OK, fast update for this one because I'd already written the first few chapters when I published the first. Pretty pretty PLEASE review. Even if it's just a 'This is quite good' or a 'This is awful, give up now'.

Chapter 2

Ronan awoke again shortly after to the sound of shouting, and more rumbling. Shaking his head, he sat bolt upright. The camp was under attack!

"Solid script- Iron!" he heard a female voice shout out. He looked around and saw a glyph appear in front of the girl. This glyph was replaced by the word 'Iron,' which shot forward and fell on top of… was that a giant chicken? He quickly assessed the field- Freid, Bickslow, and Elfman (how did I know their names?!) were fighting the giant chicken and a… giant goat? Cana and Lisanna were fighting the giant, white, Voodoo, magician thing from earlier, and Levy was moving between the two.

"We'll have a better chance of beating him if we work as a team!" Levy shouted, and joined Cana and Lisanna against Kain.

Elfman was pushed back by an attack from the goat, again involving a letter appearing the in the air. From above, the chicken began to pelt Bickslow and Fried with eggs that were somehow firing from its mouth.

"A real man uses real attacks!" Elfman accused.

"Where did the others go?" Ronan asked.

"Ah, you've woken up- now that's manly!"

"What?"

"I am told you're a fire and lightning wizard," stated Fried. "Could you perchance set your way about burning these adversaries of ours?"

"Actually I'm- wait, a wizard? I'm not-"once again he was interrupted- this time by a barrage of eggs from the giant chicken. Ronan quickly turned around and destroyed them in mid-air with quick waves of fire.

"I'll distract this one!" Ronan shouted, suddenly wanting to prove himself to these people. "You three deal with the goat!"

'Never have I uttered a stranger sentence…' he thought. But, without hesitating, he began the sequence for another shot of lightning bending, to aim for the chicken. Before he could react, he was hit in the head with what felt like a giant egg. Without Ronan to give it direction, the energy in his body rebalanced too soon, and he started to electrocute himself. Desperately, he re-directed it in a random direction; hitting a tree and set it alight. Ronan cursed and sent a piece of the Earth at the chicken. The chicken easily dodged and shot a single, giant egg at Ronan. Ronan back flipped (using his airbending to help) out of the way; as his feet reached the apex of their backflip, he shot a jet of air at the chicken, hoping to throw off his flight.

Meanwhile, with odds of three against one, the fight against the goat-man was going well. Freed was cancelling out the goat's runes at every possible opportunity, giving Bickslow's minions the opportunity to repeatedly dive bomb the goat. It wasn't beaten yet, however, and the goat unleashed a large set of runes that pushed back Bickslow and Fried. Elfman attacked from behind; his arm huge and jet black. The goat saw this coming, though, and sent out a kick aimed at Elfman's stomach.

"Serves me right; attacking from behind is not manly!" The goat sent out another rune, this time pointing at Elfman, and the word 'HOLD' seemed to grab and tightly squeeze the Takeover mage. Try as he might, Elfman couldn't wriggle free.

Another barrage of eggs reminded Ronan that he was not yet done with his own fight.

"You won't beat me-peron!" the chicken cawed at him. "I was considered for the Seven Kin-peron!"

"I have literally no idea what you're talking about." replied Ronan, honestly.

He changed his stance and sent several pieces of the ground flying at the chicken. These attacks were again dodged with relative ease, but the chicken was unable to attack, and it began to fly upwards, trying to get out of range.

Seeing the chicken's plan, Ronan again changed his stance and started to re-direct the air around the chicken away from its wings. This seemed to confuse the chicken, and it began to fall.

"Special attack- golden egg- peron!" the chicken shouted in panic, and a large, golden egg shot out of the chicken's mouth. Ronan barely had time to dodge it as it landed. A few seconds later, the egg exploded, knocking Ronan to the ground. He quickly recovered, using the energy of the fire around him to help him stand up. He sent that fire straight up the chicken. The chicken responded by shooting another barrage of eggs towards him, but didn't quite manage to dodge the fire. The eggs exploded into a large wall of what appeared to be fried eggs (Fried eggs?) between Ronan and the chicken. This confused Ronan for a second, but he decided to try and jump over it, using his fire as a boost. As he approached the top of the wall, he realised he wasn't going to make it, so he instead straightened out end sent a jet of fire through the egg wall, creating a hole large enough for him to fall through.

Before he even made it part way through the hole, the chicken appeared in front of him, and kicked Ronan back into the wall. Ronan fell several feet to the ground, the air this time not quite knocked out of him.

Panting nonetheless, Ronan made a decision. 'Desperate time call for desperate measures,' he thought, and smiled evilly at the chicken.

"Hey chicken-boy, look at this- I guarantee it'll be egg-citing!" he shouted at the chicken.

'Egg-citing?' He thought. 'What the hell kind of pun was that?' Ignoring his slip-up, Ronan bowed his head and closed his hands into fists. The energy in his body surged suddenly, and when Ronan looked up again, his eyes were glowing a blue-ish white; in fact, his entire body bathed in a soft blue-white light.

"I am ending this. Now," he stated. He moved the air into a vortex underneath him, pushing him up until he was at the same level as the chicken. Looking straight into its eyes, Ronan saw that the chicken was terrified. This was good. Before the chicken could think of anything to say, Ronan bent the fire that had been spreading rapidly among the trees towards the chicken's head, whirring in a circle. The circle began to move faster and faster as Ronan added more heat from his own body; in a couple of seconds it became an inferno singeing the chicken's head. Moments later, fire had engulfed the chicken's entire body. In a last ditch attempt to free himself, the chicken opened its mouth to send another golden egg at Ronan, but the moment the chicken's mouh was open, Ronan used his feet to push air into the chicken's gullet.

"Please don't kill me-peron!" the chicken begged, shouting at the top of its voice above the screams of agony. Ronan merely smirked, and fired another jet of air to push the chicken away. The chicken flew backwards over the forest, screaming and unable to do anything about it.

"You're our last hope of promotion-peron!" it shouted at the goat, before it landed several miles away with a far away, but audible crash.

The goat-man looked up at where the sound had come from, and saw a fully realised Avatar bearing down upon him. His eyes were aglow, and there was a grim look to his whole being. The air current had been enhanced by a similar current of fire wrapped around it. Ronan stopped before the goat, and lifted two great rocks into the air.

"Surrender." Ronan stated. It was not a suggestion. The goat recoiled in fear. Already injured by the combined attacks of Bickslow and Freed, and seeing that Elfman had managed to get out of the HOLD rune, and now facing the prospects of being squished, burnt, or both, the goat dropped to its knees and began to gabble.

"Run." Ronan ordered, and run it did. The goat needed no more encouragement, and ran away from the campsite, tail between its legs and muttering something about 'Hades… promotion… only ones left with any reasonable…'.

Turning around one last time, Ronan saw that the girls had defeated Kain. He slowly put down the boulders and lowered himself to the ground. When he landed, he collapsed into a heap.

"We did it!" he heard Levy shout. Ronan hadn't felt so weak since that whole business with the Water-Tribes.

'Wait, what's a water tribe?'

"What the hell was that?!" shouted Elfman. "Killing someone like that chicken isn't very Manly!"

"It won't have killed him." Ronan assured the group. "When he lands, he can just roll around and he'll eventually put the fire out. He'll be a little burnt up, and possibly quite shaken, but apart from a few scars, he'll be fine."

"Scars are manly!" Elfman declared, apparently accepting this as an answer.

"Thank you for helping, Ronan-san." Lisanna said. "I saw what you did there. How did you do that with the fire and lightning? And those rocks too! I've never seen magic like that before."

"Oh. Actually, I'm the Avatar." This was met with blank looks. "The Avatar? Surely you've heard of me?"

"Just because you're famous wherever you came from, doesn't mean you're famous here," said Cana, approaching them. "This is Fairy Tail; there's lots of famous wizards here."

"Wizards? Like who?"

"Well, over there," Cana gestured towards the sleeping forms, "is Mirajane Strauss, also known as-,"

"As the she-devil, yes." Ronan completed the sentence.

"So you have heard of her."

"Yes. Actually, no. I know her."

"How do you know Mira-nee?" inquired Lisanna.

"Yeah, I've never seen a Man like you before, and I've been with Mirajane since-" Elfman stopped mid-sentence, looking uncomfortably at Lisanna.

"Since you thought you'd accidentally killed your sister, yes," again, Ronan completed the sentence. The he gasped as he realised he probably shouldn't have said that. "But I don't know why I know that." He quickly tried to correct his faux-pas. "I know lots of things that I don't. Like you, I know all of your names- you're Levy, and you're Lisanna, Elfman, Bickslow, Fried, and Cana," he gestured to each of them in turn. "And I know your powers too. And I know the other's powers- Natsu's a fire dragon slayer, Lucy's a celestial wizard, Happy and Carla are Exceeds- but I don't know what any of that means."

"Porlyusica may be able to aid you when we return to Magnolia." Freed interrupted. "You appear to be suffering from some form of memory loss. But for now we should ascertain whether or not the Salamander and Lady Titania require our assistance in defeating Hades."

"I won't leave Mira-nee," said Lisanna, firmly. "But you all go, we shouldn't be attacked again."

"I'll stay too!" shouted Ronan, a little too loudly and quickly. "I have some healing ability." He explained. "Perhaps I can wake Mirajane and the others up."

"That might be a good idea, actually. Apparently since the tree fell down, any of them could die any moment. Do what you can," stated Cana. "The rest of us will go and help…" at that moment, a mighty roar was heard. Blasting through the entire forest, a combination of lightning and fire scorched over their heads. For a few seconds, the entire world was silent. This was soon replaced by a slight buzzing as Ronan's ears tried to recover.

"Now that was manly!" claimed Elfman.

"Sounds like Natsu's having too much fun without us," suggested Bickslow.

"I agree," said Cana. "Let's go!" The rest of the Fairy Tail members ran off towards the source of the noise and fire and lightning and smoke and general destruction, leaving Lisanna and Ronan alone with the patients on the ground.

Ronan leant over Mirajane. There didn't seem to be any obvious bodily injury. In fact, looking down the line, he saw that, before the camp attack, the people who were conscious had done quite a good job binding a dressing broken bones and the like. Mostly they seemed to be suffering from exhaustion.

"Do you have any water?" he asked.

"I think they're past hot towels by now," suggested Lisanna. "Besides, our water got destroyed when we were attacked by that Grimoire Heart guild."

"So it spilled into the ground?" Lisanna nodded. "OK," said Ronan. "Where did it spill?" Lisanna gestured, and Ronan ran over to the spot. He felt the ground, almost caressing it, and slowly he tried to connect with the water he could feel. "It's too deep," he said aloud, "and I haven't used water-bending in a while. How far away is the nearest stream?"

"A couple of miles that way," she gestured. "But if you need water, we could collect the rainwater in these buckets we just happen to have lying around." This made Ronan laughed.

"I'd forgotten it was raining- wait a second." Ronan changed his stance again, and felt the water around him, felt the way it flowed. He brought his hands up, moving in circular and spiral patterns, matching the way the water moved… and the water moved with him. Smiling, he quickly gathered up a small amount of it and brought it over to the make-shift medicine tent. Lisanna's eyes widened.

"How did you do that?" she asked.

"I was taught it by my water-bending master," he replied.

"Wtaer-bending Master? Who was that?" she enquired.

"It was…" who was it? He knew that he was taught by a water-bending master. That they were friends even. But what was his name?

"I… can't remember." Lisanna looked sympathetic.

"Porlyusica can be a little coarse, but she's excellent at what she does." Lisanna assured him. "She'll be able to help when we get back to Magnolia."

"OK. Thanks, Lisanna." He began to work on the (he noticed) very curvaceous body in front of him. Water was the source of life, and it was with that element that water-benders had long ago learnt to save people from death. Ronan knew that, and was now in the process of putting thousands of years of study by hundreds of different masters into place to save these people that he barely knew- despite the fact that he knew them all quite well. That latter fact was constantly putting him off. He moved the water over Mirajane's injuries, soothing them. Soon, it began to restore Mirajane's life-force, and in no time she was breathing normally, though still sleeping.

"That's enough on nee-san," Lisanna assured him. "I don't want you to run out of magic before you've healed the others."

"Run out? How can you run out of bending? Where there's water, I can bend it. Too much can make me tired, but this is just healing."

"You're strange," Lisanna said.

"Not as strange as you lot." Ronan objected, moving on to the next patient- a bigger man with long black hair- intimidating at first glance, but Ronan guessed that there was more to him than that.

"Gajeel…" he whispered. How did he know that? He again collected some water and started to bring Gajeel from death's brink.

"What is this place, anyway?" he said to Lisanna.

"This is Tenrou Island, the sacred island of Fai-,"

"I know that, I mean what country? Is this some Earth-Kingdom conspiracy? What was this fight all about? Why the hell was I attacked by some voodoo master, and what's with the flying cat?"

"Country? This is the Kingdom of Fiore, on Earth-Land. I've never heard of an Earth Kingdom."

"I know, me neither."

"But you just said-,"

"I know!" said Ronan, dropping the water, slightly soaking Gajeel. He put his head in his hands. "Things like that just keep slipping out. I don't know where I've come from, I only slightly know where I am, and I don't know what's with the weird bending here!"

"It's not bending, it's magic," explained Lisanna. "Apparently, what you call bending, we call magic. For example: I use take-over magic. Watch." Before Ronan's eyes, a glyph appeared in front of Lisanna, and she took on the form of a large, humanoid cat. "See? Magic. My brother and sister are the same. Well, my sister's way more powerful. In one of her forms, she destroyed an entire town with pretty much a single thought."

"That's scary," said Ronan, picking up the water again and moving it over Gajeel.

"M-hm. The master banned her from using that form again. But everyone in Fairy Tail's a little destructive- when Natsu, Gray and Gajeel get into a fight, I'd recommend moving out of the way." Ronan chuckled at this.

"So, what other types of magic are there?"

"Well, there's maker magic, which is quite common, but can be very powerful. There's two mages in Fairy Tail that use it- Gray Fullbuster and Laki Olietta. Laki's quite good, although she hasn't had much job experience. Gray's very powerful though- he's even taken down Natsu a few times, though Natsu would never admit it"

"Natsu's a dragon slayer, right?" asked Ronan, moving over to Makarov.

"Yes. Dragon slayers are…"

As they moved down each of the patients, Lisanna began to explain the ins and outs of magic in Fiore. Ronan quickly realised that he knew most the information already, he just didn't know he knew it. This was getting to be a bad habit.

A couple of minutes after they had finished, tending to the patients, they heard another large explosion, as well as a loud creaking noise. For no apparent reason, something appeared to be lifting out of the sea, far away from the camp. At first glance it was shapeless, too enormous to comprehend, but Ronan blinked, changing his perspective, and he realised it was a great tree, bigger than any tree had any right to be, lifting out of the water. Not only that, the tree was repairing itself. Ronan assumed that this was some type of magic Lisanna hadn't told him about, but as the tree reached its final stages of reparation, Ronan felt a small surge, and the patients began to wake up.

"Who's this?" one of them whispered.

"I dunno, is he with Grimoire Heart?"

"Lisanna's with him."

Ronan heard the mutterings. "There's no time to explain." He decided he couldn't be bothered. "Your friends are trying to take down Hades by themselves- they might need your help!"

"He's right," agreed Makarov, dusting himself off. "Whoever you are, I know it's you that healed me. Are you willing to help us?"

"Of course," Ronan replied. He had never doubted it; these were people he wanted to be friends with.

"Good," said the master. "Let's go!" Together, they ran off towards the source of the explosion, catching up with the other members who had been shaken by the tree's ascent to the island. The noise turned out to have come from a nearby beach. On the beach, Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, and the Exceeds were apparently unable to attack- they were surrounded by dozens of figures, and doing nothing to get out of their situation. At the approach of the other members of Fairy Tail, the assailants turned around and caught sight of another figure on the beach, lying flat on the ground with wide eyes, his form completely unmoving.

"That's Master Hades!" one of them pointed out. Disappointingly, as soon as the assailants realised this, they surrendered. The newly revived members of Fairy Tail all threateningly prepared their attacks- this was all the 'encouragement' needed for the assailants to choose to run away. Natsu and the others led a victory whoop, jumping into the air. Quickly the other members joined in; everyone hugging everyone else (with a few notable exceptions).

Somehow symbolic, dawn chose this moment to break.

"You did it!" Levy shouted. "How on Earth did you take him down?"

"Well, a standard combination of me being awesome," said Natsu.

"One person's not a combination, Natsu," Happy pointed out.

"It is when I'm around. Besides, you didn't let me finish." Natsu retorted. "A combination of me being awesome and the world's best guild showing what we can do," he finished. "Oh, and a little help from a certain someone…" he gestured, looking over to an imposing figure stood slightly apart from the rest of them.

Ronan held back from the hugs and the talking, lost in his own thoughts and feeling slightly out of place. Gray caught sight of him standing apart from everyone else, and quickly jumped to a conclusion.

"Wait, who's that?!" Gray gestured at Ronan, and put his left fist onto his right palm. "Ice-make- Prison!" he shouted, and Ronan found himself stuck inside a cage made out of ice.

"You idiot!" shouted Natsu to Gray. "He's on our side, he helped me defeat Kain!"

"Oh yeah?!" Gray shouted back to him. "How was I supposed to know that, you pyro?!" Inexplicably (there had been a few inexplicables on this day), they put their heads against each other, growling slightly, and the air around them changed colour- blue behind Gray, and orangey-red behind Natsu.

"Maybe you should ask before you attack someone, ice-brain!"

"Yeah, says you? What if he was one of those Seven Kin you fire-maniac!"

"We defeated them all, that's why they ran away!"

"Well what if it was Zeref?!"

"He looks nothing like Zeref!"

"The hair's the sa-,"

"Stop it you two!" Erza interrupted, splitting them apart. "Natsu, melt the ice around our new friend- and try not to burn him."

"I'm all out of magic." Natsu said, hugging Gray in one arm. "I don't even know how Gray was able to make that prison."

"It doesn't take much" explained Gray, also hugging Natsu "- and Hades attacked me less than he attacked you. Besides, he's tried melting my ice before, remember? It's hard for one wizard to undo what another wizard's done."

"It doesn't matter- I can do it myself." Ronan assured them all. Ice was just water with rock-like tendencies- hard and unyielding on the outside, but still the flowing, ever changing element it always turned out to be at its heart. He pushed his arms out to the side- and then stopped. This was not normal ice. Normal ice was frozen water- this was just… ice. This never was, nor did it have any intention of being, anything other than what it was right now. Ronan thought for a moment.

Hard and unyielding. Like Rock. Ronan changed his stance and stamped on the ground while pushing his hands onto the bars of the cage. The cage disintegrated.

"Impressive," said Erza. "It's rare to see Gray's ice-magic so easily bested."

"It's just another element." Ronan shrugged.

"I think I want to get to know your magic better," suggested Erza.

"Why don't we all get back to the camp," suggested the Master, his voice above everyone else's despite not being particularly loud.

"Good idea- I'm starving!" shouted Natsu.

"Aye Sir!" agreed Happy, and the two practically flew to camp- without wings.

"If Natsu thinks there's food there, there's probably food there," said Erza. "Let's go."

The rest of the group made their way back to camp much more slowly. Master briefly stayed behind, Erza suggested not asking why, but eventually he caught up them all.

"I was just telling Ronan here how he might be able to join the guild." Erza said as the Master approached. "What do you think?"

"I think that'd be fine. I'd need to see you fight before I let you out on missions, but I'm sure you'll be just great."

"I didn't need to do anything to join," said Lucy.

"You were a celestial wizard with 3 gold keys- I was hardly going to pass that up, now, was I? Especially after Natsu gave you such a glowing review." Lucy blushed slightly. "And look how well that worked out- 10 of the 12 gold keys. If it wasn't for you, today would have gone much worse. Yes, much worse…" the Master trailed off, thinking.

"So…" said Ronan. "You must be Lucy Heartphilia? I helped today when you were fighting -,"

"-that big guy, yes. I remember." Lucy said. "I still want to know how you broke out of Gray's cage. Even Lyon's had trouble doing that in the past…"

"I suppose I'm sort of a… an elemental wizard." Ronan tried to explain in a way the celestial mage would understand. "If it's related to Fire, Air, Water, or Earth, I can… sort of… bend it to my will. Where I come from, that's called bending."

"Wow, and where is that, exactly?"

"That's just the problem, I have no idea."

"What?"

"Ronan has been having problems with his memory," Lisanna interrupted their conversation. Ronan looked over at Lisanna and smiled at her, thankful for the chance to not talk, when he suddenly felt weak. Maybe it was the fact that his brain was hurting from trying to work all this out, maybe it was exhaustion, maybe it was just this place affecting him badly, or, more likely, a combination of the three. In any case, his legs suddenly collapsed under him, and one again he knew no more.