So, this is the first Chapter of the revised a Demonic Presence

I do not own Fairy Tail only Hiro Mashima owns it

July 7th X778 at Fairy Tail:

It was just your normal day at Fairy Tail; most of the older members had drinks in their hands as they told their friends about the recent jobs they went on. Those who weren't doing this were either staring at the request board (Nab we are looking at you buddy) or prepping for a job they are about to go on. The younger generation on the other hand are under control and not fighting.

Now what could possibly keep these over active mages in line for once. The same one responsible for this is the most rambunctious of the bunch, no other than fire dragon slayer Natsu Dragneel who is telling the about what he and his Dragon father Igneel did before he disappeared.

Natsu had most of the groups undivided attention while they hung onto every word he said. He has improved dramatically at telling the tales of his upbringing with Igneel since coming to Fairy Tail, mostly because of him learning new words to describe everything because of Erza's "teachings" that he still hasn't mentally recovered from. Some of the group tried to pretend that they weren't interested like Mira, but no one has spoken up to stop him. That is mostly because no one wanted ruin the kid's fun. Mira on the hand was just waiting for the story to get too out of hand so she could call BS. She didn't like Natsu lying to her sister. Lisanna and Natsu had gotten far too close for Mira's liking but she planned to stop it. She didn't know how just yet, but she'll get her sister to leave that pink haired squirt alone.

Off in the background on the S-class balcony, Laxus Dryer sits by himself; grumpily watching the display of the pink (salmon for you that are in denial) haired dragon slayer. Laxus wasn't really pissed at them while looking at the younger group because they didn't and couldn't really bother them. His anger was toward his Grandfather who expelled his father a few years back. As the years grew one, Laxus' resentment toward the guild has only grown as he saw how complacent the guild has gotten and how they started to ride on the coat tails of about four people (Laxus, Mystogan, Gildarts ad Makarov). Laxus bow shares his father's ideology that Fairy Tail needed to have stronger members and the bunch that they weren't going to cut it. Laxus' ambitions came with a price though. Because they stemmed from him missing his father, he would always grow increasingly upset at Makarov for letting the guild he grew up in become this embarrassment in his eyes. Makarov as if on cue knowing his grandson was upset went to go talk to him.

"What's wrong, my boy?" Asked Makarov as he took a seat next to Laxus.

"Who says something is wrong with me, old man?" He asked, bothered that Makarov came up to talk to him.

"The way you're acting currently shows me that something is bothering you." Replied the old guild master with a worried look, having a good idea the reason for his anger.

"Well, why don't you mind your own business old man and leave me alone." He said back to Makarov with a slight hint of venom.

" I can't do that my boy, it's my job to be worried about you. We are family." Said Makarov with a sad look in his eyes hoping that Laxus would open up.

"If that was true you wouldn't have kicked him out then." He replied with a sneer.

"We have been over this already, more times than I think is needed." Replied Makarov who immediately wished he hadn't said that last part.

At this moment Laxus lost it he stood up from his chair and released just enough magic pressure that showed he was angry but not enough to alert the rest of the guild. What Laxus didn't know was how much a mistake it was to release that little bit of energy. Makarov just sighed at his grandson's lashing out.

A few moments earlier with the younger generation of Fairy Tail

"And after that Igneel flew us back to the cave." Finished Natsu with a big smile as he finished another one of his crazy stories of his childhood.

"That sounds like quite the day Natsu." Replied Lisanna with a bright smile.

"I know I couldn't have handled that." Said Cana as she shook her head back and forth.

Too bad Flame Brain is just making all of it up." said Gray with a smug grin spread across his face.

"Are you calling me a liar Ice Princess?" asked Natsu in a loud voice as he now glared at the ice mage.

"That's exactly what I'm calling you Idiot, none of us even believe you were raised by a dragon. So why in the world would we believe anything else that you tell us that involves your made-up father." he stated now just in his boxers and glaring right back at Natsu.

"Igneel's real you freaking Stripper!" growled out the dragon slayer, who wanted nothing more than to leap across the table and beat the shit out of Gray. The only reason he didn't do that right now was because of a certain red head was sitting at the table with them eating her beloved strawberry cheesecake, who made it very clear to him about her opinion on them constantly fighting with each other especially when she had her dessert. Natsu knew that one screw up would lead to him being beaten to an inch of his life maybe even farther than that. Knowing this Natsu took a seat again as he glared at Gray. Gray seeing this as an opportunity to put down his rival even more came up with ingenious way off demoralizing Natsu. A simple vote.

"Well let's take a quick vote and see what everyone else thinks about your stories Ash for Breath." suggested Gray, who smirked knowing how most of them were going to react to the poll.

"Let's do it then, you believe me right Lisanna?" he asked turning to the little takeover mage sitting next to him.

"Yep!" she replied with a confident smile, which caused Natsu to smile right back at her.

"Well of course your girlfriend would side with you." stated Gray, causing a few of them to snicker at the two kids slightly blushing at his statement.

"They're not dating Gray, and I also believe Pinkie is completely full of crap." declared Mira as she glared at the Ice mage, who usually would be cowering from it. But he seemed too focused on his task of beating Natsu in their current argument. Mira saw this as a perfect way to end the brat's lies while also being pissed she didn't think of this sooner.

"One to one Matchstick and I know that the rest are going to be on my side." said Gray with a confident smirk.

"We'll see Snowflake." replied Natsu as he turned to look at Elfman who was on the other side of Mira.

"Sorry Natsu, your stories are really fun and interesting but I'm with Mira-nee on this one." apologized the large boy wearing a suit and not being able to look the fire dragon slayer in eyes. This honestly shocked Natsu since he thought for sure that Elfman believed him since he would ask him questions when he told stories about his time with Igneel. But that didn't matter right now since he was still confident that everyone else believed him.

So, turning to the next person he waited for their reply, which just so happened to be the brunette Cana Alberona. But just from a quick glance at her face he could already see that she too didn't believe that he was raised by a dragon before he was a member of Fairy Tail.

"I'm with them on this one Natsu, because I'm fairly sure that if there was a dragon in the country we would have heard about it by now." she replied with sad smile, since she along with everyone else could see the hurt in his eyes already forming.

"What did I tell you Moron!" stated Gray with a slightly amused look on his face.

"Shut up Blockhead!" yelled Natsu as he glared at him, only to then turn to the next person and start waiting for their answer. Who unfortunately was Levy McGarden, one of the last people in the guild who would ever want to hurt Natsu after he's only ever been extremely nice to her since he joined.

"I think we should probably just stop this discussion and talk about something else." she replied in a shy voice, not liking all of them staring at her right now.

"It's okay Levy." he said with a bright smile, which only made the girl feel worse about all of this. Something that Erza easily picked up on and decided to try and end this before it got even worse than it already was.

"Levy's correct, we should probably talk about something else before someone's feelings gets hurt." stated Erza in her commanding voice, expecting that to be the end of it.

"Like hell we're going to stop while Gray's winning!" shouted Natsu, only to receive a deadly glare from the red head. But to everyone's surprise this didn't cause him to back down like it usually did when she stopped the two rivals from fighting. Probably because he was to high on anger to realize how much danger he was potentially in. If he wasn't this angry he would've dropped the topic as soon as Erza intervened in the matter.

"No Erza, I'm not going to let that asshole disrespect Igneel by saying he doesn't exist when he does." he continued now glaring back at the knight sitting next to him. Which shocked everyone in their group. Natsu hadn't had the gull to challenge Erza's authority since accidently getting between her and Mira's fight (He tried to jump in on it and beat both at the same time. He didn't last a minute, and this is where his fear of the demon stems from.).

"Natsu I said this discussion is over, so it's over and you are going to be punished for uttering such vulgar words in front of ladies." she declared while glaring right back at him. Natsu didn't back down as he started to show his elongated canines as he let out a low growl. This gave him a more feral vibe as he tried to challenge someone he's never beaten.

"And who exactly made you the boss of us Tin Can? If Pinkie here wants to continue this conversation, then that's completely up to him." stated Mira with a defiant smirk as Erza was now glaring at her. Mira couldn't let Erza ruin her fun as she knew the dragon slayer was very close to snapping.

"Someone has to, so why don't you go somewhere else you Skank." she hissed back at Mira.

"Bring it Red, I'm just glad to see that I'm no longer the only one who won't be pushed around by you." replied Mira still smirking.

"Oh, you're so on!" she shouted back while drawing her sword, but before the two could clash with each other a small explosion of flames erupted in front of Natsu.

"You two can fight each other after we're done here." he declared while still looking at Levy. Everyone else was completely shocked that he did something like that, because up till now the only person that could stop the two was Lisanna. And she used her cuteness to do it, making most of them now extremely afraid for the well-being of their pink haired fire mage.

"I'm okay with that are you?" replied Mira after a little chuckle, now looking at Erza with an expression that just begged for the re-equip mage to disagree. And if she did it would mean that Mira won this round in their rivalry to see which one of them was better.

"Of course, I am." she answered through clenched teeth with a forced smile. This once again brought all the attention back to poor little Levy, who knew that there was now no chance of her getting out of answering this one anymore.

"Sorry, but I don't believe you either Natsu." she whispered out, knowing that he would be hurt by that.

"But it's not because of you, it's due to no one else ever seeing one of them for years now." she explained, hoping that it would make him feel a little better, which it didn't.

"What about you two?" asked Natsu in a dull tone as he looked at Jet and Droy, who for some reason believed that they would be forgotten if they just kept their heads down. Seeing that they couldn't sneak past it, they both just nodded their heads no at his question and decided to keep their heads down once again.

"Looks like I'm right Pinkie." said Gray in a smug tone.

"There's still one more person." he stated as he turned to look at Erza with an expectant look. He was hoping that she would believe him since she was the one to help fill in the gaps on his education that Igneel didn't have time to properly teach him about.

"Natsu it doesn't matter anymore." she replied, not liking the completely blank look he had on his face right now.

"Yes, it does. So, do you also believe I'm lying about Igneel, Erza?" he asked her as his onyx eyes locked with her chocolate ones.

"I believe that you believe you were raised by a dragon." she replied, instantly regretting it as a completely devastated look came over his face. That only became worse as Gray burst into laughter at finally beating his rival in something and he only stopped because of the glare Erza sent his way.

"Does everyone besides Lisanna think I'm lying about Igneel?" asked Natsu as he looked around the guild, knowing full well that most of them had started to listen in on their conversation a while ago. Most of them tried to play it off as if they weren't listening and didn't hear him, which was more than enough to let him know that they didn't believe him either.

"That would be a yes numskull, so why don't you do us all a favor and stop telling us lies." stated their resident ice mage and stripper. But rather than getting an angry response like he expected from his rival, all Natsu did was lower his head and remain quiet.

"Gray that's enough, and I would love to hear more of your stories Natsu." said Lisanna as she glared at Gray and then looked back at Natsu with an encouraging smile. That he couldn't see due to his hair obscuring his vision of her.

"I'd also like to still hear them." stated Elfman, since he really did enjoy them even if he didn't believe all the crazy things that happened to Natsu in them. But this still didn't get a response out of their usually hyperactive dragon slayer.

After standing there for a second, everybody at first stared at the dragon slayer but Mira jumped in front of him kneeling as she looked up at him.

"Are you actually about to cry?" Asked Mira enjoying herself. Just as she said that Natsu began to feel a sharp pain in his head. Natsu dropped to the ground screaming in pain while grabbing his head surprising the whole group. This was by far the worst pain Natsu had ever felt.

"What did you do Mira!" Erza shouted at Mira who was also shocked that Natsu had just started rolling around in pain.

"He is obviously faking it." Said Gray who then walked up to Natsu and looked down at him with a smirk. Natsu continued to roll around in pain as his vision became black.

In Natsu's mind

When his vision came back he was in a dark space filled with smoke and fire. At first, he wondered if he had died but his fears were soon put to rest as he started to hear a voice.

"It is time to let me free Natsu. They don't believe you. They have disrespected your father. Let your hate and anger fuel you." A disembodied voice said.

"Who are you and where am I?" Asked a confused and slightly scared Natsu.

"You're in your own mind and to answer who am I. Well I'm you." Said the figure that just appeared in front of him that looked like him except slightly taller. The major difference between the two though were the other's hair and eyes. They both were crimson red, and his eyes gave off a frightening glow.

"What do you want." Asked Natsu confused at what was happening. Not every day you see yourself with different eyes and hair.

"I want to be let out for a bit. I could help you greatly. I could make those fools out there respect your strength, respect our strength: even Erza, Mira, and Laxus. So, what do you say." Replied the other Natsu who reached out his hand.

After a moment of thought Natsu agreed by shaking his hand. Natsu gave his double a smile before a realization popped into his mind.

"But how can I get back out if I give you control?" asked Natsu just now thinking about this.

"Don't worry I can only be out there for five minutes as I haven't been out in while. Don't worry you can watch everything in the passenger's seat." Said the other Natsu as he disappeared.

"I hope this doesn't backfire on me" Said Natsu as a small window appeared so he could see outside.

Outside of Natsu's mind: a minute in real time has passed

As Natsu's screaming finally came to a stop, Natsu was on the ground motionless as his magical pressure starts to fade. Since Mira was in her crouched position, she noticed that his magical pressure disappeared almost completely. She decided to poke him a couple times to see if he is alive. Then she saw something that shocked her which was blood running down Natsu's right eye (like what happens when the Amaterasu is being activated).

"What the hell, is that blood?" Mira yelled as she tried to get closer him. As she got closer to his face, Natsu disappears in a blink of an eye. And before Mira could even turn around an elbow sent her straight to floor almost knocking her unconscious while creating a small dent in the floor. Mira groaned as she struggled to regain her bearings.

"Demonic iron fist!" "Natsu" yells as he sends a flaming fist toward the down Take-over Mage. As he was about to connect a sword blocked him.

"Stop this at once, Natsu!" Erza commanded while trying to reason with the dragon slayer, but suddenly "Natsu" grabbed her sword with his bare hand and pulled her only to receive a punch that sent her flying to the wall. But before she could hit the wall, she rocketed toward the ground where the force of the impact made her body bounce up. "Natsu" then kicked her side sending flying back where she came. Sadly though, Mira had just gotten back to her feet when Erza hit her. They landed on the ground in the form of a T. Before either of them could realize what happened "Natsu" dropped a strong heel into Erza's back which affected Mira's stomach causing both to be knocked. He then decided to cause a little more damage brought back his fist which was lit on fire as it reached his peak. But before he could send a flaming punch to finish them, he felt a strong magical pressure.

"Laxus." Said "Natsu" who rocketed toward Laxus and only to stop when he was face to face with him. Laxus on the other hand was not aware of all that was transpiring because of his argument with Makarov.

"Hello, Laxus it time for you to take a long nap." Said "Natsu" who then uttered the phrase "Demonic rush!" Laxus turned his head in anger after hearing the obvious threat.

"What was that your bra…" Laxus began to say before he got hit multiple times in the gut and the face before he could he react and out of nowhere Natsu ended up behind him and with a flame covered fist sent Laxus through the floor where he groaned as he hit the floor. He tried to push himself up but was hit with a fist that was made of fire. The fire left a nasty burn on his back that wouldn't heal without a scar. Laxus fell unconscious since he never had a chance to defend himself. "Natsu" smirked as he looked at the knocked-out form Laxus. He then went on to his next target.

"Now to talk to the old man, oh you're here that makes things easy." Said "Natsu" who walked in front of Makarov.

"Who are you because Natsu has never been able to do this." Asked Makarov as his magical pressure started to be released.

"Calm down gramps, I have no time to fight you now, but I have to introduce myself before it is too late. My name is Etherious Natsu Dragneel, but everybody calls me E.N.D." Said E.N.D when he felt blood start to drip from his left eye. Makarov had an eerie feeling because he had heard the name E.N.D before but couldn't place. All Makarov knew was that nothing good came with that name.

"Seems my time is up for today. Sucks really, I know we could've had great fight. But, that fight is for a later date. Now I must leave you with this. I will be back!" He said that as he lit his hand on fire and burned a little mark on his shoulder. And with that E.N.D dropped to floor unconscious. Leaving the rest of the guild wondering, What the Hell Just Happened?!

Well there it is the first chapter of A Demonic Presence hope you enjoyed.

Until next time, it's been Nightmare guys later.