Well, Ren is on a mission impossible type quest to free his friends while dodges the members of an angry and sleep deprived Draconem Heart guild! Good luck Ren! (I doubt it'll help you any)
Ren's arms pumped at a steady rhythm, his breaths coming in short pants as he ran around the corner. This entire place was a maze of stone hallways and gothic arches, black wood floors and dragon tapestries.
He finally discovered a small deserted drawing room, with several plushy armchairs in deep red velvet and golden accents. Polished wooden furnishings filled the rest of the space, and several portraits, including ones of a few members together, decorated the walls.
Ren studied an image of the three godslayers, Sofie was sitting on Zahn's shoulders, legs criss crossed around his neck and a grin on her face as she flung her hands into the air. Rina was to Zahn's left, grabbing onto his arm and pulling on him, the unfortunate young man was tilting under Sofie's weight and Rina's tugging, a surprised look on his face as the portrait was done with incredible speed to capture the moment. They stood on one of the turrets, outside atop the high stone walls where it felt as though nothing could hurt you.
We've ruined that feeling, this place was a refuge, the members thought that as long as the resided within these walls, they'd be safe. We've broken that by bumbling in, and they intend to make us pay for it.
Ren thought as he collapsed into one of the armchairs, reaching for his lacrima communication watch.
"Hey, Hibiki? Can you hear me?"
"Ren? Ren finally! Are you ok?" Hibiki's voice came crackling back through the speaker.
"I'm cool for now, but I've got half the castle on my tail and they are not happy." Ren grumbled as he teased at his hair with his fingers, pushing it back, than pulling it into his face again and blowing at it with a drawn out sigh.
"I've been running for what feels like ages, where in Fiore are you?" The wind mage demanded, he wanted to find his friends and get out, and pray that the Draconem's would let this incident slide.
Unlikely, but a far better option than sticking around the castle.
"We're in the dungeons, I'm with Eve and..."
Hibiki paused to, Ren assumed, glance at something and sighed, Ren groaned, his head lolling back onto the chair.
"Is he seriously in an iceberg?"
"I'm chipping it away with my archive cards as fast as I can. It's slow going. Here, I'll upload my memory of the way to us to you, and than you can come bust us loose." Hibiki said wisely, Ren felt the familiar buzzing in his head, and blinked when he suddenly knew which way to run.
"Got it." Ren said.
"You come get us. Fast." Hibiki repeated.
"Yeah, and than?" Ren asked.
"Than we run like heck."
"Good plan."
The wind mage deactivated his watch, stood, and made his way quietly out into the hall, it appeared that he was alone for the moment.
"ROCK DRAGON ROAR!"
"CRAP!"
Or maybe not.
Down in the dungeons
"Hey Hibiki?" Eve's voice sounded jarring and loud in the eerie silence of the cell. They were in a stone room of about seven feet by seven feet. A barred door separated them from the hallway, in which the entrances to several other prisons were accessible. The cell itself had a small slit of a window, which was barred, not as if anyone could escape through the narrow portal anyway.
"What?" The archive mage asked irritably as he waves his arm back, drawing the card back with it, and threw it forward again, chipping away another sliver of ice.
"My legs are numb, will you please hurry?"
The younger blonde was still frozen up to his waist in ice, his arms and upper body were free, but his friend was struggling to make further progress.
"I swear if you ask me the hurry up one more time I will leave you here to deal with your pissed off girlfriend." Hibiki growled, he wasn't exactly in a jubilant mood after getting pegged square between the shoulder blades with a giant book and than forced into a dungeon at sword point.
"H-Hey! She is not my girlfriend!"
"Shut up and accept it, you like her." Hibiki said, a tinge of sarcastic humor in his voice.
"W-Well...I do, but she obviously doesn't like me, she froze into a block of ice and shoved me down a flight of unusually long stairs!" The snow mage pointed out miserably.
"Have you ever heard of how girls always beat up the guys they really like?"
Hibiki asked, glancing up at his friend as he slammed his archive card down again, this time taking a larger chunk of ice away.
"Really?" Eve asked skeptically.
Hibiki sighed dramatically, "I thought Sensei Ichiyia and myself taught you better than this, for shame."
Eve set his mind to thinking about that statement for the next few minutes, until, at long last.
"Ha ha!" Hibiki let out a triumphant cry as his card spilt the remaining ice imprisoning Eve into tiny crystals, freeing his younger friend.
"Yes!" Eve gasped as he wobbled, his legs burning with pins and needles as they regained warmth and feeling.
Eve fell down to his knees, breathing heavily.
"Thanks." He said.
"No problem, now let's bust out of here!" Hibiki turned on the door.
"Archive!"
"White Fang!"
Their attacks slammed into the door dead on, a fluctuation of magic energy warping the space around the door as the Blue Pegasus wizards pushed against the barrier.
"Oh no!" Hibiki groaned as their attacks abruptly vanished, sucked away.
"Runes!" Eve exclaimed as the purple magic markings shimmered for a moment in the dim light of the cell before disappearing.
"Great...we have to wait for Ren." Hibiki grumbled, dropping down to sit next to Eve, who was flexing ankles and bending his knees to get his legs to wake up faster.
"He better not take too long."
Up in the halls of the Draconem Heart castle
Ren flung himself backwards as Onyx, the rock dragonslayer, stalked down the hallway toward him, his breath attack, composed of stones, dirt, and sand, dispersing.
Ren held his breath as he dodged around a corner behind him and pressed back against the wall.
"You know I can smell your cologne and hear you cussing under your breath, right? I may not have gotten to compete in the games, but I'm still a dragonslayer. Not a weakling."
Ren started as Onyx peeked around the corner he hid behind.
"Rock dragon diamond fist!" Onyx barked, a white casing of the gemstone surrounded his clenched fingers and he slammed said fist forward into Ren's chest.
"ARRGH!" Ren was flung backwards, whacking into the wall at the end of the other hallway, spread eagle.
"Ariel phose!" Ren barked, swinging his arms and shooting off several monsoon power winds at Onyx.
The earth mage dropped to one knee and steeled himself against the winds, brown-black shaggy hair whipping, old logo tee shirt and fleece pants being plucked and pulled at, finally balancing, Onyx launched forward.
"Rock Dragon fang!"
Onyx flipped onto his hands and spun, his right leg producing a rumbling blast of earth and stone, shaping into a fang-like object that struck Ren hard. Ren hit the wall yet again as Onyx rolled across his back and jackknifed to his feet.
The wind mage dropped to his knees, then slowly wobbled up again.
Realizing he stood no chance against the slayer, Ren turned, thankfully still in the right hall to reach his friends, created a violent gust of wind. Enough to cause Onyx to stagger and give Ren the chance to make his move.
He surrounded himself with a wind bubble and blasted off down the corridor, flying to quickly for the befuddled, pajama clad, sleepy slayer to follow.
Ren hurtled down the corridors, sending carvings tumbling and pictures rattling as he sped past.
Down the unusually long flight of steps and into the dungeons he flew, shaping the winds around him with a skill he'd trained for years to master.
Ren landed squarely in front of Eve and Hibiki's cell.
"Been waiting long?" He asked in a sort of dry humor as he used his wind to break down the door from the outside, where the runes were weak.
"Not really, now let's just get out of here!" Eve exclaimed as he stood, his legs recovered and ready to be put to good use.
The trio ran up the steps and through the hallways. Ducking behind walls and holding their breaths as the members of Draconem fanned out through the entire guild searching for them.
They were spotted by a large group as the darted between the halls.
"There!" Ultear, the leader of the squad, cried, pointing at them.
"Dang it!" Hibiki yelped as they took off, crystal balls of Ultear and her time arc mage friends dive bombing them. A gust of Ren's wind pushed down the large door that was their only escape route. They charged through, only to find themselves in the courtyard.
A courtyard that, in the space of time during which Ultear had used her own lacrima to notify the Master, had been filled with over two hundred lost wizards.
The Blue Pegasus Trimen stood about as much chance against the might of the most powerful light guild in the land as an ant.
"Ok. Ok. Can we talk? Because this is really just a huge misunderstanding!" Hibiki tried, raising his hands up in a gesture of peace as he, Ren, and Eve were boxed in on all sides by snarling, glaring lost wizards. Ren winced when he spotted Layla, Eve shuddered under Rina's fury, and Hibiki felt like Meredy was going to burn a hole through his face just by staring at it.
"I understand perfectly well what I need to."
Hibiki gulped as Master Dracoya, still donning bedroom slippers, a tightly tied red robe, and a messy head of frizzy, pale green hair, parted the crowd and came to stand imposingly before the three of them.
"You broke into our guild hall. You hacked our defense spells. You attacked our members. Why you did it is what I want to know."
Master Dracoya demanded, jabbing a finger in Hibiki's chest.
Hibiki spilled out the whole tale, from the drunken Master Bob to the mysterious request to the village avoiding the big question to breaking in.
When he finished he waited, wondering what would be their fate, when the Master of the dragons stepped back and sighed.
"So...you woke us up for a good reason." She summed up.
"Yes. Definitely, and we're very sorry too, right guys?" Hibiki asked, elbowing Eve and Ren.
"Yeah, really really sorry!" "Very, extremely, sorry!"
Master Dracoya massaged her head for a moment before.
"I'm going to have to trust you three."
"Huh?" Hibiki asked dumbly as Master Dracoya looked him dead in the eye.
Hibiki felt as thought she was glaring into his very soul.
"Never speak a word of this place. You were never here, you do not know any more about Draconem Heart than any other person from the games does. You've never been to our guild hall, and you haven't seen anything here, understand?"
She demanded as she clenched her fist, obviously if Hibiki said no he'd be receiving a very powerful uppercut that may or may not be laced with the heavenly power that put this woman in charge.
"Y-yes. Uh, yes, ma'am!" Hibiki stuttered, the trimen following in suit.
Master Dracoya sighed and stepped back.
"Well I guess you'll have to spend the night here. Since you already here you may as well spend the day tomorrow, I'll take advantage of this event to test something. You three will be our first visitors from the outside, and depending on how this goes, perhaps we'll invite more."
Hibiki could have passed our right there on the field when he realized he and his guild mates were off the hook.
"But for now..."
Master Dracoya stifled a yawn.
"I'm going back to bed."
The rest of her guild promptly turned their backs on the Trimen and shuffled off, leaving their 'guests' in the courtyard.
"Us too."
Well, they survived! Next chapter I'm gonna take advantage of the Trimen's too, to go around the castle a bit more, who wants them to do turf sprints with Sofie? (Me! Me! I do!) So, please favorite, please follow, please review! Thanks for reading!