Shinichi let his body flop down on the cool bench as he sighed. Today had been a lot of hard work. Not only was he forced to experience three council meetings, but he also ran into an oncoming train without thinking and almost killed himself. It was a good thing Migi was there to save me, or the world would have fallen apart without me, Shinichi thought. He chuckled at his own joke. Yeah, sure, he used to be the hot topic of the world, but that has kind of faded away by now. He was simply another Hybrid.
He could feel his eyelids start to force themselves shut, as he let the cool breeze run over his exhausted body. He has never slept in public before, as it is against the new set of Titan Safety rules (Which are now basically completely irrelevant, since the only Titan attack had been twenty-five years ago), but this time he couldn't help it. His thoughts blended together in a single blob of thought which was suddenly interrupted by a monotone voice.
"Shinichi."
"Gah!" Shinichi yelled as he woke up with a sudden jerk. His instincts had told him to raise his fists immediately. He started to get strange looks from the passerby in the park. He lowered his tightly clenched fists and blushed stupidly. "You idiot, Migi! Go to sleep, you embarrassed me! You obviously knew I was trying to take a nap!"
"I believe that sleeping in public is illegal," came Migi's voice again.
"Screw the rules," Shinichi retorted with an agitated sharp tone in his voice. He tried to lay back down and finally have a peaceful sleep.
"Shinichi."
He had had enough. "Shut the hell up!" His voice exploded like a firecracker through the trees of the park. "Do you want me to cut you off, you useless piece of fat?!"
"Shinichi. Be on alert. I sense something."
"Well of course you do, fool. Parasites are everywhere nowadays."
"No, this is a greater force than anything I have ever felt, Shinichi. I am worried."
This caught his attention now. He sat up straight and stared at Migi seriously. "Where is it?" he asked. He was now on full alert, looking around suspiciously. Nothing was out of the ordinary to him.
Migi stared back with the most emotion a single eye could have and said, "It is messing with my senses. I feel it everywhere. Above us, below us, all around, I can't handle it."
The hand warped back into shape and slept, as if trying to hide from a terrible pain. Shinichi was worried sick. He has had this feeling in the back of his mind since the last accident, a feeling that is indescribable. His mind started racing. He stood up suddenly and started running down the path, breathing heavily. No, no, no, he thought, shaking his head. Tears started to flow down his face. Please don't be what I think it is. He tripped on a rock and went tumbling forward. Landing with a skid, he grunted. A little scrape was the worst of his worries now. Oh, shi-
Shinichi's thoughts were interrupted by a deafening thud. It cracked through the city, and sent a shockwave that rumbled his insides. He rolled over, expecting to see the worst. He could not control the tears by now. He remembered the disaster of 2019, the grieving, the suffering, the death. All of those feelings came back to him as he saw what now rose above him. It stood above all of the buildings, even the highest skyscraper. It appeared in a large cloud of deadly smoke, causing a death screen for anyone within a mile radius. It was a titan.
Terror is not anything like what you see in the movies. There is no intense music, no drawn out scenes - it is all real, all traumatic. Terror swept through the minds of everybody in the city. Panic blasted through the air like a fierce, unforgiving wind. There was no time. Shinichi was lying on the ground, bleeding, frozen with terror.
"M-M-Migi!" he yelled desperately at his right hand, pleading for him to come out. There was no answer. He scrambled backwards, but eventually could get up. He didn't even know what was going on, his mind was so filled with terror. All he could see in his blurred vision were people running, screaming, cars out of control, the fine definition of chaos itself. Shinichi found himself among the people running. Crashes were heard as the Titan was slamming his fists into buildings and stomping on the ground. Shinichi could not look back. His only objective was run. Run until he couldn't run anymore.