Chapter 7 – Riven`s Bar
In the same statistical chamber of Swain, now an extreme elegant woman resembling a magician assistant was moving from place to place thinking. Swain`s face looked enlightened by a female presence only by his glimmering eyes.
"So you are not responsible for the general Du Couteau`s fade-away?!" The woman was impatient.
"Le Blanc, I thought you are smart. They seem tracking me, so I want you do something for me." He was calm wearing the same mask over his nose as his bird stood on his shoulder support batting wings.
"Is that so? Why am I indebted to you now?" She rises her eyebrow. Even if she wore strident makeup, her age could be estimated around age forty. Though her thin body shaped her pretty attractive.
"Mhm. You will like what I indebted you already." His laugh was sick and tedious.
"Ugh.. Okay?" She wanted to listen more, but she thought it might be a fun thing. After all they were former members of Black Rose. They had good times together, but something happened and he left for military and she took the leadership of the organization all by herself. Still they are plotting together things.
Swain drops his laugh into a raw cough. "Anyway what else do you know about the rest of Du Couteau family?"
"Oh, right. Did you hear that? Cassiopeia Du Couteau got an ugly curse from Shurima desserts. Imagine the most beautiful woman of Noxus turned into a... snake." Le Blanc giggled behind her hand starring outside the window where a lot of birds were crowded on the winter sky.
"Snake?"
"Yeah. Half woman, half snake." On her face could be read pleasure and feminine jealousy. "I should feel bad for feeling good, but my youth will never return." Her mouth was cured into a grin as Swain gets up from his chair and comes to watch the sky with her.
Meanwhile, Riven started to feel wealthy counting the money over the stand. Her eyes were shinning when the door opens. How unlucky could she be in past to be part of Noxus war against Demacia when she could open this bar long time ago. Her Christmas Santa outfit fitted her perfectly. Even if she was old enough having time to get exiled after joining the Noxian army, her bare arms didn`t seem too visible. Now that her large sword got broken, she sealed it away from her warrior instincts.
"Greetings!" The gray haired woman gets up and invites the wanderer. "How have you been, Yasuo?" She giggles with half of her mouth knowing that the ionian got exiled too and he was broke.
"Hey, Riven." He takes a seat at Talon`s table knowing that he uses to stay in the same dark spot of the bar. "I still don`t get why you wear a hoodie inside the bar."
Talon sighs noticing Yasuo wasn`t sober. It was like he was drunk all the time. "I thought I told you yesterday and the day before, and a week ago..."
"Yeah... But you know I forget unnecessary things."
"Stupid drunktard."
Riven just comes at their table with a plate with two beers and definitely a nice girl expression asking for who is gonna pay. "How are you doing, guys?" She slaps Talon`s shoulder laughing innocently but with a noxian brute force. His face gets shady under the blue hoodie and pays for Yasuo`s drink.
"All for me?" Yasuo giggles in front of the two beers, patting Talon`s shoulder.
"I`m gonna kill you, Yasuo." Talon got a grotesque stare over the ionian, but no one batted an eye. Riven got her money and Yasuo got the drinks.
As they use to make a funny trio, the door opens again and Demacia`s Garen came in forcing his strong shoulders on the shaped door. In his back could be seen Xin Zhao.
"Hi." He saluted those who were already inside.
To Talon`s luck, his noxian uniform looked pretty ordinary and the bar wasn`t a fighting place. All his attention was on the certain demacian. Not like he was worried about Garen, but Talon checked with his eyes to see how the demacian`s past wounds healed. Everybody in Noxus feared the new hired military general only by his evil presence and those eyes. So getting in his chopping axe, would be practically impossible to get out alive. Unless you are a big mass of meat like Garen was. Therefore Garen could hang with his friend to have a drink, so in Talon`s mind it was alright.
Yasuo noticed his hoodied friend attention falling over the demacians who just entered the bar, but ignores it pretending to be drunk in his bliss.
At the bar, Riven noticed undercover people working for the Black Rose. Sometimes even the military general and his brother. Demacians didn`t seem to bother with noxians. Even there was war, they just used to see each other`s faces, so it was something ordinary for them.
But Riven couldn`t forgive Darius face. That scary and always grunted expression intimates her, while his brother, another one who loved to drink like Yasuo tries to flirt with her anytime he sees her. Why? Because after the winter was gone, the sprint brought the Easter. Her outfit was a playboy bunny. As much as Yasuo wanted to not look at her bunny bun, his eyes always slipped.
"What is it, Yasuo?"Riven laughs in his face bringing him another beer.
"I... I was just wondering... if you are free... this weekend?" He was too drunk to link the words and his reddish checks made Riven think he is just drunk.
"No, I am not. And Draven asked me the same thing."
"That one?" Yasuo hiccuped trying to points with a finger in the air after Draven. Riven laughs at his dizzy focus petting his bushy hair. His tired head falls on the table, while Riven pretends to not see this happening.
As Demacia and Noxus took a break from fights and Jarvan`s soldiers started to hang out late at Riven`s bar, in Demacia Jarvan was guarding the girls. The beautiful Sona were singing for him and Poppy was delighting the Easter candies and chocolate giving an avarice look at the others so no one can steal her sweets.
That spring was relaxing. In their Fortress, a stray dragon lady joined Demacia. Just like Poppy did a while ago. As Poppy noticed Jarvan`s eyes on the dragon girl, she always growled when all of them were hanging through the demacian gardens.
"Beware, Shyvana. He is the prince." Poppy was hanging on her tail trying to catch up with them because of her short yordle legs.
One night at Riven`s bar, Katarina arrived rained from the outside. She heard about that place, but this time the rain made her to come in. Not like Katarina enjoy such places, but she was forced by surroundings.
Riven appears fast offering her a seat, while her inner self was laughing so bad about the noxian girl. She remembered that she was Talon`s spoiled sister and she knew that there will come someone to pick her up. For example Draven.
"Hello, baby." He popped at Katarina`s table posing as a flirt. "May Draven entertain you?" Katarina ignores him wanting to order something, but Draven continued annoying her. "I bet you will look good in a bunny suit." And so he continued talking over Riven who wanted to take the red head`s order. "Oh, how about a sexy cat girl?" Katarina was at her limits. The annoying noxian with a funny mustache pissed her enough. She got up ready to shout at him, but Darius appeared in his back and she stopped and stared at his impetuous presence.
No one knew Talon was there, so he came from behind and takes Katarina at another table. She didn`t bother asking a thing as the hoodied man dragged her with him. Still her eyes were looking after Darius and so he was staring in her back.
"What is it, bro? Do you know that chick?" Draven didn`t know what just happened, but his curiosity drove him to ask.
"Mhm. Yeah." Darius replayed dry.
Katarina stood silent near the hoodied man in noxian uniform, till her curiosity made her slap his leg. "You! Buy me a drink if you hooked me!" She growls like a man.
"Damn. I thought my disguise was good enough..." He tilts his head allowing his face to be seen a little.
"T-Talon?!" She didn`t know it until he started to spoke. She was surprised to see him there, but she couldn`t let her guard down in front of him just there. "Buy me a drink." She pretends mad crossing arms.
"Ah... Here we go again." He remembered that he is used to pay for others drink. It was his daily routine to pay for Yasuo and now Katarina joined in too. At least he had enough money working for Swain from time to time, so he wasn`t a parasite like the exiled ionian.