After Lucy's breakdown Natsu apologized non stop to Gildarts and offered to pay for any damage but Gildarts was a very understanding ghoul also he knew that Natsu couldn't possibly afford to pay his expenses. Not only that but he fired his stage manager. He was willing to tolerate many things but abusing his employees was not one of them.

"You four just focus on getting that poor girl some help." Gildarts said. "I don't know what happened to her in life but judging by what I just witnessed it must be bad."

"We will try to help her. Thanks for everything Gildarts." Natsu said while holding Lucy's body which was completely shut down at the moment.

They left the club and started to head back.

"This whole flashback stuff is getting really annoying." Natsu said.

"Poor Lucy." Juvia said. "I wonder what on earth could have traumatized her so much."

"If it's that bad then maybe it's a good thing she doesn't remember what happened before she died."

"But the funny thing about memories is they have a way of almost always coming back." Gray said. "No matter how hard you try to block them out."

"Not to mention she can't really solve her unfinished business if she doesn't remember what it is and if that never happens she'll be stuck here for good." Juvia added.

"Yeah well it looks like all four of us are going to be stuck here for good anyway." Natsu said.

"What do you mean?"

"Come on guys let's face facts, we've been dead for a hundred years and nothing's come back. We don't remember anything about who we are or what kind of unfinished business we had. If this much time has passed and there's still no change, do you really think we're ever going to get out of here?"

"I really don't know." Gray said. "But I've been worrying about that a few times."

"What I don't get is why is it that to move on we have to finish what we left behind and yet have no memory of it when we die. Just what kind of sick joke is this?!"

"I don't know. Why don't you talk to your brother about it? He's the one in charge of death and beyond. Well sort of, technically God is the one in charge but you get what I'm saying."

"I can't get in contact with him right now. There's a war going on in the Middle East so he'll be busy for quite sometime. The wars are always the most busy for him. It's non stop traveling to earth and back every few seconds and then he has all those casualty forms to fill out. It's a murder on a guy, no pun intended."

"That busy huh?"

"Yep and if you wanna talk about really being overworked you should have seen him during World War 2. Now that was messy. You know he considered retiring when it was over."

"Can't say I'd blame him if he did."

"Is there anyone else we could talk to?"

"Well I guess there is Kyoka." Natsu said.

"Bad idea." Gray said. "She's not exactly sympathetic to lost souls even though it's kind of her job to be."

"Who's she?" Juvia asked.

"You don't know her?"

"Not really."

"Lucky you." Natsu said. "She's a banshee, one of my brother's creations like his imps. He made her to manage the In-Between when he's busy. But she's totally nuts. Oh sure she'll approach you all nice and friendly like but it's just so she can get control of you."

"So you two have met her?"

"I pretty much know all of my brother's creations."

"I know her very well and we have a very entertaining relationship." Gray said. "It's a game we play, she hates me and tries to keep me out but she can't of course. I come and go as I please. After all I move within the shadows and shadows are pretty much everywhere."

"Come and go where exactly?" Juvia asked.

"Where else? Her domain. She despises me because I like to snoop around and she has a lot to hide."

"Like what?"

"Oh like how she omits the little fact that the deceased can travel to earth to some naive new comers."

"Why would she do that?"

"Personally I think it's because she can't go to earth."

"She can't?"

"No. No creation of Zeref can leave this place. It's because the lot of them are a little on the unstable side and by unstable I mean they have no regard for living human beings. Oh sure they're loyal to their creator but that's the closest they'll get to ever caring about some form of human."

"How do you know that?" Natsu said. "I don't even know that?"

"Once a month I play poker with an imp who's married to Zeref's housekeeper and boy does he have a lot to tell. Did you know that your brother is in relationship with one of the messenger angels?"

"What?! He is?"

"Yep. You see she guides peaceful souls to heaven so that's how they met and I guess when you work with someone for so long, one thing leads to another. They've been together for half a century."

"Man he never tells me anything anymore."

"Back to the subject at hand." Juvia said. "Remember Wendy said she'd help us remember who we are by looking at the history of the house we're haunting."

"But what if she can't help us move on?" Gray asked.

"I think she can. I mean she did help a hell hound move on."

"True but what if she doesn't find anything on the house?"

"Well a few months back I told about her about something I salvaged from my former body. A piece of jewelry, an artifact from the past, she said she could take it to a jeweler and find out it's history. If who made it had any connection to who I was."

"That may not be such a bad idea." Natsu said. "I managed to bring over a lot of things found on my corpse."

"Oh I'm afraid to ask." Gray said. "What kind of things?"

"Let's see a razor, chalk, an old liquor flask, some gun powder, a few photos-"

"You were buried with those?"

"I guess when they put me in the ground they wanted to clean out my room while they were at it."

"Wait you have some photos?" Juvia said. "That's great. Maybe they can help you remember who you are."

"Um...They're not photos of me."

"Still maybe seeing them might help you or even us figure out-"

"They're personal photos. Very personal photos."

"Oooooh." Gray and Juvia said looking at him in revulsion upon realizing what he meant.

"Natsu that's disgusting." Juvia said.

"You're sick man." Gray said.

"Hey I haven't looked at them in years and they're all of the same woman so it's not that bad." Natsu said. "And she posed for those photos so it's not like I peeped on her."

"Let's just go home." Gray said. "Before Lucy wakes up and beats your brains out for being such a perv."

"She kind of already beat my brains out." Natsu said.

However unbeknownst to them someone had been spying on them and heard every word of their conversation. That someone was an imp called Jackal and he happened to be Kyoka's little spy. When Natsu brought Wendy to the In-Between that time the girl had unknowingly run into and met Kyoka. Not pleased with a living girl existing in her domain she sent those mindless ghouls after the child to devour her.

To her chagrin, Gray ruined her plan and saved Wendy and although she went back to the living and hasn't returned since she sensed that little girl would be trouble. So she had Jackal spy on the four ghouls who were friends with her.

"So what did you find out?" She asked when he returned.

"Not much but apparently this kid of theirs is trying to help them move on." He said.

"What nonsense. She can't do that."

"I don't know, I heard from them that she helped a hell hound move on."

"What?! How? How could a mere child do that?!"

"I don't know but she does have the gift. She can see and hear the dead, I mean how else could she have gotten here that time?"

"Damn it! Not another one! Oh how I loathe that sixth sense that was created and given to some mortals!"

"Luckily very few live people believe in it."

"Fool! It doesn't matter if live people in it or not! If a mortal can use their gift and figure out the purpose of it, it ruins everything! Everything I've worked for!" She was seething at first but then became calm. "If she helps those four move on then other ghosts and ghouls may go to her for help. I must prevent that."

"How? It's not like you can get rid of her. She's alive and you can't leave this place."

"I know that you moron but there are other ways of ensuring someone fails without having to necessarily get rid of them."

"Gotcha. So what's the plan?"

"For now just watch them. Try to see just how good she is at her gift. So watch their every move non stop."

"Good plan but one problem. I can't leave this place either and they spend most of their time on earth. How am I gonna watch them twenty-four seven?"

Kyoka thought for a moment and an idea came to mind. A terrible idea.