Luxury

POV MC

Violet was a little tense I could tell, not that I find it weird the night on the lines can be kind of creepy.

Today we head to the Promenade, we come mainly for money but if we find something else then welcome. Tonight the atmosphere was particularly gloomy, the gang members were very alert to any suspicious movements, and we'd better be more cautious than usual.

At first, it was fine, we stole some silver cogs and several bronze washers.

[A/N: Piltover and Zaun coin: Gold Hexes, silver cogs, and bronze washers].

Obviously not a big haul for a piltover but down here, well it's enough to feed a small family for at least two weeks, the thing was we also stole some bandages for Violet, it occurred to me that she would need them when the training with Vander got more intense.

Among other things we stole scrap metal for Powder's and my experiments, along with some bottles of what appeared to be alcohol and more bandages this time to have a makeshift first aid kit in case it was needed, for a change I wanted something for Vander so I took a chance on a "fancy" store to steal a bottle of alcohol that looked expensive, while I infiltrated Vi had to distract the stall owner, all was going well until some gang members came to see what was going on, turns out this area is "protected" by a gang I think they call themselves "the bloody crows" well fuck, this is trouble.

I looked around looking for something I could do to give Vi a chance to escape since there were so many of them until I remembered the little toy grenade Pow gave me before I came, it had a little mouse drawn on it with colorful colors, heh adorable.

Before I could throw the little mouser one of those bastards hit Vi in the stomach causing her to fall to the ground coughing, I just got mad and I'll make them regret it, I removed the pin from the grenade and threw it right at Violet's feet, the funny thing is it made rat noises, which distracted the attention from her, before exploding releasing a very thick pink smoke bomb and at that moment I pulled up my black bandana to hide my identity a bit and went on the attack, Violet had escaped, the emergency plan was that when mouser detonated we would both escape, but I needed to make them pay.

As I got to the position of the closest one he didn't see me coming because the pink smoke wouldn't let him, of course, I couldn't see him either but I more or less remembered the position of each one, as I ran up to him I jumped and gave him a double kick to the head that sent him crashing into the wall of the store leaving him probably with a concussion, As I got up a gang member was in front of me he attacked me but he was very slow, very much so compared to Vander, I dodged and gave him a side kick to his knee which cracked causing him to fall with a scream of agony and then stomp his head angrily on the ground.

The other gang members realized that something was not right so they took out their weapons which turned out to be knives and knives, one of them had seen how I finished off his partner, so with a war cry he ran up to me trying to stab me, I quickly stepped aside, leaving his arm vulnerable which I folded with the blade pointing towards his face, I quickly stepped aside, leaving his arm vulnerable which I bent with the blade pointing towards his face which to his bad luck fell into his eye before I could finish him off one of his companions stabbed me in the back so I quickly elbowed him in the nose which made him hold his face in pain and I used the time to steal the knife and stab him in his groin area after which he lay on the ground crying, the smoke was almost cleared the leader of the group and I saw each other's faces he was the one who hit Vi, I recognized him by the stupidly long red scarf he had, he looked furious of his group only the rest was on the ground in bad conditions while the owner of the store seemed in shock by the state of those people.

I attacked with a direct punch to the nose but he narrowly dodged me and counterattacked with a blow to the ribs, I could not dodge it and I received the blow, which fractured a rib, I looked at his hands and the reason for the massive damage were some iron mittens with spikes on the knuckles, that made me angry, he threw another punch this time directed at my face, I dodged it and countered with a hook to the chin, it landed squarely, I continued the combo with right crochet that disoriented him followed by a low kick to the back of his kneecap that sent him to his knees and finished it off with a knee strike that I accompanied with a jump and landed directly on his face which sent him flying for a few seconds before he fell flat on the ground motionless.

Seeing him lying there didn't calm my rage in the least, I sat on his chest while I stepped on his hands to immobilize him completely and started to hit him brutally, my veins were glowing crimson at this point but I don't care, the only important thing was to end this threat, his face is just a red spot at this point and the floor behind his head has cracks behind it from the force of the blows, suddenly I felt a blunt blow behind my head, normally I'm sure I would have fainted but that didn't happen, I turned around and saw the boy who stabbed his eye, I got up at an incredible speed that I didn't know I had and with a single punch in the stomach, he was knocked unconscious.

At that moment my rage subsided and I was able to regain clarity in my mind and I saw what I had done, it was quite brutal, of course, I don't regret anything, it was just awesome, my sight caught the store owner trying to hide, I smiled wryly I entered his store stole all the coins I could find and a bottle of Piltover wine that was in a display case, I hope Vander likes it, while I was leaving the store the adrenaline left me and I almost fell on my face to the ground, luckily it didn't happen, on the way home I had to be extremely careful because if I had any problem I would probably die, I was still with the dagger stuck at least this way I wasn't going to bleed to death but it hurt like a bitch.

Almost arriving home I found Vander and Vi, both worried, running in the direction where I was, when they saw me the horror showed on their faces and I said

-Come on, I'm not that bad.

As I spoke I coughed up a little blood so I guess it wasn't convincing at all, they took me home where I was healed, of course without a scolding from Vander who of course was not at all happy, I told him everything that had happened and he seemed to soften Vi, on the other hand, was crying and promised me never to run away from a fight again, well except that Powder is not at all happy with me, when we were finally alone I decided to talk to her.

-Come on Pow, tell me, what's the matter, aren't you happy with what I brought you?

I asked with a smile, which seemed to offend her and she shouted.

-Because you always have to hurt yourself! I don't want to lose you...you are my big brother, you are the only one who really understands me.....

After that she started crying louder and louder so with some effort I got up a little, just enough to catch her in my arms, hugging her tightly while stroking her hair.

-Pow I will always be there for you, I am your brother I will always be there to protect you, don't worry about me I will always be back.

She hugged me even tighter and kept crying until she fell asleep.