(A/N: This is more of a "just-for-fun" chapter [which is why it's so short]...Yes I'm sorry to disappoint you after your patient waiting...I might upload another chapter later today though...depends on my mood ^^ Au revoir! [Pretty sure I spelled that wrong])
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"Arlert, hurry up! You're supposed to lead next to me!" The group leader shouted.
Armin looked up in surprise, he was just talking to one of the new recruits in his group about his first expedition: The Female Titan one.
"Y-Yes, sir!" Armin stuttered, running forward.
The group leader looked at him with a rather disapproving look-of all the groups leaders, excluding the higher-ups, he was the strictest.
Armin caught up to him, looking back at the other members from time to time.
Currently, they were walking through a rather long tunnel that apparently ran beneath the village, every building had their own tunnel, which were then connected to each other that led to a single, large chamber.
But that was not all, apparently these villages were all connected by a single, main tunnel that ran from the central chamber of each village and led up met with each other in the forest that stood between all the villages. Apparently it was usually full of game and hunters from the different villages met with each other to go hunting and bring back successful meat, dividing the share equally amongst themselves.
"Wow, I never knew that there was such a peaceful and friendly community like this…" one of Armin's group members said when the group leader had told them about the tunnels and the village.
"Yeah, it's really a shame that they're all dead though...would be glad to have such people living in the walls, y'know," another one of the group members answered.
The group leader gave him a sharp look, "You idiot, there are people from this village living in the walls today! How else do you think the higher-ups know of this place?! And how we're still alive because of having these villages as a resting point?" He waved his arms around his head exasperatedly.
The soldier who answered looked sheepish, "Riiight…" He rubbed the back of his head, embarrassed.
His subordinates snickered quietly as the group leader turned away, facing front once more, "I swear, at this rate our future generations won't even survive past their early teens!" He sighed, shaking his head.
Armin looked at him, not sure if he was supposed to agree or disagree, but the group leader paid him no heed, so he didn't get involved.
The tunnel that they were in seemed just like a seemingly endless, dark pit...like of a snake's insides, except much more bigger and hollower. The majority of his group seemed to be at ease, completely assured that they were safe-that no Titans would be able to enter such a place.
Pretty soon, everyone got bored, except for Armin and the group leader, everyone else started horsing around, needing something to waste their extra energy on. Armin noticed a vein throbbing in the leader's forehead, making his gulp silently and stutter-order to the rest of the group: "Stop playing! W-We're still not at the resting point, yet! So quit playing a-and get back into formation!" He briefly looked at the group leader again, whose vein seemed to have calmed down.
His fellow comrades looked sheepish and went back into their positions, stopping their horse-play and acting like children, "Are we almost there, yet?" One of them started to sound not only bored, but also tired.
"Did you see how big the village is? And plus, how far do you think the forest goes? It's MASSIVE! And the other villages surrounds it...so I'd estimate that we are...not there yet!" His friend got a slap to the face for his answer.
The group leader turned to face them briefly, walking backwards, "If you'd quit playing around and started acting like real soldiers, we'd be there already!" They started to looked dejected.
Armin quickly intervened, "But, you're all very skillful and obviously because of that you were able to join the Survey Corps, right? So, I'm pretty sure you're all great!" At this, their faces brightened a little, the group leader merely sighed in exasperation.
"Fine, if you really want to get there, then RUN!" And with that, he sprinted ahead with sudden glee, surprising them.
"HAHAHA! I'M DITCHING YOU GUYS!" The group leader shouted as the darkness of the tunnel swallowed him up.
They all stood there frozen in place, surprise and shock keeping them in their positions, slowly they turned to look at each other in bewilderment, "Wh...what…?" One asked the other.
Armin was the first to break out of the trance, "H-Hey, wait! We're supposed to stay together!" And with that, he ran after their leader.
As the darkness swallowed him up, the others in the group started feeling really tiny, one of the females spoke up, "U-Um..he's right! Let's go!" And with that, she pulled her comrades along as they started to sprint after their leaders, shouting protests at their actions.
"Ouch, not so fast! You're bumping into me!"
"Move it, fatty! There's plenty of room in this tunnel, you can move farther aside!"
"Ouch! Stop trying to push us! If you want to be in the front, then just say so!"
"OW! YOU GIANT PUDDING OF A SOLDIER! THAT WAS MY ENTIRE LEFT RIB CAGE! STOP SHOVING!"
And on and on they shouted, the shouts bouncing off the walls of the tunnels and echoing loudly, but it didn't attract any unwanted attention...or so they hoped.
Two figures stood at the entrance of the cellar that led down into the tunnel, staring silently down into the gloom as the loud shouts reached them. Not of the Survey Corps, they dressed differently, but they both wore cloaks to mask themselves that if anyone had come across them, it'd be impossible to tell whether they were males or females. The only difference between the two was that one was tall and the other was short, but that still wasn't enough to determined who they were.
After a while of staring down at the tunnel, the shouts had finally grown too faint for them to hear, which acted like a cue for the two of the mysterious figures to turn their backs on the entrance and leave the building. The dust that had gathered in the building was already kicked up and messed with so much that the two easily left without leaving a single trace that they were ever there.
Just who were they?
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(A/N: _ I dunno, this turned from silly to dark and mysterious _ Truth be told I don't know who the two are going to be, I just felt like adding them in here *trolololol* XD You can try to hope for another upload later today, but don't get mad if those hopes are crushed and trampled upon...huehuehue)
~~~This is Tsunami signing off~~~
