Shadows of our end - KDA x Male Reader (Original)

Act 1 - 048

*** Kiriko POV ***

Sitting on one of the benches at the arena, I stared emptily at the ground while I even lost my mood to smoke. Don't even want to do that, too caught up in my thoughts as if there is anything I can do.

Someone drops right down beside me. "The rift just closed a few hours ago."

I then nod, "They weren't going to find him."

"Kiriko-"

"He'll survive," I state. "I know he will. He has all the abilities to be able to survive and that world will force him to become stronger and if he wasn't able to... then I guess that is that."

Lauren then chuckles, "I am glad that you are being so positive."

I nod, "No point. I'll grieve when I know he is dead for certain."

"When is that?"

"When I see his corpse," I counter.

"Even when you will never see it?"

I nod, "That is how long I will hold out for him, I don't give up on my children because even when I wasn't around they never gave up on me. Sam isn't taking the news as well but she is in the same state of mind."

"Your family is full of troopers."

I chuckle, "How is Ashe?"

"Caught onto it, did you?" I nod. "She isn't... she doesn't want to talk about it. She is back to sleepless nights and refuses to go and find someone else to help her fall asleep. Says that she has spent thirty years with it, and nothing will change because she suddenly could sleep for a couple of days."

I then shake my head. "She should find someone, if she wants I can ask Sam. It might just be a comfort thing."

Lauren shakes her head, "She probably did like him a little bit, so I'll just leave her to grieve."

*** Erica POV ***

Flames burning between my fingers, there is a pain in my chest worse than when we broke up. Knowing that he is stuck in a world where he is as good as dead. Nothing is going to go and save him, nobody will be able to.

The Rift is closed. Nothing we can do about that. We can't and will never find him going in.

"Hey..."

I rub the tears from my eyes as I growl, "Fuck off, Troy."

"Just wanted to cheer you up-"

"Please... I am not asking again. You must be celebrating him being gone, aren't you?"

"I am not going to pretend I didn't like him - but seeing everyone like this..."

I lift myself walking away from him, "Stay the fuck away from me, pathetic freak," I clench my fists just to go somewhere else to be on my lonesome.

*** Kai'Sa POV ***

The four of us are all sitting in Ahri and Akali's room. There is just a painful silence - another person practically dead according to the fucking Academy and there is nothing we can do. They won't create a rift to send us to find him.

Alone in a hyper-aggressive world...

Eve looks worse than the rest of us - we still lost someone. No point saying that I didn't expect it because I know there is no fucking way anyone would just be able to smile after losing someone like that.

Knowing that right now they could be alive surviving holding out for a dawn that never comes.

I then breathe out, "What... do we do?"

Ahri states, "Move on. Can't do anything else," she looks at Eve who is shaking her head, "Holding on, holding out for him would just kill us every single day."

Eve then chuckles, "Move on, simple as that right?"

"Eve..." I try to calm her down.

Akali then sighs, "Nothing wrong with being upset, just let her get it out."

She stays quiet as she shakes her head again. "Doesn't... there is no fucking way he would go in there," she lifts himself. "Someone had to push him in there-"

Akali lifts herself, "Already thought about people that would do it-"

Ahri stops them both, "And you are going to go what? Kill them on a hunch? Make them suffer even though you have nothing to prove it?" Eve looks at her, "Evelynn-"

"Just let me do something, Ahri. I feel so useless..."

I then nod, "We can't do anything. We shouldn't do anything."

The two of them sit back down, and I feel just like them. But... what else can we do other than grieve or hope?

*** Skye POV ***

Another member of the team is gone, and Kat and Rey are dead quiet. Griff and Valk disappeared a long time ago and haven't been around. I think they are just tired of seeing their friends die or disappear.

I wrap my arms around my legs, it is very sad. Our team has just been losing people and I kind of liked having him around. Didn't ever ask me about not speaking and didn't freak out when I talked.

I liked that but... that is how it works. Get attached to anyone and they just get ripped away from you. Could have been better friends and I regret not trying to be better friends. I would have probably stuck to him like I do with Kat.

He wouldn't have been lost if that was the case.

Rey then breathes out, "We... we should probably get more people into the team."

Kat then asks, "Why?"

"We already lost two."

"He can still come back-"

"Nobody comes back without an Anchor," she breathes out, "You know that Kat. We learned about it, we learned why the Anchor is as important as it is."

I want to hold out for hope - but how long till even hope dies out?

*** Normal POV ***

I am sitting at the edge of one of the pathways with my legs dangling down the side, I speak to myself to keep myself sane. "Nobody is coming for me anymore," I shut my eyes taking a deep breath, "I think a week has passed in their world."

"I am already on... day... I think day nine? I don't know. Time feels weird in here, almost too fast and other times too slow."

Out of my frustration, I scream at myself as I watch more of those creatures skitter towards me, I create a wall of shadow and push them all off of the sides watching them spill over the edges with their screeches filling the air.

Fuck!