It was late at night and Ayumi was sleeping by my side, like she has for the past week she's been with me. I think I have the worse bad luck because let's just say at the moment I am surrounded by a bunch bandits covered in skulls and bones. I slowly got up trying to not wake Ayumi and used a hand signal to talk over to an area where Ayumi couldn't hear us. "Hey you little fuck, what did you do to Manaj?" said a smaller apprentice bandit, I looked at them then sat on a rock and said "I honestly have no idea who Manaj, but if he used a dragon killer sword a man named Iori killed him."

As I said that name Iori everyone first quivered in fear, then the weaker bandit said "The stories are true he's out to kill us skull bandits. We shouldn't have killed him." A stronger looking bandit smacked the smaller weaker bandit and screamed to also reassure all the other bandits, "Don't get ahead of yourself, our great leader Khino had killed Iori a long time ago. Iori can't be alive you are all just freaking out, Isn't it obvious this little fuck killed Manaj." Ryu just sat on top of the rock still pretty tired and then pulled out his knife, as he pulled out his knife the other bandits their weapons closer to Ryu. Ryu yawned and said, "I honestly don't know who Manaj is or who Iori or any other pieces of shit you have to tell me about, all I know is that I'm tired of this. All I want to do is kill the council of mages and revenge my parents death, so all of you fuck off!"

As Ryu had said those words all the bandits looked together and then ambushed Ryu tieing him up and causing him to pass out. While his consciousness was coming back to him, he saw the Black magic master of the council in front of him talking, "So this is the guy... strong power... but... he lacks... anyways...KILL HIM" Ryu could barely make out the conversation and soon passed out again. Waking up in a daze inside a damp cavern prison cell, this is were a new member shall join Ryu quest. A sharp dressed man although now looking a little rugged from not shaving from what it seems countless days sat across from Ryu, the man wore a leather vest that looked liked it barely fit him and had a pair of very thin pants that carried all his tools. His mesh was cut and all his armor was gone although he looked like a gentle man his eyes told a different more bloody story.

The man asked me, "Hey what are you doing here? Why did the bandits lock you up?" Ryu got up from his place and and said to the mysterious man, "Oh so this is where I am, the bandits must have gotten me. Well to answer your question they think I killed Manaj and that I am conspiring with this Iori guy but honestly he just randomely came up and helped me." The mysterious man was startled when I said the name Iori and walked up to Ryu and said in a strange yet punctual manner, "Iori... he was my brother, everyone thinks he's dead because of his encounter with the mages, but I still think he is alive out there. My brother he was so dumb thinking he could kill the Black mage master all by himself, how dumb could he have been to even think such bullshit like that? He was such a fool even as a kid, pisses me off alot." Ryu stood up and said in a defensive manner, "I don't know if your brother Iori and the Iori that saved me was the same person but he did tell me, not to take on the Mage Masters, although I didn't want to listen to him I think he might have been your brother. Still I'm not gonna let anyone change my opinion I'm still gonna fight them, because those bastards got away with so much once they became famous that no one even dares to rebel against them."

Both Ryu and the mysterious man looked at each other for a while then the mysterious man put out his hand and told Ryu, "Ryu was it, my name is Kazuki, Kazuki Migami. Now for the moment I'll join up with you just so we can get out of here and I guess if you really want me to I can accompany you for a while until I get to the continent of Islamortar." Ryu shook his head in acceptance and said acceptingly but with some content to have someone else join him in his journey, "Thanks Kazuki, but before we get the hell out of here we got to find my friend Ayumi, she was with me before I was captured and I'm sure they took her too." Kazuki nodded and then Ryu and Kazuki looked around for anything they could use to get out of the prison cell, and there sat the guard sleeping like all of them in these type of situations, so Ryu took this advantage to use his magic to teleport the keys from the guard to the holding cell's lock.

Kazuki quickly slipped out of the gate to look around for other guards while Ryu quickly cast sleep on the gaurd and grab both Kazuki and himself equipment from the shelf, and the two of them started to head out keeping a low profile from all the bandits in the area. As they had left the cell room there was an onimous feeling beyond their own liking, a feeling of death and pain which would soon approach Ryu and his past. Only after a few days of leaving his home with D, Ryu felt a little sad his heart ached with a pain in which he could not describe, a pain in which he could not escape. Many thoughts peered through Ryu mind, the thoughts of Ayumi and his feelings for her, Kazuki a man he wasn ot sure he could trust but had come to a liking to, Iori a mysterious man in which Ryu seeked answers from, Khino the leader of the skull bandits who was this man and what powers did he have, and finally the black mage master the most devious, devilish mage of them all. In Ryu mind he kept on thinking if he becomes devious and more devilish then the black mage master could he be able to beat him or will he just need immense strength and skill to teach him the power in which he had soon lost.

Ryu and Kazuki had started on their escape from the skull bandits lair, in search of Ayumi and their own freedom. What else was waiting for them in this lair of bandits, Khino, the leader of the bandits was a man of power and destruction in which he used others to complete his task for world domination, but what is the real secret to his powers could he be someones pawn or is his strength real.