Note: This is the alternative chapter I said I was going to do last chapter, where Natsu actually crosses the moral event horizon, and attacks Egora. There are of course going to be some changes, such as all the guilds being down in the town, instead of at the foot of the mountain. Also, the Thunder God Tribe is going to be there now, considering they joined Blue Pegasus after Fairy Tail disband (I still find that incredibly weird). This isn't going to be much, just a quick "what if". This picks up right after Natsu ended his talk with Lucy in his lair. There will be character death in this.

World on Fire

Always with you… always with you… always with you…

Natsu's eyes suddenly turned to slits, as he reared up, and let out a bellowing roar that knocked Lucy and a great many rubies away.

"You weren't with me then!" he roared, "You left me alone in my sorrow! You and everyone else turned away from me!" He then stormed over Lucy towards the shaft.

"I don't need you! I don't need anyone!" With that, he started climbing out of the shaft, as Lucy looked on in horror. She then began to cry

"Natsu…," she whispered, as she got to her knees, covered her face, and sobbed, "I'm so sorry."

(outside)

With a bellowing roar, Natsu erupted out of the mountain, beating his wings and he launched himself into the air. They abandon me…. They forget about me…. They invade my home… and now they think they can just say sorry, and it will be all better? he thought. It was then the fire dragon made a decision. All of his former friends had to taste what he had become, just how powerful he now was. They had to truly know the fury of dragon fire.

"I am fire! I am… death!" Natsu rumbled, as he soared towards Egora.

(in town)

Everyone had heard it when Natsu had exploded from the mountain. They all knew what that meant. At this point, all they could do at this point, was try and evacuate the town. However, the townspeople also knew what that meant, and they were a lot less collected. Actually, they were panicking, trying to grab anything they could, and row out into the lake.

"Please, remain calm!" Levy said, "Head towards the docks, and go into the open water!" She was hoping her status as part of the Magic Council could elicit some command. It didn't. It also didn't help that Gajeel and Pantherlily weren't doing squat to help. They were both standing at the ready for when Natsu arrived.

"What happened to Lucy?" Mirajane asked, looking over at the mountain.

"You don't think Natsu could've killed her, do you?" Freed asked.

"Not a chance!" Bixlow said, "Natsu wouldn't do that to the Cosplay Girl!"

"Not a chance! Not a chance!" his puppets echoed. However, that wasn't particularly encouraging, especially with the knowledge that a very large, and very angry dragon was coming their direction.

All of a sudden, a hot wind tore through the city. Wendy, who was helping with the evacuation, after pushing her hair out of her face, looked towards the sky.

"Where's this coming from?" Toby asked.

"Its the first thing to herald the arrival of a dragon," Wendy answered softly, "A great wind tearing through the area."

"Then we need to pick up the pace!" Lyon said, "Come on!"

Meanwhile, Erza had leapt to the roof, and looked into the sky. A serpentine shadow suddenly moved through the clouds. The re-quip mage clenched her teeth. He was getting closer.

"Erzy!" Millianna called, "What're you doing? We got to get out of here!"

"Help the evacuation!" Erza answered, "I've got to be ready when he gets here!" Laxus suddenly appeared next to her, looking towards the sky as well.

"Can we take him?" he asked. Erza shot a glare at him.

"I don't like it either," Laxus said, "Actually, I hate it with every fiber of my being, but this might have to happen. So answer the question." Erza took a breath, as she looked back to the sky. The wind had become hotter.

"I don't think we can," she answered, "The only one to lay a scratch on any of the dragons during the Eclipse fiasco was Natsu."

"We've got five Dragon Slayers here," Laxus said, "And there's only one dragon."

"We had four to one on Tenrou," Erza said.

"Natsu isn't Acnologia," Laxus said, before glaring at the sky, as another shadow darted across the sky, "At least I hope not."

Wendy was trying to mentally prepare herself for this. She was having very little luck.

"Don't worry," Chelia said, grabbing her Sky Sister's shoulder, "It'll be fine!"

"No it won't," Wendy said, as she stared at the moon. A familiar silhouette soared over it. This time, everyone took notice to it. The townspeople began to panic even more, as they began pushing towards the docks.

"A little help Gajeel!" Levy snapped. The Captain of the Custody Division ignored her, as he stared at the sky. Levy cringed. If they didn't get moving soon, then there was no telling who many people would die before Natsu was satisfied.

"Maybe we should leave town," Cana said to Elfman, "If we're gone then maybe…"

"DRAGON!" It was at that exact moment, that with a massive "whoosh" Natsu swooped over the town, roaring as he did, much to everyone's horror. Then he spoke.

"This is where I stand! And I stand alone!" Natsu roared as he flapped back up, before folding his wings in, "And you will not stand in my way! Now taste my power! Taste my vengeance!" The fire dragon then dove down towards the town, as his chest lit up.

Like water, fire cascading from Natsu's jaws, as he passed over Egora. Entire houses vanished in the inferno, as people leapt out of the way from the dragon fire. After completing the pass, Natsu flapped back up. Wendy looked up and at the chaos, as the horror truly fell upon her. In a single instant, Natsu had set an entire portion of the town ablaze. And he wasn't done yet…

Performing his second pass, Natsu breathed another torrent of fire, consuming even more of Egora in the blaze. The people all screamed and scattered, some even diving into the water in desperate attempts to escape the dragon's fury.

"Natsu!" Wendy cried, but he didn't hear her. Instead, the Dragon Slayer turned dragon just continued to breathe fire over the town.

As Natsu soared over them, Erza was jumping from rooftop to rooftop, keeping an eye on her former guild mate. Unfortunately for her, Natsu took notice of her as he veered from his initial course. He then dove down in her direction, baring his teeth. Erza looked over her shoulder, seeing the fire dragon quickly gaining on her. Natsu flared his wings back, as he reached out with his talons. Erza dove out of the way just in time as Natsu's talons ripped apart the house she had previously been standing on. The knight managed to land another house, as she looked up, and saw Natsu burning more of the town.

Gajeel leapt to a roof, and as Natsu was beginning another pass. He then inhaled as the dragon approached him.

"Iron Dragon's Roar!" Gajeel said. The stream of dragon iron shot at Natsu, an attack he actually felt. He looked towards Gajeel, and dove towards him. Pantherlily then flew in, and pulled Gajeel away before Natsu could incinerate the both of them.

"Damn it!" Gajeel said as he watched Natsu let out another stream of fire. At the same time, Gray was trying to get more people out of harm's way.

"Juvia!" Gray called, "Can you douse some of this fire?"

"Juvia can try!" Juvia said, as she held up her hands. Streams of water shot from her hands, and started to douse the flames. However, there was far too much fire to make Juvia's efforts worth it, especially considering that for every fire she doused, Natsu lit another several dozen. Gray glared up at the fire dragon, as he soared over them. He then assumed his Devil Slayer form, and brought his hands together.

"Ice Devil's Rage!" Gray roared, as he released a massive stream of ice from his mouth at Natsu. Unfortunately, even demon ice couldn't stand up to dragon fire, as Natsu passed over, melting relatively quickly.

Natsu then landed atop the burning buildings, as the glow on his chest suddenly slid up to his spine, creating a ridge of fire along his back. The fire then slid down to his tail, and with a lash, a whip of fire struck down over the town, sending a massive burst of flames. As he was doing that, Laxus suddenly bolted at him.

"Lightning Dragon's Roar!" The electricity struck Natsu in the side of the head, which actually got the dragon to flinch. He then shot a burning glare at Laxus, and snapped his jaws at him, which Laxus managed to bolt out of the way of.

"Here! You monster!" With an angry hiss, said dragon looked down. He saw all the guilds and Magic Council assembled beneath him.

"I don't know what happened, to cause Natsu to be consumed by you, but we'll rip you away fro him!" Erza declared. Natsu just let out a roar, as everyone charged him. Every attack in the book was launched at him, but did relatively little against his dragon scales. However, there were five notable exceptions, all of which came from the Dragon Slayers. Those attacks actually hurt, instead of just bouncing off. Admittedly, Natsu was not as old or experienced as some of the dragons that came through the Eclipse Gate, let alone Acnologia, so it stood to reason he would lack the endurance they had. He had a feeling that if this lasted long enough, it would begin to do some damage. Natsu clenched his teeth, figuring he had to change tactics. The serpent then reared back.

"The hell's he doing now?" Sting asked. Natsu's chest glowed even brighter than before, before from his mouth cascaded streams of liquid fire. After hitting the ground, the fire congealed, forming a series of lizard like creatures made out of fire.

"Let's see if you'll have better luck with my newts than you did with those hatchlings," Natsu sneered, as he spread his wings, and took to air again. The newts then charged the mages.

(up in the mountain)

Lucy was sitting amongst the sea of rubies, sobbing. She remembered Natsu's words of how they abandoned him. She curbed her mind for rationale about what happened, but there was nothing she could find. Had she, and everybody else, abandoned Natsu in his time of need?

Natsu had been there when Lucy lost her father, and he'd been there every time she needed him. But when Natsu needed her, she was to focused on what she was going to do to go and console him.

"I'm sorry….. I'm sorry….. I'm sorry," she chanted. This was all her fault, she had to make up for it somehow, but she didn't know how.

"Lucy!" The blonde looked up, and saw Happy flying at her. He had a look of pure horror on his face.

"You have to come up here!" he said, "Natsu's lost it!" Not hesitating, Lucy jumped to her feet.

"Alright! Take me up there!" she instructed. Happy did as he was told, but when he pulled Lucy out above, the sight was worse then she could have every imagined. She could see Egora in the distance, and the glow from the flames. Natsu was destroying it.

"Why's he doing this?" Happy cried, tears streaming down his face.

"We've got to get there!" Lucy declared, "We've got to stop him!" Happy then picked up Lucy, and they started to fly in that direction, as Happy went Max Speed, which his human form boosted even further.

(in Egora)

As Natsu completed another pass, the mages were unable to try and stop him, as they are occupied with the newts. Unfortunately, these creatures weren't going down easily. With an angry yell, Kagura bisected one of them, only for it to reform relatively quickly.

"Damn these things!" she snapped, "What'll it take to beat them?"

"Water isn't working!" Erza said, as she tried to use her water sword, only for it to prove remarkably ineffective. The only one's who weren't fighting the fire monsters were the Sky Sisters and Carla. Wendy had climbed onto the burning roofs, and looked up as Natsu streamed by, breathing more fire. As he was, she brought her hands together, and released a massive amount of wind, shooting her into he air.

"Natsu!" she cried, as she grabbed on to his foot.

"Wendy!" Chelia and Carla cried. The cat-girl then grabbed the Sky God Slayer, and lifted her up after them.

"Natsu!" Wendy cried, as she held onto the dragon's foot, "Why are you doing this? Talk to me!" Natsu's fiery glare shot down towards Wendy.

"Get off!" Natsu hissed, as he flew towards the lake. He then skimmed his feet over the water, soaking Wendy in the process, but not causing her to let go.

"I'm not letting go until you talk to me!" Wendy said.

"Puny human!" Natsu roared, as he flapped into the air, back towards the town. He was starting to sound disturbingly similar to the dragons from the Eclipse gate.

"What did we do to make you so angry?" Wendy asked, "Please tell me!"

"You didn't care then! Why would you care now!" Natsu roared, as he beat his massive wings.

"Whatever we did, don't take it out on these people!" Wendy begged, "They're innocent!"

"You all took your own paths, and this is the path I walk!" Natsu answered, "I'm a dragon! Those who stand in the way of my vengeance are kindling for my fire!" He then started breathing more fire over the town. Wendy then did the only thing she could think to do at this point. After assuming Dragon Force, she held back her arm.

"Sky Dragon's Blast!" she said, sending a burst of dragon wind at Natsu. It struck him in the side of the head, and while it failed in most respects, it did succeed in making the dragon mad. Natsu's tail then lashed up, and struck his heel, and by consequence Wendy, causing her to lose her grip and fall. Fortunately, Chelia caught her. Unfortunately, the combined weight of the girls proved greater than Carla could carry, and the group all plummeted to the ground. Natsu ascended further into the air, before looking down on the burning land.

"This is only the beginning!" he proclaimed, "Soon every land, every city, will be nothing but ash! This world will burn under my wrath, and when I'm done, a new world will rise from the ashes! Enjoy this world while it lasts, because its days are numbered!" The triumphant fire dragon then turned and flew back towards the mountain. As he did, he passed over Lucy and Happy, not taking notice of them.

"Put me down," Lucy said. Happy slowly obeyed.

"What do we do?" he asked softly.

"There's nothing we can do," Lucy said, a dead expression on her face, "Natsu's gone. All that's left is a dragon." With that, the fire dragon crawled back into his mountain. As he did, the last red scale, all that remained of his Fairy Tail mark, faded away. Natsu Dragneel no longer existed; all that remained, would come to be known as Natsu the Burning Serpent.

Note: Yeah, I'm glad I didn't go this route. If this is what some people actually wanted Natsu to do, then I really can't understand that. For him to act so callous and vile towards others is horrendous.

Writing this wasn't easy. I could've just done a really sarcastic, really half-assed writing that was only about half a page, but I wanted to actually give something to my readers. Something with effort. But now that you've read this, what do you think of it?

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