Guh, I'm uploading too fast but meh, who cares? I'm also one of those readers who wants to see both my favorite character meet (Just meet already!)
From here on out, uploads will be once a week (probably).
Remember that one time where Eren and Historia were put into coffins and tied up and gagged? Yeah, I also didn't like that but I put it here. Oh hell.
Also, Heterochromia Eren! because why not? ohohoho (I have a thing for eyes, such beauties) Just kidding, there's a reason for that.
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Gunther and Oluo had fused once again and looked ready to go. Gunther's battle gear was nothing too modern like the blonde's bright red attire and fiery patterns but it was just as flashy in Levi's opinion while Isabel and Farlan found it cool and admired it adoringly.
Gunther's torso was covered in hard caramel-colored armor like one would see in the pictures of knights in books while his shoulders were covered in pouldrons and spaulders that was beautifully carved with ivory-looking pattern. On his hand were plain steel gauntlets with caramel-colored linings.
While Gunther's upper body was well-protected, his legs were not. Oluo had only provided for him tanned, comfy trousers and a pair of steel shoes with the same coloring as the gauntlets and went up to his ankles.
Oluo as a weapon was a big heavy-looking hammer but his Meister waved it around as if it was nothing more than a tennis racket, perhaps that was why Gunther had such beefed up arms and torso. Or beefed up in general. The hammer had the same ivory pattern that covered the whole length of its long handle while both ends had a pointy tip, shaped like a diamond.
"Could you still fight, Gunther?" Levi questioned, a hand settling on the doorknob leading to the basement.
"Yes, captain, we're still good to go. Petra's one hell of a woman." Their captain nodded, he could almost hear Oluo's retort of 'You've got that right!' and from the shit eating grin on Gunther's face, it seems that Levi nailed it.
"Farlan, you didn't use any of your flash bombs, right?" Levi turned to him as he asked.
"Yes." The blonde confirmed before muttering, "I should have saved the last sleep bomb rather than using it."
"We'll use that and knock him out while he's blinded. There's a hundred percent chance that they already fused and that would be killing two birds with one stone. We did quite the racket up here and they hadn't gone up, so they must be under strict orders."
Once a Meister that's fused with a Shifter falls unconscious, they will be forced to part. And there is a high chance that the Shifter's knocked out like their Meisters.
"That's why I had a strong urge to see what's inside." the blonde murmured. The excitement, though strictly concealed, was not lost to their captain.
"But when they had the same goggles as you or any type of headgear then you stay outside the room while Gunther and I fight him." Levi turned to the armored Meister and added, "Hand to hand." The pointy-haired male nodded his head as his hammer disintegrated in the air in shimmering orange light.
Down below was dark and cold but a quick click of the light switch helped them see clearer. In contrast to the room above, there was nothing on the basement except for long rows of door after door. The walls were painted with fading beige and, as they went deeper, the doors looked like the ones on the underground city, thin and chipped and overall look ready to crumble to down with the barest of touch.
Even though the incandescent light shone above their heads, it was pretty dim so they found the room they were looking for soon enough from the light coming out from the gap on the door and the floor.
Quietly, they approached it. Farlan stood on guard right in front of it, a yellow colored bomb on hand while Gunther and Levi were positioned on sides, hands up and ready to cover their eyes. With a nod from the bomber, Gunther closed his eyes and twisted the handle.
Levi saw on the reflection of Farlan's goggles how the battle-geared Meister with a spiked whip charge at him, luckily there were no headgear and with a grin and a quick flick of Farlan's wrist, there was a whistling sound and the room was enveloped in bright light.
Levi was just in time to cover his eyes and after a second opened it again to see that Farlan had already knocked them up, he was unaffected by the flash bomb thanks to his goggles.
"Easy peasy." Farlan singsonged in a low voice as he laid a hand on his hip, face looking bored as he stared down at the two by his feet. Levi was once again reminded of how Farlan was acting like a combination of him and Isabel.
Hell. Levi just wished that when he finally found a Shifter that he trusted enough to fuse with, they wouldn't be acting like some idiot.
"Gunther, we're not doing any fighting from here on out." Levi stated, doing quick work of tying the knocked out pair. Behind him, there was a soft thump after a flash of orange light brightened the room.
"In the end they weren't S class huh, captain." Oluo remarked once he had defused with his Meister, who took his time to put on his shoes and jacket as he sat by the wall.
"Tsk. We wanted to see another S class." The blonde frowned, kicking the shin of one of the fallen. "It's been some time."
"Just be thankful it wasn't an S class." Their captain said disapprovingly. "I think even I would not be able to win against one."
"Nobody said you had to win." Farlan chirped. A glare from gunmetal eyes shut him up.
"How is it?"Eld's voice boomed in their ears.
"Good. It was just a Pair of Class A. They were knocked out by Farlan's bomb but really, Gunther and I could have just squa—ngh." Their tongue-biting companion strikes again.
"Well, alright. There's nothing yet out here but hurry up, you've already wasted two minutes. I'd expect the police to be here any moment because of the explosion but I don't hear nor see anything yet. Also, Petra's all patched up and having quite the happy time with the baby back in the car."
"Hey!" The strawberry blonde shouted at her defense. "He's just so cute, okay!"
"We'll be there soon." Gunther informed them and the line went dead.
Farlan was already standing near the coffin; his eyes bright with excitement. The other three occupants of the room went to stand around it—with Levi going down on one knee close to its side—which was quiet unlike the time when they saw it get carried inside.
'Probably exhausted themselves to sleep.' Levi thought and with a quick glance with the others, he grabbed the lid and slid it open.
"What the!" Farlan shouted in the same time Oluo exclaimed, "Holy shit."
The other two were more silent in their surprise. Gunther took a sharp intake of breath while Levi's eyes widened in shock as they all eyed the brunette laying inside, bound and gagged as if it was the most natural thing to see inside a coffin. Levi was not far off when he said he was sleeping.
The kid's eyes were open but there was a glazed look on his face as if he was sleeping with his eyes wide open but Levi could see the signs of awareness setting in and slowly, the mismatched eyes slid towards the one closest to him, which was Levi.
The raven held the brunette's gaze; his big, dual colored eyes took most of his attention, one side colored turquoise while the other was colored a fierce green. Even in the dim lighting, they still managed to gleam as if there was a mini led light installed behind his eyeballs.
"This is the first time I actually saw a victim of sex slavery." Oluo muttered which got his Meister immediately admonishing him, "Idiot, it doesn't look like he's been… used… yet. It's more like he's well on his way there."
"Ngh!" Farlan groaned and it effectively pulled the other's attention away from the kid's impressive eyes, although honestly, Levi found them creepy… Beautiful but creepy.
"What is it, Farlan?" The pointy-haired man's concern was clear on his face.
"It's nothing. Isabel suddenly wanted to come out…" Their captain finally looked at the blonde—and wow, Levi just realized he'd still been staring at the brunette—a frown pulling his thin lips down. "But I managed to stop her just in time since when we defuse now, the bombs are sure to go off with that and we'll be stuck here. She seemed to have forgotten."
"Isabel." Levi's tone was just a bit mad, but it still got Farlan looking down the ground.
"She says she's sorry. She just wanted to look at him closely." He motioned his head towards the coffin. "Apparently, she's been bewitched by his eyes." Oluo clicked his tongue while his Meister shrugged his shoulders with a small smile.
Levi glanced at the kid once again and— 'Yeuck, how the hell did I not notice that.' Levi thought with a slight shudder.
There was a thin line of saliva going down one side of the kid's round cheek from where his head was slightly tilted to the left and he was sweating bullets, making his earthen hair stick close to his neck and forehead.
There were small scrapes and bruises on his honey-colored skin, most probably below his wide collared shirt as well. When they lock eyes again, Levi didn't quite manage to hide his shock when he found that the brunette's mismatched eyes were now glaring at him. He almost muttered an apology but instead held himself, after all, it wasn't like he'd meant anything bad by looking at his injuries.
Their captain was staring so hard that he didn't even notice when Farlan had knelt close to the coffin and only when the blonde bent down closer to the other—thus covering his line of sight—that his silver eyes finally broke off their intense survey.
"There… happy?... I know…" The blonde's intelligible murmurs trailed off as he laid a gloveless hand below the kid's nose, and then prodded him here and there.
"It looks like he's been drugged. He was probably given a body relaxant to make him stop struggling. See here," Farlan pointed at the bleeding point at the kid's arm. "Injected. Although it's a wonder how he could move already, maybe it wasn't a huge dose…"
"Oh really, he doesn't look relaxed." Which was true, the kid was still glaring at him. "It looks like he needs to take a shit." Oluo snorted a laugh.
"Again with the poop jokes, but well…" Farlan took a quick glance on the kid and shrugged his shoulder. The kid's glare only intensified. "Now that we've seen, let's go."
"Wow, heartless." The hammer wielding Meister quipped.
"Hey, I wasn't finish." Farlan said defensively, "Isabel said that we should probably take him outside with us since we are going to make this mansion explode."
"Right." Levi agreed with a frown, "We've wasted enough time already. Gunther, could you carry him?"
"Of course. He doesn't look like he's too heavy. Shouldn't we free him first? His wrists are already bleeding…"
"You two, go on ahead." Their footsteps sounded as they did as ordered. Levi took the small sharp knife strapped on his leg and handed it to Gunther, handle first.
Kneeling down, the pointy-haired male carefully cut off one side of the gag, he pulled it off the kid's mouth and threw it haphazardly somewhere in front of him—since their captain was behind him and he had no death wish as of yet—while his other hand wiped the drool on the brunette's face with the clothe from the coffin.
"We're on our way. We found a kid with pretty eyes back in the coffin. He was bound and gagged. Looks like slavery." Oluo said from the earpiece.
"Is that so? How pretty?" The strawberry blonde's cheerful voice asked," I'd like to see myself. Was it as pretty as this babe's?" They could hear the giggles of the baby in the background.
"No. It was prettier. It was dual colored." Farlan joined in, "Although I really thought it was something else, but anyway I got to see something rare so I guess its fine."
"You didn't take pretty eyes?" Petra's voice came off higher than normal.
"Levi told us to go on ahead, they'll follow behind. "
Gently, Gunther heaved him up in a sitting position to cut off the tight bounds around his wrists. His skin was cut and bleeding, it also looked as if it was infected. Keeping an arm around him to keep him up, Gunther also cut the rope binding his leg.
"He weighs nothing." The male commented idly as he gathered the brunette in his arms. His head lolled from the motion before it settled on the other male's shoulder.
"Just makes your job easier then." Levi replied in his default voice. "Let's get out of here."
"What about those two?" Gunther motioned on the still knocked out pair on the corner.
"Almost forgot about them." Levi muttered, he looked at their large suited bodies. It would be hard to carry them upstairs. "Just leave them. They won't die when we blow this shit up."
"Alright, then." There was no trace of distrust in Gunther's voice and with Levi walking upfront they moved to exit the mansion.
They approached Farlan when they got outside. He was sitting on top of the wall, looking down the ground like a motherfuckin almighty, probably felt like it too, the fucker. Oluo was most probably already back with Petra.
"Put him somewhere in there." Levi waved his hand mindlessly in his right as he looked around. The other did as told and carefully set down the brunette by a tree. "Let's wrap things up." Their captain muttered, just as they were about to jump a tree though they heard a groan. Levi glanced at his companion before setting his silver eyes to the kid.
"What are you groaning about? Got a plug stuck on your ass?" Levi asked, looking down at him. A pained moan was all he got as an answer. The raven could see the way the kid's muscles squirmed.
"Looks like he's fighting the drug." The male standing on his left said.
"So it would seem." Levi clicked his earpiece before ordering, "Oi, Farlan. Blow it up."
"Roger."As if on cue, an explosion sounded behind them followed by crumbling rubble. Their hairs and clothes fluttered along as wind blew pass them.
"Hah, Mission Accomplished." A cheerful high voice cheered, "Is what I'd like to say but where are you, bro? Still with pretty boy? We're not yet finished, you know! You can't go around having fun!"
"Isabel! Put your own intercom. I can't put my shoes on when you're sitting on my lap!" Farlan groaned not really meaning it.
"Oh you like it, anyway." His Shifter teased, there was a soft echo of a giggle from somewhere in the right.
Levi tuned them off and put his undivided attention to the brat in front of him.
"Who are you and what are you doing stuck in a tight ass coffin, bound like a masochistic whore?" the captain drawled as soon as the kid managed to lift his head up to look at him. "They even gave you a nice gag to complete your getup."
"… I… I was… K-kid-kidnapped." The kid's voice was raspy and it looked like he was having quite a hard time just speaking up but his eyes were set in a determined glare. Those eyes were really something.
"Name."
"…E…E-Eren… ngh." Gunther took pity and arranged him to ease the strain on his muscles. The kid named Eren now had his mismatched eyes trained at the other male with a grateful look on his eyes. "T-tha…Thank… You…"
"Y-you're welcome." The pointy-haired male replied back. Having those eyes staring him eye to eye unsettled Gunther in some way, his respect to his captain just went up a notch.
'But then again, captain's eyes are more intimidating no matter how small… The eyes! I meant his eyes!' Even in Gunther's thoughts he could not afford calling their captain small. Hell would go down to earth.
Levi had to take a hold of the kid's chin to get him to concentrate on him again while Gunther supported the kid's weight. "You had something to say, right? Say it now before we leave your sorry ass in here."
"H-help me… Plea-please." The brat could now move jerkily, still it was quite the fast improvement. Just then Farlan and Isabel dropped to the ground, masks on. The former muttered something on his mouthpiece, but otherwise kept quiet.
"And what makes you think, we'll help you? If you hadn't gathered it yet, we're criminals." Levi intoned; eyes never leaving the brat's, whose hands were now settled on the hand tightly gripping his chin. Levi faintly heard his voice echo on his earpiece and immediately understood that Isabel must have kept his microphone on so the others could listen in.
"I-I know… B-but you-you'll regret… leaving m-me behind." The brat actually had the audacity to smirk at him. Levi tightened his grip, bringing their faces closer.
"Arrogant brat." Levi muttered before harshly letting go.
"Guh." Mismatched eyes turned to him once again with a glare. The kid could finally move his neck freely and by the way Gunther's arm hovered by his side; he could already support his torso.
"Tell me something, why were you kidnapped? By the way you were taken, it doesn't seem like a normal kidnapping to me. You know don't you, you were the one kidnapped." It was stated more than questioned.
"They… wanted me…" The kid's eyes glance on the ground before looking back up at him again, his voice steady and smooth. "Because I'm… a Shifter." Well, that was believable and since his clothes were dirty as hell, he was probably taken while he had a Meister.
"Oh, of course. So stupid of me to ask." Levi didn't hold back on his sarcasm.
"So it probably went down like this," Farlan finally spoke up from where he was leaning on the wall lazily. They all looked at him but Levi stared at the kid's face to see his reactions, "They probably thought you were some S class Shifter but turns out that you're just an A or B class Aberrant. You fused with your Meister, fought your kidnappers but your Meister was weak and thus the both of you were knocked out and it all ended up with you kidnapped."
Levi knew that Farlan was talking about the time when Isabel was almost taken. And when Farlan and Levi brought hell on earth, well, it was forever branded in the hearts of those fuckers who dared take their redhead Shifter. Other lesser teams learned to stay the fuck away from them.
The kid silently stared at him with his peculiar eyes for a moment before finally answering haughtily, "You were that creep that suddenly got close and personal with me for no apparent reason other than indulging your immature Shifter's whim."
Isabel seemed to have not taken any offence at that but Farlan's sure as hell was enough for the both of them. The kid had guts, Levi gave him that.
Farlan bristled and stalked closer to him like a viper ready to strike. "Isabel may be my Shifter but she is also my lover. I will not tolerate you speaking about her like that, brat." He could be scary when he wanted to be but to the kid's credit, he held the other's glare with his own.
"And I will not tolerate a creep like you to fucking insult my Meister, you shit." The brunette leaned in closer to him as he continued with a growl, "If you have a lover, why would you allow yourself to go invading other people's private bubble, asshole. I wouldn't call that kind of a man, a lover."
"That's quite enough." Levi quickly intervened before things could get any heavier. One look at Isabel got her moving to take his boyfriend away from the brat while their captain crossed his arms and stood between them, successfully gaining the brunette's attention once again. "You, apologize to him."
"No. He insulted my Meister." he answered as he took a hold of Farlan's killer gaze dead on.
The brat's eyes slid to him as they took on an unearthly glow once again, eyebrows furrowed in anger, "My Meister who fought until they were bleeding and coughing blood just so those greedy fuckers could not take me away. I tried to forcefully defuse myself but they wouldn't allow me so I stop and just did my best to protect them in my own way but…"
He looked down on his lap, where his bleeding hands were now balled up drawing more blood from his palm. "They- they used something to force us apart. It hurt so much, my eyes went dark for some time and when I could finally see again, I was being pinned to the ground and tied up. I know that I was no longer fused with my Meister. I couldn't see them anymore but I could hear… ...They were not weak, you fucking asshole. If anything, it was me!"
He stopped when angry tears flowed down his cheeks and they all just watched his agony silently, not even daring to say anything. Farlan was now looking at him with something akin to pity and regret as he threw a hand around Isabel's waist.
The team had already gathered from what the kid just told them that his Meister was either beaten up and killed or left there to slowly bleed to death. They could see how attached he was to his Meister and Farlan may have hit the jackpot when he said they were an Aberrant since no one gets this strongly attached to their Meister unless they were one, right? Unless they were family or friends or lovers or whatever relationship was available out there.
Also that thing that they used to force the Pair apart was new information. It was a good heads up for them, Farlan was sure to gather information the moment he could. That is if he could remember, the blonde was scatterbrained sometimes. Forcing a Pair to defuse was a breach against Shifter/Meister rights and the penalty was death.
Before any of them could say anything though, the brat suddenly turned quiet and they waited with baited breath as to what would happen next but he merely stared into the distance.
His eyes looked as if he was watching a storm brewing right in front of his eyes as colors danced along the surface. Then like a light switched inside his eyes; they zeroed in on Levi, they were alight with a soul crashing promise.
"And I will kill them." Levi felt a shiver go up his spine as he watched a crazed sort of smile appear on Eren's lips, fangs on full display, eyes brighter than they had been. "I will kill them all and make them suffer like my Meister suffered!"
Their eyes still locked, it looked as if Eren was challenging him to go ahead and say that a brat like him can't do anything, to say demeaning things about his resolve but his mismatched eyes were telling Levi that nothing could make this brat's will break. His goal was set and this… monster would do anything to reach that end.
Levi had seen eyes like that…
In the broken shards of a mirror…
Down the underground city…
Eren's Meister should be proud of their Shifter's conviction and faithfulness. As a fellow Meister, it was enviable.
"Hm, Not bad." Levi straightened his back, arms falling to rest on his sides as he stared down the brunette, his silver eyes bright with excitement, "Fine. We'll get you out of here."
Eren's here. Oh, my baby. I'm sorry for tying you up.
We're not even starting. This is all like... Prequel... Wow, lol. But really, 104th's not even here yet and on that matter, Hanji and co. Even the antagonists are yet to make an appearance. I sacrificed all my classes in a day to write a plotline (or how I think plotlines are done) kidding, i was daydreaming the whole day.
Also I'm not offing anyone (we already had enough in canon) but I may injure them. torture. blood... ugh