Wendy woke up the next morning feeling very excited about spending the day with her parents. After breakfast she went with her parents into town to buy her some new clothes to wear to school and some flower seeds to do gardening with. Unfortunately it started raining when they got home so they had to post pone the gardening for next weekend.

"It's just a little rainy." Wendy said. "Are you sure we can't plant one little seed?"

"No Wendy, rain makes mud and mud makes a mess." Erza said. "I don't like dirt."

"You didn't always think that way." Jellal chuckled. "In fact Wendy, one time your mother and I went dancing in the rain."

"You did? Did you get muddy?"

"Oh definitely but we're having too much fun to care."

"Jellal we were kids. We didn't think about the consequences of our actions back then." Erza said.

"What consequences? We just had to take a bath."

"Did you do it together like you always do?" Wendy asked.

Both Jellal and Erza blushed when she mentioned that.

"Wendy we don't take baths together." Erza said trying to make her blush disappear.

"At least not all the time." Jellal mumbled which earned him a glare from his wife.

"Where did you get a silly idea like that?" Erza asked.

"Uncle Mystogan told me." Wendy answered. "Though I couldn't tell if he was joking or not."

"He was joking honey! Joking! Listen why don't you go wash up for dinner okay?"

"Alright." Wendy said going upstairs.

Erza and Jellal looked at each other awkwardly.

"Now you know why I don't like my brother babysitting her." Jellal said.

"Jellal how exactly does Mystogan know about our baths?" Erza asked suspiciously. "I thought we agreed to keep those little moments of ours a secret."

"Uh...Heh...Heh...I may have mentioned a few things to him under the influence of too much rum, that time we went to the bar for our birthday." He said nervously sipping his tea.

"Uh-Huh well you know I think that we should put these little moments of ours on hold for awhile."

"Does that mean we're just going to sleep next Friday night?"

"Yes dear."

"Shoot." He mumbled.

After dinner the three of them sat in the living room to play cards together. From a distance they were being observed by her ghostly friends. Since neither of them could remember their own families or what it was like to have one save for Natsu, they couldn't help but be fascinated by this display.

"So that's what a family night looks like." Natsu said.

"Did you remember if you had ever spent any time with your dad or your brother?" Gray asked.

"No but I'm pretty sure my dad was a jerk to me in life just like he is to me in death."

"They say death changes people. Maybe he was a nice guy in life."

"Doubtful."

"If I think back hard enough I think I can remember a little about my mother." Juvia said.

"What do you remember?" Lucy asked her.

Juvia thought back as hard as she could. It was difficult but she could make out an image. It was very faint but she had a pretty good idea of what it was.

"I think she held me and I think she sang to me. And other times I think I can hear her voice saying 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry that we have to leave you. Je t'aime, Je t'aime'."

"Je what?" Natsu said. "What does that mean?"

"It's French. It means I love you."

"You were French?"

"I don't know but I guess my mother was. I wish I could remember more. It's taken me a whole century to remember those parts."

"I think I remember my mother being sad." Lucy said. "Kind but sad."

"Any idea why she was sad?" Juvia asked.

"No. It's just bits and pieces."

"What about you Gray? You remember anything about your parents? Anything at all?"

"Not really." He answered. "But I think I died mad at them because whenever I think about them I get angry."

"Funny the same thing happens to me whenever I try to think about who my father was." Lucy said. "Do you think our parents could have been bad to us?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's best that we don't remember our parents."

"Well I would given anything to remember mine." Juvia said. "Even if they were horrible, at least I would have some closure."

"There's no way your parents were horrible." Gray said.

"How do you know that?"

"Because you're much too nice to be the daughter of bad people."

"Thank you but you can be a nice person and not come from nice people. At least that what I always believed."

Suddenly they heard a loud noise coming from the empty flat that they lived in.

"What on earth was that?" Erza asked.

Wendy looked up to where her friends were and they gestured to her that they would take care of whatever made that noise and that it was nothing to worry about.

"It was probably just some old stuff falling over in the attic." Jellal concluded.

But it wasn't. The ghouls would soon discover that it was something much worse. They went up to their flat and saw that someone from the In-Between had opened a door to their world.

"Uh-oh." Natsu said.

"Alright no one panic." Lucy said. "Let's just close up the door before anything else gets out and find whatever dead thing is here."

"I'll lock the doors to the flat in case this thing is tangible." Juvia said grabbing the key form a nearby shelf and went downstairs to lock the doors.

Natsu, Gray, and Lucy started erasing the drawn on door while hoping that whatever got in there wasn't something that they couldn't handle.

"You know I can pretty much take anything from the other side." Natsu said. "There's nothing from the In-Between that scares."

"Nothing except hell hounds." Gray said.

"That's different they're not from the In-Between they're from Hell."

"What's a hell hound?" Lucy asked. "I've heard of them but I never understood."

"They're slobbering, vicious, mangy mutts who reside in hell and there purpose is to devour any soul that tries to leave hell."

"Basically they're Satan's guard dogs." Gray said. "They make sure that anyone who was sent hell stays there and never escapes. They're not exactly evil ,they're just doing what their trained to do and also Natsu happens to be terrified of them."

"You're scared of a dog?" Lucy said.

"A dog that eats souls! And they're not cute! They're the most hideous things in the afterlife."

"Funny that's what I hear a lot of dead woman say about you." Gray joked.

"Uh...Guys what exactly does a hell hound look like?" Lucy asked nervously.

"Pretty much an overgrown dog." Natsu described. "With mangled black fur, glowing red eyes, ghostly characteristics, gives off a nasty odor, has a hideous overbite-"

"And a long flaming tail?"

"Yeah how did you know?"

She raised a trembling hand and pointed a finger behind them. They turned to see exactly what Natsu described standing in the corner, snarling at them.

"Oh sweet undertaker." Gray said.