Chapter 4
Soraka and Sona were engaging in a stroll. Although it was a little early, this would be the best chance they had to relax together. They have had many walks together and shared many of their struggles. That's why when they heard Warwick howl from the direction they were heading, Sona immediately took a turn down a different hallway.
"Wait, didn't you want to see if Sky was in his office?" Sona could hear the hesitation in her friend's voice.
She shook her head before playing her instrument. "We can come back later. He will probably be gone by time we arrive."
Soraka smiled before saying "thanks". Sure, she was protected by the League, but being around someone that wants to kill you isn't always fun.
They left the building and took a lap around the campus before returning. When they made it to his room, what they saw shocked them.
They saw Sky sitting with his back to the wall in a small pool of blood. He had large claw marks that were deep across his chest and stomach. A hand was being shakily lowered to the damaged area that contained a flickering flame.
When he noticed that he was being watched, the flame disappeared instantly. He turned his head slightly and gave an exhausted smile. He attempted to speak, but blood was expelled instead of words.
Sona had dealt with this many times in the League. Being mainly played as a supporting player, she had to help heal and protect others who might be facing similar pain. Sometimes that meant giving away her life. She had died hundreds of times in brutal ways only to respwan soon after. She had forced the fear back by telling herself that every person she saw die would be alive again.
Soraka on the other hand had lots of experience helping others on and of the league. She immediately went into help mode. Rushing over to Sky, she began to look for possible internal damage. When she found no immediate signs, she summoned a healing symbol under him. One of his wounds started to close up slightly. She castes her spell a few more times before calling over to Sona. "Sona, we need your healing song now."
Sona was suspended in her spot. She was looking at a dying man that wouldn't comeback a minute later. The thought alone paralyzed her in fear. The sight was enough to make her want to run.
Her sight grew dark as she began to lose consciousness She felt her magic fail her as she began her short plummet to the ground. When she opened her eyes a few seconds later, noticed a yellow shield was around her. It had protected her from the fall. It dissipated a few seconds as she turned to look at Sky, doubled over in pain, hand still extended in her direction. 'Did he do that?' She thought.
After Soraka snapped out of her surprise, she turned back to her patient. She raised her hand to cast another heal but was stopped by the man below her.
"Crystal" he said in a raspy voice before pointing across the room. Once Soraka found and grabbed it, she felt a huge flux of power inside her. Walking over to the battered man, she cast her spell again. This time, all the wounds started to heal at an extremely accelerated rate. Within less than a minute, he was completely fine.
"Thank you so much" said Sky as he tried to get up. He felt his legs weaken as he leaned on the healer and the approaching maven.
"Careful. You might be healed, but you still lost a lot of blood." She took a glance at the item in her hand before continuing. "Where did you get something that can spike you magic strength like this?"
Sky had managed to stand up on his own. "A friend gave it to me. Either way, it's not important. Let me clean your cloths really quick."
They hadn't noticed at first, but when he fell on them, parts of their bodies were covered in his bountiful shade of red.
Sky plucked the crystal from the hand of the star child. Before any advice of warning was given, a white light began to grow in the room. "Cleanse" After a few seconds, the glow died down reveling that all signs of violence had vanished. It had even cleaned the floor where he laid bleeding before.
Soraka tried to protest, but was cut off by the sounds of the etwahl. "You didn't have to do that. When you caste that barrier to protect me from the fall, you looked like you were in a lot of pain."
He smiled at her concern. "True, I exhausted my personal mana pool earlier. So when I cast that spell, I depended on my already fleeting energy. Don't worry though. After all that healing, my polls of strength were renewed. I feel like years were added to my life."
She gave a guilty look before a lower tone rang through the instrument. "Sorry for freezing up earlier. I'm not comfortable with seeing people in pain outside the league matches."
"It's not your fault. Things like this are scary. It's the person's fault who did this."
"Who exactly did this?" Soraka asked, already forming a good guess.
"Warwick" he said. "He entered into my office and started beating me up. He said something about staying away from the League women. After I questioned his more…personal motives he tried to kill me. I burned him, he slashed me, and here we are. Be careful by the way. He said his transformation might not need Soraka's heart."
"That's great!" Soraka said. "Why should we be worried?"
"Because he said the heart of someone pure might complete his morphing." He glanced at Sona, who visibly shivered in response. "It shouldn't be too big of a deal though. Once the summoners hear about this, they will not let him get away with it."
"You're letting him get away with it?"
Sky had run over to the main hall and requested the head summoners immediately. Lucky, they had just gotten off of a scheduled meeting. After telling the story with great detail, they responded in a way he hadn't expected.
"He is not getting away with anything." The first summoner said. "He will answer for what he did. Probation from the league is just not an option we are heavily considering."
"He threatens to kill some of the champions, mocks you openly, and then makes an attempt on my life. How is that not enough?" Sky said while keeping his composure.
The second summoner spoke. He was the eldest of the three. "That will be addressed. Your injuries were not fatal because of the gift we gave you. The other two issues had not been carried out in any way by him yet."
"Do not try to disguise this. The only reason he is not her in chains is because he is a champion." Seeing the first two were ignoring his pleas, he turned to the third. A blonde girl a few years older than himself was staring back at him. "Please. I know it's been a while, but we were friends before the second war. You know that I wouldn't hold a grudge unless someone else was at risk."
She hesitated before speaking. "Once two of the council decides, it is final."
"But you're just as much of a member as they are. Why do you not state your own opinion?"
"It has been decided." The eldest said. "This topic is over."
Swallowing his frustration, he forced a bow. "If that is all" he said before exiting. The door abruptly slammed shut before he had a chance to leave.
"Actually" the first summoner said, "we would like to give you something before you left. We would also urge you to stay silent to anyone else about what happened." As he finished his sentence, a blue glow appeared to his right. After a few seconds, holographic body parts began to grow from the energy. When the formation had ended, a woman with a light blue tint appeared beside him.
Its voice had a heavy robotic accent. "Hello master. I am robot model-"
"Quiet" Sky said in a neutral tone. He turned to the three in front of him. "You plan to bribe my silence?"
"Incorrect" the older man said "We are ordering your silence. The robot was a gift straight from Piltover. We were planning to give you this sooner or later as a sign of appreciation, but we recently thought that it would be best to give to you now."
Sky had remembered that the three share a mental bond. This allows them to speak to each other even when they are engaging verbally with someone else. "Thank you for your kindness." He said before turning to leave.
"Wait" the old friend said to the slight surprise of the others in the room. "If I remember anything about you, it's that you're headstrong. Please be careful."
"Me? Not careful?" He said sarcastically. Sky gave her a wink before walking out, hologram in suit.
Sky left the room with a quickened pace. He couldn't believe they were ignoring the fact that Warwick was a threat. He took an attempt on his life and threatened the lives of others. Sure the mages are powerful, but even they miscalculate at times. Even they make mistakes. To think your powers are so strong that everyone will act perfect below you is just unrealistic.
"Master" the robotic voice chimed, "your stress levels appear to be high. It would be best if you could attempt to lower them."
He turned around to give the hologram an emotionless glance before taking a deep breath. Immediately his stress levels dropped. He continued to walk to his place, deep in thought.
It is probably best I let it go for now. 'Hopefully my interference didn't jinx anything. Jinx.' He sighed again to himself. He had not been able to tell the summoners about what happened with Jinx. Even though she nearly killed him and stole his first kiss, there was something about her. He couldn't quite place a finger on it, but the feeling was enough to hold his tongue.
He stopped moving, the hologram gliding around him before stopping in his path.
"What model are you exactly?" He asked in a serious tone.
"I am an H-12 model capable of 3 stage transformation."
"H-12" he said to himself, searching his head for info. After a few seconds, a bright smile appeared before being blocked out by a serious stare.
His feet walked more with purpose as they reached his door. They entered without a word. The a.i. searched the room casually, absorbing info from its new home. It turned around quickly after hearing a loud clank.
Sky had taken his shirt of as he stared blankly into space. She took the chance to study him more affectively. He wasn't completely ripped like most of the other champions, but his body was well toned and in shape. The robot then turned to the trash can to see the discarded torn cloths.
Sky then sat on the edge of the bed before speaking. "You said you had three forms correct?"
"Yes master. I can transform into a program that lets me connect to computers, a solid body, and the hologram you see now."
"Go into your solid form please." The robot complied, a blue light growing before her parts became an alloy. She finished reforming, now a solid being. She looked very similar to her previous form, now just make of metal.
Sky then motioned for the robot to sit on her lap. She ran possible scenarios in her head before responding. "Apologies master, but I am not that kind of service bot."
He merely shook his head and motioned again. "Yes master" she said as she sat on the edge of his knees. He quickly noticed the bot was a lot lighter than he expected. She stood nearly two inches below him at 5ft 10in and was made of metal. He shrugged it off as magic and continued.
Sky went to work, grabbing his favorite crystal from his pocket. He then focused for a moment before voicing "clairvoyance". Although he needed the crystal to use that spell, it by far had the least strain on his body. He kept the spell on, allowing him full view of what is inside of the robot.
An alert went off in the robots head when she felt the plate on her back come off. She noticed his hands moving past different chords. Suddenly, she felt a chip ejected from one of her cores. Something strange stirred within the robot. She had no understanding why, but she felt uncomfortable being so close to the shirtless man behind him. After feeling a nob being turned inside her, she spoke her displeasure.
"Master I...my voice." She paused. Her voice had lost almost all of the robotic tone that had been so prevalent before.
He kept silent, pulling another piece out before reaching into her neck and grabbing another. After he was done, he lifted all the removed items in the air before slamming them together. The parts were all delicate, so they broke with ease. His hand continued to glow as he lifted the broken parts up and into the trash across the room. She noted his body relaxing under her as he screwed the plate back to the rest of her body.
"Much better" he said in his nonchalant attitude. "Sorry about being so cold before. I just wanted to make sure you were clear before saying much." He gave the female robot a pat on the rear, letting her know he wanted to get up.
The contact made her shoot up like a rocket. If she had the ability to blush, she would be. "W-what did you do to me? Why am I suddenly able to feel these strange emotions?"
"A few things" he said, seemingly unfazed by her change in personality. "I removed all of the devices that were put in you to record me. This way, I can talk to you without worrying about what I have to say. Next, I changed your voice to a more feminine and less robotic one. It sounds nicer this was, but I can change it back if you want."
"No need." She said quickly. She had already grown to like her new voice. Wait, when did she learn how to like?
"I changed something else. You know, there is something special about the H series robots. Being worked on with magic along with science, they managed to perfect the ability for the robots to feel emotion."
She stared at him, unsure what to do. She felt almost overwhelmed with the new sensations talking hold of her.
"Soon after perfecting and shipping it, they deemed it unnecessary for robots to have. So all the H series implemented with this spell had it suppressed with a few parts. I simply removed the pieces stopping that."
He stood and took a step towards the robot. Panicking, she transformed into her holographic form. She gave him an uncomfortable glance before asking "Why? Why did you do this for me?"
He smiled as he responded. "I don't want a robot slave. I want a robot friend. A friend who can think for themselves and feel the same way we do."
'Friend' the hologram thought, visibly mulling over the word.
"Yeah, we are so friends now. You can call me Sky and I'll call you...ummmm...Susan!"
He paused before turning his head and continuing. "Sorry. You should chose you own-"
"I love it." She stated while smiling brightly. 'Susan. My name is Susan now.'
"I'm glad you do Susan." Sky said while laughing.
She smiled at his carefree laughing teen in from of her. 'He is a strange human. He feels concern for me when I am only a robot.' A feeling of happiness washed over her. 'He alone is making my opinion about humans change in more ways than one.'
After he finished laughing, he went to get a shirt. He came back out with a white t-shirt and the same jeans he had on before.
"Hey Susan" he asked. "Can you project the current league match on the wall over there?"
"Yes master. I mean...sure Sky." A beam pointed out of her hand and acted like a projector. After a few seconds of nothing, Summoners Rift appeared. What they saw shocked them.
Summoners Rift was in shambles. Fire was spread across the trees and the ground was littered with craters.
"The environment inside the matches should be indestructible correct?" The a.i. said with confusion plastered across her face.
Sky didn't hear her though. His attention was directed on one person only. He watched Jinx in an almost trancelike state, following her moves as she launched rocket after rocket at friend and foe. Her graceful art of anarchy was breathtaking to say the least. Something else was capturing his vision though. He saw it at certain intervals between her reloading and when she killed someone. He saw it when she laughed and smiled the hardest.
He saw her pain.
First of all, I would like to say thank you so much to everyone who has read/faved/commented/whatever. My favorite part about writing is knowing that others are entertained.
Second, I found my new favorite song today. It is called Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood. This doesn't really apply to the story but don't hate lol. Now that I think about it, I might just have a joke involving this song sometime in the future. It probably will not even be in this story, but I am going to add some of the lyrics to a random chapter of a random LoL fanfic in the future. Then there will be a like 3 people that are like "OMG, I tots remember this 3." I went on way too big of a rant there…
Last thing is that updates will actually be slowing down now. Like for real this time. Thx again and remember to log in so I can respond when you comment. Peace!