Sjora was just another child with big dreams in the massive city of Paragon. She had once seen a Hero, but instead of dreaming of being like that Hero, she dreamt of how to help them. Before long she was at the library every day. In her youth she loved to read and learn and as a little girl she excelled past other children in school.
Sjoras life changed radically though when her parents were killed by men in robes kidnapped her. The men took her to a secretive hideout for the Circle of Thorns Wizards. They had taken hundreds of other girls with a wicked plan, all of the girls were brainwashed to believe the city leaders were against them. They were taught how to hate everyone, including heroes. The Wizards picked gifted girls for one reason, to train them into Witches, Crones and Sorcerers for a special day of attack on the City of Heroes, Halloween.
Years later hundreds of Heroes were called upon to help the city stop an evil infestation. Many buildings were being terrorized and haunted by spirits, zombies and wicked women. There was only one-way to draw out the evil from the buildings, by using Trick or Treat.
Sjora was no longer known by her name by the time of Halloween in Paragon. She was a Sorceress in charge of undead minions and spirits. She was a confused, angry woman who had learned how to use her gifts for evil and death instead of helping Heroes. So often she wanted to escape the madness around her, but she was pressured by the Wizards, evil spirits and her Witch sisters. She felt so sorry for all the girls who were in the same situation as her but she also knew not one of them was able to help her, they were all so filled with hate for Paragon by now. Sjora was prepared to die and fight the heroes
or was she?
She was with a Witch and a spirit controlling a building on the cities north side. Suddenly, by a power greater than hers, Sjora and the others were forced outside the doors by a knock. Suddenly Sjora was faced with determined Heroes set on destroying her to free the building. This was her first time facing Heroes; she had no idea that hundreds of the other women were facing the same fate. Her time had come, she was trained to kill Heroes, it was kill or die now.
Her entire heart and mind cried run away but her pride and hate demanded she stay and fight. She began to cast her icy spells and the Witch next to her did the same as they scrambled to fight the Heroes. Everything happened so fast, one towering man heaved an Axe that cut the spirit down, another massive dark woman with a pony tail fired ice from her hands into the doomed Witch. Then there was the small woman with the power to control minds, she pointed at Sjora and suddenly all of Sjoras fears and nightmares of the past twenty years tormented her in an instant. She could do nothing and only dropped to her knees, holding her head and crying out in pain.
Louvox was a dark skin Hero with a long single ponytail of black hair cascading from her otherwise bald head. She was a perfectly built woman with incredible powers. Louvox looked at the Sorceress dressed in red crying on her knees and it hit a soft spot in her heart. She stopped the other Heroes from killing the Sorceress and instead tied her up. After the mental chaos ceased in Sjoras mind, she awoke inside a clean, comfortable hospital. It was like nothing she had seen in so long, something clean, a warm place that was safe, it brought back memories of home. Louvox and the other Heroes looked down on Sjora, whose skin was no longer normal but a pale blue from all of the evil spells cast on her for years. She was a creature of magic now and nothing like the girl she once was. She contained great powers of ice and storms and knew so much of magic from her times with the Wizards.
Louvox gave Sjora a choice, she could choose to help the Heroes and change her life or she could be destroyed like all the other wicked women that night. After more tears and more battles with the hate inside her, she chose to live. Sjora decided to realize her dreams of youth, to help the Heroes with her own powers. Now she had realized one dream, her new dream was to get revenge and destroy those men who were responsible for her parents death and the death of so many innocent girls they stole years ago. The Wizards who changed her mind, body and heart to evil, they would pay dearly now. The City of Heroes welcomed the Ex Sorceress with open arms as a new helper in the fight against evil.
((Sjora, named Ex Sorceress, is played on the Pinnacle server Atlas Park. She was started on October 31 after I Trick or Treated with another Character (Widow Makers) and saw a sorceress in red and thought it would be a fun story idea.))
