The ride along the straight path was quiet except for the sound of horse hooves smacking against the ground and random chatter among the new recruits. Alannah kept her eyes forward and sharp, Adam on the other hand kept looking side to side to see if anything was there. It was too quiet for him, going a bit too good so far. Taking a look left, nothing but big ass trees. Taking a look right, nothing but a....a....What the fuck was that!? Adam eyes widened as he jumped off his horse and span around, hooking onto a tree he began shooting forward, "Titan, right side!" he yelled with his blades out, but it was too late, the Titan had jumped out from where it was hiding and belly flopped sending blood flying and all directions. The titan had to had killed atleast ten people, and with further inspection....Was that briers growing out of the skin? What the fuck kind of Titan was this?
As the Titan belly flopped, the horses up front ran faster out of fright, but ones blocked by the Titan had came to a halt. That halt caused Dante to be thrown off his horse and skid across the ground on the right side of his face. Dante winced and shivered a bit, slowly getting up. Standing up he shivered more, blood dripping from his head and right arm dangling a little. The Titan had gotten up too and looked directly down at Dante who pulled out his blades even still, the Titan raised his fist and came slamming down at Dante. He coughed, "Welll....Shit," he said before he shot his hooks behind the titan through the open part of it's legs and shot through. The force of the Titan's fist hitting the ground shot Dante forward a bit more, but he got his grounding and spun around with a crack to one of his ankles, he hadn't noticed that he wounded it with the slide! He crouched a bit from the pain but nevertheless shot his hooks on the Titan's neck and flew towards it, holding his blades back for an attack.
As he got close the Titan used it's left arm to swat at Dante in which Adam flew to Dante yelling, "Get away from it kid, it's a deviant type!" Adam kept his hooks on the Titan's neck until he was blocking Dante, he released his hooks and nudged back into Dante sending him flying back and hitting the ground while Adam took the hit to his left side and was sent flying. Adam had gotten worse, he shot his hooks at the titan's feet and swung underneath it before he hit a tree or something, being sent into the air behind the titan Adam shot both hooks into the neck and came flying down slicing the nape of the neck which even caused his blades to break and be flown off. He took a breath as he stayed onto the titan when it fell, looking around at the new recruits watching. Adam jumped off the Titan and walked to Dante helping him up, "Are you ok?...Stupid question, you're not, but can you still go on without someone taking care of your ass?" Adam asked glaring at Dante. Dante nodded then looked over Adam, seeing his left arm dangling a bit just like his right one, "Are...You?"
Adam spat, "Kid, I've been doing this for over ten years, don't worry abou-" Adam eyes widened again as he pulled Dante back and began backing up, titans, he looked around, titans coming from both sides of the forest. He looked at the other soldiers and yelled, "Catch up with the others now, only fight if you have to, now hurry your asses before the titans block the upper path!"
People began riding forward, bypassing the dead titan by going around it, some people getting grabbed, bit, and saved. Dante looked around, "My....Horse?" he asked, in which Adam put Dante on his back. "You can't walk, got no horse, fucking aye," he said before shooting off but to the front with his 3D Gear, not as proficient with someone on his back, but he still got there. Stopping his horse he put Dante on there and told Dante to ride off. Dante looked back hoping Alison and Kevin were ok, but he looked forward and began riding off again.
Adam pointed to the soldiers behind them still trying to catch up, "We need to help them get up here, ten soldiers in the back, five on each side, I'll help all around and take care of anymore Deviant types!" And with that Adam shot forward with his 3D Gear with other soldiers following him, soon enough they all took their positions and began killing Titans and helping them get through.....But how many was it? Over twenty lives were already lost, twenty too many.
Alannah sighed, it turned to shit so quickly! Of course it would, when didn't it? But she didn't expect it to be this quick.....When they got a chance they'd tend to the wounded, but for now they had to stay strong and keep moving no matter what! Dante took slow breaths, he hurt all over right now, but didn't show it. His right eye was shut closed too, it stung like hell! He took another look behind him seeing Alexandria catch up rather quickly before anyone else, glaring forward she was quiet and showed no emotion....Except for that anger one, Dante still didn't like her, he looked forward just focused on getting out of the situation.
Stronger than I thought, Alexandria thought to herself.