Chapter 11- 64th expedition

The next day, each captain organized their squad and headed to scout in their general direction. Squad 1 from the garrison regiment and Levi went north to fix the hole in the wall as their first priory of the plans. Squad 2 of Eren and I, me being in charge because Eren still does not have complete control of his shifting ability, along with another garrison team went west. Hanji took Squad 3 of the garrison regiment and headed east, she looked excited about going out and trying to capture more titans. Mikasa took Squad 4 and headed south, not the hardest job since its almost back to Wall Rose but she hopes to not be too far from Eren. Squad 5 consisted of John's centered scouting team, mostly just keeping an eye around the base. Squad 6 was Pixis and Armin's but it was small since he only needed the smartest trainees to help him come up with battle and architecture plans. Squad 7 of Peter and Erwin were the scouting group, mostly checking out the forests and any other areas the other squads may have missed. After everyone headed out, Pixis made it clear that none of us were to engage on the titans, we were only to estimate how many there were and return to base safely. The Northern squad had the duty of calculating the damage of the hole on Wall Maria and then heading back to base to supply for their building tools. The rest of the squads returned safely after the second day of the expedition. Erwin and Pixis were grateful that there were no causalities so far. That being a record, Levi hoped things get exciting soon and be able to his skills. Eren was also mad about the first outing not having many sightings of titans, he was hoping to get his revenge but every time he spoke that undignified word I would tug on his ear as hard as I could and told him to stop jinxing bad luck. He came back with his ear intact but barely. Mikasa said she spotted a few titans but I was glad she was okay and didn't try to take them down. I started to wonder about why the titans wouldn't have been spotted by now except for the one yesterday. I hoped that Wall Rose would be okay if the titans were going south.

Weeks past and the hole of Maria was starting to close up. Titans were becoming more frequently seen but none have been abnormal, so far. Levi was regularly scouting at the top of the wall, making sure that no titans came near the construction site and scared off the wall repairers of his squad. He checked the inner wall and couldn't see a titan for miles in any direction but once he turned around, he saw three 5-meter class titans and a 7-meter class titan heading toward the wall opening.

Levi POV

I quickly glided down the wall and warned my squad of the incoming titans, telling them to evacuate the reconstructing and head to the top of the wall. Once everyone was safely at the top, I raced toward the titans on my stallion. His black legs pounded at the dirt as he looked at fear in the eye. I controlled his steering smoothly and we led the titans to another part of the wall. One of them turned out to be an abnormal and continued heading to the hole on the wall. I scoffed and continued leading the other three away. Once I found some trees, I led them there to kill them off myself. Once finishing the job, I headed back to the hole and hoped that the 7-meter class hadn't gotten too far. I re-entered into Wall Maria and quickly spotted the titan heading east. I yelled to my squad to continue working as I went to take care of the minor problem. My horse soon caught up to its side and I quickly aimed my 3DMG at its head. It shot out but missed as the titan quickly swerved to the right. I groaned in frustration as I followed it again and hoped to finish this soon before more titans discover the hole to still be open. It was moving toward a forest and soon picked up speed. I think it senses a bigger prey than me so hopefully I can kill it before it can hit the unlucky squad in the forest. As soon as the trees were in reach, I put my 3DMG to use and flew off my horse. It stayed put as I travelled with my equipment and sped up to catch up with the annoying titan. Once in reach, I free-fell to the ground and landed onto the shoulder of the titan. I quickly got to work and sliced its neck's weakness. Once it was dead, I whistled for my horse. Peter and Erwin greeted me as my horse came in sight, galloping gracefully towards its master. I told them I followed a titan to their scouting territory and had to head back up north. Erwin nodded and I went on my way, not really caring for a farewell from the new squad captain, Peter. I was only a few miles away from the wall but I soon sped up once I heard a scream from one the constructors. A few more titans decided to crash in onto the repairing site and scare the shit out of my squad. One already had its grimy hands on one of the garrison troops. I ordered the scouting cadets to take care of the other titans as I cut off the hand holding the terrified soldier. He quickly scurried up the wall with little grace and returned to his friends. The garrison soldiers were safely at the top while my survey corps team and I took out the titans with ease. There were only five titans and 120 soldiers on my squad. Most of them were there to help fix the wall but I made sure to bring plenty of survey corps cadets. After taking out two of the titans, nine more showed up from out of nowhere. I told the fifty soldiers to work together and finish off the titans quickly so the construction can be done with. I tried to protect most of my squad but so many people and some being fresh out of training, not all made it to the end of the battle. We easily lost around twenty of the soldiers. I finished off the last titan and ordered the garrison soldiers to continue the repairs. I looked back down to see the melting bodies of the titans and several corpses around their killer. The friends of each soldier quickly retrieving their friends' bodies and carrying them into Wall Maria to be taken back to Wall Rose. Most of them were crying and others were carefully wrapping the deceased.

After the long, tiring day, we all headed back before night could fall. The bodies took up most of the room on the wagons so we had a slow pace heading back. Once we arrived to the main base, I ordered some of the newbies to take the animals to the stables and take feed them. The second base was in the north-east direction. It was mostly used for extra lodging since it was still pretty crowded here. Armin hanged out here all day and John did too but he liked to get out and go scouting once in a while. He stopped going out for a few weeks after they spotted their first titan but he continued once his courage returned. Peter always came back with stories of how they would encounter titans and defeat in the most epic of ways and he would use his two double-bladed axes to give it the finishing blow. He liked to make himself seem heroic but most of his stories seemed unrealistic and predictable. _ never had much to say about her explorations with her squad. She mentioned a few sightings but she mostly just updated the captains on the sector construction and how that was going. Hanji was the only one with the amusing stories. She would explain how ordered her squad to create the craziest traps in hopes of capturing a titan while the garrison side of her squad continued building the eastern sector. She told us how she got really close to capturing one titan but it almost killed a few of her soldiers so it was soon taken down by another survey corps member. I left the mess hall after finishing my meal and headed toward my office to check my paperwork and write down the names of the deceased. Before I could walk further, I could hear _'s laughter coming from the library. She seemed to be reading a book but I was really looking at was Armin, telling her about something called the Rainforest. I was curious as to what would her laugh about trees or rain but I decided to shake it off and let her have fun and reunite with her old trainee. I needed to stay professional and not let the male's actions get my head. I headed down the hall but not before bumping into more rivals. Peter and John saluted me and I smirked. Just because I can't keep an eye on her doesn't mean I couldn't get these two to do that. I hinted that they should learn more about titans and read up about them. They shrugged and headed to the library. I knew I could trust them to not leave her alone with just one guy.