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

Chapter IV - He would regret that

Far too short, I thought with a snort. The assignment had taken much less time than I had thought. The beast that had bullied this village had been just a too big boar. Of course, I had to admit that it had looked pretty frightening because of its abnormal size, but that was all. It had only taken me a few minutes to finish this cattle, and the villagers had nonetheless celebrated me as an unsurpassable hero. I snorted again at the memory of how they stood around cheering and pretending I had performed a miracle. I was a little uncomfortable with that attention again and I was glad when I finally got my reward and then disappeared there.

Now I was on my way back to Magnolia. The city was not too far away, so I decided to walk. It also felt pretty good to be walking around here by myrself and not being surrounded by noisy people all the time. After a while I strolled through a dense forest that looked unusually calm. I heard hardly any sounds of animals or the splashing of a stream. Even the gentle wind sounds were almost completely swallowed by the mighty trees and immediately my hair on the haunches stood up. I had always been able to rely on my instinct, which was probably one of the reasons why I had been able to get along so well for so long alone. And at that moment my instinct told me something was wrong. The forest was too quiet, too inanimate, but I just could not find a reasonable explanation for it.

I carefully appraised my surroundings and slowed down a bit. Every muscle in my body was tense, ready to react at lightning speed. My footsteps became slower, until I finally stopped and looked around with a faint foreboding. I had lived on the streets too long to be unaware of what was going on.

Suddenly a big man burst out of a thicket not far from me screaming and lunged at me with a heavy ax. He was a lot taller than me and had a weather-beaten face that was already covered with countless scars. His body was bursting with energy and his scuffed and ragged clothing hinted that this man was certainly not doing honorable and legal work.

Skillfully, I jumped a big step back and escaped his attack, which apparently made him a lot more angry. Now he stood in front of me snorting and held his ax again in the air. From big dark green eyes he stared at me hostile and exposed a series of slate yellow teeth.

"No movement, midget!", he growled at me and my eyes darkened immediately. He would regret that he had called me midget. Shortly we were both completely motionless, each one fixed the other with his eyes, when I suddenly heard noises behind my back and quickly turned my head. Behind me appeared three similar figures, like the one in front of me, each with a different weapon in his hand. With malicious grins on their faces, they looked at me and seemed to believe that they had light prey.

"He could dodge your swinging ax? Is he as nimble as a weasel, the little one?", one of the three muttered to my counterpart and now I began to growl softly. They would pay for calling me like that.

"The main thing is that he has something valuable about him.", another squeaked, confirming my suspicion that I was dealing with bandits here.

"Certainly, but now he does not seem to know what to do.", my attacker laughed dirty and my head shot back to him and I pierced him with my cold eyes. Briefly, he looked into my gray eyes and I thought for a tiny moment to see something like confusion in his face when he saw me standing so dogged in front of him.

"Believe me, I know exactly what I have to do.", I growled, darting sideways in an elegant jump roll. Immediately the four bandits set in motion trying to guess where I would jump next, but I stopped there.

"Blade incantation!", I exclaimed loud and determined and stretched out my arms to the sides. At the same moment I already felt the cool grips of two weapons in my hands and threateningly looked at my opponents. They came shortly to a halt when they saw that there had been formed out of nothing two narrow blades in my hands. Both of these blades were almost as long as my whole arm and were extremely narrow and sharp-edged. A thin dark brown handle at the end allowed me to touch them without cutting myself. Just right, to inflict a few nice injuries on these lousy bandits, I thought grimly, still staring at them hostilely.