Cobra - A Tale of a Killer
Chapter 4
NightBlitz - First of all, I would like to say I'm really sorry for all of you that had been waiting patiently for me to update this story. I'm very sorry and I really hope that some of you can apologize me. I really hope that you like this story and will read until the end of the chapter. So, for now please enjoy Chapter 4!
Summary; After 20 years disappear from the world without a trace, Erik Reptile or 'Cobra' returned to seek revenge for those who killed his family. Being a top-class killer and a sharpshooter, none of his prey can escape but when it came to a certain blonde, he miss his shot for the first time.
Genre; Romance, Hurt and Comfort, Action, Drama, Thriller, Family, Crime
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or anything that are associated with it, Hiro Mashima does.
Previously on Cobra - A Tale of a Killer
"Are you okay?" Natsu said as she brought Lucy to her hand.
"Yeah, I'm fine and thanks" Lucy said as a gratitude.
"What were you trying to do by coming here?"
"I was trying to save my sister. She was here before they took over the place"
"Well, you must go. Let me handle your sister"
"No, I can manage on my own"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes" And with that Lucy leaded the way with having Natsu later followed him behind. He smiled.
"It looked the party already started. Romeo take this intel. Two on one, one on fourth, two on fifth, six on eleven, ten on thirteen, and twenty five on seventeen and three on eighteen"
"Sir, that makes a total of fourty nine people. Which the question is, who is the attacker, the hostage, and the mastermind?"
"That is a question we need to find out. The card ready"
"Yes" Romeo handed Cobra the pass card.
"Now, the fourth dance commence"
Cobra entered the wrecked building with a weird feeling inside his head. After a while later, he recovered from the sudden headache. Cobra toured the main entrance of the building, a building that was once the most amazing and praised building in the whole land due to the fascinating structures. And now, that building will be lying on the land like a leaf that fall from a tree.
'Nothing last forever' Cobra monologue inside his head and smile. Nothing!
He looked through the surrounding area. Two men were knocked down and unconscious on the floor. He knelt down and felt the pulse of the two of them. Still alive. Cobra took out a gun and shot the two men at the head. With not a single feeling of guilty, he went to look for the elevator.
"Sir, I just discovered that two person from the first floor are dead! Are you alright?"
"I'm alright! You don't need to shout"
Romeo sighed a relief.
"That's great. By the way, I need to inform you. The number of the persons in the building just went from 49 to 53"
"Well, I entered after the body count, that's make one, who's the other three?"
"I'm the second, but I don't know the third and the fourth"
"What?" Cobra looked back and saw Romeo smiled to Cobra. "What are you doing here? Don't you understand the meaning of dangerous?"
"I know but I really want to help you. I don't want to be a burden but I'm willingly want to fight beside you!"
"Are you crazy? You're just a kid..."
"That have hacking stuff as a hobby"
"But..."
"I can manage on my own Sir. Oh and..." Pressing something, Romeo showed someone with his Pad. "This is Mr. Dragneel, the owner of this building, and this is his son and only child, Natsu Dragneel, the person who will inherit his fortune"
"So, this is the guy who killed my parent" Cobra looked at Mr. Dragneel with a sign of anger and sadness. Romeo looked at Cobra and was feeling guilty for showing the picture to him. But he was the one responsible for father's death. But like he said my father was responsible as well for killing his father. Is he the one to blame for all this madness? If someone volunteered to be a judge, then who's the victim and who's the one to blame?
"Are you coming, kiddo or you want to stare at my butt for eternity?"Cobra laughed and pinched Romeo's cheeks. Romeo laughed it off and followed him closely at the back.
East Wing of the Dragneel Company - First Floor
"Hmm, it seems the escalator busted!" Cobra as said as he looked at the damaged escalator.
"Maybe it was damaged by the ruckus. But we can still use it right?" Romeo headed to the escalator excitedly but Cobra grabbed his hand.
"Are you crazy? We will be seen by them"
"So, what should we do?" Romeo asked.
"At time like this, I think it's safe that we used the emergency staircase"
Romeo nodded and they headed west wing to search for the emergency staircase.
West wing of the Dragneel Company - First Floor
"Natsu, sorry to ask but can I hold your hand. I'm sca..." Without thinking, Natsu grabbed Lucy's hand.
"Sure thing, Lucy!"Lucy smiled.
"So, where are we heading?"
"We are heading to the emergency staircase. Since I used to this place, it's safe to say that we are heading the right place.
"How was your father, Natsu?" Lucy asked with the intention to break the ice between Natsu and her.
"He is a great, strong and reliable man. He always think about others first than himself. He is a great father and a great mentor. When I was a child, even though, he always busy, he will come back home during lunch and dinner just so I'm not alone. I always said to him, Happy with me, I'm not lonely, but he shrugged it off and say, I know because you are my son"
"Your father must be a nice person, Natsu. I hope that I could meet him"
"I'm sure you are going to like him, Lucy" Natsu smiled to her and hold her hand firmly.
They walked in silent until they found a door. Natsu drop kick the door and they walked in. With the emergency staircase, Natsu and Lucy quickly went to the seventeenth floor. Arriving at the 17th floor, the office floor, they walked out and saw 15 masked men and 10 workers. The ten workers were tied with rope and were duct taped.
"Lucy, get back!" Natsu commanded Lucy to hide herself and she followed it. She went to the nearest table and ducked under it.
"You're going to DIEEEE!" Natsu shouted as he went on a rampage with the masked men.
"Sir, look here! The door..."
"Someone must have been really feisty here. But oh well, we found the stair"
Cobra and Romeo used the stairs. With his enhanced hearing, he went to each floor. If he found some hostages, he woke him up and asked them to leave. But if he stumbled into one of the men, he knocked the out. After witnessing it, Romeo was clueless about Cobra. If he's really the bad guy?
"Hey, Sir, why you saved the hostages?"
"..."
"You don't have to answer if you don't want to"
"It's because my life were ruined by this so called villain, I don't want them to ruin the life of others" After saying that, he stared to the sky through the window. Romeo looked in his eyes, again he felt the feeling of sorrow, sadness, anguish, despair and a lot more.
"Sir, with that we are left to 32 people in the building with three on the 18th floor and twenty seven on the 17th floor"
"Yeah, let's get this finish,shall we, and perhaps after this, we eat that famous spicy ramen here!"
"YAAAAHHHH!" Natsu punched the last masked man standing. "I think that's all of them"
"Yeah! And I woke up all of the hostages" Lucy stood up and asked all of the hostages to exit the building as fast as possible. All of the hostages fled quickly by using the emergency staircase.
"Romeo, there's people using the stairs. Hide now!" Cobra and Romeo hide inside a janitor closet. When the atmosphere become settled, they came out.
"7 left"
"And I get the feeling that we will be having a blast when we reached the 18th floor"
Romeo and Cobra quickly headed to 17th floor.
Arriving there, Cobra spotted a pink haired man and a blonde girl. He took out his gun and try to aim at the blonde lady, and when he was about to pull the trigger, the blonde girl looked back and showed her face to Cobra. The trigger was pulled and it missed and hit the window, cracking it.
"What was that?" Lucy asked.
"Who's there?" Natsu asked. He crept closer to the find the perpetrator who fired the gun and was about to shot Lucy.
"Sir, wake up! Please wake up" Romeo slapped Cobra's face slowly. After he pulled the trigger and missed the target, Cobra went unconscious. And with the pink haired slowly walked through their hiding spot, he really need to wake him up.
"I said, who's there?" Natsu asked again.
"It's me" Romeo came out from the hiding spot with the gun in hand.
"Huh, what are you trying to do? You were about to shot Lucy"
"I'm sorry, I thought you were one of the bad guy"
"It's fine, now. Go get home kid. This place is not a child playground. And give me the gun" Rome handed Natsu the gun. And with that, Nastu left Romeo and walked with Lucy to a special elevator which only some workers could use. Natsu took out a card and pressed it on the card reader. After reading the card that Natsu had, the special elevator opened and they walked in.
Rome sighed a relief again.
"Sir, wake up. What is wrong with you, this is seriously not the time to go sleeping"
Cobra woke up in a new place. He is inside a small park inside a modern chateau. He saw himself, a younger version of himself, sitting on a blanc chair beside a young blonder girl who was showing him a book about a fairy tale. From the look of his younger version's face, he liked the story so much. He was smiling and the young girl beside her is also smiling.
'What is with this vision?'
Then, a lady who wore a beautiful pink gown came to them and the lady smiled at both of them. The lady muttered something but with his lips, Cobra knew what the lady said.
"Aren't you two adorable? Erik, I hope you grew up to become a fine man and marry Lucy someday when you are older"
'Marry? Lucy?'
Suddenly, the whole scene became white and Cobra woke up from the dream. He was breathing heavily. He opened his eyes and the first person he saw is Romeo.
"Sir, you woke up. I'm so glad" Romeo hugged Cobra. Tears rolled down his eyes because he was so worried about him.
"What happened?"
"You passed out after you missed a shot. That's pretty much it"
"Then, we need to hurry and quick" Romeo nodded.
18th floor of the Dragneel Company
"Father, father, FATHERR!" Natsu shouted. He and Lucy had arrived at the last floor. They walked in into a conference room and saw a knocked out police officer and a man who had died. There is a large wound on his stomach and white feathers were on the floor.
"Igneel!" Natsu shouted as he ran to Igneel's body while Lucy ran to the unconscious Michelle.
"Father, I'm sorry, I was not there beside you. I'm sorry for slacking off. I'm so sorry" Natsu hugged Igneel. Tears came rolling under his eyes. He couldn't hold it. He lost someone really special in his life. He lost his mother when he was born and now he lost his father, his one and only, the most important person in his life. "IGNEELLL!"
Lucy feel Michelle's pulse and was glad that she was still alive.
"Lucy, what are you doing here?" Michelle asked as soon as he woke up.
"I'm here to save your ass, crazy" Lucy and Michelle smiled but hearing Natsu cried, Lucy felt awful for him. Michelle was clueless but when he saw Igneel died, she was shocked and disbelief.
"Is that Mr. Dragneel?"
Lucy just nodded her head.
Michelle and Lucy crept closer to Natsu and Lucy put her hand on Natsu's shoulder. Natsu put his hand on Lucy.
"I will get my revenge on you, father. I promise you I will"
"HAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAAAA!"
The three of them searched the floor for the person who was laughing and saw a young lady who was flying in the air. She had angel like wings and was smiling despairingly at them.
"You, you're the one who killed my father. I'm gonna kill you" Natsu leaped and was about to punch the angel like lady but was intercepted by another person. He kicked Natsu in the guts and he flew and smashed the wall.
"Racer, you know I don't need your help"
"I know, I just want to be here"
"What are you two? A girl who had wings and a man that's faster than light"
"My name is Angel, the graceful right hand of the god of apocalypse"
"I'm Racer, the man that will be the grim reaper of death"
"Lucy get behind me" Michelle asked Lucy to stay behind her and she took out a gun from her purse. She aimed the gun at Angel and as she was about to pull the trigger, Racer with his quick speed took the gun before even she could pull the trigger.
"I think you shouldn't really face an Enhanced with stupid moves like that" Angel lashed out his wings and attacked Michelle.
"Michelle..." Lucy shouted.
"I'm fine..."
"Don't hurt her!"
"This girl is sure noisy, how about I..." Racer charged against Lucy but dodged as soon as a man blocked him.
"I think you should not tackle a lady like that"
A man stood in front of Lucy, protecting her with his hand. The man like in a fairy tale, a knight in shining armor.