CoLu Week Day 4: Pyramid

The Pyramid is a stunt or catagory of stunts performed by cheerleaders

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Lucy Heartfilia was the golden girl of Magnolia High. There were multiple reasons for this and it was well known. Aside from the obvious golden hair she usually wore in little girl pigtails, there was the fact that she was absolutely beautiful, not to mention stacked, with straight A''s on her report card every semester, Captain of the Cheer Squad and Ace Volleyball player. Despite coming from big money the girl was not aloof or a snob, but was friends with everyone, and a large portion of the student body claimed her as their sister. She was also well known for rejecting every request for a date ever made. Male, female, undecided, or unchangeable.

An argument had been overheard at the senior's table after her rejection of one Laxus Dreyer, the varsity quarterback, in which Freed Justine had stated that she must, in fact, be asexual. This had sent her best female friend, Levy Mcgarden, whom everyone knew would be giving the valedictorian speech when their class graduated, into a hysterical laughing fit of epic proportions. Levy wasn't the only friend who had let it be known that the green haired genius was incorrect.

Those who did not know her were sometimes of the mistaken opinion that her single status was because she thought she was above the common highschool student. One such idiot had ranted quite loudly, after being sweetly but firmly rebuffed, that she was a cold hearted bitch in need of a good fuck to teach her she wasn't better than everyone else. Said idiot had left school that day in perfect health. He had next been seen in the Magnolia City Hospital ER where he had been admitted with several broken bones, including his right arm, two ribs, and left cheekbone, as well as a variety of lacerations and contusions, a concussion, and denying any memories between leaving school and waking up in the hospital.

The police and school had launched a thorough investigation. Alibis had been provided for all suspicious persons. Lucy as well as most of her friends had been engaged in extracurricular activities under the direct supervision of teachers and coaches at the time of the incident. The official police report chalked it up as a random mugging. The student body however firmly believed the idiot's hospital stay was a direct result of the insult, and possibly threat, to her person that day at school.

No specific person or group of persons was ever identified as the culprit. In fact everyone appeared to be completely innocent of the assault. When asked about it Lucy would simply roll her eyes, huff in an exasperated manner, and state that such an incident would not be repeated. From this response it was gathered that the only people who would ever know what really happened were Lucy and the obviously dangerous individual she apparently had a leash on. Whether the idiot was to afraid for his life to speak or actually had trauma induced amnesia was debatable.

It was Lisanna Straus who uncovered the mind boggling answer to both the Great Heartfilia Conundrum (as Lucy's relationship status was commonly called) and the Mugging Mystery. Lucy had organized a voluntary extra practice one Sunday afternoon to work on a pyramid stunt that the girls wanted to use in an upcoming Cheer competition. Most of the Squad were present that afternoon, but it was Lisanna who finally spoke the words most of them were thinking.

"I really wish they would leave. They are creeping me out staring like that."

"Huh?" Lucy turned to look at the group of people her friend was referring to. A handful of kids from their school were sitting on the bleachers. "We usually have an audience when we practice. What's different about today?"

"It's them. I mean..."

"Lucy, they are smoking!" Jenny, one of the other cheerleaders, hissed under her breath, as if she might be overheard all the way across the football field. "And it's not a cigarette they are passing around either. They are doing drugs! On school property!"

"Nothin' wrong with a little catnip once in a while." Millianna was rolling around in the grass like her favorite mammal. "It's not like any of them play sports or anything, accept Racer and I saw him pass up that joint, and there aren't any teachers here today."

"Umm..." Beth Vanderwood spoke up in a timid southern draw. "I think yer missin' th' point, Milli. Ther's a gang o' thugs watchin' us! It's scary!"

"Good grief. They aren't thugs and they aren't a gang! So they fight a little. Big whoop So do all the rest of the guys at school." Lucy sat herself in the grass, knowing they weren't going to make any progress untll this issue was resolved. "I mean Levy is dating Gajeel. You don't think she would do that if he was that bad do you?"

"Yes! Juvia has been friends with Gajeel since Juvia was a baby and Juvia trusts him!"

"Bickslow is weird, but he isn't dangerous. He just loves to have fun. And you all know Erza would flip a lid if she heard you call Jellal creepy. Mopey sure, because that's a fact, but tattoos, piercings, and a skateboard don't make you an evil person you know."

"But..." Chelia raised her hand a little to draw attention to her question. "The Sies..."

"Ugh!" Lucy let herself fall flat on her back in the grass. "Is literally a club they made up when they were kids. Racer takes his athletic career to seriously to get into trouble. Angel and Flare are a little... different, but once you get to know them they are sweet. Midnight is a musicians. He plays in Mira's band with Gajeel. That just about gives him a good excuse for anything odd he does. It's an art thing."

"Yeah. Hugs and cuddles and fuzzy kittens." Kagura, ever the pessimist, rolled her eyes. "Next you will be telling us Cobra knits baby blankets in his spare time." Lucy giggled.

"I would never tell anyone that, even if he did, which he doesn't."

"He's so scary!" Wendy, their youngest, squeaked. "They say he lost his eye in a street fight. He killed the guy who did it with the same knife that cut his face!" Lucy let out a frustrated sigh.

"It was a violin string." There were horrified gasps from the other girls.

"He killed someone with a string?!"

"What? No! He was tuning his violin and the string snapped. That's how he lost his eye. It had nothing to do with brawls or knives or anything like that. At least not that time..."

"Not that time?" Lisanna was eyeing her Lucy suspiciously. "You seem to know an awful lot about these guys." Lucy blushed.

"Wait!" Wendy seemed to have forgotten her terror for a moment. "Cobra Dragao plays the violin?" There was a moment of profound silence before Jenny whispered.

"Really? He's still super scary, but I bet that would be sexy to watch." Lucy just grinned.

"So, Lucy," Lisanna was eager to steer the conversation back to where it had started. "You know so much about them, why are they here and can you make them leave?" Lucy groaned.

"They are here because they are overprotective pack animals and Erik won't accept that I can walk the 6 blocks home by myself without getting attacked." Lisanna looked over at the bleachers and counted. Two crazy girls, two tall bluenettes, two guys sporting the monochrome look, the shady trach star, and Cobra the Mag High bogeyman. Eight people, none of them named Erik. She opened her mouth to ask about it but wasn't able to beat out Chelia.

"You walk home all the time and you are fine. Why would someone attack you?"

"Remember that jerk who yelled at me a while back?"

"Th' one who got sent t' th' hospital?" Beth was the only one candid enough to say it.

"Yeah. He got out of the hospital this week." Gasps and cries of fear escaped the girls.

"Oh, Mavis!" Jenny sounded terrified. "Was he with them? Are they here for revenge?" Lucy picked her head up and stared at her as if she had suddenly started eating grass.

"No! On both counts. What is wrong with you people? Erik is afraid the idiot will still come after me again. I told him I was pretty sure he learned his lesson last time, but he is a paranoid bastard so he is walking me home, and the others didn't have anything better to do this afternoon so that's why they are here too. Because they are a pack of paranoid animals. It's ridiculous and complete overkill. It's not like Erik didn't keep me perfectly safe without their help last time..." Lisanna couldn't take it anymore. She slammed her hands on the ground and practically screamed.

"Who is Erik?" The girls all blinked at Lisanna, before turning to stare expectantly at Lucy, who blushed. They were so focused on their squad captain none of them noticed the approach of a legendarily dangerous maroon haired junior.

"Her boyfriend." Wendy almost passed out in terror. Cobra just looked down at Lucy with a remarkably blank expression. Jenny wasn't the only girl who released a betrayed wail.

"Lucy! You have a boyfriend? When did this happen? Who is it? Why did we not know? Where did you meet him?" Lisanna slapped a hand over Jenny's mouth and tried very hard not to act as afraid of Cobra as she was.

"How long have you had a boyfriend, Lucy?" Lucy blushed before she spoke in a voice so quiet it was almost a whisper.

"Almost two weeks..." Cobra snorted.

"Officially." Lisanna glanced at him and thought she might have seen the faintest hint of laughter in his eye. She let the wheels spin in her head for a moment.

"Lucy Heartfilia. How long have you and this Erik been romantically inclined toward each other?"

"Now that's a very good question, Airhead. Two points for you. Wanna answer Airhead's question, Goldilocks?" Lucy turned red and hid her face behind her hands. Cobra smirked. It was the kind of smirk that everyone at school said ment he was thinking about eviscerating someone. "Fourth grade. That's, what, six years for you, right babe?" Lucy squeaked and nodded behind her hands. Lisanna's anger over the way he was addressing her friend gave her the courage to glare at him. Not that she was happy about being called stupid herself. "Course you are still a year behind. Seven if you really count all the waiting. You know you aren't getting anything else done today, right?" Lucy nodded again and peeked through her fingers at the boy standing over her. Lisanna's jaw dropped when for a moment a real-life, honest-to-Mavis smile flashed across Cobra's face. She had never seen him look anything outside of the parameters of board-as-shit and pissed-the-hell-off. "Take your time. I'm good with waiting." He wandered back over to the Social misfit club laying all over the bleachers like discarded laundry.

Lisanna glanced between Lucy and Cobra a couple times before something clicked in her head. Six Years, seven years. She was a year behind. He was ok waiting. Cobra was a junior. Lucy was a sophomore. Lucy's 'Erik' had protected her from the idiot who had apparently been stupid enough come after her and was still doing so. 'Erik' was here.

"Oh my Mavis in a pop top tin can! You are dating Cobra Dragao! He's the reason you turned down all those dates all these years and he's the one who put that idiot in the hospital because you two have been in love with each other since you were in the fourth grade!" There were screams all around and several girls dove for their phones. "I'm telling Mira!"

"Lucy, you can't be serious!"

"Isn't he a criminal?"

"Does Levy know?"

"How about Natsu?"

"More importantly, has anyone told Erza?"

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AN: dragão is actually the Portuguese word for dragon.

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