Once out of the jungle a small sigh of relief escaped Lux's lips un-consciously, seeing the lines of blue and purple minions already in a heated battle relaxed Lux, joining the fray she let out a couple of her most basic attacks, lowering the health of a set of melee minions which she shortly finished of with her more powerful bind, a pleasant feeling swept over her as she felt the gold from the minion kills store itself in her temporary vault inside of the Institute of War, this could be extracted to pay for items when needed and any gold that was un-used at the end of the game was kept by what ever champion had accumulated it, so after certain matches some of the champions (Nasus for one) could have thousands go straight into their permanent accounts, Lux always loved to buy jewellery from the classic 'Taric's Outrageous Fashion' collection or buy one of Lulu's new perfumes, expensive, but soooo worth it!
As Lux continued to farm, a feeling of unease settles over her, after killing a particularly stubborn Cannon Minion Lux took a look around, no enemy champion, no one, where were they? Confused she opened up her mental pathways only to be instantly assaulted by various shouts and screams, most of them containing the words report or noob. Closing her mental pathways slightly Lux focused on what only one or two of the enemy Summoners were saying, after listening for a few seconds she had managed to deduct that one of the Summoners had gotten into a petty argument with one another claiming that he was going to be summoning the top laner for this match, someone else had also said this so as far as Lux could tell, our mystery top laner was up against two people.
Frowning at the news she shut down her psychic links and returned to the situation at hand, in front of her a mid lane stretched out, one that was hers and hers alone, this was going to be fun! With a sly grin Lux set to work on the new minion wave that had arrived, feeling safe as both of the brushes that flanked the middle lane were warded. Once the last caster minion had been killed and added to the pool of gold that was growing in size quite nicely, filling Lux with a very pleasant feeling, a perk of the job in fact, the Summoners sent a wave of endorphins surging through her brain every time she successfully last hit a minion, bliss! Coming closer to enemy tower things started to get scary though, Lux could feel the power of the towers weapons surging as it readied to attack the closest allied minion. Lux always hated watching this, the poor mindless minions simply strayed too close to the stone figure, their ends are quick, but always brutal, and Lux hated that, she could see it now, once the melee minions were dealt with the allied melee minions headed over to the enemy casters, which were of course safely in the towers area of influence. Feeling the runes magic pulsating faster now she saw the large crystal in the towers stone cradle start to glow. As the brightness got more intense Lux cringed and looked away, she knew what was next.
A loud hollow thump came from the direction of the tower, after that the sound of flesh and cloth being incinerated instantly with a high pitched hissing, wincing at this, Lux started attacking the tower, the balls of light carving chunks out of the ancient stone, smaller marks were being caused by the caster minions that were gathered around Lux's legs, larger chunks of the tower were falling of as the latest siege minion fired its hard cone like projectiles deep into the heart of the stone monolith.
As Lux went to work on the tower the wind around the mid lane started to pick up slowly, the thick, long grass that coats the lane whipped around franticly as if being pulled in a thousand different directions by a thousand hands all at once, it was only when Lux felt a sharp sting as several of the blades of grass whipped against her at once did she notice the changing environment. Suddenly on edge Lux retreated slightly until she was in the middle of the lane, the two brushes either side of her looked as if they had an army a thousand strong ready to pounce if she got too close by they way they whipped around in the constantly changing winds.
Jumping at every sound, her neck in constant movement as Lux watched her surroundings. Slowly the wind died, the grass and brushes settled and all was calm expect for the distant sound of fighting, sighing loudly Lux calmed down
"Was scared for a moment th..."
Suddenly something flashed out of the brush to her left, charging at her with incredible speed, faster than the human eye could follow. As the blur came at her, Lux squealed loudly, something she would regret later after re-watching the magical footage, but by chance she managed to squeeze of a sheet of light, hitting the blur in the chest, from the point that the sheet had hit light poured out, quickly forming a make shift cage of shivering colours, trapping the figure inside. As the assailant came to a halt Lux opened her eyes, after closing them in utter fear before, as she spots the entrapped figure she laughs nervously, standing up straight again after adopting the 'Please don't kill me stance' that consisted of eyes tight shut, one leg off the ground and her arms put up defensively in front of her.
Now not in utter fear Lux looked over her temporary prisoner. The first thing she saw was a large length of cold hard steel, thin, large and very very sharp, the things she had seen that sword do was something she would not be re-living whilst she enjoyed her dinner any time soon, the second thing she noticed, and typical of her, was his strong, lithe stomach that was left bare to the elements, muscles were clear underneath the smooth skin but they were nothing like Darius' or her brothers whose rippled whenever they made the slightest movement, but just because this mans muscles were not busting out of every place humanly didn't mean he was not strong, in fact he had won a arm wrestling competition against Garen once, to the surprise of everyone, including the Might of Demacia himself! Tearing her eyes away from the perfectly toned body she looked up, even though she knew who this was now, she just wanted to make sure. Of course, standing there was Yasuo, the Unforgiven, the huge metal plates on his shoulder reflected the early morning sun off of each of its four peaks, the stubble of a man who did not care for grooming, the huge hair style that drifted behind him methodically, as if not caring that its 'master' was in a battle, simply content to drift on the air that emanated from Yasuo's being.
A small giddy sensation flooded over Lux, something that always happened when Yasuo was in her sight, well any man with enough muscle to life her off of the ground with one arm could do this to her as well, but she would never admit that she went head over heels for almost everyone in the League, chiding her self she stood straight, raising her wand defensively as she readied her self for his next assault. As Yasuo stood trapped Lux looked deep into his eyes, something was different in there, when ever she had been in a battle with Yasuo he always had a playful glint in his eyes when ever he looked at her as if to say
"This is fun, and I'm not even trying!"
but all she saw in his eyes now was steely determination and a lust for death, was this what it was like to fight against Yasuo? She had never been in this situation before, and she was genuinely terrified. As the seconds ticked down to the point where Yasuo would be released Lux had to decide something, stand and fight, go against that wicked sword which was now safely in its sheath,
"Not for long" She thought but shoved the negative thought to the back of her mind
or should she run? Back to the safety of her tower, the safety of definite life. It was as she was starting to lean towards the idea of running that the light that held Yasuo faded, leaving him standing there, un-constrained, it was this that prompted her decision, one that she made her self and not simply because she had no other option... ye that's what Lux liked to think any way. Putting one foot back she readied her self to unleash her next attack whilst readying her self for Yasuo's inevitable onslaught.
As soon as the light faded he was gone, next to her Lux heard the sound of blood hitting the ground, turning she spotted one of the minions that had just come from the Nexus dead, organs and cloth split clean in half, blood poured out of the carcass as Lux resisted the urge to throw up. As she was in the middle of the lane the, tower could not help the minions which were torn to shreds in less than a second, once there was no more killing to be done Yasuo slowed down, standing in the middle of the blood soaked grass, body parts and hooded cloaks littered the ground as the remaining life of the minions was absorbed by the Rift, powering the two powerful Nexuses that were the focal points of each battle.
Raising his head slowly Yasuo locked eyes with Lux, sending a chill down her spine, a small, inhuman snarl emerged from his lips as he charged, his long sword dragging along the ground as he went, cutting any corpses that crossed its path into even smaller pieces as it went, slicing the tops off of the long grass causing a shower of green and red to follow Yasuo's wake. With a small grunt Lux swung her wand in a wide arch, sending out a shivering ball of light, landing right in front of Yasuo, singeing the grass around it, as soon as Yasuo came near it, his progress slowed, and after a brief second Lux released the power that was stored inside of the ball, a loud pop sounded out as light exploded out from the singularity, throwing Yasuo back slightly as he was temporarily blinded by the harsh light, his unprotected stomach turning a dark shade of red as the skin burnt, leaving only raw flesh where there was nothing protecting his skin.
The only thing that left Yasuo's mouth was a hollow grunt as he ripped off the burning material that hung around his neck. Now only hatred could be seen in his eyes as he screamed loudly, dashing towards with speed and agility that even Katarina would have been jealous of, he dodged two of Lux's basic attacks as he charged forward. Now in range of his sword Lux let a single tear fall from her eye as one of her best friends plunged his sword through her right leg, sending her to the ground, the hardened steel cutting through muscle and bone alike, pinning her to the spot, she knew here shin had been shattered as shards of bone broke through the surface of her skin at the point of entry. Unable to move the leg she was forced into a half kneeling position, which made it look as if she was proposing rather than in complete agony, she would have laughed if she could open her mouth without and in-human wail emanating from her lips.
Now relaxed that Lux was down for the count Yasuo walked closer, sniffing slightly as he watched his friend sob into the bloodied grass, a feeling of guilt cut through him as he stood over her, but it was quickly replaced with steely determination. Walking around her until he was directly in front of her, he lent over slowly, griping the hilt of his large sword, with a small huff he pulled it out of Lux's leg, wincing slightly as he felt it grate against bone as it came out, once it was free he expertly gave the sword a slight flick, at this the crimson blood that had coated the sword flew off of the cold metal, creating a crescent shape of red in the thick grass. Taking his eyes off the shape he returned his cold gaze to Lux who was trying to get to her feet shakily, she had nearly done it until her leg ripped free of its remaining ligaments tearing away from her body making her fall hard on the ground, her leg laying next to her head, the tight blue leggings torn and bloodied. Staring at the broken form of Lux, Yasuo once again felt the stab of sadness spread through him, but at that moment a loud sound came from all around them
"First Blood!" Cried the Announcer,
Looking down at Lux he frowned, had she bled out? But as he checked in with his team-mates with the via the mental path way every team member shared he noticed that their support was not responding. Cursing loudly he stamped his foot into the ground
"Why had he hesitated? Now first blood had gone to the enemies"
A fire in the form of anger spread through his body, setting the feelings of guilt towards Lux alight as if it was simply fuel to be burned. In a savage arc he brought his sword down upon Lux, cleaving her in two from the top her left shoulder down to the bottom of her right hip, on the swords unforgiving arc it had gone straight down the middle of her left arm as she had weakly outstretched it towards Yasuo.
Looking down at the Lady of Luminosity as life blood pumped from her broken and bloodied corpse which now parted down the middle so neatly, Yasuo sighed and walked off sullenly.
Lux's final thoughts were that of pain, physical and that one of her closest friends had acted in such a way towards her.