Note :
-This post contains alot of swear words and depictions of violence once again
-All of the characters (except for Scrawny ) are canon, but the story does not follow canonical events, though isn't guaranteed to be free of spoilers.
As they all were surrounded by the anti-Marleyan volunteers, the low thudding sound Theo heard from the distance was now getting louder and louder by each ing minute. It started to sound like footsteps, meaning only one thing;it's a titan shifter, most likely more than one. And that turned out to be true. It were the Warhammer, Armoured and Jaw titans, along with Scrawny on the Jaw titan's back, sergeant Gross with the other of public security appeared there as well, but they were reluctant to come at first, which was the main factor as to why they came poorly armed, since they couldn't care less to put any effort in preparation simply because it was irrelevant to them, only came because it was their duty. The Tybur guards were following behind as well, to ensure security to the Warhammer titan and to bring Willy Tybur back to safety. Some of Yelena's volunteers who survived and even managed to wipe out all of the marleyan troops were desperately trying to shoot down the titans since they armed themselves with grenades they stole from Marley and thunder spears they got from working with Paradis.There were enough of them to keep the Armoured and Warhammer titans busy, having to dodge many attacks, although it wasn't too successful, due to the limited space of the area, being too cramped for three titans to move freely without destroying the place entirely, and thus risking the death of their heroic officers and lord Tybur inside. Eventually, with an unbearable and surprising amount of thunder spears getting thrown at them, the Armored titan, having it's eyes blown out and feeling lethargic,fell down and destroyed a significant portion of the building, which made everything harder for the rest of the shifters. Meanwhile, the anti-Marleyan volunteers were celebrating their little yet somewhat meaningful victory. "Oh hell yeah, boys! We got the Armoured shithead! Two more to go! Don't give up now! Willy Tybur shall not get away on our watch! Just like Yelena wanted!!" The warhammer titan was unable to strike as well due to smoke and steam and thus making it harder for to see as the enemy used the chance and almost completely decimated the Warhammer titan as it had to use alot of its energy to regenerate its body, while they were also attempting to finish off the weakened Armoured titan. The Tybur guards focused on saving Lara Tybur from dying, but the armoured titan had to rely on laying on its back to protect the nape as it regenerates. The Jaw titan, being the quickest and smallest, had an advantage. It didn't have much difficulty moving around, until it became the main target for the anti-marleyan volunteers, since they saw the other two shifters might be doomed. Meanwhile, Scrawny was panicking, as usual."Damn, Porco! Hurry up, if we don't want to be goners! Do something finally, please!"A thunder spear has just missed them by a mere milimeter, and so the jaw titan began to destroy the building Calvi, Theo and Koslow were in, tearing it apart brick by brick, fast yet carefully enough to not kill any of the Marleyans inside by the falling debris while also trying to avoid the anti-Marleyan volunteers' attacks. The anti-Marleyans inside noticed that the building is about to be wrecked, they began to panic as well and tried to get out any was possible. The marleyan military men were cowering, too, while shielding lord Tybur, some bricks eventually hitting them. All of them were covering their heads, except for general Calvi, who was willing to accept his fate if anything had happened as he only stood there like a statue.
As some of the anti-Marleyans, who weren't frozen with fear, attempted to run upstairs and unlock the door, the falling bricks killed them as they failed to escape. Soon enough,Scrawny jumped off of the jaw titan's back,he ran straight towards Koslow. "Koslow! Here you are! I had a feeling you guys were in a pickle so I-"
But then, purely out of spite, an anti-Marleyan fired at Scrawny, the bullet piercing him right through his stomach, making him gasp for air. While Scrawny was struggling to breathe on the floor, Koslow charged at the anti-Marleyan volunteer who shot Scrawny, with visible rage in his eyes.
"YOU ILL SON OF A WHORE! I'LL DECIMATE YOU FOR THIS! I WILL MAKE YOU EAT YOUR OWN SHIT! IF HE DIES, I WILL CRACK YOUR SKULL OPEN UNTIL YOU BLEED OUT TO THE LAST DROP!" Koslow looked like he has just lost his mind at the moment, the other two remaining anti-Marleyans trying to pull him away, but their efforts were all in vain. It was as if he was possessed like some violent maniac with otherwordly strength, beating the guy to a pulp, not giving him a chance to fight back.
As Koslow was mercilessly beating the anti-Marleyan volunteer to death, Theo Magath ran to help Scrawny and stop his bleeding, But Calvi was merely repulsed by his act."Why are you saving an
Eldian?" Theo was quite surprised by Calvi's visible disgust, thinking Calvi had already abandoned such kind of a mindset, but he explained himself regardless. "We cannot allow ourselves to lose any more soldiers at this point .. Even if they're from the Eldian unit.. Besides. He.. Is someone special to Koslow. Please general, let me. Just this once." Calvi only sighed and looked away, letting him patch Scrawny's wounds up. A few moments later, Koslow has beaten the said anti-Marleyan to the extent he couldn't move at all, making him bleed out all breathless and wince in pain, Koslow catching his breath as well, preparing himself to give him a final blow. Theo Magath looked over to exhausted Koslow.
"That's enough, Koslow. I think that guy is already dyin-" "WAIT WAIT... WAIT... ......... IM NOT FINISHED WITH THIS SELFISH SHITHEAD.. YET.... YOU ILL BASTARD.. THIS IS STILL A TOO MERCIFUL WAY FOR YOU TO DIE!" Koslow kept kicking the bleeding man in the head to inflict severe damage, Theo eventually dragging Koslow away since he couldn't stand it anymore. Meanwhile, sergeant Gross along his subordinates from Public Security Authorities walked over to arrest Yelena, who was still unconscious. Sergeant Gross was beyond disgusted, so he poked her with a stick in the head to make sure she is truly still ed out and not only pretending to be. "Ugh. Disgusting. Almost as repulsive as the Eldians. Arrest this ugly wench, boys. I don't want to touch her." On Gross's command, all of his subordinates rushed to lift her up, carrying her to a prison cell in a hurry, away from all the chaos while the Tybur guards were also taking Willy and Lara Tybur back to safety. Willy looked behind his shoulder over to where Calvi was standing and said his goodbye. "Farewell, O the brave general Calvi, I am immensly grateful to you for rescuing me. Who knows when we will see each other next time again.." Not long after, the Marleyans and the titan shifters calmed down after they checked the whole area to see if it is truly empty and that there's no remaining enemies lurking, they went back home as well, right after Koslow made sure that one anti-Marleyan was certainly dead, while taking Scrawny into the nereast hospital. But since most hospitals don't accept Eldians, Koslow had to lie about Scrawny's ethnicity and took his armband off in order for him to get proper treatment, as he was at the verge of dying, he was only getting paler each ing minute which only caused more anxiety to Koslow,even when Scrawny was already being taken to his hospital bed. Calvi was extremely upset by Koslow having to lie, harshly scolding him afterwards. "Why did you lie? Do you know in what trouble we could get ourselves into if they found out? Do you? Well? Do you? We would get the death penalty! Especially since we are one of the highest ranking soldiers in Marley! It's just an Eldian, for Helos's sake, there's hundreds of them in the Eldian unit, you can get another pathetic friend like that, get over it. Stop crying and acting like a coward. This is not like you." Calvi even nudged Koslow with his elbow to get him to stop, but Koslow didn't care about whatever Calvi was saying, he was quietly weeping the whole way home,Calvi's blood pressure slowly increasing. Meanwhile Theo was just silently walking behind them, keeping his opinion to himself.
Roughly 3 hours later, at the Marleyan prison.
Yelena has finally woken up in a damp, dark, cold and dirty prison cell that she was thrown in, where dust was flying around, she was utterly confused and the last thing she ed was hearing Calvi's voice out of nowhere. After she managed to somehow get over her severe fatigue and amnesia, she turned around, only to see Zeke in the prison cell next to her. She was taken aback as she saw him just desperately laying in there, his limbs cut off so that he was unable to transform, each time he regenerated they would cut them off again and again. However, all wasn't lost yet, since in that instant, Yelena got an idea for a plan how to get them out. Although, a rather risky one, since if Marley were to seek revenge, it would've been a very damaging event costing countless innocent lives, but she was willling to pay that price in order to be set free again and continue squeezing out all militaristic power Marley had left. So, without any shame or hesitation, she grabbed a scrap of paper and began writing a letter. When she was done, she folded the piece of paper and hid it in her pocket so that no one would see. But she wasn't successful in hiding it before anyone could have noticed. There was one prison guard who seemed to very suspicious of Yelena, but he didn't want to jump into conclusions yet, although he was curiously watching her all the time like a hawk, even while she was writing. He even managed to take a peek at whatever she was viciously scratching onto that dusty piece of paper. Yelena noticed him staring, a fake smile forming on her lips out of embarrasment as she asked;"What are you glaring at? Are you perhaps curious about what I'm writing? You wouldn't snitch on me if I told you what it is, would you?" He didn't respond, completely ignoring Yelena and whistling to himself like nothing happened. She started get impatient with him, so through the bars, she kicked him in the shin to get a reaction out of him. He still didn't budge, which only infuriated Yelena, so she hit him in the head this time, and only then did he notice her, he turned around to face her. She smiled again. "Ah, I'm glad I finally managed to get your attention. So.. Back to what I was asking.. Would you snitch on me if I told you what I was writing?"
"Well.. Why would you tell me in the first place, you idiot. All I understood from it is that it's some strange letter..." Yelena seemed to be rather amused by his reaction as a devious smirk spread across her face, this time genuine. "Well you already took a peek at it either way, I bet you got plenty of time to see what it's about, besides, you're still curious about the full context... Aren't you? Why else would you be stalking me like that?.." He then began to ingore Yelena again, since he was afraid of it leading him into trouble for talking with a prisoner. But Yelena wasn't irritated by him ignoring her this time. "He'll come around eventually. If not, I think I know how to make him obey." She thought. Then, she began to bribe the stubborn guard again. "Listen.. What if I promised you can see what's the letter all about.. Under one condition. You'll have to send it to where ever I want to, meaning you'll my side .. And trust me, it's much better than being a pretentious prison guard who secretly hates his job." He was startled by Yelena's persistence. "What? That's just straight up ridiculous, I'm not naive nor brain dead, no thank you, I am not uniting with a criminal. And.. I don't hate my job. It gets tedious, I it, but I would never abandon it." Yelena still didn't seem to be distraught, she only rolled her eyes at his response which she deemed pathetic. "Well, that's fine if you don't want to be a permanent member of my little clever crew if you love your job so much as you claim.. I can just simply blow off that little unsightly brain of yours if you choose to betray me and my allies. Once you agree, there's no going back. But I bet you would actually like being on my side.." He was getting slightly disturbed by what Yelena was saying, but he shook it off as her trying to manipulate him with threats. Since it was getting quite late and saw that the guard was too stubborn for her liking, she decided to go to sleep for now, thinking she might get a better idea once she's well slept.
The next day, early in the morning, the guard was too busy to be watching Yelena, so another guard had to bring Yelena breakfast to her cell and watch her for some time. Yelena has already woken up and was eerily alert and cautious of what's going on around her, listening to every small sound, she heard the guard's footsteps and rattling of the keys as he was approaching. As he stepped in to the cell to give her the food, Yelena didn't miss the opportunity, she snatched his rifle and shot him in the head. The previous guard however heard the gunshot coming from the distance, he dropped everything and rushed to see what happened at the said place. Yelena was already waiting for him with a smirk yet again on her face as his fellow was laying on the floor, lifeless and bleeding. He was horrified to see his comrade like that, he never thought it would come to such a tragedy . In despair, shock and at the the verge of tears,he asked;"What the hell do you want to achieve by this? I understand that you seek vengeance, but please, god damn it, you didn't have to resolve it by shooting an innocent!" Yelena was still nothing but amused by the little burst of emotions she caused to the prison guard, she let out a sinister chuckle and finally answered."Ah, how sad. And by the way, how do you know this wasn't necessary?.. Look at you, I bet you're willing to do anything now if you're afraid I might take a life of yet another one of your precious, sweet, sweet comrades.. Or even yours." The guard was still trying to process what happened, all he had in mind was the mental image of his lifeless comrade. "OKAY OKAY! fine.. I.. I will do anything just please...Don't shoot anymore.." He began to cry now, which filled Yelena with twisted satisfaction and a feeling of achievement. "I see.. So.. About that letter.. I want you to send it to Paradis Island.. It's important, so please, don't deceive me, or else you know what happens." The guard, unable to think straight due to his immense shock and to save himself and his friends, agreed to sending the letter to Paradis.
Meanwhile..
5 days later, at the local hospital, 6:45 AM
Koslow has been visiting Scrawny every day, he was devastated when the doctors told him there's a chance Scrawny might not make it due to major damage on his internal organs and fractures on his ribs, not only because of the gunshot, but also because of his sudden fall afterwards. He didn't eat, didn't sleep, only trembled and worried about his maimed comrade. It seemed as if Koslow's hatred for eldians has faded from his heart entirely. Scrawny was moved by Koslow's actions, he certainly didn't expect someone caring about him so deeply for the first time in his life,especially not Koslow, a person of which he ired the bravery of. "You know, Koslow.. Some days when I'm overwhelmed by anxiety and I feel like all is lost, I think about you and.. The fear dissapears, I feel like I have a reason to survive, to stand up and fight again, it's what pushes me forward.. Simply.. What drives me to stay alive is to see you again....Thank you for everything,Koslow..I should have died twice now, but you and Theo saved me and I can't even repay you guys for that kindness because of my very own foolishness.. I am a pathetic weakling compared to you.." Koslow was surprised to hear that Scrawny thinks so highly of him, since he wasn't used to being seen as such by anyone else, nor did he really want to be. "Oh please, I'm absolutely happy that thinking about me gives you courage,but.. I am a coward, like you.. Just.. Not when it comes to war. I don't care if I die getting my head blown off in the front lines, I don't care if I'll be so crippled that I won't be able to find joy in life anymore, as long as it saves my country and my dearest people, it's not useless.. But.. I fear other irrational things, I am a truly strange person.. Oh and.. Don't concern yourself with doing favors for us because I and Theo saved you.. It's the least we can do for you..You also really don't have to compare yourself to us, we all have our flaws.." A few moments later, Theo Magath walked in and intrrupted their conversation to inform Koslow that general Calvi needs them both and it's urgent. Not even having time to say goodbye to Scrawny, they rushed into Calvi's office, they found him staring out the window, holding the newspaper in his hand behind his back, looking very furious but also seemingly hurt by something. Calvi's eyes lit up a bit as he heard the door open, Koslow and Magath walking in. "Ah.. You're finally here. I was waiting for you two. You're late. We need to talk about something,my comrades. Something very unfortunate." Everyone seemed thrown off by that information, only guessing what the general could mean as silence prevailed. The tension of the atmosphere in the room was only growing expotentially.
What is it that Calvi's upset about? Could it be something that's in the news? What was Yelena's letter about? We'll see, in the next episode of Koslow's troublesome adventures. Stay tuned
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