Becoming the Demon

Chapter 6

Now this is where it starts to get majorly fucked up.

"Well, thanks to you," I was half-asleep when the Summoner started talking to me. I sat up and blinked a few times, looking up at him. "Jinx is going to be fine."

"I did the best that I could with my limited knowledge of first aid." I pushed myself off of the chair and strapped my rifle around my chest.

"It was enough." I followed them Summoners to the Institute when they came to see what was going on, but I still don't know about what happened to Vi. "She's going to be out for quite a few hours yet, though."

"I imagine that there will already be rumours spreading." The Summoner chuckled and motioned for us to walk down the hallway.

"Do you have any idea about what could have happened to Vi?" I shook my head.

"All I know that after Heimerdinger showed us the crystal you gave him, it shattered into nothing. After that, Vi became physically cold, and stopped eating."

"Are you sure that it shattered into nothing?" He asked, a hand on his chin.

"I…I didn't see anything come out of it."

"Did Jinx say anything before we arrived?"

"Yes, actually. She told me that Vi had purple skin and gauntlets made of black bone before vanishing." I took my hat off and straightened my hair out. "I didn't see anything like that."

"Well, everybody knows how stubborn Vi is." The Summoner chuckled and put a hand on my shoulder. "Go and get some rest. We'll find her." I nodded and turned down the next hallway. Already, people were staring. Do rumours really spread that quickly?

"Hey, uh, Caitlyn?" Karma was the first to approach me. "You do know that your hands are covered in blood, don't you?" I looked at my hands and sighed. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, just tired."

"Shuba shuba!" Small, furry hands gripped one of mine, and I couldn't hide a smile for Gnar. "Maga!"

"What in the world happened?" Karma asked as Gnar climbed into my arms. Usually, I'd send him away, but I was just too tired.

"Jinx got injured, and I was the only person who knew first aid." I pulled my hair out of Gnar's mouth.

"What happened to her?" Shaco asked, appearing from nowhere.

"I… don't know. Nobody knows yet." I sighed. Nobody needs to know about Vi. "She's going to be okay, though." Shaco hid the look of relief with his trademark murderous grin and vanished again.

"Should he even be walking around like that?" Karma asked, covering her mouth to hide a smile as Gnar tried to chew on one of my armbands. I put him down and rubbed one of my eyes.

"I think he gets enough murder on the rift. But if you don't mind Karma, I'm quite tired."

"Oh, of course." Gnar climbed into her arms instead and started playing with one of her hair decorations. "Have a good night, Caitlyn."

"You too, Karma." We bowed to each other, Karma being careful with Gnar, and we both headed in different directions down the hall.

"Don't forget about the blood on your hands!" Oh, right. It was another five minute walk before I got to my room. I walked in, locked the door, and gently put my hat and rifle down on the table next to the door. My room is one of the bigger ones in the Institute, since I'm the highest-ranking champion of my city. I quickly washed my hands, changed into a loose shirt and sweatpants, and climbed into bed. Vi, what didn't you tell me?

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When I woke up, the breath I took felt like a first one. I think. The cold air shocked my system, and I started coughing, pushing myself up off the floor. Where the fuck am I? I'm… in a forest? What the fuck? I'm covered in blood, too. That really isn't a surprise at this point. The scars that looped around my forearms were deeper, this time. I really want to know what the fuck happens to me. I can hear running water. I pushed myself to my feet, which were still bare, and walked towards the source, checking the purple on my stomach. It's back to a small spot on my navel.

"Whoa…" I leaned over the bank and looked into the running water. My face was bloody in two streams, coming front two scars on my forehead. I pushed my hair up and rubbed one of the spots. I can't feel anything, why am I bleeding from there? My tank top was mostly red, too. Shrugging, I pulled if off over my head and looked it all around. For some reason, there were two holes in the back of it.

"Hello?" I looked around to a random guy, who then looked away quickly. "You're uh, not wearing a shirt."

"Oh, shit. Sorry." I pulled my tank top back on and stood up. "I'm good now." The guy looked like a farmer, with a horse and cart behind him.

"You're… ah, covered in blood. You're not one of those killin' types, are you?"

"Ah, no. This is all my blood." I hope. He still looked pale, and I don't blame him. "Where the fuck are we right now?"

"The northeast side of the Ironspike mountains." He pointed out. "About a mile that way, you'll get Freljord."

"Fuck, really?" He nodded. "I should be in Piltover right now."

"That's about 20 miles east, girl." I pushed my hair over to the right side of my head. And itched the shaved half. "Did you run all the way out here?"

"I… think so." I put a hand on a tree and checked the bottom of my feet. They're all scarred now, so probably. "Don't worry about me, though. I'll get back home quick enough."

"You're not wearin' much of anything, especially shoes."

"I've survived worse." I grinned. "You really don't need to worry about me, somebody's gonna come looking for me, if they aren't already."

"Well, alright." The guy walked back to his horse and climbed onto its back. "Good luck, girl." I waved him off, turned away from the dirt road, and stretched. Cait's gonna know that I'm lost by morning… but I told her to think of me as dead. Wait, dead… Jinx! What happened to Jinx?!

"Oh, how convenient…" I flinched again at the growling voice. "It's been a mere 6 hours, and the Summoners are in a panic about you."

"Hey, I'm panicked about me, too." I turned and grinned to Warwick. "Did they send you out here to find me?"

"Not entirely… I was out here looking for test subjects." The werewolf stood on his back legs. He's about my height.

"Wait, tell me something, do you know if Jinx is okay?" He raised one of his eye…ridges? Whatever. He raised one and huffed.

"Concerned?"

"Well, yeah. I think I attacked her." I scratched the shaved side of my head again.

"Did you, now?" Warwick sat down and scratched one of his ears. "Well, the Summoners are gonna want to know about this…"

"Don't want my blood?" I grinned, spreading my arms.

"You… seem to have enough of it on yourself." All over my arms, my face… Shit. I can feel it again.

"Warwick, back up." I hissed, gripping my stomach. It started to burn quicker and faster this time. "Back up!"

"What's the problem?" As the purple spread to my arms, he jumped back to all 4 paws and narrowed his eyes. "What is that?" I apparently didn't black out for long, since when I woke up again, I was on my back on the ground.

"What the fuck?" My stomach didn't burn, but it did hurt.

"Whatever… that was jumped at me." Warwick huffed. I pushed myself up and leant on one of my arms, brushing my fingers over the three new gashes on my stomach.

"I didn't mean to."

"I know." He sat next to me and adjusted his gauntlet. "I didn't poison you, but I did have to defend myself. So, you have my apologies for that."

"What happened to me?" He huffed again. I reached up to my forehead, jumping when I felt… something.

"Oh, uh, be careful with that." I just shrugged and snapped it off, cursing at the pain that shot through my head. "I warned you."

"Is that a fucking horn?!" I tried not to grip too tightly, but I was kinda majorly freaking out. "Warwick, what the fuck happened?!"

"You appeared to transform into a demonic kind of creature." I tried to push myself fully up, stopped my Warwick's claws. "Wait for your wounds to heal, at least."

"I'm fine." I shoved the… whatever it was into my pocket and rested on my elbows. "We'll call all of this water under the bridge, alright?"

"I'm not sure that I'm familiar with that saying." He grumbled, clicking his claws onto a screen. Probably calling the Summoners.

"It's kinda like… let's both just forget about it because we both did something stupid." Warwick nodded.

"Agreed." Then he looked away from the screen, swiped a claw over my still-healing stomach and licked the blood from it.

"What the fuck, Warwick?!" He did his weird grumble-laugh.

"Can't blame an opportunist." He leaned forward again and I pushed his hand away.

"Oh, of course." We both looked up at Summoner Law. "What happened this time?" Warwick and I looked at each other.

"She transformed into some demonic creature."

"Then he clawed whatever it was to get it the fuck away." Law's emotions were fighting between annoyed, interested, and concerned.

"Okay, okay…" Law held both hands up to us. "You are both coming back to the Institute."

"This one will need a locked off cell." Warwick said, pointing to me.

"You're a bitch." I said, getting a glare back.

"And you tried to kill me."

"I have claw gashes in my stomach!"

"Both of you!" Law called out. "We don't have time for childish arguments!"

"He's still a bitch." I said. Law just sighed and rubbed his forehead.

"Can you stand?" He asked. Warwick took this opportunity to start pushing me up. I think that the Summoner retched when the pooled blood splashed onto the grass.

"I think it'll fully knit up soon." And then the burning started.

"It's happening again." I heard Warwick grumble, uninterested and scratch his ear again as I gripped my stomach.

"What's happening?" Law asked, stepping back. Again, I didn't black out for long, and when I woke up, I was being held up in the air by Law. "Well, that's interesting."

"Hey, hey, it's me." He placed me down, the magic bubble popping. "How come I can't beat it back, but you guys can?"

"We'll have to find out." Waving a hand, he opened up a portal. "Warwick, if you please." The wolf jumped through, and I grinned at Law.

"Warwick didn't tell me much, is Jinx okay?"

"She'll be fine. I assume that wasn't you who attacked her?"

"No, it was that… demon… thing." He sighed. "I tried to tell her to go away, but she didn't."

"We'll ask her ourselves when she wakes up. She was lucky that Caitlyn was close by."

"Cait saved her?" He nodded.

"Come along, now. Before you transform again." I nodded and let him guide me into the portal. A few seconds of weird magic, and I landed next to Warwick, in front of a few Summoners. Most of them gasped.

"You're still covered in blood." Warwick said, and I rubbed some of it on my arm. "A lot of it is fresh, and it's driving me crazy."

"If you come any closer to me, we're going to have a huge problem." He did another grumble-laugh.

"We're going to need a special cell." Law scared me as he landed. "Vi is experiencing strange transformations that are not under her own will."

"Yeah, that's kinda what happened to Jinx." I scratched the shaved side of my head, and they all started to rush around. Warwick shrugged to me when I looked at him.

The mystery is unfolding! Also, side note, I updated my profile. It was 2 years old and hella dead.