Strion: War of the Realms

Chapter 4: Jailed

 We're dragged into a cell and thrown hard against the wall. I lay for a minute and watch as the guards leave the room.

"Fuck... They took my sword..." I groan before getting up. I take a look around and I see I'm alone in the cell, there is water seeping in through cracks in the wall. The bars look flimsy so I attempt to grab one.

As soon as my hand touches the bar I let out a scream of agony, my hand is burning and the magic is searing the flesh off of my hand. I fall backwards on the hard stone floor.  

"Holy shit!" I yell at the burning sensation of my hand, I check my hand and see a mark.  This mark is black and flowing, it's one of a dragon eating its tail, the symbol of Elven prisoners.  "Why... Why has this happened, What have I done?"

I sit and listen from the back corner of my cell.  I hear the moans of other prisoners and a voice.  A voice I've heard once before but I can't put a face to it.  

"Zinio... Listen...," The voice says, it is a woman's voice, soft and peaceful. "You are in danger here... But someone... Is coming for you..." 

"What do you mean someone is coming for me?" I ask the voice.

"An old friend... But something greater too... Something evil...," all of a sudden the sound of footsteps begins approaching.  "Oh no... They're coming... Protect yourself... You'll be safe soon..."

"Wait don't go!" I yell at the voice, but it has already left me.  Other prisoners look at me with interest through the powerful bars of their cells.  "Did no one else hear her?"

"There was no one talking, you mutant piece of shit!" A prisoner yells towards me.

No one talking... But I heard her... She was speaking to me, but I don't know how, nor do I know who she is.  A guard approaches my cell with his sword in hand and he stares directly at me and I see something I haven't seen in years, his hand has the mark of a Pit Commander, the same one that assaulted my village.  

He opens the door to my cage and rushes at me swinging his sword. I dodge him, he's swinging heavily with the intent to kill.  He swings again and I dodge but he swings fat again and slashes my stomach, I fall to the ground holding my stomach as blood runs down onto the floor.  He gets close for the finishing blow, but as he starts his swing its as all time slows down.  I manage to get up and walk a few feet away.  His swing is finally completed and time returns to its normal speed. 

To him I appear to have warped across the room and he has a confused look. He charges at me and I jump over him but he slashes from my cheek to my eye. I cover my eye as blood gushes out. All of a sudden Blue flames come out of no where and I grab him, he disintegrates imminently upon contact. I fall to my knees and look out my door at the woman from seven years ago, in my village. She points to the entrance of outside my cell.

Someone is running out there, they turn around to cast a massive burst of dark magic at the steadily approaching guards. They are wearing a rugged cloak, wielding a sword... my sword and a staff is on their back. They have a tail sticking out from beneath their cloak, with fur as dark as night. They seem strongly built but very smart to cast magic such as the dark energy from earlier. I see a glint of armor.

Enereous disappears in a flash of bright purple light. The person who used the dark magic on the guards approached my cell and cast a powerful spell on it which threw me into the wall. I look at them after the dust clears.

"Zinio, on your feet now," they commanded. I get up following their commands, they throw me my sword and then remove their hood. Shock fills me as I realize who it is. It's Karou the person I saved all those years ago in the village. "Come on and move it we don't have much time. They're coming!"

"We need to get Zeno, Asher and my two new friends Dante and Kenshi." I tell them, they reluctantly agree to save my friends and we dash out of the cell to run into the next block. The approaching guards get blasted away by Karou and we keep running.

We find their cell, and Karou blasts through it and they come rushing out of the cell. "I may not like to say it, but thank ya for yar 'elp elf... Who's this pretty little lass 'ere" says Dante before Karou knocks him out cold with one kick right to the head.

Kenshi picks up Dante obviously struggling with the weight but he manages to get a strong grip on him.   We run out into the nearby yard and their strongest guards surround us,  Karou and I grab out weapons and begin fighting them close combat, for every one we knock out we seem to get stronger and faster with each swing.  We quickly overpower them and manage to get to the gate of the prison where the most formidible opponent now resides.