Fandom Attack on Titan: Chapter II

[Two Fives]

"Nice to meet you too," voices Niklas. He has a bright smile, as bright as the bonfires some feet away from them. Inquisitively, he trails her eyes to the scape. A river as turquiose as his eyes that reaches far into the meadows, so far that it exits the pocket of light around the camp, swallowed up by night's dark mouth. "Nervous, eh? We've all been there. Hell, this place could make anyone nervous. Especially with that Dave around."

 

[Loki The Trickster]

"That's natural," Lucas assures her, musing over his younger sister, "I'm very protective of my younger sister, Lenna. Little Lenna, our brothers call her. She's short." Pause. "This," he references her height with his hand, a sideface palm with fingers held tightly together coming short of his Cadet Corps uniform breast pocket, "tall."

 

[Flame Demon]

"I'm not that tall either though" Victoria says, from what she had seen she was one of the shortests, if not completely the shortests of everyone else, so she didn't really have a height advantage or strength for that matter.

 

[Loki The Trickster]

Lucas is short too, very short. Very rarely does he meet anyone shorter than him but this might happen to be one of those occasions. "Genetics, eh," groans Lucas in a dejected, dispirited sort of way, "Looks like we pulled the short straw, Victoria. Oh well. Guess it is what it is."

 

[Flame Demon]

"Nope, everyone in my family is tall" Victoria says with a dejected sigh "But hey, maybe I'll still grow a bit", maybe her grandparents were short, yeah that had to be it, short grandparents "On top of the fact I'm the only short person all my cousins are boys"

 

[Loki The Trickster]

"Maybe. Been hoping for a little more length since... I don't even know now," admits Lucas as he purses his lips into a fine line, "Mum says it's better as she doesn't have to use as much fabric when she's making me clothes." Then, abruptly, he laughs, "Suppose that's a positive way to look at it." Short people problems...

 

[Flame Demon]

"We short people have an advantage in the field though" Victoria points out "More speed and agility since the wind doesn't bother us as much" she adds "And if we ever have to hide quickly we don't have to climb a tree", as much disadvantages they have they have lots of advantages too "And we can add more stuff in our tents".

 

[Loki The Trickster]

"Got that right," agrees Lucas with a smirk to his mouth. The young cadet finds another stick from the grass and, with absent-minded intention, drags it across the soil by his feet, drawing shapes, circles, squares, triangles, anything to keep those hands of his busy, "Smart one, aren't you? Was right about that, at least. Say, what was that book you were reading earlier? Looked interesting enough. Was it?"

 

[Flame Demon]

"Ah that..." Victoria mumbles quietly and she quickly checks if anyone else is nearby before taking it from her bag "It's about the sea" she says quietly "My aunt has tons of books" she says with a slight smile and she looks at the cover "She rarely reads them though, she keeps them in her basement"

 

[Loki The Trickster]

Slowly but surely, Lucas scoots closer some, bumping shoulder to shoulder with Victoria. "The sea," he repeats after her. "Geography, is it? That subject always kind of interested me but they don't tell us much about it, do they?" He looks the cover over. It's night, the dark everywhere, shadows reaching to obsure all if not everything... but the bonfire illuminates the cover somewhat to where the title and its illustrations, if any, are visible, "She's like me, then. I rarely read."

 

[Harley Quinn]

Finishing off the tiny bit of rations she had left she nodded subtly and muttered "Yeah..." Still staring off across the endless meadows, wrapping her arms around her legs, a small smile crept on her face. It quickly vanished when she thought about their drill Sargent again. "Do you think hes scarier than a titan?" Hana added half serious, she'd never seen a titan before so it was easy to imagine.
"I bet the titans run from him" The girl turned to Nik with a light expression, trying to make light of humanity's dire situation.

 

[Flame Demon]

"About the animals that live there too" Victoria says with a smile "Dolphins, turtles, sharks and lots of fish" she says "It'd be so interesting to see it one day, the water's suppose to be very salty too" she says with a grin "Imagine that, an endless supply of salt, who wouldn't want that?" she asks. "And it's not that my aunt hates reading, but she has books that are forbidden" she says quietly "Like this one" she adds. "They have an aquarium, but there are only common fish in there like goldfish, so it gets boring to watch them, oh and they have a pool"

 

[Loki The Trickster]

When Victoria tells him about what lies beyond the Walls, the Lawrence's facial expression alters, altering into something... odd, something halfway between curiosity and confusion, "Really? Salt... everywhere? There's no way. Salt is so expensive. Could you imagine?"

"That's forbidden?" He says in reference to the book, "Careful you aren't caught with it, Victoria."

 

[Two Fives]

He laughs at Hana. It's a hearty laugh, one that Nik finds himself stifling with the flat of his hand. Some cadets, he remembers, are trying to sleep. "Ha. Scarier than a titan? Well, who knows. He might be. Suppose that works out well for us," he speculates thoughtfully, "When we see a titan, we won't be half as scared, right?" He looks at her, then her eyes, then what her eyes are looking at, a stretch of meadow land, swathes of grass as far as the eye can see before night holds her shroud and fringes it off in shadowy black. This bonfire light is humanity, one could metaphorise, and the darkness the titans.

 

[Two Fives]

Shafts of sunlight shine through sycamore tree leaves and cast shapes of shadow, mottled and mesmerising, against the swathes of field. Some of the cadets wake up naturally when the sun touches their eyelids from inside their tents, others unnaturally by Drill Sergeant Dave and his soldiers. Should the training of the month prior have taught you anything, the latter, of course, involves lots and lots and lots... of shouting.

The Thoroughbred horses are led from the riverbank by lengths of rope. Carriages and carts are attached to their saddles. The soldiers tell the cadets to make themselves comfortable in them, some with sly smirks that speak worlds of their sarcasm.

So the journey starts anew... as rocky and rumbly as it was before. Their destination, the Drill Sergeant claims, is approximately three hours away.

 

[Two Fives]

Loki The Trickster Flame Demon sr901 Appawlezz mindheist Bum Bear Ethereal_Dreams Harley Quinn

 

[Flame Demon]

Victoria being an early bird avoids the yelling and after packing her stuff, makes herself comfortable in one of the carriages, opening another book as she pulls her knees to her chest. Since there's no way she can actually manage to talk to someone for 3 hours she sticks to reading, as she figures 3 hours will pass by very quickly then.

 

[Appawlezz]

Midori is always up early as Warrior was tied in the blanket like sheet Nik had given him he squirmed in his covers, he stretched his arms it was still pretty early for him he could here the Sargenat's Dave's shouting at the other cadets, he huffs and wraps the little bunny hidding him in his pocket like waist belt, he was pretty small so any chance of him being noticed where fairly especially since Nik gave him the sheet.

The bunny snuggled deeply into the belt/sheet, falling asleep.

He smiled softly rubbing his ears as he made sure he was hidden, it was like a little sidekick in his belt.

He stood to leave his tent before he gets yelled at by Sergeant Dave.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Waking up with a shriek ,Hana was greeted by soldiers screaming for her to wake up. The girl quickly apologized shouting back in fear and confusion. Groggily she arose, putting her hair into her usual messy bun. Making her way over to a carriage, she couldn't decided if she was supposed to go in or wait for the drill sergeant to order them in. Seeing some of her fellow cadets inside, she made the shaky decision to join them.
Placing her head against the wall behind her, she tried her best to stay awake. Although her eyes were fighting against her.
Hana was not a morning person.

 

[Flame Demon]

Victoria glances st Hana and says "Not a morning person I see", she was used to getting up early to help her parents and do chores, which was really good now "Drinking some water helps" she adds "With most people anyway", she didn't want her fellow comrade to be scolded because she fell asleep. Harley Quinn

 

[sr901]

Linne had no issue waking up as per usual. She wasted no time in getting up and hustling out of her tent to avoid the Sergeant's screaming. She takes a brief second to glance out over the field, part of her wishing she had chosen stay awake a bit longer to take it in more the night before. She didn't regret her decision to retire to her tent early however like she was certain a few of the other cadets had.

She climbed into a carriage, settling in before raising her arms over her head to stretch. Seeing as their destination was close, she began tying her golden blond hair into the sloppy ponytail. she typically fashioned it into during exercises.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Hana let out a awkward chuckle and shook her head. “No no I’m fine” That was kind of a lie, but she didn’t want her comrades thinking she’d be a bother. “Uhm thanks though” she gave Victoria a small smile and looked down at her feet. Still trying to keep awake. Successfully keeping her eyes open for a longer period of time.
After another 5 minutes of boredom she suddenly blurted out “Are we almost there yet!”

 

[Flame Demon]

"It's a three hour journey and I think we're still missing people" Victoria says calmly while turning a page in her book, she wasn't bothered by boredom, she rarely became bored, if she was visiting her aunt and uncle she was most likely in the pool or in her room reading, at home she normally helped her parents.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Maybe it would of been better for Hana to go to sleep and risk being shouted at than it was too wait for everyone. It would be better if everyone else was in the carriage and then they could get moving, then maybe nobody would notice her napping. She stood up and peaked her head out of the back of the vehicle , looking for stragglers. "Come on guys! Lets get moving!" A slight blush rested on her cheeks as she took some charge, but all she really wanted was to take a nap. So this was definitely worth it, even though she was still a little shy.

 

[sr901]

Finishing with her hair, Linne looked up just in time to see a girl stand up and shout at the cadets yet to board the carriage. Noting how uncomfortable she looked at doing so, Linne couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle, calling out, "Ah the heiress to the Drill Sergeant name has arisen!" Moving to look out of the carriage as well she called to the other cadets this time. "You heard the lady get a move on!"