Romeo was with his family, all of them seated in the grass around the rubble that was their guild. They were all talking, Jet and Droy wailing and hugging Levy numerous times, much to Gajeel's annoyance, Bisca and Alzack telling Erza of their wedding, and introducing her to Asuka. Everyone was talking, catching up. Wendy was sitting next to Romeo, healing his cuts and bruises while they talked, now that he was older they were closer in age, him being thirteen and her twelve. They were all catching up on what they had missed, and they were all happy.

Until it happened.

Romeo knew it was coming, but he couldn't help but look away as Natsu asked the question.

"Where's Luce?" he asked the question so casually Romeo flinched, and Natsu noticed and looked to him in concern, and then horror at realising what his reaction was too, "Where's Lucy? What happened to her?"

"We don't know," Master Macao whispered.

"YOU DON'T KNOW?!" Natsu roared, pushing himself up and grabbing Macao by the collar and pulling him up, Erza was up in a second and behind Natsu, pulling him off the guild master, and pulling him away as he struggled and shouted, "HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW?!"

"Because she left!" Macao yelled, his anger and sadness clear as he roared at Natsu, and then his tone turned softer, "She left the guild five years ago and she hasn't returned."

"No…" Erza murmured in shock.

"LUCY WOULD NEVER LEAVE THE GUILD!" Natsu protested in a yell, but Macao glared at him.

"Don't think you know how it feels!" he snapped, "Don't think you understand what it was like! You can never know what it was like to lose your family! You will never know how bad it was! We were a laughing stock, and members left us every day, turning their backs on you! We stayed loyal to you all! We believed in you! We believed you wouldn't leave us! We watched as our friends turned their backs on us, left us in the dust to join other guilds! Our members dwindled and we fought to survive, determined to keep something for you to come back to!"

Silence met Macao's angry words, and those who had stayed the seven years looked down in understanding, but it was Romeo who spoke next.

"Lucy said she saw ghosts," he whispered, and he commanded all the attention as he spoke, "She said she would always turn around, hoping to see Levy at her table with Gajeel chewing metal next to her, that she wanted to hear Natsu and Gray arguing, and Erza break them up, or to laugh as Cana out drunk anyone and everyone, or smile to Lisanna and Mira as they served everyone with a smile on their faces. She wanted to see Juvia glaring at the nearest female to Gray, or Wendy talking quietly with Carla in one of the less rowdy areas of the guild. She wanted to see the Thunder God Tribe together a little away from the rest of the guild, whispering about Laxus, and the S-Class to be glaring down at everyone. We used to imagine what you would be doing if you were still here, what missions you would take, who would be fighting with who."

"W-When d-d-did she leave?" Levy stuttered out, trying to keep in her tears.

"Five years ago," Wakaba repeated Macao's earlier words.

"And you haven't even looked for her?" Gray snarled.

"She left because she couldn't take it, she wanted to be alone so we gave her that!" Wakaba retorted.

"We haven't heard from her in years…" Laki murmured.

"But the jewel pouches!" Bisca cried, and everyone looked to her, "Every month there's a pouch of jewels left on the bar counter, the amount varying form thousands to millions of jewels. It has to be her, it can't be anyone else!"

"There's no evidence that it's her," Macao sighed, "There's no evidence she's even alive anymore."

"Then we need to search for her!" Erza shouted, tears trailing down her cheeks.

"We tried!" Kinana countered, "We thought we'd led her to her death, we search the whole of Fiore for her, but we couldn't find her!"

There was a moment of silence as everyone dwelled in their sadness.

Then there was a new voice that made Erza shudder.

"Erza!" the voice called, and she shuddered and froze as she recognised it to belong to Ichiya, and the Blue Pegasus mage looked only slightly older, behind him were the Trimens, who was racing ahead to help the ladies up, and next to them Master Bob.

"Oh you poor things!" Master Bob cooed to Natsu and Gray the two of them shivering at the man's feminine voice, "I can't believe people actually like that nasty guild."

"Bob, it's good to see you," Master Makarov commented with a small smile.

"It's good to see you Makarov!" Master Bob squealed, causing Natsu and Gray to all but run over to Erza, who was busy glaring at Ichiya, "It has been seven years for me!"

"I think then it deserves a party," Master Makarov suggested, and Master Bob let out a giggle.

"Oh Makarov, you should know that Blue Pegasus is the rowdy guild now," Master Bob giggled.

"Really?" Master Makarov questioned sceptically, and received an enthusiastic nod in response.

"Oh yes!" Master Bob confirmed, "Alice really does liven things up a bit. Why don't you all come to Blue Pegasus, we can celebrate with you?"

"We'd love to," Master Makarov agreed, although at the squeal Master Bob let out and the yell of delight from Ichiya, Natsu, Gray and Erza all shuddered in horror.

"Is Fairy Hills still here?" Levy asked Bisca as they all started to get up off the grass and follow Master Bob, who was leading them, to Blue Pegasus.

"We couldn't afford all the buildings," Bisca explained sadly, "Fairy Hills was demolished a couple of years back, but we took some of your belongings and left them in the guild… But… After Twilight Ogre destroyed it, I don't think anything's left…"

"No that's okay!" Levy reassured her with a comforting shoulder bump, "I was just wondering where we would be staying for the night!"

"You can stay with me Levy!" Both Jet and Droy, who was walking a small distance behind her, cried at her words, but then turned to glare at the other when they realised the both had said it. Levy blushed slightly at their words and gave them bright smiles as she thanked them for their offers, and she heard Gajeel growling next to her.

"I know, dearies!" Master Bob exclaimed, "We can get everyone in Blue Pegasus to pitch in! Between us, I'm sure there's enough room for all of you!"

"That's very kind of you Bob," Makarov thanked him, "We're very grateful for your help."

"Well, how can I refuse your two handsome boys?" Master Bob giggled his counter as he pointed to Natsu and Gray who were both trying to make a run for it, to get as far away as possible from Master Bob.

Romeo was walking next to Wendy, Erza, Gray and Natsu, with Happy flying next to him, in front of them, and he wans Wendy walked in silence as the blue haired dragon slayer looked down. Romeo didn't know what to say, so he said nothing, and instead listened in to what his idol and his teammates were saying.

"I can't imagine her seven years older," Gray commented, and there was a nod from Erza.

"She's always been my little sister," Erza agreed, looking away slightly, "I don't know what it would be like for her to be older than me."

"Age doesn't matter," Natsu snapped, "When we find her, she'll come home, I know she will. She's Luce, no matter what she looks like."

"I miss Lushi," Happy whispered.

"But Natsu, she will have spent seven years without us," Erza pointed out sadly, "Maybe us coming, bringing her back to a life she left behind, maybe that would be wrong of us."

"She's been without us for seven years!" Natsu cried, "She would obviously want to see us, no matter what problems might rise, we'll get rid of them!"

"Natsu… Do you like her?" Gray asked his rival, sharing a small smirk with Erza.

"Of course I like her," Natsu stated, looking to Grya in confusion, but the latter just rolled his eyes.

"I mean love," Gray explained, and Natsu seemed to choke on air.

"Natsu loves Lucy!" Happy cried as he flew around in circles above Natsu's head.

"No! No way!" he exclaimed, "Luce is like a sister to me, and I love her like a best friend and a sister."

"She's like my little sister," Erza whispered, "Mira told me that she idolised me, and that Lucy told her how she wished one day she could be like me."

"That's sweet," Gray commented, "Very Lucy-like thing too."

"Do you like her?" Natsu questioned his rival.

"No way!" Gray all but shouted, "She's my little sister, no way romantic, no matter what Juvia might think."

"Imagine if Juvia had to wait seven years for Gray to return," Natsu mocked his rival, who rose to the challenge.

"Imagine if Lisanna had to wait seven years for Natsu to return," Gray countered, and Natsu turned red and spluttered a whispered reply that Romeo couldn't hear. The three of them walked in silence for a moment, before Erza spoke.

"But we'll find her," Erza stated, "It doesn't matter how long or how hard, one day we'll find Lucy."

"Definitely," Gray agreed.

"And it won't matter if she's older than us or not," Natsu added, "We'll still love her."

"Definitely," Gray and Erza repeated.

"Do you think we'll see Lucy-san again?" Wendy's whispered her question to Romeo, whether that was because she didn't want the others to hear or whether she didn't want to come to terms with the doubt, Romeo didn't know. He also didn't know why he reached out for her hand and took it in his own, looking into her eyes, with a slight blush on his cheeks that he saw was mirrored on her own.

"I know so," he answered with a small smile.

"Welcome to Blue Pegasus!" Master Bob shouted, and Wendy and Romeo let go of the other's hands as they entered the guild, their faces a deep shade of red as they walked in.

Inside the building of almost pink stone bricks, there was a number of tables scattered around the large hall, seated filled with mages who were chatting to one another over drinks in loud voices. There was laughing, giggling, chuckling, but overall happiness and joy practically radiating from the mages and guild hall itself. When Master Bob led them into the guild hall, most of the mages smiled at them or even waved.

"Come on, take a seat!" Master Bob instructed them, "Loosen up a little, have some fun! Me and Master Makarov will work out the practicalities about where you'll stay, so you all go have some fun!"

Master Bob and Makarov walked off to Master Bob's office on the second floor. Mira, being the sociable person she was, walked over to the bar and chatted with the woman behind it, the two talking about the latest fashion trends. Natsu shrugged, and him, Gray, Erza, Happy, Carla, Wendy and Romeo went and sat down at one of the Blue Pegasus tables. They struck up a light conversation where Romeo told them of all the strong mages that had come to shine while they had been away.

"There's not that many new ones…" Romeo mused, and then he looked around the guild, "But there's one who's really powerful, she rose to fame around five years ago."

"What magic does she have?" Wendy asked him.

"That's the thing, how she came to fame," Romeo answered, "She created her own type of magic."

"What?!" Gray exclaimed.

"Is that possible?" Wendy asked Erza, who nodded in response.

"I want to fight her!" Natsu declared, and Gray rolled his eyes.

"What guild does she belong to?" Carla asked.

"She's part of Blue Pegasus actually," Romeo responded, "She's an S-Class mage, and there's rumours she's been invited to join the Wizard Saints."

"Wow…" Wendy murmured in awe.

"She's called Alice," Romeo continued, "And she calls her magic 'Wonderland'. As in 'Alice in Wonderland'. She has a team, and each of them are different characters, there's the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, Cheshire cat, so many of them. They're the biggest team in Fiore, but Master Bob says they're his smallest team, it's some sort of riddle no one's unpicked."

"I'd like to meet her," Erza commented, and a new voice entered the conversation.

"You'll get to," the male voice said, and they all spun round to see a male mage seated between Gray and Natsu. His orange hair was kept down by a big top hat, with a single rectangular piece of paper with his trademark '10/6' price tag put in the hat. He wore his long coat that flapped out behind him as he walked, his boots clicking as he walked. His colourful attire was completed with the scarf of sorts that was tied around his neck, multicolour like the rest of his clothes, giving his mad aura a boost.

"When did you get there?!" Gray exclaimed, and the male mage laughed as he jumped up and walked over the table, his feet narrowly missing the plates on the table, cackling madly as he ran to the Blue Pegasus doors and pulled them open.

Revealing a blond haired beauty.

Her long blond hair passed her shoulders and flowed down her back, only a thin black alice band around the top of her head keeping it in place. Her soft blue eyes were sparkling with joy as she looked to the earlier man. She was undeniably beautiful, her body curved even in the unusual outfit she wore, one globally recognised to be that of Alice in Wonderland. She wore a light blue dress that stopped just above her knee, and her striped black and white tights covered the rest of her legs, her feet covered by a pair of plain black pumps. Overall she gave off an air of innocence, some might think lack of power, but it was the total opposite.

"I can open a door myself, thank you very much!" the blond cried, and there was a few laughs from around the guild, but Fairy Tail watched in curiosity and awe as they felt her immense magical presence. The ginger haired man laughed the loudest as he ran over to her and gave her a low bow.

"I do doubt," he teased, and he leaned forward to whisper something into her ear, and for a second she froze, but then she let out a laugh and grabbed his hand and pulled him over to the bar, shouting greetings to guild members as she went, him just waving to everyone as he was pulled along.

"Who was that?" Erza asked Romeo, and he let out a small laugh.

"Didn't you realise?" he questioned, "That's Alice, and the man was the Mad Hatter."

"That was her?!" Natsu exclaimed and he pushed himself up to run up to the blond and challenge her to a fight, "I want to fight her!"

"Natsu, we've missed seven years," Erza scolded him as she pushed him back down into his seat, "That's seven years that magic has advanced, couldn't you feel how powerful she was by her aura?"

"I beat even Flamebrain could feel that," Gray commented.

"Shut up, stripper!" Natsu retorted.

"Is that fighting I hear?" Erza questioned in a deadly calm voice.

"No ma'am!" Gray squeaked.

"Aye!" Natsu cried fearfully.

Erza then focused on the blond haired mage and her ginger haired partner as they sat at the bar, they greeted Mira, Alice smiling at her warmly as they struck up conversation. Then it seemed Mira asked her a question that made her saddened or uncomfrtoable. Erza noticed immediately that the Mad Hatter, as he went by, shouted once he noticed her unease.

"HAS ANYONE WORKED IT OUT YET?" The Hatter yelled, and everyone from Fairy Tail looked to him in confusion, while there was a few dry chuckles from Blue Pegasus.

"No Hatter!" someone shouted, and it sounded a bit like Hibiki, "And I don't think anyone ever will, so just tell us!"

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" the Hatter asked, ignoring Hibiki, his eyes scanning the crowd of his guild mates and Fairy Tail, "WELL? Anyone know?! My answer, I haven't the slightest idea!"

There was a few groans, and Alice started to let out a small giggle, that then at the Hatter's mad expression turned into a full blown laugh.

"You don't have the slightest idea about anything, Hatter!" Alice giggled, and the ginger haired mage turned to her with an expression of mick hurt.

"Oh my dearest Alice! How could you say something like that to me?!" he cried, placing a hand over his heart as he pretended to wipe away tears with his other hand. Alice didn't stop laughing, and turned to take a drink out of the teacup on the bar, when Mira spoke.

"So obviously you two like one another, right?" Mira phrased it as a question, but her tone was that of a statement. Alice spat out her tea, while Hatter seemed to choke on air, and there was a heavy blush on both of their faces as they spluttered and choked, while Mira just watched them with a sweet smile on her face.

"N-No way!" Alice spluttered.

"Y-Yeah!" the Hatter agreed with his partner, "A-Alice is just… A-Alice!"

"H-Hatter's my p-partner!" Alice added.

"Oh so you're married?" Mira questioned and Hatter let out some sort of noise somewhere between a gag and a choke, while Alice just spluttered, both of their faces having turned even redder.

"N-No!" Hatter denied.

"P-Partner as in team partner!" Alice explained, and there was a gleam in Mira's eye, she wasn't going to give this up.

"Y-You know what? I really need to get back to Wonderland," Hatter improvised, and he turned around sharply to run away, "Bye Alice!"

"Oh you are not running away!" Alice shouted as she grabbed the back of the Hatter's long coat and not letting him get away, "Beside even if you did somehow, you know I would just see you again at home!"

"So you live together and are just not married," Mira accepted, and Alice let out a gagging noise while the Hatter started spluttering. The rest of Blue Pegasus were laughing in their seats, and many members of Fairy Tail had joined them, Erza wore a smirk on her face while Natsu and Gray were arguing in hushed whispers.

"They're practically married," a new voice chimed and Mira looked around to see another person.

The female newcomer had long red hair that was straight as it flowed down her back and shoulders. Her red dress was covered in sparkling red and black diamonds as it clung to the top part of her body and floated out at it fell to the floor, a large cut up the leg, and there was a pair of heart shaped red earrings in her ears. There was a golden band around her head, keeping her hair out of her face. There was high red heels on her feet that she tapped lightly against the bar as she stirred a cup of red tea.

"They'll deny it all they want," the woman continued, "But you haven't seen them flirting."

"W-We do not flirt Red!" Alice denied.

"I've seen you Alice," 'Red' answered with a smirk as she turned to the white haired takeover mage of Fairy Tail, "They have all these secret little actions that they think we can't see, but I can see everything, I mean, I'm the Queen of Hearts? You can't get much past me!"

"You're the Queen of Hearts?" Mira clarified.

"Of course, you being away for seven years you don't know about us," the Queen of Hearts though aloud before she explained, "That's Alice in Wonderland, most powerful S-Class mage in Blue Pegasus, and would-be wizard saint if she ever answered their letters."

"I don't want to hang out with all those old people!" Alice cried.

"Whatever," the Queen of Hearts rolled her eyes as she spoke, "Anyway, She's the leader of our team, Team Wonderland. We're the largest team in Fiore. There's Alice, our leader, Hatter, practically her boyfriend-"

"He's not my boyfriend!" Alice exclaimed with a fiery blush.

"I'm not her boyfriend!" the Hatter cried at the same time as his face heated up in a similar style, and they looked to one another for a second, before they looked away, their blushes deepening.

"Yes, you are," the Queen of Hearts all but commanded, and then she started to count on her fingers as she spoke, "Then there's the Knave of Hearts, and oh! He's handsome and brave and taken, by me of course. There's loads of us, the White Rabbit, White Queen, Cheshire Cat, Dodo, March Hare, Absolem, Frog Footman, Duchess, Royal Executioner, Dormouse, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, then there's the King of Hearts too. We're a big team, named the most powerful team in Fiore for, what is it now, five years running? Ever since we started, we're that good."

"Wow…" Mira murmured, "You sound pretty powerful."

"We are," the Queen of Heart's stated, "Oh look! Master's got an announcement!"

"Listen up please dearies!" Master Bob squealed, "And you handsome boys and girls of Fairy Tail, you too! I'd finalised our Grand Magic Games team!"

The Blue Pegasus guild mates started to cheer as they shared smiles and made exclamations.

"We'll win it this year!" one cried.

"Alice will thrash them all!" another shouted.

"Sabertooth's going down!" someone exclaimed.

"Calm down please dearies!" Master Bob commanded, and the shouts turned to hush silence, and as every name was announced the person stood up to receive their applause, "The team is… Led by Alice! With Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki, Hibiki Lates, Ren Akatsuki and Eve Tearm!"

The guild erupted into applause and cheers as all the Trimens stood on one table, and the Mad Hatter grabbed Alice by the waist and put her on the nearest table, and then he joined the rest of the guild in cheering.

"What's the Grand Magic Games?" Erza asked Romeo as she clapped.

"It's this competition where all the guild in Fiore compete to see whose strongest," Romeo explained, "We entered but we always came last, the crowd started to boo us, it wasn't fun. But the winner receives the title and thirty million jewel, so it's a big thing."

"Wow… That's a lot of jewels," Erza mused, and then her eyes sparkling, "Imagine all the strawberry cheesecake you could buy with that…"

"Um… a lot?" Romeo filled in hesitantly as he saw the S-Class mage's eyes glint as she entered a faraway world of imagination.

"FAIRY TAIL!" Master Makarov roared, "I have decided we too will enter this competition!"

That was met with roars of agreement from the Fairy Tail core members who had not been there for the seven years, but for those who had they just clapped hesitantly, remembering what had previously happened when they had competed. Blue Pegasus clapped, feeling that their team could take on the new competition.

"Our team will be Erza Scarlet! Natsu Dragneel! Gray Fullbuster! Wendy Marvell! And Elfman Strauss!" Master Makarov announced, and Fairy Tail cheered while Blue Pegasus clapped.

"This deserves…" the Queen of Hearts whispered to Hatter, but Alice overheard, and after sharing a look with Hatter they both shouted.

"A TEA-PARTY!" they both shouted, and the doors swung open, and a massive long table moved in on its own, running in on the sides there was two figures.

On the left of the moving table there was a man in a rabbit costume. The costume looked worn and used, the fur of it messy and knotted in places, and the two bunny ears at the top of his head were thin and looked as thin as twigs. He was running in, shouting at the top of his voice about the Tea-party. It was the March Hare.

On the right there was a half-asleep figure, covered in white fur as he stumbled along, small snoring noises escaping his mouth every so often as he sat in one of the chairs that was floating in, and as it settled by the table he woke up, shouted about the Tea-Party, before falling asleep again. It was the Dormouse.

The table had stopped, right in the centre of the guild, and Alice hopped down from the table, laughing manically with the Hatter, who was holding her hand, as they ran over to the head of the table and sat down. The Queen of Hearts was not far behind them, she walked with purpose and a swing in her hips as she sat down opposite the Hatter, Alice wad at the head of the table and the Hatter on her left. The Blue Pegasus guild mates were laughing and chatting as they ran to the table to get their seats, the Fairy Tail members were more hesitant, but Romeo reassured them that this was a common occurrence in Blue Pegasus, something that Alice was known for.

Through the door plates and cups and saucers were flying through the doors, there was enough seats for everyone, and as cups flew and found their places as people settled down. Plates with food already on them flew down, and Erza smiled as she saw a plate of strawberry cheesecake stop in front of her for Natsu a plate of fiery chicken, Gray had some freezing ice cream, a plate of pure iron for Gajeel, and other dishes specifically for specific people.

People chatted, laughed, and just enjoyed themselves. Unlike where Fairy Tail would have a fight, here people were happy enough just chatting, telling jokes, eating, conversing. Natsu and Gray were arguing about who was stronger, while Erza was in a world of her own with her strawberry cheesecake. Wendy was talking animatedly to Romeo, who was hung on her every word. Carla was sipping her Earl Grey tea while Happy tucked into his fish and Pantherlily ate his kiwi.

After wait seemed like minutes, but was actually a hour, Alice jumped up out of her seat, and made eye contact with Hibiki, who was sitting over halfway across the table from her. With a short nod of her head, she bounced up out of her seat, as did he, and ran over to switch seats. The Mad Hatter cheered her on while Fairy Tail watched on with confusion as Blue Pegasus cheered while the two mages dodged the plates and cup and saucers as they sprinted. The Hatter was jumping up and down as the Queen of Hearts rolled her eyes, and the March Hare was letting out some sort of cheer-like wail while the Dormouse looked to be heavily asleep. Alice reached Hibiki's seat before he reached hers, and she sat down and stuck her tongue out at him as the crowd roared.

"What is this?" Erza asked the person sitting next to her, who was Jenny Realight.

"Seat hopping," Jenny stated, and with a huff she explained, "It's a game Alice created, you look to the first person who makes eye contact with you, and then you have to get to their seat across the table before they get to yours. It's just for fun, there's no prize."

The game continued, and before Erza knew it she looked into the Mad Hatter's eyes and participated herself. She refused to admit defeat to the Blue Pegasus mage, sprinting as fast as she could and all but jumping into her new seat, but as she turned around he was already in hers, and tipped his hat to her before he watched as Jenny pulled up her dress and ran to Eve's seat as the snow mage ran to hers.

After everyone had changed seats, and many, like Alice and the Mad Hatter who had run at every opportunity, were out of breath. But still the two shared a madden grin across the mass of empty plates and drained glasses.

It was then that Master Bob used his teaspoon to tap the side of his glass, trying to attract the guild's attention, but seeing how the table was rather long, Alice smirked as she threw the Mad Hatter a tea cup, one which he destroyed with his bare hand. The tea cup shattered into tiny pieces, and it attracted everyone's attention, and the Blue Pegasus mage gestured to their master, handing over the spotlight.

"I wanted to say that we have an idea," Master Bob spoke, "Master Makarov decided it would be best if Fairy Tail stayed with Blue Pegasus, and so I came up with the idea that we could buddy share. Of course, being your guild master, I know where you live, and approximately how many people you can have over. So we used this to partner you all up! Although, for some of your there's more than just one Fairy Tail buddy, but the more the merrier, as they say!"

There was a number of cheers from the Wonderland team, mainly Alice and the Mad Hatter, as the Queen of Hearts just rolled her eyes and stirred her tea, and the Dormouse let out a loud snore. Master Bob proceeded to read out a long list of names, telling which Fairy Tail members were staying with who.

When he got to Alice's name, he told her that Levy McGarden, Romeo Cobalt, Wendy Marvel and Carla would be staying with her.

Levy noticed how Master Bob did not read out any of the names of the rest of Team Wonderland.

"Well then guys!" the Mad Hatter cried, "It's been great, but Wonderland's better!"

Immediately after his words he jumped up out of his chair and, while cackling madly, ran across the table, dodging the plates and cup as he went. He jumped off the end of the table, and pulled the doors open, before running out. The March Hare pulled the Dormouse up, and dragged him out of the guild, shouting gibberish as he went. The Queen of Hearts let out a small sigh, muttering something under her breath about how she was part of a team of madmen, before she pushed her chair back and stood up, walking daintily out of the guild.

"Well come on then, Levy, Romeo, Wendy and Carla!" Alice exclaimed, "Madness awaits!"