"I'm not waking her up Kin, she's just passed out. I don't think she's been sleeping since we fell out. What the hell does that idiot want?" Cobra glanced back at Lucy, she looked so peaceful, he definitely wasn't waking her up for that prick.

"I told him that I wanted nothing to do with their business anymore. Tell him to fuck off and send him packing or I'll come over and deal with him if he's giving you trouble. I know you can handle yourself but he's a slippery little bastard"

She gasped as a glinting piece of metal appeared on the screen, pressing against her neck was a sharp pocket knife. It was a special gift from Brain, given to Midnight for his birthday years ago.

He was always one for sneak attacks so why not give him a small handy knife to finish them off with? Midnight's voice came from the lacrima "Take the blonde to your apartment, we need to have a little chat, just me and her."

Cobra growled loudly "I'm not leaving her anywhere with you, do you think I'm a fucking idiot? Get the hell out of my apartment. I'm coming over right now to kick your scrawny ass Macbeth."

Reaching to grab his trousers off the floor, his attention shot back to the lacrima when he heard a sharp intake of breath, glancing at the screen, Kinana now had a stream of blood trickling down her neck.

"For fuck sake Midnight, what do you want from me?"

He chuckled darkly, finally showing himself. "Dude what happened to your face? Someone from the council finally find you?" His face was littered with bruises and cuts, his lip had been ripped open and his nose was almost definitely broken. Midnight smiled as a knock sounded at the door on Cobra's end.

"No Erik, I think they've found you."

'What the hell does that mean'

"Cobra of the Oracion Seis, this is the magic council, we know you're in there, come out quietly and we won't resort to using force."

Lucy started to stir in the bed next to him, the loud voice obviously being too loud for her to ignore. "Erik, what's going on?" She mumbled some curse words as she turned to face him with her eyes still closed. Feeling his chest start to constrict painfully, Cobra felt like everything was slipping away from him and the walls were closing in around him.

Everything he had worked so hard for, it was about to vanish right before his eyes and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. Knowing it was all Midnight's doing, he looked down at the lacrima screen but it was now blank.

'Game over.'

"Lucy I-" Cobra started but a splintering sound echoed across the apartment as the front door to Lucy's apartment was kicked down as council mages spilled in, far more than was necessary but Cobra was a dangerous criminal after all, nobody would ever let him forget that.

"Cobra, please return back to the magic council with us, you have breached the terms of your parole and so you will be returned to prison as of right now. Any actions now that aren't you stepping forward with your hands raised in front of you for us to put cuffs on will be taken as an act of violence and so we will act accordingly, do you understand what I am saying?"

Lucy was now sitting up in bed, completely naked and in shock of the amount of people that were now in her apartment.

"What the hell, breach of parole, you are fucking kidding me?" Shrugging off his jacket, Cobra placed it around Lucy's shoulders and placed a sweet kiss on her forehead.

"See ya babe."

He turned around and held his hands out as they wrapped the cuffs around his wrists, shoved him out of the doorway and down the stairs, Lucy ran after them, wrapped in Cobra's jacket which fell down to her mid thighs. "What did he do? He's been on his best behavior, this has to be a mistake."

One of the council mages turned around and smiled at her.

"There's no mistake, he assaulted a gentleman at a nightclub in town tonight, there are several witnesses that are willing to testify they saw him there now please remain calm miss or we will have to restrain you too."

Not waiting for a response, her apartment was soon deathly quiet as Cobra and the magic council mages exited the building, she ran to the window to get one last look at her dragon, just one more look.

She wished she hadn't, he had been pushed onto the ground while one of the guards was kicking him in the gut. Cobra's face was completely shut off, the look said that he was used to getting such ill treatment and had just found a way to block out the pain, like he had a special place in his mind where he was safe, nobody could hurt him there.

Lucy remembered him mentioning something like that when he was telling her about his experience in the tower of heaven, she didn't make him go too in depth as it was obviously a very painful set of memories that she wouldn't ever want to make him remember if he didn't need to.

Flying out of the window, she didn't even think of the repercussions of if she didn't land on a guard and hit the floor instead. Natsu used to make that jump all the time, why couldn't she?

Successfully landing on the back of one of the guards attacking Cobra, she wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and placed her lips next to his ear.

"Back the fuck up asshole." Then she bit it, hard. She didn't stop until she could taste blood and hear him screaming like a little school girl.

Nobody hurt her dragon and got away with it. They were going to have matching jail cells by the end of the night, she welcomed it.

"Lucy no, go back upstairs, I can handle this, it's nothing I haven't gone through before." Cobra's rough voice came through the anger that was clouding her mind, she didn't want to go back upstairs, she wanted to hurt the people that were hurting him.

"Erik, they did this completely unprovoked, I can't stand for this kind of treatment, you're a member of Fairy Tail, you're mine. I won't let scumbags like these." She dug her elbow deep into the back of the guard she was still hanging onto, smirking at the yelp he let out. "Hurt you when you're completely defenseless, it's disgusting."

She hopped off the man's back and swung her leg out so he fell in front of her "Do you hear me? You're fucking disgusting. He's a better man than you will ever be. You should be ashamed of yourselves. He beat up that guy at the nightclub to save me, all you care about is what he did in the past, not right now."

Cobra was staring up at her in complete awe, amazed that she was willing to put herself out there like this just for him. It was something he had never had before and he doubted he would ever be able to get used to it.

"You can come with us too then blondie, you can sit on my lap on the way to the council." One of the guards was actually trying to intimidate her, he was 6ft tall and built like a brick shit house but Lucy stood toe to toe with him, still only clad in Cobra's coat but she was emanating a menacing aura that made Cobra think she could truly take him on.

You could see on her face that she was clearly concentrating on something but before Cobra could work it out, a bright light shone next to her and her true knight in shining armor was there, ready to do her bidding.

Loke adjusted his tie and smiled at Lucy, but soon was floored at her appearance "My princess what happened? Your face, your clothes."

"Loke, I'll tell you about it later but thank you for coming through on your own power, I appreciate it." She pointed at the hulking man standing before them and signaled a thumbs down motion at him "Know what I mean?"

Loke grinned and nodded "I know what you mean Princess." His gaze settled on Cobra, who was still huddled on the floor from the attack from the guards "Cover your eyes, I'll try to keep you out of the firing line."

Placing his hands together he summoned the power of Regulus, shooting beams of light at all of the surrounding enemies, but the giant of a man who had tried to hit on Lucy was floating in the air, being suspended by a noose made of light.

Lucy sauntered up to the floating man and frowned "I'm going to let you live but just remember who beat who. You run back to your little council without Erik and you tell them what I told you. It was self defense. Get both sides of the story next time jackass." Nodding to Loke, the light disappeared and the man fell to the floor.

"Take those cuffs off my man and fuck off." Lucy watched with hawk eyes as the last standing man ran over to Cobra and with shaky hands, removed the magical cuffs that were binding his wrists. "Luce this is a bad idea, maybe I should just-"

"Shut up. Come back to bed, I've had enough for one night, haven't you?" Lucy lifted up the back of Cobra's coat, revealing her naked butt, she slapped one of her cheeks and ran up the stairs laughing. "Thank you Loke, you're the best." Lucy shouted over her shoulders as she ran back to her apartment.

"You lucky son of a bitch." The lion spirit said as he disappeared back to the celestial realm.

Thinking about how close he had just come to losing everything, he stared at the entrance to the apartment building. How had she managed to save him yet again? He was ready to give up but she just simply refused. She didn't care what happened to her just as long as he was safe.

'Yeah, I'm the luckiest guy in all of Fiore.' He thought as he heard Lucy beckoning him to come back upstairs. Everything could wait until the morning. 'Shit no, Kinana.'

How could he have forgotten about his friend? She was in more danger now that he hadn't been taken away, no doubt Midnight was going to be very unhappy with this spanner now in the works. It had to be the works of him, no way would that fucker from the bar go to the authorities.

"Luce I've got to go somewhere, I'll be back soon, it's important." No time to go up and explain, he simply shouted up the stairs and ran in his boxers to his apartment, hoping and praying that Kinana was okay and that crazy bastard hadn't done anything stupid that he would make him regret.

Skidding to a stop outside of his door, he tried to use his acute hearing to see if could sense anything at all inside but it was like someone had put up a magical barrier so he couldn't hear anything inside. Throwing his worries to the wind, he unlocked the front door and ran inside.

Relief flooded his body when he saw Kinana tied to a chair in the middle of the living room, she looked a bit cut up but still alive. She had tape covering her mouth so she couldn't speak but she was trying her hardest to get him to understand her.

"Hold on, I don't know what you're saying and your soul is all jumbled up. Are you alright? Where's Midnight?" Cobra was rattling off questions as he untied her and pulled the tape off her face.

"Erik run" Kinana exclaimed, jumping out of the seat she was tied to. "He's going to Lucy's house, he knew this would happen. You have to get back there."

His stomach dropped as dread filled his veins and pumped itself around his body.

'How could I be so stupid.'

Hearing footsteps enter the room, Lucy kept her back to the door, making it obvious that she was angry "You have angered me."

"Well I apologize but I do not know what I have done to anger you."

Rolling over at the strange voice that definitely wasn't Cobra, she was shocked when she saw the leader of the Oracion Seis standing in her bedroom.

"We have much to discuss Miss Heartfilia."