Hey TheHeartlessNukia here!
I'm back with my second story to The Forgotten Wife, it's still work in progress though and I will be taking my time with it while I continue writing my Death Note fanfictions. I've only got a few ideas in my head for this fanfiction, but I'll get more ideas while I'm writing it. I may rewatch the whole of Attack on Titan again for ideas, it will be based around the first season of the anime but with my special twist to it. This chapter is random though, I thought I'd start it off with an Halloween theme. I wrote it yesterday and I didn't get a chance to upload it, but better late than never.
Thank you for the Reviews, favorites, Alerts and to the unknown people who read my story too.
I hope you enjoy the opening chapter, if not I'm sorry! I'm not the worlds greatest writer, I'm more of a storyteller lol
Chapter 1!
The upper world wasn't what I had expected, it was nothing like the Underground City. You could see the sky for a start and then there was the sun, it was beautiful. The streets were clean and the people up here were more polite than the people of the Underground City, it was a lot to get use to especially the walls surrounding the different districts. I've never seen anything like it in all of my life even though I lived under the ground since I was born, it was incredible in it's own way.
I remember my second day of living on the surface, I went to explore the town and I walked through a field to get to the wall they called Maria. It was nothing but stone, but someone told me that the walls had been built over a hundred years and they were over 50 meters tall. Whoever built these walls must have been a genius, I mean how did they build the walls and avoid the titans at the same time. It was a mystery to me, but I guess the walls are doing their job and keeping the people of the districts safe from the titans.
There was a few people who worshiped the walls like gods, they were called the wall cult and they were basically mocked by most of the town folk. I just tried my best to ignore them when they ranted in the streets or came into the tavern I was working in to try and gain more members. It was different up here and there were not many thugs lining the streets after dark which was a good thing, but I will get use to it in time.
I had been living on the surface for over six months now, I could say my life was very comfortable. I had a good job in the Blue Bird Tavern in the Shiganshina District, the room I stayed in above the tavern was big with it's own fireplace and washroom. The Landlord and his family were friendly, his Daughter April whom I worked with in the bar area was becoming quite a good friend of mine. But the only problem I had was Erwin Smith, he would come to the tavern each month to checkup on me and make sure I was not looking for Levi even though I've been given a few leads about his location by an old friend of mine who's seen him riding through the Shiganshina District with the Survey Corps. I had also been asking around about Farlan and Isabel, but they were unknown to everyone around here.
Erwin was beginning to get on my nerves though, I swear he had arranged for someone to follow me around the town when I left the tavern to do my day to day chores for my Landlord. It felt like I was being watched when I was out in the market place or if I was taking a stroll through the town, so I had stop looking for Levi for a while until I felt safe again. It could be my imagination playing tricks on me though, the people up here were celebrating a strange holiday today. It was the day of Samhain and the villagers were getting ready to celebrate it, I've never taken part in any festive celebrations before since I moved up here.
We never celebrated anything like this in the Underground City, so this was all new to me. I had learned it was about the celebration of the end of the harvest and the start of the coldest half of the year. I did hear there was a darker side to Samhain though, but most of the villagers liked having parties and dressing in masks made from the left over harvest. They were arranging a celebration on the field outside of Shiganshina District, they had been moving barrels of ale and building a maypole for the last five days. They had even build stone ovens for cooking meat filled pies and oven baked potatoes in them, the celebration of Samhain did sound great.
I had work until the evening like the landlord and the rest of his family, we planned to go to the Samhain celebration together. The Landlord's 6 year old Son named Jacob had made each of us a mask to wear, he had used colouful leaves and flowers he had gathered from the fields earlier in the day. He had a talent for making stuff, he wanted to be an inventor when he grew up.
Me, Jacob and April left the tavern after it got dark. The Landlord and his wife planned to join us later on after they had tidied up the tavern's bar area, I did offer to help them clean up though. But they told me to go and have fun while I was still young, it felt rude to refuse their kind offer. They always told me to go and get a new husband before I became an old maid like the older Sister of Landlord, they said I may find someone at the festival this evening. Erwin had told them that my husband had been classed as missing on his first expedition outside of the wall, he also told them I believed that he was still alive and that I suffered deeply with remorse. They took pity on me after that and they welcomed me into their home with open arms, they told me they would help me get well again.
We walked together through the town and spoke about the holiday, but what I saw next surprised me. There were pumpkins with candles inside of them leading the way to the giant doorway in the wall that led to the field, this holiday was magical in it's own way. I had to stop and admire the view of the field when I got to the doorway, I've never seen anything so pretty in all of my life. It truly did take my breath away, the upper world kept surprising me everyday with something new.
The field was lit up with wooden touches and a giant bonfire was burning in the middle of the festival, then there was the music. It wasn't like the music they sometimes played in the Underground City's taverns, it was more of a merry tune with it's flutes and lutes playing together in time. I then breathed in the scent of the meat filled pies and oven baked potatoes wafting on the cool breeze towards us, it smelt heavenly.
My thoughts were interrupted by someone pulling on the back of my skirt, I looked over my shoulder and saw Jacob looking up at me with a big smile on his face. He was such a sweet boy, he had short brown messy hair and blue eyes. He quickly took hold of my hand and began to led me towards the festive celebrations, his 14 year old sister then decided to take hold of my other hand. She was a lot like her younger brother in looks, but her eyes were brown and she was nearly taller than me.
" Come on Lorna, we're going to miss out on the fun..." Smiled Jacob. " Get your head out of the clouds before a titan bites your head off, let's go!"
" Yes Lorna, stop day dreaming about Commander Erwin..." Laughed April. " Mother says he's got a soft spot for you because he comes to visit you each month without fail, I'm beginning to think he'll get his feet under your bed someday..."
" It's not like that between Erwin and me, I've told your Mother the same thing over a hundred times now..." I sighed as I glanced over my shoulder. " I'm not interested in him or any other man, I plan to live my life alone until I am..."
" Reunited with him, we know..." Smiled April.
" Wait, I've never said that!" I sighed.
" I know, but to me it sounds like a very romantic notion..." Said April with a dreamy smile on her face. " One day he may come riding back on white stallion from the outside of the wall, he'll come riding up to the tavern's door and sweep you off your feet like they write in fairy tale books. What is your husband's name anyway? You've never told us his name, is he handsome?"
" I don't really want to talk about him..." I replied.
" Oh come on Lorna, tell me how you met him?" Asked April with a giggle. "Did he bring you flowers each day or dance with you under the moonlight, I want to know everything about him!"
" That's disgusting, I'm glad I'm not man yet..." Laughed Jacob.
" Shut up Jacob, no one asked you!" Said April while she licked her tongue out at her Brother and then turned her full attention to me. " They have game at the festival to find out the first letter of your true love's name, all you've got to do is peal some apple skin from a whole apple and drop it into a wooden barrel filled with water... "
" How's that meant to work?" I asked.
" I don't know, but it sounds fun to me..." Replied April.
" That's not fun, we shoulder try bobbing for lucky apples or lite some candles for the memory of dead..." Said Jacob.
" We can do it all, we've got until midnight until the festival passes..." Smiled April.
" Great, but first I want some oven baked potatoes with butter..." Said Jacob.
" Jacob, you ate over an hour ago..." Said April with laugh. " Where do put all of your food?"
I couldn't help but smile while they continued talking with each other, they remind me of Farlan and Isabel sometimes. I rolled my eyes at them when their talking turned into banter, I told them to stop it and I made them walk properly in the end. They told me to stop being their babysitter and enjoy myself for once, if only it was that easy I thought to myself while I walked with them. I sometimes wondered what would happen if they knew the truth about me, but I planned to keep quiet about my past. If I told them that I was from the Underground City and that I once was part of a criminal group they may not trust me anymore, some people frown upon people from the Underground City because they think we're all dirty thugs down there. They may report me to the Military Police even though Erwin pulled at their heart strings for me to stay with them, I just had to keep quiet and continue enjoying my life with them until I got a direct location on Levi.