Well... I just discovered the Attack on Titan spin off manga Before the Fall and by the gods is it good! Though I have to say that Charle has a somewhat odd name and looks a bit too much like Maka from Soul Eater... But hey who am I to judge? Or maybe that's just me...

"It's no good being inside a cage. Charle... you leave as well..."

Lying in darkness and blenched under the moons pale light a young boy who was dressed in nothing but a one piece worn and ragged shirt lies on the floor, his limbs chained to thick, iron chains connected to his feet and arms. Blood was dripping slowly from his unkempt raven black hair to the soiled, cold ground of his cell. Above him a boy dressed royally just scoffs at the pathetic thing at his feet and tosses an apple core at the ground. The raven haired boy let it fall too weak to move from his position.

"Well... that's that. This is the last time I'll ever see your ugly face... By the end of the day you'll be soled off to some other... person... God know what he's gonna do to you... Some whisper about what he does to ones as young as you, even though you're a titan," the boy, Shabii smirked unconcerned for the child of titans well-being as he left. The boy Kyuklo strains his ears for the moment when he can no longer hear his shoes on the stairs. He sat up straighter on the cold ground wiping the blood from his face and waited for the sound of her small feet to come down the stairs.

Whenever she visits him in his small room he feels so at peace that he sometimes forgets the beating his abused body takes from her brother. He doesn't hate her. He could never think to hate her. She the first one to show him something known to him as human kindness in over a decade. Charle the daughter of the man who bought him so her brother could find a fake sense of superiority and overconfidence. Together they can feel at peace. It was she who helped him discover about the titans and the world outside his cell. The world that hates and fears him.

But tonight that doesn't happen.

There is very little time. At first she was apprehensive saying the she wasn't strong like him. But his smile is all it took to give her courage. She like him was inside a caged a gilded cage set by her high birth soon she would have been married off to the highest bidder, in a sense. A glittering tool to further expand her father's wallet and greed. Never would she forget his face when she told her how busy she would be in time a few night ago at dinner during Shabi's ceremony. They were both very similar. So finally after two years Kyklo finally breaks his chains switching into that cloths Charle has given to him.

And together they escape into the misty dark night. However no one could guess what would have happened before they left... Never would she had thought they would attack them/

Kyklo held out his hand letting the wet cold substance land against his open palm. He had never seen this before Charle had told him it was rain. Rain? He had herd from it in the books he's read but he never knew what it felt like. His eye that had been slashed during their escape hurts a bit but he just ignores it. They knew they wouldn't be welcomed back onside the walls any longer. How they had left over the walls was beyond them. But both of them knew full well that they could never return to the walls that the rest of humanity hides in safety behind. Cowering from the titans they so feared and hated.

Like they feared and hated him.

But he is not a titan's child and he will prove it. He's going to take back his life. He will no longer treated like an animal in some dark cage scared of the light and sound.

Charle doesn't know what to think. The world outside the walls is dangerous and barren but there is no place to hide back at the walls. and even though she hasn't seen a titans yet she knows that they are out there. She is no fool. She is scared yet she knows with Kyklo she can do anything. The very moment she had touched his hand it had warmed her heart and set aside her fears and her resolve set. She is no longer a spoiled child from he wall of kings As they travel further and further away the land starts to turn green. She sees small lakes here and there but none of them seem to connect to the one running through the walls. They choose not to follow that path as the scouting legion might follow it as well..

Her life, like his, is just begging.

"They say that there is an ocean of salt and a land that the sand burns!" Charle said, holding the book on the outside world she had gotten from home in in her hand. Beside her on the branch Kyklo smiles up at her his head on her lap. The had taken shelter in a broken down house next to a crystal clear lake waiting for the rain to level up.

"It also say that even before the titans came no one had ever lived there. What do you think about that?" she asks, smiling down at her. Kyklo opens his one good eye to gave up at her questioning face and smiled feeling so much at peace that it somewhat startles him. Never had he felt like this before in all his life. He raised a hand to stroke her cheek gently. It feels smooth and warm in his. One would say that, for one who has been in a cage his whole life they would want to know why this one has a different and softer body then them. But... Kyklo has seen woman and men before laughing at him through his cage as he withered there on the floor. Starving an weak next to all sorts of animals.

Suddenly a tree seems to snap behind them making the two of them still. A mistake really they could have climbed up tree but fear grips them both and for the first time in a long time Kyklo eyes fall on a titan. About fifty titans start to gather around them at the clearing. Now seeing them all like this he gets a much better picture of what the natural enemy of humanity looks like. A look of hunger is in their eyes and something else to that know of them can understand.

And then a much larger shadow overlaps them. The titans pause in mid step and then shrink back in fear.

"Oh... What is this. Humans out of their cages?" the creature smirked. "What an odd development. You don't look like the Scouting Legion either... Or anyone allowed out of the walls..."

Kyklo looked up at the giant, harry Titan before him feeling Chalre's fingers tighten around his arm to the point that it nearly felt painful to him. Vaguely did he notice that the titans have stopped moving a look of fear about them. Could they... have emotions as well? However that is soon broken by one tearing through the trees right at them.

The ape titan sighed and aims to pick it up in his hands but not before the titan struck a blow to Kyklo knocking him into a tree. The man inside sighed crushing it in his hands splattering the ground with thick blood staining the water.

"Kyklo!" the girl yelled, shacking his body trying despertly to wake him up. Above her the ape titan paused in wiping the blood from his hand glancing at the two in his shadow watching the girl closely as she looks up at him. "Please do what you want with me but please help him... He's been through enough..."

"And... Who is he to you?"

"A... a friend..."

"Now, now, now. Your eyes betray you. That is not what I you mean and you know it. Now. Who is he to you?"

"...He... he's my..."

Kyklo strained to cling to conciseness but soon he found that it was impossible barely does he feel anything but he knows that Charle is alive but he knows not for long. He's come this far yet... this is all he can do. Vaguely does he hear her final world as he finally passes out.

"Oh? Is that right?" The ape raised an eyebrow in interest, looking down at the figure in the girl's arms.

"Hmm..."

Charle held onto Kyklo's body tightly as the ape continued to stare down at her and then suddenly her eyes widening at what was happening smoke was pouring from titans body obscuring it from her view. and then suddenly a figure of human size stood out against the smoke. Out of the billowing smoke and heat there walked a figure of a boy with dark black hair, dark skin and glowing eyes looking at them a cool look in his face.

A a human? A human was a titan?! Charle gasped, quite nearly dropping Kyklo in her shock as the other boy approaches the two of them. The boy looked at her for a moment before bending down and carefully picking up Kyklo taking him in his arms minding his injuries.

"You will follow me," he told her picking Kyklo body up easily in his arms. She did't have a choice and she knew it. The Titans surrounded the three of them. With a heavy heart she follows the man through the trees. The titans watched before slinking back into the coming mist and rain.

He led her deeper and deeper into the forest all the while the only other word he had said to her was his name. Carlos... It had a very strange sound to it.

The mist grew heavier and heavier as they walked on soon all she sees is the man and her own hands, and the hulking figures watching her from within the greying mist.