Disclaimer: This is a story with the main character being made up by me. The 'champions' in it belong to Riot and I do not claim to make up any of them. I am simply making a story with them in it, with my love and addiction for the game, "League of Legends". This story is rated M for strong language, violence, and future lemons of many kinds. Reader discretion is advised.
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I have been getting some great reviews from you guys. I haven't gotten too many, but the ones I have gotten have helped point out my changes that I've made to make my story better. So keep on swimming with those reviews, because they really help.
So, I might be adding in a couple of chapters for book one to cover a bit more story and give a bit more mystery to what the main plot will be revealed as. I've been giving hints, and dropped a major one in the past couple of chapters, but this upcoming chapter I've got planned will really get you wondering. So get ready my readers.
Enjoy it, this chapter is what a few of you have been waiting for I'm sure. Get ready for the first official lemon.
Chapter 7: The Thief
-Ahri
I had this all planned out ever since the night that stupid doctor had come straight up to Fox and just flirt with him. It bugged me that such a forward act would get his attention that much. I've made so many advances and he's practically shrugged them off like the attacks of his opponents. This was going to go as I planned, I've run through it in my head so many times. Of course I've had to rewrite several times over like a paper a summoner might have to do for some of their classes and I guess I kind of understand how annoying it is. My final approach on how to do this is so perfect that there's no way for him to work around it. He has to go with it.
After we got all our bags packed, I gave him a couple more risky advances like trying to give him a peek at me during the many unnecessary undressing's I did. He would just turn away though, finding something else to occupy him such as finding something to eat or go out onto the balcony, doing it in smooth transitions. I would then just find a way to get close to him, trying to get him to just accept what was coming, but we didn't have much time left at that point when I did it.
Now that we were in our train car, heading back towards the institute, as soon as I put my stuff back into the dresser, I pulled out my outfit that I was going to wear, well, not for long anyways. I turned to see what Fox was doing and saw that he was heading towards the bathroom. Kind of worried that he would just sit in there the whole train ride, I called out to him.
"Going to take a shower?"
He turned to me and smiled. "Yup. Kinda feel gross for some reason. Gonna go wash it off. I would like my own time in there so, if you could, please let me take this one alone." He ended it with one of those cute winks and leave it up to my mind to automatically think that he's wanting me to join him. I must refrain from that train of thought I guess since he doesn't seem that interested. This plan of mine was perfect, but only if the way I think he's thinking is right. I turned back to the outfit I was going to wear and my ears sank a bit. I've never been this nervous about this kind of thing especially with a summoner. I've had my fair share with summoners in this type of thing but, I haven't really cared this much or felt this way for my own.
Gods, whoever you are, let this work out.
-Fox
I couldn't make this water cold enough. Good gods it's ridiculous how hot I was right now. Judging from all the little moves Ahri made at the hotel she's probably going to make her move real soon. I've heard that cold water works really well to counter against an erect dick, so maybe if I made it really cold it won't get hard for a while. Gods! I need to calm down and get my thoughts under control. I closed my eyes and pulled my thoughts together. Once I had them there, I condensed them into a scene from my memories. I was on my hill with my cherry blossom tree. I looked around and saw the rain falling, the blurring image of the institute through the rain. I could feel the cold droplets hitting my skin, so fresh that they could've come from a glacier. I held out my left hand at a downwards degree so that the water would fall off at that point. As they fell off, they collected into a small pool of my barrier that I cast. My hair hugged my scalp, my hairline running down to my eyebrows and hugging them. The air I could feel was crisp and I breathed it in and felt it blow against my skin.
I opened my eyes and smiled a small smile. It's been a while since I've been so calm and at ease. I turned the valves and let the water calm itself to a stop. I drew back the covers of the shower and grabbed one of the many towels hanging against the wall. As I dried off and looked into the mirror, I looked at the pendant around my neck. Ever since that day, I still don't know what it is. Even though I was calm, seeing it every time around my neck just brings back that feeling of loneliness. Even though I have my champions and a couple of summoners that don't shun me and have actually sparred with me in the past, I don't think I'll ever feel in a company. Not until I find an answer to this pendant and this weird tattoo on my right arm up to my neck almost.
I turned to my left, looking over my shoulder and saw my newest addition to my body, this scar. It was still the same the day I saw it at the hospital, almost silver against my skin and little lines indicating my veins running into the wound. I sighed a little and ran my left hand against my forehead. Why was life so frustrating? Is it really so hard to just want to relax all day, looking at this beautiful planet and admiring it for what it is? Why is there always someone who wants to get rid of it?
I was getting irritated quickly so I went back to that scene in my head and calmed down slightly. I needed to go sit down and have a proper mind state to get my head back on track. I put on the towel around my waist and tucked it in at my left hip so that it didn't fall. I opened the door and looked at my left arm, looking over my binding tattoos again, noticing more and more detail in it. I turned the corner to the bed, ready to sit down on it and looked up, only to see Ahri on the edge of the bed, looking at me with a silk like button up shirt on with two buttons out of six actually buttoned. She had on briefs with the same material as the shirt, going just to the line of her crotch. Her breasts were showing a great view of cleavage through the gap in the shirt presented from the two buttons. Her hair was down and there wasn't any braids in it, it was completely smooth, falling behind her back and over her shoulders. The lights were out and there were a few candles lit around the bed on the side tables. I looked around and tried to figure out where the fuck those came from.
"Uhm…" Was all I could say before Ahri stood up and walked towards me in a somewhat awkward way. Was she nervous or something? "Wait, are you finally making your bold move?"
She didn't say anything and took her last step towards me. She looked at my chest, which wasn't buffed out or fat, just flat. I'm still working on that. She reached her right hand up and lightly placed it onto my chest. I never really looked at how much taller I was than her but it wasn't by too much. Maybe a foot and a half?
"Remember that apology you owe me Fox?" She asked in a hushed voice.
I nodded and kept looking at her, even though she wasn't looking at me. "Yeah…if you plan on using it now, choose your words carefully Ahri, because I will find a way to work around them if they're going to be what I think they are. I won't give you a second chance at rewording them either." I stated just to get it out there.
It was her turn to nod, pressing her hand flat against my chest now, looking up at me. Her eyes were always so beautiful to look into.
"What I want from you Fox…"She said but holding the last part almost like she was holding her breath.
I waited for her to finish but she just kept her gaze into my eyes. "Yes?"
"I…I want you…to honestly, stop resisting your temptations with me." She put big emphasis on the word honestly and temptations. Holy shit, how am I supposed to work around that? Are you kidding me? She actually thought of a way to shock me into thinking hard about how to work around asking me to have sex with her? I can't be dishonest, I can't lie and say I don't have any. I'm a guy, of course I have temptations with and of a woman. This is some stupid shit, she actually beat me? What? I was expecting some shit like 'I want you to screw me.' Which I would've responded with something like 'As soon as I find someone named me, as long as it's not a guy I'll do it.' But no, she has to bring out something like this bullshit!
I snapped out of my thoughts and brought myself back to my unavoidable situation. I continued to stare into her eyes with the golden sea in them and brought my right hand up to place onto hers. Her tails began to move towards me and cling to my skin but in a more affectionate way. Well, since there's no way around it, I might as well do as the lady asks.
I leaned down and placed my lips onto hers. I felt her left hand move up to my neck and hold itself there. Ahri pushed her chest against mine and the softness of her breasts really pointed themselves out. I could feel her tongue trace the edge of my lips and I returned the favor by meeting her tongue and dancing with it. I knew we couldn't do too much while sitting down so I moved my hands down to her firm butt and noticed just how great this fabric felt. Oh and her butt was nice too. I picked her up and she went with it, jumped and wrapping her legs around my waist. I continued to kiss her and felt her tongue trace the inside of my teeth which was weird but it still felt good. I laid her onto the bed gently and put my weight onto her feeling her breasts on my chest once again. I could feel her pulling at my towel around my waist and moved my hands to start working on the only two buttons that were clasped to their counterpart. After I got the first one undone, she had the towel undone and threw it aside, quickly moving her hands to stroking me. I let out a sigh of pleasure and pulled away from our nonstop kiss we had and took a breath.
I kissed my way down her neck and to her collar and moved to her left breast. She brought up one of her hands, I wasn't paying too much attention to which one and didn't care, but she placed it onto the back of my head and gripped my hair. I undid the other button just in time to keep moving smoothly to her nipple. My lips moved themselves over it and I began to suck on her nipple gently. She started to moan and her strokes on my member began to quicken. I moved my right hand down to her pants and slid under them and started to rub her clit. I felt her hips rise towards it and I pressed against them this time guessing the pressure added to the feeling. I moved my left hand down and started to take off her pants. I pulled away and sat back on my heels as I took them off, revealing a cleanly shaven crotch on her part. I raised an eyebrow and looked at her, as she sat up as well to keep close to me.
"So you really were prepared huh?" I asked.
She nodded and bit her lower lip. "Ever since it was decided I got the first job with you."
I chuckled and put my hand back into its comfortable position at her clit and started to rub it again. Her eyes closed and she bit her lip a little harder using her left hand at the back of my neck and pulling me to her lips once more. This time I was the first to act and started the dance with our tongues and did the same as her, tracing the inside of her teeth with the tip of my tongue. I felt a tug from her mouth and felt her start to suck on my tongue which was yet again weird but it felt good.
After a while I finally took my forefinger and my middle finger and slid them into Ahri. I heard her take a deep breath through her nose and kiss me harder. I pulled them out slightly and slid them back in again, doing the same motion for a few moments going faster and faster. This time Ahri broke off and put her forehead on mine, taking quick, deep breathes. I was so hard and my member was so close to her lower lips that I felt it brushing against my hand as I continued to finger her. I couldn't wait anymore and pulled my hand away and using it to guide my member the rest of the way. As the head of my member pressed against her outer lips she moved so quickly and fluently in such a way that I couldn't keep track. Somehow I was now laying on my back with her on top of me, my member against her ass and she just looked down at me, a smirk on her face, and eyebrow up and a sly, seductive look in her eyes.
"How did you do that?" I asked a little baffled.
"Just something I've learned over the years." She responded. I moved my hands to her hips and waited a moment as she lifted her hips enough so that my member was now straight up and if she sat back down it would slide right into her. She used her left hand though to move it forward slightly and slid back down so that the tip was now facing me and her really wet lower lips were pressed against it. She started to grind against it and I rolled my eyes at the pleasure.
"Holy shit, THAT feels good." I said and I heard her chuckle again.
"It usually does. Since you teased me and got me extremely excited, I thought I'd return the favor." She said and after that she leaned down to my neck and started to kiss, lick, suck and bite all under my left ear. My eyes rolled back into my head, my arms went limp and my member start to throb. Whatever this was, it's going to suck because it's going to get me every time…
I honestly couldn't take it anymore and I gripped her hips and lifted her hips up and slid her back down onto my dick. I went all the way in and held it there, feeling her lips hesitate and her hands shake a little bit. She moved her head back up to me and we kissed again. It was a nice hard kiss without any tongue play. I slid back out and thrust myself back into her, feeling her breath go with the hit against her, she pulled away and started to go with the motions. Her hips went with mine and kept up in pace. I watched as she sat back and placed her hands behind her giving me a full view of her front. I watched as her breasts bounced with her motions and I leaned my head back in pleasure with the warm feeling of her pussy. It was a little loose but more tight than I thought it would be. I ran my hands up her sides and started to rub her breasts as our hips continued to move together. We stayed this way for a while until I could see her getting tired in that position so I pulled out and moved my right leg so as to make twisting her to be on bottom was easier. Once she was on her back, she closed her eyes and moved myself into her once again, this time hearing her moan.
I picked up the pace and she started to moan with the pace, and started to moan louder too. I leaned down to her right breast and started to suck on it too, feeling sweat start to accumulate on her body and on mine. After a few moments of keeping the same pace and the same position, I heard her give a small scream and I looked up at her.
"Don't stop, not yet." She said and pulled me to her once again and we pressed our lips together. It was a kiss but it didn't feel like anything, just a formality at this point. I kept going feeling myself about to explode. I started to moan myself and I guess Ahri could tell I was about to cum because she pushed on my chest and pushed our lips apart.
"Slow down babe, I don't want it to end just yet. Let's start to take it slow…" She said but this is where I knew I could twist my way out of it. I shook my head and smiled.
"Sorry, I can't resist going faster, and I've been told not to resist you anymore." I started to pick up my pace again and slid my right hand down to her clit and started to rub it. Ahri extended her arms out and grabbed the sheets tightly. She moaned with my speed and was getting loud.
"Oh my gods, Fox please…not…not yet!" She exclaimed but we both screamed a little as I pulled out and came on the sheets of the bed. I kept rubbing her clit in a fast motion and a few seconds later she screamed out again and her body started to shake. I felt a warm liquid cover my fingers as I pulled them out and wiped them on the sheets of the bed. I closed my eyes and laid my head onto her chest, feeling it rise and fall as she and I collected the air in our lungs again. Her tails wrapped around us and I felt her hands on my back, giving me a light massage.
"How did you know what to touch and how?" She asked through her breaths. I shook my head a little, nuzzling into her breasts further and felt her left hand placed onto the back of my head.
"I don't know, it was just there. Honestly, you might've just taken my virginity, I don't know." I could feel her chest start a rhythmic intake.
"Wait, in all the four years you've woken up and been at the institute, you haven't had sex once?" She asked with her voice rising to a peak at the end of the question.
I nodded and shrugged as best I could while laying on her. I rolled over and next to her and kept my eyes closed. "Nope. No one's shown interest so I didn't pursue it either. That and I went to the library a lot."
She went up onto her right elbow and looked at me with an almost baffled look. "None of the girls at the institute showed interest? None what so ever?"
I shook my head again. "Nope. None. At least none that I could get a hint from."
"Did you ever go to parties?"
"Was never invited. They actually tried to keep most of em a secret but I had a couple of classmates accidentally tell me while we worked on a project or something."
"You have got to be kidding me."
"Why is this so hard for you to believe?" I opened my eyes and met hers.
"Where should I start? You have pretty decent looks."
"Decent? Wow, that's being generous."
"Shut up. You're strong as hell, like, don't girls like power in a man? I know I do."
"Well, considering I didn't really try that much when I was around them, they didn't really see me as powerful, just another bronze leaguer who just wanted the free rooming and food."
"Speaking of which," she started, sitting up and looking over at me still. "why did you hide your power and knowledge from your classmates the way you did?"
"I didn't find a challenge among any of them. That and for the sole reason of being left alone and not having to deal with any of the power hungry guys who wanted to form a group to rise among the ranks. Just not my thing. I also didn't want some chick on my arm all the time calling me hers, just so that she could get attention and brag to the other girls." I sat up afterwards and slid my legs over the side and stood up to stretch. Ahri was silent while I stretched and I looked over to her. She seemed to be lost in her own thoughts while I started to walk towards the shower, ready to clean myself of this sweat.
"Those are all great points. How do you know so much about women if you've just about never been in the company of one?" Ahri said, breaking her silence.
"Well, it's simple really." I left it open and suspenseful to get her attention on this next line. She looked at me with her ears perked but kind of confused too. "I just observe and read the situation of others." After I said that, I walked into the bathroom, turned on the shower with some pretty hot water and stepped in. I pulled the curtains back and enjoyed the pressure of the water hitting the top of my head. I fully expected Ahri to come in and shower with me for another round but before I knew it, I was done. I turned the knobs again and the water withdrew itself back into its pipes and I stepped out. My towel was out in the room somewhere so I sighed and walked out into the room again.
I looked at Ahri whom was still naked, as she looked at my blade in her hands. It was clothed in its scabbard but she was mulling over it. Walking over to my towel that was thrown away so hastily. I picked it up and wiped my face of the water droplets that covered it. I ran the towel through my hair as well and started to wipe down the rest of me.
"Why do you have my blade?" I asked. I was met with silence but that didn't last very long.
"Read the situation…read the situation…" she said over and over again. She kept saying it in a hushed tone, that giving me enough time to finish drying off. I turned around to face her again and she had set the blade down, looking at her empty lap now still thinking of what I said. I let her continue to think, moving once again to my clothes, picked up my underwear and slipped it on. I picked up my dark blue jeans and was about to slip those on when Ahri wrapped her arms around my waist and held onto me. Once again, I could feel her tails cling to me whenever she got close to me.
"Oh, why are you getting dressed? You're desires are already fulfilled?"
"No, but my temptations are. And that's what you asked."
"Poo." At that, she removed herself from me and followed me as I went to the bedside and sat down. She looked over at me, or at least I think she did, I kinda guessed with my peripheral vision as I was too busy putting my jeans on. It was a little difficult while sitting down but as I slid them under my butt and fit them to place, it was done and done.
"So, reading the situation…is that the lesson you're trying to teach us?" She asked. I smiled big and nodded in a pleased way.
"Indeed it is."
"Why?"
"Why?" I repeated looking at her. She nodded and gave a kind of grim look mixed with confusion.
"Because if you can read any situation presented to you quickly enough, act on that situation quickly enough to change it to favor you, you will always have the upper hand." I said and she tilted her head, thinking for a moment. I kept my smirk and continued to watch her as she pieced the final puzzles of how my mind worked. Sorta. She finally widened her eyes and perked her ears up at me.
"So that's how you win your fights. You don't have your own fighting technique, you just read the situation, that being their moves, and work around it!" Clasping her hands together excitedly and arching her back.
I laughed loudly and nodded. "Almost. I do have my own technique."
"How so? All you do is use moves around theirs in a different combination of moves."
"That's the technique. I adapt to their fighting style to fit mine."
"That…" She started as she leaned in towards me, bringing her face extremely close to mine. "is something I've been attracted to lately." She covered the rest of the distance and placed her lips against mine. I didn't fight this one since they felt soft and warm, but I didn't let it linger so my temptations would return so soon.
I pulled away but kept eye contact with her. I moved the towel to her care and looked away since she was still completely naked. I heard a light chuckle and felt the towel taken from my hands. Relying on my peripherals again, I waited until it seemed she wrapped herself. Once she did, I turned to look at her again and she was done but now fixing her hair back into a braid.
"So where do we go from here Fox?"
"What do you mean?" I asked back, moving to the rest of my clothes to put them back on.
"Well, since were synced and can just about do so freely now, once we arrive back home, where do we go from there?"
"Well, that depends. Do you mean what will we do with our lives or what will happen with our relationship?"
She was silent for a good moment before nodding and blushing. I slipped my shirt over my shoulders and pulled it down. "Well, we are bound as champion and summoner. This little thing we just did was my apology to you for the way I acted and treated you at the hospital. Let me officially finish this by saying I'm sincerely sorry for what I did Ahri." At that, her ears lowered a little bit and sadness seemed to appear in her eyes.
"Little thing huh…?"
"What else would it be? It was sex. From what I hear from those that have it, it's not that big of a thing unless you're a virgin, in an actual relationship and or married."
She was quiet for a minute before looking at me again and re-perking her ears up.
"Well, true that." She moved towards the dresser and opened one of the drawers, rummaging through it. I'm guessing she found what she was looking for because her tails started to move side to side giving that swishing sound as they brushed against each other. I smiled and looked at the spot on the bed from where Ahri and I's bodily fluids were. Yeah, that's gross. I grabbed the sheets at each corner of the bed and folded them so that the sheets were in a nice square. I tossed the bed sheets near the couch and laid back down on the bed. I folded my hands behind my head and straightened my legs, crossing them and relaxing. I felt the bed move downwards a bit next to me and knew Ahri decided to join me in relaxing.
"Well, since we still have about 6 hours left on this train ride, might as well just relax. I'd say we earned it." I said.
"Really?"
"Uhm, ya. Why wouldn't I?"
"Well, since summoner evaluations are coming up, don't you think we should get syncing down?"
I opened my eyes and sat up, looking over at Ahri and nodding my head. "Yeah, that's actually a great idea. Well then, since you figured out how to sync to the point where we can talk through our minds, we might as well come up with ways to sync even further."
"Well, how did you do it before?" She asked, scooting closer to me on the bed.
"How'd I do what?"
"How'd you get it so that you like, filled me with power and practically forced me to your side with those words you said?"
I tilted my head to the side kinda confused then remembered. "Oh! That! Well, to be honest, I just did what you told me you did. I remembered how we had first synced in this room and just called out to you. I didn't come up with those words, they were just there and even if I wanted to, I couldn't hold the words in."
Ahri's ears perked up and she tilted her head a little bit. Why did she do that so much?
"Then I guess that kinda matches up with why I moved the second I heard the words."
Now it was my turn to tilt my head a bit. "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean, what do I mean? The words that you felt you had to say and them making me obey them on the spot is pretty self-explanatory."
Now I felt like a complete dumbass. I nodded and scratched my head a bit. "Indeed, indeed. Then, we need to try and get back to that moment."
Ahri nodded with my claim and faced me as I faced her. She lifted her right hand and I lifted mine. We placed them over each other's hearts and I felt the immediate pull. So this was an actual fact then, whenever Ahri and I placed our hands on each other's hearts, it acts as a sort of trigger. Now comes the hard part, getting that new level of power to come forth. There has to be a way to concentrate that power into our minds and be able to, wait…HOLY SHIT THAT'S IT!
"Ahri, jump in the mind state with me, there's something I want to try."
"Uhm, is that the thing where I pull all my thoughts together and concentrate them into a single person or object?" She asked with a positive tone.
"Yes, that exactly. I'm glad you know what it is. Less work for both of us. So yeah, get into the mind state, and concentrate your thoughts onto this exact moment."
"Uhm, why?"
"Ahri, just do it. For us to unlock that level we had at the club, you need to trust me, okay?"
She held quiet for a moment while searching my eyes for something I didn't know. Then she nodded and closed her eyes. I really hope she was ready for this next part, because it was going to probably hurt.
-Ahri
As I closed my eyes, I pulled my thoughts together. It was easier since I had been doing this in practice without Fox's knowledge so he'd praise me and now's the time. After I had all my thoughts together, I did as he asked and focused on this moment.
"Now Ahri, when you're focusing on this moment, you need to get as detailed as you can and I'm not kidding. Focus on my heartbeat and yours, on the slight breeze if you can, just focus on every detail your eyes just saw before you closed em."
"Why does there have to be so much detail?" I couldn't help feel that Fox was hiding something from me.
"Because the more detail of the moment we make in our heads the more we can actually do as one mind."
"Okay." I finished and kept adding more and more features of Fox that I could. I felt his heartbeat under my hand and started to put that into the detail. Wait, that wasn't enough. Fox wants me to get as detailed as I can right? So I started to count the beats and added those in as well, then I felt his breathing and added that in. Wait, what was his pattern of breathing? It was calm and slow, with deep breaths. I added this into his image and decided I should match it to make it easier for him as well. I heard him chuckle and felt my right ear twitch a little.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Well, it's just funny how wrong people are about you. They say you're just a big chested bimbo who thinks men are play tools and wants power through them."
"And what are you getting at here?" I said, irritation obvious in my voice with a little bit of sting to poke at Fox to get to the point.
"None of them said you'd be so smart and catch onto things so quickly."
I felt blood rush to my cheeks. "Why do you say that?"
"Well, I didn't think you'd match my breathing with yours to make things easier on us. I'm impressed."
"Well, thanks Fox."
"Now, I'm guessing you're blushing because your heartbeat went up."
"Uhm, yeah."
"Well alright. I'm done with my scene, are you done?"
"Almost." I finished adding in the details of Fox, including all of his scars from when he was recovering in the hospital. I did what I could to put them into the right place and spoke out. "Alright, I'm done."
"Now, get rid of the environment that were in so that it's just us." He said and I get rid of it all, well, what I had, in an instant. Now I was just sitting here with Fox in the nothingness of my mind.
"Now, focus all you can on your power. Call as much to you as you can. I'll do the same so you won't be alone in this."
"I know I'm not alone, so why would you add that part in?"
"Well to put it simple, whenever I get this far in my own mind state, I can't pull that much of my own power because my head starts to hurt really badly. I've tried to push through the pain but my nose starts to bleed and the head ache turns into a migraine in an instant."
"If so then why are we trying it right now?"
"Because when I did it alone, I'm pretty sure that I reached my limit and that my mind couldn't handle the power I was trying to push it to. So now with you, I should be able to surpass that barrier with ease. Either that or push it so I can do more by myself."
"Oh. Okay."
At that, Fox and I grew quiet and focused on our task. I felt my power building up inside of me like a trickle of water building up and flowing into a steady and strong river. My power kept rising up to the point where my ball of essence showed itself with a glowing green color next to Fox and me. It grew in size the more power I called upon and I looked at Fox to see his brow together, showing emotions of slight struggle.
"Fox, are you okay?" I asked concerned.
"Yeah, this is amazing. As I thought my limit was nothing compared to what I'm achieving right now!" He exclaimed his statement with happiness, his eyes bursting open with excitement. "Ahri, touch my chest and I'll touch yours. We need to connect our minds while in our minds, I think that's how it works!"
"But we've never done this before! How can you be so sure?!" I asked, my voice loud and obnoxious in a way, trying to keep itself immanent and up enough for Fox to hear over this rushing wind sound. Where did this white noise come from?
"Because we were in an emergency situation, so our minds did it for us without us even trying! Now come on!" He shouted back, his hair now starting to rise upwards as if there was no gravity. Our bodies held still on the ground while our hair and clothes started to rise. I nodded my head and thrust my right hand onto Fox's chest where his heart was, feeling him do the same. The jolt came but was harder than it ever was before. It pulled our bodies so close from the force that Fox's face and mine were inches from each other. Thoughts came rushing into my head, feelings, and sensations. This was the link Fox and I shared where we could hear each other's thoughts and communicate through them.
Then my head began to hurt and my vision was going in and out.
"Fox! What's going on?!" I shouted with worry in my voice. His voice bellowed out in a laugh and I felt his lungs jolting from the air leaving him and coming back in as he took another breath to laugh. I looked at him, my eyelids falling heavy but not really wanting to fall.
"We did it Ahri! I can hear the words! I can summon our strength to us again!"
"Fox, I…I can't….can't do this much…longer…"I was holding onto my conscious mind for as long as I could. I felt the words in my head, in our heads. I did not know what they were but I could feel their power. They kept rising and rising and soon, I knew what it was like for Fox when he said he had to say them, they have this feeling of own thought. Like, their alive.
"By the bond that is between us, the power that we share, and minds that are one, answer my call. Ahri, the Nine Tailed Fox, bestow upon me the aid of your flames and help me fight this enemy that wishes harm to us. Come forth!" He shouted with force in his voice. The words boomed into existence as he said them, my eyes no longer feeling tired, my body rising up and my energy returned to me.
"I answer your call summoner, and shall stand with you until you have deemed this fight over." I was now full aware of my surroundings. I was back in the train car with Fox next to me. We were now standing firmly on top of the bed, his irises glowing a bright pink. Even though we had returned to the world of reality, his hair and clothes still rose upwards as if gravity had reversed solely on them. Was this how we looked at the club when we synced before those men?
Fox began to laugh again, our minds together in thought, calm and ready.
"Ahri, we did it! We've gotten to a new level of bond!" Fox said with excitement still. A smile struck my face but was quickly vanquished when I saw the blood slowly inching its way out of Fox's nose. Fox saw it too, because the smile on his face disappeared just as fast as it had shown itself.
"Oh no…" Was all he said before a force blasted outwards from him and pushed back on me. I held myself but my eyes were forced closed and I could feel this significant power disappearing in my body. My eyes fluttered open and a headache rushed forward like a river that was backed up by a dam. I looked up and saw that Fox wasn't standing anymore, but was fallen onto the ground.
"Shit!"
I jumped off the bed quickly and kneeled down next to him, putting my head to his chest. I felt it rising and was immediately relieved. What happened? Fox began to stir, his eyes clutching closed as if forced even further. His left hand raised to his left ear, holding it close like a mother did her child after birth. I slid my right hand onto his left cheek and thought about getting him to open his eyes. My tails started to clutch to his body yet again and I was really wondering why they did that.
"Hey, Fox. Get up. Hey c'mon, open your eyes."
He continued to just show pain on his face, and I beginning to think that his damage wasn't physical, it was psychological. I needed him to wake up or whatever right now.
"Summoner! Get up now!"
At that, his eyes shot open, his face returned to a peaceful and natural look. His irises were glowing a pure silver but we weren't synced. So what the hell was this? They turned to me, shivers emerging from my back as they didn't show any emotion or have any feeling in them.
"Be careful for whom you call upon with such commanding tones woman." He said but it wasn't Fox's voice. It was almost like that of the Orb, not a specific tone to give off a gender, it was just a tune. This one that came out of Fox's mouth was much deeper in tune though, almost like that of Ezreal's bass from his enormous speakers. In my opinion, it was more masculine or that's the impression I got from hearing it.
"What the hell?" I said.
"You shall be pardoned for you knew not of your place but know now, you have been told. I am not to awaken just yet, and when I do, I pray you stand by my side. Continue to awaken his power, for it shall in return, awaken him." The tune finished, his eyes returning to their closed position. His chest stopped moving and my worried to me, even though the event of Fox speaking but not really speaking.
"What the fuck is going on?" I said out loud. At that, Fox's chest gave its usual breathing pattern of rising and falling and his eyes shot open again, the irises returned to their normal green color. He looked around and I just waited for him to look at me. As he did, his face showed utter confusion.
"What happened? Why am I on the floor?" He raised his left hand to his nose, running his forefinger through the dark maroon blood that had trickled through his nose not two minutes ago. His face now showed realization of the situation and he shot up into a sitting position.
"Shit, we already reached our limit."
He stood up and moved to the bathroom. I just sat there, still confused at what he said. No, not Fox, something else. So since it wasn't Fox, then what was it?
Fox
We arrived at the station just a few hours after our whole incident. After I cleaned myself up, Ahri was strangely quiet and somewhat distant. Whatever happened while I was out on the floor had shaken her up enough to keep her at about arms reach from me. Her tails continued to reach out towards me, almost even more than before. They really did have a mind of their own sometimes.
As our car reached the stopping point and our car doors opened, we had our luggage with us and pulled it behind us. Like they did when whenever we left and arrived at the train station, the attendants greeted us with smiles and friendly gestures that could welcome anyone.
"Welcome to the Institute of War. We hope your ride was well and that you travel with us again through Runeterra." After that well-rehearsed line, they bowed and I returned to motion with a bow of my head.
"Indeed it was and indeed I shall."
Ahri and I walked past him, her holding her hands behind her back, clasped together and held near her butt. They bounced a little as she took steps.
'Something wrong summoner?' I heard in my head. So she could connect with me that easily huh? Guess this was a great way to get a deeper bound with my champions.
'Yeah, you've become less clingy.'
She turned her head to look at me as we continued to walk. 'Is that a problem?'
I shook my head with a smile and watched her. 'Not in the slightest, as long as you're doing what you want.' I turned my head back towards our path. We passed through to gates to the road and I saw a familiar person waiting for us there, leaning against a pole. His arms were crossed and his head down, eyes closed, giving the look that he was in deep thought. His right leg was bent so that his foot was flat against the pole. I smiled again and rose my right hand up as a greeting to him.
"Hey Yasuo." I called out. He looked up and over at us. Undoing his position and moving towards us in a calm manner, my hand fell back to its place at my side. I made the connection with Ahri and saw that she was glancing at me. I looked over at her and her glance turned away to look at Yasuo. I squinted a little towards her hoping she got that odd feeling of having someone look at you while you weren't looking at them.
"Greetings summoner and welcome back." Yasuo said stopping in front of us, bowing his head at me and waiting for something.
"Good to be back I guess." I reached out a tapped his shoulder so he would rise. He was good at this formal stuff, made me feel like a bigger person than I actually was. Yasuo stood straight and tall, turning to walk with Ahri and I as we continued to head back towards the Institute. He asked about our mission and stuff like that as if we were at a war meeting, explaining the battlefield situation. We had walked for a good 20 minutes or so before we came up to the small market street near the Institute.
"So wait, you were attacked by the masked men again?"
"Yup." I said.
"But it wasn't the same people who we encountered before?"
"Nope. Just the same clothes so now I'm thinking they're their own organization."
"Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard of them among my people."
"Well, I don't think anyone has until they attacked me."
"So I wonder if they are making their move towards the Institute then."
"Why do you automatically assume they are hostile towards the Institute?"
"Well, they are making illegal spells at an astounding pace it seems and distributing them to people who have something against the League."
I nodded my head in agreement. "Good detective skills Yasuo, but don't go yelling that out just yet. Were gonna need more proof and logic to give to the Elders before planning out anything against these people."
Yasuo nodded and just avoided a person running in a hurried pace in front of him. We both looked at the person then noticed that there were a lot of people running towards a crowd of people.
"What the hell is going on?" Said Ahri next to me. I kinda forgot she was there.
"No idea. But I don't really care. C'mon, let's get back to the room." I said while turning to avoid the crowd.
"Fox?" Said a voice that sounded familiar but it wasn't one of my champions. I turned to my left to see one of the people who had passed us to go see the commotion stop to address me.
This person looked familiar but I couldn't place them. They had on the robes of a traditional summoner, the runes and symbol on their right pectoral gave that away. Their hood wasn't up so I could see their facial features. He was pretty good looking it seemed, probably had a few girls crawling over themselves to get his attention. His cheek bones were pretty flat but his eyes made up for it. They were hazel and somehow matched his lips, which were average sized for his looks. He had a scar over his nose that was maybe three inches long going directly horizontal over the bridge of his nose. His hair was pretty straight, coming down to his chin. It was styled in a way so that his bangs were flowing to his left and upwards a bit like the wind was constantly keeping it out of his eyes. He had pretty tan skin which was probably another thing that got the ladies attention.
"Uhm, yeah? Who's asking?" I said to him. He chuckled and shook his head.
"You don't remember who I am do you?" He said, his voice deep and grabbing your attention. Yet another thing that probably bumped him up on the attraction meter to women.
"Kinda. Face rings a bell but I don't know where the bell is, if you get me."
He laughed a big laugh and took a couple of steps towards me.
"Well, I thought that might happen since you were asleep for most of our classes."
I rose my head up to nod and pointed at him. "So we were in classes together? Figures. So, how did I piss you off?"
"You didn't. We did the few group projects together, mostly because no one else wanted you to be in their group because of the whole myth that you literally didn't do anything in projects. But I knew you were passing the classes somehow so me and Gears decided to humbly accept you into our group. Remember?"
I started nodding again with a smile on my face of sarcasm. "Oh yeah! I still don't know what you're talking about."
He shook his head with a smile still on it and I guess he wanted me to remember him cause he kept going. My champion must've been just as confused as me.
"Alright uhm, one of our projects we were supposed to figure out the order of ingredients and the way we were supposed to put them in, in order to make a health potion. Well, we finished it the day of and had some spare time on the next day and we were all really bored. So I thought that it would be cool to see if we could make a launching device with what we had on us to see if we could actually launch a pencil or something. You and Gears like, jumped on that as soon as I said it and for half the class you actually built a launching device. We shot a pencil out the window and started to see if we could hit any birds outside. Then-"
"Anivia flew by and we actually hit her in the face!" We said at the same time.
"Yeah, you remember now?"
"Holy shit, how can I forget that? She was so startled that she did that weird egg thing." I burst into laughter as I remember that awesome day.
"Yeah man, glad to see you had fun."
I snapped my fingers, blinking a few times as I tried to remember his name. Then it dawned on me and I pointed at him again with my right hand. "Yeah, you're Kathell, right?"
He raised his hands like it was a revelation that I got his name right. "There it is! So you do remember me."
"Yeah I do. You and Gears were actually the only people in class who were like, my friends."
"Friends?" asked Yasuo, the confusion clear in his tone of voice.
I turned to him and nodded. "Yeah. Well, they were the closest thing to friends that I had. We never hung out or anything, just those group projects."
"We would've asked you to hang out with us if you didn't vanish after our classes."
"Ah ah ah, shut it." I said, not wanting my champions to ask me anymore questions.
"Well, I can still see you're rude as shit."
"What? Rude? Me? Noooooo." I said sarcastically.
"He has his moments where he's sweet and caring." Ahri added in on my behalf, I hope.
"Anyway, where's Gears at and how's he doing?" I asked towards Kathell.
"He's okay for the most part. He's a little down since he wasn't bound to anyone at the Day of Binding but other than that he still pretty fuckin happy."
"Good to hear." I said. People were still rushing around us towards the crowd that was getting bigger and bigger. I pointed at it and Kathell turned to look, jumping a little as he remembered it.
"Oh shit!"
"Wait! What's all that about?" I called to him as he neared it.
"Well, Gears might've gotten into a little scuff over something stupid."
"What? Did he do something?"
"No. You should know that he doesn't get into fights that he doesn't think are necessary."
"Right, then what's the deal?"
"Apparently, one of the silver ranker's is trying to prove a point about some dumb rumor that was spread about Gears. Something that he could beat any of the Silver rankers in his sleep or something and this guy just started a fight about it."
"So what, this guy is pushing Gears around and he isn't fighting back?" I asked him as kept inching closer to the crowd?
"If it's like our sparring matches then yeah!"
"Then what're you going to do?" I shouted this time as he was even farther from me.
"Stop the fight!"
At that, he turned his whole body to the crowd and jogged towards it. I sighed and put my hands on my hips. I shook my head and looked at the still growing crowd.
"Summoner, you know you have to do something right?" Said Yasuo, stepping in a little ahead of me, left hand on his blade and ready to act. I met with his gaze and nodded. Then I turned to Ahri whose tails were waving side by side in excitement. She looked up at me with a smile on her face now, her ears perked up, hand's still clasped behind her back and just about bouncing up and down in anticipation.
"Summoner." She said simply, no question, not a statement, no implications, just a simple address to me waiting for her orders. She's come a long way since the first day we were bound. I didn't think I had that much of an impact on her.
"More than you know summoner." She stated. Forgot about the whole thought sharing process thing.
"Alright Ahri, guess it's time to go show off this power of ours, since I'm an official True Summoner of the Institute."
I turned back to Yasuo and motioned for him to go make some room for me in that crowd. He bowed and made his way there at a jog. Ahri and I moved our luggage to a nearby market stall and I paid the man to hold it for us until I returned for them. He nodded and agreed eagerly for some reason. After handing him the money, Ahri adjusted her clothes that she wore today which was her usual red top and small skirt she wore whenever summoned to the fields of Justice. Her hair though was in a way like mine. She had two braids the same length as my white strands of hair on either side of my face. The rest of her hair was half braided and half straight. It looked good, I had to be honest.
We walked towards the STILL growing crowd side by side, her being on my left, gathering our power together. We already had the connection in our minds but we gave it a solid base to keep it stable so we were ready to move into the next phase seamlessly if the situation arose. As our minds synced on a deeper level, our steps were one, our breathing was together and in motion with the other, and we began to feel each other's senses.
'Ready Ahri?' I asked in a commanding voiceless thought now.
'I am summoner.'
'Good. Now, as you can already tell from my thoughts that I've got this planned out as best as I can right now. So follow it to the letter but still add in if the situation gives an opportunity to act.'
'Understood summoner.'
We neared the crowd now, Yasuo making it clear to those near him that I was coming. They didn't seem to care that much at first but once he began forcing them to move, a couple pushed back and that was a mistake. He drew his blade and scared them to back off. He didn't point it at anyone but he did turn it to my direction as I continued to get closer.
"I said make way for a True Summoner!" Adding that last boom onto the words 'True Summoner' made the last line of people in my way look towards me with wondering eyes. Ahri's and my eyes must've been glowing because they showed awe and fear in theirs. They quickly split and gave me room. The crowd of people was actually quite thick since it took me about 15 steps to get to the open square where Kathell, Gears and this Silver ranker were.
Yasuo sheathed his blade and stood by where the crowd had split for me. What was happening already was Gears was sitting on the ground, legs crisscrossed and arms folded as he looked up at Kathell being held up by what I could only guess to be the Silver ranker.
"You see? This is what you trash talking nobodies get. I'm Silver four and you guys can't even beat me? No wonder you weren't bound to anyone." He said.
I couldn't see his face since he had his robes hood up but his upper body was pretty average compared to Brad the Brawn. I observed the situation and saw Ahri doing the same. None of the stalls seemed to be damaged and it didn't appear that any summoner spells were used.
I saw through Ahri's eyes that she was assessing the damage done to Gears. He had his goggles on that he never seemed to take off. His short light brown hair was shuffled and messy in some areas showing that he'd taken a few blows to his upper skull. His right eye was already swollen and his lip was split with a trickle of blood coming from it. Other than that he didn't seem to have that much damage to him.
Kathell was a little hurt, I'm guessing that this one sided fight was something he couldn't stop. He had a cut on his forehead just above his right eye so there was some blood flowing into his eye. Gods this guy moved fast and seemed to hit hard.
'Their injuries in their face are on their right so I'm guessing he is left handed and puts his weight into his left punches.' Ahri said in our minds.
'Agreed. No burn marks so Ignite hasn't been used but keep up your guard for any spells.'
'Got it.'
The silver ranker moved his left fist back and balled it together. I could hear the leather scrunch against itself signaling that he was tightening his fist for a big hit. That was my cue to step in.
"Hey, slithering silver ranker." I called out to get his attention away from Kathell. He didn't turn to look at me but raised his fist and started the punching motion. I whispered the flash incantation and was behind the silver ranker in an instant. I grabbed his wrist quickly and whispered a quick version of exhaust to slow his fist down vastly. There were a few gasps from the crowd of people but I didn't care.
The ranker struggled a bit in trying to make his fist move towards Kathell's face again but I held his fist still like a boulder two miles deep in the earth. He looked over at me finally and I got a good look at his face. He was a disgusting looking guy with uneven cheek bones, his right one a little sharper than the other. It sticks out more than you think it would. His dark brown eyes were strange and gave a vibe of evil intent. His scars that he had over his right eye down to the right corner of his mouth. His eyebrows were also uneven and thin. He being bald didn't help him any better in the looks department.
"Who the fuck are you?" He said.
"Someone you don't want to fuck with." Called out Gears from where he sat.
The silver ranker looked over at him then back to me, barring his teeth. "Oh yeah? He another dumbass who thinks he has a place here?"
I smirked at that remark and it seemed to make this guy irritated, since his face showed more anger.
"What the fuck are you smiling at?" He commented.
Ahri had cocked back her left fist and threw it at his right shoulder which was holding Kathell up. As it made contact, he lowered Kathell a little and she followed the punch up by stepping into his frame by going under his outstretched arm and punching his elbow in with her right fist. His arm caved in and she threw another punch at his right wrist with her left hand and caused him to let his grip of Kathell go. I took this chance to throw his left wrist upwards to give Ahri another opening and she looked into my thoughts and followed the motion of jumping and spinning to her left, kicking him in the chest with her left foot. He was shocked and took a few steps back, grabbing his chest and bent over a little.
"What the fuck?!" the ranker cried out.
Ahri rose to her feet stood next to me again as we faced the ranker, us now between the ranker and my old classmates.
"You asshole! Fine, you wanna take me on?!" He ignited his fists in a fancy manner by raising his hands up and throwing them down to his sides, both igniting at the same time.
"Before you charge me I just have one thing to say." I let it hang in the air for a moment as he stood there probably half listening and waiting for me to do something maybe. "Are you sure of yourself?"
At that he screamed and charged at Ahri and me.
"Really? Screaming? Why is this guy screaming?" I said. The guy threw his right fist first at me and I side stepped it, pulling back my right shoulder and stepping back with my right foot. I brought my right hand up to block, knowing that he was going to throw a left under hit to surprise me but I've watched this tactic on many accounts. As I thought, I felt his left fist hit my palm and closed my hand around his fist. Ahri was already moving by doing a spin kick and connecting with the back of his head with her right heel. He jerk forward and I pulled on his fist, stepping again with my right foot as I pulled my right shoulder back again, this time using the rankers weight to pull him back towards Ahri. She was already in position, low to the ground ready to flip this dumbass.
As he came towards Ahri, I let go and she swept her left foot under him, hitting one of his feet forcing it to the side, making his balance unstable for the moment. I took this as my chance and jumped at him, covering the very short distance with barely leaving the ground. I pulled my right fist back in a half ass punch but thrust it forward with as much force as I could. I connected with his right cheek and pushed the punch through, driving him to the side making him lose his balance. As I pushed the punch through, he staggered to keep his balance but ended up falling all the way to his knees. Ahri rose back to stand next to me and we watched as he struggled to get to his feet.
"You probably…think…you're tough shit since you…can fight me…with a…champion?" He finished it in a question format. Guess we were moving too fast for him to keep track. His face was showing worry now, since he probably saw our eyes glowing from the sync. "You're a True Summoner?"
"Nah, my eyes are just glowing for no reason. Also, Ahri and Yasuo just decided to stop by and say what's up, then we were gonna go and grab some coffee." The ranker just stared at me for a little bit and had one of his gross eyebrows raised in a questioning way.
"Really?" He said.
I slumped my shoulders slightly, my eyelids falling halfway down. "Arrrrre you fucking kidding me?" I couldn't help saying. "Like, how are you a silver ranker?"
"So, wait, you weren't being serious? You really are a bound summoner?"
"Yes…" I said, obvious disbelief at this guy's stupidity in my voice.
"This changes the situation more…" He said, seeming to come to his senses.
"Good. Since were on the same page-"I started to say but was cut off by the silver dumbass again.
"Now when I beat you, I'll ride my fame into Gold rankers!"
He charged at me again and I brought my eyebrows together, showing my anger at this person. He lit his hands again but this time, the flames were bigger and were electrified. That spell combination can only be accomplished when you train with it for days on end. Even took me a week to get and I still only get it half the time. He yelled again for no reason and I just shook my head.
"Alright, I'm done with this moron."
I reached out to Ahri in my mind and she was actually prepared when I commanded for us to take it to the next level. I reached my right hand over to her left and gently grabbed it. I called forth my power and felt Ahri call hers as well. As we did before, we felt it rising but this time the words didn't demand to be said, but their power was still there. I could feel my hair begin to rise like it did on the train, defying gravity and obeying the wind more. I could feel my chest getting hotter along with my hands setting ablaze without my own words to set them that way. Everything was silenced as the wind around us seemed to circle us and shield us. The base of my hoodie and the back of it started to float upwards as well. After Ahri and I gathered as much power as we could that fit the situation, we let it loose and the wind that gathered around us pushed itself outwards in a great force it seemed since the silver ranker's spell was dwindled into nothing, and the sun covers for the nearest merchant shops did their best to resist the winds command like a soldier deserting its regiment.
The silver ranker fell to his knees and let his arms fall to his sides. He looked up at us and Ahri and I looked down at him. I stepped forward and made myself tall to him, as if I was a tower of the Gods to a mere man. I crossed my arms and put my weight equally into each foot.
"This." I motioned towards the way we were both positioned. "This right here, is the difference between our powers. If I ever get wind that someone that fits your description, is out threatening other summoners and enforcing yourself onto them, I will find you and run my blade through your limbs, making you useless to the league and therefore, dispelling you. Do you get it?"
He held silent for the time and I felt Ahri come to my right side again to look down upon him.
"My summoner has addressed you, thus you will answer him."
The man looked at her and I don't know what he saw but it must've terrified him or held him like a chain to a dog and forced him into an obedient answer. "Yes ma'am." He looked at me, no more anger, no more resistance, just fear. "I understand True Summoner. It won't happen anymore."
"Good. Now get the fuck outa my sight."
The ranker rose to his feet, his legs shaking and he took a minute to get them to stop before he made his way towards the Institute. He was hunched over and pulled his hood back up over his head which I just noticed got knocked off somehow. The crowd parted for him and watched him go as did Ahri, Yasuo, Gears, Kathell and I. Then once he turned onto the main road to the Institute, the crowd looked back at me, silent. I felt the power Ahri and I summoned reside itself into us again to be called upon the next time we needed its assistance. I looked at her and saw her irises go back to their golden coloring and I'm guessing mine went back to their natural color.
I turned back to see Kathell and Gears now standing but Kathell was holding Gears up, Gears right arm over Kathell's shoulder. They were silent as well as they looked at Ahri and I. We walked over to them and I heard Yasuo step next to me as well on my right.
"You okay you two?"
Gears smiled to his best ability giving a chuckle along with it. "Yeah, I'm fine. He hit hard but not as hard as some people I've faced. His hits were pure force, which I can handle. It's your ridiculous smart hits that can knock me out and into a slumber fit for a newborn baby."
"Yeah well, fighting is kinda my thing I guess. Anyway, you gonna take him to the hospital?" I addressed to Kathell whom nodded in response.
"Yeah, we'll get em fixed up real easy."
"Alright. You two take it easy."
"Thanks again Fox." Said Gears.
"It's my job now. No problem."
As the two hobbled their way towards the hospital wing at the institute, I brought my left hand up to my nose to see if any blood was spilled from my brain since it liked to do that every time I reached for this power but now, there was no blood. Making progress. The crowd was still looking at us with silence and I looked around at them. I heard cheering begin somewhere but it didn't matter because the one call out they gave seemed to boost everyone else's cheering.
"Yeah! Go Fox, Thief of the Siren's Hearts!"
The crowd cheered in unison, making this situation feel that more successful. I waved at a few of them oddly, and motioned at my champions to follow me. As we made our way through the crowd, back to the stall where I left my luggage and Ahri's as well, people in the crowd smiling at me and reaching out to me. I shook a few hands, greeted a few people and worked my way through them. After I broke through the end of them, and moved towards the stall. The market street started making its way back to its usual business, people shouting at others to buy their wares and what not.
The man Ahri and I left our belongings with was waiting for us with a huge smile and seemed to give me back the money I offered to him as payment as a type of reward for what I did. I just shook my head as if that was ridiculous and put a ghost timer on the money. He'll find it later tonight on his person.
It was only another half hour before the three of us had arrived at the Institute and another five minutes to get up to my room. I stopped outside the door to my room to look back at my champions and found them returning their gaze to me.
"Any big changes I should know about Yasuo?"
He nodded and loosened his grip on the hilt of his blade. "Yeah. Fizz is your next mission champion."
"Finally, something easy." I said. I looked back towards the door and opened it to find Fizz, Diana, Sona, and Aatrox in the room relaxing on the corner couches. I noticed Rengar was out on the balcony either enjoying the view or doing Rengar stuff. They all turned to look at me except Rengar whom continued to look out at what I'm guessing to be the forest.
"Heeey, what's up Rodent?!" yelled Fizz, jumping off the couch and walking towards me.
"Seriously, call me that again Fizz and I'll see if you can survive the fall from our balcony to the ground, tied to a chair with Teemo shrooms at the bottom to break your fall."
"Soooo, I would survive?"
"I don't know, that's why I'd throw you off the balcony."
"But you just said there would be Teemo's shrooms at the bottom to BREAK my fall. Therefore, making me survive."
"Well…uhm…but…shut up." I stuttered. Fizz just chuckled his laugh and kept walking towards me.
"Oh man, our job's gonna be fun."
"So your mission went well, we heard." Said Diana this time, standing up and walking to me as well.
"Yeah. Guess the news from Piltover already reached here. That's cool." I said, rolling my eyes.
I set my luggage to the side and moved into the kitchen to get something to eat. I rummaged through the fridge quickly while explaining bits and pieces of the mission to them. As I pulled my head out and the food I chose to eat along with me, I continued to go through what happened in short snip its. Ahri added in her own commentary every now and then. Once I caught them all up on what took place in Piltover, Yasuo went over the small fight Ahri and I had with the silver ranker, but my champions already knew what had happened.
"Holy shit, news travels that fast?" I said, shock obvious in my voice as bits of food from my sandwich came out.
"Well, when you show off as much as you two did, shit tends to get around." Said Fizz next to me. He jumped upwards and grabbed onto the counter, pulling himself up with ease. He then faced towards me and jumped onto my shoulder. His nimbleness and agility was actually pretty cool. He sat down with his back against my ear and a leg over on each side of my shoulder. His weird tentacle hair things were freaking me out because they clung to my hair uncomfortably.
"Right, so now you guys know basically everything you need to know about that mission, so after a couple days of rest, I'll head out with Fizz on our mission."
"Whoa, hold the phone." Fizz said.
"What phone?" I asked.
"The phone."
I looked at my hands and added more confusion to my voice. "What the fuck, okay, what phone?"
"Dude, it's a metaphor."
"THAT'S a metaphor?"
"Yeah. Duh."
"That is such a dumbass metaphor."
"It's like, the most common metaphor out there!"
"Since when?"
"Since always. Where the fuck have you been with common phrases?"
"Clearly not in the same area as you."
"Seriously, where have you lived if you haven't heard that phrase before?"
"I guess a place that didn't use half-assed metaphors."
"Half assed, are you kidding m- okay you know what?"
"Hold the phone?"
"Oh bite me."
"Nah, you look like you're past your expiration date."
"Wait, are you calling me fat, dumb or old?"
"Which do you think?"
Fizz held silent for a moment before responding. "Neither?"
"Of which two?"
"Which two of what?"
"I don't know, what're we talking about again?"
"I think Fizz was getting ready to ask how you knew he was the next one you were going on a mission with." Said Yasuo who was leaning against the wall on his right shoulder. I pointed my hand out towards him in a thanking motion.
"Ah yes, thank you. That conversation was unnecessarily too long. So to answer that, Yasuo told me on our way here."
"Yasuo you sword wielding jackass. I wanted to surprise him that I was next!"
"Gods, sorry miss sensitive." Yasuo said in his smartass way.
"Oh man, next sparring match I'm focusing you asshole."
"Alright so, why don't you tell me the details about your mission Fizz?"
I walked over towards the corner couches and seated myself onto one. Fizz hopped off my shoulder and sat next to me, picking bits of food off my plate. Sona sat on my right, folding her legs up onto the couch and near me. She was unusually quiet right now.
'Maybe it's because were still connected.' Said the voiceless thoughts of Ahri. I nodded and looked at her then back to Sona.
'Yeah, I think you're right. We haven't taught her how to connect yet have we?' Ahri smirked and shook her head. Sona made a face of disappointment as she seemed to figure out that I couldn't hear her thoughts right now. I reached out my right hand and placed it onto the side of her cheek. I brought her right hand up with my left and placed it onto my left cheek. I could feel the warmth of the blood rushing into them and noticed the color changing. Then I felt her slightly nuzzle into my hand and her minds voice started coming into my head as I thought about the first moment when our bond deepened.
'-verytime his hands are on my cheek, they're always smooth to me. Wonder why that is.'
'Heard that.' I said back to her and her face quickly changed to one of shock. Her minds voice cried out in surprise and I laughed real quick.
'Sorry, didn't mean to scare ya.'
'Why couldn't I speak with you before?'
'Because we weren't connected anymore. Ahri and I connected on our mission and she figured out how to reconnect without needing physical contact.'
'Then…why touch my cheek so softly?'
'Cause I missed you guys shockingly.'
Her face became redder and she broke eye contact with me. 'Oh well, we missed you too Fox.'
'And I wanted to hear you freak out so, thanks for that.'
She hit my arm playfully hard, and yeah, it was hard. Gods. I rolled my shoulder and looked back at Fizz who was looking up at us and had one eye open more than the other. Guessing that's as close as he was going to get to raising his "eyebrows".
"You two done flirting?"
"Not flirting just getting our connection back." I explained briefly.
"Connection? Like, lo-"
"No, not a love connection, our mind connection. It's how she talks to me and another way for me to talk to her."
"Oh, you see, that makes more sense."
"I can do the same thing with Ahri."
"Wait, really?"
"Really really."
"So it's not just for Sona?"
"Guess not."
"Boom! I'll collect later." He addressed that last part at Sona. I didn't even want to look over at her because these two have a betting problem.
'Not me! Him!' She exclaimed into my head.
'Yeah, well who agrees to it?!' I retorted. She didn't say anything but I'm pretty sure I heard grumpy mumbles.
"Anyway Fizz, what were you saying?"
"Well, to make a long story short, I'll summarize it."
"Go on."
"Were going to a nearby village that's been complaining about some ghosts near their sacred waterfalls, asking for someone to get rid of these unwanted and evil spirits."
"How do the people know they're evil spirits?" I took another bite of my sandwich and put it back onto the plate, wiping my hands of the crumbs on my pants.
"They've seen them putting something into the water. They think the ghosts are trying to poison the village to take their bodies or something."
"Okay, so why is this are mission exactly?"
"Well for one, to see what the ghosts are and probably stop them from doing whatever it is their doing, and two, for where the waterfalls are located."
"And where's that?"
He smiled at me a devious smile and looked over at Diana before back to me.
"What?" I said, swallowing the chewed up food in my mouth.
"The waterfalls are coming out of the mountain side, which are highly rumored to have a hidden Lunar Temple in them."
Carra
My brother and I were thrown in our cells the moment we arrived at the dark jailhouse. Mine was across from his which seemed highly illogical. But I wasn't going to complain. As I sat back on my butt, putting my back to the wall still feeling my skin getting irritated by the light oriented cuffs that were on me. The guards didn't say anything, they just simply locked us in our cells and left. What little light was given off by the corridor that led to the cells was cut short and blocked off by the door as they closed it behind them, leaving my brother and me in complete darkness.
"So Carra."
"What Runic?"
"How long are we going to have to sit in these pitiful cells before we continue on with the plan?"
"Keep your voice down you idiot. We don't know what kind of spy runes they might have in these cells."
"Oh stop being such a bitch. I already used the spell on my earring to detect if there are any runes. The cells are clean."
"Well, you should've lead with that."
"Whatever. Still find it funny how Ahri thought I fell for such a dumb trick."
"She was never a bright one for tactics."
"So, how long before the second phase?"
"Longer than we initially thought."
"Meaning?"
"Get comfortable brother, and prepare yourself for some and any form of torture. We're going to be here for the next year, give or take."
"Do we know who the plants are yet?"
"No, but we will know when the undecided frozen queen falls." I ended our conversation there and heard Runic start to laugh. I decided to join him but not make it audible, only giving a smirk as I thought of the day when I would meet that cocky son of a bitch Fox and really put him in his place. Now that my brother and I were in ours.
"It's all going according to plan."
Final notes
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