Teams went out and returned empty hand one after the other for a full twenty-four hours, Juvia's nerves had taken about all they could handle when an idea hit her, pulling Mira from the bar she asked, "can you make a call for me?"

"Sure, who do you need to contact?" she asked, moving toward the communication lacrima.

"Meredy, I know Crime Sorciere's contact information is secret, but I have a plan that needs Meredy specifically."

Mira paused, "are you planning to do something dangerous Juvia?"

"I don't think it is necessarily dangerous, but may be a little risky, but I need to do something Mira, I can't just sit by and wait he needs me or maybe I just need him."

Mira contacted Meredy for Juvia and escorted her to the mountains to meet up with her. The search teams were shocked to see Juvia arrive and Gajeel screamed at her as she left the lodge with Fred and Mira, "Damn it Rain Woman are you insane? You have to think about that baby."

"I am thinking of my child; this baby needs it's father," she said letting the door slam shut behind her as she headed out into the cold.

Freed held Mira's hand as they made their way though an intensifying storm to the point they believed Laxus disappeared. Meredy stood nearby with Jellal, their capes whipping around them in the freezing winds. "Juvia!" Meredy said rushing to hug her, "How are you holding up?"

"Awful." Juvia admitted, "I need to find him, or I will never make it through this pregnancy"

"Oh Juvia," Meredy gave her a sympathetic look, "let's try it."

Freed asked, "what exactly is this idea of yours?"

Meredy spoke, "with my magic we can do a sensory link on two or more people if they have a strong connection, our hope is that I can link Juvia to Laxus and she will be able to find where he is." Not wasting any time Meredy performed the spell and the telltale glowing pink band wrapped around Juvia's wrist, "It worked."

Laxus felt a change causing him to stir from the near catatonic state he has been in for who knows how long, he felt warmth on his arm beginning near his wrist and spreading toward the rest of his body, but there was something more; his heart…he felt waves of fear and worry but an underlying envelopment of what he could only explain as love, the way he felt brought an image of Juvia to mind.

Juvia closed her eyes tightly and rid to focus she sensed despair no don't give up she thought, you can't, I'm coming for you. She nearly fell as a heavy gust of wind took her by surprise, but when she regained her balance she pointed toward the distance where only a few treetops poked through the deep snow. "That way, he is that way, I can feel it." She stumbled trying to rush across the powdery snow, desperate to reach the spot. There was nothing unique or unusual about this area from a visual aspect, Juvia wandered for a moment, "HERE!" she screamed dropping to her knees and beginning to dig in the snow with her hands, "He's under the snow," Jellal ran back to the others at the cabin to get help, if Juvia was right they'd be lucky to get him out alive, they were fighting a losing battle against time and nature.

Laxus tried to focus on the warmth, but suddenly he sensed and extreme desperation, PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! The word rang out over and over in his mind, PLEASE! There was no mistaking it, the words were there, but they were not his own. Energy and chaos, his senses were forced into overdrive despite his extremely low energy level, he felt like something big was happening as he fought to keep himself from slipping further into the cold darkness threatening to steal his life.

"PLEASE!" Juvia screamed as Mira pulled her back, her fingers were numb and bleeding from digging so vigorously in the snow, but now their guildmates were running over the hill to where they were.

"We hadn't looked here," Freed explained, "it was so far from where we last saw him, we probably wouldn't have come this far searching."

"He's here," Juvia said, "he has to be."

Evergreen and Bixlow were among the first to arrive, Natsu and Lucy crested the hill just behind them, followed by Wendy, Gray, and Gajeel. Everyone quickly got to work moving as much of the snow as quickly as they could without risking injuring Laxus if he were there. A deep chill shot through Juvia's body and she said, "I think he's awake…or trying to be."

Meredy put herself in on the sensory link to get a sense of what Juvia was feeling, she took a moment to clear her mind before trying to decipher what was being transmitted; fear, stress, worry…that was Juvia- despair, confusion, anxiety…" she's right, Laxus is here and possibly conscious." Putting all of her energy into funneling Laxus's feelings she let herself be guided to where the energy seemed strongest, "Juvia, you interpreted this extremely well, I am being drawn to the same exact spot, it's really impressive."

At that moment Juvia and Meredy both felt a twinge and flutter, Juvia's hand fell to her abdomen, "I think I just felt the baby move."

Laxus fought to remain conscious, darkness edged in, he wanted to rest with the extreme exhaustion tugging at his very core, but he feared if he allowed sleep to take over he may never wake up. The cold was unrelenting, he had to figure out if this strange flood of feelings was somehow tied to Juvia. A twinge hit him, a feeling of pure joy and excitement. What had happened? Above his head the snow shifted, crunching sounds became louder, was somebody there?

Natsu and Gajeel yelled out nearly simultaneously about finding his scent, Juvia rushed to the spot, "Please be okay, Please!" she begged.

"Move back everyone, we need to make room and be gentle removing this snow, we don't need to further injure him trying to get him out." Freed said scooping snow from the hole. Juvia held her breath as Freed uncovered the edge of a fur trimmed coat belonging to Laxus, beyond that they uncovered a body and blood….lots of blood in the snow. Blonde hair poked through the snow and Juvia dropped to her knees to brush away the powder covering his face, his lips were blue, skin pale and her heart ached, running her hands over his hair she begged aloud, "Laxus, open your eyes, please look at me…" the air around the group grew tense and the rescue teams watched nervously for movement.

Wendy came forward and knelt next to Juvia reaching out to heal Laxus the light reflected off the snow almost blinding everyone watching. One sound seemed to cause time to stand still, a soft groan, Juvia drew a deep breath as eyelids moved barely cracking open, Juvia laid her head on his chest, the sound of a heartbeat and breathing caused the last of her resolve to shatter. Her sobs started softly but quickly transitioned into heavy and uncontrollable gasping cries. She felt the rise and fall of his chest and brushed her fingers through his icy hair, "you're alive," she cried, "thank goodness you're alive."

A low rumble started up the mountain, growing louder in intensity as it swiftly moved toward them, "Avalanche!" Freed yelled to the group, "we need to move now!"

"There's no time," shouted Gajeel, the wall of snow barreling toward them taking down trees and bushes along the way, Juvia reached out to touch Laxus on his frigid face before laying against his body bracing for impact.