A/N: I'm sorry that this was a long time coming. I guess I've been busy and distracted. I would like to thank you for your reviews, follows, and faves. They really do mean a lot to me. And I would love it if you all would review and tell me how I am doing. Though, I have to warn you that I have very little confidence in this chapter. I hope that it will be alright, but I think that next chapter will e ready. I really just wanted to set everything up for the interactions that are coming.

Mai's POV:

Crap, crapity, crap, crap, crap! I over slept, again! Naru was so going to kill me!

I raced out of my apartment and to the office. I made good time, if I say so myself, but I was still about a half an hour late. Still breathing heavily, I entered.

"Mai, you're late!" I heard Naru scold me from his office. Gosh Naru, the least the narcissist could have done was to scold me while he was in the same room as me! That idiot, narcissistic, brat!

I sighed, glad that I hadn't said any of that aloud and called out "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to, it just happened!"

If Naru was a normal person, I bet he would have rolled his eyes at the lame excuse that I gave him. But being the genius he was he said "If you are done, there are still things that need to be taken to the van. I will be taking your tardiness out of your pay." That was all I got. No hi, how are you, or any other greetings. Just go do some work and after that I will give you more work. Work, work, work, did the guy know anything else? Plus he was deducting my pay. That just sucked in general. Though he wouldn't deduct that much; he never did.

Still ranting in my mind, I went and did as Naru instructed. Soon the van was packed and we were riding out to the building where we were hired. The others were going to meet us there and then Mr. Dreyar was going to have one of his people give us the tour of the place.

Sure enough, as soon as we walked into the building, we were greeted by a blond woman with chocolate brown eyes. I also noticed that she had her ankle wrapped. That reminded me of one of the claims that was given to us by the client.

"You must be the people from SPR!" She said with a smile.

"And I would presume that you are Lucy," Naru countered in his normal way. I don't think that he liked how bubbly she came off as.

The girl nodded and motioned us to follow her up to the elevator. I think that she wanted to ask how he knew who she was, but decided against it. Heck, I wanted to know how it was he knew it. But if I asked, I would just have my intelligence questioned and insulted. Not to mention I would have to deal with his narcissism if I tied to bring up anything.

I wanted to wait for the others, but I knew that Naru would want to go through the place without them. I also knew that he wasn't exactly happy that we were in such a busy building. It was going to be hard to work with the employees still doing whatever it was that they did while we were supposedly working. Though, I had no clue what they did as professional gamers, it was something that I found fascinating in a way.

I could never do what they did. The last time I tried to play a video game with my friends from school, I got killed within fifteen seconds of starting that. After that they had gotten the hint and had found other things that they could get me to do. I still cringe every time that they bring it up.

The moment that we came off of the elevator, I couldn't help but notice the differences between here and the office that we worked at.

Mirajane, the girl who had come in, had a desk set up right next to where we came off of the elevator, and then we saw a few people running around. There were monitors everywhere, showing the different games that were being played and how they were doing. I don't think I had ever seen so many different monitors in one place, or so many different people.

The moment that we came up, a boy with light pink hair came running up and shouted "Luce! We are on the Tower of Heaven, and we need you! Erza is almost down!"

Lucy seemed to get very serious then as her face darkened and she yelled "And what do you think you're doing asking me to play? I told you that Gramps had me showing these guys around. Go get Gajeel or Levy, I even bet Romeo would be willing to take my place. I'm busy!" She yelled as she pointed a different way.

"Aw, but Lucy, it's not fun without you," He fluffy cat at his feet meowed as if it agreed with him. That was strange. I didn't know about here, but I am sure that Naru would kill me if I brought an animal into the office.

"I don't care!" Lucy said as she pushed past him. Then as an afterthought she yelled out "And make sure that Gray keeps his shirt on! I don't want his habit to freak these people out!" When I heard that one I think my mouth opened up to ask a question, but I was never able to ask it because she started talking again.

"Sorry about that, so here is the main lobby, this is where you have to pass by in order to find out where everyone is. Mira is really good at keeping tabs on people, trust me." Lucy started as she pointed to the area she was talking about. Then going to where Mira was she indicated the phone and said "And this is the phone that gets calls from one of the other phones when no one is at the other one."

"Can you show me the other phone?" Naru asked. Well, it might have sounded like a question, but in reality, it was a demand. The least he could have done was show some kind of politeness. But no, the guy had to demand everything.

"Sure, right this way!" Lucy smiled as she walked to the right. Passing by many rooms that seemed to be completely occupied, Lucy led us to a simple office space that clearly was not used as much and pointed to one of the black industrial phones on a desk near the back.

"We don't usually use these office spaces since we got new equipment. But I honestly don't think that anyone comes in here anymore. There really isn't anything to do here anyway." She said dismissively as she waved her hand. Her lack of concern was rather interesting, but I guess it was because there were other things that were going on that demanded her attention.

I watched as Naru came forward and tapped the desk a few times with the tip of his finger. I noticed that he did that often when he was impatient or thinking about something serious. It was also kind of annoying too. But, whatever.

"So where was it that you were dragged?" Naru asked as he backed away from the desk.

Lucy started walking again as she said "It was back the way we came, I was checking on Wendy when it happened. She and her cat were both asleep, so I was heading back to Mira. I'm just glad that the others were there to help me."

"You will show us where we can set up as well as any other areas of activity." Naru said as cold as ever. He didn't even seem to sympathize with her situation, which I think was kind of cruel. The least he could have done was waited until she started to move on. But what would I know about that?

With a nod and some happy words, she led us off over to an area where there seemed to be a bunch of rooms as well as a few open areas that all seemed to be filled with people and monitors as the games that were being played flashed through the screens. It was amazing.

I was so distracted by watching what was going on, that I was rudely snapped out of my thoughts when a girl with very long brown hair ran into me. I stumbled a little, and so did she. The smell of alcohol was clear as day, and she seemed to be wasted by the look of her.

"Cana, what has Gramps said about drinking here? You know that the little ones aren't allowed around the stuff! How many have you had today?" Lucy asked with exasperation.

My jaw dropped when the girl said back "Chill Luce, I've only had half a case so far. You know that's good for me."

Lucy sighed as she shook her head. "You know, just because Bacchus won the last drinking contest, that doesn't give you the okay to drink in the office. I thought you knew that."

Then Lucy motioned for us to follow as she lead us into an open room that was void of any people and monitors that we could use as a base.

"Please send anyone who has had an experience within this place here one at a time or grouped based off of experience. I would like to start later today after my associates get here." Naru said as he gave me and Lin the look that said to start bringing in the equipment up so that we could start this investigation already.

I think that it was right about then that I realized that it wouldn't be like the normal ones that we were used to. From what I had see, this place was anything but normal. The only good news was that Lucy was going to be our helper on the case and it was clear that she knew the ins and outs of this place fairly well.

A/N sigh, I hope that you liked that, and I will try extra hard on the next chapter. Lets see how Fairy Tail personalities get along with the seriousness of Ghost Hunt!