Nothing but Softies
Hello everyone! This is ShipperTrash1313 and I am so excited to be posting my first story! This is gonna be a little series of just some cute little one shots dealing with my favorite Fairy Tail ship and how they deal with the oh so adorable Asuka Connell! There may be slight ooc incidents, but I can't help it. I can see these two becoming complete cuddle bugs when it comes to her! Anyway hope that you enjoy! Also, rated T for later "suggestive" happenings.
Chapter 1: Coloring
For the first time in history, the guild that was Fairy Tail, was completely still. Not a single member moved an inch, or even dared to breath in case it disrupted the sudden, suffocating tension that fell over the guild hall. There were no brawls, no jokes, no laughter. Not. A. Single. Movement. Instead every member within the guild hall was watching with anticipation, and some with slight fear, over the fact that Asuka Connell-daughter of Bisca and Alzack Connell-had climbed into the lap of one Cobra Cubellios.
Cobra thought they were all blowing the situation out of proportion, until he recalled that there had been rumors that Oracion Seis supposedly killed children as well as adults back in the day. Although it was farthest from the truth, even they had the decency to draw the line at some point or other. Sure, they had killed anyone that stood in their way, but all of them had agreed that no children were ever to be harmed. Each of them had recalled what went down when they had been children within the Tower of Heaven. The torture, pain and fear that they experienced every single second, and had vowed that no child would experience any of that by their hands. They could live with a lot of bad deeds, but that was something they refused to do. It was too cruel to even think about harming a child, even for them.
However, even he had to admit that he was surprised that the child in his lap was so at ease. He was an intimidating bastard, he knew it. It was an image that he had made sure to achieve just so people would leave him alone. Yet, she had merely one goal in mind when she had walked into the guild with her parents just moments ago. She wanted to find a quiet, comfortable place where she could draw and color in her new book. With his magic, he had heard all her thoughts as she looked around the guild, her gaze landing on him in a heartbeat.
She knew that he was someone who people gave space, meaning that they would not approach him. As a result they wouldn't approach her either, so she would be able to focus on drawing and coloring. When she had crawled onto the bench she found that it wasn't comfortable at all. Not like when she usually sat on someone's lap. So, she had ducked under his arm, crawled onto his lap, got herself situated, placed her new coloring book on the table, and merely got started on what she wanted to do.
Every action she had done was plain and simple for her, and not once had she taken in the fact that Cobra was once known as an enemy. Nope, to her he was merely another member of the guild, and someone that she automatically trusted. Not even once did she think that he would mind her actions. Some would think it cute, others annoying, and even more would think it was all selfish acts on her part. He however, just merely thought she was a child that had a lot more guts than half the members within the guild.
A small snicker had him raising his gaze to see Midnight peeking up over his arms, that he had previously been using as a pillow. His ruby gaze held mirth and laughter, and no doubt Cobra would be hearing a lot of shit from him later. Releasing a small sigh, and ignoring the gazes and thoughts he heard from the concerned souls, he tried to return some form of normalcy back to his day.
"So, about our mission..." Those simple words seem to cause everyone to succumb to confusion. Enough so that most souls of the members closest to them actually blanked out before questions began arising, causing him to close his eye and pull back on his Soul Listening Magic, thinking that it was more of a cursed ability now that he had joined this insane guild.
Ignoring the confusion from the members around him, and attempting to ignore the little girl sitting happily in his lap, he tried to get his mate back on the task at hand. They had a mission coming up, and he wanted to make sure that Midnight was up enough to handle it. It wasn't going to be one of their usual, take a few days and come back. They would be gone for a couple weeks, and he didn't want any unwanted surprises that could result in his narcoleptic, reflector mage getting hurt.
However, it seemed that Midnight was too far gone with the fact that the child seemed so at home while sitting on his lap. Releasing a sigh, he waved to Kinana to bring him something to drink. Knowing that there was no talking with him, especially since Asuka had looked up and caught his gaze before offered him a crayon to help her color a picture of teddy bear. He nearly groaned out loud when Midnight accepted the bright pink wax, before pulling the paper a little closer and actually started coloring in the ribbon that was on top of the bears head.
"Do you wanna color the balloons?" It was the most innocent question a child had ever asked him, and all he could do for a moment was look down as Asuka held up a red, and two different shaded purple crayons. Blinking, he frowned lightly before taking the small wax sticks and looking at the picture before him.
"Why these colors?" It wasn't that he really cared, but he was curious since she seemed so selective over the other colors.
"They're the color of our eyes, silly." She stated it like it should have been common sense, but he actually had to resist the urge to slam his head down onto his arm from how fucking cute it was. Midnight however had no such luck, and actually hid his face as the tip of his ears burned red slightly. Cobra heard the fit he was having within his soul at how cute, adorable, and innocent he was finding this child.
Giving a hum, he did his best to keep his composure as he selected the dark purple that no doubted was chosen for his eye, and began coloring the far left balloon as she continued to color the fur. After a while, Midnight finally raised his head, having successfully composed himself from his sensory overload on cuteness. All three merely remaining silent as they worked on coloring in the picture before them, the silent only broken when Asuka asked them to do a certain part a certain color.
Cobra had even forgotten that they were in the middle of the guild, a perfect place for anyone and everyone to see what was happening. Not even realizing that half the guild was whispering about the unexpected happening, and had been expecting a completely different outcome. Hell, half of them had been ready to attempt and beat the shit out of Cobra for making Asuka cry if he told her to get lost.
Not a single one of them had expected him to just accept that the child had chosen his lap to sit in and color. Nor had they expected that the two newest members actually take up crayons and color with the little girl. They were sure that Hell was freezing over with every passing second. The only ones that didn't seemed phased by the incident, was Bisca and Alzeck, who had merely moved to the bar after accepting that their daughter had decided to use Cobra as a seat while coloring and was safe in his care. Mira also seemed fine, save for the fact that she was absolutely enthralled with how cute the scene was and looked close to passing out from the sheer adorableness.
It wasn't long until Asuka released a small cheer, put down her crayons and held up the finished picture. Allowing Cobra to view it with a nod before she turned it to Midnight, who smiled at her while muttering that it looked great. Cobra had to admit, that it did look good since it came from such a young child who actually managed to stay within the lines, and from two grown ass men who never colored a day before in their lives.
Asuka had colored the teddy bear a light brown, that was slightly darker the closer it got to the lines that created the image, and the little pair of overalls that it was wearing were a faint orange color since it had been her favorite color. He had colored the balloons in the order that they were sitting, the dark purple to the far left, the light purple next, then the red. He was surprised with how well they seemed to go with one another. Finally was the two toned pink, polka dotted ribbon that was placed upon the bear's left ear. It was a cute image in all.
"I wanna go show Momma and Papa." At her request, Cobra shifted back slightly before carefully picking her up and sitting her on the ground. Watching as she dashed toward the bar, not able to stop the small smile that pulled at his lips before turning back to Midnight. Rolling his eye at seeing the mage arranging the stray crayons back in their box before sliding it over to the side, close enough to the edge for the little girl to grab them when she came back, but far enough away that they wouldn't fall.
"So, about the mission..."