Soon enough we arrived in Ash town. Those poor innocent civilians... We followed the thug gang without them noticing us. I could easily hear them speaking from where I was. "I hope those kids don't come back for us."

"What the hell were they!? We've probably lost about half of our comrades!"

"Who cares about our comrades? They were too weak to handle those kids so they didn't deserve to be in our gang!"

"I guess you're right. Should we tell the boss about what's been going on?"

"If we end up going to the city I think we should."

"Yeah, I agree."

Did they say that their comrades didn't matter. I couldn't figure out who I hated more, the thugs our our client. They were tied at the moment. I didn't want to hate any of them. I didn't want to hate anyone, just like how I didn't want to feel so miserable. I wanted to be positive and loving and joyous! But, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't. What was wrong with me?

"Let's attack when they don't expect it," Lokni suggested. Miriza nodded her head in agreement.

"We shouldn't take all of them down here, we need some to lead us to the city so we can find their boss." We all agreed to Miriza's plan. When the gang of thugs were certain we weren't there, we decided to attack. We decided that only Miriza and Lokni should attack at first. The rest of us should only step in if necessary.

"LIGHTNING DRAGON ROAR!"

"SKY DRAGON WING ATTACK!"

"LIGHTNING DRAGON IRON FIST!"

"SKY DRAGON ROAR!" We'd mostly learnt the basic attacks for dragon slayer magic and we weren't as powerful as we could be if we trained harder, which was hard to believe. The one who trained the most out of all of us was Miriza so she had the most control over her attacks. Sadly, that did not help prevent Ash Town's fate... After they had attacked I could see what looked like a lightning storm with gale force winds which looked a lot like a twister... "Lilias!" Miriza yelled. Lilias then used her magic to hold down a few of the thugs trying to escape but purposely left some to free. She also held down the thugs already out of the fight left behind by their own comrades... "Xavier!" Miriza yelled pointing at our magic vehicle. I guess it was his turn to drive. I had a feeling that was not a good decision. I was surprised that the town wasn't left in ashes... I was almost upset that I hadn't been able to attack so I could leave the village in a pile of ash. I thought that would have happened because that was the name of the town. Why would I think of something so grim!?

Xavier drove past us and stopped abruptly for us all to climb in. "I don't think I can carry on using my magic like this..." Lilias said faintly. I guess using her magic and keeping those vines in place must have taken a great toll on her magic power. "Don't worry," Miriza said, "Xavier can use him ice magic to freeze them in place." Lilias smiled in gratitude. Xavier turned around. "Where are we going by the way?" he asked.

"EYES ON THE ROAD!" We all screamed in unison. Xavier turned to notice he was about to crash into a wall. He swerved away just in time but the side of the vehicle scraped to wall. That was property damage on our part... Xavier followed the thugs towards the city (as best as he could) which I think was called Sycamore city. Soon the thugs drove into the city with the five of in pursuit of them. They soon got out of their vehicles and walked town a dark alleyway and into what seemed like a club. We followed them down to the club. It exterior was really badly painted. It was dark and gloomy. The smell... I could smell it in such great detail all the rooting, all the smoke... We were just about to enter the awful place when we noticed a man blocking the doorway. "No kids." He spoke firmly, "Scram you rascals or I'll wring your necks!" We trudged back away from the club. "What a friendly guy!" I exclaimed. For once, I was looking at something in a positives manner. This is a good sign! "We should just attack the place if he doesn't let us in," Lokni suggested, "It's the only thing we can do right now." We all agreed. Then we all just attacked the place. No rules. We just attacked. Accept Lilias didn't attack because she was running low on magic energy. Honestly we all were. After we had all attacked the club twice there was nothing left of the building but all the people inside were all fine. All the people seemed to members of the thug gang. I noticed one was wearing a black suit and red tie. He must be their boss.

He stared at the five of us. We all stared back. "Are these the kids?" he asked. One of the thugs nodded. "So they're wizards? No wonder you had trouble since none of you are wizards yourselves. How many times have I told you that you should try learning magic?" I was curious as to why the thugs never fought back, I guess they couldn't really because they weren't wizards themselves. "Let me handle this," The boss smirked evilly, "I'm defeat these little punks in to time." I heard the hugs call out words of encouragement for their boss. "I use a type of magic called card magic!"

"That's the magic Cana uses!" Lilias exclaimed. The boss grinned. "Lets see you defeat me you puny kids!" The boss pulled out a card from his suit jacket. "Card magic, poison bullets!" From the card appeared a collection of small bullets made from poison, most likely poison magic. They seemed to be moving rather slowly. We were able to dodge them easily. It was our turn to attack now. We all gave it all we'd got (accept Lilias).

"FIRE DRAGON ROAR!"

"SKY DRAGON WING ATTACK!"

"ICE DRAGON IRON FIST!"

"LIGHTNING DRAGON ROAR!"

After the first attack, The boss was down. We may have overdone it a little bit. We didn't bother to look over the damage. The thugs who hadn't been caught up in the blast ran off as fast as they could. We ran after them while using all the attacks we could. Xavier would freeze all the thugs who were near enough. We intended to take out the entire gang but we were all running low on magic energy. Miriza began to consume the air. "Great idea Miriza!" I said. She'd be able to attack with a lot more force now. How were the rest of us going to find our element though? Lilias managed to find some grass growing from the cracks in the street to consume. I had no idea how Lokni, Xavier and I would find anything. It was a real pain not being able to consume our own magic...

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bolt of lightning strike a market building. Luckily, It was empty. It began to burn up in flames. Today was my lucky day! I ran over to consume the flames an then rejoined the chase. Even though we'd taken out most of the thugs there were still quite a few left. We spent the rest of that day chasing down, attacking and capturing the other thugs. When our job was over, I noticed the city. Everywhere I looked was rubble, frozen thugs, vine entangled thugs and just plain destruction. There was no building I could see standing in the whole place. "We'd better go back to Sir Lates's mansion." Lilias stated. If it still existed that was!