Hi :)

It's me. First of all, I am sorry that this is not a full story. The reason is as follows: I am currently working on several stories and I noticed that due to my usual habit of more or less finishing stories before putting them on here, together with working on several at a time (because that is how my head works) it takes a long time for anything to be finished. Add to that that due to work I only really have time to write on Weekends and it takes even longer. While I have every intention to finish all stories I am working at, it will take some time to achieve that.

Now some of the stories I am working on are attempted answers to challenges I found interesting while browsing around and that wouldn't stay out of my head. Now, while I still want to at least have a considerable amount written before starting to put any stories on here, I also don't want to wait that long for the challengers to at least get an idea of what I am trying to do (and maybe give some feedback on whether or not they feel their challenge sufficiently met if they want to). So as a compromise I decided to put a collection of first chapters up here. If other's want to comment on something, feel free to do so, I will definitely read it.

As I said above, I currently have every intention of finishing all stories I put up in this collection (though of course things can get between one and one's plans). Some of the stories, like this very first one, are crossovers (if so then currently only with League of Legends Lore). I do own neither Harry Potter nor League of Legends. I will put an author note at the beginning of each in order to point out what challenge it originates from and also include whether it is a crossover or not in the title.

This first one is meant to be an answer to the Fate's Repentance Challenge, given by Dis Lexic in DZ2's challenges forum.

Fate's Repentance - Harry Potter/League of Legends Crossover

It was around lunchtime, as Luxanna Crownguard stepped into one of the many cafeterias residing within the Institute of War. There had been no matches during the last two weeks and so she, as many others, had decided to go home, in her case to the City State of Demacia. This afternoon, there would be a few show matches and tomorrow the tournaments and challenges would start again, and so she had had to return to the institute. Not that she particularly minded coming back. Returning to Demacia during longer breaks was more of a duty than anything else, really, but Luxanna, or Lux as she usually introduced herself, was nothing if not dutiful.

She glanced around the cafeteria and found a few of her closer acquaintances sharing a table more in the middle of the room. She purposefully walked towards them, head held high, a smile on her face, just as a daughter of house Crownguard should. Irelia was the first to notice her, probably because she was sitting directly opposite from where Lux was coming from. The Captain of the Ionian Guard smiled and nodded towards her in greeting, and Lux felt her own smile become less forced. She made the last few steps towards their table, just as Irelia's fellow Ionians turned around to find out who Irelia had been nodding to.

Lux tended to avoid the other Demacian champions as good as she could. She had even given up hope to get her brother back, after five years of observing him and trying to talk to him as they had when they had been children. Instead of a brother, she now had the 'Might of Demacia', a soldier of highest Moral Superiority. Another thing she had to thank her parents for. At least, in those five years, she had learned that the brother she still remembered was not fully gone. Sometimes, on the battlefield, facing certain opponents, she believed she could still see the playful, fun Garen she once knew. However, that made it even harder for her to recognise that she couldn't reach him, no matter how hard she tried. So now, she avoided even him.

"Lux, you're back." That was Karma, stating the obvious. Sometimes Lux wondered if you had to state the obvious like that if you wanted to get a title like 'the Enlightened One'. But then again, it was better than 'Lady of Luminosity'. Luxanna Crownguard, the Lady of Luminosity. Pah. Nonetheless her smile remained in place, as she nodded to Karma. Despite her thoughts, she did indeed have nothing but respect for the woman.

To Irelia's other side sat Lee Sin, another person that Lux deeply respected. Sometimes she thought that her parents might be much happier, had they had Karma, Lee Sin or Irelia as their second child, rather than herself.

"How have your trips home been?" Lux asked, looking for a way to make conversation.

"It was nice to go back to the old village." Karma said with a smile on her face. "Sad that Irelia couldn't make it."

Lux looked to the other woman in surprise.

"I am the chosen champion of the Ionian people. Someone has to stay here when everyone else leaves, and that should be me." She explained.

Lux simply nodded, thinking it would be nicer for both of them if she and Irelia could swap places. She knew Irelia loved her homeland and it must be hard for her to be away from it for so long.

Lux hated to be so negative, but whenever she came back from Demacia, she just couldn't help it. It usually took her a few days to shake it off. Not that she didn't like Demacia. In fact she loved her home. To her it embodied everything that was good and right with the world. The people living there were her problem. Not even all of them. The leaders. They left so little room for an individual to digress from the norm, especially for themselves. Failure to adhere to even the simplest and most unimportant moral codex was inacceptable for a person of, for example, Lux's standing. All individuality was sacrificed for the duty to ones home and in order to be a good example for those looking up to you.

"Have you heard the rumours about the new champion?"

Lux raised her eyebrows. She had come from the teleport chamber directly to the cafeteria to have lunch and hadn't really talked to anyone yet.

"A new champion?"

"Yes, some man, that just appeared in front of the doors two or three days after holidays started." Irelia elaborated. "I've not yet seen him myself. There are all kinds of rumours going around about his Judgement."

Lux gave an involuntary shudder as she thought about what the Institute so calmly referred to as 'Judgement'. She certainly didn't like to be reminded of her own, though, from some of the stories she had been told, hers seemed to have gone especially bad. Then again, there were so many champions and nearly none of them talked about their Judgements, so Lux assumed she was at least in somewhat good company.

"How come you haven't seen him yet, if he has been here for a week?" Karma asked.

"He seems to be avoiding people." Irelia answered with a shrug. "I heard he was seen in the library a few times, but other than that no one really knows much. Then again the Institute is quite big and there weren't a lot of people to lead him around until today. So possibly it was just by accident that he avoided us others. It's weird though that the High Council would be that tight lipped about a new champion."

Lux personally thought that that was not the only weird thing. By now, the Institute had many champions at its disposal and it had become harder for new champions to be accepted. For that guy to just appear and be a champion a few days later, he must hold considerable interest for… somebody. She decided to ask about the new champion's alignment. If there was another Noxian champion in the league, the Demacians would go crazy. Sadly, as she started talking, she didn't notice that the attention of her three companions was focused on a point behind her.

"Do you know if he is affiliated with anyone?"

Suddenly a cold voice came from behind her. "Not that I know of."

Lux flinched and turned around, looking up to where the voice had come from. She found herself staring into shining emerald eyes and gulped at the expressionless mask on his face.

"It's not nice to talk about people behind their backs, Lady…?" The man said with a voice that was as emotionless as his face was.

"Crownguard," Lux answered automatically, before she could shake herself out of her embarrassment. "I mean Luxanna, ah, I mean Lux will be fine. And if you avoid people, you shouldn't be too surprised if they try to find out what little information is available by talking about you to others." Wait, wasn't that one of the things that she hated herself when it happened to her?

The man raised his eyebrows slightly. He seemed… ordinary, apart from his eyes. A few muscles, but nothing as great as most of the warriors within the league had. A mop of unruly black hair. Nothing so far that would warrant as much interest as he obviously got from the High Council.

"You must be mistaken, Lady Lux, I'm not avoiding people." The man said with amusement in his voice.

"Then how come nearly no one here knows anything about you, not even your name?" Lux asked in a challenging way.

"Maybe they never asked? A great few people came by me in the library, but none of them ever talked to me." The man said as if that explained everything.

"So it is the obligation of us others to come and talk to you, when you are the new one?" Lux didn't really know why she was so aggressive. Later, she would attribute it to the bad mood she still had remaining from her 'holidays', because really, the man in front of her didn't do anything to warrant it.

"I wouldn't say obligation, Lady Lux. Just, while I am by no ways an expert in social studies, in my unlearned opinion, talking to the person you want to know things about seems conductive to getting the information you seek."

Lux blinked a few times but couldn't really come up with anything to say in return. After a few seconds the man continued talking. "Now, if you would excuse us, my young friend made me promise to get her some pie." The man waved to the side behind him and Lux was surprised to see little Annie standing there, holding her stuffed bear and looking somewhat upset in her direction.

She was even more surprised when the man held out a hand and Annie's frown turned into a smile before she took the man's hand, who led her past the table towards the line waiting to be served.

As they were nearly past the table, the man stopped and turned around to look back at her. "Oh, I'm sorry. I nearly forgot. Since you practically asked. My name is Harry. Harry Potter."

With that he turned back he and Annie queued for some of the certainly excellent pie that Morgana had baked for the champions' return today.

The group looked towards the pair for a few more seconds, but then Lux couldn't help herself anymore. After the short meeting she had more questions than she had before. Why was this person made a champion? What made him so special? Why was little Annie so trusting with him? Usually she only trusted her stuffed bear, or the real life version of it that she summoned when she became angry. Lux recognised that it was quite out of character for her to engage in gossip, but she wanted to know more.

"Irelia… those rumours about his Judgement. What do they say?"

Irelia seemed nearly as surprised about the question as Lux felt herself, but then she nodded in understanding. "They say there wasn't one."

Lux frowned. "What do you mean, there wasn't one?"

"Just what I said. The rumours say he had some way of keeping the High Council out of his head, so there wasn't an actual Judgement."

Lux felt her eyes widen in renewed surprise. She never knew that such a feat was even possible. She looked towards the man. Oh, what she would give to know if it was true. And if it was, just how he did it.

As she looked back to the people that shared her table, she recognised that Lee Sin and Karma seemed impressed as well. Well, at least she was in good company. Though, on the other hand, those two hadn't made fools out of themselves just a few moments ago. Yep, Lux decided, she definitely hated holidays.

The show matches that afternoon would be fought on the battle field known as the Howling Abyss. For that arena, champions were usually randomly assigned to the summoners fighting the matches. Lux didn't really like the Howling Abyss, even though her usual style actually worked quite well there. It was the fact that they were all just show matches on Howling Abyss. Lux didn't really have her own agenda of any kind, so gaining favour of the spectators through a show match didn't really help her that much. She was well liked and respected by most people, even those from other factions of Valoran. She didn't know what she would do with any more than that anyway, so show matches held only little appeal for her.

It's not that she generally disliked having some action. She did like training matches, especially those where the champions could fight on their own, and the summoners simply provided the necessary magic to get the champions on the map and protect them from unpleasant things, such as death. It was just show matches. If she gained a lot of favour, her parents and not the least Prince Jarvan would expect her to do great things with it. She wanted to help her homeland, she really did, but she hated the spot light. To her, the spot light in which her family and she stood was responsible for everything that was wrong with her life. That she lost her brother to the military at a young age; that her parents had given her up not long after that; that she had to join the military academy with nine; that no friends were ever good enough for her, according to her parents; the list went on and on. All because she couldn't have been born into a usual Demacian family, no, she had to be a Crownguard. A Crownguard had to an example to all of Demacia at all time. A Crownguard always had to sacrifice everything for their country. A Crownguard couldn't just be happy like normal people could.

Not that her inane and unprecedented talent for light magic had helped her in that regard. Sometimes she wished she had just been born without any powers. She would certainly have been a disappointment to her parents, but at least at some point they would have just left her alone and she could have lived whatever life she judged best. But it was rare that Lux thought like that. She loved the light that always infused and surrounded her too much to ever really imagine being without it.

Anyway, Lux had been lucky and not been chosen for this afternoons matches. Her brother would fight, she knew, but she wasn't sure she wanted to watch it. She scanned the list and quickly found that the new champion hadn't been chosen either. Sad really, at least then she could have seen what he can do. It won't be long though until she would have an opportunity to do so, she assumed. She would still watch one of the matches with the other champions. She enjoyed the company, and really, while she had some reservations about those once very serious battles becoming a spectator sport, even she had to admit there were worst pastimes than watching other champions at work. She had to decide for one, though, as they would be held in parallel. While there was only one original Howling Abyss, the mages of the institute could recreate illusions of the every battle field within the training chambers of the institute. For show matches, those were usually sufficient, even if any official match to settle conflicts always had to be held in the actual, real arena. Finally Lux settled on watching the match that would feature, amongst others, little Annie and Irelia. The two of them, together with the Yordle Lulu, the archer Varus and finally Nunu and his yeti Willop would face a team consisting of Katarina, Shen, Nautilus, Ashe and Tristana on the other side.

A few minutes later, Lux stood in front of the door to the room in which the match would be displayed for those spectators within the institute. She entered, and was surprised to find the room near empty. The only other occupant was the new guy, Harry Potter. Where was Karma or anyone for that matter? The set up of the teams seemed like one of the more interesting ones on the Abyss. Still, taking a deep breath, Lux entered and closed the door behind her, making enough noise in the process for the new guy to look up.

"Oh, hi." He said with that expressionless face of his.

"Hi…" Lux gave back, feeling rather lame in doing so. "Where are all the others?"

"Your friend from before, Karma?" he asked and Lux nodded. "Karma, she was here a few minutes ago but said something about a fight between lovers that she wanted to see."

Lux glanced at the match list again and found the match Karma had been referring to. Leona and Pantheon would face each other. That would be… interesting. But Lux decided to remain, for now, even though she wasn't at all sure how good the company would really be now.

"May I join you still?" she asked, after all she had learned manners from when she was very little and it wouldn't do to forget them, not for a Crownguard.

"Of course." He nodded.

Lux sat down, leaving a few seats between them. After a few moments of awkward silence, Lux decided to try for some communication. "I'm surprised Karma didn't invite you to join them."

He looked to her for a few seconds – those emerald eyes were slightly unnerving, Lux found – before he simply answered. "She tried."

"Why didn't you go with them then? I thought you weren't trying to avoid others?" Lux felt oddly triumphant at having him caught out.

He looked at her again, and the triumphant feeling made way for the feeling of renewed impending embarrassment. "I'm not, but I promised." He finally said, voice still as even as Lux had ever heard.

"Promised?" Lux couldn't stop herself from asking.

"Yes, promised. Annie is quite proud about her skills and her power and she made me promise to watch her the very first opportunity I get." He chuckled, which Lux noted to be the first real emotion she had seen from him. It sounded kind of odd, but nice at the same time and Lux decided that this would be a good topic to keep the conversation on for a little longer.

"So how come you are close to Annie? Are you from the colony she comes from, this Grey Order?"

He shrugged. "No, though I've met a few of them and they seem like nice people."

"Then why?" Lux asked.

He looked back at her again, and Lux felt as if she was judged by some emerald fire in his eyes. Then he looked away again, and Lux was unsure if she had passed the test, until he started talking again.

"I met her on my first day here. She was alone in one of the gardens, crying. I wondered why a child would be alone like this in a place that was called the Institute of War. Then I saw her champion's batch and it was clear to me who she was. It took me a while to get her to talk, but finally she told me that her family couldn't come to visit during the holidays, because her little brother had fallen ill. She couldn't visit them either, because her parents didn't want to risk her getting ill as well."

Lux nodded. She knew Annie a little, well really everyone knew her. Most of the other champions were quite protective of the girl. Not so much if they faced her on the battlefield, because Annie was deadly even if you didn't underestimate her, but outside of it. For a child her age that lived away from her parents most of the year, she was usually upbeat. Lux had asked around a lot before she had found the reason why she was even here. She was too powerful, her magic too much for her body to properly contain. The League matches gave her an outlet to use up some of her magic, and at the same time the summoners of the institute had ways to control her power better than people at her home could.

Lux sometimes thought that there must be more reasons. The Institute, as she learned herself, wasn't an organisation that helped you for nothing in return. Lux suspected that the mages wanted a way to be able to control Annie, afraid of how powerful she might become when she grows up. But Lux didn't have proof of that and even if she had, Annie would still need the help of the people here to survive long enough to actually grow up.

She looked up when she noticed that the new guy's – Harry's – voice had fallen silent, and found him watching her with an amused expression. "Are you alright?" he asked, his voice suddenly gentle. She realised that she had drifted off in thought. "Yes, apologies. So what happened?" she asked, surprised that she found herself truly interested.

"Well, I talked to some of the administrators. I was told that while Annie can talk to her parents, she usually has to go to a summoner or higher in order for them to cast the spell. I thought it would be better for her to be able to talk to her parents without other people's help. There is a spell where I come from, if combined with a few runes on a pair of mirrors it can be used as a communication device. After a bit of haggling I was allowed to create the mirrors and give one to Annie and one to her parents." He explained.

Lux looked at him in awe. She would really like to learn more about the magic behind those mirrors he described. Maybe she could get him to show her sometime. Though probably it would be better not to ask him for secrets like this already. Mages could be very protective of their spells, herself included. So instead she asked "What do you mean, a bit of haggling?"

"Ah, certainly you have been here long enough to notice that the administration likes to have as much control as possible over this institution. Allowing a form of communication that they couldn't control or at least shut down if needed, like letters, was not exactly easy to get them to do." He said.

Lux had, indeed, already known that the Institute could be a little… overbearing. "So what did you have to give them in return?"

He looked towards her again for a few moments, which seemed to stretch to nearly a minute. Finally he shook his head, looking away. "Sorry, but that's a secret. I don't want it to be known."

Lux was about to promise that she wouldn't tell, but stopped herself. Why would he believe her? He had good reason not to tell her if he didn't want it to come out. So instead she said, "I understand." However, his refusal to talk about it made her think whatever it was, it was more than he was comfortable confessing. What could it have been that he had given the Institute?

A few more moments of silence, then Lux had the urge to say something else. "I'm sorry for earlier. I'm not usually a gossip." She looked up to him just in time to see him wave her apology away.

"Don't worry. I did after all kind of appear out of nothing, literally." Then he looked to the screen in the room. "Ah, the match is starting." That was the last thing any of them said for a couple of minutes, as they watched the screen.

Annie and her summoner were doing quite well for themselves. After waiting for Varus to get their enemies to 'low life' from a distance, Annie's summoner had flashed her a few metres towards the enemy team and Annie had drawn first blood against Katarina and had even gotten an additional 'kill' against Ashe, who had been caught in the cross fire. 'Kill' in these battle simulations was simulated by a shield surrounding the champion signalling that it had taken too much damage and the champion being taken out of the match for some amount of time fixed in the rules. It was a simulation of battle after all.

Anyway, since first blood the teams had gone back to harassing each other from a distance, as Katarina tried to avoid being caught of guard by Annie again. All champions and summoners seemed content with waiting the champions to unlock more of their strength before trying another fight. At the beginning of a battle, a lot of the powers of a champion were magically blocked, to even out the playing field and start small. With time, and by being close to 'kills' or dying minions, the champions could gain 'experience points' that would finally allow them to increase their level and unlock more of their powers.

Lux made a few sideway glances to her fellow champion, but he seemed transfixed by the match. Seemed being the keyword, as he suddenly started talking when she had just looked towards him again. "If you want to ask something, I can watch and talk at the same time."

At some point, Lux decided, she would stop getting embarrassed by this guy at every possible corner. Really, she had just wanted to find out how he reacted to Annie's performance. Now she had to come up with some question though, because not to have a question would be even more embarrassing now. As she couldn't come up with anything better, she settled for "So where did you come from?"

He briefly looked to her surprised, as if he hadn't expected that question. Then he looked back towards the screen. "You wouldn't recognise the name."

"Try me." Lux challenged, before she could remember her plan of not being embarrassed again.

"It is called Britain." Ah, Britain. Yep, never heard of that. Way to go Lux, you had to challenge him again, didn't you?

"You are right," she said dejectedly "I never heard of that. Is it in Valoran?"

Her companion chuckled. "Not so much, no." Lux didn't really enjoy being made fun of, but she figured she had kind of asked for it. As she looked up again she was surprised to find him looking at her carefully. Then he did something unexpected: he smiled. It was a nice, warm smile, Lux noted. "Look, don't worry, I think no one here would actually know the name or know where it is."

With that he turned back to the screen to watch the game and Lux found herself staring at the side of his face for a few more moments, surprised by the sudden show of kindness, before she also turned to watch again.

Another ten minutes, and both teams had taken the first tower of their opponents down. The screen signalled that Annie's summoner had the flash spell readied again and this time Annie had unlocked enough of her strength, to call forth her bear Tibbers as well. They were now obviously waiting for the right moment. There it was. Katarina had jumped out of the way of one of Varus' arrows, but that brought her close enough to Ashe to hit both of them with Tibbers. Annie flashed… and all hell broke lose. For the enemy team, that was.

Annie's team got another tower and the inhibitor out of that situation. They were doing really well right now. "She is quite good, isn't she?"

Lux turned around to Harry Potter to look at him, but he never looked away from the screen so she simply answered "Yes, she is."

Both watched the screen for a while longer. Nautilus got of a good engage on Varus, but other than taking him out of the game for half a minute, nothing much came of it for his team, due to Lulu's quick shielding and saving of Irelia. After that both teams went back to their previous wait and see game.

Lux thought it was a good time to talk a bit more. The guy was not as talkative as she usually liked her conversation partners, but he wasn't refusing conversation either. And if she found something he would actually talk about, Lux was sure he would have a few interesting stories to tell.

"So, can you tell me more about this Britain? Where is it?"

"It's an island that belongs to a continent called Europe."

Lux scrunched up her face. Sure, she was not very learned in topography of Runeterra beyond Valoran, but she was fairly sure that she would have heard of a continent called Europe. Finally she gave up and asked "Where does that lie?"

He turned around to her, a smile on his face. "On a planet called Earth."

Lux' eyes grew wide. "You come from another planet?"

He chuckled. "Another dimension actually, I think. But I don't know anything about the theory of different dimensions, so it could just be another planet."

Well, it wasn't the first time a being from a different dimension would come to Runeterra. Though usually most of them weren't… well, human to start with. Now Lux definitely wanted to know more. "So how did you come here, if you don't know anything about dimension travel?"

He seemed to think for a while, before he answered. "I was sent."

"Why?"

Again, he thought for a moment. "Fate."

Lux blinked a few times. "I don't understand." In her head, she added 'and really, what kind of answer was that?'

He turned back to the screen. "Yes, well, that makes two of us."

Lux waited for a few seconds, expecting some more to follow that, but when she understood that he would add nothing more, she asked instead. "So what do you want to do here?"

As he turned back to her, Lux flinched involuntarily, as he was back to his hard, eerily glowing eyes and his expressionless face. "Listen, it was nice talking to you, but I am here to watch the game. I already told you more than I should have. Sorry." With that he turned back to the screen and Lux understood that their conversation was over.

During the next five minutes, Annie's team managed to close of the game with the help of a few well placed arrows by Varus and another flash into Tibbers combo from Annie, leaving Irelia and Nunu to chase down the remaining enemies and clean up the fight. As the victory was pronounced, Lux' companion stood up, and went to leave the room. Lux thought she should try and do something to, well, make their parting less awkward. So she settled for "Hey, how about you join us for dinner later?"

He stopped and turned back around to her. "I'm sorry, but I don't want to get to know someone who wears a mask all the time. In my experience they are much more likely to stab you in the back than those who don't. Good day, Lady Lux."

With that he left, and all Lux could do was stare at the door as it fell shut, wondering whether she should be annoyed at his dismissal, relieved that she was spared another awkward conversation like that or worried about what exactly his parting words could mean.

I hope you enjoyed :) Just a few words on where I am continuing with this. This is probably going into the Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Romance direction. I gave Harry skills and such like the League Champions have, which is where the Phoenix tears and Basilisk poison come into play, as per the Challenge Rules. This happens in my current Chapter 3, where the first actual match is described. Together with some of his usual magic, i.e. stupefy and protego, he is going to be mostly a supporty champion, so as to not make him overly heroic, also as per the challenge rules.