It had been a month since that episide. Levi had barly spoke to Erwin afterwards. Erwin hadn't minded, it was better being ignored than Levi looking like he would stake him at any minute.
Levi mostly had been ignoring Erwin's requst to pick a squad.
In the end Erwin had to forcibly assign Levi to a squad.
"I should be doing this to your new comrades, not the Captain Levi" Erwin had scolded him earlier.
It wasn't his fault, any Scouts he had been introduced to had been either arrogant jerks or looked like they couldn't say boo to a goose.
Mike had told him later that was mostly due to them being scared of him, than anything else. It made him a bit irritated.
So this is what lead to Levi fighting vampires in a nest, in a small crapped cave, with five people he mostly hated and was half hoping would get eaten by vampires.
So far?
No such luck.
The Erwin had alerted to suspicious behaviour around this area, all leading up to the fact there were ordinary vampires about.
Levi was with five other people. Two of the solders he was with were okay, he supposed but the other three by the time they got to the cave Levi was generally wishing some vampires would come along and eat them.
The two men and a women who Levi was wishing a painful death apon were called Jacob, James and Harriet.
James was the olders of the solders and it was very clear he did not believe Levi should be Captain and have so little expiriance in the Scouts.
Jacob was a two faced coward, Levi had no idea why he was a Scout solder in the first place. While Harriet had an attitude seemed to order the others around, as if she was Captain, she wasn't even his second in command but she liked to think she was.
There was two solders that Levi didn't mind.
Kate, though a little emotianal she was quick to follow his orders.
And Oluo, he was the youngest solder with the usaul youth arrogence though a bit of a coward, he was still talented with a blade and was brave when it counted.
They were in the middle of fighting a vampire nest.
Levi found this incredibly easy to fight them but it was a little difficult to press down on his more predotary instinct sometimes but he got a hold on it over time.
Levi doged a vampire coming his way easily, it hissed showing its teeth, Levi suppressed the urge to growl back.
Ordinary vampires were vile things, they looked like normal humans in till they were angry or thirsty.
From there there eyes would turn pure red, their skin almost white, their teeth long and pointed, it would also strech wider open, like a snakes jaw could. They're hands turned into sharp claws and their hair pitch black.
Sure abnormals had similer traits, but no where near what a normal vampire looked like.
Glancing around, he saw his squad were busy with other vampires, Levi reached out and with a strength that a human defiently didn't posses, he grabbed the vampires head and ripped it of savagely.
It felt good...
Every kill he made he felt like he was fulling the promise had made, even as a vampire himself.
Before he could dissect his third vampire a scream of agony reached into the air that was familer, Levi twisted around.
Harritot and Jacob were trapped, two vampires held down Harriot biting into her, she was still fighting, even though it was hopeless. Jacob was screaming and crying, a vampire had hold of his chest and was squeezing.
"Jacob, Harriet!" Kate cried, rushing over, not spotting the danger.
"Kate, no!" James shouted, he was held back by Oluo, watching with a horrified look.
The vampire squashed Jacobs chest, he gurgled and couthing up his own blood, it was a horrible way to die.
Kate managed to rip one of the vampires of him but the danger she didn't see was one more vampire coming up behind her, its hand wrapping around her neck. then twisted sharply.
She fell down, dead before she touched the floor.
Levi had gotten much better at controlling his blood lust, over the past weeks, mainly because he defiantly did not want Erwin to do that calming thing again, that had given him nightmares...Okay it hadn't but it was still disturbing...
"Let go of me!" James snarled.
"Do you want to die like them?" Oluo yelped.
"They're still alive" James snapped.
"Barely" Oluo choked, though James could see he was having a hard time keeping it together like he was.
Levi straightend, his expression as if he was not watching more than half of his squad die before him.
He threw a stake at Oluo who cought it, brandishing his own, even though he didn't really need it.
"Oluo with me, focus on slaying the vampires, we still have a job to do. James stay here" Levo ordered calmly.
"Why-!" James was about to say.
"I do not trust you to follow my orders" Levi simply replied coldly, narrowing his eyes at him.
James backed up quickly, even he found Levi's looks intimidating.
There had been 12 vampires, only four remained.
Levi personly thought he could of killed them all better alone but as always Erwin didn't really listern what he had to say.
Oluo and Levi attacked at the same time.
Levi staked three of the vampires almost as fast as possible, the ones holding Harriets mauled body, she was dead now, drained of blood.
One vampire he staked Levi's flashed his eyes, changing from their normal colour to a deep red then back again, he enjoyed the look of suprise on its face before it died.
Olue handled the vampire left, Levi let him to it.
Though he gripped Kate's body, looking closly at her.
"Shit" Levi muttered.
He thought he had spotted a vampire doing something odd before he had killed it.
"What is it?" James demanded.
"It gave her some of its blood, she's turning, if she wakes up she'll be a vampire" Levi stated, his expression cold.
James and Oluo paled quickly.
Everyone knew what needed to be done...
But...
"Levi! You can't!" Oluo pleaded suddenly, as Levi had started to raise his stake positioned at her heart.
"Why not?" Levi asked him calmy.
"She's your comradde, your friend-" Oluo started to say.
Levi inturpted him icely, still staring at Kate, his stake still positioned above her heart "I had freinds, she wasn't one of them"
James stayed silent, head bowed.
"Please, you can't-" Oluo tried, his voice ached with grief.
"Why not? In the end all these vampires we killed tonight used to be human, what makes her any different?" Levi suddenly snapped, turning around to finally face Olue, eyes hard and flint like.
James muttered, still looking down "Any solders turned must be killed quickly, you know the rules Oluo"
Levi felt a stab of guilt inside him.
Then why wasn't he killed?
How was this fair?
Levi smiled bitterly then...
Of course, the answer was easy.
Life was never fair, everybody knew that.
James shuddered as he said "She'll wake up and be like the rest of them, blood thirsty, uncontrollable and a murderer"
He added more sofly to the youngest member of the squad "Do you think she'd want this life for herself? This is a mercy really. I bet you anything if she was here now Kate would want us to kill her, so she could never become one of them"
Oluo closed his eyes then he nodded sharply, Levi could see small tears coming down his eyes.
Levi looked at both of them before raising his stake.
"No!"
"Oluo!" Levi warned, his voice almost a growl, both of the solders flinched.
"No, I-I mean, let me do it" Oluo whispered.
Levi blinked.
"You sure?" James aske, eyes wide.
"She would have wanted it to me" Oluo muttered, his face flushing red.
James caught on quickly "Oh, I'm sorry, we didn't-"
"Its fine, we wearn't very public about it" Oluo said, choking up a bit.
"As it happens I don't really give a shit about your love life Oluo, she could come back any minute, are you doing this or not?" Levi asked him grimly.
Oluo, straightened and stiffly nodded.
He started to sweat with fear and intisipation.
He walked over to her and knelt down next to her.
"I'm sorry" He choked out, kissing her her cold copse forhead before raising the stake slowly above her heart.
He was shaking big time.
"She would have wanted this" He muttered to himself, closing his eyes.
Suddenly his shoulders slumped and he said, his voice craking "Who am I kidding? No one wanted this"
Oluo was now crying, he wiped his eyes on his sleave before repeating shakily "No one wanted this"
Then with no hesitation, Oluo forced the stake into her chest, exactly where her heart was.
Kate's skin turned grey and veins showed up on her skin but that was the only signs that she had been turning.
Oluo leaned over her body and sobbed.
James looked at Harriet, Jacob and Kates body in sorrow.
Levi walked over to Oluo, he put his hand on his shoulder in a comforting gesure.
"Captain?" Oluo mumbled, looking up at him.
Levi sighed and gave him a sad smile which Oluo returned with a watery shaky one "You did a good job today Solder. Come on"
He nodded at James "Lets go back home"
Hiii, I didn't even know I would update this quickly, thats why I made the preview :D But I have a free day tomorrow so basically I can stay up as late as I want because I can sleep in tomorrow :) So thats how I updated this chapter. Also my floor had a fire! Aaagh and now we can't go into our kitchen and the dorm smells of smoke...Yay...
Poor Oluo ;)