Searching for happiness (Attack on titan X Fairy Tail Crossover)

Chapter II - Is he even a human being?

"Happy! Give it back!", I heard the voice of the blonde Lucy and sighted softly. Probably that blue cat had once again played some trick, I thought, squinting across the room. I sat at one of the outer wooden tables, in front of me a steaming cup of black tea, and looked over at the others. As I had guessed, the little blue cat flew around the room with a black whip and Lucy ran after him furiously. The two of them were among Natsu's closest friends, I had noticed, and they were almost together all the time.

It had been a few weeks since I joined Fairy Tail and now knew just about every member a bit. Of course, on my first day here, Natsu immediately pulled me along and made a personal impression on almost everyone, first and foremost of course his best friend Lucy and the talking blue cat Happy. It had not bothered me that Happy could speak and even fly, because on my travels through Fiore I had met cats like him before. Then the strange Gray came in, who took off his clothes again and again in a matter of seconds and did not even seem to notice. I still wondered if he did it on purpose or just suffered from a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"Happy!", a commanding voice roared through the guild and briefly tore me from my thoughts. Erza Scarlet, the magician in the armor, had appeared and waved the blue tomcat out of the air with a wave of her hand. She was different in some way, because she was more serious and settled than the others. Also, I had to admit that she really was a strong and talented magician and even used a similar magic as I did. You could talk to her on a good and businesslike level, but still I did not really get warm with her.

Anyway, I had never met anyone in the guild who I could really say that I got on well with. Sure, they were all polite and friendly to me and had welcomed me with open arms, but I just had not been able to stand it any longer with anyone. Most of the time they were too loud for me, especially Natsu and Gray, whose conversations almost always ended in a fight.

Slightly absentminded, I ran my finger across the table and eyed critically the faint and greasy layer that stuck to my finger and grimaced. Someone should wipe the tables properly, I thought grumpily and took a sip of my tea.

"Are you just drinking tea?", a bright voice suddenly laughed next to me and without turning my head I glanced aside. There sat a brown-haired young woman and grinned cheekily at me. As always, she wore only a bikini top and of course had an almost emptied wine bottle in her hand. I sighed softly and looked back at my cup.

"Cana.", I said and wondered what she wanted from me again. Cana came to me more often in the evenings and tried to persuade me to drink with her every time because she thought it was inhuman to drink tea as a man. However, I had to admit that it really was amazing how much she could handle. This petite and pretty woman was able to drink a whole barrel of wine and walk upright after that.

"Come on, have a drink with me.", she laughed and slapped me lightly on the arm. Now I turned my head to her and looked directly at her, but I made no move with it.

"Don't you have someone else you can annoy with your alcohol problem?", I asked her and she gave me an indignant look.

"I do not have a drinking problem!", she countered, narrowing her eyes slightly, "But it's about time we both finally raise our glasses together.". I sighed again and took another sip of my tea. I could not imagine that there should be a better drink than black tea.

"How do you even drink?", she asked with a chuckle and I gave her a questioning look as I put the cup down again. She nodded at my hand, which still touched the cup and grinned slightly.

"I've never seen anyone hold a cup without using the handle. Is not it uncomfortable to hold the cup from above on the edge?", she chattered and I had to pull myself together, not just to get upset. Granted, it might be a bit odd how I held cups, but I just could not handle grabbing a cup by the handle and lifting it up like this. But I avoided answering her chatter and only gave her a cold look. But today she was somehow even more intrusive and persistent than usual and did not want to part with me.