From the Shadow Isles they came
Chapter 12
Louise stared nervously at the sigh before her, the once mansion of a noble was now a terrifying sight.
Dried up blood decorated the outside walls, the front gate was destroyed and the door that led to the inside of the mansion had been reassembled with dark magic.
How did she know that it was fixed with dark magic?
Maybe it had to do with the faces of her three familiars being plastered on it, their eyes glowing eerily and staring deep into her soul, as if they were trying to read her thoughts.
Or maybe it was the F&%$ OFF written on the wall with green mist.
She just knew that her headache couldn't get worse.
Louise tapped gently on the door and awaited for a response, but none came. She knocked on the door but still nothing. Louise punched the door reputedly screaming obscenities into the door and her familiars.
"…. BY THE FOUNDER'S $#%&# I WILL KICK YOUR $#"$#$# I SWEAR ON ME MUM!"
Nothing.
Louise descended into a screaming mess yelling things into the wind that would make a drunk pirate from Bilgewater blush.
Siesta felt extremely uncomfortable looking at the midget throwing a tantrum in front of her, insulting Siesta's new masters, Louise's friends and apparently a poor soul from a store she visited earlier apparently.
"…I JUST WANTED TO BE ACCEPTEDD BUT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MEEEEEEEEE IWALKALONELYROADTHEONLYONEIEVERKNOW!"
(Cough)
Louise blinked and stared at the incredible uncomfortable Siesta who smiled awkwardly at her.
"Hello again Miss. Vallière"
"…servant" Louise replied as if nothing had happened, but the small shade of red that adorned her cheeks made Siesta smirk, just a little bit.
"What is so funny servant? Explain yourself at once!" Louis yelled at her, but Siesta simply bowed at her, the small smirk still present on her lips.
"Please think nothing of it, my masters said that you would come sometime in the night but I didn't think that you would arrive this quickly, please follow me" Siesta said which made Louise huff, but she complied.
As she walked in silence she noticed a multitude of maids and servants fixing the halls and floors. Most of them looked relieved and slightly happy at something, which to Louise was baffling. Mostly cause some where carrying dead bodies to the basement.
To where she was heading….
"Oh my founder… these people were killed by… oh I'm going to barf" Louise said as she brought a hand to her mouth, Siesta put a hand on Louise's shoulder. The hand was promptly slapped away but Siesta didn't seem to mind.
"I would not worry about them, my lords will explain everything when we find them"
"Your lords?"
"IM A LORD NOW HAHAHAHAA" Thresh said as he opened the doors of the basement, grabbed a dead guard and disappeared into the depths of the basement once more.
Louise stared at Siesta then at the basement and then back at Siesta.
"Why?"
Siesta shrugged and started her descend down the stairs.
Louise grabbed the sides of her head and counted to ten.
Then she counted to fifty.
And then to one hundred.
Once she was finished she started walking into the basement and to her surprise the room was illuminated by a peculiar green light. Louise shuddered as the temperature suddenly dropped and the area around her started to feel more and more like dead.
Louis gulped as she continued.
"Karthus… you utter fool, this treason will not be forgiven…" Louise hear Mordekaiser say. Was he about to kill someone, had he already done it?
"This thing that you have created… it sickens me to my stomach" Louise gasped softly, what could make her familiar, a man who had boldly proclaimed that he was without guilt or remorse, feel ill by the action of others?
Maybe the count had dwelled on things beyond her comprehension? Things that the crown did not know about. She finally reached the end of the stairs and saw Siesta looking confused, Thresh uninterested and Hecarim shaking his head.
"Mordekaiser… what Karthus did… he did it for your good" Hecarim commented sadky as he placed a hand on his friends shoulder.
Mordekaiser ipped in half the book that he was holding.
"I NEVER ASKED FOR HIS HELP!" he roared making the temperature drop even lower.
"He…betrayed me"
"Now let's not go too far" Hecarim tried but was promptly silenced by a Mordekaiser.
"How could he?"
"And you're not paying attention to me"
"Even after I trusted him with far more difficult tasks"
"Why yes thank you Mordekaiser I also like how my hooves look today"
"He will not go unpunished"
"Sometimes I like to go into your throne room and rearrange the decorations because I know it makes you mad"
"The punishment I give him will be brutal and unmerciful"
"I miss Soraka"
"I bet you do lover boy"
Hecarim glared back at his master "All I am saying is that you're exaggerating, he simply wants to invite Kayle to your band is not that bad"
"You miss Soraka you can't talk to me"
"Like you don't miss Sona" Hecarim muttered under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Louise is here"
Red, blue and green eyes turned to stare at Louise who glared back at them.
"YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE THE ACADEMY WHEN YOU WANT!" she yelled at them.
Mordekaiser chuckled "So saving your world is not important then?"
"Say what now?"
"You see my master, the count had been killing people in order to recreate the miracle that happened back in our world, if these power was not kept in check by someone capable, like myself or my companion your world would have descended into a dark, dead wasteland"
Louise gaped like a fish at them and then turned to Siesta "Is this true servant"
"Yes, my lords saved everyone in the mansion, if they had not arrived I would have died at the hands of the mad count, is thanks to them that I live to see another day"
Louise bit her thumb and then looked around awkwardly "Then I guess I am… so-sor…. Adskfnasñf (cough) I AM SSSssrory"
"Well that's the most we will get out of you so we will take it" Hecarim said.
Louise snorted and looked around amazed at the mist that was flowing from what looked like to be a crack in the floor.
"So this is what Mott was trying to control, did he succeed?" Louise asked.
"Yes and no, he managed to recreate the ruination power from back home, but in such a miniscule scale that it's confined to this basement and he could not wield the power which is why he died"
Louise shook her head "I don't know how I will explain this to the Academy or the other nobles for that matter"
"Yeah about that… you won't" Mordekaiser said as he grabbed some papers from the floor.
"Excuse me?"
"This is our new base of operations and the outside world most never know that it exists, if some mortal got access to this power they would no doubt try to spread it or at least try to control it, which is impossible"
Louise frowned "But you can't just make this place disappear from thin air, people ask questions and the more powerful they are the more persistent they are with their questions"
"We know" the three Shadow Isles beings said at once.
Mordekaiser then showed her a piece of paper "This is a spell from back home, we shall use to relocate this place, then we will burn everything around the mansion"
Thresh then did some hand motions "Vanished into thin air"
Louise glared but didn't comment further.
"Still… you're a bunch of jerks, never caring about MY problems, like the familiar festival"
"We got that covered… take it away Thresh!"
"DON'T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!"
Hecarim spawned some drums out of nowhere and Mordekaiser took out his guitar.
Louise smiled in what felt the entire day.
Maybe things would work out.
"WE WILLLL CONQUERR THIS WOOORLDDD!"
Louise blinked "What?"
"Is part of the song" Mordekaiser quickly assured her.
Viktor and Sara made their way back to his old home, both enjoying the comfortable silence that surrounded them at the moment.
When they got back home Viktor opened the door for her, Sara smiled gratefully and made her way inside. Only to be thrown out by a powerful blast of energy.
"Who in the ever-loving #"$# stained #$#$ biscuits has the balls to do that!" she yelled once she got back up. Viktor on the other hand was nowhere to be found. Sara rolled her eyes and walked inside both pistols in her hand ready to kill whatever had hit her.
The scene she walked into was bizarre to say the least Viktor was currently wrestling (and loosing) with a giant yellow robot, while Sona Ahri and Leona tried to turn off some weird machine that was firing lasers all over the place.
Miss. Fortune slapped herself once just to make sure that what she was seeing was real and then she charged in guns blazing. She targeted the robot that was attacking her friends first. Viktor would have to wait.
She shot at the generic looking robot in the head making it scream (yes scream) in what she assumed was pain. Leona didn't waste any time and with her sword stabbed him in the head. Ahri blasted at him with the magic from her hand and Sona did from her instrument.
To their surprise the machine blew up in seconds.
Leona whistled "Guess he wasn't as strong as we though, bit of an overkill really"
"Who cares, its dead"
"Was he even alive in the first place?"
"…"
"You're right Sona, the ethics of robot life are best left to Viktor and Jayce"
Sara let out a string of swear words and turned to see that Viktor had gone missing "Did any of you see where the giant yellow robot took Viktor?!"
"Yellow what? We've only have seen one robot tonight and is this one" Ahri said as she pointed at the scorched floor.
"But he was here just a second ago?"
"Yeah we really weren't paying attention"
"I NOTICED!"
"Your friends look distressed father" a robotic like voice said from the kitchen. Viktor was held in a bear like hug by the yellow robot, they couldn't see Viktor's face but from the sounds he was making he sounded like he was in agony.
Sara pointed her guns at the robot "Drop him or you end up worse than your friend over here"
"N-no wait… he is not bad" Viktor managed to wheeze out.
"Huh?"
"Unhand me now Blitzcrank!" Viktor said and Blitzcrank quickly obliged dropping him to the floor. Viktor hit the ground hard and Sara could have sworn she heard something crack.
The entire room remained silent as the Machine Herald lifted himself up from the floor, his face slightly purple from the lack of air.
"Ok, I think I am fine now, in another note, could you please explain to me what are you thinking?" the question was directed at Blitzcrank who stared down at him.
"I looked into files of family relationships, hugs are described to be important in building a good relationship with your family, I hugged you because you are my only family"
A chorus of "Awws" filled the room, but Viktor rolled his eyes "Well my son how about next hug you don't snap my spine in half?"
"Noted, less strength will be applied father"
Sara approached Viktor and tapped him in the shoulder "So, mind introducing him to us?"
"Have you never seen him on the rift?"
"Sure, but we never talk you know, professionalism and all"
"… makes sense I guess, sure this is Blitzcrank I invented him, he is like a son to me" Viktor patted him in his metallic chest.
Ahri climbed on top of Blitzcrank and pointed towards the door "Onward my new friend we're going in an adventure!"
Blitzcrank looked at Viktor "Are you going in an adventure father?"
"Yes, which reminds me I need to inform the rest of the… team?" he looked at the other for clarification, Sona gave him a thumbs up. Leona pouted "We should be called something cooler"
"… yeah that, we need to get to Shurima, but here is the funny part if we want to get to Shurima we first need to go to…"
"Bilgewater" Sara interrupted him with a small frown on her face. Leona brought a hand to her chin.
"Wasn't Bilgewater in turmoil over something?"
"Yes, let's just say I am not the more popular person right now, that and with the harrowing coming we might have quite the journey in our hands"
Blitzcrank looked at Viktor once more "I will join you father, I think this will help with my questions"
"Sure, go ahead… if that's fine with all of you?"
Ahri quickly nodded "I always wanted to be supported I never get to have that, IT'S MY TURN! COME ROBO BUDDY WE'RE GOING TO BILGEWATER!"
"Affirmative" Blitz said as he exited the door followed by Leona and Sona.
Viktor remained rummaging through his drawers, Sara reclined on the wall next to him and waited "looking for something?"
"Yes, my spare mask I swear I leave like five in each of my laboratories and hideouts"
Sara frowned and approached him, she slammed the drawer shut… with too much force making poor Viktor yelp in pain.
"IM SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN TO" Sara quickly said as she reached for his hands, Viktor hissed in pain which was kind of weird because he could have sworn he numbed his own nerves.
"It's fine I don't feel that much pain"
"No its not Viktor, you shouldn't try to numb yourself" she traced her thumb over his hand "Do you feel that?" she asked out of the blue surprising Viktor, he shook his head.
Sara let out a sigh and placed a hand on his face, which he did feel. Her hand was soft and for some reason it brought slight peace to his mind "I can't tell you what to do Viktor but as a suggestion, don't numb yourself no matter how bad things seem"
"I… I will try"
Sara smiled "Good, now let's get moving we have to get to that horrible dessert"
Sara turned around made her way to the door, once she had left Viktor touched his face with his own cold hands and looked at a close mirror. How long had it been since he had seen his own face?
He reached for the drawer once more and after some searching found a mask, Viktor looked at it for a moment. He pocked it and looked in the mirror once more.
"For her" was all he said and made his way outside.
Unknowns to him Sara had been eavesdropping, which was the reason she couldn't suppress her smile and small blush as they both walked behind their companions in a new adventure.
A/N: Hello long time no see, I hope this chapter has been to your liking I wanted to try and flesh out the events of the last chapter a bit more. So Mordekaiser and Co have now their first base of operation but also their shtick for the Familiar festival.
On the other side of the multiverse, our brave heroines (and Viktor) get a new addition to their team and made their way to Bilgewater.
Thank you for reading, if you notice any mistake or simply want to share your opinion please let me know.
See you next chapter!