Ok, next chapter! So last time the three Trimen managed to break into what they think is an 'old castle ruin' in the West Woodsy, they suspect it is a dark guild, well, they aren't that far off the mark!

The Blue Pegasus wizards Ren, Hibiki, and Eve moved silently through the halls of the castle.

"Guys, this place is really well kept up, it's definitely a got some residents."

Hibiki pointed out, noted how even the thin dark wood table holding an intricate carving of a roaring dragon, both pieces made of solid wood, were polished to a shine in the dim light of the corridor.

"Weird, normally dark guilds aren't to worried about polishing their wooden furniture." Eve murmured as they passed by.

"Where should we go now?" The snow mage than chose to ask.

Hibiki furrowed his brow as he thought.

"Well, we need to find something to prove their existence. Something incriminating to prove that their a dark guild. If possible, we need to find the library, or where ever the files of this place would be stored."
Ren straightened his jacket and than ran a hand through his jet black locks of hair.

"Not sure if it's gonna be that easy, we need to stay quite, and for all we know their could be a trap spell waiting just around the corner."

Eve shuddered, "And the magic power in this place is way scary. It's so powerful but...it's not dark, am I the only one who's feeling that?"

Hibiki nodded to his snow wielding comrade, "I feel it to, Eve. It's worrying me, but still, if they were a light guild, why would they be hiding in a castle in the middle of a forest known for it's mystery and monsters? Not to mention darkness, after that whole Nirvana incident." Hibiki stated in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

Eve and Ren both nodded back to the archive mage, "That's true, but that doesn't stop me from worrying." The young blonde said, straightening his tie, the movement was only to do something with his restless hands.

Hibiki found himself beginning to worry about Eve. The snow mage had been acting up a lot lately, his fear in the woods, his sense of wrongness about them entering the castle. Perhaps Eve was sensing something that the present archive and wind mages had missed?

They weren't that much farther down the hall when suddenly, a looming shadow appeared at the end, growing up the wall as the person drew closer.

The trio froze in their tiptoeing footsteps, staring in horror at the giant dark figure on the wall.

"I-I-It's one of the dark guild w-wizards!" Eve choked out.

"We broke into his guild hall! If he catches us he'll kill us!" Hibiki hissed.

"Look at that shadow the thing can't be human!" Ren spoke out.

"Run!" Hibiki whisper-screamed.

Ren took off back down the hall they'd just come down, Hibiki took a door to their right, and Eve rocketed off down the corridor to their left.

A few moments later the shadow shrank down as the light behind him slipped down his frame, the figure turned the corner.

Happy rubbed his eye sleepily as he glanced around.

"Weird...I could'a sworn I heard someone talking down here." The exceed grumbled as he adjusted his green nightcap, his only pajama's.

"Oh well, guess I was wrong, while I'm up I may as well go the kitchen and get a snack...fish sounds nice." The tiny blue feline murmured, now rubbing his tummy as he spun on his heel, his green Draconem Heart mark visible, for he wasn't wearing a backpack, and went back the way he came, his little paws making soft padding sounds as they disappeared back down the hall.

In a nearby hallway, near the Dragon's Hangout.

Hibiki gasped for breath as he finally stopped in his frantic sprint.

The archive mage leaned heavily on his knees as his chest heaved to regain the air he'd lost in the run.

I-I...really need to work out.

The dark blonde mage thought as he panted.

When he finally caught his breath he moved forward and began to think of some sort of game plan.

Luckily Eve had the bright idea to make us all wear communication lacrima watches, since using my telepathy to patch us together gives off magic power and could make me an easy target, and make me easy to track if these mages are good enough. I don't get it, though, I've been extending my power every direction and yet I can't feel any negative magic power whatsoever. I feel so many energies, but not a single one is comprised of black power.

'Hundred Nights' Hibiki found a large double door bound with three sets of thick iron rings, moving quickly, he pulled up an archive screen and started searching for signs of life in the room within.

When his search turned up to show no one was inside, Hibiki carefully pushed one of the doors open, slipped inside, and shut the door lightly behind him.

He turned and craned his neck to see moonlight pouring in through several skylights and a row of windows to the back of the room.

This one room is as big as our entire guild hall...

Hibiki thought in awe, the room was filled with tables and a bar, clearly used for serving food of massive portions to massive groups of people.

I never knew a dark guild could be so self sufficient.

Hibiki's mind whirred at a mile a minute as he allowed his eyes to slide from one end of the room to the other, taking in the stage and the bar barely visibly on the second floor from his current vantage at the front of the hangout, near the door. A flash of color caught his eye, and he snapped his head to the left to see a portrait of someone donning green's, gold's, and blue's. He moved closer, the portrait was next to the stairs to that lead to the second level, the Blue Pegasus man took one look at the picture and froze.

Blue hair fanned out behind her, wearing one of her ethnic blue and gold colored dresses, with a thick gold collar holding it up around her neck, her chocolate brown eyes wide, the sparkling in them amazing captured by the paint and ink, a smile lighting up her round young face.

"Wendy?" Hibiki was confused beyond belief as he stared at the portrait of Wendy Marvell, he'd worked with the girl before and knew without a doubt that it was her.

Why would they have a portrait of Wendy?

Hibiki thought confusedly, turning the scan the other wall.

A portrait of a guy with brown hair dressed in earthy colors, onyx black eyes and a peace sign on his shirt, his figure in front of a backdrop of rock pillar's, giving a hint to his magic, hung opposite of Wendy's image. Next to it was one of a girl dressed in mellow golds and greens, with a large bow in her hair, she stood in front of a wall of vines and flowers, her very stance showing her timidness and soft-spoken personality. He looked up the stairs, and was surprised to see another person he recognized at the top of the stairs.

M-Meredy!?

Hibiki stumbled back against one of the tables in the large hall, leaning on it for support as his mind struggled to take this all in.

Portraits of Wendy and Meredy. Dragon carvings and intense magic power. Incredible protection spells that even I barely managed to crack. Does that mean...is this...?

He glanced over his shoulder, and his eyes went wide and started shaking.

He stared up at the portrait of all the members of the guild, with the exceeds swooping above them, standing proud under the arc and looking happy within the castles shadow.

Hibiki raised his eyes to see the mark, of the dragon roaring up into the heavens, wings spread out wide. The mark spun of gold thread and the rest of the banner in green, with golden tassels hang down from the angled edged bottom.

Hibiki swallowed as he realized just what guild he'd broken into.

"D-Draconem Heart."

Honestly, it's kinda sad they didn't figure it out sooner. Well, how will things go for our hapless heroes now? We'll soon see! Please favorite, please follow, please review! Thanks for reading everyone!