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-Ela
How Do I Get This Thing On?!
I was lying down on a bed again. The room smelt like the infirmary, but far more burnt than before.
'None of this can be true.' I pondered to myself, still half asleep. 'This sort of stuff doesn't happen, not in reality. Yes in fanfiction, but reality?' I rolled onto my side, eyes still shut I felt my eyebrows dip together to form a deep frown. 'But this is happening. I can feel things, touch things, smell things. I've even been injured, that must mean this is reality. What is reality anyway though?'
I inhaled deeply and slowly let the air back out.
'Oh mi oh my holy Mary. I've made a fool of myself.' Who knew falling into another universe would cause me to go into such a state of mental conflict, that I would end up head butting a wall just to get out of it. And now all my favourite characters, even the one I admired the most, believed I was mad. I was Willa, I the mad, amnesia girl.
Not to mention I had fought with Levi, nearly non-stop for all of the time, since I had arrived; and my arrival had been via cupboard no less. 'I can't tell them I'm from another universe, they'll think I'm probably psycho and cart me off somewhere. I have to keep it secret. Maybe I can gradually reveal it to them, by saying things to them that no one else would know..? So I have to stay here.' I felt my frown deepen further. 'I'll have to fight to stay here. I'll have to train. I'll have to fight Titans and watch people die... Well maybe if I die here I'll be sent back to my world? That'd be convenient, because I'd be sent back home before I even managed to reach my first expedition. But that might not be how it works. I have no idea how this works. For god's sake a bloomin' cupboard brought me here.'I turned onto my back again. 'Well to look on the bright side, I'M IN MY FAVOURITE WORK OF FICTION SURROUNDED BY MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS.' By that point my frown had disappeared and a beam of sunshine spread across my face.
"The hell are you smiling like a baby that's shit itself." I turned my head to scowl at Levi. Who knew, my favourite person ever, could be so bloody aggravating?
"Bog off."
"Can't I've been given guard duty."
"So suddenly I'm dangerous?"
"Supposedly, I think you're more of a danger to yourself than anything else."
"You're the one that threw me on the floor and made me knock my head again."
"At least you weren't forcing yourself upon some poor defenceless wall. And I had cause to be angry, you got porridge all over me."
"Yeah and you didn't force my head into a bowl of it." I sat up and scratched my head lightly. I'd need a change of clothes soon, else I'd start to stink.
"You talk more than I thought you ever would. You used to seem so quiet and broody and manly. Guess I was wrong."
"It's just you bringing out my bad side. And I am manly."
"Hah all your sides are bad sides. And manly? Come on midget." 'WHY ON EARTH AM I ACTING SO BADLY TOWARDS HIM, I SHOULD BE GROVELLING AT HIS FEET FOR AN AUTOGRAPH AND BEGGING FOR HIM TO LET ME BEAR HIS CHILDREN.'
If someone had told me I would end up in the Attack on Titan universe I would not have believed them, neither would I have believed any of what had so far happened could happen.
"Really, I am here to offer you a proposition."
"What's your proposition?" I raise my eyebrows wary of what he'll say next.
"You can move quickly, that much is evident when we've fought, you are also quick witted and strong enough to lift me up with one hand," He said somewhat despondently.
"Yeah, so?"
"I was getting there if you didn't interrupt." He scowled slightly. "As you'll be sticking around for an indefinite amount of time, how about you-"
"Train to be a member of the survey corps?! Yes please!" My face lit up again.
"Actually I was going to say be a member of kitchen staff, but have it your way. Get eaten by a Titan."
"When do I start training? Who's teaching me?"
"I am, unfortunately."
Petra showed me around the female changing area and gave me equipment and clothing more appropriate for training, rather than a long flowy green skirt and a vest top.
I was now in the survey corps uniform and I was freaking out! Internally, though of course, what with Petra being in close proximity and all. Just the thought of all this happening still baffled me. Part of me was still in denial and I was fighting the urge to head butt another wall and cause myself further brain damage.
The straw gold short haired, kind, beauty that is Petra walked me to where Levi had said to meet, as I still didn't know my way around too well.
I stepped into the middle of the training field and waved Petra goodbye. I'd had a nice, but short conversation with her on our way over. If it wasn't obvious enough in the manga or anime she was totally besotted with her captain. 'Oh Captain, My Captain!' She smiled to me and waved back as she walked inside.
"Hello Levi."
"Hello Willa."
"Call me Will."
"Sure thing, Willa."
"Fine then Short Stack, have it your way."
"If you had a surname, things would be easier." Said Levi in a voice you'd use when intending to end a conversation, but to no avail.
"Well guess what Short Stack? I do have a surname."
"Are you going to tell me it?"
"Why should I?"
"Put that on." Levi motioned to some 3DMG propped up against a tree.
I walked towards it tentatively. 'He just tells me to put it on without any instructions how?! Maybe I should call back Petra quickly.' Regardless of my rampaging thoughts I picked up the clunky machinery to inspect it.
It was much heavier than I thought it would be.
How was it that these people could glide smoothly through the air with these weighty things pulling them down?
The answer was a lot of strength and determination.
And practice.
I walked back over to Levi holding the contraption awkwardly, all the straps were getting in the way. Then proceeded to crouch down, and stare at him.
He peered down at me, narrowed eyes further turning into slits, in speculation of what I was doing.
Just as I was starting to stand up Levi spoke. "Why were you staring at my junk?"
I blushed slightly at his crude wording and lack of actual thought to what I was doing. "Idiot, I was looking at the fastenings for the maneuver gear, how else am I going to learn if you don't teach me."
"So you can be embarrassed." Levi stated a smirk lining his lips. "Not as hard of a brat as I thought you were."
Just for that, I crouched down again. Although not to the ground, but to Levi's height - which wasn't too far from the ground anyway (hah). Staying in that position, I pulled some of my black hair out of the hairband I'd been given, and formed it into a slightly longer version of his droopy fringe.
Still crouched down awkwardly I began my little monologue.
"I'm Captain Levi Ackerman, and I rule over you all. Dare to defy me and I'll hit you, but you'll have to wait for your punishment, while I get a step ladder, to reach you. I'll teach you everything you need to know about being in the survey corps. I will teach you by being silent and broody and mentally regretting each choice I've ever made, because I am a tough seasoned soldier." Walking around in a small circle I bring my knees up high, to make myself seem more like a caricature. I walked in exaggerated steps back towards Levi. "They, should have given me the title of humanities shortest, rather than strongest... And you know what they say about short men, they have small-"
*Bonk*
"Ouch, Levi. Maybe I shouldn't crouch to your level, makes it easier for you to hit me." I rubbed my head and stood straight again. "I was going to say small feet you moron." I stepped away from him slowly, towards my gear instead - definitely not because I was scared of getting hit again. I guess he hadn't understood what I'd said in the cafeteria about not hitting me. He'd learn the hard way.
Levi wasn't talking to me at all anymore. 'Well fine then, if that's how you're gonna be.' I thought as I grumpily picked up the gear again, this time trying to put it on, and constantly referring back mentally to how I'd seen Levi wearing it. It was nothing like climbing equipment, which I was used to.
"I used to do wall climbing, back where I'm from." I told Levi, not thinking really. "With a couple of good, old friends I hardly get to see nowadays." 'And I might never see them again, now that I'm here.'
"You've climbed the walls, using your own equipment?" Said Levi. I realised then that, of course he wouldn't understand I actually climbed for leisure, at the YMCA every now and then (on Mondays to be exact) and that I in fact did not mean a wall like Wall Maria.
"Something like that." Replying slowly, I tentatively sat down and pulled my new boots off, slipped on the part of the device that fits around your foot and put the boots back on. But this felt wrong. So I took it off again.
Through about two hours worth of trial and error I had finally worked it out. You have to work from the top downwards. The waist straps connecting to the foot straps were by far the hardest bit to work out. When my incessant grumbling finally ceased, Levi looked up.
"How'd I do Short Stack?" I smile, proud of my accomplishment.
"Practice getting in and out of it in under two minutes." And then he walked off. The smile dropped of my face. 'Two minutes?!' A frown invaded my face again as I started taking off the gear. Knowing that I'd have to put it on again after. On and then off.
And then on and then off.
Again.
And again.
And again.
For six bloody hours.
By this point I was hungry and thirsty, as I'd had no lunch or breakfast, for that matter and was desperate for the toilet too.
The sun had began to set when I saw Levi approach. "Show me." He said finally.
As fast as was humanly possible I put on the gear. Six hours of practice did pay off though, because I didn't fumble once. Muscle memory had taken over.
"Go inside, it's time for dinner." I quickly removed the gear again, shoving it into Short Stacks hands before making my getaway.
I was right when I said you needed determination to do this job, just putting on the gear was a task of itself. It was even harder to get through things with Levi as my mentor. I could tell he really didn't want to be wasting his time on me. So internally I decided to constantly try my best and persevere, to be less of a burden to him, and increase my chances of survival in this crazy world.
Sprinting inside I found the changing rooms, and finally went to the toilet. After that I stripped out my of my new gear. No matter how lovely it was to actually be wearing a survey corps uniform, it stunk. I'd sweat so much outside in the sun, constantly rushing around, reaching for straps. That's probably why Levi had let me go so quickly, clean freak that he is. I quickly showered and changed back into my old clothes. I might have worn them for what, three days straight? But they still smelt better than my uniform. I'd have to ask for several sets of the uniform.
Wondering where I'd sleep that night I jogged into the cafeteria, would I continue to sleep in the infirmary or would I be bunking somewhere? Just the idea of it gave me goose bumps. Sharing a room with my favourite characters. ARGH!
I briefly thought of my room back home. There was some important work by my bed, would it ever get done now? Does time still tick by back home? Without me? Are there people looking for me?
I quickly shut the door in my head that lead to memories of home.
While entering the cafeteria door, as inconspicuously as was possible for me, I let my eyes rake across the room looking for familiar faces, and BINGO.
Somewhat cautiously I approached the table which Eren, Armin, Mikasa and Sasha had gathered around. I could see in my peripheral vision that Jean was sat on the neighbouring table too.
"Could I sit with you guys?" I asked nervously.
