The men ran back into the cages. Gray said, "Where do we go from here?" Natsu sniffed the air. He said, "I smell a whole bunch of those bastards up there. Let's go." They ran into a new room, filled with people. Orga immediately electrocuted a good majority of the robed men. Rufus looked at the others and said, "Leave the rest to me. I feel I owe them some special revenge for what they did to me." Orga and Rufus stayed in the large room, while the rest moved on.
As the rest left, more men came from hidden corridors. Rufus observed their positions and said, "Memory Make: A Night of Falling Stars." He put his fingers on his temple to make a memory of their pinpointed positions. All of a sudden, the room looked like a night sky. Every one of the guards glowed yellow. Suddenly lightning emitted from Rufus. The guards stood transfixed as it looked like night stars spread from Rufus. The lightning targeted every single person, with the exception of Orga. The lightning incapacitated every single one of them.
Men's moans and yells were heard as the rest ran down the corridor. They needed to find the leader and the rest of the crowd as fast as possible. The next room they came upon was filled with a small group of red robed mages. One of them pulled down their hood and commanded plants. Vines moved everywhere, going at full force towards the group. The plants threw needles at them. Natsu immediately destroyed many of them with his fire. Unfortunately, one of them flung into Sting's neck. The needles were dosed with a small amount of scopolamine, enough to cause him to hallucinate and get sick. The effects were alarmingly quick: his pupils constricted, his mouth was dry. Sting was dazed, and dizzy. Then he passed out. Sting was immediately imprisoned in the vines and taken to another room. Gajeel groaned. "What the? They just got Sting! Keep away from those plants, especially the vines and stinging needles. I'm guessin' the needles are poisonous."
Natsu lit his body on fire, causing all the vines to wilt or go on fire. Natsu also threw fireballs at the plants with the stinging needles. Another man with a red robe pulled off his hood. He looked directly in Natsu's eyes, and Natsu stood transfixed. Vines were wrapping around his arms. Gajeel saw the man's ability to hypnotize Natsu and punched him in the face. Once the man's eyes weren't looking at Natsu, Natsu shook his head. He looked at Gajeel, concerned. Gajeel yelled, "Don't look that second guy in the eye! He can hypnotize you." Natsu went back to battling the plant mage.
Gray was pushed onto a wall with a boulder. He yelled, "Well, this last guy has the power to push rocks around. Watch your back!" Natsu knocked out the plant mage. He smiled in triumph, only to have a bunch of rocks soaring toward him. He ducked at the last second. "What the hell?" he bellowed. Gray and Natsu tried to deal with the earth mage, while Gajeel battled the hypnotizing mage.
Gajeel ripped a part of his shirt and tied it around his eyes. He was going to rely on all sensations, except sight. The hypnotist punched at Gajeel's face; the light air that came from the punch alerted Gajeel of the impending punch. He narrowly avoided it. He changed his fist into a iron fist. "Screw this!" he heard the hypnotist say. Gajeel caught the sensation something huge was approaching him. He barely managed to turn his body into an iron body before a huge boulder hit him. Gajeel growled out, "What the hell, Salamander? You and Gray are supposed to deal with this guy!" He then heard the sounds of Gray moaning on the ground. Gajeel picked up the cloth to briefly look at Gray on the ground, with an enormous boulder on top of him. 'Shit!' he thought. He ran over and pulled the boulder off of Gray.
Gray gradually got up, and stood next to Gajeel. They both went to fighting stance. They saw nobody in front of them. Gajeel said, "Did they catch Salamander and Sting?" Gray huffed, "Looks like we've got to rescue those idiots again!" Gajeel sniffed the air. He approached what looked like a normal rock surface. He pointed at it. Gray said, "They didn't disappear into thin air. I can feel a feel air coming from a different section. See that? There's a hidden door entrance somewhere." Gajeel was feeling around the rock surface until he felt a little button. He pressed the button, and a secret door opened. Gajeel looked at Gray, "They're down here. Let's go!"