Kai'Sa and Mai'Un

Greetings all! Last time I posted on here, it was of a character I made up called Mai'Un. She was meant to be called the Void Child. Since then, Kai'Sa came out, and I have to say, I'm glad that I predicted where Riot was going with this. While I don't know whether or not Riot took inspiration from me, I like to think that they did.

After all, I do want to work on their creative team one day.

_ Anyway, here we go, a little short story on my baby Mai'Un and her new older sister._ ____________________________________--

There shouldn't be anyone else here. This is a twisted, horrid place where the light of day never reached. Every waking moment here is a struggle, and every sleeping moment is an anxious one.

So why is there a child here?

"There, there. It's okay. You'll be... okay?" The lies flowed easily from my mouth, but only because lying was just as awkward as telling the truth. I hadn't had intelligible human conversation in a while. My most recent one before this was with a particularly vehement eye Voidling. He was... adamant about getting a lock of my hair.

The girl looked up. Her eyes, even in the low light of the Void, were obviously red. After wiping her eyes some more, she parted her purple dreads and turned her attention up to me. Dear Angels, her eyes were like two still ponds. They were so pure, so crystal clear. Is this what I was missing? I've become so used to seeing eyes full of curiosity at best and primal hunger at worst.

"Who... who are you?" the little girl asked. Her voice quivered, and it too was unlike anything I had heard. It was so shaky, so vulnerable. It was so small. She seemed so unsure. So much so that I was afraid to speak. I was afraid to move, in fear of accidentally breaking her with the action.

"I am..." I started, but my voice quickly trailed off. Who was I? There wasn't need for names here. The Void creatures never asked for them, and I could never pronounce the names that they gave me. I... know that I had a name, given to me by a man whose face I saw only in dreams, and even then, only shrouded.

I shrugged my shoulders. There couldn't be any harm in making one. I had already lied. I could do it again.

"I am Kai'Sa," I said. I had tried to make my voice as gentle as possible, or at least as close as I remember to the way that man used to speak to me. From the way she winced, I don't think I succeeded. My voice was used only for screaming a death knell.

Despite her reservations, the brave child didn't move away from me. She stood up and dusted off her dress, before approaching me slowly. "Your name is funny. Why is there an apostrophe in your name?"

"It's a culture thing," I responded. "It's sort of a thing around here."

"Oh," the girl said, her eyes staying glued to mine. She seemed reluctant to focus on anything other than me. "But then, why would I have one?"

"Have one?" I asked. "Have one what?"

"An apostrophe. I have one too. My name is Mai'Un."

I can't explain the feeling, but it felt like the Void rumbled with the mention of her name. Whispers of old, powerful Voidborn; most of which horrified me to my bones on sight alone, echoed through the cavernous, dark realm of the Void. I looked back to the girl. She didn't seem to be unnerved by the events happening around her. I knew that I wasn't much of a human anymore, but even so, I could still tell that this was something that a human should be able to feel. If anything, the whispers of the Old Voidborn should be downright maddening to her.

And yet she stood there. Awkward and frightened and yet oddly curious. She looked almost relaxed now that the Void was whispering to her.

She looked almost excited.

"So, Mai'Un, where are you from?"

"I... don't know," she answered. Her brow furrowed as she thought on that answer. "I can't remember much. There was this... this big purple land shark, then a bright light. Then I was here." She looked back up at me. The fear was gone, but now worry clouded her eyes. "Where am I? Do you know where my brother is?"

She was the first human that I'd seen since I was trapped here, but I didn't dare tell a child that. I patted her on her head, and believe it or not, the tightly woven locks glowed. They crackled with the energy of the Void. I pulled my hand back, hiding it behind my back as my exo-suit responded to the stimuli. That was interesting. What was more interesting was that she hadn't noticed.

"I haven't seen your brother," I answered. My response was slow, half because I hadn't wanted to alarm her, and half because I hadn't wanted to let her know how alarmed I was. "But I can answer your other question. You are in the Void, Mai'Un. Do you know where that is?"

The girl nodded. "My brother told me that the Void is where the monsters come from."

Her brother was a learned man. "It is. There are many monsters here." I crouched to a knee. As gently as I knew how, which probably wasn't gentle at all, I put my hand on her shoulder and squeezed. I made sure to avoid her hair. "I could keep you away from them. I could keep you safe. But you have to follow me and be very, very quiet. Understood?"

The girl, smart as she was, nodded her head so fast that her hair bobbed. "Yes, Miss Kai. I understand."

"Good," I said, and just like that we were walking through the Void Wastelands.

This girl was a mystery, and possibly dangerous. Given any other situation, I'd probably stay away from her. The Old Voidborn wanted her though.

And if they wanted her, it was probably in my best interests to keep her away from them.

"I miss my brother," the girl said. Her voice was low as she said it. "Do you have any siblings, Miss Kai?" I looked down at her and managed the best smile I could. It was a rusty action, and I think it came out more as a snarl, but the girl didn't seem to care.

"I... think I did," I said, scrounging for anything beyond a face. "I can't... quite... remember her name, but I know that she used to get into quite a lot of trouble. She messed up everything that I had ever told her to do, so we had taken to calling her by a nickname."

"And what was that?" the girl, though I supposed I should be calling her by her name, asked.

"We called her Jinx," I told Mai'Un. And with that out of the way, we proceeded into the night.

Though every point of the day was night in this place.