𝟹𝚛𝚍 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙿𝙾𝚅

"Apparently, it's appeared again."

"Someone has to kill it."

"We can't go out hunting with this monster around."

Whispers of the townfolks scattered around as they stared at the same poster that had been plastered on a pillar.

"This is awesome! This is the first time I've been in one of the walled cities!" Connie mentioned.

"There'll be lots of tasty food to eat!" Sasha began to fantasize and dance in her wonderland of nothing but food.

"Hey, you lot. If you join the Garrison, you can stay here as long as you like." Jean reminded. They all turn to him.

"I'll come to visit and see how you're doing when I'm in the Military Police Brigade." he cockily stated with an obnoxious laugh.

"Hey...where exactly is your house, Jean?" Armin questioned, trying to change the topic for everyone.

"Does it matter?" Jean angrily growled. He didn't sound too happy at the thought of his home.

"Aren't you going to pop home? Thomas said he was planning to." Marco mentioned.

"Your mom will be happy to see you." Armin joined in. An irk mark formed on Jean's forehead.

"Shut it, you two! Just drop it!" Jean yelled. This made Y/n sigh as she stared at the young maidens talking to handsome, young men.

She sighed once more and thought of how ridiculous it is to be flirting with others when an attack could happen at any time.

Apparently, there will be training for the anticipated attack on Trost that will take place shortly.

The commanding officer of the southern region, Commander Pyxis, will also be in attendance.

Commandant Shadis wants them to show him how they have transformed into soldiers over the last 2 years of training.

The bell rang, signaling that it was time for them to charge at the cardboard that posed as Titans.

Y/n took out her blades elegantly and jumped off the building before attaching herself to a Titan.

She did a backflip in the air before slicing off the nape of the Titan. She turned around and just nodded in approval.

"Y/n, you're supposed to be going with us! You're not supposed to separate from the others!" Armin scolded.

"So will sticking together like scared little high school girls rid the Titans? Will that save the citizens of Trost?" Y/n retorted.

She hopped on the roof, where Armin, Annie, and Jean were on. She was in the same squad as them.

"N-No, that's not what I meant. It's just that if you keep running off, we won't be able to save you if you're in danger." Armin argued.

"Well, I'm not in danger. Thanks for your concern." Y/n said. This time, she stuck together with them.

They ran along the roofs of the houses. Jean took his group far beyond their designated post.

Armin noticed this and warned Jean that their mission is only to handle targets that pass the front line.

Jean reminded him that it is their duty as soldiers to attack Titans. Y/n and Annie groaned at Jean's actions.

"All you want to do is score more brownie points." Annie commented. Y/n had to agree with her.

Locating a Titan target, Jean is cut off by Mikasa who swoops in for the kill, and Jean, rather than being too upset, silently compliments her.

"Oh? What's this? It seems like Jean has a crush on someone." Y/n teased. This made Jean flustered.

Finding more targets, Jean is again cut off, this time by Connie, Sasha, and Reiner, who take down the targets before Jean has a chance, much to his frustration.

"We got interrupted by baldy, potato girl, and Mr. Muscles." Y/n mumbled. She knew that they shouldn't be fighting over who kills the most Titans.

"Mr. Muscles? I can see why you call him that." Armin laughed. Y/n just ignored him and continued to find more Titans.

Armin was disappointed that he didn't manage to make her smile, but he wasn't discouraged, he was determined.

Before Armin could jump off the building and follow Y/n, Annie ran past him and followed Y/n.

Annie and Y/n seemed to have gotten closer. They would always pair up during sparring. Annie would start the conversations and Y/n would just go along with it.

Armin didn't mind that, though. He was glad that Y/n made a friend aside from her childhood friends.

After the practice, Jean confronted Conny and Sasha, calling them cheaters. Sasha stated that all is fair when it comes to hunting

Insulted, Sasha and Conny demanded Jean to apologize for his insinuations, and Conny teased that Jean is on edge because he misses his mom.

Enraged, Jean nearly turned the confrontation physical but is stopped by Reiner.

Annie and Y/n could be seen talking together while Armin just read a book he brought with him.

"There's seriously no point in starting a fight." Y/n remarked, leaning against the nearby wall. Annie nodded.

"Fighting because of something like this is honestly pointless." Annie agreed, placing a hand on her hip.

Just as Jean declared that they will settle things during their next practice, Pyxis entered, finding their exchange interesting.

"An actual baldy is here." Annie muttered, saluting to the Commander of the Garrison soldiers. The rest of the soldiers followed.

"A drunk baldy..." Y/n mumbled, placing her fist on her chest as she eyed him, wondering why he intervened.

Pyxis insisted that Jean and Sasha settle their dispute by having a cook-off that night, which he will personally judge.

"Why a cook-off? Why cooking of all things." Annie whispered, staring at the man in disbelief.

"They should've confiscated that hip flask of his. Now he's suggesting a cook-off out of all things." Y/n sighed in disappointment.

"Why didn't he suggest scoring more points by killing those cardboard Titans anyway?" Annie raised a brow.

"Isn't it obvious? He just wants something to eat for dinner, so he's using this opportunity to command people under him to make his dinner." Y/n shrugged.

"He's disguising his true intentions as a cook-off to settle an argument." Y/n continued. She's quite surprised Annie didn't realize that.

"That makes sense. I mean, that's what a drunkard baldy would do." Annie whispered to avoid getting heard by nearby soldiers.

Jean didn't accept the challenge yet, but Sasha immediately joined in with Connie, of course.

"This is ridiculous! A cook-off just because of gaining more points from killing Titans? How ridiculous!" Jean yelled.

"Don't be a chicken, Jean!" Y/n yelled. An irk mark formed on Jean's forehead as he glared at Y/n.

"Fine! Let's do this! Cooking, cleaning...throw what you like at me!" Jean gave in, joining the cook-off.

Jean accepted the offer to join, declaring that he will win and put Sasha in her place.

Y/n wanted to see the results of this, so she made sure it would continue. Eren and Mikasa look on in confusion.

Y/n shook her head and left from that place, not even bothering to ask Annie to come along with her.

Despite that, Annie followed her since Y/n was the only other person she could talk to and relate to on different levels.

Once night came, the girls headed back to their shared dorms. Y/n came into the room with a towel and she was in her pajamas.

"Y/n, let me dry your hair for you." Mikasa offered when Y/n sat down on her bed next to Annie.

"Huh? I usually dry Y/n's hair. Leave it to me." Annie argued. This angered Mikasa and the rest of the young ladies gone silent.

The two of them glared, fighting over who would be drying Y/n's hair for the night. A sigh escaped Y/n's lips.

"No one's gonna dry my hair but myself. Go dry your own hair, your hair's soaking the bed. Mikasa, you're gonna create a puddle on the floor." Y/n broke them apart.

Mikasa gave Annie one last glare before going back to her bed, which was above Y/n's bed.

Sasha, wanting to lighten the atmosphere in the room after it had gone silent, decided to start tapping on the wall.

"Yeet!" Carolina started.

"Yeet!" Christa joined in.

"Skrt!" Ymir screamed.

"Yeet!" Sasha joined in as some kind of back-up.

"Yeet!" Carolina continued. Annie just stared at the chaotic girls in disbelief.

"Skrt!" Christa joined back in.

"Skrt!" Ymir yelled.

"Skrt!" Carolina yelled back as Sasha continued playing the beat.

"Roll up!" the usually quiet Y/n joined them, much to everyone's surprise. This didn't stop them, though.

"Yeet!" Annie shouted. She joined in because Y/n joined them.

"Drop that!" Y/n continued, grabbing her hairbrush as if it were a microphone.

"Yeet." Mikasa interrupted Annie before she could continue.

"Skrt that!" Y/n continued, ignoring the fact that Mikasa got down from her bed and glared at Annie.

"Yeet!" Annie yelled first before Mikasa could.

"Pop that!" Y/n shouted.

"Yeet!" Mikasa and Annie both said at the same time. Sasha wanted to bring back the good atmosphere they had a while ago.

"Ayy! Ayy! Ayy! Ayy!" Sasha danced as she let Ymir continue the beat. Mikasa and Annie stopped arguing when Y/n stepped in between them.

"You never loved me, mom!
But I needed you whoa, yeah~" Christa sang. Everyone got silent.

"Get it, I guess..." Y/n mumbled, breaking the silence. Everyone burst into a fit of laughter after what they just witnessed.

The boys from the other dorm could hear their laughter and they wondered what could be so funny.

Suddenly, the door creaked open to reveal Keith Shadis. Everyone froze on the spot. Sasha pretended to sleep.

Y/n collapsed on the ground in an attempt to fake sleep. Annie collapsed on top of her and Mikasa forced herself in between them.

Just this once, they didn't dare to argue because their scary commandant was present in this room.

"Y/n Voland, explain to me what was so funny for all of you to be laughing in the middle of the night." he demanded, knowing that Y/n wasn't asleep with all of that weight on top of her.

"Sir, Sasha farted in her sleep and we couldn't help but laugh." Mikasa accused. Keith stared at Sasha in disgust before leaving the room.

"He's gone!" Ymir announced and everyone burst into another fit of laughter as Sasha cried to Mikasa about what she had just done.

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Assisted by Armin and Annie, Jean headed into the forest to hunt for something to cook.

Annie wondered why they need to help, but Armin sees it as their duty as Jean's teammates.

Jean declared they will hunt the forest's Colossal Boar, believing that serving its meat will ensure victory.

At that moment, Sasha, Conny, and Reiner appear, also intending to hunt the Colossal Boar, and guided by Sasha's meat-detecting nose.

Armin reminded that this is Jean's forest, so they will have the upper hand.

Unfortunately, Jean's team winded up completely lost; meanwhile, Sasha's superior hunting skills allowed her to track the boar and find it sleeping.

Intimidated, Reiner declared that catching the animal is impossible and that they should go home.

Sasha hit Reiner twice, knocking him to the ground, and hysterically cried that his ancestors and the world would be ashamed of him.

Reiner, though confused, apologized and decided to stay. Y/n stared at Sasha in disbelief from up in the tree.

She couldn't believe how in love she was with meat and how Reiner was quick to apologize after getting slapped and elbowed by Sasha.

Y/n was there to ensure their safety. Just in case some bandits or an animal tries to hurt them, it's Y/n's duty to get rid of them.

Suddenly, the boar awakened, and Sasha's team charged it, with Reiner making sure he took up the rear.

Hearing the commotion, Jean's team pursued the animal, too, but it is too fast for them, so Armin tried to lure Sasha away from the boar with some potatoes.

"You're baiting Sasha the wild animal?" Y/n raised a brow at Armin's decision, finding it both ridiculous and clever at the same time.

The allure of the meat is too strong for Sasha to be distracted and baited by some mere potatoes. Meat is superior, according to Sasha.

"And I thought things would go smoothly..." Y/n mumbled, taking out her bow and arrow and jumping off the tree branch.

The arrowhead, or the tip of the arrow, shone through the rays of the sun as Y/n did a backflip.

Holding the bow is a young lady aiming her arrow at the boar's forehead before releasing her grip.

She killed the boar with one shot as she landed on top of it. She killed the boar, but who gets to keep it?

"I'm sorry but Sasha found it first and pursued it." Y/n didn't even mean the apology, but she had to apologize to sound like she sympathized with them.

"That's fair." Annie muttered, lowering her blades. Armin couldn't help but agree with Y/n's decision.

Sasha's team hauled the boar back to Trost District for all the townsfolk to see. Jean cursed in anger.

At the mess hall, Jean contemplated on how to beat Sasha's boar meat when suddenly, his mother arrived.

"Jean-Boy, why haven't you come home yet?" the mother of Jean asked, catching everyone's attention in the mess hall.

"Mrs. Wagner's little boy, Thomas, has already come home! You really are a problem child." she sighed as whispers began to fill up the room.

"Jean-Boy, huh?" Y/n mumbled, finding the nickname of his kind of interesting.

His mother noticed that he had spilled something on his pants and used her handkerchief to wipe it away.

She sighed and pointed out that he could be clumsy at times. Embarrassed, Jean urged his mother away.

"It's fine! Just go home already!" Jean finally yelled. Y/n raised her brow at his actions and words of choice.

"Then...these are for everyone-" his mother got interrupted as she placed freshly picked apples on an empty dining table nearby.

"You don't need to do that!" Jean yelled, pushing his mother out of the way and knocking off the apples.

"Jean!" Eren yelled, picking up the apples before they fall on the ground and get dirty.

Y/n watched all of this go down. His mother reminded her of her older sister, who had passed away.

She could still remember the times Lada would take her out and buy her some treats and gift her small presents.

"Jean-Boy!" his mother exclaimed. Eren carried the fresh apples and walked over to Mikasa. Jean had an embarrassed scowl on his face.

"I know he's a problem child, but can everyone please be friends with him?" his mother requested.

This made Y/n's heart break. This must be embarrassing for Jean's mother as well, not only for Jean.

"Oh, I almost forgot, Jean-Boy...I brought your favorite-" she was once again cut off by her own son.

"Just go home!" Jean snapped, shoving her away. Just as he was about to drag his own mother, Y/n intervened.

Jean had always hated Y/n since she resembled his mother a lot. The only difference is that he was terrified of Y/n.

"Good evening, Mrs. Kirstein. Sorry if Jean's a little grumpy today, he forgot to eat breakfast this morning." Y/n lied.

"What?! No, I did-" Y/n shoved a loaf of bread in Jean's mouth to shut him up for a little while.

"Oh, is that so? Then please feed this to him. It's his favorite omelette. He used to request them all the time when he was a kid." she placed the packed lunch box in her hand.

"I will feed it to him." Y/n plastered a small smile on her face. She hated doing this, but she couldn't tolerate Jean's disrespect to his kind mother.

"Feed?! I'm not a kid anymore, you old hag!" Jean yelled, escaping Y/n's grasp. His escape was only temporary, though.

"You seem a little grumpy, Jean. Here's another bread." Y/n shoved another loaf of bread in his mouth.

Annie, who was watching the whole thing, was silently cheering for Y/n, the only other person she talked to.

Armin wanted to say something and stop whatever was happening, but as if Y/n would listen to him.

"Thank you so much for being my Jean-Boy's friend. You see, he's always been a loner ever since he was a child." his mother stated.

"He would always draw in his little sketchpad and he never got along with the other kids. He often hurt himself hurt when he tripped-" before she could continue, she was cut off.

"Shut it, you withered old witch!" Jean insulted, dragging his mother and shoving her out of the room.

He panted and quickly felt an intimidating presence behind him. He knew who it was and he didn't dare to turn around.

"Hey, Jean-Boy, why'd you do that? I was having a lovely conversation with your mom." Y/n grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him down the stairs.

She threw him on the ground and kicked him in the stomach. In her eyes, there was no hint of mercy.

"You better eat the precious omelette she gave you, Jean-Boy." Y/n said, stepping on his face.

"Ugh, Y/n, step on me." Annie mumbled. Reiner stared at Annie wide-eyed after what he just heard. He'll just pretend he didn't hear that.

"Y-Y/n, that's enough. You're hurting him." Armin intervened, grabbing Y/n's arm before she could punch Jean.

"I guess that's enough for you today. Respect your mother, Jean-Boy. You'll get another beating from me if I see you breaking her heart." Y/n threatened, leaving with Armin.

Surprisingly, Levi was present there to speak to someone. He happened to pass by the mess hall and watch the whole thing.

"I'm going to get you in my squad once you graduate." Levi muttered, staring at Y/n. He took an interest in the way she beats people up.

"She's so cool." Annie mumbled...but she wasn't the only one who said that. She turned to her right to see Mikasa.

They both glared at each other as if they were holding a contest on who could glare at each other without looking away.

"That's enough, you two." Eren sighed, pulling Mikasa away, who just continued to glare at Annie.

Reiner pulled Annie away before she started a fight. He wanted to forget what he had just heard earlier.

As the cooking competition drew near, Jean proposed he, Armin, and Annie should steal meat from their superiors' storeroom.

"O-Out of the question! I can't steal! I-I've always been slow and awkward. Even in races, I was always the last over the line." Armin began to freak out.

"Even playing hide-and-seek, I'd never been able to stand the tension and would always giggle, so Y/n and I would always get caught." Armin admitted.

"To actually steal something...I can't do it!" Armin fleed in a hysterical panic and winded up slipping on the stairs.

"Armin?" Y/n noticed them and she witnessed Armin screaming on the ground, holding his leg.

"Armin!" Y/n exclaimed, her eyes widening as she ran to Armin and carried him as if he weighed nothing.

Y/n carried him away to the infirmary, making sure that his legs wouldn't feel any pain as she carried him.

"She's so cool." Annie complimented as she watched Y/n walk away. Jean rolled his eyes, tired of hearing the same thing come out of Annie's mouth.

In no condition to be stealing anything, Armin opted out of Jean's plan, as does Annie, who stated that getting caught is not worth winning a competition.

Jean decided to try stealing the meat on his own, determined to win the cook-off and prove he isn't a mama's boy.

As he neared the storeroom, Y/n found him and delivered a bag, stating it's from Jean's mother.

"If you're planning to steal, make sure no one's