“ Rain? That Mira. Annoying till the end.” Greyo was saying while touching the rain.

The fire-goblins around him started to weaken. Their flames dropping.

" Well then. No matter. They still have no chance against us. Go now, secure the perimeter."

Answering to his commands the fire-goblins shuttered. He then turns behind him were a girl in chains was sitting on her knees. She wore a blue outfit, which in some parts had red stains, caused by her injuries. Her feet were all bloody, with open wounds from cuts. As well as her hands. She was in a miserable situation.

Greyo looks at her with a sadistic smile. He gets close to her and raises her head by holding her from her chin.

She makes an attempt to resist, but she has no power left to do anything.

" So Emma. How is it, that you are going to be a bait for your beloved Mira. She is coming to save you, you know. And she will fall right into my trap." his smile wideness even more.

Emma wanted to speak. She wanted to ask why did he betray them. They had been together for so long. So why? But she couldn't say anything. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't gather enough power to do so.

She was feeling so hopeless. She was feeling so sad. Her commander was coming to her rescue. Only to fall right into the enemies trap. All because of her.

She didn't, however, have much time to feel sorry because an intense voice echoed throughout the forest. Both her and Greyo look at the side the voice came from. It was coming from deep in the woods.

A sudden powerful, sharp gust of air cut right through the trees. Taking out every goblin, unlucky enough to be in its way. From the wreckage comes Mira.

She looks pissed.

“ What are you doing?! Attack her!” he shouts.

Dozens of goblins charge right to her. Some of them were instantly cut in half by Anna's huge blade.

While some others were blown away by Jason's hammer. The rest stopped and looked in fear.

Giving them no time to react, they charge to the unorganized enemies.

Anna jumps in the middle of their group. With one swing she cleaves four.

They try to attack her, but a strange light barrier stops their attacks. It then explodes pushing them back.

“ Thanks, Mira. She says with a smile.”

Their troops also follow their lead. In mere moments the field had evolved in a battlefield.

Mira is facing against twenty of them. They have surrounded her from all sides. When one of them leaves the formation to attack her it is met with a hole in its chest, by Mira's magic. They all stay together, just what she wanted.

All of them suddenly attack at once, but it is already too late. Mira had been chanting a spell the entire time.

Lighting falls from the sky and onto the fire-goblins. The rain increasing its power and effectiveness. All of them fall dead on the ground.

She then looks around to see how is everyone holding.

Anna is facing against ten of them. While Jason is facing five right behind her.

The goblins go for the attack before they are met with Anna's huge sword. Their axes easily broke, with their heads next.

“ They are weak, we can do this!” she shouts to Jason to give him courage. He was already done at his side as well.

But their numbers weren't dropping. For every goblin they killed, more would show up. Even if they were handling the situation just fine for now, what will happen when they get exhausted?

Mira decides that they must leave quickly. But not before they find Emma.

She finally spots her at the back of enemy's lines. Next to her was

“ Greyo!” she said angrily before she went right their way.

Every goblin unlucky enough to get in her way was blown away instantly.

She reaches them in no time. An earth pillar unburrowed from underneath his fit. He steps on it allowing it to throw him in the air. He does a backflip and lands on a tree's branch.

Both looking into each other's eyes.

Anna quickly comes by her side. She looks at Greyo also.

“ You traitor!” she shouts, her sword raised.

" Traitor? I am no traitor. I am on the right side now."

“ What do you mean?” Mira asks

He didn't say anything. He just looked at her before he sighed. Then gray magic envelopes him. He closes his eyes. From his head white horns start to grow, pointing towards, away from his forehead.

His skin gets pale, a gray kind of colour. Like it had begun rotting.

They are all looking shocked.

He opens his eyes. There are now fully black. No pupils, not anything. Complete darkness. Like he has no eyes. He then looks at them.

Is he looking at them? They can't tell anymore where he is focusing.

“ Greyo? Those eyes and horns...” Anna tries to understand.

“ He is a demon.” Mira says coldly.

“ Exactly. You see now why I had to betray you? It wasn't something personal. You were just unlucky that I ended up with you. That's all.” he says as if it were nothing.

“ But... Greyo! We were friends! We were a team! How can you do this to us? Did all this time you spent with us meant nothing to you?!” Mira says angrily.

“ Hah. Team? Friends? Why should I befriend a lower life form such as you, humans?”

Mira's hand was covered in red magic.

“ I am going to make you pay for this! Greyo! No. Demon!” she shouts her rage clearly visible.

“ Now now. You don't know how much I would love to fight you. But, I think I am going to let them do it.” he says as he points to some fire-goblins coming their way.

“ Fire-goblins? Is this some kind of joke? Anna.” Mira orders.

Anna rushes with her sword sideways. She then swings it to the weakened goblins. But the goblin raises its hand and catches it.

“ What? How?” Anna is looking shocked at the situation.

The fire-goblin starts laughing. It flames that had almost disappeared get stronger. They reach their normal size until they change colour. Becoming blue. The fire spreads quickly. Anna has to let go of her sword. Her hand slightly burnt. She falls back to her party.

“ These... these are, ultimate fire-goblins. But how?” Anna says while holding her burnt hand.

Not just the one that Anna attacked, but every other fire-goblin there was covered in blue flames.

“ How? This is impossible. How can normal fire-goblins turn into ultimate ones?” Jason asks.

“ Their flame.” answers Mira.

“ What?”

“ I said their flame. Their flame's power increased and that was what triggered the transformation. The only question is how?”

As she asks that, the trees behind them are caught on fire. Blue fire burning that side of the forest now.

From within the flames, a black figure can be seen. It looks humanoid at first, but then it starts making some weird body movements. The closer it gets the more transparent it becomes. It looks like a black mist.

When it steps out of the flames, it is made clear that whatever that thing is, isn't human. It was a black mist with a blue fire burning around it. The mist was at the center. The fire surrounding it taking a human form. With limbs and all.

Then the mist spreads to the rest of the body. Now with two black eyes, it looks at them. And with its new mouth, it makes a sadistic grin.

“ A Black Fire.” Mira mumbles.

“ This is bad. A strong foe in the back, many mediums in the front. And we have a wounded person on top of that.” Mira says nervously. She looks around trying to find a way of escape. But no matter how hard she looks she can't.

“ Please, Mira... run.” Emma was the one to speak. Her voice trembling. She is really hurt.

“ That's what I am planning to do. We can't win this.”

“ That's not... what I meant.”

" I know what you meant. I just don't accept it. If we are getting out of here, then it will be along with everyone." she says as she steps towards the Black Fire. " I am gonna handle this. Can you take care of the goblins for me, Anna?"

“ I see. It is time we get serious, right? Jason! Grab Emma and run. We will make a gap for you.”

She stands up. Her armor starts radiating a strange red light. In a moment she has reached her sword, which was lying on the ground. She picks it up and brings it in front of her. The light flows to the sword as well.

“ I, Anna Jael, shall be your opponent.”

Saying that she charges at the goblin. It tries to catch her again, but this time Anna ducks, changing

her course. She goes past its hand. She then swings her sword at its throat. Cutting its head off clean.

" That was impressive. I didn't know you had such power, Anna. That you were an ability user."

Greyo says with a remark." but what will you do if nineteen more attacks at the same time!"

As soon as he says that the goblins attack altogether. Focusing their flames and shooting them towards her in a big fire wave.

It hits with a loud explosion. But Anna manages to dodge by jumping in the air. She lands on the same branch with Greyo. Her sword ready, she goes for the kill.

But Greyo disappears from her sight. Before she knows it, she was stabbed with two daggers in her back. The armor absorbing most of the damage.

“ You are too slow. You will never be able to defeat me with this kind of strength. But I guess these are the human's limits, aren't they?”

Anna in rage turns to attack him. But she hits only air. He is gone again. This time his daggers are on her throat. He makes a smile before he pulls the blades.

He is however met with a light magic missile on his chest, which pushes him backward away from Anna. She falls from the tree and into a man's arms. She looks at him.

“ Jason. I told you to take Emma and run.”

Both Jason and Emma were still there. Emma lying on the floor. Her hand still glowing from her magic attack earlier.

“ How can we leave? Our boss is still here. We have to take her first.” he says with a smile. Both of them are smiling.

“ You guys...”

“ Exactly. You guys... did you seriously believe that that was enough to kill me? Come on. You need to do better than that. “ Greyo says will standing back up again.

" But how? That attack was powerful enough to smash a boulder." Emma looks surprised.

Greyo's armor and shirt were torn apart, showing his body. It was gray and had some gaps that they couldn't see before.

“ Now then. Playtime is over. Time to get serious myself.” saying that the small gaps in his body start to heat up. They become from gray orange. They can feel the heat from over here.

Then flames pop out. His body scratches. More flames coming out of the new gaps.