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

Chapter XXIII - A bunch of old scales with teeth

In front of me, Lucy and Gray were talking excitedly about swimwear and meanwhile I was so annoyed by the words bikini or beach pattern. I also wondered how they had even come to this topic because the sun did not even shine.

After we had been briefly in the inn "The hot potato", we had already left this place again. Of course, Sasha and Connie had still tried to encourage us to stay, but we had finally a mission to fulfill. Now we were on our way to the next train station, which was a long walk away from us. At the top were Erza, Happy and Natsu, followed by Gray and Lucy, who, as I said, were talking very excitedly, and the end of our group was Wendy, Charle and me. From the beginning, I had taken the last position in our formation and with a big smile Wendy had just joined me.

In the meantime, I did not refuse it when she was looking for my closeness, but still I found it a bit odd. And besides that meant that I also had to endure Charles's presence, since the two were as good as inseparable. But secretly, and to my great astonishment, my heart had made a small jump when Wendy had almost automatically stood next to me and smiled at me in a friendly manner. Of course, I just gave her a cold look, because I was not even sure if I was really able to look friendly at all. But deep inside I had felt a certain joy, I could not deny that.

"Levi?", Wendy asked a little shyly after a while in which we had just walked in silence. I turned my head questioningly in her direction and looked down at her. A faint smile played around her lips as she pressed her index fingers together. Most of the time, she made that gesture when she was a little nervous or upset, and I wondered what she wanted me to ask now.

"What is it, brat?", I muttered as usual, but Wendy did not seem to be aware of this unfriendly tone.

"Are you still angry? I mean because of my stupid action and all ... ", she said a little meekly and I raised an eyebrow in astonishment. It had been a while since I scolded her for that and now did she ask me if I was still angry about it? Behind her, I could just see Charle, who was giving me menacing looks, almost as if she wanted to tell me: Watch out what you are saying! Annoying cat, did she always have to play Wendy's guardian? As if she did not even trust me to have a conversation with Wendy without her crying in a minute or something like that. A brief, quiet sigh escaped me and with a slightly reproachful look I looked at the girl.

"No, I'm not.", I replied grumpily and conjured her a satisfied smile on her face. But it really was the truth, because I had talked all the anger and rage off of my soul when I reprimanded her, and after that this whole topic was done for me. Even if it really was an extremely stupid and ill-considered action, I had to keep telling myself that she was just a kid after all. A very strong and talented, but still a child, in whose head stupid thoughts emerged. I probably would have done quite stupid actions at her age too, if my childhood had been normal. But where I had lived, every stupid act was like death.

"Really? Oh, I'm so happy.", she said and grinned happily, as only a young girl could do it. I turned away from her again, assuming the conversation was over, but she plucked at the sleeve of my shirt to get my attention again.

"You know, Levi.", she began cautiously, as my gaze returned to her, "I ... I really wanted to do this for you.". With these words, I looked at her a little dark and immediately her smile was slightly muted.

"You already said that. But why are you talking such a nonsense?", I said and could not really quite explain why she wanted to do something daring for me. Because she wanted to see me happy, she had said, but somehow I could not quite believe it.

"That's no nonsense.", she said, slightly offended, "I'm serious. I ... I was just wondering what it would look like if you would smile.". With each word she became quieter and I clearly saw her face turned slightly red.