Part one- Scaly surprise
"Natsu Dragneel pay attention!" A book collided with the sleeping girls head and she fell out of her seat with a crash. She could hear people laughing and snickering at her as she rubbed her head and grabbed the book. She glared up at her Algebra teacher, .
He glared back. "How many times have I told you, brat! No sleeping!"
"Well if your class wasn't so boring I wouldn't fall asleep." She countered.
"Dragneel..." Mr. Dreyar said slowly and dangerously. The female sighed and sat back down, knowing full well the blonde teacher was prepared to throw her in detention again and call her dad.
She stared out the third story window and watched big gray clouds move through the sky. It's been stormy lately, maybe there have been hurricanes or something off the coast. She never watched the news so she wouldn't know for sure. Her dad, Igneel, was the one who would watch the News all the time. He loved listening to the politics and stuff like that. But he was over seas on a business trip right now and he didn't tell her when he was coming home. He sent cards and called though so Natsu always knew he was okay.
She's been living by herself for a few years now. She didn't get to lonely her friends always visited and she had her cat Happy. He was a rare blue furred cat and she spoiled the crap out of him.
Suddenly a crumpled up price of paper his the back of her head. She looked down at it then back to see who his her with it. Gajeel, who was a few seats back, was making a gesture to open it.
She scowled at him, irritated then did so. Written inside was: "Party at Lucy's, you coming?"
She looked back at him as mouthed "what time?"
He held up six fingers. She shook her head sadly at him. She would love to go, a party at Lucy's was the best. She was rich and also lived by herself so the house was always big and empty. Sadly though, Natsu had some shopping to do and errands to run. Her dad just sent money for her to restock and she had to do it quick before she ran out of food. Which was yesterday.
Gajeel nodded his head in understanding then went back to paying attention to Mr. Dreyar talk about X and Y graphing. Natsu just tuned him out and made a mental list of all the food she would need to get later.
The pinkette was standing outside the school gates waiting for the others so she could talk a little before leaving to the grocery store. She watched other kids walk by recognizing Elfman and his sisters. She waved to them, Lisanna and Mira waved back while Elfman talked to them.
She felt a drop of water on her cheek, she dabbed at it with her hand then felt more start to patter down. "Damn it..."
She grabbed her bag and booked it. Luckily the grocery store wasn't far from school or home. She hurried inside. She noticed it was still drizzling and decided to grab only necessities quickly, before it started to really pour and she'd be stuck there for who knows how long. She grabbed some microwaveable meals, milk, a six pack of soda, hot sauce, some steaks and bread. She through it all into the counter and the guy behind it rung it up. She grabbed the bags quickly and ran back home.
She didn't make it home in time... She was half way there when the clouds let loose and poured down on her. By the time she got home she was cold and shaking in her clothes.
"D-damn it... So c-close..." She opened the door and hurried inside. Not noticing how the door nob was bent slightly and the lock was broken. She dropped the bags of food and looked at her soaked clothes. She growled irritated and walked up stairs to change. She entered her room and slipped of her clothes, stripping naked. She didn't bother with underwear and just through on a baggy shirt and sweat pants. She wrung her hair out and flung it around a little.
She stopped when she noticed Happy hadn't come to greet her. The blue feline always came barreling through the house to greet her, he was mainly asking for food and love but he did it everyday. Now she looks around and can't seem to find him. She couldn't even hear his snores.
"Happy?" She looked under her bed and checked the closet ad cat bed but didn't find him. She took her wet clothes and tossed them to dry in the bathroom, when that was done she went down stairs and checked the living room. She didn't see him to she looked under a chair. The feline was crouching, fluffed up and vibrating, under the chair.
"Happy?" She called. The cat didn't move. "Hey buddy what's wrong?"
She reached underneath to comfort the frightened feline but the sound of plastic moving and something being dragged across her wooden floors made her stop. She pulled her hand back and looked around the dark room. She didn't turn the lights on and with the rain pouring so hard outside the room was very dim.
She stood up slowly. "Hello..?"
The sounds stopped. She shuffled back into the hall way and to the door to see her grocery bags opened and emptied out. Food was out on the ground and some of it was missing. She looked around and then noticed the bent and broken lock on her door. Her immediate thought was that her house had been broken into. But what thief steals two steaks and a carton of milk?
She gathered the rest of her food and brought it into the kitchen. She froze as she saw a massive scaly tail wrapped around the island in the middle of her kitchen. It was purple and long enough to wrap around it twice. It had to be some giant snake. She dropped the food in her hands and the tail constricted. She stepped back as she saw something rise from behind the island. She expected to see the snakes head.
Instead she saw a man. She blinked in confusion. She could see everything above the waist. Anything blow looked like it might be a black skirt before vanishing behind the island. He had a well build body. Very well built body that was shown off seeing as he didn't have a shirt on. Broad shoulders, caramel colored skin, bright purple eyes and maroon colored hair. She couldn't help but also see patches of the same purple scales from the snakes tale on the mans arms, neck, and face.
Natsu blinked again not sure what to do. He stared at her and she stared back. Suddenly his tongue flicked out at her. It was long skinny and forked just like a real snakes. She was beginning to get a suspicion that the massive snakes tail was what this guy had instead of a pair of legs.
"Female." He spoke suddenly. His voice was deep and husky sounding. "Is this your abode?"
"Uhhhhh" Natsu didn't know how to respond. This snake man just broke into her home and was probably the one who took her meat and milk. Now he was asking, in a weird way, of she lived here. She was debating in her mind whether to say "yes" or flip the fuck out and call the police.
"I wouldn't." He hissed. His tongue flicked out again.
"What?" Natsu asked confused.
"What ever the... 'Police' is, don't call them."
"How did you-"
"I heard you." He then brought his hand up, which had half the raw steak in it. He stuck the rest of it in his mouth whole, not even bothering to chew and swallowed. Natsu was to mesmerized and surprised at watching the bulge move down his neck to yell at him for eating her food.
"Woah..." She shook her head, finally composing herself and looking at him disapprovingly. "What are you doing here? Who are you? WHAT are you? Why are you-"
He held his hand up and made a "zip it" motion. "Your annoying. I picked the wrong den."
"Annoying?! I'll show you annoying!" She snapped. He snapped his fingers at her repeatedly.
"Hey hey hey! Pinky! Shut it! Is this your den or not?"
"Yes it is!" She yelled irritated. "It's called a house! Why did you break in!"
"I'm taking shelter... And your food." He smirked cockily at her. "You humans don't have very well hidden dens. I could find the entrance easily."
"It's not meant to be hidden!" Natsu snapped. The man looked confused.
"You don't hide your homes? How do you hide from predators?"
Natsu was staring at him like he was stupid. "What..? Look, why... Why are you here...?" She sighed finally over with this guy.
The man blinked and sat up strait. "My name is Cobra. I'm a Naga."
Natsu raised an eyebrow. "Naga? What's a naga?"
He moved out from behind the counter and confirmed her suspicions. The big purple trunk of snakes tail did connect to his hips. Though the front of it was hidden by the black skirt. He pouted to himself. "I'm a Naga. Half human half snake."
Natsu glanced him up and down. "Why are you here?"
"I need a place to stay. I was planing to kill you and steal your den but..."
"But what?"
"Well, you're female. And attractive." He smirked and slithered close to her, glancing her up and down. "In good shape too. Bet you would make strong hatchlings."
Natsu's face exploded in blush and she jumped away from him. "Excuse me?!"
Cobra shrugged. "What. It's true. Don't you know anything about hybrids?"
"No!" Natsu shouted still blushing. "I don't! I didn't think you... Hybrids existed till now!"
Cobra looked surprised. "Really? I'm pretty sure you humans have legends based off of us."
"Yeah. Their legends." Natsu hissed. "Their not real!"
The Naga looked offended. "I'm very real I assure you." He flicked his tongue again.
Natsu sighed and rubbed her temples hoping to god this was a nightmare. She was getting over loaded and confused and really needed a nap now.
"Look... I'm just... Going to lay down... Don't break anything and DON'T eat my cat or something..." And with that Natsu left the kitchen and collapsed onto the couch.