The Prisons of Magic

## Synopsis

Toby Parker is a 13 year old boy who lives in south London, in a suburbs known as Lower Brixton - a very quaint place, never much trouble there. His life was rather uneventful and he was perfectly happy with that. One day, a month before Halloween, he found a box in his front yard, buried under an apple tree. He dug it up and pried it open, finding a twig, a book, and a silver whistle, which, once he blew it, summoned a man known as and only as Doctor Anthony Crow.

Stumbling out from the wreckage of his funeral hearse, this "Doctor Crow" announced that the boy was a Warlock, and that his training would soon commence. Regardless of his mother's protests and his own reluctance to believe the man, Toby Parker followed through with the strange things Doctor Crow would tell him, about magic, monsters, and tales of Elves and Dwarfs. Approximately one week after the beginning of the peculiar apprenticeship, Doctor Crow took the boy to a place called the Rotting Goblin, an underground pub where every patron had a criminal record or a weapon.

At the Rotting Goblin, Toby met a girl named Juniper Rose, a sarcastic Warlock around his own age who really quite disliked the boy's presence. After Doctor Crow offered his apprentice the Prisons of Magic (a jar that contained the Sprites of Magic, essentially the governing entities that controlled each of the eight branches of the Mist) and Toby dropped it, the Sprites escaped the prisons and flew away as quickly as possible. While Juniper was able to capture the Sprite of Water (*Aqua*) as it tried to escape, she still only offered assistance for the price of 20 quid. While reluctant, Toby gave her the money and they left to chase after the other Sprites, in the following order:

* The Sprite of Water (*Aqua*): Located in the Rotting Goblin; caught first
* The Sprite of Time (*Tempus*): Located in Elizabeth Tower's highest point, at Big Ben
* The Sprite of Fire (*Ignis*): Located at Quillcrock Middle School
* The Sprite of Earth (*Terra*): Located at the famed Stonehenge
* The Sprite of Air (*Atmosphaera*): Located on the London Eye
* The Sprite of Life (*Vita*): Located at the Winchester Cathedral
* The Sprite of Shadow (*Umbra*): Located at the Hickson Cemetery
* The Sprite of Magic (*Magia*): Located at Hexmore Square, in the library great room

### The Sprite of Water

Caught in the Rotting Goblin by Juniper Rose on it's way out - frozen in place by a centralized time freeze hex and easily caught before it could make much effort to flee.

### The Sprite of Time

After following the Sprite of Time through the busy London downtown for some time, it led Toby, Doctor Crow, and Juniper directly to Elizabeth Tower, forcing them to scale its face and enter the booming clock face of the spire. While Juniper easily warped to the top, Doctor Crow and Toby were effected by the Sprite's control of time and flung askew to a nearby rooftop, and after two more tries, teleportation proved worthless. So they climbed the side, as any logical Warlock would, entered through a side door, cornered and caught the Sprite, and hurled themselves back out the window in pursuit of the next Sprite.

### The Sprite of Fire

After an interesting visit on Halloween night from a Goblin who called himself Squeeve, Toby was informed that Quillcrock Middle School was in flames, and could see it was true from his own bedroom window. Summoning his mentor with his whistle and finding Juniper along the way, they broke into Quillcrock (where they met Fitz Wood, the school bully, who Toby ushered out regardless) and used a fire extinguisher to weaken the Sprite of Fire and catch it.

### The Sprite of Earth

Toby was invited to Juniper Rose's home shortly after the capture of Ignus, the Sprite of Fire - there, he met her stepfather James Pettimoore and her sister, Gabrielle Rose. He spent the night there, feeling welcomed there by her family, when James Pettimoore approached him with a sword and asked if he could help with something on the property - because of his "powerful blood". So, Toby Parker fought the giant spider Moldercreep in a cave not far away, and discovered where the Sprite of Earth - Terra - was located: Stonehenge. He and Juniper went there, and albeit there was a good deal of dizziness and wounds that followed the battle, they emerged victorious with the Sprite of Earth in their possession.

### The Sprite of Air

After returning home with the Sprite of Earth and had his wounds treated by his mother and mentor, Toby had a brief dream in which he was visited by Mistress Minerva Creed, the Warlock who they were racing for the Sprites but had never met - she was beautiful, but in a dramatic and almost dead way. Dark eyeliner, harsh blush, ruby red lips. They exchanged few words and Toby woke with a serpent symbol burnt onto his wrist. Following the dream they discovered where the Sprite of Air was located via multiple reports on the news of storms and bouts of violent torrents around the Thames - and specifically, the London Eye.

Sneaking past authorities with an invisibility concoction of Juniper's making, the trio snuck through, reversed gravity, and rode the underside of the Ferris wheel to the top where they found and caught the Sprite of Air, all the while allowing Doctor Crow to show off his impressive upside-down dance moves.

### The Sprite of Life

With his other friends unavailable to aid at the time, Toby Parker and Mossbottom (the bartender from the Rotting Goblin) went to the Winchester Cathedral to find the Sprite of Life. It floated loftily in the middle of the cathedral, rather unmoving - the battle was brief and ended swiftly when Toby extended his arms by a good seven feet and caught the slow Sprite. As he and Mossbottom celebrated the easy victory, they were forced to hide behind a pillar when a woman in a black gown and a Goblin glided into the cathedral searching for the Sprite. Toby and Mossbottom snuck out as quickly as possible, after overhearing her announce the location of the Sprite of Shadow.

### The Sprite of Shadow

The Sprite of Shadow was found at Hickson Cemetery, an old facility in east London where many Warlocks had been buried in a haste after the Great War's end. Toby forced his tired mentor to drive him there, and while Doctor Crow fell asleep at the wheel at some point around half-way there, Toby walked the rest of the way, hopped the fence, and went for the Sprite of Shadow. While it summoned horses of undead, Toby also discovered he was capable of doing a roundhouse kick, which he thought was pretty impressive, and fought the remaining off using fire and lightning and caught the Sprite - although he left his left shoe in the process.

### The Sprite of Magic

The Sprite of Magic was found at the Hexmore Square library, where Toby, Doctor Crow, Juniper, and Mossbottom went in search of it. There, in the library great room, they met Mistress Creed and Squeeve, her traitorous henchman who had been relaying Toby's location back the whole time. They spoke for a moment, constantly glancing back at the Sprite of Magic which floated not far away, before springing into fast-paced combat. Doctor Crow took the left side, Juniper took the right, while Toby confronted Mistress Creed head-on in a bolt firefight. Mossbottom crushed Squeeve under a bookcase in the background, swiftly and efficiently outing him from the fight.

After Doctor Crow was struck by a stray bolt of lightning from Mistress Creed, Juniper distracted her with an explosive fireball across the room and Toby went to strike her in the back - he whirled his wand into a reverse grip, ejected the blade attachment, and plunged it through Mistress Creed's back and into her heart, killing her. She dropped wordlessly to her knees, and then onto the creaking wooden floor as Toby cupped the delicate Sprite of Magic in his hands, placing it back into its proper jar.