Rogue caused several heads to turn when he rushed in, announcing the injured diclonius. Yukino and Frosch happened to be downstairs and saw the two, and ran over.

"Oh my god..." Yukino gasped when she saw Nana in the Shadow Dragon Slayer's arms. "What happened?"

"Two boys came and beat up Nana pretty bad." Rogue explained, his eyes setting down on Nana, and felt guilt rush into him. "Thankfully, I saw what was going on and stopped them in their tracks. But her wounds are critical and her limbs came off."

"Oh..." Yukino was torn to hear about that. "Well, at least you had saved her from those terrible boys."

Rogue revealed the prosthetics that he was holding in his cape, and it only caused the woman's eyes to widen in concern. Her eyes were fixed on the limbs for another second until she looked up at Rogue.

"I'll take the limbs." she told him, and Rogue lets the Celestial Wizard take the said fake body parts. "I'll walk with you and get some help."

"Fro will come too, and assist." the Exceed spoke up, and Rogue smiled. The three then went to find Sting and the others.

Rogue, Frosch, and Yukino walked to the living room with Nana in Rogue's arms where Kaede and Sting were taking a nap on the couch. Kaede was on top of Sting and Lector was at the other end of the couch sleeping too.

Yukino would've found it cute if it weren't for the emergency at hand. "Sting, wake up!" Yukino shouted, knowing he could hear her.

Sting's eyes shot open as he noticed Kaede on top of him. Blushing, he gently pushed her off of him, but that only ended up with Kaede landing on the floor.

Kaede woke up saying "What the hell, Sting?" Standing up, she smelt blood and noticed that it was Nana's. Walking over to her, she said "Let's get her to the infirmary, I know what to do"

Sting's eyes widened as he saw the state Nana was in. "What happened to her?" he asked.

"No time we have to get her to the infirmary quick" Kaede ordered and went to the infirmary with Nana in Rogue's arms, Lector, Sting, Frosch, and Yukino following Kaede into the room.

Once they got to the infirmary Rogue laid Nana on the bed who's breathing was labored.

"Nana" Rogue said worrying about his friend.

Kaede walked up to her vectors out as she put them on Nana.

Nana's eyes shot open as she awoke from being unconscious. She felt the vectors on her skin. Screaming in fear she began saying "No more! I don't want to die!"

Kaede sighed as she said "Rogue, can you calm her down?"

Rogue didn't say anything, just walked up to Nana putting a hand on her head, brushing a strand of pink hair out of her eyes.

Nana stopped screaming as she looked at Rogue. She was still frightened, because she was afraid that Kaede was going to take the only thing she had left. Her head.

While Rogue was comforting Nana, she didn't notice that Kaede was already done healing her.

Kaede's vectors retreated from Nana and back into her body. Kaede started to feel weak and light headed as she coughed up blood.

Sting rushed to Kaede's side as blood was dripping from her mouth. "Kaede needs help now" He said.

"I'll be fine. I healed Nana and this is the price I paid for doing it." Kaede said, wiping the blood from her lips and smiled at Sting for caring for her. Even if she didn't deserve it.

Kaede walked over to a chair and sat down. She still wasn't feeling the best in the world.

"Would you like some ice-water?" Yukino asked Kaede as she noticed the state that Kaede was in. Kaede was looking pale and Yukino wondered what exactly happened to Kaede.

Kaede nodded her head and Yukino went into the kitchen to get some ice-water for her.

"What happened to you?" Sting asked Kaede.

"I kind of overused my powers to heal Nana" Kaede said lightly laughing.

"This isn't funny. You could have seriously hurt yourself" Sting said 'Although her laugh does sound beautiful'

The laughter ceased at what he had said. Kaede looked down at her hands that were currently resting in her lap. Before she could apologize, Yukino came in with a piece of paper in one hand and a glass of ice-water in the other.

"Here you are, Kaede" Yukino said, handing the queen diclonius the glass of ice-water.

"Thanks" Kaede said, accepting the ice-water. She took a sip and that immediately calmed her down. She was nervous being scolded by Sting for laughing about her condition, but she was calm now.

"What's that piece of paper you have there, Yukino?" Sting asked.

"It's a job request. It says that they need two dragon slayers to kill off a huge monster. The monster has been causing trouble for the residents of a nearby town."

"Where's this town located at?"

"It's the next town over from this one. So it'll only be a two hour train ride"

Sting face blanched at the thought of riding a train. Kaede was feeling the same dread.

"I guess I'll have to take Kaede with me since Rogue is busy taking care of Nana" Sting said, looking at Rogue who fell asleep by Nana's bed.

Rogue was sitting in a chair with his head over his arms. His arms were currently on Nana's bed.

'That's strange, Rogue never usually falls asleep like that. In fact, I never seen him do this before, except when Frosch is sick' Sting thought looking at the sight that was before him.

"I think that Rogue really cares for Nana" Yukino said.

"I see" Kaede said, looking at Nana then at Rogue. "Come on. We have that job to go to" Kaede said, walking out the door of the infirmary.

Sting sighed as he followed after Kaede. "We'll be back later on." he said to Yukino before shutting the door behind him.

He looked around for Kaede and noticed that she was standing by the front door of the guild. It seems that she was waiting for Sting.

"Did you wait long?" Sting asked.

Kaede shook her head while saying "Let's go. The sooner we kill this thing the sooner we can get back"

Sting wondered what was going on with Kaede. 'She seems upset. Maybe I can ask what's wrong' Sting was about to say something, but stopped himself. 'Then again, I shouldn't ask' "Alright, let's go"