Grey knocked."Sona? It"s me, Grey." the Abyss Watcher said knocking on the door.
The door was opened by the mute girl who was already dressed up. [Good morning, Grey. How are you?] Sona signed.
"I"m fine, thank you for asking." the Abyss Watcher replied as the Maven came out of her room and walked beside them through the hallway. "We are planning to go to town. Are you interested?"
The mute girl thought about it before giving her answer. [Sure, it"s been a while since I"ve seen the city around the Inst.i.tute.]
"Very well." Grey nodded as they continued their way.
They made it the dining hall and found Solas with Brite and Aki standing. "Ah, there you are." the Sun"s First Born said noticing them.
"Good morning, Solas, Brite." the Abyss Watcher greeted.
"How are you today, Ahri?" Aki greeted seeing her friend.
"We"re great." the fox Vastaya replied before looking at them all. "We"re planning to go into town today, Grey wants to show Solas and Brite around, wanna join us?" she asked receiving a nod.
The Silver Knight raised an eyebrow. "So is that what we"re doing today? I have to admit that I"m curious about the city below the Inst.i.tute."
"Yes. I was also planning to-" Grey stopped talking as he started looking around.
The others immediately noticed the sudden silence. "What"s wrong?" Ahri asked.
Grey didn"t answer, instead, he immediately pulled out his sword, turned around, and stabbed it in the ground.
The others jumped in surprise, except for Brite who pulled out his glaive. He knew that if Grey drew his sword, then something was there.
Suddenly, the ground in front of Grey"s sword started rippling like water. Then, to their shock, someone came out of it like they were resurfacing from the sea.
The person was a man with pale greenish skin. He had a bald head, green eyes, and a red bandana with teeth drawings on his mouth. He had an exposed chest with spiky bone armor on his shoulder. He had tattered pants and in his right hand was a short green blade that came out of a mouth shaped handle.
"So you noticed me." the man stated. His voice was gruff and sounded like he was speaking while drinking at the same time.
"Who are you?" Grey asked as the others became on guard.
"Pyke, the Blood Harbor Ripper." the man introduced himself.
"New champion?" Grey asked and the man nodded. From Pyke"s skin, the Abyss Watcher knew he was undead. "Were you following us?"
"No." Pyke replied unaffected that they were ready to attack him. "The fact that I was behind you is purely coincidence. I was going to the dining hall."
"Then why were you in the ground?" Grey asked describing what he saw the best he can.
"That"s just how I like to move around." the Blood Harbor replied without emotions. "I had no intention of following anyone, who isn"t on my list that is."
They were curious about what list he was talking about, but then Ahri realized something. "Wait, you were in the ground. That means…" she trailed off as she blushed and grabbed the bottom of her kimono pulling it down. She then glared at the new champion. "You son of a…"
Nidalee, Aki, and Sona realized that being underground gave anyone a look up their clothes and they did as Ahri did by trying to cover themselves while glaring at Pyke.
"Oh please, Fox." Pyke rolled his eyes before pulling out his blade and sharpening it with his thumb. "The only thing that interests me in a woman is seeing her guts splattered all over the floor. I couldn"t care less for what"s under her skirt." he finished with a sinister chuckle.
Despite how psychotic that sounded, Grey, Brite, and Solas didn"t sense any actual madness from the man. They just felt a large thirst for revenge.
The Abyss Watcher put away his weapon. "Alright, sorry for attacking you." he apologized. Ahri Thought that the roles were reversed on who should apologize.
"Whatever." Pyke said as he walked past the group. "Just make sure your name stays out of my list."
As he walked, Pyke started sinking into the floor like he was walking down some stairs. When he was completely underground, the tip of his green blade came out and started acting as shark fan.
When he walked or swam away, They stayed in silence. Brite was the first to speak. "The people of this world are weird."
Grey deadpanned at the Silver Knight. "You noticed that JUST now?" he asked.
Ahri punched his side while Nidalee coughed in her hand. "You do realize that includes us, right?" the fox Vastaya asked.
"I meant a good kind of weird." Grey replied.
Ahri crossed her arms with a smirk. "That"s better."
"Morning, people." said an all too familiar voice. They saw Lux walking towards them. "How are you today?"
Ezreal was walking beside Lux. However, he wasn"t as energetic as the young Crownguard.
The Prodigal Explorer looked like he barely had any sleep. "Morning…" he just mumbled before yawning and rubbing his eyes.
"What"s wrong with you." Brite asked with his hands on his waist. "How can you not be energetic in such a great morning."
Ezreal yawned before answering. "Had a match earlier in the morning, real early." he then started looking at the summoner of the group. "Aki, what kind of summoners plan a match at 5 am?"
The others looked at the Shy girl, who immediately raised her hands. "I-I swear I have no idea. There are some summoners like that but I"ve never done it myself."
"That"s good." Nidalee sighed messaging her forehead. "If I"m going to be woken up that early by a summoner, then I rather it is someone I don"t know so I can beat them up."
"Anyway, we"re planning to go to town." Ahri told the two blondes. "Are you in?"
"Sure… let"s just grab some breakfast, please." Ezreal asked and the others nodded before going into the dining hall.
Time skip: (brought to you by chibi Nidalee with bed hair going into the bathroom before coming out one second later looking normal.)
The group that now consists of Grey, Ahri, Aki, Ezreal, Lux, Nidalee, Sona, Brite, and Solas was now walking down the stairs of the Inst.i.tute to the city below.
"What do you suggest we do first?" Solas asked as they entered the city.
"How about we split up?" Lux suggested making the others look at her. "You boys go on your own, and we girls do the same. Let"s meet in the food district after we"re done."
"Alright." Grey nodded before looking at Ahri. "Try not to use all your money on video games."
The Nine-Tailed Vastayan rolled her eyes. "I"m not dumb, Grey. I can take care of my money."
The Abyss Watcher sighed and started to pet her ears. Judging by how she leaned towards his touch, she liked it.
"I know, I just wanted to remind you." Grey said before he pulled back his arm, much to Ahri"s annoyance, and walked off with Ezreal, Brite, and Solas.
"Alright, girls, let"s go shopping." Lux said as she, Ahri, Aki, Nidalee, and Sona walked off to the other direction.
Grey POV:
After we split up, we started walking through the streets pa.s.sing by a few stores that Ezreal called "electronic stores".
We stopped at a window showing a few screens. "This… technology stuff is… odd." Solas noted.
"I say it"s witchcraft." Brite added. But then the screens viewed the sun in clear blue skies, which immediately, unsurprisingly, changed his opinion. "I say it"s a blessing from the G.o.ds!"
"Sure you do." I rolled my eyes before we continued walking.
We pa.s.sed by another store that showed something called a phone. I knew immediately that Ahri would love that thing.
Ezreal suddenly stopped. "Hey, look." he said pointing at a wall. We looked at what he was pointing at and… are you kidding me?
It was a poster about Brite. He was wearing his helmet and pointing at whoever was looking at the poster. Under Brite was writing that said
"Ah, it"s good to spread the word of the Warriors of Sunlight." Brite said enjoying himself. Seriously, what about praying to wolves?
"So champions are celebrities?" Solas said making it sound more like a statement than a question.
"I think it"s unnecessary attention." I said crossing my arms.
I was being honest. Being a celebrity means you"ll have idiots craving for your attention. If you"re going to spread a name for yourself, then it should be a name your enemies fear.
Ezreal shrugged. "I don"t think it"s that bad." he then saw a couple of girls looking at him before he winked at them. "if anything, I like it."
I deadpanned at him. Like I need any more women in my life. I already have enough problems as it is.
"Whatever." I shook my head before remembering something. "Solas… I need to ask you something."
"I think I know what it is, and before you ask, Gwyndolin was a boy." he deadpanned at us, I guess he got asked that a lot.
"That wasn"t what I was going to ask, but before I do ask you what I want." I looked at Brite "Pay up."
"Lucky guess." Brite grumbled before giving me a small patch of gold.
Ezreal looked confused while Solas looked somewhat annoyed. "You… put a bet on my brother"s gender?" he asked.
"No offense, your highness, but everyone does it." Brite shrugged. "Even people from the Boreal Valley and they basically worship your brother."
Solas sighed pinching his forehead. "Great, now what did you want to ask?"
the Firstborn looked at me while I took a deep breath. "Do you detest me?"
They were all obviously confused by the question, Solas more than the other two. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"I am a Lord of Cinder." I reminded him but he still didn"t understand. "Like your father."
Finally, Solas looked like he got what I was meaning. "Oh, you think that I"ll compare you to my father for what he did to me?" he asked and I nodded. "Don"t worry, I never held any actual hatred towards my father, and there were many Lords of Cinder before you."
That relieved me a lot. I have to admit that I was worried about that. "Thank you." I sighed before remembering something. "Oh, I should probably buy a few ingredients. I"m running low on Estus."
"Can you make me some?" Brite asked. "I didn"t have any since I came here."
Seeing that it was Brite who asked, I gave an immediate answer. "No."
"Why!?" Brite obviously didn"t like my answer. Good.
"You have healing miracles. That should be enough of a replacement." I replied as I can feel him glaring at my back when I started walking.
Ahri POV:
Me and the girls have been walking around for a while. We haven"t checked on anything yet since nothing caught our interest.
Suddenly, I saw a store with a few newspapers and magazines at the front. In the last few days, I thought that I would never read one of those, but since Sona fixed everything, I"m a little curious.
I stopped for a second to look at the newspapers, searching for where it says the truth… but I didn"t find anything.
Looking over the other papers, I didn"t see anything. "What"s wrong?" I looked and saw Nidalee.
"There"s nothing about Grey"s misunderstanding with Sona." I told her.
She raised an eyebrow looking confused. "Isn"t that a good thing?"
"I mean, there"s nothing to correct it." I told her and she finally understood that without telling the people it was a misunderstanding, then they"ll still think Grey and Sona are a thing.
"But didn"t Sona fix this?" she asked.
"Let"s go and ask her." I said as we caught up with the others and I grabbed Sona by the shoulder. "Hey, Sona, can we talk."
She looked at me confused before nodding and walked with me and Nidalee away from Lux and Aki.
When we were alone, I looked at her. "Hey, Sona, didn"t you fix that misunderstanding at the newspaper?" I asked.
Sona gave us an innocent smile before writing on her board.
"But that"s not enough." Nidalee told her. "You should have told them to say that it was a misunderstanding."
Sona"s expression didn"t change as she wrote down. "But people still think you two are a thing." I told her.
Sona"s innocent smile was making it hard to be mad at her. she asked."Yes." I told her.
Suddenly, her innocent smile was replaced with a one so sinister, I felt some of the fur on my tails stand.
Sona asked making us realize that we don"t have any. I couldn"t believe what I was hearing, well reading, actually. Sona tricked us?! And if try to do anything, she"ll look like the innocent victim!
She was giving us a look that said "I win, and you can"t even complain about it" before she turned around and walked to Aki and Lux.
"That little…" I was pretty much trying to kill her with my eyes.
Nidalee wasn"t actually doing better. "Can I throw my spear at her?"
Tempting, really tempting. But not with all the people around. "Not in public." I said as we walked to the others.
We started walking through the streets again and this time, a store caught my attention. "Hey, how about we go there?"
The others saw I was pointing at a toy store. "Really?" Lux asked surprised.
"I need to buy stuffed animals." I said remembering how empty the bed feels sometimes. "I have a soft spot for furry creatures. Why do you think I like Silver so much?"
"I-I"d like to buy some too." Aki said in her usual shy tone.
"Well, I need something to scratch if I sleep in my cougar form, so why not." Nidalee added before we got in and started going through the store.
After I bought everything I needed, I walked to the cashier and found everyone already finished.
Lux didn"t get anything, I"m actually surprised. Nidalee got a cute stuffed mouse, which makes sense as she said she wants to scratch it. Aki got a couple of stuffed animals, a cat, and a dog. And Sona got the same Grey doll me and Annie have.
When they saw what I got, they all looked surprised. "Isn"t that a bit much?" Lux asked.
"Not really." I replied. After all, I only took a few… okay, maybe more than a few… okay, I MAY have taken half an entire aisle.
"I thought Grey said "don"t waste your money."" Nidalee said as we started paying for our stuff.
"He said "Don"t waste your money on video games", he didn"t say anything about stuffed animals." I replied as I picked up the bags and walked out with everyone.
"S-so, what do you want to do now?" Aki asked us and I have to admit that"s a good question.
Sona took out her board and wrote down before showing all of us. "Yeah, it"s pretty warm today." Lux agreed before looking at us. "What do you think?"
"Sure." Aki agreed.
".... Fine." me and Nidalee grumbled still mad at the blue-haired lier.
Sona gave us an innocent smile as she continued to walk forward with Lux while Aki looked at us confused.
"What"s wrong, Ahri?" Aki asked me. "You don"t seem to like Sona."
"It"s not that I don"t like her… it"s just that I hate her." I mumbled but shook my head. "Whatever, let"s get something to drink."
We found a juice store that served fresh fruit juice. We got in and I took everyone"s order.
Lux and Aki had some strawberry, Nidalee had a fruit c.o.c.ktail, I had some banana juice and Sona… I honestly almost said poison, but thankfully, I managed to hold myself back and ordered her an apple juice.
It was pretty peaceful, other than the worker staring a few times. I know my clothes don"t cover much, but I honestly couldn"t care less how much he stares, the only one who gets to look AND touch is Grey… after I get to touch him first of course.
Time skip: (brought to you by chibi Ahri jumping on a mountain of stuffed animals before they started falling on chibi Grey.)
Third POV:
The boys and girls met up in the food district after they all finished shopping. Ahri was the first to notice the bag in Grey"s hand.
"Hi, Grey. Are you making that Estus Soup stuff again?" the nine tailed Vastayan asked.
The Abyss Watcher nodded. "Yes, since there are no Bonfires in Runeterra, I have to make my own." Grey then noticed the bags in Ahri"s hands before sighing. "Didn"t I tell you to waste money?"
"You said at video games." Ahri countered with a smug smile. "I only bought two, everything else is either stuffed animals or clothes." she then extended the bags to Grey. "By the way, can you carry this stuff for me?"
The Lord of Cinder looked at her confused. "Why?"
However, Ahri then started giving Grey a puppy eyes look. "Please~."
Grey stared at her for a couple of seconds before sighing. "Fine."
"Thank you." Ahri said as the Abyss Watcher took her bags.
They all started walking towards the Inst.i.tute and Solas looked at Grey. "I"ve been gone for thousands of years, and men are still weak to women"s tears." he said.
"No, that"s just Grey." Brite added chuckling.
"Oh, go kiss a mimic." Grey said as they started walking up the stairs of the Inst.i.tute.
The Silver Knight was about to reply but then saw that Aki herself had a few bags. "Here, let me carry that for you, Aki."
"O-Oh! Y-You don"t have to-" the summoner was cut off as Brite took the bags from her. "Thanks." she mumbled hiding her blush under her hood.
"No problem." the Silver Knight replied.
The Abyss Watcher was giving Brite a look. Ahri decided to change the subject. "So, what did you boys do?" she asked.
"Nothing much." Grey replied. "We just walked around, looked into a few shops, and bought a few things. But Ezreal kept trying to hit on girls."
"Wait, what?!" Lux immediately stopped her tracks and glared at the Explorer.
"I was just-Ow!" Ezreal tried to explain, but before he could, Lux kicked him in the shin.
"a.s.shole." Lux mumbled before she started stomping away. "I"m going back to Demacia to see Garen come back." she then looked over her shoulder. "You coming, Sona?"
The Maven shook her and the young Crownguard continued her way to the transport station.
Meanwhile, Ezreal was tending to his hurt leg. "Ow, what"s wrong with her?"
"Are you really that dense?" Grey asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Like you"re one to talk." Ahri mumbled without anyone hearing her.
Time skip: (brought to you by chibi Grey carrying shopping bags while following chibi Ahri who was still shopping.)
Lux was standing in front of the royal castle in Demacia. After a few moments, she saw her brother, along with Prince Jarvan, King Jarvan, Xin Zhao, and Shyvana.
"Welcome back, your highness." Lux welcomed the king first with a bow. "I hope the meeting went well."
"Better then I expected." King Jarvan replied with the others behind him. "There are many things that needs work with Swain, but I never expect peace to happen overnight."
"I"m glad to hear that, your highness." Lux said before walking past the king towards her brother.
The guards near the door opened it for the king. However, he didn"t get to enter his castle.
Suddenly, Someone fell behind the King and grabbed him. Prince Jarvan, Garen, Xin Zhao, Shyvana, and Lux all jumped into a battle stance.
However, before any of them does anything, the person holding the king turned around and showed them a purple glowing sword at the king"s throat.
"Anyone moves and his head will be off his shoulders!" the person threatened to make them all stop at their tracks.
It was then that the champions got a look at the person. It was a tall woman wearing a black bodysuit under a dark silver armor with golden tr.i.m.m.i.n.g that covered her shoulders, chest, thighs, and legs. She was wearing a helmet with a cage visor and a wedding veil connected to it.
"Who are you?" Garen asked gripping the handle of his sword. "A Noxian a.s.sa.s.sin?" he asked suspiciously.
"I don"t know, or care what a Noxian is!" she answered. "Now YOU listen to ME! He is supposed to be important." she said motioning to the king. "so I a.s.sume you don"t want him as a headless corpse." to prove her point, she brought the purple glowing blade closer to the king"s neck.
Seeing that the woman was serious about her threat, they all backed off but didn"t drop their stance.
"That"s better." the woman said. "Now, I heard you people have a lot of information, and I"m looking for someone. He"s a tall man, wears a red cape and pointy metal hat, and he uses a sword and a knife for weapons."
The champions had looks of surprise amongst them. They looked at each other before looking back at the woman.
"His name wouldn"t be Grey Ashnex, would it?" Garen asked.
"So you do know him." The woman stated confirming that she was indeed looking for the Abyss Watcher. "Where is he?" she barked.
"Wait, wait wait! We"re friends with Grey!" Lux yelled trying to calm the woman down.
"Prove it!" the woman ordered surprising them. "Tell me something only a friend of Grey should know."
The champions looked between each other, not knowing how to answer. That is until Lux spoke. "Uhmm… He always covers his face without realizing it?"
The woman"s cage visor turned to the young Crownguard, who thought that she screwed up big time.
But then the woman made a sigh audible for everyone around. "That stupid idiot still has that dumb habit of his." she growled before pulling her sword away and pushing the king.
King Jarvan immediately walked towards his son who got in front of him with Xin Zhao while the woman strapped her sword to her waist where there was another sword with similar shape but different color.
"Who are you?" Prince Jarvan asked after he made sure of his father"s safety.
"Just call me the Dancer, for now." the woman replied which gained a few confused looks.
"the Dancer?" Lux repeated surprised. She knew it wasn"t the woman"s name, but a nickname to not give her real name.
"Yes, now you are friends with Grey. Can you take me to him?" the Dancer asked.
"We can." Garen answered but still held his sword in his hands. "But first, who are you to Grey?" he asked wanting to know if it was safe to bring the woman to the Abyss Watcher.
The Woman"s answer shocked them to the core. "To put it simply… I"m his sister."
(A/N: Thank you for reading this, please comment, review, and give me your thoughts on my story.)