Hello my readers, The Electric Dragon Rider here! And I'm back with chapter 3! Hope you enjoyed the last chapter, and your ready for Chapter 3. If you don't know I'm starting a new HTTYD story called "The Mysterious Dragon Rider", go check it out if you haven't, I'm not sure if it'll be posted before this chapter or not so... anyhoo back on track. I'm excited for Season 3, what about you guys and gals? Welp let's get on with the story, enjoy!'Thoughts'

'Thoughts/Narration"

Disclaimer - I don't own Shingeki no Kyojin (A.O.T). A.O.T belongs to Hajime Isayama. Now let's begin!


It was early morning in the 106th training camp. All the cadets were asleep except one, Cadet Dean Yeager, sat on a chair outside the boys cabin. Dean takes a death breath if the morning sir, and sits back in his chair relaxing.

"What are you doing out so early Dean?" the brown haired boy turns and sees Miles standing in the doorway trying to rubbing the sleepiness out of his eyes.

"Just enjoying the fresh morning air," Dean says turning back around and stretches, "I've always enjoyed being up in the morning hours."

Miles yawns and sits down next to Dean, "So what are you doing up so early Miles?"

"I dunno," Miles kicks back and relaxes in the chair, "I just couldn't sleep I guess."

"Hmm," Dean nods, "You ready for the today?"

"I guess," Miles chuckles, "I'm honestly kinda nervous. I mean learning the basics in the classroom were ok. But to actually put that knowledge to the test, and be pulled off the ground and keep balence... seems a bit hard."

Dean looks over at the freckled boy, "Hey, this is what we studied for. I know you can do it Miles."

Theyve been at the camp for about a month now, mostly focusing in hand to hand combat and class work, and they also started the learning the basics of ODM gear in the classroom.

"Thanks Dean," Miles smiles, "So what's up with you and Jack?"

"We were friends once," Dean says looking away from the boy, "we used to argue, but one day he just started to become an ass, and started to treat Ashley like she's some object he can do whatever he wants with."

"Wow, so that's why he's always flirting with her."

"Yeah, and it pisses me off that he treats her that way. She's a person, one of my best friend, not some object you can fuck when you please."

"I fell ya man," Miles looks up into the sky, "back in Trost I had a friend who was always being ganged up on just because she was a young pretty girl."

"Welp everyone else is gonna get up soon," Dean says as he stands up from his chair, "I'm gonna go shower and get ready for the day. See ya."

"See ya," Miles continues to stare at the sky while Dean heads inside.


"Alright maggots," Keith yells as some cadets are trying to hang in the air, "When I call your name your up next." The cadets who were just going are set back on the ground and they walk into the crowd to watch the rest of the cadets. "Cadets Yeager, Yuuki, and both Alerts are up get to it maggots."

The four mentioned cadets head over and buckle into the practice gear, when they're ready they nod and are lifted off the ground. Ashley has relatively little problems, as well as Zaria. Zep struggles for a bit but gets the hand of it. Dean on the other hand is staying up, but is wobbling quite a bit.

Keith walks over to Dean, "Whats your major malfunction Yeager?"

"I don't know sir," Dean says as he wobbles some more, "something doesn't feel right with the belt."

"Well then what do you think-" Keith is cut off when Dean falls forward.

CRACK

"Aggghhhhh," Dean holds his head in pain, "crap that hurt."

"Let him down," the person at the crank turns it until Dean is laying down on the ground still holding his head.

"Go get your head bandaged at the infirmary and retry tomorrow Cadet," Keith looks into the crowd, "Cadets Zepplin and Ashley, take Cadet Yeager to the infirmary."

"Yes sir," the two salute and rush to their friend and wrap his arms over their shoulders.

"Alright next!" Keith yells ignoring the trio of friends who are hobbling to the infirmary.


Dean's P.O.V

"Well that was embarrassing," after failing the training today and I smashed my head into the ground, and I gained a MASSIVE headache.

"How you feeling Dean?" I look over at my red headed friend and crush.

"Same as I was 3 minutes ago when you asked me," I say with a dry chuckle.

"If you weren't injured already I'd punch you," she fake pouts at my response.

"If I didn't know better I'd think you guys were a couple," Zep says smirking when my cheeks heat up and I'm pretty sure Ash is blushing to, "When you argue you sound like an old married couple."

"Were not a couple," Ashley says quietly.

"Yeah, were just friends," I say quietly then whisper, "but I wish it was different."

"What did you say Dean?" Zep says smirking knowing exactly what I said.

"W-what?" I stutter, "I, I, uh, i d-didn't say anything."

"I heard you say something," Zep says smirking.

"Nope, I didn't say a thing."

"Oh really?" Zep makes a face like he's recalling a memory from the past, "Cus, to me it sounded like you said 'I wish-"

"I said 'I wish my head didn't hurt," I chuckle nervously, "yup, t-that's what's I said."

"Mmhmm," Zep looks ahead, a smile evident on his face.

"There it is," Ashley points to the wooden building with the words 'Infirmary' written on it.

"Finally," I says with a sigh of relief, "This damned headache is killing me."

"You help him inside, and I'll go tell the nurse," Zep let's go of his friend and rushes inside.

"So what did you say earlier?" Ashley asks as we make our way over to the building.

"Nothing," I say quickly as my checks heat up.

"You know," Ashley looks over at me and I stare into her deep brown eyes, "somtimes I wonder what you trulythink of me."

"W-what?"

"I mean, sometimes all I have to do is smile at you and you get all flustered."

"Hey lovebirds," Zep calls from the doorway, "Hurry it up."

"Yeah yeah Zep," I say with a slightly annoyed expression, and a small smile, "I'm comin."

With the help of my two friends I find myself laying on a bed in one of the infirmary rooms with the nurse checking out my injured head.

"Seems to just be a minor injury," the nurse writes something down on her clipboard before grabbing some bandages and wrapping my head, "you'll just have a headache for a while, and your head may be sore for a few days. But other than that you should be good to go, just stay here for a little while longer. I'll come and tell you when your good to go." With that she walks out of the room.

"Glas to hear you'll be back at it soon," Ashley smiles at me.

"Yeah," I lay down and stare at the ceiling, "come wake me when dinners ready."

I curled up and pull up the blankets and doze off as my friends head out to finish training for the day.


Ashley's P.O.V

After getting Dean to the infirmary I made my way back to where Keith was with the rest of the cadets. After finishing for the day I made my way to the infirmary so I could see if Dean was ok to go eat and if not I'd go take him some food. So right now I was on my way to Dean to see if he was awake or still sleeping.

After walking into the building I saw the nurse from earlier in the morning, "Excuse me miss." She looks in my direction. "Can I go see Dean?"

The nurse nods and leads me to his room, she closes the door after I enter and leaves me alone with a sleeping Dean.

I look at his peaceful face, his lips are pulled into a small smile, and he's using his left arm as a pillow facing me. I pull up a chair and sit next to him for a bit, 'You know, you look really cute when you sleep.'

I blush at my thoughts but calm my nerves, "Hey Dean," I shake the boy slightly, "come on wake up."

The boy I've come to love stirs slightly, "Five more minutes mom," he replies sleepily rolling over to face the wall.

I stand up and put my hands behind my hips, "Funny. Now if you don't wake up I'll pull you out of bed."

"Fine, fine," he sits up and rubs his eyes with a yawn, "I'm up."

"Good, now dinners ready let's go."

"Oh morning Ash," he stretches and greets me, "dinner? But it's morning."

"You fell asleep after me and Zep brought you here, remember?"

"Oh yeah," he stands up and stretches once more.

"Well let's go," I decide to tease him a bit. I make sure to walk slowly and sway my hips, and once I notice he's been staring I turn at the door and whisper while indicating with my finger, "come on."

He blushes deeply, "O-ok."


Third Person P.O.V.

The mess hall was buzzing with conversations and laughter as friends hung out and escaped the worries of the world, if even for a short time. At one table sat Zep, Zaria, Chas, Vivi, Tony, Mandy, and Miles. "Hey guys," Dean says as he and Ashley sit down with their friends.

"Hey Dean," they smile seeing their friend back up.

"Where's the horse?" Dean asks.

"He and Miles got into an argument and he's ticked that he lost," Zep says pointing to where the teen is sitting all alone, "now he refuses to come over here."

"I kind of feel bad, but he deserved it," Miles says.

"So what did you argue about?"

Miles tells Dean about how Jack told him his plans for making Ash fall for him, and how he'd get her to do anything he wants her to do, but Miles thought that was wrong. Then they started to argue about how wrong his plan was, then Miles said he's just jealous because Dean is closer to Ash then he was, then Jack got mad and stormed off and how he hasn't spoken to him since then.

Dean chuckles, "Sounds just like Horseface."

The rest of the group chuckles, and they continue eating and talking about anything and everything.


Dean's P.O.V.

'Today is the day,' I thought to myself as I walked forward to try once again at ODM simulator.

"Buckle in Cadet, today's your last chance or it's off to the field for you," Keith says a bored look on his face.

I strap myself into the rig, and once I'm ready I give Tony a thumbs up. Tony turns the crank and slowly the machine hoists me into the air, I take a deep breath and try to steady myself. 'Today I'll do it. Today I'll pass. TODAY I'LL BECOME A SOLDIER!'

I throw my arms out to the side and smile when I realize I'm keeping my balance. My friends smile at me, 'I did it! Now I can take out the titans an go explore the world.' But it seems I celebrated to soon, because I lose my balance and get thrown forward and my head once again slams into the ground. "Crap, again? No wait, I can do sir. I can do this." I try to raise myself upright again, but fail and let my body go slack. 'Damn, I thought I could do this.'

"Damn it," I say, "I thought I could do it."

"Hmmmm," the commander stares down at me, "Cadet Wanner, switch belts with Cadet Yeager." I look at him confused but Tony takes of his belt and switches with me, I buckle in with the new one and Tiny once again lifts me up. I wobble at first but soon find my balance and manage to stay up in the air.

"Wait," I say looking at the instructor, "why couldn't I do it with that belt sir?"

He twists the belt, and a piece of metal punctures the leather and sticks up, "Your belt had a broken clasp. This is the second time, and it looks like I need to bust some heads together again. But it seems that with working heat you might not be so bad after all."

"He did it with a broken belt?" "He's good." "I can't believe he did that." The crowds murmurs as I continue to hang and loom over at my friends. I catch Ash staring at me so I decide to get her back for yesterday, so I wink at her and smile when she blushes.


Third Person P.O.V.

"I'm still surprised you did that with a broken clasp," Tony says as he bites into his bread.

"Me to," Dean says as he takes drink from his cup.

"Is Jack still upset?" Zep asks with a chuckle as he looks at the lone teen.

"Yeah," Miles sighs, "I'm just gonna leave him alone until he decides to listen to me."

"Smart," Dean says smiling, "he never liked losing anything as a kid. So we had to wait until he was ready before we did anything with him, it usually took anowhere from a couple weeks to a month."

"I think next week we start using actual ODM training," Ash says.

"Sweet!" Dean says with a fistpump, "I can't wait."


Third Person P.O.V.

Keith stands in a wooden platform with a clipboard in his hands, as he stares into the forest. The sounds of gears grinding fills the air as a cardboard cut out of a Titan pops up into view from around a tree. "AHHHHHH," suddenly a flash of brown hair flies towards the cut out, slicing into the weak spot.

'Dean Yeager. A smart kid, he's got a determination that might even rival that of his father's. He's well respected by his comrades, and seems to have great leadership skills. He can get violent when it involves his friends, mostly his red headed friend.'

Not far behind the brown haired teen a girl with red hair flies by cutting deeply into the Titan, almost hitting the wood.

'Ashley Yuuki. Top of the class, a strong hearted determined girl. She surpasses her classmates, but doesn't hold it over their heads. She's always helping them to get better, even if she doesn't know them that well.'

Deeper into the forest 3 kids fly after a Titan that just popped up. They all slice deep, except for one. "Damn it, not deep enough!"

'Jack Kirstein. An insufferable asshole with a hair trigger temper. He doesn't exactly play well with others he isn't the most liked and gets into fights quite often. Fights the most often with Cadet Yeager. Once thrown into battle I believe he'll be taught to respect his fellow cadets more.'

"Nice try Jack," a boy with short light brown hair says with a laugh, "drop your ego a bit and maybe you can accomplish something."

'Chaster Sprinnger. A dimwited kid, but can suggest good ideas. Will go to near extremes to keep his friends happy.'

"You'll just make him mad Chas," a girl with dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail yells as she zips by and slices a Titan. She drops to the ground and shoots back up, "YEAH!"

'Vonye Sprinnger. Some fine instincts, and happily shares with her friends. Her and Chaster are quite often caught trying to break into the kitchen to steal food.'

The three teens fly at a Titan, "Hope you don't mind if I steal you kill," a freckled kid yells as he flys past them and slices the titans nape.

'Miles Argent. A kind kid, who is always trying to help his fellow comrades. He seems to be the only one capable of calming down Kirstein when he's in a rage. He'll make a fine soldier if he stops being so kind, he just needs to toughen up a bit.'


Third Person P.O.V.

The rain was pouring and Keith along with the cadets wore green rain coats, "Pick up the pace you lead footed laggers!"

A girl with long black hair was falling behind, "What's the matter Arlert? To much weight for ya? Go ahead and drop it, the Titans will have less problems digesting you if you lose the extra baggage."

A boy with short black hair and bright blue eyes falls behind to jog next to the girl. He pulls the bag off of her back, "Just focus on keeping up, we are beign graded you know."

"But won't they drop your grade for this?"

"Not if I don't get caught, so let's go," he speeds up a bit.

'Zepplin Arlert. Smartest kid in his class, he's always looked up to when it comes to academics. Always willing to help his comrades and will fight back when encouraged.'

"I'm not a little bitch," the girl huffs out quietly, "You hear me? I'll do this on my own!" She speeds up and pulls her bag off of Zepplin's back.

'Zaria Arlert. Built like a dandelion, but is extremely deceiving. She will fight for here friends even if her opponent is twice her size, she fights harder when her brother is envolved though. Don't underestimate her strength and capabilities.'

Zaria hurrys until she is towards the front of the group, and Zep smiles at her determination, "That's it sis, show them what your made of."


Third Person P.O.V

"Of the original recruits only 215 cadets graduated, some of them with honors."

"Do you have heart?" one of the instructors yells, to the cadets who stand in the courtyard of a stone building.

All at once the cadets form a military salute, "Sir!"

"Because as of this moment you have 3 options," the man continues to yell, "choose wisely."

"We have the Garrison Regiment," he points to the insignia with two roses on it, "whose job is to repair the walls."

"The Scout Regiment," he points to the 'Wings of Freedom' insignia, "who rides out into Titan territory to reclaim what was once ours."

"And finally the Military Police," he points to the green unicorn insignia, "who maintains law and order under the rule of the king."

"Only the top ten cadets are available for the MP's," he shouts, "take a look. These are the top of your class."

Looking at the stage from right to left, standing and holding a solid military salute are the top ten cadets (in order); Ashley, Dean, Zepplin, Zaria, Chaster, Miles, Jack, Vonye, Tony, and Mandy.

'We did it,' Dean thinks with a feirce determined look in his eyes, 'it's time. Titan, beware... I'm coming for you.'


"Woohoo!"

"Congradulations," Chaster and Vivi yell as the clank their mugs together in a toast.

"Scouting Regiment, here I come," Dean says joining in.

"How in hell did I rank under Chas," Jack mutters to himself irritable, he then takes an angered chug from his drink.

On the other side of the building most of the top ten are hanging out, along with some other graduates. "Your really going to give up the MP's for the Scouts?" Tony asks bewildered, "you placed second in the class."

"I didn't train for the easy life Tony," Dean says looking at the teen, "I've trained to murder the Titans."

"Are you insane!" Tony yells causing the cadets to quiet down at the outburst, and quieter he adds, "don't you know how many people have died, over a fifth of the population. If that won't paint a picture and change your mind, I don't know what will. But this is our life now, we just can't beat them."

Dean stares the the blonde boy, "Yeah so what?"

Everyone stares at him, while Ash and Zep put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "I know how dangerous it is out there, both of my parents risk their lives for your safety. There's no garente that they'll come back alive every day. But I can't keep living like this. We live in a cage, we have the mind of livestock, eat and sleep. That's all we do, we need to fight back. Out side of these damned walls is a world we've never seen. Fire water, lands made of ice, fields of sand, and a huge body of water that covers most of the world, filed to the brim of saltwater. That's my goal, that's why I enrolled and trained so hard. I want to rid the world of the titans so I can go explore this world with my parents, with my friends," he looks to his friends, and exchanges smiles with them, "so you can join the military police if you want Tony, but I'm sticking with what I want. And I will exterminate every last Titan, or I will die fighting for your freedom. So I won't let all the death and destruction they caused be for nothing." He takes a deep breaths and quickly leaves the room, his friends following him.

"Dean wait," Zep yells.

'Yeah good luck out their you suicidal hotshot,' Jack thinks as he watches the brown haired teen the room.

"Let us handle this," Ashley says to their friends who are also worried about Dean, they reluctantly walk away.

"That was quite the speech you gave us," Zep says sitting next to his friend.

"Yeah, well it mostly came from the stories you told us, as well as my dad. I won't let all their sacrifices be for nothing."

Zep looks up into the night sky, "I'm going to join the Scouts as well."

"Really?" Dean looks surprised.

"Yeah I don't want others fighting for me, I'm going to help you achieve your goal Dean. We will see the outside world and swim in the ocean." Zep smiles at his friend.

"Me to," Ashley says.

"What!" Dean spins around and stares at the red head, "no I don't want you to die Ash."

"And I can't lose you Dean," Ashley says staring at her crush, "That's why I'm joining to."

"No goddamnit. I'm trying to keep you safe Ashley, your top of the class! You'd be wasting your talents."

"No Dean, I've made up my mind," she says determinedly, "and your not changing it."

Dean sighs in annoyance, "Why don't you want her joining Dean?" Zep asks his friend knowing why and hoping to give them a push.

Ashley looks at Dean in curiosity, "Yeah, why don't you want me to join?"

"Uggghhhh," he groans, and gives a death glare at Zep who smiles innocently, "it's because I care to much about you Ash. I can't lose you for two main reasons. You and Zep are my best friends, and..." he trails off.

"And?" Ashley leans in.

"Uggghhh," he blushes and looks down for a bit before looking strait into Ashley's dark brown eyes, "I don't want you to join because I love you Ashley. I can't lose you, I love you to much."

"Oh," she smiles and tears form in her eyes, "Dean. I love you too."

Dean smiles brightly and Ashley throws herself into his arms hugging him tightly. Zep smiles and walks off, 'My work here is done.'

They hug for a bit and break apart and slowly their eyes close and they lean in, soon something they both have wanted for a long time happens, their lips connect. Time seems to stop for he two as they continue to kiss each other, adding more passion the longer the kiss happens. Soon they break apart for air, blushing, and blush even more when they hear cheering and cat calls. They turn and see their friends from Shiganshina as well as Miles, Tony, and Mandy. The girls are cheering for their friend, while the guys are whistling and shouting cat calls to them. Ashley looks over at Zep and sees him smile sheepishly, his eyes saying it all. 'I brought them here.'

She chuckles, "Zep you are so dead." Dean chuckles and they give a friendly chase after the black haired boy. The rest of the group laugh and chase after them to help either side if need be.

After a while of chasing each other they all walk back into the room where people are celebrating, the group is talking, while Dean and Ashley are following behind leaning against each other fingers intertwined. They spend the rest of the night having a great time and "secretly" sharing kisses.


Third Person P.O.V

The graduate cadets stood on top of the wall cleaning the cannons, Dean looked over the wall with a smile on his face. '3 hard years, and I'm not only a soldier, but I also have the girl of my dreams.'

"Dean quit slacking and get to work," Chas calls out to the teen.

Dean walks back over to his friends where Tony has just joined the group and Mandy scrubs the side of a cannon, while Chas cleans the inside.

"So your really joining the Survey Corps?" Chas asks the blonde haired teen.

"But you were so intent on the MP's," Dean says.

"Heh," he scratches his the back of his neck nervously, "can't a guy change his mind?"

"It must've been your speech yesterday Dean," Mandy says giving said boy a friendly shove.

"WHAT!" Tony yells, "not at all. I made up my mind on my own."

"Well your not the only one," Miles says sheepishly, "I'm actually thinking about it."

"Wow," Dean smiles, hoping they'd all join together, 'more people better chances of winning, right?'

"H-hey guys?" Vivi asks quietly.

"Where've you been?" Chas asks.

She pulls open her jacket and shows a slab of meat, "I took some meat for the officers pantry," she starts doodling a little.

"WHAT!" They all yell.

"Are you crazy? That could get you thrown in jail."

"Idiot."

"Idiocy is scary."

"Meat has been rare since the fall of Maria."

"Don't worry," Vivi says putting it in a box, "once we reclaim the wall again, we'll have plenty of time to breed cattle and sheep."

"I want some!" Chas blurts out.

"Me too."

"And me."

"Why not?" Dean asks with a smile, he turns to stare into Titan country, 'We will win this. We will destroy every last Titan and me and Ash will go live by the ocean.'

He gets back to cleaning the cannons when an explosion occurs, sending the cadets sprawling atop the wall.

"What the hell?" Chas yells as he stands back up pulling out his swords along with the rest of the cadets. They turn and are greeted with the one and only red skinless face of the Colossal Titan. It stares them down, and time seems to slow down for Dean. He stares at it in shock.

"Shit."


*Zips in and on ODM gear and stumbles on the landing* Ahhh, sorry I'm still getting the hang of this thing. But anyway, wow. Dean and Ashley confessed to each other thanks to the help of Zep, and they finally graduated. And while on cannon clean-up duty they get a visitor. Welcome back Colossal douchebag. So yeah that happened. And I've gotten one review so far from, (Potato235) and I wanted to say thank you. I'm trying to make this as interesting as possible, my plan is after/during the battle in Trost is when I'll be trying to make the story different and not follow the anime storyline. But I hope you've enjoyed and - *a 10 meter Titan carcass drops in front of me* wah! Dean!

Dean: Sorry not sorry. Now get back out there! *flies away and takes out another 10 meter titan*

*sigh* Welp I gotta go, stay tuned for next chapter, *mumbles to self* and maybe I'll be better with the gear. *Zips away yelling* BYE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *smacks into a titans head while trying to kill it* Ahh, damn, son of a. *Kills it and flies away* YOU SAW NOTHING!