Everyone regrouped at the guild. While there, a young woman with long blue hair and she was trying to heal the injuries of Erza, Gray, and Natsu with a strong light coming from her hands. This is Wendy Marvel and she's the Sky Dragon Slayer and she has healing abilities.

"Wendy, how are they?" Renji asked.

"They haven't really taken any outer injuries." Wendy said. "The worst of it seems to be mental injuries and those are going to take longer to heal. Whoever did this must have used strong magic."

"Makes sense. Mental injuries are harder to heal from than physical injuries." Uryu said.

"Mommy, is Daddy going to be okay?" Igneel asked with him and Lilly worried. Lucy was doing her best to comfort both of them.

"This is your Dad we're talking about. He's one of the toughest guys out there. He'll be fine." Lucy said, but was secretly hoping herself. If Panther Growl did this to her closest friends and husband, who knows what other tricks they have up their sleeve.

"Princess Stars and Flowers"

Ichigo was glad Lucy was safe, but he was more worried about Orihime. He looked over at a table and saw she just sat there and being quiet. He knew that Orihime feels guilty, thinking all of this was her fault since Grimmjow and his crew are after her and Lucy.

"Orihime, how's your leg doing?" Ichigo said as an ice breaker as he went over to talk to.

"It's doing fine thanks to Wendy. Thank you again, Wendy." Orihime said.

"It was no problem at all." Wendy said.

"So can't you heal yourself with your magic or does it not work that way?" Renji asked.

"I don't know and even if I did, I wouldn't use it on myself." Orihime said. "I would rather use my magic to help others than use it on myself at all." Erza heard that and thought it was amazing.

'She would rather use her magic for others than for her own personal problems, big or small. I've never met anyone so selfless.' Erza thought.

"Enough of this." Natsu said as he tried to move, but Wendy kept him down.

"Natsu, you shouldn't move yet." Wendy said.

"But we've got to do something. If Lucy and Orihime is who they're really after, they're bound to attack again." Gray said. Ichigo saw Rukia and Chad came into the main room.

"Well, were you able to get in contact with anyone?" Ichigo asked.

"We're unable to locate Ulquiorra." Chad said.

"And my brother and Laxus are too far away. It will take them a couple days for both of them to come back." Rukia said. "We don't really need their help. We can easily take these guys."

"Rukia's right. There's only five of them." Rangiku said. Since she was practically back to full power, she was ready to fight. Orihime still felt bad that she was part of the reason for all of this.

"Everyone, I'm sorry. This is my fault." Orihime said.

"Orihime, no one here blames you." Uryu said.

"That's right. Don't beat yourself up over it." Renji said, but Orihime couldn't help it. She got up and was going to leave. She thought that it be better if she left everyone alone so those guys would leave them alone. She didn't get very far because Ichigo grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him and held on tight with her head on his shoulder. This was a little surprise to everyone.

"Ichigo! What are you doing?" Orihime said with her face being all red.

"What anyone would do when they see someone like this." Ichigo said. "Honestly, you're like a little kid and it's hard to see you like this. We're going to stop them, Orihime. We won't let them take you." Orihime felt a little safe in his arms, but it wasn't doing much to make her feel less guilty.

"Lucy, do you have any idea why Panther Growl would be after the two of you in the first place?" Uryu questioned.

"Maybe they found out about your heritage, Mom, and want the fortune your side had." Nagato said since Lucy was born in a wealthy family.

"That can't be it." Lucy said. "The Heartfilia business went bankrupt long before any of you were born. Plus, since I'm considered a runaway, I have no access to that money. That also doesn't explain why they would be after Orihime."

"Orihime, you wouldn't be from a rich family, would you?" Renji said.

"No." Orihime said.

"Guys!" Suegaps shouted as he ran into the guild. "We've got trouble heading our way. You better get out back." All of them raced outside. Erza and the boys tried to move, but it was hard.

"No, you guys need to rest." Wendy said.

"I am the master of this guild. It's my responsibility to stand by everyone no matter what my condition is." Erza said as she and the others got moving, even if they had to try and crawl. Everyone raced out to the back of the guild and they could not believe what they were seeing out in the water. It was a mechanical giant and it was heading their way. Grimmjow was riding on the shoulder acting as if he already won this battle with the giant stopping close to the guild hall.

"What the heck is that?" Toshiro said.

"Grimmjow is up there. How the hell did they get something like that?" Ichigo said.

"Happy to see us again?" Grimmjow shouted so they could hear him.

"What is the meaning of this?" Erza said.

"You like our new toy? We got friends in high places." Grimmjow said. "I know how prideful you are of your beloved guild hall. It would be a shame if it crumbled down. So how about you surrender Lucy Dragneel and Orihime Inoue to us and this won't get ugly?"

"Yeah right." Nagato said.

"No way we would ever let you take them." Renji said.

"You don't know what you're up against. We could crush you right here and now if we wanted." Grimmjow said. "No one really has to get hurt. Just bring over Princess Stars and Princess Flowers to us and we'll be on our way. Everyone can escape unharmed."

"We would never hand them over to you! Go ahead and try to kill us! We don't care!" Ichigo shouted and everyone agreed with him. All of them telling Grimmjow that they won't hand them over.

'This is all because of me.' Orihime thought as the guilt was becoming worse. 'Maybe I should just hand myself over to them. At least they would leave everyone else alone.' Orihime didn't get the chance to do anything. Rukia grabbed her and Lucy.

"Let's go you two. Things are starting to get out of hand." Rukia said as she dragged the two of them away.

"Rukia, what are you doing?" Lucy said.

"Getting you two out of here. I found a safe place for you to hide until all of this resolved." Rukia said.

"Rukia, you can't expect us to sit back while everyone else is fighting." Lucy said.

"Erza had a feeling you would say that." Rukia said. "She knows you can help us fight, but we didn't expect them to come with that thing. This is just a precaution."

"Rukia just let me go. Maybe if I give myself up, they'll leave everyone alone." Orihime said.

"Don't even think about that. No one is going to let that happen." Rukia said. "Besides, they want you and Lucy. They won't stop until they have both of you."

"But…" Neither of them got to keep talking because Rukia froze the both of them.

"Sorry about this, but we don't have time to argue." Rukia said. She placed two fingers in her mouth and whistled. That called a horse driven carriage to appear. "Chad, help me with them!" She called out. Chad came rushing over and helped get both of them inside.

"Are you going to be alright?" Chad said.

"I'll keep them safe. Just do what you can to stop that giant." Rukia said as she got on the carriage and took off with it, but that escape didn't go unnoticed by Grimmjow.

"D-Roy, show them that we pack a punch." Grimmjow said. D-Roy was in the control room and using magic to control it.

"My pleasure." D-Roy said. He worked the giant and it lifted its right arm.

"Everyone move!" Uryu shouted and everyone moved out of the way. The giant swung it's arm down and hit the ground and it caused a great impact that shook most of the town. Even Rukia almost lost control of the carriage.

"Whoa! That was a strong impact. Everyone, be careful." Rukia hoped. All the Fairy Tail wizards were knocked to the ground after that one impact and they saw it left a crater in the ground.

"What do we do?" Suegaps said.

"We do what all Fairy Tail wizards do….fight!" Renji said as he unleashed his lashing magic and lashed against the giant's body.

"Renji is right. We have to fight that thing." Toshiro said as he jumped up. "Ice Dragon's Hail!" He shot bullets of ice from his hand. Soon everyone got involved in attacking the giant.

"Ash Magic! Black Cloud!" Rangiku held out her hand and shot a dark cloud of ashes. This magic is suppose to slice through metal. Suegaps unleashed blasts of light magic.

"We've got to help." Natsu said, but he and the others could barely even move.

"Dad, you can't. You, Gray, and Master Erza aren't completely better." Lilly said.

"She's right. You're only going to make it worse for yourselves." Wendy said. "It's going to take me a while, but I have to get you guys back to your full strength."

"Fine. Please just hurry, Wendy." Erza said.

"I'll do my best." Wendy said as she got back to work on healing them. Grimmjow looked down at them and laughed in amusement on their attempts.

"Do you really think any of you are capable of bringing this big guy down?" Grimmjow said. "It's made off the toughest substance around. Even magic can barely break through it."

"That's impressive. How could they have something like that?" Uryu said.

"Admire it after we have it crumble apart." Ichigo said.

"But how? It's so big and we're hardly scratching it." Renji said.

"If we can't take it down from the outside, we'll take it down from the inside." Ichigo claimed. "I'm going in." he ran right for the giant to find a way inside.

"Ichigo, wait!" Uryu called out.

"We'll give you a hand." Nagato said as he, Uryu, and Chad ran with him. "Everyone, hold down the fort until we get back." The four of them ran right to the giant and tried to find a way to get inside. Meanwhile, Grimmjow had other plans in mind.

"I guess since everyone else is so busy, I'll go capture our prey." Grimmjow said. He worked his way off the giant and was able to slip by without anyone noticing.

…

Inside

Ichigo and the boys were able to get inside the giant in hopes of finding a way to smash it apart from within. The problem was that whatever it was made from the outside, it reached in the inside as well. They ran in the giant until they came across three different paths and one set of stairs.

"This might not be as easy as I thought." Ichigo said.

"This giant is truly outstanding. Attacking any random spot won't do us any good." Uryu said.

"But there has to be some way we can stop it." Chad said.

"We'll cover more ground if we split up." Ichigo said. "Let's find the power source or the control console to this thing and bring it down."

"Ichigo's right. Everyone, be on guard. We don't know what could be down here." Uryu warned. All of them chose a different path and went to find the power of this giant and shut it down. If Lucy and Orihime were princess, then Fairy Tail is their knights that will protect them with their lives.

'Don't worry, Mom. We'll protect you and Orihime.' Nagato told himself as he ran down one of the halls. He failed to notice that someone came out from hiding in an invisible manner and it was Shawlong. Grimmjow found his prey and Shawlong found his own.

…

Orihime: Ichigo, I've heard a lot about dragon slayers. What do you think about them?

Ichigo: While I am a proud Spirit Slayer, I have to admit that they are powerful. You just don't want to get on their bad side.

Orihime: Why? Would they eat you if you did?

Ichigo: No! Just because they have dragon in their name doesn't mean they act like one…..well usually.

Orihime/Ichigo: Next time: Sorrowful Memories

Ichigo: Man, Orihime. You still have a lot to learn.