Prologue

"On That Day, the day that the Colossal Titan first appeared outside of Wall Maria, humanity was reminded of its weakness. Of the humiliation of living in a cage. The day that Wall Maria fell, humanity was awoken from its false peace. On that day, home became a pen. And Humanity cattle." - Armin Arlert

A young boy sat up in his bed silently. He had short brown hair with olive colored skin and blue eyes, he wore a black long sleeve shirt with dark green pants. The boy's name was Adrian Austerlitz-Conner. He let out a small sigh as he got out of bed and walked over the large window that was parallel to his bed as well as the wall it was up against. The brunette boy opened the window and looked out into the city of Shiganshina. He looked at the sky then at the 50 meter high walls that surrounded the city in a semi-circle, which connected to the much larger circle of the outermost wall; Wall Maria. Adrian scratched the back of his head as he turned back into his room, his room was very neat and tidy save for his bed. His room was of a fairly decent size, not so small that someone would feel cramped but not so big that there was too much space. The items in the room consisted of a large wooden bookshelf that was full from top to bottom with books. Most them were in relatively bad condition, the reason for this was because Diana like most of the residents of Shiganshina was poor. In addition to this bookshelf, there was a small desk that was next to the door, as well as a dresser.

Adrian yawned as he walked out into the long hallway and downstairs. "Good morning Adrian." A black haired 20-year-old woman said. She had soft brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin as well as a small mole on her cheek with a rounded face. She stood at 5'6, with her hair just below neck length. "Good morning Diana." The boy responded as he stretched. Diana and Adrian weren't related by blood, but they did have a kind of brother-sister relationship. Although the truth of the matter was that Diana was Adrian's guardian, after the deaths of Adrian's parents three years prior she took over due to the fact that his sister, Alexandria was a Section Commander in the Survey Corps. "How'd you sleep?" Diana asked as she put Adrian's food on his plate while he sat down. "Pretty well, for the most part, no nightmare this time." He responded with a small smile. "That's good to hear." The dark haired woman said before adding, "We'll be going over to Dr. Jaeger's today as well." Adrian stopped eating for a moment, "Hm? Why?" "It's time for your checkup." The boy groaned. "Whhhhhyyyyyyy?" He asked. "Beeeeecccccaaauuuusssseeeeee I said so, I'm your guardian and it's my job to take care of you when your big sister isn't around," Adrian mumbled a few words under his breath. "What was that Little cub?" The boy rolled his eyes at Diana's nickname for him. "It was nothing." He responded as he finished his food, the brunette boy stood and was about to leave the house only for the 23-year-old woman to grab him by the ear. "And where do you think you're going?" "Out to play with my friends," Diana smirked and tugged on his ear. "Ow ow ow! That hurts!" "You can't go out till you clean your plate." She tugged again. "Ok ok!" Adrian said before she let him go. He sighed and went to clean his plate and silverware. After doing his morning chores Adrian left the house. "Be back by noon." "Got it!" The boy called out as he closed the door. It was humid outside, with very few clouds in the skies. The boy smiled a bit before going off to his friends.

Adrian met up with his friends, they consisted of Mikasa Ackerman, Armin Arlert, along with Eren Jaeger. Although those three were not his only friends, his other friends were Alphonse, Edward, and Adeline. Alphonse was a boy with oddly yellow eyes, and blonde hair. He normally wore a pair of dark brown trousers, a dark green long sleeved shirt, Edward, Alphonse's brother wore a pair of black trousers with dark brown shoes and a dark blue long-sleeved shirt. Adeline wore a white dress a with a light brown jacket over it and a pair of dark blue shoes. She had fair skin, blue eyes, and chestnut brown hair. Adrian found her cute, and had a crush on her, not that he would ever admit to it. Adrian walked decided to head over to Edward and Alphonse's house first, however it turned out that they were heading over to his own so they met up halfway. The trio decided to go get Adeline, figuring that she was done with her chores by now. On the way there the boys heard a commotion, so they went to check it out.

"Stop right there!" The trio heard a familiar voice yell. "Eren," Edward said a sigh. "Come on let's go help him out." Adrian and Alphonse gave a nod, and the three boys ran to where they heard their friend's voice. As they turned the corner they saw Armin against the wall of a house, and his three bullies facing Eren with their fists up. 'Why do you always try to be the Hero Eren?' Adrian thought to himself. "Let's ram them," Alphonse suggested. Edward gave a nod. "Itching for a beating huh idiot." One of the bullies said before all three of them were knocked to the ground by the trio. "What the heck?" Another bully exclaimed as he felt the weight on top of him, he looked up and saw Adrian on of him, pinning his arms. Adrian was of course much smaller and younger than the 12-year-old, so obviously he wasn't able to hold him down long.

The bully thrashed under Adrian, quickly getting his arm free and elbowing the younger boy in the face, causing him to be knocked back. Alphonse and Edward weren't doing much better. Edward was being pinned to a wall, his face smashed up against it with his arm twisted. Alphonse was on the ground holding his stomach and vomiting while the largest of the three bullies smirked. "You damn brats!" The one that elbowed Adrian said. The younger boy's nose was bleeding as he held it, the bully quickly got up then grabbed Adrian, preparing to punch him in the face only to be stopped. He got a swift kick to the gut by Eren. Of course, this didn't really hurt him, in fact, it made him much angrier. He backhanded Eren, knocking him to the ground, this, of course, lead to a hard punch in the stomach by Mikasa. It hurt the bully quite a bit, enough to make him stumble back holding himself. 'D-Damn brat.' He thought before lunging at the girl; he was suddenly grabbed the collar and yanked back.

A woman, standing at 5'8 wearing a Survey Corps uniform underneath her green cloak, along with her ODM gear, as well as a dark blue bandana around her neck, with a dark grey dress shirt. She had oddly white hair, that was tied into a ponytail ((I can't really describe it, it's kind of like Hanji's hairstyle, but more straight . . . I guess. Can't really describe hairstyles XD)). The woman also had the olive colored skin with a few freckles on her cheeks, the woman was 25-year-old Alexandria Austerlitz-Conner; Adrian's older sister and a Section Commander in the Survey Corps. "That's enough." She said in a very calm voice. "You three get out of here, before I put in jail." Alexandria was bluffing of course, but given her tone, it was hard to tell if she was joking or not. The body she held by the collar struggled against her grip, unable to get out of it. "Head home." She said simply before letting the boy she held go. His friends had already run off, he did the same.

Alexandria let out a sigh as she helped her younger brother up. "How many times have I told all of you to stop getting into fights?" She asked the group of kids as Eren helped Armin up. "They were beating up Armin, what did you expect us to do?" Edward commented as he fixed his shirt. Adrian dusted off his clothes, as Eren asked, "Why were they beating you up Armin?" Armin looked at his friends and responded, "I started talking about how the walls wouldn't last forever, and that humans would need to go outside eventually. They started beating me up and calling me a heretic." Eren got an angered look on his face as Alexandria removed her bandana to clean up the blood on her brothers face. "Hold it to your nose for a bit, it will stop bleeding soon." She commented. Her younger brother gave a nod and held it as Eren and Armin continued to talk, after a few moments Alexandria said, "I'm gonna go see about Diana alright? I'll be back in a bit." "Ok," Adrian responded before she left.

"Why does simply wanting to go outside turn everybody against us?" Eren questioned angrily as Edward and Alphonse went to go get Adeline. "It's been peaceful within the walls for over a century, and to keep the risks of people going outside low, the government made it forbidden to even speak about going outside. . . but these walls can't last forever." Eren, Mikasa, and Adrian listened what Armin said before the brown haired boy looked up at the walls. Unlike Eren, Adrian didn't have some grand aspiration to go outside Walls . . . but the idea did intrigue him quite a bit; he did wonder what was beyond them. He looked from the walls to the sky and remembered his parents. He was curious as to what they would say about this topic, they had both been Scouts, and Alexandria had followed in their footsteps. Suddenly the ground shook and a loud explosion could be heard, causing the group to stumble and fall. "What the heck was that?" Adrian muttered as he watched smoke go into the sky outside the wall. The group stood before Armin ran out ahead of them to go see what happened, Mikasa, Eren, and Adrian followed suit. Armin, Eren, and Mikasa suddenly stopped as they reached the small town square. Adrian looked at them then followed their gaze, his eyes widened in shock.

'T-That has to be impossible ...' Adrian thought. 'The wall is 50 meters!' Everyone watched in horror as the giant skinless hand of a titan gripped the wall, only to moments later see it's gigantic head look over. From what could be seen, the Titan's entire body was probably just muscle tissue and bones underneath. The amount of steam that came from the creature was immense as it looked down at the town. It seemed to lean forward, then slowly lean back, moments later it kicked a giant hole in the gate.

Adrian was blown back by force of the kick, being knocked to the ground as giant chunks of the Wall rained down on the city below. The boy was in shock as looked to his left and someone half crushed by a boulder begging for help. He was snapped out of this state moments later due to the screaming of those around him, they were sprinting away from the breached wall as fast as they could. "Mikasa!" He heard Armin call out as the two ran away. He then felt someone yank him to his feet. "Run boy!" A random man said. Adrian did just that, heading for his house, 'Please be alive!' He thought, hoping that Diana and Alexandria were ok. 'Please please please.' He continued to think. After a few minutes, he found his home half destroyed by a boulder. "Diana!" He screamed as he slammed, through the front door. The home was completely destroyed, there were broken dishes all over the floor, along with everything else. Everything was either smashed or completely destroyed. Adrian's eyes quickly scanned the room, there wasn't any blood anywhere that he could see. 'Did she get out?' He wondered before Diana burst in the door, she immediately ran to the boy and hugged him tightly. He hugged back. "Thank the gods!" Diana said happily before adding, "We have to go, now before the evacuation boats are full." "What about Alex?" "She's fine, she's going to meet us in Trost." Adrian gave a nod. "Ok." Diana then pulled him by the arm and the pair started to run towards the inner gates, to get to the boats in time

Alexandria sprinted through down an alley. 'Damn damn damn!' She thought before pressing the triggers of her ODM. The wires shot into the wall of a house before she went flying towards them, she detached them midway, getting a brief look at the city as a whole. It was total destruction, there were destroyed homes, and people being eaten everywhere. "Hey Scout!" she heard someone yell, the white-haired female looked and 5 members of the Garrison on a roof. Alexandria adjusted her trajectory and landed on the roof. "What do we do?" One of them asked immediately. Despite the disparity of the situation the female found this funny, everyone including other soldiers always bashed the Survey Corps, calling them lazy, and useless; but now that everything went to shit, they are the first ones that get called on to help. "You start getting the city evacuated and escort the citizens to safety." "That's it? That's all you have?!" Another Garrison member asked angrily, but obviously panicked. The woman showed no reaction. "You think there should be more?" "YES! I thought you, one of the high and mighty Scouts would have a better idea." Alexandria sighed in annoyance. "Do you know how to immobilize a titan?" "What" "Do you know how to immobilize a titan?" "What kind of question is that?!" "Answer it." The male narrowed his eyes and said. "You . . . cut its throat." "And that is why you're going to as I say, now go." She responded in an authoritative tone. The group of men did as she said, reluctantly. Alexandria turned to the breach, with the Titans still pouring in before pulling out her swords from her scabbard. "Ok . . . let's hope it's not my time today." She jumped off the roof and pressed the triggers. In truth the woman didn't know how long she'd last, her aim was to kill as many titans as she could, with enough gas left to get back over the wall. 'That's all I've gotta do.' She never envisioned anything like this, she never thought her brother would ever have to see the horrors she saw outside the walls, but it was too late for that now. The white-haired woman flew towards the Titans blades out.

Diana and Adrian got onto the boats just in time, it was cramped and crowded. The young boy was in shock in truth, along the way he saw Edward and Alphonse's parents get eaten, he also saw Adeline get eaten just as she ran to help someone. . . honestly, the boy felt broken inside. He tried to push his feelings down like he did with his parent's death, Diana saw the look on his face and hugged him; causing him to immediately begin crying almost uncontrollably. "Shhh." Diana said as she rocked back and forth slowly, "It's ok, just let it all out." The woman hated this situation entirely, despite the thoughts that the walls wouldn't last forever; she didn't think they would fall during her lifetime. She thought they would fall long after her death, and Adrian's, generations down the line really. She looked down at the boy currently crying into her bosom and felt sorry for him, it was bad enough he saw his parents deaths first hand, but now he saw his home and friends killed and destroyed. He was only 11 and he saw more death than someone his age should have. Diana was well aware that he kept his feelings bottled up, and felt it was better that he get all of it out now. In all honesty, though they had a brother-sister relationship, she felt almost like a surrogate mother to him at times, in a way that's what she was.

Diana was suddenly snapped out of her thoughts by loud thundering noises, the sound itself seemed to make the ground shake. They stopped for a moment before quickly gaining speed, 'Is that a Titan?' she wondered as thundering sound started to get closer and faster. All of a sudden something smashed through the closing gate of Wall Maria, it skidded to a halt. Diana and Adrian both looked at it, along with everyone else on the boats. It was a titan, with glowing eyes, and short silver hair. Its skin appeared to be hardened, like some form of armor. The titan mouth guard, or whatever it was opened up revealing its teeth. It then opened its mouth and let out steam, almost as if it seemed winded from ramming into the wall. It then stood and turned back towards the gate into Shiganshina then went in. "They broke through Wall Maria…" Someone mutter in horror. Adrian clutched to Diana silently and tightly, holding on as if someone would yank him away. He wasn't sure what to think now, had the gate to Shiganshina not been destroyed the government would have probably just reinforced the gate. . . . but now the whole territory of Wall Maria had been lost to the Titans.

Alexandria rode through the hole made by the Armored Titan, during its assault, she managed to procure a horse and avoid the Titans when getting out, just barely. She was down to fumes and used up all her blades. 'It's been about an hour now . . . the boats should be getting close to Trost by now.' She thought. 'Adrian and Diana should be waiting for me by the time I get there.' That's what she hoped anyway. During her attack, she lost her cloak, jacket, and some of her shirt, in addition to one of her boots, in short, she needed to get cleaned up . . . and get a new bra. As she rode the horse towards Trost she thought about what made the hole. 'That giant titan appears and kicks the wall in. Then it disappears immediately afterward, seemingly with no trace.' The whole thing didn't make sense to her, granted she didn't know where titans came from but them just showing up via lightning strike couldn't have been possible. Alexandria looked behind her at the destroyed gate. Even from here she could see that the Titans were still coming through. 'I'll have to report this to Commander Shadis.' She thought, honestly she wasn't sure how much the information she had could help but she'd do what she could.

A/N: Tell me what you guys think of the prologue, this is my first story on Fanfiction.