"Heads up." A giant lizard was about to crash down on a man with long black hair. His arm turned to an iron club and knocked the lizard down.

"You think this thing would put up more of a fight." He complained. A woman with blue hair walked up to him with a smile like she's seen this countless times.

"Yeah, but you're faster and smarter." These two are Gajeel Redfox and his wife, Levy. They are two members of Fairy Tail. Both of them were out on a job together. Gajeel was about to keep attacking the beast, but he stopped when he felt this strange sensation. "Is something wrong?"

"I'm not sure. I just feel like something from my past is haunting me." Gajeel said.

"Panther Pounce"

…..

Magnolia

"I'm telling you, you boys have got to work together better." Rukia said. Ichigo and his team took another job and just got done with it after a couple days as they were heading through town in the afternoon. Right now, they were complaining with Ichigo and Renji arguing.

"It's not my fault Renji is slow." Ichigo said.

"Just like it's not my fault that Ichigo is stupid." Renji said.

"Should we try to get them to be nice to each other?" Orihime said.

"Let them work it out now so they don't get the guild fighting." Uryu said. "It's best they get it out of their system." Orihime understood, but didn't like it. She kept walking until she bumped into Chad's back.

"Chad? Is there something wrong?" Orihime asked.

"Guys, look at the guild." Chad said. All of them looked and saw something that horrified them. The place looked wrecked and had the mark of some panther head on it.

"Our guildhall!" Uryu said.

"What happened to it?!" Ichigo said.

"We better check this out." Rukia said. All of them agreed and ran straight there. They went inside and the place looked trashed with everyone doing their best to clean it up.

"Hey guys." Suegaps greeted.

"You came back at a good time. Grab a broom and start cleaning up." Rangiku said.

"Someone tell me what happened right now." Ichigo demanded as he hated seeing something like this. "Who the hell trashed our guildhall?"

"Ichigo, calm down." The team saw Erza walk up to them and she tried to hold a neutral face.

"Master, what happened here?" Uryu asked.

"Who did this to our guild?" Renji said.

"Just a group of punks." Erza said. "They are a small group of people that I'm guessing is trying to be a guild. They called themselves Panther Growl and the leader is named Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez."

"Grimmjow?" Orihime questioned.

"That's right." Lucy said as she walked up and stood next to Erza. "These guys mean business if they were courageous enough to trash our guildhall."

"Who cares who they are? We need to get these guys and make them pay." Ichigo said.

"No." Erza said.

"What do you mean no? These guys can't just get away with something like this." Ichigo said.

"Ichigo, calm down." Erza repeated.

"How can you expect me to calm down?" Ichigo said. Erza couldn't take it anymore. So to get him to shut up, she just hit him across the face and that made everyone be quiet.

"I don't like our guildhall was treated this way either." Erza said. "However, there doesn't seem to be any serious damage. We can easily fix this place up. As for those who did it, we'll deal with them if they decide to show themselves again. As far as this stands, this just seems to be something like a prank."

"But…" "Ichigo, you will not do anything." Erza interrupted and intimidated him to make sure her point was clear and Ichigo knew better than to never talk back to Erza when she gives you that look.

…..

Orihime

It became dark out and Orihime decided to head home. She still couldn't forget what she saw, but that was natural since she felt everyone the same did about the guildhall being destroyed.

"Man, this is quite the predicament I'm in." Orihime said. "I never knew someone would actually have the guts to attack Fairy Tail. I can't imagine why anyone would do that. Oh well." She thought it was best to do what Erza said and let it go as she walked into her apartment.

"Hey Orihime/Nice place/Welcome home." Orihime saw all five of her friends were already settled in her apartment.

"Guys, what are you doing here?! Who let you in?" Orihime said.

"Lucy gave us a spare key to your apartment." Uryu said.

"She thought it was best that since you're new to the guild and you don't seem to be a fighter that we stick around here to watch over you." Renji said. "It is likely the punks that attacked us will be bold enough to attack some of the weaker members of the guild."

"This is just all the more reason we should be out and looking for those guys and take them down." Ichigo said.

"Uryu, Master Erza told us not to do anything. Just let it go no matter how hard it is." Uryu said.

"So does anyone know anything about the people that attacked our guild?" Orihime said.

"Well, they're a wannabe guild known as Panther Growl like Erza said." Rukia said.

"But there's more." Uryu said. "I did a little research to find out more about them, especially this Grimmjow. It turns out he's a spirit slayer like Ichigo."

"What?! I thought Ichigo was the only one." Orihime said.

"So did we." Chad said.

"Grimmjow is known as the Gale Spirit Slayer." Uryu said. "That means he feasts on air just like Ichigo feasts on darkness. I heard that he's like a wild panther. He's ferocious, strong, and never backs down."

"Is he really that dangerous?" Orihime said.

"I could take him." Ichigo said.

"Sure you could." Rukia said as she patted his shoulder, but he felt that she didn't really meant it.

…

Rangiku

"Oh man. I could really go for a drink after that." Rangiku said as she walked around in the middle of the night and was all alone. "I've got a thing to say to those guys for wrecking our guildhall." She didn't notice that someone from the roofs was watching her and had a grin on his face. He jumped up and dove right at her. Rangiku felt something come at her, but it all happened so fast.

…

The Next Morning

Everyone gathered by the sol tree in South Gate Park. Something was up there and all of them were horrified.

"Excuse us." Rukia said as she and the others pushed through the crowd.

"What's going on?" Renji said. They made it to the front, but all of them were horrified as well. Rangiku was beaten in the wood of the tree. Her clothes were ripped, her skin was bruised, and had Panther Growl's mark on her.

"Rangiku!" Orihime shouted.

"This is that Grimmjow's doing." Ichigo said as he was filled with more rage than he's ever felt before. Erza heard the news as well as she made her way to the front of the crowd.

"Master!" Uryu said to have everyone noticed her. Erza saw what has happened to Rangiku. She tightened her grip on her own hand and people could feel the magic energy that was emitting from her rage.

"Get her down. Orihime, get to work on healing her." Erza said. They followed orders as they tried to be careful with her. "I could handle our guildhall being attacked, but I will not stand for this. Alert every member of the guild about this. Those scoundrels must still be in Magnolia. Spread out, find all of them, and make them pay. We'll show them what happens when you attack a member of our guild." Even though Panther Growl isn't an official guild, they have just brought war upon themselves with Fairy Tail.

…

The Guild

Orihime helped Rangiku back to the guild hall for her to rest. Rangiku didn't just suffer physical injuries and Orihime didn't understand how to help her. She thought it would be best to stick by her side. Rangiku also had a few severe injuries and Orihime was using up some of her power to heal her.

"Are you going to be okay?" Orihime asked.

"Yeah. Thanks for sticking around and helping me out." Rangiku said, but she felt a little weak with her just lying in bed.

"You're going to be alright. Everyone in the guild is looking for the guys who attacked you." Orihime said.

"Those guys must have one hell of a death wish if they choose to fight Fairy Tail." Rangiku said. "Orihime, you don't have to stay. You must want some payback as well."

"Maybe, but you need help. I'll be back. I'm going to get some groceries for you to snack on." Orihime said. She exited the guildhall to head to the market. However, she was being watched by someone. He had blue hair with a black shirt and pants with a white jacket that had the sleeves rolled up. This was Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez.

"Looks like everything is going just how I thought it would." Grimmjow said. "We've got their attention. Now for part two of the plan." Meanwhile, everyone that was at the guild was looking over the entire city to try and find Grimmjow and his crew. This is what happens in Fairy Tail. If you attack just one member, all hell breaks loose.

"Nagato, can't you or Natsu just track them down?" Ichigo asked.

"We don't have a scent to follow." Nagato said. "It won't make a difference. There isn't any place these guys can hide." Everyone looked high and low, left no stone unturned until they find these guys. Erza, Natus, and Grey formed a team and were looking downtown.

"Where are these punks?" Gray said.

"Take it easy. There is nowhere they can hide." Erza said.

"They've got the guts to attack our guild and one of our own, but these guys are cowards to actually put up a fight." Natsu said.

"Who're cowards?" All three of them turned around and saw Grimmjow with one other that had long blonde hair that wore a brown leather jacket with jeans and a white shirt.

"You must be the punks that attacked our guild and hurt one of our own." Natsu said.

"Which one of you is Grimmjow?" Erza said.

"That would be me. This is my buddy Yylfordt." Grimmjow said as he pointed to his buddy.

"I'm warning you that you have no idea what you've just done." Gray said.

"Are we suppose to be intimidated just because you're in this guild?" Yylfordt said.

"Let's find out if these guys are as powerful as we heard about." Grimmjow said and this panther pounced.

…

Orihime

Orihime had a bag of groceries she bought and was in a hurry to get back to the guild. She didn't want to take the risk of running into any of those guys. She ran until she saw Lucy was just ahead.

"Lucy!" Orihime called out and got her attention.

"Orihime! How's Rangiku doing?" Lucy asked.

"I'm still helping her injuries, but she's doing well." Orihime said. "I just got a few things that could help her."

"That's good to hear." Lucy said. Both of them were about to keep walking when they saw someone walking up to them. He had a silver hair with messed up teeth. He wore a green hoodie with white pants.

"Hello ladies." This guy was giving them the creeps.

"Is this them, D-Roy?" Both of the girls turned around and was met with another guy. He was big with shaved black hair on one side and long red on the other. He wore a black tank top with green pants and cargo boots.

"It is, Edrad." D-Roy said.

"What?" Orihime questioned as to what they were up to.

"Grimmjow's plan worked. We got the guild's attention so we can get our true targets." Edrad said.

"Targets? You mean they were after us the entire time?" Lucy said. She grew cautious and reached for these keys she carries on her belt.

"You're coming with us. Volcano Ring!" Edrad said as he acted before they did. He pounded the ground and it felt like it was getting hot. Fire shot up and around both of the girls and both of them got blasted by it and knocked both of them down and out.

"Excellent." D-Roy said.

"That's right. Orihime Inoue and Lucy Dragneel….or should I say, Lucy Heartfilia….are ours." Edrad said. The panther pounced, but it looks like his two subordinates have captured the real prey.

…..

Orihime: Wow, I never knew people could be so brutal to another. How could anyone treat another like that?

Ichigo: That's just how some people are.

Orihime: Maybe, but I still don't understand why anyone would act like that.

Ichigo: Sorry you feel that way, but there isn't much you can do.

Orihime/Ichigo: Next Time: Gale and Night

Ichigo: Sometimes you got to be rough and tough to fight back.