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Natsu aimlessly walked around the streets thinking. He chuckled at himself 'seems like I've been doing that a lot lately' he thought. Although Natsu had been thinking about many things, one thing... or should I say person kept popping into his head. Every time he seen, talked about, or even thought about the ice mage, he would get butterflies. At first he thought he was sick, and gray was making it worse -him being an ice mage and all-, but its been this way for a few weeks now. He decided to ask Lucy what it was, she would know... right?

As he began walking, he couldn't help but remember two weeks prior when he, gray, and happy met here for the mission. He blushed when he remember what gray was wearing that day. "You know..." Natsu had finally figured it out... "Holy fuck! Gray bought those boxers just to fuck with me!" he yelled angrily -in his head-.A Few minutes later he finally arrived at Lucy's house. She wasn't home so he let himself in. He got himself a snack and waited in Lucy's room for her to return. 3 hours later, Lucy arrived home only to be greeted with a half naked sleeping dragon slayer -he was using is shirt this as a pillow-. She sighed and gently woke him up. "Hey Natsu, you need to get up." She said and shook him lightly.

He slowly opened his eyelids heave with sleep. "Oh hey Lucy" he said gently rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "I needed to ask you..." he paused and yawned "...something" he finished and Lucy raised an eyebrow.

"Sure, but could you hurry, im not feeling well -hints why she didn't yelled at Natsu-, and I want to sleep." She said and climbed into bed.

"Well there's this person... and every time I see, think, or talk about this person... I get butterflies in the pit of my stomach. What does that mean?" he said and looked up at her. She sat up and looked down at him

"..."

"..."

"You're in love"

"...I am?"

"yep, who is she?"

"d-doesn't madder"

"Or maybe it's a guy... OHMAGOSH! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU SWANG THAT WAY!" she all but yelled. "so tell me, who is it?!" she said pointing an accusing finger at Natsu. "Wait where are you going?" she asked seeing Natsu walk over to her window. "You need rest, and I found out what I need to know, so bye." He said and before she could find out anymore Natsu had jumped out the window. Lucy sighed and laid down, which quickly lead to sleep.

Lucy's dream (also her p.o.v)

I was walking around a town. The town looked like my home town...but yet it was so different, it was so dark and bloody. All the buildings were tall and seemed to wrap around you like a blanket. I began to look around, everything was so familiar yet so different. There was a strange ally that I was drawn to. I turned the corner and was astounded with what I saw; it was a very pretty grand golden door, with an angel pattern on it. It didn't look like it belonged here. Even thought I had a bad feeling about going through this door, I reached out and was about to grab the handle when something was thrown at my hand. A...knife? Who would throw a knife at me and why? I hadn't seen anyone here. I turned around to look at the perpetrator. I was completely shocked to see Natsu... well sort of, this was like a demonic version of Natsu.

He had wings made of bones and blue/black flames (the flames are the skin that helps bats fly and such). His hair was a tad darker shade of pink(near: SALMON!) (*sigh* fine ) salmon, his tips were black, and it looked like he had dried blood in his hair. He wore a blood covered torn up cloak [1] that went down to around his mid shin "probably once went down to the floor..." Lucy thought. His normally short fangs had grown to the point where they looked painful to bare. His irises were pure black with small flecks of red, his pupils were like those of a cat. "I advise you take heed[2] before you enter...that world" he snarled the last part. I was about to ask his what he meant by 'that world' but he jumped/flew off before I could. I stood there thinking, 'what did he mean? Could what's on the other side of this door really be that bad?' I stood there contemplating my options. I finally convinced myself that it was just a joke and I couldn't get hurt for real. I took a deep breath and reached out to grab the handle. I looked around to make sure no one was going to throw another knife at me. I grabbed the golden handle and turned it. There was a slight creaking sound and then white.

END DREAM (normal p.o.v)

Lucy woke up with a stare, shooting straight up. She looked around, only to find herself in her room. It was only a dream she pondered what the dream ment, what was on the other side of the door... and why did natsu look like that. Then it hit her, "that muct be his domonic from..." she thought aloud. she was once doing research on dragon slayers to help Natsu fine Igneel, and she read that dragon slayers raised by really powerful dragons sometimes had a domonic form, along with their human, and dragon form. Lucy quickly got dressed and left, starting her journey to the guild. She arived at the guild at around 10:15. She quickly found Reedus, "can you draw something for me?" she asked nervously, causing him to look away from his drawing. "what do you need little lady?" he asked and lucy explained her dream to him. "you know, levy asked me the same thing a while ago, same reasoning too, only her dream was about gajeel." he said and began to sketch the outline. "really? wow i wonder if gajeel is like natsu then." she said. "maybe, could you describe what natsu looked like for me?" he asked, lucy nodded and explained everything right down to every little detail.

"ok hows this look?" he asked and held up the picture for her to see. "good, but for the wings, the skin between the bones, arn't on fire, the skin is the fire." she said. he nodded and quickly fixed it. "there we go." he said and handed her the picture. "You're a life saver." she thanked him and took the sketch. "anytime" he said as lucy ran off. she quickly found natsu, and pulled him off. " natsu i need to ask you something. " she said puilling the dragon slayer into a random empty room. natsu smirked, "sorry lucy, the answer is no, im not into you." he said reciving a punch from lucy. "DONT GET COCKY! that wasent even close to what i wanted to ask you." she said and pulled the sketch from behind her back, "have you seen this before?" she asked and natsu looked up at the drawing eyes going wide. "w-where did you see that?" he asked backing away slightly." a dream." she said and stepped closer to him, causing him to back away more. "s-so you havent seen it in real life?" he said voice wavering a little. "no, why ?" she asked. natsu visually relaxed a little. "does this scare you?" she asked putting the picture down and walking up to natsu. she pulled him into a tight hug and he burried his face in the crook of her neck. "y-yes, everytime before... it happends, i alwas see this." he said quietly. Lucy ran her hand down natsu's head and back in a soothing mannor. "its ok natsu, a while back i did some research... and i found something out." she said rubbing small circled on natsu's back. "what'd you read?" said dragon salyer asked looking up at her. "well, dragon salyers raised by powerful dragons sometimes have a demonic form... i believe this is yours." she said and smiled. "Igneel was a very powerful dragon. [3]" she said and smiled. "natsu, can you please explain where you see this form, it will help immensely." she said and petted natsu's head again. "s-sure. i see it on reflective surfaces, mosly mirrors though. i will only see it right before i start to change..." he sniffed. "i-it kind of acts like a warning for me." he finished. "ok, do you ever see it in the real world?" she asked him. "n-no i dont, and i havent seen it in a dream either. only on reflectlive surfaces..." he let go of lucy. "everytime i look down to make sure its not real, and everytime it's the same." he said walking over the the forgotten sketch. He kneeled down, gently rubbing his pointer finger down the cheek as if it was a crying baby, or a sleeping lover.

"what do you see when you look down?" lucy asked walking behind him.

"nothing, i just see myself." he said and held out his arm as emphasis.

"oh..." she trailed off.

"lets go, if we stan here any longer people will get suspicious." natsu said and stood sketch in hand.

"i dought they've even noticed we left." lucy said but followed after.

"lets go fill Erza in, then how about we get something to eat?" natsu asked trying to distract himself from the sketch in his hand.

"sure, but ... umm... are you going to tell..." she trailed off, looking down.

"no." he said sternly. "it hurts me to say this but i dont trust him. it makes me mad... hes me best friend, my rival, my guild mate. i trust him with me life... so why cant i tell him about this?! WHY!?" he yelled the last part causeing most of the guild to look at him.

"Natsu calm down, if you get any more worked up, you'll lose control." lucy said and pulled natsu into her arms calming him.

" y-your right.." natsu said and pushed himself out of her arms, regaining his control "you will not speak a word of this to him, if he asked about it, you act as if nothing happened, you will convince him it was a dream." he said and turning and looked her in the eye. "he will not know about this." he said and turned to face forward again.

"got it" she said quietly, feeling a bit scared. "oh hey, can i ask you something?" she said and walked up so she was next to him.

"sure, as long as it doesn't have to do with... this" he said the last bit quietly.

"no nothing like that, about yesterday, the one you love... it's gray isn't it" she said and natsu stiffened.

y-yea" he said quietly a blush spreading across his face. lucy walked next to him happily. "oh theres erza" she said and pointed to the bar. they walked up to her and sat down on wither side of her. "hey, we made progress." lucy said quietly. "on what? your relationship?" she chuckled to herself lightly. "no, we made progress on... m-me" natsu said quietly showing her the sketch. "he has a demonic form, its like a warning sigh for him, he sees it whenever hes close to changing. i think its Igneel's way of saying 'hey! dont blow it, i raised you better'. don't you think." natsu growled when lucy said the lasy bit. "I guess that would make sense... so is that all?" Erza asked turning her attention to the drawing. "yea thats it." Lucy said.

(let the Near written part begin [4]) suddenly pineapples fell from the sky. "WEHAT THE HELL!?" natsu yelled attempthing to shield his head from the pineapples. "wait a second... random pineapples falling from the sky, and i dont see an owner so... FREE PINEAPPLES!" natsu picked up one of the pineapples and engoulfed it. "yummy!" he exclaimed. natsu coninued eating the pineapples untill the area was completely cleared. "now that thats done, er... what was i doing again?" Natsu turned to Lucy for an answer, but a pineapple had knocked her unconscious.(near written part is over)

Gray walked up due to all the comotion, only to find a unconcious Celestial Wizard, and a panicked Dragon Slayer."what happened here?" Gray asked walking behind natsu. "random pineapples, concussions, demoni-... i-ive got to go!" natsu paniced and ran off forgetting the sketch, leaving a dumbfounded Gray to take care of lucy. Erza pulled the running dragon slayer's arm causing him to loose his balnce and fall over. "running away wont help, you need to tell him." she said and helped him up. "a-about my feelings, or..." he trailed off. "feelings, you can hide the other from him for as long as you want." she said and walked away.

Gray quickly picked up lucy and began to carriy her twards the intrence of the quild when he heard something peculiar. "... you need to tell him." he heard erza say. "a-about me feelings, or..." he heard natsu get quieter. 'so natsu does like me... but what is the other thing?' he asked himself and looked down at lucy. ' i bet she knows' he thought. "your feelings, you can hide the other from him for as long as you want." erza said bringing gray back into relality. a minute later gray seen natsu run by blushing. 'whatever is going on... i will find out!' Gray thought determinedly.


did you like it? ok time for some explaining :DD

[1]: i got the bloody cloak idea from Ace from Alice in the country of hearts.

[2]: i asked my friend how to spell heed, and she typed head... so it sounded really perverted

[3]: in episode 48 of the anime, (chapter 101 of the manga) when Grandeeney visits him to tell him what natsu is doing, he yells "do you mean to anger the one and only Igneel?!" indicating he think highly of himself. According to Grandeeney, like Natsu, Igneel has a tendency to take things to the excess , He is the Flame Dragon king, so he has power over others.

[4]: near is always helping me, even though she has her own stuff to worry about, and i love her(as a sister type thing) for that. so whenever i get stumped, she always writes something funny that will give me inspiration. and i will always put it in the story, because sometimes, everyone needs a laugh. so umm yea that's about it :P

ok so i hoped i would get this up over the weekend... but that didn't happen. sorry. review, follow, favorite, etc...

OH AND THERE IS A POLE ON MY PAGE, IM DOING A CO-WRITE WITH NEAR, FOR FAIRY TAIL... BUT WE DONT KNOW WHAT PAIRING WE WANT. SO GO VOTE!