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

Chapter XV - Unbelievable!

"I want to go back to sleep.", Natsu grumbled, yawning loudly as he was being dragged along by Lucy.

"Now don't act like that, Natsu!", she told him, struggling to make the powerful guy go. I just rolled my eyes. He was the first to fall asleep and the last to get up. So why was he still complaining that he was still so tired? Not too long ago we had set out to the next town to travel further from there by train. But we were in a fairly unpopulated area, so it would certainly take a while to reach the next town.

Next to me was a pretty quiet Wendy. When she woke up with her head on my leg, she had moved away from me in shock and had looked at me apologetically with a red face.

"I'm sorry. That was not intentional.", she had meekly and shyly looked at the floor. I had only snorted because the situation itself had been a bit uncomfortable for me and replied: "Children do something like that.". After these words she had looked at me for a moment and then stood up without a word. Since then, she was unusually silent and looked thoughtfully through the area. In short, I actually wondered what was going on in her head, but immediately put the thought aside. I did not care what she was bothering about.

For a while we walked through the forest, in which Lucy and Erza excitedly talked about the flora and fauna of this area. It was about mid-day when we decided to take a little break. Although it was certainly not very far to the next city, but Natsu and Happy grumbled for some time that they were hungry. In a small clearing we made ourselves comfortable. As I searched the surrounding area for possible hazards, Erza, Lucy, and Gray sat down on a fallen tree trunk.

"Before we travel by train, we must not forget to send a message to Erwin Smith. We should inform him of our information we gathered so far.", I heard Erza tell the others while I joined them again. Natsu and Happy were already grinning broadly and bobbing frantically.

"I heard water nearby. Happy and I go fishing and get some delicious fish!", Natsu chuckled excitedly and the blue cat fluttered around him.

"Aye Sir!", Happy exclaimed enthusiastically and together they were running into the forest. After all, the two chaotics were useful, I thought, folding my arms. With a quick look at the tree trunk, I had decided not to sit down, because it looked clearly way too dirty. I could not understand that the others could settle in this mud of bark, moss and moisture.

"I hope Happy does not eat all the fish caught right away.", Lucy said and grinned a little. Unfortunately, this thought was somehow justified.

"Then I go with Charle looking for mushrooms. So we have an alternative to fish.", Wendy said and was already going in another direction.

"But stay close.", she was admonished by Erza, but the girl just nodded silently, without turning around again. Frowning, I watched her go. My feeling told me that it was not a good idea to let a little girl run around in the woods alone. For Natsu, that was different. In the worst of times, he would even burn a whole forest. But I was not sure if Wendy could adequately defend herself even in an emergency.

Wait a minute, what did I think? Was I really worried because a little girl had gone to pick mushrooms for a while? Imperceptibly, I shook my head over myself and began to pace slowly in front of the others, because somehow I could not really stand still.

While we were waiting, Erza, Lucy and Gray talked a little bit about Sabertooth and her friendships with some of the members, but I did not listen carefully. I preferred to keep an eye on our surroundings and listened to the sounds of the forest. After all, you could never be too careful.

After a while, Natsu and Happy came back and actually had some freshly caught fish. Happy rubbed his noticeably round belly with a grin, but apparently he hadn't succeeded in devouring all the fish immediately, so that a few were left for us. With a proud smile, Natsu flamed the fish after he came to a halt in front of us to make them more edible for us.