The Silver Haired Striker
Prologue – Unknown People
Year 845 – Wall Maria: Shiganshina District
"Quiet….. All's quiet in the world…."
There was a gust of wind, and the smoke from a pipe blew with it.
"Oi! If you're going to smoke, spare a puff or two eh?" Said a middle aged man as he set a crate full of steel spheres down on the ground.
"Here" The smoker said holding the pipe out towards him.
"You know…." He began to say as he inhaled. Exhaling the smoke out, he finished his sentence, "It's not pretty for women to be smoking"
Grinning at him, the girl took the pipe back, "There's no such thing as women, or men in the military. There's only soldiers with long hair, and soldiers with short hair." She said as she ran her fingers through her silver locks. Wiping the man's spit off her grandfather's pipe with her sleeve, she puckered her lips over the mouthpiece and inhaled, blowing the gray smoke out of her lungs.
Smacking his lips jokingly, the man replied, "Has a nice taste to it, where'd you get it?"
"A merchant gave me a small box of this as a gift while I was still stationed in the Inner Wall" The young woman replied glaring off at the horizon.
"Inner Wall eh? Does that mean you work for the Military Police?" The man asked her as he loaded a cannon with one of the steel spheres.
She nodded.
"Then what the hell are you doing out here on the Wall Maria!?" The man asked frowning as he stood up from inspecting the cannon.
"I meant that I worked for the Military Police. I said while I was still stationed. I left the Military Police two and a half years ago" The girl replied exhaling a cloud of smoke.
"Now that just makes my day" The man replied as he flexed his arm, rubbing the back of his sore neck. "Tell me, what kind of idiot throws away that kind of luxury? You know, some of us lower lives would kill to have an opportunity to enlist"
The girl simply chuckled, "I know. I've heard the stories of jealousy going wild with the new trainees, but that's not the kind of lifestyle that's suited for me. Those corrupt lazy bastards, don't know anything about maintaining order if it hit them in the head"
"I hear ya' lass" The man said crossing his muscular arms together as he leaned on the butt of the cannon he had finished loading and inspecting, "I wouldn't know if I would be too comfortable around guys like those for too long. Say, if my eyes don't fool me, that's a 3DMG you've got there. I sort of figured that you weren't in the Military Police anyway." He rhetorically joked stating the obvious as he pointed to the large rectangle shaped devices latched to her thighs.
Smiling at some sympathy and a joke, the girl took another puff out of her pipe. Changing the subject a little bit, she said "Quiet day like usual up here isn't it? I wonder how long this peace will keep up"
"I dunno. I'm not even sure if I can fight if those giant walking pieces of crap somehow get in here." The man chuckled also as he turned towards the horizon with the girl. "Ah well, no use thinking about it. Now, if you don't mind, I'm commander of this squad working here, so if you'll be so kind as to giving us a hand. We're almost done for today" He employed.
"Alright alright. I'll give a hand" The girl replied rather sarcastically as she followed the man as he picked up the crate.
"That reminds me, you don't seem like the trainee type." He said as he looked back with a slight grin.
"I've had my share of trouble in the Scouting Legion" The girl shrugged in a joking manner.
"Hahaha! Well at least you're lucky to be alive after a few expeditions right?" The man began to laugh out loud.
"I guess you're right" The girl smiled before she took one last smoke from her pipe. Though it stung her heart a bit from just returning from a terrible expedition, watching many of her comrade's die in front of her, she couldn't help but smile at the man's sense of humor.
At that same moment though, there was an ear cracking sound followed by the blinding flash of lightning. A massive gust of hot wind nearly blew the girl off the wall as she raised her arms up to guard her face.
"What…. The hell…?" The girl asked as she looked to her side. The man was nowhere to be seen, except for the small cracks in the wall that led to iron rope hanging off the edge. She looked down and saw him dangling about 4 meters down from the ropes of his 3DMG.
"Get the fuck out of there!" The man yelled out in desperation.
"Why?" The girl asked as she suddenly felt a shadow being cast upon the entire area. Looking behind her, she saw something that made her gasp as she dropped her pipe in terror. It was massive, it was terrifying, it was covered with eye sickening muscle and flesh.
It was a titan.
A/N: Hello everyone, thanks for reading the prologue of my fan fiction for Shingeki no Kyojin. This is just a preview of my story that is currently in progress, so expect updates soon! Anyway, as implied, this will be an OC centric fiction that will go hand by hand with story of the currently airing anime (With small deviation here and there), and hopefully, this story will be good the more and more I work on it.
So please! Review any thoughts you might want to share about it. Thanks!