"I feel sick.." Akali groaned, holding a hand to her mouth.

"As do I.." Zed followed.

Syndra didn't want to admit it either in fear of looking weak, but she also felt dreadful. Shen looked incredibly uncomfortable when she took a glance at him, but he too tried to hide it. She turned around to notice other ninja's from both the Kinkou and Shadow order begin to keel over, some even began vomiting.

"What is this.. Disgusting feeling?"

"It seems they already beat you here.." A strange accent called from the darkness. Everyone readied their weapons, but the man emerged, holding his hands up with his head down.

"Well.. Not seems.. I know they're here.." He lifted his head, and slowly tipped his hat up. ".. Because I saw them."

"Fate?" Zed questioned under his breath.

"Mornin'."

"Why are you here?" They walked towards each other with open arms, and embraced in a manly hug.

"Same reason as ya'self partner. That damned Evelynn will be here.." He conjured a card from his sleeve and began to shuffle it between his fingers.

"An' I think it's high time I had me some closure." He crushed the card, which disintegrated into ash, and flowed through the wind, leading towards to gates that stood before them. With a single push to the wind, Twisted Fate opened the gates. Unleashing what were called 'lost souls' into Ionia.

Akali prepared herself to fight.

"They don't do nothin' Akali, I wouldn't worry ya' pretty little head about 'um."

"That's slightly more comforting.."

"We should go." Shen called.

Feeling nauseous, they all headed through the gates, and passed through the vast gardens that were an omen to the Underworld Gate.

Everything was either dead or dying, and it disheartened Syndra to know that a once beautiful garden was destroyed by something that the Shadow Isles brought.

Once beautiful and radiant multicoloured flowers, were now reduced to a dark brown deathly hue, and reeked of lifelessness. The loss and lack of beauty added to Syndra's sudden sad and nauseous feeling. She was leading the group on the ground, walking around the broken stone path, while a different troop followed in the trees. Twisted Fate and Zed were walking behind her, catching up briefly before they reached the gate.

It was amazing how far they had already come in such a short amount of walking time, but Syndra had let her guard down, and it lead to a huge mistakes.

A green being emerged from nowhere and hooked Syndra tightly, causing her to let out a huge scream of pain.

"SYNDRA!" Zed cried as he saw her being dragged off by the Shadow Isles creatures, uproar of laughter was all that could be heard after they all began to chase after Syndra. He scrambled up the hill considerably faster than everyone else and could hear her screaming and shouting.

"GET OFF OF ME. I AM NO TOY."

"SYNDRAAA!"

"ZED! THEY'RE TRYING TO- UGHH, DRAG ME THROUGH THE PORTAL!"

He jumped and commanded his shadow to land in the middle of the struggle. They switched places, and Zed could feel her energy and turned to her as fast as his body would allow him, and cut the ethereal chains away from Syndra, pushing her as far back away as possible. It all settled after a large dust cloud disappeared from only seconds before where Zed had been standing.

She floated effortlessly behind him, and he stood with a strong stance before her. Both of them, were a force to be reckoned with, especially when together.

Footsteps of their comrades were heard clambering up the hill until Zed quickly ordered them to stop moving.

"Well well well.. What a lovely gathering we have here, come closer, Zed."

Thresh leaned closer.

"I don't bite." They all burst into laughter.

Hecarim, Elise, Thresh, Evelynn, Mordekaiser, Yorick and Maokai. All of them, were here.

"We settle this here and now Thresh!" Zed shouted.

"Oh.. But that's not an option, I'm afraid. Isn't that right, Evelynn?"

She stood forward, but the only thing that could be seen on Twisted Fate's face was that of disgust. Disgust, and complete and utter anger.

"Fate.. What a pleasure-"

"Shut your mouth you filthy whore!" He threw a barrage of magical cards that cut through everything in their path, including flesh.

"You son of a bitch Fate.." Evelynn whispered in pain.

"You'll pay for this!" Hecarim shouted as he charged at Twisted Fate and the rest of the ground crew. Syndra summoned multiple balls into the surrounding area and kicked them all at Hecarim, sending him flying across the gardens into a deep sleep.

"Interesting.." Thresh said.

"This is the end Thresh, lay down your weapons, and no one has to perish." Zed called out.

"Even more interesting.."

Shen stood forward next to Zed and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"We must fight together Zed."

"Like brothers."

-in sync-

"HYYY-AHHH!"

They dashed forward, throwing slashes of blades at their foes and striking them at the core of their strength as team. Zed jumped into the air and threw a hailstorm of shurikens down onto the sodom below, breaking stones into two, and cutting into the enemy thousands of times, he quickly commanded his shadow the the ground where he originally stood and swapped places with it, whilst Shen had threw his dagger and channeled his Ki to attack Moakai head on, cutting off one of his arms, and ripping Yoricks lamp off in the process.

In anger, he summoned the undead to rise from the ground and pull both Zed and Shen under, and hundreds of the appeared all around. They climbed out of the dead flower bushes and from inbetween pavements, until Twisted Fate fatally threw a card into Yoricks head. He fell to the ground with a huge thud.

"Nuff' of that shit." He spat.

"ATTACK!" Shen shouted.

Everyone collapsed in on them. Blades were heard whooshing through the air, Hei-An qould not be seen nor heard unless you really focussed on her, and Akali bursted through them all, cutting down anything in her path. Twisted Fate and Evelynn were the only two people Syndra could focus on. They were throwing punches at each other, and Evelynn was using her dark spike powers to cut up Fate's legs which worked to her advantage, but in the final wing of an arm - a Gold card. And that was all it took to kill Evelynn. But Syndra couldn't bring herself to move, the pain from Thresh's earlier hook was too much for her to bare.

As everyone dashed in, trying to play hero of the day to defend the world from the undead as more and more souls clambered through the gate, Syndra stood, watching everyone move past slowly. She felt tired, and very, very cold. Everyone was fighting, but it all looked in slow motion.

The dashing of blades, graceful and swift movements, all of it.. Didn't matter to her.

She felt someone lift off her mask gently, it was Elise, but she didn't flinch. Elise smirked and grabbed Syndra's face, distorting her features.

"You think you're so powerful, don't you? Dark Soverign?" She began laughing in her calming but evil voice.

"But you can't even handle the tiniest of spider bites."

When Elise harshly kissed Syndra on the lips and bit into her bottom lip, Syndra felt the venom coursing through her veins almost immediately, bringing her straight back to the harsh reality, and awakening something inside of her, when she let out a truly feral scream which knocked everything back and caused her to float effortlessly in the air.

Everyone stopped and fell to the ground trying to cover their ears, keeling over in pain and agony, trying to ignore the disgusting scream that Syndra let out.

Zed climbed to his feet and stumbled over to where she stood, with Elise completely knocked out on the floor beneath them, he couldn't take it anymore.

"ZED! SHUT 'ER UP!" Fate called.

"SYNDRA WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU-"

"NOO." She continued screaming.

She kicked him away.

And in the midst of it all, a shattering was heard as well as a grunting noise and an extremely bright flash of light.

Syndra had broken the gate, and everyone from the Shadow Isles, were gone. The undead, the ghosts, the ghouls, all gone as their screams faded into the evening sun, and Shen had covered Syndra in a protective barrier when he appeared behind her, catching and stopping her falling to the ground.

Zed couldn't focus his vision, but all he could see were countless ninja's crowding around something, and he was quite unsure of what just happened. He stood up and jogged over the crowd, placing gentle hands on shoulders to move people out of the way.

"What's going on here?" He questioned in a concerned tone, when the thunder cracked, and the dismal rain begun again, pattering his clothes with a soft dampness.

Everyone held their heads down, and gently moved aside for Zed, when he got to the middle of it all, he dropped to his knees and saw Shen holding her there, with her head hung to the side, and the glow in her eyes gone, Syndra lay completely, and utterly lifeless.

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