YEAR 845
"Jay!" Lizzie calls making me look up from the small ring, I carved an "L" into. "We can ask him!" The blonde only a couple cm taller than me points at a man. He seems like the type we normally do this to. I get up and hand her, her ring;
"You forgot this"
"Oh! Thank you!" She slides the small silver ring on, as we walk over to the man at the fruit stand. "Excuse me sir?" Lizzie asks. The man glances at her, and I instantly get chills. His eyes are cold as ice.
"Lizzie?"
"Do you have any coins you could spare?" She asks. The man sneers and kicks her aside.
"Damn street rats" he begins to walk away.
"LIZZIE!" I call. "BASTARD!" I growl, I run and punch him, as hard as I can. He staggers and leans against a wall. Then recovering he grabs me by my hair and knees me in the stomach. I cough blood. People begin to gather, some run off.
"JAQ!" Lizzie screams. I punch him again, this time in the face. The man, much taller than myself crumbles to the ground. I go to kick him, but he's expecting it and pulls my legs out from under me. I fall and my head cracks against the pavement. The wind is knocked out of me.
The man leans over me, and jams his two fingers into my mouth, I gag. "You should have just let me leave" he growls. I'm choking and can't do anything. Lizzie screams my name. In one last moment of desperation, I bite down on his fingers as hard as I can.
He shouts, but I bite down harder. I gag at the taste of blood in my mouth. The fingers snap, the bone crunching under my teeth. He screams and cries begging me to stop. People gasp as he pulls back, missing two fingers. I cough amd gag at the taste, and spit out the fingers.
The man rears back, and falls on his ass. I kick him right between the legs. He groans. "I'll kill you, you bastard. You hurt Lizzie." I growl. I straddle him, breathing heavily, and begin to choke him. At the same time, I'm bashing his head into the pavement.
"Oi! Move, out of the way." I hear, but I don't move. All I can think about is making him pay for hurting Lizzie. "Get the fuck off him, girl." A voice says from behind me and grabs me. He throws me against the wall and pins me there. Its a soldier, only a little taller than myself. His eyes are emotionless as he assesses the situation calmly. "Did you cut off his fingers?" One of the other two soldiers ask, they're both blonde and much taller than the soldier in front of me, one has huge eyebrows.
"I bit them off, he was choking me." I say, blood trickles from my mouth, a mix of his and my own.
"Your still a kid. Where did you learn to fight like that?" The soldier in front of me asks, as Lizzie runs up, screaming my name. The taller of the two soldiers stops her. He kneels next to her, and from the looks of it he sniffed her.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" I scream struggling in the soldier's grasp. They're Survey Corps. I heard they're all fucked up in the head, who knows what he will do to her.
"Mike, step back, your only upsetting her. Levi, let her go." The blonde with the huge eyebrows says. The soldier called Levi lets me go instantly. I crumble to the ground, my head is pounding I suddenly realize. And my stomach hurts. I lean over and throw up blood, and the feeble amount of bread I ate for breakfast. Levi looks disgusted. Lizzie begins to cry. She runs over and hugs me.
"Your hurt! And it's all my fault!" Her green eyes overflowing with tears.
"I'm fine, I'm more worried about you, your much more hurt than I am." I say, stroking her hair. She has a scrape on her knee. Eyebrows comes over towards us. Don't come near us. I hear all of the Survey Corps are fucked up and crazy."
"Says the one who just bit off a man's fingers." Mike chuckles, it looks like he sniffs again. Eyebrows squats in front of us, and I hold Lizzie tightly. She may be taller than me, but she's only 9. I'm 12, her older sister, I have to protect her.
"I am Commander Erwin Smith, head of the Survey Corps. May we speak to you?" He asks, smiling kindly. I frown. I hear Lizzie's stomach growl. Mike turns to a lady I recognize, she normally gives us a couple coins. He hands her something and whispers something I can't hear.
"Lizzie?" The woman asks. Lizzie looks at her.
"Ms. White." She acknowledges the woman, apparently she was nice enough to learn her name.
"I'll go buy you and Jaqlynn some dinner."
"Her name is Jaq, daddy named her. Not Jaqlynn... and alright." Lizzie agrees and gets up, leaving me with the soldiers. But that's what I needed. I know what's going to be asked. She can't hear the answers.
"Thank you." I say, just barely audible. They don't acknowledge my thanks, much to my relief. My stomach still seems scrambled, my headache getting worse and worse.
"Will the people still lingering, please leave? This is an official
interrogation." Erwin says. The people still hanging around leave. Erwin looks at me again, after they have cleared the area. "Now what is your name? And who taught you those combat skills? You have obviously had training to some degree." He stares at me. I glare.
"My name is Jaq Makosky. My father taught me all I know about hand to hand combat." I reply, trying to stand. I fall to the ground.
"Why did your father teach you to fight? It is unnecessary behind these walls. Did he wish for you to join the military?"
"He hated the military. Said they were shit, through and through."
"Why did he teach you?" I stay silent. "Jaq? Answer me."
"... he thought the titans would break through. He was crazy. He-" I stop myself.
"He what, Jaq? Why did he think titans would get through. These walls have kept us safe for 100 years."
"The peace wouldn't last, thats what he said."
"Jaq, where is your father?" Levi suddenly asks.
"Dead."
"Your mother?"
"Father killed her." The three men look at each other.
"What happened?" Erwin asks.
"He knew hand to hand wasn't enough. He decided that we needed to die to protect us from them. So first he killed mom, she tried to tell me to look away, to run and hide with Lizzie. But I didn't listen. He then turned on me, smiling... but crying. And he stabbed me in the stomach, and destroyed the organs in my lower stomach. Then he killed himself." I say, the memories flow through my head, causing me to grimace.
"What about your sister?"
"Couldn't bring himself to stab her. Figured she would die since none of us would be around to keep her alive."
"Jaq, have you ever thought of joining the survey corps?" Erwin asks.
"No. I hate humanity. They have done nothing for me." Erwin looks a little shocked.
"I see. How bad are your injuries?" He pokes me in the stomach and I grimace.
"They're fine, thanks" Erwin obviously knows I'm lying, but he leaves it at that. He stands up and offers me a hand. I slap it away and stand up, wobbly on my feet. I lean against the wall for support. The 3 men leave, and I go to find Lizzie.

THE FALL OF WALL MARIA:
The ground rumbles, screams sound. Lizzie stares at something behind us, horror on her face. I don't even want to turn around, but I do anyways.
"...No" I whisper, my heart in my throat. A titan is looking right over the wall. Father was right. "Lizzie," I start, voice shaking. "Lizzie run. Run and don't look back. Go!" I shout, grabbing her arm. It takes her a second to realize we have to move.
"Jaq! I'm scared!" She sobs.
"I know, just run! We can't stop, not for a second!" This is bad. Panic is seeping in, I want to run faster, but I can't leave Lizzie. The ground shakes, rocks fly and people scream. The noise is deafening.
"THE TITANS ARE IN!" People scream, running past us. Faster. Faster. I think, dragging Lizzie along.
"Jaq! I CAN'T KEEP UP!" She screams.
"JUST A LITTLE LONGER!" I shout. I hear loud thumps behind us, glancing back I see large titans, 15 meters tall, walking towards us. "PLEASE LIZZIE! HURRY!" My voice cracks in fear.
Lizzie's face contorts at the sound. She's never seen me afraid. I always played it tough. But I'm weak, I'm afraid. It's all I can do not to leave her behind, to save myself.
We're both breathing heavy, people dying all around us. "Here!" I shout. I pull her into a near by building, I break the window in with my foot and help her crawl through. I know she is incapable of running any farther. I notice a door under the stair well, opening it I shove her in, then crawl in after her. I close the door and pull her close. 1st floor is safest, 2nd is eye level.
"Don't make any noise" I breath, tears stream down my face. The only sounds in the room is our heavy breathing, and outside we can hear the chaos as the world we knew crumbled around us. Lizzie clings to me, and I stroke her soft hair.
Suddenly the ceiling falls in and the only thing keeping us from getting crushed is the stair case. Lizzie screams as I kick the door open and pull her out, I throw her over my shoulder as a 10 meter stares at us.
I dodge his hand coming towards us, but it hits the ground, and the impact sends us flying. Lizzie is unablr to hold onto me, and she's flung about 20 feet away from me. "LIZZIE!" I shout as I hit the ground. The breath is knocked out of me and I'm left gasping for breath, the titan walks towards Lizzie. It picks her up by her arms and crushes them. My screams and hers fill the air. "LIZZIE!"
"JAQ! HELP ME! IT HURTS!" She screams. Her blue eyes shining with pain and tears. It lifts her above it's head, and drops her towards it's mouth. It snaps it's mouth close, and bites off but head. Her head falls for what seems like forever, and roles to a stop near me. Her blue eyes once filled with life, now vacant and dull. I scream, ripping my throat apart.
Suddenly someone grabs me and throws me over their shoulders. "PUT ME DOWN! LET ME DIE! I HAVE NOTHING!" I scream. I bash my hands into his back as hard as I can, kicking and screaming.
"Stop struggling!" He snaps. I don't listen to him, I twist in his arms and pull at his red hair. "DAMMIT KNOCK IT OFF DO YOU WANT TO DIE!?" He shouts.
"YES! LET ME GO YOU BASTARD!" The man stops running for just a second, and he slams my head into a wall as hard as he can. I pass out.