CHAPTER 2
Natsu yawned loudly as he woke up from his deep slumber.
Without opening his eyes, the pinket tried to get a feel of himself.
First and foremost, he was still hungry. His stomach made sure of that fact by growling almost desperately for some kind of food.
Unknown to him, the same sound startled the black cat, which was curled up on his stomach, previously enjoying a good sleep.
Apart from that, he still felt really sore from all the battles he had had the previous day/days. He didn 't know how much time he was asleep, but his magic power wasn 't at its best.
All the more reason for him to eat...a bunch.
Finally opening his eyes, albeit a bit groggily, he was confused as to why he could only see darkness, instead of the strange sky from before.
"What the hell...? Where am I now...?" Natsu muttered in wonder as he slowly sat up, uncosciously putting his hand on the cat, keeping it from falling onto the hard ground.
The cat was, understandably, surprised by his action.
Turning his head around a couple of times, he noticed that he was inside a cave.
"I don 't remember coming here... Did I sleepwalk...again?" he wondered once again, a bit scared that he might, actually, have done exactly that.
The black cat on his stomach sweatdropped at his antics. Still, it kept quiet, wanting to see what he'll do.
Again, he had a way of surpring it.
The pinket looked down on his stomach, where his right hand kept the cat still protectively.
His ear-to-ear toothy grin was so enticing and inviting, that the cat had a hard time not to blush.
"I knew I smelt someone familiar! You okay, lil' lady?!"
His happy demeanor, threw the cat for a loop. Not only that, but his genuine care about its wellbeing as well.
However, above all that, the cat was, internally, in shock. It had never seen genuine fangs in a human's mouth. Even if said human was a mixture of two other species as well, with both of said species having fangs as the ones that the pinket was sporting.
All these thoughts ran through the cat's mind in the span of a second.
It gave just a "Nya" as an answer.
It, certainly, didn 't expect his grin to widen even more.
"That 's good! 'Cause I 'm better as well!" he replied with the excitement of a child, making the cat sweatdrop.
Again.
Because, as soon as he finished his sentence, his stomach reminded him how hungry he was with another loud growl.
Also, his happy-go-lucky demeanor made an one-eighty.
"Oh man~...I 'm so~ hungry~..." he whined like a perpentual child...
'It 's official...This guy is crazy... Well, crazier than I am, for sure...' the cat thought with another sweatdrop.
Unaware of his companion's thoughts, he stood up, still carefully keeping the cat safe. Then, he started sniffing the air, hoping to find something eatable.
The cat found his twitching nose to be quite funny... and cute.
Though, the predatory grin he had afterwards, was both scary and sexy in the cat's eyes.
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It was astonishing.
First, there was the speed in which they travelled quite a long distance.
Second, was the energy the young-looking man had right after he smelt his 'food'.
And don 't get the cat wrong, but it had the pleasure/horror to see Natsu eat.
As stated, it was both funny and horryfying a sight, that it made a mental note to never witness something like that.
Never again.
'I just jinxed it... didn 't I...?' it thought with an inaudible, tired sigh.
"Yosh! Now I 'm all fired up!" Natsu cheered like a lunatic child with his right fist up in the air, making the cat sweatdrop for the uptienth time.
And his demeanor changed again.
"...And lost..." he sighed dejectedly, before giving the cat a deadpan look, confusing it. "I don 't suppose you know where we are, do ya?" he asked blankly, albeit his eyes held some hope in them.
'Forget crazy... This guy is an utter nutcase...' the cat sighed mentally, giving him a deadpan look of its own.
"I thought so..." Natsu sighed, again, in dejection, before looking around.
He, tenderly, picked up the cat and put it on his shoulder, lightly scratching it behind its ears, making it purr in delight.
His sad-looking smile confused the hell out of the cat.
"Happy would throw a tantrum, if he knew I was petting another cat." he explained to it, not knowing why he did that.
The cat kept itself from widening its eyes in surprise from the information he let out so freely, even if it suspected something like that from the start.
As he was about to take the first step towards... somewhere... his nose, suddenly, twitched, picking up not one, but several scents.
He had smelt something similar before. Even the cat on his shoulder had a small, lingering scent of that kind on it.
The cat almost yelped by how fast he whirled around. It was ready to scratch his cheek for being incosiderate, but stopped dead on its tracks when its eyes managed to take a glimpse of his fierce glare.
It sent shivers down its spine. And not the good kind.
"We have company..." he said loud enough for the cat to hear.
His deadly serious tone sent another round of fearfull shivers for two reasons. One, it knew what kind of company he was talking about. Two, it didn 't want to reveal itself to the stranger just yet.
That said, it was curious to see how the pinket would fare against his soon-to-be foes.
Some seconds later, three male figures appeared from the bushes that the pinket was gazing at.
His eyes narrowed dangerously and his fists clenched tightly at the sight of their clearly demonic wings. Their black and red armors went completely unnoticed.
Yes, he knew their kind really well. Tartarus was full of them.
These guys were-
"Demons..." Natsu growled lowly, albeit his palpable hate about this kind of species was very clear by his tone.
Said Demons stopped dad in their tracks and their eyes widened in complete surprise.
"A human?!"
"In the familiar forest?!"
"And he recognised us... partially.."
Right, left and middle, with the last one being the apparent leader, voiced their thoughts aloud in shock. "We are Devils, though, not Demons." the leader recomposed himself and couldn 't help but add, as if that was the problem.
Natsu opened his mouth to speak, but the leader beat him to it because of a certain black cat, that he saw on the pinket's shoulder.
"Listen here, human, that cat on your shoulder is a wanted criminal for killing her master." the leader said seriously, hoping that it wouldn 't come to a fight, where the result was obvious.
For him, anyway.
Natsu found himself blinking several times, letting his guard down momentarily. Then, he spent the next entire minute looking between the cat on his shoulder and the leader, ignoring the rising tension amongst said cat and the small group of Devils.
Finally, he gave the leader an incredulous look saying "Are ya fuckin' kiddin' me?! All this lil' lade here does is sleep on me and tryin' to get some food to survive! There 's just no way she killed anyone!".
For its part, the cat gave him a deadpan look for his comment about the sleeping part, before becoming surprised that he defended it.
Natsu never noticed the changes in its expression, of course.
The leader, though, did.
"Listen here, kid-" the leader was interrupted from his speech by the very same person he was addressing.
"I 'M NOT A KID, GODDAMMIT!" Natsu yelled like he threw a tantrum.
Just like a child would. But, don 't tell him tha-
'Yes, you are...' three Devils and a cat thought silmutaniously with a sweatdrop. Though, thankfully, none of them voiced their opinion.
"Right." the leader said simply, trying to get back on track and gain the pinket's attention. Succeeding in that, by the way. "As I was saying, the cat's name is Kuroka. And, for your information," he paused and locked gazes with said cat, both having narrowed eyes "she 's a Devil like us. She killed her master because she went crazy with her power as a Nekoshou." he finished in a low, angry growl.
"I don 't know what a nekoshit is," ''''Nekoshou, you retarded idiot!'''' "but I know something else. You don 't have any proof on you to show me you 're telling the truth. Also, did you just say master? Does that mean she was a slave to you Devils? And, finally, I know of your kind, since I 've dealt with Demons once some years ago. From what I know, they 're liars and try to profit from the weak."
Natsu paused in his speech, in order to carefully pick up the cat from his shoulder and put it on the ground, making it look confusedly at him. He just gave that toothy grin of his as a sign of reassurance.
However, his demeanor made an one-eighty once he got up and locked gazes with the, now, disappointed-looking leader and his two determined companions.
Natsu wore an angry scowl on his face as he ripped his upper, ruined cloth, before taking a fighting stance. Right leg slightly bent and back, along with his right arm, while his left leg was also slightly bent and forth.
His left, outstretched hand, though, was the one that made the Devils' and the cat's eyes widen in utter disbelief, along with what came with it.
Red and orange flames engulfed his hand and morphed a 'come on' sign.
Also, scorching heat enveloped the whole area around them. So much so, that many trees and even the ground beneath their feet started to, actually, melt.
Then, he spoke in a serious, yet very menacing tone, that sent fearfull shivers on the Devils' and cat's spines.
"So, come and get her, if ya want."
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Author's Notes
And here 's the first cliffhanger!
Sorry, but I couldn 't help myself, even if some of you wanted to see the... let 's just call it a fight, even if it 'll be a slaughter.
Natsu may not be at his best, but these guys are cannon fodder. So, don 't expect a long fight.
Said fight will be the first one that I 'll have to describe.
By the way, for those who just read, as I do for the most part, describing anything isn 't easy. Be it a fight or person, or even clothes, it isn 't easy at all.
Anyway.
No more spoilers, even if some of you will get the general idea of what will happen in the next chapter.
As for the trip I mentioned last chapter, today my superior and I had a talk. I 'll leave around the 15th of April for work at Kos island, returning at around the 15th of October. So don 't expect anything to be uploaded in that timeline.
Now.
I 'm very honoured.
Trully.
I don 't think myself even as an ok writer. So, your reviews sent me to sleep with a stupid grin on my face.
Which, by the way, doesn 't suit me at all.
So,special thanks to: flo463, GreekBro, Apophis9, sonic, Runningstar bloodrage, DdraigTrueEmperor9, rufus264, darkxlunatic, Guy2506, IFLQ84I and Jalis for their reviews!
In that order, I 'll answer your reviews.
You 're right, for the most part. I don 't agree that Rias wasn 't interested in Issei, since it was because of her interest that he got her flier. Well, that, and his greed for becomening the harem king. Your opinion on Natsu's and Issei's future relationship will certainly be taken into consideration. Also, you 're right that Rias cannot turn him into a Devil, neither Sona. Lastly, thank you very much! I hope you 'll continue liking this story!
You 're right for almost everything. Natsu is way above the level of a Dragon King (said species are between 20 and 30 in the chain of the strongest beings in DxD), meaning that, at his best in this time is -at the very least- the 18th strongest being. Aside from that, again, you 're right. Natsu won 't be a Devil under Rias or Sona. I hope you 'll continue liking and reading this story!
Thank you for your kind words! Don 't worry too much about Natsu and the harem he 'll, naturally as it 's DxD, have. I 'll work on it very carefully, because Natsu, while powerful, isn 't the guy that will like girls flocking and even fighting over him.
Thank you! I hope you 'll like the rest as well!
Don 't worry! Your opinion wasn 't rude! It slightly opened my eyes in some things, like the part where Natsu doesn 't kill -period. Aside from Acnologia, of course. Anyway, you 've pointed out things that, in my tiredness, I was going to miss and, eventually, mess up my story. So, thank you very much. Lastly, I noticed that you 've improved greatly on your english, so congratulations are in order!
Thank you for your kind words, man! I hope this chapter was to your satisfaction as well! Hopefully, the next ones too!
As my profile name suggests, I 'm a Fairy Tail fan. So, what you say is, basically, right. What I don 't know is why you pointed that out, though! Not that I have a problem, of course. Just curiosity.
Thank you! I like your straightforwrdness! Though, I hope you won 't be disappointed from what I have in store for Natsu.
First off, thanks for the review and your kind words! There are several scenarios in my head for when Natsu will be angry! Not to mention how he 'll act in the fights that have been showed to us in the DxD universe! I hope you 'll like what you 'll read in the future!
Thank you! Both for your words, as well as the patience you seem willing to have!