Dinner was hectic. They met both Janua and Samejima, who were friends since childhood and decided to enlist together. And there was Foyfoy, who seemed to keep his distance from everyone, but from what Alba could gather, he was just there to join the military police. There were a few other people there, but Alba couldn't really remember them well. He figured he had a couple years to get to know them during training.

As he and Ros made their way to the boys dorm, they had to walk single file up a narrow path, so Alba went first. The moment his back was turned, Ros punched him.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!" Alba shouted.

"You were so wide open," Ros explained.

"THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT OKAY TO PUNCH ME!"

Ros sighed, so Alba turned around and wept under his breath, "I thought we were supposed to be fighting titans, not each other!"

Ros's eyes widened and he put a hand over his mouth, "Wait, you were serious about fighting titans?"

"WHY DO YOU LOOK SO SURPRISED?"

Because Alba was too busy focusing on Ros, he ended up tripping over someone who was sleeping right in front of the door to the dorms.

"Why are you sleeping on the step?!"

The boy awakened and stared at the pair.

"Well?" Ros demanded.

The boy began to sweat. "Heh...um…sorry." He then quickly stood up and left.

Ros really is scary Alba thought, He scared that guy with just a look.

Whether it was Ros's scary look or Teufel's fear of talking to strangers, the world may never know, but Ros and Alba finally made it into the dorms. All that were left were two beds next to each other, and that would be the place they would have to sleep for the next several years of training. Alba froze a moment with slight fear. He wasn't quite sure if he could trust Ros. He was pretty sure he probably couldn't. Who knows what sort of pain Ros would inflict on him while he was sleeping.

"Why have you stopped moving?" Ros asked, "Are you scared a titan's going to enter the walls while you're sleeping and gobble you up?"

"It's not that!" Alba shouted. Well now he had yet another thing to keep him from sleep.

Ros climbed into the better of the 2 remaining beds, "Ah I see. So you're scared you will embarrass yourself tomorrow during training and be sent away forever?"

Well it wasn't that, but Alba began to wonder if Ros had a point. What if he made a fool of himself? First he would be laughed at, which wouldn't be new but it would hurt, and then he would be forced into some other profession, likely manual labor or something of that nature.

Ros had no trouble falling asleep. After they had climbed into their beds, Ros made a few more of his snide remarks, but soon that gave way to quiet snoring. Alba didn't find sleep's ease. He was determined to do his best the following day, but knots in his stomach kept turning, preventing him from escaping consciousness.

After getting maybe four hours of sleep, Alba was startled awake when Ros literally dragged him off the bed by the ankle and let him fall to the floor.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Alba asked, springing up.

"You weren't waking up. If you don't arrive on time, you get kicked out. Are you an idiot?"

Alba hung his head, "Sorry."

After quickly changing into his orange shirt and uniform, he ran with Ros to line back up for his first day of actual training.

They were practicing with maneuver gear. If they failed, they wouldn't be able to progress. It would be over.

The blue haired girl named Ares easily swung in her's. Hime was next to her, arms crossed and easily balanced.

"Look at me as I've mastered floating jutsu!" Janua said to the red haired Samejima, who balanced so effortlessly he looked like he wasn't even trying. Teufel was nearby, dozing off and remaining perfectly balanced. Everyone was doing especially well.

Everyone except one.

The moment Alba even tried, his head united with the ground.

Ros was next to him rocking slighting in his gear. "You're supposed to stay in the air, hero!"

"I WAS TRYING!" Alba yelled back, still with his head still planted.

"You're not going to kill any titans from down there."

"I KNOW!"

Later, in the mess hall, Alba was nearly in tears.

"I came here to fight titans and I can't even make it past the first day of training!"

"At least you won't get eaten," Ares suggested from across the table.

"It'd be stupid to try without the gear," Hime added from beside her, "And even then it's too risky!"

Alba sulked even lower as Ares boasted about her plans to lower the risk by building a giant mecha thing to fight the titans and volunteering Hime to man the machine, much to Hime's annoyance.

"Maybe I'm not fit to do this," Alba mumbled in a resigned tone.

"How can you give up?!" Ros asked from beside him, pushing him off the bench, "And I thought you said you were going to be a hero! Stand up! Fight!"

Alba was actually starting to feel a little better, which is odd since it was coming from Ros of all people, but he did it. He stood up!

And his arm accidently swung into the nose of a girl walking past, knocking her onto the floor.


AN: Finally posted a new chapter. Sorry these have been taking a while, I've started college, so I've been busy with that. Can't promise constant updates, but I will try my best.