User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 367: Jellal vs. Oracion Seis, Review/@comment-5268982-20140117180324/@comment-7418318-20140117203855

As I wrote in another comment of this blog, she might have sent him to demoralize FT.

First they have to fight against one of their own comrades and to top it off, they have to fear that the same happened to each of their captured comrades.

So instead of a search and rescue, they'll have to treat it as a kidnapping.