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But seriously, I'm glad that you all like… for some reason. I'm sure someone out there could do better. Anyway, here's the next chapter, cause why not. Like I said in the first chapter, there are some things different than canon, and it has crossover elements. You will see it here now. Also, I don't really know what kind of magic Irene has aside from climate and flying, so I'll be making it out as I go.

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Chapter Two: The Scarlet Despair and The Strongest Demon

Natsu woke up to the sunlight from the window flashing in his face. Thought he also noticed some red hair on his face as well. At first he was confused until he remembered yesterday. Turning his head, he saw Irene sleeping soundly without a care in the world. He blushed due to how close they were to each other.

"So beautiful…" Natsu whispers to himself as he watched Irene sleep. He couldn't help it, she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen, at least to him. But of course, he's getting ahead of himself. Yes, she's beautiful, but…

Oh who is he kidding, he has fallen head over heels for her, even though they just met. Now, to everyone else, Natsu is pretty much a dense moron. But in actuality, he knows about love and females pretty well. He's simply not a pervert like everyone else is. Natsu hates perverts with a passion. You have no idea how hard it is for Natsu to not just start attacking everyone who were perverts, which included some of his guild members.

Getting those thoughts out of his head, he decided to make themselves breakfast. Yes, Natsu knows how to cook, but like with the dense façade he puts up, no one knows that he can cook. They simply think that he would blow up the kitchen or something.

But to be fair there was that one time when he first started to learn…

Anyway, he slowly got out of the bed in order to not wake up Irene. And he headed to the kitchen to cook them something to eat before they head out for his job.

'SOME TIME LATER'

The smell of something delicious woke up the red haired woman. She noticed that she was the only one in bed, so that smell of food must have been Natsu's doing. Wanting to know what smells so good, she got up from the bed and headed to the kitchen. Once she arrived, she saw Natsu making themselves breakfast.

"What are you making?" Irene asked, alerting Natsu of her presence.

"Oh, hey Irene. Just making us some breakfast." Natsu told her as she took a seat at the table. "We got bacon, biscuits, sausage, and waffles." The fire dragon slayer told her as he brought the plates with the food on them to the table as he sat down. "I hope you like it."

Irene thanked Natsu for the food as she took a bite from a waffle. Her face lit up like a overly righteous lamppost.

'This is the best food I ever had!' The red haired woman thought to herself as she then dug in the rest of her meal.

"I take it you like it then?" Natsu asked her as he ate a piece of bacon.

"That was the best food I ever had. Thank you Natsu." Irene answered the pink haired mage, who grinned at her praise.

"Your welcome Irene, and thanks. I always had been a bit nervous by how people would react to my cooking." Natsu told her. "Though to be fair you the only person who knows I can cook."

"Really?" Irene was a bit surprised by that. She figured that there had to be at least one other person that knew. "Not even your guild knows?"

"Yup, not even they know." Natsu replied to her as he finished his breakfast. "I'm going to get ready okay?" Natsu told her, who nodded as he went to get ready.

As she ate the rest of her food, she couldn't help but think about the fire dragon slayer. He was very kind, not to mention handsome and cute in her opinion. He also wasn't a pervert like most people were, though she finds it funny at his reactions when he saw her wearing only her undergarments. All in all, she could help but like him.

Irene blushed to herself as she ate the rest of her food. She couldn't deny it, she fell for him. There's no sense for her to deny it. Yeah, they just met, and yeah, he was younger than her, but to her that didn't really seem to be a problem at all.

"Okay I'm ready." Natsu told her as he came back out ready to go do his job.

"Alright, I'll go change and then we'll head out." Irene replied to him as she went to get ready. After she finished up, they headed for Natsu's job.

'LATER'

"That was so boring!" Natsu told Irene as they walked through the town.

They arrived where the dark guild was, and since Irene wanted to know what Natsu could do on his own, he took care of it himself. It was disappointing to him, they weren't even a challenge. After he took care of them, he let the client know who called the rune knights to bring them in.

"I can imagine it was." Irene replied as they were heading outside of town.

"Yeah, you have to fight them to truly know how boring it was." Natsu explained to the red haired woman. "Anyway, so are we going to have out fight now?" Natsu asked her with stars in his eyes. He really wanted to fight, not only to see how strong she was, but he also just wants to spend more time with her that's all.

"I guess we can." Irene told him.

After arriving at a clearing, they got in the positions.

"Let's see what you're made of." Irene gave him a smirk.

"I'm all fired up now!" Natsu shouted as he charged at the red haired woman with a flaming fist.

Before he could land a hit on her, she immediately took to the air, dodging his attack,

"Whoa! You can fly?!" Natsu shouted excitedly, causing her to giggle from his childlike reaction. To her, it just made him more adorable.

"Of course, but don't let you guard down." Irene told him as she grabbed her staff and shot some kind of magical beam from it toward Natsu.

Seeing the attack coming toward him, Natsu managed to dodge. Which was a lucky thing too, since that attack decimated the surrounding area.

"Whoa." Natsu saw the level of destruction. It was like Gildarts, but with more control.

"Why are you holding back?" Irene called to him from the air. "Show me your real power."

"Alright." Natsu replied to her, "You'll see my power soon enough-"

"No." Irene told him, causing him to be confused. "Don't think I don't noticed, you're hiding something else. I sense it every time you fought, it was faint, but I sensed it."

Natsu was shocked. How did she feel it? Not even Zeref or Acnologia managed to tell back on tenrou Island. Then Natsu grinned, making the woman more interested.

"I'm surprised; no one has ever managed to sense it. But you know what? I feel like I can trust you. Just keep it our little secret okay?" Natsu asked her with a big grin.

"Alright Natsu. Show me what you got." Irene told him.

Natsu gave her a big smile as he was suddenly enveloped in flames. But what caught her eye was the flames were turning dark green. She has never seen fire of that color before.

Irene then noticed the sky becoming a dark and green color. The nearby town also noticed the sky becoming different as well. This must be Natsu's doing, but what is he up too.

Then she felt it. The huge surge of power coming from the mage who was envelope in the green flames. She was surprised, it was even greater then the Emperor of Alvarez, and it kept growing.

The ground shook as the flames grew brighter, as the ground where Natsu stood on began to crumble and charred by the green flames.

Eventually, the green flames died down, revealing Natsu. But he looked different now. Giant demonic wings came from his back, as well as demonic horns coming from his head. Where his feet should be hooves were their instead. The fire burned away his vest, leaving his chest, alongside new green markings on his face and body, visible to the Scarlet Despair.

"Impressive right?" Natsu spoke to her with a demonic tone in his voice.

Now most people would be afraid by what laid before Irene. But to her, she was interested, and excited. She came back to the ground from flying.

"I guess this explains why what I sensed felt so demonic." Irene answered back at him, causing him to grin.

"I'm happy that you're not bothered by this. In case you're wondering, this is my demon form, also known as my E.N.D form." Natsu informed her.

"E.N.D? Isn't that supposed to be the strongest demon in the world?" Irene questioned, before speaking again. "So you're a demon huh? Honestly, It's not that big of a deal if your human or demon."

"Thanks Irene. That actually makes me really happy." Natsu told her, before getting into a fighting stance. "But I believe we have a fight to finish." He finished.

"You are right." Irene got ready herself, she knew she couldn't win, but that doesn't mean she won't have fun.

The two charged at each other once more.

'LATER'

"That was fun!" Natsu told Irene as they were in their hotel room. It ended with Natsu's victory, as he saw that Irene couldn't keep going. He didn't want to hurt her too much. Though Irene managed to do some damaged to him.

"I'm surprise that the carefree mage in front of me is the strongest demon of Earthland. Though I admit, I had fun as well." Irene replied to him, before asking him. "May I ask what kind of fire was that? I never saw anything like that before."

"That was fel fire." Natsu told her, as he lit his hand in the green fire to show her a better look. "You see, When Zeref created me, he used a different source of energy to bring me to life, fel energy." Natsu explained to her as he continued. "This energy came from beyond the world, where Zeref got it from I don't know, but it was due to that how I'm this powerful, and why I feel so demonic compared to any other demons on this world."

Irene was surprised by that knowledge. But was confused about something, wasn't E.N.D sealed away a long time ago? Natsu must have read her mind or something, as he then explained how he had access to his powers and demon form.

"How I have these powers and form still is because I tricked Zeref in thinking that I was sealed. But due to my power, I managed to make it seem like I was sealed away, when in reality I wasn't."

"Interesting," Irene told him, "You could beat anyone that could get in your way. Though I assume that no one knows about this besides me right?"

"Yeah, and I would like for it to remain that way." Natsu replied, as he then frowned a little bit. "I don't think the rest of the world would react well if they learned that I'm the strongest demon this world has ever seen." Natsu then smiled at the red haired woman, "But you don't care, and that makes me happy."

Irene gave him a smile in return. It didn't matter to her if he was a demon, she still fell in love with him, and honestly, she doesn't think that's ever going to change.

"Hey Irene?" Natsu asked her, getting her attention.

"Yes?"

"Uh… maybe later, if you want, we could go get dinner together?" Natsu asked her, blushing and stuttering as he asked her. 'Why do I sound like an idiot?!' he shouted to himself in his mind.

Irene simply giggled at his nervousness, it's make it even more funny now due to knowing who he really is. The strongest demon of Earthland reduced to a blushing and stuttering mess, it was a bit funny.

"Of course Natsu. I would love that." She answered him.

Natsu smiled happily when she accepted.

"Great! I'm going to look for a place we can eat later. See you until dinner then!" Natsu told her as he left the hotel room in search for a place they can eat at.

Irene simply smiled as she decided to relax here until dinner. This was basically a date, but she didn't mind, not one bit.

Hope you enjoyed it, or not, I don't care you all have your opinions.

See you all later, whenever that will be.