'It looks like she's dancing.' Cobra observed as he watched Lucy fight off the last one of their enemies. She spun around gracefully, her whip was wrapped around one of the beast's throats.
She smiled as she pulled it sharply and a loud crack came from the hound as it's neck was snapped. She shouted for Taurus to cut off the remaining one, which he did with ease considering the size of his giant axe. The blood splattered all up Lucy, not that she noticed, she had her eyes closed as she sighed happily.
'I did it.' he heard her soul say, almost at peace with itself.
"Moo I'm so sorry Miss Lucy, you're covered in that mutts blood." Taurus bowed before her as he shimmered and then disappeared back to his own realm.
Cobra watched in slow motion as a hell hound snuck out from behind a rock, heading towards Lucy. It's twin sets of jaws opening, ready to take her life.
The other two dragon slayers were too far away to get to her in time, without having a chance to even think, his feet took him to her. He pushed Lucy out of the way as the animal's maw clamped onto his forearm, instead of the blonde that was currently on the floor, staring in shock at him.
As one head held his arm the other went for his throat, taking advantage of his immobility. He managed to dodge it enough so it's sharpened canines didn't fully penetrate his flesh but he still felt the sting as it raked over his neck.
Roaring in pain, he froze in fear, he had no idea what to do now, this thing had him pinned, he couldn't do his poison roar as Lucy was directly in front of him and she would get caught in it. His poison was more potent than anything in this world.
His heart went into overdrive, unable to calm down he started to have a panic attack.
'Please not now.' he thought to himself as he scrunched his face up and waited for the bite.
'Shove your hand in it's mouth and pour poison down it's throat, you can corrode it from the inside out, do it Erik.'
Shocked at her calm thoughts, he glanced down at Lucy and managed to smile, taking a deep breath he prepared himself.
"Loud and clear blondie, hold your breath just incase some seeps out, it's powerful shit."
She nodded at him and took a deep breath, getting the all clear from her he yanked the mouth on his arm open and shoved his scale covered arm in, secreting his poison particles, he could hear the sizzling as it went down it's throat and dripped onto it's internal organs.
The beast screeched and released cobra, thrashing violently as it started to bubble from the inside.
"Lucy, run now, I'm going to blast it with my roar." He shouted at the blonde as she ran in the direction of Laxus and Gajeel.
Looking down at the pitiful creature he frowned.
"Sorry about this bud." then he released his poison dragon roar that wiped any trace of the hell hound from this world, completely melting it away. Cobra had to cover his overly sensitive nose from the horrific stench it had left behind.
"Smells like burnt ass hair, nice work though." He felt a solid hand land on his shoulder, jumping slightly he turned to see a slightly ruffled Gajeel, grinning at him.
Before he could respond Lucy came running over and tackled him to the floor.
"You saved me thank you so much Eri- Cobra! Drinks are on me when we get to the hotel." She declared as she held him to the floor. Wincing slightly at the pressure on his arm he realized the hell hound had actually done some damage to him which wasn't healing in the slightest.
Gently pushing Lucy onto her side he examined her body for any cuts or scrapes from the beasts. Damn she was all woman. Her outfit had torn slightly revealing even more skin on her chest. You could see the white lace of her bra.
'Oh wow.'
"You shouldn't wear such skimpy clothes when you know you're going into battle, you'll get injured more easily." He said disapprovingly trying to disguise his obvious desire for the little spitfire. Why else would he risk his life for her?
"A tiny little skirt and crop top is not appropriate, you got lucky today."
Lucy huffed "You got lucky too, being able to see me like this in action, it's easier to move in this stuff anyway, you should try it sometime instead of wearing all those layers. Don't you think I look nice Cobra?"
'I know you do, I felt that little snake in your pants.'
Shuffling away from the little black widow for his own safety he heard Laxus chuckle, announcing his presence.
"Stop teasing him Lucy, he just saved your life, you owe the guy one of your special slayer cakes. Poison a la Lucy." This peaked Cobra's interest.
"Slayer cake?" He asked, keeping his face uninterested, trying to seem nonchalant.
Lucy huffed standing up and wiping herself down.
"Yeah I make Gaj and Laxus special element cakes when they've been especially good, I suppose I could whip you up something for saving my life." she said "What specific poison did you want in it? Do you have one you love the taste of or one that gives you a good little power up?"
Cobra smirked and listed several to keep her busy, he wanted this cake to be extra tasty as he couldn't remember the last time he had eaten his element in food, actually prepared for him.
"Well A sprinkle of ground up hemlock, add a splash of bleach and a bit of cyanide and then anything else you think might spruce it up a bit, thank you."
She made a mental list but her eyes went wide when she saw Cobra's arm that he was holding protectively against his side "Oh my gosh did that hell hound do that to you? It looks really bad, we need to get back to Wendy straight away, it's starting to turn your skin black. They carry a specific toxin in their saliva that kills the oxygen in your blood cells, it's rotting away your flesh too."
Lucy ripped off a section of her skirt, exposing even more of her skin and tried to wipe away some of the excess blood to try and clean the wound.
"Laxus, Gajeel will you two be able to go to the person who posted the mission and get the reward money? I'm going back to the guild with Cobra, he needs to see Wendy and Porlyusica, this shit will go through his system quite quick so we need to go now." She dragged Cobra to his feet, dragging him behind her as they started running back the way they came.
"Yeah bye then!" Gajeel shouted after them sarcastically.
They ran all the way back to the train station, Lucy didn't calm down until they were sat on the train, on the way back to magnolia. She made Cobra lie down on the seat opposite her. He sighed, irritated at her concern.
"Lucy it's fine, I feel fine. We didn't need to leave those guys, I'm a poison dragon slayer, my body will just absorb the venom that they pumped into me."
He realized his words were starting to slur slightly and his vision was starting to blacken
'What the hell is happening to me.'
He reached his hand over to Lucy and held hers to try and steady his shaky vision, he lost consciousness as she called his name.
"Erik? Oh shit no, Erik wake up please! You can't sleep now we need to go to the guild and fix you!" Lucy moaned out as she knelt next to him, holding his hand as she stroked his hair off his clammy forehead. He was out cold and the poison in his arm was spreading fast, the black like tendrils were reaching up for his heart.
Panicking, she summoned Loke, she needed help, he was always there when she needed him and despite the way he acted, he was actually quite intelligent, he might know what to do.
Her loyal lion appeared in the train carriage and was immediately kneeling before Cobra, his hands on his forearm inspecting the wound.
"I hope that isn't your blood covering you princess, I'm not going to question why you're here alone with this oracion seis scum, I'm sure it's a long story you'll tell me in the future, right now I'll help you help him. He's been bitten by a hell hound hasn't he?"
Lucy nodded, tears in her eyes as she stared at the maroon haired man whose color was rapidly leaving his face, he looked like a ghost. Nothing like his normal vibrant self.
'This isn't fair.' she thought angrily. 'He's just been given a second chance, he was getting on great, we were getting on great and now he's dying because of me.'
"Is there anything we can do Loke? I can't let him die, he just saved my life, I need to save his! Help me save him." she groaned as Cobra started crying out in pain which alarmed Loke.
"It shouldn't be this far along yet, I'll pump some of my regulus magic inside his wound, it might burn off some of the poison and give us the time we need to get him to the guild." Loke quickly pushed his finger into the wound, his magic pulsed throughout the bite causing the smell of burnt flesh to fill the compartment.
"Dude that stinks, has it worked?" Lucy said, slightly nasally as she held her nose closed as to not inhale the smell.
"My princess we need to get him to the guild now, he's stable but his poison isn't reacting well with my light or the hell hound's toxins, there's like a mini war going on in his body right now and his organs are taking a beating from it." Loke sighing heavily and wiped his bloody hands onto his suit trousers.
"I've slowed it down but it didn't like me intruding and burnt me as well." He held up his finger which was slightly singed.
The blonde mage bent forward and kissed his finger. "All better." She said which caused Loke to almost fall over from excitement at being touched intimately by his master.
He was about to gush about how soft her lips were when Cobra started mumbling incoherently. Lucy leant closer to his body and listened carefully. She could only make out one thing that made sense and it caused her cheeks to burn intensely.
"My little fairy, Lucy."