Hey guys, it's Rambles here bringing you a new chapter of A Burning Demon! I once again apologise for how long it's been since I've updated this, but to put it simply, life has been a bitch lately. College is exhausting now that I'm in my second year and top that off I've got work to deal with as well. Sometime I just get so tired that I don't feel like writing, but I'm trying to get back into it, hopefully soon I'll have updates out for some of my other stories. And for those of you who read it, chapter 2 of Swordsman of the stars is in the works, I'll try and prioritize it... unless I get distracted and make another one shot.
Also, Guest, who reviewed on my latest chapter of this, in response to your questions:
1) Pyro's identity will be revealed in due time.
2) As you can probably tell, I do not have set updates, though I probably should...
3) What exactly do you mean when you ask how many chapters is a chapter? This one just kinda didn't make any sense...
But anyway, enough of me Rambling, lets get on with the story! Don't forget to leave a review!

Chapter 4- Taking out the Oración Seis

Wendy sighed to herself as she finished healing Sherry and Ichiya. Using her healing magic tired her out and after Pyro's sudden outburst, it had been hard to concentrate. It hadn't been his words that had unnerved her, just one single sentence in that speech.

"Its because of you humans that she's dead!"

Who was this person Pyro had mentioned? Was she the reason why he quit whatever legal guild he had once been a part of? it just made no sense.

Wendy wasn't the only one shaken up by Pyro. Erza and Lucy had been absolutely terrified when the dark mage had yelled at them. But Erza couldn't get over the feeling that somehow, somehow she had met Pyro before, the way he'd spoken, his control over fire.

But the only person who matched those specifics had been buried 6 feet under 3 years ago.

But it was the uncertainty that eat away at Erza. And she knew that even the entire alliance combined wouldn't stand a chance at facing Pyro. She could only hope that he didn't end up returning until they had defeated all of the Oración Seis.

After Wendy had finished healing Ichiya and Sherry Hibiki contacted all of the alliance, telling them to return to the clearing, having informed them that Wendy had been found safe.

However it wasn't long until the problems emerged once again.

Matsuo and Gray found themselves cornered by Racer, unable to escape his extreme speed.

Jura had engaged Hoteye, the two earth users were locked in heated combat, with their magics perfectly cancelling each other out.

And Lucy was currently facing off against Angel. Erza had run off somewhere, claiming to have felt a familiar presence, and that was when they had seen it.

The huge tower of magic fired off into the sky, white and black light filling the area. Hibiki's eyes widened as he realised what the tower symbolised.

Nirvana.

Hell, even Pyro, who had been walking away from the forest and the wizards, had stopped when he felt the huge magical spike. "Shit" He said to himself before turning and heading back towards the tower, panic lacing his thoughts If they've activated that magic… Then he could be on his way… "Shit!" He exclaimed as he then started to run.

Lucy had to take her eyes away from the huge tower of light and focus back on Angel. The woman used celestial keys, just like her, and Angel had spirits that could match anything Lucy brought out.

When she summoned Aquarius, Angel summon Scorpio, Aquarius' boyfriend.

When she summoned Taurus, Angel summoned Gemini, who transformed into Lucy, which distracted the golden bull.

When Lucy summoned Loke, Angel summoned Aires, someone Loke had history with, and also revealing Angel as the one who killed Karen, Loke's former master.

"What am I going to do?" Lucy thought to herself "She has something to counter any spirit I send out"

"Now Gemini" Angel said proudly "Finish her off!"

Lucy could only stand there, bracing herself for her end.

"We won't" Gemini said defiantly.

"What do you mean you won't!" Angel snapped

"We can tell her feelings, see how well she cares for her spirits. We don't want to hurt her" Gemini explained.

"Well you are my spirit and will do as I say!" Angel snapped.

"Shut up" A voice said and Angel froze, turning around her legs began to tremble as she could feel that familiar presence behind her. She knew who it was, the overwhelming fear coursing through her veins proved who it was.

"Pyro" Lucy whispered, her own legs shaking as she saw the hooded figure stood behind Angel.

"Pyro-sama, how may I help you?" Angel asked, her voice trembling.

"Well for starters you can shut up. Your spirits are free to do as they please. Just use something else to beat her, rather then getting all pathetic and screaming at your spirits." The hooded man explained, then he saw something on the other side of the river bank.

It was Wendy, who was staring at him wide eyed.

"We're leaving" Pyro said, before turning and starting to walk away.

"But Pyro-sama" Angel began

"Now Angel" Pyro stated. "If my predictions are correct, then the rest of the 6 are bound to fall, and if that happens… then shit will hit the fan."

"How do you mean?" Angel asked.

Of course while Pyro was explaining to Angel what he meant. Gemini had decided that they had had enough, still wielding The chisel, she swung the weapon at Angel, striking the woman in the back.

"Hm" Pyro said as he watched Angel fall, her last words before she fell unconscious being her wish to disappear.

"I never thought that it would be Angel's own spirits that would defeat her. Oh well" He then looked down at Angel "I had hoped that saving at least one of you could prevent the awakening, but I guess it's just not my day" He then took the celestial keys that Angel had on her and threw them to Lucy.

"Wha- Why" Lucy stammered.

"They'll be of no use to Angel anymore, and I think her spirits will benefit you more then I would stand to gain. Plus you have a lot of potential Miss Heartfilia" He said before walking away.

"Wait, Pyro!" Wendy called, but Pyro was gone.

With Matsuo and Gray

The two Fairy Tail mages stood back to back, watching the tree lines around them, trying to figure out where Racer was. Matsuo had his spear at the ready and Gray was stood ready to cast a spell.

"God dammit" Matsuo said. "I don't get it, even with my genesis magic, I can't catch this guy"

"Something about just seems off though" Gray said, before suddenly sending a lance flying at the treeline, attempting to hit Racer, who was circling them.

"Wait a minute" Matsuo mumbled before thinking about something.

When Gray had send that attack, it had moved too fast.

In fact, everything around them seemed a bit off.

"Oh so that's how it works" He said, before turning to Gray. "Listen Gray, I have an idea. Just trust me on this one okay?" He mumbled before whispering his plan to Gray, who nodded, before creating a large tower out of ice, sending the ice make wizard skyward.

"Alright. Now for phase 2" Matsuo mumbled. "Hey Racer! If your really that fast, then come and get me!" He shouted before turning and running into the forest. Quickly casting a glance over his shoulder he spotted Racer's red blur approaching.

Bait taken He thought, smirking before continuing running, all the while taunting Racer.

Matsuo kept on running, but just as he was about to turn a corner, he suddenly spotted an off magic circle in front of him.

That promptly exploded.

Matsuo was knocked onto his ass, before looking up to see Jackal stood over him.

"God dammit, this is not what I need" Matsuo mumbled.

"I wonder how is it your able to survive my explosion?" Jackal said before casting an explosion underneath Matsu, which sent the blonde crashing into a tree.

"Though what I'm really confused about, is how you defeated Valkyrie" The etherious stated.

Jackal then sent Matsuo crashing into another tree, which forced the blonde to cough up blood as the wind was knocked out of him.

Racer then emerged from the trees. "Oh look" Racer said "Looks like your not so tough now, you little punk" Racer said, before stamping on Matsuo.

But Matsuo just laughed.

"You know, Jackal said something very interesting to me just before you showed up" Matsuo coughed, clutching his chest as he sat up

"Oh yeah" Racer said, completely ignoring the confused look on the etherious' face. "And what would that be?"

"He said that he's faster than you" Matsuo said weakly.

"You what?!" Racer demanded, turning his attention towards Jackal, who was just as shocked.

"I didn't say anything! Blondie's just lying to cover his hide!" Jackal exclaimed, however Racer simply didn't listen as he went to attack Jackal, forcing the etherious to dodge his attacks while Matsuo crawled over to a nearby tree, placing his hand against it.

"Didn't think that would actually work, but I need to focus" He mumbled, as the tree began to glow with a red light before disintegrating. Matsu then smiled as he felt the rush of magic energy flow through him. He then got to his feet, his body covered in a red aura.

"Much better" He said before turning his attention to Jackal and Racer, who were still fighting one another.

"No one is faster than me!" Racer exclaimed as he threw a punch at Jackal, who just about dodged.

"I'm telling you!" Jackal shouted "I didn't say anything like that!"

Racer simply didn't listen, he instead went to hit jackal with his superior speed, however just as he got closer and closer to Jackal.

Everything suddenly went red.

Jackal and Racer both looked confused as suddenly the red faded and Matsuo was stood there, a sword made of red energy in his hand as his eyes glowed red.

"What the hell did you do?!" Racer demanded.

"I cut through your magic" Matsuo said "You see, I figured out how you do it, you don't actually move fast, you just slow down people's perception of time. What I did was cut through the sphere of influence your magic created" He explained.

"Pretty smart, but try cutting this!" Jackal said before sending an explosion at Matsuo.

Matsuo just slashed straight through the explosion with the sword. He then grinned before the sword morphed into 3 small razor discs, which he then threw at Jackal.

But just before they could hit the etherious he suddenly transformed back into a book and vanished, only for Pyro to walk into the small clearing Matsuo had created when he'd destroyed the tree.

"Pyro" Racer said "What are you doing?"

"Cleaning up the mess you guys made" Pyro said simply "You've lost Racer. The kid figured out your secret, so you might as well give it up"

"What! You want me to surrender!" Racer demanded.

"Yes" Pyro said simply "The other alternative is that Zero awakens and the fucks over everything I had planned"

"Well i don't give a fuck about your shitty plan!" Racer shouted "I'm not surrendering to these punks-" He then was cut off as Pyro simply struck Racer in the chest, knocking the speed mage out.

"You know what. You dark wizards are so fucking obnoxious, I think I'll just deal with them myself, then worry about Zero later" He mumbled, before looking over at Matsuo, who just reformed another sword out of red energy.

"You really want to fight me?" Pyro asked.

Matsuo nodded.

"I'll admit you got guts kid, not many people actually attempt to stand up against me. But I'm not in the mood for playing with children. So just go away" Pyro said.

"I'm not backing down" Matsuo said, his grip on the sword tightening.

"Okay." Pyro said "You want to make this about swords?" He asked, He then held his hand out to the side, and a large red sword appeared in his hand, its design was extremely similar to the flame empress' sword, but the blade was wider and the hilt much bigger, the flame pattern pommel was much more stylized.

"Matsuo I-" Erza said, appearing from the treeline she stopped when she saw Pyro and the sword he was holding.

"Erza?" Matsuo questioned "What are you doing here?"

"That sword" Erza said, her body trembling "It's just like my flame empress sword, but I haven't seen that sword since…" She trailed off, before her fists clenched and she requipped into her purgatory armour.

"How do you have that sword!" She demanded, before swinging the giant mace at Pyro.

Pyro said nothing, just raises his sword and blocked Erza's mace, which caused the purgatory mace to shatter into pieces.

Erza was so shocked by this that she didn't notice Pyro grab her by the throat until she was slammed up against a nearby tree. She tried to grab the hand clasped around her throat, but Pyro just tightened his grip.

"It seems you just love proving my point. Titania" Pyro said "You continue to pointlessly attack me for no reason. I should end your life right now. But that would only prove you right. Make me 'evil' and give your friends a reason to attack me." He paused for a moment "No. I'm not a killer" He then dropped Erza to the ground, before turning and walking away.

"Now if you don't mind. I'm going to go finish off the rest of the Oración Seis"

Pyro trekked through the woods, his thoughts conflicted once again.

"Why didn't I kill her?"

It's because you don't want to. That voice said again.

"I know that, but why? She is my enemy! She sees me as a villain for trying to help them!" He responded.

Because she was once your friend The voice said. Making Pyro stop in his tracks.

"Friend?"

The voice remained silent this time and Pyro stood there, thinking.

However he was interrupted as the huge column of light vanished, and the giant walking city that was Nirvana's true form emerged from the site of the tower.

"Oh shit" Pyro said before running towards the city, he quickly arrived at one of the legs, using his flames he propelled himself up to the city on top.

"What is Brain thinking?" Pyro asked, as he ran along he had to resist his body's natural urge to stop and throw up. I thought I got past that! But he pressed on, before spotting Brain and Cobra stood in the centre of the city, on top of a very large spire type structure.

Pyro was aware that many of the legal wizards had made it onto Nirvana as well. But he'd deal with them later.

Pyro was about to start climbing the spire when Cobra lept down at him, attempting to hit the cloaked wizard.

"I can hear you" Cobra said smugly.

"Cobra" Pyro stated.

"Yeah, I'm afraid that you won't be going any further, you might have taken out Angel and Racer, but you won't be getting any more kills under your belt." The poison dragon slayer said, grinning.

Pyro said nothing, just dashed forward, attempting to strike Cobra, however he just dodged the cloaked wizard's attacks.

"You can't do anything against me" Cobra smirked. "I can hear every move you make before you even make it"

"You know what" Pyro said. "You've always been a thorn in my side Cobra, I think I'll enjoy exterminating you the most"

And with that the two colossal powers of the Oración Seis charged at each other, fists meeting in a explosion of fire and poison.