"Wait so no revenge?" he questioned almost dejectedly.

She didn't bother to respond out loud she just turned to him and winked with the thought, 'Oh no we will have our revenge, we just have more time to prepare that's all.'

With that Lucy resumed her previous spot in the cage and Cobra walked back into the club to see if he could gather anything useful from the thoughts of the patrons. However, before He could even focus the annoying thoughts of the Bubble Gum Princess came crashing into him. 'Cobra did you just leave the back stage with Lucy Heartfillia! Oooo what would a good ship name be, gah what am I saying NALU is my OTP.' Her eyes narrowed at me in a glare that made my spine shiver. "Are you trying to sink my ship snake boy? Don't make me call Mira on this! NALU, JERZA and GRUIVA WILL BE CANNON, DO YOU HEAR ME COBRA!.' he walked up to the girl and looked her dead in the eye.

"Of course I hear you, brat! You are practically screaming in my damn head. Now I have no fucking clue as to what you are going on about but where do you get off calling me snake boy, you do know that I could melt the skin of your body right?"

Merludy blinked a few times and then her eyes narrowed. 'O fuck me this isn't going to be good' Before that thought even finished there was a sensory link on his wrist. 'No way to avoid those little fuckers.' She smirked rather smugly at him, "Go ahead Erik, melt my skin off."

"Pink Deamon," he growled, " I do not have time for this and what did I say about calling me that. We have a job to do." She tilted her head to the side, "Oh really and does that job include secluding yourself with fairytail's celestial mage, Hmnn? Doubt very much that Natsu would like that one bit." To this Cobra smirked and replied, "Well Flame Brain ain't here, not that he has any claim on the girl."

"No claim on her you say! She is his partner and they belong together, even if they don't know it yet. Who are you to get in the way of that?!" She exclaimed. "Who are you to say who belongs with who, that girl there is free to make whatever choices she wants, as am I, not that we were doing anything that you are implying in that twisted little match making skull of yours anyway. But if you must know, Flame Brain hasn't made a move besides rubbing his sent all over her. If he was serious about it, he should mark her already. Because if his dumb ass waits too long someone is going to beat him to it." He wisely left out that that someone could be him, because honestly just because he wanted to fuck the girl senseless didn't mean he wanted to mate with her or mark her as his. But maybe he would try to at least rub salamanders sent off her, if nothing else but to piss the little prick off. Cobra wasn't anything if not an asshole after all. "Now get this shitty link off me right now, brat!"

She eyed him with scrutiny for a moment but his glare was unwavering, "Fine but don't get too chummy bub, I have far too many jewel at stake here for you to come in and mess everything up." With that she ended the link and stormed away. Cobra growled to himself, this mission was even more of a headache then he originally thought. And just when he thought he was rid of all his annoying teammates he turned around to see Angel's smug smirk. 'Great just what I fucking need!'

"She give you the whole don't sink my ship speech? She did the same with me when I casually asked Erza if Gray was here. She should really focus on her own love life then her fantasies of others." Angel said with a roll of her eye before continuing, "Though I am surprised to see you hanging around little miss sunshine, would have thought all the rainbows and unicorns that must be in that pea brain of hers would have you running for the hills."

"Sounds like you're still pissed about her kicking your ass and taking your keys, or maybe it's because your own sister looks up to her more than she does you. Envy isn't really a good look on you Sorano." He quipped.

"Pfff, as if I'm jealous of that bimbo. Oh and Erik desperation isn't a good look on you either. I don't know why you are defending the little skank but Merurdy isn't wrong you know, she and Salamander will end up together. And have perfect little goodie good kids, why would she even look twice at someone who tried to sacrifice her to a clock. So for your own good don't even go down that road. If you don't believe me just look into the girls soul. I'm sure you will see her heart is already in his hands." She said venomously.

"And what do I wan't with her heart anyway. But I wouldn't be too sure about her and that flaming retard if I were you, she is just as close with that Ice Block and he at least has some sense." He knew Sorano had a thing for the frosty stripper, and at this point he just wanted to piss her the hell off for making assumptions. "And didn't your little shit spirts even say he was interested in her, and what that was seven, eight years ago. I suppose that interest has only gotten stronger." He waited and saw her eyes narrow and then he heard her scream inside her head and stomp off. To say he was pleased with himself would be an understatement. He was down right satisfied, he was annoyed with what his teammates were assuming. 'And what are they even basing that shit off in the first place? Just because we walked out of a room together, if that's all it takes to show interest then I must be in love with half of fucking Fiore. And who are they to fucking say that she and that flaming dick are meant to be together anyway. Like that idiot would even know what to do with a girl like that. She is way out of his league, in both the looks and the brains department. Spitfire like her needs a man not some boy fumbling around in the dark, no she needs someone who knows exactly what he's doing with her.' But all things aside what had gotten to him the most was the way that they implied that the blonde had belonged to the fire hazard, like she was a possession to be had, and had no choice in it. Choice was something that he valued having it stripped from him for so long be it in the tower, under Brain or in prison. So if the blonde bombshell actually did choose the pyro then fine, who was he to say who got her rocks off, but the idea of it being a forced decision didn't sit right to him at all.

The rest of the night went by without incident, not a peep from the traffickers and not another annoying encounter with his team mates. Lucy was still up there dancing in that cage and he would steal a glance at her every now and then. He couldn't quite keep his eyes off her sweat glistening body. He also didn't miss the way her little kitten kept eying him wearily just waiting to pounce at the first sign of foul play. It made him smirk. If the kitty wanted to go he would show him who had sharper claws. The night had been exasperating and he was in desperate need to blow off steam. He wasn't so cocky as to think the little caged vixen would entertain his idea of how to do that, so if beating on someone he didn't have to worry about killing was an option he'd be up for it.

Lucy was getting increasingly tired, it had been a long night and they had nothing to show for it. Last call was happening and she now had two songs left before she was done for the night. She sent Loke back to the spirit world against much of his arguments, she could feel the burn of his key on her thigh so she was aware of how annoyed he was with her. She didn't need him hovering over her though, it would look suspicious if she were to leave with him if she was meant to be working here. Since nothing had come of tonight she knew that they would have to keep their cover for longer, and Loke was her best spirit to use for surveillance in this situation. He had the most experience blending in with humans, and definitely didn't stand out as much as some of her other spirits did.

The last cords of the song played and she made her way down the ladder to meet up with Erza in the back. She spotted the red head speaking with their employer.

"You sure your friend is a guild mage? If I didn't know better I would think she was a pro, let me know if it doesn't work out for her, we could certainly use a girl with her assets and talents here." The man, Mr. Brocoff if she remembered correctly stated as she scoffed. "No thanks I'll stick to mage work really. Come on Erza looks like we are gonna be her for a while we have a lot to talk about." She said as she grabbed a hold of the red heads arm and drug her to the back exit.

"Okay, Erza spill. Why keep me in the dark? Aren't we team mates don't you trust me?" it wasn't even close to the revenge she was going to enact on the requip mage, but she couldn't help the guilt trip she was laying on.

"I'm not sure I know what you are talking about Lucy." Erza was quick to reply, a little too quick. Lucy narrowed her eyes at her so called friend 'Really Erza? That's how we are going to play this?' "So not only do you not trust me, but you also think I'm dumb enough not to notice Jellal and his merry band of misfits. Please do not insult my intelligents by saying you didn't know they were going to be here." She crossed her arms and pouted for added effect and just like she knew she would Erza cracked.

"I'm sorry Lucy you may hit me for my deceit" the red head bowed her head in shame. Lucy tried to hide her smirk. "I'm not going to hit you Erza, but really it was unfair of you to not inform me of who we would be working with, and what information they might have. I think it's only fair that we all meet up now to compare notes since we will be here for a while."

Before Erza could even agree said "band of misfits" stepped out of the shadows. Lucy was the first to speak. "As much as I would love to hash this out I don't think this alley is the best venue not to mention I'd like to get out of these ridiculous clothes." But before she could make a step towards the inn a certain reflector mage stepped right into her personal space and grabbed her chin. "I think it's a rather good look for you doll, but if you need some help I'd be more than glad to lend a hand in slipping those clothes off of you."

Cobra rolled his eyes at his so called best friend, really he didn't have to be able to read minds to know what was going to happen next. You could tell by the way Lucy's eyes narrowed and her shoulders squared off. Before the she beast could even requip into her heavens wheel Lucy had grabbed the reflector mage's wrist and twisted it so it was behind his back as she swept his feet. In two seconds she had him face first in the alley and her maid spirit was silently summoned with magic restraining cuffs. "I'm sure you're sick to death of cuffs, but if you can't keep your hands to yourself I will make you. Oh and don't call me Doll either." Lucy really was not in the mood to be fucked with and in her haste to make that little fact known she had let her focus drop on her mind block. 'Doll! Really of all the degrading things he could call me he just had to go with the one that reminds me of all that shit with Michelle. Who the fuck does this emo think he is."

Cobra raised an eyebrow at her thoughts 'Hmmm maybe she isn't all forgive and forget as she likes to let on.' Lucy caught his look and shrugged and replied with a simple "Fucking with people I care about is different than just utilizing me for my magic. That shit was personal, and he had that coming." She then turned to Jellal and smiled. "Heya Jelly bean sorry for taking out your guy and all but if I didn't act Erza would have sliced him into a million pieces." She wasn't joking the thoughts going through Erza's head about defending her honor were graphic to say the least. Jellal just smirked. "It is good to see you Lucy, I see that you have improved your combat skills and summoning time since we last met." Everyone else was frozen weather it was from her quick takedown of Midnight or that she just referred to their guild master as "Jelly bean" was a toss up really. "Yeah well you know guild brawls and all, can't always rely on my Lucy kick. But it's getting late and we have much to discuss so shall we?" and with that they all walked into the inn.