Family times
Night time in Demacia was so clear in good weather. Lux adored to just bask in the air and glide through the wind while taking vision of the stars titling in the sky.
But sometimes she wishes she could bask in the Sun bathed day. Be able to roam around and accompany her companions on their day adventures.
They had naped this time during the day. Wanting to spend time with Lux in the dark hour. That's why they were strolling through the forest together.
Isha was sprinting ahead with a grin on her face,stopping once in a while to look back at them that were at a more easy pace.
Jinx was walking at Lux’s side with her arms behind her back giving big steps. While Lux was just taking a tranquil pace with her back upright and her wings in cape mode.
“So blondie, any ideas to make my arrows go boom?”
“I'm pretty sure there was a cave nearby with boom boom mushrooms”
“Now you're talking my language,Sunrock “
Isha turns her head at that doing an explosion with her mouth and then making a t shape with her index and thumb.
“O yeah your right sprout, Teemo use those”
“Teemo…the Explorer?”
Isha nods with glow in her eyes and comes nearer to her guardians.
[Use to have his helmet]
“I can understand why you would be a fan of the yordle missie. You have a really curious soul”
Lux smiles and ruffles the now dyed hair. They had gone to the river in the morning to be clean for the night and do the last makeover for Isha.
[If Jinx builds. I will discover places]
“Well you are already on a good track kiddo. I hope you don't plan on leaving us behind.”
[No way mamma, I just lead the way]
“Well that's a relief little adventurer, we would be lost without your calming abilities”
The child smiles at them both and starts walking in the middle of their space. Then Jinx furrows her eyes and looks up at the grey gargoyle.
“How did you know about Teemo?”
“One of the books downstairs was about his little adventures, actually was the only one well enough to read. I have read that book back and forth for ages now. I think I could tell the whole story just by memory”
“Is it still there? Cause our first night here It didn't look really there”
“I'm pretty sure is as moldy as the others now”
Isha pouts a little at that, and Lux upon seeing that gives her a light caress in the back with the tail to make her look Up.
“Don't worry little adventurer. Like I said, I remember the whole story by memory.”
Isha's smile is back and she's hopping while walking. Jinx grins and takes her hand connecting her gaze with marble blue who confused tilts her head to the side. When Jinx lifts the join hands and gives her a nod though Lux understands. She takes hold of the other kid's hand. Isha is going to question them when she lets out a gasp and then laughs when she is in the air being swung by their arms.
Lux and Jinx are making her swing while Lux starts her storytelling. Jinx makes really bad special effects when an explosion comes in or a roar is heard. Isha loves It so much. She loves being alive, with her mom and Lux. No more fighting around. No more symbols work, just them being them.
When they arrived at the cave the two adults stopped swinging around the child. But the dyed brunette doesn't let go of their hold.
“Okay cloud team. Here's the plan, skatter and look for boom mushrooms, and everything that looks Shiny. Even moss! But not putting it your mouth Ish”
Isha lets go of their hands and makes a disgusted face before going farder in the cave and clapping.
She ends up doing a celebration sound when the walls iluminate just like the mines did back in Zaun when they found Doggy. She really wished Vander had gone sleeping with the Lamb. With that in mind she started stuffing some moss balls on her bag.
Behind her Lux and Jinx were watching. Jinx was uneasy. She didn't like letting Isha go around alone, especially in a place like this. She did let her go at her own pace. But she could not leave her senses or her mind would spiral in all the gruesome possibilities as to why she wasn't in her sight . (Vi must have lived a nightmare with me uh?)
A weight landed across her back and came up to her arm and she was being slightly pulled in into a side hug from Luxs wing. She let out a sigh when she felt the heat of her light against her cold body. When she looked out the corner of her eye up ,being against the gargoyle's side right below her chest, on her face she could see a shit eating smirk .
“Did you eat that?”
“Yeah I did Sunrock, but It wasn't toxic”
“I know but It leaves you a little intoxicated”
“Oh shit really?”
“Yeah, I've seen squirrels going limp by a little bite and colliding into places, a little more nuts than normally”
“Did…did you just make a pun?”
“I…no if It wasn't funny “
Jinx laughs at the grumpy voice that goes out from the gargoyle's mouth.
“You are a buffoon, you were so right about that one.”
Lux lets go of the moody face and looks down at her companion who is now fully resting against her body with a smile on her face looking out for her daughter. But the nerves that she was sensing before on her chaotic soul were now subdued. That was a mission accomplished in Lux's book.
“Always at your service my lady. Isha is alright. We protect her. And she is a strong missy herself”
“I know, I know I…just don't want to lose her again”
The wing around Jinx's goes stronger with the hold and Lux puts an arm around the blunettes shoulder as well. Lux wants to ask what happened, and there were a lot of questions to formulate. She had just seen glimpses of their past, It didn't really matter now. They were building something new but Lux wanted to know the whole picture to be able to help better. But she would not push nothing out of her jewel nor of her adventurer.
“Teemo had a big furry friend. The big furry friend was actually kinda his grandpa and his mama wanted to bring his mind back. Cause poor wolfy was lost, his mind was drowned in an abyss of memories and a person that wasn't him anymore. So Teemo, his mom, a really angry oil bottle and wolfy went to a Fortune cookie to know how to take wolfy out of the waters. Long story short the place where Fortune cookie was doing they're shit was ambushed, some baldy crazy doc got close to Wolfy and made him angry. Teemo tried to put to sleep to his friend but…he was hit too”
Jinx was shaking in her hold now and Lux had hugged her completely by the waist pulling her back to her chest. Her wings circled around her and her tail grabbed Jinx's leg. She wanted to hold every part of her jewel's soul and make everything okay, take the knowledge of the past and wore It alongside her, and be able to walk into the new path. She didn't understand It at its fullest but she could see the bigger picture. Isha was dead. At least for some moments she had been gone. And Jinx's protectiveness of her child made even more sense.
“Isha, could you come here for a moment missy?”
At Lux's call, the little bunny stopped her recollection and turned to them. She dropped the bag to the floor immediately and ran to the duo. Lux opened her wings for a second to let Isha crash into Jinx's tummy under the gargoyle's arms, and then closed her wings again, this time around mother and daughter. Jinx let out some sobs while putting one of her hands on Isha's hair and the other on the claw holding her steady.
She was alright, Isha was alright and so was their new friend. Jinx didn't mean terror here. It meant mom, It meant protector, It meant chaotic lady and jewel. She wasn't Broken, she was someone precious.
After the group hug they began to loot the cave. Not separating from the other any second. When they went back to the tower they had twelve mushrooms and a lot of glowing moss. They spent the rest of the night helping Jinx fill the arrows with boom power and the glitter equivalent of nature.
Although some moss ended in their faces in the way of glowing paint.
“Got to say blondie you pull out the whiskers greatly”
“Well, glowing nose goes perfectly with your eyeshadow”
“Isha I think we had found your career along with exploring”
The kid hugs her plushie with stained fingers and smiles at them with her tooth gap.
[.......]
“Jinx I don't think this is a good idea”
“Sunrock trust me this is one of the best ideas my mind have ever had”
[Armor cool but uncomfy right?]
“Well It is a little now that i'm moving more than before”
“See? This is why we need this little trip. Don't worry wherever we get you we will make it look good?”
“Oh of that I'm sure my lady”
In the day Isha and Jinx had gone back to the village, they had sold some of the animal they had caught for mystery food. Apparently its meat was great and the pelt really good for searching for clothes. And with the coins they had gotten, Jinx had purchased a sewing kit. And made some adornments to hers and Isha's outfits.
Their matching hoodies were not the most unique thing about them now. Their cloaks were cut like teeth. Jinx had made a knot on her shirt and painted a rabid monkey on the white of It. She had also ripped her pants on the knees. And the boots had scribbles of little bunnies and lions curling around each other instead of fighting and clouds sewn on her calf. Her custom weapon at her hip as well, the bow part looked oddly like wings and the holdster and wheel of bolts had different doodles.
Isha apart from the killer bunny hood and cloak. She had a crazy looking hare on her shirt, a holder in her belt for her lion plushie, and the satchel had patches made with messy threads, in which was the face of teemo, monkeys. And one of a lion with wings and an excited looking hare.
They looked so colorful and livid that Luxs own magic flared inside her like a rainbow in the night while she traced her painted arm. And that has been an invention for them.
That was the reason why now she had her head covered in Jinx's cloak and her tail was tugged up her back to be disguised by It . Her wings did pass by another cloak at least and the hooks of the wings were covered by the cloak. Her arms inside this cluster of cloth and wings.
Isha was at her side looking bad at anyone who dared to send them funny looks.
And Jinx was leading the stroll with a confident walk with a grin on her face as if she wasn't walking around a small town with a freaking arcane beast behind her.
“I really I'm fine with my armor Jinx”
“O shit you are really nervous if you dropped the lady thing”
“Yes! Yes I am, I'm a magic creature my lady. If people see you alongside me they will accuse you of witchcraft and call the magesekers “
“Jeez that sounds kinda worse than enforcers. But you don't have to worry they will not know a thing about your rocking bod, jejeje get it?”
Lux rolls her eyes, Isha does too.
“And you have us to fight for you”
“I really don't care about my well being, Im worried about Isha and you my lady jewel”
At that Jinx stops her walking and turns around, takes hold of the “hood” around her mane and horns pulling her down to her level. Their noses are almost touching.
“If you guard us Lux, we guard you. We are a team now. A family okay? We stick together, no matter what. You're stuck with us Sunrock “
Lux nods lost in the trance of pink and a light erupts in her cheeks. When Jinx sees It, she takes note of what's happening, blushes, pulls down the cloth to the gargoyle's face and coughs.
Isha looks at them arching her brow, then takes hold of Lux's wing. The blonde looks down at her understanding now way better than her gestures. They had been having classes practically all nights since the cloud was painted in her arm.
[You okay?]
“Yes, little adventurer I'm alright and your mamma too she just needed to hide my light”
[Why hide? You're so pretty]
“Well thank you missy but magic for demacians is really scary. A lot was lost for them because of It. And mages are their Monster. In part that's why they made me, to be against magic, that's the purpose of a Gargoyle.”
[Then why can't you be seen?]
“Because just the royal guard can have gargoyle's and if they saw me they would assume i have gone rouge and that I'm dangerous “
[You're not dangerous, you're a firework]
Lux smiles at her little adventurer and lowers herself to the ground to nuzzle her head against painted locks.
“Thank you missy”
Isha smiled softly, returning the nuzzle. She didn't understand how could someone be afraid of Lux. She was powerful, yes, but kind. Like Jinx, they could both be dangerous. But to her they were strong and loveable and family.
Her mom stopped at the start of the night market and smiled at them. This was perfect, going around a funny festival with her kid and friend. Best friend? The semantics didn't matter, what mattered was the feeling of belonging she had when Isha came to her side and took her hand looking at the food stands. And Lux coming to her side brushing her arm.
“Okay we have some spare coins, the first thing is searching clothes for Lux to stop looking like a lead soldier”
“What is a-”
“Fashion mission!”
And they were sprinting to the first clothes stall. Lux ,shaking her head with a tusk smile followed behind. Upon arriving, Isha started tossing around shirts while Jinx talked to the lady behind the stool. She seemed nice enough if she didn't mind Isha being a mess with the pieces of clothing.
“You see, my companion is super large and they really need new clothes. Cause the only dashing thing they have is an armor and between you and I? It really needs some work”
Lux hearing that just gave a huff, she was not gonna talk afraid that her voice will give away something but her and Jinx were gonna have some words at home.
The lady, upon seeing her, brought her hands to her mouth, hiding a laugh for what Jinx had commented.
“Oh dear I do understand, my husband was in the vanguard. I swear they are so proud of their armors that they sleep on It”
“Tell me about it girl, she even washes with the freaking metal on! For practical means she says”
It was more practical. She decided to go away from her lady jewel and crouch down and help Isha in her search. The audacity of the blunette was reaching the clouds, the tattoo really was accurate.
“I'm sure it's something to witness. Is that why your daughter is scavenging my products?”
“Precisely. You must understand is a really important reason”
“Completely dear”
The lady then turns to the kid extending a shirt to Lux like she was measuring over her body.
“You would want to look in the other rack honey, those are for bigger built”
Isha smiles at the lady in thanks and goes over where she pointed at, being followed by as equally amused as grumpy Lux.
“Have you and your partner been together for a while?”
Jinx, who had been looking at them playing around with clothes, snaps back to the clerk with a deep pink in her cheeks, she can feel the shimmer in her veins pumping and making the shade even more apparent on her pale skin.
“She is not my partner, well we are partners but in a friend's way. She's just helping me take care of my daughter really. “
“Oh I'm sorry for assuming dear”
“No, no is fine I guess we kinda look like the pitch family portrait, although we kinda stand out”
“Well you make a beautiful bunch if you ask me. Even if I can't see your companions face I can tell she enjoys being with your daughter “
“Yeah “
Lux is kneeling on the floor puffing up her chest content by Isha making a human manikin out of her person.
“The kiddo loves her too, she really has become part of us”
“That sounds so lovely dear. If you don't mind me asking, why is your friend so covered Up?”
“Oh um ... .she….she fought in a really bad fight a while ago, soldier stuff im sure you know from your husband. Her face didn't turn up well. She is self conscious about it. I tell her there is nothing horrifying about it but those things change someone.”
“I see,poor girl, the war for a country is as honorable as It is. But It comes with prices, after our King was killed by The King Slayer, the mage problem has gone worse”
“Mage problem”
“ Yes, those filthy things running around with their unnatural affections proclaiming that there's nothing wrong with them, refusing the kind treatment that the Magesekers offer them. Is a pity really “
“Yeah, they really make a mess out of things”
“Sure do, you and your family should be really careful if you come from another village. They have been doing a group, a rebelion one, they said they have a hiding camp in the woods”
“We…will be careful…thanks”
Jinx gave the not so nice lady now a forced grin. They needed it to go now, Lux was not safe here, at least this stall they had to go. She looked to the rest of the group that was finally approaching with a lino medieval shirt and some hunter trousers. Jinx got the coins out quickly and paid without looking at the woman, Isha and Lux were looking at the blunette as if asking why she was in such a hurry.
But they were already moving on. They looked over more places but Jinx was looking around widely. Isha gave her a piece of a pastry that she had bought for her and she smiled and told her it was pretty delicious but her mind was elsewhere, Lux could tell.
When they were ready to go back to the tower Lux spotted a familiar glow. When her marble eyes looked at It she saw a beautiful pink purplish gem at the center of a choker. Just like her jewel's eyes. She had to have It. She must give It to her friend.
She gave Jinx a little push on her shoulder with the arm and went to the stall followed by a really confused and worried ex terrorist and her child whose hand was in a grip of steel.
“I'm sorry big girl but we gotta go immediately, you were kinda right about…what are you looking at?”
Lux pointed with her head to the choker and Jinx looked at It for a moment before looking back at the blonde.
“You want It?”
“Alright final coins of your shopping Sunrock”
Jinx purchased the choker and they were on their way back to the tower.
Once they arrived they made some holes on the back of the shirt and one in the butt area for the tail. And they painted a goofy winged lion on It.
Lux went downstairs to change grabbing the choker as well as she went down.
When she peeled away from her armor she let out an exasperated sigh. She traveled her naked body with her fingers for a moment tracing all the golden lines that were decorating her stone skin. And then she put on the shirt pulling her wings through the holes smiling and then did the same with the trousers and the tail. The trousers were a little tight on the upper part but It was way better than her metal leggings. Still, she put on one of the arms of the armor. But let the rest on the wall. She flapped her wings jumping to the second floor with the gem at her back.
She smiled at her public doing a little twirl and extending her wings smiling with her fangs and tusks at the clapping and cheers and whistles.
“Okay the one arm thingy of the armor im gonna let It pass cause It looks cool.”
[Handsome Lux!]
“Thanks my darling ladies”
She does a little bow curling her tail as well, then she kneels on one knee.
“I actually want to give you something, lady Jinx. I guess it is not a surprise because you bought It but It reminded me of your eyes. A precious gem”
Lux pulled out from behind her back the gift and offer It to Jinx. The girl was blushing and her eyes were really open as if they were gonna go out from the sockets. Isha was the same except the blushing and was looking at her guardians expectantly.
Jinx glup some saliva and then stands from the hay bed and approaches the gargoyle with timid steps. When she is in front of Lux she gives a steady nod offering access to her neck.
Lux took a deep breath and with lightly glowing fingers clasped the gem around her new owner. When It was secured her claws stayed there a little longer. Then she took a step back.
Jinx brought a trembling hand to her neck looking at this pool of pink. No one had ever looked at something as precious and at the same time odd in color and connected to her. Was Jinx really someone like this Stone? And when she thought It was over. A clawed finger lit up and started tracing something on the face of the gem. A silhouette of a cloud and a sun behind it.
“You guard me…I guard you right?”
Jinx hugged Lux tightly nuzzling against that soft new shirt . Lux gave her back some circles, smiling trapping the human in her arms and wings.
When they pulled apart Jinx smiled at a really stunned Isha, who looked like she had had a revelation. Completely misterpretating the look, Jinx smirked at her kid and asked.
“Does It look stunning on me, little bunny?”
[Yeah, mamma pretty]
That night when they went to bed cuddle up. Isha in between them. The thing is they were not aware that Isha had decided something for their family. Jinx was her mamma yes but Lux had been updated from friend to future mom.
And they went to sleep just like that, with a scheming gremlin thinking how to get them together.