II
Phone Calling
7:23 a.m - Spring: Monday
She prepared her usual attire for the day, the typical red armor that shone as light flickered on its surface, some of those red colored metal brought reflection when it is faced around its surroundings. Her long, dark blue hair flowed perfectly as it was draped on her slender back, of course she never leave the mirror without putting her iconic hair ornaments that brought a bun to her hair.
Finally, she stood outside her door, her boots made a creak on the wooden porch that calls its old age, she strolled the pathway away from her home right before she goes to her destination. Work.
The village is bustling indeed, people are exchanging bows to Irelia as a sign of respect because of her current position in Ionia, she bowed as an exchange and made a smile to the locals, giving them motivation for the day.
"Hello!" A voice of a young girl made an attention.
"Hello. Good morning." Irelia said, she crouched down and gazes at the young girl's eyes.
"Wow! You are so pretty, big sister!" The young girl gasps.
Just by any second, Irelia was surrounded by youth, some of them are amazed by her presence while most of them are so delighted to see Irelia up close.
"Good morning!" All of the kids greeted and bowed.
"Good morning, how was your day?" Irelia asked nicely.
"We are fine! We wanted to see you up close, big sister!" A kid said with a glimmer of his eyes.
"You are so cool that I also wanted a sword like that!" A boy excitedly ranted. "Also! You.. are beautiful. A-And you are good at fighting too!"
"Aww~ Is that a confession?" One kid teased.
"Shut UP!" The boy shouted, he pouted and glances away.
The kids started to tease the boy, laughter was mixed up on the noise of the village's activities, the boy helplessly endured the teasing while Irelia just smiled on faces that the kids show.
However, the boy felt a hand on his head, Irelia rubs the boy's head and confronted him.
"Thank you, and don't mind them okay? Be strong and be a man."
"Big sis.."
"I am happy that you chose me as your role model, you better work hard for it, understand?"
"Y-Yes! I will!"
She stood up and bowed at the kids, waving them goodbye for her to proceed to her work, yet she hears the kids' rants as she walk.
After few yards, she have stepped foot on the Main Hall of the Council, she went straight towards her office and sat on her chair, in front of her was a pile of papers stacked neatly near on the log book, a sigh escaped to her lips as she felt the never ending demands of the townsfolk, reports about the outskirts, troubles, and also..ninjas.
"Geez.." She reads a report, it made her head hurt truly. "Ninjas again. I must speak the Kinkou as soon as possible."
She grabbed a phone to her right and dialled, landlines in Ionia are limited, some of provinces are not registered on the line and most of it are used on the major cities like the Placidium which Irelia lives and works as a captain of military.
The phone rings and she patiently waited, until..
"H-hh..kkh" The sound was in static.
"Hello?" Irelia called.
"Hh.. " Still in static.
"What the hell.. is the line unstable..?" Irelia raised a question.
"Hello." This time, Irelia called in a cold tone.
"Hello." She repeated, still in static.
"Heh..Hkkh "
It sounds odd for Irelia, she have decided to resist on putting down the phone, she have got an answer but that answer was not she was expecting.
"Heh.. we have finally extracted him." A low voice boomed on the phone.
"Yes yes.. doc. " This time, a tiny voice came.
"Give me the syringe. "
Irelia was so dumbfounded, she listened carefully and heard a flatline.
"Is this the..Kinkou? Or did I made a wrong call?" Irelia felt so awkward on the call she have got.
Now, she decided to listen, it gotten quiet but after few minutes.
"Hm. An ingrown nail.. this will be..hard. "
"So deep too."
"Give me the pliers. "
"Wait..p-pliers?! What the hell.. is going behind on this line?" Irelia gasps. She grimaced on the thing that was supposedly done with ingrown nails by the USE of pliers.
And then.. she heard a crunched sound.
Quickly. She dropped the phone. Completely grimacing on what she have heard, slowly she went on pressing the phone back on its place.
"Gods. Just.." Her voice died, she never imagine on what happened behind that line, she didn't even cared whether of that line was the Kinkou or not.
She hesitated to make a call again, Irelia would never expect to hear those excruciating sounds behind the phone to begin with, what she wanted is to clarify the Kinkou about the ninjas on the reports.
She dialed. And waited patiently again while hearing the sound of ringing behind the line that the call was being held. Then, she heard an answer.
"Hello? We are busy. Can you just call later?" A voice of a woman just got entered inside Irelia's ear.
"Excuse me-" Irelia said right before she was interrupted with a crunchy sound again.
"Where is the scalpel? Is my kama acceptable? " The woman shouted.
"For gods! AKALI! WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON!?" Irelia screamed, she have known who was the person behind the line because of a certain word she have deduced. Kama is a type of weapon that one ninja of the Kinkou uses, and that made her realized the person.
" Irelia?! Oh I am sorry I- "
"Any caller would be TERRIFIED on the agenda you ninjas are doing right now." Irelia remarked as if she was scolding the kunoichi.
" Well.. Shen just.. examining with Kennen. " Akali reasoned.
"Examination with an ingrown nail that you have to pull out with PLIERS, syringe and a FLATLINE." Irelia corrected.
" Um.. I can't.. talk about it right now. " Akali denied. Though behind the line was still murmurs of dissection that Irelia hears.
"Just. What. On. Earth. Are you ninjas doing?" Irelia massages her temple to relieve stress.
" We have surgery! We have surgery! " Said from a tiny voice which implies that this was Kennen speaking.
"Surgery of ingrown nails?" Irelia clarified.
" Well.. YES! " The line has static again and by judging on Kennen's voice, it seems he was occupied.
"How on earth does a flatline related to ingrown nails? Don't make me deduce that you ninjas are doing dissection." Irelia got hostile, she suddenly felt impatient.
Then the line just got busy at the moment, Irelia sighed and decided to put down the phone for her to let the ninjas do their thing.
"I.. will call back later." She ended the call and sighed. She rested her head on the desk and went back thinking. Instead of doing some paper works, she closed her eyes and took a nap, the stress she feels made her head numb, not until she missed a ring to the phone.
Syndra yawned after her beauty rest, she loves the atmosphere of her fortress even though it was located high from the ground, she wore her white night gown that was above her knee, it feels comfortable when her blanket was made up of cotton that warms her body.
She made few exercises for her power, flickering her aura with a shape of sphere, followed by with a minor manipulation to the purple orb that floats around her.
However, her daily routine has been interrupted by a mysterious presence that she was familiar with, from below of the landmass which her fortress stood upon, it was an aura, full and spirited. She immediately heard someone calling her below, then she called her power to lift the visitor up to her fort. Her mood got ticked off as she saw the face of her visitor. It was Ahri.
Syndra holds her tails like a stuffed animal which she really feels that it suits Ahri, but the fox woman pleads to put her down as possible.
"No." Syndra denied.
"It hurts! I feel like my tails are being pulled out from my rear!" She teared up while feeling the pain through her body as her tails got pulled.
Syndra throws Ahri to the ground, what first she got her eyes on was a box that Ahri held, she didn't caught a glimpse to that while she lifted the fox.
As Ahri rubs the base of her tails, Syndra pointed the box and asked what is it.
"Come on. Have you forgotten? This was the thing that you have ordered!" Ahri answered.
"So you are the delivery man? For God's sake." Syndra gave up.
"Of course not! I am just a substitute. I have been watching humans work nowadays and this type of delivery thing interests me." She explained as she fixed her composure.
"A substitute? What happened to the previous one?" The mage pressed.
"Oh. Him? He.. well." Ahri hesitated to answer but she went honest to Syndra. "Well, he rejected the work."
"What? How come a delivery man rejects some tasks to do? That's useless."
"He was just.. scared after he heard your name."
"Heh." Syndra snickered. "Why yes. He should fear me." She huffed and gestured to bring pride for herself.
"That is why I volunteered to deliver since we know each other." Ahri finished. "But."
The mage anticipated the addition of Ahri's explanation.
"If I hadn't volunteered, they would possibly ask help to Irelia." Ahri grinned, she wagged her tails as she stated the captain's name. Syndra, on other hand, jumped up as she heard her rival's name, she listened intently for Ahri's addition.
"Irelia is very reliable. She accepts these kind of jobs even though she work as a captain. How diligent! She makes me more interested to humans and to her." Ahri's eyes sparkled with excitement, her tails wagged endlessly yet Syndra got annoyed on her tails.
"You ARE putting some fur to my DRESS!" Syndra snarled and glances away.
"Hehe~ Why? I am JUST happy!" Ahri grinned that made Syndra more annoyed.
"Anyway, here." The fox handed the box to Syndra. "Just what is in it? I am curious."
"No, no. Not yet, Mutt. I must see this FIRST." Syndra shoved Ahri's face with her palm, she used her free hand to open the box.
Inside the box was a phone wrapped with plastic that has air buttons on it. She took the phone and unwrapped the plastic.
"A phone? What is your purpose on that?" Ahri asked. She took the plastic because it was being swept away with the wind.
"I saw an advertisement from the Institute about phones without wires. It can make calls and it was chargeable. This is, TECHNOLOGY." Syndra smirked as she explained. "I can MAKE orders without GOING outside!"
"Still.. you have to watch the delivery below." Ahri replied, she analyzes the plastic and got curious on the air button, she pressed the button and it popped, she gasps and delighted.
"Well that's OBVIOUS, Fox. That's why I BOUGHT this!" Syndra proudly stated, and she hears popping sounds.
"But. How do I make calls..? Is there any book for this thing as a guide?" Syndra rummages the box to search for guides. "Mutt, you know how to use this?"
Without answer, she still kept rummaging and repeating Ahri's name.
"I said, how to use this?"
She heard popping sounds.
"Hey. I am ASKING you." She repeated again with fury of her voice. She glanced at the fox because on the sudden ignorance and yes, she saw Ahri, playing with the air buttons and giggling on how it sounded funny as she popped the air buttons.
Quickly, Syndra snatched the plastic and barked. "YOU KNOW WHAT. GIVE ME THAT!"
"No! I want more!" Ahri pleads and tried to snatch the plastic from the mage's hands.
"What are YOU?! A CHILD?! YOU MAKE THIS THING AS A TOY?!" Syndra finally scolded the fox, she stomped the ground to show agitation.
"IT'S FUN OKAY?! I completely lost my thought after I started popping them." The fox pouted. "Fine! Just what are you asking anyway?"
"This PHONE. I am asking you how to use it, yet you kept on.." Syndra popped one button and got occupied with its sound. "..playing with THIS."
"Alright. Let me see." Ahri took the phone and analyzed, she only stared at the number pads, she tried to press one and nothing happened. "Maybe it is broken.."
But as she kept on fiddling the phone, she heard popping noises from her back. "Syn-" She called. Yet, she was shocked to see Syndra silently giggling while popping the air buttons as well.
"Pfft.." She endured her laughter until she breaks down with chuckling.
Immediately, Syndra stopped her 'occupation' to the air buttons as she felt ashamed. She throws the plastic straight to Ahri's face and prepared some spheres.
"What was that for?! How rude!" Ahri shoved the plastic away as she stared in front of her, she gasps to see Syndra got furious and ready to attack her at any minute. "So now you are mad? You ARE also making yourself as a CHILD!"
"SHUT UP! YOU DIMWIT! IT'S YOUR FAULT!" Syndra cried as she pointed Ahri with anger.
"Why is it MY fault? Miss?!"
"You STARTED PLAYING THAT PIECE OF PLASTIC IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
"THEN why did you mimicked me?!"
"It's! I-It's because YOU ARE CONTAGIOUS! I AM ALLERGIC TO YOU!"
"Then I must go NOW!"
Ahri scuttles away but she ended up staring at the edge of the land.
"Heh. Think you can GO down by jumping yourself to death?" Syndra smirks. She sat her own spheres and watches Ahri.
"Hmph! In your face! I am calling IRELIA. SHE WILL COME HERE!" Ahri anticipated to bring out her voice.
"Now why are you calling HER?!" Terrified, she gasps on the thought that Ahri was serious, she don't want the captain would see her like this.
"She can FLY. You Ball Loving Mage." Ahri finished. "And YES she can HEAR ME."
"What did YOU just call ME?!" Syndra snarled, her face was furious yet she felt shame by hearing that words that Ahri called her.
"IRELIA! Help!" Ahri screamed with the top of her lungs, her tails shrilled a little due to her screaming.
"Will YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOU-" Syndra tried to cover Ahri's mouth but the fox successfully screamed out words.
"SYNDRA IS KILLING ME! HELP!" Ahri was being pulled behind until she was shoved by the mage, her rear hit the phone and pain courses on that area.
"Shut UP! Shut Up!" Syndra finally covers Ahri's mouth yet the fox kept struggling. Instead of squirming around, Ahri summoned some fire that came from her magic and torched Syndra's foot a little.
"AH!" Syndra jumped up as she felt a burn to her toe nail. "YOU CHALLENGE ME?!" The mage choked Ahri a little but the fox did the same.
Both of them fight like cats, Syndra summoned some spheres to attack Ahri, then Ahri summoned her orb and fling it to Syndra, whom she evaded it as well, not until they heard a ring from the phone.
They stopped the fight and both of the mages went to the phone.
"Oh. It's working. IT'S working Syndra!" Ahri whispered.
"What the hell did you just do?! How did you made it work?!" Syndra whispered back.
"I don't know!" Ahri replied.
"..Idiot!" Syndra slapped Ahri's shoulder."Maybe YOU broke it!"
"That's rude!" Ahri rubs her shoulder to ease the pain. "Look! It's lit up..?" The phone was blinking green, there was a switch that was pressed on the bottom of the phone.
"It must be that fall, I accidentally pressed that button!" Ahri realized. She took the phone and stared at the green light.
"It seems that plastic helps your idiocy." Syndra crosses her arms.
"Hey! You also did the same!" Ahri fought back.
"Shut up!" Before Syndra could make an argument, there was a call.
~ RINNGGG ~
"What the! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Syndra panicked.
"Here! It's yours anyway!" Ahri shoved the phone to Syndra, she felt the vibration of the phone wanting to be answered.
"YOU DIMWIT! WHAT SHOULD I DO?!" Syndra was shaking that she doesn't know what to do.
"I heard that humans say that you must answer phones!" Ahri whispered, her tails slowly wagged and hostile because of the ringing.
"Then YOU answer!" Syndra shoved the phone to Ahri.
The fox got scared because of the noise and the vibration of the phone, she throws it back to the mage and hides behind a nearby tree.
"Idiot! THIS IS NOT A BOMB!" Syndra chased the fox behind the tree. "Answer it!"
The phone kept ringing, they exchanged whispers due to the phone's suspiciousness.
"No! YOU answer!"
"You knew these things so YOU answer!"
"What the? It's your property so you MUST answer!"
"Then I AM ordering YOU to answer it!"
"WHY ME?!"
"If you don't like then CALL that..CAPTAIN to answer it for ME!"
"Why would Irelia has to do that for YOU!? She will laugh at you because a Sovereign can't answer calls!"
"T-Then..Just..JUST SHUT UP AND ANSWER IT!"
"Oh..FINE!" Ahri was completely dragged by the mage's rants, she took the phone that was ringing and has no idea what to do.
"Now..What should I DO?!" Ahri panicked.
"That box says that you must click that..PHONE SYMBOL! NOW!" Syndra ordered, she was hostile to see what would happen if the call was answered, so she hid behind a tree, peeking at the fox woman.
"W-What will I SAY?!" Ahri asked Syndra.
"Why are YOU asking me?! Just tell them you say..HI or just.." Syndra ran out of ideas for Ahri. "JUST ANSWER IT!"
Now, Ahri pressed the phone symbol and the ringing stopped, there was a volume symbol that was lit up that Ahri hasn't known yet, the mages waited for the next thing will happen. But there was no voice nor sound came from the phone.
"What." Syndra whispered.
"What." Ahri repeated.
"No answer?" Syndra wondered.
"I don't know!" Ahri made a whisper.
" Hhhaaakk..shhhh " It came from the phone, a static, with a voice that was low and breathy at the same time. The mages hide behind the tree because of shock, they glanced each other on the sudden thought.
"What the hell?!" Syndra gasps. "Is that a voice?!"
"I don't know! I am scared! I want to go home now!" Ahri's actions went stray because of fear, she never heard about this and it made her horrified.
"Where do you think YOU'RE GOING?!" Syndra called her power to pull the fox towards the her. "We are not DONE yet!"
" Hh-h..He..Hello? Hehkk.. " The voice behind the line finally spoke yet it was filled with static.
"It says HELLO! Say hello too!" Syndra shouted yet it was done by a angry whisper.
Ahri crawls towards the phone and holds it, she was stuttering and afraid.
"He-Hello..?" Ahri spoke.
"G-Give..me. Color. Any would do." The voice says.
"Syndra! The caller wants any color! Any ideas?" She whispered.
"Color.. color.." Syndra started to think, but her mind went straight thinking about her rival, she shooked her head and tries to concentrate. "What the hell?! Why I thought about her?!"
"What?"
"Nothing! Just..just tell him RED!"
"Red? Oh did your mind made its way to Irelia's color?" Ahri chuckled, she must have read Syndra's thoughts.
"SHUT UP!" She blushed a little and waited for Ahri to make the answer.
"Red, please." Ahri answered.
"Nnghh..R-Red.. Fi-Fine.." The static intercepts the signal yet they heard the voice well.
"Hair.. Long. Short." The voice said again.
Syndra wondered what kind of call is this, her suspicion got tingled because of these questions.
"Syndra. Long hair or Short? He says?" Ahri asked.
"Oh? Tell him long." Syndra flatly replied.
"Okay. Long." Ahri answered the phone. "Because of..Ire-"
"DON'T THINK ABOUT HER!" Syndra snarled in a whisper.
"FINE!"
Then the static goes on, the caller mumbles words that they didn't catch on.
"Hey.. what would you like.. in.. normal clothing? or.. or.. you know..unc- cloth..ed." The voice stuttered.
"What..? Or what? You mean unclothed?" Ahri replied.
Syndra gasps. She hits Ahri on the tail.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Unclothed?!"
"Don't ask ME! Ask him!"
"You..you have got nice..taste of choosing.. hkkn.. g-G-girls." The voice said even though the static got worse.
Finally, Syndra realized this, she was furious to hear after those words reached her ears. She snatched the phone and..
"YOU DIRTY PIECE OF BAG! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Syndra screamed.
"Syndra?!"
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU MAKE A CALL TO THE SOVEREIGN?!"
"What..What? Sovereign? Is that a hot woman?"
"PERVERT! DEVIANT! DIRTY SCUM OF HELL!" Syndra got infuriated, Ahri got the thing where they were being tricked, she smirked and asked Syndra to borrow the phone.
"Hello, human.." Ahri stated in a sultry voice.
"Oh? What happened to the demonic voice that I heard? Now I hear a sweet voice from a woman.. " The man behind the phone calms down, he started to flirt the fox.
"Oh..Thank you~ You are so..sweet." Behind her lovely smile was a devious smirk that only Syndra could tell. Deception.
"Syndra.. Let's track down this man. Shall we?" She whispered.
"Hmph. Good plan.. I have the urge to destroy his house now. I need explosions for a better view." She smirked.
"Mister? I would like to meet you, what do you say? Hm~?" Ahri curls her hair strand to emphasize that she was occupied with this fake flirting to the man.
"Oh? Really?! Well.. Let's meet up to the-"
"How about now? I make wonders.." Ahri licked her lips as she really is enjoying this for rampage.
"Ohh.. Yes.. Okay.. I will- " Immediately, Syndra cuts the line and throws the phone.
"Now. My first call came from A PERVERT." Syndra said, her knuckles cracked up for warm up. "I swear I will put my spheres to his house now and DESTROY IT like an ant."
"Hm~ Hehe.." Ahri giggled.
"I make wonders? Seriously. You are a vixen."
"Ew. I am not going to make that man feel my wonders. I prefer doing it with someone I interested on." Ahri disgust a little. "I prefer making wonders with the use of his life."
"And I saw how you enjoyed that, you sly mutt." She took the phone and placed it on the porch. "So. Let's destroy?"
"On it."
They went down from the landmass to track down the man, Ahri sniffed the air and let the mana flow her, she used it to feel the life essence of the man. Syndra sat on top of the branch to hide herself away from outsiders that would spot her, if she didn't covered herself up, the town will be alerted even though she was still wearing her dress.
"So, the Eastward of the Placidium? Really?" Ahri commented.
"Let's go." Syndra hovers hastily for the revenge she has to show for humiliating her property, which is, her phone.
"Wait! Don't go further! The Council was up..ahead." Ahri sighed. "Oh well.. It seems they will be meeting up today."
The fox followed Syndra's mana up to the point where the mage halted, she saw how Syndra watched the Ionians pass by across a house where a man was holding a phone. Immediately the mage surged, more people gasps on what they see, Syndra used her spheres to destroy the window and lifted the man, the people ran and call for help.
"So. YOU ARE THAT PERVERT!? Shame. You look like a doormat to me." Syndra barked in front of the man's face, the man struggled and got terrified.
"Syndra! You have blown your cover!" Ahri jumped a and tried to cover Syndra's..rear with her tails.
"For A PERVERT LIKE YOU! I WILL CUT OFF YOUR HEAD!" Syndra surged her spheres and anticipated the attack.
Then it happened, the sphere she was about to hurl was denied, she gasps on what she saw, a blade stopped her sphere on attacking, it dissolved in to thin air while the blade went back to its owner, she have now seen the owner and she stared at the one who stopped her. It was none other than Irelia.
"Please put him down." Irelia calmly stated.
"Do you think I would follow you? I took him first! So be it!" Syndra replied with stubbornness.
"It's my job to track down people who tried to disturb the peace, if that man filled humiliation to your dignity, please let me handle the situation." Irelia said with humility.
"Syndra. Just give him to her, you will see and you will love it." Ahri smiles and tried to persuade Syndra.
Syndra huffed and throws the man towards Irelia, she sat on her spheres and waited.
"Oh you.. It's the young, cu-cute.. captain." The man grinned maniacally.
"Syndra. What does this man did to you?" Irelia asked. She glared at the man with her piercing eyes.
"He obscure himself by calling MY line though I just bought a..phone today!" She explained. "He asked what color and hair length to us!"
"Us?"
"Oh, that mutt is with me, she was the one who delivered my phone of all places, I asked her to answer HIS putrid call."
Irelia faces the man, he was terrified on what account that Syndra tells her.
"So.. You call him a deviant. Why?" Irelia pressed.
"Why? THAT MAN CALLS ME HOT!" Syndra shouted.
The people gasps on what they have heard, the man was in shame after they put guilt on him.
"I said that the sovereign from the caller was..hot, IT'S JUST A JOKE!" The man stuttered with a slur.
"She was the Sovereign. Mister." Irelia finished. "H-Hot? You mean.." Irelia thought.
"Sexy? I mean?" Irelia tilted her head; though her expression was blank and calm.
"YES! That was he said!" Ahri jumped and ranted.
"Me? S-Sexy? WHAT THE FU-" Syndra got interrupted as her blush showed.
"Well yes, I know she was..'hot' if that is what you see, Mister." Irelia stood up and pulls the man. "But, I will never let a man tries to get away from the law if you seek desires from a woman you haven't shared bond with." She logically stated and took his hand, then she pushes him towards her soldiers.
"Take him to the precinct." Irelia orders. "Make sure he won't escape, I smell alcohol from him."
"Yes!" The soldiers dragged the man after they bowed to their captain.
" I will never let a man tries to get away from the law if you seek desires from a woman you haven't shared bond with? Hmph. She knows too much for her to bring such thing that deepen up the meaning.. But, I have no objections. In fact, she was right. " Syndra thought mentally as she watched Irelia apprehended the man.
"I apologize for the inconvenience, please let me handle this." Irelia bowed to the people around her, all the locals went back to their respective activities.
Sighing on the scene that happened, Irelia faces the mage and apologized, she made a bow including Ahri.
"Oh, Irelia don't be like that. You have done nothing wrong." Ahri weakly smiled.
"It's a shame to see one of my people does things like this." Irelia said, her eyes was piercing and cold at the same time.
"Hmph. YOUR people does things for their own FUN." Syndra mumbled.
"I am sorry." Again, the captain apologized.
"Why are YOU apologizing? This is why I hate YOU! You did nothing but YOU imply yourself to be the one that feels sorry!" Syndra barked, her fury was showing that could make a threat right now.
Before things would turn grim, Ahri butted in about the phone to Syndra, she felt it was a good idea to seek help to Irelia since she was included to the officials; they use phone lines to communicate every province of Ionia to begin with.
"Syndra. Why don't we let Irelia help us with your phone?" Ahri offered.
"Seek HELP with this WOMAN?! Pity." Syndra rudely replied, she averted her gaze to avoid her eyes would caught by those green eyes of the captain.
"It would be my pleasure to help you. What is it that you need? Phone?" Irelia finally stated.
"I didn't said YES. Fool Captain." The mage cuts in.
"Syndra! Stop hurting Irelia's feelings!" Ahri hugged Irelia and rubs her head. "She was doing for the best! You don't want a pervert calls you again, would you?"
"OF COURSE! WHO WANTS THAT?!"
"Then LET Irelia help! Period."
"Tch."
Silence for them in awhile before Irelia spoke again, she clarified what is the problem about the phone.
"Well.. the problem was.." Ahri hesitated. "Don't get mad Syndra because I have to be honest here."
"W-WHAT?!" Syndra went down from airborne and went to Ahri, shoving her away from the captain and covers her mouth. "Shut UP! DON'T EMBARRASS ME IN FRONT OF HER!" Then she whispered.
"But its the truth! You don't know how to use it!" Ahri replied in a whisper. "She won't get mad! I swear! Irelia was not that type like those people that you've expect!"
"What if she IS?! What if she is pretending?!" She still believe the untrustworthy of Ionians, her rage was filling up her senses that will burst at any minute.
"Excuse me." Irelia cuts in.
"WHAT?!" Syndra screamed.
"Please let me hear what problem you have been struggling for, Syndra. I will put on my strength to help you."
With Irelia was so formal to her; even she was her rival, Syndra has no words to say, she has no idea if she has to trust Irelia but she feels that she has to try.
She handed the box with the phone in it, avoiding eye contact and let Ahri speak for her.
"The phone, it's brand new and Syndra ordered it, I also have no idea what humans do to it but Syndra kept asking me how to use it." Ahri stated, carefully to her words.
"Wireless? Syndra afforded this?" Irelia gasps with delight as she analyzes the phone.
"What of it?" Syndra murmurs.
"Nothing. I am just..impressed. I have wished of affording this but I am saving, so I only got paid landline for my home." She went back analyzing the phone.
After few minutes, Irelia spoke and tried to tell the details on how to use it. She explained some pointers of making calls by the use of number combinations, since it was wireless, she said it was convenient at some point because it was chargeable. She also said that the phone was made in Piltover because of its advanced interface.
"Oh.." Syndra sounded as if she was interested.
"There you have it. One must input number combinations depending on the line, I also have seen the phone's number here at the back. You will recieve calls if someone inputs this number of your phone with theirs." The captain added.
"Wow. How wonderful! If ever I have gotten a phone by myself, I will not sleep until I call Irelia!" Ahri grinned as she embraces the captain. "You knew everything for humans! I like you!"
As Syndra saw Ahri being close with Irelia, she suddenly felt annoyed, she was about to ask about something about the phone but Ahri kept on being close to the captain.
"Are you done? I am out of here if it isn't." Syndra felt tired of talking.
"Oh, I forgot." Irelia scribbled something in a piece of paper and handed it to Syndra.
"What is this?"
"It's the number of my office, you can try calling with your phone as a trial."
Ahri gasps with delight, she nudged Syndra because of it. "Wow Syndra! You can call Irelia anytime you want!"
"Shut!" Syndra threats Ahri with her spheres, she gripped the paper and floated, ready for departure. "Hmph. Come with me, Mutt, we still have to figure this thing out."
Ahri left Irelia because of Syndra's force, she didn't said goodbye to her but instead she waved, giving her too a wink that made Irelia nervous, at the same time after they left, Irelia went to her duty and let the officials take care of the damage that Syndra have caused.
NOTE:Wait. I promised that the previous note will be my last. Ah! I just can't resist making notes! But oh well!
Anyway, here Syndra bought a phone, I find it funny whenever Ahri is teasing Syndra, because of course, Ahri is a flirtatious type and Syndra was the opposite, which it may lead into angery reacts to Syndra.
Also the phone scene is a blast! I enjoy writing it as well. And yes, next chapter will definitely tackle the greatness of the phone!
And always remember, popping air plastic buttons surely saves everyone! :D