Gray typed away at his computer, growing more and more frustrated as the clock ticked on. The raven haired man had finally had enough as he jumped up from his desk and shouted.

"WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!" The anguish was clear in his voice. Gray sighed, trying to calm down. He pulled out his phone. The home screen: Blank, just like every other time he checked.

Gray sighed again, heavier than the last. He got up and walked towards the small window of his flat. As he glanced out he caught a look at the bookstore across the street. He hadn't been there yet as it had been newly opened, but now he would go and check it out. Ah boredom, what you do to us.

The male shuffled towards the door, slipping on his shoes and jacket. His glasses fell out of place slightly, and he moved his hand to push them back up his face. As he left he made sure to lock the door, but it wasn't like there was anything worth stealing. Just a shitty second hand laptop and some ramen.

As he walked down the halls of his apartment building he was thinking of what genre he should check out. He's going to a bookstore after all.

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The bell jingled as the door swung open, letting in the chilled night air. The store clerk looked up at the sound and smiled. Her blue eyes crinkling as her face scrunched up while Gray nodded to let her know he saw her.

He looked through the many isles of hardcover books as he searched for what he was looking for. Ah, there it is. Gray thought. There was the isle filled with books on witchcraft and other things occultic.

As Gray's fingers skimmed over the spines of books, something caught his eye.

Beginners Guide to Summoning Demons

"Hmph." Gray sighed, staring at the interesting book. He picked it up, thumbing over the faded gold ink decorating old leather. As Gray went to undo the buckle, he suddenly felt a static shock. Flinching as he pulled his hand away he dropped the book.

Hitting the ground with a thud, it bounced open. Pages flitting like there was a strong breeze. Staring at the moving pages Gray felt terrified. This is why he had no friends, he was reminded.

And then the book stilled. Gray cautiously bent down, moving his hands to pick it up once again. Once the book was in his hands he glanced at the page it was opened to.

Summoning The Great Demon Lord

Congratulations, you've made it this far alive. In this chapter I will be teaching you about summoning higher power demons. And, you hav-

The page ended abruptly, torn. Gray paled, What happened to it? He was nervous but also intrigued.

Since the page was torn, he could see the next one behind it. There was a summoning circle with instructions. Gray looked at the page number, memorizing it.

306

306

306

It repeated in a the book Gray made his way to the counter, the store clerk pegging him in. Once the book was payed for Gray made his way back home.

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Gray rushed inside quickly. He took off his shoes, tripping over them as he threw his jacket off. Moving over to his desk he cleared a space and plopped the book down, opening the pages with care. The mantra of numbers still playing on repeat in his head.

Where is-306, there it is.

Looking over the torn page once more, he moved his sight to the summoning circle. Studying the intricate symbols, he memorized them.

Gray stood up and cleared his floor, pushing back furniture to create more room for the 'Summoning'.

"I need the proper materials to do this," Gray whispered to himself, almost in euphoria at the thought of summoning something. He'd thought about doing something like this before, but now he had instructions on how not to die while doing it.

The first three hundred pages of the book were all preparation instructions, not that he paid much attention to them all. He had hastily poured salt in a bowl to dunk his chalk into. The book said the best cleanse happened between twelve and twenty four hours, but this summoning was supposed to be done during the witching hour.

A little less than five hours would be fine, right?

A small piece of cedar had been tucked into one of the pages, falling out only as he ruffled through them. He burned it, so that it's smoke would help cleanse the room and the stones Ultear had given him forever ago.

"Why is this so complicated?" he asked himself quietly. The rune stones were all pre-carved, so that wasn't a problem. The problem was how many were needed, and what kinds of stones. There was no way he was going to use the jade ones as a substitute, he didn't even know why he kept them after learning that they were primarily used for summoning Incubi and succubi. Gray shuttered slightly. That would be a disaster.

He places them along the edges of where he planned to draw the summoning circle, careful to get the order right. Eventually, Gray was forced to replace sets of two or three with more complex runes that meant the same thing.

Technically.

Being pronounced the same way meant they were the same, right?

As the witching hour approached, the world seem to go silent. No cars passed beneath the open window, and the nearly nonexistent light from the new moon would have given anyone else the feeling that they were in a horror movie. Not Gray though. He rocked back and forth on his heels in anticipation.

Gray dipped his hand into the bowl of salt, drawing out the piece of chalk and sketching out the summoning circle and devil's trap combination.

Unfortunately his excitement would cause him to miss a single line in one of the symbols.

As the ritual progressed onwards power slowly built up in the air until Gray felt like he was suffocating. As he gasped for air, the pressure suddenly dispersed. Taking in gulps of oxygen greedily, he held his neck coughing slightly.

Looking up from his place on the floor he saw boots, and then what seemed to be black skinny jeans on nicely shaped legs formed in a crouch and he instantly thought holy thighs. Shaking those thoughts out of his mind he kept looking upward and saw a long black overcoat, and graceful magenta wings flapping challengingly. Beautiful he gasped inwardly. Gray's eyes had finally made it to the face and his heart skipped a beat.

Twisted into a horrifying smirk, was plump pink lips and sharp fangs, a small nose scrunching along with it. Olive eyes glinting dangerously as slender hands - In which looked as if they'd seen many battles - played with the tips of shoulder length pink hair.

The man let out a demonic laugh - It seemingly sounded like a mix of a dragons roar and a wolffish growl. "You done staring now dumbass?"

Startled out of his stupor Gray let out a shriek and jumped behind him, back hitting the wall.

This new male got up from his crouch and walked over to where Gray was nursing his injured back, boots clicking on the even wood floor. Looking up, eye contact was made and it seemed like time stopped.

"Why the fuck would you mess with this stuff dumbass?" The pink haired man scolded, impressed by the summoners stupidity. Gray gulped, unsure on how to answer. Faded magenta wings beating softly, unable to stretch out fully due to the rooms small size.

"Well?" Gray gulped, finally able to collect his though once his voice returned to him.

"It interested me. I wanted to see what happened." He was honest, a little too honest in fact.

Anger flashed through slitted pupils as the man gritted his teeth in annoyance. He brought a hand up to his face and massaged his temples. "Well you're lucky you summoned me. If it had been anyone else then you could have been either raped, tortured, eaten, kidnapped, or sold. Take your pick."

Fear danced in stormy blue eyes as Gray gulped thickly. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna do anything. And since you've summoned me it's only fair that I introduce myself. The names Natsu, Natsu Dragneel." The newly named Natsu stuck out his hand toward the raven haired man for a handshake.

Staring at Natsu incredulously, Gray slowly brought his own hand up and shook Natsu's. "I'm Gray Fullbuster."

Natsu giggled cutely, well, cutely for a demon. "Nice to meet you."

Gray laughed nervously at the sound, "Y-Yeah, nice to meet you too. Soo, how do I send you back?"

The demon stared at him like he had just slain Cerberus. "Send me back?" Gray nodded. "Ha! The little human thinks he can send me back." Natsu cackled mockingly.

"What do you mean?" The young summoner already dreaded the answer and he hadn't even known the demon for five minutes!

"Well, you summoned me. Once a demon is summoned they can't leave the human world. And that goes for me too, and because you summoned me we are now in a contract." Natsu finished, placing his palm on his chest with the smuggest look he could have adorning his face.

"What?" Gray deadpanned, words replaying over and over again in his head.

Once a demon is summoned they can't leave the human world. And that goes for me too, and because you summoned me we are now in a contract.

Once a demon is summoned they can't leave the human world. And that goes for me too, and because you summoned me we are now in a contract

Now in a contract

Contract

Contract

Steam puffing out of his head Gray fell back, laughing hysterically. Natsu not knowing what the human was doing only had a questioning look on his face.

He leaned over the laughing raven, hands cupped neatly behind his back. "Are you okay?" The demon inquired, curious to what caused his new Master to act like this.

"Just peachy." Gray finally gasped out. Ok, Natsu was beyond confused at this point.

"What's that?" Gray looked at him incredulously. How could he not know what one of the best fruits on the planet is. And then it hit him like a brick. Demon. Hell. Fire.

The raven had now started banging his head against the wall while Natsu only looked over him all panicky, unsure of how humans normally act.

"Ah! Are you ok? Wait wait wait! Does it hurt? Damn it Natsu, of course it hurts! Um-Uh what should I do." In the midst of his panic, Natsu didn't notice that Gray stopped banging his head against the wall, and was looking directly at him.

The show of compassion had taken Gray's train of thought on yet another detour. The sight of Natsu's wings fluttering majestically was distracting. They look so soft!...

Natsu squeaked at the sudden caress, but it seemed as if Gray was deaf to the sound. The summoner moved closer to the demon, his touches getting increasingly more like pets as time moved on. It wasn't Gray's fault Natsu's wings were so soft to the touch. He then used both hands to run through the seemingly endless forest of feathers while Natsu leaned into the touch. The two moved to sit down with the demon practically lying across Gray's lap, purring.

The two stayed like that for roughly five more minutes, or at least until a car horn knocked them out of their current moment. The demon quickly jumped off of Gray's lap, embarrassed that a measly human had manage to make him act like a pet.

Gray pouted at the sudden loss of softness, wanting to continue. As he glanced at the blushing Natsu, we saw a bit of anger flash across his face.

"WHY THE FUCK?" Natsu cursed before going to the nearest corner to crouch down in and sulk, wings wrapping around his small frame. Gray only looked at him and shook his head.

"So, since you can't go back to the underworld, where are you gonna stay?" Gray wondered, snorting at the sulking demon. Natsu stuck his tongue out at the other male, collecting his thought which are still focused on the embarrassing moment.

Natsu exhaled. "I'll stay with you of course." He pointed out as if it was obvious. Only, it wasn't obvious, at least for Gray. The summoner started freaking out.

"What? I don't have enough room, and you're a demon. With big ass soft wings. What are we gonna do? Can't you stay with some of your demon friends?" He babbled while Natsu only shook his head at the sheer stupidity of his new master.

"It's normal and actually encouraged for a summoned to stay with their summoner, so nothing would happen. And you do have enough room, we can just share a bed. And no, I have no 'demon friends' as you put it." Natsu pointed out nonchalantly, acting like everything he said was common knowledge.

"Sh-Share a b-b-bed with m-me?" Gray stuttered, blushing at the mere thought of having to share a bed with and attractive ma-no-DEMON.

"Yes, and don't worry, we'll make it work." Natsu smirked happily.

Gray stared at him like he had just kicked a puppy.

"Why are you looking at me like someone had just kicked Cerberus?" The demon inquired, genuinely confused at the way Gray's face twisted and scrunched.

At this statement Gray deadpanned. "Cerberus?" A nod. "Like the hellhound?" At this another nod, and Natsu opened to speak. Gray quickly covered the demons mouth, not wanting to hear anymore words come out of that mouth. He's already had enough surprises tonight.

The summoner's stomach growled, and Gray was reminded that he hadn't eaten all day. Ahh, the joy of summer break, being able to forget to even EAT because it's so hot.

"You able to eat human food?" Gray asked, unsure if Natsu 'drinks the blood of his enemies' or not.

The latter snorted. "Of course I am, what do you take me for? A ghoul?" He laughed. "Well, I haven't actually tried anything yet, soo first time for everything, right?"

Gray only nodded uncertainly, walking towards his kitchen to grab a bite to eat. "Well, if you haven't tried anything, want something?" Natsu shook his head.

"No thanks, I'm ok." Ok, the manners surprised Gray. This was weird, a demon speaking politely?

Natsu chuckled, "I know what you're thinking. It's actually more common than you think for demons using manners. It's just a dumb stereotype that we are uncultured swine."

Gray looked conflicted, wanting to know more. "Could you maybe, tell me more? Like, about where you're from, and the demons there."

"Sure, but it's not just demons there. The underworld as you humans refer to it, is a whole other world filled with magic, and fairies, and dragons. Even more!" Natsu breathed, while Gray listened in awe.

"Then teach me," Gray said breathlessly, "Teach me all of it."

Natsu's smile widened, "Of course."