"Is this the place?" Lucy questioned. The team roamed the empty streets of the village, scanning their surroundings.

It was quiet, almost too quiet. There was hardly anyone around, despite the large number of houses in the area. There was an eeriness that lingered in the air, and Lucy felt uneasiness piling up at the pit of her stomach.

"Where's everyone?" Happy asked.

"I don't know. We could just ask," Gray said, seemingly unfazed by the strange village. He headed towards a bar at the side of the road, the team following behind him silently.

The door creaked open, and the doorbell jingled to signal their entrance. It was small, and considerably dark. Small lanterns dangled from the ceiling, bathing the bar in a warm, orange hue.

There was a soft, calming melody playing in the background. A single bartender stood behind the counter, his head snapping up at their entrance. He was young, probably in his early twenties. His dark hair was neatly combed back, green eyes glancing them over.

He smiled welcomingly, not saying anything as he gestured to the table in front of him.

"I'll have a beer," Gray ordered, as he settled down with the rest of the team.

"Me too," Erza smiled. The bartender gave a single nod, the smile never leaving his face as he filled two empty mugs with beer.

"Never seen you guys around here before," he commented. His voice was deep, sophisticated.

"Yea, we're here for a mission," Natsu grinned.

"A mission?" he echoed, his eyebrows scrunching up slightly in confusion as he passed the two mugs over.

"We're at the right village, right? Old Mill Village?" Lucy asked, leaning over the table slightly.

"Yes, you're at the right place. Do you mind me asking what type of mission…?" he tilted his head slightly.

"Oh, it was something about some evil spirit," Natsu answered nonchalantly, "Hey, you got any food?"

The bartender smiled, passing over a menu, before his expression turned serious yet again, "Evil spirits?"

His brow furrowed, and his face seemed to darken. Gray watched him cautiously as he took a sip of his beer. Natsu, on the other hand, not realizing the atmosphere, shouted out his order enthusiastically, his fists pounding on the table in anticipation.

"Do you know anything?" Erza asked casually, as the bartender walked to the fridge to take out the ingredients.

"Our village head is the one who requested for help from magic guilds," he answered, "The rest of the villagers didn't really approve."

He made his way to the sink, washing the vegetables before placing them on the chopping board.

"Why not?" Gray pressed.

"We've kind of lost hope. This 'evil spirit' has been around for 5 years now, and so far, the people who've come claiming that they could get rid of it have all failed," he replied, chopping the vegetables up.

There was a short silence, before he continued, "I'm not even sure if it's an evil spirit. Nobody knows. All we know is that whatever this thing is, it's causing suffering."

"How so?"

The man switched on the stove, before frying the vegetables and rice, the scent wafting over to the table as Natsu and Happy started salivating in hunger.

Once he was done, he placed it on a plate and handed it over to the eager Natsu.

"Nightmares," he said casually, "Very bad ones."

"Nightmares?" Lucy echoed.

"Yes, nightmares. All the villagers suffer from them, even the pets," he sighed, "That's why our village is known for having the most suicides. More than a few have taken their own lives to get away from the night terrors."

"W-Why don't they leave the village?" Lucy stuttered, horrified.

"Even if we leave, the nightmares continue. It never leaves us alone," he replied, "It's those types of nightmares where you can't really distinguish it from reality. You can't tell the difference."

"The reason why we call it an 'evil spirit' is because of what happened five years ago. A young girl came to our town, probably around 12. She came into this very bar, sat at this very table. I didn't think much of it, just thought she was a traveler."

The man ran his fingers through his hair and down his face, his eyes dazed as he reminisced the past.

"We talked. She was really quiet at first, but she opened up after a while. Opened up a lot actually." he chuckled, "She was really entertaining. Seemed like a completely different person after she opened up." He paused for a while, hesitating slightly, "When I asked her why she was travelling alone at such a young age, she just kept avoiding the question. She looked scared."

"Scared? Scared of what?" Gray asked.

"I don't know. But she was absolutely terrified. I managed to piece together a few of her answers and found out that she was running away from someone. I didn't pry anymore after that."

"She stayed for about a month or so, and we became good friends. She came to this bar every day, and we just talked. She was amazing. She was my best friend," a soft, sad smile spread across his lips.

"But then, one day, this man came. He didn't look like anything much, but the moment he stepped into the bar, her face paled and she started shaking bad. I knew that it was the person she was running away from, so I hid her. I hid her under the counter, and when he asked me whether I'd seen her around, I told him no."

"When he left, she told me she was going to leave the village, that she couldn't get caught by that man. I told her I'd help her. That day, it was the village head's birthday. The whole village was celebrating, and all the villagers were gathered at the fountain. Maybe she thought that she would be safer at a crowded place, so we went there, hiding in the crowd," the bartender's voice started getting more strained, he paused for a while, trying to calm himself down.

"She got caught. He found her, somehow, and he shot her," he choked at those words, and Lucy let out a small gasp of horror.

"He shot her, and she fell right into the fountain, in front of all the villagers. She fell into the water, but when we rushed up to check up on her, she wasn't there. She was gone, just disappeared into thin air."

"When we turned to confront the man who shot her, he was gone too. They just vanished, without a trace."

"From that day onwards, the villagers started getting nightmares. It was the day that she died, the day that she vanished that we started suffering from these night terrors."

And just as he uttered that last word, the door to the bar swooshed open, the doorbell jingling as an old man walked in, a smoking pipe in his mouth.

"Cain," he greeted the bartender, before his eyes landed on the group of four, no, five, including Happy. His eyes seemed to light up.

"Ah, you must be mages from Fairy Tail," he smiled, "I'm the village head. I believe Cain has told you about the evil spirit in this village."

"Yea. So you think that this…girl is the evil spirit that is causing these nightmares?" Gray asked, leaning back on the chair.

"Not exactly an evil spirit, rather a ghost. There wasn't anything particularly evil about her when she was alive," the old man chuckled.

"I'm not really sure about that," Cain muttered under his breath. The old man and the mages didn't seem to hear him, except for a particular Dragon Slayer.

"What do you mean?" Natsu narrowed his eyes at the bartender, done with his meal.

"What?" Lucy stuttered in confusion.

"He just said that he wasn't really sure whether she wasn't evil. What do you mean?" Natsu repeated, his voice firm.

"Setsu was…always strange. She was always hiding something, and I know for a fact that she suffered from night terrors of her own," Cain answered, "She always said something like 'I don't deserve happiness' or 'Someone is going to die soon'. There was once when we were cornered by a few delinquents in the streets. One moment they were threatening us, and the next they were quivering on the ground in terror."

"This girl…Setsu, she could use magic?" Erza asked, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Yea, she told me she could when I asked her. But she wouldn't show me," Cain said, shrugging his shoulders.

The four mages exchanged glances. "Hey, Natsu. Shouldn't we check out that fountain first? It's where Setsu and that man disappeared," Happy asked, tugging on Natsu's arm.

"I'll lead you there," the village head smiled, and, after saying goodbye to Cain, the four mages followed the old man out of the bar.

It was getting dark, probably around 7 in the evening. All was quiet, and the group could see some villagers peeking at them from their windows.

The village head came to a stop in front of a large fountain. It was pristine white, but no water flowed. The water was slightly murky from years of not changing it, and the white fountain was stained with dirt.

"We stopped using the fountain after that incident," the village head explained. Erza scanned the fountain, "Looks like a normal fountain to me."

Gray dipped his hand into the water, feeling flooring underneath. "I don't get how she disappeared. The water is so shallow."

"I'll leave you mages here, I have work to do. If you find anything, please call me, my house is just over there," the old man said, walking away.

The group didn't pay any attention to him, too engrossed in investigating the fountain. There was something about it that seemed unusual, though they couldn't really put a finger on it.

"Hey, they said that she fell into the fountain, right? Maybe if we reenact it, something will happen," Natsu grinned.

"Stupid flame-brain. That won't work," Gray scoffed. Natsu's eyes narrowed as he advanced towards the ice mage, "What did you say, you ice princess?"

"Who're you calling an ice princess, you…" Gray trailed off, his eyes widening and cold sweat forming on his forehead when he felt a familiar deathly glare boring into his back.

Natsu seemed to realize the deathly aura that surrounded them as well, as he turned slowly to look back at the furious redhead.

"E-Erza," he stuttered.

"We're getting along just fine," Gray stuttered, his arm wrapping around Natsu's shoulders stiffly as they danced around together.

"Aye," Natsu said stupidly, sweat trickling down his face.

Erza nodded in approval, not noticing how unnatural the two boys were, "Yes, we should always get along -"

She was cut off by a shrill scream, and the three mages snapped to attention as they turned around, eyes darting around cautiously.

Happy stood rigidly next to the fountain, his small body trembling as he stared at it in horror.

"L-Lucy," the cat stuttered, "Lucy disappeared."

"What?!" Natsu cried, darting for the fountain. He splashed the water around, trying to find the blonde woman. But when he did, he backed away almost immediately, shocked.

"What's wrong?" Gray asked.

"Neh, Gray. You felt flooring underneath when you put your hand into the water, right?" Natsu muttered, turning his head to face the ice mage. Gray responded with a nod, and Natsu continued, "There's nothing underneath."

Gray paused, his brow furrowing. "But that's not possible; I felt it just a minute ago." He stepped forward, sinking his hand in the water yet again. But this time, he didn't feel anything underneath. The water was deep; very deep.

"Did you do something, Happy?" he questioned the cat. Happy responded with a small nod.

"I-I just touched this part," the cat replied, tapping his paw against a part of the fountain. There was a soft click, so soft it was almost inaudible, and Gray's hand made contact with the flooring he felt earlier on.

"Happy, touch that again," he said, and the cat obliged. There was a click again, and the flooring disappeared.

"It's some sort of mechanism," he muttered. "We better go in and take a look. Lucy's there, after all."

And, without further ado, he jumped into the fountain, the two mages following closely behind him, with Happy tucked under Natsu's arm. They sunk like rocks, and it was only a few seconds before they were suddenly out of the water, falling through the air to the ground below.

They landed with a resounding crash, rubble flying everywhere from the impact of their fall. Lucy's cry of surprise could be vaguely heard, as the three mages got up from the ground.

"Oh, Lucy!" Natsu grinned. Lucy sat just a distance away, still in shock from her team mates' unexpected fall.

"Where is this place?" Gray mumbled, dusting the rubble off his body. They were in a hall of some sort, a wide open space surrounded by thick grey walls. At a far end of the hall, there was a figure, an ice figure to be exact.

The team walked towards it, and as they got closer, they noticed that something was frozen in the ice. It was a young girl, completely upright with her arms crossed protectively over her chest, her hands resting on her petite shoulders. Dark green hair framed her small face, and she was dressed in a simple black dress. She looked to be around 16 or 17.

"Is that Setsu? The girl they were talking about?" Lucy asked, coming to a standstill in front of the ice figure.

"It should be," Erza replied, "So it's true then? She's the one causing these nightmares?"

"Only one way to find out," Natsu grinned, and, with a giant leap into the air, he raised his fist, engulfing it in flames, "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

He punched the ice figure, but the figure didn't sustain any damage other than a small crack at the side.

"It didn't work?" Natsu grumbled, slightly confused. Erza raised her hand as a signal for everyone to wait.

Crack.

A giant crack formed right in the center of the figure, before the ice smashed into smithereens, the tiny ice bits flying everywhere. The girl frozen inside was released, and she fell to the ground limply.

Gray caught her before she could hit the ground, lifting her up as he carried her away from the mess they created.

"Is she dead?" Happy asked, nudging the side of her face with his paw. Gray shook his head no, as the girl's chest rose and fell with her breaths, and though faint, he could hear the rhythmic thumping of her beating heart.

He settled her down gently on the ground, and the four mages gathered around her, eyes boring into her body as they scrutinized her.

"So what do we do now?"

"Look! That's her bullet wound!" Happy cried, pointing at the side of her stomach. There was a bloody hole at the left side of her ribcage, and surprisingly, it was still oozing blood.

"Why does it look so fresh? Didn't she get it 5 years ago?" Lucy asked, cringing away from the girl.

"She was frozen in ice. Maybe it froze time too," Erza pointed out.

"But she looks way older than 12. If it froze time, then she should still be 12, shouldn't she?" Gray said.

"Aye," Happy agreed.

"Let's focus on treating her wound first. She's losing a lot of blood!" Lucy pushed them aside, "Gray, Natsu. Look away."

The two boys stared at her, confused, "Why?"

"I'm going to have to remove her clothes to treat her wound. Turn around!" They blushed simultaneously, turning away with red faces.

"Erza! Help me get the bullet out," Lucy lifted up the dress, revealing the girl's pale white stomach. Blood was oozing out of the wound continuously, and Lucy let out a curse.

Erza grabbed a few bandages from her pack, laying it aside before squeezing the wound in an attempt to get the bullet out. Lucy flinched away from the gore, but helped nevertheless.

"Now, what do we do with her? And how are we supposed to get out of this place?" Lucy asked, sitting back while Erza bandaged the girl up.

"I guess we can bring her back to the guild with us. She can use magic, right?" Gray pointed out, his back still facing the unconscious girl.

It was then that a small groan escaped the girl, stirring slightly as she raised her hand to cover her face. She opened her eyes, revealing shocking gold irises as she sat up, wincing.

She didn't seem to notice that she had company, as she held a hand up to her head to relieve her pounding headache. It took a while for her to realize she wasn't alone, but when she did, she backed up immediately, her eyes growing wide with fear.

Her small frame started trembling, her breaths coming out in short, shallow rasps.

"Who are you?" she croaked, her throat hoarse from the many years of not using her voice.

"We're mages from Fairy Tail," Lucy introduced, raising her hands up to indicate that they meant no harm.

"Fairy Tail? The guild?" she murmured, her brow furrowing in her confusion. "What are you doing here? Where's Cain? Where's…" she trailed off.

"You've been frozen in that ice figure for 5 years," Gray nodded towards the shattered ice, and her eyes dawned with realization.

"Ice…" she trailed off, her eyes narrowing, "Fucking bastard."

The four mages backed up a bit at her sudden change in attitude, as she murmured vulgarities to herself, seemingly frustrated by whatever she had just found out.

"He froze me in that shit for 5 years? Wow, thanks a lot, dad. Oh, just because his daughter can use magic, he goes and shoots her in the stomach and freezes her in a fucking ice block? What a -"

Gray cleared his throat, cutting her off as her head snapped up as she suddenly snapped back into reality. "Oh…Sorry about that," she grinned, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

"Wait…so the man who shot you and froze you was your dad?" Natsu clarified. The girl gave a simple nod, getting up from the ground, running her fingers through her hair.

"Yea, my dad hates me," she muttered, and for a moment, Gray saw something flash in her eyes. It was fear, the terror the bartender had told them he had seen on her face 5 years ago.

"Well, thanks a lot for freeing me. Follow me, I'll get you guys out of here," she winced slightly as she started walking, and her knees buckled, giving out as she crumpled to the ground.

"Ouch," she groaned, while Natsu and Happy guffawed at her. With a frustrated huff, she got up on her feet again, walking unsteadily forwards.

"Hey…Do you need help?" Gray sweat dropped as the girl swayed unsteadily.

"No. I can walk just fine. See?" she grumbled as she tried walking forwards again, stumbling and swaying like a drunkard.

Natsu and Happy laughed harder, pointing at her as they rolled on the floor laughing idiotically.

"Get on," Gray said as he crouched down in front of her, stifling a laugh. She sent a glare at him, stubbornly trying to walk forward with her weak legs. She failed, yet again as she fell on her bottom.

Gray raised an eyebrow at her, smirking. Rolling her eyes, the girl stood up and crawled onto his back, wrapping her thin arms around his neck reluctantly.

The ice mage stood up, slightly surprised by her light weight as he walked forward steadily. The girl rested her chin on his shoulder, before she opened her mouth, "Hey, what's your name?"

"Gray," he replied as his teammates followed behind him, "Gray Fullbuster."

"I'm Natsu Dragneel," the fire mage grinned, walking beside Gray.

"I'm Happy!" the blue cat introduced enthusiastically, raising his little paw high up in the air.

"That's a nice name," she smiled at the cat.

"I'm Lucy Heartfilia."

"Erza Scarlet."

"I'm Setsu," the girl replied, her arms tightening around Gray's neck. "Hey, ice mage. You see that wall there?"

Gray nodded, walking towards the wall she nodded to.

"How did you know Gray was an ice mage? He didn't tell you that," Erza asked, her eyes narrowing in suspicion at Setsu.

"He feels cold. Like my dad. My dad's an ice mage, too. That's how he froze me," Setsu replied, smiling softly at Erza.

"Oh…Sorry for suspecting you like that," Erza mumbled, her head lowering. Setsu shook her head, signaling that she didn't mind it, but Erza couldn't help but feel slightly apologetic. Maybe she had come across as too harsh; the girl had just gotten out of an ice block she had been frozen in for 5 years, after all.

The team stopped as they reached the wall, and Setsu unwrapped one arm from around Gray's neck, pointing to a part of the wall. "Touch that," she said, and Happy flew towards the spot, pressing his paw against it.

There was a low rumble, and the wall parted, giving way to a stairwell. Lucy and Natsu gaped in amazement as they made their way up the stairs, coming up to a small bedroom.

It was dusty, and considerably messy. Clothes and books were thrown everywhere, the white bed at the side of the room unmade. Stationaries and books were strewn across the desk, crumpled paper everywhere.

"Sorry about the mess. It's my room. Looks like the villagers didn't decide to get rid of my stuff," Setsu laughed sheepishly.

She directed them out of her room, and out of her house. They opened her front door to the streets, and walked out.

"Hey, why does that staircase lead up to your room?" Lucy asked, as they made their way back to the fountain.

"Oh, I discovered it actually. It was just pure chance when I found a trapdoor in the middle of my bedroom, and I found that hall that we were in just now. I noticed that it was connected to the bottom of the fountain as well, so I created a mechanism at the side of the fountain just in case. I spent a lot of time in that hall, actually. It was a great place to practice magic."

"That day when I was shot, I managed to get the mechanism at the side of the fountain before I fell in. My father managed to find me though, through the trapdoor of my room and froze me."

There was a short, awkward silence as the team made their way through the quiet streets.

"Hey, Setsu. Do you know what type of magic I use?" Natsu grinned, changing the topic.

"Nope. What?" she asked, leaning forward on Gray's back.

"Guess, guess!"

"Gimme a clue!" she laughed, thrashing around on Gray's back. Gray tightened his hold on her to make sure she didn't fall as he chuckled at her enthusiasm.

"It's an element," Lucy winked.

"Let me touch you," she ordered, reaching forwards towards Natsu. Gray cringed slightly at the misleading words.

Once her hand made contact with his skin, she grinned victoriously, settling back comfortably on Gray's back, "Fire."

Natsu smirked, igniting his fists with flames while Setsu stared in wonder.

"How about me? Guess what type of magic I use," Lucy smiled, walking in front of Setsu.

Setsu frowned, her head tilting slightly as she scrutinized the blonde. She didn't seem very fit, and she didn't come across as very intimidating either.

"You're a celestial wizard, aren't you?" she grinned as Lucy stared at her, dumbfounded.

"How did you know?" she gasped.

"Cause' you don't seem very fit. It was a lucky guess, really," Setsu replied, "But I don't know about you."

Her gold eyes settled on Erza as she squinted at her. Setsu didn't have a clue as to what type of magic Erza used.

"Can you give me a clue?" she asked, and the redhead shook her head firmly.

"I'll give you a clue! Erza's magic is really pretty! Her opponent's blood goes everywhere!" Happy grinned, munching on a fish.

Setsu paled, as she stared at the armored wizard in horror.

"I use Magic Swords, requipping magic," Erza smiled as she drew out her sword and turned it into a spear.

"So you're a Magic Knight?" Setsu gasped in wonder, her eyes practically gleaming.

"Magic Knights usually fight by requipping different weapons. But Erza increased her own abilities, and can fight while requipping different magic armor as well!" Happy smiled.

"I'll show you another time if you want to see," Erza smiled.

Setsu opened her mouth to reply, before she was cut off by a familiar voice.

"Setsu?"

Her head snapped up, as her eyes locked onto the familiar bartender who stood just outside his bar, his eyes wide as he stared at her.

"Cain!" she leaped off Gray's back, trying to run towards her friend before she fell flat on her face, her legs giving out under her.

The mages sweat dropped simultaneously as she twitched on the ground. Cain rushed to her side, picking her up by the shoulders and lifting her up off the ground.

She hung in the air like a rag doll, before Cain starting shaking her violently.

"Setsu! I thought you were dead!" Cain cried, as Setsu tried to stop his vigorous shaking.

"C-C-Ca-Cain," she groaned, but by the time he stopped shaking her, she lay limply in his grip, her soul drifting off.

"You killed her!" Happy cried, flying over to Setsu, "Setsu! Wake up!" The girl recovered almost immediately, jumping up on her feet before collapsing again. Using her arms, she comically dragged herself towards Gray, climbing back up his back like a koala.

She passed out yet again, her head resting limply on his shoulder as the rest of the team panicked, thinking that she was dead.

But that was when a loud snore escaped her mouth, and Lucy's jaw dropped, "ASLEEP?!"

It was a wonder how she fast she had fallen asleep in that situation, and Natsu and Happy rolled on the floor, laughing at the strange girl.

It was the day after the incident. The villagers didn't suffer from any nightmares that night, and Setsu set off with the team of mages back to Magnolia, having decided that she wanted to join the guild.

They were halfway through their journey and Setsu was settled comfortably on Gray's back yet again. After years of not using her legs, her legs were extremely weak, and she could only walk for a small distance before her legs would give out.

"Hey, Setsu," Natsu started.

"Hm?"

"What type of magic do you use?"

The girl sighed, and her eyes dulled slightly, as though hesitant to tell them, "It's complicated – I don't even know what type of magic it is myself."

Gray raised an eyebrow, "You don't know what type of magic you use? That's dumb."

Setsu smacked him lightly on the back of his head with a huff, "Yea, I know. But it's true. Unlike people who train to wield magic, I was born with it. I never knew why or how. My parents didn't know why either."

"I guess you can say I control negative energies. When my mother was pregnant with me, she had horrible nightmares every night. It continued after I was born, and my father started suffering from them too. I learned how to control it as I got older, so that nobody got any nightmares, but I guess I couldn't control it when my father froze me, so that's why the villagers started suffering from those nightmares."

"But I usually can control it from escaping my body and affecting the people around me. Even if I can't, it only affects people when they're asleep, because they're in a vulnerable state, and the magic gets to their heads easily."

"I learned how to channel it out directly, and found out that I can manipulate spiritual energy."

"Spiritual energy? You mean like my celestial spirits?" Lucy asked, her eyes widening in surprise.

"No, not those spirits. I control the dead, spirits of those who've passed on. It was kind of creepy when I started seeing things that others couldn't see, but I got used to it."

Lucy and Happy cringed in horror. "The dead?" Lucy chorused, her voice cracking slightly in her fear.

Setsu let out a light laugh, "Yea, there's a few around us right now actually."

Lucy screamed, her hands flying up comically as she darted behind Setsu, her eyes darting left and right as she tried to figure out where the ghosts were.

"That's creepy," Gray muttered, and Setsu tightened her grip on his neck, strangling him. The ice mage choked, hitting her arms to try to get her off, but she didn't relent until his face started turning blue from the lack of oxygen.

"So I guess you can say I'm sort of like you," Setsu smiled at Lucy, "The spirits help me when I fight, they fight alongside me as my comrades."

"You said something about controlling negative energy around us, didn't you?" Erza asked, her face thoughtful as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Yea, it's actually really under-handed, so I don't really like to use it much," Setsu rubbed the back of her head sheepishly, "You see, everybody has negative energy. Maybe a fear, or a painful memory. I can channel my powers to make someone relive their fears or their bad memories."

Erza nodded in understanding, before Natsu cut in, "Hey, if you don't mind me asking, why was your dad trying to kill you?"

Setsu stiffened, and her breath hitched. There was a short silence as the team of mages stared at her expectantly, waiting for her response.

"I was hoping you wouldn't ask that. You see, at first, when my parents found out about my powers, they wanted to kill me. But I guess they decided not to, probably because they couldn't bear to kill their own child. After I gained control of my powers, things got better and they started treating me normally, like a part of their family."

"But there was one night when I lost control. I don't even remember what triggered it, but I lost control of my powers. It was only one night, but the nightmare I gave my mother drove her to suicide. My dad was hell-bent on trying to kill me after that, so I ran away, to this village."

There was an awkward silence after she finished, as Natsu rubbed the back of his head, feeling slightly apologetic for asking her that question. But a part of him knew that he wasn't wrong to ask, because if she was going to join the guild, they had to make sure she wasn't a threat.

The silence continued, nobody really knowing what to say to lighten the tense situation.

But Setsu lightened it up herself, by opening her mouth and asking, "By the way, ice mage, where the hell are your clothes?"