The day had started normal, beautiful and heated, the start of harvest season, the men had taken the ripe crops to the market, and the women and children stayed to plant the new seeds, a normal day at their tiny farm.

But as normal as it began it all changed, with the sound of horses.

Hearing horses wasn't unusual in it's self, but they only had three on their tiny farm and the only other person on this side of town had one, and there farm was a few miles from theirs, so hearing what sounded like a stamped of horses was strange. Willow stood from her spot in the farm, her eyes turning to the distant sand road, she could see people scattering off the road, some racing to their homes, others just moving out the way in confusion as a large group on horse back came ridding down the road, some splitting off in to different directions but the larger group still headed straight.
"Garrison guards!" A woman yelled racing past the small farm straight to her house, Willow watched her drag her teenage son inside, before she was pushed towards her home.
"Huh?"
"Inside now, all of you" Grandma Lena ordered pushing her granddaughter as well. "Go now!"
Confused and scared Willow did as she was told, she ran towards the house, nearly tripping over her own feet as she did so. Sam ushered them all inside the small house, closing the door after they all had entered, 24 of them shared the small farm house, being on the poor side of town refugees from wall Maria, they were lucky to even have a shelter. Most Refugees still lived on the streets.
"What's going on Sam? Who's coming?"
"Why do we have to hide?"
"Garrisons means scouts" Sam explained closing the net curtains, she stared outside for a moment longer, watching the Garrison guards stop at the entrance to the farm. She turned on her heel placing one hand on her pregnant stomach, the other shoving the dinning room table out of the way.
"We are in trouble aren't we?" Kassandra whispered helping Sam to lift the secret hatch door.
"If they find you yes, Ma and the others broke a lot of rules to keep you guys out of the scouts"
"A lot of people all over town didn't go to the scouts"
"And they are all in trouble" Sam explained, ushering them all to enter the hatch. Willow didn't know much about the scouts but Lena had told her, the government had made a rule that all teens were to enter the scouts when they became of age, and face tests so that the strongest could go outside the wall, something to do with mankind. And that was something Willow wanted no part of. She didn't really remember the titans but she knew they had killed her parents.

One by one they dropped inside the hatch, crammed together, it was a tight fit but no one complained, none of them wanted to go outside the wall. The adults had told them all about the titans and the titan attacked, it was a horror they didn't want to face.
"Stay quiet I'll come get you when they are gone" Sam whispered moving to drop the hatch lid, but yelling caused her to pause and with in seconds a loud slam shook the house. Sam cowered hiding her stomach as bits of shrapnel showered down on her. Willow and the other teens cowered back there selves, trying desperately to hide out of sight. They could hear Lena and the others yelling and screaming before Sam was roughly shoved out of the way. A man appeared before them, his hand reaching out and snatching Kassandra's hair, pulling her out of the hatch. Willow tried to push further and further out of sight, but two of the soldiers jumped down in to the darkness and forced them out, grabbing and pulling them as if they were criminals. Willow struggled as her hair was pulled the man yanking her from the hatch not caring about the pain he caused. She was terrified. They were shoved and kicked outside, forced in to a group opposite the adults, who were all stood helplessly behind the soldiers. She wasn't sure when the men had returned but they too were stuck behind the soldiers. Swords pointed at them in warning, stopping them from moving or coming to their aid.

"Tch, more then I expected, how so many recruits went unnoticed I don't know" The leader sighed turning to one of his soldiers telling him to make note of checking the poor side of town more often.
"They are farmers, that's what they choose!" Maxwell yelled, going to move towards his daughter, but he was pushed back in to the group a sword at his neck.
"They choose?" The leader began staring at Maxwell as if he were faeces. "The right to choose was abolished long ago, for the good of man kind, the only way out of the scouts was to fail the tests, we couldn't have poor soldiers going over the wall but now" The leader paused staring at all of the terrified teens. "Because of this treachery against the greater good, I will make sure every single one of them, is sent over the wall"
"Don't do this!" Bellina cried, reaching for her son.
"That isn't fair, they don't deserve that!"
"Isn't fair? Isn't fair?" The leader yelled towering over Maxwell who didn't flinch at all. "YOU broke the rules after we accepted you in to wall rose and sheltered you, we shared our land and gave you a new home, and you want to cry about being unfair! Why should I be fair to you, you broke the rules!"
"Exactly we broke them" Forin interrupted bringing the leaders eyes to him. "They didn't, don't force this punishment on them, force it on us, we are the ones who deserve it not them"
The leader paused as if considering his words before he shook his head, his mind was made up.
"No, I graciously accept your choice of being farmers, your children come with me, they will be going over the wall, let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks of breaking the law" The leader yelled, turning to look outside of the farm as more teens were gathered up. There was lot of them, Willow noted feeling her chest tighten as parents cried and screamed begging for mercy, begged to go instead.
"No No please please have mercy!" Bellina cried dropping to her knees, the leader glanced at her with distaste and turned on his heel.

"I already have, you have 5 minutes to say goodbye"