When midnight came Erza re-quipped into a white blouse with a blue ribbon and a blue pleated skirt, her scarlet hair loose and hanging over her shoulders with a red cloak over it. Erza pulled the hood on over her head and walked over to the window and climbed onto the windowsill and leaped onto a tree by the window, landing on it in a crouch before flipping off it and landing on the ground below in a crouch as graceful as a cat. Rier flew out of the window and hovered over her head, staring down at Erza in amusement as Erza made her way towards Fairy Tail Forest where she knew a short cut to Demon Valley.

"Are you and Rier's creator secret lovers?" Rier asked as he flew above her head. Erza had been surprised to learn that Rier had been created by Natsu.

"Secret lovers?" Erza repeated, stars shining in her eyes. "That's so romantic like in the smut books I'm quite fond of! Oh, Natsu and I need a ship name! Hmm ... how about Natza!"

"Natza?" Rier repeated. "Rier likes Ertsu better than Natza."

"But still, this is like a fairy tale!" Erza gushes, lacing her hands together and grinning wide. "A demon and a human fall in love! So much better than a vampire and a human! And better yet they're from opposite sides of a war that went on for centuries! We're like Romeo and Juliet except none of us will die - I hope. But like in Romeo and Juliet I hope our two sides would see the strength of our love and make peace!"

"You talk too much."

Erza and Rier came to a clearing in the Demon Valley, the darkness seeming to get darker. Trees lined around the clearing, the roots clinging to the ground and the trees seeming to have eyes as they watched Erza's every move. The moonlight peeked through the canopy, creating an eerie glow on the ground around Erza. Erza swore she could see red eyes gazing at her from the shadows and a shiver went down her spine as she walked to the middle of the clearing. She saw Natsu sitting against a tree, arms folded and his chin resting against his chest. Erza did a double take to make sure that it was actually Natsu. He was wearing maroon goggles on top of his head, a red leather jacket with a white trim located on the sides of his collar and its suspender area and a belt strap where a white belt is left hanging. His sleeves are endowed with fiery designs that fit Natsu well. He was also wearing blue navy pants with a white belt.

"Natsu?" Erza's voice breaks through the silence, catching Natsu's attention. Erza re-quipped into the clothes she was wearing underneath the cloak and ran to Natsu, straddling his lap and pressing her lips to his. Natsu pushed her away when a snigger was heard above them and he held his arm out towards Rier, palm up, and a red magic circle appeared. Rier turned into a pendant, dropping to the floor beside them which Natsu grabbed and stuck into his pocket.

"Now we won't be interrupted," he sniggered before leaning in towards Erza for another kiss but she pressed her finger to his lips, pressing his head back.

"What's with the outfit?" she asked.

"It's the disguise," Natsu says. "My name is, when we meet, is Natsu Dragion. I thought that we should have fake names incase someone from the outside reads our letters before we do. What's yours going to be?"

"Hmm," Erza hums in thought. "Erza ... Knightwalker."

"Erza Knightwalker," Natsu murmured, grinning. "That suits you."

Natsu kissed Erza again and she let him, her hands tangling in his salmon hair and her hips rocking into his. Through their passionate kiss they didn't notice the dark mist shifting over the roots of the trees surrounding them, making its way towards the oblivious couple, beady red eyes forming at the head of the mist.

Natsu noticed the mist surrounding them and an animalistic growl escaped his throat, followed by fire spewing from his mouth. Erza moved out of the way so that her didn't catch on fire and watched as shadowy figures emerged from the most, looking like horses made from the dark mist with red eyes, and galloped away, faint cries echoing as the demons disappeared. Natsu was panting in frustration and he grabbed Erza's hand and pulled them both to their feet.

"God, I hate natural demons. Let's go somewhere where the natural demons can't get to us," Natsu says with a sigh of frustration.

"Where do you expect us to go?" Erza asked, eyebrows raised. "This place is called Demon Valley so of course there's going to be demons everywhere."

"Have you heard of the legend Daemonium et Maidan?" At Erza's raised eyebrows Natsu explained, "it's Latin for the demon and the maidan and legend is that they met in this very valley.

"A beautiful maidan wandered into this very valley, looking for herbs to cure her dying mother's illness when she came across a demon. The demon had wings and horns like me but instead of it being a second form it was his true form, and instead of having demon markings like me he had scales.

"Instead of feeling fear towards the demon the maidan felt an attraction to him and approached him without hesitation, drawing her hand towards his face. The demon was surprised as she caressed his scaled face because people had called him the devil, but this woman was not afraid of him at all. She continued to caress his face and the demon felt an attraction to the maidan too.

"Every night at midnight they would meet in this very spot in the valley, every night acting upon their passion and laid with each other under these very trees. However they were almost caught once by the demon's family, so they decided to find a place for privacy.

"They choose a secluded cave in the heart of the valley, a cave that went on and on forever. They laid with each other in that cave.

"However a fire broke out at that cave, killing both the demon and the maidan in the heat of their passion, the darkness and light of the demon and maidan being the only remainder of them and shielding the cave from outsiders, and legend is that only two people of darkness and light can enter that cave together. The end."

Erza had almost begun crying at that beautiful tale, ignoring Natsu's blunt remark of 'the end' at the end. She could almost imagine that the maidan was her and the demon was Natsu, the demon did resemble Natsu's Etherious form, minus the scales.

Natsu led Erza to the heart of the valley where a cave sat beyond the trees, looking lonely for some reason. Erza blinked, wondering if that was the cave from the legend before giving Natsu a questioning look.

"Wouldn't the 'natural demons' as you put it come in here anyway?" she asked. Natsu looked over at her with a frown.

"No, people of darkness can't enter this cave without a person of light and vise versa," Natsu told her. "The demons are people of darkness. I'm a demon so I'm a person of darkness too. Look."

Natsu held his hand out to the cave, meaning to stick his hand inside it, but an invisible barrier stopped his hand from going anywhere further. Black sparks formed, rejecting Natsu, and he pulled his hand away with a scowl.

"See, the demon is rejecting me from entering," he says. "And you are a person of light. Touch the barrier like I did."

Erza lifted her hand towards the barrier like Natsu did, expecting her hand to go through the entrance but was surprised to feel some sort of barrier. Golden white sparks formed, rejecting her, and she quickly drew her hand back.

"See, and the maidan is rejecting you, the bitch," Natsu says jokingly. "See, we are each other's darkness and light. Together we can enter this cave." Natsu took Erza's hand in his and drew their locked hands towards the cave. Instead of being stopped by a barrier their hands went straight through.

"We're the darkness and light," Erza whispered, a faint blush on her cheeks. Natsu grinned at the sight and kissed her temple, drawing her into the cave. Natsu dropped her hand and they looked around, taking in the cave. Fireflies floated around the small opening in the ceiling where the moonlight drifted in, casting a silvery glow over everything. Glowing mushrooms grew on the rocks, setting a pink, green and blue glow to the silvery glow.

"I can feel their passion," Erza whispered, the feeling kissing her skin like cold and warm air, sending shivers down her spine and filling Erza's body with light.

Natsu took her hand and led her further into the cave, the silvery light becoming darker as they drew away from the opening in the ceiling until it was pitch black but Natsu kept going despite the lack of light. Erza suspected that Natsu could see in the dark and trusted him to take them to wherever it was they were going. She decided to trust him like the maidan trusted the demon in the legend. She was the maidan and Natsu was the demon.

Natsu stopped suddenly, causing Erza to walk into his back, and she heard the sound of the clicking of fingers. A bright flame ignited in the palm of Natsu's hand, illuminating the place they were in. Erza gasped. There was af hot spring in the corner of the cave, the water shimmering as moonlight broke through some cracks in the wall. The ground below looked smooth, no trace of dirt or broken rock.

"Natsu, how did you find this place?" Erza asked.

"Zeref-Nii," Natsu answred. "Never took him as the romantic time. I always thought that he had three things in life: creating demons, killing people and crying."

"Crying?"

"Even though Zeref-Nii is a legendary black wizard that's killed more people than he can count, starting and ending civilisations and wars and has created tens of thousands of demons that aren't as powerful as me, he's actually quite a cry baby. I swear he's cried more than an average baby. Sheesh."

"Well, it seems that Zeref does have emotions," Erza mumbled. Ever since she was a child she always thought that the Legendary Black Wizard Zeref was an emotionless man that would kill people on a whim. But learning from his brother and his most powerful Etherious that he's an emotionally unstable guy who also had a romantic side made her question her lessons. "Tell me about Zeref and this cave. I'm actually curious now."

"Oh right. About one hundred years ago Zeref-Nii lived in the Valley of Demons to hide from humanity, the bastard leaving me with Igneel and the annoying-as-hell Metalicana. I don't know if this is true because the bastard never tells me anything.

"He had once met this girl ... can't remember her name ... I think it was Marvin A-million or something ..."

"Mavis Vermillion?"

"That's the one! How did you know?"

"She was the founder of Fairy Tail," Erza shrugged. "She was the first Queen."

"Ok ... so there was a chance that Zeref-Nii could have been King of Fairy Tail at one point and I could have been Prince ... meaning that I could have been Prince ... and ..."

Erza stepped forward and grabbed Natsu's face, silencing him with a kiss. Natsu jolted in surprise but succumbed to her kiss, enjoying the taste of her and strawberries. Natsu whined when she pulled away and she smirked.

"Zeref could be really romantic if he wanted to," Erza giggled.

"No, he's terrible at romance," Natsu shrugged. "I mean, who kills their lover with a kiss and then starts to try and slaughter every one in her Kingdom? Besides, I've been sneaking out and clearly he's noticed, but he's so oblivious!"

"Oh, what should I do with you?" Erza laughed.

Natsu shrugged and pressed his body against hers, capturing her lips with his and pushing her to the ground.


A/N: if you'll like to see a lemon comment and I'll write two versions of the next chapter, one a lemon and the other non-lemon for people uncomfortable with those things. Till next time!