Chapter 6:
A priestess.
The hairs on his arms were still raised from the power she showed. He has never felt anything like it before, it left him in awe. Never before has he seen someone literally glow. She felt so...
Pure.
"Kagome, Do you serve a Church?" He heard Erwin ask.
"I don't, I do serve under my Gods though." She replied.
One of Erwins eyebrows kicked up. "How many Gods are there in your religion?" He asked, Levi and Mike both knew that Erwin didn't believe in the Church of the Walls that was rapidly gaining popularity.
"There are several million Gods and Goddesses in my religion."
Mike choked on the tea he was drinking.
Erwin had a look of surprise on his face, eyebrows raised up near his hair line. "And you know the names of them all?" He asked.
She let out a soft chuckle. "Goodness, No. I don't think anyone does. We mostly know the main one's. Even then, there are over a hundred of them." She explained, she was gently petting Kirara who was on her lap.
"How have you stayed alive out here and avoided the Titans?" Levi asked, feeling as if the conversation would stray if he didn't interrupt.
She motioned behind her where he saw her swords and bow. "Many of them don't come near me, but a few have tried to eat me. After watching how you kill them during your expeditions, I've managed to slay the ones that get too close or I can't avoid." She explained.
What?
"How?" His eyes narrowed on her. As far as he was aware, she had no ODM gear. "That's impossible."
The smile she gave the men was solemn, her eyes turned a darker shade of blue. "Well, the first few that came after me almost ate me. I can sense when they're coming to an extent, so I normally have time to get into a tree and either shoot them with an arrow, or I've been able to jump on their back and stabbed them in the back of their neck. I don't have the momentum you all do though with your gear or the physical strength to cut through, but I can enhance the swords with my powers and that seems to do the trick." She explained, she lifted her hand up and Levi and Mike saw the same light blue light come out of her hand. She closed her fist and the power disappeared.
She then continued. "I have tried to use that gear you have... " She flushed slightly at a memory. "It didn't work out well and I face planted. I didn't know it was out of fuel and my balance was way off." She tapped a finger on her chin, taking the males silence to continue. "I'd love to train with it, would make scaling the tree's a lot easier as parkour only gets me so far."
"Consider it done."
"I- What?" She turned her attention to Erwin, who had Levi and Mike's attention now as well.
"Levi will train you."
Blinking, she looked back to Levi who had his arms crossed. She couldn't tell if he was pleased with the news or not. He didn't feel upset from his aura. "Um, how?" She quietly asked.
Erwin took a more relaxed pose and rested his arms on his knees. "Either you can come back to the walls with us, or we can find a rendezvous point where we can get Levi over the wall and meet you. The problem with that would be how he gets to you, it would be too risky sending a horse over the wall." He explained.
"I can take care of that. Kirara can bring him to me."
Levi let out a huff to keep from laughing out loud. "How? Have you seen her size?" One thin eyebrow was raised in doubt as he looked at the twin tail in Kagome's lap. "No offense, I am not walking all the way to our meeting point."
Giving another mysterious smile, Kagome continued to pet Kirara. "She is able to transform into a larger form. Larger than a Horse, and she is faster than a Horse too." She explained, smiling more when she hit the perfect spot behind Kirara's ear and the feline shoved her head into her hand.
The men gave her skeptical looks, but with what they have witnessed in the last thirty minutes, they all took her word for it.
Even if they didn't believe it.
Turning her attention to Erwin, Kagome took a small sip of her tea before asking. "So where would be a good meeting place? I could stay in this area, doesn't solve the problem with getting over the wall unnoticed though." She had only seen the wall the at distance.
"There is a section of the wall just west of Shiganshina that doesn't get as many patrols as the rest of Wall Maria, with the exception of up north of course. Depending on how the rest of this expedition goes, Levi can meet you in two weeks." He looked at Kirara in her lap. "When... she transforms, how much weight can she carry?" He asked.
Tilting her head to the side, she thought about it for a moment. From her travels in the past and finding out that "Buyo" was actually Kirara in her time, Kirara had gotten larger and more powerful. However, due to living in her era, she didn't transform much anymore and Kagome didn't know of any new abilities. So it would be best to go based off of what she knew from the past.
"She can carry three of your easily with out it slowing her down much."
Erwin nodded slightly. "That is good, as Levi will have extra gear with him as well fuel, food, and what ever else he needs. It won't be difficult to get him down the wall with a lift." Erwin tapped a long finger on his chin in thought in case he forgot anything.
It was Mike's turn to speak up. "Does she wear a saddle?" He asked.
Kagome shook her head in the negative."Nope, she never has." She couldn't imagine having to put a saddle and gear on her every time she transformed, they often wouldn't have the time to put it on her.
She doubted that Kirara would like it on her anyway.
"That would make traveling with the gear more difficult, but not impossible. It would be much easier if you came back with us though." Erwin suggested.
She really wanted to come with them, but something was telling her to stay out here. "While I appreciate the offer, as I told Levi before, I feel as if I belong out here for the time being." Oh how she missed running water, did they have running water in the walls?
She hoped so.
After they agreed that Levi and Kirara would meet with Kagome at her current camp in two weeks, they all asked general questions to each other. Kagome found out that she was two years younger than Levi and Mike, she found out that Mike could smell a titan from a half mile away, that Erwin was meant to take command once some crazy ass (Levi's words) gave up command, and that she was an inch taller than Levi.
It was nice not being the shortest adult for once.
After another twenty minutes of getting to know each other, the tea and fish she made was gone and the men were walking to their horses so they could meet back up with the rest of the Scouts as their hour break would be over soon.
Once Levi got to his horse, he reached into the saddle bag and pulled out a small package. Walking back over to Kagome, he ignored her look of curiosity and held it out to her. When she took it from his hand gently the hairs on his arms raised from her soft touch, he turned back around and went back to his horse. When he heard her quiet "Thank you." he turned his head and saw her out of his peripheral and nodded his head once.
Ignoring Mike's knowing look and smirk, he mounted on his stallion. Once on his horse, he saw her placing his gift in her giant bag before she went stiff.
He then heard Mike's nose working over time next to him, they all went on alert at once.
When Kagome turned back towards all the males, her eyes were large.
"There is a large group of Titans heading towards the rest of the scouts."
Erwin looked at her calmly from atop his palomino mare. "Do you know which direction?" He asked.
She squinted her eyes in concentration for a moment while she tied a black sash around her hips and placed both her swords in it. "The South." She then placed her bow on her and all the males noticed the lack of a quiver. "I can meet them before they reach the rest of your comrades and try to slow them down." She explained.
Before they could say anything, Kirara jumped from her shoulder and was engulfed in flames that grew rapidly. Once the flames settled, they stared in shock at the giant saber toothed cat standing in her place.
Kagome then gracefully jumped on to her back and looked back at the males and glared at them. "Go! I will slow them down!" They then watched as the two launched into the air and took off quicker than any of them expected.
Levi glared at Erwin. "I am not flying on that cat." Then they all took off back towards their make shift camp.
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Here y'all go, I had to rewrite this a few times. Hope you enjoy!
