He came back the day after and got his name. Deathcobra.

Odd. You'd think with a name like that the creature would have pulled him to a watery demise.

But here he is years later, alive and well, packing an extra treat for his fishy friend as he gets ready to head down to the beach.

Lyzack had wanted to come today, but unfortunately she came down with a virus. He promised to pick up some good medicine for her on the way back home, and he knows she's in good hands with Esmeral, still, he's rather worried.

"I'm heading out," Leozack shouts down the hall so Lyzack will hear him, "I'll be back soon! Don't do anything stupid to make yourself worse, I'll have the medicine when I come back!"

He hears her cough, "You're one to talk!" She shouts rather hoarsely, teasing him.

He lets out an annoyed hum before leaving. He figures he should stop and get the medicine first, just in case he loses track of time with Deathcobra and the shops close, so he heads there first.

After getting the medication he hightails it to the beach. It's rather crowded today, but that's fine, because he knows of a little cove off to itself where he and Deathcobra can talk alone. Hei sure Deathcobra is probably already there waiting for him.

He runs off to the cove, not paying much attention to the other bots there enjoying the sun and waves. Once he arrives he places the medicine on a stone that is coming out of the wall, treating it like a little shelf, and pulls out some rust sticks and high grade oil from his subspace.

"Deathcobra? Are you here?" He yells and his voice echoes out in the cove, "I brought some good oil."

Moments later Deathcobra jumps from the water, causing some to splash on Leozack, who pulls back and yelps.

"Sorry about that," Deathcobra chuckles, "Keep forgetting you don't like the water."

"It's not that I don't like it, I just don't like getting wet unnecessarily." He huffs.

"Right," the cobra eel mer says swimming closer to the cove's rocks before hopping up on one beside Leozack, keeping his slender tail dipped in the water, "I still don't get why you want to hang out at the beach then."

"It's calming." Leozack responds.

"Not if you saw it from my perspective."

"Come on, what could be a bigger threat in these waters than you?" Leozack laughed, handing the mermech a bottle of oil.

"Plenty of stuff. Great Sharkticons to name one. Plus I'm not the only merperson, a lot of us can be pretty territorial," he pauses to take a swig of the oil, "Ah, you did get the stuff. How'd you sneak this past your boss?"

"Psssh, it was easy, Deathsaurus is too dumb to notice anything other than himself." Leozack boasted, munching on a rust stick.

Deathcobra smirked at the younger bot's arragonace, he finds it endearing, cute even, "His wife gave it to you didn't she?"

"N-no!" He looks away to hide the pink tint of his cheeks and his pout.

Deathcobra smiles. Leozack can get away with a lot, but when it comes to him, Deathcobra knows that Leozack blushes and pouts when he lies to him. Though Leozack's lies are usually something trying to impress Deathcobra, so he doesn't mind too much.

"Anyway, like I was saying," Deathcobra takes another sip of oil, "Some of us merfolk can get into fights. I've been in a few myself, I have a few scars to prove it."

Leozack turns his helm back towards the mer in curiosity.

"Like this one," he lifts his tail and points to a wide, somewhat faded slash on the side of it, "That one was from fighting a mermech called Pinpoint."

Leozack looks at the mark with surprise, "Looks painful."

"It was. This is the healed scar."

"So it's not gonna get any better than that?"

"Nope. I also gave this one on my arm," he turns his finned arm to show off a huge vertical scar, "That one was from a fishermech after I messed up his net. He was trying to poach in my territory."

"What happened to him?"

"His remains have probably hit the bottom of the ocean by now." Deathcobra smirks.

Leozack smiles at the mermech.

"Wanna feel it?" Deathcobra asks, laying his arm next to the bot.

Leozack hesitantly moves his servo towards Deathcobra's arm. He carefully slides a digit against the scar, noting how firm and muscular Deathcobra's arm is. Deathcobra watches as Leozack feels his arm and notices his cheeks slightly glow pink as he feels the mermech's muscles. Leozack finally looks up to meet the mermech's gaze. They wordlessly stare each other down, unknowingly leaning closer.

Leozack's lips gently brush against Deathcobra's and he leans back, "Sorry!" Leozack yells out, "I didn't mean-" He's cut off by the mermech's lips crashing into his. His optics go wide with surprise before slowly closing as he leans into Deathcobra's kiss.

This kiss lasts for about a minute, but to Leozack, it feels like a lifetime.

At least until Deathcobra pulls back. Then he feels like it could have lasted longer.

Deathcobra moves his webbed hand up to Leozack's face, brushing his thumb over his cheek. He leans in and presses his he helm to Leozack's, "I've been waiting to do that."