Chapter Nine: Attack Of A Jealous Siren

It was another lazy day...So far nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary despite them being in the siren's lair and their captain who has gone missing. The crew on the boat Saint Maria was steadily sailing through the waters without any trouble. Could it be those sailors had indeed lied about the horrors that they had seen upon entering? No one will ever know for sure until completely out, or perhaps they had just gotten lucky and those 'things' they call sirens weren't around.

Eren after Star's disappearance took right over as captain even though there were disputes about it between him and Jean, but was quickly dismissed when other sailors got involved telling Jean just to 'shut up' which quickly made Jean's cheeks turn red and he did, in fact, shut up. All probably because there were women on the boat and he didn't want to make a fool out of himself. Even though the women on the boat just happened to be Sasha.

Though Eren might have been captain, Armin stook to his side and gave him the most logical advice, there was, when they faced problems on the ship, things he did even with Star when she was around. And they didn't face the most biggest problem until now.

Connie napped lazily at his post at the top of the ship, and Sasha was busy trying to hunt the stray cat in the cabins who had earlier stole food off of her plate when she wasn't looking...Jean who knows were Jean was, was probably primping himself in the mirror for any pretty 'siren' ladies back in his room, thoughts like that only pissed Eren off as he was the only one who stood on guard at the top deck of the ship, looking out in the ocean for any signs of enemies or rocks or anything else that could harm them.

The only one who stayed by Eren's side was, in fact, actually Armin who looked down at an old drawn map of the area and was crouched down with his back against the wall. His finger sliding across the map delicately when trying to figure out where they were.

Armin asks finally, "Do you see any land? Like islands."

Eren breathes heavily thru his nose, and he puts down his telescope he was looking through for only a second to look down at his blonde friend "No. If I saw either of those, I would have let you know. So far only the ocean...I'm starting to get a little sick of looking at it."

Armin asks next when looking down at the map, "Then what about any big rocks or noticeable landmarks or any of the other ships?"

"Neither of those either. Just blue and endless fog."

"I wonder what could have happened to the other ships...you don't think they could have been attacked do you?"

"Who knows. They disappeared in the fog awhile ago. They could be right behind us for all we know or turned back in fear. Mankind can be just nothing but cowards sometimes when faced with any kind of fear." Finishes Eren as he returns to looking out of his telescope, hoping to see anything, because at this point with the thickening fog, they could crash into anything, and crashing into a large rock would mean instant death for everyone. He didn't understand how some of the others could be so lackadaisical about everything.

This time it is Armin's turn to sigh, and he puts his head against the inner deck of the ship as he ruffles his hair. Then Eren spots something through his telescope, a rock, a small one towards the northwest of them and then he sees something like a shiny redfish tale sitting on top of the rock. He narrows his eyes taking the telescope from his eye and then he rubs them. Perhaps this was from lack of sleep the last few days, but when he puts the telescope back to his eye, he still sees the shiny red fishtail.

As his eyes travel up, he also notices a slim and toned human looking waist, and then he sees something that makes his eyes widen to saucers. Average sized breasts that were fine and perky... with soft and pink colored nipples. Eren doesn't know how to feel as his eyes slip to the face of the apparent sea woman, her hair a shiny black midnight color, and her eyes appeared to be gray. He also dully noted she looked to be from Asian descendant.

He pulls his eye away from the telescope, and he doesn't know whether to feel threatened or not. He looks down at Armin calling his name "Armin..."

"What?" asks his blonde friend as he stares up at him.

He doesn't say anything in a state of shock as Eren offers the telescope to Armin and his friend carefully takes it from him. Once Armin has the telescope in his hand he stands up and looks through it before he takes it away from his eye and mutters his cheeks pink "Is that...?"

"Yeah" Eren also mutters, "It's a siren woman...I think...Should we tell the others? There might be more."

Armin purses his lips in thought holding on the telescope, and someone from behind asks, "Tell us what?"

The person being Jean and walks towards them. Armin and Eren both stare at him, and he glares back "Well...?"

Eren scoffs taking the telescope from Armin's hand and now offering it to Jean, and he says snottily "See for yourself."

Jean glares at Eren before snatching the telescope from his grasp, and he looks out of it and asks "I don't get it. What am I looking at?"

"You will see." inquires Eren as he crosses his arms over his chest.

Then suddenly Jean gets extremely quiet, his cheeks turning bright red, and he slowly lowers the telescope, having to force himself to take his eyes off the sight he has seen. All he says in a lower mutter is a "She's beautiful...Did you guys see her breasts and nips?"

Eren narrows his eyes at Jean, and snatches his telescope back and hisses "Of course we seen her breasts, we aren't blind. But that isn't the problem here. The problem is that the sirens are actually real, and we're in their territory. What happens if they're planning an attack?"

Armin then answers the question suddenly from before, his eyes serious and hard "We have to inform the others. Erens right."

Jean suddenly frowns, but the blush in his cheeks doesn't fade quickly, and he says "How can a woman like that be planning an attack? Shes out in the open, and alone. If she were planning an attack, she would do it from behind our backs."

Armin frown furthers "It doesn't matter. She might be out in the open, but it could be possibly a trap."

Then their conversation is interrupted when screaming could be heard from the inner deck, and someone comes crashing out loudly. All their eyes widen, and Sasha can see, her chest rising and falling quickly and she screams pointing "THERE There are fish people in the water! I saw them from the window."

Connie quickly wakes up from his nap hearing all the noise, and he peeks down from above, his eyes wide, and he says wiping the drool from his mouth "Wait, WHAT? Did you say fish people!?"

"I swear I saw about two or three swim by real fast by the window!" she yells her eyes watering from fear.

Suddenly everyone is tensed and on guard, and soon the other sailors on the boat also get tense and get a worried look in their eye as they look around them and out into the ocean.

There is silence before another scream comes from one of the sailors, "I see one! Right there! It's at the side of the boat."

Then one of the sailors gets their gun and aims at the water before he quickly shoots, and a terrible screech could be heard, and everyone covers their ears from the cry of pain from the creature. That was probably a bad move... there might have been a chance they were actually just swimming by or was that foolish thinking...?

Not long after, all the sailors rush to the side of the boat, and they see a cloud of red where the creature was shot, and along with that, they see three sets of eyes glaring up at them from the surface of the water. Their eyes slits, then before everyone knows it, a sharp looking object is directed at Eren's head. The object looking like a harpoon.

Eren quickly goes to duck with the other sailors, but before he knows it the creature going to attack Eren is dragged under the water, and the last thing everyone sees is a shiny red fishtail. Everyone eyes widen, and the other sirens by that ones side quickly follow suit.

Jean then mutters not sure about what exactly happened, "What just happened...?"

Eren then says quickly backing away from the edge, and he gains authority to his voice "I'm not sure, but everyone needs to be on guard and get back to their posts! We take shifts until dawn! No slacking!"

"Yes sir!" most of the sailors say, adrenaline rushing in there veins and they run back to there posts.

Then Eren thinks as he walks back to his post 'Did that creature from before just save me...or was it something else...?' And with that, the thought pesters him until dawn, and he never finds an answer.

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(Star's POV)

I stare surprised as just when I'm about to go outside, after Levi's initial disappearance, he appears with a limp, naked woman in his arms. For a moment I figured he was going to start a harem with another human woman, but then shortly after I figured out she wasn't human, she had green scales stuck to her neck and thighs, pointy ears, and what looked like sharp teeth from her parted lips.

I then ask curiously to Levi after he wanders inside with her still in his arms and I follow behind him "Who is she?"

"An ally," is all he replies with, then shortly after a pause he says "She's injured."

My eyes glance to the blood dripping down her leg and onto the floor of the cave, and I ask "I see that...From what?"

"Humans," he goes on saying it softly, and he brings her by the water before setting her down gently on the ground. Then he says correcting himself, "Or that's what she said...but it looks to me like she got into a fight with another siren."

He examines her leg wound, a large bite, and then deep scratches all over her body. But then I notice what looked like a bullet wound... I don't say anything at first, in fear he might have a bad reaction because it could have been possible one of my dumb sailors on the boat that did it.

I swallow nervously, in fear of when she would wake up and tell him what happened. Would he then see me too as a bad person..and try to eat me? I didn't know, but I start to feel anxious and nervous as I look at the strawberry blonde woman and whatever her story behind her wounds may be.

Levi then turns his head towards me and stares and me before he says "You're scared..."

"No, I'm not," I say quickly correcting him.

"Don't lie to me brat, I can smell it," he says sneering slightly. "Tell me why are you scared?' he asks curiously but at the same time snottily.

"I told you, I'm not scared," I state getting angry now, even though I Was scared...I was scared of her and what kind of ideas she would put into his head.

He sneers still before he focuses back on the woman, looking at the wound and he says "Whaever...at least try and be helpful. Go find me seaweed as I get her cleaned up."

"Seaweed?" I question him confused why he would need it.

"Yes, I can make an ointment out of it. It can help heal her wounds more quickly and slow the bleeding," he explains as he rips the cuff of his pants off and he dips it in the water and starts to clean the blood off her body. He then also mentions a name I never heard before "Hange has taught us about it. I think I can make it on my own."

"Ok," I say oddly and turn away. I don't know of any ointment involving seaweed, but I will go find some to make him happy. As I'm about to leave the room, I look back and see him tenderly cleaning her and then around her wounds. I wonder did he...also like her? I shake my head before continuing my way through the cave and staring ahead instead of in back of me, this is nonsense thoughts, anyway, why should I care?

Then I think some more as I wander back to the exit of the cave, 'Why should I listen to him?' and 'Wouldn't now be the perfect time to escape?' I frown, and I shake my head, no I need more of a thought out plan before I try and escape him again. My plans right now would just end in failure like my other attempt at escaping.

The sunlight temporarily blinds me as I make my way out of the cave. I also think back to the creature. Was it all right to leave the cave without Levi around? It must be safe in the daytime, right? I mean he wouldn't give me a task if I could be possibly in danger...right? Or did he not care I could get eaten now that he has that siren woman in the cave with him...

I try and dismiss all these crazy thoughts, and I feel my feet sink into the warm sand of the beach. Now to find seaweed...

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As I scoop up all the seaweed, whether it had washed up on shore, or I had to go further into the water to retrieve it, I found it wasn't too much of a hard task. The sun providing warmth to my skin, and the seagulls squawking above my head. It was actually kind of relaxing. I even got to see a crab do a sideways walk across the beach, I had thought about trying to capture it for food later on, but I didn't want to get pinched, so I guess it was its lucky day for now until a bird spots it.

As I walk back to the cave with the seaweed in a basket that washed up on shore from the shipwreck, I think what kind of ointment was he going to make. As far as I knew seaweed did absolutely nothing and served no purpose being outside of the ocean. I mean I heard some cultures in the east had actually eaten it for food, but I never heard it be used for some type of medicine.

As I walk back in the cave, I hear a woman cry out which startles me, and makes me flinch and almost lose the basket in my arms. And the crying doesn't stop, it continues, and I hear Levi speaking in a foreign tongue to the woman, his words still rough and aloof as I hear a trickle of water.

I come around the corner to see the naked woman leaning up holding on to her leg, as Levi cleans around it, one hand on her leg while the other is on her shoulder trying to shove her back down. Tears slip down her face as he finally gets her to lie down on her back and he continues to clean the wounds and at the same time dripping salt water into it, making her cry out in pain again.

From when she first got here, Levi has already cleaned most of the blood from her body, but still fresh blood leaks from her open leg wound. It doesn't take him long to figure out I am there and watching him, his eyes moving away from her wounded leg for only a second.

He reverts back to English as he stares at me, "You're back... Now watch her as I attempt to make the ointment."

"Me...? Watch her? Does she even know English?" I ask him as he stands up tossing aside his makeshift cloth he was using. I start to feel nervous again, an unsettling feeling in my stomach.

"Yes. Watch her. She knows English, very little, but she will understand you. She just rather choose our native tongue than any human language." he replies as he walks towards me before the girl on the floor opens one eye at me and shows her teeth by curling her lip back.

She speaks in a foreign tongue again, and I assume she is talking about me as she spats something I don't understand, "Corporal, she is a human! So the rumors are true that you have taken a nasty human woman as your mate and wife! You disrespect the king and our commander for doing this! You should be taking another siren as your wife! Not some human harlot! "

He makes an annoyed face as he grabs the basket from my arms and he says still in a foreign tongue, "Petra, does it matter who I take as my wife? I am your corporal, and you're nothing but my subordinate... And don't forget I am choosing to help you for the sake of you being my comrade all these years."

He is quiet for a moment, and then he says something next in an even colder voice, "Just let me remind you if you dislike her..then you're also disrespecting me. And I recommend you go find Hange to help you. She is better suited for this type of job than I am in the first place."

It is then he leaves the room, and from whatever he has said to her, she had tears in her eyes and she glares hatefully at me, before she turns her head away from me, choosing to rather stare at the wall.

Silence fills the room, and seconds pass us by without either one of us saying a word. The only thing I notice is the slight rise and fall in her chest, and the slight trembles meaning she was holding back her waterfall of tears.

Then I ask to break the silence though I'm not so sure it was a good idea on my part "So..What happened? Your wound?"

She finally turns her head towards me, and she replies hatefully, her English choppy like Levi had said, but then again his was too at first, "Humans! Your undignified species! All we doing is scouting boat! And one took a machine and shot it at me!"

"A gun you mean...not machine," I mutter, and she glares even more at me correcting her. But I guess I was trying to be helpful, but to her it was rude.

The strawberry blonde almost ginger haired girl sits up, her eyes slits as she stares at me. She spats next "Why has corporal picked you out for his wife! You aren't even a pretty human!"

I glare at her, but not really feeling hurt by what she has said. I mean...I have been called worse than something not pretty. I once had a girl who thought I was flirting with her husband, tell me my face looked like a whores coochie. To be fair, I did attempt at flirting with her husband, but I didn't know he was married, blame him for not wearing a ring and acting as if he was single.

I mean he was looming around outside the market, and kept staring at me and following me around with no girl hooked on his arm. It was then I turned around, talked to him, gave him slightly flirty vibes, and then his wife came around the corner right when I asked if he wanted to go out and get a drink and went all out berserk on me. I didn't pick a fight with her, but I think she took it out on me because her husband must have obviously been cheating on her. Marriage I guess sucks...and even now I'm getting blasted by a what I think is a jealous woman.

"I don't know why he picked me. To be fair, it might have been random. He might have just been some lonesome Fishman." I state to her shrugging my shoulders.

"Fishman" she spats. "Don't dare disrespect corporal like that, We are sirens! A dignified species, unlike humans!"

"Yeah whatever fish lady," I say uncaring if she didn't like my nicknames. "And while we are at it. What happened to your leg with the bite wound? I know for sure no human has done that."

I see her grit her teeth, and I'm sure provoking something with teeth like that wasn't a good idea, but for some reason, I feel safe. I mean Levi was right around the corner, and the minute I screamed he would come around and pull her away from me...or I hope he would. He did with the other siren and even killed him.

All she replies is as she lays back down, "Mikasa just like Levi. Loves a human and would do anything to protect him."

I blink before I ask "So a siren was protecting a human because she loves him? So that means you tried attacking him?"

She doesn't reply, so I assume that was a yes and at the very end of the fight, Levi appears again with a stone bowl and what looked like green gunk inside. I cringe slightly at its appearance, but he kneels down and says, "Tch, I could hear you two bickering all the way from the other side of the cave. Was it really necessary to fight in the whole 5 minutes I was gone?"

I scoff as I stand up "I don't know. Ask her. She started it."

The girl says nothing, and she looks away from both of us, and Levi sets the bowl down next to her.

I then turn my back to leave the room, and Levi asks "Where are you going?"

I answer before storming off, not knowing why I was suddenly so aggravated, "Outside."

He doesn't stop me, and from there I leave the cave in a huff and spend the rest of my day until the sun dipped below the horizon on the beach and exploring parts of the island. And during this time alone, I'm given time to learn the layout of the island for my future escape. I for sure didn't want to be around that siren woman for any more time as necessary...and I guess for this matter, Levi as well. Both were equally irritating.

Author's Note: (CONTAINS SPOILERS TO LATEST SNK CHAPTERS) So the last few chapters of Attack On Titan have been traumatizing, but I'm trying to remain hopeful. Haha. But Levi is going to have some fine ass scars on his face if he makes it through all this. Don't yall love the recent fan arts of Levi with them scars? Damn, he still looks fine as hell. Lol. Anyway, chapter Nine is complete, and I hope all of you enjoyed it! Thanks a lot for all the reviews lately, I loved reading them!

And I hope to see you all in the next chapter! :)