Tales from Runeterra - The Plague of Theft

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Not everybody gets to be a champion. Though some are more than deserving, one thing or another keeps them from the rift. But their stories live on.

This is one such tale:

When you decide to cut ties with a group, you'd best ensure you've no loose ends to tie up. Vi has learned this more thoroughly than most at this point.

Before Jinx ever showed her face, there was another criminal that plagued Piltover - not with destruction and mayhem but with thefts and robberies. This wasn't quite so well known in the lower quarters of the city as in the high-class sector - after all, if you're hunting for meat, you're not looking for the sickly prey. The seemingly endless string of thefts distraught Piltover's law enforcers to no end as the dastard left no trace and no evidence. The case continued to work its way up the ranks as more and more reports came in - again, no trace and no evidence. It was almost safer to assume that the stolen property had just vanished into the nether rather than guess where it could have gone and who could have taken it.

Then Jinx showed up. And for a while, things went quiet on the case. With enforcers working overtime to try and deal with the menace, there was no mind paid to the case. Up until the bout between Jinx and Vi, the case had officially just gone inactive.

Some time later, with tempers cooled, the case was opened back up to being worked on. Reports started flying in again of things "missing"; oddly, though, there had been no reports of thefts between the arrival and departure of Jinx. For a short bit, enforcers began entertaining the idea that Jinx was behind the thefts. Vi and Caitlyn were the only two completely positive that it wasn't.

These small rumors died quickly within the office as, much to the dismay of the police, they realized that the department itself had just been hit - the missing items being a worryingly large chunk of the evidence locker's contents. Within the hour, calls came in concerning criminals requesting retrials following accusations of falsified evidence and testimonies. The office went into an uproar during the following days - without the evidence, some criminals were bound to wind up walking. With a limited amount of time on their hands, the vast focus was on finding who did this.

A week later, despite knowing the futility of it, the policemen began re-searching the office itself once more - while the likelihood of any evidence remaining in tact over a week was slim to none, there was little other option. Every single member of Piltover's finest even searched the office at one point or another - the last one to resort to this act of desperation being Vi.

As she sifted through what was left behind in the evidence locker, something caught her eye among the bags and boxes - a small ring nestled behind a box on one of the lower shelves. It wasn't kept in a labelled bag, it had no connection to any of the boxes near it - it was just there. As she stared at it in her palm, she felt a familiarity with it. Then she noticed the single word engraved on the inside of the band: "DeViance".

Nobody saw Vi for the rest of that day. Or several of the days after. It wasn't until a day just before the first of the retrials would commence that Vi finally reappeared at the office - all the stolen evidence along with her.

Questions abounded - none of them answered by Vi. While most were content with just having everything back in order and quickly became preoccupied with reorganizing all the cases for the retrials, Caitlyn caught Vi privately at her desk as she was cleaning her gauntlets.

"What happened?" Caitlyn asked.

"I took care of it," came Vi's reply.

"I'm going to need a report."

"You don't. It's solved."

"It's policy-"

Even without her gloves on, the bang of Vi's fist on the desk made the entire office go silent for a moment.

"As a favor to me," she said quietly behind a furrowed brow, "take my word for it. I've taken care of everything."

There's still no final report on the thefts; for a while, the records still noted the case being open. Nobody dared touch it, though - the glare from Vi was enough to deter even mention of it. After a year or two, just out of finality, the case was finally marked as "unsolved" by someone else and closed permanently.