So Super Sorry for not updating for so long! I know all you guys must be very angry? or frustrated? with me?

Hopefully not.

Are you enjoying your summer? Batman is! This chapter is getting posted from FRANCE! (Yes, Batman took the 8-hour journey by plane to France) Later in the summer, I am gonna be in Poland, my home country.

I have a lot to do this summer, so... yea. Updates won't be for a long time. SORRY!


It has been many weeks since the ice box incident. Natsu has become one of the dazed, sad kids as everyone, hoping today will be just one lash with the whip, or a couple of punches here and there. Really, everyone was starting to look like corpses, loosing all hope in their lives.

When the hags were giving them the day's announcements at breakfast, they found out that the boy from the 3rd floor with moonbeam-blonde hair, stained with blood so it was red, got adopted, but three days later a message came that he had passed away. This made the hags crackle with laughter. Natsu clenched his teeth and tried to say something, fight back, avenge the boy, but not a sound came out, only tears. Good thing he had a few kids in front of him, because for crying, you get zipped up in the punching bag for 10 minutes so the hags could get a workout.

Natsu tried escaping that night. He knew that escaping was the only way to keep on living, to get up and start again. But it seemed like getting up and starting over wasn't an option when you carry those memories of all the beatings, punishments and crying you had, and all the beating, punishments, and crying you have seen. And when you freeze when that searching light focuses on you and you turn around slowly, all the hope of escape, a new life, some love, floods from you. Then they stare at you, trying not to laugh at the shame on your face, they sentence you.

"A day in the hall of fire!"


Natsu told Andrew, and only Andrew, what he got sentenced to.

"A day. In the hall of FIRE?" Andrew shook his head. "That's worse than A year in the ice box!"

"What's the hall of fire?" Natsu asked. Normally, he would have been curious, but what if...

Andrew sighed. "Here Natsu. I will tell you. I barely survived Ten MINUTES in there. You really ought to be prepared."


The hags came the same way they came for him for the ice box.

In the middle of the night, tied up, blindfolded and gagged, Natsu got dragged down another stair case. He felt looseness, then pain, and a sudden...heat.

Groggily, Natsu sat up and opened his eyes. The "Hall of Fire" was exactly as Andrew has described. A hall, with FIRE around the edges, and FIRE in the floor, separated by these weird metal bars with holes. A/N Anyone watch Kung-Fu panda? Remember that training room with that floor that shot up fire? Well, this is just like that. But there was FIRE!

(Flashback) "Daddy, teach me! Pleeeeeeeeease?" Asked a five year old Natsu.


"Natsu, you might pass out. I don't know if you have enough magical power in you."

"But I WANT to learn it Daddy! It looks fun!"

"Alright, but don't show it to anyone! First, I will tell you what it is.

"This, Natsu, is very powerful magic. It is unknown to our kingdom. Heck, any type of magic is unknown to our kingdom.

" Daaad, how come you know it?"

"Because I come from the kingdom of Fiore. You heard about it?" Natsu shook his head, no. " There is magic every where! The cities all use magic, and the non-magic people use magic. But magic is unknown to our kingdom. Don't ask why. You don't want to know the answer. That is different. Our kingdom borders with Fiore, with the mountains, which are almost impassable, and the desert, but no one goes there. Also, with the sea and with a tiny scratch of forest on the south east side of our kingdom. There is a different system of work in Fiore, which I actually prefer, guilds. There are treasure hunter guilds, labor guilds, miner guilds... You get the point. But there are also wizards' guilds. Your guild is like your family. You spend time with your guild, earn money from clients by completing their requests, you live tougether, laugh tougether, cry tougether."

"Daddy, we're you in a guild?"

"No. No, I wasn't. I had a different, ah, occupation. ... But there was a guild I favored."

" Daddy daddy what was it?"

"That guild, a bunch of rambunctious younglings. Been around for quite a while. That guild, Fairy Tail." ( end flashback)


So... Natsu decided he could practice the magic. Using the magic Igneel had taught him, Natsu inhaled, taking in the flames. He hadn't eaten flames for a while, and he was delighted he could have some. The heat in the hall went down for a moment, and then roared back up. Natsu smiled. An eternal supply of food. He could practice all he wanted.

After eating some more, Natsu decided to try a spell.

"Here it goes..." Natsu said to himself. "Roar of the...FIRE DRAGON!" Nastu focused on those words. He focused his magic to a wall, and let it out. A magic circle formed. It was bigger than Natsu's head, and then the fire roared in a column at the wall.

Natsu panted. Not bad.


So! Another chapter! How is it!? Please R&R! I need your ideas!

So, next, on tPotF...

What happens when Natsu comes out of the hall?

What will Wendy do? How will floor 2 rebel?

See ya, Batman