League of Legends: Survival. Book 1

The Scouts: A High Risk and High Reward

I wish I could say that it only took me a little while to get it... but it didn't. Let me get something straight for you guys, it's almost been a month since I started training with Bard, and I learned nothing.. nothing at all.

Bard was a pretty nice guy, he never lost his patience with me, and continued tooting on that silly horn all day as I stared at it without a single clue of what I was supposed to get..

It wasn't as if it bored me though. That music was glorious.. it touched my heart and made me feel an amazing set of glorious things I never thought I could feel. Anger, joy, sadness.. I didn't know where to begin.

But I didn't get it.. what the heck was Bard trying to get me to do?

It didn't help that all the kids around me seemed to think I was some sort of bad luck charm. Remember when I said I didn't really care what people thought of me? Well, it's one thing when people avoid you, a complete different thing when they outright mess with you.

I would wake up every morning to find my clothes thrown all over the room, and carvings gouged out in my wall saying "Go Away Voidborn!" and  "Cho'Gath was enough, get out you Wh*re!"

I didn't display any reaction to this. I knew that it wouldn't solve anything. It was either stay in here and endure the harshness, or go out and die. And though my felt like one giant joke.. I still wanted to find a way to live it... I had hope.. I wasn't completely lost..

Nobody was openly harsh to me in the streets. I suppose they were all afraid of how Akemi would react, everyone really seemed to respect her. And they all seemed pretty weary of making an enemy of Bard, who I think was starting to like me.. which is weird.. cause nobody ever liked me before.. not that I know of. I didn't have friends, I had coworkers, and fellow orphans at the orphanage.. but I didn't have friends.. And far as I was concerned, I didn't need any friends..

I made an early decision already, if I managed to control my abilities as Rek'Sai, I would leave. Nobody could stop me.. it wasn't as if any other LOL champs could burrow underground. Rek'Sai was a loner in the game's battle field too.. digging around the jungle.. and that was me.. a loner.. a lone hunter... I was best alone.. that's how I felt after all...

I perked up.. I was sitting in the local bar, eating a paeia dish that I had ordered from Dave. It had just occured to me.. How I felt... how I felt...

I grinned. "I finally get it....

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I found Bard sitting in his usual spot... floating in the air over a stump with all his little meeps floating around him.

"Hey.." I said, getting Bard's attention.

Bard turned to look at me and jingled the bells on his hat.

"I get it now..." I said. "I get what you've been trying to tell me..it's not about what you say.. it's what you feel.. I've never been able to see it till now.. because, I've always been afraid of my own feelings.. and what the thing that's inside me now feels... I hate to feel.. and that's why I never let myself feel.."

Bard nodded, and held out a hand, gesturing at me to show him... to show him the what I needed to show... what I learned.

I smiled and I closed my eyes.. I knew what I needed to do... it was what Bard's music had been hinting at the entire time..

I felt my heart beating wildly, I imagined myself on the hunt.. prowling beneath the earth... looking for my prey.. I felt the thrill of hunting relentlessly..

I opened my eyes and slammed my fists together as strange blue glowing rune-like markings appeared on my arms and face... I felt my body grow.. armor compact around my back and body and my legs shorten and multiply..