apologized to her teammates about what happened on the match. The Unforgiven didn't believed her, but The Secret Weapon did accepted her apology and gave her a hug that she answered with one hug herself. That if the rumors going around were anything to go by.

But the truth was, The Exile had indeed been looking better, she did told a summoner she still had to keep going to therapy, but it was obvious that whatever Cid was doing worked…could he take on the Loose Cannon then? Could his ability of understanding the mind would help him take on the challenge?

"I suggest for the Loose Cannon to be send to the therapist…she will be send with a champion to keep her in place, my suggestion is to send the Fae Sorceress as she can keep her in place with her magic and reduce any damage that could happen" Everyone nodded, they all knew this was going to be risky but there was nothing else to do but take the risk.

Case File 56702-LP
Answer: Send to the therapist Cid on Demacia with the company of a Champion to diminish any risk.

"Now that we are done with that, next case…

Case File 80128-ZA Subject: Zyra took control over the garden of the institute again. Everyone sighed, this case wasn't new…

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In Demacia one could see the people getting active on the sunny day, and if one were to put their attention in a small place that was hidden from the general view they might have been able to hear the screams of frustration that came from the inside.

"I can't do it! I can't!" said a feminine voice, her tone was stern and angry. "Yes you can do it! Come on!" said the voice of a man who was obvious trying to cheer her up. "I can't! Is too hard!" Said her voice angry but also losing hope "Come on! Just a bit further! You can do it!" Said the other trying to help her "I can't!" She sounded as if there was no hope "Come on just a bit further! We are almost there!" Said the man with the same cheerful attitude "Gaaaaaah!" The war cry resounded as her spirit raised again "Yes you did it Riven!"

Riven had finished writing her name. The task had proved to be a hard one, all the morning Cid had tried to teach Riven how to write starting from the most basic of things, her own name. Needless to say she had gotten frustrated at the task.

"This is a really useless skill…remember me why are we doing this?" She was tired, the task of learning had proved to be extenuating, and too many letters…not too many but for her it was horrible. I simply laughed before speaking "We can't play hangman if you don't know how to write, you are able to speak, but don't really know how to write the words, so we needs to start from a scratch" She let herself fall on the couch.

"Did everyone suffer this in order to learn to write?" I laughed "I had it harder, I needed glasses, and back then I didn't knew I needed them so I really couldn't see" She looked curious at my glasses "I thought they were to make you look professional" A normal answer from Riven "In a way they can have multiple functions, want to try to look with my glasses?" Oh I was being mean.

The moment Riven eyes saw through my glasses she closed them and gave them back to me. "This explains why your writing is so horrible! You are almost blind!" Ouch, that one hurt, my handwriting is not so bad!...Well it might be bad. "Hey I never said I had the most perfect eyes" Riven eyes got back to their normal vision before speaking "How come you love to read, if it is so hard for you?"

Good question…"I don't know, guess I just like it, I like challenges, I mean you fight against a lot of people who are physical stronger or bigger, like the huge dog with a cane" she seemed to be in thought for a moment "Oh! You mean Nasus" So that was the dog name…is he even a dog? "Who is that guy?" Riven seemed to be in thought before answering "He is really old, he is an ascended warrior, so he has lived a lot, I think he might be immortal. He can turn into a mighty foe in fights that extend due to his skills" Interesting…sounds weird, so I will risk my guess. "Shurima?" Riven nods. If something sounds weird and magical, probably comes from Shurima.

She looks at the piece of paper, she is proud of herself, she doesn't really understands how Cid managed to know she was illiterate, she thought she kept that secret well. Still she felt glad he decided to help her write and read. He said he would be willing to teach her to write and read as long as she wanted too. They started with the basics by seeing the alphabet of Demacia and Noxus, they weren't all different one from the other. By the end of the lesson and multiple facts he mentioned, he told her to write her name on the paper.

It was stressful, but still, she felt proud. Seeing her name written on the paper felt amazing, she felt the same she felt after mastering a skill on combat. And in a weird way, as stressful as it had been, it had been fun and relaxing to learn and write her name. She relaxed on the couch of the office. This therapy thing was fun…

"Hey, write your name" Her comment brought my attention out of my thoughts "What?" Riven asked with fun in her voice "Come on is your turn, write your name" Happy to do. I wrote my name under hers. "Cid, easy name to remember wouldn't you think so?" She nodded as she took the paper and decided to write. Hard movements, she would learn to relax and be able to easily write with practice.

As she was writing in the paper I decided to see if I had something useful for her…oh right! "Hey Riven, does the Institute has a library" Her attention was out of the paper "Yeah, but as I…wasn't quite on the idea to read I only went to rest on there in some soft chairs they had" Bean bags maybe? "I see, well if you want to keep up, you can try reading simple books, find something easy that catches your eye" She smiled "I guess I can give it a try" It was good seeing her being more relaxed. She usually tensed with some words, but Riven was making small steps on the road to recovery from the scars of the past.

"Just keep that attitude, trying and failing will always be better than never trying it" Riven seemed in thought for a moment "But if I fail doesn't that mean I'm bad at it?" Her ability to take things literal never ceases to amaze me, her body language all says she is being honest when she expresses her thoughts "Riven, is a metaphor, plus the first step at being good at something is being bad at it" Riven seemed confused at my words but shrugged her shoulders in signal she would get it later.

She enjoyed the whole therapy thing, but maybe what she was enjoying was the friendship, in the Noxian army was a feeling of comradery born on the fact they were all of the army, but it was fun being friends with someone who wasn't like her, Cid was different, she would dare to say he was probably crazy in an extent, because on her way of seeing it, you had to be a tad mad to listen to people all the time and being able to learn of them the way he did.

Maybe he had magic in a way? Before she could speak the purple flash of the teleport spell made it clear she wouldn't have the time to ask it today. She was surprised of what she saw "Lulu?" The girl waved excitedly at Riven before making a face of worry "Are you feeling blue Riven?" she didn't know what that meant but she denied with her head "No, I'm okay why you are here though?" She then took notice of the other two figures, the summoner to take her back, and…the Loose Cannon? "Jinx?"

The summoner in Cid eyes looked awfully tense. The small girl known as Lulu was…colorful to say the least, but she also seemed to be pretty well, happy and worried of Riven, and the last person in the room showed a huge amount of indifference, Riven called her Jinx right?

The summoner spoke "Hello sir, the Institute wished to ask you for help in a particular case, the Fae Sorceress" At the mention of her title Lulu waved excitedly at my direction "Will make sure the Loose Cannon doesn't make any disasters while she is here, hopefully you won't mind this as we will reward you properly if you show results." Before he could ask more about it both Riven and the summoner left on a purple flash.

I couldn't avoid sighing "Yeah sure is okay, you can leave without saying anything!" Lulu was going around the office looking at everything making expressions of "Ah" "Oh" "Purple" she was having a good time, Jinx just let herself fall on the couch…really? Nothing to say? I'm surprised how she is taking this.

"Hello I'm…" My thoughts are interrupted as she straighten her arm with a document in her hand "the current certificate is for future reference the woman Jinx is crazy…" a legal document stating she is crazy…I'm a therapist, not a psychiatrist. Oh well.

"Hello piece of paper, my name is Cid, mind presenting me the lady holding you" Jinx moved showing discomfort at the way I took her action, she probably expected me to be angry or anything. As she didn't said anything she closed her eyes faking to sleep on the couch. I felt someone tugging my sleeve. I saw Lulu and…is that a fairy? "Pix said you might need a hand, I'm Lulu! And she is Jinx! And he is Pix!"

If the expression of ball of sunshine ever fitted on anyone it has to be on Lulu, she is really happy. "Thanks Lulu, I'm Cid." She nods in understanding and point at Jinx "She has the blues Cid, I have tried all the colors but she doesn't seem to be well no matter how much I try" She showed disappointment, and Pix seemed to try to cheer her up by patting her in the back.

Curious, Lulu speaks she has the blues…could she mean she is sad? "Hey Jinx, anything you want to say?" She faked to be sleeping, it was obvious by her irregular movements and her breathing. So she wasn't going to speak…maybe I can bring her attention.

"Lulu do you like to play games?" I seemed to hit the jackpot if her reaction showed anything "I love all games! Hide n seek! Jumping the rope! And!" I had to interrupt her, as nice as her spirit is there is so much I can take on. "Ever played minefield?" Lulu looked curious and expectant to hear more as she denied with her head. "Is a game from a friend on Piltover" I went behind my desk and took the board. It looked pretty much like a board of chess, except this one was metallic and only had 60 squares.

"The game is simple, we put this on the middle" I placed a screen on the middle of the board "Now you touch the squares in which you want to put mines, you can place up to ten mines, that's the reason there's a marker in the bottom" She nodded expectant to hear more, Pix also seemed highly interested. "Once we put the mines we try to mark as many spaces on the board as we can with our pieces" I showed her the collection of pieces to play she seemed happy yet in thought "Can I have a cat?" I'm not surprised. Good thing I have molding clay.

I went to my desk not before nodding that she could, I must admit, I'm quite good at making small figurines, maybe one day I could just retire to the mountains and dedicate my life at mastering the craft of small figurines! …Nah. It took me long but I made it"Here you go Lulu" Her eyes got wide when she saw the cat "Is awesome!" Of course is awesome, I made it…sorry, the modesty left the office.

"Is not that great" I hadn't noticed when Jinx got up from the couch to look at the figurine in the hands of Lulu, guess it took me longer than expected. "It totally is! Look it! Is so purple!" Well technically is gray, but I'm not going to discuss colors. "Okay, now we put our pieces over the squares, they will start to change colors once you mark them" Piltover technology never ceased to amaze me, they put a lot of details into this kind of things. "Now let me show you how to play"

As I placed my piece over the first square the game made the sound of a mine exploding "Boom! You exploded!" No need for being so loud game, I could hear Lulu giggling at how my first step and I had already lost. "You aren't good at this are you?" Jinx voice sounded full of sarcasm, yet her eyes showed clear interest in the game…maybe…

"Want to give it a try?" Jinx looked at the game, and even if she seemed to not be interested her body totally said she was dying to try the game "Sure, I doubt I can be worse than you" In her second movement she had already fell on one of Lulu mines. "What?! I demand a rematch!" Lulu giggled nodding at Jinx. They kept playing, I didn't said anything and just observed them as they played I suddenly too notice that during this whole thing Pix was writing in a piece of paper on my desk.

"What you got there Pix?" I saw the paper and noticed this guy clearly knows more than he lets on.

Blues= saddened, she hasn't been smiling or laughing as she usually does.
Purple=happy, smiling constantly. Interesting.

I must admit this helped a lot. Still Jinx didn't seemed so sad right now "I think she is doing well right now don't you think so?" Both of us looked at the board, I could roughly see Lulu almost had half the squares marked, but then her cat piece stepped on a mine "Boom! You exploded!" Jinx suddenly stood in a single jump, her large braids moving with her "Yes! I won! Told you I would do it! Who is the champ?! Me! I'm the champ!"

She started to dance from one side to the other moving her braids with her as she extended her arms, Lulu wasn't a sore loser at all, she got dancing at the side of Jinx, when I was about to speak to Pix I saw him dancing at Jinx rhythm just beside Lulu.

It was a fun scene to watch, the office was in a way a place of dance for those three as they kept moving at Jinx guidance. Suddenly Jinx opened her eyes and notice me laughing "Any problems old man?" I laughed again "I doubt I'm much older than you, but no, just glad to see you are well" for a moment Jinx seemed surprised, like a beast who was caught in the lights suddenly she got stiff.

"I…I'm always well! No need to be surprised!" Lulu was smiling seeing Jinx being her usual self from what she expressed. "You are not so blue anymore Jinx! You are magical Cid! You made the blueness go away with orange! " Yordles are not really tall, but I wasn't expecting her to suddenly get bigger than me. Her bone crushing hug was made company by the fact Jinx was laughing, until both of us were caught in a bone crushing hug from a yordle who had grew bigger suddenly.

After a few moments of Lulu hug she went to her usual side speaking of how happy she felt seeing Jinx wasn't blue anymore, I could only see how my furniture had ended up all over due to her growing, I was never more glad that the roof of this place was so out of my reach, I suppose this place could hold a giant yordle, maybe not a giant Jinx though.

After getting my breath back in place I helped Jinx stand up from the floor. "I never enjoyed the hug of giant Lulu…thanks" I looked a bit puzzled "Sorry, I haven't done anything" Jinx smiled, and through her red eyes I saw what seemed like a tinge of madness and happiness, but mixed with…gratitude? "Nah, trust me, you did a lot"

Jinx wasn't hoping that a visit to a therapist could be fun, she was angry at how they treated her the first time she was ever caught, the questions, the exams, the full round of how you feeling? She hated all that, and the idea of a therapist sounded just like a reminder, and she couldn't do anything against the institute.

She had been feeling a bit down, she needed something, but she didn't knew what. Fat hands tried to help her, and Lulu had try her best too. But she wasn't feeling it in the matches, in the institute. But in this room, this place that seemed so normal she found someone who seemed to be as crazy as her, he might not show it, but Jinx knew it, this man was as crazy as she was.

And maybe she couldn't prove it right now, but she knew the man was mad, mad as she was, and if someone as mad as her could be a therapist, maybe she could keep it up, she could keep up the spirits of revelry in her, the institute seemed to kill her spirits as everything was order, but this had helped her. Here she had more freedom than in the institute.

Lulu was happy. Her friend was better, she was amazed at how fast Cid had helped Jinx. Jinx was really blue, she seemed to be entering the initial steps of blue sickness. And once someone had the blue sickness it was really hard to remove it, not even purple could solve it. But Cid had done something amazing, he used orange. Lulu had used orange too, but her orange seemed to be weak against his orange.

Lulu had seen all the colors, she was an expert on them, and in the institute she often saw a lot of champions had colors that were stronger in them than in others, few could compete with her purple, still she had never seen something like this, an orange that could make the blue sickness fade… all of this tasted purple…yeah definitely purple.

As the purple flash of the summoner teleport spell came, Lulu and Jinx had finished helping Pix and Cid to order the office. Lulu waved excitedly at Cid "We will see you soon right?" Cid just nodded "Sure" Jinx seemed happy as she pointed at him "I will be coming to steal that game later" as they left it was Cid turn to fall on the couch.

He would have to put the board game on a safe, he noticed Jinx body language spoke nothing but the truth, and she was hoping to steal his game. As he was enjoying the feeling of the couch he heard knocking on his door.

"Not in the mood! Come later if you are not a patient with an appointment!" he heard a voice with an accent "You better open up! You got a lot of explaining to do!" He tried to ignore, but as the knocking didn't stop he went to check on the door and found himself with a sword pointing at him.

"I heard you were writing an article of music, do I need to remind you, you are forbidden of writing any article on anything related to arts?!" Oh she was pissed. "I think I told you, no one needs your critique in this city Cid!" He only laughed.

"Are you still mad I said your painting of Teemo was horrible?" He didn't expected her to appear, Fiora, the grand duelist, and the head of the committee of arts. What had he done to invoke her fury now?

"Quinn told me you were writing an article on the music of Sona, so better start explaining" She had her sword still pointing at him. Really, in his defense, her painting was horrible, is just he had been the only fool to say it out loud.

CUT! Hope you enjoy this chapter! And have a good weekend, and in case I don't update before it, have a great start of the next week!