Chapter 12

The entire guild mobilized and Natsu, Lucy, Wendy and their exceeds made their way to one of the former council members houses. They were greeted by a short cat looking man and his granddaughter, they explained the situation to him and tried to see if he knew anything about tartaros' intentions. The man didn't seem to be able to think of anything until he mentioned face and he went pale but before the wizards could inquire more Natsu tackled them to the ground and the entire house exploded.

Natsu burped as he finished eating the explosion, complaining about having to eat so fast. As the smoke cleared the culprit appeared, standing on that was left of the houses structure, "that explosion was so big I thought you would be difficult to tell apart" everyone looked up to see a smiling jackal/man hybrid standing above them, "that's how it was with the magic council"

"so you're with Tartaros?" Natsu asked

"yes I'm one of the nine demon gates, Jackal" the demon answered, "who's asking?"

"Natsu of Fairy tail" Natsu cracked his fists as he stared up at the demon, "and the guy who's gonna kick your ass"

Jackal laughed as he swept his hands and the town started to explode, angered Natsu jumped towards the demon who tried to blow him up but the fire slayer ate his attack and used the power to knock the demon down. Natsu continued his relentless attack; punches, elbows, kicks and knees the fire slayer attacked the demon even as he was trying to speak, "flame dragon god iron fist" with his red and black flames Natsu punched the demon clear across the room and jumped on top of him not letting up on the punches, at least not until Lucy reminded him that they needed him to be awake but by then it was too late.

Michello, the former council member, announced that he was leaving and started to walk away but the Fairy tail wizards still had questions ad were still concerned for his safety. Natsu tried to threaten him but the old man still insisted that he knew nothing and he was of no help.

"oh what a shame" Jackal sat up, seeming perfectly fine, "I might have let you live if you had some info"

Jackal stood up and dusted himself off, "you're powerful that's for sure but you should really learn to listen"

"what are you talking about?" Natsu asked then Lucy pointed out he had multiple glowing marks all over his body

"my curse makes anyone who touches me in to a bomb" Jackal explained, "with the amount of time you touched me that blast would take out everyone here and then some"

"GET AWAY" Natsu shouted at everyone as he was blinded by the glow and then finally exploded

Jackal laughed as he watched Natsu go down and he started to advance on the rest, "tell you what if you tell me what you know I'll only kill your grandkid"

Michello ran away, unable to take it anymore, and Jackal followed after him, Wendy tried to fight him but all her spells were cancelled out by the demon's explosions. Lucy called forth Scorpio to try and defeat him but Scorpio's sand blast was dispersed by Jackal's explosion, Lucy recalled Scorpio as Jackal laughed at their attempt.

"his magic is way too strong" Lucy said

"ha magic, us demons prefer something much dark we use curses" Jackal explained to them

"what does that mean?" Wendy asked as she stepped away from the demon

"it mean you could never hope to beat me" Jackal let out a laugh as he swept his hands again, "explosion spiral"

Lucy and Wendy were thrown up in to the air by a spiral explosion and came crashing to the ground, the wizards seemed to be out for the count as Jackal ran off after Michello. Lucy told Wendy to help Natsu while she went after Jackal. The former councilman had been running through the town franticly trying to find any kind of shelter, he hadn't gotten far when Jackal finally caught up to him, the demon laughed as he watched the old man ran for his life. Lucy ran up behind the demon about to open a gate.

"unless you want to be splattered across this town I wouldn't do that" the demon said, informing her of the mine she was standing on

Lucy tried to warn the people to stay away from her but they just stood staring, Jackal decided to turn it in to a game as he clicked his fingers and both a random lady and Michello were trapped inside some bubbles.

"now little fairy pick which one of these bombs will explode" Jackal told Lucy, "better hurry up or I'll just blow everyone up"

The two people begged for their lives as they made their cases to Lucy but she could do it, she couldn't pick who lived and died. She couldn't do it.

"times up fairy so who's it gonna be?" he asked with a huge smile on his face

Before Lucy could answer Natsu came flying out of nowhere and sucker punched the demon in the face, Jackal skipped across the river and flew through walls until he finally came to a stop, the bombs he made disappeared as Lucy let out a sigh of relief. Michello started ranting at the wizards but Natsu knocked him out and made his way over to Jackal.

"you forget or something, anyone who touches me turns in to a bomb" Jackal let out a laugh as he stood up to face the fire wizard, "better step back your friend is about to put on a fireworks show"

The mark on Natsu's arm started to glow and just as it exploded he ate it surprising the demon. Jackal stepped back a bit as Natsu walked towards him, "how the hell can he do this" Jackal thought, "he's not human but then again neither am I"

Jackal transformed until he looked like a giant jackal-like beast, this new monster lunged at Natsu and threw him back with a powerful explosion. Natsu got back up and charged at the monster punching him in the face then followed up with a kick as the demon flew in to a house, "I don't care if you're a demon, human or even a god if you hurt my family I'll take you down" Natsu activated his lightning flame dragon mode, "lightning flame dragons firing hammer"

Natsu's attack tore through half the town as he put Jackal out of business but the marks that Natsu got from fighting Jackal exploded, "you ok Natsu?" Lucy asked as she ran over to him

"i-i-I'm fine" he managed out as he held up a fist in victory

Jackal let out a laugh as he lay on the ground, "that was quite the beating, it's going to be tough to bring me back but I need to take theses stinking humans to hell with me" the entire town started to glow like it was about to explode, the wizards begged him to stop, "I couldn't if I tried this body is gonna blow, AHHAHAHHHA SEE YOU IN HELL FAIRIES"

Happy wasn't having any of this as he picked up Jackal and flew in to the sky with him, his friends screamed at him to stop but he ignored them and kept on fly up. Jackal exploded.

End of chapter 12