I'm back again! So that last chapter was left on a little cliffy I think. So this chapter will be better and explain things. So enjoy it!

Chapter 7-The Change

Lucy moaned as she became conscience again. The last thing she remembered was picking up a glowing stone and feeling shocks of electricity pass through her body and Natsu joining her.

She realized then that she was very sore and on the ground still. She looked to her left and saw Natsu unconscious still.

She tried sitting, and did, but painfully and slowly. She held her head in her hand and slowly opened her eyes. She gasped as she looked down.

On her was a completely different outfit than what she wore before. She had on what looked like a dark purple dress with a slit at her left leg which went up close to her hip line. Also on both sides, she realized, of her hips was a slit, exposing her soft skin. Next she realized she was wearing brown boots and a brown belt that was clipped to her middle barely covering her hips. A brown whip was curled safely on her belt.

She stood up wobbly and ran to look for something to see her reflection in forgetting the headache she had. Her dress reached all the way to her feet and sometimes got caught between her legs. But finally she found a small running pool in the back of the cave and ran to it and gasped.

The top part of her dress was purple like the bottom but in the middle was a heart shaped opening, showing some of her cleavage. Instead of actual sleeves, she had gold-like armor that rose upwards in points. Her neck was covered by some of that golden armor that traveled down to her chest and from the bottom of the heart a gold strip went all the way down to where her belt lay. Next was her hands. On them was golden gloves with dark gold strips cutting through it and it rose to her forearms. Her fingers were exposed though.

Her hair, which was in a tangled braid, was now freshly combed and put up differently. Half her hair was up in two neat buns on either side of her head with golden chains while the majority of her hair lay down past her shoulders towards her waist in wavy curls. She had a gold-ish earring that ended with a purple feather on her left ear.

"What is this?" she whispered as she touched her face which also happened to be nice and smooth and clean free from scratches or scars.

Suddenly she heard groaning and whirled around to see Natsu stirring. She rushed to him and fell to her knees. "Natsu," she whispered as she shook him. He too looked different.

Instead of his usual outfit, which consisted of a dark coat with one sleeve and puffy white pants and sandals with his scaly scarf, he wore a metal armor on top. From the neck down to his sides was a brown leather cloth while the same kind of cloth was on his arms.

Silver was the color of the armor and it covered his shoulders all the way to the forearm until the brown clothing took over the rest. Lucy realized on the armor on his shoulder was an indent of a dragon.

Next she looked at his stomach area. Silver armor covered most of it but dark grey armor covered his sides. She also saw that the grey armor covered part of him, just under the brown cloth that was at his neck and in two parts in his chest area.

He had a green belt with lots of little pocket holder things and brown pants with some green around it. In his right ear, she noticed he had a couple of piercings with silver earrings in it which was most definitely not there before.

"Lu...cy?" he whispered as he began opening his eyes. When they landed on her, they fully opened.

"Lucy! What's with your outfit?!" he exclaimed sitting upright. Lucy fell backwards with the sudden change in his behavior.

"I don't know! But your outfit is different too!" she exclaimed as she pointed. He looked down and gasped.

"What the heck?!" he exclaimed as he stood up. Then he quickly sat down feeling dizzy.

"Are you alright?" asked Lucy as she crawled to him.

"I'm...fine. I just feel...dizzy and...really hot for some weird reason," he answered. Lucy frowned and placed a hand on his forehead.

She pulled back with a wince. "Your body temperature is really high. You don't seem like you have a fever but..." she began but then gasped. Natsu had steam coming out of his body. Not just that, it seemed like he was on fire.

"Natsu, you're burning!" she yelped as she crawled back.

"No duh," he said sarcastically.

"No. I'm being serious! You're on fire!" she screeched just as orange flames outlined his body. He frowned and looked down and yelled.

"I'M ON FIRE! I'M ON FIRE! LUCY HELP ME PUT ME OUT!" he shouted. Lucy stood up frantically and began looking around.

"OKAY, OKAY! CALM DOWN!" she screamed back as she began looking for water. Then she remembered the pool she had used to look at her reflection.

"Come with me!" she shouted as she began running. He followed while cursing. They arrived at the pool and he jumped in, steam covering him from her view.

"Natsu?" she asked tentatively.

Suddenly she heard water hitting water which meant he had stood up. "Man, that was close," he finally said as he walked out dripping wet. Lucy blushed slightly because he looked...well...hot. His hair was pulled to the side where it spiked and water went down from his face to his neck.

Then she realized something wrong. He wasn't burned or covered in soot. Not even his armor.

Natsu saw her staring and cocked his head to the side. "You okay Luce?" he asked as he took her in.

She looked breathtakingly beautiful in the outfit. A slight blush was on her cheeks as she looked at him and he felt heat rise to his own cheeks as he continued staring at her.

Her skin was exposed in some areas such as her chest and leg and hips. He just wanted to go and...

Woah there Natsu. What are you thinking?! he shouted to himself. He shook his head just as Lucy walked closer to him.

"You're not burned. Neither is your armor," she commented. He frowned and looked down. His eyes widened. She was right.

He felt perfectly fine now. "That's...strange," he whispered as he let her touch his armor slightly feeling her touch. "By the way, what's with the whip?" he suddenly asked, curious.

"Oh, um, I don't know. I just woke up with it on me," she answered as she fingered it instead.

She pulled it off her belt and unraveled it. At the bottom was a small heart. She turned around and cracked it. Suddenly she gasped and he noticed a blue glow coming from the front.

Natsu ran and gasped as he saw the whip glowing a light blue color which so happened to be water. Not only that but surrounding the blue was electrical currents that crackled every few seconds. The hilt which was brown before was now brown-ish, golden-ish color.

"Cool," they both whispered simultaneously. They looked at each other and blushed slightly.

"So, that's a pretty cool whip. What's it called?" he asked.

"Um...I don't know. How about..." she began as she stared at it for a long while. "Fleuve d'etoiles, Rivers of Stars?" she finally asked with a raised brow. Natsu looked at the whip then at her and gave her his signature grin.

"Sounds perfect!" he exclaimed as he nodded and crossed his arms over his chest.

She smiled. "Thanks but now...we gotta figure out why you were on fire and why you didn't burn," she said with a serious look on her face.

He laughed nervously as he rubbed the back of his head. "A-aha, yeah," he said as he secretly wondered, What's wrong with us?

There's chapter 7! Hope y'all enjoyed it! Sorry if it's still short. I have to work on making these longer. But I hope you were able to picture everything! Anyway, stay tuned for next chapter to see what exactly is wrong with Natsu if you haven't already got it figured out ;). Till next time! -Emojimojo