Hey, sorry for the late update. I actually have had this chapter done for a good while, but haven't had time to type it up because of school work, social club, birthday, and more school work. Finals are upon us, and it is getting stressful, but at least I get a kind of vacation to New Orleans this weekend for a choir tour. Yay! happiness. Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter and possibly review at the end.
Chapter 6:
I sat silently with my knees folded up to my chest as the carriage headed towards the survey corps base. I listened as the other soldiers continued to talk about how the survey corps mission has slightly changed since the colossal titan and armored titan broke down Wall Maria. I could feel myself dozing off and soon enough I was asleep with my head on my knees and my hair blocking it from view.
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I felt myself fall on my side and groaned at such a rude awakening. I groggily begun to open my eyes and was met with a blurry image before I closed my eyes tightly and groaned once more.
"Oi brat, this is no time to sleep." I heard a voice speak before feeling a foot meet with my torso. It wasn't a hard kick, but it was enough to get me mad. I sighed angrily as I sat up and rubbed my eyes.
"Hurry up brat, its time for your evaluation tests."
I finally opened my dark blue eyes and looked up to meet a pair of bored grey eyes. I put one foot underneath me and begun to lift myself up onto my two feet as I said,
"You know, you could have woken me up a little more gently."
"You're even lucky I woke you up. Now lets go brat."
He jumped off the cart and I followed close behind. We walked silently and I studied the man in front of me. He was much shorter than I originally thought, he was only taller than me by about two inches. I got tired of comparing his height to others and sped my walking up to catch up to the man.
"So what are the evaluation tests?"
He looked over at me and studied my face as if contemplating whether he should answer my question. He looked straight ahead and acted as if he wasn't going to answer, but finally spoke up.
"It's to see what squad you will be placed in."
"But can't you switch squads?"
"Everyone takes these tests yearly."
I nodded my head and kept silent for the rest of the walk. When we arrived at the scene I was completely surprised by what I saw. I walked over thinking I was going to see some serious training but found it was more of a competition ensuing. The soldiers raced against the newbies to find and attack the titan dummies before coming back and laughing about it. The man who walked me pushed me forward into the crowd before walking away, and I was spotted by a new soldier. He gave me a 3D maneuvering device to attach to my belts, which I did so quickly. The soldier then led me to the beginning of the forest and told me to wait. I waited for a minute before another soldier walked up and took his place next to me. I was told to 'kill' as more titans than the other soldier, before they blew the whistle for us to start. I watched as the soldier sped ahead of me and I quickly climbed higher into the trees and kept up with him unseen. I paid attention to his movements and saw him tense up. I followed his line of sight and found the first target. I used a little extra gas to push forward and right before he could get his swords out for the kill, I swooped in from above and cut into the 'titans' neck before flying away. I laughed loudly when I heard the soldier yell out at me and continued my search. By the end I had seven 'kills' and the other soldier had three. We made our way back to the entrance of the forest and he patted my back and said,
"You're pretty good, newbie."
I smiled widely and stood in the crowd waiting for another turn. Finally, after hours of training, I faced three different soldiers. Beating the first two easy and the third by the skin of my teeth. The last two came in and thinking we were done, I separated my hair into two new pigtails and began to clear out to the dining hall. Before we could all leave though the short grey eyed man from before came to the front of the crowd. Everyone went quiet and gave their full attention to the man.
"There will be one more run between myself and…" He broke off for a moment as he looked at a piece of paper in his hand. He looked back at us and finished, "Dawn Lovaf."
I raised my eyebrows before making my way to stand in front of the man. Everyone whispered between themselves as I walked past them. I heard "humanity's strongest soldier" and "she will never beat him." He lead me to the entrance of the forest and handed me the 3D maneuvering device.
"Same rules, try to kill more titans than me."
I saw a flash from his swords as he switched his hold to backhand. Someone blew a whistle and we were both off into the darkening forest. I twisted past trees and flipped through the air before I spotted the first target. I began my dive to cut the neck, but was beat by the man a second before my swords could cut through. I watched stunned as he continued into the forest to find the next target. I blinked a few times before smiling competitively and flying after him. I continued to find different targets, but it seemed he always got there just a second before me. I searched for the 10th and final target, determined to find it first. Instead, I found the man standing on a tree branch staring at something. I looked over him and found him staring at the final target in front of him. I quickly strategized a plan to get this target for sure, and landed on a lower branch. Instead of using my 3D maneuvering device, I jumped across tree branches that were close together until I felt I was close enough to the target. I counted to three before jumping off and shooting my cords into the neck and using and good amount of gas to quickly fly up and cut the neck right before the man could himself. I landed on the ground and watched as the man began to walk to the forest entrance. He stopped and good way ahead of me and turned around and stared at me before saying,
"Come on, shit tails. Unless you want to get left behind."
Yay, she finally met the best person ever. Next chapter should be up tomorrow or sometime this weekend. I already have it written and all I need to do is type it up and there is wifi on the bus. Hallelujah!
