The Outsiders. (SNK fanfic)

Chapter 4

As I slept I sensed movement to my right. My hand automatically went to the knife in my boot, not yet grabbing it, just twitching at the handel. Something bushed past my arm, fully waking me up.

I grabbed my knife and slam it into the shadowed figure. I grip it's wrist. Human. And pull it in front of its chest. Female. Releasing my knife from its side and holding it to the estimated point of the neck, all in a matter of 4 seconds.

"Gah!" I hear the figure screatch. My eyes adjust to the light and I see a small female figure, face stricken with fear. "I just came to wake you up." I hear her mutter. This is when I regognize the smell, this is the blonde one. Krista. Shit.

"Oh shit. Sorry." I say, backing away and releasing my hold on my knife. I had been trained in the clan to sense movement while I sleep, it was so we could sense a nearby titan. The girl gripped her now bleeding side, looking in shock and pain.

The door behind me swung open and I could just feel the anger. I sniffed the air. Yep. I knew it. Behind me was ymir.

"Krista!" She shouts, running to her friends aid. She then glared at me. "What did you do?!" She asks, angered. I back away, now I wish I hadn't put my knife back in my boot.

"She startled me." I reply. "So you stab her?!" Ymir shouts back. "Yeah." I reply, as if it was obvious. I should have know it wasn't in this backwards wall society.

Before I could process what was happening I was pinned to the wall, held up by my collar. Great, day two and I had already managed to get all three wall dwellers to hate me. Good job River. She raised her hand for a punch and I located any easy hits, there were none. Every soft bone, every nerve, were perfectly gaurded. I was not getting away.

The blow hit the side of my face, I heard Krista shriek and tell her to stop but she didn't. I don't blame her. I guess, this group is kind of like my clan. Hurt one, even on accedent, hurt them all. Another blow hit my gut and knocked the wind out of me. I gasped for breath but before I could catch it another hit knocked my jaw up, forcing me to bite my tounge. I was no stranger to the new taste in my mouth, matalic, blood.

She raised her hand to hit me again when the door opened for the final time that morning. Standing in the doorway, was the dwarf.

"What the hell is going on here?! Why aren't you all outside?!" He asks angrily. The hold on my collar is released. The dwarf looks from me to Krista and back again. "I'm in trouble, aren't I?" I say, knowing full well the answer.

"We can't keep them here! They're too dangerous!" I hear the dwarf shout from behind a locked office door. I bite my lip. I had let down my clan. Surely they would confiscate our weapons and send us back outside, we wouldn't be able to make it back to the clan, not all of us. Surely they had assumed us dead already and gone to collect our supplies and bodies.

What would they think when they didn't find anything? Would they too find the walls?

"Levi calm down." Erwin says back. "They have been living out there for to long, they probably are easily startled." Thank god someone was on our side.

Foal shot me a death glare. I knew what it meant, he was disappointed. I had failed as a leader. He wouldn't have made that mistake. He would have sniffed the air, knowing we were in new territory, to make sure it was a predator. If not, he wouldn't have stabbed them, just pinned them against the nearest wall until recognized.

"She stabbed a cadet!" I hear the dwarf shout back. While that was true, it's not the worst thing I had done. Surely he would bring up shooting his leader with an arrow, or how about beating up the german kid? I had failed my clan. The wall dwellers hated us. Hated me. No doubt we would be sent back.

Stream placed a hand on my shoulder, snapping me from my thoughts. "It's not your fault River." She asures me with a smile. "I know." I say, smiling back. But I knew it was my fault. It was my fault my clan would be rejected by the wall dwellers.

There was more yelling and I blocked it out, trapping myself in my thoughts. I again was snapped from them by the door opening. The dwarf steps out and slams the door behind him looking angrier than usual. He storms down the hall and the door reopens. Erwin stands there.

"I need to see your clan inside please." He says, I gulp as we follow him. Foal shooting me that look again.

"I understand why you did what you did and I'm hoping you'll adapt to our culture. However, Levi seems to feel as though we should send you back outside. I want your opinion on the matter." He speaks calmly and some of my nerves go away. "Do you want to stay here?" He asks.

I look to Foal. He's my elder, he would know what to do. "We should stay here." He says outloud. "They have protection, food, water, the clan would be happy here." I nod and look to the others.

"I agree." Adds Night, Fae nods and so does Stream.

"However," Foal goes on. "If we do," he look more serious than I've ever seen him be before as he looks into the wall dwellers eyes. "If want to join the survey corps."

I was shocked, I could feel my eyes widening.

"Foal?! Why?!" I gasp. He just glares at me.

"It's not your desecion, River." He says rudely.

Why would he want to join their army?! He wanted to fight those things? We had seen more than our fair share of death by titan. But then again...I'd be lieing if I said I didn't understand completely. I too had a nagging feeling this past night that I had to be doing something, something other than waiting, sitting around, and living within the walls like cattle.

The wall dweller concidered Foals request.

"You will have to be tested and trained." He says. Foal nods.

"As to be exspected." Foal says, still with that serious look in his eyes.

"Very well then." Erwin says. "You will begin tomorrow.

I look down at my hands in my lap, scarred and caloused, if I stop fighting now, what would be the point in all that I've already done? I knew things would be different in an army. More persice and strict. But I had to fight. I couldn't do nothing.

"I want to join too." I say. Stream signs, 'don't leave me alone' and I sign back 'I'm sorry.' She sighs and speaks up, her heavy Japense accent lingering in the air. "Me too." She replys. The twins could tell the others were staring at them. Waiting for a decesion.

"Us too." They say in sync. Erwin nods.

"Training for all of you will start tomorrow." He says.

I couldn't belive it, just yesterday I didn't know a town exsisted, just this morning, I stabbed a citizen. But now, now I was going to be part of an army. Now, began my real fight against the titans.