Azir was sitting in the interrogation room of Piltover with Nasus and Sivir, with 2 police officers, Caityln and Vi, watching them. After his arise in the fallen ruins of Shurima, a man named Ezreal has led them to Piltover.

"So your telling me...that your a god and an emperor of a place of Shernia?" Vi asked, for about the 3rd time.

"Shurima. And yes." Azir replied. Patience. He told himself. Patience is a virtue.

Vi turned her attention to Ezreal. "Ezreal are you SURE you didn't bring back some crackpotted bird brain from your adventures? I mean his heads a damn bird! Maybe his brain's the size of one now too?"

Ezreal snorted. "Since when do I bring back things that aren't useful or magical?"

"Well I mean you did bring back a pink dildo last time, thinking it was an ancient magician's wand."

"You're telling me you didn't find it useful?"

"Touche, touche."

Vi never denied truth.

Caitlyn sighed. This was dumb and she had more things to deal with than just golden self-proclaimed mummy that clearly had a delusional disorder.

Caitlyn asked Azir. "Whats in the bag?"

"Sand." Azir said.

"Sand? What for?" Caitlyn asked, confused. Not only was this guy delusional, his head was probably filled with sand.

"I use sand magic."

Magic?! Mages were rare in Runeterra, only chosen ones at birth were able to learn magic. There was only one mage in Piltover, and they resided in Zaun. Sand mages used to be the most popular magic to learn, but after the fall of Shurima, the practice had died off and disappeared. Caitlyn didn't think anyone used sand magic anymore.

"Alright then, let me see it." Caitlyn said. She didn't believe that this guy could use magic, but she wanted to make sure. Letting a mage go out in Piltover could be like setting a god into a room full of religious people.

Azir shook his head. "No. My sand magic is not for entertainment. I must conserve my mana, for I am currently in a weakened state."

Ok, he wasn't a sand mage, just another delusional idiot. Caitlyn thought.

"Azir, if that's really your name, what are your intentions?"

Azir replied. "Well, I'd like to gather an army of followers first. Money is not an issue."

Sand magic was also known as magic of the wealthy, for it could transform sand into gold and pearls. But Caitlyn was 100% convinced that he couldn't use it, so she set the last part aside, and asks "Let's say you do bring Shurima back, do you plan to continue slavery?"

Azir scoffed. "Is that what the textbooks say about me? Does nowhere mention that I freed the slaves? Even before that I gave the slave's families a good amount of gold, educated their children, gave them 3 days a week to relax, and treated them like equals! Hell, my right handed man, my brother, was a slave..." Azir stopped. His brother was a traitor.

"Anyhow." Azir regained his posture. "I do not plan to continue slavery."

Caitlyn didn't show a single change in emotion. "Alright then, you, you're great great whatever child, and your big dog guy are free to go. Try finding a job first."

Vi put her hands behind her head and leaned back, stretching. "Welp. If that's all, I'm out. I just got a message from a police officer in Zaun that 2 buildings got blown up. It's probably Jinx again. Gotta go deal with her shit now, Ezreal nodded. "I have to head back to Demacia too. I have some matters there."

Ezreal nodded. "I leave this man in your care now. I must leave now too, I have matters in Demacia."

Vi smirked. "Lux?"

"Shut up."

As Azir left the building and headed outside, he took a good look at the City of Progress. There were people of different races, the buildings were all up to date, the whole city gave off the air of progress. Everything was beautifully clean, and the city probably looked like a star to the stars in the night sky. It truly was a well done place.

"Hoo, this place really is clean." said Sivir, who had only experienced the life of crime and thievery.

But Azir was an emperor, and he knew that for every great city there is a impoverished one behind it. As he saw Vi walking out, now wearing these gigantic gloves, with an unknown man, Azir walked up to her. Vi paused and looked up at him.

"What do you want, big bird? Go play in the sand or something. The playground has a sandbox, its around 3 blocks from here, to the left."

Vi said. "I got shit to do."

"Wait." Azir said. "Bring me to Zaun. Those people drift around each day without a purpose, having their lives compromised everyday. They are poor and impoverished. A nation cannot only have one side wealthy, this nation will not stand, no matter how powerful or wealthy this side is. As an emperor, it irks me to see this."

Vi sighed. This guy is a mess of work. "Alright alright, big guy, you can follow me to a certain point. If you die in Zaun, don't resurrect again just to haunt my ass. Try anything funny and me and Jayce will shove some big hextech weapons up your ass, got it?"

"Ready to blow some shit up?" Ekko asked Taliyah.

Taliyah had left home at the age of 14 and learned to control her magic powers from Yasuo for around 2 years, but when she returned home, she had found her village captured by Noxus. As such she now resides in Zaun, to find information about Noxus and save her family. She has now been living with Ekko for the past year.

Ekko had found Taliyah the night his last parent, his mother, had died from the air pollution in the factory she worked in. The sad Ekko was quite surprised when he found this strange outsider lost in Zaun. Her money had been stolen and she was clumsy as hell. She clearly knew nothing about Zaun, and so Ekko took her in to prevent some more dangerous stuff from happening to her, and hoped that she wouldn't see Zaun as trash like the Piltover people did.

Now that they live together, they get closer everyday, and Jinx had started to fade from Ekko's mind.

"Of course, " Taliyah said. "Although why are you carrying green spray paint? That wasn't part of the plan."

Ekko smiled mischievously. "You'll see."

The target was a couple abandoned buildings near the outskirts of Zaun. These buildings took taxes from the Zaunites and provided no use as they were too old, dirty, and fragile. If Ekko destroyed them, new ones could be built in place and Zaun would no longer have the burden of paying for them, plus the bonus of government having to pay Zaunite workers to rebuild a new building. Only problem was, this was the first time Ekko was doing something this large of a scale, and not grabbing attention of police while doing it will be complicated. But they had planned this out for a couple nights now, and there was no going back.

Taliyah casually walked by a police force form Piltover as he headed toward the narrow alleyway that led to the abandoned building. When the police looked at her, Taliyah casually smiled, nodded at the her, and kept walking. While Ekko's name and face was quite well known throughout Zaun, no one knew about Taliyah.

Little did the police officer know that Taliyah had grabbed her attention in order for her not to notice Ekko hopping between the rooftops above her. Ekko was an expert climber now that Taliyah had taught him how to scale rocks.

Unfortunately for Ekko, there was oil on one of the edges of the rooftop and he slipped and fell off. Normally this would be a huge problem, but Ekko merely rewinded and started again. It was nice having infinite tries.

Once they had reached the abandon buildings, they set their plan in motion. They knew that the moment the buildings collapsed, the police force would be over there in seconds. They also knew that there were police strolling around these buildings. Taliyah could've used her magic to collapse the buildings instantly, but that would mean the destruction of the land, and that would make it impossible for new buildings to be build. So Ekko had prepared some hextech explosives in advance, rigged so that they all detonate at the same time.

Taliyah thought they only had one chance, but Ekko knew better and so he was more relaxed. You can't get work done if you're too tensed up. Taliyah knew Ekko could rewind himself back to previous positions, but she did not know Ekko could rewind time itself. It was not as if Ekko didn't want to tell her, it was more like he didn't exactly have proof. It didn't really matter anyways, Taliyah wouldn't notice. The thought of that made Ekko feel lonely because it mean't that he was truly alone in this world, but he could have those depressing thoughts later. He had business to do right now.

After sneaking around the first officer, Ekko planted a bomb in the dumpster behind one of the buildings. Signaling Taliyah a thumb's up, Taliyah used her rock magic to scale up a second building where she placed a bomb on the second floor. 2 more buildings to go. These two was where the police officers were currently sitting at. Despite Ekko not liking the Piltover people, he knew that he shouldn't kill them. Detonating the bombs while the police officers were around them could end in casualties. Ekko wasn't like Viktor, killing people to get his way. He needed them to leave the area.

Ekko sprinted past them, turned around, and stuck his tongue out. Recognizing him instantly, the officers got up to chase him. Ekko turned back and sprinted as fast as he can. It's up to you now, Taliyah. He thought.

Taliyah placed the remaining bombs where they were supposed to be stationed at and left immediately. As she scaled one of the rooftops of the buildings there were not supposed to explode, she chucked a pebble at one of the officers chasing Ekko. After Ekko saw that one of the officers got struck, he knew it was time to detonate the bomb.

There was a loud BOOM, but the people of Zaun didn't even care. They were used to Ekko and his daily squabbles with the police, Jinx and her constant terrorism, and Viktor with his failed experiments leading to a loud bang somewhere in Zaun.

After the buildings had been scattered, Ekko re-winded himself back to a spot he was at. After memorizing the biggest piece of rubble and which part of the building it came from, Ekko hit the time rewind button, rewinding all the way to the point where the bombs have not been set yet.

Ekko sneaked up to the spot where he knew the big piece of rubble came from, and took out his spray paint. He wrote the phrase "Out with the old, in with the new" so that Jayce, whom he knew would be there, would recognize it was his doing. Taliyah looked at Ekko in confusion and awe and said "How do you know the message won't be hidden in rubble?"

Ekko smiled mischievously once more.

"Let's just say I can see the future."

"Swain! This is urgent news. "

Xerath stopped talking when one of Swain's soldiers burst into the room.

"Katarina and Talon have escaped!".

Swain rubbed his forehead and sighed.

"It was bound to happen, those two are Valoran's best assassins."

Xerath was now concerned. People who Swain acknowledged were all but a few and if they get in the way that would be troublesome.

Xerath asks Swain: "Swain. Who are these two?"

Swain looked up at Xerath. Xerath might not have a face, but Swain could hear the worry in Xerath's tone. Xerath didn't like surprises or sudden outliers in his plans.

"Don't worry. They shouldn't pose too much of a threat. They're just looking for their father, whom betrayed Noxus and left the nation. Since their father betrayed, I was afraid they would too as they were loyal to their father, not to Noxus. So I locked them up. Even if they are skilled, they are no more than assassins, and even if they join Demacia they cannot turn the tide of this battle. Besides, I'm pretty sure they still hate Demacia, so they shouldn't do anything to our plan. The only place they will head will be towards Zaun, and I have connections there to stop them anyways."

Xerath felt a bit more relieved. "And Cassiopeia?" Cassiopeia was also a sibling of those two. She was the one who freed him and brought him here. Renekton shifted on his seat. It seems as if he is attracted to Cassiopeia. Strange, he should only feel rage and anger at his brother. If this emotion becomes a problem, Xerath was unsure if he could kill Renekton, a companion he was trapped with for a millennium.

Swain waved his hand "Cassiopeia is loyal to Noxus. She will kill her sister if commanded so without a second thought."

Xerath fell a second wave of relief. "Shall we continue to discuss our plan of attack?"

We are among two of the best tacticians in Runeterra, commanding one of the ruthless and strongest armies. Whatever we plan, Xerath, thought, we would be unstoppable.

Zed's head hurt from the sea sickness of the boat. He had never traveled out of Ionia, and so the waves and the rocking of the boat made it hard to meditate. It didn't help that Syndra was chucking dark spheres at the water causing bigger waves the shake the boat and water kept constantly splashing his masked face. A drunk Yasuo playing his flute with incorrect pitches, making it sound like a dying, screeching, bird that clearly had vocal issues.

"Can you guys like, not?" He asked.

Shit, he never felt so weak and sick ever since his master laid him on a table and whipped his bare ass with a belt.

Suddenly a giant weird monster erupted from under the boat, almost tipping it over. It at least 100 meters big, and had around 7- no, 10 tentacles. Zed had never seen something so huge, except his disciple Kayn's ego. Zed assumes it's because Syndra had been plummeting the water with balls, disturbing such a giant creature. But Zed wasn't going to complain. Such a fight will clear his mind, and heck, he was getting bored anyways.

"Actually, go back to doing whatever you were doing." Zed tells them. "This one is mine."

Zed pulls out the two sharp shurikens slowly from his back, watching the creature menacingly. In one swift motion, he threw them at the beast's tentacles, cleanly slicing one tentacle into 3 parts. A shadow of Zed spawns from the shadow made from the sliced tentacles over each other, and he teleports there. Zed catches the shurikens he throws, and throws them at two other tentacles slicing them both into halves. The creature roared in pain and raised a tentacle to slap Zed off. Spawning another shadow at another tentacle, Zed teleports to catch one shuriken. He then jumps at the beast's face, using the blades on his arms to do a whirling slash. Zed spawns a shadow where his other shuriken was flying to and makes the shadow catch it, then throw it back to him. The beast rocks backwards, unable to do anything as Zed was about to make a finishing move.

But before Zed could make the finishing move, what feels like 5000 balls of energy come flying at him. If he didn't duck at the last second, his head of cleaning came off. Instead, the ball smashed the beast in the fast, leaving a gigantic bloody hole in the beast.

"Syndra! I told you this one was mine. Are you trying to kill me?"

Syndra rolled her eyes. "Yea, yea. I'm bored too you know. Smashing water with balls ain't fun."

She didn't deny the fact that she was trying to kill Zed. She and Zed have fought 10 times, and Zed spared her every time. The offer was tempting.

Yasuo grunted. "Well you guys are gonna have a lot of fun." He grapples the hilt of his sword.

Surrounding the boat was at least 20 of the beasts.

As Veigar approached the the Bandle city gate, he steeled himself for the hate he was about to receive. But to his surprise, the grand gates opened in open arms for him, and at the gate were his old friends. They smiled at him with open arms.

"Veigar, welcome home." They all cheered.

"How did you know I was coming?" Veigar asked, trying to restrain his tears. It would be bad on his reputation as a great dark mage to break down here.

One of his best old pals,Erwin, answered. "We yordles have connections. When we heard the stories about you being an evil mage, we knew it had to be false. Our ol' buddy was way too soft for things like that! Come, let us go celebrate. Oh, and who is this lady? Did you finally get a girlfriend?"

Veigar blushed. "No! She's just an annoying bitch."

Lulu pouted. "Hey! I saved your ass once!"

Veigar grunted. "Yea, but the only reason why I got in trouble was because I was coming to save yours."

Another friend, Lucy, chuckled. "Come, you can have your couple squabbles later."

As they walked down the streets of Bandle city towards a parlor, some turning to see the weirdly dressed Veigar, Veigar noticed a lot has changed. The city has improved. Impoverished places were rebuilt. While Veigar was happy about the new changes, he felt a sting in his heart for the old places he grew up with his friends.

As they headed to a parlor, a group of people surrounded Veigar, all asking him questions.

"Is it true? Is it true? That you're a mage?" Mage yordles were almost unheard of.

"What's the outside world like?'

"What are humans like?"

"What was Noxus like?"

Erwin and Lucy pushed the crowds away from Veigar and Lulu.

"Give them some space, they must be tired from a long journey." Erwin said.

"Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut you can come in the parlor with him if you pay for his drinks." Erwin said slyly.

Veigar quickly spoke "Wait, Erwin, I don't drin-" But the crowd pushed him in.

The bartender looked pretty annoyed because his shift was supposedly suppose to be over but when he saw Veigar, his face lit up.

One of Veigar's other friends, Hashen, went over to the bartender and whispered something to him. The bartender nodded.

"So what would you like? It's your first time drinking, yea? Lemme get something that'll stop you from getting drunk too early."

The bartender pulled out some clear light brown liquid. Beer.

In Bandle city, yordles were allowed to drink after they hit 18. Veigar was around 19.

Lulu took the drink graciously and immediately started drinking. Veigar did not touch it.

"Whash dis?" Lulu asked, dizzly. She was already drunk.

"Haha" Lucy said, taking a sip of her own drink. "This girl has more balls than you Veigar. Still that same old stubborn you, you are."

Veigar stared at his drink. Everyone stared at Veigar quietly, waiting for him to take a drink.

Why am I so cautious? Veigar asked himself. These are my friends. My old friends. I guess the journeys have really changed me. Veigar had been poisoned, deceived, and cheated on in his journeys. It had caused him to put a wall around himself. Veigar took a deep breath. These were his friends. He should just drink.

Veigar lifted the cup to his lips and took the biggest swig he ever did. He downed the whole thing in one gulp, pounded the cup on the table, and said "Give me more."

Everyone cheered. Music started to play around the background and the yordles were chatting amongst each other, having a good time. Yes, it was these scenes Veigar missed so very much. Tears fell down his face, and he laughed. A good, hearty laugh. A laugh he hadn't made for 5 years. It felt good and he felt safe now.

Suddenly, one of his old friends came up to him. Veigar remembered him as being the most silent but also the most cheerful. A smile was always on that person's face, but not this time.

Veigar said, with a smile, "How's it going, Teemo?"

Teemo looked at Veigar directly in the eye. It was scaring him. "Leave, Veigar. Leave while you can. Please."

Veigar was shocked. He forgot that there would still be those who distrust him.

Erwin noticed Veigar was no longer smiling and pulled him over. "Hey bud, what's with the long face now? Come, on drink more. Have some more fun!"

Veigar downed another cup and forgot about Teemo. This was his home now. He felt safe.

At least that's how he thought it would've been.

After a couple more drinks, Veigar felt dizzy and blacked out. When he awoke, he found himself in a jail cell and chained. He tried using magic, but for some reason he could not cast it.

"Wha-What is this? What prank is this?" He called out. He didn't want to believe it.

Erwin and Hashen stepped from the shadows outside the cell, the darkest smile on their faces.

"Did you really think we would just cast aside the rumours of your dark magic, Veigar?"

Veigar didn't understand what was going on. Please tell me this is a prank He told himself.

"The government paid us to get rid of you. Paid a really good price you know? One to let us live the rest of our lives just having fun. Since we can't fight you directly, this was the only way we could get you here. The bartender? We planned. The crowd? We planned. Your such a dumbass, Veigar."

Veigar understood now. He had been drugged. Drugged by his old friends, drugged by the people he thought he could trust. He lowered his guard for even a second, and now look where he is.

Even so, tears flowed down Veigar's eyes. No longer tears of joy, but tears of sorrow. He had been lied to again.

"Why? I'm really not like the rumours. Please." Veigar begged, but he knew it was pointless. He had been betrayed.

Lucy stepped in the room. "This world is moving on, Veigar. The world needs no people like you. Want to know how to make the world pure and happy? You must want to know, Veigar, the rumours have it that you look to rule the world to prevent impurity."

Lucy pressed her face against the jail bars.

"Kill everyone who isn't."

Erwin threw an object in the room. Poisonous gas started leaking from it. His friends opened the door and left the room.

They left him to die.

Aurelion Sol focuses all his might into breaking the chains that hold him, but is unable to. As long as the crown rests on his head, his power is contained by the Targons. Just as he was about to give up and go to sleep like yesterday as it was midnight, he feels commotion beneath his tower. Even though he is high above in the air, he uses his magic to listen in.

"Diana! What do you think you're...?"

"The Sun and Moon can live together in harmony! Why do we only look towards the Sun?"

"Heretic! Kill her!"

A loud clash broke out. Aurelion Sol uses his powers to see what was happening. He wasn't going to miss a chance to escape. But he was disappointed when he noticed it was just one 20 year old girl fighting a group of soldiers. He sighed. The little one will lose and die, another life wasted. He can tell the girl was highly skilled in combat, but not enough skill to take on the strength of the soldiers together. He can feel the power of the sun in the soldiers, the power stolen from him, while the girl had nothing.

Wait. Nothing? But he had blessed all in Targon with power. It was nearly impossible to get to Targon so it was impossible for the girl to be an outsider but her silver hair, her negative energy, felt...strange. What was a moonborn doing in Targon?

White flashes filled Sol's eyes, and he tried to close them, forgetting that he as using his mind to see not his eyes. When he regained focus, the soldiers laid unconscious at the girl's feet, except one girl of the same age who was barely awake and breathing hard. Diana looked down at the girl. "Leona... I'm sorry. Forgive me."

Diana sprinted down the mountain at full speed, but a figure fell from the sky and a warrior whose face was hidden by helmet landed on the ground, creating a massive crater in the ground. Even if Sol was wrong earlier, he knew Diana could not defeat this opponent, for it was an opponent he himself had previously lost to. It was Pantheon, the aspect of war.

But Sol saw the girl as a chance to escape, and he wasn't throwing it away.

"Child. Listen to me." Sol telepathically sends to Diana.

If Diana was surprised, she did not show it. She had to stay calm in this situation.

"I know who you are, I can tell you from your energy. You are Aurelion Sol, the star forger. Tell me, did you send Pantheon to punish me?"

"No, child. I wish to help you escape , but only if you set me free from the tower Targon has imprisoned me in."

Diana barely dodged a spear chucked by Pantheon, and rolled into the ruins of the building she had destroyed when she fought the soldiers.

"Yea? Let's say I trust you even though I am moonborn while you are the sunborn's god. There's no way I can even get up there, let alone free you. You're tower is above the clouds. Pantheon was the one who sealed you there, he's the only one who can get there."

Sol almost smiled. Even though everything was uncertain, he was closer to freedom than he ever was. "Child, I have an eternity worth of knowledge. Follow my instructions, and we can succeed."

Diana snorted mentally. "And why should I free you?"

Sol replied "This is more than about quarrels of the sun and moon. This is about Runeterra. There is something dark stirring out there, and I must escape to stop it."

"The tales have you as a sassy dragon, but apparently you're a dramatic one." Diana sent.

"You're the one being sassy right now." Sol shot back.

"I thought being dramatic would appeal to young girls, aren't they supposed to be angsty or something?"

Diana had a good chuckle despite the dire situation. "Alright. Lets just pretend it worked. What now?"

Author's note: There it is, the first chapter f the revamped story done. Let me know if you see any grammatical errors or if you enjoy these longer chapters than the shorter ones. Thanks for reading :D