Cobra/Eric x OC, Lucy x Midnight/MacBeth

Gotta Be Somebody

Lady Countryrose

Ch.1

Two women were laying on the ground next to a far off lake. When a group of travelers came upon them. One of the travelers came running towards them, hearing that their souls sounded weak. He had never heard souls going weak just by lying on the forest floor but he found out why they might have been weak. Seeing that the two women may have gone through some kind of battle. Before finding themselves where they were.

He pulled back his maroon hair before glancing up towards the rest of his group and looked to the leader. Who had blue hair and brown eyes. "You might want us to camp here for a while, Jellal."

"Why's that Cobra," his dark voice called out to him, while he made his way to him. He glanced down towards the two women that were holding onto one another. He glanced towards the one with blonde hair that was lying before him. "Isn't it that Lucy Heartfilia?"

Cobra sighed, "Yeah." He placed his hand to where he could place his fingers onto the neck of the one he didn't know and felt a strong pulse. "They're going to live but they're souls are weak." He glanced up towards the rest of the group. "It looks like they have been through a big fight or something."

Another male from the group came over, who had black and white hair. Along with black and white makeup and clothes that came with his look. He came and sat next to Lucy with his own fingers against her neck. "She seems to be sleeping for the most part. Even though her clothes say otherwise with all the rips and tears."

Cobra glanced towards the man nearest him. "You were in the Heartfilia mansion, do you have an idea of who this other woman is, Midnight?"

He shook his head, "I haven't seen any pictures of her. So I've no idea of who she is and Michelle isn't around for me to ask." His eyes wander towards the woman next to Cobra and noticed the fire looking copper within her hair. "But she's hard to forget at least."

Jellal had gotten onto his knees to look at the two girls better. "Can you find out what happened to the two of them?" He glanced up to Cobra. "I know you can use your abilities to find out."

The maroon haired man glared at the man in charge. "That is easier said than done right now. Their souls are not coherent enough to find out right now." He moved the unknown woman to where she was laying on her back. "Come on sweetheart, I need you to wake up." After a little of light shaking, the woman was able to open her eyes. "You don't have to say anything, just remember what happened to you and Lucy and I'll see what has happened."

'Lucy...' She turned her head to where she could see the blonde with her own eyes. 'Is… she .. alright?'

"Yes, sweetheart. She's just out of it but I need to know what has happened."

The woman turned her head towards him to where her eyes were upon him. 'You… are..?'

"Lucy knows me as Cobra, but I'm Eric."

'Cobra… Poison… slayer…'

"Yes…" He saw understanding within her eyes but no fear for her life or for Lucy. Within moments he was able to see what had happened to the two girls. He was not happy with what he had seen. Cobra gave a hollow sounding sigh.

"I take it that you found something."

Cobra glanced up, allowing his purple eye to glare at Jellal. "Yeah, I found something that I didn't like." He took a deep breath. "They were out on a mission from the broken counsel about tracking down a dark guild. When they were just exiting the train, was when they were ambushed." He pointed to the girl before him. "She teleported them away as soon as she was able to."

Midnight glanced up, "Do you know her name yet?"

"No, I wasn't able to find that information yet." He chuckled, "She's smart. She knew who I was from what she had learned from Heartfilia. But found a way to clear away from me knowing her name. Just knowing that they are cousins is all that I was able to know."

Jellal groaned, "Which guild ambushed them?"

Cobra growled, "The Dark Horizon guild. They're new and building numbers." He glanced over the two girls bodies and noticed the gashes. "These two need medical attention."

The leader glanced around the area. "I see that you and Macbeth have volunteered for that. I'll advise that Richard and Sawyer build a tent around the four of you." He glanced back at Cobra. "Seeing as the two of you aren't going to leave their side anytime soon." He allowed a sigh to leave his lips. "What I'm going to tell Erza?"

Midnight gave a glare of his own towards the blue haired man. "Not to be out of line or anything, but shouldn't you wait until Lucy is well enough to talk to her. It would only make things worse. Knowing your redheaded girlfriend will only jump on us just because we said Lucy's name."

The unknown woman gasped to get Cobra's attention. 'Fairy Tail… no more… Everyone… left…'

Cobra stood onto his feet to look at Jellal straight in the face. "You don't have any reason to call her." He pointed to the girl that told him. "No one is apart of Fairy Tail anymore."

"That isn't right," stated a white haired female in the group. "They wouldn't disband." Sorano didn't seem happy to find out the information that they had been given.

Cobra saw some images coming from Lucy because she was hearing what they were saying but not enough to talk to him. "After their war against Tartaros. Their master didn't have the energy to even want to rebuild the guild after it was destroyed. Salamander gave Lucy a short note of training and left without saying a goodbye to her." He glanced towards Lucy. "She's been a wandering mage. Not wanting to stay for very long because of the loneliness that she had felt."

"Erza," Jellal growled out in disbelief. "She never once told me about any of this." He glanced towards the lake that was near them, showing the last hours before sunset. "She always told me that everything was fine."

As decided, Richard and Sawyer had built a tent surrounding the two women. With the added room to allow Cobra and Midnight to walk around them. The two worked as nurses for them while taking the two girl's clothes off. Neither one of the guys wanted to do it, in case the girls woke up to hurt them. But they slept on, while the guys cleaned and apply ointment and then wrapped them up. Once done, they put the girls in their extra clean clothes that they guys found in the girls' bags.

Cobra and Midnight exited out of the tent and sat around the fire. Allowing the two to enjoy the night air and to breathe. Knowing that their job would have been harsh if the sleeping girls had the energy to hit them with. Everyone seemed to be lost in their own minds because for the first time in a long time that they had been together. No one wanted to talk or even try to attempt to try to talk to one another.

A loud scream came from the tent that Cobra and Midnight had come from. Only to allow Jellal to run into the tent, seeing that Lucy woke up with overwhelming shock. "Lucy," the blue haired man called to her but she seemed to not have heard him. Because she turned to the other woman beside her. "Ava!"

Jellal grabbed Lucy by the shoulder and shook her to get her attention. "Lucy," he hissed and saw that her eyes were focused on him. "What has happened? I need answers."

The blonde took a deep breath and gave his a sorrowed look. "Someone from the council or who I had thought was part of the council had gotten a hold of me. He asked me to find a dark guild, known as the Dark Horizon and track them down. Which I was told that was all I needed to do."

She then glanced towards the woman next to her. "It was also when I had found Ava, my cousin. I had asked her to come with me and it seemed that it was the best. When we reached Oak Town, it was when we were ambushed. It seemed the old guild of Phantom Lord was becoming a dark guild."

"How did you get here, since you're many miles from where you should have been."

Lucy looked into Jellal's eyes. "Ava teleported us into the Celestial World, who kicked us back into Earthland and landed here. Humans can't survive in the other world for long but knew it was an emergency and allowed us to jump through." She glanced behind Jellal and saw the rest of the members of Crime Sorcière, causing her to give a true but small smile.

Midnight came over to her with a worried look in his eyes. "Are you alright?"

Lucy smiled, "I could be better." She glanced towards the other woman beside her. "But I'm more worried about Ava. She wasn't supposed to use her teleportation like she did. It could have killed her."

Cobra made his way next to the woman that he had found to be Ava and sat next to her. "She is aware of what's going on." He looked up to see Lucy looking at him. "She was able to fill in the blanks of what has been going on. But she didn't say that she had to go great lengths about world jumping."

Lucy glanced down at herself and noticed the wraps. "Can someone tell me, who gave us medical aid?"

Jellal stepped away from the blonde before answering. "I told Macbeth to help you, while Eric helped your cousin."

"Who?"

The blue haired man pointed towards Midnight, "Macbeth." Then he pointed to Cobra, "Eric."

Lucy's eyebrows shot up, "Oh." She gave a tired sigh, "Good thing I don't have the energy to kick anyone right now."

A tired moan left the copper haired woman, who was still laying on the ground. Her eyes opened to be more focused than before. "Lucy…"

"Hey Ava," Lucy gave a worried look. "What made you decide to world jump?"

A tired laugh answered her for a moment. "Couldn't think… a… faster way… out." She closed her eyes for a moment before looking towards Cobra. "Water… please."

"Sure, sweetheart." He turned to where Sawyer passed a canteen to him before he wrapped an arm around her to sit her up. Allowing her to sip a little bit of water before laying her back down.

Lucy gave Cobra a glare, "When did you become the bedside mannered?"

Midnight chuckled causing Lucy to look towards him. "He became that way since he laid eyes on her." His smirk made her become lightheaded. "I have never have seen him like this before. I have to say, it's… enlightening."

Richard exclaimed, "LOVE must be the answer! OH YA!" Causing many to laugh or groan, but Lucy felt inspired that maybe Cobra could have changed. Just by wanting to change before someone was awake to know them better.

'Whatever Cobra is up too… Mavis please, let it be a good thing.'

Lucy glanced towards him to see a look in his good eye. Something that she had never seen before from him. Something that she could only believe to be calming. He gave a short nod that she was only able to see. Giving her hope that he wouldn't hurt her.

Meredy smiled from where she stood. "Shouldn't they have some of the stew? It would help speed up their healing."

Midnight and Cobra had helped the two young women with their dinners. Even though Lucy could eat on her own but was too tired to sit up on her own. After they had managed to eat at least half of their meal, the men helped them to lay back down. Lucy allowed Cobra and Midnight to stay in the tent with the two girls. Knowing it was safety issue knowing the girls were being hunted by a dark guild.

'I guess it made sense to allow ex-dark guild members to save us from a current dark guild.'

Cobra chuckled, while he snaked an arm around Ava's waist as her eyes flickered shut. "Heartfilia, you think too much. But you're way of thinking is sound. As former dark guild members, we may have a way to protect you two from them."

Lucy rolled over to where she was facing Ava, with Cobra behind her. Feeling an arm around her, knowing that Midnight was wrapping his own arm around her. "Oh can it, snake-breath." She glanced towards her cousin for a moment. "What's she thinking about?"

"Surprisingly the music of Beauty and the Beast."

Lucy smiled before her own eyes flicker to close, "That's nice."

After a moment of hearing the two girls sleeping. Neither one of the two men wanted to fall asleep right away. Cobra smirked as he glanced towards Lucy with a raised eyebrow. "Do you want to know what the blonde is thinking about?"

"Sure, why not," stated Midnight.

"She's picturing Aladdin from the Tales of the Arabian Nights and a flying carpet."

Midnight chuckled softly, "I still have that carpet. I just don't use it that much." He glanced over Lucy's shoulder with his own raised eyebrow. "But sadly I'm not dressing myself as Aladdin or anything like that." He gave his old time friend a worried look. "How can we help them, knowing their power energy is massively low?"

Cobra gave a huff. "That is a question…" An idea came flashing through his mind to where he sat up to look at the other male better. "As crazy as this idea is, I might need Meredy to clear something for us before we do anything."

Midnight nodded. He allowed himself to move away from Lucy and climbed out his shared tent and made his way to the open fire. It was where he was able to find Meredy with the rest of their group. "Hey Meredy, we need you in the tent. Cobra things he may know a way to help the girls. But needs you to help with something first."

"Sure," she pink-haired young woman had gotten upon her feet to follow him back to the tent. The others at the fire-pit glanced each other and followed them as well. Once as the tent, Meredy glanced at Cobra with an unreadable look on her face. "What is it that you need to know, Cobra?"

Cobra's purple eye became darker as he glanced towards the young woman with a hard looking focus. "Do you have away within your assortment of spells to find one's soulmate?"

Jellal groaned, "What's that got to do with anything, Eric?" He glanced at Cobra and Midnight. "Does this have anything to help Lucy and her cousin?"

"It does," stated Cobra with a heated glare and then turned to the young woman. "Well, is there?"

Meredy glanced down into her hands, as she fumbled with her thoughts. "I could come up with something." She then glanced up towards the man that she knew was dangerous in his own right. "Why do you ask?"

"Because," he glanced down towards the sleeping girls in the tent. "Between Midnight and I, we have way too much power at times and if we find our soulmates. We're able to share those magic reserves with them." He glanced up towards Meredy with spark behind his eye. "And if they are our soulmates, we can recharge them faster than on their own."

Jellal glanced towards Cobra with a hard look in his eyes. "You do realize that you're taking their free will from them if you go through this?" He then glanced towards the two girls. "Is it worth it, just to heal them and maybe enrage them to your death?"

Midnight grumbled next to Lucy. "Is it worth Ezra's wrath? Knowing that you weren't willing to try anything and everything to keep her friend alive?"

"Now that you put it that way…" The blue haired man turned away from the tent. "Let's leave everything to them. If Meredy can help, we should stay out of the way."

The rest of the group left the five alone. Knowing that Cobra nor Midnight would ask anything from anyone within the group. Not without going through all the options before voicing anything. Meredy glanced towards the two and knew at least one of them from what knowledge that she learned. 'Lucy may not like me tempting fate just to save her and her cousin… But anything is better than feeling the endless pain of not knowing.'