"You really are pathetic" Cobra muttered as he pressed his foot down on the man's chest, feeling satisfied when he heard a loud crunch signalling one or hopefully several of his ribs were now broken. The drunk guy roared in pain, clawing at Cobra's leg which only spurred the dragon slayer on to inflict more damage to his body.
'Oh god, he's going to kill me. I don't want to die.' The pathetic ramblings of the man's soul were getting on Cobra's last nerve. Glancing across the alley way at Lucy's unconscious body made him hit harder and try to get rid of this idiot so he could get her stupid ass home, she was going to get hypothermia dressed the way she was in this weather.
"Kinana hurry up and get down here, Lucy's hurt." Cobra shouted for his friend who he could hear was running towards the side street, her purple hair flashed in his peripheral vision, she flew straight to his side, gasping softly when she saw Lucy lying on the floor.
She knelt down on the floor beside the blonde's unconscious form and checked her over for any injuries. Cobra knew that apart from that nasty fucking bruise on her face the only thing that was hurt was her pride. It was obvious by the way she acted that having to be rescued by him right now was the last thing she wanted.
"If acting like a decent human being wasn't so difficult for you, I wouldn't of needed to do this." As the man tried to sit up, Cobra kicked him in the jaw, succeeding in keeping him down on the ground, where he belonged.
"You had to hurt someone I happen to care about very much." Kneeling down on the floor, Cobra held him by the collar of his shirt so he could stare directly into his eyes.
"You truly are a waste of space and I'd be doing the world a favor by wiping you out of existence, but I'm on bail and you so aren't worth going back to prison for."
"Oh no." Kinana said as a loud scuffling sounded "Please don't get up Lu-"
"You may not be able to." A scratchy voice said at the side of Cobra's head "But I sure as shit can." Lucy stomped her heeled foot down, right on the guy's crotch, the man howled in pain so loudly that Cobra had to cover his ears from the ungodly screech.
Tears were streaming down the guy's face from the pain and then he lost consciousness. Cobra looked up at Lucy, his mouth hung open at the brutality he just witnessed, it was incredible. His own testicles ached from what he just witnessed.
Lucy sighed as she held her hand against her aching face, a small smirk on her lips. "Well, I can at least make sure he can't bring anybody else into existence. That should've killed his balls, maybe one more for good measure"
She went to kick him again but Cobra jumped to his feet and pulled her into a bear hug, securing her tightly in his arms.
"You idiot, I could've lost you. He was thinking some shitty things when I got here. You could've-" His voice cracked slightly as he pressed his nose into her blonde hair, he could just catch the faintest whiff of strawberries.
"I'm fine." She swallowed loudly "Erik. I'm okay. Thank you." Slowly pulling away from his warm embrace, she turned around and held her hand out for Kinana to shake "I probably should have done this a long time ago. Hello, my name is Lucy. It's very nice to meet you Kinana."
'Why the hell am I trying to shake her hand, am I a 60 year old man? Hug her, oh Mavis help me.' A mixture of emotions crossed Lucy's face before she decided fuck it and grasped the purple haired woman in a swift hug.
Kinana stared at Cobra in shock over Lucy's shoulder at the sudden change in the blondes behavior "I'm really sorry for how I've been acting. If you and Cobra are together I'll just have to suck it up and act like an adult about it all. You seem like a really lovely person, I know we haven't actually spoken but I can tell by how you're-"
"We're not a couple Lucy, we're old friends." Kinana glanced at Cobra and smiled brightly "Best friends. He talks quite fondly of you, I'd love to get to know you a bit more." Lucy's face went slack at her words and started to stutter.
"Y-you're not a couple? Are you sure?" Her eyes shot to Cobra who frowned at his silly girlfriend, he tutted loudly.
"Pretty sure. Now you can't say I didn't try to tell you. You really are stubborn sometimes. We'll talk about this once I get you home. Who are you here with Luce?"
"Laxus, Gajeel and Levy but this wasn't their fault. Laxus got pounced on by a girl, he's so hopeless with them and Levy and Gaj are probably still in the corner eating each others faces off."
Her face scrunched up at the thought of it. "I came out here, it's my fault."
"I know it's your fault." Cobra said matter of factly causing Lucy to scream internally "Kina, can you go inside and tell them what's happened and that I'm taking her home. I'd rather they didn't see her right now."
She nodded her head "Yeah that's fine, I'll give you a call later on your lacrima when I get home, it was great to finally talk to you Lucy, hopefully the next time we meet will be under better circumstances."
"Stay safe, ring me if you need me." Cobra said as she walked off into the club.
Looking at her ruffled appearance and bruised face he frowned. "You look like shit babe, we need to get you a bath like right now."
Lucy threw her hands up in the air, giving up with this whole situation "Thanks Erik, you're just a bundle of compliments today aren't you? Really, you know how to make a girl feel good about herself."
He smirked as he grasped her hand and started walking out of the alley way "Yeah that's why you love me though. I don't bullshit you. Now after tonight you have got some serious ass kissing to make up with how much of a bitch you've been, seriously."
"Yeah I know." Her tone was dull and defeated. He lifted her up into his arms causing a startled sound to come from her. "What the hell Erik? Put me down, I'm perfectly capable of walking. It wasn't my legs that jackass hurt."
He nuzzled his head into the crook of her neck as they walked across Magnolia "I missed you so I want to hold you, is that a problem?"
After a few grumbled words, he felt her cheeks spread into a smile against his skin as she relaxed against him, secretly pleased at his actions. He could feel her happiness, it was intoxicating.
"So he really is with the celestial mage? Interesting. That'll make things a whole lot easier." Midnight was hidden in the darkness watching the dragon slayer walk along with his woman in his arms, The smirk on the dark mage's face indicated that their happiness wasn't going to last, not as long as the Oracion Seis needed their reptile back.
"Where did you go Erik? You were gone for two days." Lucy sat in between Cobra's legs as he ran a comb through her wet hair. After a long soak in the bath and an ice pack against her face, she felt much better. He placed the comb onto the side table and ran his hand down her arm causing goosebumps to pop up on her skin, following where his fingers touched.
"Do you want the short version? My old guild mates broke out of jail and they tried to recruit me. They need me for this big job they had planned but I turned them down. Then they told me about Cub- I mean Kinana. I had to go with them. I needed to save her. Their base was all the way in Hargeon so I had to travel with them and trust me, that wasn't much fun at all." He placed his head on top of hers and groaned.
"I can never rid myself of that life, it's always going to come back to haunt me. Is it too big a dream to wish that I could just exist here, with you? I don't want to be Cobra from the Oracion Seis anymore but that's all people will ever think of when they see me. Being that person served it's purpose and saved me but I don't need or want it anymore"
Her heart ached for him, he'd tried so hard to get to where he was now and people just kept trying to drag him back down with them. "It's not a dream Erik, this is reality. You are with me and we're certainly existing. I'll kick their ass if they come back, nobody is taking you away."
She spun around on the floor so she was facing him, she had an idea that might put a smile on his face. "I have something that you need to see. Hide behind that sofa."
Looking very confused as he was pushed behind the sofa, Lucy quickly grabbed her celestial keys and summoned someone who wasn't very happy with her.
"Pun pun." Plue said as he crossed his tiny arms and sat on the floor. "Plue, I have a surprise for you. Go behind there." Lucy gently nudged him in the direction of Cobra who was starting to get a small smile on his face. Plue stood up onto his shaky legs and plodded to the back of the room, when he saw Cobra crouched there he exclaimed loudly and leaped onto the dragon slayer's face.
"Pun puuuun pun punnn" Plue said excitedly, obviously happy to see the maroon haired man. "Hey there buddy." He shot Lucy a look as he tried to pull the excitable spirit off his face "I take it he missed me. Probably more than you did."
Plue settled onto Cobra's lap and spent the next forty minutes talking to him. Lucy had to hold in the fit of laughter that was trying to escape her lips, Cobra's expression was priceless, to be fair he was truly trying to keep up with whatever Plue was saying but as they didn't speak the same language it was pretty much impossible.
Cobra just added "Ah" and "Ooh" at certain intervals.
Eventually Plue had tired himself out and returned to the celestial realm so when that happened, Lucy took his place on Cobra's lap and kissed his cheek.
He wasn't happy about that though and pointed to his lips "I think I deserve more than that after what I just had to deal with. Do you have a clue what that little weirdo says? He's cute but wow how does he have so much to talk about?"
"What did you want instead then? Anything at all." She moved to straddle his lap and looked down at him with a sultry smile on her face to which Cobra clocked on to straight away and knew what she wanted. Her arousal was all around him, he could smell it in the air and it was making his mouth water.
His member was pressing against her barely covered core, fighting to get out of his trousers and inside of her. She was clad in silk underwear and his t-shirt that reached down to her mid thighs but he grabbed the material and bunched it around her waist, so he could feel her soft skin on his hands and also so he could grind her onto his aching dick.
He was more than a bit frustrated, having Kinana living with him meant that he couldn't find any spare time to relieve any of his pent up tension.
"Don't stop" Lucy breathed out, he realized that his fingers had moved into her underwear and were rubbing against her dripping sex. When he stopped moving she groaned in frustration and started to grind against his hand, insisting that he carry on.
Pulling his hand away she growled at him but he silenced that with a deep kiss. Leading her to the bed, he didn't lose contact with her lips once. A lick here, a suck there. Then they were lying on the mattress.
Cobra's hands became frantic as he tried to shed all of their clothing, his fingers refused to cooperate as his excitement and nerves got the better of him. Lucy's small hand landed on top of his. Lucy's soft voice drifted to his ears, her soul was humming a sweet tune to him that helped calm him down.
Taking a deep breath, he pulled away the last barrier of clothing between him and his angel.
Looking down at her, he felt like the luckiest guy in the world, he must be to be gifted with such a perfect woman, body and soul. He wanted to believe he deserved to see her like this, spread open and waiting for him, maybe he did.
"That was unbelievable." Lucy had a dreamy look on her face as Cobra relaxed at her side.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it, are you going to behave now and try and get some rest?" When she didn't respond he looked at her face and wasn't overly surprised to see that she had indeed fallen asleep. The bruise on her face was now a deep purple and covered the whole of her left cheek and her eye socket.
He wouldn't let anyone hurt her again, this should never have happened.
A small beeping caught his attention, seeing a light coming from his jeans pocket on the floor, he lifted Lucy off his chest and placed her gently on the bed. Picking up his lacrima from his jeans on the floor, he answered it straight away when he saw it was Kinana.
"Hey Cu, did you get home okay?" Her face looked serious and a little bit frightened. A million different things went through his mind as to what she was going to say but none of them were right.
"Erik, Midnight's here, he says he wants to talk to Lucy."