12 hours before the events of last chapter

In an abandoned building not far from there sat a man. He wasn't a young man with his gre pointy beard and patch covering his right eye. Around him men with rifles, shotguns, pistols and an assortment of knives and other weapons cleaned and sharpened. His throne was set up in the gymnasium of a university, he hadn't cared to find out the name even after all this time. It was an old chair taken from the basement of the university, on lone to their history department from some museum. The chair wasn't comfy but it looked nice and that was really all that mattered the man only known as Hades cared about.

"Listen up!" The men all around the gym, numbering around sixty in all, immediately stopped what they were doing and looked over.

"We have a nice little town sitting just south of us that has no clue we're here. We struck once a year ago and came up with some results but not enough! But now their leader has, according to my spies anyways, lost her damn mind! I say we take advantage of that and get us some provisions, what say the rest of you?!" The group cheered and hollered and stomped their feet before being silenced by a raised hand.

"We will strike like we did a year ago! Hard and fast and devastatingly but this time we will not fail! We will bring it down and take all that we will need for years to come!" The roar that came from the group was louder than the last and only got more so when Hades raised himself from his chair and raised his hands, his black cloak flowing over his combat gear. He grinned widely, this time he would take the town, this time he would win.

Back in Monroe

"Little idiots running off. Seriously couldn't even leave a fucking note or anything like that. Now where the hell are they?" Gajeel grumbled and moped his way throughout the town trying to find Gray and Natsu. He had woken up to a doctors office, his revolvers sitting on the desk to his right. His clothes were all on except for his duster which hung on a coat hook on the purple door and his right shoulder killing him. Grumbling he'd gotten up and grabbed his stuff, holstering his guns and swearing about how all his ammo had better still be in the pockets, which it was. He didn't talk to anybody in the office on the way out the door as there hadn't actually been anybody but when he did finally emerge from the small building he found himself about a block away from the courthouse. Choosing a direction he headed off from there.

So far all he had seen were a bunch of people he didn't know and a bunch of stores he didn't care to go into. When Gajeel finally did find Natsu he was in a bakery, deep in conversation with Lisanna.

"Well I don't wanna get in the way of that!" He kept going deciding to look for Gray, hell even Lucy would have been nice even if he had just met her. Not his type in any way but at least she had a nice pair.

"A bookstore? If the bastard isn't in there then I'm going and getting drunk." When he walked in Gajeel didn't expect the small blue haired girl that came up to him to be so cute. Wearing black leather pants, a yellow sundress and a green bandana on the top of her head to help tie back her blue hair, she had a no-nonsense attitude about her and went straight for the point.

"What are you looking for?" Gajeel was taken aback, never before had he met someone who just walked up to him and looked him in the eyes instead of his piercings.

"Ummm, my friend! You seen anybody come in here that you've never met?" She huffed and turned away.

"Nope! I'm far to busy to remember right now anyways so if you find something you want to trade for come see me!" With that the woman walked away leaving Gajeel completely flabbergasted.

"What the fuck is it with the women in this place?!" He went to turn away when two things happened. The first was the sound of a rifle going off followed by shattered glass, the second was the store across the street from him blowing up and sending him flying backwards.

In an undisclosed location

"Juvia doesn't know what you did wrong." Words came swimming through the black void. His head ached and his body groaned.

"Juvia doesn't know why she likes this so much." A sound. Sniffing? That couldn't have been good. A seconds pause before another large sniff followed by a gasp with a sigh of relief mixed in.

"But Juvia does know that you need to tell her what you were doing in a tree." Light through his eyelids. Bright and hot against the back of his skull.

Gray's eyes flashed open to find a huge light bulb concentrated directly on his face. He tried to shield his eyes with his hands but found they couldn't move. His feet were the same but before he could panic the light was thrown away from him and in its place stood a diamond face with large blue eyes and even bluer hair. Her lips were tight with abnormal concentration but that wasn't what Gray was worried about nor was it what he was looking at. It was her nose and the white, powdery substance siting just underneath her nostrils. Upon seeing his eyes open the girls face lightened and a smile spread across her face.

"You're awake! Good!" She held up a pair of overly large pliers "We have so much to discuss."

I know, I know, it's a relatively short chapter but I've got so much going on right now this was all I could do! Besides, it really is a good suspense chapter don't ya think? ;) Either way I hope it satisfies a little bit. Read and Review y'all!