A/N: Konnichiwa mah readers! Sorry for the late update. School's been starting and I must say that the students are crappy, and the teachers are crappier (if that's even a word xD), but for the sake of your joy, I'll try my best to update as fast as I can! I'm literally dying here of tiredness from school! (Excuses, excuses, tsk, tsk, tsk!)

The Second Day

"We're here!"

Natsu slightly panted as the both of them stopped for a while, eyeing a happy-go-lucky and cheerful Lucy who was practically floating around the area. Life is really unfair. If only he could strip that floating powers of hers, he'd make the ghost realize the pain of walking for 2 effin' hours.

"We could just take a taxi!" he argued earlier.

"We could but that'd mean talking in Chinese! And you can't speak it, remember?"

He expected the girl to agree and happily translate everything for him (since she said she could speak Mandarin), but nooooo! That damn ghost just had to disagree and make him walk.

Natsu hated to admit it ('cause it would hurt his manly pride), but he can't stand walking for a long time.

Sure, he has surprising athletic abilities, but walking for freaking 2 hours is a different thing! But as a guy, he had to suck it up and pretend it was a piece of cake.

"You alright?" Lucy asked, noticing the sweat forming on Natsu's neck.

"Never been better!" came his reply.

Frowning, the ghost said, "The person in need owns a restaurant. Maybe we could rest there for a while and eat?"

Upon, the mention of food, Natsu enlightened and ran, yelling something about "Why didn't you tell me earlier?!" and "Lead the way, my friend!"

XXX

Lucy glanced around the place, eyes darting at every nook and cranny in search for a silver-haired barmaid. It's been a while since she last saw her, she wonders if she still looks the same as 2 years ago?

"AH! MIRA!"

The girl called Mira, however, didn't flinch and continued doing her job.

"Baka! Are you forgetting that no one can see or hear you?"

"But it's her! It's Mira!"

"How are we going to do this? She barely knows me!"

Lucy rolled her eyes and lightly smacked the boy, "You've done it before with three other people! Why can't you do it now?!"

"Because...uh...she's Chinese?"

Well, that made perfect sense.

"For your information, Mirajane can perfectly communicate with you so there's no language barrier whatsoever."

"B-but I-"

"Dude, we didn't come to China for nothing. Just f*cking GO!" to his luck, Lucy pushed him too hard (again, he wondered where the girl got her strength), making stumble down ever-so-gracefully in front of Mirajane (note the sarcasm please).

"Oh my god! Are you alright?!"

'Oh, don't worry! I'm fine being pushed by a ghost and falling flat on my face on the cold, hard, floor!' was what he wanted to answer, but he could only muffle out a groan.

"I'll take that as a no. Elfman, can you please help me with him?!"

Before Natsu could even let a (girly) scream, a muscular giant had swooped him from the side, and everything went black after that.

XXX

"Ugh...where am I?"

Natsu groans as he tries to stand up from the bed. Squinting his eyes, he tries to recall where he was and what he was doing.

"Wait...Lucy?"

Upon the mention of her name, the said ghost immediately brightened up and hugged the pink-haired boy, much to his surprise.

"Thank Mavis you're alright! For a second there, I thought you were going to die!"

"What happened exactly?" he asked as soon as Lucy released the hug. He felt a bit empty once she removed her hands but he decided to ignore it and ask instead.

Lucy frowned, "I don't really know either. I just pushed you, you fell down, Mirajane called for help, a big man tried to carry you, you screamed and then fainted."

Natsu pinked after realizing he fainted because he was scared.

"But anyways, thanks to that, we're one step closer to Mirajane!"

"How?"

Just as Lucy was about to answer, the door burst open, making Natsu scream again.

"Good lord! Can you please stop with all the screaming?!" the man yelled as he took a step closer to Natsu.

He was as big as f*ck. With short, silver hair, a tanned skin, and a huge, muscular body, one could easily mistake him as an ogre or some sort - with Natsu being one of them.

'Holy sh*t, they're f*cking real! Igneel, I can't believe your crappy stories are actually real!'

"What happened to you? You look like you've seen a ghost or something..."

'Actually, I have, and my expression was far from this one.'

"I'm Elfman, you are?"

"N-Natsu." he answered timidly as soon as he regained his composure.

"Well, nice to meet you, Natsu, and just to let you know, manly men don't scream like girls." Elfman chuckled, "But anyways, what brings you to China? You don't look nor sound Chinese to me..."

"Uh, family vacation."

"I see."

"Umm...pardon me for asking this but where exactly am I?" Natsu asked once he realized he was not in a hospital nor in a kitchen, and then he wondered why he thought he'd be in a kitchen.

'Probably because I'm hungry.'

Elfman smiled, "You're in our house."

"Our?"

"Yes, my sister and I live here."

"Oh. Is your sister, by chance, Mirajane?" he raised a brow, to which Elfman nodded to, "I see..."

"Well, I should go now. You can come down for dinner if you feel alright. I don't want you to faint again, you know..."

"Uh, thanks."

"No problem."

As soon as Elfman left the room, Natsu quickly got out of the bed and approached Lucy, "How am I supposed to do this?!"

"You tell me! Elfman gives off a creepy vibe!"

Natsu rolled his eyes, 'Almost everyone gives off a creepy vibe.'

"Just search for something related to their sister!"

"But he said Mirajane was his sister!"

Lucy shook her head, "No! Impossible! I met Mirajane when I was alive and the last time I checked, she had TWO siblings!"

"But..."

"JUST SEARCH FOR SOMETHING!"

"Alright, fine!"

Natsu huffed and began searching at every space to find anything. Just anything would do. If he could only gain a few information about the missing sister, then maybe, just maybe...

He accidentally bumped onto something on the way, making him yelp.

'Dear Mavis! I just met them and almost broke a furniture!' he sighed in relief once he realized that it was still in one piece and bent down to place it back where it belonged.

"Wait...isn't this...?" Natsu's eyebrows furrowed as he saw the picture.

There, stood three smiling, silver-haired people. He could identify the other two as Mirajane and Elfman, but the youngest one looked very familiar to him, and he didn't know why.

Until, he remembered something.

Natsu's eyes widened in realization as he stared in awe at the picture.

"Oh no...Hell no..."

It was the waitress from the restaurant...

"So SHE is the missing sister!"