Sorry for the really long wait, there are multiple reasons behind it but the biggest one is my own laziness.
Chapter 4: Special Police Force
Instead of going to see the prime minister I just got an envelope at the front desk of the inn. After reading it over and finding out that I didn't need to go and actually had to go to the palace at a later date for some police force thing, I kinda stopped reading near the end so probably not a good choice. Anyway I was on my way to the palace for the meeting and ,like normal, I was preoccupied with my thoughts and wondering how this would play out.
Because I was so preoccupied with my own thoughts I didn't notice another boy bump into me on accident. " Oh, sorry." I quickly apologized to him. The boy also didn't seem to have been paying attention.
" It's okay," he responded quickly " I wasn't paying attention." I was of course right, but what surprised me most about the boy was the giant sack of fish on his back. " To be honest I didn't think anyone else would be walking towards the palace as well."
" What do you mean?" I asked, a little confused as to why he'd say that. I mean I knew I wasn't the only one that had to go to the palace because it was a police force 'cause a force consisted of more than one member.
" Well, I was asked to come here for a special force that the empire is putting together." He said much to my surprise.
" Wow," I said in awe, which went to his head pretty much immediately " I didn't think i'd run into anyone else going there too until I was closer to the palace." He pretty much instantly deflated at my comment.
" Eh, well I didn't think I would either but I guess it's just a coincidence that we ran into each other." He seemed to have recovered immediately after a few seconds.
" Well let's go," I stated with a small amount of impatience " We don't wanna be late." I started walking at a faster pace than before to make up for lost time.
" Y-yeah." He followed, although tripping a little at first.
The rest of the walk was spent in silence probably thinking of what we'd do or what was going to happen at the meeting or just ways to break the awkward silence because Wave was probably thinking it was insufferable judging from his expression.
" So," he awkwardly stated " Where're you from?"
" I'm from a small fishing village near the edge of the capital, it was pretty nice living in solidarity like that." I responded reminiscing about my old memories as a kid in the village.
" You too," he stated surprised, much to my confusion yet again " I'm from a fishing village near the borders of the capital as well. Although I did join the navy so I didn't really have time to hang out with friends once I enlisted,"
I was surprised to say the least because he looked pretty young or at least as old as me since he was a bit taller. " How old are you?" I hesitantly asked.
" I turned eighteen years old a few months ago, although I was still out at sea so me and my crewmates just celebrated it. What about you, how old are you?"
" I'm also 18 years old but I just turned eighteen two months ago so you're a little older than me."
" Ah, wait I just realized I never asked your name" he nodded in understanding " Anyway, who do you think will be part of the police force?"
" I can't really answer that," I stated honestly " You meet all types of people here in the capital but the way they make it sound we're probably going to have some teigu users or specialists from the army with us since we're going to be a 'special' police force for the capital. Also my name's Ao what's yours?"
" My name's Wave," He responded gleefully " Nice to meetcha Ao."
After a small walk post our introduction Wave looked forward " Wow, I didn't think the palace was this big." He stated in amazement.
I let out a low whistle at the size of it and motioned for him to follow since we were nearing the entrance. " Let's go, we're almost there."
We stayed silent until we neared the gate where we were promptly stopped by one of the guards who, for some reason, looked nearly identical gearwise to the other couple guards at the gate.
" Stop, he stated in a tone that tried to command responsibility but fell short " What's your business here?"
" We're here for the imperial police force the prime minister is putting together." I quickly answered already having been ready for the question. I held up the envelope I had gotten from a messenger prior to today.
" Go on in." He responded with only a couple glances at the sack of fish on Wave's back and opened the gate for us.
I remained silent while Wave still looked on in awe at almost everything. ' Man I know he's a country bumpkin but could he make it more obvious than it is right now.'
We had gotten directions from some more guards for the meeting room. Wave and I just walked in silence the entire time until we reached a door and Wave moved to open it.
" Good morning," He loudly shouted to the nearly empty room " I've come from the Imperial Navy-" he stopped speaking almost immediately once he had a look in the room and the person occupying one of the chairs at the table.
" Pardon me!" He loudly exclaimed and tried to close the door but I blocked it with my foot and just walked inside the room as Wave looked on in horror as I walked up the man. He had a white gas mask on, no shirt, and three scars across his chest. He was a couple inches taller than me.
" Hello," I greeted and held out my hand " Nice to meet you."
" H-hell," he responded shyly and reached out his hand and grasped mine in a solid handshake although it was a lot more gentle than i'd expected " My name's Bols, what's yours?"
" My name's Ao and his," I responded and gestured over to Wave " Is Wave."
" Nice to meet you two." He nodded to Wave.
I just grabbed a chair across from Bols and sat down. Wave just scrambled over to the chair next to me mildly embarrassed from trying to close the door on Bols.
After Wave sat down the door opened almost immediately after he sat down and a small girl walked into the room with a katana strapped to her waist. Wave looked hopeful at seeing another person besides Bols enter the room since the silence was once again getting awkward.
She sat down across the table from me, two seats down from Bols, and pulled out a bag of cookies and started to eat them. Well she would've if Wave hadn't gotten up and greeted her.
" H-hey," he greeted nervously " My name's Wave and-"
" You can't have any of these." She interrupted him and held her small bag defensively between her arms to 'protect' them from Wave.
" Sorry for bothering you." He stated sadly after being shot down so early.
" Pardon me!" The door opened to a familiar voice and figure with her small "dog" being dragged behind her. She wore a green army suit and held a bouquet of flowers in her newly constructed arms.
" I'm Seryu Ubiquitous of the Imperial Police," She introduced herself formally to everyone in the room although I didn't really need it, I was mostly just wondering why she was holding a bouquet in her hand. " And this is Koro."
Wave seemed hopeful once again, my guess was because he was surrounded by weirdos. Too bad he was going to be disappointed once again because she is far from normal. She spread out the rose petals on the ground and kneeled on the ground with Koro presenting something.
" Doctor Stylish all is prepared." She stated a little too loud to the unseen doctor.
Oh no, not him. He's like the worst doctor, and not to mention the creepiest, doctor ever conceived by the human race.
" Caring about one's first impression.." He led off " That is indeed what I call stylish, as a man with etiquette."
Wave had a horrified expression on his face while I pretty much mimicked the same. It took Seryu a few seconds to notice me sitting across from Bols.
" Ao," She stated jovially " I didn't know you were called here too. At least I know I have someone I can rely on to fight justice side by side with me."
" Oh my," Doctor Stylish stated out of the blue " I can tell by look alone that you're a country boy. But you're pretty good looking. I can polish you to be even better, we'll get along well."
Wave looked horrified at what the doctor was implying but he almost had a seizure when he winked at him and horrified look worsened tenfold.
"Hello," I heard near the door as a man walked inside " Seems i'm the last to arrive."
" Hey," Wave responded in a depressed tone " My name's Wave."
" I'm Run it's a pleasure to meet you as well." He responded curtly.
Wave leapt out of his seat and grabbed the man by his hands and stated happily with tears in his eyes " Finally a normal person."
" Ow," I stated sarcastically " That really hurts Wave, hit me right here." I patted my chest as Wave apologized to me.
" Um," Bols announced nervously to everyone while holding a platter with some drinks on it " Everyone… I've made some tea." He seemed pretty nervous at all the people in the room, I couldn't blame him.
" I'm sorry," he apologized " I was the first one here and I didn't say anything until Ao introduced himself to me. I'm what you call painfully shy. So I was nervous. But I probably have the most seniority, so I have to get it together."
" Since we're all Teigu users i'm sure we'll get along!" He jovially stated as if none of the previous conversation existed " I'm Bols of the Incineration Squad."
After a few moments of silence the door opened once again and a blue haired woman with a mask and some kind of weird outfit walked through the door.
" Huh, who are you?" Wave stated what was already on my mind.
" What are you all doing here!" She shouted, pointing an accusing finger at us.
" Hey,Hey," Wave got up and continued talking ' This isn't going to end well' " We were all told to assemble here." Before he could state anything more the woman lashed out with her leg kicked Wave but before the kick could land he blocked it. Before I could even fully get my bearings I stood up and noticed I was the only one to do so as I went to check on Wave.
" Assassins are among the traitors," she stated as if it were an obvious fact " Don't ever drop your guard!"
She quickly moved to attack Run after she got up but he dodged the two swipes she sent at him and Seryu and Koro attacked from above, intent on pummeling her into the ground. The woman caught her wrist before she could do anything and slammed her into the ground. Before I even realized it I was running towards the mystery woman and engaging in unarmed combat with her.
The girl with the katana rushed her from behind while I kept her distracted and unsheathed her katana and attacked the woman.
" Even if you're just messing around," She said with a cookie in her mouth " I can't hold back."
" So that's the Teigu Yatsufusa huh," she said as the mask cracked away and her shoulders relaxed instantly releasing the tension in the room " What an impressive blade."
Bols gasped once the entire mask fell off and he stated one name that made me gasp in shock seeing as she's the strongest in the empire.
" General Esdeath!" He shouted, surprise obvious for everyone judging by the tone of his voice.
" Ouch..." Wave groaned just getting up from the floor after being kicked by the general.
' Well that happened' I thought to myself after having witnessed her take on most of us and only get her mask cut by the girl.
Time skip: Couple hours later
" I'm sorry did I surprise you earlier," she asked as Wave and I nodded, now dressed in black suits " I figured a normal greeting would have been boring."
" I'm used to rough situations." Wave stated.
" In fact, thank you for the valuable combat lesson." Seryu thanked the blue haired woman even though it was more like she just smashed her into the ground.
" All right," she said " We have a party to attend after we meet with the emperor."
" We're already meeting him?!" Wave exclaimed in surprise.
" For the first day this is a pretty fast paced schedule." Run stated
" I believe in getting annoying things out of the way first." She answered with a smile on her face.
" But before that, Lady Esdeath," Doctor Stylish asked " What do we call ourselves?"
" We are a unique organization, ordered to mercilessly hunt and take down the traitors," she answered " We are the special police force… We are the Jaegers."
Finally got a chapter done although it's mostly just filler but, like some filler, it was absolutely necessary to the story. This took me a while to write what with pulling lines from the anime to give to the character and at first I though my character had said too little but Kurome doesn't say much either so I think it worked out well enough.
Also for pairings i'm thinking Dorothea from Wild Hunt or Kurome because I like those two characters even though Dorothea isn't much of a morally good character. Review and tell me what you thought.