Hey everyone! Sorry for the long wait! we're back with chapter 5! though it's a little bit different this time, before I mentioned that there are 2 of us and we write this together.
I'm the one who uploads the fanfic and also give ideas to the writer and the other person is obviously the writer, but this time I wrote a majority of this though with alot of help from our original writer XD so if there are any errors I'm sorry, I'm not the best writer.
Eren piled himself into training, it was around mid-day. He stood alone by the forest and he used the tree trunks as targets. He began hitting the targets, he was out by the forest because almost everyone else was occupied with other chores and no one was left for him to spar with, not that he didn't mind, in fact he was glad it left him with time to himself. He felt so...confused. Confused about himself. His sexuality. About Levi.
He shook his head. 'No. I came down here to forget all of that.' He thought as he hit another target. So many things had happened in just a short period of time. He had accepted his sexuality. He now accepted who he was. He was gay. But he was okay with it. The Corporal was supposedly gay as well, so he felt much better about it, that he might have a chance.
Eren stood still and wondered what the corporal was thinking, was he was feeling right at this very moment. He hoped he was thinking about him. Eren chuckled to himself. Of course he wasn't thinking about him. Why would he?
A sudden loud noise knocked Eren out of his thoughts. It was low and inhuman. A titan.
Eren stood; ready to defend himself, but no titans came. "Maybe I imagined it?" He thought aloud but he didn't lower his guard. He heard footsteps behind him and turned to see Levi accompanied by Hanji standing there, looking out to the distance. "Did you hear it too?" Eren gave a sharp nod. "I'll go back and get everyone on high alert" But before Levi could turn to leave, a small cluster of about 5 titans came running out of the trees and into the field. You could see how excited Hanji was as she was jumping up and down flailing her arms around. "Shit!" Levi cursed. Knowing it was too late to head back to warn the others, he and Hanji used their maneuver gear to land on a high branch of a tree. "Ready yourself, brat" Eren nodded and followed them.
The first titan was faster than the rest. The corporal saw his chance and swung down skillfully, and cut the nape of the neck. His sharp strike stopped it in its tracks and it collapsed to the ground already starting to decay.
Levi swung down to make another attack on another approaching Titan, when his maneuver gear malfunctioned. He spiraled to the forest floor, and landed hard on his left arm with a snap, Levi whimpered as he knew it was surely broken. The titan peered down at the vulnerable corporal and picked him up slowly. Hanji was too occupied with tormenting one of the 10m class titan to notice.
Though Eren was quick to notice the dilemma Levi was in. "No!" Biting into his hand with brute force, he transformed.
Levi looked at the titan with half closed eyes. The titans grip was suffocating as it crushed his gear. 'I'm going to die…' This was his only thought.
Eren roared out and charged towards the titan with a growl. It was only a 7m class so Eren had no trouble ripping his head from him body and thus destroying the nape of the neck as well.
As the body fell to the ground, the grip it had on Levi slacked and Levi began falling to the ground, he braced for impact which would most definitely kill him, though out of nowhere Hanji came swinging in and grabbed him. "Since when did you like plummeting to the ground head first?" "Just shut it shitty glasses" Levi barked back though he was most certainly grateful to Hanji. With Hanjis help they made it to a higher up branch and Levi discarded the broken 3D maneuver gear and they watched as Eren began smashing the faces in on the remaining 2 titans.
Levi smirked slightly. "Stupid brat, always rushing into things" He said as he watched Eren, Hanji having heard what Levi said laughed, "He's certainly a hot-headed one"
But then the tables turned for the worse as a 6th titan appeared from nowhere and attacked Eren from behind. Not seeing it coming, Eren was taken down.
Both titans squirmed and fought. Levi eyes widened slightly at the sight. Though thankfully Eren saw an opening, and ended the fight, yet his titan form was wounded severely. Falling to his knees, Erens titan form collapsed to the ground and passed out.
Eren woke up to the sound of crickets, he was lying down, thus meaning his 3D gear had either melted away while he was in his titan form or that it had been removed. His head ached and his eyes refused to open. He was about to call out when he heard someone faintly speak to him.
"Brat" He could tell by the voice that it was Levi. "I had it under control! You just had to prance in there, and save the day, didn't you?" Levi spoke with Hanji chuckling in the background.
Eren managed to open one eye slightly though his vision was blurred, he tried to speak but no sound came out, Eren could hardly move, his body felt like it was on fire and his headache was getting worse by the second. He also could feel his hands missing and it was excruciatingly painful.
"Levi" Hanji said all too seriously making Levi turn his head to her waiting for her to continue "His hands aren't regenerating at all! There's something wrong!" Levi turned back to Eren to see that Hanji was correct, by now the regeneration should've begun, and that Erens face was flushed and he was sweating a lot, Levi put his right hand to his forehead, but retracted it quickly like he had been burnt.
"Shit! He's burning up! Hanji we have up get him back to the base now!" Hanji moved swiftly and picked Eren up and began running with Levi right behind her, supporting his broken arm, 'I hope no more bloody titans show up' Levi thought to himself. 'We're screwed if they do'. But thankfully no more did, it didn't take long for them to reach the base as Hanji and Levi are fast runners even still it took just under 10 minutes for them to get there, and as they ran quickly through the door, they almost running in to Petra who was walking by.
"Ah! Oh Corporal? Hanji? What's going on?" She asked then she noticed Eren on Hanjis back with missing hands. "What's wrong with Eren?! Where are his hands?!" "No time to explain Petra" as they continued running to get to the sick room with Petra deciding to follow as well.
Eren decided to stay quiet throughout the whole trip back and inside the base, though its not like he could say anything anyway, he could tell his condition had gotten worse, before he couldn't talk but now it feels like his throat had closed up and he had a hard time breathing. He couldn't understand what was wrong, this had never happened to him before. Eren didn't know what else happened as he slipped into unconsciousness.
They finally reached the sick room, also the room where Hanji does her testing's and experiments, Petra decided to inform the others and to keep them away so they could concentrate on getting Eren back to normal. Hanji laid Eren down on one of the few beds that where there and the first this she did was apply some disinfectant to both stumps on his arms, where his hands used to be and then covered them with fresh bandages.
She also put Levi's broken arm in a sling and got back to work on tending to Eren, who was now unconscious but he was panting and his face was red and still covered with sweat. Levi didn't pay much attention to what Hanji was doing, he only caught glimpses of her running around talking aloud to herself, as he was more focused on Eren.
What seemed like eternity for Levi, which in reality was only a few hours, Erens condition was stable thanks to Hanji "I've done what I can for him now, unfortunately I can't do much until I can get some information from Eren, but he's unconscious at the moment. And I believe his hands might begin regenerating, I'm still unsure about that." Levi looked up to face Hanji "you've done great Hanji, Thanks" and with that he looked back down to Eren missing the look Hanji had on her face, Levi hardly thanked anyone, so it's understandable Hanji was shocked. The silence was broken with a knock on the door, and Petra opening it and sticking her head through the gap, not wanting to intrude.
"Uh, dinners ready if you both want to come down" "Thanks Petra, I'm starved! Let's go Levi" Hanji stated as she began walking towards Petra, though she looked over her shoulder to see that Levi hadn't moved, Hanji shrugged and dragged Petra with her to the dining hall. "Um, Hanji...Why didn't you bring Corporal? He needs to eat" Petra questioned "Pfft! Like he could eat anyway! He'd be too worried to even touch his food, it's best we leave him be" and with Hanjis statement the two walked in silence to the dining hall not that it was a very long walk anyway.
As soon as Hanji and Petra entered the dining hall, they were bombarded with questions about Eren and how Corporal was handling it. "Shut it guys! Let me get my food first" Hanji complained, so everyone backed off so the Titan fanatic could get her food. As soon as she set her plate down at one of the tables, everyone crowded around her with expecting eyes and she just sighed and began to explain.
"Well Corporal and I were going to check up on Eren, he'd been acting a bit off for a while now, so when we reached the edge of the forest where he was practicing combat, I thought he would've been practicing with his 3D maneuver gear, I mean he had it on him, that's also why we bought ours to help him. Oh maybe he was being cautious, I'll have to ask him abo-"
"Hanji just get on with it!" Auruo exclaimed and it was clearly obvious he was annoyed by Hanji getting off track. "Right sorry, anyways as we got there we heard a loud noise, it seems Eren heard it too so Corporal was going to come back here and warn everyone but it was too late as 5 titans appeared, but only one was an abnormal and Corporal killed it. He didn't even consider if I wanted a test subject, anyways I didn't see what happened I was too preoccupied with trying to get a Titan to be my test subject but I heard a loud roar and I didn't need to look to tell it was Eren."
"Since the Titan wouldn't cooperate I quickly killed it and looked over to see Corporal falling to the ground and his gear was crushed, so I went over to catch him and we landed on a higher up branch away from the titans reach, he's lucky I was paying attention otherwise he wouldn't be here; Eren was too busy smashing the faces in on the last 2 there. Too bad you guys weren't there it was hilarious!" "Hanji!" Auruo said eyebrows twitching with annoyance. "Fine I get ya already" Hanji said putting her hands up in defeat
"Back to what I was saying, after the 5 titans were gone, we were about to come down when a sixth Titan appeared and attacked Eren though he got rid of it, though after all that he was severely damaged and collapsed to the ground, Corporal and I went to the ground, with my help of course, I cut Eren out as Corporals arm was broken though I didn't know exactly whereabouts in the nape of the neck Eren was."
"So when I cut, I got both his hands and pulled him out, it also seems his gear has melted due to the heat of his Titan form. It didn't take long for Eren to wake up but when he did we hardly got any response and his hands weren't regenerating so we rushed him back here and it took a long 4 hours trying to get him back to normal, but so far he's in a stable condition I still need to treat him some more. And that's the story" Hanji said after she finished her very long explanation.
Everyone who was crowded around where in awe at what they had just heard. Hanji just sat there and started eating her food before it got cold and after a few minutes everyone went back to their tables, the only ones remaining with Hanji at the table were Gunther, Auruo, Petra and Erd. "Guys should we go visit Corporal and Eren?" Erd asked
"Guess it won't hurt for you guys to pay a visit, I have to give Eren some more medicine" Hanji said with her mouth full of the last bit of food she had on her plate, "Let's go then" as she got up from the table and began walking back to the sick room, the others soon followed.
Hanji didn't even bother knocking as she opened the door; Levi was still sitting by the bed that Eren occupied. "Any progress?" Levi just shook his head "Haven't noticed any difference" Hanji sighed as she walked into the room and went straight to the medicine cabinet and got some pills and placed them on the bedside table with a glass of water. "I'm guessing you're staying here until he wakes up?" Hanjis question was towards the Corporal who just nodded in response. "Thought so, if you're still awake when he wakes up just tell him to have one of those pills" in response she just got another nod, sighing Hanji knew she couldn't do much more so she turned to the 4 standing by the door.
"Alright guys I know you want to ask questions but now isn't the time so let's go get some sleep" Hanji stated yawning. They all exited the room with a silent click of the door, Levi stated down at Eren who was still unconscious albeit he was stirring in his bed. Levi hoped he'd wake up soon but knew that wouldn't happen, sitting on the chair beside Erens bed, Levi's eyes began getting heavy as he leaned on his good arm on the side of the bed, before he closes his eyes he feels Eren tossing a bit more but he was too tired to sit back up.
"Hurry up and wake up brat, I need you..." Levi murmurs "I-I love you" though that last sentence was laced with sleep as the Corporal finally succumbs to keep his eyes open and falls into a deep slumber. What the Corporal didn't know was when Eren began tossing was when he woke up and he heard everything Levi said, Eren was still unable to move properly and with the Corporal sleeping right beside him he thought best to make any bold movements.
Adjusting his angle he started falling back to sleep with only one thought in mind 'Is what the Corporal said true? Does he actually love me in return? Or am I just dreaming it?' Too tired to think about it Eren drifted back to sleep once again.
Aha I forgot to mention chapter 5 was going to be a long chapter :')
Well? how was it? please review I'd really like opinions on how I (-not the original writer) went. Don't know when we'll update next but until next time!