Right before Happy finished what he was about to say, Natsu already ran towards the camp to find out what happened to Lucy leaving the the two behind.

There he saw the unknown fire mage tied with the Fleuve d'étoiles in his whole body while being pinned in the ground by arrows.

Opposite to the man's direction there lies Lucy whose body is lying in the ground.

She was knocked out from the fight they had with the mage but it seems like she managed to win.

Natsu run over to Lucy as the unknown fire mage is completely unconscious again.

"Lucy! Hoy! Can you hear me? Lucy?" very concerned, Natsu looked at Lucy's weakening body. He grabbed her upper body and rested it in his arms.

"Natsu!" he heard Happy's shout from a distance running towards them. Mario was catching up to him.

"Happy! What happened?" He asked Happy whose breathing is now far from normal.

"Lucy was just nursing him when he attacked! Lucy's right hand is now deeply burned! However, she still wanted to fight!" tears are coming out from Happy's eyes as well as from his nostrils

"I told her I'll get Natsu first, but she said, you've got to protect Mario-kun!"

"Also, Natsu." as Happy calmed himself down a little bit, he continued

"That mage, is blind." Mario and Natsu were shocked from Happy's revelation

"Even though he was blind, he said his other senses were heightened because of it. He can sense one small movement from his opponent by hearing the ground's movement. And so at first, Lucy was almost defeated, for she was using Virgo to attack him from underground which didn't work at all. She couldn't summon Aquarius either for there were no water around! But she thought, He can't sense something from the air, so she summoned Sagittarius, and before he touched the ground she asked me to take him up and let Sagittarius use his archery which didn't fail and pinned him to the ground, she then summoned Loke to make him pass out, and then Lucy caught him with her whip which she thought he couldn't predict either!"

"But sadly, she also couldn't predict that the mage managed to throw some final shot of blue blazing fires which hit Lucy directly. Lucy collapsed in the ground without saying anything and so did the man for Loke gave him another blow before he disappeared!"

Natsu continued staring at Lucy's frail body while hearing out Happy.

"I won't forgive him!" Natsu cried out his frustrations. He then stood up and went to the unknown fire mage. "He burned Lucy's guild mark! I won't forgive him!"

Natsu grabbed the collar of the chemise the man is wearing. He persistently asked the man why he did it. Knowing he was passed out, it was an act of total anguish from not being able to do anything.

Mario and Happy quietly watched Natsu from despair. They let him take his anger out from him. While Happy tried to take care of Lucy, Virgo then came out from nowhere.

"Don't worry. I'll take care of Hime" she said with a smile.

She then changed her clothes, applied medicines to heal the burns and laid Lucy to rest.

"Thank you, Virgo!" Happy said with ensured trust from the spirit.

"That is all. See you next time." As she slowly disappeared back to the spirit world.

Natsu kept asking the unknown mage. Out from his knowledge, he was able to wake the mage. Natsu then asked him again with anger.

The unknown mage didn't say anything which made Natsu's blood boil even more.

"Kid, what's your name?" Natsu was stopped as he was asked by the man.

"Shut up you fiend! You made Lucy suffer so much! I won't forgive you! You! You burned her guild mark so you're an enemy!" as Natsu was about to attack, he stopped himself thinking what will this act lead to. The man couldn't even move but still he was full of anger.

After all, he didn't fight. He sat in front of the man blaming it all to himself instead of blaming it to others.

"I'm sorry kid." As the man continued to talk,

"What do you mean?" Natsu asked as he was confused from the man's words.

"I also came from a guild. I don't know where my mark is now, but I believe it was in the right side of my neck. I was an S-class member of the guild Phoenix Grave."

"S-class?" Natsu questioned his abilities.

"Yes. I grew up from a monk territory. I was taught on how to focus the elemental lacrima implanted in me into one natural element in this world. "

"I chose the volcano. Every time I fight for battles, I'm borrowing fire from the volcanoes underneath everywhere it may be."

"Is that why you weren't able to eat it Natsu for it came from nature and not magic?" Happy asked while leaving Mario to take good care of Lucy for a while.

"If I'm in my normal state, no one could have beaten me." The mage proudly revealed

"Don't be so full of yourself!" Natsu opposed.

"What are you kids doing here? You should leave this island alone." The man's face is now indicating something dangerous. "You must all leave this island! NOW!"

"What are you saying?! We can't, we have a mission to do!" Natsu strongly implies

"You don't understand! Please! Leave this island!" The man repeated this line infinitely.

"Father. Stop it." As Mario started to speak which left all of them questioning.

"Fa..Father? Who are you?"

"Mario Stratos. You're Tobi Stratos, am I right?"

"Ma...Mario? MARIO" Tobi is now left speechless.

For so long, he wanted to held his son close and take care of him. But he didn't want to see him this way. He promised to himself, that he will come back to his son with his wife on his side. He felt ashamed.

He bowed his head, and stayed silent for so long. He wasn't able to come back to him, instead it was his son who found him in despair.

Natsu and Happy are both in shock and didn't know what to do.

Mario took a step closer to his long lost father. He kneeled down to where his father is and slowly raised his head gently.

"I finally found you, Father." his words were mixed with tears from the bottom of his heart.

He then embraced his father tighter and tighter. "Please, please accept me as your son again." as he held him more.

Tobi overwhelmed with what his son did, he felt grateful for his son's actions. He then shed some tears but was smiling proudly. "Idiot, I'll never disown you!".

This brought tears in Natsu and Happy's eyes. Even Lucy who managed to witness the scene. She's been touched immensely remembering her deceased father.

"What's your mission here?" as he asked Mario believing he was part of the same guild as Team Natsu. "How old are you now, Mario?"

"I'm not part of their guild father. I'm 10 this year."

"What? 10? We've been gone for 9 years? It's been that long? How... How come? Why does it feel like I spent only 2 or more years here? Are you sure you're 10?" as he asked the child in his arms.

"Positive, Father. Anyway I wanted to ask you for so long, but where's my mother?"

Another silence was brought to the atmosphere as Tobi prepared to declare everything.