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

Chapter XXI - Something was different

What was that feeling that spread inside me? Although it might sound awkward and stupid, but somehow this feeling scared me, even if it did not feel bad. But I was generally overwhelmed with the whole situation. Why was she crying and laughing at the same time and why was she hugging me so hard? Could not she at least warn me?

For a few seconds, I just looked surprised at the laughing girl on my chest and froze completely in my motion. Then, finally, I cleared my throat and tried to push her away from me as gently as possible. But to my chagrin, I felt myself blushing slightly. No one had ever done that yet!

"Um ... it's alright.", I mumbled slightly embarrassed and Wendy luckily took a step back and looked at me beaming with joy. Satisfied, she folded her arms behind her back and seemed to have forgotten everything that I had just told her a few minutes ago.

"And...", I muttered even quieter, "Thanks.". Even if I was not comfortable with that, she had saved me from a tough situation. And though she had done some stupid things before, I felt the need to praise her for her power.

Apparently, these words surprised not only myself, but also Wendy, because shortly her smile died away and gave way to a completely astonished expression. But then her smile became even wider and she looked like she was about to fall back around my neck. To avoid such a situation, I took a few steps toward the others, making disappear the dagger in my hand.

At the same moment a small white whirlwind rushed past me and fell around Wendy's neck, almost as stormy as she herself had just done with me. Of course it was Charle, who now cried torrents of tears of joy and talked to her friend almost in disarray. Gray also seemed to wipe a small tear out of his eye and grinned happily at Wendy.

"We're really glad you're back with us, Wendy.", he now said and Charle gradually broke away from Wendy, "What exactly happened?".

"These three, Annie, Bertolt and Reiner have offered to help me and together with them we were with Jellal and asked where Kenny's guild could be. I did not fear anything bad, because these three were really nice and easy to handle, especially Reiner. But when we were on our way to travel on, they suddenly took me by surprise and handcuffed me with these magic handcuffs. And since then, I've been trapped in the camp from which you've freed me.", Wendy explained, occasionally glancing in my direction with a faint smile, but I just crossed my arms and tried not to show that she had really shaken something up in my cold heart.

After a few more relieved words from Gray, Wendy and Charle, we also left again. Shortly after we started walking, Wendy noticed that I had been injured. Outraged that I had not said that much earlier, she just began using her magic to heal my wounds. I was quite surprised and did not even know that she had healing powers. This girl actually surprised me again and again.

So, after having no more injuries and no more pain, we headed to a village south of Shirotsume called Dauper. There we had arranged to reunite, just before we had split our group. Since it was in the middle of the night, we did not make much progress and when the sun slowly rose and dawn came, we arrived at the agreed meeting point.

The village of Dauper had only a few inhabitants, all of whom were still in their homes at that time, and the village seemed rather deserted when we entered. Erza had suggested this meeting place, since she had been there before and had told us that in the center of the village was a small inn named "The hot potato". In my opinion that was not really an imaginative name, but it was even close to a miracle that there was a tavern in this small village. And we really could not miss this tavern, because as soon as we entered the village, we already discovered a dark wooden house with large windows, on which a sign with just that name hung.