Just Misunderstood

Chapter 6

I'm sorry it's a little late, I had a lot of trouble with this one, but it's here and it's got important development in it.


Cobra sighed as he pulled his wet shirt off. He looked down at his arms, the only thing the even indicated that he was hurt was the slight red color. He rubbed his forearms and sat down on his bed. The Slayer heard the girls taking in the other room, Angel was saying how much of a dick he was and Lucy was angrily changing her clothes. Maybe he had pushed the new girl a little too far? After hearing some of her inner voice he kind of understood where she was coming from, she had given up everything to obtain her power. He also knew why she had gotten so angry, her emotions were heightened, as a dragon slayer her senses are trying to adjust to the world around her. She was brand new, she hasn't been in a real life or death fight with her new abilities, she doesn't know how to use her new senses. Cobra ran a hand down his face and grabbed another shirt.

He didn't really care that she was mad at him, she could hate him all she wanted. But that didn't mean he would go away, Nirvana was almost in their grasp. Lucilla Ashley wouldn't be around long.

"I don't know why I got so mad. I mean I was irritated and I guess I hated that he had doubted my power, but that shouldn't explain why I wanted to tear his head from his body." He heard Lucy say.

"He tends to have that effect on people," Angel said. Cobra rolled his eyes as he slipped on a new shirt. He heard Lucy giggle and didn't catch the smile that kept on his face.

He decided that if he was going to bring her on the collection he'll have to make up with her. Nothing worst than a bitchy female on the road. He grabbed another white coat, which he had several of and put it on. He whistled for Cubellios and she came and draped herself over his shoulders. Cobra walked up to the girl's room and didn't both knocking, he saw Lucy putting on one of her long jackets and Angel was flipping through a magazine.

"Brain wants me to take you on a collection." He said. Lucy jumped as his deep voice startled her.

Lucy honestly felt embarrassed. She had made a scene in front of her new guild and even made a fool out of herself by transporting to the spirit world without celestial cloth or gems. She nodded quickly and grabbed her belt, with her keys and whip. She didn't meet his eyes as she grabbed a few smaller things.

He looked at her as she moved, she was wearing a black skirt, with a sort of white top that went to her neck, it was shoulderless, and black strap held the sleeves to her arms. The jacket seemed to attach at the back of the top at the neck and then it button around her waist to flow out behind her. He noticed her shoulder length blonde hair.

"You never change your hair." He said simply.

Lucy cocked her head and sighed. "I forgot."

"Obviously."

"Give me 3 minutes." She said as she pulled Cancer's key out. Cobra sighed and sat on one of the couches that were against the wall. Cancer appeared in a shower of gold, and his expression was sad.

He bowed low, "Princess?"

"Hey, Cancer. Can you grow my hair out? Maybe down to my hips? Can you also color the ends?" Lucy looked at the ends of her hair. "Black would be different."

He was done in minutes and Lucy twirled, she had never had really long hair before and she liked the way it swayed.

"Pretty," Angel said with a small smile.

"Yea, Yea. Come on." Cobra huffed as he walked out the door. Lucy waved bye to Angel and ran after the slayer.

~JM~

"How long is the trip?" Lucy asked Cobra as they exited the guild hall.

"Normally it would be about seven hours but since we can't take the train it's gonna be a day trip." He said nonchalantly.

"Why can't we take the train?" She asked she took, this time, to look at the terrain surrounding the guild, it was mostly forest but tall mountains lined the horizon, she recognized Mount Hakobe on the farther side of the mountain range.

"We can't be seen, remember? Plus they bother my stomach."

"Can I try something?" She asked as she stopped walking.

"What?" He sighed.

"I can you teleportation magic, remember?" She said, only mocking him a little. "I can transport us as long as I can see it."

Cobra turned and sighed again, he felt like that was all he was doing now. He gestured for her to continue. "Do you have the Dragon Slayer necklace?"

Cobra reached into his pocket and held it up, he didn't really want her to know that he was carrying it but if she needed it. He didn't meet her eyes as she took it from his hand. He wasn't watching and that's why he slightly flinched when he felt her hands clip the necklace around his neck. "The fuck Blondie. I could've done that."

Lucy rolled her eyes, then watched him carefully as she slowly placed a hand on his chest. "I need physically contact, well unless you'd like me to blow you into a billion pieces." She said she had never transported another person like she does herself. When she had disappeared into the Spirit World earlier, she had just covered every inch of her body with her magic, then she imagined a gate behind Cobra.

Cobra ignored her small hand on his chest and looked down at her. She was so small. Her head just barely reaching his shoulders, he hadn't really noticed before. Her eyes were closed and he watched as magic began to seep into the air around them. A thin shell of gold and purple began to expand from her chest, covering her in a soft glow. It grew down her arm and Cobra lost his breath for a second when her magic hit his chest, it moved over him and wrapped around his shoulders, it bathed him in the same soft hue.

Sweat began to develop on her brow as she concentrated, "Where are we going?" It was a whisper.

"The Forgotten Desert, it's right pass the mountains, a little north." He answered. Cobra assumed this was harder with two people, she had done this easily by herself before. Maybe she was worried she would hurt him. Her other hand reached up and touched Cubellios's back, the snake was enveloped by the gold and Cobra reached up to put his hand on top of hers, hoping it would strengthen the magically bond.

Then he felt his spine almost shoot out of his ass as he and his snake were pulled into the Spirit World. His mind exploded with a million new sounds and smells, but they were all gone in seconds as he was thrown hard on a snowy ground. Another body fell hard on him and them another on top of that one. He groaned and cracked open his eyes, his vision was blurred but all he saw was yellow.

"Ah fuck that was hard." He heard Lucy groan, she rolled off of him and into the snow. "Okay, so I will do that separately in the future. Never again transporting myself with someone else." She sat up. "You good?"

"Yea I'm fucking good. My spine just got ripped out but yea fucking good."

"Oh, stop whining." She said as she stood up.

Cobra groaned again as he stood, "Fucking hell. Was that even worth it?"

"Okay, we made it to the top of the mountain. There's the Forgotten Desert." She said as she pointed below.

"You didn't even take us the whole way?"

"I can only teleport where I can see. Anyway, let's do it again." She said as she summoned a purple orb.

"What? Fuck no!" Cobra said, "Are you crazy?"

"No, this time, I'll do it normally. The spell I use for teleporting myself and the spell I use for teleporting other people is different. I tried both at the same time and it didn't really work as well." She explained.

"So I'm your fucking guinea pig?" He asked, his tone almost defensive.

"Yea."

"What the fuck has Brain done?" He sighed as he ran his hand through his hair. "Okay, hit me with it." He said as he turned to fully face her, he made sure Cubellios was around him.

Lucy smiled almost evilly as she hurled the orb at the Dragon Slayer, she had it released the magic before hitting him and he was sucked into the vortex it created.

She watched as he was thrown out of the portal a several hundred meters away from the base of the mountains.

"Graceful." She said aloud. Then she teleported herself, landing out of the portal on her feet.

"Yea, that's much easier. Let's never do that again."

"Fuck you." He groaned. He got off the ground and glared at her.

"What? I literally just saved us a very long and boring walk." She said innocently.

He said nothing as he started walking in the direction of the Dark Guild.

~JM~

Cobra's senses were in overdrive as they approached the Naked Mummy guild hall. He had to be careful, he had to monitor everyone, he couldn't let the idiots here say anything that could tip Lucy off. He reached his arm out and stopped the said girl, "Okay, listen these are not good people, they are an..independent guild. Which means-"

"I know what it means."

"Well, they give us money if we protect them, from dark guilds or other independent guilds. Sometimes even the council." He almost held his breath as he waited for her answer.

"Okay, so you do your job no matter what?"

He nodded slowly. She smiled, "Sounds like my old team."

Cobra smirked slightly, "But be careful in there, you're hot and they're horny. I'm here but don't expect me to protect and coddle you."

Lucy scoffed and walked ahead of him. "I'll be fine."

They stayed quiet as Cobra opened the guild doors. An instant chill went down Lucy's spine, the guild hall was full and every eye was on them. They were all men from what Lucy could tell and they seemed to drool at the sight of her. Lucy instinctive stepped closer to Cobra as he walked forward with his hand in his pockets. The men cleared a path from Cobra and the blonde, some towering in terror, others standing up straighter as if they were challenging the Dragon Slayer.

"Nice legs!" One of them called.

"Ohhh~ Look at that rack on that one~"

"Cobra? You fucking that?"

Various calls and whistles sounded from around the room, Lucy's heart was racing as they continued to walk. She almost screamed when she felt a weight drop on her shoulder, she looked to see Cubellios resting herself on the blonde's shoulder. The snake's head was raised as she watched the men, hissing at anyone that got to close. Lucy appreciatively pet the snake's back and followed closely behind Cobra.

He tried to ignore the annoying whistles and the disgusting thoughts he heard as he walked. He glared at them, making sure none of them had the balls to get closer. Cubellios was doing some of the protecting, he was silently thankful for that, he had said he wouldn't protect her but if anything happened to her Brain would have his head. He breathed out loudly as if he was sighing in relief as they got to the main office. He didn't both to knock as he just opened the door. The brother's that ran Naked Mummy were frantically trying to gather jewels as they shuffled around the office. They squeaked in terror as they saw who had just came through the door.

"Ah! Cobra! You usually send a lackey to receive the money." Zatô said as he sweat nervously, Lucy noted that the man looked like a monkey, he had an afro with, what she was assuming, his guild mark dyed into it. His teeth were gold or just badly stained and Lucy almost wanted to laugh at the way he seemed to cower at the sight of her guildmate.

"Brain sent us instead." He said simply. "Let's skip the pleasantries and get to the collection."

Lucy stepped up beside Cobra and handed him the small piece of paper with the right amount on it, Racer had given it to her before she had left. Cobra looked at it and raised his eyebrows, it was more than he would have thought, he knew they had raised their protection fee because of the search but this was a lot.

"900,000 Jewels." He said aloud. Zatô flinched and picked up the money they did have. Cobra handed Lucy the money and she scoffed.

"What you can't count?" She asked as she started shuffling through the money. Zatô and his brother snorted and Cobra glared.

"This is only 400,000," She said as she finished counting. Cobra smirked and stepped forward.

"Lucilla, why don't you wait outside." He suggested. He needed to live up to the guild's word, and if a guild couldn't pay the fee they were no longer protected. And Cobra would happily show that, but he didn't need the blonde getting all squeamish on him.

Lucy shook her head, "I'm staying."

Cobra turned to her and looked her in the eye. The determination and fight in them made him uncomfortable. He walked towards her and she backed up until her back hit the wall. Cobra got a hair's breath away and leaned down, so his face was level with hers. His hand went the wall beside her head and he spoke, "Then break their hands."

Lucy was taken aback, "What?"

"Break their hands."

Lucy's mouth fell slightly open and she shook her head. "Then leave." He growled. "And don't come back."

Lucy flinched. 'Back into the room or back to the Oracion Seis guild hall?' She thought. But she had a feeling she meant the latter. She gulped and looked down, Cobra stood back up but he didn't move. His hand was still by her face and she looked up into his stupid purple eyes. Then faster, than either brother could follow she was by them, she grabbed Zatô's hand, her thumb on his palm and her other fingers on the other side, she snapped his wrist back while simultaneously squeezing the fragile bones. She heard a horrifying crack and his yells but before she could talk herself out of it, she did the same to the other man. Cobra watched wide-eyed as the men fell to their knees clutching their hand. Lucy glared at Cobra, she ripped the beaded necklace off his neck as she stormed out the door. Cobra was amazingly shocked, she had done it. The Fairy Tail Beauty might just prove to be more than what he thought.

He a smile he hadn't noticed was on his face as he followed her out the door. She tried to push past the large guys in the guild but none of them were letting her past, they were all just going on about how she should take off her shirt. Cubellios was still on the Blonde's shoulders and she was trying desperately to warn off the persistent males.

It was then that one of their hands went to lift her skirt. Now Cobra rarely cared if anyone tried to touch Angel, mainly because Racer was ripping the guy a new spine before the Dragon Slayer could react but now was different. His breathing stopped as the wizard's hand touched his newest guildmate's ass, Cobra was there before even Lucy could do anything. He grabbed the man's wrist and twisted it hard, the man screamed in pain as Cobra heard bones crack. Lucy turned quickly to see the man on the ground, Cobra growled loudly and turned in a circle, the others fell on top of each other trying to get away.

He grabbed her hand and walked quickly outside, he didn't stop there, they had walked for nearly five minutes before Lucy stopped him. But before she could speak he reached into her coat pocket and took the necklace back, after clipping it on he nearly growled, "Don't take this from me again."

Lucy flinched back but nodded, "Now, teleport us back."

"We'll have to stop on the mountain again." She said quietly.

"Whatever just get us back."

Lucy did so and had to hold back her laughs as he landed face first into the snow, he was clearly not in the mood it. She teleported him again, then herself.

"Why are you back? You were barely gone two hours." Angel said as they walked through the main doors. Everyone was at the bar, even Midnight was awake. He scowled at Lucy and adverted his eyes. Cobra fell back hard into his chair and Lucy did the same in a chair at the bar.

"I used my magic." She said as she grabbed a shot glass and whatever alcohol was the closest, she looked at the clean glass and set it down. She then poured the liquor into her mouth and sighed heavily.

"Yep, that seems about right." Angel said, "Cobra does drive people to drink."

"Shut the fuck up." He said as he eyed the bottle and reached his hand out. Lucy tossed the bottle to him and grabbed herself another.

"Well, I'll be in my room." She said she brought the bottle with her.

"I take it you two had a good time?" Brain asked as he watched her leave.

~JM~

Lucy opened her eyes as she felt the overwhelming need to pee. She looked around the darkened room to see Angel asleep in her bed. Lucy groggily looked at the time to see it was about midnight. She hissed as she sat up the booze had given her a headache, she got up from the bed and stumbled to the door.

After using the bathroom and brushing the nasty aftertaste out of her mouth she walked to the bar to get a bottle of water. It was a couple minutes later when Brain rushed into the room, his hair was messy and he was wearing black pants with a loose top, his staff wasn't with him. He looked irritated as he walked down the hall with all the bedrooms, he waved his hand and all of the doors slammed open and the lights flashed on. Lucy heard multiple groans and heard Cobra's signature "What the fuck?"

One by one her guildmates stumbled tiredly out of their room. Angel noticed Lucy and plopped down next to her, Angel was wearing a white nightgown and her short hair was pulled up on top of her head, it reminded her of Mira's little bang ponytail. Racer was next to settle at the table, fully clothed in his usual attire. 'He must have dressed quickly,' She thought to herself.

Hoteye sat next to him, wearing some sort of long night shirt. Midnight's rug floated out of the room, Midnight still asleep on top. Brain followed the rug and sat upon his throne-like chair. Cobra groggily walked to the table and laid his head on the hard surface, a low groan left his throat as Angel slapped the table. She laughed loudly as he glared at her.

Lucy smiled softly, she loved her guildmates relationship. Angel and Cobra seemed so comfortable with each other, they screwed with each other so easily. They didn't get mad at each other, just annoyed, but that was proof of a good friendship. It made her heart hurt as she thought of Natsu. Racer laughed with Angel and Cobra continued to groan, "My head is killing me please, shut up."

Brain cleared his throat and everyone turned their attention to the gray-haired Master. "I apologize for waking you, but I have urgent news concerning the Balam Alliance." Everyone eyed Lucy, looking for any indication that she knew what that meant. "Because of the work we're doing we have awoken the interest of the Magic Council, I have gotten word that they have called in the assistance of the light guilds."

Lucy was taken aback. She knew her guild was looking for a powerful magic, and she knew that the magic council might be going after them because of their work with the Independent Guilds, but she had no idea that light guilds would be coming after them. Lucy wasn't afraid to disobey the council, she had done it before, but a light guild? What if she was being put against some of her friends from the other guilds? Lucy shook her head, Nirvana was her only chance. This was her only chance to get her guild back. As she listened to Brain explain the specifics she wished. No, she prayed that that one day she would see Fairy Tail again. She prayed that she would be able to see her family again.


I do not own Fairy Tail.