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

Chapter XVI - Three of our newcomers

"I'm such an idiot.", Charle muttered softly to herself next to me.

I can not argue with that, I answered her in thought, but I did not speak it out loud. It would have been stupid of me to start a quarrel with the cat again, because she seemed to be already completely dissolved.

"You're not to blame, Charle.", Lucy tried to cheer her up a bit.

"I should have recognized immediately what was going through her head and should have done something against it.", the cat held against it, "I should not have agreed with the splitting!".

I rolled my eyes slightly. That's how it went for a while now. After unsuccessfully scouring the area for Wendy, we hurried to the nearest town as fast as possible and boarded the next train. Now we were on the way to Sabertooth. Maybe we made it in time and would find Wendy there. However, we had already lost precious time by searching for her.

"I'm a bad friend.", Charle whined next to me until I finally could not stand it anymore. My head whirled towards her in an instant and I looked into her wet eyes. Startled, she looked up as she saw my movement.

"Now stop it.", I grumbled, looking at her seriously, "Your self-pity does not help us now either. Now it is like that and we have to live with the consequences. None of us could have predicted that Wendy would come up with such a stupid idea. So get your shit together and do your best so we can find Wendy in time.".

Her eyes widened slightly and for the first time she did not look as if she would like to scratch my eyes out right now. I had probably shaken something in her, for now she nodded slowly and wiped a single tear from her cheek with her little paw.

"You're right.", she agreed meekly and with a snort, I turned away from her again. Of course, I had already been tormented by similar thoughts as Charle, but after some time I had called back to my senses, because to blame oneself all the time brought nothing to anyone.

It was a strange train ride, because neither did Natsu complain about his travel sickness, nor did he and Gray argue. Also Lucy, Erza and Happy were quite silent, because each one of us had his own thoughts. They were all worried about Wendy, so no one really felt like talking about anything.

After a long journey, we finally left the train and were soon in front of the headquarter of Sabertooth. I had to admit that I was slightly impressed. Surrounded by some mountains and rocky ground, a large and imposing stone building was enthroned, which was decorated by large and bright banners. On these banners was the guild symbol: a white skull of a sabre-toothed tiger with a wide-open mouth. As far as I could see, the guild consisted of a large complex of different buildings connected to each other. Numerous windows and ornate pillars lined the estate and in the center stood the huge statue of a proud sabre-toothed tiger. The stone animal stretched itself in an imposing pose and had, like the guild symbol itself, opened its mouth wide. The sculpture looked so real and lifelike that it was thought that the animal would leap forward a moment and roar loudly and majestically into the distance.

We headed purposefully toward the huge stone door that led us to the interior of the guild. In a large and bright hall we stopped and looked around briefly. Unlike Fairy Tail, one was not immediately in the gregarious hall, but seemed to enter a kind of entrance hall. A few members of Sabertooth walked around here and disappeared behind several doors or looked at us curiously.

"Well, well. Does not Fairy Tail have their own guild quarter or why are fairies appearing here all the time?", suddenly a voice said. Almost at the same time our eyes shot up to the large and wide staircase that led to the next floor. Up there stood a young, tall man, who looked down at us with a cheeky grin on his face and then walked slowly down the stairs.