Chapter 2

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As the concrete hit my face, it felt like I was slammed into a pile of bricks. The puddles of water that were under me made me all wet too. I don't think I've ever been so angry in my life as the blond haired man slammed me into the street.

"Leave her alone!" Isabel said watching me fall

"If you're not going to answer my questions or do what I demand, than I might have to resort to physical violence, that's what we're taught early on in military training." The other man said standing over me

I could feel the blood running down my face from where my glasses had dug into my forehead. I looked up at the man with such rage in my eyes it made him flinch a little.

"Alright, I will ask again, where did you get your hands on the 3D maneuver gear?" He asked for the second time

I was too mad to move a muscle, much less talk.

"We taught it ourselves" Farlan said "We stole 4 pairs of maneuver gears from a cart of military policemen that was left unattended. We taught ourselves the skills in order to survive down here!"

All of it was true, we live in the underground city, a place where the poorest people lived. Around 100 years ago, our world was taken over by the titans. Giant humanoid creatures with a taste for our blood. To keep the titans out, the remaining humans built walls Maria, Rose, and Sina to keep them out. The military had a choice of 3 different branches to go into. The garrison, who maintain the wall structure and act as a police in the two outermost walls. The Military police who work mostly in the interior but go out occasionally to the underground. They maintain peace in the inner cities and the capital. And the survey corps, the most skilled and the most brave out of all. They work outside all three walls fighting the titans and trying to take back what was once ours.

I, as well as my three comrades grew up in the underground. The only thing I ever knew was the underground. The only person I ever knew was a man who only ever called himself Kenny. When I was about 5, he took me to a big house underground. He made me wait while he spoke with a man at the counter. We were then led into a room where a woman was sleeping, at least that was what Kenny told me. She looked bad, she was very skinny and did not look healthy. There was also a boy around my age sitting in the corner. I didn't understand all of it, but we took him home with us. From that point on, Kenny taught both of us how to fight and use knives properly. Me in particular, he was extra strict on close combat skills. Around the age of 12, he left us to fend for ourselves. We got the property that he left behind and decided to try and make a living for ourselves. We started off by creating a weapons shop as well as a place where people could gather and receive help for certain things. At that point we started to gain followers. Isabel, a woman with bright red hair that was put up in 4 ponytails around the side of her head. She was not very smart in the head but had a deep understanding of close hand combat. Next was Farlan, he was a light brown haired male who had his own gang before Levi and I beat them all, after that we recognized his potential and gave him the opportunity to help us after he came to us willing. We put him through our rite of passage which was trying to take a knife from Levi who was extremely good at fighting. He ended up putting him off guard before taking the knife from him using a dirty trick. As leader (Levi and I would switch between leadership roles during certain missions.) I decided to let him join our ranks keeping him as a strategist along with myself.

Things were going well, but we still had trouble with the military, they knew of our existence and we knew of theirs. We would typically mess with them, stealing food supplies from them, or taking other things, but we were never caught. But then the day came when I found a cart full of 3D maneuver gear, it was something that every branch of military used to fly around the city. I noticed that it wasn't attended and helped myself to 4 pairs for each of us. I got away about 30 yards before someone finally noticed. I had a little trouble getting back to base but since I had a head start I made it back just before they could see where I went. At first, it took a while getting used to the maneuvering but we eventually got the hang of it. I was not the best at it, but my intelligence made up for it. And soon we were flying all around the city and we were able to commit more acts against the military police since they weren't the best at maneuvering around all of the small spaces.

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