Wendy needed to get out of her cell. She needed to protect her daughter. All Wendy could do was hope and pray that Jack doesn't get his hands on Skylar, but hoping only does so much.

Skylar doesn't even know the full story, or who her father is, and now Wendy will never be able to tell her.

Please stay safe.

•••

Skylar could only feel nerves ever since Levy told her that her husband would be arriving soon. Currently, she was away from Nashi, Reiki and Storm, when she noticed Natsu and Gray arguing.

"Gray, your clothes are missing," Skylar told him, interrupting him mid insult.

"Crap," Gray muttered, turning to Skylar. "Hey, kid..."

"Hi."

"Oh, hey, Skylar," Natsu said with his trademark grin. "How are things with you?"

"Good," Skylar answered. "I mean, as good as things can be when your mother is missing. When are you going to start looking for her?" she decided to ask.

Gray rubbed his neck awkwardly. "Erm, we're doing what we can——"

"Is that another way to say you're doing nothing?" Skylar asked.

"Skylar——" Natsu started.

"No!" Skylar blurted out, tears threatening to fall. "I want my mother! You said you'll help me..."

"And we will——" Natsu said.

"When?" Skylar clenched her fists, secretly hating how she was acting, and wanting to apologize for her rudeness, but her mother was way more important than her current attitude.

The two men had no idea what to say, they just glanced at each other, and then back down at the girl.

What they didn't notice was the man who recently just joined Fairy Tail sitting close to them, eavesdropping on their conversation.

"Skylar," Levy said, coming over to them. She looked at Natsu and Gray, smiling. "I'm just gonna borrow her, okay?" To Skylar: "My husband just entered, let's go."

Without another word to the the ice and fire mages, Skylar walked behind Levy, to where another man sat, almost causing Skylar to wet her pants, because of how scary he looked. He had long, spiky black hair, small red beady eyes and piercings alongside his nose.

"Gajeel, you're back!" Levy said, causing Gajeel to look over at them.

Skylar paled when Gajeel trained his eyes on her. "Who's the runt?" Gajeel questioned. Skylar looked up at Levy, really wanting to bolt.

"Oh, this is Skylar," Levy answered. "Skylar, this is my husband, Gajeel. Skylar's staying with us for a little while."

"Why?" Gajeel asked incredulously.

"Well, just because, okay?" Levy said with a slight glare at her husband.

"Kay," Gajeel said, taking a bite out of metal, causing Skylar to gape at him, but Levy didn't seem to find it weird. "Where's Gale?" Gajeel asked. "Or did you trade him in for this random girl?"

"Gale went on a job with Nova," Levy told him.

"Ah," Gajeel mused. "Are they dating yet?"

"Not yet."

Gajeel glanced around Skylar. "Don't you speak?" he questioned her.

Feeling defiant, she shook her head and walked away.

"Skylar!" Nashi yelled, running up to her and practically tackling her. "Come here!" Nashi grabbed Skylar's wrist before she was able to question the pinkette, and dragged her over to where Storm and Reiki were.

"Oh, yay, she's here," Reiki muttered.

Skylar ignored Reiki's obvious jab, and asked, "What's going on?"

"We're going on a job!" Nashi and Storm said at the same time, causing them to scowl at each other.

Skylar blinked. Once. Twice. Thrice. "Excuse me, what?" she said. "I thought you said we're going on a job." She awkwardly chuckled. "But that's... that's not what y-you said... right?"

"Actually, they did, BlackBerry," Reiki said. "We're going on a job. Luke's picking out the job."

"I thought he wasn't apart of this team," Skylar said, confused.

"Despite what he says, sometimes he goes on jobs with us, but he's not officially apart of Team Nashi," Nashi told her.

"Team Storm." Storm coughed.

"Team Reiki," Reiki corrected.

"We're still coming up with the name," Nashi said with a small grin. Skylar slowly nodded in understanding, wondering why it had to be one of their names.

"Here, found a job!" Like said, running up to them with a piece of paper in his hands.

"Well, what does it say?" Storm asked.

"Something about capturing a murderer for 1 million jewels!" Luke exclaimed.

"Wow, that's a lot!" Storm gasped.

"I'm fired up now." Nashi grinned.

"Let's do this!" Reiki said.

"Did you miss the part where we have to deal with a killer... oh, okay." Skylar stopped the rant that was about to happen, as he get team was running out of the guild, leaving Skylar no choice but to catch up, thinking, I'm so going to regret this.

•••

"I found Wendy's daughter," Alex said, having had left the guild the moment he discovered her.

Jack grinned. "Is she in Fairy Tail?"

"Yes," Alex said, having no clue that Skylar had just left the guild after he had.

"Perfect. I'll send my men to... collect her. And anyone who gets in my way will die."