Again, sorry for the grammatical errors. I just suck at English.

"I hate dark and filthy places."

That's the first thing that came out of Levi Heichou's mouth the moment we reached the bottom of the stairs. He lowered his hold of the lamp and from there we saw that we were actually standing on mud.

"And most of all, I hate muddy places," he added with so much disgust on his face.

He lifted up the lamp to have a whole view of the basement. We were shocked at what we saw. Instead of a basement, we saw a tunnel. The tunnel was about nine feet tall and wide enough to accommodate five people standing side by side.

"Hmm, I wonder where's this heading to?" he whispered.

Levi Heichou walked forward while I quietly followed him. After a few steps, we heard something.

SPLASH!

It resembled the sound of something that was dropped from a high place and landed on a muddy place.

The sound came near the stairs so we looked behind. From where we were standing, we saw that the light coming from the room above was slowly vanishing. We looked at each other, it was like we had telepathy, we did not say a thing but just by a glance we instantly understood each other's thoughts.

We immediately ran for the stairs. While running, we heard a screeching sound coming from the room above, it was like something heavy was being pushed. When we finally reached the stairs, our fearful theory was confirmed.

Someone from above just closed the wooden door. We tried pushing the door but it looked like something heavy was already on top of it.

"Shit, now we're trapped," he said.

Levi Heichou descended the stairs. He walked back and forth, his right hand was still clutching the handle of the lamp and his left hand was rubbing his chin. He did that for a few seconds then suddenly he just stopped moving. I thought that he finally had an idea about what's happening to us or maybe he had a plan on how are we going to escape the tunnel. But he did not say a thing so I sensed that something might be wrong.

After being stunned for a few seconds, he finally moved. He lowered his hold of the lamp and looked at the muddy floor.

I will never forget how his face looked like at that time. Horror and fear was all over his face.

"Eren," he whispered, his voice was trembling.

He looked at me. His small eyes that I always find so cute were now bulging out of its sockets.

I looked at the floor. It was there, the reason why he looked so shocked and scared. A few inches from where he was standing, a creature slightly covered with mud can be seen. Its dark tongue was out of its raging mouth. Its head was slightly raised like a sign that it's going to strike if ever Levi Heichou moved.

My heart pounded hard. My body couldn't move. It was like I was turned into a stone. I wasn't really scared of snakes because compared to titans, snakes were nothing. But the thought of Levi Heichou getting hurt in front of me was the thing that made scared.

I shook my head a few times to shoo away my fear.

Then I remembered the broom on my hand. I tightened my grip on the broom, quietly stood and slowly descended the stairs. Levi Heichou was still plastered there and so was the snake. I reached the last step of the stairs without making any noise. I stepped my right foot on the muddy floor as quietly as possible. I tried to do the same with my left foot but I slipped and fell on the muddy floor.

The snake turned its head on me. It hid itself into the mud and since our only light source was a lamp, I did not know where the snake went although I had a feeling that it's going to me, to attack me. Boy, I was right.

The moment I stood up, the snake bursted out in front of me. I never knew that snakes can strike for as high as two feet. Good thing I have fast reflexes. Without thinking, I scourged the snake using the the handle of the broom. It hit the snake right on its muddy body. The snake fell on the floor and acted like a fish taken out of water. Then out of nowhere, a foot landed on the body of the snake, squishing it tightly. Another foot landed right below the head of the snake.

"Eren, hit the head!" Levi Heichou ordered.

The snake wriggled wildly but it cannot beat Levi Heichou's feet. I know how the snake felt at that time, I too also experienced to be at those feet's mercy.

"Yes, sir!" I answered.

I hit the head a few times making sure that it's the head of the snake that I hit and not Heichou's foot. After a few more hit in the head, the snake stopped moving. To check if it's really dead, I poked the head and the body a few times.

"I think it's really dead now. You don't have to be scared anymore, Heichou. I never knew you're afraid of snakes," I teased.

I was expecting him to say something abusive to me or to beat the crap out of me for teasing him but instead of doing those he just stood there, the dead snake still under his feet, his right hand was clutched on the handle of the lamp, and his left hand was clutched on his *ahem* manhood? Or was I just imagining things?

"That snake," he finally said, "that snake can only be found on my hometown. One bite can lead to death...within forty five minutes," he added, gasping.

"Good thing no one was bitten by that snake!"

"Eren, I think that bastard snake bit me," he said, looking down to where his left hand was located.