Aethelos: The Bastard of Light

(SCENARIO: Forest hideout at night. Yana on her knees, exhausted and injured.) · Yana tried to stand up, but she could only stay on her knees. Tears appeared on her face. She put her hand in her pocket, feeling the farewell note of the competitor she had helped. “I won’t be able to deliver this to your family… I’m sorry,” she thought. Her vision grew blurry. · The Freezer shouted: “ICE BIRDS!” The final attack flew toward Yana. · Yana accepted her fate. Suddenly, those kamikaze ice swallows disappeared. She felt a shadow to her right and looked, unable to make out the figure. It was Ninjespeed, but he was almost unrecognizable. · With a posture much more serious than usual, he placed his hand on her shoulder. “Eli and Lygar are okay… You did a great job, Yana. Take the rest of the day off.” · Ninjespeed has lighter hair (light brown), an agile appearance, but right now he is covered in wounds and dirt. His expression is serious. · Yana closed her eyes. “Thank… you.” · Yana woke up and saw Lygar and Eli Cari. The relief was palpable. “You’re okay,” she said, starting to laugh. · Eli Cari has short dark-brown hair. Eli Cari has golden/amber eyes. Eli Cari wears a grey training suit, now torn and dirty. · Lygar has longer, spiky black/dark hair. Lygar has dark purple/violet eyes. Lygar wears dark Noxian-style clothing. · Lygar answered with a weak smile: “We’re not leaving that easily…” · Eli Cari added: “Of course, you’re still going to have to put up with us for a while… but Yana, we want to thank you for what you did for us.” · Yana wiped her tears. “That doesn’t matter… How am I here with you?” · Lygar smiled. “Let’s just say we had the help of an idiot, once again.” · At that moment, Ninjespeed jumped down from the tree with some difficulty. “What?! Idiot my ass, you moron!” · Lygar shot back: “Watch who you’re calling a moron, clown!” · Ninjespeed defended himself: “I agree with Eli. Where are your manners, you rude bastard?” · Lygar was ready to answer, but was quickly interrupted by Yana. “Ninjespeed, did you win against him?” · “I never lose, and yes, I won!” Ninjespeed answered. · Lygar intervened: “I already told you that doesn’t count as winning!” · Eli Cari commented: “The important thing is that everyone is okay and it’s already night. There are only a few hours left until the Selection day ends.” The atmosphere shifted, giving way to hope. · Yana, worried, said: “We just have to be lucky that nothing terrifying shows up…” Looking at Ninjespeed, she continued: “Ninjespeed, how did you win? You look like a bus ran you over… You should take care of those wounds. How are you even staying upright?” · Ninjespeed, trying to impress: “You know how it is — a warrior like me showed how strong he is.” · Lygar, annoyed: “Stop making stuff up and tell the story you already told us.” · Ninjespeed gave in. “You’re a real buzzkill! But fine… The truth is I was walking around looking for challenges when I saw you running desperately in this direction, so I decided to follow you… At first I even thought it was some opponent, or that one of these two had flipped out and started attacking. Actually, I thought it was Lygar who had done something…” · Lygar, with an angry face: “Just because I’m Noxian?! You racist piece of shit!” · Ninjespeed hurried: “Ah, cut it out, you look like a goth teenager… Continuing, I followed you and saw that Eli and Lygar were really badly hurt. I thought about showing up, but I didn’t know who that guy was… So I waited to see if he was going to hurt you. I saw that you weren’t very focused on the fight, but on saving them, so I followed where your plant managed to leave them, picked them up and put them farther away and safer, but I immediately thought of going to save you.” · Yana interrupted, emotional: “Thank you, truly, for saving us.” · Ninjespeed smiled. “It was nothing… For you, it will never be nothing…” Eli Cari and Lygar looked at each other with a mutual smile. · “But, but, but let’s continue. I arrived and saw you almost dying and that he was making a final attack. So I ran as hard as I could to cut those ice birds and, well, from there it was fighting…” · Eli Cari interrupted: “We have to take turns tonight so we can rest.” · Yana: “Yes, yes, but let him finish the story.” · Ninjespeed, recalling the fight: “I was really losing. It was extremely hard to do any damage to him. He was asking me if I thought I was going to win, and I told him I was going to save you, Yana. And he said that wouldn’t be possible because after killing me he would kill you right after. We fought a bit more, and I tried the same bluff I used on Glinn.” · Yana laughed, relieved. “I can’t believe that worked again?!” · Ninjespeed smiled. “It didn’t work… I had to activate Plan B… I was really losing. So I got close to you, picked you up and ran. Simply put, I won. I saved you, so he lost.” · Yana, emotional, looked at the three of them. “You are my family.” · Lygar smiled, but became serious. “Pfff… I’m going to sleep.” · Eli Cari followed his example. “Me too.” · Yana said: “I’ll join you soon. Rest well.” · Ninjespeed, looking at Yana: “Rest well, Yana…” · Yana smiled: “And how are you like this? You must be in a lot of pain.” · Ninjespeed, trying to keep his pose: “I took a double dose of anesthesia… But let’s rest.” · Yana nodded and went to rest.