In the tea room Erza explained what their next move would be. The plan was that they were going to sneak on to the train that the vampires were supposed to attack next week. After pulling their prisoner for information, they found out the exact date, time, and which train would be targeted. Erza had to pull a few strings but she was able to four tickets to the train for her agents. They boarded it right after sunset and made sure that they didn't look inconspicuous.

"I wonder why vampires would hijack a train." Lucy whispered to Natsu.

"Maybe they want a ride with a free meal." He whispered. "To creatures like them every passenger on here is an all you can eat buffet."

"But there's too many people here." Gray said. "Pure blood vampires rarely feed in public. That would risk exposure."

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

"Centuries ago when I started hunting you I made it my mission to learn every fact about vampires I could find."

"I learned facts too."

"Did you read the ancient texts?"

"They were in Latin. I can't read Latin."

"I can."

"Why you and not me?"

"Don't you remember when they tried to teach us Latin when we were thirteen? I paid attention while you slept through the entire classes. "

"Oh yeah..." He said remembering that. "Well Latin is a stupid language."

"I beg to differ. You know a lot of paranormal beings speak Latin because humans don't really bother to learn it anymore. So they use it as their own way of speaking in code to each other."

"Oh so that's why Mother Mcgarden insisted I learn Latin." Juvia said. "I always thought it was because she was a traditionalist."

"My father made me learn Latin too but that was because he wanted to brag to the neighbors about how more educated and cultured I was than them." Lucy said.

"Hold on does everyone here know Latin except me?" Natsu said.

"Yep." Gray said.

"Pretty much." Lucy said.

"It would seem." Juvia said.

Natsu made a look of embarrassment but it didn't last long. He then turned his attention to the window of the train so he could look out at the night atmosphere. For hours everything was quiet and it appeared that nothing was going to happen but both Natsu and Gray knew better than to let their guard down because vampires always struck when you least expected it. They kept their eyes and ears open for any sign of anything unusual. But again things appeared calm until about three hours later when Lucy felt something clutching up her dress and she presumed it to be Natsu so she slapped him.

"Ow!" He said rubbing his cheek. "What was that for?"

"Pervert! You keep your hands to yourself and out of my dress!" She scoffed.

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't play dumb! I know that was you getting handsy with my skirt!"

"What?! You're nuts lady! I didn't do that!"

"Yes you did!"

"Actually it was me." An unfamiliar voice said.

"Who said that?" Natsu asked as he and his group looked around for the person that was addressing them.

"Down here." The voice called quietly.

They looked down and saw that it was a little girl hiding underneath the seats that Natsu and Lucy were sitting in.

"I'm sorry." She said. "I didn't mean to grab your dress. It was an accident."

"Who are you?"

"And what are you doing under the seats?" Lucy added.

"My name is Wendy and I'm trying to hide so don't be so loud. You might give me away."

"Hide from who?" Gray asked.

"These weird guys who were following me. When it got dark they just appeared out of nowhere and they wouldn't leave me alone. I boarded this train to get away from them but they found me. I managed to ditch them in the last cart but they'll probably be on my trail in just a few short minutes."

"Kid what exactly do these guys who are following you look like?" Natsu said.

"Let's see they were pale and they looked old but at the same time they also looked young. They had a very dead and sullen appearance with these horrible red eyes."

"Ah targets have made their presence known." Natsu said cocking his crossbow with wooden stakes. "Kid you stay here while we take care of those stalkers for you. Hey sister you think you can watch her?"

"Don't worry I'll keep her safe." Juvia said loading up her gun.

"Wow you're a nun and you use a firearm?" The girl called Wendy asked in amazement.

"Yes but don't take that as meaning that support the use of violence for conflict resolution. Only when it's absolutely necessary dear."

The men concealed their weapons and Lucy got her bracelet ready then they subtly made their way to the other train cart without being noticed by any of the other passengers.

"What are they going to do?" Wendy asked Juvia.

"To tell you the truth they're most likely going to kill the people following you."

"What?! I just wanted them to stop following me. I didn't want them dead."

"Don't be too upset about it. I don't think they're really human. "

"They aren't? What are they?"

"Well...I'm not sure how I should tell you this because I'm not sure if you'll believe me...But...They're vampires."

"Vampires? Oh no. Not again."

"Oh so you do believe vampires exist. Thank goodness. I was worried you'd think I was crazy and run away."

"No I know they're real and this isn't the first time I've been stalked by them. They've recently taken a special interest in me."

"Why you?"

"Promise not too freak out when I tell you." She said while doing everything she can not to let Juvia see her teeth.

"I promise."

"Okay it's like this."

...

The train cart that the three of them went into was completely empty and dark with no sign of a single passenger. They saw nothing but Natsu could smell that they were not alone.

"Don't bother hiding from me!" Natsu called out. "I can smell your rotting souls all around here so why don't you just quit delaying the inevitable and show yourselves?"

In about five minutes two bats dropped down from the cart ceiling and took to their true forms as vampires. Just Wendy had said they were very pale and looked both young and old with a death-like appearance which for a moment puzzled Lucy because Natsu didn't look like that at all. Come to think of it, compared to the other vampires she had seen Natsu bore very little resemblance to them. Yes he had red eyes and fangs like them but that's where the similarities ended. He didn't have their sickening pale skin or their mixture of old and young appearance. He didn't look dead or sullen either. His skin was tan, his appearance completely youthful and not a sign of age, and no where was there death or gloom. She wondered why that was? But her thought process was soon interrupted when the other two vampires spoke.

"We don't have time to deal with the likes of you all." One of them snarled. "And you can just drop your weapons and get the hell out of here because we're not going to drink anyone on this train...Well maybe one or two passengers but hey a vampire's gotta eat."

"Our main purpose here is not blood lust. It's merely to grab a kid we were following this evening." The second said. "We're under strict orders to bring her back with us and nothing else. Your services aren't needed so leave us to do as we as were ordered."

"Yeah not gonna happen." Natsu said.

"What do you overgrown parasites want with a human child?" Gray asked.

"Human? Oh don't be fooled by her innocent appearance." The first vampire chuckled. "Sure she may look the part but she's definitely not human. Not entirely anyway."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"None of your damn business! Now step aside and let us take her!"

"Sorry but you see even though I'm a vampire myself I have some standards." Natsu said. "And one of them is not harming children or allowing them to be harmed. So there's no way in hell I'm letting you bastards anywhere near that little girl."

"Have it your way but we refuse to accept failure." He turned to his partner. "Let's kill em all!"

"Agreed."

The two vampires then lunged for the three humans hunting them thus ensuing their fight.