The first thing Freed became aware of when he woke up was that he couldn't move. His arms were tied by his wrist behind his back and his legs were tied to the chair. Next he looked around, the cell he was in was dimly lit, there were no windows and only one heavily bolted door. There was a table next to him covered with all sorts of instruments used for things he'd rather not think about at the moment. Then he became aware of another presence in the room, there was a man in the corner. He had dark hair and thick side burns, he wore a white cloak, a sign of the magic council. What could they want from me? Freed wondered.

"What is going on?" Freed asked the man, "Who are you? What do you want?"

The man grinned, "So many questions, Rune Mage. But I'm not here to answer them for you. No, You are here to answer my questions."

"I won't tell you anything!" Freed said vehemently.

"Oh, but you will. In the end they always do." The man's grin turned wicked. "You see, dear captain, I am Leiji. Making people talk is my specialty and talk you will."

The man, Leiji, picked something of the table and held it up in front of Freed. It was some kind of collar with pins on the inside of it, "This is to keep you still, I fasten this around your neck and the smallest movement will cause you pain." He tightened the collar around Freed's neck with glee.

"Now, I want some information about your guild." Leiji said.

"I'll never talk!" Freed shouted, causing the pins to cut into his neck a bit.

"Of course you will. Now, let's try this again." He picked up a kind of sprinkler, "This contains molten silver, and I heard it's quite painful when it comes in contact with skin or even the eyes. What do you think I should start with? No? Nothing?" He lowered the sprinkler towards Freed's right knee and poured some scalding silver over it. Freed groaned in pain, refusing to scream.

"How do we get in the guild?" Leiji asked as he continued to pour the silver over Freed's legs.

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Erza approached the Lightning crew table, "Have you seen Freed? He was supposed to meet me for sword practice hours ago." She asked impatiently.

Laxus looked around, "No, haven't seen him today. Weird, he's never late."

Evergreen looked a bit worried at that, even though she tried to hide it, "Maybe someone should go check on him?"

At that Bickslow answered, "I'll send my babies, they can find him everywhere." And he send them on their way