Wow, it's been almost two months since this one was last updated. Well I suppose I owe it to you guys to upload. I stayed up to 3:03am when I need to be up in 4 hours for you guys, because I love you really. And I was scared to go to sleep since there is a gianourmous, (not even kidding) spider sat under my bed, less than 30cm from my face...yay! Carrying on...Chapter 14!

Holding onto the memories

Chapter 14: Ring of Fire

RaZar's expression looked grim. It weighed on his face like he had been hit with a brick. Suddenly, his body dissipated. Already, he was behind Natsu, his foot travelling at a speed close to that of light.

As it ploughed through the air, Natsu's body remained still. A tugging at RaZar's lips shone as he felt his foot about to graze his skin.

Rock was crushed to dust under the force. He...missed? As the dust settled, RaZar snapped his head back to see Natsu stood quietly watching him. Looking at him closely, RaZar noticed how his body had barely moved an inch. Yet, it had still moved, if only a centimetre. A low, grumbling chuckle growled from his lips as the Mexican stood tall again. Shaking his ankle, RaZar relaxed his muscles. "So, you got faster." RaZar sighed. "I barely saw you move." A cold, hard set of onyx eyes watched him intensely. "But...you barely know anything. I will discipline you NATSU!" RaZar roared.

Launching from his feet in a split second, Natsu's whole body leapt forward. A fist full of power charged towards the man's thick face. RaZar only had to blink to know to dodge left. Effortlessly, his wide body hoped to the left. Flames burned across his vision as they soared past. RaZar couldn't help but admire the beauty of the red, orange and yellow flames as they whipped past in slowed time. That time was cut short.

Something hot sizzled on his back and send a vibrating through his bones. After a delay, a spine-smashing force hurdles his body forwards through the humid air in a thick column of stone. Natsu stood tall behind where RaZar stood. That hit had taken him by surprise.

With a retching rumble, the whole stone column crumbled over the mexican's body as only his head turned to look over his shoulder. The whites of his eyes bore in over all surprise. Then they narrowed to only show the deep, black abyss of the man's eyes, boiling with rage as they quickly inspected the boy, every single inch. Natsu stared back with an even darker glare, his fists burning with rage.

"You got your fire back, eh? That was quick." RaZar grumbled, as he dusted the grit and fragmented stone off of his clothes, turning to face the dragon slayer. A single stream of blood ran down his forearm from a scratch across his shoulder. A single scratch. RaZar gave it no attention and instead took a single step closer towards the dragon slayer who didn't even bother to flinch at the man's intimidating aura.

"He- He hit him!" The blue devil's crazier side burst into laughter, slamming his fist against the wood of the thrown's arm rest as he gasped for air. "He actually hit him!"

"There's a man before you RaZar, don't take him lightly." The cool, alter-ego resided, shifting his position in his thrown, relaxing his palms on his lap.

"Shut up." RaZar snapped, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. A red smear across the flat of his hand showed another cut across his lip that everyone else had failed to notice. The man hacked and spat at the ground, flexing his knuckles. "I will show you what it's like to be a man, chico." he spat and just like that, he was gone. A trail of dust swirled into the air after a moments delay.

Fairy tail's eyes darted straight back to Natsu, or at least where he was stood. Just a few stones rattled across the floor at the gust as his body disappeared into a blur. Shapes flew and darted across the room, not quite touching, but grazing as they glided past each other. The air erupted into a sonic boom as the two whirling figures brushed past each other. Each bounding and flying through the air like bolts of lightening.

Suddenly, a blur was sent rocketing down into the stone hard ground of the brick, shaking the unstable building and rippling a quacking shock through each molecule of stone. Before the dust could even settle, the body from the man-shaped hole began to clamber out. Pink hair peaked from the top as bruised and bloody fist dragged the dragon slayer to his knee's.

A lightening quick heel in the spine dropped Natsu straight onto his stomach, pushing his weight into the ground, but not enough to dent it this time. The large body's moulded shape whizzed through the short space and flickered above the crushed dragon slayer. A thick, paw of a hand clutched the pink, spiky hair between his battered and bruised knuckles, tugging it backwards to lift up the boy's face. Blood streaked down the dragon's slayers pale skin as his dark eyes squinted open, his teeth baring, flashing the trade mark, sharp canines of the dragon slayers.

"You may be a little faster, but you're no match for me, boy." RaZar hissed, his other hand wrapping around the boy's chin. "Your girl aint' coming back to ya'. Best put you out of your misery." Razar snared, wrapping his forearm around the dragon slayer's neck, still pushing down his limp body with his stone-ton mass.

"NATSU!" the entire guild shrieked as RaZar's arms tightened and with a quick twist...

Flames erupted in a burning ring, quickly building a wall of fire around the two. The guild members flinched backwards as the fire blazed close to their bodies.

RaZar's grip loosened in surprise as the boiling heat rippled through the air. Seizing the opportunity, Natsu bolted out of his grip, throwing RaZar off balance in the meanwhile. The mexican giant quickly regained his balance and stood, tall, his skin beading with sweat. Natsu barely looked fazed by the growing temperature around them.

"Nice trick boy." RaZar growled, pacing slowly in a circle around the arena of flames, in a calm, collected way, his eyes watching Natsu a little too carefully.

"No matter what you do to me, that wall won't go out until I make it. And you're not getting past it without being burnt to a crisp either." Natsu growled, following RaZars stalking, circling around together like a show down. "You can't see things through it either."

RaZar stopped. His boots coming to a loud halt in a mid-step as his head snapped around to lock onto the pink-haired boy with a powerfully intense glare. Natsu unintentionally took a step back, causing a glitter to gleam in RaZar's gaze as he managed to drag it away. "Smart kid. Well, Smart enough. I know she told you, it's been a long time since I've seen her." RaZar reminisced with both a scornful expression and a hidden shimmer of something else, something not so...deadly. "She could read me like the back of her hand. That girl." RaZar looked about, sighed and settled his gaze back on the dragon slayer.

"Your magic-" Natsu began, watching RaZar's remorseful expression with no emotion at all, not even anger, just...nothing.

"My magic works in the way that, when I brand slave, I own everything about them. Every single memory is mine. That way I have the ability to draw, read, destroy and create memories. I can even use their eyes as my own." RaZar cut him off, explaining himself, his fat hands flexing and clenching in front of his face as he examined them admiringly.

"You took all of my friends memories and read them..." Natsu continued, before getting cut off once again.

"I analyse all of it, and took what I needed. I know everything about you dragon slayer. From the day you entered the guild, the time you found that egg and your precious companion happy came out, to the day you met that girl and saved her from the fake salamander, all the way until now." RaZar snapped, his voice grinding with irritation, fuelling into anger. "I know everything. So, even if I don't have a thousands eyes on you, I can still predict your movements." RaZar dashed across the ground, his fist lashing out towards the dragon slayer's face. Natsu moved an inch out the way, letting the fist brush past his skin effortlessly.

RaZar wasted no movement in shifting the momentum into his leg as it swung around for the back of his head. Natsu leant forward and the kick rustled the hair of the back of his neck as it missed.

RaZar thrashed several punches, kicks and body slams, and each time Natsu just simply, dodged. After a while, Razar used the force from a missed hit to swing his body back to the further edge of the dragon slayer, panting hard as he tried to recover.

"How...How..."RaZar wheezed, leaning his weight onto his knees.

"These walls don't just keep out your eyes, but it also slows you down. No normal human, whether foreign or not, can work under the temperatures that are exceeding 200 degrees in here." Natsu growled, his body slowly, walking closer towards the weakened mexican at an even pace. They stopped at his side. "Unfortunately for you, I'm not any normal human!" Natsu snapped, as RaZar swung his body around to face the dragon slayer. "IRON FIST OF THE FIRE DRAGON!" Natsu bellowed, his fist crashing into the face of mexican, feeling the bones crack under his knuckles. The force sent a rippling boom through the air, the shock wave rippling through the floor as RaZar's body was sent crashing through the wall of fire, whipping him with merciless flames. His body flew through the air at thundering speed until he was thrown through several layers of marble, burying him in thick stone of the wall behind the thrown chair.

The fire flickered and dissipated into the humid air, sinking back into the cold, chill of the blundering storm. Natsu heaved and panted, his body bruised, battered and bloody, most likely with bones broken and fractured. Fairy Tail watched with relief to see Natsu as the last standing, not RaZar. The tightened bar around their wrists tingled and relieved, disappearing out of sight. Quickly, Laxus leapt off Gray, as did Levy and Mira. Laxus quickly lifted Gray's arm around his neck, seeming as though he was barely hanging onto conciousness. Erza and Happy quickly leapt from the ground.

Natsu didn't turn to look at them, or even set his gaze on them, Instead, his dark, burning, onyx eyes stayed steadily onto the man in the blue suit, who watched with the same stare. Suddenly, Natsu broke the stare as his legs dropped buckled beneath him, his body giving into its weakness. Quickly, Erza ducked under his right arm, Gajeel under his left and Happy clung to his scarf, contributing his help. "NATSU!" Happy whined, watching Natsu as he fought to stand and drop into a heap again.

A slow, echoing clap was the only thing that made his body freeze. Natsu's glare worked its way back up to the man, who sat tall on his thrown. Piercing, sea-blue eyes watched him with an icy glare, plain and tentative, but radiating through his body like a chilling burn.

Slowly, RaZar's unconscious body crumbled from the wall, falling and landing with a bang on the stone behind him. But the man didn't even bat and eye lid, his gaze just watched Natsu, with a underlying amusement.

"Congratulations, Natsu. You did well in defeating my third." The blue devil smiled softly, rising from his chair and scooting round to look at the body behind his thrown. As he crouched, a cackling, muttered laugh chuckled from his body, his sharp shoulder blades rolling. In a flash, his quickly twisted to stand again, turning simultaneously. His hand flipped backwards like he was holding a cigarette as his other caressed the wooden edges of his chair.

"Your third?" Erza repeated. The man in blue ignored her completely, his eyes just watching Natsu waiting to reply.

"Your third?!" Natsu shouted, making sure to bear his canines while doing so. A small smile tugged on the edges of the man's thin, pale lips.

"Yes, you cannot have a third without a second, Natsu. Honestly, do you know how to count?" The Blue devil fussed, shaking his head in disapproval. "Want to meet my second?" His head leaned forward as his pupils dilated showing his crazy- splintered edge.

"NO. JUST-" Natsu began to roar in frustration before the guy suddenly cut him off.

"LUCY~" The blue devil chimed. Natsu felt his body turned ice cold as he heard the door swing open behind him, creaking ever so, quietly. Irresistibly, Natsu broke from his friends hold, spinning around to see the figure in the doorway.

"LUCY!" Natsu cried.

Doo Doo Doo. Natsu has finally beaten RaZar and freed Fairy Tail! What will happen next? Who knows? I'm writing this as I go along. Aha. Just kidding. I have a plan. Anyway... Look forward to the next chapter when we found out more about Lucy's ...condition.

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