~HELLO TO ANYONE STILL READING, man it's been a long time, shit got on top of me and this fell to the back of my mind but I finally realised it's time for an update, same as before R&R any criticism and suggestions are appreciated, Yasaric xoxo~
Light pierced the dark shield of his eyelids and Dan slowly stirred into consciousness, as he slowly acclimatised to his surroundings he noted that in the dorm he was one of the first one's up. He quietly and quickly dressed himself before silently leaving the dorm block, the sun was rising into a cloudless sky.
"Today's gonna be hot" Dan sighed to himself whilst stretching his back muscles, he had never been good with the heat, and he doubted it would change now that he was here. He saw Shadis quickly approaching the dorm, Dan snapped to a salute as the instructor approached, Shadis nodded at him before entering the Dorm.
"WAKE UP YOU LAZY GOOD-FOR-NOTHINGS" he heard screamed from inside the dorm, followed by many startled yelps and crashes of trainees falling out of their bunks. "FRONT OF THE MESS HALL IN FIVE MINUTES" Dan made his way to the mess hall before Shadis could leave the dorm.
After a quick breakfast they performed stamina exercises such as jogging and sprints, until lunch time, after which they began strength training until dinner, during which everyone was too exhausted to talk and everyone had retired to their bunks within ten minutes , this routine continued for a couple of weeks. where every time the recruits began to grow accustomed to the exercises the limits of them were increased, eventually the recruits had gained well-toned bodies fit for the job's they were heading into, and a few more weeks on they were declared ready for training with the 3DMG. The night before they were due to begin training with the harnesses a small group had gathered around one of the tables in the mess hall.
"About time they let us actually use the equipment" declared Eren to the group, cutting of all current ongoing conversations "You think they would let us use it sooner!"
"We had to be fit enough to use them Eren" answered the blonde boy sat next to him who had paused from hungrily wolfing down his bread "I mean, we could have seriously hurt ourselves if our bodies couldn't handle using the gear"
A quite snickering could be heard from Jean on the next table over to which Eren shot a hateful glance
Dan was preoccupied with poking a strange object in his stew, trying to determine what it was "...ted Dan."
He snapped back to reality turning to face Armin "I'm sorry, what was that?"
"Are you excited for tomorrow?" the boy repeated smiling
"Yeah sure, i mean, how hard could it be."
The next day all the recruits were stood in a line with their freshly handed out 3DMG ready to try out, they would take it in turns to handle a small and easy course to get the feel for it, soon it was Dan's turn and he nervously approached the start of the course, he lined himself up with the start line and one of the instructors gave the order for him to begin, he let out a long exhale and squeezed the triggers, one of them didn't depress and only the right cable shot out, Dan looked down at his hands, he had missed the left trigger, before he could correct his mistake he felt the right cable shudder and looked up to see it anchored in its target, then he was violently pulled forward from his right as the rig began to reel itself in, time seemed to slow down as he shot past the horrified faces of his friends, and the dumbstruck faces of the instructors. He was able to utter one expletive before slamming into the board, and his world went black.
Dan's head pounded as he regained awoke, he looked around at his surroundings, his vision was blurry and he had no idea where he was, but he was in a bed, he quickly noticed a few figures at the foot of his bed, as his eyes adjusted he noticed it was Armin, Eren, Mikasa, Marco and Mina. He quickly realised he must be in the medical bay and remembered why he was there. He let out a low sigh.
"You gotta admit it was kinda funny" Eren said spraying potato mulch out of his mouth.
"Eren, swallow first" Mikasa said quietly
"You sure you're OK?" Dan turned from the Eren to the new voice, a pair of worried grey eyes were staring at him intently. He tried to flash a reassuring smile but it didn't seem to change her expression
"I'm fine" he laughed "the only serious damage is my pride" he finished rubbing the bruise on the back of his head. He noticed that the people on other tables were looking at him and laughing, he shrank in his seat, his face feeling hot.
"Don't worry about them" came a cool voice, he found that it was rare that Mikasa said anything, and had judged that because such, when she did speak you should listen "we're all new, and you're just the first to make a mistake, it's because they all know that at some point they're going to do something stupid too" Dan smiled at her analysis of the situation, she gave a small kind smile back.
As Dan gingerly lay his head down in bed that night he smiled and chuckled quietly, "It's not so bad with friends" he muttered before fading into sleep.
~WEEW, feels good to be at it again, I hope it's as enjoyable a read as it was to write, I'm raring and ready to continue writing, I even got the next few chapter planned out, I won't give a time of release of the next one, as I'm notoriously bad at keeping up with em, but hopefully soon, anyways, g'bye~