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

Chapter XIV - She seems to like you

The whole rest of the night and for a long time of the following day, we were still looking for traces of Kenny, but it was really a hopeless venture. It was as if he had been swallowed up from the ground. We could not even find a traitorous trail of blood even though we had clearly injured him. But that did not really surprise me. He has always been a master at blurring all traces, giving the impression that he never existed.

Since we were all quite exhausted and the day was already over, we decided to set up camp in a nearby forest. After not long, we had piled a few branches to a campfire and spread our blankets around it. While Wendy and Lucy unpacked and distributed some of our provisions ration, the inevitable came: I was asked various questions, as I had already guessed.

"So Levi.", Erza started and looked at me seriously, "You and Ripper. You know each other, that was obvious. Where do you know him from? And how exactly do you stand with him?". I sighed quietly to myself, but it would not help if I switched back to stubbornness. It was only fair if I told them the truth.

"His real name is Kenny.", I answered in a deep voice, "And I know him from my childhood. As a child, I lived with him for a while.". As I spoke, Wendy handed me a provisions ration with a faint smile, and I gave her a thankful nod. Then she carefully sat down next to me on the blanket and looked at me with wide and curious eyes as she bit into her food ration.

"Is he your father?", Lucy asked softly, and I met her eyes briefly. She looked at me sympathetically and briefly remembered that once she had told me that she never had a good relationship with her father. Only shortly before his death, they had come closer again. But if she now expected me to tell her a similar story and then burst into tears, she had been wrong. Actually, I could not really answer her question, because I did not know the answer myself. As far back as I could remember, my mother had always taken care of me alone. I never had a father when I was young. Shortly after her death, Kenny suddenly appeared and had taken care of me, albeit rather unconsciously and grumpily. He had never said who he was exactly except that he had known my mother. He had just been there. Of course, when I was a kid, I wondered if Kenny was my dad. But I had never dared to ask him about it, the fear of rejection was too great. And no matter if he really was my father or not, I'd seen a father figure in him a long time ago, which was one of the reasons why I wanted to get recognition from him. But when he had just left, that dream, that idea, fell like a broken house.

"No.", I just said. I did not want the others to know that I did not know it myself, because that would only have caused speculation.

"But that's probably why he uses exactly the same magic as you, right?", Gray asked, speaking a little with his mouth full as he started eating as well. Somewhat disgusted, I grimaced, but nodded weakly.

"It was him who taught me this magic. Without him, I would not be a magician today.", I replied and bit off a small piece of my provisions ration.

"Anyway, I'm really mad at this guy. He just disappeared ... completely unfair.", Natsu whispered and crossed his arms with an angry expression. He did not like that the fight had been broken off so abruptly.

"The question now is how to find Kenny again.", Lucy threw in the round and a soft sigh went through our group. Even I did not have the slightest idea how to track Kenny right now.

"You have no contact with him anymore, or Levi?", Gray asked again and I scowled at him immediately.

"Yes for sure. We meet once a week and then have a nice cup of tea together.", I grumbled and for a moment he actually looked a bit confused, "Of course not, you idiot! What did you think? Strict your brain.". Slightly offended, Gray quickly plastered the rest of his food.