Here's the next chapter, guys! I hope you enjoy!

Elsewhere in the mountain forest, Jura was in the middle of a fight with a 67 year old man wearing white, papal robes and carrying a large, white tome.

"Iron Rock Spikes!"

"Holy Barrier!"

An invisible force field surrounded the man and blocked all of the earth spikes.

'Unruly heretic!" The man said. "No one stands against my Holy Magic, even if they do happen to be one of the Ten Wizard Saints! I, Wright Cross of Silent Orochi, shall purge you in the name of-"

"Iron Rock Fist!"

Jura summoned a very large arm made out of rocks that aimed right for Wright and struck him while he was rambling.

"How dare you attack me while speaking?!" Wright shouted.

"You speak and act as if you are a devoted servant of your faith." Jura said. "However, no real faith would encourage its devotees to condone the murder of innocents. Rumbling Mt. Fuji!"

Jura clapped his hands together and an immense surge of magic energy erupted from underneath Wright. The intense blast caused the ground surrounding them to be shattered to pieces. With the battle over, Jura turned around and walked away.

"Now that he's been taken care of, I should check up on Lyon and Chelia." He said to himself.

Heart was hiding behind a tree as she seemed to have got away from the man in the safari gear. She was panting heavily and holding her hand to her chest.

*Looks like I lost that creep.* Heart thought to herself.

Buuuzzzzzzzz…

Heart looked up and saw a giant mantis leaning its ugly head from the other side of the tree. The mantis tried to stab its claw at Heart, but she dived out of the way before the claw hit the ground.

"Found you." The safari man said with his face looking completely creepy.

"YAH!" Heart screamed.

"You're pathetically weak, especially in comparison to your allies." The man said. "Regret the day you decided to go up against Silent Orochi. Mantis, finish her!"

As the mantis prepared another attack it was blasted in the face by ice and wind.

"Huh?" Heart looked up at the mantis and watched it fall over on its side. "What just…"

"That's not very gentlemanly." A smooth voice spoke. "Attacking a little girl like that."

Three young men walked over to where Heart was. They were Blue Pegasus's own Trimens Hibiki Lates, Ren Akatsuki and Eve Tearm.

"Men like you disgust me." Ren said.

"Just who do you think you are?" Eve said.

"I am one of the eight heads of Silent Orochi! My name is Blight Latimer and I excel in Swarm Magic!" The safari man named Blight conjured a magic circle in front of him and summoned a massive swarm of insects to attack Heart and the Trimens.

Ren blew a shot of air magic at the insects and knocked them out of the air.

"Mantis, attack!" Blight ordered.

The giant mantis got up and charged at the Trimens, but it stopped when a fragrant aroma filled the air.

"Maaaaaaan!" A silky smooth voice said. "Behold the power of my Paralysis Parfume!"

Everyone looked over to see Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki standing nearby, posing as he held an open perfume bottle. The mantis began walking toward him.

"Wah! You shouldn't be moving right now!" Icihiya said with his mouth agape. He quickly checked the bottle. "… I seem to have grabbed the Pheromone Parfume by accident."

As the mantis was right in front of his face, Heart motioned her arms and the tree branches above the mantis fell off and smashed the mantis.

"What kind of magic was that?" Blight asked.

Heart's face and aura had become terrifying and anything that wasn't rooted to the ground around her was being lifted into the air.

"I see…" Hibiki said. "She uses telekinesis."

Heart raised her hands up and two trees next to her were uprooted by her telekinetic abilities. She then flung them toward Blight and he tried to dive out of the way of the attack, but just as the trees were above him, she immediately used her powers to drop the trees straight down onto him and pinned him to the ground with his legs crushed.

"Dammit!" Blight growled, struggling to get himself free.

Suddenly, a bunch of dead bugs were stuffed into Blight's mouth by Heart's telekinesis before being kicked in the face and lost consciousness.

Heart then turned back to the Trimens, including Ichiya, and gave them a happy smile. "We beat him! Thank you!"

"You're welcome." Hibiki said.

"Please, allow us to heal your wounds." Eve said.

"This looks like a job for my Painkiller Parfume!" Ichiya said as he pulled out a tube containing a green liquid. "Maaaaaan!" He began posing as his Parfume started to pour out from the bottle and take effect.

"Why are you here, anyway?" Heart asked.

"Your Guild Master Blaise personally asked us to bring you and your guild mates back to Roseshade." Hibiki answered. "She's very worried about you all."

"Do you know if the rest of my friends are okay?" Heart asked.

"Members from Lamia Scale should already be in the area helping them out." Ren replied. "And one of our other guild mates went off without us."

"Don't worry, they'll all be fine." Eve assured.

Back where Foster and Meredy were looking after Sakura and Flora, several dark wizards wearing black cloaks surrounded them, all carrying different magic weapons. Both of them were readying themselves for the coming fight.

"You ready to take these guys on, Meredy?" Foster asked.

"Do you even need to ask?" Meredy playfully questioned.

All of the dark wizards charged at the two.

"Maguilty Sodom!"

Meredy conjured up teal magic blades and fired them at a horde of dark wizards. The blades cut through the clothes, but not their skin thought they could still feel pain from the attacks.

"Forest God Dancing Blades!"

Foster surrounded his forearms in black leaves and spun around in several circles in a slashing motion and sent dozens of dark wizards flying.

"Holy crap! They're so strong!" One of the dark wizards said.

"Look, that insignia! They're from Crime Sorcière! The Dark Guild Destroyers!"

"Seems like they're afraid of us." Meredy said to Foster as the two were back to back again.

"They should be." Foster said.

In another part of the mountain forest, Eden was still fighting off against the man in the fur coat.

"Flame God Bellow!"

Eden shot a breath attack of black flames at his opponent, but a pillar of black ice blocked the flames.

"So, you're a God Slayer, too, huh?" Eden asked.

"Yes, I am Viktor Snow the Ice God Slayer of Silent Orochi." The man called Viktor replied. "You know, I've been eager to fight another God Slayer and I'm even more excited that you're battling with my opposing element. This'll be a heck of a lot of fun! Ice God Bellow!"

Vikto shot a breath attack of black ice and snow at Eden, but he countered with Flame God Bellow and the two attacks collided, causing an explosion of smoke that surrounded all of them. Before Eden could properly react, Viktor came charging in right in front of him.

"Ice God Balmung!"

A katana made out of black ice appeared in Viktor's hand and he slashed Eden, slashing across his torso as blood spurt out of it.

"Ice God Twin Wolves!"

The black ice sword disappeared and as Viktor brought both of his fists forward, black ice in the shape of two wolf heads came out of his fists and struck at Eden, sending him flying into the air.

"Now for the final blow!" Viktor shouted as he jumped up into the air after Eden. "Ice God Crashing Mountain!"

Following up from his previous attack, Viktor kicked Eden in the stomach downward. Black ice and snow raged toward the ground and sent Eden crashing in the forest, causing a huge crater to be formed and a few trees knocked down. Viktor landed right by Eden as he tried to get up.

"You're still alive after that?" Viktor asked. "I'm surprised. You're a lot stronger than I thought. I haven't had a fight this good in a long, long time. Though it seems like you're on your last legs. Might as well finish things right here and now."

Eden managed to get to his feet, though he was coughing up blood.

"Damn, you're a lot stronger than Orga was." Eden said, spitting out some blood.

"Orga?" Viktor asked confused. "So you fought one of the top wizards of Saber Tooth, huh?"

"Yeah… but I beat the crap out of him." Eden said.

"You what?"

"Guess it's time I stop pulling my punches." Eden said before black flames and black electricity surrounded his body. "Lightning Flame God Mode!"

"Lightning Flame God?!"

Eden surrounded his fists and forearms in black fire and black lightning and charged at Viktor.

"Ice God Twin Wolves!"

Viktor once again shot two wolf heads made of black ice from his fists and at Eden, but Eden jumped up to avoid them and landed right in front of Viktor.

"Lightning Flame God Mjolnir!"

Eden devastatingly struck Viktor with his arms and sent him crashing into the forest.

*His attacks are even more powerful than they were before!* Viktor thought. *Did he obtain it by fighting Orga?*

"I'm ending this now!" Eden shouted.

Eden extended his arms before himself, his open palms facing and fingers pointing toward Viktor while sparks of black lightning generated between Eden's arms while black flames engulfed his hands.

"Lightning Flame God Ragnarok Cannon!"

Eden then fired a massive, concentrated beam of black flames and black lightning at Viktor.

"GYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Viktor screamed as he became engulfed in the beam of black fire and black lightning.

The beam had blasted Viktor right into one of the nearby mountains and caused an explosion that completely annihilated half of that mountainside. Eden was panting heavily from using up so much magic energy over the last few minutes and dropped his arms.

"That should… Do it…" Eden said before falling to the ground and passing out from exhaustion.

While Eden was lying on the ground unconscious, someone started to walk over to him. It was the other member of Blue Pegasus that Ren mentioned, Jenny Realight.

"Oh, did the battle end already?" Jenny asked no one in particular. "I was hoping to show off my moves."

She then noticed Eden on the ground and saw his guild mark.

"He must be with Phoenix Dawn. Those injuries look really bad." Jenny said as she was about to tend to Eden's wounds.

Deeper in the mountains, Vance had arrived at a series of ruins filled with stone statues of snake like creatures mounted on pedestals. He stopped to turn around and look at the mountain that Eden had just destroyed.

"Looks like we have some intruders." Vance said to himself. "Xyla, what's the situation?"

He waited for Xyla to respond, but all he got was silence.

"They must have gotten Xyla." Vance surmised. "And that explosion didn't look like it was caused by any of us. Whoever is out there, they must be some incredibly powerful wizards to have that much destructive power. I better hurry to the altar and fast."

Vance continued to make his way deeper into the mountain ruins.

A/N: Wow, that chapter was harder to write than I thought. I have to admit, the last chapter or two aren't my best written so just bear with me on this. I'm just trying to meet certain demands from you guys for your OCs and trying to fit them in as organically as possible. Anyway, stay tuned for next time!