RE: Blades Vs Fire - Who wins? For me and 1+1=10
The sun was sitting high above the trees. A calm tranquility that was almost eerie for those that participated in the League of Legends. Suspicions ran high every time you passed a bush, every time there was movement out of the corner of your eye. For many it was an uneasy feeling that spurred action to resolve, but for Talon it was nothing. The Blade's Shadow of Noxus, an assassin of utmost skill. As he made his way through the woods, every sway of the branches, every scurrying movement of animals Talon paid notice to. Gaze forward, he could easily picture what was making the sounds around him. Always searching, always waiting for anyone foolish enough to attack him.
Yet now wasn't a time for battle or assassinations. And in even the most unlike of people, this trek into the woods had a much lighter meaning to it for Talon. For in the thralls of battle, in the constant struggle for dominance on the Field of Justice, Talon had found a friend. And not in terms of allies or companion like Katarina, but an actual friend. One that Talon could discuss things that never crossed his lips with another. How could he? The Noxian High Command was riddled with cut throats and back stabbers, and even if Talon was the strongest of them all, that didn't stop any of them from painting a target upon his back. No, it took someone to best him to open his eyes. Just like how General Du Couteau had bested him and earned his trust, so to did Ahri.
That fateful day, that match. It could have been attempted a hundred times over and Talon would of be victorious, yet somehow he had failed. He knew of the woman's charm, he knew of her evasiveness and magics, he had bested stronger opponents so why had she been such a problem? Whatever the case was she had best Talon, and not in some group effort. One on one, she had defeated him. It drove the assassin mad with confusion and frustration, so much so that the usual impulse to track her down and end her life to keep such a disgrace from getting out had driven him to do so. To track her down, and when he found her, when he teleported behind her for the kill.. He found his resolve lacking. She could of charmed him, but he was sure she didn't. The rest was history.
So here the assassin was, coming to a stop once he had come to a tree that he had marked with his blade. A reoccurring spot where the two would meet when able. Such things as friendship or even love had never entered Talon's mind through the out the years. Was this love though? Infatuation? Desire for something new? Killing was of course his trade, his favored skill, and he enjoyed it but this? This cloak and dagger to meet with Ahri? There was a different sort of thrill that went with it.