Awakened

Chapter 34

Art breeder character reveal!!! This was the closest rendition of Tauriel, Hannah, Mavick, and Jude that I could make. Still can use a few tweaks, but honestly this is pretty darn close. Tauriel is top left, Hannah is top right, Mavick is bottom left, and Jude is bottom right (my poor baby).

Hope you guys like it!!

Also this chapter is a long one. Enjoy!!!

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Ruby worked tirelessly for the next three days. She tinkered on everyone's gear, making sure that on their day of leave they would be fully prepped. Mikasa and the others helped the Watchers spy around in the city. Now Mikasa understood why travelling by rooftop was the quickest way through Romanov. The slums was quite literally a maze of alleys and streets. The streets were full and packed, so packed that Mikasa knew that part of the reason many people were sick in this city was because the diseases these poor workers had spread like wildfire.

Mikasa had no idea how Asuna does what she does, after seeing just how many people she needed to see. And that didn't include people who had wounds from gang fights or turf wars.

The former Captain of the Regiment learned very quickly how well trained the Watchers were. Even though they had no formal training by any means, each fight they dissipated was quick and agile. Mikasa knew that if any of these members were to join the ranks of the military, they would easily be among the top ranks. Maybe with a little formal training from either her or Levi, these Watchers could even be part of the elite soldiers.

Through helping the Watchers, the rest of the group were able to spy and see the Scout Regiment leave the city. Erwin had taken quite the hit from the vase Tauriel dropped on his head, and Mikasa couldn't help but smirk at seeing him leave with a bandage wrapped around his head.

"Maybe it knocked some sense into his crazy ass brain," Tauriel muttered under her breath, and Hannah had chuckled behind her.

On each Watcher mission they went on, they were able to disguise themselves with dark heavy cloaks they had borrowed from other members. It was learning experience from both ends. Mikasa learned new techniques of stealth and climbing from the Watchers, and upon returning to the safe houses that surrounded Ruby's workshop underneath, Mikasa would show a few fighting techniques to help the Watchers whenever they engage in the gang wars.

Weiss would often join Ruby in the workshop to help finish out the uniforms. It turned out that Weiss loved to make the outfits, while Ruby enjoy the weapon side of the new uniforms. Mikasa tried to offer her help, feeling a bit bad for the two girls working on their group's new uniforms, but Weiss simply waved her off in assurance that making the uniforms was infinitely more fun and gratifying than working her terrible job at the factories.

That did not lessen Mikasa's guilt in the slightest.

Time was precious on Mikasa's end, as well as her squad, so Mikasa made sure to utilize it to the best of her ability. As much as Mikasa wanted to run out of Romanov and search for Arlise the reality was that they needed weapons and new gear. Everything was tattered and torn in their own respective fights. Tauriel, Mavick, and Annie's were ruined from their run-in with Reiner, and the rest were messed up from their run-in with the Albino Titan- as the others had started to call it.

Mikasa hoped that wherever Arlise was, that the young girl was safe. She had already lost Jude, she did not want to feel that loss again. The squad feels his absence everyday, and it showed when Tauriel would turn around in the workshop, knowing Judith would like a certain knife Ruby had made, only to be met with empty air. Hannah would at times look behind her whenever they were with the Watchers, having made a habit to make sure that Jude was not overwhelmed whenever they were with a large group of strangers, but she was only met with another pair of eyes of one of the Watchers, not of her friend. Even Mavick would at times pile extra food on his plate as Judith used to take from him because he was too shy to serve himself, but Mavick would notice too late that his friend was no longer there to finish the rest.