Hiya! foureye Scarlet-knight, I actually read your stories before and loved them! Anyway, on to the story. I'm going to try and make this as long as I can cause, it will probably be awesome like that! I got tired, so I stopped in the middle of making sure there is no mistakes… I hope not cause I'm going to sleep. Night! Please leave a review and favorite and all of that! Farewell and enjoy!

-Let there be midnight.

-Do not own Fairy Tail

Searching Demon

Natsu looked at the Demon before him. It was the one that the mission had called for him to kill. It stood about 8ft tall with bulging muscles. It looked at Natsu with glowing red eyes, a contrast to its pitch black skin. Natsu grinned at the Demon who stood before him, canines glinting in the afternoon sun. He got into a battle stance, fist now raging with fire as the Demon growled low in its throat. Before Natsu could take more than a breath, the Demon was upon him with bright tearing claws and fangs. Natsu tried to dodge one of the claws that threaten to come down upon him, getting his left forearm slashed, staining the Demon's claw with crimson blood. Natsu hissed in slight pain, forcing his attacks on it. He lit his leg on fire, aiming a kick to the Demon's head. It howled with pain at the burning sensation and force the nine-year-old put in the kick. Natsu snickered as he saw the burn mark on it. He felt proud that he was able to put damage on a creature without Gray-nii's help.

Suddenly, a heavy aura came over the battle field, making it hard to breath. It felt like a pressure pushing against Natsu body, squishing him. Natsu's breath hitched at the pain the pressure caused him. He knelt on one knee as the pressure intensified. He looked up at the Demon who now stood above him. A sinister smile was upon the Demon's features, his sharp pointy fangs a blinding white.

"Night night!" its speech sounded choppy and scratchy. Its voice was deep almost like a growling bear. Its smile grew as he raised his bulky black hand high above its head, bringing it down on the pink haired child. Natsu knew no more as blackness swarmed his vision, taking him within its depths.

~Gray~

Gray looked out of the train window, head in hand. Something in his gut told him something was wrong, but no matter how much he tried to deny it, the since of worry and anxiety washed over him.

"Are you alright Gray?" Lucy asked him. She sat next to the black haired man, Happy sleeping in her lap. Gray looked at her slightly from his position at the window.

"Yeah, I'm fine." he mumbled as the train came to a screeching halt.

"Passengers leaving for Martflies may leave the train." the conductors voice rang out through the speakers. Erza, Lucy-who was holding the sleeping Happy in her arms-, and Gray walked out of the cabin and into the train station. With each step Gray had made, this worry and anxiety seemed to grow larger and even harder to ignore. "So where would Natsu be?" Lucy asked once they had excited the train station. Erza took out a white piece of crumpled paper, reading the words scribbled onto it.

"Near Black Woodland." Erza responded, putting the piece of paper back in her pocket(somewhere). Gray and Lucy nodded as they followed Erza to Black Woodland, not knowing what they would find.

~Black Woodland~

The trio finally reached the destination(If you count Happy who still his sleeping in Lucy's arms, then four.). Every step Gray had taken, he seemed to drown in the worry that beset him. He didn't know why, and at one point, his palms started to sweat and shake uncontrollably. This made him nervous at what he would find at Black Woodland.

They were well into the forest when they notice something on the ground. It was Natsu's scarf and some droplets of blood on the ground around it. But there was no Natsu. Gray started to panic, blood running an icy cold.

No… no… not again! he thought, his mind wondering to the day he lost his little brother.

~Flashback~

Twelve-year-old Gray looked around for his brother Natsu. He didn't think Natsu could've gone far, considering he finally learned how to walk a week ago. He looked around the small little shack he lived in with the toddler. "Natsu?" he called out, eyes peering under the bed the two slept in. No one. Gray sighed as he stood up. He looked everywhere, not a single sign of the toddler. And here he thought he would be toddling over to him when he first called his name, shouting 'Ay! Ay!' but he heard none of that, only was he greeted by the cold silence of the small shack and the forest the surrounded them. Content on finding the pink haired child, Gray walked out of the house and into the afternoon air of the forest.

"Natsu!" he called, his voice echoing out through the trees. No answer came. Weird, the forest seemed even more… eerie than ever before. Gray walked down the forest trail that he would bring Natsu on, looking around for any sign of the little boy. "Natsu!" he called again. This time, his eyes skimmed over something eerily family. Gray walked closer to get a better view of it. There it was. Lying on the ground was the teddy bear Gray had given the young boy for his birthday, covered in blood. Gray's eyes widen with horror as terror clenched his heart. He picked up the bear, which Natsu dubbed as-Beaw beaw which meant 'bear'-, and looked over it. One of the bear's button's eyes was hanging freely, and its ear halfway torn off. Tiny droplets of blood covered the bear in small drops. Gray's hands shook as he screamed on the top of his lungs, tears already forming in his eyes and streaming wet tracks down his face. "Natsu!"

~Flashback~

Gray started to shake at the similarity to the past and presence.

"Gray?" Erza asked concern for her fellow comrade. She knew Gray had lost Natsu when he was younger and only found him around four years ago. She could only imagine at what the Ice Mage was feeling at the moment. She saw his hands shaking, his face pale with wide eyes. She could just see the flashback playing back in his mind as if it was a movie projector that wouldn't stop playing no matter how much he tried.

"N-Natsu," Gray muttered under his breath. Erza still heard the soft words; she could hear the pain at the thought of losing the young pink haired child. She could feel it. She could relate to it.

~Natsu~

Natsu opened his bleary eyes, vision swarming before him as he tried to pay attention on anything. His left forearm throbbed along with his head like a drumbeat in sync. He didn't know where he was, but he knew one thing was for sure. The scarf Igneel had given him…. It was missing. He didn't like the idea that his scarf was missing, but he had to push that aside and figure out where he was. He tried to sit up, but he couldn't. Realization dawned on him. He wasn't sitting. He was hanging from his ankle on a tree. How he noticed, he started to feel the blood that had rushed to his head, making him dizzy. He looked up to see what had him tied to a tree to see a rope on his ankle.

"He put rope on a fire mage… Demons are so stupid." Natsu grinned as he rolled his eyes, easily burning the rope off, only to land on his head. "Owie!" he whined as he sat up. He rubbed his head as he looked around, noticing he didn't find anything familiar. "Gray-nii is going to be sooooo mad when I come back home." he muttered under his breath.