2 Another Day's Work

Lia lightly gripped the trigger of her lazer gun as she sat in the tree covered that was covered moss and vines, she looked through the scope to see the desert wasteland affected by the war 200 years before that never really recovered. The dropping  branches shield her from vision at the incoming individual's that now getting closer to the forest. Usaully she didn't bother with people trying to pass through, She would just ask their purposes and see if they had any weapons, some be surprised how many refugees where ruggid clothes and  with severe dehydration tavel past the wasteland and the forest to go the main city Serenity but she that these men that where trying to enter it right now where most definitely not that. She could tell by the guns they where carrying and the scars that riddled on their skin they where one of the the violent radical groups.

The rim of her rifle poked through the low bearing leaves and vines as she adjusted the settings to lowering the intensity of the laser on her rifle but still keeping a close eye on the intruders. The shots she would at most zap them but would not cause any serious harm but it definitely will not pleasant for them, she didn't like killing unless she really had to. She moved a few lose strands of her strawberry blonde hair then tightly gripped the barrel as she took aim at one of their legs causing him to knee to the sand as he yelped out in pain.

"ACKKKK!!"

"What was that!" one them yelled as he quickly pulled his gun off his back and began to look around cautiously.

"I think it might a sniper!" the other one pointed out the obvious which made her roll her eyes.

She then shot another one in the shoulder making him hiss and then moved his head around frantically searching for the one who was shooting. She then shot the other next to him in the thigh and his buddy next to him in the side of the head, they starting to look around in a panic at where it was coming from, they where becoming so paranoid that they started to shoot blindly into the forest with their brown outdated laser guns, Lia was almost knocked by one but was luckily a few centimeters off. She realized this was getting out hand and these tigger happy Neanderthals where going to end up hitting one of the Terrans that live in the forest or possibly the Dyrads.

"WHERE ARE YOU YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!!" one yelled.

"Dumbasses..." she whispered as she looked at them through the scope.

Lia then began to release a load of shots hitting them from left to right making them hiss and jump in pain. After a couple more shots the men gave up and ran away from the forest and back into the wasteland, no longer being able to take being a human a dart board for the hidden sniper.

"I'm not taking this anymore!" one yelled as he straggled himself up only to lose balance and fall on the sand in the hurry but quickly got back up again not wanting to risk getting hit again.

"You sick motherfucker!!" one yelled as he ran.

Lia chuckled through the branches at this. One them obviously the leader to One last glare at the forest before running off with the others. Once they where completely out of sight Lia climbed down the tree and jumped into the greenery in the ground while still chuckling. She then slinged her rifle into her shoulder and looked down at her brown cargo pants and white shirt to see they where covered in dirt and miss stains, she did a couple of pats and wipe downs to get some of the lose particulars off her obviously on planning on bathing later.

Then started to walk off to head back to her where her main report station was but not quickly, wanting to admire the abnormal florai as she walked through it. The forest flourished with bright colors and well breed trees with roots and vines spanning our all over the plain, the flowers where very fragrant with many different cross breeds among them, she could see the sun glimmer through the trees making the colors more vibrant. The Titans and some humans as well may have thought that the greenery caused by the blast 200 years ago as a mutation but when she looked at it and spent time in it she thought it was beautiful making her smile gently, it was one of the reasons why she wanted to work out here.

She was so lost in the greenery that she hadn't noticed that she made it it back to her base, it was small and made of stone that once was white that was now turning brown from age  and was being taken over by moss and vines, it was once used as the Titan's base of operation during the war but was then turned into a control center for a section of the signal towers for the city a few years after the war ended, it was the first one actually the the oldest out of the others along with being smaller then the others which where much bigger and more up to date then the one she was stationed at but that didn't brother the young woman at all. The couldn't stand the the advance technology of the other stations it reminded of the equally adavance city that she was trying to escape from and also because the station were not near the forest, she couldn't stand the fake clean air and suffocating dictatorship of the the so called "utopia" where her kind where treated like second class citizens and Titans lived high and mighty.

She walked over to the door without a handle and moved her hand to the side of the wall next to the door and swiped down on it revealing a keypad. She typed in her pass code which made the door open so she could go inside. She walked down the the old metal hallway that had pipes trailing down it, she ran her hand through sticky sweaty hair and wiped some off her face as she walked through the door that opened magically for her allowing her to walk into the control room where a Titan sat infront of multiple control and looking a big screen that show multiple images of different parts of the forest, the towers and the border near their region. Lia took a big sigh and put her rifle down as she rubbed her eyes.

"How was your day Lia?" The Titan asked softly but never taking his eyes off the screen.

"Just a another days work..." she said plainly as she went over to the fridge take out bottle water.

"I think it...would be quiet eventful..don't you think.." he pointed oyt as turned his eyes to her.

She took a sip of her water and walked over to him.

"Trust me it wasn't anything I couldn't handle Rion" she said as she rest her hand on his shoulder and looked at the screen, Rion had pale white skin like most Titans with Silver grey eyes, no hair, with the color of his vain being blue , he wore a black jumpsuit with blue streaks that matched his veins, he was actually quiet attractive but was much much older then the younger girl and she wasn't exactly looking for a relationship.

"It's not you I'm worried about...I think you might have caused great distress to those men..." he said with a small smile.

"They'll live" she said bluntly making him chuckle lightly.

Rion was her superior and one of the few Titans she got along with because of his laid back attitude and sense of humor compared to the cold  and all about order personalities of the other Titans, they could feel and had empathy now but still had some of there old traits from before their evolution.

"You father called" he said seriously which made her tense up but never took her eyes off the screen.

"What did he want?..." she asked queitly.

"He was checking in on you..since you never return his messages.." he said softly.

Her mother married her birth father young but she also lost young as well.

Her step-father Kaleo was one the higher ups in Serenity, her mother was assigned to marry him when she was 4, just a month after her father died who her mother was still greiving for the man she loved so deeply and this made Lia a little pissed to this day that selectors forced her do that but she was greatful that this Titan was very kind to her mother. Her mother depression worsened when she was forced to marry a Titan but they eventually grew to love each other and ended up having 2 childern together her younger sister Lorelei who was 6 and her younger who was  Rowan 13, she loved her half siblings and they loved her but her step father...it wasn't like her avoided her or treated her cruelly h  it just that it always seemed like he was so cold and was hard to connect to.

"He also said you should look at a list potential Titans-

"Oh nonono!" she quickly cut him off as she walked off to go to the sink at the other end to wash her face.

"He just wants you be safe and stable Lia" he told her with soft eyes as he spun around in his chair to look at her.

"I told him this a thousand times Rion! And yet he doesn't listen I don't want to get married and be caged to the city like a stereotypical human woman!" she said frustratingly as she wiped her face with a towel and then throwing it on the counter.

Rion looked at her sympathetically.

"Lia your 21 the selectors will select a husband for you once you turn 24...your father wants that to be your choice that's why he's requesting you to this before that happens.." he told her softly.

"Well I got 2 years to plan something before that happens" she said annoyed as she went over to pick up her rifle and started to check if she need to recharge it.

"That is most unwise...."

"Well I'm a human we do a lot of things that are unwise" She said sarcastically as slung the rifle over her shoulder and headed out to go back on patrol.

"At least call your mother and your siblings...they miss you... And deeply worried..."

This made her stop but she didn't turn around, it was obvious her father wasn't happy when she entered the army or when she became a border guard but her mother almost had a heart attack while her brother wouldn't talk to her for a while month  when she first was at the academy and her little sister who just a toddler at the time cried and reach for her big sister when she left as their mother held her while trying her best to to cry herself, even though her mother has a marriage She still suffers from depression because of the society we live in.

Lia sighed deeply.

"I'll call them once my patrol is over..." she said queitly as she headed out the door and back into the forest.