"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Spells"

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is not mine. Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.

The Next Day

"So who's the one who will fight me?" Natsu said cracking his hands. Natsu is now surrounded by the guild members "Master what is that guy talking about?" Gray asked the master "I told him last night that he will fight someone today. Looks like he's here now." closing his eyes "I will." Gildarts said "So it's you huh?" Natsu replied smiling "Oi Master, he might seem strong but going against Gildarts is too much." and the guild members started murmuring "Now Gildarts, Natsu where do you want to fight?" Makarov asked the two.

"Maybe somewhere with bigger space. Somewhere where you think we can go all out."

"Okay, let's move locations"

They are now in the middle of nowhere. Natsu and Gildarts are standing in the middle of a massive crater. The only audience are Ultear, Erza, Gray, Master, and the Strauss Family. Well, not Mira since she still have to look after the bar. They are watching from the top so that they will not be dragged into the fight.

"Now then... Start!" Master shouted.

"I'm all fired up!" then Natsu didn't waste any time and dashed in front of the crash mage "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" ignited his hands and aimed at Gildarts and send him across the other side of the crater "You're not bad" directing his hands at Natsu who is charging in front of him "Crash" Natsu dodged the attack and continued to strike Gildarts "Fire Dragon's Talon" igniting his foot and smashing it to Gildarts head 'This kid... he too strong compared to the other kids... Interesting.' now taking the offensive Gildarts launched to punch Natsu but only to punch air. "If you don't take me seriously I won't take you either." putting a hand on Gildarts' back "Appear:Burn" a magic circle formed in his hands and released a beam of fire. Gildarts tried to dodge but it was already too late. His back took a solid attack since he's too close.

"No way! he's really putting up a fight against that old man?" The raven-haired boy said "Gildarts is not serious yet. But I'm sure Natsu is too." Master said with a sigh 'This fight will not go anywhere.' he thought to himself "Even if Gildarts is not serious it's a surprise to even push him back." Erza said and the nodded "Don't worry Natsu's not serious either." Ultear said calmly. "What do you mean?" the red-head girl asked "Exactly as I said. Natsu's not serious because that guy is not taking him seriously either." All of them can't believe at Ultear's explanation but decided to agree since they don't know Natsu that much.

"Haha. You're really putting up a fight against me don't you? How about taking you seriously?" stopped at whatever he's doing and started to give off a deadly aura 'Now let's see Natsu. What will you do?' he thought to himself as he keeps releasing more and more menacing aura. Enough to make the audience feel how scary the aura Gildarts is releasing. All of them are shocked at Gildarts. 'Taking a 10 year old boy seriously. What is he thinking?' is what they thought at the same time. Of course except Ultear since he knows what Natsu is really capable of.

"Trying to break my will be using pressure huh? How about I fight back?" suddenly releasing massive amount of much more menacing aura than Gildarts. Making the audience gape for air being choked by the massive amount of pressure. Even Ultear had a hard time breathing because of the sudden release.

Natsu is now in the middle of a pillar created by his flames and making around 170m radius feel the massive pressure he's giving off. "You're interesting kid." Gildarts said before launching himself against Natsu. Natsu didn't have time to react since he was focused on releasing his own pressure and took Gildarts' punch head-on sending Natsu to the other side of the crater. "You've done it now..." giving Gildarts a menacing smile Natsu didn't chant but open his arms wide then countless magic circle appeared behind him and sent Gildarts a barrage of fire. Natsu kept sending Gildarts a barrage of fire with a smile. He didn't know when was the last time he felt this excitement during a fight so he can't make himself stop smiling.

"Take this and this and this and this and more of that and some of these!" then stopped all of a sudden revealing Gildarts' cloak almost destroyed and have scorch mark all in some parts of his left side since that was what he used to cover for the attack "You're strong... but not enough to take me down." Gildarts launched himself at Natsu and Natsu did the same. They exchanged blows for quite time then Natsu finally decide to use spells again "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack" "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist" "Fire Dragon's Talon" "Fire Dragon's Exploding Flame Blade" sending Gildarts a deadly combo which made Gildarts fell into his knees. Both of them are now panting. They are now fighting for 4 hours straight.

"Say Natsu... how about we take this top notch?"

"Sounds good. Then let's. Now I'm burning up!"

"Crash Magic: Final Form: Wrath of the God of War!" Gildarts roared making the ground shake and creating a massive ball of magic in front of him then releasing it towards Natsu.

"Full Magic Release! Hidden Fire From: Crimson Lotus: Pheonix Blade!" Natsu ignites his body with fire, and then charges towards Gildarts.

The two spells made clashed then exploded making the massive crater even more bigger.

When the smoke cleared it revealed Gildarts laying down in the ground panting heavily with his eyes closed next to an unconscious Natsu. All of them are shocked of the result. Natsu was able to bring down Gildarts he may not beat him completely but he still took him down. They didn't waste any time. They rushed to their aid to get them treated right away.

All of fairy tail mages can't believe what they are seeing at the moment. A heavily injured Gildarts and the unconscious newcomer. "Master what happened?" Mira asked "I let them spar and they got carried away and ended the fight releasing their top-notched spells." he explained "Gildarts is heavily injured by that kid?" "Our Gildarts?" "The one and only Gildarts got beaten like that by that kid?" "Hey, Master you can top joking now if you are." "Woah. That kid is scary." they heard them mumble but only sighed to them. "Listen. They still didn't introduce themselves to you right? Ask them to introduce themselves and take the opportunity to ask what happened." taking the two into the infirmary.

"Huh? Where am I?" Natsu asked himself while rubbing his eyes. "You're in the guild infirmary." Makarov said "So I lost huh?" he said with a sigh "Yes, but don't be down. You managed to bring him down and not let himself get up for a day. Oh, by the way, you're out for 2 days." Makarov said closing his eyes.

"Oh... WAIT, WHAT? I WAS OUT FOR TWO DAYS?" nearly popped his eyes out "Yes, now go out and introduce yourselves you've been a member for 3 days and you still haven't introduced yourselves?" the master said teasing the salmon haired boy.

"Well it's not my fault that I was out for 2 days."

"True... now go."

"Okay."

Once he opened the door the only thing he saw is black and then he realized he was tackled into a hug by Ultear. "I was so worried you weren't waking up." almost tearing up "I'm fine Ultear. Now let's introduce ourselves to them." Ultear didn't reply but he felt her nod.

"My name's Natsu Dragneel. Nice to meet you!" he introduced with a big smile "And I'm Ultear Milkovich. Nice to meet you." she said in a monotone "Milkovich?!" Gray shouted "Do you perhaps know a woman named Ur?" he added. Ultear's eyes widen at the mention of the name "Yes, she's my mother." Gray was lost for words. The child of his master who she thought dead is right in front of his eyes. A tear left from Gray's right eye then immediately wipe it off.

"Did you know that the bureau lied to your mother and told her that you're dead?"

Ultear. She's angry to her mother since she didn't came back for her and she got experimented in that hellish place. "No. How did you know her?" was all she can reply her voice is shaking and is about to cry knowing what really happened and that she even hated her own mother not knowing what she gone through first.

"She didn't know that you were alive and always believed that you're already dead. She took us in and raised us as her own and taught us about magic. Hey, can I talk to you later? I have something... important to tell you." Gray said as he balled his fist.

"Okay." Then Gray ran out of the door. By the time he got out everyone asked them a question.

"Hey is it true that you took on Gildarts?"

"Yeah. We were only supposed to spar for a bit but we got carried away and... voila! This is what happened."

"Hey, pinkie. How did you managed to beat than old goat? He's the guild's ace you know?" Natsu's eye widened at the statement "He's the ace? So that's why the old man said not to worry about it." whispered the last part to himself. "Yeah. So... how did you beat him?" Mira asked him while the others are eagered to hear his response but only to be stopped by Erza.

"If he doesn't want to tell you then don't push him."

"What was that tin can? He is the one I asked the question."

"I don't care. If he doesn't want to reply then give him his privacy you goth bitch." Erza and Mira headbutted once again.

"Huh? What was that ginger head?"

"I said you're a gothic bitch!"

"Now, now, Erza... is it? I want to tell them but I just can't explain how." scratching the back of his head while giving her a smile.

*THUMP*

'What was that? Did my heart just skip a beat?' Erza thought to herself with her face can be mistaken for her hair. "Okay. Did you all hear that? He doesn't know how to explain it so leave it be." she shouted making Natsu look again at her and she looked again at him giving her another smilar and bow before mouthing "Thank you" to her.

"Haha! Leave the kid be. All that matters is that he beat me up real good. Right?" Gildarts said appearing out of nowhere. Natsu didn't say anything and just nodded.

"So... Natsu how did you get that much of strenght?" asking Natsu "It's a secret." Natsu said before walking away with Ultear.

They are now at their place almost finishing the house they are making. "So why didn't you really go all out?" Ultear asked "Well, they might get scared of me for beating someone so badly. I'm not underestimating him but it'll only change some few things. It might just make him unconscious for a day or two. And it didn't seem like he really go all out throughout the fight. Yeah he got to exert everything but that was when the we cast our last spell." Natsu replied

"So... How did you know I was still holding back?" he suddenly added

"There was a time when you thought I was already sleeping and I felt you leave from the cave. I followed you and heard you say something like "Igneel's Secret Teachings: Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Enryuu Form!" or something like that."

"That's right. That thing will enchance everything. My senses, my power, strenght and agility. But the truth is it's not really that complete. Sure I can make it last for 45 minutes straight but the enchancement is still not that strong. I still need to train to make that perfect. And that other technique too." whispering the last part to himslef.

"Oh. Okay. Now Lets go to Gray. He said he needs to tell me something important.

Somewhere deep in the forest

"So what do you want to tell me?" Ultear asked with Natsu beside her.

"Uhh. Natsu can you leave us for a while? It's something personal for her."

"No, he's not leaving. What you're going to say to me is something he should know too. I don't like keeping secret's from him." she stated

"Okay. First of all Ultear. I'm sorry. I am deeply sorry. I hope you can forgive me."

N/A: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that ends it. Why do you think Gray is apologizing to Ultear? Well, I'll write that next chapter. And oh, I re-read everything and and saw few mistakes and typos so I fixed it. See ya and Thank you for reading!