Hello people! Author is here again. Did you enjoy chapter 2? The story progresses a little slower because everything has to be made clear. We wouldn't want a story full of holes, would we?
Yeah I'm rambling on about nothing, this is just here because... well... whatever.
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"Are you sure? It was me?" Ezreal asked questioningly.
"Yes, it was you, at the current time anyway. So? You don't want me to be in the front lines?"
"No, Lux, I want you to leave the war altogether."
"And leave my proud nation to die? Not a chance."
Ezreal closed his eyes. No matter what happens, he will have to convince her. He didn't come back 5 years to not do anything. He has to save her.
"All I wanted to do was save you, Lux. I waited 5 years to come back to you. Listen to me, Lux, please. It broke my heart that you died tomorrow. I went on years, missing that one cheery person in my life. Lux, please, listen to me this one time, I can't lose you again, my heart can't handle it."
Ezreal opened his eyes again, walking toward Lux, kneeling down when he reached a respectable distance.
A few seconds of silence went by.
"Ezreal... I can't leave my home country... not my brother, not Jarvan. Losing them would only shatter my heart."
Ezreal couldn't handle this. He wanted Lux to listen to him. Demacia loses it's war against Noxus. Trying to stop Jarvan or Garen would be no use... they fight for their country. They had nationalism.
"Ezreal, leave, I can't listen to you anymore, my head hurts and I need to think."
Ezreal didn't move.
"Ezreal, leave."
But still, Ezreal just stayed in the same position.
Lux started dragging Ezreal to the door.
Getting there, she pushed Ezreal as much as she could out of the door.
"Lux.. I-I won't leave you. I love you!" Ezreal confessed as the door closed in his face.
Drat! He would have to stop her somehow. But how?
Yasuo ran swiftly through Ionia till he saw the woman who killed his elder... talking to... him?
Leaning on a nearby tree, Yasuo stressed his ears to listen.
"It... it was me, Yasuo."
"It couldn't have been anyone else. You... you made me kill my brother."
"I know, I heard, and I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... I was just following orders from Noxu-"
*Clap noise*
"My brother meant everything to me! Everyone in Ionia blamed me! Me! Because the killer used a wind technique! It was all your fault. I had to set things right, used my sword against my own people, called a traitor and every single derogatory word you can think of!"
The Yasuo behind the tree rubbed his forehead with his fingers. He remembered what happened now. But what was the woman's name?
"I will never forgive you, Riven. Never."
The angered Yasuo sprinted away.
Riven. Yes, that was her name. Looking again, Yasuo saw that his past self had left. And Riven was on the floor with her hands to her eyes... crying?
"H-hey," he managed, walking out of his hiding spot.
She continued crying, producing muffled noises.
"Riven?" he asked again.
She looked up, and Yasuo noted that the right side of her face had a big red hand mark on it. He slapped her that hard?
"W-why did you come back? P-please don't h-hurt me."
That's not her personality... she was a strong woman...
"Y-you already beat me in a one on one duel. You don't h-have to hurt me more right? My face st-still burns."
She resumed crying.
Seeing such a strong figure crying, it hurt Yasuo's heart. But he can't explain to her that he was not his past self. She would never believe him, not after how he hurt her...
"H-hey Riven, there's a war tomorrow between Demacia and Noxus..."
This caught her attention as her crying slowed and she looked up.
"This is going to sound weird..." Yasuo muttered. "But can you not participate in it?"
"Um..." Riven looked around, unsure what to say.
Yasuo walked closer.
She jerked back.
"Look Riven, I'm not going to hurt you," Yasuo said, glancing at a nearby tree. This was getting awkward.
Finally believing him, she stood up, still confused to what was happening.
Yasuo looked back at her, observing that she's wearing usual Ionian clothes with two large pieces of armor on her shoulders. "Say, Riven, why are you fighting for Noxus in this war anyway? I thought you exiled yourself and went to Ionia..."
Riven opened her mouth to say something, but closed it after second thought.
"That's the problem, no one knows that I'm going to volunteer to fight for Noxus except the person who hired me," she said finally.
"You're getting paid?"
"Well... you kind of won me in that duel and took all of my gold, so... Swain came up to me and said I could have top payment if I was to join Noxus for the war."
Swain? Yasuo remembered. He was the cocky commander of all the generals in Noxus. He was a mastermind.
Remembering that he had to help Ezreal, Yasuo quickly made up a decision.
"Riven, meet me here tomorrow, I don't have time to explain why, but just don't go fight in the war, I'll find you some gold that you can use..."
He wasn't going to lose her again.
"Um... you can just give me the gold you won from me an hour ago..."
Yasuo let out a false laugh.
"That's going to be my bounty," he said, quickly forming up words to fit the situation.
"Well, alright then, I'll see you tomorrow."
Yasuo nodded a thanks and ran off.
Ezreal would need his help. The explorer specifically said he couldn't save the person he cared for if Yasuo didn't help.
Yasuo hoped he wasn't too late.