Written by: Diorn the Journeyman
Retold by: Authorian's Lorist
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The story starts like this.
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It was a night full of thick smoke, so thick that it creates a ground of isolation. The air was a field with the foul smell of burning leather, leather that was used in making tents.
The thick smoke covers a circular area that sways synchronously with winds, creating an arena of smokes.
There are two individuals inside the smoke, a male and a female figure.
As the smoke thinned, a man in a pauldron of armor and a woman with a sharp dagger that has blood dripping on it.
The two were like, it was love at "kill sight", the two knew that only one of them can survive.
And then there was silence, a silence that even the whisper of the wind can't be heard and then they danced.
Their blades dance on the arena of smokes and dust. The man whose name is Garen, a well-known Might of Demacia, the woman whose name is Katarina, a well-known assassin by the name of the Sinister Blade.
The one-handed heavy broadsword clash with the two ragged-edge daggers. They danced for the whole day but it seems that they are on par on skills and abilities.
Their attacks on each other seem like a friendly match that was set into an intense mode.
After that whole day of fighting, they stopped because of exhaustion...
They sit down on a rocked that is only beside them, they sit on it.
Garen put his one-handed heavy broadsword into the ground, thrusting it deeper into the ground, while Katarina sets her daggers at her dagger belt.
A veil of silence covered the whole scene, they didn't care that all of their subordinates are fighting each other, it seems like they are in a different world away from bloodshed, the torture of killing the innocents.
The first to talk is Garen
(Of course, if you want to hit a woman, the boys must lead the conversations, not the girls).
He asked on "Why did she want to kill him, he didn't do anything wrong, the only thing he did wrong is the killing of innocent Noxian soldiers that have families of their own.
Katarina was silent for a minute and answered
"It was the order, the higher ups, and my father's command to take the head of the captain and I saw you..."
*Silence*
" It was like some force pulled me into your location and force my body to fight you without reason..."
" I only followed my body and instinct that has been honed overtime...
I don't know what to do, it's just that whenever I tried to force my body on not charging on you, the mysterious force becomes stronger..."
"At last, I can't fight it any longer, I whispered inside my head that it will go away and release me from this damned invisible bindings that shackled my whole body"
Katarina said while covering her blushing red face.
" I just go with the flow, I make my attack synchronously like yours, we were like dancing to each other and we already know what the next step is even if we just knew each other just an hour ago...." she continued.
After half an hour of explaining the matter to Garen, her throat was dry and itchy, she was exhausted.
Katarina quickly grabbed the water bottle in Garen's hands...
Garen was dumbfounded, shocked to be exact, what did he just witness right now? 😲😮
~Garen Inner thoughts~
' He can't believe that he was talking to his enemy, to the famously known as the greatest assassin of the Noxian Empire.
He talked to her in friendly manners with the Sinister Blade that was known for being cruel, vicious, and cold-blooded when killing targets. '
' He thought maybe this was just a facade made by Katarina to let his guard down, to catch him off guard and slit his neck. '
' After that, she will sneakily attack him, backstabbed him, a literal description of the phrase: Angel in the front, Devil on the back '
Garen vigilantly watched every move of Katarina while his inner thoughts are talking.
Katarina looks at the dumbfounded but vigilant expression of Garen to her, she found out that he was grasping his fingers into a fist ready to punch, ready to counter-attack.
Katarina just lightly laughed at him, shocking the already dumbfounded Garen.
Garen asks Katarina:
" Why are you laughing??
Is there a wound or dust in my face that makes my great handsomeness not stand out? 😏😏"
Katarina replied to Garen one word: " Narcissist... 😤😤"
After a second she continued to answer:
" It is not my style to backstabbed you, Garen of Demacia unlike any other people, which is recorded in my hit list."
They spent the rest of the day talking to each other until a booming noise can be heard from afar, the noise of the triumphant horn.
The horn signifies that the Noxian reinforcement is coming. Garen's face becomes a mixture of sadness 😢 , betrayal ☠️🗡️, anger 😡💢 and disappointment 😞☹️.
Garen's mind becomes hazy because of his unstable emotion.
Garen forces himself to get mad at her but he can't. The two look at each other in the eyes straight for 10 seconds.
And unknowingly, a single teardrop flows out of their own eyes, they didn't know what is the reason why tears are flowing in their eyes.
Katarina was surprised 🙀 that she cried, for the longest time in her life, this was the first time she cried and to someone her empire's mortal enemy, a Demacian man at that.....
The two want two separate their ways but mysterious invisible forces that hold them together, never to be singled out.
After a second of silence, Garen is the first to talk:
I, as a Demacian man, will not forget this day onward, the day I talked to a woman, other than my little sister, Luxanna."
This is his first time communicating with a woman but sadly it was cut short.
Garen continues to talk and said that: "In the future, if we are fated with each other and the only choice we had is to kill one of the other. Then it must be done.
Katarina unknowingly wiped the tears in her eyes, her face was blushing red like a full bloom red roses...
Garen's monologue starts again.
Katarina's beauty can be described as a red rose with thick thorns that surround it, you need extra care to nip those thorns.
And if you are not careful, your finger will get pricked by the thorns and bleed.
That is the beauty of Katarina according to his unproven hypothesis...
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Their eyes were looking to each other reminiscing the past hours that looked liked decades in their imaginative world, away from this cursed life full of bloodshed and killings without mercy.
Katarina just lowers her head by hearing the words that were loud enough to only be heard by Katarina but not by the other people.
Katarina replied.
" If this is the time that this will end"
Katarina stops and closes her mouth, it was so painful, this feeling that was like you have been torn apart into shreds like you have been beaten into a pulp by countless hammer assaults.
It was like you lose an important piece of a jigsaw puzzle that without that missing piece it feels very incomplete.
Without that piece, the emptiness in each other's hearts feels like the Void is slowly churning their soul slowly but constantly, testing their psychological endurance to overcome those hurdles in life that can be called an *impossible* to breakthrough.
After a moment of silence, the two vowed to each other that if they are fated to be enemies, they will kill each other with all their might and power unleashed.
And made a promise "to not regret the choice that they have to make because life isn't fair all the time, the happy endings only happen in the fairytales, a story only befitting for the children."
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They are not children anymore, they already experience the cruel fate in the grasp of this unfair world, they already experience the darkest side of the world that has to offer.
After that conversation, they split apart from their ways, Garen walked in the direction of the Empire of Demacia while Katarina walked to the incoming Noxian reinforcement.
At the last moment, before they truly part with each other. Garen gives Katarina his treasured short sword, a perfect replica of his sword, Judgement.
Katarina gives Garen one of her treasured daggers from her dagger belt. This dagger was different than the other dagger she used because it has a sentimental value to her.
After this moment, they part ways with each other.
The Noxian reinforcement found something bizarre that happened that they are not aware of, something that they feel very suspicious but they can't point out because of a wrong accusation, the prize is their heads.
Katarina returned to the barracks and retrieved her horse after that she followed the Noxian reinforcement going back to the Noxian Empire.
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After this moment of history that is now recorded by the historians as the first of its kind type of history.
They didn't know that their meeting is only the beginning of their story, this story doesn't have its ending. As the Stars of Fate that is assigned to each individual revolves, their stars have it's their predetermined place allocated by Fate itself.
This means that even though their story only lasted for a day and a half, to them, namely Garen and Katarina's story.
It lasted about a year, a year full of memories that only their hearts and the deepest of their soul only knows.
The memories may fade away by old age, but the heart and the soul will not.
~~.........The End.......~~
