I'm so happy that you like my story so far! Well I'm going to try and do my best with this chapter! Thanks for all your help Dystopia'74!
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There was a blur and sudden the man was screaming in pain. Rivaille's eyes were wide in shock to see the broad back of one Eren Jaeger.
Rivaille was still reeling in shock from the sudden appearance of Eren right in front of him. The man was still screaming in pain because Eren had a hard grip on the man's fat wrist. "What the hell do you think you're doing, touching what doesn't belong to you?" Everyone shivered but Rivaille's shiver wasn't from fear but arousal. Eren's voice was a possessive growl and the look on his face was so dark that the devil himself would have turned tail and ran. It didn't help that he was still steaming or that Eren's eyes were glowing either.
This terrified the man so much he actually wet himself. He tried to pull his hand out of Eren's grip but Eren just tightened his grip even more. It was so tight that Rivaille could hear the bones grinding together. The man's wife suddenly stepped forward and demanded "Release my husband you monster! And what do you mean 'touching what doesn't belong to you'? My husband is the reason you have what you have! I demand that you – "
Eren jerked his head around to glare at her, effective cutting her off. "You may demand all you want but I don't have to follow what you want. As for touching what doesn't belong to you, well who else would I be talking about besides, Lance Corporal Rivaille."
Rivaille quickly ducked his head to hide the pleased blush that came across his face. His heart was going a mile a minute after hearing that but Eren hadn't outright claimed him yet, so he was a little disappointed. He was jerked out of his thoughts by Eren shifting his body a little so that Rivaille's body was even more hidden by his own.
Rivaille blinked and glance around Eren's broad back to see a young lady stand there, yelling at Eren. The Corporal groaned under his breath but he knew Eren heard him because his body shifted again but this time it was to lean down a little to ask "Are you alright, Corporal?" Rivaille moved his head a fraction of an inch to show he was but he couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed that Eren didn't use his name.
Eren turned his full attention on the annoying girl in front of him. He could feel his titan senses trying to push forward and destroy this threat to his mate but his human side told him that it would cause more problems if he did. The girl was still yelling about how 'Rivaille – sama was this and Rivaille – sama was that' and frankly it was pissing him off. But the final straw was when the girl said "My Rivaille –"
Just hearing those words that Rivaille belonged to someone else caused Eren's barely there control to snap. A snarl pushed past Eren's lips and the girl flinched back in shock. "My Rivaille?! Did you not hear what I just told your mother, stupid girl! The Corporal doesn't belong to you!" The girl drew herself up and shrieked "So who does he belong to?! You?"
Eren growled back "No, he doesn't belong to me, either! He belongs to himself! Unless," Eren glanced back at Rivaille and whispered softly "he wants to." Rivaille's head jerked up in shock but Eren had already turned around. He then gave a smile and leaned his head down on to Eren's back for a moment before composing himself. "Jeager, you don't need to protect me any more I can take it from here."
Eren hesitated for a second before relaxing and bowing his head. He let go of the man's wrist that was now a horrible shade of blue and black. Rivaille stepped out from the protective wall of the titan shifter's body to face the crowd of civilians. He glanced at each and every one of them and then said "I believe it's time for you all to be heading home-"
He was interrupted by the annoying girl screaming "But Rivaille we can't leave with this monster!" Rivaille felt rather then saw Eren flinch out of the corner of his eye but before he could say anything a hand clamped down on his shoulder and he glanced up to see the stone face of Commander Irvin Smith.
Rivaille glanced behind him to see the rest of the Survey Corps was gathered around Eren and himself protectively. Irvin turned his attention to the nobles and bowed low "I thank you for coming all this way but I most insist that you leave now. After all we are outside the walls and night is fast approaching we wouldn't want you to get lost is the dark." The nobles all glanced at each other than at Irvin's face and nodded their agreement expect the girl that had been arguing with Eren earlier.
She stamped her foot and demanded that she get to stay with 'HER Rivaille'. Eren's head snapped up and another growl was issued but it went unnoticed except for the other titan shifters in the group. Riener Braun reached forward and tried to grab ahold of Eren before he could do any more damage but he was too slow and Eren broke through.
The girl let out a scream of fear and tripped over herself trying to get away from the enraged titan shifter. Eren hadn't even done anything but move forward but it was Rivaille that had moved faster. He slapped the girl across the face, to everyone's shock. The girl held a dainty, jewel encrusted hand to her slightly pink face. Tears began to pour from her eyes as she began to sob. Rivaille looked disgusted and moved to turn away but the girl's mother was outraged.
"How dare you raise a hand to my daughter, you bastard! I could have you arrested for that and killed!" She shouted at Rivaille, who turned to look at her with indifferent eyes and asked "Oh, well then do it and see who protects you when you need it against the titans." The woman froze thinking about it and backed down. Rivaille snorted in disgust and full turned away from them and began moving toward were Eren and the others were when a voice yelled out "Mother, what are you doing?! If you can't get him then take the monster!"
Everyone froze in shock and turned to stare at the girl. "What did you say?" Rivaille asked without turning around. The girl wiped the tears from her eyes and smirked "I said to take the monster. If I can't have you then I will have what you seem to hold dear; your pet monster." And she rudely pointed to a frozen Eren. But before Rivaille could say anything she added "If you don't, I'll make sure that not a thing of supplies is found anywhere near this place!"
Rivaille reeled in shock at the girl's words. Now he had a very difficult decision to make; give up the supplies need for his troops or give up Eren. Both were incredible valuable to the Survey Corps' future and also his own. Before he could say anything yet again, a new voice entered the conversation "I'll do it. Just allow them to have the supplies they need."
Rivaille closed his eyes and he sucked in breathe. "I can't allow you to do that, Eren." He turned his head to see bright green-blue eyes staring down into his own steel grey. Eren gave a soft smile and bent in a bow "You have no choice, Corporal. The life of one for the lives of many. "Rivaille shook his head "I can't do it, Eren. I can't order you to go with these people." He spat the word like it was the foulest thing in the world to pass from his lips.
Eren gave a sad smile now and whisper "You can't protect me from this, Corporal." Rivaille stared hard at Eren and shook his head "Eren, I can't order you to do that-""But I can." Both of them glanced behind them to see that the Commander still stood there. His blue eyes were fixed on Eren's own. Eren must have seen something in them because he bowed his head and began to move away from the Corporal's side but stopped for a second to whisper something in the man's ear. Which caused him to freeze in shock. Eren then moved even farther away from the Survey Corps.
Eren suddenly turned back to face the Survey Corps and saluted them all and, to the surprise of the civilians and military police, the Survey Corps closed ranks and saluted Eren back. Rivaille tried to not look at Eren's eyes, for if he did, he would never be able to let him go.
Finally the girl got impatient and demanded for her new 'pet' to hurry because she had something planed for him. Rivaille had to grit his teeth to not attack the girl and he was happy to see that he wasn't the only one. Actually, the entire Survey Corps was itching to do something but only their Commander's calm attitude kept them in check but when Hanji moved to whisper into his ear, she saw that the Commander's hands were clenched and showing white knuckles.
Rivaille wasn't really paying any attention anymore because Eren was no longer in sight, having been loaded up into one of those ugly carriages and taken away. What Rivaille was really focusing on was the words that Eren said before he left. 'Don't worry, I will come back to you. No matter what, I will come back to you. That is my promise to you;
My Corporal….
My friend…
My mate...
My Rivaille.'
The Corporal had to bow his head so that no one could see his tears. "You stupid, shitty brat! Why did you have to do that! Why did you have to leave me?"
Rivaille quickly wiped his tears and turned away from everyone to walk back to the castle but he was stopped by a hand on his arm. He didn't even have to turn to know who it was. "Rivaille, I had no choice and you know that –"Rivaille interrupted by yanking his arm free and saying "I know that but Eren is my subordinate, not just yours to play with as you will!" Rivaille whirled around and glared at the man who was their commanding officer.
The Corporal pushed a finger into his chest "You may have just sent an innocent to his death." Irvin sighed "Rivaille, I really had no choice. If I didn't do as they wanted we wouldn't have had any food or other supplies that we need to survive." "We could learn to hunt and forage! We could have found another way, but you didn't even give us a chance to!" Rivaille growled, starting to lose his control on his temper.
Irvin's mask was starting to crack and Rivaille could see he was becoming annoyed, which caused the Corporal to smirk. "Rivaille, your being unreasonable. All of this for one subordinate for the lives of all of our men-""Don't you dare tell me that he's not worth it." Rivaille's voice was a low growl and all those who knew that tone began to inch backward to get out of the way.
Irvin didn't back down, instead he went head first into the storm that was a pissed off Lance Corporal Rivaille. "I would never say anything like but I must think about the welfare of all of my men-""And were was that when you gave Eren over to those people!" Rivaille's voice was starting to raise slightly.
Many of the Survey Corps had back up to get out of the way from the explosion that was bound to come forward. Armin, who had been holding Mikasa back the entire time, glanced over at Riener who had tried to stop Eren "Riener, what's wrong with Eren?" The blond titan shifter froze for a second then sighed and turned to Armin to find that most of the 104th trainee group was watching him. He sighed again "Well, I could sense it when he transformed and when that man threatened the Corporal but it looks like Eren's titan self has decided on a mate." Armin's mouth dropped open and he let go of Mikasa in his shock. Mikasa, herself was frozen in shock as well. Jean stumbled when he heard that, Connie looked like a fish, and Sasha dropped the bread she was holding; where it came from no one knew.
"So you're telling me that Eren's titan half decided that it was going to choose a mate today and it choose the Corporal?" Armin asked, still getting over his shock. Riener nodded his head and sighed for the third time in the past three minutes. "But that's not all." Mikasa's head snapped up and her gleaming dark eyes locked on to his. Riener gulped and plowed on "It's not just Eren's titan half that accepted the Corporal as his mate but his human half as well."
"Which is why he is still desperate to protect him, its instinct to protect the being that means the most to you." Riener finished glancing at the others and then turned his attention to the arguing superior officers. "It looks like it's not just Eren who's feeling protective." Everyone's heads snapped around to see the Corporal's mask of indifference beginning to shatter.
The Commander's mask wasn't much better. He took a deep breathe to calm his nerves. He looked down at the Corporal's eyes and sighed but was interrupted by the Corporal asking "Are we at least going after him?" "No, Rivaille we can't. We need everyone here in case of a titan attack." "That's bullshit and you know it!" Rivaille snarled. "You're just going to let them take him away, aren't you because of some political bullshit! Aren't you, you FUCKING BASTARD!?" Everyone was shocked to hear the Corporal yelling. Mikasa sighed knowing now that she would have no choice but to share Eren with the damn midget.
Irvin quickly got over his shock and was glaring at him now. "Watch your tongue or you are liable to lose it. Do I make myself clear?" Rivaille just jerked his head to the side and turned on his heel and walked away toward…the stables? "Rivaille what do you think you're doing?" The Corporal turned and glanced back at the Commander the then turn away again "I going to get my wayward brat back." He then glanced at the surrounding soldiers "If any of you want to come with me then follow behind me, if not then that's fine." With that said he turned around and kept walking toward the stables.
At first no one moved and then, as one unit, the trainees from Eren's old unit followed behind the Corporal without hesitation. They turned to their commanding officer and saluted him and hurried to catch up with Rivaille. Irvin was stunned for a second then he smiled. Hanji moved closer to Irvin "You did that on purpose did you?" Irvin just smiled and called out to the others "Hurry to your horses men! We ride to free one of our own!"
Rivaille heard the loud shout of Irvin's and smirked but mounted his horse and waited for the others to hurry the hell up. 'I knew wouldn't be able to sacrifice Eren. No matter how cold hearted you pretended to be.' He was driven out of his thoughts by Armin "We're ready Corporal, awaiting your orders!"
The Corporal smirked "We wait and if they don't hurry up I'm leaving their asses." The small group that followed the Corporal looked confused until they heard the unmistakable sounds of multiple hoof beats. Armin gave a wide smile and everyone else gave a smile as well; even the Corporal. But it dropped when the other horses finally reached them. "It's about time you old man! I was about to leave your asses." The Corporal called.
The Commander snorted and slowed his pace down to a stop right next to the impatient Corporal. He ignored the Corporal's comments for the most part and addresses his men, "We are about to start a very important rescue mission and if you feel that you cannot be a part of this mission then tell me now and you will not be punished." No one moved, so Rivaille decided to speak as well "If any of you decided half though the mission that you can't do it and jeopardize Eren Jeager's life in anyway….well use your imagination and I will make your punishment a 100 times worse! Do we understand each other?!"
"Sir, Yes Sir!" The Corporal just nodded his head and turned to Irvin, who looked amused but quickly put on a serious face "Now we begin our counterattack! Our objective is to take back one of our own that was been taken against his will! We must do everything that we can to get him back unharmed and that includes the civilians that have him." He glanced at Rivaille as he said this, and didn't continue until he got a nod of agreement from the Corporal.
As he was going to continue one of the scoots he sent ahead raced toward them. "Sir!" The man saluted and continued his report "Sirs, the carriage containing Private Jeager is approaching from the north and is heavily guarded." "Alright you heard the man! Hanji, your squad is to move to cut them off from the front; Mike your squad is to cut off their way back; and Rivaille, you and I will get to Private Jeager. Understood?!"
"Sir, Yes Sir!" was the chorus of multiple voices and they all saluted as one and moved to take up their positions. Rivaille's whole body was humming with excitement and happiness that he would finally see his Eren again. Wait….HIS Eren?! 'I like the sound of that.' The Corporal thought as Irvin gave the order to charge. Rivaille thrust his horse forward "Wait for me Eren! We're coming to get you now! So please be alright;
My subordinate…..
My friend…
My love…...
My Eren."
