Iriel's Imprisonment

Iriel joined Nemean Lion about a year ago now and has since been on his own doing low class jobs, like going and collecting certain items for clients, helping rebuild a village, escorting certain clients from one location to another. Since joining the guild he’s improved his skills to match some of the toughest opponents he’s ever faced. This most recent mission he was asked to go up into the mountains and collect an ancient magic item and bring it back to the guild for it to be put into a safe and guarded so it wouldn’t fall into the wrong hands. And so our story begins…………………………………..

Iriel arrived at the village right outside the mountains before nightfall and decided he’d set up for the night and get some dinner and rest up before his next day of travel and finding this magical item that he was supposed to find for the guild. Now that he was in the room he noticed a sushi place a few blocks and thought he’d try it out. The sushi was SOOOOO good that he decided he’d take some back to the hotel with him so that he’d have it for later instead of having to hunt for his food. All night Iriel knew that something was wrong, that he felt like he was being watched and he didn’t like it but he’d just let it slide for now. The next morning Iriel got an early start hiking his way up the mountain and it seems that this time he wasn’t being follow but was still on his toes. The cave was dark so he used the sunlight to guide his way till it could no longer be seen so he used his senses to find his way cause he feel a dark energy coming from deeper in the cave and just followed it. he got to the end of the cave or atleast as far as he could go and started feeling round the rocks and felt the caves start to shift and before he knew it the floor fell out from underneath him and he fell. He kept trying to grab onto the rocks when he finally did he was at the a bottom and just leapt down to where he saw a bright light and followed it. The cave led to a bigger opening that was like a tomb and at the other end of the cave was the dark purplish jewel that he was searching for and thought to himself "This is the all-powerful jewel that everyone's so afraid of? Oh well I'll just take it and go" so he grabbed a little knap sack and grabbed the jewel and headed back out of the cave and used his magic to get out to the top. Once he got out of the cave there was what looked like an army of rough looking mages outside of the cave, so he asked "can I help you guys??" and a tall looking mage with a strong magic aura resonating from him stepped up and said "we're here for a jewel  so we can give our master more strength" Iriel's facial expression didn't change but he responded "well good luck I just came out of there, camped all night, pretty cozy!" ans started to make his way through the group but the tall guy grabbed his arm and said "aren't you forgetting to give us something?" at that instant iriel felt all of his magic drain out of his body and got weak and said "no, I don’t have anything for you, what're you doing to me?!" The man smirked and said "im taking all of your magic out of you cause I knew you'd be a tough opponent for me if I didn't but now you have no magic and are virtually useless!" and that was the last thing Iriel remembered before he passed out.

When Iriel woke up he was in a cave with lots of light and could tell he was chained up to the side of the cave with his hands above his head but he wasn’t sure where he was. He could see the outline of an elderly man, bald and short, and said "you've been captured by group of outlawed mages that're looking for jewels in an underground maze in the south west corner of Fiore." Iriel getting his eyesight back adjusted to the light and said "so ive been out for a few days" and the older gentleman responded "yes you’ve been unconscious for 3-4 days, and ive been giving your body medicine so you can recover your magic." "it feels like I have no magic inside me at all" Iriel said looking at the black seals around his wrist. The man grimaced and said "they put seals around all of their prisoners wrists to block out magic and control them as well." After he said that 2 guards came to the door of the prison and said "time to go dig you two!!" and opened the door and let the two prisoners come out and go down the cave to a large opening with multiple prisoners with shovels and pickaxe's digging into the mountain. The two guards pushed the two prisoners onward and said "grab shovels and keep digging where you left off yesterday" so they both grabbed their tools and started digging and dug for hours on hours finding nothing but rubble. This went on for a few month's till one day the head jailer came and got both of them and dragged them to the top of the cave. At the top of the mountain there was a room that had multiple tubes with different glowing liquids in the middle was the Warden. He turned around facing the two new comers and said "well if it isn't our two new comers." Iriel looking at the tubes, relatively small, and then one large one, looked at the warden and asked "what the hell are these??" the warden smiled and said "these are the tubes of the magical powers of all of our prisoners" iriel looked at the largest tube and said "if these are tubes of our magical energy then whose tube is that?" pointing at the biggest one of them all and the warden smirked and said "why that is your magical energy." Shocked iriel couldn't believe that that was all of his magical power in one tube. Warden saw the look in his eye and smiled and said "I just wanted you to see this power once and for you to know that you'll never get this power back" and laughed as the old man and Iriel were taken back to their cells.