The three of them stood there completely stiff as the hell hound stared them down with his soulless eyes.
"Nobody move a muscle." Gray whispered to Lucy and Natsu.
"Gray none of us have muscles." Natsu said.
"Whatever, just don't make any sudden movements."
They all stood completely still. If they still had heart beats they would be beating as fast as a conga drum. Then without warning the hound immediately started chasing them. On the other side of the flat, Juvia had just finished locking all doors when she heard the sound of her friends screaming in terror.
"What on earth?" Juvia rushed to the flat where the hell hound was mauling Natsu's face. "What happened?!"
"A hell hound got in." Lucy said.
"And apparently moron is it's favorite snack." Gray said.
"Don't just stand there!" Natsu shouted. "Get it off me!"
Natsu ran around like a mad man as the hell hound continued trying to eat his face off.
"Get it off! Get it off!"
"Hold still!" Lucy leaned over and tried to somehow grab the hound.
"Nice doggy, good doggy." Juvia said also trying to grab it. "Please get off of Natsu."
"My face! My beautiful face!" Natsu cried out.
"Beautiful? Compared to what?" Gray said.
"You could try helping us you know!" Lucy said.
"Alright I got it." He made his cane appear and started trying to hit the demonic dog with it but he kept missing and hitting Natsu instead.
"Ow! Hey! Oof! Ouch! How is this supposed to help me?!" Natsu said.
"Stop moving so much!" Gray said.
"You expect me to just hold still and let it eat me?!"
Natsu eventually lost his balance and fell over. Allowing the hell hound to start mauling every part of his body.
"Ow! Help! My leg! My leg!" He hollered. "No don't bite me there! Ahhh!"
"Sit doggy! Bad doggy! Don't eat the smelly ghoul!" Gray demanded as he continued trying to hit the hound with his cane.
But that did nothing. So in a moment of desperation Natsu tore off Gray's skeletal right arm and held it up.
"Here doggy! See the bone?! Want the bone?! Fetch!" Natsu then threw the arm across the floor. The hound got off of Natsu and went after it.
"Hey!" Gray said angrily. "That's my arm!"
"Sorry Gray but I was desperate." Natsu said.
The hell hound grabbed hold of the skeletal arm and began to gnaw on it.
"Give me back my arm you stupid mutt!" Gray demanded.
It barked viciously at Gray when he tried to make a grab for his arm. It then spat the arm out which was covered now covered in supernatural spit and started to pull on the skirt of Juvia's dress.
"Stop that!" Juvia demanded as she tried to pull her skirt out of it's mouth. "Let go of that right now! I mean it! This is highly disrespectful!"
"You disgusting mongrel!" Gray said angrily. "You got saliva all over my arm! You die for this!"
Gray moved to hit him with his cane but then the hound pulled Juvia's skirt to where Gray could get a good look at her panties which distracted him.
"Oh my." He said feeling flustered.
"Eeek!" Juvia cried before shoving the hound in embarrassment which was enough to make it let go of her.
It then turned it's attention to Lucy who became completely frozen with fear. It sniffed her a couple of times and eventually raised up it's leg to pee on her boots.
"Eww! Get away from me!" She screamed.
They were all making a huge noise which didn't go unheard by Wendy and her family.
"Hey does anyone else hear a dog?" Erza asked.
"Don't be silly Mom." Wendy laughed nervously. "Why would a dog be here? How could a dog even get in here?"
"I could've sworn I heard a dog barking."
"It's probably from outside." Jellal said.
"I guess but it sounded like it was coming from just above our heads."
"Uh...Who wants a snack?" Wendy said. "You guys continued playing cards and I'll get us a little snack. Excuse me."
She got up from the table went down to the end of the hall where the door to the empty flat stood. It was locked but she had a spare key so she unlocked it and went up the stairs.
"What's going on?" She asked and she quickly received her answer when she saw her friends being attacked by a dog that was unlike any other she had ever seen. They had just managed to finally to get it away from Lucy when it sniffed the air and realized that there was something else in this room. Something alive. Following it's nose, it looked over and spotted Wendy at the doorway.
"Wendy run!" Lucy called.
She ran, the ghouls moved to grab the hell hound but it moved too quickly for them. It chased Wendy around and around until at last it managed to jump on to her. Wendy turned as white as a ghost, her heart was pounding, and her eyes pleaded with this beast not to kill her. It sniffed her again and for a moment it looked like it was about to bite her but instead it did something completely different. It licked her cheek.
"Huh?" Wendy said.
It proceeded to give her face slobbery kisses which tickled her and made her laugh.
"Stop it! It tickles! Stop!" She laughed.
Gray, Juvia, Natsu, and Lucy looked at them in shock and confusion.
"I don't believe this." Gray said.
"Why is it not trying to eat her?" Natsu said. "Why is it being affectionate with her?"
"How should I know?"
"Down boy." Wendy said. "Sit."
At once it got off of her and sat down obediently.
"Um...Lie down."
He did as he was told.
"Rollover?"
He did that as well.
"Speak?"
He barked.
"What the hell is this?!" Natsu asked. "It attacks me but then it starts being all sweet around her? What's the big idea?"
"We'll worry about that later." Lucy said. "Right now let's get this thing out of here before it gets away and hurts somebody."
"And how do we do that without getting mauled to pieces?" Gray asked.
"We could try to get a leash for him. They have specially made leashes for hell hounds over in the In-Between." Juvia said.
"Then we'll get one. Natsu, you and I can go to the In-Between to get the leash. Gray, you and Juvia stay behind and make sure Fido of the dead doesn't get out to attack anyone else." Lucy said. "Wendy do you think that you can keep him calm while we're gone?"
"I'll try." She kneeled down and started to gently stroke the hell hound. It laid it's great big head on it's lap, panting, and being extremely gentle with her.
"Again I don't believe this." Gray said.