Someone on tumblr requested that I do a drabble about the whole "Natsu is losing control of Ignia's flames and Lucy is scared and worried" thing going on in 100 Year Quest right now, so I suggest if you aren't reading 100 Year Quest, then you not continue.

I didn't know if I was gonna do this one, since I'd already seen a couple people do it, but I decided, "hey, why not?" I hadn't really seen anybody else bring up one of the things I do in mine, so there's that, I guess?

"You go, Natsu!" Happy shouted in excitement as the team watched Natsu's fight against Mercuphobia.

"He's really taking him down, isn't he?" Gray asked rhetorically. Erza just nodded with a slight, proud smile.

"No…" Lucy whispered, eyes wide and body beginning to quiver in fear.

Gray was the first to notice her state. "Lucy?" he started in concern.

"Something's wrong," she replied simply, tears starting to fill her eyes. "With Natsu, something's wrong!"

"Lucy, he's fine!" Happy insisted.

"No, he's losing control!" she cried. The tears started to stream. They watched as Natsu fell to the ground and the fire started spreading even more than it already was. Erza, Gray, and Happy finally saw what she meant that something was wrong with him. Natsu was destructive, but he was threatening innocent lives at this point. The people of the city were screaming in terror, their homes and livelihoods being destroyed by the horrid flames of Ignia that Lucy had urged him to eat. Natsu wasn't batting an eye at it.

Natsu was thrashed to the ground by Mercuphobia again, close enough that Lucy could really see how this was affecting him now. His eyes were blank and lifeless, but what scared her was the state of his hands. The skin, imbued with the magic of a fire dragon, that could usually hold fire without any problem, was actively burning away. It wasn't right seeing Natsu burned. She grew sick at the sight.

Before they could stop her, Lucy was running towards Natsu. She could feel the heat becoming more intense as she got closer, the tears on her cheeks evaporating and her skin beginning to burn.

She didn't care. She had to stop him, before he could hurt himself or the city even more.

Lucy threw his arms around him just before he could jump back at the dragon again. Touching his skin was only worsening the damage to her hands that the heat had already done. "Natsu, snap out of it!" she cried, gritting her teeth against the pain.

She felt Natsu shudder. "Lu… cy?" he croaked out. He could feel her shaking against him, but she gave a sigh of relief at his voice.

His nose picked up a horrible smell, and it didn't take long to realize it was Lucy's burning flesh as she held him. "Lucy, you're hands!" he shouted, scrambling away from her. Most of her skin was fiercely red or even white from the burn damage, her hands were bloodied, swelled, and blistered. As he got a better look over her body and over her injuries, he noticed that one side of her face all the way down to her chest was horridly blistered and burned, too, almost as bad as her hands. She'd been leaning against him. "Your face! You!" He'd hurt Lucy!?

Lucy shook her head, forcing her own problems aside for right now. "I… I can deal with this, I'm okay, but look at your own, Natsu."

He did, and he didn't like what he saw.

It was like seeing it made his body realize what had happened, too. How had he not noticed this pain before!? It was searing, and he couldn't think of an injury he'd ever gained that had hurt worse. It was a pain he'd never felt, never should have felt. His body was supposed to be capable of handling fire, and yet here he was covered in burns and feeling the pain alongside them.

Lucy yelled out in surprise and concern as he suddenly passed out, lacking the energy to stay conscious.

Thank you for reading!