Day Before
After the "training incident" Cobra has started hanging around the guild less and less. Natsu would come but occasionally but not even the kids would and it was extensively starting to worry everyone.
"We've really gone to far." Natsu over heard Erza and Grays' conversation.
"Yeah, you think? I had no idea those were the same cloaks the dark guild wore, I just picked them up from a shop in town."
"If there was a way to make it up to him we would..."
"I only wanted to help... As he was he would not have survived in the games..."
"If he comes in we'll talk to him."
"He'd sooner die than let us near him. I saw the look he gave me- he genuinely thought I was one of the bad guys..."
"We screwed up."
"Yeah..."
"Cobra..." Natsu said hesitantly from the kitchen door. It was early in the morning a few days after everything had happened. Cobra was in his usual morning spot at their dining table with a cup of coffee. She could smell his concoction of coffee, venom, and cinnamon. But instead of greeting her like he usually did, he took no notice of her call and just stared at the black liquid in his cup. Cobra wasn't one to think deeply often so whenever he did Natsu knew something was really wrong.
"Cobra... Honey..?" Natsu walked up to him and put a hand on his arm, making him jump. He looked at her surprised, she didn't need his magic to know he was wondering when she got there, and how long she had been there.
"What's wrong..." She asked soothingly.
The tan males ears twitched; he's always liked it when Natsu uses her soft feminine voice, it calmed him and he just in general enjoyed hearing it.
He opened his mouth to say something but shut himself up with a disgruntled "It's nothing" and took a drink from his mug. Natsu took it from him and held it in her hands.
"It's not nothing, you've been staring at the mug sense you got up, talk to me."
His purple orb flicked to her and wouldn't meet her own onyx gaze. He closed his eye and sighed, his hands going to his face as he rested his elbows on the table.
"I'm just... Thinking..."
"That I noticed." Natsu pulled a chair out and sat down next to him. "About what?"
He didn't reply at first. She could feel his unease and fear radiating off him like a powerful lacrima. She was about to say something but Cobra spoke.
"What if they come back..." His voice was quiet and hoarse, like he'd been crying... "The dark guild- they never confirmed they were caught or died or... What if they come looking for us, Natsu? What if they capture us again, or our sons! What if they torture our children?!" He looked so scared... Natsu stared at his face, he had bags under his eyes and his good eye was dull... He was even getting pale. He was literally worrying himself sick.
"Cobra..." She put one of her hands behind his head and ran her fingers through his hair, making sure to rub his scalp a little and even get around his sensitive ears. A low hum started in his chest like always whenever she rubbed his ears. "It's been so many years now Cobra... If they really wanted us back they would have done something by now."
"But we were hiding then!" He insisted. "We were in our little town, with normal friends-a normal family... Now were heading off to the... Grand Magic Games and putting it publicly out there that we are back! We're so easy to find now-"
"Stop Cobra..." Natsu said softly. "You need to stop thinking like this you're making yourself sick... We will be fine, you know we won't let anything happen to us or our babies without a fight. And Fairy Tail is there to watch out for us."
Cobra scoffed. "Yeah... Their helpful all right..."
"They are." The pinkette said forcefully. "You know they did that with the best intentions they had no idea you would react that way. They didn't know the cloaks would be so similar."
Cobra looked down. He did know that, but he felt like he should be pissed at them. He felt he should get up and take his family back home, screw Fairy Tail it wasn't his guild... But it was his wife's, and he would die for her. Shes the only reason he's even doing this.
"It will be okay Cobra. We are safe."
He looked to his wife with his tired eye. The look on her face said it all. He relaxed and leaned his forehead against hers. "I love you."
"I love you too."
They kissed and leaned back. Natsu held the coffee mug out to Cobra and he took it, but he pouted as he tipped it to look inside. "You drank my coffee..."
"I did?" Natsu herself was surprised. She didn't like coffee much and she hadn't even realized she drank it all. She moved her tongue around her mouth and did have a distinct recognition of the bitter liquid Cobra could so easily inhale at times. "Sorry..."
Her husband looked more worried than anything. "That had real snake poison in it babe, are you feeling alright?" He quickly put a hand to her head and held her face to look into her eyes.
"I feel fine..."
Cobra didn't look sure. "I want to remove it from your system anyway..."
The pinkette pouted. "Fine."
Cobra smirked. "Oh please, you know you enjoy it."
There had been a time before when Natsu had confused Cobra's personal bottle of snake venom with a spice they kept in the restaurants kitchen. The poison dragon always kept a little around because, even if he didn't use the magic anymore, he still enjoyed the taste of genuine poisons. He spiked almost all of his food with it. But Natsu had accidentally mixed it in with a meal she had been preparing for herself.
She had gotten incredibly sick and Cobra was forced to remove with poison from her body. He new she had enjoyed it because he had to kiss her deeply to eat it out of her body. She was better with in a few days and there have been a few times where she was stupid enough to purposely drink poison just so Cobra can do it again. He really hated it when she did it though.
Cobra leaned in and kissed her. At first the two just enjoyed it before the maroon haired male used his mouth to open Natsu's. He flicked his tongue in quickly making Natsu sigh. Cobra used his hands to hold her head while he concentrated on pulling the poison from her body. He started getting worried though when it didn't come out. He kissed harder thinking he wasn't trying hard enough.
Suddenly Natsu's hands were on either side of his face and she was kissing him intently. It surprised him when Natsu's tongue shot into his mouth and she moaned against him. Cobra's eye widened as she pushed against him, he felt his back against the chair and Natsu crawled into his lap, straddling him.
He broke away quickly. "Natsu-" he was cut off as her mouth crashed into his again. He was even more surprised when he felt his magic getting drained from his body.
Was Natsu eating his magic?!
Cobra began to feel weak as the fire dragon slayer detached from his mouth and went for his neck, kissing and biting at the flesh there. He just sat there dazed as she undid his button up shirt and ran her hands over his chest.
"Cobra," she breathed sexily into his sensitive ear getting a rise out of him. "I'm horny..."
She started grinding down on him making him groan and grab the table behind her. "Natsu... Not now-"
He was cut off again by her with another kiss. This time her hands worked at his belt. She kept him to weak to actually get her off by eating away at his magic. He closed his eye and groaned as she moved on him. He would be gay as shit if he said he didn't enjoy this but his sons were just outside playing while he and his wife had sexy time in the kitchen. They could easily walk in on them.
"Natsu..." He breathed out and his breath hitched as she pressed herself against him, his face shoved into the crook of her neck and shoulder. She sighed and just moved up and down, panting harder and starting to moan.
Cobra started having flash backs to when Natsu was pregnant and she would jump him randomly through out the day because she suddenly just wanted sex. He was almost ashamed at all the places they had done it; the kitchen of their restraint, a store bathroom, alleyway, in Eliptons room...
"Cobra!" Natsu suddenly gasped loudly, knocking him out of his reminiscing. Her eyes were shut tight and she was beat red, panting a lot too.
Cobra felt embarrassed to do this but he listened to his kids outside as he gripped Natsu's hips and pleasured her back. He would kiss her to make sure she didn't scream or make loud enough noises for the twins to hear. Cobra would grunt every now and again but bit his tongue to silence it. When Natsu suddenly gasped and went stiff, getting tight around him and making a shutter flash through his own body.
She went limp against him and just stayed there catching her breath.
Cobra stared at the ceiling waiting for his goosebumps to go away and for his wife to get off of him. When she did he quickly fixed himself up.
"That was... Sudden." He said slowly.
Natsu was blushing a lot and fixing her own clothes. "I-uh I'm sorry I just..."
"Mama!" Aaron called from outside. "Some people are here!"
Cobra stood up and walked to the front door, opening it up and seeing Natsu's old friends there, along with a distinctly cloaked group of people with them. His guard went up.
"Who are they..." He asked, he felt Natsu come up behind him and peek under his arm, being to short to actually see over his shoulder.
One of the people pulled their hoods down and they saw it was Jellal. "Long time now see you two."
"Jellal?!" Natsu asked surprised. The last time she saw him was when the magic council took him away after nirvana was taken down.
Cobra stayed in the door as she left to talk to Erza and the others, getting an explanation.
Out of all the hooded figures three of them left the group and approached Cobra. He ignored them, uninterested, as he kept his eye on his twins.
"They look like you."
Cobras head shot to the closest hooded figure. With his kind of hearing it wasn't easy to forget certain voices, even if he hasn't actually heard them in a long long time.
"Midnight?" He asked dumbstruck.
The stranger grabbed his hood and pulled it down revealing the feminine looking man who was a member of his old guild hall. "Good to know you still recognize my voice."
Cobras eye flicked to the other two people who reveled themselves to be Angel and Racer.
"What... The hell are you doing here." He said keeping the surprise out of his voice.
"A few things happened." Racer said with a smirk on his face.
Angel punched the snake tamer in the arm, he mockingly gasped and rubbed the spot. "We've been looking everywhere for you jerk!"
"Sorry..." Cobra apologized, still confused.
"Sorry wont cut it!" Angel pouted. "Almost fourteen years we've been looking for you, you idiot. You couldn't send us a letter or anything!"
"How do you expect me to do that?!" Cobra sweat dropped. "You were in jail!"
"Not recently" Midnight informed. "After we got out of jail and tried 'taking over the world again' we lost."
"Thanks to Fairy Tail, as usual." Racer scoffed.
Midnight continued. "Jellal came to us. Offered us help."
"We mainly joined up with him to find you." Angel said waving an arm. "And turns out we did."
"Where have you been this whole time?" Racer asked.
Cobra scratched the back of his head. "Ah, well..." He did a run down of what happened... The dark guild taking him from his jail cell, the torture he wet through with Natsu, the change from him to her, the escape and then the freedom. Oh the Freedom...
"You've been in hiding." Midnight summed up.
"Yeah..." Cobra sighed, leaning against the door frame. "We mainly did it because we were sick and tired of magic. Kept us off the grid too. But now were here helping Natsu's old guild."
They all glanced to the pink haired female as she chatted away with Meredy and Ur, Aaron in her arms. Cobra could hear them talking about how Ur can increase their magic somehow. A tug on his pants brought his attention down. Little Erik was there, chewing on the edge of his finger.
"Papa who's are these people?"
Cobra ruffled his hair. "These are my old friends."
"Old friends?" Angel snapped playfully. "As far as I know we still ARE friends!"
Cobra chuckled. "They are my friends" he repeated.
Erik looked up at the adults and eyed them with his big onyx eyes. Angel cooed.
"Oh Cobra he's such a cutie!" She swooned. "You make adorable babies!"
Cobra blushed in embarrassment and glance to the side, but he couldn't help the pride that swelled in his chest at her statement.
Racer bent down to the kids level and patted his head. "He's like your clone. Looks just like you did when we first met."
Erik scrunched his eyes as his hair got ruffled more. He pushed Racers hand away with a pout.
"What's his name?" Midnight asked.
"Erik junior." Cobra said a little shyly.
"You named him after yourself?" Racer chuckled. "A little full of yourself to do that, eh?"
Cobra flushed and half snapped at him in annoyance. "No! That's not why at all! I don't use the name anymore so I thought why not give it to him! It was Natsu's idea anyway..."
"Sure it was." Racer teased.
"What about the other cutie?" Angel asked casting a glance to the pink haired kid who clung to his mother.
"That's Aaron."
"Which one is older?" Midnight asked curiously, watching the other child.
"Technically Erik is. But their twins." Cobra said.
"So cute." Angel said again. All three boys sweat dropped at her. "Hey Cobra, don't you find it weird how your married to Natsu?"
"What are you talking about." Cobra dead panned.
"Well, you know, a former enemy. A former BOY. How did you fall in love with that?"
Cobras expression fell insantly, looking disappointed or upset. "What should her previous gender matter. She gave up her body for me, it's my fault he became a she so I won't hold it against her at all if she chooses to stay a girl. I'm more than glad with how she is."
Angel held up her hands in surrender, getting his point. "You really love her."
"Of course I do." Cobra said. "She's my wife, the mother of my children." He pulled Erik a little closer to him. "And she was the only thing keeping me sane in that god forsaken guild."
The three glance between each other. "You know Cobra..." Midnight started. "We have... Information..."
Cobra's eye dilated instantly. Knowing what they were talking about. "Erik... Go to your mother."
The child glanced up at his father confused. "But papa-"
"Just do it..." Cobra said gently. "I have to talk to my friends in private."
Deflated, the six year old waddled over to his mom who greeted him with a kiss on his head. He talked to Natsu who then glanced to Cobra. She saw the look on his face and looked worried.
'It's okay.' He projected his thoughts to her. 'I'll be a moment.'
He looked back to the old Orecion seis members. "What do you know."
Midnight took on a serious expression, as did Racer and Angel. "Well, for starters that guild that took you is called Dragon heart. It's a dark guild rising in the ranks in the underworld."
"Their obsessed with Dragons." Racer said. "It's almost creepy."
"They figured out that when you use dragon skating magic enough..." Angel paused. "You will turn into a dragon."
Cobra's eye widened. "What..."
"We don't know if that's actually true or not." Midnight said quickly. "It's only a rumor. But they wanted to test it... So they got as many dragon slayers as they could find. We also know they are still out there... And still looking for dragon slayers."
"They tortured us..." Cobra said grinding his teeth together in rage. He could feel his canines growing, wanting to sink into flesh eagerly and his own poison dripping down in chin. "They wanted us to give them magic just so they could see if their throws was TRUE?! And their still put there?!"
They could see the the building up in Cobra and everyone looked over. Erza recognizing the look in his eyes easily.
"Natsu..." She muttered drawing the Pinkette's attention.
Midnight put a hand on his shoulder. "Cobra, calm down."
"How can I fucking calm down." He snapped furiously. "Those god damned people are out there." His hand shot out blindly and grabbed Midnight by the front of his shirt. "They are out there and they are looking for us. Me and my wife are about to throw ourselves right into public and expose ourselves along with half of the dragon slayers out there. They are going to FIND US!" He started screaming.
Natsu put Aaron down and told Lucy to watch them. She hurried over to Cobra who was still shouting in Midnights face.
"My family is in danger now!"
"Cobra-" Angel started but Natsu beat her to it. The pinkette rushed over and grabbed Cobra's arm, her warm touch made him let go instantly and Cobra froze. Panting in place and staring at nothing. The woman hugged his arm and put a hand to his cheek.
"Cobra it's okay... Our family is fine... We're all right here and were going to stay together no one is going to hurt us." She said soothingly.
"Cobra." Jellal said coming over with everyone else. "I understand your protectiveness. Having... Been threw what you have... But we, Crime Sorcery are here for three reason. One, to help fairy tail in anyway they made need. Two, to search of traces of dark magic."
"And to protect all of the dragon slayers from any prying eyes." Midnight said before Jellal could get it out. "We are your friends Cobra. We will protect you, your wife, and your sons."
Cobra started to calm down at that. His outbursts were happening much more frequently now as it was something he didn't exactly like... He closed his eye Nd took a deep breathe, relaxing. He was among friends and family. He was safe."
"Cobra..." Ezra's voice came in. He opened his eye and glance to her. She bowed her head along with Gray and Lucy. "We can't express how sorry we are for what we did to you before. We had no idea how it would affect you and we didn't know we resembled those who took you away. Pleasure forgive us we did it with the best intentions."
Cobra sighed. "I forgive you..."
They stood strait again, smiling.
"Why are you all here anyway?"
Ur grinned at that. "About that..."
"Guuuuaaaaahhhhh...!" Cobra groaned in pain. His back arching off the ground and his nails digging into the dirt of his back yard. Natsu was in the same condition along with the other people here from fairy tail. Strange glyphs written all over their bodies as Ur held one of her time spheres and over looked her magic.
"Your doing good guys... Almost there..." She said giving them a nervous smile.
Aaron and Erik sat on the ground near by. Angel fawning over the both of them.
"What's that lady doing to momma and papa?" Aaron asked.
Angel ruffled his hair affectionately. "She's making them stronger!"
"But it looks like it hurts..."
"Power comes at a price kid..." Racer said from behind them.
Erik was watching with interest, pulling at the grass absentmindedly. "Anyone can learn magic right?"
"That's right." Midnight said.
"Even me?"
"Even you." The dark haired man smiled kindly down at the maroon haired child who smiled back at him. "Though I think if you want to learn you should ask your father to teach you."
"Okay!" Erik asked excitedly, resembling Natsu as he did so.
"I'll learn too!" Aaron said raising a hand.
"You two are just to cute!" Angel said snatching them up. "We're gonna be part of your family now! Call me Aunt Angel! And these are Uncle Racer and Uncle Midnight!"
"Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use out real names for the kids?" Midnight asked.
Angel pouted. "Hmmm I suppose so..."
The twins looked at her confused and se smiled. "I take that back. I'm Aunt Sorano. And their Uncles McBeth and Simon."
Racer made a face at hearing his first real name.
"Don't pout." Midnight said chuckling. "Times have changed. We have no real need to hide our names anymore."
"I've just gotten used to Racer."
"Uncle Simon." Aaron said looking up at him. The man looked down and hummed at him. "I like your hair."
Racer blushed, embarrassed and looked away. His other two friends laughed at him.
Cobra smiled through the pain he was going through as he watched them. His family had grown a little with his brothers and sister now part of it. His family was surly safe.