Entering the ballroom a few minutes before her plan would be put into action, Zeke Yeager strutted across the floor, attracting the gazes of many men and women with her natural beauty.
She wore a black sleeveless dress that went down to just above her knees to show off her long, smooth and toned legs, the dress was also low cut to show off her cleavage to anyone that was inside of her personal space.
She was wearing high heels that she had to practice walking in earlier to make it seem like she could do it flawlessly, her hair was undone and flowing down past her shoulders, and her glasses were no where to be seen, only adding to her beauty.
It didn't take long for someone to approach the blonde beauty, with that person being a young man in his very early twenties, wearing an expensive suit and a glass of wine.
"Good evening miss." He greeted her by taking her hand and gently placing his lips on her knuckles. "You look stunning tonight." He complimented her. "May I ask for your name?"
"You're too kind mister." She giggled. "Though we have just met, I'm afraid I'm not comfortable giving my name out to complete strangers."
"Well allow me to rectify that, my name is Theodore." He introduced himself. "What is your name beautiful?"
"Wouldn't you like to know." She giggled, very unlike her, but then again, she wasn't trying to be herself. "I like to keep a close group of friends, and you currently aren't on the list." She twirled a strand of hair with her finger.
"Well perhaps we should talk some more." He suggested. "Maybe then you'll consider giving me a place on that list of yours."
"Hmm." She hummed, placing the tip of her finger in her mouth. "Maybe you would like to meet my friends." She suggested after spotting Sebastian being picked up by a Marleyan man next to Mrs Tybur.
"Of course I would." He welcomed her suggestion warmly. "Surely your friends ate just as lovely as you are, perhaps we could all have some fun."
"That sounds like a great idea." She bit down on her finger, drawing blood the coppery taste reached her tongue. "But I don't think you'll enjoy the fun me and my friends will be having."
Theodore adopted a confused look on jos face, curious as to what she meant, he inquired about it. "What do you mean?"
She didn't reply, instead allowing the sparks to flow through her blood, connecting with the other Eldians in the vicinity through the invisible paths they all shared, willing them to become Titans with a single thought.
The transformations brought about a blinding light and scalding hot winds were produced with the energy that was released. Once the lights died down, every single person was silent, all eyes on the seven Titans now in the room, all waiting for commands from their master.
Using her mental link to command the Titans, they set forth unleashing hell upon their Marleyan oppressors. The first Titan to grab someone was the Titan that Sebastian had became, grabbing Mrs Tybur and lifting her to his mouth.
Surprisingly though, she didn't struggle, didn't scream, cry out for help, she just seemed to accept her impending doom. So when Sebastian's pure Titan form crunched down on her spine and removed her upper body from her lower body and swallowed, Zeke smirked as the most important part of her plan had worked successfully.
"We have to run!" Theodore tried to pull Zeke with him, but couldn't as she stood firm in place. "Come on Miss! Hurry!"
"I thought you wanted to meet my friends though." Zeke looked at the man, acting innocent. "Here comes one right now in fact." She said as a six metre Titan with blood covering its teeth and mouth.
"W-What?" The boy froze in place, stunned into silence as he shivered in fear at the Titan right in front of him. "Y-You demon!" He yelled as the Titan grabbed him. "You wont get away-"
"How upsetting." Zeke droned out as she watched the Titan devour the man at her command. "I thought you wanted to meet my friends, oh well." She turned back to face where Sebastian was, and the ballroom was a bloodbath.
Body parts were strung about everywhere, blood splattered onto the expensive marble floor and curtains. The screams of those still being feasted on rang out and it was like music to her ears, hearing the sounds of those who she hated so much getting a taste of their own medicine.
Soon enough, the only people in the room were her and an unconscious Sebastian... well they were the only ones alive that is.
"Don't just stand there and watch!" Zeke yelled at the Titans while she was changing back into a less revealing outfit. "Go outside and kill some people why don't you." The Titans instantly followed her command, forcing their way outside of the building to cause more death and destruction, and hopefully delaying the arrival of the Marleyan Military while they deal with the Titan threat.
Along with the spinal fluid she had managed to smuggle into the drinks of the Warrior Cadets that were there helping to serve wine to the rich bastards, she had also managed to bring a large flag that had the nine pointed star of Eldia.
The plan was to hang the flag on one of the walls and spill blood over it, this would hopefully lead the Marleyans to believe that this attack was carried out by the Eldian Restorationists, instead of thinking it was one of the Warriors.
She wasn't stupid, she knew that this was an extremely high risk high reward scenario, but considering that Sebastian was now human again, the reward part had been fulfilled.
However there would be serious consequences for this, the Tybur family would demand that the War Hammer be returned to them immediately, which would require the Marleyan Military to basically invade Liberio to search for the ones responsible.
Humming a tune to herself as she dipped the Eldian flag in the blood of some dismembered Marleyan, chuckling internally as she could hear the sounds in the distance of the Military fighting back, she hung the bloodied flag on the wall facing the main doors so anyone entering would see it.
Once she finished leaving the planted evidence behind, she turned to Sebastian who was still unconscious and lying on a relatively clean part of the floor.
"Come on now little Seb." She picked him up and hoisted him over her shoulder. "We've got to get you into hiding." She asjusted her glasses slightly. "Well at least until the survey ship leaves the harbour tomorrow night."
(The next day)
Opening his eyes to see nothing but grass until the horizon, Sebastian slowly struggled to sit up, seeing that he was wearing the same clothes as he was the night before, except that he wasn't wearing his armband.
"My armband!" He exclaimed, quickly scanning the surrounding area for it, if he was caught without it, he was straight off to Utopia, no matter what kind of Eldian he was.
"Where is it! Where is it!" He was panicking now, all semblance of logic leaving his body because he had to wear it, no excuses, without it he was dead.
"You won't need that thing here." A voice came from behind him, causing him to let out a girly shriek in fright.
He whipped his head around to see that it was Mrs Tybur standing behind him, she was also wearing the clothes she last had on.
"H-How are you here?!" He panicked once again. "Y-You should be... did it not work?"
"No, Zeke's plan did work, you ate me and stole the power of the War Hammer." She said it so calmly that it was terrifying. "I have to give Zeke some credit though, the carrier of the War Hammer was a very closely guarded secret, I have no idea how she managed to find out."
"H-How do you know about Miss Zeke's plan?" He stood up now, trying to look as threatening as a ten year old could. "If you don't tell me I'll beat it out of you."
"Aren't you supposed to be smart Sebby?" She asked with a bored look on her face. "Haven't you realised where we are?" Seeing him have to think, she decided to spell it out for him. "I'm dead!" She pointed to herself. "You're not! Where are we?"
"We're in my head." He realised it, while Mrs Tybur gave him a sarcastic clap. "Why are you in my head?" He demanded to know. "Get out!"
She started laughing wildly, not as if she found something funny, but as if she witnessed something horrible and was enjoying it.
"Oh darling, you really have no idea do you?" She stepped closer to him, closing the distance between them. "This is where I live now, inside your mind." She stepped even closer and grabbed his shoulders. "The only question is, what will you do with your stolen power?"
"I'll help Miss Zeke of course." He easily answered her question. "I promised her that I would, so of course I would help her in anyway that I can."
"That's cute, you actually think that you have a chance with her." She laughed at him. "Oh honey, Miss Zeke will never look at you that way, you'd be better off pursuing me, and I'm dead."
"I know Miss Zeke will never like me the way I like her." He shot back, getting aggressive now that she had insulted Zeke. "But I won't stop helping her." He decalred. "Miss Zeke trusted me to help her with this mission, and I won't let her down. I admire her too much for that."
"Don't you see Sebby? She's using you." She pointed out to the boy. "She's been using you this whole time, using your feelings for her to manipulate you into helping her with some fucking ridiculous plan she has."
"Miss Zeke is not ridiculous!" He yelled at her in response. "She is not using me! You don't know anything about her!" He continued with his outburst. "Don't pretend to know her like I do!"
"You do realise that I'm effectively a figment of your imagination right?" She asked, clearly agitated with his fiery defense of Zeke. "I'm all in your head, this is all one giant test you've set yourself because you know that Zeke can't be trusted." She explained. "Aside from Zeke, you and Pieck were the smartest Warrior candidates, even she probably holds some distrust of your precious Zeke. If you thought with your head instead of your heart, you might just realise that."
"That doesn't sound like something I would say." He turned around in a huff. "I know you're not my imagination because I would never say that about my friends, even if they were untrustworthy, I would still try to see the good in them."
"Okay then." She would have to try a different approach now. "I'm not exactly a figment of your imagination to be honest, your mind has created me based on all my memories you've subconsciously seen and lived through but can't remember."
"So you lied to me." He concluded from that. "There's even more reason to not trust you now."
"What will you do when you get to Paradis?" She suddenly asked. "Will you wait at the docks for a year? Waiting for the Military to arrive and attack you for stealing their secret weapon?"
"No, that would be stupid." He replied. "Even I'm smart enough to realise that I couldn't do that."
"Then by default, you should enter the walls and survive for a year." She reasoned with him, which sounded like a reasonable idea. "Then what happens when you realise that they aren't devils and that they are exactly the same as you or me, except we had the misfortune of being born on the mainland."
"I don't believe everything I read Mrs Tybur." He replied. "Mother says that people exaggerate all the time, and that Marleyans are no different with their propaganda."
"Then your mother is a smart woman." She hummed in agreement. "Everything they say is bullshit. Ethnic cleansing, never happened. Deal with the devil, as if." She snorted. "Even the Tybur family siding with Marley is a lie, they just didn't want to be executed, so they cut a deal with King Fritz and started a revolution alongside the Marleyans, as a result we lived as humans with actual rights, not in a ghetto like the rest of our race."
"At least we got to live in a ghetto." Sebastian murmured. "Eldians in other countries are treated much worse than the ones in Liberio."
"That's only because those countries don't have acces to the Titan serum." Mrs Tybur explained. "They only campaign for the extermination of Eldians because they don't have any, but I can guarantee you that if they did, they would try and get every Eldian they could into their nation, give them the serum and set them off in the direction of Marley."
"I hate having to live like this." He confessed to her. "I hate fighting, I just want to live a normal life." He was fighting back the tears now. "I can't though, the world hates us, and they will even more after what me and Zeke did."
"Don't cry little boy." She gently wiped the tears away, because she knew what it felt like to be hated. "Be strong, for those you love, those you care for." She sternly told him. "I won't have you disgracing the power of the War Hammer because you wanted to give up."
"T-Thank you Mrs Tybur." He hugged her. "I'm sorry for what I did to you."
"It's fine." She muttered. "I hated that life anyway, I was never free to do what I wished." She revealed. "You are though, go to Paradis and fight. Fight for Eldia, fight for freedom."
"B-But Miss Zeke wants me to help the Warriors when they arrive." He responded. "She's counting on me."
"Oh, it seems like you're about to wake up now." She said, rather sad that she would have to leave now. "Remember though, Miss Zeke is always thinking three steps ahead."
Waking up for real this time, he immediately took note of the darkness of the room that he was in, and that he was laying on the concrete floor, with no sign of Miss Zeke anywhere.
The next thing he immediately noticed was that he was dressed more like a peasant living in the ghetto. Immediately realising what that meant his cheeks flushed red. "Did Miss Zeke change my clothes?!" His thoughts went wild as he tried to calm himself down.
Eventually he managed to get his face to return to a normal colour, and decided that the next best course of action was to find Miss Zeke, so he slowly opened the door to the room, which led outside.
Immediately his nostrils were hit with the saltiness of the sea and the smell of fish that came through the ports. He never liked eating fish, so it was almost enough to make him gag.
The sun was almost setting though, so it looked like he had slept through the whole day, which would make it harder for him to sneak around without being caught, at least until the sun set properly.
The docks were outside Liberio, and his armband wasn't on his arm or his person, so he really didn't need to be caught and be beaten to a pulp and sent to Utopia, but then again, that was Zeke's plan anyway.
Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he ducked behind a metal crate as a worker carrying a metal pipe walked right past where he just came from.
He continued on down the crate, sticking in it's shadow to try and keep himself hidden, avoiding things like Marleyan patrols and dock workers.
Avoiding yet another patrol, he did catch them talking about what was happening in Liberio though.
"It's a shame that we're stuck patrolling the docks when we could be shooting Eldians." One said to the other.
"I know." The other replied. "After the restorationists attack last night, I've been itching to get my hands on one of them."
"I'd love nothing more than to cut their fingers off and hear them scream." The girst man laughed. "That'll show them for deciding to turn into man eating monsters."
"Yeah, but we're still stuck here, patrolling until the survey ship leaves in a few hours." The other pointed out. "How long does it take to get there anyway."
"We'll be there by morning if that's what you're worried about." The other replied. "We're only supposed to survey the area, nothing else."
"Really? I was hoping to turn some Eldians into Titans." The other sadly responded. "I'm surprised there aren't any ships leaving with passengers going to Utopia."
"I'm sure there will be, teach them what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you." He laughed. "Now come on, the Captain shouts if we're late, and I can't be bothered listening to him."
The two soldiers left, allowing Sebastian to breathe out a sigh of relief, but could only be worried, if something happened to his mother, he wouldn't forgive himself.
"Hey! This area is off limits!" A hand grabbed Sebastian's arm, causing him to panic and lash out at the man's face, hitting him square in the jaw. "You little bastard! Come here!" He grabbed him again and fought against the struggling child.
"Let me go!" Sebastian yelled, he was attracting attention, but he wasn't thinking straight.
"Little shit! Stop struggling!" He hit Sebastian in the face, cutting his cheek. "There we go, now why are you here?" He asked, only to see the cut heal with steam pouring out of the wound.
The man's eyes widened, but before he could shout, a hand was clamped over his mouth and he fell limp against the body behind him, who happened to be Zeke holding a bloody knife in her hands.
"Why didn't you stay put when you woke up?" She questioned him with a glare, wiping the knife clean with a white cloth. "Do you realise how worried I was that you had ditched me?"
"I'm sorry Miss Zeke." He hugged her around her waist, burying his face into her stomach. "I was trying to find you, that's all."
"Alright, now help me hide his body." She put the knife away. "The last thing we need is more security around here."
A short while later after they hid the dead body inside a metal crate and locked the door, they were both back inside of the room he had woken up in, trying to pass the time until they had to sneak him onto the survey ship that left that night.
"Tell me Sebastian, do you remember what happened last night?" She inquired as they played with a deck of cards she had stolen from one of the Marleyan officers.
"The last thing I remember was that guy picking me up and hitting me." He replied, realising that he had no idea what they were playing. "The next thing I remember is waking up and looking for you."
"Interesting." She hummed. "You were awake for a few minutes before falling unconscious again, but nothing of particular note happened."
"Miss Zeke... what's happening inside of Liberio?" He asked her the question she was expecting. "I heard some soldiers talking about it."
"I suppose it's only right that I tell you." She pushed her glasses further up the bridge of her nose. "After we left the area, the Marleyan Military found an Eldian flag that I planted and assumed that it was the restorationists that were behind the attack." She explained.
"There has been a crackdown on Liberio, constant patrols, unprovoked beatings, shootings." She continued on with. "Before you worry, your mother is fine, but everyone thinks that you're dead, I'm sorry about that."
"I-It's okay Miss Zeke." He sniffled. "I didn't expect to be able to say goodbye... I just wanted her to be happy."
Zeke frowned when he started to silently cry, she wasn't exactly known for her abilities in consoling people, but he was her friend to some extent, so the least she could do is try.
"Don't cry little Sebastian." She said as she gently pulled him into a hug, his head resting right below her chin, gently stroking his back with her fingers. "Your mother will be fine." She reassured him. "I'll look after her while you're gone."
"T-Thank you Miss Zeke." He held onto her even tighter. "You're very nice Miss Zeke, I won't ever forget this."
"Shh." She soothed him once more, letting her fingers glide through his soft blonde locks. "Get some more sleep." She cooed. "You'll need it."
He followed her advice, and allowed himself to fall back into the realm of sleep, hoping that he would indeed see Mrs Tybur again and ask for some advice.
When he woke up once again, he knew it was time to go because Zeke was packing everything they had up and hiding it away inside of a wooden crate.
"It's time Sebastian." Zeke said without turning to face him, hearing him wake up when he shuffled slightly. "The ship leaves in thirty minutes, we need to be quick about this."
"Yes, we should hurry." He agreed with her, quickly getting to his feet and adjusting his clothing so it wouldn't ruffle when he moved.
"Ready?" She asked him, getting a nod in response. "Okay... go." She opened the door slowly and with Sebastian right behind her, they slowly snuck their way past workers and soldiers all the way to where the ship was docked.
Before the could get any further, a Marleyan soldier with a rifle walked right in front of them, but he was unable to see them because they were hiding in the shadows.
"Sebastian." Zeke's voice was barely a whisper as she handed him a knife. "You have to kill him, you won't make it if you don't."
Seeing his face contort into one of distress and him being unsure, she decided to motivate him a little. "It's a lot easier doing it when you know the person you kill hates you." She revealed. "They will always hate us, you just need the courage to fight back."
"Fight back." He whispered and took the knife from her, gripping it tightly in his hands. "They hate us." He whispered, taking a step closer. "They think we're monsters." Another two steps. "They call us devils." He got closer. "Demons." Even closer. "I'll show them what a devil is."
Once he was close enough, he leaped on the man's back and shoved the knife into his neck, blood spurting everywhere once he pulled out the blood soaked knife.
The soldier fell to his knees, clutching his neck in agony as he gurgled up blood as he tried to call out for help.
Once the man had keeled over and was dead, Zeke came over and dragged him away into the shadows, but she couldn't do anything about the blood on the ground, so they would have to be quick.
"Come on Sebastian." She grabbed his arm and pulled him along. "Don't dwell on it." She warned him. "You will have to kill more people when you get to Paradis Island, but don't let the deaths weigh you down."
"O-Okay." He let out a shaky breath, he just killed someone, but he didn't feel sad, he only felt sorry that it came down to this, that they were put into this situation.
"This is as far as I can go." She stopped them behind a wooden crate on the main dock, they could see the ramp going onto the ship but it was heavily guarded, and they were preparing to leave.
"How will I get on the ship Miss Zeke?" He was confused because there was no way he would be able to get past those soldiers. "There's no way past them."
"That's because you're thinking rationally Sebastian." She pointed above them. "You should always think outside the box."
She was right as per usual, the anchor was still down, which gave him an easy climb onto the deck of the ship.
"Sebastian." She whisper shouted when he was halfway up the chain. "Hide below deck, somewhere they won't check."
Once he reached the top, he looked down to where Zeke was and gave her a thumbs up, giving her the indication that everything was alright on his end.
"Alright then, now that's over and done with." She thought to herself. "When they don't come back, I can use that to sway the idea that the War Hammer is on Paradis Island."
(5:30 am, the next morning)
The sun had risen about fifteen minutes ago, but the survey ship had been active all night, apparently they were getting reinforcements to help survey the area.
The real reason they were getting reinforcements was that not every soldier on the survey ship was Marleyan, in fact, many came from countries that had been subjugated by Marley in wars, with their people being forced to serve in the armed forces.
One such example of these soldiers was an extremely tall woman named Yelena. She had short blonde hair in a bowl cut and large black eyes, she hated the Marley as much as someone could after being ripped away from their home, but there wasn't much she could do about it.
"Yelena!" A sharp voice barked at her. "Stop fucking about and help unload these supplies!" Her Captain yelled. "You're not Marleyan, so don't expect to have it easy!"
"Yes Captain." She replied, the boredom dripping from her voice as clear as day. She had nothing better to do, she wanted some excitement in her life, maybe if the Captain was eaten it would lift her mood, probably not, because then the Titan would just come for her.
"Yelena!" The Captain barked again. "Hurry up with those supplies!" He yelled at her.
"Hold on, I'm coming." She droned on, picking up a small crate of ammunition to carry, she could've lifted more, but she couldn't be bothered to. "Can't a woman catch a break?"
"Not when you're from a country that sided with Eldia in the past!" The Captain barked as he shoved her forward. "You're lucky the General thinks that you're valuable, otherwise I would have you thrown in prison."
"I understand Sir." She replied with no emotion in her voice. "I'll remember that for next time." She turned away from him.
"There better not be a next ti-" His voice cut off and he hit the floor, prompting Yelena to turn around to see a ten year old boy holding a knife stained in only what she could presume was her Captain's blood.
"Move out of the way." He demanded her to move. "You aren't Marleyan, you aren't my enemy."
"Is that so?" Yelena asked, drawing her pistol and dropping the crate of ammunition onto the port. "Why should I?" She aimed her weapon at him.
All he did was put the knife to his palm, showing her exactly what he would do. "I think you realise what I am now."
Her eyes lit up, she had heard about the attack on the Tybur's party that they held, and apparently the War Hammer was stolen, if he was the one who had it, he could turn the tide in their favour.
"There are many people who can see us." She motioned to all the soldiers who had dropped what they were doing and were now pounting rifles at them. "Rush me." She mouthed to him.
Realising that she was trying to help him, he heeded her advice and rushed towards her, only to receive a bullet in the leg, and a spark as his body transformed.
As the body of the War Hammer Titan formed, Yelena was blown back by the winds created by the energy being produced, and when it stopped, her jaw dropped at the sight.
Standing at a towering sixteen metres tall when standing at full height, the War Hammer Titan looked like it was bulit to win a war on its own. The entirety of the body was white, including the face which looked to have a protective mask of Titan skin covering most of the face, with only the eyes and jaw visible through a mesh of segmented skin.
The body of the War Hammer was covered in lean muscle, with the definition of the abdomen and muscled arms and legs very clear to see. There was also a cable of flesh protruding from the tailbone, leading down underneath where it stood, with it going underground into a hole in the docks.
"Look at them." Lady Tybur's voice sounded into his ear. "Insolent little pests, why don't you crush them and show them what it feels like to be treated like the dirt you walk on."
During Mrs Tybur's speech, the soldiers on the staircase and at the top of the sea wall had started firing their weapons at him. They were effectively useless as he didn't feel anything, but the thought of grinding them into paste was becoming more and more desireable by the second.
His temper snapped when one bullet hit his eye, causing his vision to blur through his left eye while it started regenerating. Letting out an animalistic growl as he strode towards the wall, making sure that he didn't accidentally step on Yelena, he reached forward with the palm of his right hand and turned three soldiers into a bloody paste against the back wall.
He then grabbed another two from the top of the wall, ignoring their screams he hurled them against the concrete port, their bodies exploding upon contact.
"That's right, show them no mercy." Mrs Tybur, who he could tell had a sadistic grin on her face said. "Make them feel the pain we've endured for a century."
Knowing that he had to kill every Marleyan here, he started getting to work on that exact job, mercilessly slaughtering the helpless Marleyans on the docks, crushing some in his hands, squashing some under his feet, even throwing some of them against the survey ship that he stowed away on, coating the outside of the ship in blood and guts.
"Don't you feel so much better?" Mrs Tybur asked him once every single soldier was dead aside from Yelena and a few others crowded around her. "Killing those that would happily kill you is thrilling, isn't it? I can't believe I had to die in order to feel this much pleasure, I think you've turned me into a massive sadist Sebby."
Staring down at Yelena and the few others she had gathered around her, each one looking at his Titan form in either awe or fear, he heard the distinct noise of a cannon being fired, and the whistling of a travelling projectile.
He was proved correct after a munitions shell hit the sea wall a few metres away from his face, quickly followed by another three shells hitting around him.
He turned around to see that two Marleyan destroyers had anchored out at sea, just within firing distance of the port, which was around three hundred metres away give or take a few.
"I wouldn't suggest swimming out there." Mrs Tybur stopped him right as the idea formed in his head. "Think about a bubble to put around your new friends." She basically ordered him.
"Why?" He inwardly asked her. "What will a bubble do for them?"
"Because if you don't, they'll become just as pasty as their senior officers became." She cast his attention on the incoming barrage of shells. "It's do or die... for themat least."
Listening to what she had to say, Sebastian thought about a bubble forming around Yelena and the others, and just before the shells hit, he saw a protective bubble come out of the ground and surround them completely, with only him suffering damage as a shell hit him square in the chest, causing him to stumble back against the sea wall.
"Now that they have to reload those useless cannons, how about we show them the true power of the War Hammer?" She suggested.
"What power?" He asked. "How do I use it?"
"You like to play baseball with Zeke." Sje pointed out. "Think about a baseball forming in your hand, how it looks, how it feels, how heavy it should feel to you."
Listening to her once again, his mere thoughts about the baseball caused one to form in his hand, it was a crystaline colour, but it was a baseball, even the stitches were there, exactly as he remembered it should be.
Now that his chest had fully healed, he stood at the edge of the dock and lined up his throw, three hundred metres away as a sixteen metre giant was the equivalent of about a thirty metre throw or so when he was human sized, and that was without the strength of the Titan aiding him.
Using the technique Miss Zeke taught him, he pulled his arm back and flung it at the destroyers, the giant ball catapulting towards the ships at an insane speed.
The crystal baseball flew towards the destroyer on the right, penetrating the hull of the ship and going right through in less than half a second. As a result of the impact, the sparks caused from the friction produced caused the fuel supply to catch fire and explode, bringing the entire ship down in a plume of smoke and flames.
"Excellent my dear Sebastian." Mrs Tybur chuckled. "Show those Marleyans the true power of the War Hammer Titan."
"I feel tired." He replied back to her. "This is very tiring Mrs Tybur, I want to sleep now."
"Not yet Sebastian, there's still one more destroyer." She reminded him. "You don't have the energy left to create another baseball, so why don't we try something a little smaller this time." She suggested.
"Okay." He replied, covering his face as another barrage of shells came towards him, none of them hitting the target. "Let's do it."
"Good." She replied. "Picture in your mind that you're holding a handful of pebbles, they are a dangerous weapon when thrown at people, but pebbles harder than steel will tear a ships hull apart." She explained.
Doing as she said, he imagined the pebbles in his hand, forming the jagged and smooth edges in his mind, feeling his hand get heavier as he lost more and more energy as the seconds ticked by.
"Now throw them." Mrs Tybur commanded him, which he complied with, bringing his arm back and flinging the crystal like pebbles like he would skim a normal pebble across the water, but in this case, it was pebbles half the size of a human either skimming off the surface of the sea or flying through the air towards the target.
The volley of crystal hit the ship at full force, some penetrating the hull, some missing the ship completely, but others slicing clean through the command deck of the ship, some hit the munitions supply and set off a chain reaction throughout the ship, forcing soldiers to jump off and take their chances against the strong waves produced by the impact of the explosions and the projectiles.
"Well done Sebastian." Her voice was much calmer now. "I need you to do one more thing for me."
"What is it?" He asked, though his thoughts were tired. He really wanted to sleep now.
"You see that cable coming out of your tailbone." He looked down to see it and she continued. "Follow it to the hole in the ground, reach inside and pull the object out." He followed her orders, and moved over to where the fleshy cable disappeared underground, reached inside and pulled out a crystal.
His eyes widened as he saw what he was looking at. "That's me!" He realised. "But how? Why am I not inside the nape?"
"What you're looking at is the advantage that the War Hammer Titan has over all the other eight Titan powers." Mrs Tybur told him. "Alongside its marvelous weapon creation ability, any user of the War Hammer can control the body without being inside the nape, instead being protected by a near indestructible crystal." She explained.
"The only disadvantage is the cable of flesh attached to the crystal and the body." She explained further. "Disconnect that, and you'll be able to rest."
Without question, he pulled the flesh away from the crystal containing his body, and just then, everything went black.
Right as the connection was severed, the bubble around Yelena and her fellow soldiers retreated back into the ground, allowing them to see the outside once again.
The first thing they saw was the decaying body of the War Hammer, then there was the crystal on the docks, and finally was the plume of smoke out at sea, and the remainder of the destroyers that hadn't fully sank yet.
"What do we do now?" One soldier asked, evidently shook up after seeing a Titan crish their fellow soldiers.
"Isn't it obvious?" The only Marleyan soldier left growled. "We need to kill that devil, before he kills us!" He proclaimed. "We can still use the survey ship to get home, but we need to kill him first."
"I don't think that would be a wise decision Sir." Another responded. "We don't have the manpower left to move that crystal, let alone the weapony required to break it."
"It doesn't matter!" He shouted back. "That demon needs to-" He wasn't able to utter another word as a pistol shot rang out and he collapsed to the ground, a bullet in his head.
"I say that we wait for him to wake up." Yelena calmly suggested, holding the literal smoking gun in her hand. "Anyone disagree with that idea?"
No one spoke up against it, all five of the remaining soldiers in favour of letting the boy wake up to have a proper conversation with them.
"Good." She holstered her pistol. "We should have the ships canteen set up with food for when he wakes up." She started to walk towards the ship. "We'll all take turns waiting for him to wake up, Onyankopon." She faced the only black soldier in their unit. "You take the first shift."
"Yelena!" Onyankopon called out before she was out of hearing distance. "What do I do when he wakes up?"
"Tell him Yelena wants to talk to him!" She called back. "He heard my name before he stabbed the Captain, he said that I wasn't his enemy!"
"Alright!" He replied, but the stench of blood and death in the air caused him to wrinkle his nose. "How can a child willingly cause so much death?" He muttered to himself. "Oh yes, he was probably raised in Liberio."
A/N- I hope you enjoyed the second chapte of this story. Zeke may seem a little sadistic at the start, but that was towards Marleyans, she also cares for those she does call friends. Mrs Tybur was a bit more sadistic, but it can't be helped, especially after being able to watch someone kill the people who hate her own race without any consequences to herself.
Next chapter will be Yelena and the other non Marleyan soldiers talking with Sebastian, and also him entering the walls. Until next time, I hope you enjoyed!
Harem- Fem!Zeke, Fem!Reiner, Fem!Bertholdt, Annie, Pieck, Mikasa, Fem!Eren, Fem!Jean, Fem!Armin, Fem!Levi, Frieda Reiss, Historia/Krista, Sasha, Fem!Connie. Maybe Yelena, not sure yet.
Thats all for the harem so far, if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment!