Okay, this is my first ever CoLu (Cobra and Lucy) fanfic! Please be nice about this since it is completely new territory for me! Thank you. This will be a small most likely four-five chapter story, most an ice breaker for my new favorite crack ship. Any-who~ I hope you still enjoy and leave a review telling me what you think please :)

Also, in no way, shape or form do I own Fairy Tail.

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Chapter 1

Lucy glared suspiciously at the too cheery bar maid that was in front of her, holding her favorite milkshake in one hand and trying to hide something from her in the other.

"Mira. What are you up to?" She asked, leaning away from the strawberry delight as the she-demon placed it in front of her. Frowning as the eldest Strauss sibling pouted and crossed her arms before giving her the saddest eyes she had ever seen.

"What makes you think that I'm up to something? Can't I just give my favorite, and not to mention best friend, her favorite drink after what was probably a rough mission?" Mira asked, causing her to go wide eyed. Mira was laying this one on thick, and that usually meant that it wouldn't end none to pleasantly for her!

"Mira. What. Did. You. Do?" She hissed, punctuating each word by leaning slightly closer to the woman. Mira twisted her hair in one finger as she chewed on her bottom lip, her eyes practically swimming in a guilty look as they tried to find a way out of this conversation.

"Well...Me and Meredy..."

Lucy didn't even let her finish before letting out a groan and plopping her head onto the table. Nothing good ever came about when those two were together! It was even worse when one began their sentence that way!

"It...It isn't that bad Lucy! We only thought that you and..."

Her head hit the bar once again. What was worse then those two together, was when they started giving each other ideas about who should be paired up with who! Honestly, the two were ship crazy and everyone had one time or another been apart one of their matchmaking schemes at one point or another. This time it seemed like the honor belonged to her.

"Mira! What did you two do?!" She nearly shouted, biting her bottom lip as Meredy suddenly seemed to appear from behind the counter. Probably hiding back there since she had heard stories about how bad Lucy's temper could get. In fact, she was half tempted to give them a taste of that temper, if it wasn't for the fact that she knew Mira could make mince meat out of her.

"We thought you and Cobra would make an adorable couple, and even more adorable babies. So..." Mira stated, clapping her hands together in an apologetic fashion before Meredy followed suit and finished where Mira left off.

"We might have slipped him too strong of a love potion with your picture!"

Lucy froze to her seat, her eyes going to the milkshake that she hadn't dared touched. She pointed to it, and gave them a questioning look. Both of them whimpered before giving nods and showing her the small vile that Mira had been trying to hide from her.

"We..We thought that maybe it would be easier on you if you were under the same influence that he was under!" Meredy stated, she just blinked. Her eyes widening as she took in the look of the vile, and the color of the liquid within it. The vile easily fit in the palm of Mira's hand, the topper was a silver heart, and the liquid within was a ruby color.

"Do you two know what that potion is!?" She hissed, watching as they both winced and swallowed.

"The alchemist we got it from guaranteed that it was a love potion. That is what it is, right?" Mira asked, a slight dark aura covering her as she thought that she might have been lied too and just did harm to one of her guild members. Lucy sighed and quickly pushed the drink away from her and stood.

"It's a love potion alright. One of the strongest around. Cobra wont stop until he has me, unless...How many drops did you put into his drink?" She asked, not liking how Mira blinked in confusion and looked at the small vile with guilt written all over her face.

"Actually...that's kinda where we messed up and thought about giving you some." Mira stated, and Meredy scratched the back of her head.

"I kinda, accidentally, maybe poured the entire first vile into his drink." She squeaked, and Lucy fought not to swallow her tongue. If Cobra had only had a few drops, like one was suppose to have of that damn concoction, she would only have to avoid him for about five hours and he'd go back to normal, possible less since he was a dragon slayer. Second generation or not, he specialty was poison, and this particular potion was along the same line. However, since he had a whole vile within him, he would be after her for at least three days. Two at most if the theory of him being a dragon slayer eased the effect of it some.

"Why? Just why?" She whimpered, covering her face with her hands before inhaling and running them through her hair. She closed her eyes for a moment, before opening them on a glare, pinning the two women to the spot.

"You two will pay for this, one way or another." She hissed, and then quickly headed for the request board. Yes, she had just got back from a mission that made her want to strangle her idiot of a partner, but she couldn't stick around Magnolia for three days now. Not with a horny snake possibly waiting anywhere. Hopefully she could find a mission outside of Magnolia that would take her a few days to accomplish, that way she wouldn't be technically avoiding Cobra. Yeah right, she thought with a roll of her eyes as she studied the board.

"Lucy? We just got back from a mission, are you already wanting to go on another one?" Erza suddenly asked, a gauntlet covered hand landing on her shoulder. The screech of fear that came from her wasn't a normal sound to say the least, but she quickly covered her mouth and turned to her red headed teammate.

"E-E-Erza! Sorry! Um...I'm just thinking of taking a small mission! No worries!" She stated, nearly wincing herself at how bad her lies were. Although, what she said wasn't a lie per se, but it wasn't exactly the truth either. Something that Erza clearly saw, and Lucy groaned as the equip mage crossed her arms and glared at her.

Peeking out of the corner of her eye, she saw Mira and Meredy pleading with her silently not to tell the woman what they had done. Causing her to frown and glare at them before standing straight and pointing over at them while facing her teammate.

"Mira and Meredy spiked Cobra an entire vile of a strong Love Potion along with my picture! Now I have to leave for three days before he decides he wants to make me his mate!" She shouted, and blinked as she realized that maybe she had shouted a tad too loud when the entire guild became quiet.

"They did what!?" Erza screamed, glaring over to the two women in question as Laxus and Gajeel burst into fits of laughter, and Natsu and Gray paused in their fight to stare at all of them in shock, along with Cobra's group, save for Cobra who was thankfully not there, and Meredy who was trembling as a pissed off Erza approached.

"Erza, we only had Lucy's best interests at heart." Meredy stuttered, backing away slowly and giving a yip of fear as Erza pulled out a sword.

"You just possibly cost Lucy her honor!" She hissed, and Lucy smirked as both women started to apologize and then try to show how they attempted to slip the potion to Lucy as well. Which just backfired on them since Erza became more mad.

Deciding to leave Erza to punish them, she turned back to the request board and started to quickly skim the requests. Looking for something that she could do easily, but would take her a few days to do.

"That's not going to happen, Bright Eyes." A purr sounded behind her, causing her to tense and spin around. A yelp left her, drawing everyone's attention yet again, as well as a furious growl from Erza.

"Cobra, step away from Lucy!" Erza shouted, pointing her sword toward him, yet his eye never left Lucy's. She backed up a step, and swallowed as he merely smirked down at her.

"You know better than to try and run away. I know your thoughts even before you..."

"Lucy Kick!" She screeched, slamming her foot into his stomach, causing his eye to widen in surprise before he doubled over and she took off. Shouting out an apology in her mind to Cobra for doing that, but she wasn't about to give herself to someone that was under a potion and didn't really love her.

"Cobra! Don't you dare move!" Erza shouted, but Lucy didn't hear what happened next, because she ran out of her house and dashed into Magnolia. Praying that she would be able to hide her scent, since she knew that there was nothing was going to stop the Poison Dragon Slayer from coming after her. She figured Erza could bring out the hammer again, but he would still fight! When one was given the Love Potion that Meredy and Mira had slipped him, especially all of it, there was nothing that would stop that person from getting what they desired. It was one reason it was forbidden to use it in the first place, so as to how they even got a hold of it, she didn't want to know. Then again, all she cared about right now was to make sure she didn't get caught.

Well, here's chapter. I believe it could have been a bit better, but like I said this is mostly an ice breaker for me for this couple, not to mention a horrible attempt at some Fairy Tail humor on my part (sorry, I don't know how to write humorous stories, so please bear with me a bit). Still, I hope you enjoyed and leave a review on what you think about it if you are able. Until next week! Thank you!