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

Chapter XXXI - Little brat

The first thing I saw was white light.

Was that what it felt like when you died? Was it really that cliché? If I could have, I would have snorted in annoyance. Slowly, as if it would cost me an infinite amount of strength, I blinked, but only with one eye. My right eye seemed to no longer exist to me. I could neither see nor feel anything at this point. I blinked my remaining eye again and slowly tried to see something clearly.

While I was still struggling with my returning eyesight, the feeling of my body slowly returned to me. At first I felt how I could perceive things on the skin of my face. There was something on my face, no, even on my whole head. It was a brief moment before I realized it was a bandage over the right side of my face.

Then, like a creeping process, life gradually returned to all of my other parts of the body. Slowly I felt my fingers, my arms and finally my legs again. Like my face, one of my arms seemed to be bandaged because it felt just like the right side of my face.

But even if I could feel my limbs again over time, I wasn't quite able to move. For a long time I could just lie there rigid and just blink. After a while, I had at least managed to focus my gaze reasonably well. What I saw was a light brown wooden ceiling, but this could have belonged to any room.

But now did all the questions enter my head. Where was I? What happened? Where was Wendy and how was she? Why was I still alive? I could have sworn I died. It had felt so real, so conclusive.

So for a long time I could only stare with one eye at this unknown ceiling and torment myself with all these questions. My whole body felt so sluggish and stiff that I wondered how long I had been here. But finally I managed to turn my head slowly to look around the room. As I slowly turned my head to one side, I saw nothing unusual. A few pieces of furniture, a window with the sun shining through the glass, and some other furnishings. With great effort I turned my head to the other side and caught the most beautiful sight in the whole world. When my gaze slowly turned to this side, I discovered my little Wendy.

She crouched on a chair that was right by my bed and her upper body was partly on the edge of the bed, only a few centimeters away from me. She was obviously asleep, but dark circles were clearly visible under her eyes. How long has she been here? I looked at her as best I could, but I didn't seem to see any more serious injuries on her. She wore a thin bandage on her hands and one arm, but these did not seem to cover any serious injuries.

She was here with me. She was actually fine! A wave of relief flowed through my body and I could clearly feel my heart make an excited but contented hop. Full of euphoria about this good news, I tried to straighten up somehow, but already failed to lift my upper body slightly. An agonized groan escaped my mouth as I tried to support myself with my good arm. Awakened by my noise, Wendy opened her eyes and suddenly startled when she noticed I was moving.

"Levi.", she said softly and her eyes widened. Little tears slowly gathered in the corners of her eyes, but slowly a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

"You're alive!", she finally exclaimed and threw herself forward. She wrapped her arms around my torso and pressed close to me. Even if this stormy hug caused me considerable pain and I grimaced in agony, I couldn't be angry with her. After all, I was just as happy that she was okay and that I could see her again.

I felt my shirt slowly getting damp on my neck, because now the tears were running down her cheeks and soaking my clothes. I let them have their own way and just enjoyed her presence. I never would have thought that I would ever feel such happiness. I had never experienced such a relief in my entire life. It was as if everything heavy, every burden that had ever been on my shoulders had fallen from me. Just because this little girl was fine here. But over time, it got more and more exhausting for me, because the more tears she shed, the tighter her hug became.