Volume 4
Ch. 45 Enemy of the Kingdom
.Pov
-Kara-
We sneak into Trost district and split into two teams Levi went in to scout out the area with some soldiers Hange appointed to the team while I stood back ready with the rest of my squad as back up
"Don't hesitate.. not for a second" I remind them
"Yes sir" Jean responds
I look over at Armin
I'm worried for him the most
He can't hesitate.. none of them can
Armin nods
We crouch down waiting for a couple of minutes to hear back from Levi
…
Gunshots
I heard gunshots
"D-do you guys here that ?" Sasha asks
"Yeah" I stand up "go.. as we planned" I say
"Right" they say in union before taking their post
I swing from building to building trying to read the situation but nothing was coming up
The bullets seemed to be following Levi but how?
This isn't making sense how are the MP's keeping up with Levi's ODM gear
"It's a pleasure.. Kara" I hear behind me
I quickly flip around crossing my blades in my face
He was holding some kind of pistol
Without hesitation he pulls the trigger but the bullets ricochet right off my blades
He aims his other pistol at me
And I manage to anchor myself onto a chimney before yanking myself out of the way
I could hear people zipping around me and I was more than certain it wasn't my squad
I reach into my pocket pulling out a black signal flair
I extend my arm aiming it right at the prick before pulling the trigger
The flair smashes onto his chest and I jump into the smoke before his buddy's could shoot me down
"Ghk" he groans "haha crazy huh? One second you're the hero of the people of this Kingdom now you're just a lowly scum, an enemy of the Kingdom being hunted down like a dog" he chuckles
"Like I give a shit" I shoot my anchor right at the him and I manage to reel him in
"Nghk" he chokes
"as long as I can slice some heads off once in a while" I smile before slicing his head right off his shoulders
I swing around managing to evade all their bullets before I finally turn around launching myself at the horde
"Hahaha!" I laugh "throwing both my blades at the guy right behind me
They both pierce his chest and I anchor him in reconnecting the blades I threw at him to my handles
"Wassup man" I smile
"Wh-what the ?" he chokes
I jerk him back behind me before launching him at the chick that was ready to pull the trigger
I fling myself into their comrade who was too busy watching his friends fall to their deaths
"Pay attention boy!" I dig my bades into his stomach before slicing his body in half
"Haha god that's nasty" I laugh it off before continuing my way to the meeting point
I just hope everyone's managing with these guys
I've never seen anything like them
It's almost as if they were trained to bring down the scouts
"Fuck c'mon guys" I see the wagon carrying Eren in a coffin forcing its way through the crowds
Everyone even Mikasa were far behind
If I can take down the horses they not going nowhere
"Alright" I fling myself into the air
I slice through the air before landing in their path
"Move or die!" The guy on the carriage shouts
I switch my blades making sure I'd be getting a clean cut before I bring them up crossing them infront of me
"Fine then die!" He shouts as he began whipping the horses even harder getting them to go faster
I close my eyes listening to their footsteps getting closer and closer
Till
I open my eyes
I was right in between the horses
I quickly draw my blades slicing off both the horses inner legs
"Mghk" they grunt before their faces smash into the ground and the carriage along with the driver are sent flying over my head
Erens coffin is sent through the air snapping open when it hits the ground
"Eren!!" Mikasa shouts seeing he wasn't in there
"Hahahaha" I hear behind me
"So long bitches" some chick waves her gun as she rode through wall rose
"No! we're coming buddy!!" I hear Armin
Both him and Mikasa were at full throttle side by side trying to catch up
"No"
They can't it's too late..a
I wait for the right moment before extending my arms catching the both of them
"Gahh! Kghkk!" They croak in my ears
In that instant I could feel something blast my back
"Ghhk" I clench my teeth
"Kara let go!" Armin demands
"Please don't let them get away!" Mikasa begs "Eren!" She shouts trying to free herself from my grip
"It's too late!" I push them off me
God my back was on fire
"That's enough" Levi lands behind me "you're lucky she was that far away" Levi says
"Heh yeah.. shotguns am I right ?" I chuckle
If I had let them go that bitch would've blasted them with her little shotguns
But instead I took the blow though from this distance it barely did a thing to me
"This isn't happening, guahh" Armin hurls "n-no way I-I killed someone we did everything we could!" he wipes his mouth
"Calm down this isn't like you" I demand
"We have to get going" Levi says as a crowd began gathering
We manage to discreetly get back to camp where I started a fire for everyone
I sit down between Sasha and Jean
"Why'd it have to be this way?" Jean asks
"I-I'm s-sorry dad" Sasha whimpers
I throw my arms around their shoulders
"You all made it cause you stained your hands with the enemies blood" I try comforting them
"Ugh" Jean groans "y-yeah but I didn't think any of it at the time.. but now.."
"We feel like shit" Connie mutters
"Well we're all here now" I pat their backs before getting to my feet
"Is this how you felt your first time?" Armin asks
"...to be honest with you I don't remember the first time I took someone's life… it always felt kinda.. natural" I say "you do what you can to survive and keep those you love alive there's no going back, each one of you took someone's life, so we could all be here today, it had to be done"
"Yeah Jean wouldn't have been here if you hadn't pulled the trigger Armin" Levi says "even Mikasa and I would've been overwhelmed if Connie and Sasha wouldn't have shown up with Sasha as back up"
"Y-yeah" Sasha sighs
"Listen you all rest" I throw on my shirt
"Where you going ?" Levi asks
"To see Carla" I say
"I'll go with you" Mikasa says
"Nah.. Ima need some alone time" I get my ODM gear ready
"We can't let you go by yourself" Levi says
"What? You really think they'll catch me lacking?" I raise an eyebrow "look I'll be fine y'all's rest for now"
Levi sighs "fine just be back by morning"
I smile "yeah I'll be back" I head over with Odin
"Hey boy" I pat Odin's side "sit here alright?" I say
"Mmmh" he whines
"I'll be back ima go see Carla aight boy"
He nods before licking my face
"Ugh" I wipe my face before going on my way
After a few minutes I finally arrived unseen through the backstreets and into Carla's house
After making sure no one tailed me I head inside
There didn't seem to be anyone home but I hear someone cough suddenly
I close the door behind me before going down the hallway
I peek inside the room seeing Carla folding clothes so I knock twice pushing the door open as I did
"Oh hey honey that was fa-" She stops noticing it was me
"Hey" I say awkwardly
"What do you want?" she asks annoyingly
"You know you wouldn't be here if it weren't for me" I say
"Yeah ? Well I'd probably have been better off that way" she mutters
"Better off leaving Eren and Mikasa orphans huh"
"No!" she puts her foot down "I'm saying I'd be better off with my husband"
"Dead? Look you came on to me" I press my finger on her chest
"I-I was confused just lost in the moment" she argues
"We was lost" I correct her "we weren't even sure if we would make it, we just had each other" I sigh "look don't blame me.. both of us were desperate we didn't know better"
…
She doesn't respond
"Less just move on it's been like 5 years since you can't let that ruin what we had"
She doesn't answer
"Aight look I just want you to tell me what Historia told you… I haven't seen her in a while so we all kinda worried" I change the subject
"Well she did want me to tell you a few things" she finally says
"Me? Have you told everyone else?" I ask
She shakes her head "she told me to only entrust this with you"
…
"The man that came to visit her was her very own father" she says
"Her what?!" I ask a bit confused "that's not possible, she isn't even from here.."
"It's what I thought as well but there's more.. she explained to me how she was shipped of to Marley long ago to keep the Reiss bloodline alive in Marley in order to spark a rebellion, but that plan failed and after 8 years she was found out and sentenced to live an eternity here on paradise island" she says
"She told you about everything ?" I ask
She nods "a few years ago she told me every single thing about what she knew of life outside the walls" she says "anyways she told me though she didn't recall traveling overseas as a child but she did remember a woman she called her sibling before she was taken away"
"Frieda… Reiss?" I ask
She nods "she understood you have taken her life in order to gain this power that was locked and never to be used inside Frieda but she said it's still hard to accept the truth being you who took her life" she says
"I…" what do I say? I killed her sister? Of course they were related… they share the same last name don't they ?
What the hell was I thinking..
"Where is she now?" I ask
"She told me she'd be visiting her father in the far north of Wall Sheena" she says
"North?" I ask
She nods
"Alright" I head over to the door
"Kara" she stops me
"What is it?" I ask
"I… I don't trust that man" she says
…
"I'll get her back" I say before heading out
I throw the hood over my head and go out through the front door
Should I go by myself?
Probably not huh
"Man I don't wanna risk putting everyone in that same situation" I sigh
"Really? how thoughtful of you" I hear
I look up at a man pointing his shotgun at my chest
I harden my chest but he managed to pull the trigger as I did knocking the air completely out of me
"Ghk" I choke falling to my knees
"Haha oh man you got the reflexes of a tiger" he slams his foot on my head
"Wh-what?" I ask before my vision blurs out
-hours later-
"Ghk" I groan
I slowly raise my chin noticing my hands were chained up
"Kara" I hear
I look up seeing Krista… I mean Historia
"Historia what happened ?" I ask seeing she was chained up and bruised all over especially her belly
"Kara.. I'm sorry.." she tears up
"N-no what happened? don't be sorry" I try comforting her
I look to my side seeing Eren chained up as well
"What happened?" I ask Eren
He looks up at me giving me so blank stare before slowly looking away
I was about to ask again when we hear loud pops echoing deeper into the cave
"Historia" I whisper
I'm sure everyone's here for us
Historia slowly raises her head
"I-I'm sorry I couldn't prot-ect our little j-junior," Historia sobs
"Our what?" My eyes widen "y-you mean you.. really we're.."
She really was pregnant?
"Th-there was a baby inside me.. and he killed it" she cries
…
My ears began ringing
What?
"Nah what they do to my baby?" I asks "this isn't happening no, no, no" I huff
'There was a baby inside me.. and he killed it' those words echo in my head
"No they didn't kill my baby" I clench my fists
Where the hell was I? why wasn't I here for her.. for them ?
"It was for the best" I hear
"You! C'mere you son of a bitch!" Historia growls "I'll kill you"
Did he? Was he the one who did it?
"I couldn't let my daughter give birth to the son of such a devil" he looks at me with disgust
"You're a dead man" I whisper "I'm gonna kill you, you know that right?" I say calmly
"Don't blame me you scum" he growls "it was a order from our lord above" he opens his arms to the ceiling
"Shut up you animal!" Eren growls "you coward I'd rip you apart if I was free!" Eren shouts
"You're almost out of time Rod" I hear the man that brought me here
"Right" he reaches into his pocket pulling out some little box
He slowly opens the box revealing some kind of large injection with some weird serum inside
"N-no don't" Historia shrieks
"Don't touch her!" I growl
"Stop leave her alone!" Eren shouts
I tug my arms as hard as I could but the chains wouldn't budge
"This has to be done, once you retake the founding Titan, Ymir's will, will bind you to abide" he pricks the needle into her nape
Historias eyes widen and I stop struggling for a second
"Kara.. please.. forgive me" she Historias eyes drown in tears as her father injected every single ounce of that fluid inside her
No.. I can't lose her too
"Historia… don't go" I whisper
