Our combined magic power struck Raina. The water dragon was sent flying back - straight into a tree. Our magical power combined looked ever so pretty. There were reds, blues, greens and yellows - along with many more! So this was the power of the dragon slayer? I could feel that all of my magic was gone now, my dragon force fading away. Exhaustion swept over me. I stumbled forwards towards both Raina and Avera. Defeated. The others followed close behind me. Raina opened her dark sea blue eyes which stared at me - without expression. "I'm defeated." She stated, as if trying to understand the fact. I held out my hand. Her pale fingers interlocked with mine and I pulled her upwards into a sitting position. Slowly, she crawled over towards Avera who lay upon the ground. She scooped up the exceed and held her tight in her arms. "Why did you do this to her?" Raina stared daggers at me. I sighed.

"A war is a war," I looked down, "We have to fight all of those who stand against us. Those who fight us have to be fought back..." I managed to look up at Raina. A small tear glided across her pale porcelain cheek. "Wars are stupid," she muttered bitterly, "Grimoire came here to find Zeref. We would destroy your guild in the process. I only came here to find Levy." Raina sighed. "It wasn't worth all this though." Silence echoed throughout the dancing trees. I gazed across the flooded ruins of the Red Lizard guild. "You should really dry this water up." I spoke. Raina nodded. "I've never heard of the Red Lizard guild." Raina spoke coldly, "But I guess it's a part of ancient history or something. I have just enough magic power to dry it up."

Once the flood was gone there was silence again. "We'd better go and try find where camp is," Lokni stated, "Altair will you be able to carry me?" Oh. That was right. The exceeds. Lilias was hugging Candy as Altair stood beside Lokni. Melody was on Miriza's shoulder. The two were chatting away. That was when I realised: Viper and Bluebell were know where in sight. Where could they be? Swiftly, I ran over to the tree where I had left the exceeds. They couldn't be still there right? It was still dark so I ended up tripping over a tree root. Ignoring the pain, I stumbled the last few steps towards the tree. He must have sensed what I was up to, as Xavier was right beside me. "So they're not here either..." he muttered - I nodded. Just at that moment, I heard a rusting a little further on. At that same moment I had caught the two exceeds scent, despite it being faint (due to the island's strange smell). I was starting to get used to the scents on Tenrou now, which allowed me to track more recent scents. The two exceeds must have both been here recently.

We found them both in a clearing. Bluebell was charging towards Viper. It didn't look like Viper would have enough time to dodge. He was somehow able to do so though. "I knew you would do that!" Bluebell yelled as she attacked Viper. Just before her attack could hit though... "What on earth are you two doing?" Xavier asked. The two exceeds seemed to notice our presence.

"We're training" was Viper's reply.

"Practicing our magic," was Bluebell's. From that I guessed that their training before we had set off for Tenrou had something to do with learning magic. So it was possible for exceeds to learn magic... "Why are you even on the island?" Xavier asked the two of them, "I though you said that you weren't able to come 'cause of training stuff."

"We over heard Carla talking to Lily about a vision she had about there being trouble at the island, along with other problems." Bluebell answered, "We decided to come along with them because we were worried." That made sense now.

We walked back over to the others to discuss the situation. While we were gone, Miriza had just enough magic energy to heal Avera (after what I had done to her). That made me feel even more guilty. It was also decided that we would be taking Raina and Avera back with us as prisoners of war - though I suspected that it was more to do with the fact that she seemed to be an OK person if you looked over the fact that she was intent on killing Levy... The exceeds flew all of us up. We flew in a formation so that Raina and Avera would be in the center and unable to escape. Bluebell and I were to the right, Xavier and Viper were to the left. Miriza and Melody were at the front while Lilias, Candy, Lokni and Altair kept an eye on things from the back. It was dark when we made it back to the base. Truthfully, we landed outside of the base. But since Levy would probably be there, We tied Raina and Avera to a tree. Not to mention we knocked them out so that they wouldn't break free. We weren't going to stand guard by them all night! We were tired...

When we met up with the others, we were informed by Levy that Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Wendy, Carla and Lily had all gone to go and defeat master Hades - who had previously defeated Makarov... The odds weren't looking good there. We still hadn't seen any sign of Erza, Gray or Juvia... In return we told Levy all about what happened with Raina. "I see..." Levy murmured after hearing the news, "I should really stay away from that part of the forest then... Are you sure she won't wake up?"

"I'm sure!" Lokni interrupted, "Especially not after how hard we whacked them both on the head!"

"Have you seen Xavier?" Miriza asked.

"He went to go and check on the prisoners before we went to sleep," Lokni yawned in answer to her question. Why did he go to do that? At that moment I couldn't care less... What I needed now was a good long sleep... I was exhausted from everything that had happened today anyway...