I dreamed of Maria
(This is a remake of my older fanfic called Goliath's)
Devour. This was the action it thought about. The only thing it was good for. It looked down at its hands. Calloused and scarred with long silver claws protruding from the nails. It looked down at its legs. Strong, mighty and animal. Dark, waxy skin with a layer of thick shaggy fur covered its entire body. When it walked, the ground would shake; when it listened, there was silence; when it felt the ground, tiny vibrations were present. But, when it sniffed the surrounding air, that's when its senses all fell into place. Getting down on all fours, running across the ground like a rabid dog, he broke through bushes, and slowed to an almost perfect crawl. They were close. It could smell their fear, and it wanted, desperately, to devour them.
"Everyone stay in formation. Do this exactly how we were trained and everyone will be fine." The captain of the 23rd Squad of the Scouting legion zipped through the tree line his subordinates following in tight formation. This is going to be easy were the first thoughts that went through the aberrants mind. Its claws pierced the hard wood of the tree's like cutting through paper with scissors. Its claws pierced the hard wood of the tree like cutting through paper with scissors. With careful precision the Titan pulled itself above the higher canopy, waiting to strike.
"This is it stay shar…" A swish of Black and he was gone
"Sergeant?!" Petra screamed, what had just happened.
On the ground it looked at the man. His spine had been broken from the force of his grab. Such a fragile thing. It lifted the succulent carcass of the sergeant to its snout. Its mouth began to nibble at his stomach exposing the organs to its greedy tongue. It lashed over the juices that flowed with in his gaping chest cavity. Delicious, it couldn't handle the teasing anymore and devoured him.
"You bastard!" Petra zipped around from behind her blades inches from his neck. She gagged its hand had wrapped around her supple body. Bringing it to eye level she struggled in its grasp. She had managed to get her arm free, she smacked its claw in futility. It tickled. He took the arm between his teeth and bit it softly making her bleed as the bones broke and the flesh sliced, he savored every crunch. She screamed an agonizing scream, she filled its ears with audible bliss. It released her, she tried to stand and face the giant haired monster. She got one last look at its horrid face. It looked like a wolf. It poked her to move, to run, to sprint. But she couldn't move, she was too scared. It whined tilting its head to the side confused. What was the human doing. Was it giving up. Had it surrendered to him. Did she want to be eaten. To die! It's no fun if they don't fight back or attempt to flee. This one was different had it accepted its fate. It sat down in front of her. She looked back up at it, the more she looked the more confused she got.
"What are you doing, kill me. KILL ME!" The yell surprised the Titan her voice was strong, the Titan stumbled backwards away from her in fear.
"What you killed my leader and you're refusing to kill me. Your not scared are you!" The woman had had enough she wanted to die, she was sitting right in front of one, on a silver jewel encrusted plate, but the Titan wasn't interested it seemed curious even more confused by her than she was of it. She felt the ground tremor. Turning slowly she saw another Titan, a 10 meter class. It looked a lot like a bearded man, only with a giant grin filled with rows of square sharp teeth. Its hand loomed down wrapping around her. She was lifted towards its open maw, a streak of silver not from swords but from claws. An off in one fell swoop the Wolf Titan had lobbed of the other Titans head. It gobbled her up within its mouth not using its teeth like it did before. She opened her eyes she felt slimy. She looked around, she was still in its mouth, its tongue had been rolled back to avoid her falling into the pits of its stomach.
She couldn't tell for sure but she just knew that they were moving, moving very fast. The black blur raced across the glowing green grass, who remembers the wilting flowers. A thick yellow liquid began to soak onto her skin and clothes, it grew hard fast, encasing her inside of the liquid Amber. The Titan ran at full speed towards the wall. Its eyes focused on the top, could he climb it, he had too... For her. The cannons mounted at the top swiveled acquiring the new target, HE rounds loaded inside. Bang. Bang. Two shells sailed through the sky, he skirted to the right and the cannon round showered him with dirt. She could hear the sound of explosives even through the slimy casing. They were shooting cannons, where was she. Back at the wall! This thing was going to climb the wall! She fumbled around for her gear. She couldn't get her swords out the sheath because the ooze had covered it turning it rock solid. The Titan looked up the last cannon ball flew down. It sped up trying out run before the explosive made impact. The ball struck the ground next to its leg. The force of the blast barreled the Titan through the air, it's left leg blown clean from its body. It struggled but it continued to advance on the looming wall. It counted the time until the cannons were ready again, It had around thirty seconds left. Once it reached the base it used it's remaining leg to propel itself into the air using its claws to scale it's way up.
"It's climbing up!" The forward garrison was scared out its mind he stopped reloading his artillery, once it reached the top. He stared death right in the eyes. The Titans bright blue eyes seared his soul, the reaper watched him... And ignored him. Once it was securely at the top of the wall, it opened its mouth, a woman covered in crystal like yellow ooze slid out she was paralyzed but alive. The Titan turned to the city. It's eyes looking over the building. Humans wandered the street in dozens. All the food he could have ever wanted. But the women, she awoke something inside of it, It didn't know what it was, but it wanted to take control. It turned to the garrison they were speechless as they watched the Titan their mortal enemy save a life and not try and eat them.
"Thank you for bringing her back. Erwin will be pleased." The second garrison clutched a rifle but he didn't use it. The Titan clutched its throat, it's breathing struggled.
"I... Dreamt... Of... Maria." The words that escaped the Titans mouth shocked them all! They looked at its leg, like any Titan it would have healed by now but... It didn't heal.
"Don't trust it. It ate my sergeant!" The women screamed the garrison troops woke up out of their trance and swiveled the cannons towards it. It didn't move it just gazed at the city beneath. They were ready to the light the fuse. Lightning struck somewhere behind the wall. In a split second in a large puff of steam a Titan rose from the ashes. It's eyes locked on them. Its enormous head blocked out the sun, submerging them in darkness. It lifted its large hand slowly. It tried to place it down on top of them but the wolf Titan held the Colossal Titans hand stopping them from being crushed. The wolf Titan roared throwing the Colossal Titans hand away from them. The much larger Titan didn't seem bothered by the interference, it placed its hand a little further away.
"What is it doing?!" One of the garrison soldiers screamed
"It's going to breach the wall! You mother fucker!" The other garrison soldier bellowed, he fired his cannon at the giant. The round rippled its skinless flesh. No damage even marked it. The Titan didn't seem bothered either. It lifted its foot. Its whole body pivoted with it. With one kick the lower gate from the wall exploded. In an instant... It was all over.