Natsu, Erza, Lucy, and Gray rode across plains and through forests and set up camp in various locations because of Natsu's motion sickness. They took breaks two times a day and traveled twice the time the took to rest. They made it in four days, but had to rest for two day for Natsu to regain his strength because on the fourth day they took no breaks. Erza also had to recover her magic because she used up too much of her magic. The only available mages were Lucy and Gray who took care of Natsu and Erza. The sixth day came and gone as the two groups haven't noticed each other.

Kireba woke up that night. Ahead of her, she found tire tracks. She followed them and it led her to Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Erza. She was puzzled to see them there, but then she noticed Vivi curled over Erza's head. He looked at Kireba with a look of warning and danger.

"Don't go." Vivi said telepathically to Kireba.

"I must." She replied.

"There is danger ahead."

"I can handle it."

She ended their conversation by turning away and walking away. The last thing he said was "Be careful." Even though Kireba was in the mountains, she could still use telepathy to talk to him. She climbed the mountain carefully and when she was half way up, she found a trail. She took the trail hoping it would lead to Happy. At the end of the trail, was a forest surrounded by mountains. She walked through the forest taking quick whiffs for any sign of Happy. Then, it came to her. Happy was nearby and from the strength of it, he was real close. She followed the scent to a clearing between a mountain and the forest. She found Happy lying asleep on the ground. Cautious, she used the water from the ground to freeze under Happy and bring him to her.

"Smart move, but it's not enough to hide from me." A voice from behind her said. She turned around, but saw no one. Right after, she felt the ground beneath her collapse, but the ground did't go anywhere, she was sinking into the shadows. She rolled out of the shadows and into the clearing. She wanted to run and grab Happy, but was stuck where she was. A shadow extended from the shade of the trees being the clever one, she created a wall between it and her. She grabbed Happy and started running back to the forest, but stopped once she saw more shadows appear from it. She panicked and did the only thing she could do.

"Ice sphere!" She yelled as she jumped in the air. A sphere of ice formed encasing both of them. The shadows grabbed the sphere and tossed it at the mountainside. Kireba winced in pain as the sphere hit the mountain.

"Help me, someone," she cried, "Dezmond, I need you!"

"Your brother isn't here to help you now is he." The voice said. The shadows tossed the sphere again in to the mountainside with more force. Kireba coughed up blood as if she was the one hitting the mountainside. It repeated a couple more times making her weaker with every throw. Her ice sphere started to melt and crack. She wondered if it would crack before it melted. Either way she was too scared to go out of her sphere.

"Looks like I'm not as strong as I thought, Dezmond." Kireba thought, "And I'm probably not gonna make it back. I failed everyone."

She clutched Happy closer to her and felt him breathing. She was glad he was alive. Another smack into the mountain and she coughed up more blood. In front of her, was a small pool of blood she coughed up from previous throws.

"Come on, just get out of that shell and you won't feel anymore suffering or the cat will suffer for you." The voice said.

Kireba looked at Happy twist and turn, but he didn't wake up. She noticed that happy wasn't just sleeping, he was having a nightmare he couldn't wake up from. With the last ounce of strength she had, ice spears formed around the sphere. She launched the spears in all directions covering every space in between them. She couldn't see if it hit, but she knew she did something when Happy woke up. The sphere was still thrown into the mountain, but she was lucky to be alive.

"Hey," He said jumping back, "Your that new girl who just joined! What happened to you? Where are we?"

"I don't have time to explain," Kireba said panting with exhaustion, "Once you see an opening, go to the beach, Natsu and the others are there."

"What about you?"

"It's too late for me, whoever took you is after me. I'm too injured to go anywhere. It's not like I'll go back to the guild anyway, I'm too weak, I can't be in a guild if I can't take care of myself."

Right after she finished, the sphere broke and Kireba fell to the ground unable to move.

"Go…" Kireba strained to say, "Run… Away…"

With those final words, she fainted. Happy flew away determined to get Natsu and the others for help. The black reaper-like figure walked out in the moonlight. He took off his hood to reveal his face. He had a scar on his face in the shape of an X. His hair and eyes were blood red and you could see what looked like two fangs over his bottom lip one one each side. He walked over to Kireba and kicked her. He did it to see if she was still moving and for the enjoyment of it. Shadows latched on to hers as she was dragged into it.

"You put up quite a fight there." He said, "And yes, you were right about being weak. I'm surprised they actually let you join."

He looked at the guild mark on Kireba's shoulder one more time before she was engulfed in darkness.

"So your went and joined Fairy Tail, huh. If they get in my way just to come for you. I would just laugh in their faces. Why would they bother with a weakling like you."

He started sinking into the shadows too when all of a sudden, he saw flames in the sky he looked closer and saw that it was Natsu and Happy flying over head. Happy dropped Natsu like a bomber and flew to the ground. Natsu landed next to the red haired person and attempted to use Fire Dragon Fists, but was suddenly was unable to move.

"I was right about your guild." He said in Natsu's face, "You came for the girl didn't you? We'll I hate to break I to you, but she maybe the weakest Mage I've ever seen, in fact, to let such a weak person in your guild must mean your all weak."

Natsu was even more angry than he was when he landed. Flames surrounded his body heat equal to his anger. He struggled to reach the red haired person barely moving with each attempt. The red haired person sunk into the shadows looking at Natsu smugly.

"Tell you what, If you manage to find and defeat me, I might give the girl back, but if you kill me, your out of luck and you'll never find her."

He sunk completely into the shadows and fled. He released Natsu's shadow and merged into the shade of the trees. Natsu then burned the entire forest.

"I'm sorry, you won't get me so easily. My name is Soul. I'll give you that for now, see you again Fairy Tail Mage."

Flames still burned in the forest. Natsu's eyes burned as bight as the flame in his soul. He promised that he wouldn't leave her behind. Just like he would for anyone else in his guild.