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

Chapter XI - I have my two strong boys

As soon as we handed over the four kidnappers to Eren, who had taken them into custody with a considerable amount of satisfaction, we had left again. There was no time to waste because in two days we had to be in the deserted village Rose to meet Ripper.

In my opinion, this name alone does not bode well for this person, for what good-natured person would give himself such a code name? And then there was someone who was brash, or stupid enough, to hire such amateurs as these four kidnappers. In addition, my instincts told me that we would certainly not have an easy time with the person called Ripper.

As we were already in the south of the kingdom of Fiore, luckily it was not a very long way to this fishing village. However, we did not manage to get there by train, because our destination was quite isolated from any civilization, so we had to walk around the area for a while, until we came upon the first dilapidated houses.

The seagulls became more numerous again and a salty smell of the sea was in the air. That meant we were finally at the finish. The path we had taken consisted only of a beaten track and now led us in the middle of some dilapidated and partly collapsed houses. Some plants were already overgrowing these remnants, and here and there a hare ran among the rubble, suggesting that this village had not been inhabited for a long time. Briefly, I wondered what had happened here, because there was almost no house that was still fully preserved. It almost seemed as if a whirlwind had swept through this place and turned it from one day to the next into a ghost village. What had happened to the former residents?

But these questions did not interest us now. We were here for one reason only: to meet Ripper. However, with a glance at my comrades, I sensed that they had similar questions and thoughts as I had. And even if I did not like to admit it, but somehow there was a certain weird aura here in this place. It was hard to explain, but it was almost as if a dark omen hovered over this deserted village.

"If the statements of these kidnappers are correct, then Ripper would have to show up tonight.", Erza broke the ghostly silence. She led our small group and finally stood with her arms crossed in a place that used to be the village center.

"A fitting meeting place for someone who calls himself Ripper.", Gray said coolly and looked around.

"Well, I think it's a bit scary.", Lucy said, instinctively taking a step closer to Natsu. As always, he looked quite unimpressed and just grinned cheekily.

"What's up, Lucy? Do you think this is where the ghosts of the former villagers are haunting?", he grinned, raising his hands threateningly. Immediately the blonde threw him venomous glances and folded her arms slightly offended.

"Stop it, Natsu.", she reprimanded him, but he just grinned wider and started making howling ghost sounds. Of course, Happy immediately agreed and it was not long before the two chased a screaming Lucy between the houses, pretending they were two ghosts. I rolled my eyes annoyed. Could not they even be serious?

"Well, I think it's pretty scary, too.", Wendy murmured quietly next to me and looked around a little anxiously.

"You do not have to be scared, Wendy.", Erza said to her in a strong voice and smiled at her, "Ghosts and such things don't exist.". Although the girl next to me nodded, but she looked as if this statement would only partially satisfy her.

Suddenly there was a loud crash behind us and judging by the sound, old and rotten wood shattered there. We all jumped in alarm and next to me Wendy squealed hysterically. No sooner had I heard her screeching than I already felt her clinging fearfully to my arm and pressing herself close to me. Without first noticing, I threw my head around to see what this noise had caused. Behind us, a large cloud of dust had whirled up where it covered and obscured the view. But when it slowly cleared again, we looked into the big eyes of Happy, who was sitting on a broken roof beam of one of the houses. He had probably jumped on it and the rotten wood had given way beneath him and broken through. But still anger raged up inside me. Did he, and Natsu, notice that this was not a place or an opportunity to fool around? We were on a mission and would soon meet the initiator of the kidnappings and these two had nothing better to do than run stupidly around here? And only then did I really register that Wendy was still clinging to me and immediately I stiffened. Slowly, my eyes slid down to her and a cold shower ran down my spine. Why did she have to do almost everything the way Isabel always did? How many times would she torture me with it?