Dealing with a Demon (Natsu x Jackal)

Meeting You

Have you ever been is a situation where all you can do is curse luck and everything else in life. Sadly, it just so happens to be I am at one of those very times in my life were all I can do is go "shit".

You see, my whole group sent out by Gramps, that consisted of Happy, Carla, Lucy, Wendy and I, all went together to find this guy who was once a council member, to figure out what Tartarus was after. After a terrible train ride were I had my head stuck out the window the entire time, we finally make it to the weird old man. I mean what the hell kind of creepy old guy has cat ears and a tail, but then again who am I to judge people's fetishes.

Anyway, like a few seconds after we enter the building, boom, the place is engulfed with an explosion and turns to ruble. Just great, now here comes the evil villain I have to beat to Alvarez and back. I pushed Lucy and Wendy to the ground sucked up all the flames. After checking to see if everyone was unharmed, I looked up, and standing all cocky on one of the still intact pillars was this dude, who I figured was the guy who tried to blow us to kingdom come.

He had blond hair that was on the longer side styled were it went up and looked like two ears. He had black markings on his face and hands. He wore tan pants, a jacket tied around his waist, brown boots, a bandana around his neck and a green skin tight shirt. Oh but that's not all, guess what he had a tail. How many people with ears and tails am I going to run into in one day. I swear if Erza were here she would equip into her Neko costume Luce told me about when she went on a job at Fairy Hills. That wasn't all, his smell was like nothing I have ever come across. It wasn't normal, wasn't human, probably had something to do with the tail and stuff.

Apparently the guy's name was Jackal and he is a member of Tartarus' elite force, called the Nine Demon Gates or something. Oh and get this, he's responsible for the whole council being six feet under. He had a messed up grin on his face while he told us all this crap, not that I really care to listen, but that smirk, grin, thing was really starting to annoy me.

You know what, it was then and there that swore I would wipe the smug, psychotic, expression off his face with a good old uppercut. Of course that didn't go well because guess what, turns out if you touch the bitch, you get personally turned into a time bomb, just great, love that luck of mine.

So that leads us to now, everyone but me beaten to unconsciousness and myself in the middle of being thrown around the ruins of the city like some rag doll, at least we were able to evacuate everyone.

My musings were cut short when he threw me through another wall and I tumbled over myself, skidding to a stop.

"Shit, that really hurt" I mumbled as I tried to pull myself up. When I got to my feet I collapsed to my knees, I wrapped my arms around myself as a sharp pain spread through my mid section, I definitely had some broken ribs.

"Oh what's this, is the fairy all out of steam" his laughter cut through the air like a sword and I wanted to punch him in the face oh so much.

My face planted into the stone making a small crater as his foot crashed into the back of my head. He kept his foot on there as he continued to laughed.

"I'm disappointed, I thought I was going to have a lot more fun than this human, what a shame" he grabbed my hair and yanked me up, then smashed me into a wall as he moved his hand to my throat. He held me against the wall and my hands instinctively grabbed his, trying to pry it from my throat. My head hurt so bad and it felt as if I was going in circles. How one demon, I concluded that was the only possible thing he could be, had so much power is beyond me. It made me think about the others in the dark guild, if he was this powerful, what about the people above him, how would we fight them.

He hummed again as he dropped me, then he kicked me in the gut making me scream and sending me flying back to where we were. Have I ever mentioned I hate pain, I can assure you I am no masochist. I groaned as I clutched my stomach, why did he have to kick me in the gut.

"Na-tsu" I was brought back to reality by Happy's voice. I've been spacing off a lot lately, the pain must be getting to me, I've lost a lot of blood too. Happy was off to my left, he had multiple burns and bruises but over all he was in the best condition. I also saw Charle awake and in a similar state.

"Happy, can you fly" I whispered, Jackal was still walking over.

"I have a l-little bit of magic left"

"Good take Luce and Carla can get Wendy. Fly them back to Fairy Tail and get help." Happy looked shocked that I asked home to leave me, but honestly this is the only thing I can think of. Considering my head felt like someone took a jack hammer to it and thinking has not been a specialty of mine, I was in no mood to think of another plan.

"I'm not going to leave you Natsu, your my best buddy, we're supposed to always be together" Happy said with tears pouring down his face.

Before I could answer Jackal had arrived and grabbed me by my hair again and brought me to eye level.

"Oh having a conversation without me, I'm so hurt," he mocked with evident sarcasm lacing his voice.

"Happy, Carla, GO" I yelled, probably a bad idea because it gave me a coughing fit. I tasted blood in my mouth. Happy continued to cry as he and Carla grabbed the two unconscious girls and shakily flew to get help.

"Sending your friends to safety as you brave the storm, how galant of you" Jackal laughed as he threw me into another wall and smashed me into the ground. I was glad my friends and family were safe, now I needed to worry about myself. I wasn't sure there would be anything left of me by the time help came.

I pulled my self up into a sitting position against a broken wall, one he had probably threw me at to break and glared at him with all the strength I could muster.

"Oh how scary" he mocked waving his hands in the air in sarcastic fear.

"My family w-will come for me and when they g-get here your going to be d-dead" I managed out and cursed myself for stuttering. He only grinned and leaned down resting on his ankles as he gazed at me, a maniac look in his eyes.

"Come? Yes they probably will. The real question is if there is going to be anything left of you to save" I swear his psychotic smile grew even bigger than before, if that was even possible. I couldn't move my arms, they were probably broken or I would have punched him in the face. After all, he was close enough to do so.