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Chapter Two: Reinforcements
Silence hung in the air as the Oracion Seis leader now stood alone, faced against Jura, Lucy, and Gray.
Cobra, who was now standing as well, however, was unfortunately pre-occupied with a motion sick Natsu swung over his shoulder, a small bit of drool escaping her mouth.
"Unbelievable, you really are a pain you know that?"Cobra seethed, annoyed as he shifted the girl a bit trying to keep her from drooling on him, receiving only a low grumble in response to the statement, making him release a pent up sigh of frustration
"So be it" Brain said now breaking the silence that filled the air. The dark guild master had been watching Cobra and Natsu from the corner of his eye while keeping watch of the three newcomers who seemed to be the pink-haired girl's companions
He smirked a bit, turning now to face Cobra, fully hearing the poison user give a slight 'tch' at the predicament he was in.
"For whatever reason Cobra you seem to have escaped punishment due to that girl, though as to why she seems so insistent on defending you, I fail to understand..."
Cobra felt his feet skid back just a bit as Natsu continued drooling while slung against his shoulder for the time being.
"..However, if putting you in harm's way is the best means of getting to her" He continued now in a more menacing and darker tone giving a small gesture to the still sickened Natsu "Then I may have just found a new use for you!"He declared as a familiar green light began to build in his staff
"Dark Capriccio!"
Cobra didn't have time to react as a green light was shot towards him with red swirling around it resembling flames 'Sh-shit!'
"Rock Iron Wall!"
A large pillar of stone rose from the ground at Cobras feet blocking the blast and somehow re-directing it off to the side, Brain frowned at having his attack blocked, yet again, casting a curious look over his shoulder and seeing Jura in an attack stance with Lucy and Gray at his sides.
"Though it is true I do not know the details of what has happened..."The saint wizard began stepping forward, a bright yellow light engulfing his body. As he did so making the others backed away in slight fear "If you mean to do harm onto others with no just cause, whether they are friend or foe I cannot sit idly by and allow such a thing!"
Cobra felt like he was going to have a heart attack soon from all the near death experiences he was having in just one day
'What is it with these people? I don't even know them...'
"Urk..!I think I'm gonna hurl" Natsu muttered from his side, immediately his eyes widened into a glare as his attention shifted to the pink-haired dragon slayer girl
"Don't you dare!"He commanded as a tick mark appeared on his head "I swear if I end up having to scrub your puke off me I'll be sure to shove your face in it "He seethed still unbelieving of the fact that he had actually somehow lost to this girl.
"Oi, you!"
Cobra paused in his bickering looking over towards the blue-haired male calling out to him
"Hurry up and get Natsu outta here, we'll catch up with the two of you later! In the meantime, see if you can find some of the others, alright!?" he yelled
Cobra opened his mouth to respond, to ask why he would do such a thing, when the blonde-haired girl beat him to it
"But Gray..won't everyone mistake him for an enemy? They don't know about Nirvana and stuff like us, they just might attack him on sight" she said
"We don't have a choice! Right now Natsu is in no condition to fight, she'll just be dead weight!"Gray retorted back hotly, even Cobra had to admit the guy had a point as he glanced back at the still green in the face flame user feeling his eyes twitch in annoyance
"Heh, don't bother!"Brain shouted as he dodged another rock pillar directed at him. His face still held that smug smirk as he stole a glance in Cobras direction "With the poison coursing through her veins she's already as good as dead"
"Poison!?"Lucy and Gray shouted in unison
Cobra felt his own eyes widen in realization recalling that the poison in her system was still in effect and it had now been well over five minutes meaning the girl wouldn't last long enough to find someone like that blue-haired healer from before.
'There's no time, I have to do something!' Cobra scolded himself mentally before dropping Natsu to the ground and kneeling down beside her. He swallowed hard for a moment knowing full well that the poison had sunk in too far to simply be brought out by him, but maybe...just maybe, if he could somehow eat it...?
"I can't believe I have to do this..."He grumbled hoping no one had heard, as the others became too focused on the battle going on between Jura of the ten saint wizards and Brain. Swallowing a nervous lump in his throat Cobra slowly leaned forward closing the distance between himself and the now unconscious Natsu in the form of a kiss.
Unbeknownst to the poison dragon slayer, at that precise moment Lucy as well as Happy had glanced over towards their fallen friend to see if she was still ok, and felt their jaws hang open in disbelief when they saw Cobra with his lips locked in a seemingly deep kiss with the pink-haired girl
"W-w-w-what the heck!?"Lucy stammered uncontrollably
"He liiiiiikes her~!"Happy chimed while still flat on the ground due to the poison as well
As soon as Cobra felt his lips touch against her own he began draining the poison out of her and into his mouth, unconsciously registering the warmth her lips held no doubt form the many times she must've chowed down on flames he thought amusingly
When he felt the last of the poison leave her system he slowly pulled away now gazing down at her face seeing that her eyelids were still closed "No..."
He felt his fists clench against the dirt, his teeth lightly biting against his lower lip.
He had been too late...
"Please..wake up...I-I'm sorry..."He began whispering pleadingly forgetting that this girl was supposed to be his enemy or the fact that they had been locked in deadly combat until just mere minutes ago, she had saved him more than once but he wasn't able to do the same for her.
A few small, stray tears slid down his face as his own eyes fell shut, they glided down onto his cheeks as he lowered his head in dismay allowing them to fall from his nose and down onto the unmoving face of the girl whom was now beginning to regain consciousness form the poison.
Her almond colored eyes blinked blearily until she was able to make out the image of Cobra who was...crying?
Why was he...?
"Urk..!Sh-shit, can somebody stop this thing already...!"she grumbled out feeling the motion sickness return with a vengeance turning onto her side as drool pooled from her mouth
By now Cobra had stopped crying wiping away the few tears that had escaped as he looked at Natsu in disbelief "Y-you're alive!?"He said in awe. What was with this girl? Was she indestructible or something?
"Yeah...now, can you please get me off this thing..."she grumbled lowly turning all green in the face like before
"Natsu-san!"a familiar voice called out startling cobra a bit as he turned to see the blue-haired girl form before now running towards them as he hoisted the motion sick Natsu over his shoulders once more in the process of standing
"You're..."He said accidentally letting his grip on Natsu's arm slip and causing her to fall back to the ground as Cobra sweatdropped a bit "um, my bad..."He mumbled
"Y-you.. did that on purpose..."Natsu groaned
"i see, so then...Natsu-san saved you?"Wendy surmised as the group now stood gathered around Cobra who gave a small subtle nod of confirmation after Jura had managed to defeat Brain himself, something that shocked both Cobra and the other two spectators.
"Yeah, though I don't know why she did it..."cobra said, figuring there was no point in being dishonest at this point. Whatever ties he had with Oracion Seis had been severed the moment Brain had tried to attack him.
"Heh, that idiot probably just acted on instinct figuring it was the right thing to do at the time and all!"Gray exclaimed tiredly rubbing his shoulder briefly before turning his attention to Cobra
"What I wanna know is...whether or not you still intend to fight us or not?"
"Gray, knock it off" Natsu said stepping between the two, the pinkette was now acting normal after Wendy used a spell called Troia to cure her temporarily of her motion sickness, something Natsu was overly ecstatic about even going so far as to ask Lucy to summon up a boat or something for her to ride in, which was met with a flat out no form the celestial wizard.
Natsu turned staring directly at Cobra herself seeming to study him for a moment as she crossed her arms and tilted her head lightly to the side
"What?"Cobra snapped rather annoyed with the way she had been staring at him
"Alright, I've decided!"Natsu suddenly announced. Cobra raised an eyebrow curiously from where he was leaning against a wall "On what?"He questioned
"Starting today, you should join Fairy Tail!"She said smiling a toothy grin as she reached out a hand towards him
"W-what?"