The foreigner jumped from the wall on the ground below with a back flip. Qiyana raised her ohmlatl and jumped down at him, striking his Krigsoks thrice with a spinning motion.
"You haven't told me your name yet, foreigner" she said as she slammed the weapon as if she was using a hula hoop.
"Lanius...pleasured to fight you, Qiyana Yun Tal." he exclaimed and brought his weapon horizontally at her.
Qiyana raised her ohmlatl and deflected his weapon.
"Xayah, all good?" he then asked. How could he both fight and also care about his allies?
"All good, but we're stuck!" the female vastaya, probably named Xayah, sounded from inside the trap.
Lanius raised his left hand towards the box, as he raised his weapon to deflect her ohmlatl.
The ground rumbled and the two vastaya that came with him got lifted up. At that moment, the female named Xayah flung something at Qiyana, who avoided with a side flip the projectile, that pinned on a tree.
"Xayah, leave her to me! It's a duel!" Lanius replied and slammed his weapon at her ohmlatl again.
"But I want to dance!" Xayah complained.
"It's a duel...you gotta respect that, miella." the other vastaya that looked similar to her responded. "Let's go find the others."
"Speaking of them, where are my allies?" Lanius asked her. His blue feline eye -the other one was covered by a black bandage- stared directly into her soul.
"I'll deal with them once I'm done with you." Qiyana grit her teeth and summoned some vines to grab him.
The young man summoned an ice spike thst lifted him in the air. Qiyana huffed as she watched him moved in the air in complete harmony.
The young man landed on the ground and smiled at her. "Not bad...you're quite experienced, despite your age. You can also keep up with my attacks." he complimented her.
"You're not bad either, foreigner. You think you can keep up with my attacks?" Qiyana cracked her back and smiled at him. "Or are you not able to match my strength?"
"Are you really willing to find out?" Lanius asked with a cold voice. "Because from the start of this fight till now, I've been holding back, since I do not wish to hurt you, Qiyana Yun Tal."
This confused her. "Holding back? An intermediate ice mage like you, holding back against an elementalist like me?" she chuckled.
Ridiculous! Who did he think that he was?
"Go on then, unleash your full potential!" she tried to intimidate him. "Unleash it, so I can crush you!"
"Do not take that risk, Qiyana Yun Tal." Lanius warned her. "I'd advise you to stop and just let us leave. Originally, we'd just find a village and get our boat repaired, then go our destination without revealing your existence. Heck, nobody except me and another one of us knew about Ixtal's existence."
The young man then removed the bandage that concealed his left eye. The eye was covered by a thick layer of mirrored blue ice. "But I suppose it has to be this way..."
As he said that, he closed his eye and the ground around him froze. Qiyana suddenly felt a cold breeze hit her back, as if the temperature had dropped a few degrees.
The young man exhaled a misty cloud and opened his eyes (or rather eye, bare with me.) and looked at her, then without a word he lunged himself forward, with his weapon raised.
Qiyana reacted quickly by raising her ohmlatl. The hard ice collided against the sharp steel and shredded ice along with sparks flew in every direction.
The foreigner silently attacked her again and again at a rapid pace, sending one hit after the other, making her struggle with each upcoming attack.
Qiyana began moving around as she tried to dodge Lanius' hits. With each step she took, he also took one, then another...engaging in new type of battle dance.
"Why...why won't you submit to me?!" she finally said through her teeth. "No way I'll allow a mere ice mage to defeat me!"
"Did you think that I'd allow an air-headed child with a ring blade to defeat me?" the foreigner replied with a nonchalant voice and expression, enraging her.
"Say ring blade one more time, I dare you!" she yelled and hurled yet another rock at him. The young man then summoned an ice gauntlet that blocked the rock.
"This guy, who is he?!" she thought as she attacked again, this time both with rocks and vines.
The young man continued to pressure her with his attacks through the jungle, causing her to retreat further and further behind, till she finally found a wall behind her. She turned her head for a split second, to find out that it was one of the two stone walls that she used to trap the foreigners.
That split second was enough for the young man to charge in and knock her ohmlatl out of her hands, then place his Krigsoks' edge over her neck.
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Sett slammed the stone so hard that it cracked. He was doing the same thing for the past ten minutes.
Everything was going fine half an hour ago...till something snatched Ahri. Then they were after it and in a flash, he along with Kayn and Akali found themselves trapped underneath some sort of stone trapdoor. Kayn phased through it and tried to help them, but to no avail. They had to dig themselves out of it...so Sett reeled his fist back...and slammed the stone with a fist barrage again.
"USHA!"
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Qiyana instinctively blinked in frustration. Did...she just lose?
"I think we're done here, Qiyana Yun Tal. Release my allies."
As the young man took his weapon away from her, she lunged at him, only to be grabbed by Rakan into an arm-lock position. "Now, now...Your Highness. We have a few things to discuss."
Xayah approached with some rope and a feather dagger. "Well not hurt you...for the time being." she replied as her lover pushed the Yunalai on the ground, still holding her hands.
Qiyana's eyes widened. "You dare raise a hand against your rightful ruler? Estem qa'eve!" she yelled.
"Don't harm her...she just doesn't know better." Lanius muttered as he fastened the bandage over his eye. The last thing he wanted was to cause a war with another nation, outside Noxus and especially over a spoiled child.
"First off all, Lanius...we don't intend to harm her. We just make sure that the little princess over here doesn't attack us again." Xayah replied as she tied the Yunalai's arms behind her back.
"And second of all..." Xayah focused on Qiyana's face. "You sure aren't our ruler at all. Vastaya are ruled by nature and magic..."
"A child with an over-sized ring blade cannot rule us." Rakan added and wrapped his right arm around the other Lhotlan's shoulders.
"It's not a ring blade! It's an ohmlatl!!!" Qiyana fumed "Who do you think you are, trying to ridicule me?!" she yelled, glaring daggers at Lanius.
"Nobody ridiculed you, I merely gave you a presentation of what the Winter is capable of." Lanius replied and crouched down in front of her, then helped her sit.
Qiyana bit her lip in frustration. "The Winter?"
"Besides-" he was cut of by a loud thud and a shadow that covered them.
Everyone looked up to see a giant ice dragon that roared towards their direction.
"Uh...this isn't good...not good at all!" Rakan muttered.