It's a Sunday, lazy day!
I really wanted to write this chapter.
It's gonna be exciting.
Pasts revealed, and such. Along with the usual stuff, court dates, venturing out of the walls, that sort of thing.
Really hope that you'll like it.
Now lets see who Lily's father is. Let's just say that her father's name is (muffled noises).
Your gonna love it, I can tell.
Enjoy...
I remembered waking up several times before this. Each time I would lean over the edge of the bed and rid my stomach of all the contents it may have had. I would then fall back onto the bed and go back to sleep. This time was different. Instead I just felt a pounding in my head as I sat up. I didn't lean over to get rid of my guts or anything, I just seemed to wake up. I placed my elbows on my knees and propped my head up with my hands as I rubbed my temples to help soothe the pain.
"Your name's Lily correct?" Startled by the voice I looked up and pushed myself against the wall, still in a bed. I looked around to see I was in a jail cell. Outside of the bars sat a man in a chair, a smaller man stood next to him. I opened my mouth to speak, but all that came out was a dry rasp. I cleared my throat and nodded. The man in the chair, who had blonde hair, looked over at a man that stood to the side of my cell and called him over. He whispered something in the other man's ear before he ran off out of sight. The two men stared at me for awhile in silence. They seemed like superior officers, but I wasn't about to back down. I straightened my posture and lowered my knees. The blonde one almost immediately looked away.
"Now Lily, before we can start anything. Can you please cover yourself." The smaller man commanded. I looked down to see I wasn't actually wearing any clothing. When did that happen? I cleared my throat once more.
"I'm fine like this." I managed to say, even with my voice being crackled. Within the next minute the man had come back. He handed a file to the blonde. He then walked over to the entrance of the cell, opening it, and walking in. He handed me a glass of water. I took it and drank it, handing him the glass afterward. I nodded my thanks. He then left the cell, locking it shut.
"Would you at least pull up the blanket." The blonde demanded, still looking away, but this time into the file.
"If it bothers you that much." I groaned. I pulled the blanker off the bed and wrapped it around my shoulders. The blonde looked back up.
"Now let's move on, my name is Erwin Smith. I am the commander of the Survey Corps. What were you trying to achieve a few days ago in Trost?" The blonde said, looking up from the file.
"I don't remember much. I was helping Eren and Armin's squad. Then I fell off a roof. The next thing I can remember is waking up here." I rubbed the back of my neck where I can remember getting hit by a rock.
"Your just as useless as Eren. Did you have some kind of dream?" The smaller one groaned. I thought back a bit.
"I think s-" I began.
"Did you dream about being a Titan." The smaller one interrupted. I nodded, slowly. Where was he going by this?
"That wasn't a dream." He finished. I froze for a second.
"You mean to tell me, that I can turn into a Titan?" I asked, my hands were shaking. I could have killed so many people.
"Yes. Do you remember being able to control any of it?" Erwin asked. I scoffed.
"Couldn't be. My father was right. That old man really knew his stuff. He said it was possible, and look at that." I laughed.
"Cadet. Answer the question." I broke out of my memory and stared at the two.
"I was able to control every moment, although thinking it was a dream sorta took it's effects. Wouldn't have killed any people if I knew it was real. Now what triggered it?" I mumbled the question to myself. "It could have been the roof, or maybe it was Eren. Hmm... That's it!" I shouted the last sentence. "It was that rock! It must all have been some kind of protection thing." I laughed to myself.
"If I didn't know any better I would have mistaken you for being related to Zoë." I stopped laughing and looked up at Erwin.
"Who?" I climbed off the bed and walked to the bars of the cell, stumbling a bit.
"Hange Zoë. She's a Squad Leader in the Survey Corps, just like Levi here." He stuck a thumb at the short man.
"She's eccentric and loves Titans. When you meet here, she'll love you. I mean, you can turn into a Titan. She's almost like a Titan herself." Levi grumbled.
"Now it says here you wanted to meet with me." Erwin said, glancing at the file again.
"Yes, I was supposed to speak with you, but you were gone. Then the whole Trost thing happened." I plopped myself down next to the bars, sitting in front of Erwin. Levi walked off for a second.
"Good to know. It doesn't provide a last name in your files." Erwin stated, flipping through several pages. He was hiding something from me.
"Yeah, well my father was like that Zoë girl, but what he did got him killed." I lied, if they banished my father then they thought he was dead. So why tell them something they could use against me. Levi walked back into vision with a tank top and shorts.
"Put these on, otherwise your gonna be naked at your court date." He slipped them through the bars. Erwin and Levi then left. I stood up and slipped on the shorts and tank top. My hair felt all dirty, after this court date thing I'd need to shower. The jail cell door was opened, in the door way stood a girl. She was much taller than me, her hair was brown, and her eyes matched. She wore glasses, and looked oddly familiar.
"Hi, my names Hange Zoë." I could feel the excitement pouring off of her.
"I'm Lily." I stuck out my hand. She quickly took it and started examining it. She then looked up at me and smiled.
"You are a perfect specimen." She told me, after looking me up and down.
"U-uh... Okay." She then grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the room.
"If we don't hurry we're gonna be late." She laughed, dragging me down the hall. She screeched to a halt in front of a door. I had to much momentum and ran into her. We fell to the ground. I rolled off her and pushed myself off the ground. "Now wasn't that fun." Hange laughed beside me. She jumped up and brushed off all her clothes. She then helped me up and I brushed off my clothes. "See, now we're early. Turn around. I forgot to handcuff you." I turned around and felt a pair of cuffs clipped around my wrists.
"I feel like a criminal." I laughed.
"I shouldn't even be treating you like this. You are after all a criminal like you said, but you were so tranquil when in your Titan form that when I saw you turn into this I had to be restrained myself. I was absolutely giddy thanks to you. I guess it hasn't worn off yet. Now, lets take you in." She pushed open the doors she had stopped by. Inside I was traded off to a couple of soldiers that took me to the center of the room. People stood and sat all over the room, all behind a fence like thing to I guess keep them away from me. The room was gigantic, people stood all over the place. They all were watching me as I was taken to the center of the room. I was pushed down onto my knees, a pole was lifted and put around the handcuff chain. The pole was then placed back in the ground. I guess this was to keep me from moving. So this was a courthouse, I think that's what they called it at least. Everyone stared directly at me. I looked around the room and got a glimpse of Erwin, Levi, and Hange. A door opened and I looked up to see a man enter. He looked like a man of high power. He was not a man to be messed with. I hung my head and looked at the floor, I didn't want to anger the man by staring at him. I felt his eyes look down at me the back of my head.
"Look up." I slowly look up towards the man. "Shall we begin?" I nodded. He picked up a piece of paper. "Your name is Lily..." He looked up from the paper. "What is your last name?" I froze. I could tell them my last name, but then they would fins out about my father and I would get killed. I tried to remember the name of my mother. She had been respected here from what my father had said. She had been part of the Garrison I think. I continued to think.
"My name is Lily Hulse." I looked at him, with a straight face. Hiding the lie was easy, as long as I believed it to be true. And partially it was, after my father was banished he was announced dead. So I was born a Hulse. The man above me adjusted his glasses.
"I take it your mother was Ann?" I nodded, recognizing the name my father had given her. "She was a nice women, I never knew she had a daughter. Anyways, as a soldier you have sworn to give up your life when called to, for the good of the people." His voice echoed through the silent room. "Is that correct?" He looked around the paper down to me.
"Yes, sir." I answered.
"As an enlisted soldier during a time of war, military doctrine demands your tribunal be held as a court marshal. As commander of our armed forces this matter is left to my discretion." He lowered his papers and looked directly at me. "Thus I will decide, whether you live, or you die." I held strong, not living his gaze. If I was to die then so be it, but that won't stop me from trying to save myself. "Any objections?" He finished.
"No, sir." I replied. His eyes never left mine until he went to speak again.
"Let us proceed." He commanded. "Your fate might become similar to that of Eren Yeager, but first we must consider your unruly past. You appeared on the day of the Shiganshina incident in a military uniform. No one had seen you before that incident, you just appeared. And some say you managed to take down at least five Titans before being spotted and sent to help. Is this claim not true?" He questioned.
"It is true that I was there in Shiganshina in a military uniform. I managed to take down several Titans before being spotted, but I can not say how many." I told him, looking away for a second at all the people around the room. A man walked in and handed the man who had been asking me questions a paper. He looked it over and looked at me.
"You said you were the daughter of Ann Hulse. There is a record of a child being born by the name of Lily nearly twenty years ago under the Hulse name. Shortly after that date both the child and Ann went missing. A member of the Garrison reported over a month later that he had seen her running out into the forest, somehow not having been eaten by the Titans. Both were claimed dead when we found her body at the edge of the tree line." My eyes teared up at the thought of how they described my mother's death and my birth. "Are you claiming to be that same daughter?" He finished. I shook my head.
"That child died along with her mother, I am just the ending result." I changed my position so that I sat on my butt with my legs crossed in front of me.
"Then who are you?" His voice was deep and stern.
"I did just appear on that day five years ago. The uniform I wore was that of my father's. He was a smart man, but he was foolish and got caught. He somehow managed to do one last thing before being banished." I let the last word sink in for a moment. In my five years here I had checked the records. My father had been the only man ever to be banished, so if they could remember that far ago they would know who I was.
"You can't be his daughter! That man died before he could have a family!" Someone yelled off to my right. Almost immediately people broke out yelling things like that. A fist slammed against the table above.
"Explain yourself!" The originally calm man yelled.
"I am the one and only daughter of a very wise man, you couldn't see it back then. My father made a vaccine to help make us invisible to the Titans. I should know myself after the Trost incident. Humans have a one of a kind scent, it's very alluring to Titans. My father found a way to change his scent, not only that but it altered part of his DNA. When he was banished he survived through the fact that he didn't smell human any longer. You were all to foolish to realize this, and he's probably still out there. Although with these noses who could you tell that he smelled any different then you. To a Titan it's a huge difference, to you I might just smell a bit... Meatier, like a Titan. I was born not only seven months after my father was banished. I am his and my mothers child, but I also have the DNA or that Titan. My father tested my DNA. I have half of the genes of a Titan, making me half Titan." A few of the on lookers gasped. "I showed up here on the day Shiganshina fell. I decided to help mankind, I slaughtered more then five Titans that day. I also saved a young baby that had been left abandoned in the street. I trained in the 104th trainee corps over the past three years. I have proven myself, so should my father really matter in all this. But as humans you will still focus on that instead of what I've done. My father was the man who kept a Titan in his basement for nearly a year. He is probably the only man to ever have survived outside of the walls for more than twenty years. As you all must know him by now. My father was the Klaus Zoë." The whole room erupted in a huge amount of argument. I sat there laughing as the judge man failed to calm everyone down.
"Will you all just shut the hell up!?" Levi yelled from my left. Everyone fell silent. Soon the judge man continued.
"Now we must decide what to do with you. We will let the Military Police begin." A man off to my left began talking.
"She says she is half Titan. Doesn't that make her worse then Yeager?" He spoke, forgetting all about formality. "She is also related to Klaus. Who knows what kind of things he taught her. She should be disposed of and not offered the same treatment as Eren was. She is clearly different, she didn't help with the reclaiming of Trost either." He announced. I straightened my back. If this were the last people to see me before I died, I would stand, or at least sit, proud and unaltered by their claims.
"What I have done I can not change. I can only learn from it and do better within the next time. In Trost everything had been a dream to me, I did not understand what I was doing. I left my father in isolation five years ago, I have never looked back. What he has taught me was that Humanity needed hope, and that someday I might provide it. Although he was banished he still loved his home. As being half Titan, I might not be so easily disposed of." I claimed, before anyone else could speak. I continued looking directly at the judge man, my gaze never left his.
"Now for the Scouting Regiment." He turned and looked at Erwin and everyone else.
"Overlooking the Trost incident, as well as her past I see great potential. She graduated top of her class, surpassing Mikasa when it came to most things. She lacked in there area of actually following orders and staying on task. She was allowed first pick straight into the ranks. She chose the Scouting Regiment, we were not here at the time so she was to wait. Therefore she is under our control, and there is no reason for this." Erwin stated. I hadn't thought I had done so well.
"Might I also say that in the Child Titan was twenty meters tall at the least, greatly surpassing the size of the Rogue Titan as well as all the others, excluding the Colossal one of course. She also said that she had full control over her Titan counterpart, and if she had known that it wasn't a dream she would have done it differently." Hange spoke out, I could feel her eyes boring into the side of my skull.
"The Child Titan would be a great help in trying to reclaim Wall Maria as well." Erwin finished.
"I cancot rule against that. Cadet Lily Zoë I hereby place you under the responsibility of the Scouting Regiment. Any further conflict upon the matter will be decided at the Regiment's choice. Court dismissed." The man finished, grabbed his paper and left. A couple of soldiers came over and took out the pole. I stood up and out of the way as they reinserted it. The cuffs were then removed from my wrist. Soon after I was tackled to the ground. I looked at the body now wrapping it's arms around my shoulders.
"So your my niece!" Hange squealed, squeezing me tighter. I coughed out what little air had in my lungs. "Your also half Titan! This is gonna be amazing! Just think of all the experiments!" Her grip on me got tighter and tighter. Suddenly her grip released and she was pulled off me. I started coughing my lungs out, as I gasped for air. Once I could breathe I stood up. I looked over at the Levi holding Hange back away from me. He was scowling while Hange had a guilty smile on. Erwin wrapped and arm around my shoulder and started escorting me out of the room.
"Welcome to the Scouting Regiment Lily. I'm going to place you with Eren under Levi's supervision." Erwin finished. He handed me a jacket with the Scouting insignia on it. I slipped it on. He then escorted me out of the room, Levi and Hange following us.
"Can I pretty please experiment on her? She is my niece and since her father is no where to be see-" Hange pleaded behind me.
"She's at least twenty, and responsible for herself. You have no choice in what happens to her. Now get away you blasted women." I heard a thud as if Hange had fallen or something. Within the next few seconds Levi had passed me while Erwin had slowed down. Hange took her chance and put an arm across my shoulder.
"If I got your consent would it be okay if I experimented on you?" She moved her head in closer. I panicked and ran ahead, but Hange followed close behind. I hadn't realized how far ahead Levi was. I began to sprint trying to catch up to him, cause at least he would know how to deal with this women. I saw him turn a corner. I pushed myself faster. I rounded the corner.
"Levi! Help me!" I yelled, latching onto the man who was my height. In seconds Hange appeared behind me. She laughed a bit.
"My, my can't you run fast." She laughed, she placed a hand in my shoulder, and the other on my head. Soon Erwin showed up. He began pulling Hange off of me. No one seemed to let go as we struggled in the hallway.
"Let go of me!" Levi cried, apparently not liking me touching him. He pulled away from me, as Hange and Erwin pulled me the other direction. I just continued to cry out in fear as Hange laughed.
"Hange, let go of the girl already!" Erwin pleaded. In the next instant Levi lay on top of me in the hallway as we heard Hange said 'Okay!'.
"Ew!" Levi yelled, jumping up and away from me. "When was the last time you cleaned yourself, you filthy girl!" He cried out, pulling out a handkerchief or something and wiping off his hands, and anywhere I had touched.
"I will have you know that I've been practically unconscious for the last few days." I retorted. He still groaned and continued cleaning himself.
"Here, I'll take you to a sh-"
"No!" I interrupted Hange.
"I'll take you somewhere to get properly cleaned, so that you'll be ready when we leave tomorrow." Levi said, he pulled out a glove, slipped it on, and began dragging me down the hallway by the back of my jacket. I didn't even attempt to struggle, it would be worthless.
"Go do it again, you still have crud in your hair." I had been taken to an apartment and shoved in the bathroom to shower. When I first came out Levi had told me to do it again since I still had dirty hair. I had done this four times now.
"My hair is supposed to be a dirty red color." I finally told him.
"Nope. Go do it again." He spun me around and shoved me into the bathroom. I took another shower and when I came out Levi was asleep, in an arm chair. He had his hand still propping up his head. I walked over to the couch and grabbed one of the blankets that had been set on it. I unfolded it and rested it over Levi.
"Good night, Clean Freak." I then walked over to the couch. I unfolded the other blanket and place it over me as I laid down on the couch. I had no other place to sleep that night, so might as well accept what's been given. It wasn't long before I fell asleep as well.
What do ya think?
Well I think I made Levi OOC, if you have suggestions to help avoid this please offer them.
I think that's all for today.
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