The demon inside.
By: LemonSherbert
Chapter 6: Scars.
I do not own any of the characters in this story, they are owned by the creator of Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima, do enjoy and don't forget to review.
Gajeel wanted to throttle her, to wrap his fingers around her creamy throat and squeeze, she was teasing him right in front of everyone and the just thought she was being sweet. She was a devious little thing, he had deduced several things.
1. She was a Demon.
2. Her brother was an evil prick.
3. She saved his life so she was off his check list...for now.
4. Her parents were human.
5. She was a weird fucking Demon that didn't eat human flesh, drink their blood or steal souls.
And 6. Even though he knew she was a demon, he found himself to be completely attracted to her and he hated that because he couldn't stop thinking about her.
"Yo, earth to bolts for brains!" He heard Natsu's annoying voice say and bringing him out of his glaring, he couldn't believe she was so close to his family. Granted he didn't like them, he practically hated them but they were his family and she was openly interacting with them and only he knew that she could slaughter them without a second thought. "You're creeping everyone out, why are you staring at Lev' like you're about to pounce on her you freak?" His cousin taunted and he snarled at him. Because he did want to pounce on her, in more ways than one but they couldn't know that.
"I wasn't fire cracker!" Gajeel growled, knowing that it was the lamest argument ever because he was obviously staring at her and even worse, he was blushing that he'd been caught. Levy was across from him, grinning as she peeled her orange and he wanted to either kiss her or slam her face into the table he was in a tug of war with his heart and his head.
"Ooohh, Gajeel has a crush on Levy...!" Natsu teased and Gajeel gave him a keep pushing it and see what you get look that could have sent most people running for the hills. "Gajeel and Levy sittin in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G!" His cousin sang and he had to use all his might not to pick up his tray and smack it around his stupid, smug face.
"Fuck off, I'd rather drink bleach than have a thing for that!" He growled looking at her as she placed an arched slice of orange in her mouth and her hazel eyes snapped up, the light causing them to glitter gold and her cheeks turned the colour of his eyes. Without a word he watched her stand and he felt his heart mentally beating the crap out of his head. Yay, now he looked like an asshole. He was an asshole, he could never think before he spoke. She turned to walk away and stopped, giving his a perfect view of her curved him. When she turned he looked up to see tears glittering in her beautiful eyes.
"For the record... this, would rather take a bath in battery acid than so much as have to speak to you because believe it or not, every time you open that stupid, fat mouth, you lower the IQ of the room so, to save anymore of my brain cells being killed off, I'm going to go, enjoy your breakfast!" She snapped and his jaw fell open as he stammered. Levy turned, he wasn't sure if she was doing it on purpose but her hips swung in a delicious way as she threw her trash in the bin and almost shoved her tray threw the wall as she slammed it on the pile.
"Oh, you just got burned... dude, why the fuck did you say that, she ain't done nothing to you!?" Natsu slightly laughed and Gajeel stared down at his food, having lost his appetite. Why did he say that? She had done something, she had saved him and as usual, he was being a prick. He just couldn't deal with what she was, it brought up to many things and the fact that he couldn't hurt her... wouldn't hurt her sent him into an inner turmoil.
"What... I don't like her, she's a little teacher's pet, why would I ever want to be with a girl like that, plus she has the figure of a two year old..." he lied and Natsu shook his head as he picked up his own tray. "Where are you going?" Gajeel asked.
"To go find her, she's sweet as hell and you just made her feel like shit, she's my friend Gajeel... like her or not, you were out of order..." Natsu said gravely and Gajeel turned away, he was in the wrong, he knew that but what was he supposed to do? He couldn't apologise to a Demon, vegan or not. He watched him and Wendy leave, making him sit there on his own and the few people in the hall stared at him like he was a bad guy.
"The fuck are you all staring at!?" He snapped and they quickly looked away, with a pissed off sigh, he stood up, leaving his tray because the janitor was paid to do something so it wasn't his responsibility. Maybe he should go find her and make sure she wasn't comfort eating his cousin.
Levy sniffled as she sat at the mesh fencing on the roof, sure she knew he didn't like her but there was no need to be so mean. All because his parents died, at least he knew they loved him... her parents left her in an alley to be eaten by rats or something. She sympathised that of course it would make him not trust Demons but she saved his life for Christ sake, she took a Demon bolt to the side and that apparently still wasn't enough to satisfy him that she wasn't like other Demons.
"Aww, poor baby, are the humans being mean to you?" She heard his taunting voice ask from behind her and she jumped, diving away from the fencing.
"Jeremiah... what are you doing here, what if someone sees you, how did you even find me!?" She gasped as she stared up at him and he shrugged, gliding to the floor and he stepped closer.
"I won't have my sister playing with her food, soon enough you'll become too weak to even move... is that what you want, to become paralyzed with hunger...?" He asked and she sighed as she stepped back.
"I don't want to eat anyone, I don't want to hurt anyone... I hurt mama last time... do you understand that, I could have killed her...?!" Levy exclaimed and Jeremiah let out a low chuckle.
"Good... that bitch isn't your mother, she's food, when she adopted you, you were her pet, you still are, and the only reason she keeps you around is because she won't have a child if you leave, she's using you and you're to blind to see it!" He snarled and Levy shook her head, her blue waves shaking on her head. "How is your side by the way... still not healed?" He questioned and she touched over her jumper.
"It's fine... please, just go Jeremiah, I'm too tired for this..." Levy practically begged and his mouth turned stern as he disappeared and every one of her nerves tingled with fear. What was he going to do now?
"No... you need to be taught a lesson and I will beat it into you until you get the message, humans are not your friends, look at that boy you saved, did he even do anything to help you!?" He snapped, his breath on her ear and his hand crawled into her hair before she could move out of his reach. She winced as he pulled her hair and walked forwards, dragging her towards the mesh fence and her heart began speeding up.
"N-no... please Jeremiah... d-don't!" She begged as his Smokey tendrils melted the metal wire enough for a person to fit threw and he pulled her to stand in front of him.
"If I drop you, you're going to have to use your powers... then you'll be so hungry and surrounded by all these helpless morsels, you need to learn that Demons and humans do not live together any more than a fox and a rabbit, do you understand!?" He shouted as she tried to keep her footing straight, she was right on the very edge of the roof and she looked down, she wouldn't survive that even in her Demon form. She could make out people below, staring up and tears started welling up in her eyes. "Oh don't cry sweetheart, Demons don't cry... stop making it so hard, all you have to do is eat someone, you can choose if you like... I'm just trying to be a good big brother" he said in a sweet voice as she tried to bite back her sobs.
"I... I can't do it... please just stop this... go home already...!" She cried as the droplets burned down her creamy cheek and he ripped off his bone mask.
"Do you see this, this is what my father did when I was ten, I wouldn't eat humans and that is when you mother found me... this is because I was weak, do you want this... do you want me to tear your face in half too!?" He yelled at her but her mouth couldn't move, her eyes she couldn't take them away. She had never seen his face before now, he never let her, even as a baby he would hide it behind bandages but now... now she could see why. Across his slightly tanned face were four, long claw marks, they were messy and thick, running across the top half off his face, she could see now that one eye was paler than the other and parts of his hair were missing. "You have to eat or they will find you, a Demon who doesn't eat is a dead Demon... our kind don't want weakness... I'm only looking out for you" he told her softly and she nodded, she understood that but who was they.
"Jeremiah... you have to listen to me, I know you are trying to be a good big brother but I can't drink human blood or eat humans after what I did my body rejects it... I've tried, when I was sick mama tried to feed me her blood and it made me worse... I can't have it" she explained and he glared at her, his hand slowly extending until her feet started sliding off of the edge.
"You're lying, every Demon can drink blood!" He snapped as his fingers loosened in her blue locks and she began falling backwards...