Chapter 2 - Revelations of an Unfortunate nature

Cheers from the crowd almost drowning out the clashing steel and flashing magics. Rikku jumped backwards out of the way of Akali's dual kamas before quickly stepping back and replying with a quick flurry of blows of his own. She parried or dodged the strikes with a dancers grace. 

She caught Rikku's blade with one of her Kama, smacking it away with the other. Quicker than he thought possible he was on his backside, one of Akali's kama pressed against his throat.

Groans and woops rang from the crowd. Rikku smiled ruefully. "All right. I yield. Again." He said.

Akali flashed a small smile and offered him a hand up. 
The crowd that had gathered to watch Akali and Rikku spar dispersed, some handing beaming others a small ammount of coins before departing. The League training room was a large affair, stocked well with everything that any champion or summoner could want to practice with. Ranged targets, training dummies, blunted javalins and swords, you name it they had it. 


"Every time. Every. Single. Time." Rikku groaned. "I just can't beat you can I?"
Akali just glanced at him. "I spent my entire life training to be what I am today. Its expected." She replied, a hint of smug satisfaction in her voice. 
Before Rikku was able to retort a bright voice called out his name. Recognising it he turned to see Lux striding purposefully across the room towards him. 


"Rikku. The high council of Equity request your presence. They found something. Something about your world."


Sora couldn't deny it. He was up proverbial shit creek without a paddle. Things looked bad. Really bad. His usual confidence was slipping away by the second. Not even Xeanort had made him this nervous. For the first time in his life he gave up. 


"All right, looks lke I..." 

"Sorry to interrupt, but i need to borrow Sora for a moment." A sultry voice from over Sora's shoulder interrupted him. A sleek white tail wrapped around Sora's face, and he felt the cards in his hands plucked away. "Hello beautiful." He said, the smile concealed behind the lush appendage. 


"Come on darlin'. Dont intterupt us in the middle of a game!" The only remaining player said, a tinge of indignation coloring his western accent. 
"Sorry sweetie. Looks like you will just have to cheat Sora out of whatever he bought in with another time." Ahri replied. 
Sora stood, walking arm in arm away with the seductress, leaving the indignant card shark to pull down the brim of his gold and black hat down and frown. 


"Take my advice. Never play cards with Twisted Fate. He cheats. All the time." Ahri said. 
"I guessed that after his third royal flush. Least I outlasted Gangplank and Graves." Sora said. 


"So whats up? Aside from the usual." Sora smirked. Many a time he had been not so quietly pulled away to satisfy the nymphomaniac's lust. Most of the other champions had given up trying to satisfy Ahri. Sora was a little more stubborn however. And a wee bit more skilled. 


"The high council of Equity wants to see you. They need to talk about something. Something they clearly did not feel the need to share with me." Ahri replied, pouting cutely. 
"No worries. Probbably nerfing me again." Sora grumbled.
"I think it's a little more serious than that. They banned you, Rikku and a couple other champs for the next hour or so. They REALLY dont want you taken away unexpectedly. Ahri said.


They met up with Rikku and Lux a few corridors later. They were both standing in front of the massive ornate doors that lead to the High Council's private wing of the institute.  
"Sora!" Lux cried, jumping into Sora's arms with a squeel of delight. "Its been too long!" 
"Gah! I saw you like four hours ago!" Sora gasped around the vicegrip of his midsection that was the blonde woman. 


"Saw being the oprative word! You haven't fucked me for like two days!" She said, finally letting go of Sora. 
"Sorry to cock-block you for the moment, but we gotta get to this meeting." Rikku intterupted as he pushed the massive door open.
"Point. Lets go."

After being shuffled thorugh various administrative offices and secretary's rooms Rikku and Sora were finally admited thorugh to the main chamber, where the High Council met. Standing around the circular board room table was the expected three high summoners, but two other extremley hard to miss characters were also present.


Kassadin hovered slightly off the floor, his unnaturaly muscular phisyqe bulging out of his robes. The breathing mask he wore gurgled softly. An unfortunate side effect was that every time he talked it sounded like he was speaking from underwater. An annoying effect.


The other figure in the room was the massive monstroisty of the void, Cho'Gath. Though he was a little different than the last time the pair had seen the terror inducing champion. He was wearing a top hat, waistcoat and tails. He had a monicle in front of one eye, a cigar and a glass of brandy in his claws. 
The five were in heavy discussion when Sora and Rikku arrived. 


Cho'Gath was the first to notice them enter. "Ah, speak of the devil and he shall apear! Jolly good to see you two chaps. We had a few problems we needed to discuss with you two fine gents." He said, his normal multivoiced scream replaced with a cultured high class accent. Needless to say it threw the two quite easily. 


Before they could voice their astonishment, High Councilor Revilash was the first to respond. "Dont worry about him. Magic Top Hat. Makes it much easier to get actual information out of him, not the least bit because he stopped trying to eat us every chance he can get." He said. 


"OK. Well that completley aside, why did you summon us here?" Rikku got straight to the point. 
Revilash sighed. "I Called you all here because we have run into some problems. As you allready know Cho'Gath is a creature of the other plane we know as the Void. Kassadin is also the most sane person who has actually touched the void. Only other one is Malhazar and quite franly, he is bat shit crazy and we will get nothing out of him aside from the fact that "We will be devoured" or something. 


"Now the void in more detial, ill pass the floor to the experts. Gentlemen?"
"Yes. Now summed up quite basicly the Void is a place of true evil, darkness and pain. There is nothing good that exists in that plane. Does this remind you of anything?" Kassadin began.


"Sounds like...." Rikku began. 
"The realm of Darkness!" Sora finished. "Wait, What does our relm of darkness have to do with Your Void?" He asked.


"Well, i do believe it's my time to intergect. Through comparison's of notes between Kassadin, Myself and the High council here, we have come to believe that the Void, and your Relm of Darkness, are one in the same." Cho'Gath said. Before anyone could say anything he continued.


"Though for some reason the entities of said Void seem to not like you two very much. For the nature of the Void is darkness and Chaos, the elements of the Void rarley work togeather, and have separated efforts on taking over your world and ours. However your arrival here has caused a little bit of a problem. I would hazzard from my conciderable experience in Void thinking that the faction who were trying to subgigate your world have now allied with the conciderable forces trying to assult our own. This, as im sure you gents will understand, is a problem." He finished. 


"So." Revilash continued. "Because you two are here, and the forces of these, "Heartless" you two talk about seem to want to destroy you two in particular at all costs means that we are standing on the edge of the abyss. We have a massive faction of the forces of the Void allied against us. All they need is an entrance into this world, and all we could do is watch it burn." He said. 

The scilence persisted for a moment as the two let this information sink in. "Its times like this I Really wish the King were around." Sora sighed. "So what do you think Councilor. Do we have a timeframe on when this may happen?"


"Actually, we have been rather favoured by fortune." The High Councilor said with an altogether unconcerned tone, making the two jump a little. 
"You two came at a time where the barrier between our plane and the Void is at its strongest. We have months at lest untill the next time when a breech can be attempted by the other side, and we will be prepared to set the summoners to repelling that. After all, they ain't leveling cities anymore, so what better way to spend the time! He said, shooing the two out. 



"Well." Lux said. 
"Yep." Sora replied. 
"Does he really mean....?"Ahri asked
"Oh yea." Rikku replied. 
"Do you have any idea!" Justin gasped
"Duh!" Sora said.
"BOOZE!" Annie yelled
"No! No matter what Gragas says you're too young!" Rikku yelled back, snatching the bottle out of the young champion's hands. 
"Dont make me get Tibbers!" Annie yelled. 
"May I remind you I am a summoner and therefore have Smite? Tibbers will be just a momentary destraction." Justin interjected before this got violent. 
"Spoilsport!" She huffed, grabbing her glass of juice.


The champions were gathered in Justin's private residence, a substantial suite of rooms nestled within the Institute. After Sora and Rikku joined the League he had been rising within the summoners ranks. He now stood with the highest level of the Summoners, and had spent a lot of time perfecting his skills. His new station called for better accomidation than the small office/apartment that he was housed in when Sora arrived. 


After the meeting with the High Council, Sora and Rikku met up with Justin, who was just leaving the summoners dais after a match. After hearing the bare basics he ushered them all back to his rooms, not wanting such information to be thrown around wily-nilly. Annie had spotted them together and had insisted on coming along.


Drinks had been poured quickly into the retelling of the Council meeting. Annie had clearly been spending too much time with the Rabble Rouser, to even know what alcohol was at that age. "He wanted to wrestle Tibbers! He says its sport. Plus, Tibbers never gets any exercise! He needs it!" She hotly defended when asked why she spent time with the overweight drunkard. 
(Didn't stop her from swiping a small bit of Sora's and pouring it into her juice when the retelling hit the best part.)


The makeshift party continued until far later than any of them realised, just drinking and conversing about their world and Sora's, opinions on the other champions and such things. 

"So did you know I've fucked Morganna?" Sora casually interjected into a conversation about summoning magic. 
"What!" Justin yelled. "No fucking way! That crazy bitch!" 
"Yep. Had her on the floor begging for my cock. As usual." Sora smirked. "And it was in the middle of the Champions waiting lounge." 
"Why is it that I can believe that...." Justin sighed.
"Well cause I had these two fine pieces of ass begging me for cock within a few hours!" Sora wrapped his arms around Ahri and Lux, who playfully giggled and snuggled against him, one of Ahri's tails caressing the side of Sora's thigh. 


Through the drunken haze that covered his mind Rikku was still able to point out the problem with the current situation. "Guys. Child. In the room. Now." He said, looking pointedly at Annie. 



"What? Oh please." The Dark Child sighed. "I may be young but I'm not stupid. I know where babies come from and everything." She said, the far smaller but nonetheless present alcohol in her system emboldening her. 


"Who taught you.. You know what? I don't even want to know." Sora replied, grabbing another drink. "Who wants more! Besides you!" He said, shooting a glare down at Annie, who huffed. "I'm to young huh! Fine!" She yelled, getting up and storming out of the room. 

"Eh. Bout time the small ones should be getting to bed anyway." Justin said, pouring himself another drink. 


Annie stormed out of the Summoners complex, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. Ill show them! she thought to herself, as she continued in the direction of the Champions residences. 







(Author's note.)
(Hey guys, been a while since I updated this. Got my lazy ass off the couch and in front of the keyboard. No sex this chapter, but next chapter will be dedicated to it. WILL get the next chapter out soon.)