Twenty Five

Levi knew the first thing he would do. ''Isabel, Farlan, tell the rest of the Special Ops to separate and take some newbies with them. Of course same goes to you two.'' he turned to the newbies' table. ''Law, I want you to pick two people from that group to go with us... Eren, you're coming with me!''

''Yes, sir!'' exclaimed Eren.

''Braun, Hoover,'' Law said. ''Come along?'' he tilted his head and smiled, a bit sinister.

Reiner looked at Bertholdt nervously who gulped. They both tried to return the smile. It ended with a grimace.

''O-okay,'' Reiner said.

''We're all set, Levi-ya,'' Law said as he turned to Levi who mentally praised Law. Good that he caught on to what he wanted.

''Follow me,'' the humanity's strongest said, turning, heading out as fast as he could whilst the brats followed him.

Law eyed the two who seemed to be nervous, then to Luffy who looked as if he had eaten a sour lemon. Luffy, then, went to shower Eren all his attention.

''I think it's a bad idea for us to come with you,'' Reiner said, aware of Luffy's dislike with them.

''Nah,'' Law said. ''Did you know that people show their true colors when they face danger?''

Reiner and Bertholdt looked confused. What did have that to do with anything?

''Luffy has this 6th sense you see,'' Law said. ''Even though he's gullible, naive and idiotic, he knows who to trust with his life.'' he looked at them. ''Something must have rubbed him wrong to dislike you.''

They looked at each other. Reiner said, ''But we didn't do anything...'' he and Bertholdt frowned.

''He must have felt something,'' Law shrugged. ''Luffy-ya will befriend even the ugliest person in the world as long as they're good.'' Law's sharp yellow eyes met theirs. ''What do you think? Curious, is it not?'' Law chuckled darkly. The two couldn't help but shudder. He was creeping them out.

''I believe we'll get to know about you two better in this assignment,'' he said. ''Maybe we'll know why Luffy disliked you in the first place.''

They had rode on their horses as soon as they were able to and went to the direction where nine titans could be seen.

The Scouting Legion was divided in to teams in which assigned to quickly pass the news to the villages before engaging the titans in to combat. However, Levi's team didn't do that, instead they went for the kill. It was to ensure that the other teams wouldn't have too much pursuers amidst of delivering the goddamn news. Having titans after their tails while doing so was same as handing the giant freaks a whole village to drool on.

Nine titans right in front of them were not normal. One of which started to leap like a goddamn gymnast while others did their own not-normal-titan behavior.

Levi glanced around their surroundings. He frowned. The terrain was not in their favour. He noted some abandoned buildings. They weren't tall enough but he supposed they can't be beggars.

Levi turned his horse towards the direction of the buildings.

''We're luring them there!'' he shouted.

''Okay!'' Luffy said, voicing everyone's affirmation.

It didn't take long before both parties, Team Levi and the titans, arrived at the buildings. They maneuvered off their horses. The horses galloped away. Not too far away from them. Just enough distance not to get trampled by the titans and such.

The three newbies took on a titan each. It was hard for the three newbies but they managed. Eren looked ecstatic that he was able to slay a titan.

Law, Luffy and Levi were in a different league. Levi's speed was incomparable, slicing the napes of two titans consecutively. Law, on the otherhand, skillfully dodged the titan's attempts to grab him and executed graceful blade techniques that they've ever seen. He killed two titans efficiently without using more gas than he should have.

I would love to get of all these metals, Law thought. All this get up is just hindering one's performance... Don't they know that?

Law watched as Luffy maneuvered, the gear as if part of his body. Maneuvering the gear felt like stretching, I guess. Luffy got rid of the last two titans in a flash.

Eren said in awe, ''No wonder you two were able to stop Annie...'' there was something in the teen's voice. Maybe he was still having a hard time believing the fact that Annie was actually a titan shifter like him.

''L-look!'' exclaimed Bertholdt. He pointed to a direction.

A new titan has appeared in their vicinity. Law narrowed his eyes. Levi did the same. The newcomer was hairy as fuck. It didn't look human- it looked more like a beast or animal.

It's eyes fell on their group, scanning through their faces (or at least how Law sees it). Law knows recognition when he sees one. Law looked at the corner of his eye and took note how Bertholdt acted frightened, how Reiner gulped slowly, both of their eyes meeting the beast's.

Law could feel its- no, his eyes move to him. Law's yellow irises met the beast's eyes. ''Levi-ya!'' he shouted in warning. ''It's one of them.''

Taking that as a cue, the beast titan had grabbed a horse and hurled it to their way.

''Fuck,'' Levi cussed as they jumped away from the projectile.

All horses panicked and ran. It was the first horse casualty they had afterall. Seeing what happened to their fellow horse, they couldn't help but be afraid.

''There's a goddamn human in there, huh?'' Levi said, his grey eyes locked on the beast titan as if it were his prey. ''We better not let him get away, don't you think so brats?''

''We're gonna kick his ass!'' Luffy exclaimed, grinning excitedly.

''Obviously,'' Law huffed.

''Yes sir!'' Eren said. He was determined to help.

Reiner and Bertholdt were also determined to help. Their eyes darkened. Their resolve hardening. Yes, determined indeed.

Uh... I get the feeling I wasn't able to get my imagination across. I feel like the details is still lacking and that this chapter makes no sense. *frowns* It's like words aren't enough to portray what I want you guys to see. I might have screwed up with the characterization too. And...

You guys don't know what your reviews do to me (even if its from roughly 2-3 people, I don't really care). They make me want to update more and more- not just this story, mind you, but also those other stories that I have put on hold. I'm having such a hard time calming myself to not update them until I finish this... It's bad to be impatient . you know?

Needless to say I'm happy that people still read this.