My Beginning After the End Downfall

Prisoners

Melody Tremaine

I was walking through the tunnels with Cassandra, the two of us were going to the dungeon to prepare the prisoners, the mind slave spell that Virion is working on, is pretty much done. The seven people in the pit will be turned to our side, and it will make our army even stronger.

"I do hate Circe." Cassandra said as we made it to the second set of stairs that led down to another level of rooms. "She is always bitchy because she is an Alacryan, she is only alive because Virion didn't want to kill her, which does confuse me."

"It was because of her powers." I told her. "She is able to detect mana usage and form some sort of beacon, I know at the time, Virion couldn't absorb powers, so now, I guess he could kill her." Cassandra nodded her head as we descended down, there weren't a lot of stairs, so it only took us about a minute or two.

"I'm happy their auras and mana output are restricted down here because of Virion's blood magic and the pits, because I don't know how we would be able to walk towards them without being afraid." Cassandra said, she was right, there were a decent amount of Vritras, so their auras were very dark when not dealt with.

"Yeah." I said as two people came into view, it was Circe and a clone of Virion.

"Here they are." Virion said, looking between Cassandra and me. "I believe all of them are in okay states, being thrown into a pit for weeks does a number on your body though." We all nodded, but I could see the look of annoyance on Circe's face, but Virion didn't seem to care.

"We'll check on them." I spoke up, we were merely here to make sure Virion didn't kill them, we were like a second set of eyes to make sure he wasn't doing anything he shouldn't be doing.

"Follow me." Circe spoke up to us as she turned toward the dungeon, Virion gave us a smile and Cassandra and I followed the Alacryan. "All of them are okay like Virion said, but I'll show you each one if you want."

"Please do." Cassandra said, and we stopped in front of the first pit, it was a square cell that Virion carved into the ground, and it had black spikes as cell bars. "Looks like Mawar is in a good state, better than the first time I saw her, she was torn apart by Lance Aya."

"Yeah." Circe said as we looked down into the hole, looking up at us with a look of hatred was Mawar, she was wearing a mana collar, the same battle robes she had on when we first captured her, they were torn apart and dirty. "I can deactivate the sound barriers around the cell if you want."

"No, it's fine." I answered, Virion has sound barriers inside of the cell so they couldn't speak or hear us speaking, I figured he was more worried about Circe talking with them, but she still had control over it. "We have nine prisoners, right?"

"Yes." Circe said with a head nod. "Are we good here?" No one said anything so she started walking to the next pit, which was about ten yards from this one, they went in a straight line down the tunnel, leaving gabs in the sides. "Next up is Scythe Melzri."

Below us was the white-haired Scythe who was wearing a black and white dress, but it was covered in dirt, her eyes looked to be blood shot from something, she was the most recent prisoner, I think. "Why are her eyes so red?"

"She is still recovering after Virion knocked her out." Circe responded, I forgot, he took her down when the dragons were attacking and replaced her with a clone, I knew that, but he did leave her in a bad state for a while. "Virion hasn't really used any healing methods on her, but she should be fine."

"Oh, okay." I said, Cassandra backed up, looking on to the next person. "I'm assuming Viessa is in the same state, she was beaten down and left to rot in the cell without being healed too much."