soon they arrived in the small town, not far from where Ivan's guild where located. The news was starting to sink in Lucy started to second think this mission. Was she really strong enough to sneak in to the Masters Sons guild take Gazille and get out without getting caught? And if they got caught was she strong enough to fight against a whole dark guild!?
Natsu's mind was totally different. The whole ride he could not stop thinking about Gazille, He was like a brother to him. He could not even think how Wendy would react if they came home with a dead body….
~no, no Natsu don't think that way! He will be okay, of course he will, he is a dragon slayer and my..~
the sound of Erza yelling at him woke him up from his thoughts..
okay everyone this is it, we have a mission only to save Gazille and nothing else, no fighting no looking around, just find Gazille and get the hell out of there!
Everyone just nodded and then there were off to the mountains.
~just wait Gazille just wait..~

He tried to breath, it was hard. He felt the blood in his throat and tried to cough it up. The panic started to come when he didn't get any air! eventually he was able to lean his head forward so he could cough it up. Then he felt the pain again. He wanted to cry! He wanted to scream but he could not give Ivan the pleasure to hear his scream once again. He tried to look down at his torso but the mass that surrounded his body would not allow it. Then he heard it once again, the laugh, but this time it was not alone, it was like it was more than the old one he had become used to hear, then the door open and Ivan looked through the door with his usual evil smirk.. but he was not alone, a small man looked up from behind Ivan and looked at him like he was an object or something. Then the man started to speak.
"He really is an interesting one Ivan"
"Yes he is.. And that's why I think he would be the perfect one for this small experiment"
Gazille froze. Experiment!? What Experiment!? He started to struggle against the mass that hold him prisoner.
"o? seems like Gazille-Chan is awake doctor"
"It seems like it, do you want me to put him to sleep before we begin?"
"no, it just takes away the pleasure to hear him scream"
The small man went up to Gazille, that still struggled like his life depended on it, the small man started to remove the mass, Gazille saw his chance to escape. But then he felt how his legs could not bear him and he fell to the floor. Some Shikigami's came and picked him up and carried him to a table in the middle of the room. As soon he touched the table the mass was back on his hands, legs and neck. Then he saw it.. the small man hold a scalpel, he struggled as hard as he could but the mass was to strong. And then he could not keep it in anymore when the man dragged the scalpel trough his forehead he screamed, a scream like never before had been heard from the dragon . Ivan's smirk was bigger than ever before and the pleasure was not easy to miss..

"What was that!? Natsu's yelled."
"SHHH! Natsu we don't want to be caught!" Lucy said while holding Natsu's mouth shut.
"But I think I heard Gazille.."
"what!? Where!?" Erza said almost as laud as Natsu.
"This way!"
They was still not at Ivan's guild but with Natsu's super hearing he could hear the scream from his dragon companion. It was a long way to the guild, it felt like they had been running in hours before they finally reached the big rock like guild. it was easy to sneak in but then when they walked through a long corridor they heard some voices.
"What are we going to do now!?" Lucy said while she was hugging her keys really hard.
"just be calm" Gray said while whispering "ice making floor"
As he said it the guys making the voices fell on the icy floor and hit they heads so hard that they felt unconscious.
"Let's keep going!" Just like they past a big pair of stairs Natsu stopped.
"I smell blood…"
"WHAT!? Lucy yield."
"I smell blood."
"From where?" Erza asked with a very serious face.
"From down stairs.."
From nowhere they saw a small shinigami fly in their direction. They fast picked up that it was one of the shinigami's the master had told them that at any cost avoid being seen by. So they hide in a very small closet right behind the stairs. Then they heard someone talk to someone about an operation!?
"It was successful Ivan, or at lest he is breathing, he struggled more than I thought he would but later he lied completely still like a good little patient", then he released a small but evil laughed.
"good, this will show those Fairy's that raventail is not a guild to mess with…"
"but what will we do with him now?"
"well we have to wait and see if the operation was fully successful, I mean now I am just impress he survived. Even though he was raised by an iron dragon he was not as tough that I thought he would be…"
"they are talking about Gazille"! Lucy whispered
"yea he is down in that dungeon. We have to get him out!" Gray whispered.
"let's go then!" Natsu almost yield as everyone jumped and held their hands against his mouth.
When they slowly moved down the stairs the smell of blood got stronger. This worried Natsu, what was they supposed to find? Soon they came to a big oak door, Natsu sneaked up to the door and smell it with a worried and disgusted face. What they then found behind the door was nothing they had been ready for.