Zyra had burst through the doors, again she looked upset and walked up to Swain saying "did you find Elise?" Swain gave a dull answer "no, I did not" "what about Shyvana? Do you have her locked up somewhere, and don't tell that you had already executed her, because that is my job" "no, we didn't find her either" "then you have to help find them, I need my Elise, I need to see her again". "No, I am not sure if you haven't been paying attention, but I still have Ionia to defeat and I am not going to waste men and resources to find two people" Zyra glared at Swain, Swain didn't back down or let himself get intimidated, soon Zyra turned around and left the room, allowing Swain to get back to the battle reports.
Somewhere in Valoran
Shyvana,Elise and Alex were sitting down in some forest, the three were planning on what they should do next now that they are back on Runeterra. Shyvana said "so should we go back to Demacia and try and help Jarvan take the city back?" Alex said "you two can if you want, I am not allowed to, just me technically being here is violating the treaty" "so why are you here with us again?" "that's classified information". As Shyvana and Alex were talking, Elise felt something trying to contact her, she could hear something faint her head, she closed her eyes and tried to get it out of her head, then a clear voice came through and she knew this voice all too well "ah there you are, it has been a while since I last contacted you, what is going on? Usually you will go out and bring me sacrifices and I will renew your beauty, but now recently you stopped showing up, what has happened, did you suddenly lose interest, if so I would recommend that you come back and see me if you wish to keep your beauty and maybe even your new lover". Elise then opened her eyes, Shyvana looking at her Shyvana asked "is everything ok?" a bit hesitant Elise answered "yes, I need to get to Targon" "Targon, why there?" "I will explain on the way" Alex said "alright, how should we get to Targon?" Elise said "we can take a boat there" Shyvana said "or you can ride on me". Alex then gave Shyvana a confused look and said "what?" "yeah, I can transform into a dragon, don't believe me here" Shyvana then took a step back and an orangish hue with some elements of flames began to surround her, then a mighty purple dragon appeard. Alex took a step back in amazement as he said "holy shit!" Shyvana laughed "thanks for the feedback" Elise started to laugh as well saying "ah at least I am not the only one who can transform, here let me show you mine" then an aura surrounded Elsie, it was just like Shyvana's only this time the hue was red and Elise transformed into a giant spider. Alex jumped to the side as he saw the spider from Elise, Alex said "you too" Elise ignored what he said. Shyvana was surprised because she did not know that Elise could transform like she did, Shyvana told Elise "wow you are looking good honey" Elise laughed and said "so do you my beautiful dragon" Elise walked up and climbed up onto shyvana's back. Shyvana then looked at Alex and said "ok show us yours" Alex was taken aback by this and said "I can't" "then you don't with us" Alex frowned as if he was saying 'really' "come on, just let me on" as Alex began to walk forward, Shyvana continued to step back away from him saying "nope" as she stepped back. Alex was getting annoyed by this and said "come on dude" Shyvana said jokingly "i'm not a dude, i'm a lady" Elise pitched in saying "yeah, where are your manners rude sir" Elise then spat spider webbing at Alex. Alex blocked most of it with his hands "come on Elise that's not funny" said a now frustrated Alex, he continued to walk forward, only to have Shyvana continue to step back. Finally Shyvana said "I will let you on, as soon as you transform" now really annoyed Alex said "I told you, I can't" "then you don't get on" Alex then tried to run and quickly climb onto Shyvana's back, but Shyvana saw this and quickly stepped back, Elise also sprayed some webbing onto the american soldier to try and slow him down. Now Alex was starting to get mad, he is starting to take deep breaths to try and calm himself down, Shyvana said again "come on Alex just show us your transformation and I will let you on" "shyvana" Alex said as he tried to hold the anger in his voice back, "come on Alex I know you can do it" Alex tried to think of something that would be convincing, then he remembered a scene from the movie 'full metal jacket' when Sergeant Heartman asked joker if he had a war face. 'I hope that, that will be enough' Alex said to himself, he then pulled out his M16 rifle, he leaned forward on one foot while keeping the rifle pointed at Shyvana and gave off a war cry "RAAA!" Alex yelled. Shyvana and Elise started laughing, as Shyvana was laughing she said "what was that?" "that was my transformation now let me on!" "no that doesn't count" Elise said "come on give us a real transformation" as she spat a web ball at Alex and hit him in the face. Shyvana saw the web ball hit Alex and told Elise "ooh that was a good shot" Alex just looked at the ground staying completely still, Shyvana said "are you alright" she didn't get a response "are you getting mad?". The two women continued to laugh, then Alex yelled "you know what fuck you, I will take a boat!" Alex began to walk away, as Alex was walking away Elise told Shyvana "ok I had my fun, but we should be going now" "ok come on up Alex" Alex said "no" Shyvana said "come on Alex I won't tease you anymore" "no, I am not going to fall for it" Elise said "come on Alex we really need to go" "I told you I will take a boat" Shyvana said "ok but one more transformation?" "how about you kiss my ass" Elise "ok get up here Alex we need to go, I am not joking around". Alex looked at the dragon and spider, he then approached Shyvana, he stopped usually were Shyvana would step back away from him, Shyvana "come on Alex we are waiting on you" Alex then approached Shyvana, as he was about to climb up on her wing, Shyvana said "you can't climb up the wings, sorry bud" Alex gave her an annoyed look, he then looked for other areas to climb up onto but couldn't find any thing, Shyvana said "come on Alex climb up already" "does it look like I have spider legs and can climb up walls, no" "just try" Alex then jumped up in an attempt to climb up onto Shyvana, but was nowhere near the top "that is the best I can do, I can't climb up" "ok I will lower my head so you can get up" as Shyvana lowered her head to the ground, Alex said "you could have said that in the first place, fucking idiot" Shyvana raised her head causing Alex to say "come on" "as soom as you calm down I will let you up" "I'm calm now let me up". Reluctantly Shyvana lowered her head, allowing Alex to climb up onto her neck. As soon as Alex was on Shyvana's neck, Shyvana said "ok hold on" "onto what, there is nothing for me to hold onto" said Alex, Alex also said "so if you move to frantically or if there is a strong gust of wind, I'm fucked" Shyvana said "your gonna have to try and hold on as best as you can" then Shyvana took off into the air and headed down towards the Shurimian continent.
Somewhere near Targon
Shyvana continued to fly in the direction that Mount Targon was in, eventually she found a spot were she could safely land. Shyvana slowly started to descend until she finally reached the ground. Once on the ground, Alex and Elise got down off Shyvana and the two women transformed back into their human forms. Elise said "wow that was awesome Shyvana" "I know right" Alex said "that was not awesome" Shyvana asked "why?" "why, because I had nothing to hold onto, I had to hug your neck the entire way" "ah well at least you didn't fall off" the two women began to walk up the mountain, Alex laughed to himself and said very quietly "cheeky bitch". About a couple of hours of climbing up the mountain, the three saw that the sun was starting to set, they all decided that the best thing to do was to wait until tomorrow to continue climbing the mountain. The three started to set up camp, Once Alex was done setting up the tents, Shyvana used her magical powers to start a campfire, The three continued to chat until they all eventually fell asleep. The next day the three packed up their camp and continued to climb up the very tall mountain. Soon it began to snow and the temperature began to plummet, soon the three's progress began to slow and had to frequently stop to try and get a little bit of warmth before moving on. Eventually it began to get dark out and they had no wear to set up a new campsite, so they had to continue going up the mountain. Soon it began to snow causing the temperature to plummet further. Shyvana collapsed from exhaustion, Shyvana had been using her fire powers to try and keep everyone warm, Alex and Elise then started to haul the unconscious Shyvana further up the mountain. Before long Elise collapsed from the cold and exhaustion, causing Alex to haul both women up the mountain. Eventually Alex made it to spot where he could set up camp, however, by the time he reached the spot, he dropped the two women and walked a couple of feet before collapsing to the ground himself. As Alex was started lose consciousness, he saw a woman with strange looking legs walk up to him, as she got closer he noticed that the strange woman had purple skin and what looked to be bright yellow eye's, right before he lost consciousness the woman said "hold on you're going to be alright" then everything went black.
When Elise woke up, she noticed that she was inside of some house or building, she looked around to try and figure out where she was. Soraka saw this and said "ah good one of you are awake" Elise saw Soraka smile as she approached her "what is your name?" "are you Soraka?" "I am, now who are you?" "I am Elise" "ah the spider queen, I heard many rumors about you" "good or bad ones?" "mainly bad" "what were the rumours?" "that you are a heartless creature that preys on the weak and innocent" "do you believe any of them?" "I believe that people can change". Elise was touched by this, then she asked "where is Shyvana?" "I assume that is the purple lady am I right?" "yes" "well she is right there" Soraka pointed to Shyvana. Elise sighed with relief, she then said "I need to speak with you" "what is it that you wish to speak about" Elise then got up out of her blanket and said "have you heard of Vilemaw, the spider god?" "Vilemaw, yes I have awful creature from what I hear" "yeah well, it has to do with him" concerned Soraka asked "what's wrong?" "well you see, I am a servant, more like prestiest, I agreed to bring him unsuspecting victims so he could have them for lunch, and in return, he would continue to renew my beauty and in my immortality" "so what happened?" "what happened is,.." Elise turned to look at the sleeping Shyvana and back at the star child "is I ran into her, and I haven't given Vilemaw what he wanted in quite some time, now he is threatening to kill her and take my beauty away from me" Soraka nodded her head and began thinking. Elise also said "Now it is not that I don't care for her because I do, but I also care about my beauty" "no no I understand and there is one way for you to keep your beauty and your immortality permanently" "really what is it, would I need to do any sacrifices?" Soraka shook her head "no you don't need to do any type of sacrifice, it is just you might see it as a bit cliche" "what is it?" "you would need a kiss from your true love". Elise said confused "a kiss from my true love, but there really isn't anyone out there that likes me, other than Zyra but, I feel as if Zyra is seeing people behind my back and the other is Shyvana, I don't know why but when I am with her, I feel safe and I would get these warm feelings and I just enjoy being around her, but I don't know if she cares for me that much". Soraka smiled "oh you would be surprised by some things, but yes if Shyvana truly cares for you and by the way you describe spending time with her, I'd say that she feels the same for you, then you will get to keep your beauty forever" "but what if he takes it from me?" "then with your true lovers kiss, it would come back permanently". At that point Shyvana started to wake up, Soraka said to her "morning". About a couple of days being there, Elise told Soraka that she needed to go to the Shadow Isles once again, Soraka said "here I shall use some of my powers to teleport you to your destination, be safe" "thank you," said Elise, before the three knew it they were on the Shadow Isles.
Shadow Isles
Elise was standing outside of the opening of this huge cave, Elise knew exactly where she is. Elise let out a sigh, Shyvana noticed and asked her "is everything alright?" "no, do you know about this cave?" Shyvana shook her head "this is Vilemaw's cave, the spider gods, I haven't bought him a sacrifice in a long time, but if I show him you and explain what has happened, then maybe he would accept that you are my lover, then maybe he will forgive me" Shyvana took Elise's hands into hers "are sure this will work?" "we got to try" the three then entered the cave. As the three were walking through the cave, eventually they got to a part of the cave were there was a large opening in the roof. Then a gigantic spider entered the through hole and landed on the ground with a mighty thud. Shyvana was shocked for she had never seen the spider god before, Alax on the other hand was more terrified, his jaw slowly dropped, he said very nervously "Elise?". Elise then bowed down and said "lord Vilemaw, your spider queen or your prestiset has returned, not with a sacrifice, but to show you my lover and the reason why we havent spoke in so long" Vilemaw said "yes your lover, I thought that you already had one?" "me and Zyra, had some issues, we are no longer together, but I would like you to meet the woman who has captured your spider queens heart" Vilemaw looked at Shyvana. Shyvana bowed down and said "lord Vilemaw, I am Shyvana, what is Elise says is true, I am her lover and is the reason why she has been absent for so long" "yes and who is this in the back with the, yellow or desert like color clothing?" Elise looked back at Alex and told Vilemaw "he is just a servant to Shyvana" "servant?" Elise gave Alex a look saying 'Alex!' Vilemaw said "hm, interesting but that's none of my concern, so you wish for me to accept Shyvana as your lover and is the reason why you have been gone for so long? How do I know that this is not some plot to try and kill me so you could gain more power" taken aback Elise said "what no I have no intentions killing you get more power lord Vilemaw, I just wanted to you to accept Shyvana" "ah but that's what the last spider queen said" "last spider queen what are you talking about, you said I was the first spider queen?" "ha ha you are not the first" "how many spider queens came before me?" "I think twenty two, and you, you are the twenty third" "what happened to the previous twenty two spider queens?" "I ate them" Vilemaw begin to laugh. Elise looked down thinking 'why didn't he tell me, is there something that he doesn't want me to know?' Shyvana said "why did you kill them?" "weren't you listening, they were threatening to overthrow me so I rightfully put them down, now I haven't had a meal in a long time and you my pretty will do, as well as your boyfriend over there" Alex said "go fuck yourself" "ooh big words for a big man huh". Vilemaw began to move towards Shyvana, as he was moving Alex was putting together his favorite rifle and Elise stood in front of Vilemaw saying "don't kill her" "Elise I told you, I do not approve for you are using her as a plot to overthrow me, now let me get my meal" Elise glared and said "I won't let you hurt her" "well I hope the twenty fourth one will be more survile than you" as he was about to attack, Shyvana threw a fireball in his face, Vilemaw groaned in pain and took a couple of steps back "oh I am going to enjoy killing you". As Vilemaw was swinging strikes at Shyvana, Elise was attacking Vilemaw from different angles to try and distract him. Vilemaw spat out webbing and covered Shyvana in it, as Shyvana was struggling to get out of the webbing, Elise magicly summoned some spiderlings to try and keep him off of Shyvana. Vilemaw waved one of his spider like legs and a wave of magic came over the spiderlings, the spiderlings then turned on Elise. Elise started to back as the spiderlings approached her, Alex then fired his M4 Carbine killing the spiderlings. Vilemaw yelled "enough, I don't have time to fight three of you at once!" then Vilemaw spat out more webbing and covered the two in it, he then started to wrap them up, then he moved over to Elise and said "I gave you your beauty, your immortality and now I take it away!" Vilemaw then sunk his large fangs into Elise. Elise screamed out of pain, then some of Elise's pleasant features began to go away. Alex then started to fire his M4 at Vilemaw, all of the bullets bounced off his hard skin. Vilemaw faceded Alex and said "it's just you and me now big man". As Vilemaw approached Alex backed up, Alex then fired his grenade launcher, the explosive hit Vilemaw in the face, Vilemaw stumbled back "oh that hurt" Alex put another round into the launcher and fired another one at Vilemaw. Soon Alex got into the radio and tried to contact command to try and get support, but he only got static. Vilemaw then began to attack Alex forcing him to take cover and move around in tight spots, as Vilemaw was searching for Alex, Alex was loading up his M32 Grenade launcher, he was also trying to figure out how he was going to get to the surface, he then saw webbing that led up to a hole in the ceiling. Alex bolted to the webbing and quickly climbed up the web until he was through the hole and made it to the surface. Once on the surface, Alex saw an old world war 2 m1 57mm AT gun, it was pointing at a huge hole in the ground, as Alex ran to AT gun Vilemaw started to come out of the hole. Alex quickly rammed the shell into the chamber, once Vilemaw poked his head up out of the hole, Alex fired the AT gun, the shell went into one of Vilemaw's eyes causing the spider god to scream in pain as he partially falls back down the hole. Alex got on the radio and said "Command I need imidate artiary support!" Major Blake said "what is happening? Did they turn on you? Alex felt the ground rombel and a vicious angry growl "no something worse now give me artillery support because I need it now!" "ok we are sending an M777 over right now". Then Vilemaw came up out of the hole and Alex knew he was pissed as he heard Vilemaw say "now you're gonna get it you motherfucker!" Vilemaw then sent one his spiders legs down onto the 57MM AT gun and destroys it in one blow. Alex barely managed to dodge the attack, as he got back up he started firing grenades at Vilemaw to by time for artillery to arrive. On a small island a couple of miles from where Alex is, a portal opened up and the M777 Artillery and it's crew came out of it, the artillery crew commander said "command we are in position to send us feedback from the drone" "copy that sending you feed now and patching you through to Alex". The crew then got to see Vilemaw and were taken aback by how big this monster was "holy shit what is that thing?" Alex yelled "does it fucking matter just kill the damn thing!" "we are loaded and ready, be aware that it will take a couple of minutes for the shell to reach your position". "Roger that". Alex then pulled out his flashbang and threw it up to Vilemaw's face and turned away before it went off, as the flashbang went off, Vilemaw closed his eyes saying "ah my eyes, what have you done to me!" "now!" Alex then heard a bang out in the distance, once Vilemaw began to regain his vision, the 155mm shell hit the top of his head, Vilemaw yelled "ah my head!" this game of cat and mouse continued, but every time Alex had stunned Vilemaw with a flashbang, an artillery shell would hit Vilemaw's head causing more damage. After the fourth shell Vilemaw collapsed to the ground, Alex got on the radio and said "ok make sure the gun is on par with me" "why?" just do it" once the artillery gun lowered alex said "fire" Vilemaw said "who are you talking to!?" Alex heard the bang, he turned around and faced Vilemaw and said "you hungry! Huh!?" Alex turned around and saw a little spinning blip coming at him very quickly in the distance "then eat this motherfucker!" Alex then jumped out of the way as Vilemaw gave one last roar before the artillery shell entered Vilemaw's mouth and exploded. Alex turned his head as the artillery shell exploded, then once he turned back he saw that Vilemaw's head was missing, Vilemaws body hit the ground, then Alex said on the radio "nice job artillery team, I owe you one" "anytime now, we are pulling out we don't want to attract any more attention". Alex then headed back down into the cave, he walked up to the entangled Shyvana, Shyvana said "where is Vilemaw?" "dead" "Alex I owe you one" Alex pulled out his tactical knife and began cutting away the webbing until Shyvana was freed from her prison. Shyvana quickly moved towards Elise, Shyvana noticed that Elise had her back facing her "Elise are you ok" Shyvana extended her hand out to place it on her shoulder, Elise said "don't look at me" and she began to cry, "What's wrong?" "I I'm hideous" "your not hideous" Shyvana slowly spun Elise around, Shyvana wasn't able to get a good look at her face, she could only make out what would be her chin and lips, she noticed that there pleasant appearance had changed. Shyvana gasped, this caused Elise to try and runaway, but Shyvana gently grabbed her arm and said "no please don't go", "but you won't love me any more". Shyvana placed a hand on Elise's cheek and slowly leaned in until her lips meet Elise's. Then a red magical aura began to surround Elise until she was fully covered in it, then once the aura disappeared Elise was looking up at the ceiling, once she lowered her head back down and opened her eyes, she noticed that she was in her Spider queen form "what? But I thought I was supposed to look beautiful, you know like in fairy tales" Shyana placed her hand back on Elise's cheek and said softly "you look beautiful to me". Elise felt something pierce her heart after Shyvana said that, It felt like her heart was warming up and becoming whole, Elise placed her hand on top of Shyvana's and slowly leaned in and kissed her. The kiss was short lived as Elise soon fainted, Shyvana caught her and gently placed her down, Alex said "hold on let me go get a first aid kit, I'll be right back" as Alex left the cave, Shyvana looked down at Elise, she held one of her hands and told the sleeping Elise "I won't leave your side". Then Shyvana heard footsteps, she turned around to see if it was Alex but it was not Alex it was Zyra. Zyra kicked Shyvana in the head causing Shyvana to fall to the ground, Zyra looked down at Elise and said "Elise by beautiful Elise" Zyra tried to wake her up "come on my love please wake up I need you". When Zyra said 'my love' Shyvana begin to think back when she was back on Targon with Soraka, she remembered asking Soraka "Elise feels that Zyra had been seeing other people behind her back, do you think it is true?" Soraka looked around to see if anyone was around "look I know that you care for Elise, but you are not allowed to share this information with her ok" Shyvana nodded her head "ok yes Zyra has seen many other women while she was with Elise, in fact other than Elise her other favorite was Leona" "Leona you mean the Solari?" "yes, I can tell that she has something going on with Zyra, because every time I see those two in public, they always flirting with each other and they usually have secret codes in their conversations too, I even saw them play footsie one time" Shyvana shook her head and looked out the window to see Elise looking down the mountain "so I guess Elise was right then" Soraka looked at Elise too and said "poor girl she deserves someone who will make her happy, yes she has done bad things in the past, but still she deserves some form of happiness even if it is with you". Shyvana said "you don't love her" Zyra looked over at Shyvana and said "what did you say?" Zyra then let go of Elise and punched Shyvana and continued to punch her yelling "look at what you did to my Elise!". Then some people with robes on said "enough, we should get the spider queen into a healing ward, and what shall we do with her?" Shyvana was now in a hazy state due to the blows that she had received, but she noticed that the robed men looked like the same ones that were at the Demacian celebration as they started killing everybody, Zyra looked at them and said "please be quick and as for this one, oh she better hope that Elise lives, because if she doesn't I will make you wish that you were never born!" Zyra then kicked Shyvana in the head this time it knocked her out, Zyra then picked up Elise and walked out of the cave with her in her arms, the robed men picked Shyvana up from her arms and began to haul her out of the cave.
Alex was about to enter the cave, but he noticed that there were strange people coming out of it, he then noticed that a lady covered in plant fora turned her head and looked at him, Alex said to himself quietly "oh shit". Zyra turned her head and saw what looked to be a person, it quickly vanished into some of the vegetation Zyra said "hey!" the robed men said "what?" "I saw something" Zyra began to head down in the direction were she saw Alex. Alex fallback behind some of the vegetation to try and conceal his position, he looked around to find a hiding spot and found a nice naturally made foxhole, he quickly got into the foxhole and began to wait. Alex then heard footsteps in the distance and they got closer and louder, he heard Zyra say "I know you're out of here, why don't you come out and show yourself". Zyra continued to walk closer and closer to Alex's foxhole, in Alex's mind he was saying 'please go away please go away!' then Zyra stopped and Alex knew that she was right above him, then he heard some shifting aboving, Zyra was looking around she saw that there was a hole in the ground, she knelt down and put her hand on the edge of the hole, Alex saw Zyra's hand and slowly pulled out his Desert Eagle and switched off the safety. His heart was beating rapidly because he knew that the moment this person peered into the foxhole and saw him it was all over. One of the robed men approached Zyra and said "come on we need to get back, who ever was here is gone now" Zyra then stood back up with Elise still in her arms, gave the area one last look and began to walk back. As soon as the footsteps disappeared Alex let out a sigh of relief, soon Alex pulled himself out of the foxhole and eventually caught up the robed men and Zyra and very carefully began to follow them.