"Hey now, Shorty, don't hurt Blonde here." the man said, and Wendy realized he was holding her under his arm. Any attack on him would hurt her, too.

"That's playing dirty!" Wendy said indignantly.

He shrugged. "I'm a bandit- we don't play fair." He sneered. "Gajeel Redfox, not like my name would help you." Then he was gone.

Wendy dropped to the ground. She could feel her face burning, tears welling up in her eyes. Lucy knew this wasn't a good idea... And now she was gone. That move, twister, was one she had never heard of before, but when she was upset, it came raging out of her like a storm. She punched the dirt. She would never forgive him. How dare he take Lucy-chan! And she, Wendy, was not able to stop it.

"Wendy! What happened?" Natzu said, running up behind her. She turned around slowly and Natzu literally took a step back at the look of rage on Wendy's usually happy and cheerful face.

"He took Lucy." Wendy growled.

"What?" Erza said, worried. "She did say it wasn't a good idea... We need to make it up to her!"

The dust around Wendy seemed unsettled, even though there was no wind, and the air around her seemed to be running thin.

"Wendy, did you get his name?" asked Gray.

"Gajeel." Wendy said. "Gajeel Redfox."

"What would he want with Lucy?" Happy asked.

"I have no ideas." Said Erza. "We can only know they wanted something with her, and we need to find out what."