The sun was rising and Gajeel, Levy, and Pantherlily were already a quarter of the way to the new Phantom Lord headquarters. It was lucky for them that Gajeel was a dragon slayer, making it so he could follow Emma's scent.

The only hitch about that was it made him miss his daughter even more and was a constant reminder of what he viewed as one of his greatest failures. How he wished he could have Emma's scent close to him, hold her tiny chubby body, kiss her sweet little head, or even just hear her adorable baby laugh.

Levy wasn't any better her motherly instincts and worries were on absolute overdrive. She wanted to read to her little girl or tell her a story to make her happy when she was fussy. She wanted to know her baby was well cared for and loved, but most of all she wanted to hold her in her arms and never let her go.

Lily was also feeling similar feelings, his protective instincts for Emma being off the charts. He had know the baby girl since the day she was born but he truly found his care for her when he watched her making an almost instant connection. All he wanted was to be there for her, be her comforter, protect her from all the boys that ever came near her-. Oh gosh was he really already thinking those thoughts before she can even sit up on her own. How would she ever get married with him and Gajeel always protectively behind her back?

"Gajeel are we getting close?" Levy asked Gajeel.

"I'd say we're about a day and a half away so not really."

"What if I fly us there I'm sure we could be there faster?" Pantherlily asked hoping to get to Emma that day.

"No Lily, you're not strong enough yet."

Lily pouted feeling useless and unable wanting nothing more than to get the sweet little baby girl he'd grown attached to back.

"Gajeel why does Jose even want Emma?"

"I don't honestly know, my guess it would just be something as petty as getting back at me for joining Fairy Tail."

"I don't know from what I remembered from our guild war, Jose didn't do things unless something was for him like money or power. Thus the reason he stole Lucy to bleed the Heartfilla's dry, but why would he want Emma? She's just a sweet innocent little girl she's done nothing to deserve this!"

Levy was on the brink of tears, it was hard enough getting Emma in the first place it took three years for her to get pregnant she couldn't stand to lose her.

Suddenly Levy felt herself being hugged tightly and when she looked it was none other than Gajeel who had tears streaming down his face.

"I know that it's hard and that we are all confused why this happened, but it's not going towards matter because we are going to get her back before Jose can even lay a hand on her. Do you think you can hold on till then?"

Levy nodded and then hugged Gajeel needing her husband during this time. Gajeel felt the exact way knowing if he didn't have Levy with him he would be going on a downward spiral back to how he used to be.

After a few minutes the two separated and continued on their journey determined to get their precious little girl back.

Meanwhile Jose continued down into the lair of Aaron Von Cuxk almost in awe of what he saw. The room was dark and dank with only a few torches to light it up. Black stone floors and walls draped with a few scarlet tapestries depicting Zeref and his demonic deeds. There was a grand section of the room with tools and ingredients to make all manner of potions. A desk with an old feathered pen and covered in pages that were most likely starters for Von Cuxk's book, a rack full of many powerful and dark magical items, and then at the very end of the lair was the book of darkness itself the Hellric.

It sat in a great golden claw on a pedestal and it was all that it was ever depicted as. The Hellric was a large black leather book decorated with shining rubies and demonic symbols. It was sealed closed with a black leather strap and gold wax seal of Aaron Von Cuxk. Under the strap was a clearly old letter signed Von Cuxk.

Jose with one arm took out the letter and opened it.

May the one with a heart of darkness open this unholy book and release all the powers I have gathered. May you gain my power and spread the magic of high evil throughout this land. Open at your own risk.

-Aaron Von Cuxk

Jose smiled wickedly as he set down the letter and went over to the book. He quickly but gently laid Emma down on one of the counters in the room then proceeded to go to the Hellric. He took a deep breath and then tore away the golden seal, almost immediately it started to emanate a purple glow from the sides of the book. Jose continued to smile as he undid the leather strap and opened the book.

All the sudden a great energy blast came from it as all the torches in the room went out the room now being semi lite up by the purple glow coming from the writing in the book.

Jose's eyes light up as his eyes took in the books writings, his head already being filled with information. His head soon started to hurt making him quickly slam the book closed. All the torches were suddenly lite again making the room much brighter. Jose panted as his head pounded, adjusting to the insane amount of knowledge it just gained.

As he rested he suddenly began to realize Emma was wailing, most likely terrified by the energy blast and feeling of pure evil coming from the books glow.

"Oh my did that scare you dearie? Well you better get used to it because you'll be seeing a lot of it!" Jose laughed as he went over and picked up the crying infant.

Emma continued to cry unable to calm down because neither her mommy or daddy were holding her. After a few minutes Jose was extremely irritated unable to take another moment of this brat.

As he continued to try suddenly an evil idea popped into his head.

"Hmm let's see if the book has anything to stop you from annoying me so much."

Jose went over to the book and suddenly started to hear whispering softly a strange language coming from the book that he oddly understood. It seem to tell him to simply ask the book for what he wanted.

"Show me a spell to make this child more useful to me?" He asked unsurely.

Suddenly the book flipped open though this time not glowing as brightly as it came to what Jose asked for. As he read it his eyes widened as well as an evil smile appeared on his face.

"Well this wasn't quite what I thought I'd get and I hoped to do this more organically but I guess there's no time like the present. Prepare yourself my dear for your about to go through some major changes."

Jose lifted his free hand as it started to glow brighter, all the while muttering a strange spell. The room was then flooded with a violet light soon spreading throughout the whole castle displaying its power to anyone who was in sight.