Lucy P.O.V.
I walked into the guild with my packed bag and headed straight to the bar, picking my way through the still passed out bodies of my friends. It must have gotten pretty wild after I left, well, wilder. Checking the time again, I saw that I had two hours until my train to Era. Excellent, I would have time to chat for a while before heading to the station. I had gotten over my bad mood. The only thing I could really do was accept Cobra, so I would. I had accepted everyone else, why should Cobra be any different? Well, everyone else in the guild, other than master, would probably not accept him. Or maybe they would? Now that I thought about it, this guild is just crazy enough to do that. God, we'd probably even accept Minerva. I shuddered inwardly at the thought of the woman joining out guild. Okay, maybe I wouldn't accept her…
"Good morning Mira. Could I get some orange juice?" I smiled happily at her as I sat on a stool.
"Morning Lucy, of course you can. How did the meeting with the Master go? I meant to ask last night but I couldn't find you."
"I headed home shortly after I finished talking to him. And uh, well, it went okay." Mira raised an eyebrow at me as she placed my drink in front of me.
"Okay? What did you talk about?" I took a small sip of my juice.
"I have to go to Era for five days and talk to the magic council about certain arrangements."
"Eh? What could the magic council want with you? You didn't do anything wrong did you?"
"No, no Mira, I didn't do anything wrong. They just needed a Fairy Tail mage to take care of something for them."
"But there must be plenty of other mages who could go?"
"Unfortunately, no, this is something master wants me specifically to do."
"I better go and serve the others, I'll come back in a while." I smiled as Mira walked off leaving me to my thoughts. I blinked suddenly and slammed my head into the bar top. Several of the people who had woken up looked at me strangely. Fuck, Cobra can read my thoughts. A whole year of him knowing everything I'm thinking. Oh I'm so screwed. Okay, god really must hate me. I gulped down the rest of my juice hurriedly.
"Luce!" Natsu ran up to me with Lisanna, Erza, Gray and Happy in tow. "Come on a mission with us!" He shoved the request paper in my face. The request was for beating up a bandit guild, and they wanted five or more people to go. I smiled at him but shook my head.
"Sorry Natsu, I can't, maybe ask Wendy."
"Eh? But isn't your rent due soon?" Erza questioned.
"No, I have enough money for this month, but I'm busy anyway. I have to head to Era."
"What? To the magic council?" Gray looked flummoxed.
"Yea, masters orders. I should be back in about a week." Gray and Erza looked at each other and Natsu pouted at me, seemingly sad.
"Would you like us to come with you?" Erza asked.
"Sorry, but I have to go by myself, it's important. You guys go have fun on your mission, and I'll see you when I get back."
"Alright then, come Natsu, let's go find Wendy." They all walked off to head to search for said girl, with Gray giving me one last worried look. I smiled reassuringly at him. I would be fine. I put some money down on the counter, and headed towards the station. It was going to be a loooooooooooong train ride.
As I walked I suddenly had a great idea. I could ask one of my spirits to help me put up a mind barrier or something. Even if it only stopped him hearing some of what I thought it would be better than nothing. After I brought a ticket I got onto the train and summoned Capricorn. He seemed like the best bet on teaching me a mind barrier.
"Lucy-sama, how may I help you?" Capricorn asked politely.
"Hey Capricorn, Is there any way that you could teach me how to put up a mind barrier kind of thing to stop someone reading my thoughts?" I asked him. Capricorn nodded his head.
"Of course Lucy-sama, we shall begin immediately." He said, and then began to teach me about making a mind barrier.
Cobra P.O.V.
When they first told me that I was going to be living with Lucy Heartfilia I was shocked. I had almost killed that other dragon slayer, and the rest of my former guild had almost killed the rest of her friends. Why the hell would she accept someone like me? Was there something wrong with her? There she stood right in front of me, with a ridiculously happy smile on her face. I frowned at her, and she grinned more. She wore an orange t-shirt with a picture of a black cat on it, and a cream skirt. A brown belt hung around her hips with her keys and whip on it.
"Hey Cobra." Damn, why the hell did I agree to this? Damn annoying Master, oh crap, he can hear this. Fuck, stop thinking, oh no, no, don't think that. He is pretty c- Stop that right now!
"Hello, Lucy." Hah her thoughts were amusing, but I was pretty what? Don't tell me she was going to think cute? "I am not cute!" I said and Lucy looked incredibly embarrassed.
"Sorry Cobra." Lucy looked down at her feet and I could hear her mentally scolding herself, it then suddenly cut off. I frowned at her and she smiled triumphantly.
"What did you do?" I tilted my head to the side slightly.
"Oh, I had my friends teach me how to put up a mind barrier so that you couldn't hear my thoughts." I grinned at her. This was going to be fun; a whole year with her wasn't looking so bad. She may be noisy, but at least she was making an effort to keep quiet.
The council talked to us about her duties. Like how I was to stay within a certain distance of Lucy at all times. How I had to accompany her on all of the missions she went on. And a whole heap of other crap, like reporting to the council once a month via Lacrima about how I was going. It was pretty boring stuff. Once we finished the talk, Lucy had to sign a whole heap of papers about taking responsibility for me and all that kind of thing.
After the council finished lecturing/torturing us, which surprisingly only lasted a couple of hours, they sent us to a room within the headquarters. It had two double beds, a bathroom and a small kitchen. We were to stay here for the remaining four days, as Lucy and I were supposed to have a sort of bonding time, to see that Lucy could handle me before we left to magnolia. Lucy used the bathroom first, and I could smell the sweet scent of her shampoo. Curse my nose and ears! I don't want to be able to smell and hear Lucy in the shower. Sod it all! I firmly turned my back on the bathroom door, and even though I could still smell the lavender and peach, I refused to look back. Instead I busied myself on making us dinner with the food the council had left us. Hey, just because I'm an ex-criminal doesn't mean I'm rubbish at cooking. I decided to make udon with pork. I just couldn't get enough of those noodles, they were so tasty!
I stood in front of the stove cooking, so engrossed in what I was doing that I didn't realise that Lucy had finished her shower. I dished up the udon, pork and vegetables with broth into two bowls and then set them on the table. I jumped back in surprise when I saw Lucy already sitting at the table. She wore a light brown turtleneck sweater, and a black pencil skirt. And I had to admit, that even though it wasn't revealing like the things she usually wore, it still somehow managed to emphasize that she was a woman.
"Shit! How long have you been there?" I wasn't easily snuck up upon because of my very sensitive hearing, but somewhere in my food making I had tuned everything out. Lucy blinked up at me, surprised that she had surprised me.
"Oh sorry, I only just sat down," Lucy said. I shook my head slightly to clear it and sat down opposite Lucy. We ate in silence and I quickly finished my portion. I then headed back to the stove to get seconds. I had made a huge batch to match my appetite. Lucy rolled her eyes at me when she saw how much I was eating, and I could hear her mentally comparing me to the Salamander. For some reason that really annoyed me. Were her thoughts so focused on him that someone like me wouldn't have a chance? Whoa there! 'Someone like me wouldn't have a chance'? What the hell? I was yanked out of my thoughts by the blonde in front of me tapping on the table impatiently.
"Are you even listening? I said, we should go out sightseeing now." Lucy said, huffing in annoyance. For a dragon slayer with super hearing he doesn't listen much.
"Hey! I listen plenty! I was just distracted." My hearing is top notch thank you very much! I fumed in my head. Lucy rolled her eyes and stood up dumping our plates in the sink.
"Whatever, let's go." Lucy said as she headed for the door. Once we were outside of the council headquarters, we walked down the hill that it was located on and into the city of Era and it was now around 6pm.
I led Lucy around to one of my favourite places. It was a huge park on the edge of the town. Several sakura trees stood dotted around the park, along with many other kinds of trees. In the centre of the park was a large water fountain that had light Lacrima in it that changed colours. It was one of my favourite places, because it was pretty much always quiet, only when there were festivals on did it really become noisy. And I felt that I could always relax here without hurting my ears.
We sat on a park bench for a while as we watched the fountain change colours, and began to talk about random things. We also argued quite a bit. It was mostly playful banter, though I was not impressed when she wanted to call me Erik. The argument about her using my real name lasted for about four hours before I gave up. There was just no winning with that woman. I didn't really like being called Erik, but I supposed, if we were going to live together for a year she may as well call me by my real name, instead of Cobra. However I insisted that nobody else was allowed to call me Erik.
I had to admit, it was pretty fun being with her. She kept calling me childish. And I suppose I was. I hadn't had a good childhood, so the chance to just enjoy myself was something I greatly enjoyed. When we finally arrived back at the council headquarters it was nearly 11pm. Needless to say, the guards weren't too happy with us. We were supposed to have been back by ten, which we didn't know, because nobody told us about a curfew. None of them had even been thinking it, which made me slightly suspicious. But Lucy just shrugged it off and shoved past the guards telling them that we would be sure to be back by ten tomorrow evening. I was slightly surprised that Lucy had brushed past the guards so easily, but then again, she was a Fairy Tail mage. A certain disregard for the rules seemed to be a requirement of joining the guild.
We then made our way through the labyrinth of passageways and back to our room. For our first day together, Lucy and I seemed to be getting along well. Once we reached our room, we both got changed out of out day clothes, separately of course, and then headed off to bed for a good night's sleep.
"Night Lucy," I murmured.
"Night Erik," I heard Lucy reply before I dropped off to sleep.
AN: First day in Era done!
I will probably condense the other four days into one or two chapters, because it will be a bit boring if I did a day per chapter.
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