"Check." Becka said. "Hmm, I sometimes hate you." I replied to her. I sat there, twirling my fingers in my long curly hair trying to find a way out of this. "And that looks like checkmate, for the fourteenth time." Becka said with a smirk. "Stop acting like you're the best, how badly did Grimsby beat you?" I said looking up at her. "That doesn't count, he's like, five years older than me." Beck said frustrated as her red hair flung around. "I hear excuses, how bout you just beat him for once. I told her laughing. "Mason I swear to god!" Becka said mad, but I could tell she was joking.
Right then I heard running down the hall outside the room. "Did you hear that?" Becka asks me. "Umm yeah, I'll check." I said as I open the door. I pulled the door open and immediately got tackled by Sammy who was running. "Dammit sammy, what are you doing." I said as I look up and see a look in his eyes, this wasn't the look of fear, no, it was the look of terror. "Sammy, what's wrong?" Becka said stepping outside. "It's Ymir, she's really sick, and she asked for you two, along with me and six others." Sammy said, breathing heavy. "What do you mean sick?" Becka asks. "No time to explain, come on." Sammy says as he runs off and Becka runs after him. Jesus christ, I hope she's okay, I know her and Sammy were close. I thought. He's a minority, latino is what Ymir called him, he has long dark brown hair and is short, like 5'4, and when Ymir found him she made into a soldier, he's are scout and runs behind the lines with a small pistol. "Mason, hurry up!" Becka said. "Yeah I'm coming." I said. "She's in here." Sammy says about to open a door. "Wait, what should I expect, shouldn't her Titan blood heal her?" I asked. "Wait yeah, how is she sick?" Becka said confused. "I don't know, I was just told to get you." Sammy says as he opens the door.
"Holy shit." I said when I see her. Ymir was a rather young women, only thirty-one, but she looked eighty years old. "Good to see you to Mason" Ymir says with her same voice. I look around the room to see Tyber and Grimsby standing to the right of the bed with there arms crossed, and to the left I see Ulysses, Gight, and Charles. And holding Ymir's hand was her niece, Sarah. "Ymir, what happened to you?!" Becka asks. Ymir looks up with a serious expression. "I don't have much time left, I explained this to Grimsby and Sarah but that's it, now you all know how I got my powers, correct?" Ymir asks us. "Yeah, you found the devil and struck a deal with him and you got your powers, right?" Charles asked. "You are correct, now on my end of the deal I got the titan power, but what I didn't tell you was the other part of the deal." Ymir says with a deadly look in here eyes. I then look up at Grimsby. His hazel eyes weren't open and aware as the normally were, they were wide like he'd seen a ghost. I look over at Sarah and she had the same expression, her sea green eyes were wide and her blond hair was covering one of them. "What was your end of the deal?" Tyber asks quietly. "That I would die in the next thirteen years, and it's been thirteen years." Ymir said. A single tear rolled down Sarah's cheek. I walked over and put my hand on her shoulders. I've known Sarah since we started training, ten years ago, and it hurt to see her like this. She looks up, gives a weak smile and puts her other hand on mine. "So why did you bring us here, why are you telling us this, so we can cry that Eldia will be gone." Ulysses says with a serious look. Ymir looks up and smiles a bit. "That's the fun part." Ymir says like a madwoman. "Umm Ymir?" Gight asks. "Instead of my power being gone forever something else will happen. My soul will split into nine parts, nine titan powers, and they will go to nine different people." Ymr says looking at all of us.
I look around and realize that there are nine of us here. "Oh no, I see where this is going." I said a little scared. "You were always smart, yes you all will get the powers, you will all get my powers." Ymir says smiling. There was a long silence and realization. "What's the catch, there's always something." Gight says looking down. "Well, once you receive the powers you will have thirteen years left to live." Ymir says and stopped smiling. "Oh my God, are you serious?!" Sammy says scared. "What about this titan power, when we die what will happen to the ability?" Ulysses askes. "You see, Sarah and I talked about this, but she will need to use her specific power to create mindless titans out of people, when they eat you then the power will go to that person." Ymir says. "Oh God." Sammy says as he vomits into a trashcan. "Wait, does each titan have it's own, like ability?" Becka asks as she puts her hand on Sammys back but not looking away from Ymir. I felt Sarah's hand grip mine harder. "My time is almost done, I wrote down everything you need to know on a sheet of paper, General Daniels has it and he will help you." Ymir says. "You forgot something, Lady Ymir." Grimsby said, he's been so quiet this whole time. "Oh yes, since Grimsby is the oldest he will lead you all, you need to be one big family, please take care of one another and respect Daniels and Grimsby." Ymir says. "So how do we do this?" Charles asks. "Everyone put your hand on me." Ymir says. We all gather around her and put one hand on her. "Don't be alarmed, your hands will be stuck util it is over, and know that I love all of you." Ymir says.
I feel Sarah grip my hand that's not on Ymir. There was a long silence and then her eyes got wide and bright yellow. "AGH WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Sammy asks crying. "I DON'T KNOW, JUST KEEP STILL." She then screams as electricity rolls around her body. I watched as a single bolt goes on my arm, I couldn't hear Ymir anymore, I just watched this bolt. It jumps up into my mouth and I screamed in agony.I felt Sarah's hand grip mine harder. I couldn't even hear myself but it hurt like hell. Then it stopped, no more, just silence. And where Ymir was is now just a pile of clothes. "Is everyone okay?" Grimsby asks. "What just happened?" Gight asked. "We have are..powers, let's find General Daniels." Grimsby says as he walks out. As a group, and we all followed. He was around the hall. He was the tallest person we had, he was 6'7 and pure muscle, but he was Ymir's closest friend and they often shared information. He looks over, with sadness in his gray eyes and his hair even seemed more gray, yet he was only thirty-three years old.
"Has she gone?" Daniels asked us without saying anything else. "Yes, she's gone." Sarah says from behind me. Well, I read over the facts she gave me, we will tell the people in a week or two, come on, let's go." Daniels said. "Wait, where are we going?" Charles asked. "A place where we can see how powerful your new powers are, to see if Ymir made the right choice, we've packed clothes for you and we're leaving in ten minutes." Daniels says as he walks off. "This can't be happening." Sammy says blankly as a tear rolls down his cheek. "Come on, we'll get some water before we go, come with me Sammy." Becka says. "Me and Gight need to talk about something, come on Gight." Ulysses says. "Tyber and Charles, I need your help with something real quick, come with me." Grimsby says.
When he left it was just me and Sarah. "Hey, are you okay Sarah, you know you can always talk with me." I tell her. She then wraps her arms around my waist and starts to cry into my chest right in the middle of the hallway. "Hey hey it's okay it's okay." I tell her in a calm voice as I put my hand on the back of her head. "She was the only person left, all my other family died." Sarah says as her face is in my chest. "That why you have friends like me and everyone else, if no one else is there for you just know that I'm here. " I tell her trying to sound happy. "Thank you Mason, I'm glad I have you, lets go meat with Daniels and head out.
Daniels had us get in a wagon and then we headed out. We were driving out for what seemed to be three hours. We then got to our destination. It was a desert of some kind, big open field with stone buildings around it, but we parked a far distance from it. "So I hope you're ready, you will all become titans and we will see how much use you can be, be prepared, Gight, you're first, come with me." Daniels says.