"Well... what about the second move"
" right...haha" Tobi laughed at himself, he laughed at the fact that he got his hopes up for nothing, he still had another hard move to master but why did Crystal have to do him like that?
She was trying to discipline him and teach him a lesson, not to rejoice until the call of the end of the battle has been made.
It is an essential truth he would need later on in his life.
"It's okay, I'm sure you can learn it just as fast as you did with this move" Crystal patted Tobi's curly brown hair, she turned and smiles at Tesla, she shakes him by the hand, she said "Thank you for helping my brother,"
"haha... you're welcome, he's quite brilliant I must compliment him for that" Tesla shook Crystal's hands back... With one hand still in Crystal's hand, Tesla scratches the back of his head with his other hand as drips of sweat trickled down his forehead and left temple, Tesla adjusted his glasses, lifting them with his index finger, he withdrew his handshake, and stared at Crystal from her head to her feet...
'IS SHE HUMAN AT ALL???' Tesla screamed in his thoughts, he continued to stare at her subconsciously, when he first held Crystal's palms he was blown away at how hard it was! He wondered for a moment if he was shaking a man but when he looked at Crystal properly, he quickly realized she had defiled all laws of merely existing.
At 5'8, even though he was 2 inches taller than her, Crystal had a bulky build that wasn't visible when she was immobile, she had muscles everywhere! It made her look like a tough Russian woman, so to say, her presence alone was just overwhelmingly oppressive... Which is why just from shaking her hands, Tesla instantly
discovered how athletic Crystal was,
Crystal noticed the uncomfortable stares coming from Tesla, she tilted her head to the side and wondered why Tesla kept staring at her, "sir?..." Crystal appealed to snap Tesla out of his thoughts, "Oh! sorry about that miss?..."
"Crystal, you can just call me Crystal" Crystal waved her hands at Tesla, just to assure him that he can be informal when speaking to her. "ah yes, Crystal sorry about that it's just that your...build is...". Crystal turned around and twisted her body and looked at her legs, she then noticed the unique body build she had attained after weeks of training!
She also noticed that her broken fingers were still not healed, she let out a sigh and said to Tesla, " Oh! this..." Crystal flexed her biceps at the Tesla, "It's because I'm a..." Just as Crystal was just about to tell him that she was an Ackerman, thankfully she refrained, " I'm a...I'm an Athletic person!"
"yeah! it's in her genes" Tobi steps up to aid Crystal's broken statement, Tesla looked at the both of them in confusion, He then asks "Excuse me... but are you two really brother and sister?"
Tobi and Crystal looked at each other like they had messed up big time... well, they didn't know what to say to that question so they simultaneously smile at Tesla and jointly say
"Is there a problem with that?"
"No... it's just... you don't look anything alike-"
Crystal taps Tesla's shoulder and whispers in his ear "Please don't ask questions that could get you in trouble"
Tesla gulped in an instant and looked at Crystal, he didn't see that feminine aura in her anymore but a crushing aura that made him feel like he was in his worst nightmare. Tesla scratches the back of his hair and laughs at himself "My bad haha the weather is sure good today, isn't it? "
Tesla grabs Tobi's hands and shakes him, "Good luck on learning your next move!" he leaves the duo behind and runs back to the dorms of the ship whilst thinking to himself "That girl is... not normal"
...
" Sis! " Tobi yelled at Crystal the instant Tesla was out of their sight, "what did you say to him?" Crystal turned around to see her little brother mad at her, she shook her head and knocked Tobi on the head "You should know better by now"
Tobi frowned at her reply and had tears in his eyes because of how painful the knock was, Crystal went to the other side of the ship and looked at the vast blue sea below them... there she notices a black shadow in the water.
She became concerned and looked further down into the water to have a closer look, she could focus her eyes on a specific image just like an eagle's she looked around and couldn't see the black shadow anymore, 'maybe I'm seeing things
"Tobi" ... " What?" ... "would you come over for a minute I want to show you something"
Tobi walks over to the edge of the ship and places his hands on the border of the ship "What is it?"
Crystal points at the engine of the ship and looks back at Tobi "Something's not right..."
Below the ship,
A huge fish that looked similar to that a megalodon shark swam in circles and around the ship, its eyes were glowing in a golden aura and it had an elongated body like that of an eel, it had been listening to the conversation between Tesla and the duo before it began it's trouble
It was Demi-Terrack! any moment from now, when the sun sets it would in no time capsize the ship and kill Tobi who was its main target.
After the last two Terrack attacks, the Demi-Terrack got the news of how two of its subjects had been killed by a blonde and blue-eyed female human. Angered by the outrageous news! it left the darkness of the ocean and swam to the surface of the ocean, compared to the size of the previotrackscks, the demi terrack was over hundred and sixty feet long and three hundred meters wide! with tough iron armor and razor-sharp teethes that were stronger than a diamond, this massive creature currently circles the thirty feet long and seventy meters wide ship that Tobi and Crystal were on,
But, when the Demi-Terrack saw Crystal it shrouded in fear and went under the ship, surely it had a hunch that warned it not to fight Crystal so, it decided to change tactics and fight Tobi instead.
That... dear reader,... was a mistake.
A very grave mistake.
...
Back on the plane where Sabrina and Reiner were in their separate rooms,
Reiner was writing down letters to the head of the army troop in Tokishiki, he was also reading some requests he had gotten from his brother, Mania, complaining about the mess he made in his office "Tch!"
He clicked his tongue at the request and replied to the request anyway since he couldn't do without his brother's supply of women.
He also was signing a few other requests that he had to lie around for months from the commander of his army troop, the request was for permission to attack and seize the rural landscape of Toki and in quote... Not killing any civilians but capturing them and sending them back to other countries in Neda.
"you boys can do whatever you want just make sure you bring me my merchandise" Reiner signed the request and placed it in a box filled with other signed requests.
Meanwhile,e Sabrina was in her room, her head pressed heavily against the soft white pillow, she coiled up on the bed in a fetus position wrapping her arms tightly around her womb, she moved her eyes around and looked across the room in despair and hopelessness, all that ran through her mind was the fact that she was pregnant and had to find a way to go back to Dan before she starts showing.
"Danny... please... wait for me...."
Sabrina slowly lifts her head from the bed and gently walks towards the window of her room that was covered in royal purple color, she slightly opens the curtains and sees the night sky.
"Danny, I finally get to see the night sky up close... It's... beautiful..." she whispers to herself as tears of sadness and anxiety rolled down the red cheeks of her stressed and sallow face,
She began to undress as she wept silently, she stood in front of the mirror and embraced herself, she gently placed her palm on the womb and caressed it gently, she looked at her brown eyes in the mirror and she spoke to herself in a pitiful voice,
"In this world... Where Ackermans still rule in the darkness... We... Humans... Are hopeless.... and futile to mercy"
She went into the washroom and turned on the shower, to let the water run dampened her entire body, her eyes were pale and lost of light, she was weak and tired, and she had not eaten for the past 34 hours whilst growing another human being was already tiring and draining her energy she did not have any energy to provide.
Knock knock knock,
Quickly! She turns off the tap and comes out of the shower with a towel and her long wet hair dropping from the side and dripping with water she walks carefully towards the door with her wet feet making patting sounds on the ground,
"Madam Sabrina, the Lord wishes to see you this evening"
"oh!... I'll be right there in a minute," Sabrina said with a tone of happiness but at the back of her head she thought "Why is he calling me so soon..."
She sighed as if she was prepared for the worst to happen to her but deep in her heart she prayed that she would make it out alive.
She wore a short cotton white dress and let her wet hair drip water on her back, as she wore a brown sandal and walked out of the room with a deep breath and left for Reiner.
Knock knock knock
"Sabrina at your service..."
"Oh, Sabrina... Come in"
Sabrina slowly opens the door which makes a creaking sound as she walked into the room, she pulls off her sandal and walks over to the bed, and sits at the edge of the bed,
Reiner, who was still signing off some papers took a glance at herWhywhy are you sitting over there? come here" He patted Hlapaps telling, Sabrina to come.
Sabrina gulped for her dear life and whispers under her breatOh'oh dear god, please save mSheshe walks slowly towards Reiner.
Finally, she reaches his desk, Reiner looks at her with a devious smile, he turns around and stretches out his arms and Sabrina sits on his laps,
Of course, this was an uncomfortable position for her but Reiner couldn't care less, he tries to caress her but she refuses, "you... don't like physical touch?"
Sabrina could feel his breath close to her ear which made her shiver in fear, she doesn't respond and turns her her head sideways revealing the bite he gave last time they were together,
But this angered Reiner, in his deepen voice he asks her "do you think I'm a dog that I would take pleasure in eating something appalling!"
"N..no"
Sabrina's heart nearly skipped a beat! She knew that any moment from now she could be dead in an instant but she couldn't let him have his way, she was confused.
She didn't know what to do...
Suddenly! Reiner stands up and lifts her up from his laps, carrying her in his arms, she was light in his arms! Being that she was light in weight, Reiner throws her on his bed and climbs on her...
....
Back on the ship, Crystal and Tobi were practing the second move... Let's just say, it wasn't working out well for the two teens.
On one hand, Crystal had already mastered the move but couldn't not teach it Tobi for some reason, even of she tried to Tobi could neither understand what she was explaining nor put into action the steps she told him to take... It was frustrating for Crystal but funny to Tobi.
He had already told her not to teach him and Tesla could help him better, but Crystal, being a strong headed person didn't listen to him and decided to prove to her brother that she could also teach him, but the harder she thought him the worse his falls became.
It was almost comical, "Sis! You're not a teacher hahaha!"
"Oh, shut up you little brat! I'm trying!" Crystal yelled back at Tobi with tears of frustration nearly coming out from her eyes, she could not let Tobi think she was incapable of teaching him... She had pride, so much pride that the situation made her look like a desperate elder sibling that was trying to pacify their younger sibling that they just beat up.
Tobi kept laughing at her, at how confused she was at the move, she failed to understand that her ability to learn the love came naturally to her and not teaching it to someone else. "Argh! Why is it so freaking hard?!!" Crystal nearly went crazy.
Tobi laughed harder at his sister's frustrated state, he was sitting on the floor earlier but because of how comical the situation was he was now rolling on the floor holding his belly because how hard it was in controlling the laughter.
Alfstrat who was passing by the back of the scene saw the two teens and walked up to the them,
"Young miss, what's going on here?"
"Hahaha, oh it's you!" Tobi stood up from laughing, Crystal grabbed her hair and pulled it out, she turned to Alfstrat, Alfstrat was shocked! Her whole face was red including her eyes, it was obvious that she not only frustrated but embarrassed!
"Young boy..." Alfstrat shook his head at the two teens "Crystal, just leave this for now and come to relax" Aflstrat calms Crystal by telling her to come to the kitchen to eat since it was already dinner timer Crystal agreed to go.
"Sigh... I guess it can't be helped..."
Crystal ties her her bandages and heads out first to dinner, Alfstrat waves at Tobi to assure him to continue practing on his own...
"Tobi aren't coming for dinner?" Crystal turns around and asks Tobi "nah, I still want to get a hang of the move" he replied as he waved his two hands at her,
"I don't know... Can't you practice tomorrow morning?" Crystal had an anxious expression on her face, she didn't feel right about leaving Tobi alone especially at night.
"Young miss, you can't always be there for your brother you'll have to let him sometimes you know?" Alfstrat calmy advised her, Crystal smiled back at Tobi "you know what don't worry about it"
"Thanks sis!"
Crystal headed out to the kitchen with Aflstrat who was behind her, under her breath she said "maybe I'm just worrying for nothing... He'll be fine"
Tobi countinued practing the second move, he was sitting on the floor whilst re-sketching to second move on the large piece of paper that Tesla nailed to the ground.
Within ten minutes of constant brain racking, Tobi enter a state of flow,
It was almost like timed had stopped... Everything around him seem to net move, he couldn't hear anything, he was so focused on figuring out what steps he could to master the second move,
Thirty minutes had passed! But to Tobi it was likehe spent only a minute before he finally! Figured out the move!
"Yeah! This is it!" Tobi's emerald eyes glowed with radiance, his smile lit up his entire face, he was proud of himself.
Just below where Tobi was, bubbles on the surface of the water appeared, just then the Demi-Terrack head resurfaced from the water....
*CRASH!*
Crystal who was eating silently in the special room allocated to her and Tobi suddenly felt her heart throb heavily! Her food spilled on the floor and immediately she bolted out of the room! "Tobi!!!" She yelled across the hallway, Alfstrat and other crew saw her running out the room and they ran out with her in a panic that something wrong might have happened.
Crystal reached the spot Tobi was and called out his name"Tobi! Get out of there!!!"
Tobi looked up at Crystal and he jumped up and down in joy waving his two hands at her "Sis! Sis! I finally got it!!"
"Tobi!! now's not the time!!! Get away from there!!" Crystal shouted back at Tobi but it was too late.
A huge eel-like shark came out of the ocean! The horror size of this beast horrified the whole crew, who trembled at the massive size of the beast! "Shit!" Crystal said under her breath, Immediately the Demi-Terrack rose higher and higher revealing it tough and sturdy body, it towered the whole ship and covered the moon just as it changed its direction and bent in the direction of Tobi!
The Demi-Terrack came crashing down on the ship with it's mouth wide open it came down on Tobi biting him off the ship!
"Tobi!!" Crystal screamed her lungs out, but she couldn't save him, he was already in the belly of the Terrack...
!Extras¡
Tobi : you're so stubborn!
Crystal : is that how to speak to your sister?!
Tobi : we're not even blood related!
Crystal : yeah but I'm still your sister!
Tobi : says who?!
Crystal : says me! dummy!
Tobi : Yeah yeah, say someone who can't even explain a simple move
Crystal : First off! that move is it not simple!
Tobi : Koba! you hear that! The stupid move you gave me isn't easy!
Koba : leave me alone you brats!