Chapter 16

LezGo35- I wouldn't say pull out of the blue, but I can see why you say that. No, the information about how Octavia met Azir will hopefully be in the next chapter or the chapter after that one.

I.M.P.

Moxxie

It was in Moxxie's humble opinion that things have went to somewhat okay to completely shit for him and I.M.P.

Not only have they done an utterly shitty job in keeping assassins and thugs from trying to bother Stolas and his daughter during their trip to Loo Loo land, but they also managed to lose Stolas' daughter as well. Who took their van to Satan knows where, thus not only depriving I.M.P. of their only method of transportation, but also pissing Stolas off completely that he probably would have obliterated Moxxie and his wife to essentially nothing if it weren't for his little thing with Blitzo right now, which was likely the only reason that they're still breathing.

In fact, it was thanks to Blitzo that Stolas took them to I.M.P. to not only use Stolas' Grimoire to find Octavia but also to have Stolas go off on a rant without furthering causing a scene in public. Not that it would make much difference. What happened to Loo Loo Land, which was actually burned to the ground on account of Blitzo's fight with that robot clown, alone was enough for the press in Greed to be busy for weeks on end.

Sighing a bit, Moxxie looked at Stolas as he gave a rant to everyone present, even Loona, who was keeping quiet because of the emotionally unstable Goetia Prince in the room. The birdman was still in his Loo Loo land attire, making him look somewhat silly, but silliness wasn't on Moxxie's mind when he saw that Stolas was getting more worried about his missing daughter. The noble was twisting and squeezing his Loo Loo Land hat, destroying it, as he paced around the I.M.P. lobby.

"How? How can this happen?" Asked Stolas to no one in particular as he paced around the Imps and Hellhound, wringing his hands in anxiety. "I placed my trust in you three Imps in protecting me and my little Octavia over our usual guards. Yet, you not only manage to lose my daughter but you also did so in a way that makes me question your competence. I mean, how can you allow my daughter to go unsupervised beyond just one Imp? Not to mention the rest of you were off playing games and not doing the job that your supposed to be doing. I…I don't understand how you can let this all happen. How can you put your own desire to be entertained over protecting those that hired you to protect them in the first place?"

Blitzo simply gulped at the question while looking at Millie, Moxxie, and Loona as the three hid in various corners of the room, scared or nervous on what Stolas would do if they said the wrong thing or directed his attention to them. Being the boss and the one that Stolas loves the most out of all of them, Blitzo had to be the one to attempt to calm Stolas down enough that he won't just obliterate them all for what happened in Loo Loo Land. Something that Blitzo wasn't exactly keen on doing on account of knowing just how…protective Stolas was with his daughter. There was also the fact that he wasn't exactly the best in calming people down.

"Stolas." Said Blitzo carefully so as to not, somehow, enrage the noble with…anything he said. His dick was good, but that most likely wasn't going to save him, his coworkers, and his daughter from Stolas' wrath if he chose to unleash it upon them. "You see, we thought that just one of us was enough to keep you and your daughter safe from whatever that came after you guys in that carnival. I mean, you know how easy it is to kill the lesser beings in Hell besides Sinners. I mean, just one bullet is enough to off an Imp or Hellhound. Plus, Millie really wanted to go and have fun in Loo Loo Land. So, being the great boss I am, decided to kill two birds with one stone and…well you know the rest." Stolas stood still for a few moments when he heard Blitzo's explanation. For a brief moment, time stood still for the Hellhound and Imps. They were wondering how Stolas would take Blitzo's explanation. Before anyone can say or do anything, Stolas spoke up.

"Blitz, that is, without a doubt, the most terrible excuse that I've ever heard in my entire life." Said Stolas as he looked at Blitzo with a disappointed but still filled with worry face. "And I've heard many." Blitzo didn't have much to say as what Stolas said was well within his right to say. His daughter was missing and I.M.P. was partly responsible for it. Okay, maybe largely responsible for it. Not that it matters now. Octavia was missing and Stolas will likely kill all of them, baring Blitzo and perhaps Loona, until they can find his daughter and quickly.

Blitzo was going to retort when Moxxie, whether in bravery or stupidity, spoke up.

"With respect, Prince Stolas." Said Moxxie, gathering the courage to speak up to the Goetia noble. "Shouldn't we be focusing on finding your daughter? Surely that should be our priority over trying to understand why we weren't around to stop her from leaving Loo Loo Land. I mean, that's important too, but every minute we waste doing that right now is another minute that could have been spent looking for your daughter." Moxxie gulped when Stolas looked at him upon hearing his voice. Looking at the angered expression on Stolas' face made Moxxie wonder if he made a grave mistake opening his mouth until Stolas sighed and spoke up.

"You're correct, little Imp." Said Stolas, calming down a bit. "Finding my daughter should be our focus. Not trying to understand why you all failed in your duty to keep us safe from harm." Everyone let out a small sigh of relief when they saw that Stolas was calming down a bit. They were safe from his wrath. At least for a little while longer. "Now, I can conduct a simple tracking spell to find out where Octavia has taken your little Imp vehicle. I just need something from either your vehicle or from my daughter in order to complete the ritual. Unfortunately, I don't have anything from my daughter with me at the moment, so I'm afraid to say that we'll need something from your vehicle in order to find my daughter." Blitzo sighed at this before thinking up of things to give to Stolas so they can find his daughter and their SUV. As he did so, Moxxie wondered about Stolas' daughter and what made her do this in the first place.

"Stolas isn't the most attentive in Hell, sure, but he does a lot better than so many other parents here." Thought Moxxie as he looked at Stolas following Blitzo into his office, where he kept so much stuff that belonged to Blitzo and possibly stuff from Millie and Moxxie since they started working for him. "He at least spends time with her and have a day dedicated to her, unlike my dad, whose probably spending his time ruling and thinking of ways to conquer Hell. What made Stolas' daughter react the way she did?" As Moxxie was thinking about all this, Millie grasped her husband's left shoulder and spoke to him once he turned to her.

"Are you okay, honey?" Asked Millie towards her husband, slightly concerned for him after Stolas left, allowing her to speak somewhat freely now that they no longer have to worry about Stolas killing them just for saying just one wrong thing. "Stolas wasn't exactly gentle with us when he learned we weren't around to stop his daughter from…you know."

"I'm fine, Millie." Said Moxxie with a smile. "Just wondering why Stolas' daughter did what she did? Like Stolas seems to do more than most parents in Hell. Wonder what made her do all this?" Millie shrugged at that, not knowing as well. Whatever it was, though, she had a feeling that they'll soon find out because she had a feeling that Stolas wasn't going to let them out of his sight until his daughter was safe and sound along with being in his arms.

As she and Moxxie waited patiently for Stolas to finish interacting with Blitzo on how to find his missing daughter, the two Imps wondered where Octavia is and if she was safe.

Meanwhile

Irelia

If there was one thing that Irelia despised more than typical Noxian scum, it was Noxian scum that attacked, killed, and hunted defenseless Ionian people.

Following her supposed aunt and her cohort of…monsters, Irelia found herself hiding from a band of Noxian soldiers that had cornered a group of Ionian refugees in a secluded section of the forest they were all in. Despite finding them a few minutes ago, Keira told her niece that they must wait until her beasts were in position. Irelia protested at this, wanting to save the refugees now, but Keira pleaded for Irelia to trust her, promising much information and assistance against the Noxians if she did. Information that she will very much like to possess, if only to save more Ionian lives while also claiming more Noxian lives. Irelia, after hearing that promise, reluctantly put trust on her aunt. Though she was starting to question if she had made a grave mistake in doing so.

Counting a dozen or so Ionians, mostly women and children, Irelia couldn't help but glare at the Noxians as they surrounded the defenseless Ionians. Even from a distance, Irelia could see the Ionians weren't going to fight back even though they outnumbered the Noxians. Too deep in their fear to even think such a thing and the Noxians knew that.

Gritting her teeth as she saw the biggest Noxian, a heavily armored and armed brute of a man, come towards the group of refugees, laughing menacingly as he did so. His mace drawn, Irelia saw him grabbing one of the few men amongst the Ionians, a young man by the looks of him, and pulled him away from the rest of the refugees. The other Ionians let out cries of terror and panic at this, but couldn't do anything because of the other Noxians. Realizing what was going to happen to the young man, Irelia was about to spring into action when Keira spoke next to her.

"Wait, niece." Said Keira as she placed a ghostly hand on her niece's shoulder, holding her back. "We do not have to do anything. My…allies will do everything for us." Before Irelia could protest or say anything against this, she suddenly heard the loud growling and hissing that she had become used to hearing from her aunt's monstrous allies. Then, before she knew it, Keira's allies have pounced on the Noxians, ready to tear them apart.

One moment, the large Noxian brute was laughing as he prepared to bash his captive's head in with his mace when suddenly that hand that was holding the captive was cut off by a bony-like weapon before being followed up with his head being cut off by another bone-like sword.

The Niskaru that did this howled in satisfaction as its fellow demons began pouncing on the other Noxians, too stunned at what had just occurred with their fellow soldier that they didn't see the other Niskaru until it was far too late. The other Niskaru howled as they began ripping, cutting, and tearing apart the other Noxian soldiers, feeling a dark joy in doing so.

One Niskaru was ripping off the throat off one Noxian soldier with its jaws despite its anatomy issues in doing so. Another Niskaru was cutting the head off another Noxian soldier after a brief duel with them. One that ended with the Noxian's axe being broken in two after he tried to bring it down on the Niskaru's head, which broke, allowing the Niskaru to finish off the soldier. Two other Niskaru were busy bisecting the last of the Noxian soldiers that stayed to fight while the rest, after deciding it be best to run away after seeing their large comrade die so quickly along with the rest of their comrades, were being pursued by the last Niskaru, which caught the two cowards with ease and began slaughtering them without much issue. All of this took the span of two minutes.

While the Ionian people were stunned and fearful at what just occurred before them, Irelia and Keira was coming towards them. One to calm her fellow people while the other was to ensure the Niskaru wouldn't suddenly attack the defenseless Ionian people.

Huddled together in a tight ball, the refugees stayed close together as they watched the hideous beasts that were the Niskaru surround them, scared on what they'll do to them. Even though the Niskaru allowed the Ionian boy that was taken by the Noxians to run up to his people and join them in their tight little and didn't do anything to them, the Ionians were still scared of them. This was on account of their fearsome appearance, which was something akin to the Azakana, demons of emotions that appeared since the Noxian invasion of Ionia, as well as their brutal way of disposing the Noxian soldiers. It was only when Irelia made herself known to them that the Ionians calmed down. Even more so when she came between them and the Niskaru, still not trusting the monsters despite her aunt's assurances.

Although they were surprised to see one of Ionia's greatest heroes come to their aid and wasn't attacking the monsters that surrounded them, the refugees were nonetheless not going to complain their twist of fortune. Irelia, for her part, said nothing as her blades surrounded her, ready to fight against the Niskaru in case they decided to set upon the refugees. Although that would likely end with her death along with the other Ionians, Irelia would still do so. For it would be a stain on both her soul and her mind to abandon her people to the likes of monsters like this in order to save her own life.

Fortunately, that never came to pass, as Keira had ordered the monsters to back away from the Ionians. Obeying her will, the Niskaru backed off, trudging behind her and giving the Ionians a respectable distance from them. With that done, Keira looked at her niece and spoke.

"Is this sufficient proof that I speak the truth, my dear niece?" Asked Keira as she looked at Irelia, a stoic look on her face. "We helped save these innocent people from the depredations of these Noxians. And we did so without any of them being harmed. Is that not enough to warrant a chance, my dearest niece?" Irelia, upon hearing all that, looked back at the refugees, who were confused at what was happening between the dead woman in front of them and Irelia, before looking back at her aunt. Thinking upon her words a few minutes, Irelia spoke.

"Your actions, along with those of your beasts, prove you are not a friend of Noxus." Said Irelia carefully. "But that is all that your actions have proven today. You may not have harmed any of my people or done anything that may cause them harm, but that isn't enough to convince me that your intentions are as pure as you make them out to be. However, your actions are enough for me to give you a chance. But only one chance. Is that sufficient for you?" Keira, although her face was still impassive, was overjoyed and relieved to hear that for several reasons. Not only did she achieve her original goal of testing the Niskaru in combat, but she also managed to obtain a chance to have a kinship with her only remaining member of her family. Granted, it was one that she must be careful with otherwise she'll lose her chance forever, but it was honestly much more than she could ever hope for. Overall, things were looking good for her. Very good.

"That is most generous of you, niece." Said Keira with a smile, the first she ever made since coming into service with Mordekaiser. "I assure you that you will not regret this decision. In the meantime, let us escort you to safety. After all, having more fighters can help in keeping everyone alive. Correct?" Irelia, though it was faint, could hear the smallest of happiness from her aunt's voice and, for a brief moment, felt something swell in her chest before it went away.

Looking at her aunt, Irelia gave a brief nod before turning to the refugees and telling them that they're leaving for a safer location. As Irelia was telling the Ionians this, Keira was ordering the Niskaru that they're going to keep an eye on the Ionians. To make sure that they will reach safety. Although this wasn't her objective, she did not need to rush to test the Niskaru further. Time was on her side after all.

Watching as her niece ordered the refugees around, gently but firmly, Keira couldn't help but be proud of the little girl that her brother had helped create. As she watched, she wondered what Mordekaiser's own child was doing and if he was doing okay.

Meanwhile

Moxxie

Moxxie was patiently waiting with Loona and Millie for Blitzo and Stolas to finish whatever they were doing to locate Octavia. As the two Imps and Hellhound were trying to keep themselves calm or prevent themselves from doing anything stupid, they suddenly heard Stolas yelling out something in surprise.

"She's back at the mansion!?" Yelled Stolas from Blitzo's officer, surprise evident in his voice. "Why would she go back there?"

"The fuck should I know?" Asked Blitzo before he opened the door to his office, walking out with Stolas in tow. "She's your daughter. You figure it out."

"So did you find where Octavia is, sir?" Asked Moxxie as he, Loona, and Millie went up to Blitzo, relieved that he was alright.

"More like know where she took our van." Said Blitzo, still a bit irritated with everything that was happening at the moment, but wasn't showing it in fear of Stolas going off the deep end somehow. "She took our van to her parent's mansion. No idea why. Probably thought it would be the last place Stolas would look for her. Right Stolas?"

"Possibly." Said Stolas after hearing Blitzo say his name, worry still clear in his face, but abated somewhat due to figuring out that Octavia is in a relatively safe place. No matter her reasons for doing it in the first place, though, the fact remains that she was in pain when he last saw her and the fact she stormed off in what was suppose to be a relaxing day between them caused him to want to find her and figure out what is wrong. She's his daughter after all. "Whatever the reason is, I must find my via and figure out what is wrong. I know that my book is still under your ownership as per our arrangement, Blitzy, but I would like to have it back for a moment. Not only as punishment for what happened in Loo Loo Land, but also because I have a suspicious I may need it." Blitzo just sighed at that before nodding.

"Fine, but leave us out of this." Said Blitzo with a wave of his hand. "Far as I'm concerned, our part in this is over. So take your book and you can kindly take a hike…"

"Actually, Blitzy, I would like you and your little Imp friends to accompany me to see Octavia." Said Stolas, looking at Blitzo with the utmost serious face that Blitzo had ever seen on the Goetia. It stunned Blitzo enough that it allowed Stolas to continue. "One, consider it a punishment for your failure in protecting me and my daughter at all times alongside a pay deduction for the job. Two, I have a thought that the reason she acted the way she did had something to do with all of you and I wish for you all to apologize for it. And three, I want to spent more time with you Blitzy." Stolas' voice turned husky and seductive after saying that, looking at Blitzo with hungry eyes. Blitzo groaned at this, knowing that he and the others had to follow this bird's orders or else. When Blitzo, Stolas smiled.

"Splendid." Said Stolas before summoning his book to him with a flick of his wrist. "Now let us find my daughter. I'm sure you'll all have a good apology for her when we arrive to my manor. Otherwise, you all will face something worse than a pay deduction. Unless, of course, Blitzy wants to do another form of repentance for all this."

"God fucking damnit, Stolas." Said Blitzo as he slapped his face in annoyance. Stolas just giggled at Blitzo's response before summoning a portal that will lead them all to Stolas' mansion, specifically Octavia's room. With that done, Stolas quickly pushed Blitzo into the portal, but not before Blitzo told Loona that he'll be back home for dinner, something that caused Loona to nod weakly as the Goetia led her adopted dad away. Millie and Moxxie, meanwhile, followed in tandem, realizing they need to go as well. Both to keep an eye on their boss and to keep Stolas happy and not want to kill them for not doing their job in protecting him and Octavia from harm.

Going through the portal right before it closed, the couple saw Octavia's room and were surprised with how big it was.

Easily twice as big as their own bedroom in their apartment, Octavia's room can comfortably host a small party of three dozen or more people in it and still have more than enough room for entertainment and food without much issue. The perks of being born into a rich family.

As Millie and Moxxie were looking around the room in awe, Stolas stood still as a statue when he felt a strange magic that he had never felt before permeate all around Octavia's room. Feathers standing up in alarm, Stolas quickly flipped the pages of his book to find a specific magic spell to use in Octavia's room. When he found it, he quickly cast it, which sent a green shockwave all around the room, knocking the Imps to the ground along with some mirrors and portraits hanging from the walls. When it was all over, Stolas sighed in relief.

"Oh good." Said Stolas in relief. "She's safe from harm." Before Stolas could say anymore, Blitzo spoke up.

"Uh…no offense, Stolas, but what the fuck was that!?" Demanded Blitzo as he got up. "Not two seconds here and you're already casting some fucking magic that sending us to the ground."

"Apologies, Blitzo." Said Stolas as he turned to face his fuck buddy/business partner. "I was merely casting a spell to see if Octavia was harmed or hurt in anyway. You see, the spell I did is a spell that enables me to see, in my mind, what had transpired in Octavia's room. Think of it like a replay back function in a DVD player. It enables me to see what happened in the past. Depending on how long I cast it, it can let me go back as far as a day. Even more if I take the time to do the necessary requirements to do so. Not that I need it. Our ventures are always on my mind, Blitzy." Moxxie, internally groaning at what Stolas was doing right now, spoke up.

"Your highness, with respect, your daughter." Said Moxxie, reminding Stolas the reason they're all in his daughter's room.

"Oh right, how silly of me to forget." Said Stolas, a little embarrassed. "Going back on topic, it seems that my dear Octavia has access to magic that I have never seen before. Quite strange as I'm quite familiar with many types of angelic and demonic magics, but the magic she used does not seem to have any affiliation with Heaven or Hell. Quite strange." Upon hearing that, the Imps all looked at Stolas in surprise.

"I thought all magic came from either Heaven or Hell." Said Millie in surprise.

"Actually, not all of it." Said Stolas. "I'm not surprised you didn't know this. Its honestly not worth knowing about. There is some magic that is out there that does not have any correlation with either Heaven or Hell. Those that bother to spend time trying to figure out this little pointless trivia believe it's the work of God. Back in the days of Adam. At least that what I've heard. Like I said pointless trivia. And its not like the humans know any of this. They killed their last magic users ages ago. Done in by those silly witch hunts. Oh, what jealously and fear of the unknown would do to a people's magic potential. But it seems my daughter managed to find such things somehow. Quite interesting, I do say so myself." While Millie and Blitzo were raising their eyebrows at this information, or not caring at all, Moxxie was curious about it. After all, he came from a place that was full of humans that can use magic. Magic Moxxie has seen plenty of. At least one type of magic that is.

"Anyway, this magic obviously some sort of teleportation spell." Said Stolas as he magically flipped through the pages of his Grimoire. "Through the spell I cast earlier, I saw my dearest daughter go through a portal. A portal of her own leisure and her own pace. What's more I saw her draw some strange runes on a piece of paper prior to all this happening."

"So, if she did all this at her own consent, does that mean we don't have to do anymore?" Asked Blitzo with a raised eyebrow. Not to his surprise, Stolas shook his head.

"Of course not." Said Stolas. "We still need to find my Via and figure out what made her react the way she did. And also apologize to her for whatever we did to make her react the way she did."

"More like whatever you did, prince." Thought Moxxie as he was starting to wonder if Stolas was the main reason his daughter left the way she did. Thinking about it, Moxxie saw her being relatively unhappy at being at Loo Loo Land. Whereas Stolas loved being there. If that was the case, why did Stolas bring his daughter there if she hated that place? Did he know his daughter as much as Moxxie initially thought he did? Before he could ask Millie that question, Stolas spoke up.

"Fortunately, I saw what the runes were and can replicate them." Said Stolas before he summoned a pentagram on the nearest wall, etched with the runes that he saw Octavia make earlier. Just as it was formed, the runes glowed bright red before opening a red portal that completely overtook the pentagram appeared and showed everyone an ocean of…

"Sand!?" Yelled Blitzo as he saw the sea of sand through the portal. "*Groans* For fuck sakes, I hate sand! If there's anything I hate more than anything else in the world, its fucking sand! It gets fucking everywhere. It itches. It just the worst fucking kind of thing to ever fucking happen ever. What the fuck was the big man thinking making sand!?"

"Your dislike of sand aside, I wonder why Octavia went to this place." Said Stolas looking at the portal and the sea of sand, seeing nothing of note to warrant a visit there. With a shrug, Stolas made a mental note to ask her when he finds her in that sea of sand. After scolding her for what happened at Loo Loo Land, of course. Thus, Stolas went through the portal, causing Blitzo to groan. Muttering how much he hated sand, Blitzo went through the portal as well. Millie was about to enter it as well when she saw her husband humming to himself.

"Something wrong, honey?" Asked Millie when she saw this.

"Not wrong per se, honey." Said Moxxie honestly. "I just got the strange feeling I know that place."

"You do?" Asked Millie in surprise. To her recollection, sand wasn't found much of anywhere in Hell beyond some specific rings in Hell. "You seen sand in Hell?"

"Not really." Said Moxxie. "Just got a strange feeling I know about this place. I can't put my finger on it."

"Is it a bad feeling, hun?" Asked Millie in worry. She was relieved when Moxxie shook his head.

"More like I should know this place feeling." Said Moxxie honestly so his wife wouldn't worry about their impending visit to wherever Octavia was. "I just can't remember why though."

"Well, maybe you'll remember when we go there." Said Millie before taking her husband's hand and leading him through the portal. "Besides, if there is danger on the other side, we can handle it. Right, honey?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I guess." Said Moxxie, though when she said that, Moxxie got a sinking feeling that they wouldn't handle whatever was on the other side now.

The moment that Moxxie and Millie went through the portal, it closed, leaving no evidence of its existence at all. So when Stella came barging in, fury at all the noise that the portal made while she was having some beauty sleep, she had no idea what transpired.

Meanwhile

Azir

"And that's what happened today." Said Octavia after she finished her story to Azir, who had stayed silent the entire time as Octavia told him of what transpired today with her and her birth father. "He just didn't fucking get it that he was hurting me by bringing me there in the first place. For fuck sakes, I told him at the beginning what I thought of going to that stupid theme park and he still insisted on us going. And then when I clearly showed I wasn't having fun, he still insisted on staying. And then, as a fucking cherry on top, he had the nerve to have us go to the one place in the whole fucking theme park that traumatized me so much as a kid, giving me so many nightmares, and then flirt with the guy that is the whole fucking reason my life at home is so shitty at the moment. Like seriously, he cared more with flirting with that dickhead over seeing how unhappy his own fucking daughter was in being in that theme park in the first place." After that last sentence, Octavia sighed before looking at Azir with tears in her eyes. "So that's why I came here. I just snapped can came all the way from Greed to Pride. Straight to home so I can go to my room and use the spell you taught me to so I can see you again. Someone that actually cares about me and someone I can call friend." With all that said, Octavia asked Azir what he thought. The golden God-Warrior that was Azir hummed a bit before speaking.

"Your father had good intentions at taking you to this theme park, it seems, but he failed to account your own feelings into this matter." Said Azir with a hint of disapproval in his voice. "In his quest to reconnect with you again, he failed to take into account your input and stance on the matter. He still sees you as the little girl of old, rather than the grown woman that you are now. That doomed this venture of his to a failure right from the start. And then is the courtship he committed with his Imp. While in Shurima, its common to have concubines in addition to your many wives as long as you're a noble, your father on his courtship over his own daughter. That is unacceptable. Even more so when he's trying to reconnect with you."

"Exactly." Said Octavia. "Like, hello dad! Is this some sad attempt to connect with me? Or is this just some fucking excuse for you to flirt with your fucking fuck buddy." Groaning, Octavia laid on the chair she was in before speaking up again. "Sometimes I wonder if God is a cruel vindictive fuck to the Goetias with how fucked my life is. I got a shitty dad. A shitty mom. And I'm part of a family that constantly back stabs each other for money and power. Not to mention all the people either trying to kill me or use me because of said family. I just don't fucking get what I did to deserve all this."

"Sometimes fate is a cruel mistress." Said Azir as he went to Octavia and helped her stand straight in her chair before speaking again. "It sometimes forces things upon individuals that may or may not break them. And other times it gives less deserving individuals more favorable situations and positions. Your are, unfortunately, in the former. If its some comfort, in my eyes, you are doing admirably in the situation you are in. And that, if you ever require any further assistance or aid, I will try to make time for you." Octavia smiled at Azir at that.

"Thanks." Said Octavia before hugging Azir, which the God-Warrior was surprised in before he recovered and returned the hug. They stayed like that for a few moments before Azir broke off and spoke.

"As much as I would like to remain here, I must go." Said Azir. "There is an important meeting I must attend with my advisors concerning the future of Shurima. Unless you like to join me in that meeting, I advise you either return home or remain here. It is up to you, my dear." Before Octavia can give her answer to Azir, the God-Warrior suddenly looked to his right sharply. Seeing this, Octavia asked what was wrong. Rather than speaking, Azir stayed still for a moment before sighing.

"It seems that your father has made his way to Shurima." Said Azir with a shaking of his head. Octavia's eyes widen at that. Stunned to hear what Azir said. Before she could panic, Azir spoke up again. "And it seems that he has brought company. And has angered a…acquaintance of mine." Upon hearing that, Octavia thought of her dad and what he was doing here. And if he was going to get himself killed.