Author's note: So sorry again for the long, I've been off for a month and publish nothing, I was "occupied", so to speak. Anyway, here's the next match, enjoy.
Chapter 12
*Knock* *knock* *knock*
The sound of someone knocking at his door wake Max up. Putting on at least some pants, be open the door. On the other side stood Shadow.
« Hey, Shadow, how can I help you?
- I just want to know if I could summon you for my match in an hour.
- Sure, bro. You can summon me anytime.
- Thank you, Max.
- No prob, dude. »
The Elemental gave one last look at the plans still lying on his table before dressing up. He put his black suit under his everyday clothes and went to the restoration room. He took eggs with a bit of meat with a local fruit juice. When he went to a table, a women he didn't know came to sit in front of him. She was wearing a black jumpsuit under a silver chest plate. To her side hang a foil. Her hairs were black with a red wisp to the side of her face.
« Greeting, newcomer, she spoke with a strong accent, sounding like the Frenches from back home.
- Greeting, my lady. Max, the Elemental, at your service, he introduce himself in his usual gentlemanly manners.
- Laurent, Fiora Laurent, she introduce herself.
- It's an honor to meet you, Miss Laurent. I have heard great things about you and your swordsmanship, it almost make me want to challenge you do a duel.
- My, my. No one challenge me in a long time. I gladly accept your challenge, Sir Max. How about this afternoon at the training ground.
- It's all fine by me, I'll meet you there after my match.
- Well, you just gave me the advantage, I can simply sit back and discover your weakness, she said with humor.
- I guess I have to let you at least a little chance, he replied on the same humorous tone. »
They laughed and started eating. The two talk about each other and learn to know each other really quickly. They shared battle experience and anecdotes. About an hour passed and they were still at the table talking when a green light englobed him. Quickly, he asked her if she would be kind enough to bring his plate to the counter. She agreed and told him not to forget her. A second after he approved, Max disappeared.
There he was again, summoning chamber, blue side. With him were Elise, Morgana, Miss Fortune and Olaf.
« What is that, Max! shout Shadow from the second level. I asked you to be ready an hour ago!
- I am ready! he shout back, pulling his shirt off.
- Come on, Max, started Miss Fortune in a fake indignant voice. There's lady in there. What is that? she asked when she saw his black suit under his shirt.
- That's my battle suit, Max answered in a normal voice like everything was perfectly normal. Hey! Shadow! Catch! he shout to this one, throwing his clothes.
- What to you want me to do with that? the previously mentioned man asked all confused.
- Keep them for me during the match.
- Ok, if it makes us win!
- Hey! Max! You're too sexy! You'll distract your teammates! joked Ahri from the other platform.
- Thank you! I'll take it as a compliment! Wait a sec. Shadow! he shout again at his summoner.
- What? he replied in an annoyed voice.
- If Olaf is going top, were am i going?
- You're going mid against Ahri!
- Seriously? I'm forsaken...
- Looks like you're going to distract me! she shout again.
- Come on, bro, show the lady who's the man! Olaf told him.
- You're right, bro. I'm not backing up.
- You got it! Just be careful about the charm, it tricked me almost every time. » he encouraged him further, saying the last part in Max's ears.
On his side were Olaf going top, Max going mid, Elise in the jungle and Morgana with Miss Fortune going bot. On the other side stood Irelia going top against Olaf, Ahri going mid against Max, Tryndamere in the jungle and Ezreal with Janna going bot against Sarah and Morgana. The summoning spell started and they were sent to the rift, a new looking rift.
« Man! The view is amazing from up here! Made some renovations? Max asked Shadow.
- No kidding, this field has been closed since your last match! Shadow informed his champion.
- So, witch skull do we take?
- I wanted to try your ice skull, if you don't mind.
- Chill, go for it! I will be able to cool down this fox in heat.
- Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Nice one.
- Thank you.
- Max, started Elise, mind to help me at the blue buff?
- No prob, on my way! »
The two with Fortune and Morgana went to the blue buff after he bought his ice skull. His armor looked like a long coat made of flexible ice with a high neck reinforced at the top over a pretty straight full body armor made exclusively of thick ice in a mostly curved shaped manner with round shoulder plating, same thing on his pectorals, the abdominals and the whole back. The arms and legs were protect by the same kind of armor, except it had articulations for the articulations of his body. At the sides of his hips were shaped two skeleton's head with horns curving toward the ground before recurving and pointing at the front to each side of the opened mouths. From the mouth hung two chains, each one linked to two handles on top of which were two scythes blades. It's kind of looked like Thresh's hook, except he had one on each side and they had a handle. His face was protected by an open face helmet spiked on the top in a kind of crown.
Once they were at the blue camp, the girls started dancing, for no freaking reason apparent to him. They seemed to have fun, so he let them be. The blue buff came out of the ground. Not letting it the time to react, Morgana caged it and Max started attacking before going to is lane where he saw Ahri already killing his minions. Approaching her, he killed three of her minions in a row he happened to pass by.
« Nice armor, she compliment, killing one of his minions. You kind of remind me of some green hooking ghost. I can't put the finger on why.
- Me neither, he fallowed he joke, throwing his right scythe to one of her minions, the blade cutting the little wood doll in two. You'll see I have nothing to envy him. »
They peacefully farmed without poking each other until she said:
« You know, about last time, we never thanked you enough for it, blowing a kiss at him at the end with a wink.
- No need to thank me. »he returned while walking toward her.
"Gotcha!" she thought.
"Shit..." he thought, realising he had just been charmed.
Ahri throw her orb of deception and hit him in the face on the way in, but it missed him by barely a centimeter on the way back, the charm effect running out, letting him just enough time to dodge.
« Damn! That hurts, pretty, he calmly threw at her. Mind if I return the favor? »
He threw his left scythe at her in an arc and grabbed her from behind. The ice blade freeze her for less than a second, but it was all that he needed to jump directly in front of her and slashing through her body several time. Just as she flashed away, Shadow ignited her.
« First blood »
Max simply went back to farming and stacking his passive. When he saw Ahri comin back, he looked at her and asked in a concerned tone:
« You're not mad at me, are you?
- Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! If we all become mad at someone because they killed us on the fields, nobody would talk to anybody, she respond playfully. And, by the way, nice combo.
- Thank you. I'm sure your orb will be my deception. Those true damages on the way back will be a pain in my ass.
- Oh, you have no idea how I can one shot someone.
- You haven't see me neither. »
All the time they were talking, they were killing each other's minions. When he was too close to the enemy tower, Shadow told him someone was coming from the river. Just as he said that, Tryndamere spin out of the bush and balance his giant sword over his sholder and nearly cleaved Max in two. At that exact moment, he start walking toward Ahri.
« Shit, not again...» he complained in his head.
The orb pass through him once, then twice. Max fall to the ground, lifeless.
« Well... started Shadow.
- The red haired assassin from last game was a lot more a pain in the ass then Ahri. At least that's a starting point.
- You're right. What about we already started a wit's end?
- Sound great, a bit of offence and a bit of defence.
- Well we have enough gold for the recurved bow, but make the choice.
- I'll take a null magic mantle with a pair of boots, I'm tired of being slow.
- Ok, they'll be ready when you'll respawn.
- Nice. »
Max respawned and went to the shop. The old Yordle gave him the boots and the other item. He took them and returned to his lane. This time, thing where different, he saw Elise camping near his lane, ready to gang and Tryndamere just got killed by Fortune and Morgana alongside Ezreal. Ahri just stood there, farming and pushing the lane. Max rushed in the middle of the lane and turned quickly on himself, extending both his chains. He cleared most of the minion wave and finished the remaining one. The foxy lady fall back a little, returning to the middle of the lane. In the bush, Elise gave him a sing to engage. He threw his scythe again, but, this time, he pulled her toward himself, dragging her nearly under his tower. Elise switch to her spider form and repel to Ahri. The duo quickly neutralised her and pushed together the lane, attacking to tower until she was around mid-life. Max recalled and bought a recurved bow and a dagger. Now good with attack speed, he bought a potion and went to assist Olaf who was kept under tower by Irelia.
« Thank you, bro. That chick won't let me farm.
- Come on, Olaf. Let's show her who's in charge of that lane. »
The two man engaged the woman. Max dashed to her while Olaf threw an axe at her. Max's basic attacks continually slowed her while Olaf was hammering her with his axes. Irelia saw Max as an easy target and dashed to him before stunning him. She showed her mastery of the Hiten style, piercing through Max's armor. Her summoner ignited him so she let him be. As he put a knee on the ground, he saw her dash in the tight blue jumpsuit of her frostblade skin.
« Damn, that's a great ass, he commented.
- Man, you're so right, approved Shadow. Irelia, that dash.
- I forgot you can hear my every thoughts.
- Don't blame me, dude. You hit your six!
- Time to roll! »
Capturing the heat around Irelia, Max freeze her to her core. She slowed down and Olaf get away with his life while Max get back up and drank a potion. The two warriors engaged each other, but the amount of damage Max output due to her frozen skin simply destroyed her. In a matter of second, she fall to her knees, barely standing. The cold of the storm finish her and Max recall safely to the base. He finished his Wit's end and went back to his lane.
« An enemy has been slain. »
By the time he arrived, Tryndamere was already destroying the blue team tower with Ahri. Not letting them time to finish the job, Max engaged with a spin attack, clearing the minions and letting the enemy exposed to turret shoots. Tryndamere was targeted by the defensive building and was forced out of range and Ahri followed him. Max grabbed Tryndamere and brought him back under the tower and finished him with a basic attack.
« An enemy has been slain. »
He then move on to Ahri. He used his basic attack to slow her down. He arrived at melee range, but she counterattacked with an orb of deception followed by her foxfires. Not wanting to die alone, Max stabbed her many time and Shadow ignited her. The orb came back and Max died, but the extra damages of the ignite brought Ahri down with him.
« An ally have been slain. Double kill! »
« Well, Shadow started, not so bad.
- Thank you. Man you ignite like a pro.
- It's my job to be a pro! I mean, I want to get Challenger one day!
- And trust me, I help you achieve that goal, even if I'm ban due to over poweredness!
- Thank you, Max. You're a friend!
- You too, body! Now, how about a Nashor's toot! I lack damage!
- Nice! Time to one shot that sexy fox! Only problem, you don't even have the money to afford an amplifying tome.
- We'll remedy to that problem. Direction enemy tower! »
He respawned and run mid lane to finish his opponents' mid tower. Ahri was nowhere to be found, not top lane, nor mid lane. He didn't complain and finish the job.
« You're team has destroyed a turret. »
The Elemental continued to farm and push the lane and intentionally exposed himself to gank, but he wasn't concerned at all because Elise just counter jungled the enemy team's blue camp and was now doing the same to the purple side wolves. Tryndamere came rushing from his red camp and spin toward Max. The young man side stepped and Elise repel to the barbarian and they beat him like a drum, but the barbarian king was so fueled with anger that he refused to die. For five second, the duo tried desperately to dodge the cleaving sword before Elise finished him with a venomous bite.
« An enemy has been slain. »
« Max, Elise shouted at him, follow me to the dragon, Sarah and Morgana just forced Ezreal and Janna back to their base.
- Right behind you! »
The four members met in front of the dragon's liar and engaged the beast. The fight was rough for everyone, and quite burning to. The whole gang got out of there half health, except Sarah Fortune who stayed back and took only one dragon breath, burning a piece of her boots. The fire was so hot that Max's armor melted a bit on his arms and one of his chains' link totally melted, sending the scythe over the wall.
« Is everyone all right? Elise asked the group.
- Yes, me and Morgana are all right, Fortune answered.
- I'm fine, part of my armor melted, but over all I'm fine, Max answered too. I'm just going over the wall getting back my scythe, coming with me Elise?
- Sure thing, lead the way.
- Are right! he said while throwing a seed over the wall, the seed grew to become a vison ward and revealed a reckless Ezreal with a red buff.
- Hey! That's my red! Get him!
- Yes ma'am! »Max finished as he threw his remaining scythe at the blond.
The two fall on the carry. The blond scream and arcane shift away from them. Max attacked him with one weapon while Elise bombarded Ezreal with neurotoxin and spiderlings. The Prodigal Explorer counterattacked with mystic shots and essence flux while dodging with arcane shifts. Elise dodge shat she could while Max took everything head on, his thick armor protecting him from any major arm. Finally, Ezreal was taken down by Elise who got her red buff back.
« Ah! Here it is! Max exclaimed when he picked up his missing weapon.
- Thank you for the help, Max, she thanked him.
- No prob, I'll just recall. I'm in a pretty bad shape and I have gold to spend.
- Ok, see you soon! she finished, already heading to her golems.
- Shadow?
- Already on it! »
The Elemental returned to his base and bought a stinger along with an amplifying tome. Before heading back in the game, he took a moment to repair his broken chain. In a matter of seconds, it was like new. The whole team was back to base, preparing for a major push top lane. While they were fighting the dragon, Olaf managed to kill Irelia, but Tryndamere and Ahri where seen coming his way, so he didn't had time to finish the top tower.
« Ok, guys, Sarah started. Our objective is to put the two top towers down.
- On it ma'am! Max agreed.
- Thank for the help, approved Olaf.
- Elise, plant a ward in the bush near the river and Morg, plant one near Tryn's golems.
- Got it! the two said.
- All right, meet us there, the rest with me! »
The two tanks opened the march and Fortune followed them. As they arrived, the three enemies were desperately trying to push back the blue minions' waves. Max dashed forward and freeze them all in his storm while Olaf activate Ragnarok and bashed all of them, mainly Tryn, gods know why. Irelia managed to get away from the butchery but was quickly caught in Morgana's cage and Elise fall on her, finishing the job. They took down the first tower and Elise, Morgana and Fortune let the second to the two tank. Olaf and Max destroyed the remaining tower in les then thirty second and head mid to so the same.
In the jungle, they encountered Janna who came to help her team but arrived late. She tried to escape, but Max dashed and freeze her to dead. Before she died, he apologised for what he was doing. Arriving at the mid lane, Olaf tanked the tower while they took it down too. They both recalled and Max finished his Nashor's toot along whit his Berserker's graves. Next stop, Rabadon's Deathcap.
The bot lane finished the first tower, but the whole team fall on them and Ezreal got a double kill. Their first tower fall, along with the second before Olaf, Max and Elise arrived to stop them. They hold the enemy back the time Sarah and Morgana respawned and then it explode.
Sarah initiated with a bullet time and Morgana followed with a soul shackles. Olaf dived in the fray, along with Max who sap the heat from the air again. The two took most of the damages while Sarah killed them one by one, assisted by Elise and Morgana.
« Dragon everyone! called Olaf. Time to pay the lizard another visit!
- Now you talk! Max was right behind him.
- Come on ladies, we'll tank for you!
- If you insisted, Elise said, following their footsteps.
- Guess we have no choice, Morgana declared. Coming Sarah?
- Ok »
The second fight was less burning and less long. The dragon fall quickly and only Olaf and Max took damages. After a quick healing at the base, the two met their team at the baron Nashor's liar. Acid and blood spread in the river as they fight the master of the rift. At its dead, the baron spread a gas that increased the strength of those who inhaled it. After the epic fight, they launched another assault on the mid lane, taking down the last tower and the inhibitor. They encountered little resistance and continued the assault until they reached victory.
They were all teleported back to the summoning chamber were the traded handshakes and congratulations. Ezreal wall toward Max and asked him:
« Yo! Want to come to my house this afternoon? We have a little degustation of chesses and wines.
- Sorry, I can't, he answered sadly. Someone challenged me to a duel in about five minutes.
- Let me guess, Fiora Laurent?
- How did you know!?
- Simple, she challenged every new swordsman in the league in search of a challenging opponent to prove that the Laurent family made the best swordsmen.
- I see. Well, have good time tonight, and I may pass during the night, so keep me some chesse please.
- Sure! And good luck against Fiora, you'll need it.
- Thank you! »
The Elemental ran out of the summoning chamber, after taking back his cloths, and made his way through the institute. In less than a minute and half, he was out of the building, an exploit if you consider the hundreds of gods' forsaken stairs. Once he was outside, he didn't wasted a minute and ran toward the training ground. He opened the massive double door and entered the building were Fiora was supposed to face him.
Author's note: So this has been the second match, hope you enjoyed! As usual, remember you can fallow/favorite this story or my author's page. It's been the_elemental_QC, and stay turned for the next chapter, coming (I hope) soon.
