"Holy Shit"

"That wall is 50 metres high"

"Is that what a titan looks like?"

As the newly formed colossal titan stared down the townspeople of Shiganshina the people were completely frozen in terror as all they could do was stare back at the monster looking down at them from atop the wall.

Down in one of the side streets, the 4 of the Sina residents were in shock as to how a titan could be that tall, the one who wasn't surprised at the height of the titan was the youngest of them all, because he knew exactly what it was about what it was most likely about to do.

"We need to leave" Nick ordered to the squad who just kept staring at the titan.

"Are you idiots even listening?" Nick exclaimed, "We need to leave while we still can"

Suddenly there was a large explosion as the Colossal Titan pulled his leg back and slammed it at full force into the outer gate of the district.

The debris from the gate scattered around the city in all directions like the spread of buckshot from the muskets that the MP's use on a daily basis.

Nick looked behind him after he had just turned around to see a large chunk of debris heading straight towards him at an extremely fast pace and he thought "Is this how it ends?. All these years worth of memories gone in the blink of an eye?. If only I had got to see her smile one last time before I die, or her eyes, her pretty blue eyes, they used to sparkle, like she was an angel that was walking among us, or her hair, her beautiful long black hair, it looked so soft that i could run my hands through it and never get tired of the feeling, Wait, what am i thinking?. Does this mean that, that I'm in love with her?, well i guess it doesn't matter now."

He was pulled from his thoughts as he was roughly shoved out of the way of the incoming rock about to smear him against the ground, however he hit his head on the side of the building next to him and he stumbled as he tried to get back to his feet.

After about 20 seconds of struggling he got up to his feet only to feel blood coming from the side of his head, running down his right cheek, down his chin and dripping onto his white shirt.

"Well that stain isn't coming out" he bitterly thought.

As he turned around to see who had saved him he could only gasp at what he saw, in the street were the mangled bodies of two of the MP's assigned to guard him, he couldn't tell who they were as they were just pieces by now, blood smeared on the road and walls of nearby buildings, pieces of rock smothered in the blood of innocents, limbs torn from their bodies lying in the middle of the street.

As he turned back he saw part of a building collapsed into the street and as he looked down he saw a familiar head of red hair, "Ella" he called out as he rushed over to the trapped girl. "Ella can you hear me".

All he got was a groan in response to signal she was still alive under the building, he quickly began to remove the small pieces of rubble in an attempt to free one of his guardians.

"Leave me Nick" she groaned out, "Save yourself", it came out in a whisper but he still heard it.

"No" he responded defiantly, "I am not leaving you to die while I can help you"

"It's no use, this pillar must weigh at least 300lbs" she croaked, desperate for him to save himself while he still could.

He ignored her protests and attempted to lift the wooden pillar, it moved about half an inch before it became to stressful for his arms to hold anymore as he let go.

As he looked up he saw one of them, an eight metre titan with stupidly huge eyes and skinny arms about 150 metres down the street.

"THUNK", He turned and saw Olivia passing overhead towards the advancing titan at full speed while shouting "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE NICK". He had two choices, run and save himself but leave Ella to be eaten, or he could try and free her and run a high risk if getting eaten himself.

He knew what he had to do, he moved forward to the pillar, planted his feet, put his hands under the pillar and began to lift, as he was lifting he felt a surge of power run through his body as he began to lift the pillar more, and more, and more until there was enough room for Ella to crawl out.

"How did you do that?", she asks weakly, "I don't know, I just did" he replies. "Can you walk?" He asks, concerned about her.

She tries to stand but before she crumples to the ground Nick catches her and sees blood staining the left abdomen region of her shirt under her jacket. After seeing this he lifts her up onto his shoulders to carry her to the evacuation boats as the horses had fled by this point.

He looked back for Olivia only to see the eight metre titan with a pair of legs and blade boxes hanging limp from its mouth, the titan bit down, severing the legs from the rest of the body and then turned its attention to a garrison member who tried to slice its nape only to slam straight into its face and fall to the floor.

"I don't want to see this" he thought as he turned around and began running towards the inner gate before it was closed.

(6 minutes later)

He finally reached the evacuation boats as he waited in line with an MP who was bleeding out on his shoulder, when he reached the front the man in front was told that the boat was full and the plank was being lifted but upon seeing the military police unicorn symbol on Ella's jacked he ordered the plank to be lowered so the MP and boy could get on. "Thank you" Ella whispered to the garrison soldier who let them board.

This act caused an uproar among the waiting crowd with many insults being thrown at the duo such as "whore" and "slut".

As Nick slowly set Ella down he lifted her shirt to see the wound and immediately put pressure on it, soaking his hands with her blood in the process.

"Don't you die on me Ella" he spoke in a commanding voice almost as if he was ordering her, "I did not just lift a 300 pound pillar just for you to bleed out to a measly cut".

"I'm sorry Sir, but I don't think I'm going to make it" he voice came out in a whisper as she was losing her strength.

"Don't you dare say that Ella, you ARE going to live through this", he was on the verge of tears now, he had already seen 3 of the 6 people he spoke to die, he didn't want another to leave him.

She weakly put her hand on his cheek and caressed it with her thumb and said "Tell her how you feel about her."

"What?"

"Tell her how you feel about her, what's the worst that could happen"

"But I'm 14 and she's 18, it wouldn't work"

"Maybe not now, but it could if you tell her and she decides to wait for you" her voice was a whisper at this point as she had lost so much blood.

"But she'll be dead in 10 years" he thought, "But being with her for 1 day would be better than none at all"

"All right, I promise I'll tell her when I get back", he had accepted Ella's impending death at this point but wanted to make her happy in her last moments.

"Good, that's good, she'd be extremely stupid to reject you" as she said this her hand fell and her eyes closed as she had stopped breathing. She had a smile on her face, as if she was finally at peace.

He looked up to see most people standing up looking at something, begrudgingly he got up to see what they were looking at, he squeezed through to the front only to see a gaping hole in the inner gate of Wall Maria, with a fifteen metre class titan with what looked like armour on nearly ever inch of his body. While talking to Ella in her final moments he had missed the Armoured Titan ramming through the Inner Gate of Wall Maria.

"Not another one" he thought as the titans now had free reign all the way to Wall Rose where there was already a food shortage.

He made his way back through the crowd to Ella's body where he sat down and wiped his hands on his shirt making the stains even worse.

"I'm sorry for your loss" he heard someone say, he turned round to see the kid with blonde hair and a coconut shaped head that he saw near the river with the two other kids.

"Thank you", Nick replied, the boy held out his hand and Nick took it "Armin Arlert" the boy spoke, "Nicholas Meier" was the reply he received.

"Who was she to you?", Armin asked.

"She was my friend ... and one of my guards"

"You're not from Shiganshina, are you?" Armin deduced from the fact that he had an MP as his guard.

"Far from it I'm afraid, I'm from Mitras, specifically the Meier Noble family."