Gotta Be Somebody

Lady Countryrose

Ch. 3

The next morning, the group of four made their way back to camp. Once they had gotten there, they sat around the fire-pit. Where Cobra had gone to work on making a new campfire. While the girls helped coming up with a meal before the other woke up.

Midnight and Cobra sat back and watched their women work. Knowing it was just smart and less of health issue if they stayed out of their way. Unless they told them to do something, then they did it. They noticed that the two women moved with grace and precise movements. That they were starting to have dirty thoughts about them.

The two girls looked at each other after awhile of not hearing either of the guys talking. That they turned around to see they were lost in thought, as they were looking at their asses. It caused Ava and Lucy to look at each other. They turned away from what they were doing. Since it was near ready and they came and sat down on their men's lap, wrapping their arms around them.

Midnight blushed from being sat on but wrapped his own arms around Lucy's waist to keep her in place. While Cobra had a smirk on his lips, trying to keep Ava in place in his own lap.

"Tell me, Eric." Ava's green eyes flashed, as she looked into his purple eye. "What naughty thoughts do you have going through your head?"

Cobra chuckled darkly, "Wouldn't you want to know." He raised his hand to where his knuckle graced over her jawline. Ava's eyes flickered closed, enjoying his light touches. "Just know this, once I make you mine, you wouldn't be able to live without me."

Lucy made a gasping noise from where she sat, to where Cobra and Ava looked towards her, seeing that she was shocked. "What's wrong Blondie, cat caught your tongue?"

She gave a glare, "It's more like seeing a snake charmer, charming my cousin." A blush dusted over her cheeks. "If I knew it would have taken Ava for you to be like this. I would have called her back to Fairy Tail to charm you into the good side."

Midnight chuckled, bringing Lucy closer to him. "Speaking of your cousin being away. Where has she been, since she wasn't there to stop us from taking the world… Twice."

"She was on Tenrou Island," she stated with sorrow in her voice.

"Same place that you have all disappear for seven years," asked Midnight with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah," answered Ava, crossing her arms over her chest. "Master Makarov thought it would be safer for me to be away from Fairy Tail for a few years. Especially when I was learning some magic that could be dangerous to others."

Cobra growled, "What magic?"

Ava tried to get out of his hold, but he held on tighter. She glanced up with a growl of her own, causing the man to shiver in want. "You really want to know!" She glanced towards the ground. "No one could tell me the proper name of what I can do. But I can control mixed elemental magic. My strongest of them is ice-lightning."

Lucy hissed from where she sat. "You can do more than that you know." A sigh left her lips. "She can change her shape into any animal she wishes, along with asking the aid of animals that she wishes."

Midnight cuddled up to Lucy some more, wanting her to be closer. But also gave a glance towards Cobra and noticed the shock that he had for the woman before him. He knew that Cobra was struggling with his thoughts. "So how did you come to have those abilities," Midnight being the voice to strive for knowledge.

Ava growled, "I was sick as a young girl and my parents didn't know what to do. They came to some kind of testing lab and found the man who heads it, calling himself Brain." The name alone caused many gasps from hearing the name. "He told these people to hook me up to some wires and force fed me magic, raw magic." She shivered, remembering things that she wishes she hadn't. "It was the most painful experience in my life."

Lucy closed her eyes, "You never said anything about that." Feeling Midnight's nose near her neck, trying to not just enjoy the attention he was giving her. Knowing that she needed to keep herself grounded to the world around her.

"You said Brain did this to you," asked Cobra with heat in his voice.

"Yes."

The maroon haired man glanced towards Midnight. "Too bad you killed him, I would have loved to do it now."

The black and white haired man chuckled. "Believe me, Cobra." His eyes became dark. "At this moment I wish I had taken my time and just torture the man instead."

Lucy shivered in Midnight's arms as she turned to look at him. "Good thing you're not into destroying the world anymore."

He smirked, showing the side that she knew well. Full of dark knowledge. "For you my pet, I would bring the world to its knees if they harmed what I consider what is mine." His eyes glanced over towards Cobra and Ava. "Even those that I value as family."

Ava gave a small smile, as she felt Cobra dive her closer to him. She had a feeling that he wasn't normally a touchy feely type of man. But he wanted to have her close to him and she was enjoying that closeness that he was giving her. She needed it after picturing her past.

"What about you, Eric," asked Ava, hearing her own voice coming out sounding small.

The man chuckled darkly. "I would put my past into shambles, knowing that I have something worth fighting for." His own nose found its way into Ava's neck. Smelling her sweet essence of lilac and vanilla. "Knowing now that I've never known before. A dangerous man is a man who has everything he has ever wanted. And that includes having you, Ava."

A dark laugh came from towards the other tents. When they glanced up, they noticed the rest of the group standing there. But the one who laughed was the blue haired leader. Jellal came walking towards them and sat upon the log near them. "Glad to hear you say that, Eric. Because even I believe can be a dangerous man at times."

Another man sat next to him with short dirty blonde hair. "Only for your girlfriend, you are."

Lucy giggled, "I think it's because of Erza, he needs to be just as dangerous. Or he'll show up to fights not being able to fight at all."

"Hey," called out Jellal.

Midnight chuckled, "You might be right, Lucy. But I think he might just sit back and enjoy the show."

"Well," Jellal gave a thoughtful look. "There is that too." He then glanced at the two couples before him, while the rest of the group sat around them. "I see that Lucy and Ava are in better health. What did the two of you do, in order for this to happen?"

The girls glanced down with blushes upon their faces. Trying to make themselves smaller than what they were. While Cobra and Midnight glanced at one another before Cobra spoke. "Let's just say that I knew away to get their magic reserves a jump start. But we're going to have to travel across Bosco to marry before doing any more."

Jellal glanced at the two males with a raised eyebrow. "What do you mean you have to marry? Is there something that you're not telling me?"

"Well," Cobra sighed, showing that he was uncomfortable talking about it. "In order to keep them alive, we'll have to go through with it four more times with sexual relations on top of it. And in order for us to go that far, we'll have to marry them."

Sorano glanced at her long time friends with a smile that pulled at each side of her lips. "You found your mate, Eric," she asked with a purr. Then she glanced towards Midnight. "What about you, you're not a dragon slayer. So what's your story?"

Midnight sighed, "Apparently from what I understood from Eric is that Lucy is my soulmate. Soulmates are to balance out someone's magical essence. Since I deal with darkness, Lucy is the light to my darkness."

Jellal huffed. "Well that explains a lot of nothing…" He crossed his arms over his chest to show that he was not amused with the situation.

Cobra allowed Ava to slip off his lap to sit next to him. He leaned over his knees, as he laced his hands together. Most people that knew him, knew that he was trying to get his thoughts together. "When I found out that I was becoming a dragon slayer, I had done a lot of research. I hate going into something blindly. Plus I don't have a dragon teaching me like some others that were able to have."

Lucy crawled out of Midnight's lap and sat next to Ava, feeling Midnight moving closer to her again. Everyone else was trying to get close to where they could hear. Knowing that the knowledge of dragon slayers was known to be lost and sacred.

"The books that I read was mainly their costumes. One of those was finding their mate and the book explained that it was similar to a soulmate." He glanced up towards the group around him. "The book explained that another book explained the ritual for a Soulmate's Bond. Once initiating it, there is no turning back. The book that I found about the Soulmate's Bond, went a bit deeper to understand. Long pointed canines needed to be embedded into the collarbone. In order exchange magic infusion."

Cobra took a deep breath. "The process needs to be done with the total of four times and needs to be spread out for the next two months." He glanced towards Ava for a moment before facing the others again. "As for the sexual relations, it helps with the exchanging of magic with one another. Meaning, Ava and I would be able to do one another's abilities. While Macbeth and Lucy can do the same with one another."

Jellal grumbled with a sigh leaving his lips. "That is fine and dandy, but what are we going to do with the dark guild that is after them." He pointed towards Ava and Lucy. "Because they're going to be wanting to hunt them down soon."

"Well," stated Lucy with a small smile on her face. "I am friends with the princess of Fiore. I can see about getting everyone a pardon."

"You can do that," asked Midnight with a wander in his voice. "In what way do you know the princess?"

Ava gave a glare towards the ground. "The story goes that when the dragons were unleashed into Fiore from the Eclipse gate. It was because of the princess and Lucy was right in the middle of it."

"So was I," stated Cobra. "The council broke me out for the night to hunt dragons. Even Salamander knew I was there."

Jellal grumbled, "I'm hearing a lot about that gate than I want to." He laced his hands together. "I ran into one of the council men, let me know what was going on. What the Royals had done was considered dark magic. They were forced to never do anything without the council's knowledge again." He glanced up towards Lucy. "What do you need?"

"I need a way to communicate with the princess," stated Lucy.

Ava looked around, "Does anyone know where my bag is at?"

Cobra smirked, "I'll go get it." He made his way towards the tent that they had shared for a while and found the bags that were within. He brought both of them with him since he had no idea of whose it was. Once back he placed both bags before the girls.

"Thank you," Ava said before going into a bag and drug out a crystal and placed it into Lucy's hands. "Just put a bit of magic and state who you want to call."

Lucy nodded, allowing her magic to seep into the device and stated, "Princess Hisui E. Fiore." After a moment of darkness, a picture of the princess came on with a small upon her face. "Lucy Heartfilia, what can I do for you?"

"Well…." Lucy had explained many things to Princess Hisui. Including her wish of pardon-ships to a list of people that were surrounding her. "They have been taking down many dark guilds under the name of Crime Sorcière. They have even saved my cousin and I from near death from a dark guild known as Dark Horizon."

"Oh dear," cried out the princess. "Have they been dealt with yet?"

"Sadly no," Lucy shook her head. "We kind of had a hiccup to where we need these pardons done before we can go after that guild." Lucy stood up and walked a bit of way from the camp to talk to the princess in private. "In order for us to be saved was to have a Soulmate's Bond to happen because we were near death's door."

The princess gave a smirk, "You're going to have to marry them because of this bond?"

"Yes," squeaked Lucy. She really hated to put any relationship in the front lines for everyone to know about.

"I will pardon them… if…" Princess Hisui's gaze darkened and Lucy had a bad feeling about it. "If you come to the palace as soon as possible and I'll marry you all." When Lucy wasn't able to speak, the princess went on. "This way the public will see for themselves that they have changed and it took finding love to do it. Plus, I want to show the public that things can happen that way."

"What about the council, wouldn't they try to overrule you in this?"

"They can try," stated the long minted haired girl. "They will find my lawyers will be knocking them out of power if they try anything." She glanced around for a moment. "Start making your way here in a couple of days. It will be enough for the pardon to make its way through Fiore before coming here."

"Thank you, Princess Hisui. We will be forever grateful." Once the device went black, she went back to the fire-pit, seeing that everyone had a bowl in their hands. Ava had another bowl next to her. When Lucy sat down, Ava gave her the other bowl.

"So what happened," asked Sawyer, who was already down with his bowl.

Lucy smiled, "Give it a couple of days for the word to be passed around. But we're asked to come to the palace."

Midnight gave a questionable look, "Why?"

Cobra sighed from his spot. "The princess is going to wed us off."

Meredy squeaked, "A wedding at the castle…" Her eyes were glowing with ideas. "Oh, this is going to be great!"

Jellal wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "Easy Meredy," his smile pulled at his lips. "You don't want to scare Lucy and Ava with your ideas."

The pink haired woman pouted, "But I wanted to help." She turned to the blue haired man. "You don't know, maybe they may need my ideas!"

Ava chuckled, raising her hands in the air. "Meredy, let's just focus on what we know for now." She got the young woman's attention. "Meaning, we'll find out more of the other things when we get there. Who knows, maybe the princess is throwing everything together for us."

Richard smirked from where he was sitting. "Everything's coming together thanks to the POWER OF LOVE, OH YA."

Lucy sighed, she knew that her life was different because of knowing her best friend. She glanced around to the group that she would have never thought of being close to. 'Thanks to Natsu, I wouldn't have known these people. Or see that they have become better people.' She glanced towards the reflection of the clear lake. 'Where are you, you fire-breathing idiot? I would have liked you there when I marry. Like best friends should.'

Cobra glanced towards Lucy with raised eyebrows. He heard and saw images of the pink haired man that was a pain of his existence. But he knew that the two were always together. Even when he had questioned her sanity for allowing Salamander to be a friend. He could tell that Lucy had only seen the guy as a brother of sorts. While most of the dragon slayers were close to being her brothers at large.

'I'm going to have to warn Macbeth about the massive amount of slayers that could use him as target practice.' He glanced towards Ava. Seeing her soul and saw that it has been growing calmer. He couldn't explain but ever since she came into his life, he had found his own calmness with her too.

He then heard Ava's inner voice from her soul. 'Even though I haven't been around with all the events that Lucy had gone through. I just hope I can be with her now.' He noticed a small tear making its way down her cheek. 'I just wish the world can be safer for an easy future.' She glanced towards him. 'At least I have someone next to me. If it gotta be somebody that I spend the rest of my days with, at least it's with my soulmate.'

He laced his fingers with Ava with a small on his face. Cobra couldn't remember the last time he was happy like he was at that moment. He could only imagine that it could only get better from that moment on.