The Boy Savior - Ekko x Reader - Season 1

Prologue

You were watching in horror as they destroyed all the shimmer. Your only chance for a redemption you had been longing for so much. They threw the little vials to the ground and kicked down the crates containing them. The small glasses broke instantly when they touched the concrete and the purple liquid all poured out, forming shining puddles under their feet.

In a way, it looked beautiful. The color of the drug perfectly complemented the dirty, greenish air of Zaun all around you and you couldn't take your eyes off the sight from behind the huge wooden crate in the corner of the premise, that had become your shelter.

You remembered the last time you saw your family leaving your home. They were all tired - your mother, father, and brother - but jolly as usual, despite all the hardness in life they had to go through.

You couldn't work with them in the shimmer factory - they didn't let you. Your dad kept saying that you were weak for a place like that, and your mom often liked to remind you how it could only take a small accident, and your "talent" would get publicity, which your family had always tried to avoid at any cost.

Unfair. Especially if you thought about how your brother had always dreamed of learning and getting to Piltover one day to show them that knowledge and talent are not a privilege granted only to those living in the higher cities. That there are worthy and great people in Zaun as well. It's unfair... He had much greater dreams than you...

Instead, you were the one who had to stay home every single day and watch them leave. You did your job around your home - cleaned, repaired the worn-down things that kept breaking, and always tried to make some dinner for them once they'd return in the evenings. Things had always been like this. Until one day, when you just waited and waited by the table, but the front door never opened.

If you had ever insisted on working with them... Maybe if you were with them, then you could have helped them and they wouldn't be dead now. Or you would have exploded with them and the whole factory among the hundreds of others... and now all your problems would be gone...

You felt a single drop of tear pour down your face, leaving a burning hot trail on your cheeks as you watched the group of hoverboarding gang destroy the last handhold of your life. You only realized that you had been frozen when the last crate met its fate as well.

You heard that the right amount of shimmer could make you strong. Much stronger than an average human being and that was exactly what you needed. You planned on injecting yourself with the fluid and ending the only person responsible for all the misery in your life - Silco...

You had imagined yourself ripping him to pieces a thousand times on your way to the shimmer warehouse and just when your plan could have come along, they arrived. And they ruined everything!

You felt your chest burn under the weight of hatred towards Silco, Zaun, and this gang - even Piltover - as your body finally came to life. When they dropped the torch to burn every single drop of your shimmer you jumped out from behind the crate with a rage so huge, you had never imagined was possible to feel.

"What have you done?!" you screamed as you raised the metal pipe you had been holding onto since you sneaked inside the fence around the warehouse, and aimed for the one you suspected to be their leader. You caught him - along with every member of his crew by surprise - and he barely managed to dodge your attack. But when you turned back and raised your weapon a second time, he instantly grabbed the end of your pipe and swung you back to where you came from with the momentum.

You grunted as you fell, hitting your elbows and knees but you didn't care. You couldn't even feel the pain striking your limbs - the adrenaline made sure you were working at your peak.

You turned back to face him jumping to your feet and dashing towards his figure as you yelled again: "What have you done!" All the members of his group gathered around you, forming a circle. The burning shimmer had given them the scariest dancing silhouettes as they watched your pointless fight. The way they stood around you, combined with the orange and crimson color of the burning background reminded you of a sect watching a scapegoat meet its end and the lump in your throat grew bigger.

The leader just pushed you back without even exerting himself and you fell again, this time onto your bottom. You dropped your weapon on the impact and the cold sound of the metal hitting the concrete by your side echoed through your ears as you sat there, your tears flowing unstoppable down your face. He just checked a pocket watch in his right and signaled something to one of his men. You felt your chest deflate when you looked around yourself, seeing that every single drop of the shimmer had been eaten by the flames...

What was the point of even trying anymore?

"You destroyed everything..." you cried, as looked into the masked face of the the leader through your hot tears. You saw how the others around you turned their backs on you already, starting to leave but you decided to stay there... to burn with all your hopes and plans...

But then - you didn't notice the figure that had been probably standing behind your back during your pathetic little show - you felt the biggest hit on your head and you felt yourself fall towards the ground, your head dragging your whole body with itself. Just before your vision blacked, you saw the leader start towards you and you knew you were doomed.

But maybe it was right like this, you thought and the darkness swallowed you. Even though you couldn't avenge your family you felt soothing peace for the first time in a while as the darkness swallowed your consciousness...

//AN.: Arcane finally managed to break my complete writer's block that has been going on for a year!! (or more than a year??) I managed to finally write something and come up with ideas and I might as well finally be able to finally finish my uncharted fic t-t 

I love Ekko so much, I needed to write something with him ♥ he's best boy//