Hey all, I don't know why but I've recently enjoyed writing once again when I really should be revising for tests after summer, not like I haven't but I could be doing more not gonna lie. Anyways, I received some more positive criticism which is much appreciated and will attempt to address that.
Anyways, in case you guys forgot, this story is taking a new turn and ignores chapter 1-4 which is now marked (discontinued).
Plot summary so far:Ezreal is a somewhat sloppy but effective and useful explorer who is tasked with finding what appears to be a mysterious and mythical artifact buried deep within Ionia that holds an immeasurable power. Tensions between Noxus and Ionia are high once again, Zaun has agreed to side with Noxus and Demacia has pulled Piltover into supporting Ionia. The Institute hopes to resolve this matter peacefully and hopes to be able to expose plots with regards to how the 2 nations attempt to deal with the situation and solve it peacefully within the Institute walls. Ezreal doesn't know what artifact it is but is simply told that it will bring a game changing advantage….whatever that even means.
P.S. I ordered some Daniel Defense Merch which is said to arrive soon so I'm hyped up xd
Monday 3rd August 20XX
6:00 AM
Oh gawd I'm so tired, I haven't woken up this early in a long time. Had a good sleep last night, I don't know if it was because I was so tired or if it was because of the sex itself but I slept like a log. I need to pack my bag now and hopefully I don't leave anything out or else that will be a bit of a bummer, yup that's right, we wanna avoid what happened when we explored those jungles and forgot my spare pants….. There is a boat that's taking me to Ionia later on in about 3 hours I think, so I do need to hurry up a little. I think it will be fun to be honest but I am still skeptical about this amulet, imagine if it doesn't exist…...that would be such a kill joy! Anyways, I need to pack now.
"...yea come in." Ezreal called out as he closed his diary shut and put the cap back on his pen.
"Ez my man, I just wanted to talk to you about….are you….going somewhere by any chance?" The zaunite kid asked as he held his gaming console in one hand and what looked to be a disc in the other, looking at the blonde explorer who was grabbing items and shoving them into his bag in a hurry.
"Yes Ekko, no time to lose, I've got to get out of here in….oh gosh I have 50 minutes to get ready, right what is it you want." Ezreal said in a rush as he threw some clothes, pants, socks, some of his exploration gear and gauntlet into his bag before he went to grab things from his desk as well.
"Nutin man, it's just that I thought you wanted to come play this awesome game that I bought a while ago. It's called Far Cry 3 and its about this guy named Jason Bro….." He was silenced as the explorer tossed an old sock from under his bed at the Zaunite who immediately backed away in disgust, almost dropping his console as he attempted to get the stinking item of clothing away from him.
"Aww man, that shit smells bad bro," he said as he wrinkled his nose in disgust.
"That's right….I don't want to here any silly talk about games now sorry, Im busy…..oh yes, that as well hehe, almost forgot" Ezreal muttered to himself as he threw his pack onto his back and grabbed his diary from his table before heading for the door.
Ezreal squeezed past before he turned to look at Ekko who looked disappointed. "Sorry man this is really important and I really have to leave now…...don't worry I'll play with you when I get back." he said with a reassuring smile.
"Aww thanks homie, alright you have a good trip then and stay safe…..for god sake I swear you get more and more reckless each time." he said, with a friendly punch to his blonde friend's shoulder.
"Don't worry, I'll bring you back a souvenir or something….." he said before disappearing from view down the hallway. Ekko was about to turn around and leave before he saw the explorer running back to his room before grabbing his keys from his pocket and roughly shoving them into the keyhole and turning it clockwise before hearing the familiar click.
"Hahaha, yo forgot to lock the door dummy." Ekko laughed as Ezreal rolled his eyes and headed off in his direction once again. He reached the courtyard and stopped as he saw Piltover representative Ajax staring off into the distance.
Detecting his presence behind him, the brown haired man turned with 1 foot and his smile widened when he came up to Ezreal. "Ahh, all packed I see." he said as he gave him a pat on the back to wish him luck on his journey.
"Yes, I'm set for Captain Fortune's ship right?" Ezreal said as he glanced down at a piece of paper he wrote and stood besides the councillor, showing him what was written before gaining a nod of approval.
"That's right….best of luck Ezreal. Oh and ehh we will be having a virtual meeting every so often and you can perhaps tell the rest of the team and I what you are getting up to." he said.
"Don't worry councillor, I got this." he said confidently as he gave Ajax a fist bump and handshake before he took a deep breath and walked off into the distance. The massive mechanical gates that guarded the Institute of War opened and out stepped the blonde explorer, venturing into the brave new world.
Ajax watched the blonde kid disappear from view before chuckling to himself and was about to head off to his room.
"High Councillor Ajax I do not like this casualness you take with your fellow champions and I have told you many times to rectify it but I can't help but notice you haven't done anything about it!" came the voice of none other than a woman who Ajax found to be quite a pain in the ass due to her constant bickering about him not meeting her ridiculous standards.
"Shannan I can't hear you, you're going to have to speak up" Ajax said, hiding a smirk as he grabbed a pair of earbuds and were about to place them in his ear to cancel out her whiny voice until a slender hand reached out and pulled them off.
"That's High Councillor Shannan of Demacia to you" she said with a hostile tone as her green eyes burned into his with traces of anger. Ajax sighed before picking up his ear buds from the floor and raising up to the brunette who now had her hands on her hips.
"Alright fine Shannan what do you want." Ajax said with another sigh of annoyance as he looked at her face, trying hard not to laugh with how serious she looked.
"In case you haven't forgotten High councillor" she said with emphasis on the High Councillor as if trying to make him feel guilty of something. "Whilst we may both be councillors of nations, I am of a higher ranking and authority than you are as the representative for Demacia." she said with pride as she puffed her chest out a little, trying to intimidate him.
"Fine then, High Councillor Shanan of Demacia, what business do you have with the way I treat my champions…...you can bring them in for questioning and stuff and you will realize that I give them all ample time for relaxation and recreation and ensure that they all have their opinions voiced whenever we have our board meetings so aside from the fact that Vi may be a little loud mouthed, I don't see what the problem is." he said, running his fingers through his brown hair whilst not breaking his gaze away from the brunette in front of him.
"I do not like how you act so casually with your champions, even in board meetings in the past, you just act casually as if this isn't serious…..your a representative for a nation and I expect you to hold higher standards for yourself and the champions of your nation" She scolded. "And not to mention that you seem to put a lot of faith in that blonde explorer with regards to the completion of his search for this amulet, I know he is a great explorer but I think he's sloppy and not cut out for it in my opinion, he's a little bit immature and he gets way to carried away easily." she added on, her frustration and annoyance boiling up within her as she noticed Ajax nodding along the way without any sense of acknowledgement.
"High Councillor Shanan I have told you before and will tell you again, Ezreal may be a little sloppy at times but he's a great kid and he always gets the job done when he really has to. Kid has been delivering great results in the past few months and don't try to deny it." he shot back, taking a step forward to close the distance between the 2 of them defending the comments made on one of his champions.
"Hmmmpf, he's a bit of a perv as well if you ask me. I found out that not too long ago that he and the maven of the strings had a bit of a relationship a while ago which often involved the 2 of them together in their rooms doing inappropriate acts." Shanan added as Ajax let out a very small snort. "
"In case you haven't noticed high councillor Ajax, these sorts of relationships aren't healthy and often distract our champions from completing their tasks at hand…...and I would appreciate it greatly if you would take this more seriously and actually control your champions." she said.
"First off, none of the Piltover champions have ever broken any rules or done anything wrong and plus I let them act the way they want as long as they behave themselves which they do, most of the champions from Piltover are actually really well behaved and stuff in case you didn;t know…. Look what I do with my champions is my business, as long as they don't do anything wrong, I'm fine with it…. He said as he rolled his eyes and repeated himself like he had done so many times before in the past.
"Oh and take it easy with Ezreal, I mean he's still a kid and stuff and you know as long as she was happy and he was happy then all's fine, at the end of the day it's just sex, there's nothing wrong with that, it's not like its wrong or anything" he assured her.
The Demacian representative's gaze turned to a more serious one as she folded her arms.
"I've absolutely no idea what you're talking about when you say it's fine." she huffed.
"Well, somehow I don't doubt that," Ajax said, trying his best not to laugh as he died laughing himself on his inside at his own joke that he was sure Shanan didn;t understand.
"Uggh, just keep an eye on him then or something." she sighed before shaking her head and walking past him, strolling down the hallways, holding herself with pride.
"Jeezs, she's got problems sometimes I swear." he thought to himself before he headed off to his quarters.
"What a load of shit honestly cupcake, you really believe this mofo just gonna be carrying all these documents in his room?" "Like a sittin duck if you ask me"...Vi said with her mouth still full as she held up the documents they seized from the assassin's room in her left hand as her right hand guided a strawberry donut into her mouth and chewed away. She had her muscular legs kicked up onto the table, hidden behind the mountain of files that were piled away on her desk which was opposite to Caitlyn's who was sitting calmly at her neatly kept desk, sitting up right.
"I don't know Vi, this could well be a decoy….." the sheriff muttered loud enough for her to hear as her calm blue eyes scanned the document, her "Piltover PD" coffee mug lay in front of her, the logo turned towards her direction as she traced the lines of text with her pen, her left arm supporting her head as she leaned forward.
"Fuck sake, I'm never going to finish this in a whole damn day." Vi yelled as she shoved the rest of the donut into her mouth and dragged her feet off the table before licking her fingers clean of the icing and wiped it on her tight leather pants.
"Vi please, I know this is hard for you but please refrain from using such vulgar language, whether you like it or not, you are a member of the Piltover police department and expected to behave…..orderly." her partner said professionally as she closed the case file and walked over to the big bulletin board in the front of the room and marked a big X on a location with a big red pen before stepping back to study the board, tapping the pen on her chin as her brain tried to process the information.
"Don't be so uptight cupcake, learn to live a little sometimes…." the enforcer said in a much softer and slightly alluring voice as she walked over and wrapped her arms around the sheriff's back.
"Aahhh" Caitlyn squealed before blushing heavily. "Vi we're at work!"
"Shhh, shhh let me take good care of you cupcake." Vi said softly as she was about to unclasp her bra before a loud knock came at the door.
"Wait….give us a minute please." Caitlyn called out, trying to steady herself and regain her composure only for Vi to walk over and fling the door open to a young police officer, probably a rookie by the looks of it who was now leaning back nervously as Vi's blue eyes beared onto him.
"Come on then what is it!" she barked, her voice filled with annoyance and frustration.
"Uhhhm…. We have a report of domestic violence over on 5th street…" he said nervously which Caitlyn noticed and quickly stepped in between the 2 figures and closed the door behind her, obscuring Vi's view.
"Hey, sorry about my partner, she's just a little….ehh stressed right now." she said with a warm smile as she tucked her blue hair behind her ear.
The young man's expression lightened a little before he rubbed his hand on the back of his head awkwardly.
"Now are there any other available units that are capable of going as we are very busy with work right now…" she said, hoping that he would say yes.
"No...sorry sheriff Caitlyn but all our units are currently busy as there has been a huge pileup on the I101." he said apologetically although it wasn't his fault.
"Fine…. Tell dispatch that Vi and Cait will go then." she sighed before thanking the young man and opening the door to greet Vi who had pressed her ear up to the door this whole time.
"You didn't say yes right…..please tell me you didn't say yes cupcake." Vi said with pleading eyes as she watched the sheriff grab her keys as she rolled her eyes.
"..."
"Well?"
"Yes of course Vi, its time you learnt about responsibilities and took this job seriously." Caitlyn huffed, more than a little annoyed at her partner's constant bickering and complaining about doing work.
"Uggh fine, wait till we get home tonight…" she said with a wicked smile causing Caitlyn to gulp a little.
"Can we go now please…" Vi pleaded as she watched the sheriff put her armored vest on her torso before having a look at her self in the mini mirror on her locker before closing and locking it up with a metallic thud.
"Eager all of a sudden ehh Vi….." Caitlyn said with a slight smile, praying that her words had finally drilled into her partner's head as she went across to the armory and grabbed herself a block 22 pistol and 2 spare mags.
The sheriff racked the slide back to ensure that there was no round in the chamber before inserting the loaded magazine and hit the slide release button to put a round into the chamber making the gun live. She quickly reached forward and made contact with the upper portion of the slide with the space between her thumb and index finger and slowly pulled the slide back to reveal a small hint of brass in the chamber.
She nodded and holstered the pistol into her thigh strap before nodding to her partner and the pair walked out together.
"I swear this better be interesting or else I'm going to punch someone in their fuckin face." Vi said as she sped down the street, ignoring every single red light that came across her.
Caitlyn ignored her partner's comments and simply gripped the edge of her seat, her other hand checking to ensure her safety belt was fastened for the fourth time ever since she entered the car.
"Hah! Cupcake is nervous about Vi's driving now is she." Vi laughed causing the sheriff to blush once again.
"So how are things between you and blondie huh…...you fucking that pretty blondie?" Vi laughed again with a crude smirk.
"We… please do not speak of it like that." Caitlyn said as her ears glowed red.
"Hahah…. Ahhhh I don't understand how you're so uptight all the time Caitlyn, learn to live a bit girl, I was so looking forward to doing you in the office just then." Vi said as she reached over the gear stick to touch her partner's firm legs, not caring if she was driving.
"We're here." Cait muttered, half embarrassed half determined to put this behind her and get the job done.
It was a relatively quiet street with low rise buildings on either side. They could hear dogs barking in the distance and the rustling of leaves as the wind began to pick up.
"Dispatch this is officer Caitlyn and officer Vi, we just arrived at the target building and are approaching on foot now." Caitlyn said into the radio as she waited for a response.
"Roger….proceed with caution." came the voice.
She gave the enforcer a nod before both officers exited the car. Vi lifted the trunk and grabbed her massive gauntlets and attached them to her hands as Caitlyn simply walked up to the house, her hand resting on the grip of the pistol, ready to draw it if she needed.
"POLICE OPEN UP!" Vi screamed as she pounded on the door with her massive gauntlets, noticing that the door started to give in slightly.
"Vi! Stop!" Caitlyn hollered as she reached down to try the doorknob and was surprised to find it unlocked.
"Oh….. that's unusual." Caitlyn said as the door opened to reveal nothing but darkness inside. She drew her pistol and drew her flashlight before moving into the building, her partner Vi following behind her, struggling to fit into the tight opening with her huge gauntlets.
The living room was dark and musty, it didn't look like anyone had been here in a while. There was the smell of rotting wood and weed that filled the house causing both officer's nose to wrinkle.
"I'll take the upstairs, you take downstairs." the sheriff said as she ascended the stairs slowly, pistol at the ready as her blue eyes scanned the dark surrounding. She was glad that she brought a flashlight with such a high lumen output as white light filled every nook and cranny of what was before her, giving her a positive ID on what was a shoot or no shoot target.
"Are they in the building"
"Yes, both of them"
"Are they the only ones"
"Yes"
"Do it…."
A man sitting on the balcony opposite of their house grabbed the remote detonator that sat next to the Corona beer he was currently drinking, he flicked on the switch before his accidentally knocked the beer over.
"Vi you hear that?" Caitlyn said, now alarmed as she got into a shooting stance, trying to ID the source of noise. She spun around looking confused as she moved back down the stairs to regroup with her partner, feeling uneverved about the sudden beeping noise.
"HOLY SHIT CUPCAKE GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE….." she heard as there was heavy thudding up the stairs and the last thing she saw was a mess of pink hair flying towards her and her being lifted into the air followed with the sounds of concrete on steel along with a huge explosion behind them as the house exploded from within, blowing bits of wood and concrete everywhere.
"Did you do it"
"Yes, blew it to kingdom come."
"Good, you know what to do then".
Caitlyn woke up hours later with a painful throb in her head. She tried to move her legs but they felt like jelly and even the act of trying to lift it up drained the remaining energy from her body. She barely heard the sound of a tv in the distance before she realized herself in a completely new surrounding. She lay on a rather comfortable couch with a blanket over her. It was brown in color and smelt a little familiar although she couldn't quite figure it out.
"Officers arrived quickly on scene to discover nothing but a house which appears to have engulfed with fire after what looks to be an attempt to light a cigarette in the abandoned house with a leaky gas line…..there have been no reports of any loss to human life except a badge belonging to the Piltover police department….Police have claimed that there were 2 officers Caitlyn and Vi were sent to investigate what was supposedly a domestic abuse call only to appear to have perished in the fire. Detectives later found some high tech audio broadcasting equipment located in the upper floors off the house and will be looking into it soon….."
The television suddenly turned off and a figure appeared in the sheriff's view before her vision turned blurry once again.
Right people, bit of a short one today as I am a little busy. Tried to address some minor issues mentioned by some others in a review. Next chapter will go back to Ezreal and his expedition and we will be taking a break from our badass officers in the next.
Sorry if the conversation between Ajax and Shanan was awkward.
The way I see it is that Ajax is quite casual in the sense that he gives his champions a degree of freedom and does not set rules for them to follow as long as they behave whereas Shanan who is the councillor for Demacia believes in strict law and order and holds all the Demacian champs up to higher standards.
Hope you guys found the convos between Cait and Vi to be somewhat appropriate, I always feel as though Vi doesn't really follow the rules when it comes to police work and often tries to do things her way with Cait having to clean up after her in a way hahahah
Just my opinion.
See yall next episode :))))