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Me No Own Fairy Tail
-Let there be midnight
Demon Master
Natsu's hand holding the sword dropped to his side as he stared at Shou with disbelief. Shou sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as he lent his head upwards towards the black inky sky.
"Yes, indeed I am a Demon Master idiot." Shou said, taking his hand away from his face and staring at Natsu coldly. "And it seems like you're a Demon Hunter. Not a nice mix, huh?" he smirked as he put a hand on the Kurai Homura's snout/nose/thingy, facing it so his back was towards Natsu.
"But… why?" Natsu seemed like he couldn't get that Shou was a Demon Master processed in his head correctly.
"Natsu, does it matter?" Gray hissed from behind him, pointing his icy sword at Shou. "He's a Demon Master, either way his fate is sealed by death. There's no way around the contract he made with the Kurai Homura." Natsu ignored him as he shaked all of his thoughts from his mind, stepping towards Shou with sword in front of him.
"Don't you know that… that demon is eating away at your soul as we speak?" he asked loudly. "It's getting stronger, and you're just getting weaker! So what's the point in making a contract with the Kurai Homura? And—and not just that! You're a kid nevertheless!" Natsu said shrilly. Shou rolled his eyes even though the pink haired Demon Hunter could not see him as he climbed on top of the pitch black demon's neck, gripping the black fur with two small fists.
"I know, but I think it's no different from life on the streets." Shou replied nonchalantly, ignoring the demon's growls beneath him. The Kurai Homura scratched the roof beneath it with its front claws, much like a horse when they get impatient. "And you're one to talk when you're seven." Shou added, screwing up his nose in responds. Natsu ignored that comment.
"What makes giving your soul to a demon piece by piece no different from living on the streets?" he asked astounded. "You looked fine and very content when I saw you steal that loaf of bread from the market man today. You didn't seem like you needed to be selling your soul!" A low growl emitted from Shou, a high pitch sound when compared to the demon's.
"You know nothing. You have three people to watch over you, a cat, a warm bed and food in your stomach." Shou snapped harshly. "You don't know what it's like!" With Shou's command, the Kurai Homura lurched forward and towards Natsu. The air quickly grew hot around Natsu's sword as flames burst forth, burning a gash in the demon's chest as Natsu swiped at it, the demon shrinking away in pain.
"I might not live on the streets like you do, but it doesn't mean I don't know nothing!" Natsu shouted over the roar of his flaming sword. Catching the eyes of Gray who looked ready to pounce on Shou and his demon any minute now. He saw him nod and jump a roof away, ready to defend Natsu at any given moment that the pinkette needed it.
Shou looked down at Natsu as the demon reared back on his hunches a little, ready to pounce on the little body in front of you.
"Interesting…" Shou muttered, his eyes glowing orange from the light of the flames on the sword. "Ka No Metsuryu Buredo, the Fire Dragon Slayer blade. One of the rarest blades that can kill the dragon type demon, but they disappeared long ago." he said a little louder. Natsu arched an eyebrow at him, eyes darting quickly to his sword.
"How'd you know about it? Thought you lived in the streets?" Natsu asked, looking back up at Shou as the flames on his sword dwindled down a little. The red headed boy straightened up a little.
"The quirk to being a Demon Master is that I can understand what the demons say. And they've been whispering a lot about the Dragon Slayer blade lately." he replied, chest puffed out; proud of the fact he could understand what the demons were talking about.
The flames died out on Natsu's sword, the air around him suddenly turning colder from the disappearance of warmth.
"Wouldn't surprise me," Natsu muttered under his breath, the demon the only one that seemed to hear as he growled low in responds. Without Shou's consent, the Kurai Homura jumped at Natsu with a howl. The Fire Dragon Slayer blade light up and once more the air around him became warm with heat. Natsu rolled to the side just in time to dodge the swipe aimed at his head. He only had time to roll on his back and thrust the blade before him to block the overly large claw.
Show grinned down at him from the demons head, happy at the struggling pinkette trying to get the claw not to slice him open.
"I'm surprised," he remarked. "I didn't think I little kid could survive this long." A tick mark appeared on Natsu's forehead, only for it to disappear as a claw came too close to his chest for his liking.
"Well—I would say the—the same for you, b-but I'm kinda—in a pickle—right now!" Natsu grunted, thrusting his sword as far away from him as he could with all his strength.
It was then that Gray had chosen to intervene, embedding his sword deeply in the side of the Kurai Homura. Ice started to slowly appear around where the blade was in the demon, traveling all the way to its hind leg, making it immobile.
The demon made a high pitch nose, falling sideways and slicing the side of Natsu's abdomen as it did.
The pink haired boy hissed in pain, feeling the familiar stickiness of blood pooling on his skin, but he ignored that—and the pain—as he struggled to his feet. Natsu glared at Gray who took his blade out of the demon.
"What?" he asked, shrugging in mild confusion. "The demon was about to kill you if I didn't do anything." Natsu just rolled his eyes as the hand that didn't hold the sword, clutched at the deep gash in his side. He wished more than anything that he wasn't stuck in the body of a seven-year-old because even if he wasn't really seven, the pain was made to be a lot worse than it was supposed to be which annoyed him greatly.
Shou growled in frustration, hitting the demon's neck in fury at its now handicapped state.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" he screeched. Natsu smiled up at him, Gray coming to stand at his side just in case Shou decided to do something funny and harm the little boy any more than he already was.
Taking deep and heavy breaths, Shou slid off the demon, fist clenched at his side. "I hate you!" he shouted, pointing at the two. Behind him, the ice continued to eat away at the demon who growled in agony, parts off it breaking off.
Natsu shrugged in responds. "Hate us all you want," he said. "But it won't do anything." Shou screamed in responds just as Lucy, Erza, and Happy showed up. The three were about to run towards Natsu and Gray when Gray held up a hand for them to stop, shaking his head. Reluctantly, they took a few steps back and watched the scene with worried eyes.
Shou gasped in surprised when he saw that his hands started to glow, pieces of them disappearing. "What—what's happening?!" he cried in shock, stepping backwards as he stared at his hands with wide eyes.
"You're disappearing." Gray told him softly. Shou looked up at him. "This is what happens to Demon Masters when their demons die or when their demon took all of their soul. They disappear into nothing." Shou looked back down in disbelief.
"No," he whimpered, bottom lip quivering. "I can't disappear! It—it promised me…" Natsu looked at him with curious eyes.
"What did the demon promise you?" he asked as if he was talking to a scared wounded animal. Shou dropped his hands to his side, blinking away tears.
"He promised to make me better…"
"Better?" He nodded, looking up at Natsu and Gray.
"I've gotten sick—not the normal sick with the fever. I started to shake as if I was cold, and gasp for breath even if I was sitting down. It didn't help because I couldn't get the food I needed so I started to starve, getting sicker every day. Then this demon showed up and told me that if I make a contract with it, it would heal me. Once I agreed I felt better, just like I used to." Shou explained, tears running down his cheeks. "I don't want to die! I still have to find him!" He hiccupped slightly.
His hands were gone as the glowing light was slowly traveling up his body, also appearing on other places of his body (stomach, feet, and shoulder).
"Find who?" Natsu asked, taking a step forward. Shou hiccupped, shaking his head.
"My younger brother. He was taken from me when we were younger! I promised to come looking for him! I just can't break my promise! I can't!" Natsu and Gray exchanged glances, both of their chests tightening at Shou's sobs.
"We'll find him Shou, I promise." Gray said. "Just tell us his name and we'll find him." Shou was almost gone by the time Gray said this.
"His—his name's Yukio…" And with that, Shou was gone and so was the demon, leaving all five of the Demon Hunters alone on the roof.
Translations:
Kurai Homura—Dark Flame
Ka No Metsuryu Buredo—Fire Dragon Slayer Blade
