Native- Riren

122th Expedition (2)

EditedThe night went on forever, the cadets snore around me, shivering slighly from the cold, and some jerking randomly.  I stayed positioned in a window, constantly watching, waiting for the danger I know would come, it always comes when you least expect it. 

But nothing happened from the time the cadets fell asleep, to the time I went to wake commander Erwin telling him the sun is due to rise soon. 

"Thank you Levi." He says stretching his tired limbs and standing, his gear is still attatched.  "Please start to wake the cadets." I nod not feeling the need to argue  with him and instead start at one end of the room, kicking the cadets awake by their boots. 

Once I've kicked everyone atleast once, I go to the window I had been positioned in all night, I fix my jacket on my shoulders and fasten the 'Wings of Freedom' on my back before I leap from the window backwards propelling myself to the roof of the building so I can fully examine the land. 

Mikasa is already up there with three rotting Titan bodies on the ground below that Hange and Moblit are picking it. 

"So you caught her a little experiment." I say to Mikasa who turns her head noticing my presence. 

She shrugs lightly, "They were walking from afar, Hange just happened to come out at the right moment." Mikasa sits down on the roof with a sigh. 

I grunt but walk up to her so i'm kneeling, "How are you feeling?" I ask genuinely concerned. 

"Fine, Did you eat yet?" I shake my head no to her question, "And you?"

"Yea, just before coming out here." She says looking up at me with her brown eyes. 

"Have you observed any abnormal activity since you came out here?" Mikasa shakes her head, "Everything's been quiet since those two down there." She says referring to the dead Titans. 

Mikasa and I turn our heads at the sound of cadets coming down to the ground and nearing their horses, rations in hands and being eaten, "I have to go Mikasa." I say and leap from the building not waiting for a reply.  I land smoothly with the help of my gear on plush green grass beside Erwin who was walking out.

"Shit Levi, what the hell, you impatient animal, go prepare your horse or something you little shit." he says with his hand over his heart.

"Fuck you, and your shitty eyebrows." I say as I walk away rolling my eyes at him. 

I hear him gasp but he says nothing further and let's me walk to my beautiful horse instead. 

I pet her mane, running my hands over her coat, "Hello Blossom." I say, she neighs at me licking my jacket a few times. I give her a msall smile and hug her giant head to my chest.

I'm soon made aware of the stratled cadets, some squealing and one having a nose bleed, I ignore the squealing pigs and instead make sure my horse is still strapped correctly. 

Once finished I get on her, she happily clicks her hooves with the ground and starts to walk around, warming her legs in a way, she doesn't need my help, she knows what to do. 

The formation is renewed once again just in time for the sun to fully rise.  We take off straight going up a slight hill and busting into more greenery. 

I expected a ride like the one yesterday, quiet with myself leading the left flank , Hange leading the right, and Erwin in the middle.  But I got much more than I could bargain for. 

We had been riding for at least two hours, the cadets were growing tired from the long trip when an abnormal sprinted from my left, it went right for a young girl if the very back of the formation.