Haunted House of Horrors
AN: Hey, so I'm getting a bit board of this story. This chapter is less about the child champions and more of a spooky haunted house thing. I was trying to get it out by Halloween, but whoops. Anyways, here it is.
After Annie burnt the last daycare down, the toddler champions and their chaperones are forced to switch daycares yet again. There's just one problem: there aren't any more daycares in the city!
"Alright, here's what's going on," a daycare staff member says after spending nearly an hour on the phone. "There's no more daycares for us to go to, but I found a house that someone is renting out because they're on vacation. It's going to be a little crowded with all of us there, but it will do." With that, everyone gets on the busses and heads for the house.
When they arrive at the house, however, the daycare staff realize that the house looks nothing like the picture of it they saw. "We're not going in that creepy old house, are we?" Lulu asks nervously, gesturing at the falling-apart house in the middle of nowhere as Pix buries his tiny head in Lulu's shoulder, afraid to look at the house.
"No," a daycare staff member agrees, "there must be some mistake. It says this is the address, but that can't be right!"
The daycare staff then get into an argument about what to do. The staff members are so busy arguing that they don't notice certain toddler champions starting to glow orange, but THEY notice alright, because today is Halloween, the day when spooky champions are at their strongest! The daycare staff don't notice as these champions ghost, fly, and clone-swap their way off the bus….
Eventually, the daycare staff members decide everyone should get off the bus and check the house out. The remaining toddlers hesitantly approach the house, while the daycare staff members approach it faster, because they aren't scared, why would they be scared? There is no logical reason to be scared….
"THE END IS NEAR!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" all the toddlers and daycare staff members scream. Then the daycare staff members laugh nervously as they realize it's just Fiddlesticks.
"Alright Fiddle, you've had your fun, time to get back in line with the other children," a staff member says.
"THE END IS NEAR!" Fiddlesticks repeats, then he turns into a flock of crows and flies away!
"HEY! GET BACK HERE MISTER! YOU'VE JUST EARNED YOURSELF A TIME-OUT!" a daycare staff member yell as the flock of quickly fleeing crows. Yet he and everyone else can't help but worry something bad is about to happen….
The daycare staff approach the house slower this time, but are still determined not to show their fear. After a brief argument of "You first." "No, after you," one daycare staff member knocks on the door. Everyone holds their breath, afraid something terrible is about to happen, but instead nothing happens. The staff member knocks again, even daring to call out "Hello?" but once again, there is no reply. Slowly, she pushes open the door….
BOOOOOOING!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" everyone yells. The champions and daycare staff were so focused on the door opening and worrying that something would jump out of it that they didn't realize there was danger behind them! The boing-ing sound was a bunch of jack-in-the boxes popping open in the bushes behind them! As everyone screams, two laughing Shaco's jump out of the bushes with knives in their hands!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" everyone yells, running away as the Shaco's run towards them. Since the Shaco's are blocking their escape to the busses, they take cover in the only other place available: the spooky house.
"Quick! Lock the door!" one daycare staff member yells. Another daycare staff member frantically grasps at the door handle in the dark, until an audible Click is heard. People start to calm down slightly, but tense up again as they realize the house is pitch-black inside. No one can see the inside of the house… or what horrors might be lurking within….
"Why so serious? AHAHAHAHA!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" everyone yells as Shaco teleports through the door into the room, his teleport briefly lighting up the room and revealing his location, before the room, and Shaco's location, once again fade into a dark mystery. Everyone panics and runs away from where Shaco was. Unfortunately, the house is large, and because everyone is running in different directions, they end up splitting up into different rooms, each one containing different horrors….
"Are we safe?" Ashe whimpers, as Shaco's laughter finally fades away after getting farther and farther away.
"For now," Sejuani says, trying to stay brave.
"We can't stay here. We need a plan to get outside," Lissandra says, but she's too scared to think of one.
"Eww! The wall is SLIMY!" Ashe groans. Then she trips and falls. "EWW! THE FLOOR IS SLIMY TOO!" she wails.
"What could be causing that?" Lissandra wonders.
"I'll punch it in the face!" Sejuani announces. She swings her fist around in anticipation… and is surprised when she hits something. "Huh?" Sejuani says, confused, looking in the direction of her fist just as a four eyes open in front of it.
"DODO-DODO-DODO-DODOOOOOOOOOO!" Kog Maw sings cheerfully, his mouth opening in a huge, barf-filled smile as he notices the meal that just bumped into him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" the three Freljordians yell, running away from the Void creature. Before they can exit the room, however, another Void creature blocks their path.
"OMNOMNOM!" Chogath yells, eager to eat some people as well. The three Freljordians find themselves backed against a wall as the Void monsters close in….
Meanwhile, in the next room over, Nasus and Renekton are bumping into walls. "Oww! I wish we had a light!" Renekton exclaims.
"Then you shoulda brought a flashlight," Nausus grumbles.
"No, you shoulda!" Renekton exclaims.
"I have a light," a voice replies, as the room becomes bathed in an eerie green glow.
"Thank you!" Nausus replies, walking towards the light. "If it wasn't for my idiot brother—"
"You're the idiot!" Renekton exclaims, stomping towards the light as well. The two brothers are so busy arguing that they don't notice the light is coming from Thresh's lantern until they are standing right in front of him, causing them to gasp and Thresh to cackle evilly.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" the brothers yell, sprinting away as Thresh throws his chains at them!
In yet another room, several champions are getting annoyed at Kalista's epic fail attempts at haunting them.
"Wooooooooooo! I'm haaaaaaaaaaaaaaunting youuuuuuuuuuuu!" Kalista announces standing right in front of Garen and waving her arms around like she's having a seizure.
Evelynn facepalms. "You don't just say you're haunting them, you have to do something scary! Watch," Evelynn says. She disappears, then reappears behind Garen. "BOO!" she yells.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!" Garen screams, turning around to face Evelynn while simultaneously backing away.
"See?" Evelynn says smugly, causing Kalista to pout.
"I coulda done that too!"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"HASAGI!"
The two arguing Shadow Isle champions find themselves at the center of a Yasuo tornado. Yasuo was getting board because he hadn't had a chance to show off his OP skills lately, so he is randomly doing so now. The two ghostly champions are forced to retreat so that their wounds can heal. As everyone cheers at Yasuo's success, one champion has a different idea.
"Face the AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Yasuo yells. He was about to attack Kindred, when suddenly Kindred's Mark appeared on him!
Lamb leaps forward and shoots three arrows at Yasuo, but Yasuo windwalls, dashes, and runs away as fast as he can with tears streaming down his cheeks. He's heard enough about Kindred to know what The Mark means.
What he doesn't notice is that Lamb wasn't actually aiming to hit him with the arrows, or that she is now standing still and laughing as the mark remains shining on the now vacant ground. The real Mark of Kindred shows up randomly and follows the target around, but earlier this morning when Lamb was board, she helped Wolf carve the mark design into a flashlight that, when turned on, looks the same as the real mark.
"Nicely done, Wolf," Lamb says, high-fiving Wolf as he floats down from the ceiling, the flashlight still clamped between his teeth. "We pranked him good!"
Wolf sighs. "I wish we got to chase him though," he grumbles as he drops the flashlight on the floor and struggles to flip the switch off with his paw.
"Someday," Lamb replies, petting the top of Wolf's head to calm him down.
As Yasuo continues to run around the house crying, Jhin is panicking for a different reason. "B-but why would Lamb shoot three arrows? Death has to come from four shots! FOUR!" Jhin closes his eyes, and when he opens them, he is back at a daycare and laying on a nap mat.
"Thank goodness, it was just a nightmare!" Jhin exclaims, laughing. "I knew there was no way Kindred would actually kill people with three arrow shots.
Suddenly, Jhin hears evil laughter. He looks around, but he can't find the source of the laughter. Then he realizes with a jolt that the daycare is completely empty. No one else is there but him! Suddenly, he realizes the laughter sounds familiar. It is the laughter of one of the other champions, and the champion is….
"No. No!" Jhin wails, as he realizes what is happening.
"Yessssssssssssss…" a voice hisses.
Jhin blinks, and when his eyes open, he is back in the spooky house. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Jhin wails, as he sees Nocturn floating over him.
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees! All of that happened!" Nocturn cackles.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Jhin cries, running away with tears streaming down his cheeks.
Suddenly, the house is lit with an orange glow. All of the spooky champions lose their weapons and adult powers. The darkness inside the house also fades, because it had been Nocturn's doing all along. It is the middle of the day and the sun is out, after all.
The daycare staff quickly sprint around the house, frantically searching for hurt champions. Miraculously no one is dead or even seriously hurt. Kog Maw and Cho Gath need to be defrosted because the Freljordians froze them, but that's no biggie. Nausus, Renekton, and Thresh are in need of some Band-Aids, but now that toddler Thresh's lantern is back on the Shadow Isles and not in his hands that isn't too worrying. Shaco's knife turns out to be just a toy, but that is no laughing matter; the daycare staff are debating if a year of time-out is a good punishment. Fiddlesticks needs to be brought down from the roof, because when he lost his powers, he turned back into a scarecrow and got stuck on the roof, but he weighs so little that the daycare staff easily do so. Really, the worst problem right now is that Yasuo and Jhin won't stop crying.
After listening to Yasuo cry for a full ten minutes, Lamb sighs. "It was just a prank, see?" she says, flicking on the flashlight, but the sight of the Mark only causes Yasuo to run away and cry louder! "Idiot," Lamb grumbles.
Meanwhile, no one can figure out why Jhin is crying. When asked, he just mumbles "…four." Since there's nothing the daycare staff can do if he's not willing to talk about his problems, they decide to let him cry himself out, and they just start looking for another daycare instead.