My story starts out in Kumungu Jungle, my siblings and I got seperated from my parents. My big brother, although we tried to stay with him, eventually got separated from us as well. My sister and I were wondering this dangerous place alone looking for our brother. I never did see my parents again, days went past and we hadn't learned to hunt yet. We were just a mere cubs alone in this dangerous jungle. Days past and my sister and I grew weak from hunger. I could tell if we didn't get something to eat soon we would both perish. I remember our parents, they took care of us, well as much as lions would. Although they hadn't taught us how to hunt yet, they taught us how to hide. I remember having so much fun play fighting with my brother and sister even though our brother always won. But as my sister and I were slowly starving to death, something primal and desperate came over me. I waited for her to sleep, with all the remaining energy I had, I stood over here and bore my teeth. I bit hard, she woke in a cry but I wouldn't let go. I wouldn't allow myself to die, I must eat. Her movements got weaker before stopping all together. I saw the life in her eyes fade away, I feared what I may become in the future but I feasted on her fresh corpse. I devoured her bones and all, I was so hungry. But after finishing every last morsel, I finally felt my strength coming back to me. Unless I found more prey close to death, I wouldn't be able to survive here. So using whatever energy I had I ventured forward trying to find the exit of the jungle. I didn't find it but I did find a surprisingly kind family of cougars. There was some kind of hairless monkey with them , which now I know was some human girl. I spent a few weeks there with them.
They taught me how to hunt and survive in the jungle, however Kumungu still haunted me since this is where I had to kill my sister, where my life fell apart. I still wanted to venture out of this jungle, so one night I left the cougars and traveled for a very long time. I finally reached the base of Sablestone Mountains. I was exhausted but I still had to find my way over these mountains. However before I could begin my climb I felt a sharp pain on my neck, followed by my vision blurring and turning black.
When I awoke I was in a cage within a city called Zuan. This madman , with eyes that spoke the words "you're already dead" stared at me. I backed up to the furthest reaches of my cage. I looked around and saw people and animals in cages. Some were dead, others in agonizing pain. I was terrified, will I become like these other victims? I must escape here before he inflicts damage that's irreversible. This man smiled at me, opened my cage and grabbed me. I squirmed but he tied me down, he put probes in my head and injected my neck with a wide variety of colorful substances. I felt my heartbeat increase. He then jabbed me in the chest with a scalpel, creating a Y shaped cuts. He pulled my flesh out of the way, exposing my ribcage. I was horrified, there was so much blood but I didn't feel anything, I should've felt something, even if it was just some pressure but there was nothing. He took some pliers and began to cut away my ribs , one by one until everything within my chest cavity was exposed. He reached into my torso and pulled something out. It was a red turning and pulsing organ. I started to cry only due to the sheer sight of my heart out of my body. He shoved it back into my chest and sewed me up. I think it was only so he could play with me more later.
A few days went passed and he had done more unspeakable things to me. One night he got clumsy and left my cage next to the door. There was a small table not too far where he stored his keys. Now he probably thought I was just some mindless animal but he was wrong. Using my tail, I slipped it through the bars of my cage and reached for the table. It was too far but I wasn't about to give up. If I stayed here much longer my body wouldn't be able to handle the physical strain. I used my tail to push against the floor, closing the gap between me and the keys to my freedom. Finally there were close enough for me to grab. I pulled them close and went through the keys to see which one was meant for my cage. The third key I tried was the one that opened my cage. I left my cage and lept out of an open window. It was quite a fall, I was sure I fractured something but I didn't care. I had to get out of here. My freedom didn't last long.
While running through the dark, looking for a way out of Zaun, I bumped into another crazed scientist. His torso was bandaged up, one of his eye was green and the other white, both without pupils, he had a huge container of green liquid strapped to his back. He stared at me then a green gas began to emerge from the container. Then , once again, everything went black. I awoke tied to a table. There were many glass beakers and other structures. Green and purple liquids bubble on fires. Lab equipment scattered everywhere, on the floor, on the desks and some even hung on the walls. This chemist came closer to me when he saw that I have awoken. I mixed together some thick liquids, stirred then opened my mouth forcefully and poured it into my mouth. Even though that other madman made it so I couldn't feel pain, this liquid burned in my insides. I coughed and wheezed as my chest ached and stung. I couldn't see his mouth as it was covered in a white mask but I could tell he was smiling. After an agonizing ten minutes the pain eased and I sat up. He wasn't too happy about this, his eyes turned cold and annoyed.
He then kicked me out of his lab, I think he knew I was an experiment of another scientist. I still felt weak from the poison but I ran to the edges of Zaun. This is where I collapsed and the tides stole my body and washed me away. When I regained consciousness I found myself floating in a river. I looked to the side and see what looks like a bubbling bog. I felt so weak that I couldn't swim to shore, so I let the river tides carry me. When I opened my eyes I was floating in what is known as the Howling Marsh. I felt myself on the edge of death, soon to be whisked away by the tendrils of the afterlife. However my relief wouldn't come so soon. I felt a mysterious power flow into me, filling my body with magic and strength. I'm not sure if it was a magic that had always resided in me and was just buried deep within, or it was a magic given to me by the marsh. Either way, it's both a blessing and a curse. Not knowing what to do or where to go, I just headed south. I just had a feeling that's where I had to go. I passed the institute of war where I saw many strong looking people and witches, I walked through Mogron Pass, traveled down the outskirts of Shurima Desert, and past the Voodoo lands. It took me months, I was still just a young cub after all, RuneTerra was such a huge place to me back then. I found myself once again at the base of Sablestone Mountains. I don't know why I was so drawn to Bandle City but I was. I climbed the mountains to it's peak and then back down the other side. This track took me a few days. I saw many yordles on the way but none detected me.
I found my way to the entrance of Bandle City, the citizens looked at me with confusion and concern. I can't even fathom what might have been going through their heads when they saw me. My presence didn't sit well with the Yordle's and I was captured once again and put in a cage, this time it being a jail cell. I've had lots of practice escaping so I managed to sneak away. They caught me over and over again but I managed to release myself from my imprisonment each time. Soon they stopped trying to catch me. I don't know why or even how but the people of this city, after getting used to my presence for a few weeks, noted that I wasn't here to harm anyone. So they let me be. They stayed away from me and I kept to myself. I was alone on the streets, I often dug through people's trash to find food of any kind. I lived like this for years. I watched the yordle children play and the adults do their usual business. I learned much about their culture by just observing, I was always able to keep in the shadows and out of sight though. I eventually taught myself how to talk just by listening to their conversations. I was still way too shy to talk to anyone so I kept to myself. I found myself tinkering with things I found in the trash, making neat and nifty little rat traps.
Even though I wasn't exactly part of Bandle City yet, I just occupied its space, I still did what I could to earn my place in this city. During the night I cleaned up any messes left in the streets and sidewalks. Most importantly I never bothered anyone but one day that all changed. The peacefulness of Bandle City , (excluding the occasional explosion due to the experiments of enlightened Yordles), changed when a giant came thrashing through the town. I was watching some young yordles play with some strange ball shooting device at the time. They were trying to catch the balls that were shot at them. When they were knocked backwards by the force of the machine I couldn't help but to giggle a bit. But that's when I heard screams in the distance , it was the giant. I attempted to fight it off myself but my claws, teeth and makeshift garbage weapons wouldn't suffice. I needed to think of another plan. The next day while I was pacing the allyways of the town trying to think of a way to scare the giant off, I bumped into that strange shooting ball machine and the idea hit me.
I looked for the kids who were playing with it yesterday and I approached them. They seemed frightened of me. I was twice their size after all but this place was in danger. I told them to fire this machine in the direction of the giant while I distract it. They nodded. I leapt to action and once again began to claw at the giant. I saw the kids turn the machine on and fired multiple balls at the giant. It staggered back then with one last swipe and shot it fled from Bandle City. I smiled at the kids before scampering away. I didn't expect any credit, I was just glad the town was safe. I was in my favorite alleyway when they came. It was an adult yordle with red goggles, a white face and golden hair.
"So you're the ingenious one these kids told me about. You had the idea to use my H-28G to scare off the giant." I nodded. He smiled at me.
He then called me his "like-minded encephalon" and offered me an apprenticeship. My eyes sparkled and gleamed, I could learn more, much more by working for him. I accepted.
He took me back to his lab, handed me some money and told me to get a lab coat tailored to me. From then on I mostly started working for Mr. Heimerdinger. We often traveled but he taught me a lot about mechanics and engineering. I picked up his teachings very quickly and he was impressed with my ability to retain information quickly and soon I knew almost as much as he did. One day we was extremely busy and told me that I shouldn't bother him for awhile. I didn't take offense, a great mind like his sometimes needs to work alone. The word that I was 's student spread fast and I quickly made a name for myself.
This is when Heimerdinger suggested I learn more from some yordle named Ziggs. He was some kind of explosive expert. I didn't know anything about that topic so I was excited. He was a strange teacher, very chaotic and hyper but a nice change of pace. Some years past and I was hopping from Zigg's side to 's side and back again. It was so much fun and yet I learned most of their knowledge in such a short amount of time. One day while working with Ziggs, a friend of his came to visit, Rumble was his name. He was in some kind of robotic suit. He let me look over his suit and explained how it worked. He told me lots of stuff about his inventions and how to create magnificent machines out of scrap. He visited often after that, well at least as often as he could.
Years went by then said that I should share my mind and go to the institute of war. On my way there I came across some lion humanoid much like myself but male. I've never seen anyone else like me before. This perked my curiosity and I followed him quietly. Something urged me to get a DNA sample, so I did something silly. I broke one of the test tubes in my pocket and threw a small shard of glass at his art. It hit and punctured the skin, his low growl sent shivers up my spine and it shook something deep inside me. I felt magic fill my chest. I held back my instinct to growl back at him but I stayed hidden in the shadows. He threw the shard at the ground and glanced around. Soon his gaze met mine, he walked towards me with a snarl on his face. He grabbed me by my trench coat and pulled me up. He roared at me and my logic snapped and my primal instincts took hold and I roared back. His eyes gave a small gesture of approval before a smile crept over his lips and he dropped me. He told me the name is Rengar then he left.
I picked up the glass shard and placed it in another test tube. I must get back to to analyze this sample but first I should complete the task he gave me. I signed up with the institute of war. They accepted me without hesitation, a mind taught by Heimerdinger, Ziggs and Rumble, now that's impressive. So they said. I returned to 's lab where I ran many tests on the blood sample I had taken from Rengar. Then I went and took a blood sample from myself because I wanted to compare it to Rengar's. I took one look at the tests I ran on my blood. My heart sank. There was some kind of foreign substance in my veins slowly killing my cells, one by one. I redid the tests to make sure they were accurate and unfortunately they were.
I secluded the poison and attempted to synthesize it. I then used it on a lab rat by making it ingest a minimal amount. It died instantly. I shuddered and wondered how I was still alive. I should be dead with the amounts that are in my blood. I took a full body scan of myself and found yet another foreign substance in my body. This time there was a lump of unusual chemicals clustered at the base of my brain. I was dumbfounded as I just stared at my test results but then an unfortunate time in my life flashed before me. Zaun. Those two scientists, what they did to me is still in my system somehow. No matter how much I tried I couldn't rid my body of these toxins. I was gonna die slowly but surely. My cell's are slowly shutting down and for some reason my body isn't producing more to replace them. I've tried everything to cure myself, nothing worked. So I'm gonna die a very slow and painful death but for some reason I'm not too worried. It's like there is some kind of magic within me assuring me that once my body is gone, I will still live on. Whether it be as a spirit or I manage to insert my memories into someone or something else. So, I'm not too afraid of my future fate, caused by my past, but I will continue my work in the present.
