Being slapped definitely hurt a lot more than being punched, Cobra decided as he rubbed his sore cheek that was caused by the petite hand of Lucy Heartfilia.

'I definitely deserved that.'

After realizing just who she was he was kind of happy that she had hit him, he could clearly see the anguish shining in her watery brown eyes as she stood in front of him in her scanty gym attire.

His quick glance down at her bronze toned legs didn't go amiss as he heard her soul practically screaming at him.

'Is he actually checking me out after everything that's gone down between us? I'm going to cut up his good eye but show him that picture of Gajeel first so that last thing he will ever see is a big floppy dick.'

Lucy took a step forward, smirking as she reached for her pocket.

His eye widened as he realized she was actually going to act on her thoughts, jumping back a step, he wasn't used to people actually acting on their thoughts.

"Look princess I'm not here to cause trouble, no need for eye gouging and shoving people's flaccid dicks in my face. Unless you want to fight, I'm always up for wrestling with pretty girls." He waggled his eyebrows at her causing a growl to leave her plump lips. Would biting them make her shut up? He would like to try.

Lucy pounced onto Cobra like a lion latching onto it's prey, Loke would have been proud.

Straddling the poison dragon slayer's chest, Lucy fully intended on causing a few more scars on his stupidly handsome face. A hearty laugh erupted from Cobra which made her to pause in her violent advances.

'A man so evil shouldn't have such a jovial laugh, what the hell.'

"Look I can't help that I'm blessed with such a handsome face, don't blame yourself for liking it so much, you are a woman after all."

Another growl left her lips as she gripped his shirt in her hands but he continued to talk.

"If you wanted to have sex with me we could just go somewhere private instead of in the middle of your guild sweetheart."

'What an earth caused him to say such a thing?'

Then it dawned on her. She squeaked in shock and was pulled off his body by a pair of strong arms.

"Don't read my mind you dick bag." Lucy lunged for Cobra again but was unable to move an inch. Groaning at being restricted, she looked back at the man holding her with a 'are you kidding me.' face.

"Gaj let me go, you know what this guy has done to me, to us all!" He looked down at her and slowly shook his head.

"Sorry about this Luce." And then he chucked her over his shoulder and turned to walk out of the guild. She started hammering his face with punches which in turn caused him to turn his skin into his iron dragon scales. She huffed in defeat.

As he watched the feisty blonde get carried away by a man covered in piercings, he took the time to appreciate how perfect her ass looked in those tight little shorts. So round and-

'Don't look at my ass shithead, I know you can hear me, this isn't over, you owe me fight. I'll see you later, count on it.'

It was kind of cute how she tried so hard to be intimidating. If she wanted a fight she would get one. In his own twisted way he thought that letting her beat him up might help her heal from all the bad stuff he had done to her.

He would find and follow her tantalizing scent after he had seen this Master Makarov and get all checked in so the council would officially sign him over to Fairy Tail. Cobra sauntered over to the bar where a woman with white hair and a pretty smile was stood, seemingly waiting for him.

"Hello Cobra, my name is Mira, we've been expecting your arrival. Well I have, we didn't expect anyone to be here so early so Lucy showing up was very unfortunate. We were hoping to get you both to meet in a controlled environment, safer that way but oh well, she's already struck it seems."

Mira giggled as she pointed to his still red hot cheek that the feisty blonde had slapped. He was sure that there must be a exact replica of her hand on his skin, she had struck him that hard.

"Master is just upstairs waiting for you, try not to get into anymore trouble on the way up there."

Walking away from the still giggling woman, he shook his head, as if trying to shake away the crazy that just seemed to seep out of the walls of this place.

The blonde muscle head that had been carrying Lucy when he arrived had now disappeared, Cobra noted, as he climbed up the stairs. Just as he was about to enter the room Mira had said their guild master was in he heard the woman's soul say something that made him get a single fluttering butterfly in his stomach.

'He's going to fit in here just fine.'

"Lucy when are you going to stop putting yourself into harm's way? Nobody wants to lose you, Me and Laxus especially but attacking an ex member of a dark guild is not a way to keep your promise to us!" Gajeel roared at the blonde mage as she was sat on her bed, watching her friend pace the length of her room.

"Did you just expect me to stand there? His smug face was practically begging me to slap it, it's not my fault." She replied shrugging her shoulders. "And I have kept my promise, no more reckless solo missions, I'm not afraid to ask for help anymore, I'd never put either of you through that ever again." She thought back to the time he was referring to. It was after Team Natsu had been split up by Gramps order as they were simply too destructive.

They had all gone their separate ways, Erza had been spending an awful lot of time going around secretly with Jellal and Meredy, Gray had been taking missions frequently with Juvia, each time they returned they were closer and more intimate with each other. Then there was Natsu.

He went on long missions to help improve his strength and usually took Wendy along with him to help train her into becoming a fully fledged dragon slayer, he had really taken her under his wing.

Lucy was kind of just left behind, it was nobody's fault, she just didn't fit into anybody's plans. So she just stuck with doing any interesting solo missions that popped up on the request board.

She chose a mission one day that was a little too above her skill level but the pay was too good to turn down. If Master hadn't forced Gajeel and Laxus go on a mission together they wouldn't have been passing by and they wouldn't of heard her screams.

Lucy really did owe them her life and so they made her swear to be more careful with it and cherish it, which she did, thanks to them.

Laxus stormed through her front door and hugged Lucy, murmuring into her hair.

"You're an idiot blondie but you've got some big balls, taking on a dragon slayer after a leg day at the gym, we've trained you well."

"You're the idiot, idiot. Don't encourage her, he could've really hurt her." Gajeel grumbled, pushing Laxus's shoulder jokingly.

He scoffed "Yeah and we would've taken him out easy, she deserved at least to get a hit in, which by the way was executed perfectly, well done sis."

Lucy grinned like the Cheshire cat and stuck her tongue out at Gajeel, at least one of her adoptive brothers supported her.

After having a rather long winded talk about family and respect for each other the tiny guild master took out the Fairy Tail guild stamp "Where do you want it my boy?" Makarov said waving the stamp around menacingly. Cobra eyed the object warily, this was it, game on.

"Once you have this mark on your body Cobra you will be part of our family, please respect that and treat everyone accordingly. We're giving you a second chance at life, don't throw it away over what happened in the past."

Nodding his head, Cobra motioned to the back of his right hand "Here, in purple."

'This'll piss off that blonde princess.' He thought, remembering that she had her guild mark on the back of her hand, at least they had something in common now.

Managing to finally get rid of Laxus and Gajeel, Lucy slipped into the bath she had just made, letting out a quiet moan of relief, just the thing she needed to help her unwind and sooth her aching muscles.

She must have dozed off because before she knew it she was dreaming about that sexy moronic poison dragon slayer asking her if she wanted to fight now, frowning, she thought 'of course I do.'

Cobra sniffed his way to Lucy's house, a strong vanilla trail coupled with the smell of sulfur from the lightning slayer and a metallic twang from the iron slayer, they obviously spent a good amount of time together for their smells to be so integrated with each others.

Those two particular smells were fresh on this trail, just going in an opposite direction now, they must have left her house recently.

'That's useful then.'

He didn't want to fight with anyone but her right now. Everyone else could get in line.

'Not that it's going to be much of a fight.'

Walking up to door that her scent lead to, he tried to open it but it was locked. Looking around for another entrance, his eyes locked onto her slightly ajar window on the top floor. Bingo.

Climbing up and jumping through the window was the easy part but facing her was proving to be much harder. His nerves were getting the better of him. He was standing outside the room she was in, working up the courage to turn the handle. Doing an internal war cry he pushed through the door "Did you want to fight now or-"

'This is her bathroom.'

Completely dumbstruck, he stared at the naked blonde below him, asleep but slowly waking up.

"Shit" He whispered.