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Bruises

Chapter 1

Sasha grabbed her stomach and swallowed hard. She looked around, her fellow cadets seemed as nervous and scared as her. They kept glancing everywhere, they were on the top of a house so it'd be easy to spot a titan.

Titans; Sasha loathed them, they hadn't killed any member of her family, still she loathed them because of all they had caused: deaths, orphans, lack of food.

"They're coming" A short cadet cried "We're going to die" The tears started to stream down her face.

Sasha spotted the titan easily, an extremely stupid looking 7 meters one. She thought about it. No, she was not going to die, not after all her training and effort. You ranked 9 out of the top ten, you can do this Sasha, you will survive. She thought.

"Okay, don't panic right away" The leader of the group-a sweet looking man, probably in his forties- told them "Wait until they get to us"

"Sasha, you're good at his, aren't you?" The teary eyed girl asked her.

"Um, yeah" Sasha wasn't meaning to brag. The short girl started to sob.

"Would you please help me?" She seemed desperate. Sasha didn't really know what to answer at first. Sure, she wasn't selfish but she found the cadet's request a bit overwhelming.

"S-sure" Sasha smiled timidly, the short girl's eyes shined.

Sasha looked around again. Now there wasn't only one titan, there were dozens of them. The momentary feeling of proud that she felt when asked to protect someone disappeared and was replaced with a feeling of fear.

They were coming closer. Sasha sighed, she was ready for this. She closed her eyes, this would calm her. They opened when he heard a girly scream. There was a titan standing in front of them. The titan raised it's hand, ready to slam and grab a human. She didn't take long to react, she fired her grapple hooks to the house in front of her and flew to it. Most of her squad was able to escape the titan, but she saw how the titan ate a young cadet. She saw the eyes of the cadet, full of tears. He was screaming, agony screams.

She frowned, she wasn't going to stand and not do anything, she had to kill the titan. Without thinking it twice, Sasha fired her grapple hooks again, this time in the titan's back. You can do this Sasha. She thought while she was on the air. Taking out her blades she shouted, then they slashed the back of the titan's neck, it fell immediately. A shout of joy escaped from her mouth, she had just killed her first titan.

For a moment she felt like she could spit fire, but this disappeared when more titans were coming closer to them. Turning around, she realized that some of her squad were gone; this scared her a little. The short girl was right behind her, for now.

She quickly flew away from one titan punch, that ended up killing a man. If she killed more titans it would comfort her but with so many around, it became extremely dangerous to move around one. And this was proved when one of his squad members got eaten while trying to get to another roof.

A 5 meters titan was going to be her next target. She waited until only few titans were around him. Now, do it now. She jumped, took out her blades and slashed the titan.

"Crap!" She shouted, she hadn't cut deep enough to kill it. The short girl followed all her moves, without attacking of course. This made Sasha a bit angry. Why wasn't the girl fighting? Why wasn't she doing something while others were dying?

She tripped over something in the roof and fell down, her nose hitting the roof hard.

"Sasha" The short girl cried "Are you alright?" You ask me now if I'm alright.

"Yeah, whatever" She replied somewhat annoyed "We better move"

Just when they spotted a place to move, A titan appeared in front of them. Sasha read it's moves right away, but the other girl didn't, thus the titan grabbed her with its enormous hands like she were a doll. The girl started to shout desperately.

"Sasha! Help me!" But Sasha couldn't move, she was too horrified to do it. Blood splashed her face when the titan ate the short girl. Move, move Sasha or else you'll die. But her body didn't answer her.

Closing her eyes, she prepared to die. Nevertheless, a heavy sound made her open them. The titan was lying death on the floor. Still, she couldn't calm down, she felt the presence of other titan behind her. Then she felt how someone grabbed her from her waist and flew away with her.

She raised her head to see who had saved her. Because she had indeed just been saved. Her mouth opened when she saw who was carrying her. It was no other but Lance Corporal Levi.

"No way" She didn't mean to say these words out loud. He did something that seemed like a smirk. They landed on another roof.

"Why?!" It was the first thing Sasha said when they landed.

"You should thank first" He said coldly. Sasha blushed.

"Thanks, Corporal" She said shyly.

"That's better"

"Why?" She started "Why did you do that?

"You preferred to die?" He frowned.

"No!" She shouted "It's just that, well, I'm just a simple cadet, who I'm sure you don't even who is"

"So?" He stared at her " Does that mean your life is worth less that someone else's?" This made Sasha blush again.

"No" She looked down "I'm Sasha, Sasha Braus"

"Well, Braus, I have to go"