Sorry about the wait, I didn't have time to write with school and all :).
After the unfortunate accident four days previously, Imelda had a hard time regaining everyone's trust; Armin was willing to be friends again, which brought Mikasa, though she was the one apologising for putting her through it.
"Mikasa, it's not your fault, you were in self-defence; it was just chance my arm caught on the blade."
Imelda reassured and Mikasa nodded; but Eren seemed touchier on the subject. He didn't look at her as he mumbled accusingly,
"So…whenever you cut yourself you become a titan?"
Imelda felt hurt at his comment and she scolded him,
"No, Jaeger, I don't turn into a titan, I merely become a monster that has super strength; though, I do already have that" she laughed slightly, but Eren didn't seem to find it funny as he turned his body away from her, arms folded. Confusion was written on Imelda's face as she looked at Armin who looked down sadly,
"I don't have a right to tell you; it's Eren's choice, not mine-"
"My mum got eaten by a titan" Eren snapped glancing back, "I saw her get eaten right in front of my eyes. I'm gonna kill every last one of them."
Imelda didn't really know how to compute this; naturally she felt sorry for Eren and all but, he wasn't the only one who'd lost friends and loved ones. She'd lost countless friends thanks to the titans anyhow. Her papa and daddy had seen plenty of men and women die horrible deaths,
"I'm sorry about that, but count yourself lucky, at least you aren't part titan." Imelda replied as kindly as she could, she wasn't very good with touchy situations. It didn't seem to offend Eren though it didn't brighten his mood either. Armin could sence Eren was about to say something, so he blurted out,
"We're going to start using 3DM Gear tomorrow aren't we?" Everyone in the group looked at him and Imelda smiled, she'd been waiting to use 3DM Gear ever since she watched the Corps train with them. They stopped talking just as two girls came over to the table; one was tall, dark haired and tanned, the other was short, blonde haired and big eyes.
"So you're the one who tried to kill all of us yesterday?" the taller on smirked as she sat down next to Mikasa, opposite Imelda. She frowned at her comment, but she smelt…like her, just like Reiner, Berthold and Annie, what was up with this?
"Hey, day dreamer, I'm talking to you." A pair of fingers clicked in her face and she automatically tried to bite them. Luckily she missed, but the action was enough to get a bad reaction.
"SHIT YOU JUST TRIED TO BITE MY FINGERS OFF-" she screamed as the blonde girl covered her mouth, everyone still looked around and Imelda covered her own mouth, standing up.
"I-I" she mumbled under her hand, "…bad habit." Before running out of the mess hall, muttering Levi's personal selection of swear words. She got back to her room and closed the door with a sigh smacking her hand against her forehead repeatedly.
"Idiot, idiot, idiot, ouch….maybe I should stop doing that."
She mumbled rubbing her head; she'd always had a habit of snapping when something was right in front of her face. She sat down yawning loudly closing her eyes, she'd been feeling really sleepy recently, maybe it was because the days were getting shorter, or perhaps the training was finally getting to her, she didn't know. Lying down she let out a sigh, 3DM Gear tomorrow, this will be fun.
"This is not going to plaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaan"
Imelda screamed as she span in the air again, just missing a tree; that morning had been fairly smooth, the two girls she met before, Ymir and Christa, had forgiven her for nearly bighting Ymir's fingers off. But this, this was another matter entirely; she may have been fine on the harnesses, none moving, but this was utterly terrifying. She'd never liked heights really and the moment she was off the ground she'd been barely keeping her eyes open.
"SMITH STOP MUCKING ABOUT"
The instructor yelled from bellow as Imelda failed to release of of the wires causing her to fall dangerously low to the ground. She felt the grass brush her cheek as she stopped on a branch to catch her breath and try to stop her head spinning. She was utterly hopeless at this, and everyone else found this utterly hilarious. Jean, Connie and Sasha were the main ones guffawing at her failed attempts and she was getting mad at them.
"Hahaha oh wow she badder than me ahah" Sasha cackled as she swept passed slicing through a neck of the wooden titan. Imelda's blood boiled, not just at the insult but also the bad grammar,
"SHUT UP POTATO GIRL; BADDER IS NOT EVEN A WORD" she yelled before jumping off the branch and shooting out her wires flying clumsily above the brown haired girl and swinging her foot into Sasha's back, causing her to spin like a child's toy. Sadly her revenge was short lived as a wooded titan flew in front of her face. Before she could scream she'd crashed into it causing the head to come off and for her to fall to the floor. She hit the ground dead on, and the wooden head fell onto of her. Pain ran through her body as she let out a scream of pain; her whole body was covered with the head and all she could see was the now bloody grass. Eren was close by and he sawed down to her landing clumsily by the head,
"Imelda, hang on I'll get you out" he yelled pushing the head up and off her body. She smiled up at him and she tasted the metallic taste of blood, spitting she attempted to sit up. But her arm was twisted badly so she fell back down. By now some instructors on horses had arrived and were pushing Eren back. They lifted Imelda up and examined her body; the only blood was from her mouth and nose, so they were too nervous about this. They got her on a horse and took her back to the camp, leaving the others to carry on training, some of them sniggering.
According to the nurse she'd broken her arm and may have concussion but should be alright. Imelda did feel dizzy as she staggered to the mess hall to wait for the others to come back.
"Why the hell am I so bad at it?" She muttered kicking the bench out causing it to smack into the wall, "Papa and Daddy will be so disappointed, no they'll be ashamed."
She moaned in disappear holding her still spinning head, today sucked, and it was about to get worse. About an hour later everyone else arrived and she pointedly ignored the group before as Eren came to sit next to her.
"Are you okay?" he asked kindly and she shook her head mumbling,
"No, Levi is going to be so disappointed in me how can be of any help if I can't even use my 3D Gear correctly."
Eren awkwardly patted her shoulder and she smiled at him sadly. A snort came from the next table and the sandy haired prick called over,
"Sucking up to the kid of Commander Smith, Jaeger? Trying to get a place with those freaks?"
Eren shot up standing in front of Imelda as he and Jean began to have another shouting match. Imelda was about to get up and leave but her ears caught people on the table behind her whispering,
"How is she still here? Surely trying to kill Mikasa was enough to kick her out?"
"And she can't even use 3DM Gear"
"She should still be in chains"
"The Survey Corps are mad for taking her in"
Imelda was frozen in her standing position, her hands clamped onto the table. That's what they thought huh? Well how would they like to be tortured and put in chains for the first few years of their lives? She'd show them, she'd show them not to speak shit about her. Armin was sitting opposite her and placed his hand over hers hissing,
"Don't Imelda, I know what you're going to do and don't."
Now Imelda would have done exactly what Armin had said, but the last two comments threw her off the edge.
"I bet you it was all that weirdo Commander Smith's idea"
"Yeah, he was the one who brought that freak Levi out of the underground"
With a speed that no one saw coming Imelda swung her fist into the back of the first soldiers head. He was sent flying across the hall, smacking into the left wall with a nasty crack. The room went deadly silent as everyone in the room stared at her. The silence was broken when a small red haired girl stood up, pointing at Imelda and screaming,
"See! I told you, I told you she was a monster!"
The words hit Imelda hard and she glared at the girl who seemed to have regretted her decision on speaking.
"Shut up" Imelda growled, "SHUT UP" And she lunged forwards tackling the girl to the ground. People began to yell and scream as Imelda pummelled the red heads face. Arms wrapped around Imelda's waist as one of the bigger soliders picked her up. Screeching like an animal, she kicked them hard in the stomach before elbowing their face.
Eren and the others stared in horror as Imelda fought the older soldiers. What was she doing? She could kill them, she could be killed herself, why was she doing this? Armin looked to the door and saw Shardis, a rifle in his hand. He gasped and grabbed Mikasa's arm making her look at the door; her eyes widened as he aimed it at Imelda's head.
"IMELDA, LOOK OUT"
Armin cried as Shardis pulled the trigger.