I awoke the next morning knowing that it was going to be a long day since I was going to help Keith Shadis with the 104th Trainee Squad. I hurried to put on some shorts and a tank top and fixed my hair which was a little less than shoulder length, I put it up in a pony tail some hair still sticking out. I went to go run before I head over to eat breakfast. The air was cold but I was quickly warmed up by the run, after about 30 minutes I decided to head to breakfast then to take a shower. At this time no one was awake, well none of which I knew of, since it was pretty early the sun hadn't even risen. After I finished breakfast I walked back to my room and got my stuff for a shower, I had to look fresh or the new Trainees might think badly of me.

After I was done with the shower I changed into my uniform and dried my hair before going back down to the training grounds. The trainees should be heading there now since the sun had already risen for the past hour and a half and the walk was about 10 minutes from the dorm. I saw that Keith was already there waiting for the trainees to arrive.
"Good Morning, Captain Shadis" I said while going to stand near him.
"Good Morning to you to, Captain Cloud" After this simple greeting the trainees had arrived and Keith Shadis was ready to show them a world of fear and pain. Captain Shadis had always done this thing where he would go around to random trainees asking them their names and where they come from. It was pretty scary when I was first a trainee. I sighed and just looked around.

"What's your name, maggot?!" I heard Shadis yell at some trainee I just looked at the others.
"Armin Arlert of Shiganshina District, Sir!" I looked to the trainee, I knew him. I looked around to see if 'Mikasa' and 'Eren' were here. I spotted them and was relieved to see them alive and well. I couldn't help but smile, if any trainee was looking at me they probably thought I was amused by how Keith Shadis yelled at them. Shadis skipped asking some trainees their names since he knew what they had gone through 2 years ago. This went on for a couple more minutes then he came across a boy named 'Connie Springer' who had saluted with his left instead of his right. Of Course Shadis would get mad at him, he yelled at him saying that if his heart was on the right side and he had picked him up by his head stretching out his eyes. I heard a crunching noise and saw that a girl was eating a potato, Shadis had noticed this too and dropped Connie, heading towards the girl. I sighed he was sure to punish her, I heard him say 'Go with out lunch or run' the girl had chosen to run.

After that they just headed to dinner and I stayed to supervise 'Sasha Blouse' as she ran around so many times you could easily tell that her legs were about to give out. I knew she wouldn't stop until she absolutely felt like dying so I made my way to the lunch room. I had to see those 3 kids again. I hurried and spotted 'Eren' speaking about the breach of Wall Maria 2 years ago. He seemed pretty confident about how titans were no big deal. I walked over to him.
"Pretty confident, yes?" He looked up at me and his eyes widened as he saw the survey corps jacket. He stood up and saluted know that he wanted to join the survey corps he must respect them as well.
"I'm Crystal Cloud, Team Leader of the Survey Corps. It's nice to meet you, Eren" I smiled and saluted back.
"I'm nothing if not honest better that then a guy whose shaking his boots but pretends to be brave." I looked to see who had said that, I was sure that some type of argument was gonna break out, which it did but it was more of a discussion. It ended quickly as the bells rung signaling that dinner was over, they ended it in a truce. Eren started walking away and realized he had left me hanging.
"I'm sorry, I'm Eren Jaëger, it's nice to meet you too" He smiled
"I'll let you go for now, since you might get into trouble for staying behind after the bells have rung" I smiled and started heading to the dorms where the female trainees will be staying. I didn't want to walk all the way to HQ just to walk back over here it would be a waste of time.

I spotted 'Mikasa' on my way to the dorms. Should I call out to her? I thought and nodded.
"Mikasa!" I yelled loud enough for her to hear. She stopped and turned around to see who had called her. She looked surprised when I approached her. She saluted with such a serious face.
"Yes?" She said with a soft tone.
"I'm Crystal. Crystal Cloud" She just looked at me and finally answered after a couple of seconds of silence
"Mikasa. Mikasa Ackerman"
"You must think my names pretty weird, huh? It doesn't sound like it would go very good together"
"Yes. Is there something you need from me?"
"Do you remember me? When I met you, Armin and Eren, I was barely a trainee. It was on the day that the wall was breached" She looked at me from head to toe then she nodded.
"Yes I remember you. You didn't say much since after just one sentence the loud boom was heard and the ground shook"
"You probably remember that day very clearly, huh? Since alot happened with the whole, Colossal and Armored titan" She just nodded. I sighed and decided that I should just let her go.
"Well I won't waste anymore of your time. You have a long day tomorrow since they'll see if the Trainees have a talent for 3DMG" She nodded and just left without another word. I pouted, Maybe I was bothering her to much. I just made my way to my room, it was a small room with a bed, a desk and a wardrobe. Trainees shared a room so there was at least 4 people in one room with 2 set of bunk beds and a wardrobe. I heard a tap on my window I was shocked by this since who would do something like this.

"Crystal, it's me!" I could not mistake that voice it was Hanji, I quickly opened the window.
"Hanji, what are you doing here?" I smiled as she came in. "There's a door, you didn't have to come through the window"
"Well I wanted to surprise you. So you helping out with the trainees?"
"Yea Erwin assigned me to do this since there wasn't much work for me"
"Do you have to stay here for all 3 years of their training? It's basically like if you were still a trainee" I nodded.
"It does seem that way but I'm not to sure if I will stay here for the 3 years"

3 years ago, I started out as a trainee I wasn't very strong but I wasn't weak either. The breach of Wall Maria 2 years ago made me strong, since I fought to protect the people I couldn't just stand around seeing people as they were being eaten. Training for me wasn't hard since I had gone to harder things in my life, but training did do something for me it made me physically stronger. Joining the Survey Corps also made me meet some new people such as Hanji, Erwin and Levi. Levi is kind of like a dark character and he doesn't talk much so I doubt he thinks of me as a friend more of just a member of the Survey Corps. Hanji was like a best friend and Erwin was my commander but he was really friendly. My trainee days were actually the days I loved most since I also met my friend Kenneth who joined the Survey Corps with me, I haven't seen him in a while since we haven't had much free time and I'm helping out here.

"Crystal! Crystal?! Are you listening?" Hanji shook me making me snap out of my thoughts.
"Oh sorry" I quickly said with a surprised expression.
"What were you thinking of that had you all quiet?"
"My trainee days and when I joined the Survey Corps"
"Ah I remember the day you Joined, I was happy since you actually listened to my titan stories, but Levi acted cold towards you well he did towards everyone but he did help you the first few weeks that you were still new to the whole Survey Corps. Then after a month or 2 you became a Team Leader, that was so fast, I guess since you acted fast in the breach of wall Maria and still a trainee."
"Yea I knew I was ready and I'm sure they did too" I smiled and nodded "I liked your titan stories they were interesting"
"It's gonna be no fun without you around since I can't really talk about titans to people since they'll only listen for a litte bit then leave saying they gotta do something" Hanji pouted at the thought of not having me around.
"Ah Hanji you can come visit me anytime you want I'll be happy to listen to your stories" I smiled and she happily hugged me.
"Oh Crystal you're so kind!" Hanji hugged me tighter out of happiness "I'll leave you now to rest since you probably have a long day ahead of you" I nodded and waved good bye as she got out through the window. I leaned out the window a bit.
"Next time use the door!" I yelled making Hanji kind of jump. I suddenly saw another person by her side.
"You should be getting rest, Brat! You have a long day tomorrow and I don't want any complaints from anyone about you!" It was Levi, even though I couldn't see clearly I knew he was glaring.
"And you Hanji don't leave so suddenly when I'm speaking with you!"
"Bye Crystal! Thanks for letting me in and hide for a bit!" Hanji waved before running away from Levi.

I sighed She's hopeless but she's always so cheerful... She was using me to hide from Levi, I guess that's why she visited as well. I wanted to burst out into laughter but I knew people were sleeping so I finally decided to sleep myself. I closed the window and got ready for bed, I basically just laid there and stared at the ceiling before drifting to sleep.