-๑-๑ ஜ ๑- Chapter 9: Laboratory titans -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
-Shizuo´s point of view.-
To be honest Shizuo wasn't entirely sure whether he still wanted to know what Shinra was keeping in this basement of his or not. Knowing the doctor it could be anything from disturbing to amazing.
Step after step they headed down and it didn't take them long to reach the end of the staircase. Light was emitting from the end of it and before the blond knew it he was inside what seemed like a basement.
A room, way bigger than he would have expected to exist beneath the building was suddenly in front of his eyes- and three just as large tents, reaching up to the ceiling.
"If I may introduce you, this is my favourite~" Shinra chirped while Shizuo was still busy taking in his surroundings, the tables, the weird as fuck medical supplies placed everywhere and the people, obviously some kind of assistants that were pausing their work to look back at them.
Quickly averting his gaze the blond searched for the brunette who had just disappeared inside one of the three tents.
"What is that?" he asked with a soft frown, somehow having a bad feeling about this.
"Titans," the raven merely replied, leaving the blond a bit flabbergasted at the statement.
"What?" but Izaya had already brushed a part of the tent aside as he slipped into it.
Quickly Shizuo followed up not wanting to fall behind and slipped inside the tent as well-
And really.
With wide eyes he faced nothing but exactly what the raven had said.
A titan.
Large, gigantic- and surprisingly calm it was sitting in front of them- wires, threads chains and some more kind of restraints were keeping the creature at bay as it did nothing but groan softly.
But that was not the most distinguishing feature about it, no.
It had no head-
A tiny lamp, which Shizuo had no idea where he had gotten it from this quick, was being held by Shinra as he grinned towards the blond.
"The head has been chopped off, but there has been no change ever since! Isn't she a beauty?"
Okay-...
So, he always knew Shinra wasn't exactly a normal person- anyone could have affirmed that no matter who he asked, but this… this was weird on an entirely new level-
Groans were filling the air and voices argued loudly as the brunette took a few steps towards the titan-
A headless titan- needless to say.
"If I might introduce you, Shizuo, this is Celty. Celty, this is Shizuo."
It wasn't even the brunette's joy that was freaking the blond out just a tiny little bit, but rather the thing in itself.
He wasn't going to judge though, because no matter what he thought about this thing, Shinra was free to have his own opinion about it. He didn't give him any weird looks back when they were still together at school when he brought parts of a corpse to dissect instead of frogs saying he already did the frogs and wanted to widen his horizon either, so why would he now?
No, with Shinra it had always been easy to just view the topic as finished as soon as Shinra said it was something scientifically related.
What did creep him out a bit however, was that the thing still moved.
With the corpse parts and frogs that had been okay, but the titan was way bigger than Shinra and even though it had no head Shizuo could already see it grasp for the brunette and try to kill him with a nice grab of his.
It unsettled him just a bit.
"How-"
"Is it alive?" Shinra finished his sentence before Shizuo was able to ask. Shoving his glasses back in place a grin spread across Shinra´s lips. "You see, that's the fascinating thing about her, we don´t know how she is still alive." Sudden movement made the blond take an instinctive step back as the creature suddenly tried moving within its restraints.
A soft groan, or was it a whine emitted from her .. throat? how was the creature even able to give off any noise at all? It was extremely disturbing to say the least.
"Ah we better leave, she doesn't like light all too much you know," Shinra chirped and with that the light was extinguished- quicker than he would have liked to the blond took the few steps back he had taken before to get out of the tent.
Being inside there with at least some light had been already creepy enough as it was, but in the dark?
A shudder was running down his back when he got out of the tent still. Shinra on the other hand was taking his time, same for the raven.
"As you could see the neck has been cut, the head severed, any titan would have died after this kind of injury, but not this one, no. Which is why she is my favourite of course~!" Shinra rambled on, putting the extinguished lamp next to the tent as he continued with no care.
Twisting his head once more the blond looked back at the tent. it was now moving softly, barely noticeable.
It was probably trying to go after the brunette to quit its starving and swallow the doctor as a whole.
It unsettled the blond tremendously.
"You said that titan can´t break free, you are sure of that?" he questioned, causing the doctor who had still been rambling nonstop to pause in his rant.
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be working with it," Shinra merely answered with a grin on his lips, a grin that someone might have mistook for a grin of childishness, but no. Shizuo could spot that unusual serious glint in Shinra's eyes that told him he was answering him in all seriousness after all. Which was relieving him to say the least.
"Want to get the hell out of here yet?" the raven suddenly snorted making the blond revert his attention back to the said man.
He was pointing towards the tent they had just been inside of. The one where the headless titan was.
Izaya was obviously asking whether he was actually up to meet these creatures head on and without being restrained outside on the battlefield again.
Seeing how he was grinning he already knew the answer though.
"Of course not." Shizuo replied, something else catching his attention midway however.
The assistants he had seen upon entering the small basement were scurrying along a couple tables on the other side of the room.
They had kept sending glances over to them the whole time, but now they were talking as well- and one particular sentence his ears caught did not amuse him.
"Creepy isn't he?" a random guy whispered into the ear of another who just nodded with a snort whispering something back while looking at no one else but Shinra.
The brunette was next to Celty´s tent carrying something that looked like a notepad and scribbling word onto it.
A frown easing up onto Shizuo's expression he glared at the guys- he was about to walk over and ask them what they were talking about but a certain someone surprisingly beat him to it.
"Did you say something?" Izaya was suddenly walking past him and directly into the direction of the assistants. Almost instantly the volks grew pale and stopped muttering whatever nonsense they were spouting.
"No, I didn't, sir."
The men were bowing in devotion reminding Shizuo just once more that the flea really was someone important inside this walls. Or was it because of the rumors? The thought that these people might as well be after the raven for something he didn't even do made the blond´s blood boil every single time he remembered that fact.
"What?" the raven suddenly asked, snapping the blond out of his thoughts. He hadn't noticed he had been staring at the raven.
"Nothing." It was only then that the blond noticed that Shinra was gone- or well, rather gone back inside that tent of his doing what he loved the most.
Surveilling alien and potentially dangerous creatures.
"Well, I guess that´s everyone you need to know," the raven announced as he turned around, heading back to the set of stairs they had been walking down before.
Wait all of them?
"What about the others? Those who got accepted?" Shizuo questioned, following right up- his hand was gliding along the cold wall´s surface, well at least it was until he brushed what he deemed to be a spider net.
"... Shizu-chan, trust me," the raven suddenly said, stopping in his tracks and almost making the blond walk right into his back at the sudden motion. He had been too busy looking at his hand to get the web off to pay attention. "It´s better if you don't get to know them too well," the raven finished, and somehow, there was something lingering inside the raven´s eyes that made the blond think as though Izaya cared way more about what was happening outside the walls then he was letting on.
He had told him about their deaths as if it were nothing, as if he had already forgotten about them, something that wasn´t out of the ordinary, but this glance was more than just annoyance over losing potentially good recruits.
"Because they will die?" he questioned, hitting the nail on the head just as he had thought.
"Most probably, yes."
…
He wondered why the raven was doing what he was doing. For the first time since he had entered the corps actually. Shizuo knew why he was here, he was doing it for his brother, he wanted to keep him alive at all costs, but Izaya? Why was he doing this?
"Are you showing them around later too?" he found himself asking, wondering if everyone was shown around the place like he was, but the raven quickly shook his head with something that almost seemed like a smile.
"Nope, that service is something only you received, feel honoured I´m wasting my time on you." The blond paused in his steps a soft frown creasing through his forehead as he looked at the raven.
"Why?" Izaya turned around to look at the blond, he tilted his head questioning though obviously not getting what the blond was getting on.
"I mean why are you doing that?" Shizuo explained, "Showing me around and stuff." Why only him, was the exact question on his mind, but he had a feeling he wouldn't quite receive a response if he put it that way.
The raven hummed, "Well, because you are special obviously," he announced with a shrug, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Because of my strength?" Shizuo asked further, following the raven that was now continuing to climb up the staircase.
"Who knows?" he mumbled, although it was too quiet for the blond to have heard it, and the raven knew that much.
"Anyway," Izaya continued this time loud enough for the blond to hear, "let's get ready for dinner. You don't want to eat in the hall like this, do you?"
Oh- it was only now that Shizuo noticed just what he looked like- from their previous training he was still covered in dirt and sweat, his clothes were torn here and there as well- to be honest he was quite surprised none of the other recruits had said something about that. "Ah, yeah-" he mumbled, head in the clouds and eyes settled on those belts-
Dread filled him as he realized that he had fucked up quite a bit there- how was he supposed to use the maneuver gear properly or any way at all if he didn't even get how this system worked?
Black hair suddenly entering his vision startled the blond greatly as izaya had approached him more quiet than a cat.
"Say- what did you do with your maneuver gear?" Shame was making itself noticeable as the blond remained quiet- what was he supposed to say? That he fucekd it up?
Looking at the various straps and metal part wrecked and bent in a way that certainly wasn't how they were supposed to be treated the raven snorted amused.
"It´s completely destroyed-" he snorted, looking at one strap in particular that seemed to have pissed the blond off more than the others. it was ripped trice and reattached by unprofessional looking knots that seemed like they were going to fall apart any moment anyway.
"Not destroyed, just… a bit modified maybe.." Shizuo tried in a useless attempt of worming his way out of this situation but ah-
"A bit? Shizu-chan you just ripped the gear apart and tied the straps together," Izaya laughed wondering just how bad the blond´s temper was.
"Putting it on annoyed me okay?!" Shizuo tried to defend himself, but even to his own ears that kinda excuse sounded stupid.
God damn did that guy always have to see when he fucked shit up?
"Why am I not surprised?" Izaya sighed, although he couldn't deny being amused by the blond. It was somewhat refreshing to have the blond around. When was the last time Izaya was actually able to laugh this freely about anything?
"Pull it off and throw it away, tomorrow morning I will give you a new one and show you how to put it on correctly," the raven suddenly announced nonchalantly, making the blond snap his head up again to meet his stare.
"You'll show me?" he repeated- feeling as though he was being treated like a little kid that was too stupid to tie its own shoes- and yet, well guck he couldn´t even blame the flea for it because he really was too stupid to tie his own shit.
"Yes. I expect you to come to my room though, I'm not fetching you again. 6am sharp." Izaya continued, finally leaving off the belts on Shizuo's body as he took a step back and turned around. They had reached the dining room they had been in before, Karisawa and co seemed to have managed to catch the mice that had escaped, because now there was not a single soul inside the room.
Turning around the raven threw one more glance towards the blond, "And Shizu-chan," he said, "don't be late~"
to be continued~ ohohoh anyone hyped to see Izaya help Shizuo put that belt on? xDDD ohohoho all those straps- this will be fun to write lmao xD I recently (coughs in august) was on an anime convention and cosplayed as Sasha from Shingeki no kyojin and oh my god xD my friend and me took over half and an hour together to get the belts on and in the right place xD With(!) an instruction on how to do it lmao xDDD
That shit is confusing I swear xD
now ahhh, I'm so sorry for taking so long to update- for all my fics actually x'D
The thing is university started in October and I kinda had the crazy idea that i could pull off going to all the various first lessons and study and shit right off the bat without losing too much time to write-... yah xDDDDD as you might have guessed things didn't turn out as smoothly as I thought they would and i was just stressing through the days busy running to all the lectures visiting (and FINDING xD) all those silly lectures and ahhhhh-
but now i am really back on track again xD
Sowy for the long delay C:
So i had the following idea: I will FINISH
"A single touch" and
"Behind closed doors"
before updating the other stories again-hides in fear because YES that means the next SnS update will be pretty late again x'D
please don't kill me- and to soothe your rage, this will also mean I can regularly update SnS way faster than up till now xD
Now, for all those cookies who are too lazy to take a look at my profile, there you go, the entire updating schedule for the next two months:
NOVEMBER 2017
Sinful Desire(19/~30)
13th November 2017
The wish to disappear (45/~60)
17th November 2017
A single touch (11/14)
21st November 2017
A single touch (12/14)
25th November 2017
A single touch (13/14)
28th November 2017
DECEMBER 2017
A single touch (14/14)
1st December 2017
Behind closed doors (27/31)
5th December 2017
Behind closed doors (28/31)
8th December 2017
Behind closed doors (29/31)
11th December 2017
Behind closed doors (30/31)
14th December 2017
Behind closed doors (31/31)
17th December 2017
Sinful Desire(20/~30)
20th December 2017
Let it snow (3/3)
24th December 2017
Survival of the doomed (31/~45)
27th December 2017
Shingeki no Shizuo (10/~40)
30th December 2017
Well then, please don't kill me and- see you x'DDDD
PS.: Don´t forget on 24th the last part of "let it snow" will be updated C;
Guest 2: xD awww thank you xD i was laughing so much writting that hcapter seriously xDD this chapter now was kinda difficult since i took so long to complete it lmao xd but next chapter things are gonna get interesting C; xD
Lol shingen is the funniest person alive actually xD even in DRRR i had to laugh so much at that weird guy xDDD heheh I can´t wait to include even more people in this story~! xDD thank chu for reading~ 3