The demon inside.
By: LemonSherbert
Chapter 8: Demons.
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.
Her eyes went wide as he held his hand over her mouth, his glare turning colder than she had ever seen and he let out a guttural, deep growl that sounded so... inhuman. She watched as his red eyes rippled black then back to red, just proving her point and she could feel her body shaking. Why was she afraid? She couldn't even bring herself to utter a word between his fingertips.
"Shut the fuck up, I'm nothing like you!" He snarled in her ear, making her flinch. "I'm going to move my hand and if you so much as even squeak, I'll snap your neck... got it!?" He threatened, looking into her eyes viciously and she nodded, she had no doubt that he would go through on his promise if she did. Slowly, his hard, rough hand moved from her lips and she found herself let out a deep, shaky breath. If he was a Demon then why weren't his cousins... unless they were, no she'd see Natsu bleed before, his blood was red, he wasn't a Demon. "My uncle... when my parents were killed, the Demon tried to kill me to, the patrol got there in time but I was barely alive, the only way to save me was to give me a blood transfusion, replace my blood with Demon blood... I'm not a Demon but I'm not human either, I work for the patrol but as you know, we can't kill Demons unless there is a threat but that doesn't mean I can't hurt them" he explained in a low voice. Why was he telling her this? She stayed, pinned up against the bed, too afraid to move, even her breath was quiet and slow. He opened his mouth to speak again but the door opened and he went rigid, not that he wasn't already tense but he went as solid as stone.
Levy watched as two, burley men came in, both wearing their Demon weapons and black suits, they were from the patrol. The patrol was basically a police force specifically trained to hunt Demons and keep them in check from slaughtering people. Demons are allowed to take willing humans but more often than most they just take what they want so the humans created a group of highly trained Demon hunters. The chief, everyone knew, was Gajeels uncle and Natsus father the men clearly knew Gajeel and gave him a respectful nod.
"Levy McGarden, my name is Skiadrum and this is my partner, Weisslogia but you can call us Skia and Weiss" one of the men said, he had long, wavy black hair that followed him like a shadow and he had pinkish, crimson eyes. He was tall and well-built with a short grey beard but no moustache she would have found him funny looking had he not been so intimidating. The man next to him, Weiss, he looked more serene, he had pale, golden eyes and short white hair with long side burns and a small white goatee. He was a tad less built than Skia but they both gave off the same aura of power. Gajeel stood to get up and apparently leave before Weiss put his hand on his shoulder and shoved him back down, making Gajeel growl in anger.
"You ain't going anywhere, boy, you're going to explain to us why you didn't use Kurogane and go kill that Demon in your school!?" Weiss's deep voice rumbled in his chest as his golden eyes narrowed on the young boy who barely even flinched.
"I didn't have the time and I didn't know he was there until I saw him dangling her from the roof and by that time I could only run up a flight of stairs before he dropped her!" Gajeel exclaimed and they both looked at each other, seemingly having an internal conversation, they both looked at him with eyebrows raised as Levy looked on, this look seemed to frustrate Gajeel as he stood up. "If I didn't do it then she would have died, our main priority is to stop Demons killing people so that's what I did, stop giving me that shitty look!" Gajeel roared in anger and they put their hands up in defence like twins with matching mannerisms and expressions.
"Okay, Gajeel, calm down it was just a question but you stay here while we ask her questions" Skia said, his voice sounded softer than his partners and he smiled at Levy. "Now, Miss McGarden, I understand this may be difficult but you need to go through everything that happened okay, don't spare any details" he said gently and she nodded despite her hear galloping in her throat.
"O-okay... I w-was feeling down so I went to the roof... I like going up there when I'm upset, I was up there for about ten minutes when the... the Demon appeared, he said he'd make me pretty if I gave him my s-soul, I told him no and he got angry, he kept pushing and I tried to walk away... t-the next thing I know w-was he had me hanging over the edge of the building..." she stopped, taking a shaky breath as she wiped her eyes. Her eyes flickered towards Gajeel who was staring at her in anger and amazement. "He asked me again and I said no, thinking he was b-bluffing but then he... he let go... I thought I was going to die!" She sobbed, her stomach twisting in pain both from her burn and from the hurt that he brother would do something like this. He was always hurting her, trying to get her to be weak enough to give in to the hunger or to make her stronger but he never... ever put her life in danger. She held her face in her hands, her legs curled under her and there was a long silence before the bed dipped and someone rubbed her back. Their hand was warm over the jumper and rubbed in gentle circles.
"Levy, I know this is difficult and you have a right to be afraid but we need a description from you... what did this Demon look like?" Weiss asked and Levy wiped her eyes, confused when she saw Skia writing on a pad and his white haired friend stood beside him. She looked up, seeing his red eyes glaring down at the bed sheets and his muscled arm moved around her back in a soothing rhythm. Levy pulled her gaze from him and looked back at the patrolmen.
"He... he was about six and a half feet, thin, he was wearing a suit and he, he had r-red eyes, he was wearing a skull so I couldn't see the rest of his face b-but the skull was like a horse skull a-and he had curly brown horns" she lied but she didn't want them to kill her brother which is what they would do. Levy noticed that Gajeel had stopped rubbing circles in her back and was now clutching her jumper, almost pinching her skin but the patrolmen couldn't see it.
"Any other features his hair, skin tone, anything help Miss McGarden...?" Skia asked in a gentle tone as he looked up from his note pad.
"H-he was pale... from what I could see an-and his hair was black..." she said and Gajeels fist balled tighter, as if he was getting ready to throw her across the room.
"Okay... that will be all Levy, if you remember anything, call us" Weiss said, handing her a small slip of paper and she nodded thought there was a lump of guilt in her throat. "We'll leave you two to rest, if you feel in danger, call that number and we'll send someone right over" the golden eyes man smiled and again, she nodded as they both left the room and she sighed. The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife and she looked at Gajeel who was glaring at her but his eyes weren't ruby red, they were as black as his hair and she jumped back.
"Why the fuck did you lie!?" He growled, his voice was distorted and angry, she had practically backed off into the medicine cabinet and he was climbing over the bed, slowly. Levy knew Gajeel was intimidating her and he was doing a good damn job of it, she was shaking like a leaf and her heart was practically beating its way through her ribcage.
"H-he's my brother... I can't let you kill him!" Levy stammered, no matter what he had done, she still couldn't bare the thought of someone hurting him. He use to read her bed time stories, he use to sing away her nightmares and wipe her tears away, he may not be the best brother but he was still her brother.
"He tried to kill you... he literally dropped you from a building and you want me to let him live!?" Gajeel snarled as he got off of the bed and made his way to her. She weighed her chances, she could run but he was faster, she could not say anything but he would probably beat the answers out of her. Wait... who said anything about him? She didn't want anyone to kill him but why was he specifically out for her brother?
"Why are you so bothered, you don't even like me, you shouldn't care so stop getting involved you have no idea what is going on!?" Levy yelled, trying to sound confident but she sounded weak and scared as he got closer, less that two feet from her.
"You... you don't fucking get it, he isn't your brother, he's a fucking monster!" Gajeel said, taking a step forwards until she had to crane her neck to meet his shadowy gaze.
"So am I... at least in your opinion so stop trying to defend me, I don't need it, least of all from someone who would want to kill me himself!" She yelled, the word monster seemed to hit a very sensitive nerve.
"I don't... I, okay I was wrong to say that... I know but you don't belong there, you don't belong with a brother who wants to kill you!" He exclaimed as he took a deep, frustrated sigh and she scoffed.
"Who are you to tell me where I belong, you don't even belong in your own world!?" She hissed at him and she saw pain flicker in his eyes but it was quickly shadowed with rage. Levy let out a slight scream as his hand slammed into the cabinet, not enough to break it but enough to crack the glass beside her head.
"This is why I hate Demons, you act so nice and sweet and then you spread your poison like a snake!" He growled down at her and she looked away, she hated how he acted so sure of her being evil.
"You're one to talk... you're more evil than any of my kind, yes we may eat humans, we kill your kind but we barely ever murder our own, you, you wage wars for some imaginary god, or greed, you claim that we're worse than you yet you kill more of your kind in a months than we do in a year, you ignore suffering of people because it isn't your problem, your kind makes me sick to the stomach at how ignorant you are to the chaos you create!" Levy snarled, her eyes glazing over with blackness and her small fangs grew and couple of centimetres longer. Gajeel snarled back his own fangs growing an inch and two large, black curled horns grew from his head, she blinked down when she felt something slide against her leg. There was a long, lion like tail, it was pure black and the black tuft of fur was tickling down her leg, her own tail was curling round her thigh in glee and she looked away with a slight blush.
"Then why do you want to pretend to be human so much!?" He snapped, his body slightly bending so he could look in her face and she tried to back away but where could she go. His face was inches from her own and she felt his warm breath brushing her cheeks as she bit her lip.
"Because I can't live like a Demon, I... human blood makes me sick, I can't have it and a Demon who doesn't eat is no more a Demon than a kitten is a tiger, I can't hurt people... I wasn't brought up that way" she told him, her voice softer than before and he stared at her, his eyes turning back red and his Demon features turned human again. Levy followed suit, rolling her shoulders as if shaking away her dark aura and she stared into his eyes. Wait... was his face getting closer? His eyes flickered to her lips and she gasped as his lips brushed her own...