Scarred For Life

Chapter 8

And there you have it...that's my train wreck of a childhood. But of course....that's not the end to my story. No... we're just getting started.

That night, Ekko took me to some bootleg doctor in the underground. I got fixed up but apparently the damages were severe. I was in and out for like a week.

Silco went on to running the underground since my father was gone and renamed it "Zaun". That purple liquid was something he called "Shimmer" which made anyone who ingested it look like that creep from that night. It gave them those superhuman abilities but the side effects were terrible. After you go back to normal, your body is never the same and you start having withdrawals. You become addicted to the shit. Silco became a glorified drug lord and ruined so many Zaunite's lives. To make matters worse, he used my dad's bar as his personal headquarters and turned it into a nightclub.

Ekko and I... we were on our own since then. Vi disappeared, no one ever saw her again and Powder...Powder joined Silco and took on her new name: Jinx. She went real psycho after that.  I guess that something was trying to warn me or help me to prevent what she has become....and now...it's transitioned to punishing me for failing to stop her.

Up in Piltover, some genius invented a new wave of technology called Hextech. Ekko became slightly obsessed with topside's business and constantly gave me updates on what he could find out from his snooping. Of course, he could only get the basics. Piltover had revolutionized trade and transportation, making it a global shipping lane. However, Ekko wasn't the only one interested in the invention, Silco had expanded his business into Piltover and somehow allied with a few crooked enforcers.

We got through it all though. We lived in hiding with a bunch of other kids our age whose lives were affected by Shimmer. We built a secret base in a rare space that houses one of the very few trees that survived in the underground, shit probably the only tree. We decided to fight against Silco and his goons in an attempt to free the undercity from his rule. We've been doing everything we can to screw up his shimmer shipments with the help of all Ekko's inventions. Since most of everything was Ekko's idea anyway, he became our leader. And of course, I'm his right-hand man. We call ourselves "Firelights".

Now that you're all caught up, you can join me in the present...
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Present Day
6 years later...

"You're late" A masked figure's voice echoed through the tunnel. His voice was distorted due to the device in his mask. He was standing on a hoverboard and swinging a pocket watch at his side.

"Relax" I groaned as I flew in slowly on my hoverboard.

"I told you to be here early" The figure took his mask off and crossed his arms. The boy's white mohawk locs shook as he moved.

"Well, I had to make a few stops, Ekko, what do you want from me" I crossed my arms as well, matching his energy.

"I want you to take this seriously, Scar" Ekko groaned. "This is important"

"I never said it wasn't important and I am taking it seriously" I said, raising my voice a bit.

Ekko looked at his pocket watch and sighed. "Can we not argue right now? It's time to go"

I pulled down my mask and put my hood up, activating my hoverboard again and cruising past him.

"Better cover this up, Little Man" I chuckled as I shook his dreads with my hand.

Ekko rolled his eyes playfully and swat my hand away. He pulled down his mask and put up his cap before cruising out the tunnel alongside me.

I put my arm up to cover my face as the sun hit me. I looked over my shoulder to see six tunnels behind us, each having one masked figure cruising out of them on a hoverboard. I looked over to Ekko who was dangling his pocket watch. He nodded to me and began leaning off to the side, flipping himself completely around.