Natsu didn't feel well when he woke up. A spot behind his ear was very itchy, and his belly was horribly aching.

He had gone through this procedure many times before. Go to the river and spew whatever decided to go out of his gut. He mostly had to do it when Happy gives him raw fish. But he didn't even eat raw fish yesterday, he thought.

"Natsu, you're looking pretty rough. Why don't you g-"

Happy was interupted by Natsu. "No... That's not it. I'll go over to Wendy's place and see if she can help me."

"I DIDN'T EVEN FINISH MY SENTENCE! Also, you can't go to Fairy Hills. It's girls only!"

"I'll just yell at her through the gate. She'll hear me."

"'Kay! Safe travels! Don't puke on anyhing!"

Natsu could hear the exceed mumbling something about interupting him in the background.

While Natsu was on his trek, he found that he could barely resist the urge to scratch anymore. What harm could it do, he thought.

He reached back for the spot behind his ear where it was itching. It felt smoother than usual skin, and there were several spots where it felt like there was a cliff between the patches of skin.

He quickly dismissed it and covered the area of skin with his manly pink hair. It was probably a rash. Why do I have pink hair anyway? Why couldn't it be Lucy with the pink hair, and me with the blond hair? No... Gray with the pink hair and me with his black hair... Heheheh... Natsu's thoughts were slowly sailing into the depths of weirdness.

Soon Natsu was at the gate to Fairy Hills. He yelled as loud as he could. "WEEENDDYY! I NEED YOUR HELP!" He was so loud that the camera angle shook.

In about 5.678 seconds, Wendy came running out of the door. She caught her breath for a second, then ran about halfway to Natsu before tripping over nothing. She quickly scrambled to her feet and ran until she got to Natsu. "What do you want?" She asked politely.

"I have a stomach ache, but I don't even feel like throwing up."

"Sorry. My expertise isn't in that type of healing. Sorry I couldn't help you!' Wendy waved before passing Natsu, heading toward the guild hall. "I'm going to get a job! Cya later! Sorry!" Carla quickly caught up to her, using her wings.

Natsu suddenly felt really dizzy. An intense itch much like the one behind his ear spread onto the back of his neck, and onto his face.

"Gah! I'm getting a mirror!" Natsu said. He was going to go to Lucy's house.

Natsu enjoyed the run to Lucy's. He was always looking for an oppurtinity to train or exersize.

Natsu jumped into her window. He looked for a mirror breifly until he spotted that oh-so comfy couch. He couldn't resist. He closed his eyes. Only for a second, then I'll search for the mirror some more.

"NATSU!" Lucy yelled, with tons of anger on her face. "What are you doi-" All signs of anger vanished when she registered his face. "What is wrong with your head?!"

Natsu, still drowsy, replied in a slurr. "Wha do ya mean by that?" He yawned, then realized the reason he came here.

Lucy dragged Natsu over to her bathroom by his wrists.

He looked at his face. It was covered in red scales from forehead to the bottom of his nose. Below that were pale yellow scales. And his eyes were yellow.

"This isn't normal.. I... I'm not in dragon force... And this isn't normal... even for dragon force." For the first time in a long time, Natsu was scared.