Hange dropped off her horse and landed swiftly on her feet, and gave the reins to Moblit which he mingled with his reins, the cabin was quiet and made them alarmed, the cabin was always lively when they drop by for a visit, confirming her suspicions she opened the door and the creak echoed inside the cozy cabin, where is the Levi Squad? Speaking of the latter where is he? She went deeper inside the cabin with Moblit trailing behind her, they opened each doors to find it empty, the door of Mikasa was widely opened so they peeked in and saw the unmade bed.
"Is she present? The others bed are made." Moblit asked.
"No wait, something's fishy here, let's search the stables across the cabin." Hange exited the room and went down, her eyes wandering everywhere to give her a clue of what's going around.
The creaking sound of the stairs made as they went down scared them a little, it was like giving away their position, they're weaponless and could be ambushed anytime and anywhere.
Once outside they rushed to the stables and found the stables empty.
"Where could they have gone to?" Hanji said, stroking her chin, she noticed a few miles away a figure riding a horse headed towards their way.
"HANJI-SAN! MOBLIT-SAN!" They noticed the voice as soon as they saw the blonde hair swaying along the breeze.
He abruptly pulled the reins making the horse stand on its hind legs making Armin fall towards the earth.
"Hanji-san! Mikasa and the Levi Squad, they were taken, we- I need your help!"
"Woah! Woah! Slow down! Take it easy, Armin." Hanji offered her water in which he finished less than a second, they let him rest first, catching his breath, after some few minutes they sat on the porch of th cabin, waiting for the news.
"Who took them?"
"Human traffickers...feigning as Military Police soldiers." Armin said, casting his eyes away on her and stared at the sky, wondering where they are right now, are they safe? Did they capture Rook and took Mikasa? He was sure of it, Rivaille was there, he needs to trust on them yet, what is this nagging feeling?
"Where? We need to go fast!" Hanji stood up abruptly while Moblit returned with their horses, already fed. Armin told them that he'll lead the way so on they go towards he last saw the signal.
"That's it, go in there slowly mutts, I don't want you planning something up on your sleeves, we'll make sure this plan is successful." The henchmen of Rook said, aiming the muzzle of his rifle at them as they loaded the wagon, rounding the wall to go unnoticed and enter Wall Sina and slipping underneath Mitras, and sell their products. When the last member entered, he entered aiming the muzzle at the most threatening soldier; Rivaille, who was looking at him with infuriated eyes, slanted.
"We're complete here! Go!" The driver heard and signaled the horse, they started rounding the walls, with the first wagon was Rook, they were the middle, another wagon with their gears on it, and some barrels they do not know what contains of it, it was windy, making the gears clank to each other, and the soldiers hair kissing his brows and eyes, making him sweep them away, cursing himself on why did he even get bangs in the first place.
The soldier took a moment to look at the forest behind them, away from their camp, and dare he say he noticed something? Nah, it's just his imagination. With his thoughts of their plan being successful, overlooking simple yet suspicious things could make it their downfall.
"Silently follow them, they're running at a slow speed, we could catch up, yet there will be no foliage to cover us if they even go farther the next hour, they're rounding the wall to get in to Sina I think..." Hanji said before once again tracking them at a safe distance, gears and weapons ready, they'll take their squad back he's sure.
They soon urge their horse to run when they were sure the hooves won't be heard because their enemy was slowly being out of sight, half an hour already passed and they needed to fight with the help of this forest, the trees were as just tall as Eren's rogue titan, the foliage thick, but that's fine.
"Let's commence the mission!" They left the horse and with a safe distance passed the wagons with their speed and settled a far away distance from them and hid on the branches, their weapons aiming.
"The first open wagon is Rook, the second wagon contains Rivaille and his squad and the last contains their gear, only a driver no guard." Armin said when he took a peek of the wagons when they passed by.
"Here they come, we kill all the drivers first got it? We have no time for just causing minor injuries, this is a threatening situation and we need to threaten them also, don't hesitate, got it?" Hanji said to them, mostly likely to Armin, Armin breathed in and prepared himself.
Hooves, here they come the first wagon came to view and noticed Mikasa's with Rook, Moblit shot the driver, at the same millisecond Armin and Hanji did too, and pressed their bodies against the branch to hide their position.
The sound of profanities was palpable, Armin, who has a foliage of leaves beside him took a peek, and saw that Mikasa's being help up by Rook, while Rook scanned for the shooters, a guard came out of the second wagon, and minimizing his movements, he aimed at the guard, and shot. The sound made his ears ring and he pressed his body once again at the branch, Rook now cursing loudly seeing his last guard die before his eyes.
"Ah!" A feminine voice shouted; Mikasa! Armin tried to take a peek, and noticed that Rook was grasping her neck tightly and saw her struggle to breathe, Armin did not panic, he tried not to, he noticed Eren peeking out of the second wagon, his hands already untied before making a dash at his gear, Rivaille following making for his gear, in less than a minute the two were dressed, Rivaille sneaked at Rook by crouching beside the wagon. Armin tapped their shoulders telling them if they noticed, and they said yes.
"Either come down now,or this is the end of her life." Rook snarled, eyes flickering back and forth trying to find his foes. An elbow at the side of his face made him lose contact with the girl and stumble at the wagon, when he dare opened his eyes, Rivaille was already grasping the girl with pin-like eyes glaring at him.
"Don't touch her" He hissed, words menacing, reminding him, "She's mine..."
"This won't be the end Rivaille! I will make sure of it!" Soon after he said that, a gunshot pierced through his head, making him lay down with his own pool of blood.
Gas hissed and landed the three who came to rescue them.
"I knew you could do it," Rivaille said to Armin who nodded sheepisly. "we were slowly losing hope, that Mikasa will be rescued, but alas here we are, thanks Arlert, you too shitty glasses."
"So now that we have our reunion! Let's dump these bodies and let em decay and take their wagons, it'll be very useful once we move out, the MP's already tracked our cabin and they'll be going there at sunset, we still have a couple of hours to pack our things and scram, we'll use the mountain path as our way and seek shelter to the abandoned castle." Hanji said as she started to drag away the guard, members of Rivaille once they set foot on the ground they ran at their friend, and Rivaille noticed that he was still holding her like a fragile glass.
One thing worried him, she wasn't responding, was that a blush on her cheeks? Rivaille couldn't help the reddening of his cheeks as he stared away at her porcelain face, not wanting to let go, he slowly sat, signaling Mikasa to also sit and take a rest, her right hand was absolutely fractured and he took out a bandage as her friends bombarded her questions. He wrapped the bandage carefully to prevent severe pain. A weight added to the wagon and he looked at Eren, carefully (menacingly..?) as he tried to talk with his non-responding sister.
"Just be quiet for a while, let her regain her senses, I have to say but there are chances she could have a PTSD, depending on what she experienced during a ride with that man." Hanji pointed at the man being dragged away by Moblit, her friends nodded and decided to help dumping the bodies, Eren staring at his sister, before at Rivaille, and he too left.
Rivaille just finished bandaging her hands and signaled Hanji, Hanji hopped on the wagon and scrutinized her shot shoulder, Hanji looked every angle and saw that the bullet wound was deep, and thankfully her joint was still intact, Hanji then started to remove the bullet wound after Moblit giving her their first-aid. "Mikasa..." Rivaille whispered at her hear, wanting to get a reaction, dying to know if she was okay, his concerned murmur did not go unnoticed when Hanji heard it and hid her smile.
After dumping, cleaning their wounds and Mikasa in the schooner wagon with Rivaille, they prepared to go back for their cabin, the other members at the last wagon driving the horses with Hanji and Moblit at the first wagon, Sasha driving Rivaille's wagon. Rivaille sat down next to the sleeping Mikasa beside him, and stared at her angelic face, her shoulder wrapped with a tourniquet while her fractured hand at her chest, slowly rising and deflating as she breathes.
Not expecting his own body to move to move aside her hair that covered her eyes, his cheeks flushed and tried to take a peek at the last wagon and saw Yeager glaring at him, Mikasa turned and unconsciously hugged his legs;trying to find a pillow, and he cleared his throat to prevent the gasp of surprise coming out. Darting his eyes away from the girl he knew he loved and settled glaring with Yeager on who turned to look away, defeated.
"She's mine."
And that's it! IT has been a long time since I updated this, so enjoy the chapter, if even you're still reading this huhu.
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