AN: I always felt like Cobra had more to his character than what we get to see. Well, this is another chapter the dictionary helped me write.

#4) Smothered

"The world smothered him,

with harsh words and even harsher thoughts."

When he first wished to be able to listen to Cubellios voice, he hadn't expected his wish to become true. He thought the world was a bitter and cold place. He had been right.

Erik, no, Cobra knew how hateful the world could be better than anyone. He knew how greedy and selfish humans are and really thought that snakes were better companions.

The world had always suffocated him, so he leaned poison magic to pay back the world. And that's why the poison dragon slayer became the poison dragon slayer.

His sound magic allowed him to listen to the thoughts of others. He knew he wasn't better than any of those silly humans. But did he care? No, he never did. He just wanted to hear Cubellios voice. That was all.

Then came the Jelly guy with his redemption talk and gave him a hella pretty beating. A beating the other members of Oracion Seis also got. And that was his invitation to the "let's redeem ourselves club".

Right now he was in the middle of a war he didn't want to be, bringing down as many enemy soldiers as he could before coming face-to-face with one of the Spriggan 12. If he was lucky enough to face one of them, it seemed.

Harsh words were flying around, harsh and regretful thoughts made his mind buzz with the amount of information reaching his ears. And when it almost became unbearable, Cobra let out a poisonous roar. Those who dared to face him ended up smothered by the poison.

The boring and predictable fight kept going and for no longer than a minute, Cobra let his guard down. He had wished for an opponent worthy of his time, one of the spriggan 12, not the one man who happened to be the one and only dragon king.

And now beaten, bruised and in no state to keep fighting, Cobra could hear the suffocating words and thoughts from the world clearly. A harsh sound asked for his last words and he answered with his cocky smile:

"See ya in hell, 'cause you'll join me there!"

And with the burning feeling of being smothered, that happened to be so similar to the one he felt on the first day with his magic, Cobra felt his body leaving him.

As a final farewell, he couldn't avoid the regretful thought that was his last.

"Oh well, I at least wanted to listen to Cubellios one last time…"

And with a simple, but unattained last wish, the forth dream trigger ceased to exist.