So everyone, since I decided to kinda go with an Attack on Titan idea. I figured this time I would start blank and do things my way, I do hope you all like the idea I came up with
The Lost Titan
Prologue
The day the titans attacked was chaos, it came out of nowhere as if by some act of god himself. Everyone was running and screaming, panic was rampant in the streets as Titans, humanity's one predator, surged through the destroyed wall of Shiganshina. The Colossal Titan, the largest of its kind, vanished in a massive burst of steam and gas, seeming to just disappear before anyone could attack it as the entire town was overrun by mindless beasts. People were devoured left and right, buildings were crushed and people were trampled as every human being ran for their life.
Eren and Mikasa ran as fast as their legs could carry them to their house. Mother was there! They both turned onto their street and saw the house as nothing more than a pile of rubble. This only drove the two to run faster to find her.
"Mom! Mom!" Eren screamed. The two children ran and ran until they saw her, Carla Jaeger, half-buried under the remains of their house. She had to have been halfway outside before the building collapsed on her and her legs were pinned by what was left of the roof.
"Eren, Mikasa," Carla said weakly as her vision swam. She heard her little boy call out to her as her children went to either side of her. "You have to get out of here, Eren. Take Mikasa with you," she said as her eyesight cleared. Her son violently rejected this as he and his sister went to either side of her and tried to lift the section that pinned her legs.
Her son refused to see reason, despite the ever-growing danger as footsteps like thunder approached. She desperately turned to her reasonable child, Mikasa, and tried to get her to take her brother with her. "No... ," Mikasa muttered, then loudly, "No!"
Carla's eyes were wide in fear for her offspring and she desperately tried to lie to her son that her legs were crushed and that she couldn't run even if they could lift the debris off of her. It was heartbreaking to see the look of despair she put into her brave little boy, but she had to get them to run. A light came into her eyes as a soldier swung down from the rooftops in 3D Maneuver Gear right next to their house. "Hannes!"
The blond-haired man stopped in front of them and knelt down. "Please," Carla begged, "Hannes, you have to get the children out of here!" Hannes just knelt there silently for a little while. "Hannes?" The Garrison Soldier suddenly stood up and headed towards the approaching footsteps. "Hannes, what are you doing?!"
"Carla," Hannes muttered, "Don't you worry. I'm gonna save your kids and you!" His legs began to move faster and faster all on their own as he picked up speed, Carla's yells at his back. 'Don't worry, Carla. I don't plan on dying today!' His hands whipped up and drew his twin swords with a steel ringing sound as he reached a dead sprint, his legs a blur.
He sighted his first Titan, a seven meter-class crawling on all fours. His locked onto the creature as it saw him too and grinded his teeth together. 'I'm not going to lose,' he thought. "I'm going to protect my friends," he roared as his 3D Maneuver Gear shot its prongs out with a burst of gas. The prongs shot right past the Titan's shoulder and went all the way to the end of the street as it dug in deep in the side of a house. Hannes was lifted off the ground as the Gear's coils went taught and yanked him forward, nothing but a blur as his swords shone in the sunlight.
Sounds. He heard sounds.
Footsteps.
Screaming.
In a flash of his blades the titan was ended without much effort and Hannes was there, standing over his kill breathing hard, sweat pouring off him. He checked on the children. No, there were no Titans anywhere nearby. Hannes took to the rooftops and looked out over the district known as Shiganshina.
It was like a battlefield as far as the eye could see. Titans roamed through the town, conquering street by street as the humans ran from their one true predator in this world. Smoke floated up as fires raged in parts of the city, screams of the panicked masses floating on the wind and echoing throughout the whole district. Only a few of the brave and foolish fought against the Titans' charge, but none were within an entire kilometer of him.
Hannes saw a fifteen meter Titan heading his way, a horrible smile lighting up its face. Hannes looked down at the 7 meter-class he'd just beaten. He was exhausted, he couldn't beat another one. "Damnit!" He fired his Maneuver Gear and twisted through the air, crashing down right next to Eren and Mikasa as their muscles strained to lift the beam off their mother. "Have you got it yet," Hannes asked.
"No," Eren gritted through his teeth as he kept trying, "This thing is heavy." Even Mikasa was beginning to tire.
"Hannes," Carla reached out in tears, "Please, you have to get them out of hear!" The woman was desperate to have her children taken away from these monsters, her life be damned!
"NO!" Hannes was in a fury now and stood over Carla, between Eren and Mikasa as they gazed up at him. "We are all getting out of this now," he declared with a ferocity that the boozehound drunk had not felt in his life before. He looked to either side of him at the two kids, "Eren, Mikasa, we're gonna lift this thing right off your mother right now!"
The two kids were inspired and felt their fatigue wash away in a wave of euphoria and braced themselves to lift as hard as they could. Hannes braced himself two and gripped the beam on either side of Carla. "Now!" The three lifted with all their might, the power behind their attempt doubled with the addition of a full-grown adult soldier to their efforts. The beam trembled and budged inch by inch until their strength finally gave out and it settled down on her knees. "Alright, that's it," Hannes growled, shooting his Maneuver Gear into the side of the house on the other side, "No more mister nice guy!"
"Hannes, its useless, you can't lift an entire house off of me!" Carla tried to tell him over and over as he set his feet against the huge piece of wood.
Before they could further continue to attempt their rescue, a shadow slid over them and blocked out the sun and they all looked up, the fifteen meter Titan was here! They couldn't move an inch as the Titan stood smiling down at them, raising a hand and reaching out for them. Hannes and Carla's eyes met and there was no miscommunication, no hesitation.
"Damnit," Hannes swore and used the last of the gas in his Maneuver Gear to shoot forward ahead of the Titan's hand. Carla shoved her children towards him as she turned slowly, picking up a large piece of wood and swinging down. The chunk of lumber held in the Titan's skin, blood dripping out of the wound in the back of its hand as it halted for a moment. A second it should never have wasted.
Hannes grabbed Eren first, then Mikasa, as he swung around mere inches off the ground up and away from the Titan. He passed between the Titan and Carla for a moment and their eyes locked. Hannes wanted to look away, not meet the woman's gaze, but he wouldn't disrespect her like that and held out. He held her stare for as long as was possible before shooting away, carrying her family to Wall Maria.
Carla felt Hannes snatch up her children before she even saw him, felt the air whip into a frenzy as the soldier flew about in his Maneuver Gear. Then she saw him, Mikasa under one arm and Eren over one shoulder as he flew by her. His eyes locked onto hers and she could tell he was sad that he couldn't carry her away too. But, she was too heavy, her children alone would almost be too much for the trained soldier to handle.
He shot past her and carried her children to safety, her little boy yelling for Hannes to go back for her. Tears spilled from her eyes as her babies were taken away, tears of joy, sorrow and anger. Her children would live, that made her happy; she wouldn't be with them, that made her sad; and this Titan was the reason, that made her livid. The Titan reached down again for her, but now it was reaching for a human that knew it would die, but it was gonna go down kicking and screaming.
Eren was screaming and thrashing about as he tried to make Hannes go back for his mother, but the soldier refused to acknowledge him. "We have to go back," he yelled as he beat on the man's shoulder, "Mom is-!" He stopped and saw his mom lifted off the ground, thrashing about as much as Eren as she kicked and screamed. The Titan's other hand came up and wrapped around her.
They rounded the corner at the far end of the street as the Titan raised his unmoving mother to its open maw. All he saw after that was the sky turning red as he screamed. Hannes kept running and didn't look back.
Hannes moved as fast as he could and left Eren and Mikasa aboard the last group of boats carrying people inside the Wall before rushing back to find more survivors, leaving the two in the care of their friend Armin and his uncle. Eren sat in a corner, Mikasa by his side, as their friend tried to comfort him. "I'm sorry, Eren," Armin apologized, "Your mom shouldn't have been eaten."
"No," Eren said lowly, "she shouldn't have." Mikasa and Armin looked at each other before looking back at Eren, concerned. "It's all their fault," he went on, head down, "They're gonna pay. I'm gonna make them pay." A chill ran up their spines as Eren lifted his head just enough for them to see his eyes, the raw hatred and rage that tearing its way to the surface. Something humans hadn't felt in a long time was festering, beginning to burn, and that thing would burn those lowly creatures to ashes until there was nothing left. "I'm gonna kill the Titans," he whispered as the boat passed through the gate.
"All of them!"
"That seems like a real plan doesn't it?" Came the voice of another kid around the same age as them, he had a slightly ratty orange and blue jumpsuit, with dirty blonde and messy hair that seemed to spike up in every direction. His brilliant blue eyes seemed to shine even amongst all the chaos around them, as he walked to them he seemed to catch the eye of all three of them, with Mikasa finding herself admiring the Sapphire eyes of his. "These monsters, we need to protect the people from them, and if that means taking out every one of them then I'm certainly with you guys there" He said as he gave them a bright foxy grin, causing the normally ice cold Mikasa to feel a heat coming to her cheeks. Said girl started to wonder what was going on with her while Eren and Armin looked at him incredulously, neither of them had seen this boy before and Eren wasn't sure about trusting him just yet.
"Who are you, I don't think we've met before" Armin spoke, as the voice of reason here while watching the boys smile seemingly grow even larger. Offering his hand to them he chuckled a bit sheepishly while his other hand scratched the back of his neck.
"Naruto.. I'm Naruto Uzumaki…"
Aaaaand that's the end of the prologue, to bring about the beginning of hopefully a long and fan loved story. Please tell me what you all think.
