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Evelynn rarely ever felt uncomfortable, but standing in the entrance of Akali’s former dojo, she felt it so strongly. Despite Shen being nice and Kennen’s interaction with Akali being sweet, the diva couldn’t shake the feeling of it. It didn’t help with how paranoid the rapper was acting, constantly looking around, searching for an unknown enemy.
“There’s an elephant in the room.” The diva thought as Akali guided her bandmates down the hallway, it was empty and quiet, Evelynn eyes stared around at the doors.
“The students are doing sparing with..one of the masters, so they won’t bother us for a while.” Akali answered, the diva raised an eyebrow but decided not to ask.
Ahri smiled and nudged Kai’sa, the dancer looked at her. “At least we don’t have to worry about autographs huh ?” Ahri and Kai’sa laughed, Evelynn shook her head but Akali ignored them as she kept walking, a little quicker.
Eventually Akali guided them to their rooms, each of the bandmates had their own rooms, Kai’sa was the first to be shown to her room, Ahri was next since hers was two doors down from the dancer and finally Evelynn’s. The diva went into the tiny room, it’s walls were white, the dark wood matched the wood of the hallway, only a single bed and a drawer sat in the room, but it was the view that got Evelynn’s attention. She could see the city from her room, all the artificial lights and the ray of the sunset, as it bent around the skyscapes to hit her golden eyes.
“Sorry the room isn’t up to your standards, Master Shen believes in balance and other crazy crap.” Akali answered, Evelynn turned and looked at the young rapper. Akali looked exhausted, the diva could see the tiredness in her brown eyes but the rapper was also jumpy, she fidget with her fingers, she didn’t put her hands into her pockets as she usually did and still looked around the place.
Evelynn came closer to the rapper, who stared at her but didn’t move away. “Kali, are you okay ?” The diva asked but realized her mistake when the rapper looked away and crossed her arms, her nails dug into arms.
“I’m fine.”
“Kali-”
“I’ll be in my room.” Evelynn let her go, she flinched when Akali slammed her door shut but decided to leave it, for now.
Dinner was strange because that’s when K/DA officially met Mayym, Akali’s mother, she didn’t yell at Akali or the group for arriving, in fact she said nothing at all, ignoring the group completely, even her own daughter. Ahri and Kai’sa glanced at each other, silently questioning their action while Evelynn focused on their rapper, who ate quietly but the diva could feel it. The anger that poured out of Akali was choking the diva out, if the rapper was a fire then her anger was smoke.
“Excuse me, but I need some air.”
The night sky was beautiful, the stars shine dimly in the sky and the cold air wrapped gently around her nicely. The diva realized there were eyes on her, she looked at her left and spotted her, a girl around her age, bow in one hand, an arrow in the other, her black hair looked like silk despite being tightly pulled into a ponytail.
Evelynn was about to give a snarky comment but she held her tongue to dodge the arrow flying towards her head.
Thud.
The arrow hit the wooden beam next to the diva, she glanced at it before she glanced at the angry woman who held the bow in her hands. “Demons aren’t welcome here, especially you.” The woman said she lowered the bow and walked away, that’s when Evelynn noticed the prosthesis leg but said nothing.
“What a greeting.”
The diva went back into the dinning hall, she noticed the bow woman sitting in between the rapper and her mother, the woman stared at her but she ignored her and continued to eat her food like nothing happened, she noticed Akali’s anger had turned to guilt for some unknown reason. “Perhaps, it’s best to not tell Kali about the arrow.” The diva concluded.
It felt like forever when dinner finally, the diva got into the hard mattress bed, she put her glasses on the nightstand next to her as she tried to fall asleep...
...then she heard screaming.
Evelynn picked up her glasses, raced out of the room and followed the screaming, she found Kai’sa waiting outside Akali’s room. “Eve ! I was about to get you, something’s not right with Kali !” Kai’sa rambled as she guided the diva into her room. Evelynn stared at the rapper, eyes closed tightly, twisted and turned in bed while clutching her head. Ahri was next to her, trying to hold the poor woman’s hand.
“Eve, what’s happening to her ?” Ahri asked, Evelynn stared at Akali’s face, beams of sweats travelled down her skin as she bucked her hips, throwing her head up, like she was trying to get the back of her head to touch her shoulder blades. Evelynn could feel the fear radiating off the rapper but something else took her attention: a sigil.
It couldn’t be seen with human’s eyes but Evelynn could sense it and see it, the black brand glowed on the rapper’s chest. The diva turned and looked at Ahri. “Please tell me that you can’t feel a demon sigil ?” Ahri asked, her eyes pleading.
Kai’sa, who was standing behind them looked at them, terrified. “A what ?” She asked as she stared at the other demon.
“A sigil or brand is a way for demons to mark their targets, it stops us from hunting the same targets and right now there’s one on our dear Rogue.”
“Okay so please tell me that it’s yours and you're going to remove it ?”
Evelynn sighed, Akali stopped, laying down in the bed, now she only whimpered. “It’s Nocturne’s.” Ahri stared in horror, her shoulder sagged and seen out of it. Kai’sa looked at them before she looked back at the rapper.
“Is there any way we can help her ?”
Evelynn hummed, she slowly stroked the rapper’s disheveled hair out of her sweaty face. “I can feel him, Nocturne is inside Akali’s head, if I could get into her head then I might be able to...remove him.” The diva said as Kai’sa eyes lit up with hope.
“Okay, how do we put you inside Kali’s head ?”
“Perhaps, I might be able to possess Rogue.”
“Absolutely not.” The trio looked at Shen who stood in the doorway suddenly Akali screamed in pain, gripping the pillow, her bandmates focus went back to their maknae, while Shen approached Eve.
“I will not allow you to enter Akali’s mind and harm her.”
“I understand that you may not trust me, I assure you I wouldn’t invade Kali’s privacy if it wasn’t for her sake.” The diva explained before she stared at the rapper, tears flowed from her eyes. Shen studied the demon before he sighed.
“Do it.” Evelynn nodded as she transformed into demon form, Shen remained calm at the sight, she noticed the pulsing sigil now more clearly rooted into the crying rapper. Evelynn placed her clawed hand onto the sleeping rapper’s forehead and felt herself turning to smoke.
“Don’t worry Rogue, I’m coming.”