Eren went off the rails, and completely lost control. I tried to jump in and stop him, but my cables got caught up in the bricks of a falling building and I was thrown to the ground along with half the the building.
I couldn't see any light, I was blocked away completely by the cement and rock.
I hit my sword against the giant rock again, failing to break anything for the thousandth time. I slash viciously against the hard surface but it's no use. Defeated, I sit back down against the wall I've been trapped against.
"Damnit, Eren." I drop the sword, the blade clattering onto the ground.
I sit in the quiet for a bit and try to listen for anyone outside. Maybe if I make enough noise they can get me out. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like there's anyone in this part of town at all.
Sighing, I begin pulling my knees into my chest. I don't make it very far before searing pain rips through my right leg. I scream out from the pain and shut my eyes to stop tears. When I open them again I look down.
There's a giant gash right under my knee all the way down to the bone. Blood pours out of it making me feel sick.
I've just now been able to move without pain from my rib, and now I've got a gash in my leg almost the size of a dinner roll showing the white of my bone. Great.
Quickly I reach for the cape on my back, tearing a long strip of it. I wrap the crimson cloth around my knee right above the wound and tie it into a makeshift tourniquet.
I groan at the pressure on my leg, tears prickling at my eyes. Leaning my head back I close my eyes.
"Someone please find me soon."
Levi POV
I sliced through the nape of Eren's Titan form. The kid finally went berserk, but not on any human, just the female Titan.
Mikasa drug Eren away and I wiped the blood off of my face. I watch as she tries to wake him up, screaming and yelling at him to push through. It's noble actually, how she still stays true to obvious feelings for him.
Disgusting.
"She...crystallized herself?" Hanje comes over to the now solid, crystal block Annie Leonhart encased herself in.
I only nod. I can't focus on titans or titan shifters right now, my mind is somewhere else.
"Hanje."
"Yeah?" She's picking at the rock trying to chip anything away, but it's no use.
"Have you seen Commander Lux anywhere?"
"Can't say I have. She was supposed to be with squad four, but she never showed."
I look up at her, "What do you mean she never showed? I saw her leave. I watched her walk off."
Hanje stops her picking and looks up at me. "That girl is like steel. I'm sure she's fine. But, are you okay?" A look of pure confusion crosses her face.
I look away. "Yeah. I need to find Erwin."
"Well okay then." Hanje looks back down the crystal and I turn away to find Erwin.
"Hey, Levi wait a minute!"
I stop, looking over my shoulder at the crazy woman. She has a little smirk on her face as she walks towards me.
"It's okay to admit you have a heart, you know?" Her maniacal laugh rings out through the air, and I frown.
"Shut the hell up, shitty glasses!"
"Awe come on, shorty. I'm just teasing." She motions Moblit to come assist her. He looks at me fearfully and scuttles over to Hanje.
"Moblit, I want you to wrap this thing up while I go with Levi to find Erwin and Commander Lux. You're in charge."
He salutes her firmly and Hanje bounds over to me.
"I didn't ask for your help."
"I know," she smirks again, "but you're getting it anyways."
"Why do you feel the need to be so involved with everything?" I shoot my grappling hooks into the side of building and shoot upwards with Hanje following close behind.
"I'm just happy you're making friends, Levi!" She laughs again and I roll my eyes.
Less like friends and more like acquaintances.
"You can keep an eye out for Erwin, I'll search for Elton."
Hanje nods and the two of us continue on. While we look for them though, a nagging voice in the back of my mind wants me to stop.
Why should I even care? People die every day in this shitty world, it's not like Lux's death will be any different.
But it would be. It would be different, especially to me.
Something in the way Lux carried herself had me drawn to her. She was like some sort of mystery, and yet she was an open book. It's obvious she's from the underground, word of her tattoo got around quickly. Maybe coming from similar backgrounds is what has me so curious about who she is.
She's an emotional wreck, that's for sure. She can't control herself, and she's got one of the worst tempers I've ever seen. Lux is extremely guarded despite being such an emotional person. In the past month I've had this temptation to test how far she can really go. When does she break? What's her weakness?
There's something she's hiding. I can feel it.
I should've listened to Erwin and not have gotten attached, dammit. You better not be dead you brat.
"Hey, Levi!"
I slam my feet into the side of building and Hanje lands next to me.
"What?"
She nods her head down to the street below us and I follow the direction.
Erwin's blonde hair stands out among everything else, and he's surrounded by military police.
Wonderful. For a man so smart, he's always getting himself arrested.
The two of us get down there quickly, and I keep one sword drawn.
"Captain Levi, you and your commanding officer Erwin Smith are under arrest for tyranny. So glad you could join us." Nile Dok grins, showing off yellow teeth.
Disgusting. "Under who's order?"
"Chief Zackly, of course." Dok rolls his eyes.
I slide the blade back into its holster and turn to Erwin with eyebrows raised. He only nods sternly, telling me not to fight back.
I'm about to open my mouth and speak to Dok, but a faint noise behind me catches my attention. I look over my shoulder only to find a large pile of rubble next to falling building.
"Captain if you will please-"
"Shut it, idiot." I disregard Dok's attempt to arrest me and turn around to look at the debris.
"Levi, I'm not playing games here."
"I'm not either, so shut up!"
I walk closer to the rocks, the noise getting louder with each step. I press my ear up against it and listen closely.
"Is there anyone out there? Help me, I'm stuck!"
"There's someone under here, help me move these damned rocks."
Three military police officers run over to the rocks, helping me discard each of them.
Lux POV
"There's someone under here. Help me move these rocks!"
Light finally begins to seep in through the cracks where bricks are being removed. There's dust clouding up everywhere, and it makes me want to hold my breath. My leg is already injured, I don't need my lungs to get messed up as well. I guess, though, if I've been under here for long enough it wouldn't really matter. I've been breathing in this dust ridden air for probably a half hour now.
"Are you in there?" I hear someone calling out.
"Yes, I'm here. But I'm hurt, I can't walk." I look down towards my leg as more light shines down into the darkness.
I feel faint from the loss of blood. There's no telling how long I've been bleeding, but my makeshift tourniquet stopped working a while ago. After a few more excruciating minutes I finally see someone through the opening.
"Lux," Levi steps over a few remaining rocks and crouches down next me. "How long have you been down here?" His gaze travels to my knee and the blood soaked cloth.
"I don't know. A little over a half hour, if I had to guess. I was trying to stop Eren and then the building toppled. My cables got twisted." I motion my head over to the side where my destroyed 3DMG is laying.
"Can you stand?"
"I can try."
Levi nods and straightens up, extending his hand out to me. I take it and try to push myself off the ground. Once I'm on my feet and begin to walk, the pain in my right leg is too much.
I scream out and tumble forward. Levi barely has time to catch me before I fall face first into the ground.
"Shit, Elton." He holds one arm around my waist, and scoops up my legs with other, carrying me bridal style away from the debris. "How do you always get yourself hurt, you idiot?"
I force a laugh. "Shit happens, captain." My voice is weak, my words slurred together in my barely conscious state.
"Commander Elton needs medical attention immediately." I feel his chest vibrate against my head, the feeling somehow comforting.
My eyelids grow heavy, and it feels impossible for me to keep them open. I lean my head up into the crook of Levi's neck and let them fall shut.
Levi POV
I watched Lux's stomach rise and fall rhythmically, making sure not one breathe was slower than the other. Her lips were slightly parted and chapped, but somehow they still looked soft.
My leg continued to bounce up and down quickly while Hanje swapped out her bandages.
"It's been two days, Hanje. How much longer do you think she'll be out for?"
Hanji shrugs and continues to wrap fresh gauze around Lux's leg. "I can't say for sure. She lost a lot of blood, her body is desperately trying to produce more."
The brunette walks away to the trash bin and throws away her gloves and the bloody bandages.
At least she's hygienic in the infirmary.
Suddenly she sighs straightens her posture. Hanje turns around to face me with an actual serious look, something foreign on her.
"Levi, just be honest with me."
I raise an eyebrow at her, but turn back to look at Lux's peaceful face. "Depends," I say, "what exactly am I being honest about?"
Hanji scoffs and comes to stand by me. "You know exactly what I'm going to ask you."
I stay quiet, my eyes fixed on Lux's face.
"You care about her. It's odd for you. I guess I'm just confused really."
"Tch." I stand up from the chair in the corner of the room and walk to Lux's bedside. When I look down at her face she seems so peaceful, just like the night she cried herself to sleep in my office. "It's not so much caring as it is feeling responsible. We're alike in a lot of ways. But she has something I shut down long ago."
"Perry always mentioned she was a special case. It's just her charm, I guess. Honestly half the cadets were drooling over her the minute she stepped foot in the castle." Hanje let's out a gross snort and I wrinkle my nose.
I reach down and brush her bangs away from her face, and let my fingertips linger much to long on her soft skin.
"It has nothing to do with that, four eyes. It just feels like somethings changed, but I can't figure it out what."
"Nothing's changed. You're still an asshole sometimes."
I look at her over my shoulder with a disapproving glare. Hanje smiles and laughs lightly.
"Oh Levi." She sighs and walks towards the door. "Listen, she's going to wake up. In the meantime, try to sort out whatever is going on in that brain of yours. You're intelligent. You'll figure out what to tell her."
"What exactly is it that I'm supposed to be figuring out, again?" I scoff. What a fucking know it all.
"Like I already said: only you can figure that out for yourself, Levi." She sighs and shakes her head. With that, Hanje rolls her eyes and leaves the infirmary, leaving me alone with Lux once again.
I look back down to Lux. This is the only time I've really been able to look at her. She's either had her head down or avoided eye contact with me. If her eyes were open I would be able to see her large brown irises, and the almond shape of her eyes. My eyes glance down to her parted lips. The soft pink color matches the blush that's always on her cheeks, and even now when she's ill the rosy color still remains.
What the hell is wrong with me? I've got a good grip on most of the things that go on around this place. I can predict a few of the stupid cadets lousy pranks and attempts to sneak out past curfew before it even happens. Most people here are afraid of me, but not Lux. She stands up to me and talks back. It's odd.
No, it's not odd. It's just foreign to me. It makes me want to know what the hell shes gone through to get where she is now.
I brush the few strays hairs splayed across her face out of the way, and scoff. "Who are you?" As expected there's no answer. I turn on my heel and head for the door, but turn around to catch a glimpse of Lux once more.
You better wake up soon, you damn troublemaker.