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[explodewiththerage]

Characters: Natsu and anyone unfortunate to cross his path
Setting: Any corridor on the way to processing
Format: I'll start in third but you are free to choose whatever you wish.
Summary: Natsu is acting like one of the retrieval units. Stop him if you dare.
Warnings: MALFUNCTION IN PROGRESS so expect violence.

He didn't remember when it happened but the dreams he'd had were too vivid. More vivid than anything he'd ever experienced. It was always the same, a table, those emotionless faces staring back at him and the faint prick of pain at the back of his head. Still Natsu wasn't able to make any sense of those dreams nor did he have the energy to really pursue that matter.

In several occasions he had found himself several floors away from where he was before that momentary blackout. Thankfully those instances didn't end up in harm to anyone or Natsu might have locked himself in his room. If only he'd done that. If only he'd done that, he wouldn't be walking down the corridor with the slow constant gait of a drone. His skin was warped and charred and it made his potentially charming features warp grotesquely as boils sizzle and pop all over his body. Even so the blood he left behind was not his. It belonged to the mangled corpse of a resident who went too far off the beaten track and got completely ravaged by one of the many monsters of the tower.

A disgusting scent of burning flesh filled the surrounding area he passed through. His cheeks were almost entirely burned away revealing the razor like canines and the rest of his teeth to the world. His eyes carried no life or recognition as he trudged along. His flames burned constantly, enveloping Natsu and even burning the wrist and hand of the body he dragged behind him. By the point anyone came across him that hand was reduced to mere bone and even that looked ready to crumble into ashes at any second.

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[loves_spirits]

"STOOOOP!" Lucy let out her loudest scream. Her vision was starting to get blurry. The feeling of her arm was beginning to get lost as well. The pain was too much that she couldn't even feel it anymore.

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Suddenly Natsu froze entirely the flames around his hand fading back into his charred skin and even receding all the way to his elbow. He lingered a few more moments like that before his hand slowly released Lucy's. Even so there was still no sign of Natsu inside that burning husk of a man.

[loves_spirits]

Lucy curled on the ground, holding her arm tightly. Her body was shaking, and tears were flowing through her eyes uncontrollably. She was panting rapidly as well.

"Nat... su..." She still tried calling out his name.

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While her scream did reach him, he had completely locked down. It was the last shred of resistance he could offer. Changing his mission was the only thing he could do. So without another word, he got off of Lucy and turned away.

[loves_spirits]

"No, wait! Natsu, just wait!" Lucy tried to get up, to no avail. "I told you to wait." She kept trying to talk to him. Her feet just wouldn't carry her.

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He didn't wait. He didn't even stop to pick up his original cargo and just walked away down the corridor vanishing out of sight around a corner. All the while Lucy's desperate cries to him followed him and would haunt him the moment he would somehow return back to normal. What he had done...the betrayal was unforgivable.

[loves_spirits]

"Natsu..." She said his name softly, watching him leave. She could do nothing other than watching him go. With one final scream, she called out his name. Everything went black for her, as she finally let go and collapsed on the ground.