Mira also heard the news. Right now she was on her way to help.

The sound of battle was being heard, right passed the pines in the front.

They arrived in the heat of battle. The fire-goblins were attacking their troops outnumbering them. Anna's squad had already arrived and was facing the attackers. They charge, making it fairer in their favor.

Mira looks around. She finds Jason, hurt. His right arm was bleeding and he was on his knees. Right next to him was Anna, her sword in her hands defending her wounded companion.

She was facing against two fire-goblins, each with a giant axe in their hand bigger than their body.

Anna's weapon was a big medieval sword. Sitting in a 1,5 meters high, it was a sword most people wouldn't even be able to hold. Still, she was able to use it very efficiently, with precision and accuracy.

The first goblin jumps to her, its axe above its head ready to slam it on her head. It was screaming and saliva was dripping from its mouth.

Anna steps aside, dodging its attack and letting gravity do its work. When it touches the ground, with a loud crash, she waves her sword at it. But before it can connect the second one comes from her left.

Immediately she uses the force behind her swing to change her target. Passing the collapsed goblin and onto the other.

The sword hits the axe and lunches the goblin to a tree nearby. It hits its back, breaking the tree and falling on the ground.

With that out of the way she turns her attention to the other one, which had gotten up, and was now charging at her.

She raises her sword in the air, before bringing it down with incredible strength. It meets the axe and breaks it into thousands of pieces. But the attack doesn't stop there. The strike continues beyond that, hitting the goblin on its head.

It makes a disturbing sound. It tries to remove it from its head, with no results. It eventually falls dead on the ground.

“ One gone. One more to go.” she says with a happy face.

She searches around, trying to find the other goblin. She is shocked when she sees it trying to attack the wounded Jason.

She quickly rushes to his side. The goblin getting ready to deliver the final blow, doesn't even notice Anna until her huge blade strikes its left side, completely cutting it in half. Blood spatters everywhere as its lifeless corpse falls to the ground.

She sweeps the sweat from her forehead. She looks at Jason who gives her a warm smile, saying thank you.

Then suddenly behind the trees three of them jump, their weapons in the air, ready to kill Anna. But before they could even land, a huge wave of fire comes from the side. Enveloping them. The goblins are overpowered by the huge temperature and size of the attack. When the wave had ended they all fall to the ground. Their bodies smoking.

" Hahaha. You think that what you use is fire?" Mira says laughing at her opponents.

“ This is true fire.” she waves her hands and fire comes out.

Anna looks at her way, clearly happy that she was here.

“ Took you long enough.” she said with a sarcastic grin.

“ Nah. I have been here for a while. I was just waiting to see how you handle yourself.”

“ Not cool Mira! Not cool!”

" Never mind that. We are done here." she said while looking around. " The enemy has been slain. But it was too easy."

Then as to answer to her worries a scout comes. He was covered in blood. A huge slash on his chest. He falls down.

“ Hey! What happened?!” Mira asks as she tries to get him up.

" Ca... captain Greyo. He.. he" he is struggling to speak.

“ What happened to Greyo? Is he alright?”

“ He... has betrayed us.”

They all are shocked.

“ Greyo has betrayed us? What is the meaning of this?” Anna asks.

The scout trying to speak coughs some blood to clear his throat before he continues.

" We are surrounded. He had told them about our plans and set a trap. The main enemy forces were hiding. These were just a distraction to lure is in and cut our escape routes." he coughs blood once again. He is using his all too quickly tell them the information.

“ Emma's group was attacked. But before we could pass on the information to the other leaders... captain attacked us. We weren't even close to his level. The others died so I could escape and tell the rest. Please commander. Please save them.” as soon as he tells the news, he falls back on the floor.

He had used every little bit of life in him to give them this information. And she wasn't going to let his sacrifice be in vain.

She stands up and yells.

“ Everyone! Fall back! We must save Emma! And if you see captain Greyo, he has some explaining to do.” she says, her blood boiling with rage.

They run as fast as they could, to go and assist their back line, which had suddenly become the front line.

When they got there the situation was as chaotic as it could get.

The mages stood no chance in hand to hand combat. So the only thing they could do was to run away. Most of them had already been killed. The few that remained were fighting for their lives.

Mira with Anna by her side, along with Jason that was healed by Mira, were charging in.

As a fire-goblin was about to kill a mage that was lying defenseless on the floor a huge sword flew in the air, landing right in the middle of its chest.

Anna quickly came up to the mage, after she peeked her sword.

“ You ok? How is the situation?” she asks.

“ Not good. We were caught by surprise. Most of us are already dead. Captain Emma stayed behind so the rest of us can run. “ he said hiding his face in shame.

“ Mira? What shall we do? We are caught off.”

" Isn't that clear? We are gonna go arms blazing and pass right through their lines. After that, we run back to the city and hope for the best."

Mira brings her hands together in a prayer-like stance. She then mutters some words.

" The water given to mortals by gods. With its purity, it cleanses the souls of all living things. Protecting them. Now let it drop once again on this world." she raises her hands in the air. "Pluvia!”

Clouds start appearing in the sky. In a matter of seconds, rain starts to fall. The small rain quickly turns into a heavy downpour.

" Now with this, the fire-goblins will be fairly weakened." she said with a satisfied look. " Now, let's go!