Any time soon was a few hours later. I woke up with the sun shinning on my eyes and the blankets laying over my hips. I smiled to myself after thinking about what happened that night, with what Levi started and I finished. I rolled my head to the left to see if Levi was still in bed with me or if he left some time during the early morning, and yep, he left. I looked up at the ceiling and blew out the happy breath I was holding and in hailed a not so happy breath.
Why did Levi leave? I couldn't think of a reason why other than he didn't want other people to see both of us leaving his room at the same time or he had work to do? For whatever reason it was, I wasn't going to dwell on it now. I had a good night, well, more like great night.
So with that thought in mind I kicked the blankets off my hips and legs, swung them and the rest of me out of bed and went hunting for my clothes that were thrown about the room. Pants on, socks and boots on, I just found my shirt and remembered that he tripped if off of me last night, so almost all of the buttons were missing and a little string that held the buttons on were still connected.
I slipped my arms through the sleeves and tied the bottom half of my shirt and walked out of his room. I wasn't too scared of people catching me walking out of his room this early with a tied up shirt, nor was I worried about being asked questions later about me being seen, cause as far as I knew, what happened between us last night, was I one time thing.
I walked past a few doors and windows, When I past the last window before I got to my door, I looked out of it and saw Levi talking to Erwin. I shook my head and walked away to my door, opening it and closing it to grab a change of clothes and head to the showers.
Walking out of my room with a fresh and clean look, I felt re motivated to hunt down Levi and talk about last night. Walking down the hall I could hear the heel of my boots making a click with every step I take. I made it to the top of the stairs and looked down.
I blew the air out of my lungs and nodded my head "Let's do this" I said and stepped down the stairs, or more like fall down with how fast I went down them.
I looked to the right when I took the last step and saw out into the yard of HQ. "No, not yet", I thought out loud and instead, I headed to the mess hall to grab some food.
It was somewhat full of scouts eating or just hanging out. As I made my way to a table after grabbing food from the cook I glanced up and watched Hangi walked over and sit down with her own food and a smile on her face.
"So, did you hear?" she asked beaming from ear to ear.
"Hear what?" I asked her and took a bite out of my bread.
"Erwin is making Levi pick his new squad", She said and I spit the bread chunks out of my mouth, Just barley falling short of a chunk hitting her in the face.
"He's what!?" I half yelled and saw a few scouts turned their heads to look at me.
"So you didn't hear? Well Levi should come looking for you and you both I guess are going to talk about what new team members you want." She said and took a sip of water out of her glass.
"So soon, after what happened? Well, I guess it hasn't been too soon, I was out for awhile wasn't I? Who has Levi picked so far, do you know?" I took another bite of my bread, hoping to swallow this piece.
"You, Eren, Mikasa so far, I'm not sure who else, he may be wanting to see you before he picks the remaining few" she stabbed a potato and ate.
I nodded my head and swallowed the bread before taking a mother bite to finish it off.
"Ok, I can live with that decision", I mumbled and we both ate in silence.
A few minutes past and we sat there conversing about what more stuff I missed beside Annie being a titan and turning into a crystal. We were interrupted by the mess hall doors being slammed opened.
"Hangi!" Levi yelled.
"Oops", I looked at her.
"Oops? Hangi what did you do?" I asked her while Levi was marching up to us, deep frown on his face.
"I may have got him worked up about saying something about hearing sounds coming from his room last night" She turned and faced him.
Shit, does that mean she's knows? I tried to keep my face natural and my eyes from getting any bigger.
"You damn shitty glasses!" I think she knows.
He grabbed her by the collar and hauled her up so her legs were leaning on the bench and her top half was even with his chest.
"You say one more word, and I will end you", was what he said her.
I was stuck looking back and forth between the two. Do I help Levi? If I do that then she will definitely know it was me that was in his room, but then, what if I helped her? I would be taking her side and not the guy I just boned not eight hours ago, but it would keep her from guessing or thinking anything. Right? Well, before I do anything rash I need to find out what she said exactly.
"Um, Levi, whats going on?" I asked trying not to set him off.
"Shitty four eyes thinks it funny to snoop around and ease drop on other people, then prance around gossiping about it to other scouts starting rumors", oh God, she was so dead.
"Hangi", I said so she's look at me
"Rest in peace" I said and stood up with my trey and walked away. No way was I staying around for this.
"NO! Don't leave me!, I don't want your boyfriend to kill me!" And I froze. The mess hall went quiet, scouts stopped walking and heads turned to look at Levi and I.
I slowly turned around and saw Hangi smirking, I also saw Levi go still then he pulled his arm back and hit her, knocking her glasses off and them landing on the table.
"Ow, Levi that hurt." she said rubbing her jaw and looking at him
"Shut up, for one you didn't hear shit coming from my room cause I was sleeping, two, we are not dating let alone boyfriend, girlfriend. Why would I date someone who is from the same shit hole place I hate the most. Now stop coming up with stupid stories to fill your shitty little head". He let go of her collar and she fell on the ground. He spun around on his heels and walked past me and stormed out the doors.
I watched everyone as they watched him storm away, then they looked at me then to Hangi. A few cadets got up and walked over to Hangi and helped her stand and another handing her her glasses. I looked at her and she smiled and waved 'bye' walking behind herself out the backdoor. I turned around and walked out the door Levi walked out of.
I turned a corner and walked outside, deciding I need some air, I thought and walked out under a tree that casted a nice shade. I laid down and propped my head on a tree root and looked out into the sky. Clouds of white and gray flying by, the wind rustling the branches and making the leaves dance and shake. I closed my eyes and just listened to the wind.
I almost forgot where I came from, my past, until Levi brought it up. He was right in a way. Who would like someone like me? With a bad past, bad history, personality and sucky personally skills? But he was also wrong in a way. He had to have liked me to sleep with me. Hangi has to like me, cause if not she wouldn't sit with me at lunch or walk up to me and talk to me. People like me, ok not a lot of people like me, but some do and that counts.
I grumbled and opened my eyes and looked up at the sky. I've gone weak haven't I? I've lost all of my fighting and motivation on staying alive and surviving, that I'm letting something like him caring for me get in my way and cloud my judge meant. I sat up and bent me left leg and put my elbow on the knee and rested my head on my arm.
I looked over at the castle and saw scouts walking out of the building or going in. I looked around to the right side and saw cadets sparing. Looking to the far left I saw other cadets walking out their newly signed horses, fully ready with tack on their backs getting ready for the first ride. That sounded good right now, a ride, or flying on 3DMG or fighting, all of it, any of it, just to keep me busy and out of my own head for ones.
I stood up and was debating on which one to do. I settled for ODM. I starting walking my way over to the equipment room and walked to where my gear was. I picked it up and connected new gas tanks. After making sure it was ready and operating I strapped it on and walked out the room. I walked the path along the building leading to another path that would bring me to the forest where I would start my training.
"Maximum effort", I said and shot my cables and used the gas to fly off into the trees.
Feeling the wind on my face and through my hair, ow how I missed you. I retracted and shot my cables out bringing me higher into the trees. Nothing like feeling free. I started doing simple moves, swinging from left to right while avoiding trees. Then stopping, retracting the cables and falling onto tree limbs seeing if I still had good balance.
Now for harder stuff. Going as fast as I can and changing directions on a dime, doing flips and spins in mid air, flying barley eight feet above the ground and not fuck up and hit the ground. Still good, now for the last one, flying with one cable. Bring it.
I shot out one cable and used the gas, I was high up enough that if something did go wrong or I mess up, I can catch myself and be safe. I was flying fast enough and flinging myself high enough that I was able to use one cable the whole time. I still got it. I decided I had enough of ODM for naw and headed back to HQ. I landed softly on the ground and walked out of the trees and over to the sparing ring. I stood outside the circle and disconnected my gear.
I was waiting for someone to finish and for me to take their place. I watched and saw Mikasa going at it with Jean and to the other side I saw Eren and Armin. I looked just in time to see Armin fall on his side and ERen standing over him, holding out a hand.
"Good fight Armin, I think you're getting better then last time", Eren said with a toothy smile.
"Really? 'Cause I don't think I am", he said and rubbed the back of his neck with his hand.
"Hey Eren" I said to get his attention
He turned and looked at me and so did Armin.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?", I asked and smirked at him.
"Oh really, and who would that be?" He replied playing along with my little game.
"Well, you know" I said and walked up to him.
"I was a wanted person for beating up a lot of people" I stopped right in from of him.
"Someone like you? A wanted criminal, that's a laugh!" He threw his head back and faked laugh.
"Then how about I show you" I raised and eyebrow and got into a fighting stance.
"I would love to be shown", he said and also readed himself.
Armin was already standing and walking outside of the drawn circle on the ground.
"Ok, ready, fight!" Amin yelled and Eren rushed me.
Oh how I missed this rush.
He threw a right punch and I moved it out of the way with my right arm, swinging it in a half circle motion and twisting my wrist to grab his arm and pulled him towards me and past me, spinning him till he faced me and I brought up my left leg and front kick him to move him back out of my personal bubble.
He steamed himself and came at me again, this time with a right round house kick. I blocked it with both hands crossed to the side of me and pushed his foot back down. He then leaned in and went to punch my face with a left jab, but I was quick enough and leaned back out of the way, gabbing his wrist with my right hand and pulled him to me, while I rolled onto my back and kicked my feet onto his stomach resulting in launching him over my head and landing on his back. I rolled on to my stomach and I can hear him heaving trying to catch the air that escaped him.
"Why don't you listen to yourself and fight someone your own size", I stood up and saw Mikasa looking at me, I glanced behind her and saw poor Jean laying on his face and knees, with his ass up in the air for all of God to see.
"Sorry, you were busy, and Eren was free", I shrugged my shoulders.
"But I see you're free now, so let's say you, number one trainee?" I smirked at her and that only seemed to make her even more ticked off.
"Yes, let's", and she walked up to me.
Why are people so eager to start the fight, don't they know it's better to wait and watch their opponent? Guess not.
She came in hard, strong and precise, a look of determination was written all over her face with every move she made. Unlike Eren, she gave me no room to think, no room to breath. Every move was to put pressure on me and find a point where I'd break. But I don't break, I blocked every move with my own strength.
I came at her with every move being hard, I made my moves even more precise. I pressured her more then what she was pressuring me. I turned the tables on her, she was pushing me and moving me back, no, now it's my turn.
I grabbed both of her hands in mine and brought my right leg up and landed under her jaw, sending her head to go up then I dropped her hands and spun around, putting my hands on the ground, not giving her any chance to recover and lifted both legs up and kicked her in the chest, pushing her to stumble a few feet be for regaining her balance and get into a fighting stance again.
This time I came at her. I got her game, I know how she moves now, I went to punch her with my left fist but faked and hit her with a low right kick hitting her in the side. She sent her own kick and I blocked it my left leg and went in to punch her in the stomach but she blocked me.
She went to lean in for her own attack but I took a half step back making a bit more distance between us and throwing off how far she should throw her punch. I brought my knee up and just brushed the front of her stomach, missed, damn. She sent out a kick to my side and grabbed it and kicked out her other leg, making her fall on her ass. I was still holding her leg so I stepped in between both legs and placed m right foot on her stomach and applied pressure to hold her down.
"I believe I win", I said and looked at her.
"And for your info, me and Eren were just playing, I would never really hurt him", I said and removed my foot from her stomach and shoved her leg to the side and walked away.
It wasn't till then that I saw there was a crowed standing around watching the fight. Some had the look of 'aw' and others had the look surprise and shock. I looked at some in the eye and they flinched or took a step back. I glanced around in the other direction and I saw the same looks. I looked back at Mikasa and saw her standing, brushing the dirt off of her clothes and Eren giving her a slight scolding. Amin was giving me a small smile, like a Armin smile saying it'll be ok. I gave him a small smile back and walked away to pick up my ODM gear.
When I made it to the wall of scouts and cadets they parted the way like I was a plague. I walked past them picking up my ODMG that was laying on the ground and walked to the equipment room, I didn't even want to clean it, nor did I now have the patients for that right. I was too upset, too flustered about how the scouts and cadets just treated me, like I was nothing shy of a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off. Have I not worked with them? Have I not shown them that I can be trusted to be here?
I guess not. I sat my gear down in it's spot and turned around and headed back out into sun. I could still see people out at the ring talking, but I just shook my head and walked to the stables. I wasn't ready to face what was to be waiting for me when I entered HQ, but horse back training seemed relaxing at the moment.
I walked in the stables and down the center, glancing and looking at the horses. I saw Stella was still alive, a spunky mare with a mellow temper. The horse beside Stella, Damon was still big and muscley as ever with hay sticking out of his mouth, and then there's Stryker. Still just as tall lean, and tempered as ever.
"Hey Stryker, been awhile" I told my horse.
He whinnied and started stomping in his stall. I grabbed a rope that was hanging beside his stall door and clipped it on his bridal. I slid the door open and he walked out and stood in front of me nodding his head.
"Lets get you saddled first. I don't think you've been ran in awhile?", It's like he knew and nodded he head again. I tied the rope on a pole that was beside door and walked off to retrieve the tack. I came back and he was staring outside.
"Alright boy, let's get you saddled up", he turned his head and whinnied.
I put the blanket on his back and sat the saddle on next. Buckled all the straps and untied the rope that kept him tied. I climbed on the saddle and got comfy with rains.
"Ready? Let's go" I taped my heels on his side and he walked out the stable doors, but right when we crossed the thresh hold, he bolted. Good thing I was holding on or I would have been laying on my back, on the ground looking up the stars that would have been circling my head.
It was great to ride him again, we were running flat out over the flat plain away from HQ and over to the woods. We were running through the trees and zig zagging around the place, there were some wooden poles set up to train the horses to jump over objects that we can come across out in Titan territory. He had no problem with any of the commands I was giving him. It's as if he never missed a day of training. Jumping high and long to not hit the poles was the second best thing to flying.
I'm not sure how long we were out here, but it was long enough that the sun was no longer in the center of the sky, so I pointed him back in the direction of HQ and we ran back. We were out of the woods and was approaching HQ when I patted him on the neck and told him run.
With that single command, I loosened my hold on the rains and his legs got further apart and he picked up the pace, he was now running full out and it felt great. We quickly approached HQ when I saw Levi was standing out front with a mad scrawl look on his face. Great, now what?
"Woah", I said and Stryker slowed down his pace and trotted up and stood in front of Levi and snorted.
"We need to talk", he said and walked away.
"Great", I mumbled and led my horse to the stables to put him away.
I walked up the stairs and stood in front of Levi's door. I brushed my hands over the front of my clothes making sure there was no hay or dirt anywhere that he could see. After that I racked my knuckles across the wooden door and waited for his reply.
"Name and business", Levi's voice was muffled by the piece of wood in front of me.
"Craven. You wanted me", I stated.
"Get in here", he sounded a bit miffed, but about what I don't know, but I think I'm about to find out.
I wrapped my fingers around the cold brass nob and turned it till I heard a click, indicating that I push the door open. I stepped one foot in the room and stopped, leaving my other foot still planted in the hallway. Cause, when I looked up and saw Levi, staring at me with his arms crossed and leaning against the front of his desk, I knew what was about to happened wasn't good, or at least wasn't good for me.
"Get in here and shut the door brat!" He barked and I could see a fire spark behind his grey eyes.
That's one.
I stepped all the way in to his office and shut the door behind me with a soft click and turned to face him.
"What kind of stunt do you think you were pulling out there"? He questioned, no interrogated.
"What are you talking about?", and that was true, I have no idea what he's talking about. Or was it perhaps the sparing match with me, Eren and Mikasa earlier? it can't be, we were just practicing.
"Don't play dumb with me you stupid brat, you know damn good and well what"? That was two.
"No, obviously I don't know what you're talking about, cause if so, I would have told you by now", he was about to start something that I wasn't for sure that I was going to be able to handle right now.
"Are you really that slow or just stupid? I don't remember you being this dumb", strike three, that's it.
"How would you know huh!? it's not like I've been sleeping for the last months of my life, and it's not like you came and saw me either. So no, I don't have a single clue to what the fuck you are talking about. All I did today was decide to start training again. I tried 3DMG first and remembered everything, second I tried sparring with Eren and then Mikasa got pissed cause I beat Eren up, but what she didn't know is that me and Eren were just playing, we weren't really even sparring the right way.
So that led to Mikasa wanting to fight me for real, and I won, again, I kicked her ass and gave her a dose of her own medicine. That led to the other scouts and cadets looking at me as if I was the thug from my past, and they got scared and moved away from me, some even flinched away when I walked past. After that I got Stryker and we went out for a run. So Sir what about my day got you so freckin' pissed off?", I was standing with a pissed off look on my face and anger was easy to read in my eyes, both legs we spread apart in a defensive stance, both hands were clinched at my side and I was holding my ground.
"And you said you didn't know what I was talking about. Well obviously you did. Think you're all tuff and hot shit cause you can fight and beat the most skilled fighter here second to me?" he stood up away from his desk, "You think you have something to prove after being dead for the past few months? You think you can come back here and start shit to reclaim your spot as the best? well, do you?" he was now standing no more then three feet in front of me.
I guess this is where we stand now. A misunderstanding that some scout said about the fight with Mikasa, has turned the one person I started to care about against me. Trust was gone and I can see now that last night was a mistake, on both of our parts. In his eyes I was no longer the Craven of the special ops squad, but Craven from the Underground. If it was that easy to make him not trust me after all I did, then he is someone I don't need by my side.
"If I did or didn't you wouldn't believe me anyways, you already believe one person who saw the fight but won't listen to anyone else, you already have it in your head that I'm the bad guy from the underground, so fine, if it's the criminal from the underground you want, I guess you'll get her." I said and turned around to walk out the door.
"I'm not done talking you swine!" Levi barked.
I had my hand on the door handle and turned it, as I spoke, I barley turned my head to the side.
"Like I care anymore about what you have to say to me and or about me" I pulled the door opened and marched out it, slamming it behind me.
I got maybe five steps when I heard a bang sound come from his office, I guess he hit the desk or the wall. I kept walking I went down the stairs and took a left went through the door and took another left I walked down the hallway till I came to the door that led down to the basement. I pushed it opens and stepped down the stairs.
"Oh, I didn't expect to see you here?" Hangi fixed her glasses on her face and stopped writing to look at the person who interrupted her.
"Yeah, I just needed somewhere to be, need any help? I have nothing else to do?" I asked and sat down in the chair in front of her table.
"Yes, as a matter of fact I do need help, I kept pushing back this experiment cause I needed two people for it, not just me. Think you can handle it?" she said and leaned forward over the table and looking me dead in the eye.
"I don't see why not, let's try it", I said a little unsteady. I had a weird feeling about this test, but I don't want to go back outside and see the scouts, hell I don't want to be anywhere where I can see Levi or anyone, so being down here with her will have to do, even if some of things down here are creepy.
"Great! Then let's get started" She jumped up from her stool and walked over to a lab table that was set off to the left side of the room. I stood up and walked over to her.
"So this is one of the experiments" she held up a vile and twirled it around, making the pinkish red liquid inside spin.
"This is titan serum. well to be more persist it's titan blood. Now I know what you're thinking" She turned too look at me with wide eyes.
Titan blood evaporates so how is it in here" she waved the tube.
"Well my dear Craven that is because it is also human blood, yes Titan and human blood in other words, Erens blood. Now that reason why I needed two people for this experiment is.."
"No" I said and backed away.
"You are not putting that in me", I said.
"Oh dear heavens no, I wasn't going to put it in you, I was going to put it in me and have you write about it and what effects it has on me", she was mad with the eyes and smile to match it.
"Um. Hangi I don't think thats safe you healthy for that matter", I told her as she put a needle in the tube and started to pull the liquid into the needles vile.
"Ok, ready", she was mad.
"Ok, no" I said and turned to walk away then I feel a deep sting in my arm and I turned around and swatted her hand.
"Hangi just what the fuck did you do to me!" I screamed at her and saw her holding a now empty needle.
"Well I can tell you that you won't die", she said.
"Oh and just how in the hell do you know that?" I was furious and fracking out.
"I tested it on rats already and they're still alive", she gestured to the cage of two rats.
"So how do you feel?" she asked me and sat down at her table.
Come on now, you can sit in from of me and ill just write what I see" I walked over to her table and sat down back in the seat I was in before.
"I feel fine, freaking out, but fine", I said.
"Ok great. I'm going to take your temp and see if there is any change there, then I want to check something else ok?" she got up and walked over to the back right corner of the room to get a temp gauge and she walked back.
"Put that under your tongue" I did and put my elbows on the table and my head in my hands. She walked behind me and before I could look I felt a sting come from my right shoulder.
"Hangi what the fuck! Stop doing things to me, I will never come back down here again!" I stood up and was talking to her with the gauge still in my mouth.
"I'll take that" and she pulled it out of my mouth.
"Well it's normal" she said and looked at my shoulder.
My breathing stopped as I saw her face change into one of shock and surprise.
"I cut your shoulder"
"You what?"
"And it's healed"
"It's what?"
"Healed, the cut has healed" she said and was touching the spot she said she had cut.
"What do you feel here?", she said and touched the spot.
"It feels a bit tingly, like someone put mint there, other then that it feels normal", I got up and walked away from her over to a full size mirror by the door. I turned and looked at my shoulder, I could just barley make out the pink line where the cut use to be.
"That's impossible" I turned to look at her and she was writing away in her journal.
"It's not, but it is! Can you think of the lives we can safe knowing that it can heal!, We have to try test more, bigger!" she was nodding her head and talking to herself now. I walked back over to her and sat down at the table for the third time. I looked over to the far left side of the table and saw a small scalpel laying there. I reached over with my left hand and picked it up. I was holding it and thinking, if the blood worked on a small cut, who would it work on something a bit bigger?
I rolled up my left sleeve on my shirt and held the scalpel with my right hand.
"Hangi here we go" I said so she would look at me and watch.
"Craven!" she freaked a little then watched as a dragged the blade from my shoulder down to my wrist. It stung like a son of a bitch after I was done. I put the scalpel on the table and we watched the cut. nothing was happening from what I could see.
"Why isn't it healing?" I looked at her.
"I don't know? Could it be that it only works once, or could it have worn off? Let's give you more to see if it's only one dose for one heal", she sprung up and ran to make another vile and came back. I was watching as blood was draining down my whole arm.
"I look like a halloween decoration" I muttered.
"Ok here we go" she said and injected me again.
She pulled the needle out and we watched as the bleeding stopped and the cut slowly began to heal. It was weird, it didn't heal all at once, it healed from the oldest part first to the news part.
"Hangi I think you should write this down", I said still looking at my now healed arm with a fresh pink line down the front.
"Right!" she plopped down and got writing.
"Make sure to write down that the oldest part of the injury heals first then the newest" I tapped her paper.
"What do you mean?" sh looked up at me.
"I was watching it and saw that it was healing from everywhere, but it was fully healed from the oldest part of the injury first, then the newest part was the last to be healed", I informed her and she had a beaming smile that could be seen fro the sky.
"That was a great observation, see it's stuff like that I need to know about!" and she started writing down what I said.
"I have a question, if you have to use one vile for every heal, then does that mean our blood can fight off the titan blood or does the blood still live inside us and it just loses the effect to heal? and what if we have too much of titan and Erens blood will we become one of them or will we no longer need the blood to heal and our body will adapt to it and always heal with out being shot up?" I asked Hangi and she was looking at me with her mouth open and eyes wide.
"We should test all of that!" she was so giddy I didn't know what to do, it was as if someone gave her a titan for her birthday.
"Woah slow down there, I was a test subject already for one of your test, I don't want to take too much blood and turn into a Titan" I said and held my hands up.
"Well I have already tested that if someone has too much Titan blood they'll turn into one. It won't happen, but I haven't tested it if someone takes enough it'll rewrite the DNA to self heal, even if it doesn't rewrite the DNA it can life peacefully inside us. Let's try it" and she stood up so fast her stool fell back and hit the floor with a thud.
"Let's not" I got up and walked to the door this time keeping my eyes on her.
"Why don't you find the person you test on first?" I asked about to open the door.
"They died in battle" she said and turned around to face me.
"Craven, your arm" I liked down at my arm and saw that the pink line was gone.
I looked back up and Hangi was now standing right in front of me. When in the hell did she move so fast?
"Please don't experiment on me anymore today, I don't think I can take it" I told her and opened the door from behind me and slipped out, but not before she grabbed my arm and stabbed me with a needle again.
"God damn it Hangi let me go!" I was struggling to get my arm away from her that she was still holding from the other side of the door.
"There done!" she said and let my arm go.
I pulled it back and looked at my arm and saw just a ny red dot where the needle was.
She opened the door and held up the needle and the size of that thing would give anyone the cold sweats.
"How much did you put in me?" I questioned her.
"Oh, about 16 oz." she said and shut the door in my face.
I banged on the wooden door and yelled at her through it. "You put 16 oz of blood in me! Are fucking insane!?" I was still banging and kicking the door before I gave up and marched up the stairs. I took a right then a left to head towards the kitchen, I need a knife was all I was thinking.
I pushed open the door and walked down the center of the mess hall. I glanced around and saw a few scouts and cadets looking at me and I realized there were the same ones that were afraid of me. I kept walking till I got to the kitchen door and pushed them open, no one was back her to I walked over to the cutting area and picked up and small pealing knife and walked out the back door. I walked out of HQ and over to my favorite tree and sat down.
Ok, one vile one heal, that's what we have found out. One vile was one oz. I now have sixteen in me, so I have to cut myself sixteen times. This was gonna suck. So I did, I cut my arm sixteen times going across my bicep. They all healed up nicely, them I got and idea, what if she gave me enough to keep healing? Shit, so I cut myself again. I waited and waited and nothing, it didn't heal.
"What the hell are you doing!?" I looked up and saw Eren looking down at me, holding a bloody knife and a cut over my arm.
"Hangi, put your blood in me and I could heal, one vile for one heal. She put sixteen in me so I cut sixteen times and they all healed, but we also thought, what if we had enough blood to always heal without always having to inject ourselves, that's why I cut again, but look i'm not healing", and I pointed to my arm.
"Id on't know what cut you're talking about, there's nothing there", he said and I looked at my arm, and he was right there was nothing there.
"Impossible" I said and cut my arm again.
"Hey!" Even yelled and grabbed my arm. I was watching my arm and yes there it was, my arm was slowly healing. Did that mean I could always heal now? Then why didn't it heal fast the last time, was my body trying to get use to it?
"Even let go" I said and he let go of me but was still watching me carefully.
"Don't do that again. I mean, I know why you did it but, I don't like seeing people hurt themselves, ok?", he said and leaned back.
"One more time? I just can't believe Hangi did this to me", I asked him with a pleading look in my eyes.
"Fine, but then no more" he said and watched me as a drew the knife across my skin making a trail of red coat my arm.
"And it heals" Eren said and stood up, I looked up and saw his hand reaching out for me to take.
"Come on, we have to go back to Hangi, I know you don't want to, but she needs to know what is going on for future reference" and he pulled me to my feet.
"Don't worry, I'll be going with you", he said and we walked beside each other till we got to Hang's door.
I pushed open the door an I explained everything to her from outside her door, no way was I going back in there after what all she did to me not fifteen minutes ago.
She wrote down everything and took a sample of my blood then told me that she would fine me later to talk about what she finds. With that me and Eren walked to the mess hall to grab something to eat.
"Sorry about freaking you out earlier, I just don't know how to take this news you know", i told him and took a bite out of my apple.
"No worries, it's ok, I told me what was going on, and I can tell it fracked you out. And I wanted to say sorry about Mikasa, she can be very protective of me still. I know you and me were just playing, and she saw it the wrong way." He looked away from me and took a bite out of his own apple.
"Yeah, I got a talking to from Captain shorty earlier about the whole situation. I guess someone got too scared and told him that I was a loose cannon beating people up. So he asked me if I was trying to prove myself to be the best again by beating scouts up and acting out. He made it sound like I was trying to be the thug I use to be. So in the end, he doesn't trust me anymore, and thinks I'm back to my old ways, so i'm gonna give it to him, me and my old ways", I finished saying to Eren and took another bit out of my apple.
"That's messed up!, Someone told on you to him that you were being starting to be a thug again? Just wait till I get my hands on that person, I'm going to beat the crap out of him! How dare he spew such bull shit out you to the Captain? Don't worry, I'll to him and tell him what happened and clear this up for you", he finished his apple and stood up and walked away.
Eren, oh how that boy can be so hot tempered, but his heart will always be in the right place, the right place of justice.
I finished my apple and threw the core away and walked up to my room, I was just inside my door when I heard yelling coming from Levis office, it was Eren and Levi in an all out yelling war. Slowly door after door was opening in the hallway to see what all the commotion was about and about eight seconds later Eren was seen flying out of the room and his back hitting the wall.
"Behave like that to m one more time you piece of Titan shit and i'll have to run laps and clean all of HQ for a month. Do you understand me?", Levi yelled and slammed his door before Eren could rely.
I looked down at Eren and saw him stand up and rubbing his butt.
"You ok?" I asked as I walked up to him.
He looked at me and gave me his best toothy grin, "All is fixed, I told him what really happened and a bit of my own mind. I'm gonna find Mikasa and Armin now, I'll see you at dinner" he waved and walked away, still rubbing his butt.
I turned to look at Levi's door and wanted to spit on it, but I didn't. I turned and walked back to my room and shut the door. I walked over to my bed and kicked the boots off, I laid down and got comfy, deciding to take a nap till dinner sounded pretty good right now.
After how my day just went and it's not even over yet, I needed to re charge. Dinner couldn't come fast enough. I dreamed about the old days in the underground, the good and the bad. Killing and the helping I did was all coming back to me. My friends that were once family to me down there I'm sure they are getting by just fine, after all I trained them, I was the best, no, we were the best.
I sat straight up in my bed when a heard someone nocking at my door. I was a bit pissed that someone had woken me up but non the less I got up and walked over to my door, and opened it.
"Sasha, whats going on?" I asked her.
"Food, that's what is going on. Come on I was sent up here from Eren to get you", she said pulled my arm.
"Hold on, I need my boots first", i said and walked back over to my bed to pull the boots on.
"Ok, now we can go", I said and followed her out to the mess hall.
We walked over to Erens table after we got our food and sat down, I was at the furthest end beside Sasha, but I didn't mind.
We talked about random things and stuff nothing of importance.
"Alright listen up everyone, in four days we will be having another expedition. So train up and get ready", the scout said and walked back out of the mess hall.
Now our table was talking about nothing else other than this next expedition outside the walls. Like where we are going or what we are capturing or if we are simply scouting the terrain. I was just listening in on all of the conversations not really talking or even giving my two cents on anything. I just wanted to eat and go back to sleeping. If at all possible sleep till the day of this expedition.
I stood up when I finished the last bite of dinner, I told everyone goodnight and that I would see them in the morning. I walked to the front of the mess hall and pushed my plates through a side window so the washers could clean them. I spun on my heels and walked down the center isle and saw out of the corner of my eye, a pair of grey and blue eyes were watching me take my leave.
I paid them no mind as I walked through the door and made my way back to my room. Bed, here I come.
The next few days flew by in a blur just how I'd hoped. I practiced by myself and sometimes with Eren. but almost all the time I was by myself, just like I was when I first joined the scouts. Some scouts still stayed away from me as well as some cadets. But I was done worrying about them, I was done dealing with their eyes and looks that they would cast my way. I was better then them and if they can't let go of my past and see what kind of person I really am, then that's their problem, not mine.
"Come on, let's go" Eren bumped into my shoulder to snap me out of my mind, I walked over to Stryker and saddled up. Waiting on top of my horse was kind of fun, I was one of few scouts that had a tall horse, so looking down at some them was fun.
"Everybody ready!" I voice boomed from in front of the formation. Erwin.
Levi was up front in out formation, to his back left it was Mikasa, to the right of her it was Jean, behind Jean was me and Eren was to me left, I had the job to protect Eren again. Why was I not surprised.
"ADVANCE!" I was pulled out of my head and we all started racing down the streets to leave the walls.
Fresh air, clean sky's everything was better outside of the walls, and we the Scouts, are one day going to show the wall people what they have been missing.