Kayn's Prodigy: A League of Legends Fan Fiction

Chapter 40

Petra felt a nudge at her back and she slipped forward and tumbled off of the stage. A scream escaped her lips as she toppled over and crashed into the ice cold water below. Her hands were bound behind her back, her eyes still covered. Without being able to see or have knowledge of where she was, Petra wasn't able to conjure any crystals... Not that they would even help her right now. But, for some reason as her body sank beneath the surface of the freezing cold koi pond all she could think about was her crystals.

Maybe the crystals will save me, maybe the crystals will help. Kayn certainly isn't helping. He doesn't care, I'm a fool for thinking he cared.

Her mind was moving a mile a minute and it wasn't until her lungs began to sting from the lack of oxygen that Petra realized the severity of her situation. Petra gasped for air and instead inhaled water, her burning lungs turning cold from the freezing liquid. She did her best to kick her way to the surface, her lips finally feeling the comfort of the winter air. She coughed up the water and gasped once more. 

"Kayn!" She called out again, her body moving frantically in effort to keep afloat. 

"Leave me!" Petra heard Kayn yell before she slipped under the surface again. She kicked up, but this time Petra was met with a hard barrier that prevented her from reaching the air's safety. Something was holding her under the surface, and as she struggled to find a way to the air she was continuously pushed back under. Her lungs filled with water again and this time she began to sink almost as if the liquid inside of her had made itself an anchor at the bottom of the pond. This was it, and she knew it. She was not confident in Kayn; That if given the choice to kill Zed or save her, he would choose the glory of murdering Zed every time. 

As Petra's body rested at the bottom of the pond, her lungs still stinging as they shriveled up insider her chest, her mind jumped to the day Kayn rescued her. She now cursed him for it. 

In one swift movement Zed pushed Petra off the stage. Kayn watched as her body hit the cold water of the koi pond, the fish scattering from the splash. She plunged deep down to the bottom and began to rise back to the top. At first she began to swim to the edge, her face slowly turning blue from the cold. But then Kayn noticed something terrifyingly odd... the edges of the pond began to ice over and slowly the hard surface extended out to the middle of the water. His eyes frantically traced along the pond and he spotted a witch who was being forced to aid the order. She seemed to be dipping her hand into the water to create the ice. They were trying to freeze her under the surface. Zed was trying to drown Petra.

Kayn struggled from under his own moral's grasp, his body twisting and contorting as Rhaast left him. He cried out in anger; The doubt that had waved over his mind earlier about committing to Petra was immediately erased as he quickly realized he did in fact love her. The moment she hit the water his heart wrenched in pain at the sheer thought of loosing the one person he had allowed in.

Kayn watched as the ice extended further and further over the water and then as Petra was pushed under its surface. The ice sewed itself together creating an almost unnoticeable seam and Petra was no where to be seen under it's translucent surface. 

Kayn glanced up at Zed who's skin was now suffering under Rhaast's possession. He watched as Zed tried to fight Rhaast, holding the scythe tightly in his hands, clueless to the fact that simply dropping the weapon would release him from the demon. 

"You can not beat us, fool!" Rhaast boomed from Zed's lips. "You will suffer." 

Kayn was frantic, it was now that he truly has to choose between killing Zed or saving Petra. Every moment he stood indecisive was another moment that Petra was drowning. His eyes flew back to Zed one last time, he watched as Rhaast still fought to take over the powerful assassin's mind and body. And then, almost as if Rhaast had some sort of care for the girl, he called out.