Author's Note:

Hello again! Good news! I finally worked out a couple plot holes(hopefully), so I'll probably have another chapter finished by next Tuesday. I'm going to try(key word: try) to update weekly. Anyway thanks to everyone who reviewed, I'll take the time to respond to a couple of them.

Guest:

Demon's power: Nope. Close, yet not close. That could end up being like a side effectish.

Motive: I don't know either. I've had a couple of ideas, but most of them aren't that good, so it might be awhile till that's revealed.

Raijinshuu: ...Wow. I made the connection between the jutsu shiki and eye magic, but only now do I realize that Amelia also has green hair and lightning powers. That was totally by accident. I wanted Amelia to have an unnatural hair color, but I didn't want blue so I choose green. Lightning is my second favorite element and her eye magic is actually based off of another character's power. As for the jutsu shiki, I just needed an opish power to make things happen and that was the first thing that popped up in my head. :)

CrazyBlueOwl:

I know. That was one of biggest problems I had, trying to find a way to force Gray into helping them. I'm not sure if my solution is the best, but I know Gray wouldn't do anything to help them of his own free will.

Chapter 4

"Just who is Otonami?"

"A demon"

Instantly images of a certain demon and idiotic silver-haired mage resurfaced in Gray's head. He hurriedly pushed the memories from the Galuna Island incident to the back of his mind.

"Why would you want to revive a demon? And what makes you think that I'd help you?"

"Personal reasons, and frankly, you don't have a choice in the matter."

"Personal reasons?! Have you ever seen a demon and the amount of destruction they can cause?!" yelled Gray who was practically shaking with anger.

"No," said Amelia who was unfazed by Gray's anger, "Maybe that's why I want to see one so much."

"You have no idea what you're trying to revive can do. You don't know the amount of pain and suffering they can bring."

"Oh, I've done my homework. I've researched all I could about demons and I know all of Otonami's powers."

"And what would reviving it accomplish besides more destruction?" asked Gray.

"Well, you see there are spells that allow people to control demons," said Amelia happily.

"Amelia, don't you think you've told him too much?" asked Max.

Amelia just shrugged him off, "It's already too late. We're justing waiting for the full moon which is only 2 days away. All we need to do until then is collect enough magic to start the ceremony."

"Collect magic?" questioned Gray who had a bad feeling about this.

A smirk appeared on Amelia's face, "yes, devil slaying magic to be precise. And since you won't give it up willingly, we'll have to take it by force."

She nodded towards Max who unlocked the cell and the door squeaked open. Gray tried to press himself further into the wall, but he was roughly grabbed by the arm and dragged out.

Natsu paced through the building, sniffing the air. Of course he had tried to track Gray once Levy managed to take down the barrier, but it was impossible to track by scent because they had teleported away. But they didn't have any other leads, so Natsu didn't know what else to do.

"No luck?" asked Wendy who had decided to follow the fire dragon slayer. The two exceeds hovered in the air above her.

Natsu just shook his head.

"Maybe we should check the surrounding area. It's not likely that they could have teleported halfway across Fiore in one jump. They probably made a couple of stops along the way, right?" pointed out Wendy.

"But we don't know how far the enemy can teleport in one jump. So we could be searching in an area too small or too large. We don't even know if they teleported far away at all," said Carla. Wendy deflated a little bit.

"Still better than doing nothing, and we're not getting anything done here," said Natsu. Wendy brightened up again.

Just then Natsu's stomach grumbled.

"As always, your timing is impeccable," said Carla. Wendy and Happy laughed lightly.

"That's something ice block would say," grinned Natsu.

"Let's go back to town to grab some food before continuing our search," said Carla.

"Aye!"

The two dragon slayers and two exceeds left the building and headed back to town. In said town's jailhouse, a certain redhead was in the middle of an interrogation.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?" yelled Erza, banging her head against the bars.

"I...I don't...I don't know!" stuttered the man in the corner, who was trying to put as much distance in between him and Titania as possible.

Erza just glared daggers at the man who yelped in fear. The only things that protected the leader of the gang of robbers were the bars in front of him. If they weren't there then he would have been reduced to a bloody pulp by now. Lucy stood a few feet behind Erza, slightly afraid of redirecting Titania's rage towards herself.

"Tell me everything you know," said Erza.

"Um...The two you asked about, their names were Amelia and Max. They joined the day before you attacked."

So they joined the same day we arrived in town, thought Lucy. There's no way that's a coincidence.

"What types of magic do they use?" asked Erza.

"Amelia uses lightning magic and Max uses teleportation magic," said the man.

"And?" prompted Erza.

"Um...that's it." said the man confused.

This surprised Lucy because she knew that Max could create jutsu shikis.

"Do you know anything else?" asked Erza again.

"No," said the man.

"Okay, fine. Lucy, let's go," said Erza who was already walking away. The celestial mage followed her friend out of the jailhouse.

"So what do we do now?" asked Lucy.

"Hmm, I don't know," said Erza, "but it doesn't seem coincidental that they decided to take Gray."

"Yeah, there's no way they just happened to join the same day we arrived in town. They must have been targeting Gray from the very beginning. They seemed to have a very thought out plan too," reasoned Lucy.

Erza nodded in agreement. Just then they heard someone call out their names.

"Lucy! Erza!"

The two girls turned around and were surprised to see Natsu, Wendy, Happy, and Carla walking towards them.

"Wow, we didn't know you were here too," said Wendy.

Lucy was about to reply, but Erza beat her to it.

"NATSU! What were you thinking charging out like that?" yelled Titania.

Natsu yelped and cowered behind Lucy.

"Did you guys get any leads?" asked Carla ignoring the raging Erza.

"No, not really," said Lucy.

"Neither did we," said Wendy, "but we were planning on looking around nearby and try to pick up Gray's scent."

"After we had something to eat," added Happy.

"I'm pretty hungry too, mind if we join you?" asked Lucy.

"Sure," said Wendy.

The friends went to a restaurant to get some food before heading off. Natsu ordered a mountain of food while Erza just wanted a strawberry cheesecake. They were in the middle of eating when Lucy's communication lacrima lit up.

"Who is it?" asked Natsu in between bites.

"It's Levy," replied Lucy, bringing the lacrima up to ear.

"Hello?" said Lucy.

"Hey Lu-chan," said Levy.

"Hey Levy, what's up?"

"Come to Oshibana Town, Gajeel said he picked up Gray's scent."

Author's Note:

Sorry not much happened this chapter. The action will pick up next chapter(hopefully). Well, I totally forgot about Wendy in chapter 1, though I'm not sure if she's actually part of Team Natsu. I felt sorry for her so I just added her in with Natsu. That's it for now. Please follow/fav/review :)