Yay! NExt chapter is here, and I hope you enjoy it, I'm going to try to make it more interesting and less flighty like last(I always re-read my work.) Anyways, cheers for the new chapter!
The birds noisily chirp outside, much to the disdain of a certain pair. Armin groans and sits up, feeling sore after his and Eren's endeavors last night. Seeing Eren still asleep, Armin smiles. His face is relaxed and calm. To him, it was nice to see Eren so relaxed, instead of being so intent on something. Once he sets his mind to something, he's hell bent on getting it light filter in through the windows, and Armin yawns. Eren's sea green eyes blink to life, and he too, yawns.
"Morning Armin." Eren smiles at him, and Armin flushes lightly.
"Morning Eren.~" Armin smiles and kisses him happily, Eren smiling. Eren slowly slips his arms around Armin's neck, drawing him down lower, closer to him.
"We outta get dressed and get to breakfeast." Armin stretches and gets up, trying to locate where his clothing went. Luckily, there was no reminents from last night. Eren grins, enjoying the view of Armin, his eyes resting directly on his ass. Armin looks over his shoulder at him, and flushes more.
"E-Enjoying the view?" Armin stammer, smiling.
"Of course." Eren gets up, and wraps his arms around Armin's waist and rests his chin on Armin's shoulder.
"You're to cute, Armin." Eren grins and kisses Armin's cheek, and Armin flushes ever so slightly more.
"C'mon Eren... we need to hurry up!" Armin mumbles, trying to derail Eren. He throws on his clothes, and watches as Eren dresses in secret. Both head out of the room, closing the door, and heading to the cafeteria.
Upon arriving, everyone is seated and eating. Luna chose to sit by herself, away from others. Her hair was lightly mussed from sleep, as she hadn't thoroughly brushed her hair. Her vibrant eyes focused on the window, watching nothing but clouds roll past along the sky, smiling to herself as she tried to make out their shapes. Then, someone sits next to her, and she looks at said person.
"Who are you" She blinks at them, a taller boy with sea green eyes and ruffled brown hair.
"I'm Eren! I bumped into you a few days ago." He smiles sheepishly, a blonde boy sits with them.
"Oh. That clutz. Yeah, I'm Luna Shallei." She holds out a hand, her expression indifferent, her lips in a small frown.
"I'm Armin Arlert." Armin holds out his hand, and Luna shakes his hand, nodding.
"So, why'd you join the scouts?" Eren looks at her, and she blinks.
"I refuse to be a coward and hide behind walls all day, that's why." She states it simply, indifferently. It doesn't matter why she chose to join. She knows what she's getting into. Simple. She was older than them, she wasn't necesarily 'young' when the titans attacked, though she might as well have been. She was 15, but that was years ago, she was 21 now.
"Ah..."
"You, Eren?" She looks at him.
"I joined so I could kill every titan."
"Naive. There's no way we can do that. Not without such costs. Not without a new style." Luna's eyes flash.
"We can. I'm a shifter."
"Oh? Are you? Well, what happens when you die, or Corporal Heichou dies, hmm?" She meets his eyes, calm and relaxed.
"When who dies?" The voice of Levi sounds behind them, Luna cooly looks at him, Eren pales.
"U-u-u-" Luna cuts off the stammering Eren.
"It's nothing, Corporal. I was simply asking Eren here to thoroughly think through his ambitions before he chases them like an idiot."
Luna's tone is sharp, sharp enough to cut.
"I see, and who's death?" Levi presses.
"Simple, the shifter here and your own. You can't live forever. No one can. You two give humanity hope. So what after you two pass on?" Luna just simply asks it, Levi's eyes flash.
"Come with me, Shallei." Eren pales, as does Armin. Luna shrugs, but gets up and follows him. They walk to his quarters, and Luna casually leans against the wall, looking cooly at him.
"You know, you talk so easily of death," there's anger in his voice. "It's annoying. Do you know how many people have died?" He glares at her, Luna feels a chill go down her spine, she stiffens.
"Way to many to count, Corporal." She keeps eye contact, shuddering at his glare.
"At least you aren't blind. Now, explain to me why you talk so easily of it." It wasn't a question, it was a demand.
"It is our fate, Corporal. We are all to die one day, be it at the hands of a titan, our own kind, disease, or time has just run out. We all will die one day. We can fight against it... but it comes. It comes when we don't want it to. It takes and takes. Death is our fate, our end. We cannot escape it. I take so easily of it because I know it is my fate, our fate. So I embrace it, acknowledging every second I lose time on this hateful planet. This sinful life will one day fade into nothing." Luna knew her voice broke over her words, her body shaking, her eyes shimmering tears and the memories of death hit her. The titans infiltrating the walls, the death of her friends and family. The death of those she has murdered. The blood ill never come off her hands. Finally, a lone tears slides down her cheek, and then more. Through her blurry vision, she sees the Corporal's expression change, if not even the slightest.
"I see. You were there, weren't you? When the wall collapsed." Levi looks at the now crying girl, she nods.
"Yes. Yes I was. I saw the force of the explosion kill those I loved, and I fled. I was a coward." Luna hangs her head, avoiding his gaze. She hears foot steps, and Levi tips her head up, and brushes away a few tears.
"We've all lost someone. We've all done things we regret. It's okay, Luna." Hearing her name from his lips, she blinks.
"I'm sorry, Sir. I'm being weak. Letting my emotions win." She backs up to the wall, as close as she can, brushing away tears. She tries to remove the feeling of misery and guilt.
"It's fine. We can't all stay strong forever." Levi gently grabs her hand, and leads her to the bathroom. Her eyes look at her hand, always blood covered.(Correct me if I am wrong, but I do believe that psychologically speaking, when you deal with guilt you'd get visions to reflect guilt, or some form of a hallucination, no?)
They get into the bathroom, and Levi runs the sink's water. He washed her hands, Luna there, but yet not there. Watching as the red came off her hands in the warm water. Her skin was pale.. like the rest of her.
"It's gone..." Luna's dark hair falls in a curtain around her face, hiding her expression. But that was a lie. A damn lie. Because then it was back and then she was sad and Luna bit back her urge to cry. Mommy would say it was fine. That it was all okay, then smile and hug her and then they'd get lunch. Food...
GG Cliff hanger get rekt! I wanna end it here and post this to feed the crowd cause I was MIA for a long ass time! So here ya go!
A sneaky Peaky for next chappy
Of course. Now. Now of all times, when they were weak. Luna was running on foot from the titans outside the walls. They were sweeping them down to try and keep the walls clear, with the fear of the collasol, the government thought it best. But running was hard. Running was tiring. This isn't a war, she once said, this is a massacre. We're hiding...
When a hand wraps around her, she knows that's her fate. She sees the face of the titan to kill her, and she looks it in the eyes, then she closes her eyes, and wait for the sweet release of death.
Shit chapter is shit. I'm sorry I just needed an update ;-;
