-๑-๑ ஜ ๑- Chapter 12: Reasons -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
-Shizuo´s point of view.-
It was loud, it was dirty. Dust was floating in the air and the men that had just left the wall didn't seem like they were going to shut the fuck up anytime soon. Sure there were no titans in sight yet. Yet. But they would come, they would appear for sure.
Shizuo already felt his hair stand on ends, looking around warily left and right. Just the knowledge that he wasn't inside the save walls of wall maria anymore was making him paranoid to the point it was affecting his attention.
Izaya was still riding next to him on this black horse of his, somewhat assuring the blond in a way- even though he knew the raven wasn't going to be able to look after him like after a child.
But that was okay, because he didn't want to be nothing but dead weight for the flea.
Shizuo needed to take care of himself, at least insofar that he wasn't causing trouble for anyone.
Wearily he glanced at the dreaded belt attached to his limbs. He felt handicapped, knowing that he couldn't use the gear like everyone else was able to.
"Orihara," a man, older than the raven by a couple years was suddenly approaching the flea in question. A scar was settled on his forehead right above his right eye, but his hair was brown not red.
"Lieutenant Shiki, it's rare for you to join us, what do I owe the pleasure to?" Izaya announced, loud enough for the man to hear but also for the blond to catch the words.
The man looked stern, yet respectful.
"Are you going to miraculously survive by your own again?" he questioned, the horse he was sitting on running right next to the raven´s in an even fashion. His glance was cold- the question odd.
What? What was he trying to imply?
Feeling a familiar feeling of anger raise inside his body he decided he already didn't like this guy.
But the raven remained cheerful, even teasing.
"Would it be bad if I did?" he questioned, not intimidated at all by the man as if seemed. Shiki's eyes narrowed to slits as he cast a glance to the group that was riding behind them.
"I don't think you quite understand the situation you are in Orihara," the men clarified his voice carrying something that only made the blond´s guts hate that guy even more.
"And that's why you came to observe?"
The horses neighed, the brunette turning his head round as he cast one last glance at the raven.
"No, this is just a warning," and with that he turned and rude back to the wall.
What the hell?
Frown only growing deeper and deeper the blond tried to figure out what that had been about. What was that asshole trying to say? Was he also one of those stupid assholoes that believed Izaya killed his comrades?
"You seem mad." The statement reached the blond´s ears in the form of surprise as he twisted his head to glance at the flea. He was looking back at him, obviously having noticed that the blond had eavesdropped on their conversation.
Frowning Shizuo looked past his shoulder one last time, seeing the guy disappear back in the now closing entrance of wall maria before turning to face Izaya again.
"Who was that guy?" he questioned, not remembering having seen him anywhere before, neither the training grounds nor the dorm.
"Lieutenant Shiki Haruya, my superior," Izaya informed connecting the missing dots in Shizuo´s mind. So that's why Izaya had been acting this polite with the man.
"It sounded like he was threatening you," the blond grumbled, annoyance swinging in his voice as he glared up ahead. "What does he expect you to do? He isn't even-"
"Shizu-chan." sharp, harsh, "We are on the battlefield. The only thing you are supposed to concentrate on now are possible titans appearing," the raven suddenly announced and he sounded serious, almost like he were commanding the blond, and yet there was also this hint of care hidden in his voice that softened the words to a valuable piece of advice instead.
Grumbling the blond took the raven up by his was right.
"Still don't like the guy." That didn't mean he wasn't going to bash that guy´s face in one they were home if he dared to do anything to Izaya just because he survived and the others didn't though.
Loud laughter made the blond´s head snap back once more, only to face the same group of men he had watched before, obviously having the time of their life- couldn't they just shut the fuck up?
The guy with the hammer was swinging said object above his head and imitating what Shizuo ought to be an attack on an imaginary titan. he didn't understand what they were yelling, but he had a feeling doing so would only piss him off that much more.
He could spot kadota, riding not far from that guy, but compared to him his expression was stern, serious, he knew what they were dealing with.
Same for Karisawa and Yumasaki, they were just behind their friend and even though they were smiling, at least they weren't screaming and giving away their position.
"Can´t that guy shut up?" Shizuo growled, catching the raven´s attention once more.
"Leave them be," Izaya announced, edging his horse to go a bit faster as he distanced himself from the group slightly. they were splitting up- Izaya, Shizuo and some guy the blond didn't know making up the first team, while the others split up left and right. Kadota, Karisawa, Yumasaki and another guy were riding to the left, while the group with the hammer guy, a blue haired kid and two more of his friends were splitting up to the right.
"At least they will keep the titans from our course if they keep this up," Izaya suddenly announced, and just for the brink of a second the blond felt as though he had been defending the wrong person.
Because, with those words, Izaya already proved to know that these men weren't going to survive, they were going to be killed. it was odd, makabre how the flea already viewed them as dead and yet ust in the same instant the flea´s words set the blond back he also understood them.
Because that's what this was. War, against the titans. And if these guys attracted the titans Kadota´s and Shizuo´s group at least might make it back alive.
Izaya was just trying to protect as many as he was able to.
It was then that Izaya's head snapped up and his hands flew to the blades left and right ot his body. Confused the blond looked ahead, but there was just a meadow, followed by a small forest, a small one not the huge they were heading for.
But then he heard it, even and thumping, they steps resounded through the nature like an earthquake, getting louder and louder until-
"Split!" Izaya suddenly ordered, the familiar sound of wires shooting out of the raven´s maneuver gear reaching Shizuo´s ears as the raven flew off his horse.
The guy that had been riding with them pulled his horse to the right, while it took Shizuo a second to realize the raven´s command.
Pulling harshly at the horse he turned it to the left- and then he saw it.
Dashing out of the woods, it was a lower class one, small, really it was small, compared to all the others the blond had seen and yet seeing it rush for them with those twisted legs and warped expression on its face the blond felt himself freeze in shock.
Because it was just like back then, just like back then with Kasuka. The thing was heading for them, to eat them, bite off their head, their limbs.
Feeling his blood run cold only sudden movement from the right snapped him out of his shock.
Neighing the horse suddenly reared, both hooves in the air Shizuo grasped onto the leather belts attached to it in an attempt to not fall off. It was the flea that had dashed past them, the metal wire being shot into one of the trees he had been swinging down only to be pulled up and thrown right towards that titan.
His expression was stern, that titan still running seemingly still not even noticing what was going on around him- and he sure as hell wasn't going to realize anymore either because it took just the brink of a second.
Izaya was up, at the height of the titan, his blades ready, clinking and then- a clean cut.
The titan didn't even get to reach for the raven before his lights were blown out and it stumbled over his own feet, earth dirt piling up on his crooked neck as he crashed into the ground.
Horse rearing one more time the the blond couldn´t tear his stare from the now dead titan laying barely a meter or two away from him.
"Injured?" It was the flea who had asked the blond making him flinch invisibly as he looked at the raven that had dropped down right onto his horse that had continued to run as though nothing had happened at all, the metal wires shooting back inside the spool while he scanned the blond from head to toe.
"...no-" Shizuo mumbled, amazed.
Seriously amazed. All of this, all of these things had happened within a matter of seconds, barely even half a minute had passed, the horses were running on too as if they hadn't noticed a thing, but the flea had reacted with such precision and speed it left the blond astonished. Joining the blond on his horse the other guy was suddenly back again, having split to the right before.
It was now that Shizuo realized why Izaya had told them to split- judging how the titan had landed right where Shizuo had been before.
The flea was amazing. Shizuo couldn't help but think that way.
And yet it also reminded him just how routined the flea was at this, just how often he had been out here, fighting against these monsters.
Back on his horse the small group of three remerged to the former state it had been in as they rode on. Past the small wood, past the meadows.
There were no more titans in sight, at least for now.
It was quiet, except for the steady sound of hooves hitting the ground there was nothing but silence. It was odd because they were in the enemy´s theretorry and yet it was just so damn peaceful around them.
Casting a glance at the raven next to him the blond couldn't help but wonder.
"What are you doing this for? Killing titans I mean." After all, even though Izaya obviously despised the titans he didn't seem to take any joy from executing them. Almost the opposite, he seemed routined but his words earlier left the blond thinking that the raven would prefer to stay inside the walls still.
After all, he wasn't willing to risk his life, he wanted to survive, he wasn't tired of living or anything of that sort so why?
"Unfair I asked you first," the raven snorted as response, casting the blond a glance.
Blinking the blond looked back at the raven.
"What?"
"On the training ground," Izaya stated, "You got mad at me and tried to squish me with one of the training gears if I recall correctly." Oh.
Now that he said it, he did. Izaya had gone on and on annoying him about why he was joining the survey corps or rather why he was so keen on it having to be them when he wasn't even cut out for it.
He had never given him an answer. Of course, why should he tell this guy about his brother? And yet now things had changed to some degree.
"I'm gonna answer if you do," Shizu-chan suddenly announced, making the raven humm pleased in response.
Too bad he already knew why. But then again he could find out more about the blond this way maybe. More about how his brother had landed in hospital in the first place. Judging the blond and how deep his love for his brother seemed to run the raven had to admit he was more than intrigued to know the blond´s perspective.
"My siblings." Blinking the blond looked at the raven, for a moment he thought he had heard wrong, because the raven´s voice had dropped considerably, on purpose probably since there was one more guy riding with them that izaya seemed to not want to hear what he was telling the blond.
"Siblings?" he repeated in the same fashion and it too him a second to realize that the raven was saying he had some. It wasn't like he couldn't imagine the raven to have- no that's exactly what it was. Izaya had always given the impression of being entirely alone so now hearing he had siblings came as a surprise. Plural even.
"They are allowed to live inside wall Sheena as long as I am the captain of the survey corps." Inside- … so that's what this was about. The flea, he was fighting for his siblings, to protect them. … he was actually risking his life just to know they were safe.
"What? Surprised?" Izaya questioned as the blond hadn't responded a thing. Instead he was just staring at the raven as though he had just told him a fairy tale.
"How old are they?" he asked, somewhat forced to think about his own brother that he was doing this for.
"Two twin girls, they are fourteen now." Only fourteen? Shizuo was about to ask the raven about their parents, whether they couldn't burden this for Izaya instead, but he bit his tongue instead, realizing the fatality of his question.
They were probably dead. Seeing how Izaya was the one that had to go outside the wall in order for his siblings to be save, there was no other conclusion.
Leaving the meadows they finally found themselves inside the wood they were supposed to ride into. Trees, larger than any Shizuo had ever seen were suddenly filling their vision. But at least no danger was in sight yet.
"So what about your reason?" the raven suddenly said, snapping the blond out of his thoughts. But that question wasn't going to be answered anytime soon, because suddenly they heard it.
Not the sound of feet thrumming against the ground, no- laughter.
"Kill the bastards!" before the blond knew it he saw a couple familiar faces rush through his field of vision. The guy with the hammer and his friends, using their gear to maneuver through the trees.
"Why are you breaking the formation?!" surprised by the loudness of Izaya's voice the blond twisted his head towards the male in question. A deep frown was decorating his expression and his body had tensed.
"Return to your position!" but the guy he was trying to give orders to wasn't listening at all, instead he kept jumping between the trees.
"Why should I?! I finally get to take revenge on these bastards!" he announced with hallowing laughter, his friends joining without a second thought.
"The formations purpose is to warn each other if you sight any titans, not to-" but it was already too late. The moment the raven was about to explain his commands they could hear it. The footsteps, heavy, loud uneven and countless.
"Finally~!" the crazy guy cheered, maneuvering to one of the trees and settled there for a moment, watching the monsters in questions that were emerging from in between the bushes and trees.
Five, no six- seven- the blond lost count of the titans quicker than he should.
"These idiots-" the raven was swearing on top of his horse, the gear getting ready as he jumped off it, the metal wires pulling him up into the air.
Twisting his head Shizuo spotted a titan behind them, suddenly dashing out from between two trees as he grinned at them. That mouth unproportionally huge compared to the small eyes and nose it had as it glanced down at Shizuo.
A shudder travelled down his back, quickly he fondled with his gear, shot those wires and-
THUMP
Cringing just a bit he reached for his shoulder, the wire having pulled him off the horse graciously, and out of that titan´s range, but damn the landing against the tree he had shot that metal wire into hadn't been all too pleasant.
Laughter and screams were to be heard, curses and victorious sounds as that crazy retard killed one titan after the other. neck by neck was cut through, the titan´s falling creating only more noise, attracting even more of these bastards.
It took the blond a second before he noticed that the guy was creating a commotion on purpose.
To fight.
That man only wanted to bathe in the blood of those titans.
"Retreat!" he suddenly heard the raven yell- Shizuo´s head snapped around in an attempt to search for the flea, but no chance, he had heard him but with all this commotion with all this fighting he couldn't make him out.
"Why should we? The fun is only starting~!" the guy cheered, ramming his blade into one more neck of the titans. blood was splattering into his face, his coat covered with it as the creature fell to the ground, the man standing on his neck in victorious defeat.
It was then, that Shizuo saw it.
One.
"HEY, YOU-!" but it was too late. The man twisted, glanced over his shoulders, and his blood froze, for once it did, because there was a titan, a titan that was jumping towards him.
"Fuck." Blood, blood splattered everywhere, Shizuo averted his gaze for a moment searching for the others, searching where they were because he didn't need to see this- he had seen the hand, he had seen the titan´s jaw close around the man.
Nausea was welling up inside his throat but he ignored the sounds, the screams, that gurgling as the guy got swallowed.
"RETREAT!" again Izaya was screaming, but this time with more urgency-
twisting its head the new titan suddenly moved, looked at the blond, but averted his gaze looking at the humans flying up in the air instead- and then it jumped, so fast-
one of the men shrieked, but the creature already had him in its hands.
With horror Shizuo realized that this was no normal titan.
This was an abnormal.
to be continued~
DUN DUN DUUUNNN xD Aww too bad I didn't get to torture my sweet Izaya yet, but oh soon soon *0* next chapter is gonna be pretty damn interesting C: lol satisfying my saddistic urges there lmao xDDD
The next chapter will be out on 12th march 2018~! xD See you sweeties~!
Oh and sotd won the double update, in case I didn't mention that yet xD
Guest 2: daw poor flea, he needs someone to love him and cuddle him xD especially after what happens next chapter MWAHAHAHAHAH xDDD I´m so looking forward to slowly create a team for the flea tho hehe one that doesnt die and that watches each others backs xD lol the shithead kinda learned his lesson.. by head LMAO xDDD next time shit is gonna get serious hohohohoh xD gotta describe lots of fighting gosh xD that´s gonna be so complicated x'D