Attack On Titan: Go Big Or Go Extinct

Written by: The-Confused-Blue-Dragon

Prologue…

The autumn night sky blew softly as scattered clouds glided overhead, beams of lunar light streaking down from the heavens above and lighting up the surface of the grasses and shrubs on the land, and the sand and water of the neighbouring inland sea to the east. Leaves from nearby trees flickered slightly in the wind, making gentle rustlings in doing so as small animals of the night scurry around in the undergrowth, minding their own businesses while on their own neverending quests in the search for food, such as a little field mouse harvesting grass seeds while stopping from time to time to scan for any potential predator looking to make it their potential meal.

Then, a soft thump in the distance puts the little thumb-sized rodent on alert, its eyes looking in every direction and ears twitching, straining to detect the slightest sound of possible danger.

Another sound catches its ears, this time a soft but harsh rustling sound nearby. The mouse turns its gaze to the direction of the sound, ready to flee at the slightest sound or sight. A few seconds tick by, and with nothing but the sound of a gentle wind, a full moon lighting up the surrounding environment and the scents of wild plants filling its senses, the little field mouse returns to filling its cheek pouches with grass seeds.

*BOOM!*

A horrific crash sends the nervous little animal scattering for cover, and just in time too as a huge human-like foot crashes down from above, its owner appearing to be an abnormally large pot-bellied human, although that is where the similarities end as this being was no less than ten metres tall with a very large head that looks as if it will fall off its shoulders. Apparently clothless, this human-like creature's mouth and hands were splattered red with dried blood, first glances would think this was the result of a nasty brawl but an experienced eye knows better…

For this creature was a Titan; a ravenous humanoid abomination which desired to feast upon human flesh for no apparent reason, not even in the case of hunger nor reproduction as they had no sexual organs and its kind had survived for over a hundred years without needing to eat humans as a food source, otherwise there would be far fewer Titans and with a mostly equal number of humans.

Normally, Titans would be lacking any form of intellect and propelling off of instinct, but this one was one of a small number of Deviant-type Titans - the ones that are naturally more dangerous than most - and this Titan's recent victim was or once was a 16-year-old girl who was serving with the Survey Corps; a military branch dedicated to scouting, intercepting and in many cases falling a Titan whenever necessary. Although this one had been outdone by her foe and became one of countless many unlucky soldiers to become nothing more than mere monster food, and furthermore another life lost and a blow to her squad and regiment.

The ten-metre tall Titan stops a few metres from the edge of the sandy beach, sensing a disturbance far out to sea. Visually scanning the waves for anything that may be another tasty morsel stuck in a bad situation, the Titan scratches its enlarged belly after engulfing its many victims of its attack alongside many other Titans, although a fair number of its brethren were slain by troops of the Survey Corps, yet nearly double the number of soldiers lost their lives in that engagement, though having been around a few good years back the blood had long since dried on and stained its teeth and skin around the mouth.

Huffing an exhale, the Titan starts turning around to find another unfortunate human to greedily devour, but before it could take a couple of steps the sudden sounds of bird wings flapping and a huge collection of panicked squawks catches the creature's attention far out towards the mass expanse of water, and overhead flew mass flocks of seagulls flying inland with great haste, as if something akin to a supernatural force had spooked them from their nightly slumber.

Looking back out to sea again, the Titan spots a strange hump of water traveling at a fair distance and heading for the beach, and right behind that was another hump only this one was at least three or four times larger. The speed this peculiar thing was going at was fairly fast, too fast to be a human craft of any sorts, but the Titan can sense an unfamiliar presence with this, and probably the reason why those seagulls flew off in a panic.

Hoping to scare this thing off, the Titan unleashes an ear-ringing bellow which sounded like something from an Aliens movie for a good seven or so seconds, yet this alien object was undeterred and continued their present course directly for the beach.

The Titan bellows another roar, this time more louder and equally more bloodthirsty than the last, and yet the round abnormalities of water remained unmoved, like a ship on a collision course with no crew to stop its inevitable grounding.

Then to its surprise they both depress back into the water, the only evidence that was left behind were a small collection of waves created by the humps of water.

Grunting in satisfaction that those strange things have now disappeared, it begins turning away from the beach in search of more humans to greedily devour, the ground shaking from every step this creature took.

Then before it began to enter the forest, a horrendous sound of a crash followed by something enormous pounding into the ground rang out from close behind it, followed by what sounded like a waterfall. Turning around, the Titan looked back to see what that huge crash was, only to see a colossal shape rising from the sea as a shadow creped over the Titan, which was now looking at this thing with some curiosity.

Apart from the vast quantities of water dripping off of it, it was all quiet. Too quiet.

Then, as if it was coming from all directions, a low resonating throaty rumble echoed out, rapidly increasing in volume. The very ground vibrating while this object was still continuing to grow in size.

Then an intimidating growl of identical volume rang out, putting the Titan on alert as this thing was now seen as an enormous animal of some kind, unfortunately the night-time light could only allow the silhouette of this creature and nothing more.

Then, two glowing yellow dots on either side of what seems to be its head lit up, revealing to be the creature's eyes as they continued to stare down the not-so-ferocious Titan with unknown intent.

Then, before the Titan could even blink, it struck; a massive elephant-like foot of unprecedented size crashes down from high up above, transforming the Titan from a 10-metre tall terror of humanity into nothing but a meaty pancake in less than a second. This was so sudden the aberration had barely any time to react to such an attack, let alone one that was provoked.

The owner of the enormous limb that squashed the Titan like a bug looked on in curiosity. Never before has it ever encountered a creature that could evolve to become so damn butt-ugly, even to the point where it looked as if it was practically brain dead. Then it realized something as it tilted its massive head; maybe this creature, along with the rest of its kind had evolved to be as energy-efficient as possible, but the smell of blood it picked up from the Titan in the seconds before it was crushed underfoot had triggered an instinctive defence mechanism that was hard-wired into every animal alive.

And it did what it did not only out of instinct, but what was far more important was the reason it had arrived here from far-away lands; a migration, and this creature wasn't the only one to make this journey for many other members of its kind were heading for the same destination as the one here. A large majority of this urge to travel was inherently hard-wired into the very being of its mind ever since when it was little more than an infant, but that age was so many countless moons ago; nowadays, it was a full-grown giant.

The steam the dead Titan's remains was producing was enough to obscure its vision, but other than that it posed no threat to the colossal beast despite it being hot enough to burn away skin. After a few minutes of observing the steam began to ease off slightly, and from every part of the Titan's body, from the fingers to the toes, was now nothing more than a singed pancake inside a two-metre deep circular footprint.

The giant animal takes in this new level of information, for if it was to adapt to what this new land could offer, it would have to learn as fast as possible on how its new neighbors would behave, even after death, and this posed a new challenge; given its sole reason for it being here it would have to make sure these oddly shaped bipeds didn't pose any threat to the survival of both itself and its brethren.

But all was not a problem in the slightest for it was an animal of truly colossal proportions, and although this one was now nothing more than a singed pile of decaying flesh and splintered bone it would somehow find this creatures' kind to be a possible threat to any offspring should it happen to reproduce.

The creature's other mammoth foot came to rest with a loud earth-shaking thump beside the one now resting beside the Titan corpse, and towering high enough to oversee the trees toward its new home, it knew this was going to be a paradise in this vast and varied land. The only downside to moving here was that this place literally reeked of the scent of its less than fortunate victim's own kind, but as it was a true herbivore there was nothing to fear for the more vegetation this land offered, the better it will feed.

As it scoured its new home, more sounds of crashing and billowing water emanated from behind, and with them emerged more of this giant's own kind; no less than seven rising from the ocean's depths after its leader and all of them slightly smaller than the behemoth standing before them, and the size of the group was still growing as more and more of these prehistoric mega-beasts emerged from deep beneath the waves.

Though given their relative size these creatures were at least the size of a small skyscraper, and according to the square-cube law, these leviathans shouldn't even exist at all. Yet they defied the rules Mother Nature had imposed upon Planet Earth, and have survived for many millennia with very few problems, the only one being is a reliable source of food but now this issue was officially non-existent.

Giving off deep vibrating rumbles through the ground as a method of communication, the group of giants begin their march into their new home; massive elephant-like limbs and feet leaving footprints as deep as a full-grown man is tall and around seven times as wide. Any tree that happened to be standing in their way were relentlessly pushed over as if they were mere useless boxes stacked atop one another, the sheer bulk of these giant creatures topping the strength of any tree in this regional area many times over, and only such trees big enough to defy these law-breaking leviathans were those found in the Forest of Giant Trees many hundreds of miles from here.

And that is where they were heading to, though this was the final leg of their migration it was still was going to take a long while yet to get to their destination.

For all that resided in this land, they were going to get a nasty shock:

A new breed of monster was in town.

To Be Continued...

Author's Side-Note:

If you have read this opening chapter then you'll notice some major changes to the storyline.

First off: I have decided to retire a proposal for a 'super-predator' for another story and have replaced that with an even larger monster design, which I may choose to publish an image onto my DeviantART page sometime in the future.

Second: The biggest issue I have had with my Fanfiction writing is writer's block, and since I was having so much trouble trying to map out how my newest story was going to plan out I had decided to redo the story piece by piece whenever I have the time.

And lastly: My design for my 'super-predator' plus the original storyline somehow adopted a 'Godzilla' type storyboard, and since I am not too keen on creating almost crossover-type stories I am reaching out into making this a true and totally original story.

Until next time!