Hi everyone! So I got talked into writing this by my best friend- thanks a bunch hun for getting me hooked on this anime! Anyway, hope you guys like it! I will post a warning at the beginning of every chapter! Thanks for taking the time to read this. Warning, story contains: Boyxboy, extreme violence, character death, OC's, gore, mentions of past abuse etc.
"TEAM MOVE FORWARD!"
The single scream pierced the cold morning as the dawn seemed so far and yet was barely minutes away. The stars above in the purple sky was black out by the endless flowing plume and highlights of orange which certainly weren't streaks of dawn.
No.
The glistening stars were nothing but a forgotten hope behind the growing veil of black which was spreading along the length of streets, glowing silhouettes masked the distance, orbs moving in glowing pairs but were certainly anything from being stars. "BRACE! READY YOURSELF!"
The scream split the air with the ferociousness of it's shout. There was absolutely no hesitation behind it's order but only a complete and comforting certainty as suddenly the floating and bloodthirsty orbs in the darkness shined brighter. Hunger blazed out of them with a sickening dark joy which could only belong to the others who knew of that taste. Who knew of those inhuman thoughts which circled through minds so far greater than a lesser beings.
The streets rumbled as the orbs revealed themselves, with dark anticipating joy on a face split with a wide grin. A grin that seemed almost as real as that on a clown's. It sent so many emotions through those that the gigantic form came across; fear, anger, terror, misery. So many different emotions yet all connected to the face of that being which towered above the building tops, a face which stained others with nightmares which would plague their souls for the rest of their lives.
For the short amount of time which remained of it.
However the strong voice didn't belong to the line of beasts which were staggering their way around on colossal, thick stilt like legs.
No.
The voice belonged to the most unlikeliest of things as a small shadow launched through the morning black as around the great and large city which was under siege, the shadow which launched through crumbling gaps from giant structures with gallivant twists and tucks through the air, like that a master gymnast may demonstrate in their class, or how someone may show for an Olympic show.
But here they were the tools of survival as two thin line hooks smashed through the air, embedding deeply into rock as he rolled through the air, launching along the stretch of streets with a long trail of burst white behind him from where he was being propelled by gear.
As he rose from the shadows, slowly through the air, the flames of a hundred burning buildings, the ink black of his hair began to shine out as it was sleeked back with lines and trails of blood. His own, a friends, or another's? Impossible to tell. But the crimson of it just brought out the emerald expanse which was his hateful eyes. The colour of the forests which he had never known in his childhood. The sight of the sea under sun light when the right day would have made it still as glass?
But now the colour was drown out by the dilated pupil which was full of a endless darkness. A darkness which bore absolutely nothing less than complete loathing for everything which was directly in front of him. The beasts and horrors which had plagued his life. Which had left him and every other human being a rat inside a city for the majority of their upbringing.
The beasts which had meant that his mother had become a snapped bleeding twig inside the hungry gaping hole which had been one of these bastard's mouths.
But now his eyes changed, they almost seemed to become complete mirrors as the burning inferno of the town around him caught in his face.
His rage had no bound.
His blood lust without equal.
Not until every stinking, bastard Titan would be brought crashing to the ground and was a rotting pile.
The face of a Titan split into it's disgusting wide grin as it locked eyes on him and a line of scouts behind him, all of which moved in a blurred launch along the length of nearby walls and through the air. Each of the guard was wearing similar uniforms consisting of a short, light brown jacket with the badge of the squad on both shoulders, on the front left pocket and on the centre of the back, a light-coloured shirt, a dark brown sash around the waist covering the hips, white pants, and dark brown knee-high leather boots. A monogram of a pair of overlapping wings was scribed on each badge. The symbol was Eren's pride and joy. Everything he had pushed and visualised in his future since he was old enough to wonder what lay beyond the walls of his forgotten home. Beyond the fears and horrors of his past around these monsters.
"Eren! Slow down!"
From the fire came the glint of blond hair underneath a cloak as the material fluttered away to reveal to shaggy haired figure who was moving more elegantly and carefully through the air, keeping up with Eren's left side as he stared down the target in front of them. "Armin, get back!" The dark head bellowed over his shoulder.
It felt like so long ago since he had nearly been swallowed whole by one of these... since Eren had taken hold of his hand and threw him free. His best friend sacrificing himself so the thought that he may live. He was not going to let his best friend go into battle now without him at his side. He was not going to let him ever face these alone. They had gone through too much together. Too much to ever not be there for each other.
Green cloaks floated through the air, discarded as they were catching on the embers of the city.
Armin however kept his eyes now locked on the bare bodied creature.
The Titan's had always been the thing that he most detested. Ever since he had first watched one appear at the wall of his home. Ever since he had watched one grab up someone, snap them in two and then bite clean the skull of another, pulling the person's spine out between it's teeth as though it was some sickening string of candy. Blood had exploded from the corpse of the person as though they had become a sickening fountain.
Even to this day he remembered that person's scream.
It would plague him till his last breath.
But now as Armin stared down the giant creature of his nightmares, he found that it still disturbed him to this very day, the amount that these creatures resembled humans in their face, their eyes, even their hair. It sent trembles throughout him as his heart rate exploded violently, speeding blood mercilessly throughout his body.
The Titan was an eight meter. It had deep hazel and caramel eyes which traced the line of scouts with a growing and obvious hunger. It's hair was a mess of brown ash stained curls. It's bare body was toned and relatively smooth though defined in other places. Though now it's mouth was twisted up in a grotesque and frozen grin. It was stumbling slightly, almost as though it was woozy and had just woken up from an annoying, pesky nap.
But still, those massive hands meant instant death if they got around you.
They meant-
"EREN LOOK OUT!" Armin screamed.
The boy pulled harshly on the triggers of his swords and felt his body rocketed forward through the air, twisting himself and smashing into the side of his best friend to knock him off course of going towards the Titan. "Arming what the hell-"
But the ink haired boy fell silent as a nearby house roof exploded into a line of flying, devastating shards which rain down in an inferno of hate and splatter of blood, mixed with the remains and limbs of people who had taken up shelter within it.
Blood painted across both boys faces but both only had a second to prepare themselves as they were thrown against the side of a house and Eren tucked his arm around his friend. "Now!" He screamed and the ink haired boy went back towards the sky, using split seconds of grappling on flying wreckage, and bounding off each one of them.
Armin had to turn his attention to the other one as another Scout came up on his side. "Eren may be good!" The scouter called but he's not going to be able to take on two of them at a time!"
"You obviously don't know Eren!" The blond called out, his mind already reeling drastically as he watched the formation follow Eren up his mad bounds, leaping along the skin of the Titan, taking great bounds, far more than anyone else would have been able to without sheer determination and confidence that no harm was going to come to them.
Eren showed no hesitation. No motion of slowing down. No matter how much his lungs ached and his muscles screamed in agony. He would not stop! He would keep going. He would keep going until the light left his eyes and his body was crushed into nothing on the ground. He would never waver in his duty. He owed it to everyone and everything he loved. He owed it to his father. His mother. His family. The scouts.
Never to fall.
"So come on you bastard!" He screamed at the top of his lung as he finally launched across the shoulder of the giant. "AND JUST DIE!"
His swords slashed through the flesh of the Titan, like a burning knife through hot churned butter.
A hiss and explosion of steam bellowed up in a line from the neat slice of the deep cut. The giant's gaze stayed as unfocused as ever as slowly it began to fall forward. It's fingers going limp as it sprawled out towards the ongoing ground. Leaving Eren to launch off in a sharp direction to the left, by the flames of the buildings. "One down, and god knowns just how many more there are to go-AGGHHH"
The scream split the entire morning as all of a sudden Armin's world came crashing down and to a slow trickle around him.
The fist and hand of the other Titan had come sailing through the flames and heavy black smoke of the ruined city and was now crushing around Eren, who had his swords propped through the gaps of it's fingers. It... It had sacrificed the other one, knowing Eren would go for it. Arwin thought in horror as he stared up at the black haired Titan whose face was an impassive mask. It's eyes were blacker that the midnight of it's hair.
It's mouth was a straight line of unwavering and showing teeth. Each a small square block blatantly showing through it's slightly parted lips. He waited for Eren to kill the other one because he knew he wouldn't be able to stop himself! It wanted Eren!
"EREN!" His scream was drowned out by the sound of Eren wailing in agony as the Titan tightened it's grip around him. "I'm coming!" The blonde bellowed as he launched upwards. Fear was drowned out inside of him, washed away as he stared after the boy. So many times he was there. He saved me before. He did it all himself. I'm going to prove that I can-
"ARMIN WATCH OUT!"
He barely had time to recognise the world had been flipped upside down and that he could see every particle of ash in the lined street. He could see the houses, a mess of trampled and destructive lines of kicked rubble. Nothing of their original states were left but pieces of roofs, a few walls were toppled over here and there.
Oh god. What's happened. His body shut down as finally the fear and reality of what was about to come next, hit him like a all too real punch in the chest.
Everything had been going so well... or as well as things usually went in their life.
He had been spending the entire of yesterday with Eren. Training, practising, preparing for a situation like this. Both had been talking, talking about all the times they used to share. Pushing each other. Planning.
Then the emergency call had come in.
A town had been hit. An entire city attacked.
They had spent the last twenty four hours trying to fight these off. Trying to compensate for the low numbers which had been around.
Now it seems that it hadn't been fear which had been to distract him from his senses. From his plans. From everything he had been prided on.
No. The thing that had caught him off guard was exhaustion.
And now it was like he had been taken back to a year ago.
That first surprise attack and now here he was, being raised above the gaping mouth of a hungry Titan, staring down at the creatures throat.
Only able to let out one last scream as he was dropped down into the darkness.
Eren screamed out as the sight of his friend vanished and he was dropped similarly. "Oh no you don't you fucking stupid bastard!" He screamed, as he landed in a crouch and instantly slammed his hands up, pushing heavily down with all his might into his feet and up with his palms. The teeth began to dig painfully into his palm, splattering blood across his face, and sending a red stream down his wrists as his hands burst open. "I-I'M NOT GOING TO BE CHOW FOR YOU!" He screamed with all of his might.
A sharp tooth burst through his boot and he felt his foot slip, being brought down onto one knee as he had to support the weight of the mouth across the back of his shoulder now, which bled just as easily and more so painfully than his hands. "I'LL KILL YOU! THEN! I'LL GET MY BEST FRIEND BA-AGHHH" His scream became louder and louder as finally he found himself unable to take the pain much longer.
But all he could do was look out from streams of blood which coursed over his eyes, and had to blink them out of his way as he stared at the Titan which was stood there. Staring blankly into the air as it seemed to be almost... stunned would be a right word.
That beast had just eaten and killed his best friend.
"I'm going to murder you and slowly rip out your entrails." Eren bellowed. "Then I'll rip out your eyes, just long enough that you can watch me massacre you, and every other fucking waste of air Titan in this fucking city! I WILL END YOU!"
His other knee began to buckle and give way.
His soft coloured skin seemed now to almost be tainted completely crimson by his blood.
His team were too busy fighting off other Titans to be able to do anything. They were to distracted trying to keep the Titans away.
"Well get this, you big bastard!" He shouted over his shoulder, turning his glare up towards to the dripping cavern roof the the beast's mouth. The smell of a hundred dead rotting bodies littered it's throat. Metallic stenches of blood, while some lose limbs from torn victims were stuck in it's teeth.
Eren had to try and not vomit as he watched a gouge skull fall from the back tooth. An eye rolled out and slid down the back of it's throat. "If I'm going down your throat! I'm going to give you the belly ache of your life!"
For a moment the pressure intensified and blood streamed down his face. This is it. He snarled, in the back of his head. This is how it happens-
But all too suddenly the pressure relieved itself quickly, and Eren found himself toppling forward towards the ground.
The stench of rotting began to fill his nose as he found his head banged harshly off the ground. He scrambled forward quickly, clearing away, finding that half of the Titan's head had been sliced cleanly off after the vulnerable point of the neck had been cut wide open. Mainly, the half of the head which had been crushing down on top of him. "What the-"
He paused as a boot slowly crunched into the ash next to him and he turned his gaze up.
His voice went monotone. "What the hell..."
-Inside the Titan's stomach-
Armin woke suddenly and let out a scream. Scrambling away as quickly as he could as he recognised the bodies which were floating over and away from him in the various blood stained stomach acids of the Titan's stomach. A seven year old boy, (one of the Titan's more recent victims), Armin guessed, was screaming and flailing about as he moved across the various crimson stained liquid. "It's hot! It hurts! Mommy! Wake up! We got to get out of here! Mommy-"
The boy shook a nearby body, he guessed they were mother and son because of the (other than the obvious), they resembled one another greatly. Both had damp red hair. Eyes that sparkled a hearth fire brown, but were now drowned in fear. "Mommy please we have to-"
As the corpse slid over in the water, Armin lunged over and turned the kid sharply away before the boy was able to see the skin on the corpse dissolving away, revealing it's half bitten state, the intestines and various inner organs pouring out of it and melting.
If they were in here, that meant that they were going to die. Armin would not let this boy's last memories on this earth, be that of seeing his mother devoured into stomach acids, with a look of horror frozen on her death mask of a face and her inners pouring out. No one, no matter how strong they were, would ever be able to handle something like that.
A seven year old, least of all, should have to see that.
"I want my mommy! I'm scared!" The boy screamed.
Armin wished he could have said he had a plan at that point. That he had a thought of something of what to do. That he could have had some plan come to his mind just as it would have done any other time. What do I do?! Come on! What do I do!
Then it slowly sank in.
What he had to do.
Slowly he pulled the boy close to his chest. Wrapping his arms around the smaller form as tight as he could, pushing his head against him so that the boy had to either look him in his eyes or could hide his face against his uniform. "Shush, everything is going to be al'right." Armin tried to hush softly as the boy cried gently. "Just close your eyes. Soon... we won't be here any longer. I promise. We will be safe." He wrapped his arms tighter and the boy closed his eyes.
The pain got worse. How much longer could they last? Not long.
"I'm sorry." He whispered. "I'm so sorry."
But then the sound of a scream echoed, like that of a distant echo of mist.
Then he was forced to duck his head and try to cover his and the boy's head as a deafening roar exploded around them. The sound rising and rising till there was nothing but the feeling like an gun had gone of right next to their ears and pierced into their ear drums. "What is going on-"
Bubbles began to rise within the stomach and Amrin pulled the boy closer. Here we go. "Hold on tight! And keep your eyes shut!" He almost screamed as more bubbles violently rose around him.
Suddenly both felt as though a rip-tide had wrapped around their feet and both were pulled under the surface, finding themselves, dropping, further and further. Losing the dim light which had been the insides of the monster and finding darkness was their only torch.
So this is it then. Eren... I'm so sorry.
His lungs began to scream for air as it felt like his body was being boiled over a slow and painful flame.
The walls felt as though they were closing in around him.
I failed you-
But suddenly the feeling was gone as he and the boy felt air and intense heat hit their faces. Their bodies were suddenly ripped from each other and a pair of hands were on his shoulders.
Wait... what?
"Amrin! Wake up! Come on! Please! Please wake up!" Eren shouted.
Eren?
"Am I dead?" He asked quietly. Scared to open his eyes, of what he may see.
A hand slapping across his face made him sit bolt upright. "OW!" He shouted, glaring up at the bloodied face of Eren.
"If you ever. EVER. Try and do something like that again! I swear to god! You will be dead!" Eren shouted in his face, before suddenly and harshly hugging the blond.
"But I don't understand how." Amrin said, his vision was swarming about, his head felt like it had been crushed in a vice. His skin and body burnt like acid was still eating away at it. "I thought I was dead... How did you get me out of there-"
"Well that would be us." Said a new voice.
Slowly Amrin raised his gaze from the black leather boots which were crushing their authority into the ash, but didn't seem to be getting filthy. A pair of black leather, (or something that resembles leather very closely) jeans were clamped tightly around two pairs of thin, athletic like legs. A red sash wrapped around their waists, similar to the colour of Titan's blood. A belt buckle of intense leather with a star belt buckle shined out. The rest of the outfit consisted of a black short jacket, very similar to the uniform of the scouts which were now staring in amazement, though out of the pair in front of them, the boy who had platinum spiked hair with red highlights wore a white shirts, while the girl who kept a lot of her face hidden behind her pony tail of ink black hair. "Our names are Harry and Jasmine Morgenstern." He smirked ever so slightly as he walked over to the corpse of the ten meter titan and ripped it cleanly from the expanding gap in the flesh that Amrin and the small boy had escaped from.
He guessed the boy Harry had been the one to free them.
The boy had startling cold eyes, which seemed unable to settle down onto one colour, one minute they were an ice cold blue. The next they were tainted a sea green emerald.
Amrin stared on with wide eyes. "Now... care to tell us why you got in the way of our hunt." His sweet voice suddenly turned to a harsh snarl.
Just as the girl pointed her swords at him.
"Oh fuck." He heard Eren mutter in his breath.
