Chapter one was a little boring at the beginning, I know, but it was necessary to start the story. So, please, if you haven't read it yet, do it. And make sure to read the note I left. Now, I hope this is a little better
Also, someone asked why I started out the story with Lux having a date with Ezreal when clearly the synopsis says "Lux x Rakan x Xayah". Some would figure out and some not, but that was just necessary to Lux have her epiphany about what to do now in her life. I will be dealing with that topic in this chapter! This will definitively be Lux x Rakan x Xayah.
NOTE (05/10/17) I found someone who is willingly to help me with all gramathical stuff, so you shouldn't bee seeing issues in the next chapters. The first chapters will be edited as well; I'll tell you when it's finished!
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2. I don't want to bother you, but I'm in distress.
Lux watched the big shelve of her room, eagerly looking for something. One minute was enough to find the book she was so self-absorbed for. The girl took it out and stroked the back cover, her fingers itching at the fine touch. Turning it around, she read the cover, which said 'My Diary', making her smile. The last time she written in it was years ago, when she had time to do such an 'uncaring thing', something her mother used to call it. After her entry to the Magic Academy, her visits to the book started to get more and more infrequent. She didn't pay any thought to it, till today. She actually missed expressing herself in that pages, being the only place she was secure to do it without take a change to be reprimanded.
Opening it up, she started to read every journey of hers, smiling at the image of a little Lux having fun writing it. The childish handwriting adorned with colors and drawing, gradually disappeared, giving way to handwriting more… elegant and sophisticated; empty of any draw and wrong vocabulary. The last ten pages talked about how she was going to enter soon the academy, explaining blankly how she felt. Then, she suddenly stopped. Her mother already had her in that time.
A smooth knock sounded outside of the room, her ears barely picking it.
"Miss Lux…?" a hesitant voice sounded from the other side, Lux recognizing it as the voice of Aya, one of the servants. "Breakfast will be ready in five minutes. Please come down when you are ready." Without waiting response, the girl heard steps moving away from her door, letting her know the woman was already gone.
The mage sighed and closed the book, her mind starting to work, telling her what she had to do. Going to her bed, she went down to the floor and her hands started to try to catch something below the bed, grabbing a strap after a few tries. She attracted it to her and her green special backpack appeared, long time to not see it. She smiled at it, remembering how she used to take it to whenever place she'd go. It was really helpful when she packed all her toys to play in the park, or to collect shells in the beach with Garen. Now, it was completely empty, without any hint of that could have happened. It disturbed her a bit.
Catching her book again, she putted it inside of the backpack and zipped it momentarily. She stood up and started to choose things from the room, thinking of which one she should take it with her. The first was a picture of two little kids; Garen and she at the beach her mother showed her yesterday, both smiling in front of the ocean; she saved it without any hesitation; at least in that time, Garen was a true brother to her, and she appreciated it. The second one was the book Mrs. Minerva gifted her in the last year of the academy, being her graduation gift. Minerva was the only teacher with whom Lux had a bond, being the only one who cared of her and the things troubled her. She helped her in the darkest stage in her life, being completely supportive about it; that stopped her to do something; way stupid what was she doing right now.
The book was a fantasy story; the woman found out one day that she liked to read and said that she was one hundred percent sure of that she would like it. Lux was very delighted that she hit. Nowadays, Singing Fields was her favorite book.
The third one was a necklace her grandmother gave her after passing out. It was a beautiful silver chain, having precious gems in the way to the end, being occupied by a big diamond gem, which was almost shining with light. She never used it before because it remembered of her. Her grandmother was the only family of her that ever loved her. Lux's eyes did almost immediately start to cry if she did even think about her elderly face, but now, she would do justice to her memory. Instead of place it in her backpack, she opened up the little black box and buckled the necklace around her neck. The box was placed carefully now in the bag, with her feeling better. And the last thing but not least some ink and a pen. She was planning to write a lot in her diary.
Zipping the bag, she dropped it delicately in the floor and focused in her magic. She couldn't just take the bag with her all the time, which would be dangerous and suspicious. Her solution was to charm the backpack to have the same spell her staff has. Every time she needed it, it would be summoned just like she summons her wand. Both will share the same space in her pocket universe. Feeling satisfied as seeing how the bag disappeared in her light, she went to the door and left her room, making sure to unlock it correctly.
Walking across the hallways never felt so good. Everything seemed to have a new meaning to her; the world was somehow different to Lux now. She even sympathize with the house that she hated all those years (excluding her room, no one can enter that place now). Every step makes her feel safer, confident, just like how she used to pretend all time.
The sunlight that entered thanks to the giant window above her washed over Lux as the mage descended the stairs, the sound of her heels hitting the marble making her presence known to everyone in the house. Her hand stopped leaning into the big railing of the stair as she arrived the end of it.
She walked straight to the dining room, getting gazes of confused maids, but bowing at her as always. She only answered it with one smile, secretly excited at the attention she was receiving. The dining room was, as always, giant. A large table occupied almost all the room, having only three chairs distributed this time. Two chairs were at the end of it, where her parents sat, and the other one was in the opposite direction, which was where she was sitting.
Her father and mother were already in the room as she entered it. Her faces at the first look of the morning of her were priceless. Her mother left in halfway the piece of fruit she was eating, dropping it to the floor and stared at her with mouth wide open, her eyes like dishes. Her father was a more discreet, with still obvious to her eyes, which saw his usual stoic expression changing to a frozen one. Her neck twitched at her mother's eyes watching her necklace.
"Good morning, father, mother," she said with a tiny smile, sitting down in her chair, distracted by the maid that got out of the kitchen and served her, from a silver stray, various type of food, such like fruits, toasts, and a great variety of jams. When the maid picked a pitcher full of coffee to fill her tiny cup, Lux stopped her kindly.
"It's ok, I can do it by my own," she told her, watching the woman giving her a look of surprise, but nodding nonetheless and bowing to everyone before she went to the kitchen again. Lux picked some pieces of apple and munched them silently. Two peacefully seconds passed before her father, Vicent, spoke.
"Lux," he said, his deep, serious voice echoing the room. "What's the meaning of all of this?"
The blonde's face perked up, watching with innocent eyes the defined face of her father. She smiled, making his eyes narrow. Augatha only watched the exchange between father and daughter with her mouth closed, not daring to interrupt.
"About what, father?" She answered almost foolishly, dodging on purpose Vicent's question.
"You know what I'm talking about," he said, his eyes watching her outfit. "Don't dare to play with me."
Lux blinked. "Oh, this?" she said, looking at her clothes. "It's no big deal; I just have the wish to wear it."
Her father sighed, for a moment having the same face her mother had tonight after the bad news. He settled almost uncomfortably in the chair, exchanging a little gaze with her wife.
"Your mother told me what happened yesterday. I know you're upset, but…"
"About that," she interrupted him, making his eyes glow with stern questioning, wanting to know why she do that. "I apologize for my behavior last night. I… freaked out, and it was unfair to both of you, especially you, mother," she finished, this time glancing at Augatha.
Both of them saw her confused.
"Aren't you angry, Lux?" Augatha said carefully, testing the waters. "Last night, you… were quite upset."
The girl in question shook her head slowly, smiling.
"After thinking about it, I found out that I was very unfair with you, mother. As you told me last night, none of you had any option to deny The King. That would complicate our position as one of the best nobles in Demacia. What would everyone think that about you denying your daughter the possibility to marry The King's son?" She said with an unnerving smile that went unnoticed to his father but not to her mother.
"Indeed, Lux," Vicent said with a little smile in his lips, believing everything Lux said. "That would put us in a very delicate situation. I'm glad you understand it."
Her mother wasn't thinking the same way, nonetheless, but said nothing. The light mage cursed mentally at the sight of the wary eyes of Augatha. After all these years, she was still her mother and she knew her a little, she like it or not. However, the girl decided to ignore it for now and focused in her breakfast. She then grabbed the pitcher and started to fill her cup of coffee.
"In one week, there will be a party to celebrate the son of The King and you in compromise. Your brother will arrive tomorrow to attend the meeting," The conversation continued, Lux receiving the information calculatingly.
"I see," was her only answer, before taking a sip of her drink and closing her eyes for a moment.
So Garen was coming, uh? Does that mean he knew about the whole marriage thing? Probably, he is the best friend of Jarvan. She didn't know what to think about this anymore; why didn't he told her? Her parents prohibited him to do it, or he just doesn't care of her? In any case, she will found out soon.
"The preparations for the wedding will start after the party. You will be marrying in one month," Vicent said, not before drinking a good amount of coffee and biting his fruit.
She will be marrying in one month, and she found it out yesterday. The life has unexpected turns, uh? She had some, too.
"Then I have to prepare myself, too!" she answered with her cheery mood.
Her father only nodded at her, used to her bursts of joy. Everything went silent again.
God, she needed a toast right now, her stomach was hurting. Her hand quickly found the piece of bread and a butter knife. Her eyes traveled across the table till found what she was looking for: strawberry jam, her favorite. Lux's eyes sparkled with the first sight of happiness in the day, and her body quickly reached for it. None of the three noticed the blue light that started to appear behind Lux, not watching how the odd thing started to surround her body.
"Lux, honey, would you please pass me the su…?" Augatha started to talk, but the words ended in her tongue at the moment she saw her daughter.
Lux was already going to bite the toast, but hearing her mother talk, her head turned around to her to answer.
"Yes…?" But the light shined, engulfing her and making her disappear.
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Just a moment later after what happened, Lux figured what's going on. She was about to eat her blessed toast, but then unfortunately her mother interrupted her, trying to ask her something. She was going to answer, but everything went blue and she felt her body travel into empty space before landing into a fountain stone. That only could be one thing.
"Dammit, I totally forgot it!" she screamed horrified in her mind.
When her eyes where finally managed to see correctly her environment, she was greeted by the Fields of Justice full of life. She had one match today, scheduled at nine of the morning. And by not attending at time in the League, she was summoned perforce.
Her toast was quickly forgotten, her mind thinking at the speed of the light, ordering her face to look around. The first thing she focused was Caitlyn looking at her with one eyebrow raised, her lips furrowed. Vi at her side doing the same thing, but not caring to hide her surprise, chocking a little.
"So, Blondie had hidden fangs, uh?" Vi said, mocking at her shameless. Catilyn shook her head.
"Vi, honey, that's not very nice," Caitlyn reprimanded her. The pink-haired woman only shrugged, but didn't say anything.
Lux only could flush in embarrassment, not really knowing what to do.
"Oh, don't be so rude at Miss Lux, girl!" Braum's friendly voice echoed through her ears behind her, already buying in the shop. "I like your new style! Don't you think the same as me, my friend?" He asked to the top ally, Tryndamare.
"Huh, whatever, if she's feeling dark, let her be. Now, I want to slice something!" he said waving his blade with an excited expression. Braum only laughed at his antics, walking towards Caitlyn's side.
Lux slapped herself mentally and recomposed herself, munching her toast savagely and trying to be as cool as possible, failing miserably thanks to the rest of her poor breakfast in her lips. That was the obvious reaction; she was supposed to be prepared!
"Don't worry, guys, I'm still the same" she said with a smile, light shining around her, making her election of clothes even more odd. "Puns of light included!"
"I wasn't expecting anything else," the sheriff of Piltover said with a tiny smile, Vi saying an "yup" beside her. Lux felt a little better.
After the little commotion, everyone went to their business, focusing in the match. Lux ran to the shop and bought the Doran's Ring, some potions and rushed to the mid lane, smiling as always. Even Tryndamare wished her good luck, saying that he also felt off today. This was going to a good day, and no one will ruin it!
Today, her opponent was Zed, that guy with the shadow tricks. A rough match at the early battle, but nothing she couldn't handle in the beginning. Against him, it was a competition of who was the one to get its ultimate first. She will be screwed if Zed's shadows appeared behind her unprepared, because he can even do it if she below her own tower, using his shadow to run away after the damn Death Mark was on her. But as so she can do it, too, her Final Spark was nothing to disparage at all! Nonetheless, she came to the end of the second tower of the midlane and waited patiently to the minions come by, humming a random Sona's song. When the little suicidal came by, she summoned her staff and slowly followed them, making sure to stay behind them to avoid any unpleasant shuriken.
As the three first minions crushed to their counterpart and started to fight each other, she saw him. Almost emotionless as every time, the only hint of recognition of her new outfit were his red 'eyes' at his mask narrowing just a little. Then, he did just keep his distance of her, knowing that at the beginning he can't do anything to harm at her.
Watching something as crude and bad as Zed, she felt a feeling flowing in her body, making her smile with complicit. Emotionless was now one of the things she wanted to erase of the world, just like darkness. And Zed had a lot of it. One of the best ways to make anyone to react was to make them angry.
"Hey, Zed!" she screamed. "Why don't we just stop this pointless fight and play rock, paper and scissors? Don't kill me if I win!" she taunted, not sounding like one, but as a friendly request.
He even didn't look at her.
"No? Aw, too bad." She said sadly, forced to stay focused in last-hitting the minions.
The time passed by, and at level three, things started to get a little hot in the lane. Lux managed to ward a bush before a shadow rushed to her. She dropped a girlish scream before sidestep out of the two shurikens aimed at her neck. Feeling indignant, she countered him with a Lucent Singularity, exploding it instantly and hitting him straight into the face, making her to laugh hysterically. Hit someone with that spell was SO easy!
"That's wasn't very polite!" She cried dramatically, avoiding his shadow and starting to run at him to aim an auto-attack, Zed running away from her as quickly as he can, both of them looking ridiculous.
The light that was shining on Zed faded, making Lux to give up on her chase and go back to safety to finish off some minions. He tried to come back a little closer, but she didn't allowed him to do it, sending piercing glares at his direction. The wave of minions was in her favor, and he can't use his shadow to run away if she gets too close to attack him with her Light Binding.
"Don't stay too close to the tower; I don't see the enemy jungler anywhere." A voice echoed in her head, making her mouth open wide in happiness.
"Oh, hey there, Noz!" she greeted her summoner. "You were quite silent today… You too are shocked?! I never thought that I was so popular!"
"No. Actually, I like what you have done. Keep the good work. And don't forget the jungler!"
"Alright, alright."
Lux stepped back a couple of steps and throw a Lucent Singularity to the un-warded bush, making sure that Lee Sin wasn't waiting there to punch her in the butt, before putting a ward in it, too. More confident, she smiled and came back to the lane, keeping one eye on Zed.
Several minutes passed by and Zed behavior changed significantly, starting to be more aggressive, like when you discuss a drunken man about sports. This only would mean one thing: he's ready to ult her. How she know that wasn't a possible ambush of Lee Sin? Because she already knew Zed, he was so obvious at her eyes. You can learn a lot of things from someone just fighting him. That was the signal to stay back and play safe; she also has got her Final Spark, but it wasn't that easy to use as Zed's. This is where the monotonous part starts.
Shurikens here, shurikens there and Lux was bored. She just couldn't do anything, the limitations of the League hitting hard on her. If she just could make herself invisible… Even her light are able to vanish Zed's shadows, but not here. She needed help from Vi or to him making a mistake. But Zed, doing a mistake? He would never risk himself diving into her, she would just instantly root him and the powerful shots of the tower would finish him off. After a few minutes, he seemed to get bored, too, because he just turned around and ran to his tower, probably recalling. She should do the same.
After farming, Noz activated the recall spell. Looks like both junglers won't be in midlane anytime soon.
After landing again in the stone, she quickly bought one Seeker's Armguard and, what left of gold, some boots, before starting to going back again to the lane. She was interrupted by, again, a blue light starting to surround her. She recognized it as the Teleport Spell. Noz choose it instead of Barrier or Ignite?
"Great! Where are we going?!"
"Miss Fortune and Soraka are chasing Caitlyn and Braum. They don't know that the upper bush is warded, go there and help them."
"Got it! I'm on the job!" She laughed at her pun, mocking Caitlyn.
The light quickly surrounded Lux and teleported her to the hidden ward, being considerably faster than the last time thanks to the short distance. Her respiration went, her body holds still like a statue and her sharp eyes caught the sight of the backs of the two unaware enemies. Her hand itched, she wanted so bad to twirl her wand!
Soraka's Equinox managed to catch Caitlyn, rooting her to the ground. The mage can even smell the state of panic of Braum, his kindly nature billing him. Before Miss Fortune were able to land the decisive shot, Lux quickly jumped out the bush.
"Stop there!" she screamed, her voice surprising the enemy. "You evil!"
However, as both of them quickly turned around to face the danger, their fight stances broken as they looked at her. Sara's face was priceless, her mouth was forming a perfect 'O' and her eyes were watching her exaggeratedly. Soraka only had a partially confused expression in her face.
"What the hell?! Lux, are you?!" Miss Fortune accused in some way. Soraka shot her a reprimand gaze, already resigned. They we're already dead, anyway.
Lux's smile went bigger.
"I KNOW, you like it?!" Lux squealed with an extreme excited voice and hugged her arms before spin around herself, moving her hips.
Catilyn slapped her face, not really believing what's going on and forgetting momentarily she was about to die. Braum laughed loudly, enjoying the show, his brain didn't forgetting Caitlyn, though.
"Well, it strangely suits on you… weird," was the answer of the red-haired woman, her face still incredulous.
"Yes! And…!"
"Just finish them off already!" Noz screamed in her head, making her boggle a little.
"Oh, Right! I'm sorry, guys!" She said before moving her staff towards both of them, catching them with a shining spell.
Miss fortune's eyes widened and turned around to shoot Caitlyn, but Braum, stronger thanks to the little intervention, jumped in front of her and take the shoot with his shield. She pouted before Caitlyn quickly shot both of them to get an assist, giving way to Lux' Final Spark to erase both of them from the battle, scoring the first blood to Lux and a Double Kill.
After standing up in the ground again, Lux laughed.
"That wasn't very bright of them" she said, almost regretting what she had done, but accepting it anyway.
"Lux, careful, behind you!" Caitlyn screamed to her, making the girl in question to turn around her head and watching Zed's shadow above her.
Oh boy, that was karma, wasn't it?
Three seconds and a lot of shurikens later, her body went to the ground, dead, and fading quickly in light. Zed disappeared; none of her allies being able to do anything. It was too risky. The word went gray, but Lux laughed, ghostly.
"That was a dumb way to die, you know. You aren't taking this seriously. You never do".
"Oh, don't be such a killjoy! It was fun; I scored to my team two kills!"
"In any case, this is just why no one wants to summon you, you realize?"
"And that's why you're my friend" she said cheerily, imagining how he rolled his eyes.
However, after the little feeding from her, the rest of the fight went exceptionally. Not caring too much about her death, Lux just keep on the protection of her lane and helping out those who were in trouble, being the personal assistant of Vi, to her amusement… and also irritation. She was a prideful woman, so she did take it a little bad. It was so boring to stay in one lane and wait for her opponent to come, so Lux simply ignored her complaints and made jokes the rest of the battle. It looked like Zed was doing the same, because none of them face each other alone; she was a little happy for that. Fighting him requires her effort, and she wasn't really in the mood to do it.
The match ended with the victory of Lux's team, thanks to the little advantage Caitlyn got in the assistances and the light mage's help in every lane. As the enemy nexus exploded, the blue light wrapped on everyone, making them disappear from the field.
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Once Lux opened up her eyes, she was greeted by the Summoning Room of the blue team, the place she had supposed to attend hours ago. As she examined the room, she noticed the five summoners of her team waiting for them; her allies still teleporting to the place because the blue light was there.
She paid no attention to everything except the tired face of Noz, a couple of meters of her position. His eyes told everything. She did make her staff disappear and approached him, not with a smile but a sad expression.
"You… saw everything in my mind, don't you?" she asked, almost scared about his response. His answer was a slow nod, not looking at her for a couple of seconds. Lux's heart felt heavy. "…I have to do it, you know?
Then he looked at her again, his gaze not being an accusatory one, but just as compressive as always. She felt instantly better.
"Come with me, let's have a walk," he said to her with an encouraging smile. She nodded.
Both of them exited the room, the hallways of the League becoming visible to them. Lux walked slowly, her gaze focusing on the floor and not to the man in her right side. None of them talked before they left the main building, making sure to take the desert paths of the building to avoid anyone.
The outdoors of the League was surrounded by an endless forest, with a very well located path that leaded to the closest city. They went down the giant stairs, Lux watching how the sun slowly rising in the sky. She smiled inevitably. None of them walked to the path; instead they just went in the forest without looking back.
For a couple of minutes, they just walked silently, Noz probably thinking and Lux self-absorbed, loving every single bit of the place. She always liked to be in nature, even since she was very little. She liked to run in the forest and get lost for a good amount of time, clutching down in the grass and smelling the greatness of her surroundings. And then, when the night came, she watched the stars, liking how they shined in the middle of the darkness, like keeping her company.
This was the place she sometimes practiced her Nature Magic, feeling in her heart that was one of the best places to do it. There, she almost could hear how every single living thing whispering to her ear, telling everything. She could swear that the forest welcomed her every time she went in; her feeling her environment changing and following her as she passed by. More… alive.
She find herself walking with not a random course, but to an almost planned path directly towards a big roc in the green pasty ground, it upper part being perfect to sit for a moment. She sat down, with her company following her a second later.
The wind howled, a large breeze passed in front of them, taking away dozens of leaves. Then, Noz spoke.
"There's nothing I can say to convince you?" he asked, his voice hurt.
Her smiled erased and she repressed the sudden sadness flowing in her body. She did a huge amount of effort to not cry there.
"No… I'm really sorry, but I have to do this," she said with a soft voice, watching how her first summoner dropped a tear, washing away with his hand quickly.
"Then what do you need?" he rushed to tell her abruptly, surprising her.
She moved closer, putting a reassuring hand in his shoulder.
"You don't have to…"
"You don't tell me what I do," he interrupted her coldly.
The girl wrinkled her lips and withdrew her hand back to her side again. She shrugged for a couple of seconds, thinking her next words.
"I need to hide myself the longest time possible. So I'll need some books to… investigate a couple things," she murmured.
"Ok, then…" he spoke immediately.
Noz started to look for something inside his black robe, his hand moving a couple of seconds before taking out a black card. He waved his other hand over it, making purple, black and white runes to appear. The runes adhered to the card, making it to glow a little just for one moment. Finishing it, he extended his arm and gave it to Lux, who accepted it with a skeptical gaze.
"This is a special pass to the restricted zone of the library; you need it in order to access," he explained, making Lux's eyes wide with surprise.
The restricted zone of the library had that name for a reason. There, was the most dangerous, harmful or even powerful books in the world, all of them reduced in one place. She heard some stories of it, but she never thought it would be real. In that place, she should find what she was looking for. But it won't be so easy, right?
"However, it will be difficult to even enter," he confirmed her suspicions. "I'm going to kick this off saying that the entry is hidden; only few summoners have the knowledge of where is it, not the founder, not anyone like him. And fortunately, I know where it is, but I never went in."
"You're going to get in trouble," she didn't ask, she assured. The card felt like burning now in her hands.
"I already told you, I do whatever I want," he said contemptuously, answering not even a second later. "Besides, no one will know if you keep it as secret. You are the best for that, right?"
Lux tried to smile, but instead she did make a weird grin, showing her discomfort.
"Still…" she left the card in the stone, sliding it to Noz's side. "I don't want to cause any trouble. I'll get by in some way."
"Lux, girl, just accept it," he slipped it back, sighing exasperatedly. "You aren't doing anything, is me who is risking to get in trouble, understand? You ain't in a place to choose; you are running out of time!"
The mage stubbornly frowned, doesn't liking it even an inch, but he was right. In one month, she will be marrying with Jarvan, without having an advance in her plan of escape. She never had one fully planned. Yesterday was too overwhelming to her head. Now is when she thinks carefully what to do.
"…Alright. I'll take it," she said, regretting instantly, but knowing that there wasn't a way back. "But I must ask how trustworthy is this... information?" She said hesitantly.
The man bit his lips for a moment, not looking at her.
"Well…this is one of the most confidential information of the League, which no one besides summoners has to know," he answered, making Lux's eyes shine in curiosity. "The thing is… There's a reduced group of summoners that disagree with the League's methods of peace. You know, violence to solve violence…" He seemed to find hard to tell her the next words. "And this kind of information scatters quickly… It's trustworthy, don't worry"
The mage twitched her face, out of words, but shrugged anyways.
"I'll accept it if is from you, then" she chuckled.
Noz smiled, relieved.
"Now, pay attention, what I'm going to tell you is very important," he ordered, making her to sit straight and watch him with a direct gaze, a habit she had taken during her time in training. "First of all, the entry is in the library, something you surely had found out, right?" she nodded, making him smile a little. "To get in, you need to walk close to the end of it, in the section of 'Infamous people'. As I told you before, it's a secret way; almost the whole League itself doesn't even know it. They use they own way."
The girl frowned in confusion.
"I didn't know there was a section like that," she pointed out.
"The librarian never say nothing no anyone. And of course, don't ask her where it is, or don't let her see you… or things would become a little… problematic," he warned seriously, making her to nod. "You just enter and talk the path of the section 'Spells'. You will pass by the section 'Potions', then 'Dark Creatures', and you will be arriving at a dead end. You turn to you right and you will see a naked stone wall. You need to knock it twelve times and put the card in the middle. It will consume it, so you had only one chance got it?"
"Understood," she simply said, reviewing what he said.
"And one last thing," he snapped her out of her thoughts. "While I don't know how it is inside because I never went in, I know that there is a magic barrier surrounding the whole thing. If you enter, you probably only would have five minutes before they knowing it; but that doesn't really matter. If you manage to escape, they shouldn't suspect of you, sunshine.
Lux's eyed narrowed and smiled sarcastically.
"Ha, ha, you are so fun," she said coldly.
But he was right. She had a respectable image in the League, outside of the matches, of course. There, she was hopeless, none summoner picking her besides of Noz, but outside, she was still Luxanna Crownguard, the daughter of one of the noblest families in Demacia. It would be considered dumb to accuse her.
"I know you love me," he said with a tiny smile. "But this is important: if the magic barrier detects a book being taken, it will strike an alarm and the room will be sealed. If that happens, you will have to sit down and wait for your sentence".
"So I need to think how to escape with the books…" she almost cursed. "Wait, I have a plan."
Noz smiled and patted her shoulder a little.
"Of course you have one," the man chuckled a little, making her smile. "Oh, and I suggest you to do it tonight. There will be a meeting and it's mandatory to attend. I guess that should make you job easier."
"It will."
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No one was there as she walked in the silent hallways of the building, wearing her usual stealing clothes, an affectionate name she liked to call it. There wasn't any sound as the figure with a brown hood made her way straight to the library, her steps being silenced expertly, being used of it, the hour being 19:30 exactly. The library closes at 20:00, so she would have enough time to steal what she needed it. There will be no errors doing her job.
Her blue eyes focused intently in the double doors that were already opened, a faint light of the wall alongside illuminating it barely. When she went it, the librarian was sitting in her desk, writing something in notebook and completely self-absorbed. She didn't notice anyone entering the room and quickly going to the massive bookcases. In a crazy habit, Lux putted her hood up and smiled amusedly, feeling safe with not just her invisibility, but also with her hood covering her face. She can't just do this without it.
The League didn't spare any money for the Library; they went very far doing it. The place was simply labyrinthine, making anyone else felt instantly lost; but she wasn't anyone else. The brown bookcases were at the height of minimum five meters every one, making it hard to the light to light the narrow paths. She didn't have any trouble to that, thankfully.
The section of 'Basic Spells' appeared at her gaze; a signal was in one of the bookcases, pointing out the beginning of it. She walked for almost five minutes, repressing the need to start to run desperately. She glanced at her wrist, the watch Noz gave to her shined for a moment. It was 19:36 and she still wasn't in the entry. The card in her pocket felt heavy, so Lux rushed her walk.
The sections 'Potions' and 'Dark Creatures' were easily forgotten by the girl, not paying more than a gaze to it; she know everything she need it for. Spotting the dead end in the distance, Lux felt relieved when she turned to her right and saw the familiar sight of the stone wall Noz told her. It was unnerving how well hidden it was, but looking unnatural at her focused sight now. Her hand quickly reached for the black card, taking it out of her blue pocket and grabbing it firmly. Then, she knocked twelve times slowly with her soft hand. After finishing, she did take a step back and waited a second. Nothing happened. Not letting her hopes fall down, she putted the card in the middle of the wall, crushing it a little and waiting for something to happen. Three seconds later, the card magically adhered into the wall, making the stone bricks to creak silently in a strange way. The bricks contracted itself to the other side, making slowly a hole in the in the wall. At first, the other side was completely in darkness but suddenly, torches in the new path went on one by one, showing a narrow way to an ancient door at the end.
She keeps on her walk slowly, analyzing everything warily and being careful to not touch anything more than necessary. The way to the door was shorten than she thought, everything distracting her. She stopped in front of it, watching one more the time in her watch. 19:42; she had to hurry. Activating the chronometer, she counted exactly five minutes. Stopping for a moment, she remembered her plan and smiled. The chronometer was activated as she opened up the door and closed it, being already inside.
When she turned around, she didn't feel surprised at the sight, but a little afraid. The secret library was a darker, creepy version of the normal one. The bookcases were amazingly shortened, just 2 meters long. The whole place would be in darkness if it wasn't to glimpses of light moving in the hallways. In a second, her mind registered everything quickly; she had to move now. Five minutes.
She summoned her staff and started moving at the closest faint of light, hiding behind of one bookcase and peeking through its edge, expecting a summoner patrolling the zone. She was wrong; however, it wasn't someone but a ball of light floating gracefully in the air, moving slowly through the place, passing by the bookcases and study tables.
She almost cursed; Noz didn't tell her there were alarms in the middle of the room! But it was obvious, even to the dumbest one. She didn't know the range of detection, but she assumed it was where the light reaches from. Maybe her magic could trick it, but she wasn't taking any chance.
Her face contracted funnily at the sight of the light approaching, almost touching her left cheek. She quickly turned around and started to move the fastest possible, her eyes looking for a place where was safe to start her search. Four pair of bookcases later, she found an empty hallway, without any light at sight.
She passed by every book, map, scrolls, looking desperately for something useful. Her watch vibrated, telling her one minute has passed. Lux started to feel nervous, but she forcefully did keep her face blank. Everything was horrible organized, nothing associated with nothing. She saw a book about prohibited magic, and then there was another one talking about geography.
She walked what seemed an eternity, but she finally found what she was looking for. It was in the middle of an old shelf, oddly shining a little and it looked handmade. Its title was simply 'Your magic' in Latin, written in a way she would qualify deplorably, but it was at least understandable. She picked it up and quickly went to the closest table, putting the book down in the wood. She summoned her staff and pointed it right to it. This is where everything will be decided; this was her win card.
If Noz was right about what he said, then it was impossible to steal something from there, the alarm will sound and it will trap anyone. So, she just needed to cheat the magic barrier. The light from her staff appeared and rushed to the book, engulfing it. Then, the book started to dissolve slowly into her light, vanishing completely after five seconds. The light floated in the air before it was absorbed by her staff, making it disappear. She smiled, and almost started to run to the exit when something caught her sight.
When you read dozens and dozens of book, you got the ability to differentiate the good ones and the bad ones with just looking at them. That was happening right now to her, but strangely stronger the feeling. She walked a couple of steps before took out a book of the others, reading the title quickly: 'The Magic of Elements'.
She shouldn't be doing this, her watch remembered her she only had two minutes left, but she just couldn't help it. She hugged the book for a second and quickly repeated the previous process, taking the book with her. Feeling great, she turned around, only to face one orb of light floating in front of her. Immediately, the white light went red.
Now, she allowed herself to be scared for the first time in years.
She started to run crazily, passing by the light and not waiting what it would do. The place now suffocated her; it was a horrible way to flee from it. Every light was now red, and all of them seemed to follow her, not letting her go.
Her watch vibrated for the last but one time. She fought the need to start to cry right there and tried to go back in her footsteps, her mind telling her where to go in a way of chunks of information, confusing her momentarily. Her hands went sweaty, her lips dried and her steps were unnatural, but she sighted the ancient door in the distance. She was beside it in an instant, her hand quickly reaching for the knob. It was closed. She froze.
She almost dropped her staff, her mask quickly falling apart. Her legs almost gave up, but miraculously went still. Lux's demeanor darkened a little, the shining image of her faded away. She was now aware of the darkness around her, making her feel afraid of something that came out of it and harm her. Her gaze was blurred, her mind wasn't thinking anymore, forgetting everything that would be useful in the situation.
She couldn't end there, but she was destined to it? She… she couldn't let her hopes down, not wanting to stand what would happen next if she stays there. But… she was tired… The door…
The darkness blinded her for a moment, but it stopped a moment later. She just ignored it, but feeling the last hope in her still fighting, she tried one more time to open the door. Her hand lazily grabbed the knob and turned it. It was opening now, actually, without any problem, surprising her greatly.
Her hopes immediately kicked in, making the world clear again one more time, making her Luxanna again. She didn't pay any though to it, she just opened it and ran into the hallway, closing it with a loud bang, just as a familiar blue light started to appear behind her.
She ran and ran, passing by the hole in the stone wall; everything seemed how it looked minutes ago. She ran through the library, arriving at the entry in record time. The librarian wasn't there when she looked, but the girl didn't care. The doors were open, and she used them while she can, crossing them with long steps and almost kissing the floor below her. More than ten seconds later, both doors closed themselves, locking the library away.
She kept her breath for a moment, just thinking. Then, she made herself invisible again and prepared herself to ran, but the hallways suddenly were filled with loud footsteps, every one of them leading exactly to her direction. She ran to the left side, hiding her magic signature the best as she could to avoid being discovered.
She took the path to the opposite direction from her chasers were coming, the one she did use after getting out the library in her 'normal visits'. Her safeness was now in the bathrooms of the second floor, the one who were currently unused; it was a perfect place to set a special escape.
The girl made a special portal there. Lux made sure to hide it very well before the night of the job, just to escape from the building and the summoners' magic. She wasn't fool; she knew that after them knowing that someone stole from their secret library, they will seal the League, trying to avoid the thief escaping with such an important things. The portal was very special because it had a special link that was impossible to break by normal means, only possible at the place it was. When they raised the barrier, the link won't will pass unnoticed. And that also makes the link traceable. If she connected the portal directly to her room, she will be quickly discovered and punished. So her choice was just to connect it to Asthangi, the closest town. Then, she just had to go back to Demacia without using her magic because, again, that was also traceable. That's why she stolen the books, to make herself unattainable, to be un- traceable. It would be stupid to flee away and then be quickly trapped again. Also, the portal was made of runes and activated by the local magic of the crystals of the League, so that gave her a nice way to cheat them. She just hoped that would give her enough time to get away.
After turning in the right hallway, the vestibule was at sight, her eyes quickly catching guards watching everything. Thanks to her, they were just guards, nothing she couldn't handle. Her invisibility quickly did the job, allowing her to avoid every one of them and make her way directly to the giant stairs, moving her to the second floor. There, she just turned to her right and ran to the end, the sight of the bathroom making her more secure.
Looking around her for any unwelcomed gaze first, she opened the door and closed it, her steps following the path to the last cubicle. She went in and leaned her back in the door, sighing deeply. Looking into her pocket again, she took out a piece of paper with has written an ancient rune. Turning around and smashing it to the wall of her left side, the rune shined and made other runes to appear as well, every one of them in an oval pattern. She touched the upper one and the cubicle shined for a moment before a white portal appeared inside of the scriptures. Without hesitation, she entered it, the portal quickly disappearing after.
One second she was in one clean and neatest bathroom, and then she was in a filthy one, her nose quickly flooded by a horrible smell. She held her nose before opening the new door of the new cubicle she was, appearing in K' rok bar's nasty bathroom. She exited the toilet, with her invisibility spell down, and walked to the corner that was alongside the exit door, bending down and pulling out a tile of the floor. There, she grabbed a black cap and put it on her body. Putting back the tile, she stood up and passed by the door, walking to the main door that leaded to the streets, not having time to be amused at the strange faces of those clients who saw her exiting the men's bathroom.
Asthangi wasn't the best town you could find, but served to her purposes right now, which was to find a lift to Demacia or the closest place possible. The streets were almost empty at eight o'clock at night, everyone afraid of bandits and thieves, only few people around.
The dark figure walked quickly in the moon light, avoiding people and not apologizing if she bumps into someone, she hadn't time for that. However, a big, fat and gross man saw glimpses of her blonde hair and smiled only with five teeth, walking to her. Lux reprimed the need to sight irritably.
"Oh, whaddya have here, girlie…?" he babbled, his breath filled with alcohol. Lux ignored him and passed by his side, trying to get away, but he grabbed her wrist with force. "Tch, you bitch! C'me here!" he screamed and tried to grab her back.
Lux turned around and smashed his nick with her fist covered with her hood, hitting in the nerve. The bulky man dropped in the ground a second later, his body still, almost looking dead. Lux was angry, now she left a hint to her chasers, but she hadn't time to hide the man. So she turned around and started to walk again, the people around her not caring too much about the man in the ground.
She finally found a barn almost in the end of the town; a grown man was outside in the corrals brushing a black horse slowly, not paying attention to his surroundings. Lux quickly walked to him, her hands leaned on the wood fences.
"Excuse me, sir, how much to Demacia?" her voice echoed through the night, making the man to stop what was he doing and look at her with one eyebrow raised.
"You're late, girl," he answered. "No one will be willing to go to any place now in the night, a lot less to Demacia, which is far away. Come back tomorrow".
Lux's hand stretched hardly in the wood, her magic involuntary altering.
"I don't have time," she almost hissed. "I need to get there right now."
The man chuckled and shrugged.
"That's not my business, girl."
Lux sighed and took out something from her pocket, drawing the attention of the man, who went wary for a moment.
"Maybe you had a change of heart after looking at my payment," she taunted, a gold coin shining in her hand.
The man almost dropped the brush and gulped loudly. He quickly walked at her and bowed foolishly, to Lux's amusement and irritation.
"M-my apologies. We shall go now if you wish," he offered hopefully, watching in amazement the gold in her hand. "I just need to set up everything; I'll be done in five minutes.
"Please make it two minutes," she said sternly, saving the money in her pocket. The man quickly nodded and stood straight. "I'll be waiting here, go".
He quickly went to his horse and grabbed its collar, guiding him inside. Lux turned around and walked to the beginning of the barn, taping her feet on the ground impatiently. Not more than a minute, the barn gates opened, two horses moving a small carriage. The man was sat down in the front, making a gesture with his hand, telling her to get in.
Lux quickly rushed to the carriage, passing by the same black horse and climbing the stair that was as support. She opened the door, went it and closed it behind her. She leaned to the little panel that allowed both of them to communicate and slipped it to the left.
"We need to be as discreet as possible, understood?" she demanded, still nervous.
"Understood." He abided without complaints.
She bumped in the brown seat and sighed. Everything started to move; she felt slowly how her jitters went by as she moved away of the town. The sight of the forest completely relaxed her, as it know how she was feeling. Watching the stars through the windows, she felt her body fall asleep after a few minutes.
….
The sun was slowly rising up in the sky, a new day arriving. Lux suddenly woke up, feeling how her cheek was being crushed in the carriage by the force of her body, making her feel a little pain. She slowly straightened, noticing how she was still moving in the forest. It was different from the last one; she recognized it. Demacia was close. She also could see glimpses of the man who was driving the horses.
However, what woke her up wasn't all of that; it was the sharp pain she was feeling currently in her head. It wasn't physically, but in some way mentally, as if someone tried to interrupt in her mind and….
"Oh…" she murmured and almost slapped herself.
She 'opened up' her mind and an instant later, the voice of Noz shoe in her head loudly.
"Lux, damn, you finally pick up!" he accused, very angry.
"Sorry… I just woke up… I'm almost in Demacia. I managed to steal it, Noz!"
"I would congratulate you if I didn't have bad news, girl."
Lux frowned, watching all around her to find anything abnormal. She failed, but she didn't know if she was supposed to feel glad or not.
"Please don't be what I think", she pleaded.
"Well, it isn't, but almost. After you little steal, the whole League itself went upside down; every summoner was granted the job to find the thief, a generous reward for the one who did it. And when I say everyone, is EVERYONE".
Lux hugged herself and bit her lip.
"Crap."
"Oh, you better crap. And after the big fail finding you, the League summoned every champion perforce. The suspects were quickly thrown at one of them; the dining hall looked like a mental hospital; IT WAS INSANE! Everyone was angry!"
"Holy God, they went that far?!"
"And the worst thing IS…" he stopped a moment on purpose, giving her the need to strangulate him. "You were one of the few who didn't show up. They suspect of you now."
"I… uh… shit." She cursed, feeling bad just thinking the word.
She managed to steal those books, almost being caught, and now everything won't be worth it. Life had crazy twists.
"They will send a group of summoners to your home at midday. Think a good excuse."
"But I'm not even in the city yet!" she screamed to the voice of her head, peeking through the window. She can barely see glimpses of Demacia, far, far away. "I can't use my magic, they'll know it that I'm not in Demacia thanks to the remains!"
"You're smart, Lux, you'll get by in some way. You should be thankful that to trace one champions takes one day" He encouraged, but not making her feel better. "I gotta go, they would find me. Good luck!"
The connection ended abruptly, denying her the chance of answer. She slapped herself a couple of time in her face, fully waking her up. She leaned on the panel and opened it, finding the back of the coachman.
"Um, excuse me! Sir!" she screamed, making him to boggle. "It is possible to us to move faster?"
"I'm afraid not, lady," he answered, making her pout. "The horses are pretty tired; they won't stand to run anymore.
Lux ash-ed, and nodded to the man, leaning back to her seat. There wasn't any way she would manage to get there in time. And worst, she still didn't have any excuse.
Maybe to play sick? That would be probably the worst choice, being such a bad thing to excuse her of not attending. It would need to be a really bad sickness, a one that won't let her to even stand up. If it is that about, then she had a way to achieve that. A way she personally didn't like to do. But she still had to get to her home. If she only had another magic that wasn't light… One of which no one had knowledge about it.
Then, the image of the forest crushed in her mind. She now felt stupid.
She punched two times in the carriage's wall, making it to suddenly stop, the horses neighing. Two knocks from the panel made her to open it, the girl getting the sight of the confused face of the man.
"You may stop now, I'll go to Demacia by myself," she said, surprising the man. "Here ," and she thrown at him the gold coin, the coachman catching barely. "Thank you for the ride."
Lux opened the door and jumped out of the carriage. Without any word, she started to run straight to the forest.
"Huh… Strange girl…"He said, watching his cold coin. "But a rich one."
Lux tried to get herself lost before stopping to try to catch her breath. Exhaling loudly, she proceeded to stretch her whole body before summoning her staff and backpack, catching both in her hands. She unzipped the bag and dropped in the floor. Then, she looked around for a stick sharp enough to draw in the grass, finding it quickly. Picking it up, she came back to her backpack and sat down, starting to draw sealing runes around her. One minute later, she felt sure enough to focus in her light magic again to retrieve the books back to the world, saving it immediately into her backpack. She stood up again and quickly erased the runes. It would be nonsense to try to use runes to get her to Demacia using magic and being unnoticed. It would take the time she hadn't.
So, instead she focused in the wild magic of the forest, trying to channel it through her staff. She remembered all the principles of Nature Magic, her mind thinking at the speed of the light. A few moments later, she twirled her hand, in a desperate attempt to copy a portal spell of her light magic. She knew that what was she doing was dangerous; you're in thin ice if you experiment with magic; but she was in distress now.
She closed her eyes and went completely still for one minute, hopelessly asking the forest for help. She was close to give up when she felt an hesitant contact with something new, savage, raw, something she never felt before. Because she always had some of light magic while using nature magic, she never felt it so pure before.
Lux smiled in extreme gratitude, and welcomed with open arms the new magic, making it to move easier through her body, and consecutively, her staff. She started to copy the spell she was looking for, reciting it slowly in her mind. After thinking the words, nothing felt wrong; actually she had that feeling of a good spell done.
She opened up her eyes, expecting to see a portal of green magic in front of her, but instead was nothing. She just had the same sight of the forest. Lowering her staff with a disappointed face, she noticed something below her. The ground below her was vibrating, making his feet to feel like having a cramp, but in a strange way, a nice one.
She yelped when suddenly giant leafs started to grown up below her feet, making its way around her. She saw in amazement how they grew and grew, till they were the same height of her. Then, the leafs started to move around her in a circular way, making a green small dome around her body. She rested her hands in it, still managing to see the rays of sun passing through it. The dome started to tremble, making her to boggle. She saw how the sunlight gradually stopped being visible, her surrounding being now pitch dark. The crunch now felt went very loudly now, her ears hearing dirt moving and rock smashing. She tried to stand up, but her feet felt crazy, making her feel tickles. She involuntary laughed, liking the odd situation.
She didn't know exactly how much time went by, but the crunch slowly started to stop, allowing her to see the sunlight again. The leafs around her unwrapped itself. She tried to peek in the middle of the process, and what she saw made her to drop to her knees.
She could saw the giant gates of one of the entries of Demacia, a hundred meters away.
The mage recomposed her and went out of the leaves, watching with still amazement how it joined the earth again. She putted her hood up again, the strange success making it to fall down to her shoulders. Now it was time to run; her legs obeyed.
She hid in the crowd of people who were entering and exiting the city, trying to pass unnoticed by the guards who were keeping an eye on the people, doing it with any problem. The streets of Demacia never felt so great before, her steps making her felt better one by one.
She ran and ran, passing by the park, the theatre and a lot of places before sight her house in the distance. She stopped before she would be sighted by the guards, and hided a couple of houses behind. Now, she would need the sickness in her body.
This is the part she would hate, even more than lie to everyone. Taking out his staff from her cape, which she never un-summoned because she would have to write runes again, she sighed before focusing in magic. This time wasn't light or nature, it was… considerably darker.
Her lighten demeanor faded, giving way to her true herself. It was an odd way to call herself now, but it was what the dark magic do to her. She now felt not all the light around her, but the darkness, every shadow in emitting energy to her, her own shadow being the strongest one. She now also felt like to throw up; that's why she hated dark magic. It disgusted her greatly, but it gave her what she needed.
Now, she would have to make her way to her house while channeling dark magic. God, that was horrible.
…..
"Madam Augatha!"
Augatha Crownguard stopped reading the book in the enormous living room of the house. Her hands taking out the glasses she was wearing before answer to the guard who burst in the room with an irritated voice.
"Yes?"
"Lady Lux appeared into the house gates and passed out! She is in a very deep state of sickness!"
"What?!" she screamed with a high-pitched voice, standing up quickly. "She is here?! You said she is sick?! Why one of you is helping her to get in the house?! Idiot! Shame on you!
The man widened his eyes and quickly bowed to her.
"My apologies! I'm going to help out now!" he said before running out of the room.
Augatha threw the book the floor in impotence, sighing and carving her temple.
"What are you doing, Lux?" she thought, her head hurting.
The woman shook her head and quickly exited the room, too, catching her long dress in order to avoid stumbling on it. She went down through the stairs and approached to the main door of the house, meeting a group of guards who were carrying Lux's unconscious body.
"Put her in her dormitory, now!" she ordered, receiving a loud "Yes!" from everyone.
They went up the stairs and everyone did their best effort to make the process the most delicately as possible. Augatha felt hysteria in her body at looking how bad Lux was. What in the world happened on her?
Her mother was the first one who tried to open her daughter's room, but falling. It was closed.
"This girl!" she hissed before catching Lux's hand and waving it in front of the keyhole, making it to sound.
She now opened the door and walked to her bed, the guards following her behind. She prepared the bed for her daughter, before order the men to lay her down CAREFULLY. She dispatched the guards after that, shooing them away instantly from the room. She turned around to Lux and covered her with the white blankets, taking her time to do it. She stood there for a moment, watching the sore face of Lux twitching. She… she needs to call a doctor, now. Where's Vicent when she needed him?
Murmuring low, she walked to the door and closed it behind her, making her way to the stairs again. After arriving downstairs, she was supposed to go to the kitchen to find someone to call a doctor when another man interrupted her.
"Madam Augatha, we have visits!" he informed her nervously, afraid of the look in the face of her patroness. "They said they were from the League of Legends. They're requesting to meet with Lady Lux. What should I tell them?"
Augatha raised an eyebrow, but it wasn't time to doubt.
"Allow them the entry," she said with furrowed lips. "I'll deal with them."
"Understood!" he said before going outside.
Augatha walked to the vestibule and sat down, tapping her feet impatiently in the floor, thinking what those people would want. After a few seconds, she saw how a pair of guards escorted three people into the room, all of them wearing purple robes. Two of them were men, one with long black hair and green eyes, and the other with brown hair and eyes. The other one was a woman with strange white hair and blue eyes.
Augatha stood up and didn't bother to smile.
"Summoners, it's a great pleasure to meet you. But I'm afraid this is not a good time; my daughter is not available right now. You shall come later," she said contemptuously, her arms crossed.
The one who answered was the man with brown hair, with a hidden grimace in his face.
"We are sorry for burst in your home like this, Lady Augatha," she narrowed her eyes when she was called Lady. "But we have a really important affair to discuss with Luxanna. It had to be done as soon as possible".
"My daughter caught some sickness," she answered harshly, the three of them exchanging glances each other after hearing what she said. "I was about to call a doctor."
"If you allow me, Augatha," the other woman talked, drawing the attention of everyone there. "I specialize in healing magic. I could tell you what's wrong with her if you are fine with it."
Augatha didn't answer immediately, thinking about what to do. However, the answer was clear in her mind. She just felt something off about it. She didn't like those people.
"Fine," she agreed, walking to them. "You may follow me to my daughter's room".
They nodded and followed her silently, the ambient tense. They made quickly the way to which Lux was; Augatha opening the room. The three summoners watched intently at the pale body of Lux lying down in the bed, which actually looked very sick. Everyone walked to the front of Lux's bed, only the woman approaching to the girl's side.
After a few seconds, she extended her hand above Lux's body, a white light coming out of it. She moved it in some times, murmuring some things to herself and finishing a minute later.
"She's got magic disease of grade two," she said her diagnosis, surprising everyone in the room. "I can't find the cause of it; her body just tired itself in some way. It's actually unbelievable, but… it seems that there's no apparent reason".
"Lux has magic disease? That's impossible!" Augatha answered, still surprised.
"I'm as surprised as you, Augatha," she said, walking to them again.
The three summoners had a silent conversation with their eyes, before nodding each other.
"May you excuse us for a moment, Lady Augatha?" the man with brown hair said politely.
Augatha nodded and moved away to let them exit the room. Closing it, the man faced the woman with wary eyes.
"Are you serious, Beverly?" he asked, not believing what she said. "That girl just got magic disease after her match and before the stealing? Isn't that suspicious?"
"Is what I diagnosed, Kristoff," was her simply answer, defending her position. "You know one couldn't just force magic disease; it would extremely dangerous. That girl was unlucky, and she isn't the thief. This is stupid!"
Kristoff sighed tiredly, brushing her hair, not looking at her.
"I guess we still have to keep looking for that bastard," he said darkly.
She nodded, and then all of them looked watched again the door.
"But we still have to say goodbye," the man with long hair said.
"Great," Kristoff sayed sarcastly.
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Well, I guess that will set off some things of your head. Anyway, the next chapter Lux will be escaping. I would appreciate reviews, thanks!