Gray went to meet Natsu after his classes so he could talk to him about his encounter with Juvia. He wasn't too happy with the idea of him making rude comments and being perverse with Juvia.

"What's the big deal?" Natsu asked when gray confronted him about it. "It's not like I said she was unattractive or anything."

"You said she had a nice rack."

"Well she does."

"You don't say things like that. At least not to her. It's rude."

"Sounds like you're jealous."

"Jealous?"

"Hey you had your chance with her and chickened out. Not my fault if other guys try to make a move including myself."

"Excuse me but last I checked you only had eyes for Lucy."

"I still have the hots for her by why limit myself to one woman? I might even be able to use her to make Lucy jealous."

He turned to walk away, Gray put his hand on Natsu's shoulder to stop him.

"Hey!" Gray said sternly. "If you wanna move on to another woman be my guest but don't you dare try to use Juvia as some play thing. She's our friend remember?"

Natsu flinched and glared at Gray in a way the made him feel like a mugger or murderer was looking at him, waiting for the exact moment to attack him.

"Don't you ever touch me!" Natsu snarled in a voice that was unrecognizable. "Ever! You got that Fullbuster!"

"Bro what's wrong with you?" Gray asked stepping back. His eyes then spotted the black ooze moving under his jacket. "Natsu are you still wearing that weird suit?"

"So what if I am?"

"I thought you said you were going to take it off and get it examined."

"And I thought you said that you were going to get those damn pictures!"

"I was. I still am. It's just taking me some time."

"Well we're tired of waiting. If you can't fix this then we will."

"We? We who?"

Natsu didn't answer. Instead he went into alley to change into his suit and started to climb up the wall of a building.

"Wait a minute where are you going?" Gray asked.

"I'm going to fix my reputation."

"What do you mean? What are you about to do? Stop! Come back!"

When he didn't return, Gray changed into his suit and tried to go after him but Natsu had become much faster due to his new suit. Gray managed to get close once and he reached out to get Natsu to stop but he missed Natsu's arm and accidentally tore off a part of his suit. The piece of the suit turned into ooze and tried follow Natsu but Gray had a tight grip on it.

"Alright I don't know what the hell you are or where you came from but I do know that you're responsible for why my best friend is acting different. So why don't we go get some answers huh?"

The ooze moved as if it could respond to Gray's words. It was now more desperate than ever to get away from him but there was no escape. Gray sealed it inside of a glass with strong lid and took to Erza for examination. He explained the situation to her and she started to study it immediately.

"And you say that ever since Natsu started wearing this thing his abilities have been changing?" Erza asked during her study.

"Not just his abilities. His personality, his behavior, at first I thought it was stress but stress doesn't make you look at someone that way."

"What way?"

"When I touched his shoulder he looked at me as if he could kill me and for a brief moment I thought he was going to. Also the other night he talked about killing Laxus and he was serious. Something's wrong with him Erza. Very wrong."

"Well hopefully I can provide an answer for what's happening to him."

She stuck sample with the ooze underneath a microscope and looked through it.

"It's got cell structure!" She gasped in amazement. "The nuclei are even dividing."

"Does that mean it's alive?"

"As alive as you or me."

"But how is that possible? This is just random slime."

"No it's not. I don't even think this is from earth. It has traces of meteorite in it's system."

She checked the data printing out from her computer.

"Now this fascinating." She said after reading the data.

"What is?" Gray asked.

"This stuff has brain waves."

"You mean it thinks?"

"It appears so."

"So it's slime that's alive and can think? That's ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense that-...Wait a minute, earlier today Natsu referred to himself as we. But it was just the two of us. No one was with him or so I thought. Do you think that when he said that he could've been referring to the ooze?"

"Maybe. I'll have to run some more tests and I'll call you if I find out anything else."

"What should I do til then?"

"Keep an eye on Natsu. Make sure he doesn't do anything rash and if you can try to convince him to take that stuff off."

"Okay. Thanks Erza."

Gray left her office and went to search for Natsu who had gone down to the press where Gajeel and Laxus were talking. Once he arrived he changed back into his regular persona and made his way to Gajeel's office.

"Thanks to your photos Laxus we got that creep dead to right." Gajeel told him.

"I told you I could do the job Mr. Redfox." Laxus said.

"You did a job alright!" Natsu said slamming the door open. "A false one!"

"Who the hell are you?" Gajeel said. "And how did you get in here? Security!"

"Save it you second rate hack!" Natsu said. "I'm here for those pictures Laxus! Where are they?!"

"You know this guy Laxus?" Gajeel asked the blonde man.

"He's no one Mr. Redfox. Just some loser who likes to cause trouble." Laxus said.

"Another lie!"

Natsu grabbed Laxus roughly and held him up, surprising him with his amazing strength.

"Tell him the truth you fraud!" Natsu demanded.

"The truth about what?"

"You know what! About who really shot Mrs. Redfox!"

"What's he talking about?" Gajeel asked.

"I don't know. I swear." Laxus fibbed.

"Liar!" Natsu threw Laxus across the room.

At that exact moment Juvia had arrived to bring Gajeel his lunch which he had left at home. She found it strange to see that no one was around and even stranger when she heard the loud noises coming from her brother's office. She quietly creaked the door open and look through to see something she couldn't believe.

"Look kid I don't who you are or what's wrong with you but if you don't get out of here right now I'm calling the police!" Gajeel said.

Natsu then grabbed Gajeel roughly by his shirt and pushed up against the wall.

"If you don't call off that reward! I'm gonna-"

"No stop!" Juvia cried stepping inside the room. "Natsu what are you doing?! You're hurting him!"

Without a word Natsu dropped Gajeel and ran out the door. Juvia would've stopped him and tried to get some answers but she was too concerned with her brother's welfare at the moment to care. She went to his side and helped him up.

"Are you alright?" She asked.

"I'm fine." He assured her. "My back's a little sore but it'll be better by tomorrow. Did that psycho hurt you?"

"No. I'm okay." She took note of the huge mess that had been made in the office. Broken windows, turned over desks, papers scattered everywhere. "I can't believe Natsu would actually do this."

"You know that lunatic?" Gajeel asked.

"He's best friends with Gray. He's normally a very nice guy. I don't understand why he would do this."

"Maybe I should I put a hit out on him. He's almost as dangerous as Red Dragon or Black Dragon or whatever color he is now."

"Come on, let's clean this place up. I'll help you." She said getting started on picking up the fallen papers.