If Fairy Tail were written by someone better the Gildartz vs Natsu fight would be awesome and it would end with Natsu getting his ass kicked, and then we would actually have an arc that concentrates on the OTHER CHARACTERS…but its not, its written by Hiro, which means Gildartz will either lose on purpose because of some really retarded reason or he will lose because of Natsu's "passion" and "spirit" which negates everything, even the strength of one of the strongest characters introduced.
Against S Class so far Natsu is probably close to even on Erza and it took him teaming up with Garjeel and a failed Fairy Law, which would have ended the battle, to win. If suddenly Natsu becomes strong enough to beat the strongest S Class, Gildartz, I will officially be over with this series
Please Hiro, have some balls and do something different and unpredictable and kick off the main character...