Attack on Titan (Demon Edition)
Chapter 3: Take flight
Four fast moving figures moved through the market square in the Trost district, followed by several squads of Civil Defense Force Regiment and the Garrison force hot on their tails.
"Get back here Thieves!"
Damon smiled at the haul they got, a bag of gold from a corrupt merchant who's been racketeering off the people of Rosa.
"Guys this is insane! We can't keep running from these guys, they're going to catch us eventually!" Armin yelled at his friends with his face being concealed.
Nick rolled his eyes "quiet Armin! you're ruining this for me!" he yelled at his friend for being a coward, Mikasa remained silent, and Damon just laughed "just a little farther guys!"
Damon made a sharp turn moving in to an alley way, knocking over crates and barrels to slow down their pursuers. Nick tossed a barrel at a Garrison official throwing him off his cable, tossing him in the advancing party.
The crew of misfits/bandits run through the alley way, vaulting over obstacles, practically flying through it, using the environment to their advantage, it appears they are seasoned little bandits for their ages.
Losing sight to the thieves, Damon uses this to their advantage.
"Quick this building!" Demon said pointing the building that was still under construction.
They all nod and run through it, quickly, and quietly, and being as careful as possible, not knowing how stable it was.
Watching the soldiers flood the Alley way was almost too good to be true seeing that many soldiers avoid the building, thinking they continued on foot.
"Suckers..." Nick chuckled.
"What now?" Mikasa added unraveling her scarf around her head and placing it back around her neck to conceal her identity.
Demon looked up seeing the sunlight enter the building from the passing clouds.
"We'll have to hop building to building to get back to our place, if we're careful and quiet we can get there before the sun sets."
"Whoa... whoa...roof tops? that is a little overly risky don'tcha think Damon?" Nick asks with his brow furrowed, knowing that could result in instant death upon one clumsy footing
"The buildings rooftops that lead to our safe house, are pretty close together, meaning we can make those simple jumps, but we have to be quick and quiet or the Garrison will be all over us.. No come on follow my lead. " Demon said signaling them to follow him up to the rooftop..
They all follow suit, climbing up to the roof tops, and quickly begin running, and jumping from rooftop to roof top, ducking and hiding to avoid the garrison, and CDF guards.
Demon spotted a familiar Scaffolding that led down to the ground which was near their safe house.
"There the Scaffolding we'll use that to climb down." Demon pointed at the scaffolding in their view.
They all nod and agree in unison saying "right", then begin scaling down the scaffolding. Unfortunately Damon stepped on a unbalanced board sending him falling down a ten story drop, causing every one to either gasp, swear, or yell out his name.
Armin and Nick had a look of sheer disbelief seeing their friend fall to his death, while Mikasa was on the verge of tears.
"Uh guys...?" Damon's voice called out to them, causing the group to stop mourning.
Nick yells smiling "holy shit Damon! how many bones are broken?!"
Silence was his answer for a few moments.
"Uh...none..."
"...okay...uhhh..did you?...land in a cart of hay?" Nick responded trying to think of a reason he had no broken bones.
"No..." Damon said with a hint of worry in his voice.
Nick furrows his brow "I'm tired of playing twenty questions wha-HA-AHAHAH!?" Nick says as he looks over the edge.
Nick saw that Demon wasn't on the ground, in fact he wasn't in plain sight.
Nick yells out "Damon are you a ghost?! did you break the fourth fucking wall!?"
"Look up..."
They all look up to see their friend Damon floating there...Nick having a disappointed look on his face "you're not a ghost..."
"Yes I'm not a ghost, now can somebody grab my freaking foot, because I don't know how to control this!" Damon yelled as he was flipping out in the air.
The group tried to grab Damon, but none of theme were tall enough yet...so Nick looks over at Mikasa, gets behind her..and grabs her by her hips, which illicit a squeak/frustrated grunt... he lifts her up towards Damon, everyone now getting the idea, rather then just thinking of Nick as a pervert...well they still think he's a pervert, but not completely!...
Damon leaned his right foot down, leaving Mikasa to reach for him.
"Almost there, just a little bit further..." Mikasa said biting her lip trying to reach for Damon.
Mikasa got a grab of Damon pulling him over the scaffolding, pulling him down a bit. Damon seemed to be relaxing as he was over a flat surface however this relaxation died as he fell on to Mikasa, leaving Nick to lose his grip on her.
Nick yelped throwing them backwards over his head, not wanting to lose two of his best friends...in the process hurting his back, pulling a few muscles, Armin meanwhile staring surprised by my strength and how far i accidentally threw Damon and Mikasa...whom were in a ...interesting spot.
Ow my head... !
Both Damon's and Mikasa's eyes shot open seeing Damon on top of her with their lips in contact, Damon quickly pulled off with his face starting to burn up along with Mikasa's.
Nick is on his back groaning...he opens his eyes and coughs out "get...*coughcough* a...room...uhhh.." *plays dead*
Armin looked like he was about to burst in to laughter, leaving Mikasa to sit at the edge of the scaffolding, and Demon to stand quietly by the ramp.
"Lets... lets get back home..."
Nick groaned "but no seriously...throwing you two over my head...hurt like a bitch" Nick complained lying flat on his back.
Demon and Mikasa grabbed Nick by each arm dragging him down the scaffolding with Armin in quick pursuit, not wanting to get left behind.
Nick yelled playfully "mush! mush! hahaha" he has a wide, child like smile on his face... enjoying this moment of innocence.
*Clonk "OW!" *Clonk* "Watch the turns! *Clonk* "Damn it!"*
After a grueling hour, they all return, the only casualties are Nicks back (and face) and Mikasa/Damon's first kiss...
Damon closed the door bolting the door with assortment of locks while Armin and Mikasa worked on shutting the windows to lay low. Damon approached the table dumping the several bags of Gold each member of the group got. The pile was full of assortment of treasure.
Nick who is lying on the couch has an arm over his eyes "is it as beautiful as i imagined it would be?" He asks Damon.
"It is... what a haul... what do you think we guys should spend it on?" Damon asked picking up a coin flipping it in the air.
Nick lifted his hand up straight in the air "foooooood!" he say's with a wide grin.
"How about repair the house, you know because it's falling a part."Demon replied.
Nick laughed "isn't that the whole idea? making it look like shit so no one suspects to look here?"
"On the outside... but on the inside it's well repaired" Damon responded, sitting on a worn down fabric chair.
Armin throws his two pennies in I say we save it up! you know ,for like a rainy day.." Nick rebuttals "that's stupid Armin, why would we go out and spend all this money when it's raining?...that's dumb..."
Armin just face palmed himself, leaving a loud smack on his face followed by a whimpering "ow..."
Nick looked at Armin with an odd expression "Guy's I'm really starting to worry about Armin's Mental health..."
"first he start's talking about rainy day spending nonsense, then starts hitting himself...he must of caught something.." Nick states
Damon rubbed the back of his neck while prying his eyes off Mikasa, trying to forget what happened on the roof.
"So... Dinner?"
Nick sits up "yeeeeaaaah...food...gimme a couple gold coins...I'll go talk to the inn girl.."
Demon poured a few gold coins in a leather pouch tying it up with a string, before throwing it towards Nick's direction.
"Catch!"
Nick grabs it in the palm of his hand mid air...then nods, getting up to his feet, cracks his neck and straightens his collar "I'll see y'all in a few" Nick then swaggers on out of the safe house...
Nick walks to the back of the alley between the two buildings... peaking in through the back window...Nick gently taps the window trying to grab the young girl's attention from inside the back of the inn...she turns around and smiles brightly at Nick, who is peaking in through the dirty glass window.
Nick smiles and jumps back from the window and sits on a crate behind the back door, she opens it and trots out "hello again Nick!" she say's in a sweet voice. "hiya Christa... how are you doing?.."
Christa smiles sweetly and holds her arm behind her back "fine and you Nick?" Nick grins softly and pats his gut "well, now that I think about it...I am mighty hungry...if yo-" she cuts him off by saying rather cheerfully "of course I'll get you some food!" Nick blinks surprised...a bit perplexed..but smiles happily, "thank you Christa...your an angel" she giggles and walks back inside...Nick feels kind of bad now...he originally started this as just a scheme to get food from her...now that he knows she's so nice and charitable...he feels like scum now...but it's for his friends...the only family he's got left...Nick thinks to himself "maybe...maybe one of these day's I'll introduce her to my friends..." Nick smiles at the thought..
Nick sit's on the crate swinging his legs a little... fiddling his thumbs, wallowing in his own guilt... Christa comes back out holding two plates of eggs, fresh cinnamon bread, and Nick's favorite...sweetened rice pudding... Nick's jaw drops Christa laughs "ta da!" Nick shakes his head "Christa..you shouldn't have..you have truly out done yourself.. Nick smiles and bows his head gently "thank you very much..." Christa smiles and puts it on the crate beside me about to say something, but hears her father calling out to her... "oh...I'm sorry I have to go..we'll talk again soon..right Nick?" she gives him that smile that hits him right where he lives...he nods "of course..." she runs in..Nick take the plates and slowly dredges home.
Nick comes back smiling happily holding the plates of food... "all hail the conquering hero! for he brings food from his hunt!" Nick laughs as he enters the living room, placing the plates down for all to behold...feeling..sick to his stomach suddenly from his guilt...
"Wow... Good job Nick!" Damon commented bringing the food to the refurbished table that both Armin and Damon repaired.
Nick smiles softly "hey, you guy's enjoy...I'm gonna go out for a while..alright?" Nick smiles falsely..but the group buys it...
"Alright see ya later Nick..." Damon commented on while eating the food.
Nick turns and leaves...walking through the streets, tossing his coin purse up and down in his hands...he smiles softly when he crosses a particular stand...Nick walks over to a woman selling flowers in bouquets and buys one..giving her the proper payment, then turns back, headed towards the inn...he's going to fix this feeling in his gut, to do what's right, and most importantly, make it up to her...Nick smiles as he contemplates what he will say.. but he runs into three other boys, who are just a few inches shorter then him... they seem like street dwellers, like Nick and his group were not too long ago...they seem desperate, and angry...this won't be good...
the boy that he bumped into yells "Watch where you're going you fat ass!.." Nick takes a step back "easy now guy's...I just didn't see ya there..." the boy's look at each other and smirk... one of the boy's goes around Nick, the one in front of him says "well where you going with those flowers lover boy?..is mommy sick?" he says in a mocking tone...Nick growls "no actually...she's dead, now if you plea-" Nick tries to push past them..but the one in front pushes..Nick grabs his wrist, twisting it backwards, and bringing his knee into his gut, sending him back onto his ass yelling in pain and surprise teh one behind him, tackles Nick to the ground from behind..hurting his back further... but more painfully to Nick him falling forward crushed the flowers..Nick is quickly turned over..and kicked, and punched by the three boys...Nick get's quite the beating, until his anger builds up and finally explodes, he shoves his fist into one boys groin, sending him toppling over, he sweeps the other two boy's legs in one fast, hard motion with his own leg, then gets up, while the leader of their group tries to stand, Nick kicks him in the teeth, knocking him out, then he grabs the hair of the remaining member, and throws him into a stack of empty crates collapsing on him...Nick huffs and growls..stepping on the leader...looking down at the flowers...he loots the other boys..they had slim pickings, some gold, and some silver..nothing spectacular...Nick decides to just go home..wait for his wounds to heal up ,then talk to Christa..
Nick takes the winning's and heads back to the hideout, hands in his pockets, leaving the crushed bouquet behind, along with the incapacitated boy's, on top of all this, it begins to rain...Nick looks up and scoffs, "just my luck eh?..." Nick shakes his head and continues on his way "home" where his friends reside...walking past starving people ,trying to stay dry and warm in makeshift homes...at least some of these people have their families, or most of it, most of the men went out with the Civil defense force to fight off the titan menace... Nick arrives home, trying to keep his mind clear, so his guilt will subside...
Nick enters and sees Damon, Armin, and Mikasa sitting around talking, they had just eaten everything...Nick offers a wide smile, but it is distorted by his bruised face.
"You two actually kissed!" Armin teased both Damon and Mikasa pointing at the two.
"Shut it Armin!" Damon shouted at Armin, though Damon's voice didn't even cause Armin to flinch, as he was still wrapped up in the moment of what happened on the scaffolding.
"hey guy's!" Nick says offering a cheeky (beaten) grin.
Mikasa quickly noticed Nick's bruised face, he was obviously in a fight."Did you participate in the underground fighting again?"
Nick grins and nods tossing the bag of money onto the table "It's a thing ya know..." he say's another lie of his...he doesn't want his friends to know he has gotten into fights alone... doesn't want them to worry... "totally fucked those guy's up...hey could I get some water? wash the blood out of my mouth?.." Nick asks smiling.
Damon looked at Armin with a annoyed glare.
"Armin since you have nothing better to do than tease Mikasa and I, you go help Nick."
Nick smiles...then smirks "Now, now Damon...don't be sour about the kiss..You'll insult Mikasa..." Nick grins evilly, then goes to get it from the bucket of water himself "ahh..young love!.."
Damon's face was turning red from the embarrassment and anger boiling up while Mikasa just sunk back in the chair at the table, playing with a few strands of her hair with her fingers..
Nick noticed, swishing the water around in his mouth, then swallowed "ahh Damon I'm jut playing..we all know it was an accident...how was the food today?"
Damon but his arms behind his head resting on the bed in the living room.
"It was great, though we should've got more... are they kicking up their prices because I gave you enough for yourself too..."
Nick chuckles "that was enough for all of us! you guy's just ate my share too " Nick smirks, then mocks "ahh..the price for being an adult..."
Damon just made a scoffing noise, ignoring Nick, Mikasa got up from her chair trying to avoid eye contact with Damon from what just occurred earlier, and the two are still recovering.
"I'm going to bed... see you guys in the morning." Mikasa said as she went in to the room upstairs.
"Yeah I think I'm going to turn it in too, Night guys." Armin announced with a yawn.
Nick frowns and slumps his shoulders* "you guy's are boring! I just get home and you're all going to sleep!...fine, Damon and i will hang out" Nick flops on the floor beside the bed.
Nick however turned around to face Damon, though he was no where to be seen...
Nick sighed and crawled into bed "night everybody..." in a quiet voice..rests his head in his pillow, and falls asleep.
Damon was in the basement of the house with the door closed, he jumped on a crate looking down at the ground.
Okay... FLY!
As Damon jumped off the crate in to the air, he fell flat on his face hitting the ground hard.
"ow..."
Damon decided to run and jump though even less the desired effect was achieved as he slammed right in to the crates breaking it.
Damon stumbled up running towards the wall, he decided to kick off hoping to levitate, though hit the back of his head on the broken crates.
Damn it... What was different last time?
Damon however was on the verge of giving up, on a ledge a little above his height, he saw a wash cloth.
Might as well clean the blood off my face and call it a Night...
Damon got on his feet trying to reach for the cloth above the door, leaning up he didn't even notice that he was floating in mid air. Damon reached the cloth then realized he was off the ground.
!
Damon in mid air moved his body back in shock, though leaning back in a quick motion caused him to go like a speeding bullet hitting the wall, causing a part of the house to quietly shake.
"Ouch.."
Nick rips open the basement door "what the FUCK are you doing down here dude?!" Nick asks marching down the stairs investigating the loud noises.
"Mind your own business Nick!" Demon shouted back at Nick, as he grabbed the barrel to support himself up.
I am! my business is sleeping! and your business is apparently breaking shit down here, which is interrupting my sleep!..."
"Bah!" Damon angrily waved his hand dismissing Nick, leaving Nick to slam the door leaving Damon.
Okay... Now lets try this again...
Damon spent two hours trying to learn to control on his flight powers, in the dead of night Damon snuck outside to get some space. Leaning up in a fast motion, Damon took flight into the night sky, the ground below Damon was getting smaller and smaller, as soon as he knew it he was above Rosa.
This is it...
Damon flew past Rosa's district and into Maria's wall. Damon's intent was to fly right outside of the walls to explore the world. Now over Maria's wall Damon came to a full stop. Damon looked back remembering his friends were still in wall Rosa, he couldn't abandon them. Damon turned around making his way back to Wall Rosa.
Reaching the Trost district, Damon swooped down quickly in front of his house. Damon quietly opened the door, closing it behind him he jumped on his bed smiling of his achievement today, though the smile was soon replaced by a hateful expression as he thought of the Titans plaguing his world.
They will all die... I will Destroy them All! Every last single one of those monsters!
Next Chapter Damon, Mikasa, Nick, and Armin Join the military taking place three years later.