A/N: Hello, ^.^ I hope you like this fanfic. For now I will post the prologue. When I finish the actual fanfic I will post the rest of the chapters. I have gotten tired of writing fanfics then not finishing them. It's a bad habit.

If you have read the couple of chapters of Band of Misfortunes, then good for you. I have a new chapter for that fanfic, but I probably won't post it because my characters may seem mary-sueish at 1st to some. I'll explain in more detail if I change my mind and post that chapter. Otherwise it probably won't be finished unless I rewrite the whole thing. Any who, Disclaimer: I DON'T own any of the Snk/AOT characters, places etc, only my OC's.

There is a bit of language...go figure buts that's only because to get as close to the characters as possible in the AOT/SNKish fashion. Hopefully it doesn't present itself as awkward. I haven't any OC's ships with the other characters in mind sooo...yeah. BTW you might want a tissue or two if you're sensitive to death scenes...oops can't say more. Now read! (|.|)/

Prologue:

The rain pelleted her face as she flew through the air. Kai eyes darted throughout the forest for any titan that lingered. The remainder of her squad had dwindled down to a few after the second run in with titans. Their numbers had been overwhelming.

"Kai! There's a titan to your left!"

"Huh?" Kai twisted in the gear in time to see a five meter titan reaching towards her. She dodged the hand and shot the anchors of the 3DMG into a nearby tree. A trail of steam followed her as she whipped up and around the titan. She arched her blades down through the titan's fleshy neck. The titan fell, as she regrouped with the remaining members of her squad. She glanced down at an olive skinned male with a crew cut.

"Thanks Wesley, I don't know where I would be without you."

Wesley looked at her and smirked. "In that titan's stomach of course."

"Shut up. I don't need you to make my day any more depressing." Kai averted her gaze from him to the figure not too far up ahead. "I wonder what Heichou does to cope with death."

"He doesn't have to. I don't think he really cares for that kind of crap."

Kai gritted her teeth. "Surely he can't be that heartless. I mean, he seems to care about us, right?"

Wesley was silent. Kai could hear the whining of the gear next to her.

"Right?" She repeated herself.

"Listen Kai, all that matters right now is that we get our job done. That means finishing the mission. Just keep your mind focused on that right now. I'm not going to act as your eyes anymore. I have to watch out for myself too ya know. We can't let those who have died be in vain."

Kai snorted. "Fine, mister wise-guy. I'll pay up once we get out of this nightmare, but first don't let those eyes of your let you down." As she finished, she sped up in the air. There was a boom and a sudden burst of a flock of birds from the treetops up ahead. A red flare had been fired. The red smoke formed a lazy column up in the sky.

Kai sighed. "This never gets old. How many will it be this time? Three? I wonder which direction they are heading."She waited for the green flare to be fired. "Come on baby. Where are you? Where is that green flare from the Commander?"

Levi glanced over his shoulder, before landing on a branch. Kai followed his example with Wesley on her heels. Levi slid one of his blades into the holster under his arm.

"Why hasn't the green flare been fired? The target has been spotted right?" Wesley inquired as he landed sideways on the tree.

"Of course it's been spotted." Kai voiced. "It's just taking him a while to fire it. Perhaps they ran into a little trouble? Heichou?" She looked at him.

Levi didn't appear to be concerned. His usual blank stare studied the sky, waiting.

Kai rolled her eyes. "Let's hope it's not a deviant." She took off, leaving her squad behind. It was a hunch, but she felt that it would be best to act off of instinct rather than wait around regardless of the consequences that Levi would bestow.

"Besides what's the worse he could give? A month's worth of chores? Wrong, more like getting locked in a cell for a couple of days and then cooking for a month. Man, I hate cooking! I don't understand the whole cleaning bit. Yeah, he's a bit of a clean freak, but he has other qualities too."

"Oi!Kai! Where are you going?! You need to wait!" Wesley hollered after her.

Kai glimpsed over her shoulder in time to see Wesley be stopped by Levi. "Next time wise-guy! It's time to end the nightmare!"

Steam curled off of Kai, as she carved through titan's flesh. The wet swooshing sound of blood shooting up from the fatal flesh wound, vibrated in her ears. It was a sickening sound that gave her no pleasure.

She leapt and flew through the air before landing on the head of another titan. She studied herself and stared at her stained blades. "Do you guys realize how difficult it is to clean the blood off of these blades when it doesn't fully evaporate?" She waited out the silence as if to give the titan a chance to talk. "I don't think you would care. After all, all you do is linger about while scaring the crap out of us human beings. Doesn't get to be boring eventually?"

The titan raised its hands to snatch her from its head. "How about I cure your boredom before it gets out hand." She vaulted high enough to dodge its hands.

Kai aimed before releasing her blades from its holders. The blades flew down into the titan's eyes. Quickly she inserted two new blades and slashed downward at the titan's neck. "See, cured for good." She ran her tongue around her mouth tasting blood. She spat out the titan blood. "Your blood doesn't taste any better than ours." She remarked with disgust. Blood seeped off her blades as she flung them back. She jumped off the titan as it faltered.

She landed on the ground like a spider descending from its web. She looked back at the crumbled form of the titan. Steam rising from the carcass, seemed to be hushed by the heavy rain.

Kai pulled her hood over her wet hair. "No point in getting sick from this weather." She muttered under her breath.

She glanced up to see if Levi or Wesley were around. "I guess I'm on my own for now." She concluded.

She walked towards the carcass. Scrrreeetch! The cords shot out and lifted her into the air. "No, point in being titan 'food' on the ground." She commented as she flew. "If Hanji were here she would automatically correct me; she would say, 'titans don't eat us, they don't have a digestive system'. I hate it when she does that. At first, sure it's fine but after the first ten times, yeah, that's when it gets to be annoying."

Kai glanced down at her dirtied reflection in one of her blades. "Look at me, complaining away. The others wouldn't hear it, they would shut me down before I had another chance to utter another word, which is good I suppose, but isn't there a time a girl can vent a little?"

During her little rant, Kai failed to see a titan emerge behind her. It bulbous eyes jutted out from its elongated misshaped face. It was scrawny compared to most titans that she had encountered that day. When it spotted her, it ran towards her with its arms flung back the way like sleeves on a jacket fly back when it is hanging on for dear life.

Kai's attention jerked to the titan, the moment its running could be heard. She momentarily froze up. She swerved towards a tree and didn't notice it until the last moment. She panicked and veered to the left a split second before impact. She cast a quick look to the titan's position; it was almost on her.

It reached for her; its fingers wrapping around her lower half. Kai's instincts kicked in. She sliced and hacked at its fingers until she was free. Pain throttled up her legs. She clenched her teeth as it surged.

"Are they broken? I can't move as well as I could if they are. The gear will almost be useless." As if on cue, the gear huffed one last puff of steam. "No, I can't be out of gas now!" Her eyes widened. She started to plummet downwards.

The titan ignored the fact that its hand was steaming and continued to try and catch Kai. Its mouth opened as it leapt towards Kai.

Kai screamed as its other hand slammed into her. She flew back and hit a tree. Something cracked, and she most certainly doubted it was the tree. She found it difficult to regain her breath, as it became ragged.

The titan went on all fours like a hungry dog. It crawled towards her with salvia dripping from the corner of its mouth.

Kai tasted blood. She still held onto the blades. She looked at them before turning her full attention to the titan.

"It's all my fault. I am too weak, too naïve. I should've ignored my gut feeling, but how could I have been wrong? I wasn't in the wrong; I did the right thing. Only, I failed to keep my focus on the mission instead of myself. "Kai felt a lump of blood in the back of her throat. It led to repulsive coughing. Blood dripped from her chin.

"Now I will pay, just as Wesley implied to earlier, only in an unexpected way. Man, if I ever see him again. I'm going to tell him that he was right…..then again naahh. He doesn't need his pride blown out of proportion again."She smiled grimly as she remembered the last time he had issues with his pride.

"I was hoping that I would live long enough to marry and grow old. Well, I blew that out of the water when I joined the Survey Corps. I remember as little girl I would boldly look into the 'face of death' and declare victory over it. It was a piece of cake then, but now I realize how foolish I was as a child.

Is this what Sandra, Logan, and Vicente felt like when they died today? Did they think about their lives? Poor Wesley. He's the only one subordinating members from our squad to survive. Heichou, no, Levi will have to find new squad members to replace us. Would he even care that we died? Would he be that heartless? Has all of this slaughter turned him to be insensitive to everything else?"

The titan lunged at her with its mouth open a second time. Kai felt herself rolled out of the way. The titan took a bite out of the tree.

"What am I doing? There's no need to prolong this pain. Death is inevitable now."She watched in horror as the titan spat out the chunk of wood. She closed her eyes. "I don't want to see how this ends. I did my job until the end."She let herself go limp on the wet muddy ground.

Something slammed into the earth close to her. Warm steam curled around her body. It was quiet, oddly quiet. Then there was the whirling of 3DMG nearby. Kai felt her heart beat quicken. There were footsteps approaching her.

Someone wrapped an arm around her and held her up partially. They brushed her bangs out of her face.

"Tch, what a mess." The voice was familiar to her.

"Cap-tain?" Kai opened her eyes to see Levi holding her. His image faltered.

"Is… Wesley with you?" She inquired weakly.

"No, but he should be here soon."

Kai released on her grip of the blades. She reached towards his face. "I don't think I can last that long. I'm in pretty bad shape." She smiled weakly. "I'm glad that I got…." She coughed. "To see someone familiar before going…. I didn't think you cared about us…about me."

Levi placed his hand into the hand which she extended. "Kai, you did well today. Everyone fought with the best of their abilities. I swear to you–"

"KAI!" Wesley landed quickly a couple feet from them and dashed towards them. He kneeled beside her. "Is she going to be ok?!"

"Wesley." Kai's hand slipped from Levi's and reached for Wesley. "I'm sorry, mister wise guy. I can't reimburse you." She smiled grimly. "Please forgive me. I didn't pay heed to your advice."

"No, Kai we're going to get you through this. I'll make sure of it."

"Her lungs have been punctured, and her legs have been shattered." Levi replied quietly.

"Wesley, please let—"

"No." Wesley shook his head.

"You have to keep your mind on the mission. Remember? That's what you said. That's what you need to do now, in order to survive."

"Wesley, listen to her. We can't stay here much longer. This place will be overrun with titans soon." Levi replied.

Wesley shot a glare at him. "How do you know?"

Levi stared at him. "Trust me on this."

"Trust you! Like hell, I'll trust you! All you do is keep details from us!" Wesley stood up and lowered his blade to Levi's throat. It barely touched his skin.

"Aldridge, remove your blade,—"

More blood seeped onto Kai's lips. She lowered her hand. Her eyes focused on Levi. Tears dripped down the side of her face. Her voice was small now. "I'm sorry. Goodbye, Levi, Wesley–" Her blue pupils seemed to glaze as she faded away.

"Kai?" Wesley lowered his blade. He dropped it and kneeled. He scooped up her body from Levi. He rocked her limp corpse. "Noo! Don't leave me here!"

Levi stood up and wiped his bloodied hands on a handkerchief which he kept on his person. "Aldridge, it's time to go."

Wesley ignored him and continued to cradle Kai's corpse.

Levi glared at him. "Don't let Kai's life be in vain. She wouldn't want you to stay here."

Wesley stopped. Levi could see the young man's body shuddering.

"I don't know what she was thinking," Wesley began slowly. "She believed that somehow you cared about her. I don't see how though." Wesley looked at him.

Levi drew his blades. "I swore that I wouldn't let my friends die in vain. Their spirits keeps me fighting to this day. Kai's spirit will give us strength we need to exterminate these beasts."

"Heichou."

A/N: So what did you think? Let me know in the Reviews! ^.^ I hope you enjoyed it. I will try and finish the rest in the next couple of months. I'm currently working on chapter 6, I believe. Thank you for reading!