"How murderous you feeling this eve, mage?" Commander Hayes shouted over the inferno, noting a knife flying overhead towards the rouge mages, hoping it would find something. Looking forward at the earthy wall, he made a split decision that he wasn't going to deal with this, or have to worry about it in the future. Either someone on the other side of that earth would get lucky, or he was going to run a mage through. 

"I don't know about you, but I would be happier with some death!" And with that, Raven Hayes charged forward, blade drawn after the retreating mages. Making his way around the wall of earth and sliding around it, he found himself face to face with the earth mage, who had apparently decided that sticking there while the other mages made a run for it was the best plan. 

With a swing, the hardened steel slammed into the arm of the earth mage, glancing off, but with the cracks showing in the armor it was obvious that it wasn't quite as tough as when it had been started. With a grin, Raven jumped back at a swing the earth mage took. 

Meanwhile, from the upper perspective that Joey had attained, he could see the dagger find a mark, but not the Fire Mage. The Ice Mage who had been helping the fire move ended up taking the knife in the arm, which led to a string of curses as they both began to run away from the fires, the Earth Mage and Commander Hayes, and also Joey and the other mages. They were getting closer to the edge of town now, and would just be a quick sprint away from the forest and obviously very little way to follow them from there. 

While this happened, Vanahara had caught up to Ling and the other Mages, just in time to watch Hayes as he charged towards the Earthy opponent who had hid behind the makeshift wall for now, which crumbled some as the bolts slammed into it, not a strong enough wall to stand up to an assault. 

In the front of the building, Drew was largely left to his devices along with Alexander, as the rest of the town was now running about finally doing something about the flames. With the town slowly seeming like it wasn't going to burn down, there began to be a more methodical approach to making sure the things that were burning wouldn't burn anything they were close to.