Hi everyone! Thanks for taking a look at my story, this isn't my first FanFic but it's my first AOT one. This is a very thought out story I have been planning for a while now in my head and finally decided to write it out! Everything si based off the anime and then my own Original Content. I haven't read the manga yet so if you've seen all of the anime there won't be any spoilers:)
I hope you enjoy my little work of art I'm creating and please feel free to review it! It encourages me to write more and every writer loves feedback;)
"C-captain, what should we do?" a young scout yelled ahead of him from his horse. While he could not see the titan he could feel the ground trembling beneath him with every step it took.
"Keep moving, do not engage." Levi yelled back, his cape whipping around him as the wind crashed against both him and his horse.
They were quite far from their base which was about half a day from the wall. The titan chasing behind them was clearly an abnormal and was gaining on them more and more by the minute. Levi, Hange and Mike rode next to each other, Hange looking back past the two younger scouts behind them to stare in awe at the beast.
"Wow! Look how fast he's running! He'll get us soon if we don't do something. Let's capture him!" she beamed to Levi.
"Tch" he didn't bother looking over at her but instead kept his eyes ahead and kicked his horse once more forcing it to push harder and gain more speed. "Speed up, we'll gain a little more distance on him and we'll split. After that I'll take him down."
Hange signed and rolled her eyes while facing front and pushing into her horse to gain speed like the rest of them. The cockier of the two boys in the back smirked and let go of the reigns to take out his blades.
"Steve, w-what are you doing?" James said from next to him. You could see the fear on his face, hear it through his shaking words.
"I haven't gotten a kill yet, why don't you let me take this one captain? He might be fast but they're all dumb." Steve said standing on his horse. He had slowed down and was starting to lose the squad in front of him.
"Sit down kid, this isn't the place. There's not enough trees around to use your gear. You wouldn't be able to get enough speed or height." Mike said from under his hood.
The young scout grunted and tightened his grip on the blades. "I don't need damn trees, I'll show you. I was the fastest in my class, I'll fly right to him and slice him before he even knows what's happening." and with that he shot his gear into the titans right shoulder and thrusted forward using his hips to swing him around it.
"Idiot." Levi mumbled under his breath. He broke off from the squad heading to the left. He grabbed his blades and planned to fly off his horse to swing around and kill the titan while it was focused on Steve. He knew he was much faster. But before he could a gurgled scream ripped through the air. Looking back he saw Steve's lifeless body crushed in the abnormals hand. Blood was dripping from his mouth, his eyes popped almost fully out of his skull.
Levi glowered wanting to kill the titan even more than before. He waited for the titan to take a bite of the scout in his hand but was surprised when instead it threw the boy right at him. With a slight gasp he turned forward again and whipped the horse causing it to pick up speed. He heard the wet, crunching sound of the boys body hitting the ground right behind him and dug his heels deeper into the sides of his horse.
"Levi, watch out!" he heard Hange scream. Not knowing what she was talking about he tugged his horse the the left and tried to ride in another direction to avoid whatever he was being warned about. Before he could fully turn he was hit in the side of his head with one of the dead scouts full gas canisters.
He heard both Mike and Hange yell again behind him but couldn't make out what they were saying before he blacked out. Slumping forward and to the side he started to fall off his horse but was caught by the foot rest and his hand tangled in the reigns.
Hange and Mike watched as Levis horse jumped up, panicked, and started to run in the opposite direction of them.
"Fuck." Hange said under her breath as she saw the abnormal almost within grabbing distance of them. "Ride harder, we have to make it to that tree line ahead of us, we can take him out there!" she yelled to Mike and James.
"But what about the captain?" James yelled ahead while looking back at the titan reaching out to try and grab him.
"We'll circle around and find him after, we have to take the titan out first."
Nodding in agreement the three scouts dashed towards the thick tree line ahead of them. Once there all three shot their gear up and disappeared into the trees. The abnormal didn't lose much speed as he ran right into the forest taking some of the smaller trees down as he went. Wildly he swung his head and arms around searching for a human snack. Swinging down from one of the taller branches Mike drifted along the ground slicing through the titans right Achilles but missing the left.
This still brought the titan down to one knee and gave Hange the opportunity to cut a clean chunk off it's neck dealing a final blow.
"Woohoo!" Hange yelled swinging through the air and meeting Mike and James on a branch. "now wasn't that fun!" she said hitting the young scout on the back and laughed with her hand on her hip.
"We should go now, we need to find Levi." said Mike as he sniffed the air. "I can't smell him anymore but I can't smell any titans either so he might still be safe."
"Don't you think he'll just head back to us? Maybe we should just stay here...o-or head back to camp!" the scared scout said twiddling his fingers.
"He was knocked unconscious, who knows how hard that canister hit him. He could be out for a while." Mike replied.
"Yeah, I remember when I was working on those canisters trying to adjust them to fit more air and I lost control of one. It blew through my whole office before hitting me in the head. I was out for hours!" Hange said still laughing and reminiscing with the memory.
The scared scout sighed and nodded to Mike and the three of them jumped down from the trees to their horses and started in the opposite direction.
As more and more time went by the three scouts grew more and more worried. They had split up and searched all angles but saw no sign of their captain or his horse. As the sun started to set they decided to head back.
While riding back in silence, a thick nausea setting in their stomachs and an ache in their chests, they wondered. Had they really lost their comrade, their captain? Had they really lost humanity's last hope?