As Lux's essence drained out of her body and became one with the swirling energies of the Rift she began to heal. Sadness was all Lux felt as the power of the rift repaired her damaged essence, her conscious wept, hugging its knees. Lux always found this part strange, the recuperation period, with no body the persons conscious adopted a sort of phantom form for its self as its larger essence was returned to full strength by absorbing the arcane power of the Rift.
Phantom Lux wiped ghost tears away from her misty cheeks, her arms and legs trembling as she re-lived her death up above in the arena, the brutality of it, it made her sick. How could Yasuo have done that to her? Of course she had seen him do it to their enemies when they fought side by side, but to be on the receiving end of that unforgiving blade was more than she could handle. Fresh new tears caked her cheeks.
Of course since it was early on in the battle the wounds that she had sustained were not extremely substantial, and so her bruised and bloodied essence was quickly healed by the un-paralleled power of the Rift.
A new body was constructed on top of the Summoning Platform, exactly the same as Lux's previous one. As her conscious flowed out of the Rift into the new body, the shop keeper laid out a Blasting Wand and a Fiendish Codex. Now fully in control of her body Lux quickly tore the items off of the counter, rushing off before the merchant could see the tears streaking down her face. As she raced down the middle lane Lux murmured to herself,
"How could he have been so brutal, it was me, he knew it was me yet he still treated me as if I was simply a minion to be killed, I thought we were friends... no, not right now, right now we are opponents, kill or be killed"
With a small nod Lux entered the battle between the minions that had been left to their own devices in the lane. She watched as an allied melee minion fell, its head a bloody pulp after being pummelled by three enemy melee minions at once, shocked Lux growled before releasing a pulsing ball of light that burnt the minions to a crisp as soon as it reached them, the enemy siege minion that survived was soon dispatched as Lux threw a small ball out light at its chest, causing some of the residual energy from her previous assault to ignite, causing the minion to explode in a shower of purple and red. Doing the same to the back lane of caster minions Lux carried forward, determined to destroy the already crumbling tower. Weary of any stray wind Lux pushed on, grinding the enemy minion waves to dust under her fury; soon she was once again standing in the shadow of the colossal stone figure that continued to fire its weapon at the large group of minions that joined in Lux's assault.
Carving larger chunks out of the towers intricate stone features the tower finally fell, crumbling to the ground in a shower of dust, mud and stone shards, the Announcers voice boomed through the area
"An Ally Has Destroyed A Tower!"
Breathing heavily Lux stood up straight, letting the minions move past her, ever onwards, but Lux simply stood there, smiling, feeling the Sun on her face as she looked up into the sky, spotting a flock of birds, following their progress across the perfect blue sky Lux sighed happily. After a few seconds Lux's gaze was torn away from the blue sky as a series of loud, shrill sounds cut across her mind. Now worried Lux backed off slowly towards her tower, staring at the brushes either side of her, chiding herself for loosing concentration.
Half way back towards her tower things went horribly wrong, from the bush on her right, where the river run from the top of the arena, burst two figures. One of them was giant beast that was something out of the stuff of nightmares, a hard red carapace covered its body, each of them glinting with the half red half black blood of minions, the beast was Cho'Gath, The Terror of The Void. Running alongside the monstrous beast, keeping pace with Cho's huge strides was a much smaller individual, almost bounding along the small fluffy creature looked almost happy standing next to the giant creature, a playful glint in his eye that told of untold misery at his hand, this was of course Teemo, The Swift Scout.
Momentarily stunned by the duo's sudden entrance, Lux had stopped mid stride, her mouth drying instantly. The moment was over almost instantly, Lux's expression changed from shocked horror to steely determination, swinging her arm around you sent a glistening sheet of multicoloured light stream out of her wand towards the pair, hitting Cho'Gath was easy, the huge monstrosity was an easy target, Kennen would have loved to do this! Hitting Teemo how ever was proving a lot harder.
Teemo felt blood pumping in his ears as he quickly dived, dodging the light that passed through Cho, eager for another target, rolling under it he quickly darted to the side as Lux sent out a smaller ball of light towards him, diving over the top of it.
Predicting the dive Lux had sent out a larger shimmering ball of light that sat on the ground, pulsating hungrily as Teemo dived right on top of it.
Too fast for him to realise his mistake Teemo collapsed to the ground, his body smoking after Lux's singularity had set most of his fur on fire, leaving embarrassing bald patches that Tristana would still be finding for weeks to come. Quickly patting out the flames Teemo ducted behind a nearby rock, waiting for Cho to be free.
As if on cue an enormous roar came from the direction of the formerly trapped Cho'Gath, deafening Lux momentarily, not letting her concentrate enough to perform any powerful attacks to defend herself. Smashing his foot into the ground, sending rocks and dirt in all direction Lux heard the hundreds of hardened spines burrowing through the ground towards her. Bursting from the ground, the sharp spines tossed large chunks of earth and stone skyward, carrying the Lady of Luminosity with them.
Rising high into the air Lux cried out as she went high above the line of trees that spread out around the arena. Spotting a small skirmish going on in the bottom lane she studied it for a brief second.
Lucian spun in a wide circle, firing off two shots at an enemy siege minion, Nidalee sat in a nearby bush, occasionally changing for a cougar into her human form to toss a spear in the direction of the enemy champions, Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter and Leona, the Radiant Dawn, had proved quite easy targets so far, they had already killed Leona and managed to keep Miss Fortune from taking any of their minions thanks to Nidalee's unrelenting barrage of spears, Lucian however had been allowed to farm at will, all most all of the enemy minions that had been down to the bottom lane fell to his duel relic weapons, white smoke drifted out of the corpses of dead robed creatures that had fallen at his hand. Stepping over a deceased caster minion Lucian grunted as he spotted Miss Fortune and Leona, making slow progress towards them through the sizable pile of minions that blocked their path.
With a slight nod to Nidalee Lucian started to retreat slowly, walking backwards, carefully stepping over the various corpses that littered the ground. Making his way past the path that lead up the river towards mid lane, spitting in the direction of Lux as he walked past the river grumbling under his breath
"Stupid feeding little..."
He watched as Nidalee exited the bush that was primarily on the opposing side and into their bush, changing into human form mid leap, the blood matted fur being replaced with smooth skin as she gracefully landed on the ground, sliding one leg out, both hands palm down in the dark brown earth, crouching like some sort of yoga move. Dear god he loved that woman.
Images of Senna sprung into his mind as he cursed himself for letting his primal urges control him. Having retreated far enough Lucian stood up straight, pointing his twin relic weapons towards the black fog that covered the map. Nidalee flung a trap into the opposite bush that she had just come from, revealing the bush for a second, no enemies, good.
Standing perfectly still Lucian absently watched the lazy curls of relic smoke the drifted off of both his weapons, following the path of certain smoke tendril a single tear dripped from his stern features, following the tendril to its source he stares at the relic in his left hand, a jet black body and handle with a blazing white tip, Senna's face seemed to form in the now thick white smoke that surrounded him. In his low gruff tones he quietly mourned for his lost love.
Snapping his head back up he spotted the first enemy minion break through the fog of war, followed shortly after by 5 others. Gently squeezing the trigger he let off three steaming white shots of energy, clearing straight through each minion as they travelled leaving the back line of casters free for the allied minions onslaught, or they would have been if not the hour glass figure of Miss Fortune did not step out of the dark black mist, picking off the first pair of melee minions that came close to her caster minions, a large hole being ripped out of their bodies as the flint lock round tore through their fragile frames.
After a few more minutes of the awkwardly close farming Leona made a move, with a shout she thrust her sword forward, a bright golden image of her blade shot forward, passing through Lucian's chest, I loud grunt followed as Lucian felt the sun image slowly burn his insides, but it wasn't too bad, he had had worse... Soon after the attack he saw Leona dash over towards him, behind drawn along by the thick golden rope that connected the golden image of her sword to the actual cold steal, a bright yellow aura formed around Leona as she charged towards him, behind Leona, Miss Fortune was also advancing, sending one or two shots into Lucian as she came, one of the small, metal round caught him in the shoulder, causing him to spin on his foot until he was facing his own tower.
Taking this as a hint Lucian lunged forward, his relic weapons leaving a thick white trail behind him, just as he came to the end of the dash he spun adeptly, loosing off a pure white beam from both of his weapons at once, searing a hold in Leona's hip and just bellow Miss Fortunes left shoulder blade, at this Nidalee, who had still been hiding in the bush, threw a huge spear sailing through the air towards Miss Fortune. Not expecting the assault from behind Miss Fortune had no time to dodge the attack, causing the spear to impale itself directly through he abdomen, coughing out gouts of blood Miss Fortune fell, clutching the shaft that now ran through her body. Falling forward she plunged the tip of the spear into the ground, causing her corpse to be left half standing, held up by the long wooden shaft of the spear.
Smirking Lucian ran forward, yelling as he let off shot after shot towards Leona, a stream of pure white power tore towards her, carving large holes out of armour and body alike as they struck her repeatedly. Screaming madly Leona raised her sword high, calling on her last store of strength, summoning the power of the sun she lowered her sword arm, pointing it at Lucian. At this a thick beam of light surged down from the morning sun, pounding down upon Lucian. Beads of sweat coated his brow as he felt the immense heat from the assault beat down on him, soon as the stream of light had arrived it started to retract slowly, but after gathering into itself for a second the true attack came, a wall of solid light smashed into Lucian from above, sending him sprawling across the ground, smoke rising from his tattered black robes, blinded by the attack he simply lay their, Sanna's weapon draped across his chest, his own weapon, though still in his hand was stretched out away from him, taking in air from a singed wind pipe Lucian chuckled, turning his head he looked up at the deep red light of dawn,
"Senna..."
With that he closed his eyes slowly, only barely hearing the sound of the Announcer as she claimed that Nidalee had claimed a double kill. Opening his eyes slighty he spotted out of the corner of his eye the shredded form of Leona land heavily in the grass, a large cougar standing over the deceased embodiment of the sun's power. Spotting the injured Lucian she bounded over, changing back into the human that Lucian knew and loved, the last thing he saw before closing his eyes was a sizable bust, barely kept in check by the small piece of hide that Nidalee used as a bra/top, smiling I sighed,
"Senna if I don't get you back soon..."