Note: the events in this story do not fit in anywhere with the actual events in SNK/AOT. They've been made up. This is fan fiction so what else can we do but create different scenarios? Annnyyywayyy. This will be yaoi. You have been warned. If you don't like that then just don't read.

Warnings: multi-character deaths, probably strong language, explicit scenes, yaoi, ect. This will be rated M so yeah. That's warning enough that some... serious things will happen. Anyway.

Resurgence

Chapter 1

"The titans! the titans! they've broken through the walls!"

"Help us! They're eating us! Please"

I don't think you'll be getting help today. This world… this world has totally succumbed to the titans. There is no saving it. Our hope… our last hope… is gone.

"Neh, Heichou, why don't you speak that much?" I hear Eren question. The sound of a broom sweeping against the stone floors ceased and I suddenly became aware of a burning gaze at the back of my head. I looked up from my seated position at my desk and looked over at the brat that had been sweeping out my office up until now.

"I always talk" I reply, completely shaking off his question, "Now get back to work or I'll hand you over to Hanji so she can explain in great detail just what her experiments are about" I threaten. The titan brat only smiled at me, his eyes shining.

"You'll probably talk more to me when I save the world," he says, his voice filled with hope, "but until then… your silent words are more than enough to keep me happy"

Ahh… to think about that at a time like this… "Get a hold of yourself, Levi" I growl out lowly as I stare down at a measly seven meter titan that was attempting to climb up the building I was currently standing on. It had bloody hands and dribbles of gooey red liquid falling from its open mouth.

I would take it on but I can see a horde of fifteen meter class titans surrounding a particular blonde. The small fry will have to wait until I've killed those ugly beasts.

Using my 3DM gear I swing from building to building until both of my spikes impale the back of a titan that's hand was reaching out for the cowering blonde. I let out some gas and pulled myself forward, bringing my swords down and cutting out a lump of flesh out of its nape.

"Armin! Get up, you're going to get killed this way!" I shout out, jumping over to the shaking blonde. "What's the point. I have nothing to live for anymore. My home is gone, my grandfather is dead… Eren and Mikasa… they're… they're dead too… I have nothing… it's all gone… everything" he whispers out weakly.

"Armin, there's no point in thinking this way. No matter what you'll always be left with nothing in the end but that's why you should always try to create new things." I say. I don't have faith in my own words though. I know he's right. Even though I'm claimed to be humanities strongest even I know that there's no way we'll recover or escape from this attack.

After all, this is within wall Shina, the final wall. Even though Rose has been prevented from completely crumbling and yielding to the titans, things went completely awry. Hundreds and thousands of lives have already been lost and humanity has just about been pushed into a corner. Well, what's left of it.

"It will be hard to create new memories in a world devoid of humanity" Armin says, "just leave me. you'll get yourself killed. The titans are getting closer and closer. Even with your strength you won't be able to take on that many. Just go." He says and I grit my teeth. "You know, I'm sure that you're aware of this, but they would have wanted you to fight right until the very end, not cower here and wait for your impending death."

That's right. Eren… Eren would have wanted us to fight, even if there were no chances of survival.

"H-Heichou… it's okay… i-it'll heal so d-don't worry a-about it…" Eren weakly says, his used to be bright smile turning into something you'd only see on a lifeless corpse. "Eren… don't talk. Just… just lay there… help is on its way… its… we're going to get through this… you'll definitely survive…"

"It's okay, H-Heichou, it's okay. t-this isn't your fault… t-this i-isn't your-" he starts but his words are cut off my him suddenly coughing up a gunk of blood. Even though he was lying in my arms, bleeding out and coughing up blood he still had a smile on his face. A cold, dead smile. "I-I don't hate y-you. If I die, I won't hate you. T-this is all my f-fault"

"Eren, stop talking. I told you to keep quiet until help gets here" I say, my voice sounding panicked. I don't think I've felt like this for a long time… what is this?

"I-I f-failed…" Eren says before coughing up some more blood, "I… I was supposed to save the world and m-make you talk to me more… I-I failed… I-I'm s-sorry, Heichou… I'm r-really sorry. T-this is all my fault." He says as his hand reaches up to me, "P-please… p-please…don't give up… even if there's no hope… d-don't give up" he says, his hand cupping my cheek.

"Fight… Fight… fight and survive…" his voice was getting softer and I could see he's eyes slowly losing colour as his lids started closing. "Eren, don't close your eyes! Eren! Eren!" it was no use, he's eyes had already shut and his hand had fallen back down.

"I-it's okay," He whispers, a gently smile at his lips and a tear cascading from one of his closed eyes, the gentle clear moving down dirk and blood. My chest tightened painfully and panic rose within me. what is this…

"P-please… no matter what… Live, Levi"

Really. Now is not the time to be having these flashbacks. What I really need to focus on is-

"L-Levi! behind you!" Armin shouted and I turned around quickly to see a fifteen meter titan reaching out for me. Luckily I was able to jump forward and blind it before moving to the nape and cutting out a lump from it. When I turned back to look over at the blonde it was to see him being lifted up my a titan an being directed to its big, open mouth.

"Armin!" I shouted. I was about to go after him but my leg was suddenly grabbed by a titan and I was lifted up, my balance completely off and ending up with me hitting my head against the hard roof. That really hurt. I'll have to make this stupid titan pay for that. But Armin… I can't leave him… but this situation… there's no way I can get to him in time… this… this… why… I couldn't save Eren and now I can't even save Armin. So much for being humanities strongest. Maybe Armins right. Maybe dying is a better way out.

"P-please…no matter what… Live, Levi"

Damnit. I guess I have no choice.

"Levi… this is it. We're out of gas and we don't have swords anymore. There's no way we can make it. There's way too many… and… and we're the only ones left. The titans… they're completely surrounding us" Armin says, his words coming out in bits and pieces as he tries to catch his breath. "We fought… we fought right until the end… Eren will be proud of us…"

I don't reply. How could I? I'm humanities strongest… I… I was supposed to protect them… but now… now… looking all around, all I see is the half eaten parts of all my comrades. They all… they all became meals for the titans. But even so, they fought. They fought right until the very end.

Seems a couple of the trainees had been listening to me and Armin speak and heard me say that Eren would have wanted us to fight right until the very end. They ended up helping Armin and I escape the horde of titans that started surrounding us and we all fought together. Me, fighting with others. It's been a long time since I let myself into a team. For once… I didn't have to face it alone.

But in the end most of them ended up dying… they're all gone and now it's just me and Armin. I feel somewhat proud that he managed to make it until the end with me. I thought I would be all alone.

I bring a hand up to rake through my messy hair. "I've grown far too soft." I mumble to myself. A few years ago I might have just left someone like Armin to die but ever since I joined forces with Erwin I seemed to become more… human. Of course he's dead as well.

"You think? To be honest when we first met you there was something really cold about you but… well" Armin stumbles over his words. I look over at him and glare. "Spit it out before the titans kill us" I growl out and he chuckles out goofily. It amazes me that he can do that when we're about to become supper for the titans.

"Ever since you took Eren into your care you've become more… nice. It's like he changed you for the better. Well, that doesn't really surprise me. there's just something about Eren that draws people in… or at least there was…" he whispers out the last part, looking up into the blood red sky, a smile at his lips, "I wonder where he is"

"Probably waiting for you. Mikasa, too. I'm sure they miss you" I say and Armin looks over at me and smiles, grabbing a hold of my hand. "You might be right. But I think he's waiting for you, too, Levi" he says and I was about to reply but large hands suddenly grabbed the both of us and we were being lifted off the ground. "I guess we'll be able to see them now" Armin said, smiling at me with tears in his eyes.

The blonde let go of my hand and for the first time in a long time I actually smiled. "I guess you're right." I say. I'd always hoped I'd die of old age but living in the world we do and having the type of life we're forced in… this was all inevitable. And I think… I think I'm okay with that. there's only one thing I'm really regretting now…

"P-please…no matter what… Live, Levi"

The titan holding was lowering me into its mouth and cushioning me between its teeth. Slowly I could feel a pressure as the titan stared closing its mouth and pressing its teeth down on my. As the sound of my own bones breaking echoed into my eardrums I looked over at Armin to see that he had already been swallowed by the titan. I hope it was quick for him…

The teeth of the titan was crushing me completely and I can only imagine that, given that my head is still dangling out the titans mouth, that I'll soon be decapitated. Ah… my body hurts all over… I'ver never experienced such pain before… but even so I'm completely calm… I wonder if Eren felt like this before he died…

Eren… just thinking about him brings a warmth to my chest… or is that the overwhelming pain? I can't tell…

"P-please…no matter what… Live, Levi"

I'm sorry, Eren… I wasn't able to survive. Hopefully I go wherever you are now. I think, for once, I'll allow you to punish me…

Ah, my… consciousness is fading… everything… is getting bright… w-what is…this?

Eren… I'm sc..are…d

"Levi! Levi! Are you listening to me? Levi!" I was brought back to my senses by the sound of someone calling me. It was then that I realized that I was also being shook violently and that my upper body felt extremely wet.

"Hanji..." I growled out, "how many times do I have to tell you to stop pouring buckets of water over my head..." I add in, my voice low and threatening. The woman only smiled at me, a goofy expression on her face. "But Levi! Each time I try to explain my lab experiments you aways end up dozing off and never listen! And it's so hard to get you to wake up!" She exclaims and I just shake my head.

"Don't you have class now? With your tardiness you might get fired. Again. You're lucky Erwin allowed you to work here. If it wasn't for him you'd be leeching off of your parents right now." I say and the woman pouts. "That's not true. I'd be leeching off of you! And I guess I do have class now. Can't leave my little kiddies waiting" she says excitedly as she runs out of the break room and presumably to the class she has to teach.

Ah... The water is seeping through my pants now... Isn't that great... I should probably stop dozing off like this... I mean, I usually struggle to sleep but sometimes it just happens. Just like now. Sometimes I don't dream and well, sometimes I do. Majority of my dreams are as the one I just had. Well, more like they're short little scenes.

My Name is Levi Ackerman. I'm currently 29 years old and work at Shinagashina Senior High. When I was 10 years old I started having these weird dreams about a different world, one where I was a soldier and I was forced to fight against these giant creatures called Titans. Or, at least I thought they were dreams. At first they were just short little glimpses but by the time I turned 14 they started getting worse and I started having maniac episodes. My parents worried about me and had me see almost every Psychologist but each one was the same. No one could understand the meaning behind all these weird dreams and just wrote it off as me having a "wild imagination".

Eventually the episodes stopped but the dreams continued. As I gradually got older the dreams became more clear. They happen randomely now and have become more like flashbacks and can be triggered by anything, which is exactly what happened today. Hanji must have said something and I probably heard it while falling asleep and it probably triggered the dream I had. I've had that one quite a few times, actually.

I think as I grew older and the dreams, or should I say, flashbacks, became clearer I was able to piece everything together and figure out just what they were about and why I was having them.

They're memories. Memories of my past self in my past life. At first I thought that was stupid and that there was no way that was possible but it made sense. Those dreams... They felt far too real. They brought up a lot of feelings in me, feelings that felt way too familiar for them to be "just dreams". So I've come to terms with them now. I don't mind when they happen.

I once talked to Hanji about this, asking her if she had any memories about our past lives. She just looked at me and said "Our past lives? The only life I can recall is the one I'm living now.". That day had really been depressing. I realized that I was the only one that remembered everything about the past. I met so many people from my dreams and at first they seemed to have no recognition of who I am and who I was. I'm the only one... That remembers the struggle we faced...

Is it because I watched everyone die? Is that why I'm the only one that remembers? Well, if that's the case then surely Armin would remember as well. We were the very last humans left in that world so maybe he remembers as well. Well, I've never met them in this world yet but I have a feeling that I will.

I wonder if Eren was reborn here. I wonder... If he has his memories... I know, based on all the encounters I've had already with people from that world, that there is a low possibility of him having his memories but a part of me wants to hold onto the hopes that he does.

I died in that world, Eren, but I promise you that I will not die in this one. Just you wait for me. I'll find you, and I'll talk to you properly this time.

And that's a wrap. Well... I feel really bad for not updating my other stories. Truth is: I can't really find the will to write for them. I've tried but it's just hard. The only story I can really focus on is "Strengthen Me" -which I'm actually working on the sequal for as we speak- and well... This one. Honestly, this idea has been floating in my head for a while and for some reason I just felt like writing it. For those of you that have read my other stories, I'm really sorry. The chances of me updating them are quite slim. Of course I think they'll eventually be updated. Just not now.

Well, hope you liked this. Reviews are reeeeaaally appreciated and bring me lots of joy and inspiration! Once I wrote a chapter in 3 hours because I got such good feedback and it made me so happy. So review!

Well, I'm pretty much sleep deprived so I'm going to end this off. Hopefully you guys liked this one and would like me to continue! Until next time!

Ciao~