A fire-breathing, pink haired boy dashed through the thick greenery, searching for his companion.

"LUCY! Where are you, Lucy?!"

Flying behind him was a little blue winged cat. "Lucyyy!"

Nearby, a raven haired boy wandered around shirtless. "Lucy!" A tall, flaming-haired woman clad in armor followed him. They were searching for their friend who had vanished. The five had been on a mission together to defeat a group of monsters in the forest, but during the battle, they had been separated from their friend.

Across the forest, a blonde girl explored the forest.

"Natsu! Happy! Grey! Erza! Where are you guys?!"

She had been searching for ages, but couldn't find them anywhere. They had been fighting a herd of demonic beasts, when a smaller one split away from the battle. With her friends all occupied with the other three creatures, she chased the monster, cornering it at the base of a mountain and summoning one of her loyal spirits to defeat the dark being.

After it had been defeated, she turned to find her friends, but quickly realized that she was lost. About the same time, elsewhere in the forest, her teammates had noticed her absence.

They began searching for her, and had been wandering for hours, when the heard a shout.

"Erza! Grey! Natsu! Anyone! Are you here? I need your help!"

At this, the two groups raced toward the sound. Following the sound, they came to a clearing, where they found their blonde friend. As she saw them, they rushed toward each purge, rejoicing that they had found each other.

"Lucy!"

"Where were you?"

"We were so worried!"

They all spoke at once, relieved that their friend was unharmed. Then Grey realized that she had needed help.

"Wait- if you're okay, then what's wrong?"

She pointed to a deadly still body lying in clearing where she had been kneeling.

As the friends approached, they realized that the body belonged to a small boy. The five were relieved to see that his chest was moving in and out- showing that he was breathing. They rolled him over, and finally got a good look at him.

He was very short, and had snow-white hair. He was dressed in a long black coat, and had a strange looking scar marring his face, one that looked strangely like the character ち. But the most striking part of his appearance was his left arm, which was a dark red in color, and was quite distorted.

As the friends stared, the boy began to stir, and then opened his grey eyes.

"Who are you?!"