League of Legends Shorts

Lost in the Deep

When I first opened my eyes I could see nothing. Darkness surrounded me and drew me in. I could hear echoes in the darkness but I felt no fear.  I blinked a few times and my vision became clearer, I could see nothing because there was nothing to see. I could feel pressure all around me and I half expected to be crushed at any moment but I remained intact somehow.

I had no idea of where I was. There was no air but I didn’t feel required to breath, did this mean I was dead? Could this be my after life?  I allowed my eyelids to fall shut, trying to let my memories flow back to me. An image popped into my head, a beautiful woman standing on a dock.

Her blonde hair was short and wavy and framed her heart shaped face. Her eyes were as blue as the sea. I knew just from the way I felt about the image that she was my love and yet I couldn’t remember her name or where she would be.

Suddenly I felt the urge to stand; I couldn’t find her laying here. With that I opened my eyes and began to try and push myself up. It was then that I realized I was inside of a diver’s suit. My movement was slow and heavy in my arms I carried an anchor.

I looked at it for a long moment as my last memories rushed back to me. I had been on a ship, I didn’t remember why I had left that beautiful woman to join the crew but I remembered I wanted to very badly. We had sailed for a while until we found ourselves among thick black ooze.

I was a young lad, naive to the dangers around me. Fear held back each of the men but I stepped forward to investigate. The sky had never been as dark as it had that night. The air was thick and musky but I wanted to prove myself. For the life of me I couldn’t remember why this had been so important to me but I knew I needed this.

I wished I remembered maybe then I would better understand how I ended up in this darkness.  I gripped the anchor tightly and slowly I moved my foot forward. Sand flew up around it as I stepped and suddenly I knew exactly where I was.

Once they had suited me up I didn’t waste time I straddled the railing and readied myself to dive. Before I knew it something reach out from the murky ooze and grabbed hold of me. I screamed and kicked it away but this only made it fight harder.

It nearly pulled me off the ship but I grabbed on tightly to the railing and looked up at my crewmates. They all watched me with wide eyes. None of the moved, none of them even tried to come to my rescue. I remember yelling for help, begging them to bring me back to my love but they simply cowered in a corner while I was ripped off the ship.

I lost my grip from the railing and it pulled me down lower but I grabbed at anything that would hold me to the ship, I reached for the anchor hoping it would weigh me down enough so that the murk wouldn’t be able to pull me but it didn’t matter.

I remembered falling into the murk, thinking of how easy it would have been for them to have helped me, how I would never see my love again because no one could man up enough face this treachery with me.

My memories filled me with grief as I whispered my name, Nautilus. I felt as if I wanted to cry but nothing came to me, no sorrowful tears rolled down my face. I realized then that under this suit I was probably a shriveled up corpses. With a sigh I simply continued walking along the bottom of the ocean.

I didn’t know where I was going or if there was anywhere to even walk to. All the while I gripped my anchor, the only friend who tried to save me from this tragic fate. When I reached the shore I wasted no time. People were clearly put off by a man in a diver suit.

It comforted me to know they could not truly see what I had become however this didn’t make my search easier. I had such few memories, I only had my first name to go on, no memories of my home, my lover’s name, not even my last name came to me!

It was at this point I found myself entering a pub. The air here became uneasy once I entered but I paid no mind. I looked around, this seemed like a place I would hang spent my time. Other sailors filled the chairs, barmaids were serving drinks. I looked closely at each one in hopes I might recognize someone.

After being disappointed I found somewhere to sit and gather my thoughts. A few sailors were laughing in a corner; I peeked up to see them harassing one of the barmaids. She had cherry red hair and light blue eyes, they were nothing like my love and yet she reminded me of her.

I stood up and lifted my anchor onto my shoulder; menacingly I made my way over to them and slammed my anchor onto the table. It smashed the tabled and brought up the floor boards.  Water splashed up from nowhere and soaked everyone.

They all looked at me with annoyed eyes. I turned to the barmaid who looked at me with fear in her eyes. She backed away from me into the wall where she stood shaking in fear. It was at this moment I knew I could never see that woman I had loved again. She could not know this monster I have become.

One of the sailors pulled himself up off the floor and tried to brush off the water, “What depth of the Void did you crawl out of?!”

Anger roared up inside of me, it was men like that got me killed and ripped my love away from me, “The uncharted reaches of the Guardian Sea where my crew left me for death!” I lifted my anchor and propped it up on my shoulder as if I were about to take a swing at him, “Do you know of the sailors that joined that voyage?!”

He quickly shook his head, fear filled his eyes. “I-I don’t know nothing about no Voyage b-but I do know the Institute of War organizes that type of thing! They even got the League of Legends running; they’d probably love to have a guy like you!”

This place sounded liked a one way ticket to my revenge. After the sailor gave me directions I stopped at nothing to reach the institute of war. I remembered being there once; it was when they had assigned me to the crew. They were only vague memories however.

  I spoke with a few hooded people called summoners, the refused to give me any information on the voyage. This annoyed me greatly, for a moment I thought of bashing in their skulls with my anchor but then a thought occurred to me, “Tell me of the League of Legends?” It would be work I knew this, but I would use this to somehow find my passed, my vengeance and perhaps one day peace.