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

Chapter XXX - To protect an important life

It was like Isabel was looking at me again. The same look in those innocent eyes, the same expression that only wanted to say one thing: I'm sorry.

I had seen my little Isabel and my best friend Furlan die then. Was this going to happen again today with Wendy?

An inexpressible urge fought against this thought within me. I was sure that I couldn't take it all over again to lose a loved one. Because even if I hadn't wanted to admit it to myself before, it was now very clear to me: Wendy had become very important to me. She meant something to me and even Kenny had noticed it immediately. What an idiot I was! I wasted so many precious moments to spend time with her. Should I never have another chance to hear her little laugh? Why had I pushed her away so often?

"No!", I shouted at full speed, dashing towards Annie and Wendy. I didn't care what happened to Reiner at the moment. Maybe he followed me, maybe not. My attention was so focused on Wendy that I couldn't even tell if he was following me.

I wasn't entirely sure how exactly I managed to push my body even more and thus overcome this huge distance. Perhaps it was the tons of adrenaline in my body, coupled with an irrepressible desire to save Wendy, that helped me get through to the others shortly before Annie's death blow.

I saw the surprise on Wendy's face for a moment before I reacted quickly. With a violent jerk, I pushed Wendy aside with all my might so that she hit the ground a little way away from us. I was sorry, but it had got her as far away from Annie as I could. But my movement was too fast for the attacker to be able to react at all. Or maybe she didn't care who she hit, the main thing was that there was an enemy under her blade.

Because I had been able to push Wendy out of the way, I no longer had time to duck under her blow, let alone be able to parry with my weapons. I couldn't even turn my body away in any way to protect myself at least a little. The only thing I could manage was my right arm, which I could pull up a little, but then her weapon hit me. With full force she rammed her sword into my flesh, where it cut deep into my arm. The blood spurted in all directions and it was almost a miracle that she didn't immediately cut off my entire forearm.

But while the blade of her sword bored into my arm, I saw at the last moment how the blade tip of her weapon was moving threateningly towards my head at breakneck speed. Since my arm fended off the sword slightly, the tip springed straight towards my face, but it was already too late for me. The pain hit me with full force as she cut a huge cut across the right side of my face with her sword. I screamed loudly and in anguish and felt the entire right half of my face being covered with blood.

As if someone were to turn off the light, my right eye suddenly went dark and I could only see with the left one as Annie withdrew her sword out of my arm, and took another swing. Stunned by the pain and my limited vision, I hardly had a chance to react. I felt myself tumbling backwards and falling to the ground in slow motion. My vision became more and more blurred and I felt my body start to go numb. Was this a reaction to the immense pain inflicted by the wounds on my face and arm? I couldn't say for sure, because my thoughts didn't seem to want to be put into a proper order either. It was like thinking with limited resources and that I couldn't do anything smart.

I saw Annie in front of me with her sword raised and her angry expression before I felt my body hit the ground with a thud. It was as if I was floating in a kind of trance, because the impact didn't hurt nearly as much as it should have been. Had my nerves been that dulled already? More and more blood blurred my clear vision and I could already see my pathetic life go by when I looked into the freezing eyes of Annie above me.

But just at the moment when I thought the fatal blow would hit me, I heard a dull voice from somewhere next to me. I couldn't hear her directly because it was as if they had put tons of cotton wool in my ears, but I would recognize this voice anywhere.

It was Wendy who lifted Annie off the ground with a violent roar of the sky dragon, catapulting her a few meters through the air. So she literally flew out of my field of vision and my head was too foggy to look after her.

What was Wendy doing? She should run away, get to safety, and most definitely not start a fight with Annie! I tried to somehow turn my head so I could see Wendy, but I just couldn't. I felt how I lost control of my own body more and more and could only lie motionless and vulnerable on the floor, in a pool of my own blood.

My thoughts became more and more confused and slower and the noises around me became duller. As the metallic smell of my blood rose in my nose, I felt myself getting more and more tired. I couldn't tell how long I lay on the floor in this state of delirium, trying to remain the master of my senses. Was it just a few minutes or was it several hours? What happened around me? Who was still standing, who had fallen? What happened to Wendy?

Again and again I wanted to close my eyes, but I fought with all my might against this urge. I was sure that if I closed my eyes now, I would probably never open them again. And even if I had always demonized my life and described it as poor, all of a sudden I had an absurd reason to go on living. I couldn't die now because of this small, blue-haired reason. What would she do without me?

"Levi?", I finally heard Wendy's voice muffled next to me. I forced my not injured eye, to look for her and finally found her after some wandering. She knelt directly over me and looked down at me, both arms pointed at me.

"Hold on , Levi!", I heard her say as if she were speaking to me through a wall. Why did she speak so softly? And what exactly was she doing there? I forced my remaining eye to look directly at her as best I could. She was looking right down at me, fear, confusion and anger in her eyes. Infinite pain seemed to lie in her gaze, while tears slowly formed on her face. Very slowly, these seemed to wander down her cheek and fell down on me like raindrops, but I hardly felt them.

She's trying to save me, it shot through my mind. But I felt that it was too late for that. If she continued this venture, her own health would be in danger! Why didn't she just stop? She had to see that I was barely conscious!

And as I looked into her tear-streaked face, the stabbing pain of guilt pervaded me. I would leave her alone, I would not be able to take care of her. Who would take care of little Wendy when I was gone? But at least it stuck with me that she wasn't badly hurt. I had been able to save her from death and that was the only thing that mattered. This time I hadn't failed, I had been able to protect an important life.

I felt my remaining eye slowly closing and the cold around me increasing. My body went numb, slower and calmer. My last look in my life was on Wendy.

What an idiot I was and wasted valuable time with her. Why did I resist her so much at first?

I'm sorry, my little one. That was my last thought before I closed my eye .

Published on 08-31-2020

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