Chapter 02 – Sakae: The City of Torment
• Act One – Nightmare [The Team that Deployed in the City of Torment]
=King's Order: Yuuko Oshima
=Cadet/Trainee Squad #148
=Squad S
=Squad M
Jun POVUpon our Arrival in Sakae, which is our Hometown, The things that welcomed us are the Titans slowly eating the remaining villagers. Almost all of our Squad Members, are in Despair, You can see in their faces that they're scared. Our Squad Leader was angered by the Cry of the other members, Which Caused Yuko-senpai to shout because of her Annoyance. "Oi! Cadet Squad #148! Are you all nuts?! We're HERE TO SAVE THIS VILLAGE! WHY ARE YOU ALL CRYING!?" but a certain person answered. "But, What about Namba? You all did came there, but you still hadn't saved the village." One of the Geniuses in our Squad, Yagura Fuuko said. "I know I'm not that Strong, But I know that MY Village needs me."
"So... YOUR village needs you, huh? Why don't you just GO THERE and SAVE IT ON YOUR OWN!?" Yuuko answered, She was really Angry. Fuuko stayed silent and we carried out our plan and rescuing.
3 Hours Later, we still have long way to go to find the Squad KII and E's base, and based on what I've heard, The two separated bases to guard the citizens of Sakae. But as of now, Only Corpses are what we see everywhere. No trace of a Living Flesh nor a Single place that looks like can be used as a Hideout. "Let's Spread out. Search all the areas. Nothing must be left unchecked. Spread!" I was left alone, Rena was with Airi. While I, needed to team up with Yuuko-senpai, from the King's Order. "Jun is your name, right?" She asked.
"Y-YES! Matsui Jun! From Cadet Squad #148! I'm Glad to be Paired with a Member of the King's Order like you, Senpai!" I stroke my chest with my right hand and placed my left hand at the back. "Hahaha!" She chuckled, "No need for formalities, Just call me Yuuko, or Yuuko-senpai." Yuuko smiled at me. "Y-Yes, Y-Yuuko-san." I answered. We continued to walk until we reached a suspicious tree with a 'KII' and 'E' mark. We dashed, but something stopped me. I saw in one of the Dark Alleys, Airi is Kissing Rena, A Torrential, Afflicting wave just smashed my inner organs down. Then, I blacked out.
"J-JUN-KUN!?"
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"Oi! Kumi! You can't do this to us!" A Round faced girl was shouting at a certain place in Sakae with a High Voice.
"Sorry Yuria, But I have to." The other girl answered. "K-Kumi... No..." The round-faced said, her voice was trembling.
They didn't realize that a Titan is Coming. Until they heard a Loud Smashing Sound. "W-What's that...?" Yuria's voice lowered, they heard a very deep and load roar not very far from where they are. Yuria felt a chill down her spine, She got into a trauma with titans when they rescued the Squad's N and M from Namba. The Flashback was repeatedly re-occurring in her mind, she felt like she's goping to get crazy.
Numb and Out of gas, Kumi gulped and her hands holding her blades was trembling, Her body was shaking and she was scared out of her mind. Then, They froze as they saw the Titan's Creepy Grinning face peeking at where they are, It's just One Titan, no They're Two, and then, they're many. Yuria knew that Kumi's out of gas, so she removed her gas and exchanged with Kumi. "Kumi. We have no time, Exchange with me and run away!" The round-faced slowly feels that a hand was coming near them. "Quickly!" Kumi removed her own empty gas tank and grabbed Yuria's then the exchange of their Gas Tanks was complete. Yuria is now using Kumi's Empty Gas tank, while Kumi has the full gas.
The Girl named Kumi was frozen as she sees that a titan is coming to eat her, when a hand was about to grab her, She closed her eyes. Until she heard a faint voice. When she opened her eyes once again, she saw Yuria struggling on the titans hand, then, she fell into the darkness. Little did Kumi knew, that a Squad E member saw them. It was Kanon who saw what happened. She was friends with Yuria, Literally, they're more than friends, Lovers, can be.
KANON's eyes widened as she saw Yuria fade in to darkness in the Titan's mouth. She got very angry of what happened, While she saw Kumi ran away with Yuria's Gas tank, Now she knew how Yuria loved her Girlfriend more than her. Tears came out of her eyes as she advanced on the titan that ate her Lover. Jumped from it's foot until she reached it's neck. "YURIA!! DON'T BE DEAD!" She cut and the titan's head fell.
Yuria POVAs I saw the Titan's hand about to Grab Kumi, I scampered into the Giant's hand and I was the one that was grabbed, But I knew what to do, But When I saw how big the Titan was, I know that my Plan won't work so I kept on struggling to free my self and to kill the titan. "This is Worst." My blades are Already Broken. I have no choice but to do that when I get into the Titan's Stomach.
Flash Back Back when I was a Trainee, I was Best of friends with Squad M's Captain, Shimada Rena and her two Vice Captains, Takano Yui and Yamada Nana they're also trainees like me that time. An Incident happened When we were invited by Rena's Dad, Reiji-san. When we entered the house, It was full of Test Tubes, Test Tube holders, It was like a Science lab. As I Look at it, I know that a Kid won't be able to live in there, I was wrong. Rena can live there... But how?
We sat on an Individual chair and His father Offered us Drinks and after drinking those, We collapsed. When I woke up, I saw a Bandaged Attached to my Right arm. Nana's and Yui's too, are bandaged. I looked at Rena's Chair, But she's not there. So I stood up and tried to find her. I was Fourteen that time, Nana was Eighteen, Rena's Seventeen and Yui's Sixteen. I found a staircase so I walked through it and it led me into the path of 3 rooms, the first two was empty, but when I peeked in the Center Room, I was surprised...
"W-What the!?"I whispered, and I've heard some things that made a chill to my body.
After Hearing some foot steps, I dashed back to my chair to pretended to be asleep. Later, I fell into deep slumber, then I was awoken by Nana. "Shht. Yuria-chan, Rena woke me up and we need to get out of here, Immediately." I just nodded. "But where is Rena-senpai?" I asked.
"She's Waking Yui up." Nana answered with a chuckle.
After Several hours of Waking up Yui, We exited her house and went back to the base in Wall Sina. As soon as we got there, We removed the bandages, I saw a small butterfly tattoo, When we turned to look at Rena, fear was on her eyes, she too, has a butterfly tattoo near her neck. "Rena! I didn't know that your dad is a good tattoo artist." Yui laughed, But Rena just nodded. But with that Mere minute of Laughter, Akimoto-sensei, Announced that we will be scattered in the divisions now. I was Placed under the care of Nakanishi-senpai, while Rena was Quickly promoted to be the Captain of the New formed Squad, Squad M. Yui and Nana were also placed in Squad M. I was left in Squad S, I don't have friends there, Until I grew up to be friends with the other Members.
Years passed and The times we're meeting as friends grew smaller and smaller, until we didn't see each other again. I had a new group of friends, in which I was treated like an Idiot. Well, Because they're my friends, I only laugh when they call me an idiot.
End of Flash BackI am currently in the Titan's stomach.
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Jun POVWhen I woke up, I was inside a room, full of Girls. "Waah!! He's so cute!!" I hear some squeals and all of them are looking at me, Very Creepy. "Hey! What's your name?" A Girl with a Bird hat on her head asked, I know her, She's Takayanagi Akane! The Captain of Squad KII! "Uhm, I'm Matsui Jun! From Cadet Squad #148!" I stood up and stroke my left chest again.
"fufufufu..." She giggled. "You're interesting." A Touch from her finger to my neck, had made me gulp.
"Oi! Takayanagi! Stop Joking!" Yuuko gave her a Stare. I felt like something's missing, I touched my wrist, It's missing. The Bracelet which has the Password to my Father's storage room. I tried to search the whole place, It's not here. It's not on my Pocket either. "Is this what you're Searching For?" Yuuko has it, she was holding it out to me.
"Ah, Thank you." When I tried to grab it, She placed it back to her pocket. "I received an order from Akimoto-sensei. He ordered me to Hide this Bracelet for personal uses." She answered. "I'm Sorry." Yuuko added.
We heard a Loud Roar. The Titan's are approaching. I grabbed my Maneuver Gear and wore it. We then heard a disturbing shout. "YURIA!! DON'T BE DEAD!" We all dashed to see who it was, When we came to the place where the shout came from, We saw another Titan, also, a dead titan's body with a broken stomach. We noticed a Pale Girl Shaking near the titan's body.
"Kanon!" Shouted Nakanishi-senpai from the Squad S.
I turned around to see the titan. It was armored. "GWAAAAGHH!" The titan tried to grab Fuuko, while Fuuko was trembling and frozen. I dashed to Fuuko's front and I don't know why, I bit my thumb. My vision later got Blurry.
End of Jun POVSuddenly, A Titan showed up from nowhere and battled the titan that Yuuko and the Party saw. The Other one was an Armored Titan, while the Other one was a Fanged Titan. The Other Military Persons were in awe, they just watched the battle. When the Fanged titan stepped on the Armored Titan, who was already on the ground, The Armored Titan's body was burned into Ashes. Suddenly, from the smoke emanating from the Body of the titan that was turning into ashes, Someone from the Smoke jumped and just disappeared.
"What was that...?" The Shocked Fuuko said.
After A Few minutes, An army of titans attacked the Fanged Titan and it fell into the ground like a lamp post that was lost in balance and was also later burned into ashes. Revealing a Youngman who was very wet from his sweat, His Wet Uniform reveals a Well-toned body which, made all the Girls Squeal, except for Yuuko, who was very serious of the Matter. All the Other Cadets thought that he survived the destruction for they thought, he was eaten. While Fuuko, fell into this Man, whom she thought, was her Hero. "He's... so... Cool..." Fuuko's face turned red. She was certainly blushing.
Jun was the youngman that the girls were squealing about. After few seconds, he collapsed. He was brought back to Fukuoka with the other Squads. Fuuko was still blushing, she couldn't forget what happened, She just fell inlove with the Guy who 'saved; her, not only he was a gentleman, he was also handsome. Secretly, She took some of his pictures using her phone and made it her wallpaper.
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The King’s Order is soon to be completed again. Akiba’s the only one left to go. But, The Party who went to Sakae forgot one thing. The Scientific Crystal that was made from Amorphous Substances, It was pretty rare, and it was a Gift from the King’s late advisor, Matsui Jurio, The Scientist and Jun’s father. Without the Crystal, they can’t enter fukuoka. “S-Shit… We forgot something…. Let’s go back to Sakae.” The KII Captain, Churi said with a trembling voice.
“Ah, The Crystal, right?” Yuuko said with her voice, annoyed.
It took them few minutes to go back to Sakae, when they got back, You can’t almost see the land because of the corpses, It was very scary. They saw a gigantic titan, it’s height was abnormal, it tried to grab Rena, but Airi protected her by Slashing the titan’s head, but it just regenerated. “Huh?” Airi was thrown in the platform of corpses. When he looked at her hands, it was filled with blood and the half of his body was buried not by land, but corpses.
“H-How could that be?”
“It’s not always in the head!” Jun slashed the titan’s arm and it was gone forever. “See?”
Then, Yuuko’s phone rang.
Yuuko: Hello, What’s your business?
Sayaka A.: Yuuko! Be careful! The Sakae was called the City of Torment, not only because it was already Infested by all types of titans, Man-eaters are also living there!
Yuuko: What!?
Sayaka A.: Their weakness is still unknown, but the Analyzing Squad of Scouting Legion, The Squad M is coming there, Just hide in one place and wait for their call. That’s all! *Hung*
Yuuko felt chills, Sakae was really the city of torment now. Not Only Titans, but also, Man-eaters reside it. They went back to the KII and E’s Hideout and waited for the Squad M to come, they heard someone knock on the door. When they peeked, they saw Yuria, she’s very bloody. “H-Help…” She fell into the floor and just collapsed. The terror in Kumi and Kanon’s eyes was shown.
“G-Guys… I-I Can’t find it…” Churi said with her voice being numb.
“Y-You can’t find what?” Matsumoto Rina asked.
“T-The… A-Amorphous Crystal…”
“EHH!?”
They were all shocked that they can’t find it. So Because the hide out is very big, they decided to search for it and split into pairs, After all the members formed their pairs, Jun and Fuuko’s the only two who still hadn’t got their pair. So they just formed it together. Jun feels his heart aching by just seeing Rena become very sweet with her partner, Airi. “They must be in a relationship already.” Jun looked down, but since there’s his partner, Fuuko. She held Jun’s hand very tight, she just noticed that Jun was inlove with Rena. “Hmm?” To his surprise, he looked at Fuuko.
“Nothing… Is holding hands… banned in here?” Fuuko looked away.
“No, Not really. Your hand’s very warm.” Hiding to a certain place in the hideout, Jun touched Fuuko’s right cheek with his right hand, and attempted to kiss her. “Konbanwaniwani Kapu. Public Display of Affection isn’t allowed here.” An exclusive officer of Squad N appeared, She’s Jonishi Kei, She was always permitted to Join the mission of the Elites. Fuuko and Jurina was shocked to see Jonishi Kei, whose presence is very weak.
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“Rena, Why do we need to ignore Jun?” Airi asked Rena as they are finding the Scientific Amorphous Crystal. “Nothing.” Rena was very angry about Jun. Because of what happened last night.
“Amorphous? That is what you call the substances that can’t make a Crystal, right?” Rena said to Airi, While Airi was asking her straight to the point. “If you don’t answer me seriously, I will kiss you.” Because of what Airi said, Rena straight forwardly kissed him. Jun and Fuuko saw them again, Jun then, faced Fuuko and kissed her forehead. “Would you like to be my girlfriend?” Even though she already know that Jun will be just using her, She agreed, She nodded. “Yes.”
Later, They heard some knocks from the door, then, a voice. “Quickly! Open the door!!” Yuuko recognized that voice, It was Shimarena’s. “The Man-Eaters are coming!! Let us in!!” The knock on the door later became louder and louder, as if it became a bang. Yuuko finally opened the door, seeing Shimarena and her right arm, bloody. Yuria has just woke up, when she saw the Girl on the Door, She just said, “Hi! I’m Kizaki Yuria from Squad S! Nice meeting you, Shimada Rena-san!” Yes, It was Yuria’s friend from 3 years ago.
Later, The Whole Squad M entered the Hide-out, and the Stationary Guard Squad, Squad E, Treated their wounds. “Where did those wounds came from?” Yuuko asked them.
“From the Man-Eaters.” Momo answered. All of them inside the room gulped. "It's true, We encountered them, and one Squad Member is still missing, It's Yamada Nana." Yuipon added. Another knock was heard. "P-Please... Open... the door..." Fuuko was the one who opened the door, When she opened it, Nana tried to grab her and there he is again, Jun was the one who got bitten. "F-Fuuko! Stay away!" Jun said.
Rena didn't know how to react, She felt guilt when she saw Jun protect Fuuko. She walked away and went to the Comfort Room. Shimarena walked beside Nana then injected her something, then she collapsed. She was later tied to a bed and when she woke up, she kept on struggling like a monster. "Is this 'the Conjuring'?" Yuipon asked with a terrified voice. While Shimarena answered "If this is 'the Conjuring', Where's the doll?" Then they hear something, "Let's play Hide and Clap." When they turned to look at to see who it was, There she is, The Doll from 'the Conjuring', Annabelle.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" They all screamed.
"Relax, It's Just me, Kanon!" Kanon removed the wig and laughed.
"Hey, Stop joking around, Kanon." Yuria said seriously. "Hai, Hai." SHe answered.
TO BE CONTINUED?Well, I wrote this for more than a Week, I didn't review for my exams because of this, so please, eventhough it's an ugly update, accept it.
and also, in the next chapter, WMatsui and RenAirin rivalry will start!!
My Grammar checker, Hah. Swapped Jun and Jurio's name. Sorry for the inconvinience.