Chapter 8

The stench of blood was getting stronger and stronger. Finally, after avoiding another jutsu shiki, Natsu saw a big open door. Dashing inside, he almost fell on his face because of a ringing noise in his ears and he suddenly felt really dizzy. The room was spinning and he stumbled before catching himself and then everything slowly went back to normal.

The girls and exceeds ran in behind him perfectly fine, none of them looked dizzy or disorientated. Shaking his head, Natsu looked at the scene in front of him. There was a large hole in the ground and a floating red magic circle. Then he realized that the circle was actually made of blood.

Amelia and Max were standing there next to the hole and they were so excited that they didn't even notice the intruders. And Gray...Gray was laying in a small puddle of blood. That made Natsu really angry. His fists lit up with flames and he was about to launch himself at Amelia and Max, but then a claw hooked onto the side of the hole.

A black blur shot out of the hole and through the circle. The circle flashed before evaporating into thin air. The thing hovered in midair. It was the size of a human and looked like a bat. It had two giant bat wings with three sharp claws at the end. The underside of the wings were red, but the rest of its body was mostly black. It had two long legs with two claws on each foot and a long barbed tail. It had yellow eyes, pointed fangs, and large oversized ears, each one was nearly the size of its head. On its neck and down its back was long fluffy looking tan fur that stood up. It almost looked cute, if it didn't have the claws and fangs and barbed tail.

"Otonami," said Amelia looking at the demon with awe.

The bat turned its head to look at her. "Are you the one who revived me?"

Amelia smiled and said, "Yes."

"Stupid girl," said Otonami.

Amelia looked surprised, but then said darkly, "That's no way to speak to your master."

Otonami made a sound that was probably a snort, "You are mistaken, I'm the master and you're the servant. Even while asleep I could exert my power in this room, you were a fool to trust your senses alone."

Amelia looked really confused, but Max's eyes widened when he understood what the demon meant.

Then Otonami scanned the rest of the group, until his gaze fell on Gray. He hissed, "Devil slayer" and then he dived, claws out, at the unconscious raven. But he never got there because a flaming fist stopped him.

Otonami flew back up out of reach and looked at the Fairy Tail wizards standing protectively in front of Gray. Erza and Natsu stood in front, while Lucy and the exceeds watched over Wendy who started healing Gray.

"This will be amusing," said Otonami, "Pity that my limit's three right now."

Natsu launched himself into the air, fists flaming, at the demon. Otonami dodged, but he almost got skewered by Erza's sword. He was about to lash back, but then flames singed the tip of his wings. Retreating higher, Otonami started circling above and looked back down. They're tougher than they look, maybe it's time to get serious. Then he started making a series of high pitched sounds that the humans couldn't hear.

Natsu watched the bat circle and then suddenly dive towards the ground.

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

Natsu launched himself at the demon.

Erza watched the bat continue to circle, waiting for it to make a move. But then Natsu suddenly launched a full power fire dragon's iron fist at … Wendy and Gray?

Requipping into her Flame Empress Armor, Erza blocked Natsu's attack right before he would have punched Lucy who was standing in front of Wendy and Gray.

"Natsu?" asked Lucy confused.

"What is the meaning of this, Natsu?" asked Erza. She looked into Natsu's eyes and could only see hatred looking back at her.

The stupid bat had managed to to block his fist with a wing somehow.

"Are all Fairy Tail mages this weak?" asked Otonami.

"Shut up you bastard," replied Natsu as he swung his other fist at the bat's head.

"Shut up you bastard," replied Natsu as he swung his other fist at Erza's head.

Erza ducked and kicked Natsu away.

"Natsu?" asked Lucy, horrified.

Erza looked up at the demon, "What did you do?"

The bat just continued circling above them. Then Natsu charged again, but this time Amelia and Max joined in.

Erza continued blocking their attacks, but three on one were bad odds, even for her, especially when one of them was Natsu.

"Open, gate of the lion! Leo!"

"Your knight in shining armor has appeared," said Loki.

"This should even the sides out," said Lucy, grabbing her whip.

The two sides attacked each other and the room filled with chaos. Attacks went flying everywhere and Otonami almost got hit with a stray flame. This is getting annoying, thought the demon. The demon opened his mouth and a high pitched sound came out.

He was fighting when suddenly a high pitched sound invaded his ears. Natsu stumbled, blind, as his vision went dark and he couldn't see anything.

"Wah! Who turned off the lights?" asked Lucy.

"My Regulus isn't working," said Loki confused.

"Loki? Since when have you been here?" asked Natsu.

"Natsu? Are you okay?" asked Lucy.

"Huh? Of course I'm okay!"

"Are you back to normal?" asked Lucy who sounded really worried.

Before Natsu could ask what she meant the light suddenly returned. Natsu instantly wiped his head around, looking for the demon. However, there was no demon in sight.

"It's gone," said Erza who was staring at the ceiling for some reason.

"Oh, I'm not gone," said a feminine voice.

Everyone turned their heads towards the speaker.

Amelia laughed and looked at everyone with yellow eyes. "This body's not the best, but it'll do for now."

Then she shot a large bolt of lightning towards the ceiling and a large crack appeared, before the whole ceiling collapsed.

Author's Note:

Yay! New chapter! Sorry if it's kind of confusing to follow because of the changing POV. Okay, Ottonami. If you can't picture him just think of a black and red Noivern, the pokemon, cause that's what I based his design off of because I am not original with appearances, or names. Ottonami is google translated japanese of sound and wave because noivern is the sound wave pokemon. Yeah I have almost zero creativity when it comes to names.

And now, manga rant. If you not read this week's chapter then stop reading. My reaction: ... ... ... *grabs a piece of paper and rips it to shreds. SERIOUSLY? First of all, Gray didn't eat the ice, which makes absolutely no sense. And then ... Juvia. I'm sorry, but I don't like her and I'm a hater of Gruvia, sorry but I don't ship them. But it looks like they're going to become canon really soon. Nooooo. And then we have the ice lock thing. I mean, we all know that neither one of them is going to die and if they do then they're just gonna come back later. It would be very interesting if one if them did die though. And then we have that last line with Juvia and my reaction was: so would Gray. Actually I think Gray would probably choose to kill himself first and then Juvia would go all mad Juvia, but neither one of them is going to die, especially after Gajeel's "death". They're probably going to win with the power of friendship or love, preferably the first one. Another thing that got brought up in this chapter was Gray turning evil, which Hiro uses a lot, like seriously, how many times have Gray gone "evil". I'm actually thinking that Gray might actually turn evil sooner or later and then we get the Gray vs Natsu/END fight.

Wow. That was a long rant. Well thanks to everyone who reviewed. Tell me what you think in a review or follow/fav. See you next week.