It was the over powering smell and the sound of dripping blood that was the first sigh that someone had broken into the underground prison below. It was woman who was walking the street late at night that had first alerted the Military Police to the sound and the smell. Though at first they just laughed at the news. Simply saying that it was probably a pipe with a steady leak at its side and had sent some of the local plumbers to fix it. But no one could have ever imagine what truly lay behind the smell. No one could have ever imagined in their wildest dreams the countless bodies of the Military Police slashed apart and still bleeding on the floor. Their faces showed absolutely no sigh that they had known what was coming. Ghost of laughs and too laxed expression haunted their faces. A large vine bottle was seen cracked open on the stone floor on the floor, its consistence dripping out of the jagged and rough opening.

Their bloodcurdling, horrified screams had broken through activity the moonless dark night.

Nile felt his blood run cold and felt the sweat run down his face as he walked through the halls and into the prison. A look of utter disbelief and a look that seemed to say that he was going to be violently sick on his face. Beside him walked Erwin and Pixis. Erwin just looked on with a look of forced resignation on his face. However inwardly he was praising whoever had done this. Out of everyone in the room it was Pixis who seemed the most unfazed by what lay before his eyes. In fact he seemed nearly calm about it all indeed. But then again no one was looking at his general direction. Really, this had been one of Carlos' sloppiness kills yet.

"Wherever they are we will find them. That boy is nothing more than a monster. It should have been despised of properly ages ago... And now this has happened..."

Yes. That was the right decision. It had been the only decision... Niles said to himself over and over for the past few moths. A hearing would have just been a complete waste of time and resources. Something that he had told Erwin again and again and had even got the hearing for Eren was to be delayed. He should have just been left there and forgotten by all. Niles frowned at the thought. He could not help but remember a similar event about a boy under the same circumstances that had happened not just seventy years ago. But that was something that some of the higher ups ordered everyone to have been forgotten by everyone as well everything.

The captain of the Military Police merely shock his head and walked into the cold night back towards his wife who had given serving Humanities hope for.

As Niles quickly brushed past him Erwin could not help but feel a cold feeling of anger strung from deep of him and a feeling of utter hopelessness for humanities future. They had lost a great asset, the hope of humanity. Secretly he truly hoped that the ones who had taken him knew this as well... Despite how miniscule and laughable that idea seemed to him

Blanketed in the half shadows but also away from the light of the newly lit brightly shining lamps hiding an uncontrollable look on his face as Pixis sighed in relief. There was a spark of something in his eye that seemed to show a look of triumph for a plan that had been well exuded. He ran a hand through his none existent hair. He hoped that Annie and the rest were safe and far away form the walls. He slowly turned his eyes skywards to the streets above as he saw a small owl fly with white and black wings overhead. He watched as it glided gracefully down and landed on a small sigh near his head. Its eyes were fixed straight on his yellow ones. He looked more closely at the bird and felt a smile tug at his lips. "So Rose... they got away safe then 'eh?" he asked, in such a low voice it would be impossible to hear. The small owl titled its grey feathered head to the side looking as if it were giving the owl equivalent of a nod and as suddenly as it had come it took flight and flew off into the night. Be safe, be quick... Pixis thought hoping that last reaming power of Rhea would hear. Hoping against any possible hope that Kirouchi would not be hostile towards the child of his old friend.

He wondered where Gresh was how he was doing. Wondering if he had somehow ended up like Sina.

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He didn't know what exactly had jolted him back to awareness but as Eren's eyes filled with the world around him he soon felt as if the ground underneath him was being shaken roughly as if in a strong earthquake. He felt himself being carefully supported by something against something soft and warm.

He opned his eyes wider and looked around seeing nothing but the night sky above him... As well as a face in the darkness. The face of a titan.

His eyes widened in shock and he tried to move but couldn't. He heard the sound of slight movements and soon found himself looking up at concerned familiar green eyes of Bertholdt looking down at him.

"Bertholdt... Where are we?"

The tall boy bit his lip looking down at the look on Eren's face. "Annie's titan," he answered, not knowing what else to say to Eren except that.

"Annie's... tita-?"

"You're gonna have to trust us now, Eren..." Berthodlt said, all most pleadingly to him. Eren wanted to speak to him again. To ask to him where he was taking him. But he soon felt the relief of sleep come over him again.

Cupped securely in Annie's titan hands Bertholdt looked down at the skeletal body of his comrade feeling his teeth gnash together in frustration as Reiner joined his side as he cradled Eren.

"These fallen sicken me," he said coldly, "Goddess! If Pixis hadn't f*cking tipped us off about how the hearing was being delayed on purpose there's no doubt that Eren would have ended up the same as Kyklo!"

"What? You mean addicted to all kinds of food... Though you can't really blame him for that... That's also the only other side effect I've seen from him. Can't see how he could have forgiven the fallen..."

"Shut it, Reiner. He didn't forgive them. He just feels nothing about what happens to the fallen ...Where's Carlos?"

"He said he had some business to take care of at the Scouting Legion camp. It was something about them capturing two titans. I'll tell you it was a good thing that Annie had that spare 3d gear or else we wouldn't have made it over the walls...

"I told you we should have taken some horses." Berthodlt said, as if not knowing what else to possibly say to fill in the silence.

"In his condition? He would have slid off no matter what we did to prevent him."

"Did you even see the look on his face when I said Annie's titan?" Bertholdt hissed at him.

Reiner gulped, not knowing what to say to that and very soon the only sound that could be heard was the sound of Annie's giant footprints against the ground below. She was leaving little to nothing in aftermath as she ran throughout the dark night.

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He was lying on something incredibly soft and warm and as he opened his eyes he saw a grey ceiling above him and soon the face of a girl and a boy covered the space above. Both of then were looking down at him carefully. The boy had dark reddish-brown hair and his right eye was tightly closed because of a long scar running straight down it, cutting the eye brow above a little. He also had an x shaped scar on his cheek. Though the boy was unfamiliar to his eyes the blonde haired girl looked a little familiar to him.

"Christa?"

The girl looked down at him and smiled softly while the boy continued to looked down at him with a heavy look in his dark eyes.

"No. Not Reiss... My name is Charlie, Charlie Inconencio..."


Though this does happen to be a bit late this story is a what if set in my other story Daylight Disdain and its elements will be used in this story. The ones by Eren's beside are characters that appear in Snk's spin-off manga called Before the Fall. Also if you're wondering who on earth my Oc Carlos is and why he calls Annie his partner and about why Pixis is in league with them read a few of the other Grey stories or just look at my profile.