For the first time in ages, the woods outside of the walls were quite. Almost all the animals had gone into hiding, sensing a creature unlike any other. Covered in a blue, scaley hide, the creature crept close to the ground, keeping within the treeline. Darkness was fast approaching, and when it did, she would end her hunt. She had spent nearly three months tracking down a criminal. A titan shifter that had been conducting experiments on humans, with the goal of turning them into titans themselves. She wanted to end her hunt. Tonight. She wanted to return home to her son and daughter. She had been gone for far too long as it stood. But once she finished following the trail, she found something interesting. Massive walls, easily overshadowing even herself in size, and the smell of humans. But also within that smell came overwhelming scent of her quarry. The sun was dipping ever lower as her remained still.
'He will die in his sleep,' she thought to herself. 'I climb up the wall, find him, then crush him like the bug he is.' The forest suddenly was filled with noise, snapping the predator out of her thoughts. The creature sniffed the air, letting out a low pitched rumble. The Titan's had begun to move toward the a bump in the wall. Some type of outlying area, most likely made to make defense easier. But the smell of humans was faint, even to her. How could they smell something that she barely could? She caught another smell, something faint, before a bolt of lightning came crashing down near the front of the outlying wall.
Her head turned with a snarl. 'Impossible,' she thought angrily 'It dares interrupt my hunt!' The creature pulled itself up to it's full height, letting out a roar of rage, and began to run. Her anger turned to shock as the massive shifter brought back it's leg, and kicked. She couldn't she what the damage was, but she knew that wall was either heavily damaged, or outright had a brand new hole in it. One that could easily let a Titan slip through. She let out another roar, before dropping to all four's and charging. Her prey could easily get away from her during the chaos and not only that, but finding a large population of humans that had survived the rise of the titan's was thought to have been an impossibility. An impossibility in danger of being wiped out. Again!
'I'm so going to enjoy explaining this,' she thought to herself as she closed the distance between her and the gaping hole in the wall. Her thoughts turned to the attackers however. A slight grin appeared over her face. 'Ready or not. Here I come!'.
Within the Shiganshina District, things had already gone to hell. Titan's roamed wild; killing, and eating. Ill prepared soldiers tried to hold their own, only to easily swatted out of sky and devoured. No one was close to the gate as an unknown monstrosity entered the breach. The creature was seventeen meters tall, with razor sharp fangs and claws. It's skin was no longer visible, it's body nearly encased in bright blue flame. However it's roar was heard. It's was a scream, a warcry, straight out of the mouth of hell.
The Titan sized creature encounter quickly by survivors. First came the initial panic of another Titan that hadn't been seen before, until monstrosity showed it's true colors, killing any Titan within arms reach. It's attack weren't mindless either. Giant rocks cover in blue fire, aimed at a charging titan that hadn't entered its line of sight. Gouts of blue flame from it's maw, turning anything it touched into ash. They still ran desperately, trying to get away from the titan's invading their home, but were relieved knowing that something could fight back. The evacuation hadn't even finished before the rumors started to fly. Some said the creature could talk. Other's say it was a natural enemy of the Titans. Some members of the Wall Cult claimed the creature to sent as vengeance against the Titan's for the destruction of the wall. Little did they know a very human like being was what truly fighting on their behalf.
Another roar exited the creature's mouth after she ripped out another Titans nape with her teeth. She had only been fighting for at least a half hour, but it already felt like 5 hours to her. Screaming reached her ear. They sounded like children! A low pitched snarl exited her throat, whether it was aimed at the children for their foolishness or the parents for not getting them out sooner she didn't know. She quickly caught their scent, turning her head to scream.
"NOOOOO!" The child yelled. She turned as a large fourteen meter titan with a smile that would haunt just about anything crunched down on a human, most likely one of the child's parents. He was about to let out another scream, only to be cut off by a roar. The fourteen meter turned to face her. In her rage, she didn't go for a kill. Instead the titan found itself being ripped in half, before being thrown like a rag doll, crashing into the earth a fair distance away.
Eren flinched as his shouting was cut off by an ear splitting roar. Another titan had come into view. Or at least, he thought it was a titan. The newcomer was slightly larger the titan that had just killed his mother. He could tell how big it was though, due to the fact it was encased in blue flame. The creature lifted his mother's killer over it's head like it was nothing, before began to pull. The smiling titan didn't even respond as it's body was torn in half. Another roar exited the newcomings maw, before sending its parts sailing through the air.
Hannes himself blinked. What people had been talking about was true. A monstrosity that was the size of a Titan, but was killing Titan's itself. The shear thought seemed ludicrous to him, but here it was, standing right infront of him. The flames however were finally beginning to die down, resulting in gasps from him and the children under his arms. It was clear that what that thing was, it certainly was no titan.
The creature felt itself beginning to weaken as flames retreated from its body. She had been fighting to much. She couldn't feed right now either. She needed to get this group out of harm's way before she could no longer maintain her form. She took in another breath through her nose, trying to find where everyone was being sent to get out. She let out a few rumbles, attempting to talk, trying to tell them to go. From the looks of it, however, they didn't understand a single word. She listen to what one said. Small and female, she wasn't the one who made the racket that drew her here in the first place. A slight grin grew across the Goliath's face. They were speaking German. Thankfully she knew that as well.
"Go." The creature rumbled. Everyone looked at it in surprise. "GO!" it bellowed before Hannes started moving. It could speak too! The creature was following them. Why? The massive creature suddenly reached into ground, ripping up a massive boulder almost out of nothing. It lifted the rock over it's, paused, then through the boulder into the air. The spinning projectile flew through air, crashing into a titan's skull, knocking the creature to the ground. It's head, now pinned down by the rock, was torn off by it's bodys unhindered and newfound forward momentum. Eren blinked in surprise. Was, well, whatever it was, guarding them? The creature stomped around them, grabbing hold of ten meter Titan. The larger of the two forced its mouth open before unleashing blue flame straight into it's mouth. The titan struggled for only few seconds, flopping like a fish in the monster's hand, before it's body was consumed by the fire. They were getting close to the boat as a fifteen meter Titan stepped into their path. The seventeen meter Goliath had fallen behind them. Hannes took a step back, and heard a massive roar. He barely had time to look up as a massive body blocked out the sun. The fifteen meter feel to the ground, the Titan's nape crushed into a bloody pulp. However the Goliath wasn't in much better shape. It was getting weak, and looked as if it was about to simply fall over. Deep and heavy breaths echoed throughout the area.
She snarled. Her form was weakening quickly. She was running on nothing but fumes. She let out a roar as a massive titan blocked the path. Her powerful legs kicked into motion. One moment she was far behind, the next, she had sent herself sailing through the air. Her claws clenched into a fist as she brought her full weight into the titan, turning its neck into a bloody smear on the ground. However she had used the last her reserves. She needed to return to her human form, now! Her body began to fade, a solid body of flesh and muscles turning into a heavy fog. Her body, her true body, feel along with the mist, hitting the ground hard. She didn't even care that a large group of people saw her. She swayed on her feet, trying to keep herself steady. After being in Goliath form for so long it was hard for her to even stand normally. Another Titan had caught sight of the ship full of it's favorite snack, and once again the soldiers guarding it looked like they were about to shit themselves.
"Leaving a hunter," she huffed, gripping at the ground and pulling upwards, creating another massive rock. "To do a guardian's job," She snarled, heaving the projectile with pinpoint accuracy. The rock arced upwards, before crashing down into the titan's nape with bone splitting crack. "Is shameful," she finished as the titan dropped the ground. Her body swayed for a second before crashing to ground, passed out from exhaustion.
The female began to awake from a strange sensation of moving without actually moving. Her eyes flashed open, slowly pulling herself to her feet. Wood. Right. That guardian must of put her on the boat for the evacuation. She looked up after hearing many gasps from those around her, and her face soured. A second shifter, this time one covered in armor, smashed a hole between the outling area of the wall and the wall itself.
"Stupid honorless dog. We will find where you come from, and when we do, your people will burn," She spat in the old tongue, causing many people to look her direction. She almost called them out on the matter, but decided they had enough for one day. They were heading north, and it was going to be quite the trip. Based on the evacuation design though, it was clear there was more than one of these walls. And the area covered by the first was even more massive than she thought. Impressiveness aside, it was nothing more than an oversized cage. Her throat rumbled at the thought. She would need to leave soon anyway. Her quarry be damned, this was far more important than one target. It wasn't something she could do on her own ether. She needed backup, or different people sent here, or something! Plus they had to make sure whatever tribe those two were from, find out what they were doing and make sure that tribe was never able to such damage again. This was a slaughter of unparalleled, and sadly it only it had only just begun. Many of those around her simply sat, either praying or crying. She let out a snort, a small amount of blue flames escaping her lips. Where the Evolved really descendant of a race this scared? The humans of her village had more gail, only one of them had something that they could use to fight back. A blond haired boy approached her.
"Thank you for saving them," the boy whispered, clearly intimidated by her.
"I was running out of fumes, and at that point I considered anyone I could get out a win," the larger female snarled, "Doesn't seem like it as good of a condition of victory as I thought, now." She let out a huff of air in frustration.
"It's like you could have done," the boy started.
"Differently? Better? I could have done so many different things, but none of it matters," She snapped, "I made a call with the cards I knew where in play, and your wall has a shining new hole in it to prove it. None of it matters though. The only thing that does is my next move."
"And that is?" an old wise voice asked from behind her. She let out a light sigh.
"Regain my strength for starters. Get back to my village to tell them of this. Have help sent. Track down the people responsible for this genocide," she stated in anger as the two gave her a confused look.
"Genocide?" the boy asked with curiosity, almost causing the her to do spit take. They were speaking German, right? He didn't know about that? Did they know anything about what happened before the titan's came?
"Genocide," she said with a sigh, "is the intentional killing of a people or peoples, based on factors such as skin color, religion, where one lives, or any other factor in vast quantities."
"Titan's where the first, and we thought humans had mostly gone extinct. And here I am, on a boat with a species that is about to be once again on it's deathbed if nothing happens." The female let out sigh. Before grinning as she watched one of the children she save curse out the Titans, saying he would wipe them off the face of the earth.
"By the way," The old man behind her said, "I never got your name." She turned around with a smile.
"Names Mary," she said, "Mary Reid".