Cobra/Lucy, Bickslow/Hermione

The Cards Started It

Lady Countryrose

Ch. 1

The guild was normally nosy. People were talking, drinking, and fighting. It wouldn't be a normal day without it being any other way. It had been a while since the guild had been brought back together and with that added members. Those added members had also concluded the group of Crime Sorcière.

Just as life was moving on, the doors of the guild were slammed open. To where the guild was able to see who was making their way into the building. Cobra came into the guild with a body over his shoulder. He walked towards the corner of the guild. Where he knew a close acquaintance was and help with the woman to stand upon her feet, who was on his shoulder.

The acquaintance of Cobra's spoke up, "Cobra, did you finally get me a girlfriend?"

Cobra's purple eye gave the other man a glare, "Shut it, soul boy." Causing many within the guild to take notice of them. "I found her disoriented in the forest, asking me to help find her cousin, Lucy Heartfilia. And since I only have known about one, I have brought her here."

"Then why did you bring her over to me?"

"I didn't want to deal with Salamander!"

The young woman was on her feet, glancing around realizing that she was dizzy and lightheaded. "Where's… Lucy…" She moved and somehow had tripped over her own feet and fell onto the ground. Once she had found out that she was lying down, she felt her back against a back of someone else. "Why… me..?"

A sound of many feet came towards them. The young woman glanced up to see many moving faces making their way into her view. A young woman with long blonde hair glanced down with worry within her eyes until she saw who was on the floor. "Hermione!"

Everyone within the guild glanced at Lucy with surprised looks within their eyes. Except for the man that was laying on the floor with the said woman on his back. He gave a sigh before moving a helmet from his head and crossed his arms under his chin.

A deep voice called out to the man on the ground. "Are you alright down there, Bickslow?"

The man sounded happy, "Yeah I'm fine. Who can say a woman drops on me any day of the week?"

Lucy gasped, "I hope for your well being that you'll keep your perverted thoughts to yourself!" She then glanced at the brown haired woman. "Hermione, do you need help getting up?"

The young woman giggled, "Let me get this dizziness under control before I move." She closed her eyes for a moment. "I'm sorry that I'm laying on you."

Bickslow smirked, "Don't worry about it. Take all the time you need." He glanced up towards where he saw that Cobra had made his way to him. 'Is she hot?'

Cobra gave a smirk. "Classy…" He knew enough to tell the man something without giving rise to the woman's cousin. Which many had faced at least a time or two with her famous kicks. He really didn't want to face another one of those if he could help it. He glanced up to the blonde and noticed that her main focus is the woman upon the Seith mage.

"Hermione, what happened?" Lucy looked worried beyond anyone has ever seen before. "The last I've heard from you, your family were sent off to some off world. Then off to a far off school within the far off world! I deserve answers!"

The young woman sighed, "Am I in a place full of wizards?"

"They're called mages here, Hermione."

Hermione, who still had her eyes closed grumbled. "Well, it started when mother was given a prophecy. That forced us to move to another world…" She told them her story of how she moved to a place called Earth. A place known as England and then went to a school known as Hogwarts for witches and wizards. "I met a wizard who turned everything I knew upside down… I was an excellent student but every day was either life or death…"

She explained that there was a dark wizard that was trying to kill her best friend. Everyone within the guild was shocked. To find that her friend had lived through all the ordeals that he had faced.

Lucy growled, "That is fine and dandy, Hermione. But that doesn't explain how you got here?"

Hermione sighed, she was able to open her eyes and noticed the world was not spinning anymore. "I was in a middle of a battle at my school when I was hit with a spell. The spell that hit me was supposed to kill me, but it sent me here instead."

An elder voice spoke from the bar. "That would explain how Cobra had found you. Disoriented and the world spinning around you, out of control." He took a drink from his tankard. "Tell me girl, who was one of your teachers that were the head of your school?"

"Albus Dumbledore," stated Hermione with a calming voice. Which none would have found when they were within her shoes.

"Hmmm," sounded the elder man.

It caused many people to glance at their guild master. "Do you know him," asked Lucy with wonder in her voice.

"Yes, I do… He was known as the take chances type of man," the master stated with a dark look in his eyes. "Girl, can you get up?"

Hermione spoke softly, hoping the man that she was on could hear her. "I'm going to move towards the right, so you'll know which way I'm going."

"Understood," he answered just as softly.

Together the two moved to where Hermione was able to roll off of Bickslow. Without causing either one of them harm. Bickslow had gotten upon his feet faster and then helped the woman that was upon his back upon her feet too. They gave each other a quick glance before Hermione was pushed towards the master. Which she found to be a very short man.

The man glanced at her with a surprised look in his eyes. "What is your name and how do you know of our Lucy?"

Hermione gave a small smile, she was glad that her cousin was able to find people that were loyal. "My name is Hermione Granger and I'm Lucy's long lost cousin…"

"WHAT," yelled the guild at large.

Hermione jumped from where she stood and turned to her blonde cousin with a surprised look in her eyes. "Can you explain the explosion of excitement?"

Lucy giggled, "It's something to get used too." She came and wrapped an arm around Hermione's shoulders. "But I wouldn't have it any other way…"

A woman at the bar with a bikini top called out, "I know what we can do since your cousin is here. We can play a game with fated cards."

Lucy gasped, "Cana…"

Whatever she was about to say was interrupted by a silver haired bartender. "Oh, that sounds wonderful…" She had risen her hands over her heart. "It's about time we have more couples in this place." She gave a dark glare within the room. "I haven't seen any new relationships in a long time and I want tons of babies to run around here."

Hermione gave her cousin a worried look, who also had a slightly scared look. "Does she do this often?"

"Sadly yes, but she wouldn't be Mira." Lucy glanced around and noticed that all the males had rushed up towards the second floor. To get out of the reach of Mira and Cana's influences. "It looks like us girls are being cornered for this…"

The dark brown-haired woman had gotten up from where she was sitting. Making her way towards the middle of the guild. From there, the men were able to see the cards. Between Hermione and Lucy. Neither one of them felt comfortable for the men to be able to know what their cards hold. It was enough to make them shiver of what the cards hold.

Hermione spoke loud enough for most to hear. "I would rather have the stars tell me what I'm destined to have."

"Me too," stated Lucy with worry in her voice.

"Alright ladies," Cana called out. "Let's make a circle!" All the girls had circled around her. Which brought Hermione to use her magic through her hands. Bringing four large rectangular tables together. Along with the benches to surround the tables. The men were surprised to see how useful her magic was. "This is how is going to happen," Cana glanced at all the women around her. "A card is going to make its way to you and I don't want you to see who it is. Not until I give each and every one of you a reading. Once that reading is done, then you can flip it over to that person's image."

Mira asked from where she sat, "So the first card that is thrown at us, we can't see?"

"Nope," stated Cana with a smirk on her lips. "At least not until I give you the full reading before the reveal." She grabbed a desk of her cards and went through all the images until only the pictures of the men remain in the deck. She then placed the rest back into her purse.

Cana then slid the deck of cards face down and mumbled a spell, as her hands hover over the cards. A flash of bright purple light came upon the cards before they made their way to each of the women's hearts. The brown-haired woman glanced up with raised eyebrows. "Wow, I wasn't expecting that…"

Mira gave a surprised look towards the card mage. "What it supposed to do this?"

"Well," Cana tapped her finger on her chin. "I did say, what the soul's inner heart is destined to have…" She glanced towards all the girls around her. "But I didn't realize that this would happen." She then turned towards Mira. "Well since you spoke first, I'll read your soul's destiny."

Cana made her way towards Mira and sat down next to her, while the other girls moved over to let her sit. She brought out another deck and shoveled it before allowed Mira to cut it. Cana grabbed the card that was on Mira and placed it before her, before placing three more cards before her. She then flipped the three new cards over and glanced at them.

Cana glanced at Mira with a smile. "Well, this man has many similarities to you." She then glanced at the cards again. "You've known this man for quite a bit of time. If I hadn't done this, you would have found each other regardless."

"Really," asked Mira with wonder in her voice. "Well, who is it?"

Cana flipped the card over with a shocked look on her face. "Well, after Fantasia… I can see this…"

Mira glanced towards the card and gasped, "Freed..?"

A dark sounding voice bellowed from upstairs. "Oh thank God." Many within the guild knew that voice. The only blonde male in the house.

While another voice that came from upstairs that sounded a bit squeaky. "Why me..?"

Cana then turned to the next girl, who happened to be Evergreen. She shuffled her deck before giving the fairy woman her reading. "This man is someone that you've spent many hours with. You two are from two different worlds… Oh, a strong man…" She flipped the card over to where she could see the image. "Elfman!"

Evergreen glanced down with a blush making its way across her cheeks. While a voice from upstairs became soft, more than it has ever been in his life. "Oh… man…"

One by one, all the girls were finding out who they were fated to be with. Laki had Max. Kinana had Midnight, which brought the two a stuttering mess. Erza had Jellal, who blushed like no other. Juvia to her delight had Gray, who ended up trying to run out of the guild. But ended up being lassoed by a few of the men to keep him grounded enough to face his fate.

When it came to Lucy's turn, Cana gave a raised eyebrow towards the blonde. "Wow, Lucy. You and your man haven't had much a blessing of a history…" This caused many within the guild to pay a lot of attention to was being said. "You two clash more ways than one. But it's guaranteed to have a very passionate love life… You are also guaranteed to have someone to protect you. Like no other has, though…" She flipped the card over with a shirk. "Cobra!"

Lucy paled, "Cobra…" She glanced around the room and noticed that everyone was either looking towards her. Or the man upstairs, who wasn't making any attempt of hiding. All he had was a smirk plastered on his face. She even glanced up to him, 'Why isn't he mad about all of this?'

Then after a moment of silence, a voice called out, "No fucking way…" Everyone turned to the pink-haired pyro. "There is no way they are destined to be with one another!" When no one else was fighting it, he gave everyone a dark look. "Hasn't everyone forgotten that he's tried to kill her at least twice?"

Cobra gave a dark look. "The first time was Brain's doing, while the second one was Midnight's plan. Not mine!" He hissed while the angered look didn't leave the pink-haired man's face. "Are you forgetting that I helped with the dragon issue. Otherwise, most of the people within the room would have been killed that day."

"Fine," Natsu huffed. "You have a point."

Cana gulped and leaned into Lucy with a whisper. "I hope the bedroom would be wild enough for you." Lucy was deep in red in her blush that it traveled all over her body. Cana then made her way to Hermione, she did what she had done before and flipped the three cards over. "Well, your man is a fool hearted man, loving and dependable. Which something tells me that is the kind of man you need in your life." Cana then flipped the last card over to see who was on the card. "Bickslow," she gasped with unsureness in her voice.

Lucy hissed, "I can handle Cobra being on my card but Bickslow on my cousin's." She shook her head. "He's a big perverted flirt…"

"Hey," called out a voice that she knew was standing next to Cobra. She was not willing to look up towards either of them. Lucy growled out, "What is the percentage of probability that happiness comes from the knowledge of these cards?"

"Ninety-eight percent!"

As Lucy was going through her fit. Hermione had glanced up towards the upper floor and noticed that the guy that she had laid on, was the man on her card. Normally she was not into fate and destiny but having a friend like Harry. It was hard to even not ignore those anymore.

Ever since she was brought back to Earthland, she was thrown into destined situations. She ran into a man that knew Lucy, who brought her to the guild where she could find her cousin. Then she ended up falling onto the man that she was supposed to be fated to be with.

'Granted I've fought most of my Hogwarts life, fighting Harry about fate. He would some how prove me wrong.' Hermione took a quick look towards the cards again. 'Have I seen a lot of the unknown to even allow fate to take over my life?' She had to admit that being back to Earthland. It was something that she would never have imagined would ever happen. But here she was, back with her cousin again. 'I have nothing else to do but allow fate take over. I'm just too tired to fight against it…'

She noticed the man that was known as Cobra had leaned into Bickslow and spoke into his ear. She didn't know what they were talking about. But it was enough to make her shiver from where she sat. Hermione then noticed that Lucy had stopped her ranting enough to ask the woman, known as Cana something. "What about you, what does your card show?"

Cana huffed but went through the steps that she needed to do and flipped the three over. "He is strong, loyal and demanding." She then flipped the next card over and shrieked, "NO FLIPPING WAY!"

Lucy huffed, "Who is it." She then grabbed the card to see who it was and started laughing, "Laxus!"

A sound of what sounded like someone had fallen onto their butt from upstairs was heard. Before a man sounded roar of laughter came out of nowhere. Making the building shake lightly.

A man's voice called out the one who was laughing, "Boss, are you alright?" Hermione was starting to know that voice well, the one that she knew to be Bickslow. She found that he had a better sounding voice than anyone she had heard from Hogwarts. 'At least that's a plus. But sadly, no one has a voice like Professor Snape's…'

Cana growled as she went around the table for the rest of the girls. Wendy didn't have a card. Which she told the little blue-haired girl that she didn't have the card for the guy or she hadn't met the guy yet. Then she went to a little shy woman with a bookworm vibe, which happened to be Levy. She ended up having Gajeel, who the guy was chuckling darkly from upstairs.

A young woman with short silver hair piped up, "What about me, Cana?"

"Let's see Lisanna," Cana went over to her with raised eyebrows. "You've heard of this person but know that he has a flashy personality…" She then flipped the card over with a laugh. "Eve from Blue Pegasus!"

Natsu from upstairs cheered, "Yahoo. I'm not tied down…" He turned towards the others within the guild. He noticed that there were a few of them that were angered. To see that the pink-haired man was free from fate's interference. "Gotta go…" He turned from everyone and ran from the guild at full speed that few have ever imagined from such a man.

Lucy glanced upstairs for a moment before grabbing Hermione's hand. "Let's go before the men decided to use this time to go hunting."

"Hunting for what?"

"For their destined women… If I know this guild enough, it's a welcome sign for them to do so." It was enough to cause many of the women within the guild to get up and run out of the guild doors. Each one of them splitting up in different directions. Every one of them making it to their homes before the men had decided to make due to what they knew.

As the two ran towards Lucy's apartment, they heard a far off shrieks from other women from the guild. Knowing that they were indeed being hunted by the men. "Come on Hermione, we got to run…"

As the two ran through the streets of Magnolia, a couple of shadows jumped in front of the two young women. Causing the two to slide to a stop, before running head into them. From what little they could see in front of them, it was enough to know who was standing before them. They were the two people that they were hoping to avoid that night.

"Cobra," gasped Lucy as she was walking backwards with Hermione next to her. Then she glanced towards the other man with glare in her eyes. "Bickslow." She turned to her cousin next to her. "Do you have any ideas of what we should do?"

Hermione grumbled, "Maybe…" She raised her hands towards the two men before her. A blink of an eye later, ropes came out of nowhere, wrapping themselves around the two men. Allowing the two women to run forwards once again.

They heard Bickslow's voice calling to them, "If you're into kinky stuff. I'm willing to oblige."

"HELL NO," cried out the two women, as they traveled through the streets.

Once they had gotten into the apartment. They locked everything that would allow anything into the place. They made sure that every door, window, and even the chimney was locked up tight. The two girls had found their way back into the living room with a sigh as they fell onto the couch.

"Lucy," Hermione gasped out as she was trying to find air to get into her lungs. "Your guild is… strange."

The blonde huffed from where she sat. "That is putting it mildly." She shook her head. "But I must say… Those guys aren't what I would expect."

Hermione turned to her cousin, "What do you mean?"

"I mean, Cobra normally denies everything. Even if he may have feelings for someone…" Her mind trailed off for a bit, as her brain worked things out. "Then there is Bickslow, yeah he can be a flirt and a pervert. But I've never seen him focus on one woman as much as he had today." She shook her head. "I don't know, did you pick up a feeling that maybe the cards put them on a spell?"

Hermione shook her head, "No. I think it's more a pointed awareness. Making them realize that they have a feeling for someone." She gave a deep sigh. "I don't know, maybe I'm reading into it way too deep."

At that moment they heard a couple of thumps hitting the roof of the apartment. Causing Lucy to glance up, "I hope they wouldn't find away in."

"Don't worry," stated Hermione with a smile. "I've already cast a spell that would keep them out." She took a deep huff. "As long as we don't open a door or a window that is."

"Good," sighed Lucy from where she sat. "We should get some sleep and hopefully we're able to leave to go back to the guild in the morning."

The two had gone to sleep. Lucy in her bed, while Hermione was on the couch. Each one of them was hoping for a non-stressful day for tomorrow.