Attack on Titan: Blizzard

It was a freezing winter day inside the Walls. With winter weather here, freezing weather and blizzards are here. And as soldiers in training, we cadets are all expected to train in such weather.

It doesn't matter if it's sunny, or if it's stormy and cold out, Training can't he on hold. So whenever we have a full day of classes over learning how to kill Titans or whatever instead of exercises outdoors, we are all very thankful.

But I always have a bad habit of being slow or not doing the exercises right to the point instructor Keith will always punish me by forcing me to do extra or by taking away my meals…

Or most normally, both.

And today Happened to be one of those days again. We were doing jogs in the woods and I started out rather fast, beating a lot of the other trainees ahead. I think the instructor was even proud of me!

But then as time wore on, and as the blizzard started to take its toll, I became rather slow. To the point I was lagging behind everyone all the way in the back.

And because of this, I am punished to do ten more laps throughout the woods and back to the camp while everyone else is given a break inside the cafeteria for dinner. And yes, my dinner privilege was taken away from me.

The sun was going down and I was only on my third lap! But I was freezing so much, I literally felt numb all over. Especially since I was basically doing laps in the blizzard! Not good. This is one good way to freeze to death...I'm not quite sure instructor Keith really understood that or not.

But as I was continuing my jog, Armin sat next to the cafeteria window, looking out it as if watching for something. He was worried whether I was ok or not, especially since I've been out way longer than anyone else.

Sure, running laps would help keep my blood pressure up, but as time flew by the blizzard would grow much more stronger and colder. It's only a matter of time…

And with that, Armin decided instead of waiting for me to come back, he would go out and find me. Armin puts on his winter coat with his boots. But as he did so, his best friend hurries up to him.

“Yo, Armin! What do you think your doing?!” It was Eren Yeager. He had a look of disbelief and he seemed quite unhappy.

“Eren, I'm not going to wait for Kiyomi to come back anymore! It's a storm out there, and I'm not going to just let her freeze to death!” States Armin before standing up from his sitting position as he zips up his winter coat before pulling down the hood and wrapping up his scarf around his mouth.

“But Armin, it's dangerous! C-Come on, have a little faith in her, ok?” Eren tells Armin in a way like he was trying to calm his best friend down before he does something crazy.

“Eren, whether I have faith in her or not isn't the issue. Just as you said, it's dangerous. And that's exactly why I'm going out to look for her.” Armin thus walks past Eren who calls out Armin’s name in a panic, before he stepped outside.

If one thing was certain, Armin wasn't going to back down on finding me until he knew I was safe.

I was still running in the woods, but my breathing pattern has changed slower as well as my steps. I felt so tired...I just wanted to give up. And suddenly I found myself collapsing to the ground. My will was strong to make it back to the Camp, but my body was not.

I couldn't find the strength to lift myself out of the snow and I found myself losing consciousness. I don't remember how long I was asleep for, but I remember dimly hearing a voice calling out my name.

I slowly opened up my weak eyes to see Armin’s face. I was greatly surprised. What was he doing, out in this rough storm? Wasn't he supposed be indoors with everyone else either inside the Cafeteria or Logging's?

I could barely hear his voice or understand what he was telling me, but I understood he said something about how he was going to help me return back to Camp and in order to do so, I need to help him by standing.

So I weakly stood up with the help of Armin, I placed my arm over his shoulder and we managed to return to the Camp safely.

When we got there, Armin took me inside the Cafeteria. Warm air immediately fell over me, and I saw everyone's staring gazes  on me.

But Armin brought me to the campfire where I sat down in front of as I shivered and I removed my gloves to warm them up with the heat. Armin removes my coat off me, and I found Mikasa wrapping her red scarf around me.

I was a bit out of it, but I was still shocked. Mikasa never, ever removes her scarf. Ever. That scarf is special to her. It was the scarf Eren had given her when she lost her family to a group if Bandits who murdered them. Mikasa is never seen removing it or especially putting it on anyone but herself.

“M-Mikasa….are you--” I was interrupted by Mikasa’s soft and gentle voice telling me that it was alright. So for as long as I remember, I sat in front of the fire with Armin, Eren, and Mikasa standing besides me.

But as time passed Swiftly, I found myself nodding off and I fell asleep. The next time I woke up was during the night, and I was in my bed in the girls logging room. I wonder if Mikasa carried me here…. probably.

If I knew anything for certain after this night, it was that Armin had saved my life. I owed him, I was so grateful. But he said to not worry about it and that it was alright.

The following day I woke up with a very bad cold. I would sneeze and cough. And when Mikasa brought in instructor Keith into our Logging, to show proof that I was feeling ill, he was fine with me resting up until I recovered.

He also added how me being sick was partly his fault for making me do extra laps in the woods in the storm. Yes!!...he admitted his crime.

But it was boring staying locked inside the girls dorm room for a long time. But I easily slept through the day. Mikasa was sweet though, she stayed with me every day til I got better. She still would let me borrow her scarf, and she'd even hand me a tray of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

And then the second day of me being ill, Mikasa handed me over a book, saying it was from Armin because he said he could imagine that I must have been bored with nothing to do but eat and sleep.

It was really sweet and thoughtful of him to do this for me. So whenever I wasn't sleeping or reading, I'd read the book he had given me. I really enjoyed it. It was nice having a lot of free time, despite being sick. It's been forever I've had free time like this on my hands.

And by a week's time, I finally got better. I thanked both Armin and Mikasa for their kindness, but they both would wave it off and say how it was nothing  and of course they would do this for me since I was their friend.

Friend….Having friends was always something that felt impossible for me to obtain. But now….it seemed possible.

“Thank you for being there for me...both of you.”

The End