Well hello there everyone, it is I Riku Ashwood and I am not dead! Yes yes I know I've been gone along time but tbh I just lost interest in writing for a long time. I don't know if I'll get back to my Soul Eater series but I may get back to it one day. For now I am here to write a Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) fanfic I got after listening to 8-bit versions of the theme songs. I kept imagining Eren, Mikasa, and Armin in NES 8 bit style sprites and it became this story. Note that it doesn't follow the story line and will simply take place using the characters and the world of SnK. Ok, I won't bore you with a long chapter intro but there will be links to music that you can play during segments of the reading. Hope you enjoy

-Riku

EDIT: OK so links don't work worth a damn no matter how you format them. So just look up Shingeki no kyojin 8 bit on soundcloud and listen to the one by Dadstunts for the first theme and Shingeki no kyojin op 2 8 bit for the second theme by the same user.

"Mikasa! Be careful!" Eren yelled as his adoptive sister dashed through trees trying to avoid a very dangerous 10 meter Aberrant Titan. He, Mikasa and their friend Armin were asked to join along with the Scouting Legion while they ventured outside the walls but became separated from the squad when a group of aberrant titans appeared. Without knowing where the rest of the Legion was or if they were coming at all they tried to lead it away into a forest to kill it. When the aberrant started going against what they thought it would do they were all forced to flee together.

"Eren, I understand! Come on this way!" Mikasa replied and swung left through more trees. Eren and Armin followed fast but the aberrant was still on them.

"Damn, this thing won't give up and we're running low on Gas and blades having to cut through some branches." Armin Said as the rushed into a more open area and began to run on the ground. The trio began to hear the aberrant catch up and they diverted into nearby trees again.

"Eren, you need to transform and kill this thing or else we'll just run out of gas and blades." Mikasa said as Eren caught up to her.

"I tried earlier but my body is still strained from when I used it before, remember!?" Eren Yelled back. Mikasa remembered how there were more titans but Eren had taken most of them down in his titan form before being forced to revert and escape as a human.

"This isn't good!" screamed Armin "I don't think I have much gas left!"

"Me neither, we need to get out of this situation fast!" Eren replied and changed direction again. The three of them kept dashing into field after field until they were able to find a safe area to hide in.

"What are we gonna do you guys." Armin said. "I don't have nearly enough gas to make it out of the tree and my blades are all worn out from the branches."

"I know, I know, we're in a tough spot. Eren, do you have flares on you? we could try to signal where we are to the rest of the squad." Mikasa thought up and looked over to Eren while he searched through his pocket and belt.

"Oh no." Eren got a grave look on his face, "I can't find the signal gun or any of the flares...this is bad." Armin began to rock silently back and forth while Mikasa huddled closer to Eren. They stayed in those trees for the entire day, luckily no Titans ever found them but by now the rest of their squad had probably returned to the walls. What would they do now stuck outside. The Scouting legion and Captain Levi wouldn't try to risk a search and rescue, they'd lose a lot of men, but if they didn't, they'd lose one of the only shots of beating the Titans. Eren, Mikasa, and Armin strung together a small rest area out of branches while the night fell and decided to rest among the leaves until morning, in which they would try to find their way back to the walls.

In the morning, Eren got up first and watched as the sun rose up. Mikasa and Armin were up only a little while after and were able to catch the last of the sun rise before the sky began to shift back to blue.

"You know, I could die out here, we all could., but seeing the sun rise in the outside world is something that I wouldn't mind dying for..." Eren said aloud. Mikasa and Armin stayed quiet and just kept their heads down. All of them were truly afraid, they knew that staying outside would mean their death eventually, so they had to try to make it back to the wall soon.

"Eren, Armin, I don't think we should venture far from here. We should try to rest for the entire day, eat when we can, and then try to make our way to the wall during nightfall." Mikasa softly commented while peeking through the trees to catch a glimpse of the world around them to see if Titans were around.

"In that book that I showed you guys, about the outside world, I saw something about Humans going out and Hunting animals for food." Armin remembered "We could try that for food right?"

"Yeah, and we could get enough to last us until nightfall again." Eren said confidently. Mikasa couldn't think of them really getting a lot while Titans roamed around but she put her faith in Eren and nodded her head in agreement. For the rest of the morning they collected wood for a fire, made fishing rods out of strings and wood like Armin thought they looked like, forged spears out of bigger branches with the blades they had left and survived. A few deer would wander by and Eren would chuck his crude spears at them and actually hit a few of them. Bringing them back he remembered how their town's butcher had cut the meat the Scouting legion would bring back and then heated the deer meat over fires. As night fell they finished packing a few things and made their way out of the trees to the ground and trekked back to the wall. after a while they decided to go through more trees to avoid a few 4 meter titans that were still roaming around.

"Guys, we might make it out of here. and we even have extra food to bring back!" Armin said hopefully

"Yeah" Eren and Mikasa replied. Suddenly a loud screech was heard and a 10 meter Aberrant appeared out of nowhere cutting them off.

"What!" Mikasa screamed and fell from her branch.

"Mikasa!" Armin yelled being thrown from his branch as well

"Armin!" Eren was quickly thrown off of his branch as well and they all hurdled back to the ground. Before they smashed into the earth however, Eren swore he saw three holes open into the ground before he and the others passed out from the fall.

Well that completes chapter one of the story guys. Make sure to leave your most honest reviews and comments, any critique is also encouraged so that I could make this story better for all of you! Bye for now

-Riku