Chapter 2:Training

After taking his mother to a nearby hospital, Eren, Mikasa, and Armin joined a camp in order to become soldiers. Keith Shardis, a drill instructor, inspected the new recruits until he saw a girl called Sasha Braus, who was eating a potato. Keith then punishes Sasha by making her run around the camp until sunset without any food or water. When she was done, another girl named Christa Lenz gave her food because she was worried. They were both caught by Ymir, but they all kept it a secret. During dinner, Eren and Armin talked about the mysterious creature until a recruit named Connie Springer joined the conversation.

After Eren and Armin told Connie about everything that had happened in Shiganshina, Connie was surprised and said, "Wow, so there is something bigger than the Titans. I bet everybody was pretty scared of that guy."

Armin shook his head and replied, "Well not exactly, that huge creature didn't seem to scare anybody. It did, however, distracted most of the Titans and allowed us to escape Shiganshina."

The more they talked about how great the creature was, the more people that started to join the conversation.

Everybody except a recruit named Jean Kirschtein showed interest about creature, but Jean laughed and said, "That creature could be a lie. There is no way that the Titans have an enemy that big."

"Well that's because you don't know anything about the creature and the Titans, dumb ass," replied Eren.

Jean stood up angrily and walked up to Eren. "What did you call me ?" asked Jean.

Eren didn't feel threatened, but he certainly didn't back down either.

"What ? Didn't you hear me ? You're just a brat from the inside walls and besides you act tough when you haven't seen a Titan before," said Eren.

This had made Jean furious and he grabbed Eren. Everybody tried to stop Jean and Eren from fighting until Keith walked in and shouted, "You idiots, stop this nonsense right now !"

Everybody stopped including Eren and Jean. After Keith had left, Jean said to Eren, "We'll finish this later, asshole."

So Jean walked outside the building and thought to himself, "Damn, I would have beat the crap out of that guy. Besides, the giant creature could be a joke anyways."

Jean was about to walk to his cabin until Mikasa had passed him. He saw her and felt in love, but he hesitated to talk to her.

He tried saying to Mikasa, "Uh...uh h-h-hey."

Mikasa turned around and saw Jean talking to her, so she said, "Hey, need anything ?"

Jean couldn't handle the feeling of his love for Mikasa, but he tried staying focused and continued the conversation. "W-well, I-I just want to say that you look really pretty," said Jean.

Mikasa knew what Jean was trying to do, so she tried to leave to her cabin. She replied, "Um...thank you, I guess."

She had finally left the conversation, but Jean felt happy a little. He thought to himself, "Wow, she was pretty cute and her long, black hair really brings out her beauty."

Jean watched as Mikasa went to her cabin until Eren walked up to Mikasa and said, "Hey Mikasa, are you going to sleep early ?"

Mikasa blushed at him and said, "Not really, but I can talk for a bit." Eren looked at Mikasa's hair and said, "You probably need to cut your hair. I don't want it to get caught in the 3DMG training tomorrow."

Mikasa nodded and they both continued the conversation elsewhere. Looking at the couple, Jean felt heartbroken and very depressed. While Connie was walking past him, he wiped his hand on Connie's back. Connie felt the touch and tried get something off his back.

Connie shouted, "Hey, what did you wipe on my back ?!" Jean stared at Connie and said, "My pride."

While the training for the 3DMG is tomorrow, Eren had trouble sleeping because he was having some sort of terrible dream. Eren had no other choice, but he had to wake up a little. Once he had opened his eyes, Eren saw nothing except complete darkness. He walked around for a bit until he saw some sort of light ahead of him. The light came closer and closer, but Eren realized that the light was familiar. Then he remembered that same light that came from the creature's back. The light then disappeared and Eren looked around until he finally saw the creature's face, which resembles a reptile. The creature got closer to Eren and roared. Eren looked afraid, but he needed some answers about him and the Titans.

"Who are you and why are you helping us defeat the Titans ?" asked Eren.

The creature didn't open its mouth to answer, but it communicated telepathically.

The creature said, "I am Godzilla, and I defend the humans to keep control of the balance of the world. The Titans have nearly caused your extinction, so I made sure to prevent it."

Eren was surprised about Godzilla's purpose and he kept asking questions. "Godzilla, where did you go after you defended the humans a century ago ?" asked Eren.

Godzilla replied back, "I usually go back to the ocean where I belong. That is where I live and rest. If something happens, I can sense the trouble and stop it."

Eren then heard a voice calling his name and grew louder. Godzilla went away, but Eren tried to follow him. "Wait, wait ! When will we meet again ?!" shouted Eren.

Godzilla looked back and said one last thing to Eren, "Sooner or later; but for now, I have to protect humanity."

Eren woke up and fell from his bed. He saw Armin in front of him and asked what happened. Armin replied, "We're about to start the 3DMG training. You have to hurry and get dressed."

Armin went outside and Eren started changing quickly. However, he couldn't get his mind off of Godzilla. Eren shook his head and kept on changing. It was finally the day where everyone trained to use the 3DMG. Some people failed and the others passed the training. It was basically two cables and a harness, but the recruits have the learn to control their balance when they use the 3DMG. Eren was determined to complete the training, but when he started to lift off the ground, he flipped backwards and hit his head on the ground.

Humiliated, everybody started taunting him and saying stuff like "...And he wants to kill all the Titans ?" or "What a loser that guy is." Eren felt ashamed that he couldn't pass the training and went back to his cabin.

At night, Eren tried to learn what he had done wrong. With Armin helping and all, it just wasn't enough to help Eren. However, two recruits named Reiner Braun and Bertholdt Hoover, have woken up to Eren's problem.

Bertholdt said, "Hey, Eren. Since you're having trouble, is it okay for me and Reiner to help you ?"

Having no more ideas, Eren replied, "Y-yes please. I need to try to passed the training."

Throughout the whole night, Reiner and Bertholdt helped Eren practice balancing on the cables until he was ready to do the actual training. This time, Eren was prepared and he thanked Reiner and Bertholdt for helping. The next day, Eren had asked Keith to retry the training and he allowed it. Eren puts the harness on himself and focuses on balancing. Unexpectedly, he fell on the ground again and everybody laughed. Their laughs have silenced when they saw Eren pushing himself up and finally balanced on the cables.

Everyone then cheered and Eren threw his hands in the air and shouted, "YES, I FINALLY DID IT !"

The moment ended when Eren has fallen to the ground for the third time. Although, Keith saw something wrong with the harness and inspected closely. After he finished inspecting the harness, Keith concluded that the belt of the harness was broken.

Keith asked, "Jean, can you give Jaeger your belt really quick ?"

Jean nodded his head and gave Eren his harness belt. After trying to balance on the cables again, Eren was perfectly able to balance without falling down. Therefore, Eren had successfully passed his training and and he started to feel really confident now. After lots of training using the 3DMG to practice killing Titans, Eren and Reiner practiced on close combat.

While they were practicing, Eren saw a recruit with blonde hair leaning against wall and said, "Hey Reiner, who is that over there ?"

Reiner looked towards the recruit and replied, "Don't worry about her, that's just Annie Leonhart."

Eren saw that Annie was not practicing close combat and he shouted, "Hey Annie ! Why don't you try close combat with us ?"

Reiner was about to speak until Annie started walking towards them with a serious look on her face. Once she finally came to them, she looked at Eren and said, "Why should I ? I don't need to practice this stuff."

Eren felt intimidated at first, but he replied back, "Well, we're doing this because when either a thief or someone attacks us, we can use close combat to counter them."

Eren held a fake knife in his hands and went to surprise attack Annie, but she grabbed him and somewhat pinned him on the ground. Eren felt pain and struggled to stood up.

Annie looked at him and asked, "Since we practiced, can I go now ?"