We stood in rows as our soon to be instructor, Keith Shadis, walked down the rows, commenting on anyone who didn't seem to belong, including a certain one-armed red head. "What the hell is this?" he all but shouted. "A cripple in the military? Would you care to explain how you expect to get through training with three limbs? And to be fair, how about explaining that mask and stating your name, too?" By mask, he ment the cloth covering my mouth and nose.

I looked him in the eyes as I stated my answer. "Foxen Dagon from Ehrmich." He was obviously taken aback at the knowledge of my origin. "Simply because I am missing an arm doesn't mean I'm crippled, sir, and the mask is to hide this." I pulled down the cloth to reveal toothless gums. "May I borrow that dagger?" He hesitantly unsheathed a dagger from under his jacket and handed it to me. I put it between my gums and clamped down. "I needed some way to hold the second hilt for the ODM Gear."

"How do you eat?" He was getting off track, though no one seemed to mind. I pulled out a pair of false teeth and put them in. "OK, now back to military related stuff. Why did you decide to enlist despite your handicap?"

"A friend of mine wanted to join, and I kind of owe her, so I came here with her."

He sighed. "God dammit, this is turning into a love story." I felt the heat rise to my face. "Anyway, don't expect special treatment just because you're limited." He moved on.

In the dining hall afterwards, Annie and I ended up sitting with some pretty nice guys, Reiner and Bertolt, until Eren Yeager started to talk about what happened to him when Wall Maria fell. He perfectly described the Colossal Titan, prooving that he was telling the truth, then nearly threw up as he recalled something. Annie stood up and pushed me forward. "Fox here saw the big guy, too." All eyes turned to me.

Eren looked at me suspiciously. "I thought you said you were from Wall Sina?"

I nodded. "My family was visiting Shiganshina when the Titans came in." Cold fear ran up my spine as I recalled the giant monsters and I had to sit back down. "I watched my entire family get eaten; my mom and sister by a pretty small one and my dad by a huge bastard with a creepy smile."

Eren perked up when I mentioned this Titan. "Fifteen meters with sand blond hair?" I nodded and he had to hold back another wretch. "That bastard ate my mom."

"So we have a common enemy."

A guy with a buzz cut cut Eren off before he could reply. "So what happened to your arm?"

I rubbed the indent where it would have been. "A Titan bit it off. Luckly Annie found me before anything worse could happen." I looked back at my friend.

She took a sip from her mug. "I found him and adressed his wound before high-tailing it to the boats. What would you have done?" I chuckled and mockingly formed my hands into a heart shape. "Shut up."

Eren swallowed a bit of his vomit. "So, I'm guessing you want to join the Scouts."

I shrugged. "I'm only here because I didn't want Annie to be alone. She's all I've got." A small laugh came from somewhere in the crowd. The crowd cleared slightly to reveal a guy with brown hair looking at me in amusement.

"You joined so you didn't have to be away from your girlfriend? How romantic," he mocked. Then he turned to Eren. "And joining the Scouts? That's just raw suicide. If you had any sense, then you'd all join the Military Police."

"That's our plan," Annie said. "Me and Fox are joining the MPs."

I shrugged again. "I actually haven't decided on that yet. Life in the walls might not be for me." Annie looked at me in horror. "What? I'm just saying that I might prefer the Garrison or Scouts."

The cocky bastard from before laughed again. "The Garrison are always drunk and the Scouts never go ten years without losing most of their troops."

The black haired boy behind him put a hand on his shoulder. "Jean, back off. I'll end up being your only friend if you always make fun of everyone."

"Anyone dumb enough not to join the Military Police doesn't deserve to be my friend," Jean scoffed.

Before I realized what I was doing, my hand was around his throat. "Then maybe I'll join the Scouts so I never even have to see you," I growled. I released him and walked out. Annie followed after a while, then Eren and Mikasa left talking about her hair or something.

"Did you really mean that, joining the Scouts?" Annie asked.

I scowled. "Maybe. I don't really know. But I do know that if joining the Military Police means that I have to work with that bastard, then I'm out." I sensed tension and looked over at her. "You aren't worried that I'll die if I choose anything else, do you?" She just started to walk back to the girls' cabin. "Jeez, what's up with her?"

"Same reason you came here." I turned and saw Reiner standing behind me. "You said it yourself; she's all you've got, you're all she's got." I remained silent. "If I where you, I'd go apoligize." I thought about this for a moment, then started to run after Annie.

POV switch- Annie

That idiot! I silently shouted. I can't focus on the mission if it's going to threaten him! "Annie, wait up!" I turned and saw Fox running after me. Anger sparking again, I ran as fast as I could to get to the girls' cabin where he couldn't follow. I made it in and slammed the door in his face before escaping to my bed.

POV switch- Fox

"God damn it!" I held my bleeding nose as I staggered away from the door. "Annie, c'mon! I'm sorry!" She didn't respond. "Son of a bitch." I walked back to the boy's cabin while still holding my nose.

Reiner was waiting. "Slammed the door in your face?" he asked.

I growled."No, I fell down some stairs. What the hell do you think happened?" I dropped onto my bed and moved my hand away from my face. Strangely, it felt as though the blood had cease its flowing and the pain was quickly receding. I even thought I could feel my nose repositioning itself. Dismissing it as fatigue, I closed my eyes and tried to sleep, only to be assaulted by images of death and destruction that I had never even imagined, many of which had several familiar faces.

The next several days were mostly combat training with a few classes about Titans. Since Annie was still giving me the cold shoulder, I ended up spending most of my time with Eren's group, despite Eren constantly begging for information about the "Smiling Titan", as we desided to call it, and Armin wanting to now about Ehrmich. "I haven't been there in over two years," I told him repeatedly. "It probably changed a lot."

Shadis called us to attention several weeks into training with a unique assighnment. "Your mission for the next week is to make your way around to every district on Wall Rose and Wall Sina and fulfill a task given to you by a military veteran residing there. At the end of the week, anyone who hasn't completed at least four tasks will be discharged and sent home. You may begin as soon as you are released." He then dismissed us and nearly everyone hurried out to start.

I managed to find Annie before she left and tried to apoligize. "Annie, I'm sorry about what I said, but I still don't see the problem with joining the Scouts or Garrison."

She clenched her teeth and looked me straight in the eyes. "Your my best friend and I don't want the Titans to get you!" she nearly shouted. She steadied herself before continuing. "I won't be able to sleep easy knowing that you're near the Titans' territory. If you join the Military Police, I'll know you're safe."

"Hey, save the heart-to-heart for later," Reiner called. "If you don't hurry, you might not get enough done."

Annie laughed slightly. "So, friends again?"

"Did we ever stop?"

Everyone who actually cared enough to try ended up passing while a few people got the boot for not even leaving the camp. In the dining hall that night, Jean attacked Eren seemingly randomly, which resulted in Eren almost perfectly pulling off Annie's signature technique and knocking him to the floor before sitting back down. I had to stifle a laugh as he pushed himself back up and rubbed the back of his head. Then I turned to Annie. "Eren sure picked that up quick," I commented.

She shrugged. "It's pretty simple when you have two arms." It took her a second to realize what she had said. "Sorry, I didn't mean it like that."

I looked at her hard, suddenly wondering something. "When you look at me, what do you notice the most?" She seemed taken aback. "Let me guess, my left?"

"Of course not! That stopped being interesting after a year." I looked at her expectantly. "You seriously want me to say what about you interests me most?" I nodded. "Fine. You're the first person I've seen with two different colored eyes."

"What're you talking about?" I asked. "They're both green."

She shook her head. "How long has it been since you've seen your reflection? They're yellow and red." Not believing her, I picked up my mug of water and dumped it onto my empty tray. I looked into it and noticed the almost demonic eyes staring back at me from beneath nose length blood red hair. The left one was red while the right was yellow, and both could have easily been nightmare fuel. "You really didn't know?"

"What the hell happened to me?" Annie looked at me questioningly, so I elaborated. "How do green eyes go to red and yellow, and orange hair to straight up red?"

"You were also really pale."

"I never went outside, then I spent two years rarely going inside. That I actually expected."

We eventually retired to the cabins for some rest, but Reiner confronted me at the door to the boys' cabin. What he has to say was pretty surprosing. "Have you got a thing for Annie?"

I choked on the loaf of bread I had been eating before responding. "Why, do you?"

He shook his head. "I think Bertolt might and I just wanted to let you know, but I needed to see if you liled her before deciding if I should tell you."

I looked at him in surprise. "Well, I don't really see her as anything more than my best friend, but tell Bertolt to keep his hands off." Reiner showed slight concern. "The last guy that made a move on her ended up like Jean did earlier," I explained. Reiner dropped the subject after that and I went to sleep.