"Happy fly me to that wizard!" Lucy stopped Natsu as he told Happy what he planned

"Natsu! It's too dangerous! Can't you see he's in a rage! Let's just try to hide for now!" while trying to convince Natsu, Lucy was worried and hoped that her words reached him.

"Aye sir!" Happy confirmed as he flew Natsu closer to the unknown mage.

"NATSU YOU IDIOT!" they can hear Lucy's faint shout as they charged in.

"Karyu no Hoko!" Natsu attacked as he threw a roar of flames to the already burning mage.

He didn't budge or neither did a counter attack. The unknown mage continued to burn the forest to the ground.

"Why is he not attacking us? Can't he see, we just threw that fire at him?" Happy analysed a thought from what Natsu said,

"Maybe because he's a fire mage that you didn't scratch him at all Natsu?"

"But he must have dodged or attacked us back? Why didn't he tried any of that?"

"In other words, you are useless in this battle Natsu!"

"WHAT?! DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME HAPPY!" while he was shouting at Happy for making such a comment.

He was about to attack with another roar. He attacked with one after another after another non-stop. He was almost out of magical powers.

"I'm out of food. This is not good!" he exclaimed as he tried to catch up with his breath.

Happy concerned, he tried convincing Natsu to stop attacking and think of a plan.

"What if I'll try to eat that lava he makes?" Happy shocked from Natsu's statement but then he opposed him

"Don't do it Natsu! And more importantly, what is a java?" Happy stupidly asked

"Idiot! It's LAVA! Not JAVA! It's what a volcano produces. When the magma comes out from the crater it's called lava afterwards!" Natsu explained

"You're the idiot! There's no such thing! That's magma!"

"Are you picking a fight!? It's lava!"

"AAAAHHHH!" Natsu screamed from fear as Happy dropped him from anger.

He then caught him right before he was roasted in the sea of fire.

"Are you trying to kill me Happy?!" Happy then asked Natsu what that thing is called again,

"It's magma! Magma okay!? Don't ever drop me again!"

"Aye sir!" Happy replied as he flew him back high to the air.

"Natsu, you're only making the fire stronger every time you try to attack, you're so stupid!" Natsu is now raging from Happy's grip. Happy tried to think what could be the best way to prevent this fire?

"There's only one thing left to do," Natsu stated as he tried sucking the liquid believing it will rev him up since he's lost too much power.

Not long after his action, he felt suffocated from the fire he sucked in.

"AHH! (Coughs) HOT! TOO HOT! (Coughs) " he stopped as he felt the burning sensation in his lungs. It was different from any kinds of fire he ate before. He has never felt this burnt ever since.

"AAHHHH!" Happy shouted as he saw a big wave of sea water coming their way.

The water went straight to the fire halfway inside the forest and caused it to stop from raging. It also dragged the liquid fire into the sea. Along with the waves, Natsu and Happy were flushed with it and returned them back to the bay. As soon as the water returned to the sea, there they found the mage with its cape stuck in a branch of a tree.

"It's Aquarius!" Natsu affirmed as he and Happy laid in the anchorage with both their eyes twirling around

"Hooy! Are you two okay?" Natsu tried to open his eyes as he saw Lucy running towards them carrying Mario in her back now conscious.

"I'm sorry Natsu! It took me so long to figure out how to make the wave without putting Mario-kun in danger! So I figured, I'll put him into Horologium to keep him safe!" Lucy explained to Natsu

Mario jumped from Lucy's back to the ground. As soon as Mario left her back, Lucy immediately grabbed Happy as she saw him completely knocked out.

"Why did you flush us with it Lucy?!" Natsu asked even though he was wobbly.

"I'm really sorry!"

The two kept insisting and arguing as to why Lucy flushed them with the wave.

"What were you trying to do magician-san?" Lucy and Natsu both stopped from the argument as they heard Mario plainly asked the hanging magician from the tree just next to them

He was dripping with water as he got soaked in from the wave, but Mario felt a warm drop of water as it dropped into his face when he was looking up

"LUNA!" the mage then shouted this name with tears in his eyes and more warm drops of water dropped in the little kid's face.

Mario's eyes enlarged. He was shocked that this person just shouted the name that he was so sure he knew.

The team then helped the unknown magician to come down from the tree as he chose to not move at all while he was weeping.

"Um… are you alright Mage-san?" Lucy tried to ask the magician as they leaned him back to the roots of the tree

His head was facing down and completely lifeless. They thought maybe the man ran out of powers.

They laid him into one of the sleeping bags Natsu always carry. They removed the man's cape and dried it up facing the sun.

It was almost sunset.

"Why are you not eating the fish?" Natsu merrily asked Mario holding the fish in a stick.

Facing the fireplace they made, Natsu grilled 5 more fishes for them.

"I'm not hungry" Mario answered looking down in his hands.

"Don't you like it? Can I eat it then?" Happy asked with stars in his eyes

Mario's behavior bothered Natsu. He checked where Lucy's at; he saw her nursing the unknown fire mage. He then grabbed Mario's hands and dragged him along with him to fish for more.

[Somewhere in the Forest]

"So, you just keep it there until some fish eat your bait! Ahahah!" Natsu explained as he gave Mario another fishing rod. They are both sitting in a cliff not so far from the sea just enough until their rods reached seawater.

Mario didn't say anything. Natsu sat there thinking this child must bear a big problem with him? He tried to cheer him up.

"Mario," Natsu called as Mario looked up to his direction

"It's alright. You don't have to be so sad! I'm sure your problem will be resolved." Natsu cheerfully added

"That's why you're here, to find for an answer, right?" Mario's expressionless face is now slowly transposing into a rather sad face.

"You. You don't know anything." Mario gave off his words.

Natsu didn't say anything and let Mario continue talking.

"I haven't seen my parents at all. Hans Goldspin is a friend of them. They raised me and told me everything since they took me in. I was happy enough to be with them for they are such good people. He said my parents left while I was very sick without telling them any reason and left me in the aid of Hans-san. They were headed into this island and to the shrine in Mona Mountain. They never returned after that. It's been 9 years. But Goldspin found something from me three days after they left, it was this." Referring to the capsule, Mario held it tight as it hung from his neck.

The capsule was only as big as a bead stone. It's got rainbow colors interchanging with it which signifies it to contain magical forces. Hans never knew what it was when he first saw it lying from Mario's stomach when he was just a year old.

He wasn't a mage but he knew the capsule was magical. He searched for what it was and found out it was a magic capsule that holds something. It could hold anything.

He researched on how to activate it, and found answers in the same book. It states there it will only be activated as long as the owner of whatever's inside the capsule touched it. But if the owner is unknown, it is best to throw it away far from people for it may bring demons and darkness for it is mostly used for dark purposes. This was concluded due to the ritual that was needed to be made in order to seal something in a magic capsule. Only dark mages could bear to do the ritual. The ritual wasn't stated in the book to prevent the reader from doing it himself. But having said that, it doesn't mean that what is inside the capsule is evil every time.

Judging from the last line Hans knew it was something important and believed it wasn't evil so he didn't threw it out. He placed it in a sealed box and revealed it to Mario when he thought he was ready. He then presented it to the mages while it was inside the box but before they left, Hans managed to turn it into a necklace for Mario to wear and asked him to never lose it and find the shrine.

"Hans-san asked me what I wanted to do with it for it belongs to me. He wanted me to know what it was first for me to make an informative decision" Mario continued,

"We both agreed to take it away to avoid people from harm." Mario stopped as he wanted to say more. Natsu then looked at Mario whose now just sitting beside him taking a tighter grip of the fishing rod.

"You want to see your parents before you leave this capsule behind, right?" Mario's mentality was shaken as he never expected Natsu to find that out

"Look, I know you think selfish reasons are not enough to put everyone in harm. But we're in a deserted island! Nobody's here so we can try to look for them here and activate the capsule!"

Mario is now looking at Natsu's direction as he continued to speak knowing deep inside him, that's exactly what he wanted to do.

"But what about you?" Mario asked concerning the lives of the other mages. "What if there are other people here? How will we know who owns this capsule? What if, what if my parents are dead?"

Natsu was left with no words to respond to Mario.

"Yeah, It may be tough, but it's our job to do it. We'll figure it out! We're Fairy Tail after all! Besides, I'm sure what's inside that capsule isn't evil. I can smell it."

"I'll tell you though; it's not going to be easy. Looking for answers." As Natsu looked up to the sky reflecting his own wish to find Igneel.

"But that's why you're friends are there! Lean on them!"

"And stop being a coward. Remove yourself from the past, just because you were hurt immensely back then, doesn't give you the right to have "being scared" as an excuse. The only person who can cure that pain is you alone." Natsu calmly stated.

"I mean, I know you're still a kid, but I hope you remember my words when you grow up just enough for you to understand them.
As Natsu imparted his words, he noticed Mario shaking.

"I...I'm sorry" these words left Mario's lips

"Why is that? What are you sorry for Mario?"

"I was being a coward." Mario proudly raised his head then he looked at Natsu.

"You were right, Natsu-san. Thank you. " Natsu was glad as he felt like he just helped the burdened little kid.

"I'll surely and definitely find my answers, Natsu-san. It doesn't matter if they will make me happy or make me miserable. As long as I live in the future." Mario rendered a sweet smile in his face.

Natsu's eyes widened as he saw Mario gave off a smile.

For the first time since he saw Mario, (which was not long ago, just a couple of hours earlier but it seems like the kid has been like that for a long time since) he finally saw feelings coming out from the child.

"AHAHAH! I'm not blushing at all!" As Natsu shove Mario backward, confused from Natsu's actions.

They returned to the camp to cook some more of the fish they just caught.

They were nearly in the camp until they saw Happy rushing to their course.

"NATSU! TROUBLE! LUCY!" as he cried towards them.