A cannonshot rang throughout a silent forest, with more commotion as there was shouting followed by gunfire. A firefight had exploded on the side of a forest, only dangling near the edge of a sheer drop to the raging wrath of the river below. The Megling Commandos had been sent to the far edge of an unamed forest on the search for creatures of all kind going missing in the nearby area, with evidence in hand that necromancers and mages were responsible for the disappearences. But why? No matter the answer, the Yordle Gunner; Tristana, was determined to figure it out.
"Gunner! Watch your head!" Teemo grunted as he yanked her out of the way of a fireball, crashing into the tree behind her. The Swift Scout had gone into his serious mode again... which couldn't help but make the young Yordle unfocused. "Keep your eyes on the battlefield!" he hissed in annoyance.
"Uh... right! Sorry Swift!" Tristana replied with a small assuring grin before letting off a barrage of cannonballs back at the surrounding mages. At the moment, they were calling each other by codename just to avoid any chances of them learning their identies. "They just keep coming!" she shouted before rocket jumping onto a nearby tree to rain cannonballs down from above.
In the midst of their investigation, the small commando group, led by Teemo, had ran in with a small patrol of mages. Without a doubt they had to know why creatures of all kind we're disappearing, but of course they weren't one to come quietly...
"Gunner! The tree!" Teemo had shouted before a lightning bolt from a mage hit him dead center, sending him flying back and hitting his head hard on a tree.
"Swift-!" The female yordle was about to shout before she felt the whole tree rock, as she saw rocks rising from the ground that toppled the tree. The tree tumbled onto the side of the cliff, half of it dangling over the raging rapids that awaited far, far below her.
"Teemo! Help!" She shouted, as the female yordle as holding onto a large branch as tightly as she could. Her large cannon slipping from her grip and slowly dragging her down.
"Teemo...?" A voice hissed behind the mages as the commandos were all shot down, one by one. "... Hehe... this will be more satisfying than I thought..." a cloaked figure cackly with a horrific smile under their hood. "Kill the female! Bring Teemo to me!"
"We need backup! Call in- argggh!" A soldier cried out as a fireball engulfed his body.
The figure's hand was engulfed by a strange black aura, with white lightning shooting out from his palm. With a battlecry he swiped, firing a dark wave of magic that sliced the tree in half in an instant.
"Tristana!" Teemo shouted as he raced towards the tree, to only hear her scream as the whole side of the tree fell down into the ravine. "TRISTANA!" he shouted once more in agony as he felt his whole body go numb. In the midst of his suffering he felt a grip around his neck before he was slammed on the floor.
"You made a mistake coming here... demon." The hooded figure scowled before delivering a hard blow to the Swift Scout's skull, making his whole world go dark...
At the raging rapids below, Tristana tried to cling onto the tree in hopes of trying to break her fall but only lost her grip as she hit the water with a loud splash. In an instant her whole body was in severe pain, to make matters worse she was pinned under the water by the broken half of the tree. She tried to push it off her with all of her might, but no matter how hard she tried it wouldn't budge. Her heart beated faster and faster before she had to come a realization that she wouldn't make it out of this...
" T-Teemo... I'm... so sorry... " She could only whisper before her vision slowly flickered out into darkness.
