Chapter 1: Zodiac Master
Sitting in the center of a dark room the man struggled to untie his hands from the ropes binding him to his position. He shook and freed one hand and held it in front of his face. Being in the darkness for so long his eyes had adjusted to the dark. With a sigh he held his hand out and lit it aflame. Smiling at his success he used the fire to free his other hand before clenching his fist and putting out the flame. His escape was short lived as the door to the room opened flooding the room with light. He held his hand over his eyes to try and make out who entered the room but as soon as his eyes adjusted he was back in the darkness of the windowless, closed off, huge, death smelling, room. He tried to quicken his readjustment to the dark again but before he could he was struck in the jaw. The pain was more like a thousand tiny bees stinging in one spot before ultimately dying. Falling to the floor and clutching his jaw he held his hand up and yelled,
"Leo, bearer of the sun, come out!" A bright light lit the room and formed the shape of a boy. He had long blonde hair and wore a white robe that covered his lower body only. He looked around and then his glow grew brighter. The three in the room looked from one another then the boy asked,
"What is thy wish, master of the zodiac?" the boy fixed his eyes on the other man in the room, "shall I dispose of this one?"
"No no, I'll deal with him. I needed a light but I can't carry candles everywhere Leo." He smiled at the Leo who then frowned and turned away.
"Surely I am not just a candle to you am I master?"
"of course not Leo." He patted Leos head. "Now what do you guys want with me?"
The man grew tense when the Zodiac master and his summoning stared at him with hate filled eyes. "Mayze wants the power of the zodiac and he needs to extract it from you bit by bit." The man smiled and slammed his hand to the floor. "Now sit still while I take your magi away!" the ground began to rumble and the zodiac grabbed Leo before jumping back a great distance.
"Leo, try to hit him, but be careful he Is an earth Mage." Leo nodded and shrank into a small glowing orb. The orb flew at the earth mage and flew threw his stomach.
The rumble ceased and the earth mage stood up. A moment later he coughed up large amounts of blood and fell to the ground holding what use to be his stomach. He now had a large hole melted into him. Looking up at the zodiac, who was now smiling he coughed his last cough and his body fell limp. Zodiac sighed.
"Leo return home." Leo nodded and disappeared. The room fell black again and the zodiac raised his hand in a direction. Releasing a large amount of energy from his palm, he blasted a hole in the wall leading to the outside world.
He stepped out into the sunlight and smiled. Taking a deep breath he looked from right to left and started walking. He didn't care where as long as he was out of that cell. Once on the side walk he looked at all the people walking by. In the distance he heard a siren. He smiled and looked up to the sun thinking 'it is good to be free.'