Chapter 2 The Ambush in the Forest
Tyr and Ahri followed the trail the large army left behind. For a large army they moved quiet fast and by the way their boots were shaped, Tyr could tell they were marching with heavy to medium armor on. Ahri just watched with amusement as Tyr looked like an animal stalking their prey. She could still pick of the faint scent of the Noxians and that they were here only about two hours ago.
"Hmmmm…." Tyr hummed as he looked at the tracks.
"What?" Ahri questioned as she took her place next to him and looked at the tracks to see hooves.
"These horses were moving fast..."
"How can you tell?"
"The hoof imprint are much deeper then the men marching… either these are fleeing Ionians or the Noxians sent ahead a scouting party." Tyr said as he looked over at her. "What is in this direction anyway?"
"There is a junction where the path diverges leading to different parts of the continent… Knowing them they are probably heading to the farm lands where there is little resistance, the Ionians will make a stand at the pass." Ahri said as she scratched one of her ears.
"Of course they would… It's a natural choke point." Tyr said as they walked for a good 20 minutes when the sound of steel clashing against she'll could be heard coming from the forest.
Tyr and Ahri rushed over towards the sound , entering the forest, they took cover behind a tree and peeked out to see a group of Noxian soldiers spread out looking frantically around them for something. Then as quick as lightning a man dark blue cloth appeared and slit the throat of one of the soldiers. The others turned to face the man but then a woman in all green appeared out of nowhere and cut down two Noxians warriors at once. One turned to her and motion to take her head off with his blade but she simply leaned back and the blade missed completely. She continued with the motion delivering a kick to the man's chin. The man stumbled backwards then the woman took the man's arms off before delivering a kick to the man's kneecap causing the man to collapse onto his knees then with her twin kamas took the man's head clean off. The man in Dark Blue robes sidestepped a man in heavy plate armor before delivering a swift elbow to the man's helmet then slashed the man across his back with his ninjato. Then spun back to the front and drove the ninjato into the man's neck. The man and the woman walked towards each other as more Noxian Knights rushed towards them, they turned and looked at them not moving a muscle. When they we almost upon them, a small blur appeared hitting the two knights with a force to send them flying backwards. They got back and looked ahead of them to see a small person cladded in a purple robe.
"Damn yordle!" One knight roared as he brought his great sword down but the yordle dodged the attack quickly and slashed the man across the neck with two shurikens before dodging the warhammer that struck his dying comrade in the chest finishing him off.
"Stay still you rat!" The knight spat as he tried again to hit the yordle but the little creature dodged with ease.
"I am not rat, at least your dead comrade got it right!" The little guy growled before the crackle of electricity could be heard and the yordle slammed his palm into the man's chest plate.
The knight chuckled but it quickly turned into a scream of agony as electricity traveled over his armor and frying the man within. The yordle stepped away and the man fell to the floor twitching. The trio turned to face the remaining Noxian warriors who didn't seem to be affected by their comrades' deaths, charged towards them with their weapons raised. The trio shook their heads and rushed to meet them.
Tyr turned to Ahri. "Those guys are amazing, who are they?"
"I believe that is Shen a well known legendary warrior of Ionia," Ahri stated as a Noxian knight collided with the tree they were behind. "Those fighting with him are Kennen the lighting quick yordle and Shadow Warrior Akali, those two are also remarkable people of Ionia to an extent."
Tyr nodded his head as he peeked back out only to duck back down as a Noxian knight flew over their heads. "How do you know this?"
"Well, I've been all over Ionia and have heard the legends from many people as I traveled." She responded then they heard a groan from behind them.
The knight was getting back up and Ahri summoned her orb and threw it at the man and he screamed in agony as it passed through him then she pulled it back and it tore through his chest plate. She held the orb in her hands and felt the Noxian Knight's life essence flow into her, she let out a low groan as she looked at Tyr, eyes half closed. Tyr then noticed another group of Noxians approaching the fight from their positions and they witness Ahri kill their comrade. Tyr drew his longsword and the runes on the blade glowed a bright blue as he rushed to meet them as Ahri threw her orb at the on rushing enemies while summoning nine blue bolts of fire each one floating above one of her tails. Tyr ducked under a horizontal slash before cutting the man across the back then blocked an axe from being buried into his skull. He shoved the man away before quickly bring the blade back cutting through the steel chest plate. A Noxian knight thought he had the jump on Tyr but then a orb passed through him knocking the air from his lungs after that Ahri pulled the orb back to her making a large gap in the man's stomach. A lightly armored Noxian rushed towards Ahri who in turned sent a fireball at him, the noxian blocked the fireball only for the orb to pass right through him. The Noxian gasped as a fireball engulfed his face and he screamed but was immediately cut off by the orb returning to Ahri. Another man rushed her but she turned to him and winked, the man immediately slowed to a walk, the knight had a stupid smile on his face. She gently caressed his face before grabbing him and absorbing his life essence fortunately Tyr was too busy with the other Noxians knights. He sidestepped a blade before unleashing a horizontal slash through the man's midsection then he parried a blade away before he drove the tip of his blade into the man's neck before he spun around the corpse and decapitated a lightly armored soldier. Another Noxian rushed him from behind and he blocked the blade by simple placing his weapon on his back, Tyr glanced over his shoulder and delivered a hard elbow into the knight's helmet making a slight dent causing him to stagger backwards. Tyr dodged a spear thrust and grabbed the shaft of the weapon and tucked it into his armpit, the Noxian soldier tried to pull his weapon free but to no avail. Then Ahri's orb shot through the soldier causing him to stop pulling on the weapon, Tyr pulled the footsoldier to him and drove his blade into the man's throat.
"Watch out!" Ahri yelled and Tyr turned to see the Orb coming back towards him, he immediately ducked and the orb flew over his head and passed through the chest of the Noxian Knight with a dent on his helmet.
The Knight fell to his knees and Tyr finished him off with a quick horizontal slash across his chest. Then an arrow was deflected by his shoulder plate and he looked up at the trees to find archers on the large branches.
"Ahri!" Tyr called out to her as he blocked a serrated Axe.
She turned to him after her orb came back to her. He shoved the soldier away from him and he turned to her and pointed up. She looked up to see an archer taking aim at her and she quickly dashed up the tree dodging the arrow. She landed on the branch with grace and threw her orb at the closest archer immediately knocking him off the branch to his doom. She dashed to the next branch and caught her orb before taking cover against the trunk from the arrow fire. She smirked as her ears twitch at the sound of them nocking an arrow, she quickly dashed to the closes one and kicked him off the branch. Then she summoned five fox fires before she dashed to another archer who fired at her and missed out of panic and she clawed the man across his face. He let out a scream of pain and held his face before she drained him of his life essence, her ears twitched and she moved the dying but blissful man in front of her and arrows embedded themselves into his body. She peeked out over the corpse's shoulder to see the remaining few archers, her eyes narrowed before she dashed to another branch out of their sight.
"Dammit, where did that beast woman go?!" One archer yelled.
"Keep your eyes open, she could be anywhere!" Another one yelled in a panic as he looked around.
She chuckled and the men turned toward her direction and she dashed away making the leafs ruffle and the archers fired at it in a panic. She chuckled again and reappeared behind them, they turned towards her only for her orb to shoot through two of them causing them to fall. Then she sent three fox fires at three archers, in a panic they spilled their arrows and were all hit by the blue flames causing them to fall out of the tree. The remaining archer fired at her and she dashed out of the way onto his branch. He nocked another arrow but when he aimed at her she winked at him causing his mind to go hazy.
"Lower your weapon." Her voice was like velvet and the young man smiled at her and lowered his weapon. "Now come here."
The young man walked towards her and stopped right in front of her. She reached out and began to drain him of his life essence and she let out a light groan before she drained him completely. Ahri sighed. "Man, your life essence and the other guys is pathetic compare to Tyr."
She looked down at the battle ground to see one of the Noxian knights staring up at her, she was still naked under his cape. She smirked at him and pointed at Tyr and the Knight looked, only to lose his head. Ahri knelt down making sure they could no longer look up her cape but then she got an idea to turn his cape into a makeshift dress for the moment.
Down below Tyr parried a blade away and shoved the soldier into a tree before plunging his blade into the man's chest. He pulled his blade free and blocked another sword, they locked blades trying to overpower each other. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw another man charging towards him. He shoved the other knight away and blocked the other noxian's mace. The other recovered quicker then Tyr thought and used the handle of his weapon as a mace and struck him across the back of his helmet. Tyr grunted as he stumbled forward and the Noxian with the mace took advantage and delivered a swift hit to his chest plate sending him flying backwards onto the ground. Tyr groaned as he held his chest plate as he tried to get back up but one of the Noxian soldier stomped him back down onto the ground. Tyr let out a grunt of pain and struggled to get up then the Noxian reached down and tore his helmet off his head.
"You're pretty damn good fighter, I would take you back to the raiding party but your too much of a threat to keep alive." The Noxian Knight said as he raised his blade up ready to plunge it into Tyr's chest.
Tyr struggled under the man then a shuriken entered the slit between his helmet and chest plate, his hand shot up to grasp the weapon before falling over. The other Noxian looked to see Shen dash towards him with his blade at the ready and cut him across the chest. Tyr let out a breath of relief as the three warriors appeared in his vision looking down at him. The one Ahri called Kennen jumped down onto his chest and held a shuriken to his throat. "Who are you? And what are you doing here?"
"Enough Kennen, we saw him fight the Noxians." Akali said as she and Shen continued to watch the forest for anymore of them.
"I know, I just wanted to give him a hard time." The yordle stated as he flipped off of him onto a branch a few feet above them.
Shen turned around to face Tyr with narrowed eyes. "What are you doing out here Demacian? Has your higher ups decided to finally help us?"
"Demacian? Forgive me but I don't know what you speak of." Tyr stated and he could see Shen's eyebrow arch. "Also my name is Tyr, I am a knight… I believe my companion can explain more… If we can find her. Ahri?!"
He looked up at the further tree branches but couldn't see Ahri anywhere. He began to worry as he got up, was she shot by an arrow and wounded, had they captured her. Many more terrible scenarios went through his mind and she called out for her more.
Up above Ahri heard him calling for her with distress in his voice and she was touched by the fact he cared if she was hurt or worse, even though they had only met four hours ago. With a swaying motion of her hands she used the cape to form a dress then gently ran her hands up her body and the dress formed onto her. She looked down at herself and admired the outfit but it felt akward to wear it due to her being naked most her life but she'll get use to it. She poked her head out and Tyr saw her, he let out a sigh of relief as he ran a hand through his raven hair. She smiled before dashing down the tree and landed next to him.
"What do you think?" She questioned him as she grabbed the skirt of the dress and twirled.
He looked at her with a smile and saw the dress was white with a red trim, her tails stood still awaiting my reply but he could see them swaying slightly.
"Is that my cape?" Tyr questioned feigning shock then anger before smiling. "I'm glad you could make even more use of it then a blanket on your back as I did."
She giggled before Shen cleared his throat and they turned to him. Shen's eyes locked onto Tyr as if accessing him before looking at Ahri. "So mind telling me your story because I sense a strange energy radiating off of both of you."
"Well… I am a human that stumbled upon a battlefield and found an orb that transformed me into a hybrid…." She said as she showed them the orb and it floated above her palm. She then gestured to Tyr and continued. "He came from a portal that unleashed a powerful shock wave that destroyed the surrounding area."
"So you're the disturbance I felt in the balance… I must correct this…" Shen said as he looked at Tyr.
In a burst of speed, Shen drew his blade and swung but Tyr raised his armored hand blocking the strike before shoving Shen away. Ahri's eyes widened as she jumped back as Tyr got into a fighting stance with his Longsword at the ready. Kennen and Akali free their weapons as well, Akali was more hesitant at readying herself but Shen raised his hand and they lowered their weapons.
"What the hell is your problem?!" Tyr yelled as he stared at Shen.
"The Balance must be preserved and your presences within this world may have deadly consequences if I do not correct this anomaly… Forgive me but this must be done." Shen stated as he dashed towards Tyr with his weapon at the ready.
Tyr moved to block the strike when Shen flipped over him and slashed him across the back. He grunted as he turned around and blocked the next strike before shoving Shen's blade away.
"I do not wish to fight you!" Tyr said as he stood at the ready to block or parry the next attack.
"I'm sorry but I am doing my duty to keep our world safe." Shen dashed towards him and threw shurikens at him but Tyr deflected one but dodged the rest.
Their blades met over and over again before they locked themselves in a power struggle with both of them at equal strength. Tyr shoved the shinobi's blade away but with a burst of speed the blade came back and slashed him across his chest plate. Shen continued his assault and Tyr tried to block his blade but he would be a second too late. Tyr could feel a lot of shallow cuts on his body and he could feel his blood soaking into his shirt. He fell to his knees then Shen delivered a roundhouse kick to Tyr's unarmored head sending him spinning through the air before he crashed to the floor. The downed knight shook his head as he looked up to see Shen ready to deliver the final blow when Ahri's orb flew through him causing him to scream in pain but he dodged the orbs return as Ahri dashed to his position with her spirit fires surrounding her. Akali and Kennen moved to help but once again Shen raised his fist and they stopped.
"Stay back… Tyr has done nothing wrong plus your trying to kill a man who doesn't even know himself."
Shen was breathing heavily while holding his chest, his grip on his blade was tight. "How do you know he isn't faking his amnesia… And if he is telling the truth, what if he was a man with terrible power that could level entire forest if he so demanded it. Think Kitsune… He could be someone that could destroy our world…"
Ahri fell silent and so did Tyr, he looked at Shen and realized the truth to his words. He tried to break through the thick fog in his mind but nothing came forth to present itself, he was at a lost. Who am I? Was I a man with honor? Or was I a cheating snake? So many thoughts flew through his mind of who he was, Tyr looked at Shen. "You maybe right… I have no clue who I am or where I come from… All I remember is my name and how to wield my Longsword… But before you decide to pass judgment on me, Shen, please allow me to try and regain my memory…"
Shen could see the sincerity in his eyes and he sighed, he sheathed his blade. "That… Is the least I can do… after all we may still need you for this fight. Most of Ionians aren't warriors but the few that are, are well trained but the Noxians have a number advantage and they have elite warriors like the man leading this army."
"Who?" Ahri questioned as she stood by Tyr's side.
"Thane the Butcher…." Akali stated as she and Kennen stepped forth to stand behind their Master. "He is well known for his feats in the Noxian Demacian War, where he raped and pillaged across the southern lands of Demacia. On the battlefield he is well known for having no honor and will use and do anything to win."
Tyr and Ahri nodded their heads as Shen fell to his knees still holding his chest, Akali and Kennen helped him up.
"Until we meet again…" Shen did some hand gestures before a glowing purple light engulfed them and they disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Tyr breathed heavily as he fell to his knees, his vision had become blurry. Ahri looked at him with a concerned look and her lips moved but Tyr didn't hear anything as the darkness consumed him.