Yo! Hope everyone week been going well, I want to thank everyone who comes to read or simply enjoys what I write, thank you everyone! Thanks for being so awesome. Now I want to answer a guest who reviewed

Yup Sylaise, I'm more than open on taking requests on champions, let me share something with everyone, I have a list in which I placed the names of all the champions of the game, and later ask my dear friend to randomize the order.

Riven, Sona, Jinx, Vayne, Lux, Shyvana. Those are pretty much the ones that were the first results on the random. I think is obvious I'm crazy enough as to try this with all the champions, yup you read that well, the 136 champions are my goal. Well let's keep it up, shall we?

Once again, thanks to everyone who leaves a review and to everyone who comes and sees the fic, thanks everyone.

Chapter 7: Light Illusions and Runic Fire.

It is often said that on the illusion of time, it tends to pass faster when one is enjoying himself, and it tends to slow itself when one is boring for he is in a constant state of looking for something to distract him. Can one be bored while having fun? How could something so pure as jokes be used as a weapon that caused so much damage?

"Come on! All my light puns would've brightened your day!"

Lux voice, as melodious as it was, it was also starting to really bother Cid. Is not that she was really being bad… is just he was trying to get some documents in order, and Lux was still trying to have their battle of wits.

"…was that a joke about light?"

Lux giggled at his answer, even if he wasn't really answering back on her challenge at least he showed to be able to understand her jokes…something Garen didn't seem to do anymore…

Cid noticed how after her giggle she seemed to go down for a second…was…was she sad? She showed to be in thought, but something of the past more than the present, like when one is remembering something and has either a fond smile on his face…or a sad smile in this case. A bitter sweet memory it seemed if he was guessing right.

"Hey…are you okay there?"

Cid left the papers on the desk as he asked her, she showed to be still in thought before reacting, she opened her eyes when she noticed his face, he seemed worried.

"Ah…yeah, sorry there I spaced up, you know light can be really fast and sometimes it just passes in a flash you know"

She giggled, and Cid could see it was a simple intent on distracting him.

"Hey…you know I'm a therapist…so if you want to speak of anything…might as well do it know you now?"

Cid was having a tough time, he normally wasn't fazed at anyone, but that was mostly in him trusting his skills, but this time it wasn't easy, after all Lux was quite smart. She totally would understand he was trying to know what was her problem, and even if it was to help her, no one really took the idea of therapy easily…

"Yeah…I could use an ear willing to listen…"

Or they could totally take the idea. He smiled as he saw her seeming to relax on the couch. She crossed her arms behind her head seemingly to get comfortable as she let her legs reach the end of the couch. She seemed to be relaxing…too much?

"You seem to be taking this quite well you know? I was expecting…. some resistance?"

She giggled, she thought he would think that, but truth be told? Is not that she was against speaking to a therapist? Is just she didn't trust them, no one showed to be truly capable of seeing past her defenses, or being on the same intellectual ground.

Some people when speaking about Demacia and Noxus forgot a simple thing. They were just lines in a map, they were still the same people of Runaterra in the end, and everyone in Demacia seemed to forget that…but she thought that maybe Cid knew that, if the books in the office proved something was the man knew of many regions.

So maybe, just maybe…he was crazy enough as to be able to listen without judging at all, mostly she never speaks to others about things related to her as she knew they would judge her, by her status or for being a member of the Crownguard family. So why not try with someone who disliked the whole idea of fame and status? Who only saw others as people… it might be worth the risk.

"I decided that just maybe you can help…so yeah let's go… how does this thing work? Hypnosis? Pictures of ink? Words? What do you plan to use to get into my mind, Mr. mind reader?

He laughed before answering back.

"Let's go with simply questioning… why did you got sad after you told me your joke?

Oh… quite direct method, she was hoping he would be subtler…but thinking it back, he did flat reject her challenge, maybe Cid was more on taking challenges straight ahead… seemed to fit him.

"I was remembering something… I make jokes all the time… and it seems all the time people don't seem to even try to get them or listen…"

She hummed while in thought, he was thinking of the many people that surrounded Lux…who could be so important that the lack of interaction could make her sad? The answer was obvious.

"So…Garen doesn't really hear your jokes?"

Lux humming stopped. She wasn't surprised that he guessed she was speaking of Garen, anyone with half a brain could guess it… maybe not half, still she wasn't surprised. She nodded finding the roof of his office highly fascinating.

"Yeah… in the past we were really close you know? I would joke, he would try to understand the joke and laugh… my parents never showed much attention until I showed my aptitude on magic…"

"Judged heavily I will guess?" Lux nodded at his words, still looking at the roof.

People often forgot it. But Demacia wasn't the friendliest of places to someone with magic. The walls work to make the magic flow get slower and makes them unable of using magic to those with weak abilities, stronger powers simply lose ability. Demacia was never kind to those who used magic, and probably it would never be the most welcoming that aspect.

Demacia didn't like what it couldn't understand.

"I was given a choice and I took it… the rest you know how it goes"

The hero of Demacia, the sister of the might of Demacia. The Lady of Luminosity, Luxanna Crownguard.

"Yeah, I guess everyone knows the rest… so when did you two started to… separate?"

She sighed, she tried to recollect when exactly had it started, and it all seemed to be when she was send to the order to learn how to control her powers. How to use them in the ways Demacia wished for…

"I guess it just started happening…the vanguard changed Garen, and time just made us drift…"

"Hey…are you okay?"

Cid was worried at how Lux breathing seemed to get more erratic. She was standing up as she tried to breath. It wasn't a good sign, never when anyone spoke of their past it was so easy, and he had forgot to check on her as she spoke, he was only noticing the sincerity in her voice he didn't notice the sadness laced in it.

"No…I'm not okay! How come they could order me around! I was their child and they just let me go! My brother seems to forget we are family and that sometimes I want to speak with him of things that aren't official business!"

Light flashed all around Lux as she spoke and it all flashed to a point in which the whole office was in a white light, Cid was forced to close his eyes as the radiance left.

When the radiance went away he saw Lux eyes with tears coming out of them.

"Sorry… that had not happened in a while…"

She sounded tired, but guessing of the fact she had pretty much created a huge spark of light that was to be expected.

"Don't worry of it… though next time, tone down the light a bit okay?"

He laughed a bit trying to ease her worries about her power, he saw how she slumped on the couch after that, she looked tired, but more than anything she looked saddened.

"I will do that next time… is…. isn't fair…"

Cid laughed at her words, and she looked at his direction with a frown as he directed her attention to his prosthetic leg.

"No, is not fair at all…if life was fair I could walk outside without any problem and with my own legs, but I can't Lux, I can't and Demacia will never let me forget that I survived a battle and came back instead of dying with the others while marching ahead to death… but that isn't going to stop of me living my life"

Lux was in thought for a moment, it was true everyone in the party had seen at him with a certain level of disdain, as if his presence was a horrible thing to have in the party… she had let that pass by as the prince had only spoke good things about him even going as far to call him a friend.

"What do you mean?"

She was hoping he had an answer to the riddle in her mind, one she didn't seem to be able to answer, maybe because it wasn't meant for one person alone to solve it.

"You are as free as you want, you are Luxanna Crownguard, but more importantly, you are Lux, the cunning and smart lady who wants to learn more of the entire world"

He had noticed how she looked at all the things in the office with curiosity, but more than that, the hunger of knowledge, the curiosity born from the wish of learning more and more. The thirst for knowledge of the foreign places. Out of the walls of Demacia.

She smiled as she relaxed looking him in the eyes, those eyes behind the glasses that clearly showed how much he had dealt in the past, and was still pushing forward against the whole current that was the world.

"Yeah, I guess I am that brilliant, right?"

Ah, a light related joke? She was good then.

"Good to see you are feeling well again"

As Cid smiled she only nodded, she was feeling better, it felt good to just let it out, she didn't have a place in Demacia where she could scream and let her power go wild, even if it was more on the showy side of her power rather than the more combat side of it. It felt good to just let it out without anyone around, and she then noticed something on the walls.

"Hey, is that a rune?"

Cid looked at the side of the wall, she meant that rune?

"Oh yeah, I recently drew it on the wall, supposedly it should avoid sound of getting out of this office"

Lux smirked at this, she had an evil plan, one easy and simple…

"Help! I'm being attacked by a savage!"

She screamed with all the breath she could put into it, and Cid was alarmed to say the least, but seeing that the door wasn't on the floor nor he heard people on the outside he had understood what she had done.

"Hey! This thing actually works!"

She smiled at him as he let himself fall on his chair behind the desk, she had made quite the scene in the purpose of testing the rune. He should have guessed she would have tried that.

"You gave me a scare there you know?"

"No need to be scared, light vanish all fears with it!"

She strokes a silly pose as she spoke making him laugh, an honest laugh, it had been the funniest thing she had done till that point of her stay in the office.

"Well I guess light does that indeed"

Lux laughed too, she was happy, honestly it was refreshing to have a good laugh, and since no one could hear her, she was really abusing the rune ability by making puns about light. That what she had needed. A place to be free of anything.

"Hey, you can draw the rune anywhere?"

The wonderful thing of runes, is that as long as you made them properly you didn't need magic to make them work, and that was thanks to the fact Demacia as a whole was imbued in magic thanks to the same walls that avoided magicians their power.

"Yeah, I can make it, though it will be funnier if you do it" He stood up from the chair and went for a book behind Lux, once he took it he let it fall on her side of the couch.

"Runes for the daily life, Ryze…wait, that Ryze wrote a book?" Lux felt flabbergasted at this piece of knowledge.

He laughed a bit at her reaction, Ryze was an expert on runes, and while many never knew of his affinity to explain the theme, he had a contact on those texts for academic purposes.

"Well, I kind of loaned the book from a friend, is for researching purposes, I will have to send it back in a couple of weeks, but till then you can feel free to use it, just don't forget to bring it back"

Lux smiled as she nodded. She decided to do something that many wouldn't have approved, but many wasn't there. She gave him a hug, and while she noticed Cid tensed at it she was relaxed. She had found an ally for tough times.

"Thanks Cid, don't worry, I will bring it back, promise" She left in a hurry holding the book, she was going to test it immediately in her room.

"…. Should I have charged her as a patient? Nah… now, time to focus back on those important papers…"

That crossword wasn't going to solve itself. He was lucky Lux hadn't noticed he was just solving a crossword… no one could blame him, business was being slow, and his office only clients now a day seemed to be people of high profile. Riven, Sona, Jinx…scratch that, he didn't know if she would come back, could Vayne truly be counted as one? Well maybe… and Lux was…. Lux was Lux… yeah, simple as that.

Simple as that…

On a different part of Demacia, near the borders walked someone who didn't seem to fit. She was different, even by the standards of those deemed as different. Purple skin was never easy to hide, her hair of the same purple and her golden eyes shined in her face. With her red armor shining Shyvana was walking along the wall of the border of the city. She simply needed time alone, the day had been rough with the other members of the Demacian guard.

Even with time, it seemed they would never truly change their opinion on her, so what if she was a bit angry… she had the right to be angry…maybe not, but it wasn't their business how she was feeling…

How would they feel if they could hear what the others said of them behind their backs? She did the same job as them, and she was good at it…so why do they needed to still judge her? Weren't they all Demacian, members of the same city… they were all living there…

She felt it burning in her chest…the fire and the rage…she was about to let it all out when she heard steps… she didn't want to scare whoever was coming in her direction.

"Shyvana! I knew it was you!"

Shyvana raised a brow at the voice owner. Luxanna?

"Lux? What brings you over here?"

Lux simply got closer now inspecting the floor.

"I was looking for some stones, I need them for runes"

Runes? Didn't she had taunted Ryze about them in their last match on the league? Something about not being able to remember spells… not of importance, but why did she wanted to master runes suddenly?

"Why the sudden interest on them?"

Lux smile was always fixed on her face, and Shyvana could always see that the smile was more of a forced thing, people always say hello to others as a courtesy, Lux was always smiling for the same concept, she wanted to be courteous.

But the smile Shyvana saw on Lux face and the glint in her eyes made it obvious this wasn't a formal smile, no, surprisingly it seemed to be the real deal, a happy smile on Lux face. She had to admit it was… kind of infectious. She found herself smiling a bit, surely something good had happened to bring out the true luminance of Lux.

"A friend let me to borrow a book on runes, and I want to try them, but for that I need some stones to test them first"

A friend, she didn't say a name, Shyvana thought that by this point on their friendship she knew all of Lux friends, mostly because she had the same friends as the prince.

"A special friend?"

Shyvana smirked at the intent of a joke, Lux giggled at seeing Shyvana trying to joke, still she did answer her question.

"Yeah, he is a mind reader, a great one at that, he can know what you are thinking… and he is good at listening, so he tries his best to help, even if is just with words, he has a magic that allows him to solve problems through them"

She had really exaggerated the abilities of Cid, but is not like Shyvana needed someone like Cid, she was more confident and level headed than others, surely, she didn't have any trouble deep inside her.

But to Shyvana it was an opposite of her. A mind reader, Shyvana often wished she could read minds as to be able to know what to tell the others for them to like her, to treat her as a fellow citizen, to share the bonds of camaraderie that the guards often showed between themselves…maybe… just maybe she would feel like she belonged to a world.

I am of two worlds, yet I belong to neither…

"Hey Shyv, you okay? You spaced out for a moment"

Her thoughts were stopped by Lux, and she was thankful, her distraction and her appearance had helped the rage inside of her to fuel down. She was having an idea, and hopefully she would get an answer without much troubles.

"Yeah, all good… hey Lux, think that friend of yours got a book on dragons? I would like to find some information"

Thinking it back, it had been a horrible try for a lie, Lux would probably see through it and start questioning her about it and then

"Yeah, he seems to have a book about anything in that office of his, surely, he has one on dragons, I think you might want to go in the afternoon, after all he said he was busy this morning"

Truth be told none of them knew that busy morning was about solving a crossword.

Lux knew what Shyvana was trying to do, she wanted to see Cid, she didn't know, and for once, she didn't really feel like knowing, what Shyvana needed help with, was her business only, and she would respect her privacy… surely, she could ask later Cid for details.

Shyvana felt relaxed at the fact that Lux seemed to have fell for her lie, or if she noticed, that she decided to not question her about it. Maybe this friend of Lux could help her. And hopefully he would be able to give her the answer she wanted…

"His name is Cid"

Shyvana attention was brought back to Lux, as she looked at her still smiling honestly.

"The name of my friend is Cid, he doesn't have a last name, you will like him, you will see"

As Lux smiled once more at Shyvana she started to look for stones, and Shyvana started to help her.

Shyvana thought that maybe, just maybe. It was okay to be hopeful about something.

Cut! Well I know this is a shorter one, but that is because the weekend is a busy time, fun enough I guess. But as I often say, we will see each other next time!

Chapter 8: The fire inside and the battle bunny.