The Sabertooth team were walking together in the forest heading to their quest that was taking place in the land of Midi but then they stopped to see a shadow aura that was rising from the ground and it formed into a figure.

It was Future Rogue looking at them.

Present Rogue blinked in question as he looked at him.

"I can tell that you're me but from where?"

Future Rogue just looked at him.

"I'm from the future and I came to warn you."

Sting just looked at him.

"What are you going to warn us about?"

Future Rogue closed his eyes.

"The quest that you are heading to right now will change your lives and then despair will come."

Rufus smiled at him.

"Many have said that in the past about many S class quest, but we have no worries."

Orga smiled at Future Rogue as well.

"That's right, we're the strongest team of the strongest guild."

Future Rogue just gave his annoyed looked at them then Present Rogue looked at him.

"Why did you warn us about this quest?"

"In this quest, you will succeed but then you will meet someone that is dangerous."

Sting smirked at him.

"Yeah right, how dangerous could this person be?"

Future Rogue glared at him.

"This person is worse than Master Jiemma, he is known as the second coming of the Black Wizard Zeref."

With that Future Rogue turned to leave.

"For your safety cancel the quest and I can promise you that you won't have any worries for a while."

Sting frowned at him.

"Are you kidding? We're Sabertooth we're not going to run away from one wizard."

Future Rogue had his back turned to them.

"Then don't say I didn't warn you."

With that he vanished away from there. The Sabertooth team went on with their quest as if they never saw Future Rogue.

Time Skip

In the land of Midi there was a lab that was well hidden underground that no one on the surface knew about it. The lab was about 6 kilometers wide and 7 kilometers tall. The lab had a high staff amount of guards and scientists. They were all working on multiple projects. The leader of the whole lab was Dr. Tai Zelos. He was was a middle aged man that was wearing a dark gray suit.

He was leading the Sabertooth team to the lab since they were in a manor that was above it.

As they were walking Dr. Tai looked at them.

"Just so you know, this place isn't really a lab it's a prison to lock away anyone and demons. In fact we have a mirror here that is used to take out a wizard's true personally out. The only people that can use the mirror are Stellar mages but sadly there are only two left."

Sting just smiled as he shrugged.

"Of course there are only two Stellar mages left in the world, they use weak magic and can't even defend themselves."

Dr. Tai shook his head.

Before anything else could be said a worker came running to them. They were all surprised to see that this worker looked a little beat up and Dr. Tai looked at them.

"What happened? Whya re you so beat up?"

"Sir! Someone's here!"

"Who?"

"We don't know, but they're dark mages and one of them is the second coming of Zeref!"

Lector looked at him, not fazed.

"Who are they?"

Dr. Tai looked at him.

"He's that are known world wide to kill anything that is not pleasing. He's brutal and enjoys killing without second thought."

Minerva didn't seem to be bothered then Sting smiled.

"Let us take this guy on. We're Sabertooth, the strongest team in the strongest guild in the world!"

With that they left leaving the two doctors where they were.

Screams could be heard from all over the lab so it was hard even for Sting and Rogue to pick up their scent.

Sting frowned in annoyance.

"Thanks to all this blood I can't pick up their scent anywhere."

Just then a shadow hand appeared, snatching Dr. Tai in the air and the Sabertooth team looked up to see him then Dr. Tai became pleading.

"No! Please! Let me go!"

Just then a young man appeared from out of the shadows. He had tanned skin and black hair that was put into a ponytail that hung to his waist. He wore a long black jacket and gray pants along with black boots. He had golden yellow eyes and he wore black gloves.

He just looked at the Sabertooth team that was looking back at him. He just had a smirk on his face as he looked at them.

"I guess Future Rogue never warned you about me."

Sting just raised a brow at this guy who was supposed to be a dark mage that they heard of.

"Are they serious? You're the guy that they call the second coming of Zeref?!"

Sting smiled at him then the dark mage just looked at him.

"Maybe Future Rogue did mention me to you but you didn't take him seriously."

Dr. Tai looked at the dark mage that still held him hostage.

"Please let me go!"

The dark mage smirked at him as he spoke.

"Not a chance, letting you live isn't in my interest."

With the shadow that was around his body and the dark mage smiled.

"Shadow burial."

Dr. Tai let out a yelling scream as his body was crushed into nothing by the shadow. When it was over the dark mage smiled to himself as he took a whiff of the scent of fresh blood.

"Such a divine smell that was and all of their screams were like music to my ears."

He looked at the Sabertooth team.

"You're still here, but you're no fun to play with."

With that he vanished into the shadows. Frosch hung onto Rogue's leg as he trembled.

"Fro is scared."

Lector nodded.

"So he the one that kills without second thought?"

Sting got to his feet.

"Let's go after him!"

The Sabertooth team ran to look for the dark mage. They split up to cover more ground to search for the dark mage.

Minerva went to the control room but stopped when she saw thick dark green gooey liquid. Just looking at it made her wonder what it was but she soon got her answer when she saw one of the guards turn a corner and slipped to his death as the goop ate him away. Minerva backed away from it then she looked to her left to see that it was safe to go there. She ran down a safe hallway but then stopped when she saw that there were a few dead bodies there.

"What happened?"

She ran on ahead to a different room then saw one of the guards on the floor crawling for his life to get away.

"It's him! The second coming of Zeref is here!"

Minerva was getting nervous but then she saw a large shadow hand extend out and grabbed the guard and pulled him back into the room he had crawled out of. It scared Mienrva that she ran away from there.

'Who is this person? What do they want?'

When Minerva arrived on the side of the manor. She was just wondering where would have to look next to find the dark mage.

She soon arrived to an office only to see an injured doctor and looked to see a person wearing a black hooded cloak with the same features of the dark mage but this guy was was a little taller and he had silver gray hair that hung to his lower back. The tall dark mage looked down at the injured doctor that was on the ground

"Well you gave me an annoying way of knowing where any of the Sabertooth mages wer. I see that she's right here, shaken but here."

The doctor frowned at him.

"You...monsters..."

The dark mage took a sniper gun out and pointed it at the doctor's head then the doctor smirked.

"You won't do it. You have the female Sabertooth mage right where you want her. The boss only hired them so that we can plan ways to experiment on you monsters that call yourselves human."

"I won't do it you say? I thought I was going easy on you but I guess I was wrong."

He placed the sniper at the doctor's shoulder and shot him. He grunted and Minerva dropped to her knees and was shaking more than she was before. The man threw the sniper away and placed his hand on the wounded shoulder, inserting her index and middle finger in the wound.

"You're a doctor right? So answer this question for me. What would happen if I reverse your blood flow in your entire body? If you answer right, I'll let you go."

The doctor was scared then he looked like he was about to cry.

"My blood would become very thick?"

The next thing Minerva knew was the doctor busted like a water balloon and blood was everywhere. Minerva was in shock then she saw the man stand straight.

"Wrong, if the blood flow is reversed in the human body all the blood vessels will burst, killing the human."

He turned to look at Minerva as he licked the blood off his fingers that he had inserted into the wound.

He turned to face her and Minerva began to step back.

"No...stay back..."

The dark mage just looked at her then gave a smile to her.

"Don't worry, Minerva. I'm not going to hurt you."

Minerva just looked at him then he went to her and placed his cleaned hand on her forehead. The moment his hand touched her she passed out and he picked her up bridal style then turned to look behind him to see the younger dark mage coming to them.

"Our target has been captured, Netharo. She's all yours now."

Netharo smiled then had Minerva in his arms then he left to the gate to leave.

Sting and the others arrived then Sting yelled out.

"Hey!"

Netharo looked behind him then smiled.

"I will say this only once, if you follow me, she will die."

With that he left taking Minerva with him.