Chapter 13 – The Broken Exile Code

Le Blanc appears alive right in front of Talon`s cell surprisingly for her death announcement. Her first move was to pass through the metallic grates at him and cup his face. She has a deep urge to feel his flesh. Her fingers runs on his cheeks, through messy hair and landed on his shoulders.

As he was silent, so she was. They stood staring at each other. Her desire meets his hidden fear. Just like Katarina`s pleasure to see Talon that way, so Le Blanc feels turned on to see him beaten up and weak.

Though she sees him in a sexual way and never bothered to see him as friend. She broke up the tie with Swain and her real issues with Talon were for her own excitement. It was Swain`s fault to give her this first order. Now she is here to counter Swain.

All noxians were like this. They were two faced people. They fallow orders, but deep inside they fallow their reasons and break their honor for what they please. So like Talon, fighting between Du Couteau`s orders and his urge to find the secrets behind his missing... and Le Blanc, who is working under Swain when she pleases... and Katarina who shows her twisted young lady personality towards Talon... so like Swain, who used Talon`s in his matters, now he wants him dead... so like Cassiopeia, who got a nasty curse from dessert, but she wants to return there... so like Riven fighting to kill, yet opening a bar for peace days... so others like them...

Without saying anything, Le Blanc sets the noxian man free showing the keys.

"Why?" Talon gets up slowly gaining his forces to stand up.

"I spread the rumor that I died making them believe that I disappear from Noxus for a while. I knew nobody will believe me dead though." She chuckles but her attention was all on him. "You should go now. There is someone fighting for you out there." She shrugs, leaning on the opened cage. "...a friend." Le Blanc rolled her eyes.

"Where is Kat?"

"Katarina Du Couteau." She gasps annoyed by his overall sibling care. "Why you keep general`s secret and endure these for that girl?" Le Blanc knew what he was hiding from Katarina. It wasn`t her business, but it bothered her to see his favorite noxian young man dealing with Swain`s punishment.

"Just tell me!" He shout getting distance in the tunnel ready to leave anytime to save Katarina.

"Your friend dies if you don`t hurry." She didn`t refer to Katarina though, but she jumped over his question, wanting to see him more agitated.

"W-What?!"

"Better hurry." Le Blanc waves a flirtuos glance at him waiting him to run out of the noxian underground jail.

On the battle field, Darius had slain Riven`s forged arm. There was her blood drilling on the raw rocks mixing with the dust. Her face was half stained in blood and her dirty hair was imprint red. She couldn`t hold her sword anymore now and that arm was the one holding the ring from Yasuo. As she thought that war is more important than personal matters, she took her last minutes like a real warrior. Darius was hurt too, but he got held by Draven, who poses a sad expression at his brother. His real sadness might be Riven`s Easter bunny suit for the bar, but also Darius didn`t look too healthy after that fight.

"Riven..." He fights for air as he loses blood too. "Never understimate me." He growls holding his muscular stature on his brother`s shoulders. Though they were almost the same height, his armour was heavier.

"He..he... Darius... I shouldn`t broke the Exile code." She cough blood holding her body on the rocks with the left arm. "I only wish someone..." She couldn`t finish what she started and Talon came right there, holding her body with deep frightened eyes. "Talon..." She rises her one arm on his face, leaving a blood mark. "Isn`t it fun that I came to save you...?" She smiles in his heartbroken tearing lose.

He lowers his head on her chest hiding his cry out.

"The Exiled code said to not handle a sword after you are exiled. I did. I guess this is my punishment... Don`t cry, Talon. This is what friends do for friends..." She gasps petting his hair as his head was breathing in her raged clothes. "Do you remember old times in the slums? We used to share same piece of bread and fight together those dumb merchants to gain something..." She giggles a little while her eyes faces the hidden sun. It wasn`t cloudy, but the air seemed dusting around them, making the sun pale almost absent. "Back then, I cared of you as my little brother... You remembered about me when you left Du Couteau house... and came to see me... and payed for Yasuo`s drinks at my bar..." Talon could be heard chuckling at the last remark. It is funny that she remembers such things in her last moments. "Talon..." She paused thinking about Yasuo. This was for real and so he understood it.

"Mhm. I got it." Talon lifts his teary eyes to see her probably the last time. This made him an elite assasin and also underground spy. This is how he got Swain`s bad eyes on him.

"So your name is Talon, huh?" Draven was still there holding bleeding and almost fainted Darius. His arrogance wasn`t real, but he was more suspicious on him. He knew he saw this man wearing a hoodie all the time in the bar and almost being a persistent ghost.

"..." The noxian blue hoodied man didn`t mind bother with the two right now. He knew he can`t oppose the military general`s authority. Riven dared as an exiled and now she is on the death bed not literally.

The rocks under her looked as hard as iron parts. "Talon... I regret killing people in the noxian war. I can`t be spared now, but I`m happy to face the deads in the afterlife..." She smiles to the empty sky pleased with the end.

"Riven...!" He closed his eyes unmanly to let his tears fall over her face. "I will talk with Yasuo for you! I will let him know about your noxian honor! I will...!" Her eyes stopped fighting to blink. "I will...! Damn!" He roars in pain hugging her body. His previous physical pain in the prison was nothing compared to the lose of his childhood friend. "Damn you, Darius! I hope you`ll burn in hell!" The noxian assasin shouts fiercely enough to be heard by the two soldiers and also brothers.

"He will go there anyway." Draven sighed. He was used to see dying people, but this time Riven was a waste. He liked her bunny tail back when she ruled the bar. "Well, Talon... I shall take him to the infirmary now. He`s still alive... but he lost blood..." The mustache pimp looks over his shoulder at fainted Darius with a tired face, still waiting Talon`s approval. But he was too devastated to answer and Draven`s voice was annoying enough for his ears at that moment.

In Demacia, the war was near. They didn`t know what just happened in Noxus front line, so they were leading to the war. Their souls were strong and everything that reminded them about the peace days in Riven`s bar was over. As Riven died, the illusion of peace was broken again.

"Garen, don`t dream about that noxian woman. She might or might not come to the war this time." Xin was patting his friend`s armored shoulders as they reached the place were they should set the camp.