Heh, heh, heh. I love this gig! I wrote this to The Battle is to the Strong.
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Razor-sharp and with deadly potentcy, splitting flesh like hot butter. Knees crashed, then buildings collapsed. Mikasa sailed through the air like a bolt of lightning, other soldiers trailing far behind her as she flew through the air like a bird of prey, hunting down Titans.
"Mikasa's amazing," Connie shouted over the rain and wind, "she's going so fast!"
Armin's eyes focused on the girl as she went twice as fast as any one of them. 'No,' his eyes widened, 'She is using too much gas. At this rate she'll run out in minutes!' The girl's wires retracted into her gear and she spun around in the rain, twirling like a ballerina as her swords struck down another Titan before dashing away.
Eyes unfocused, swords twirling, gas forming a mist at her feet as the rain pounded her face. She was still, slow-moving as she slowly twisted through the air, only her blades moving at speed. The mist thinned and vanished and she fell to the rooftops, disappearing with a crash of thunder.
"Mikasa!"
Her head smashed into the ground first as she came down hard. Her eyes were dull as rain beat down on her body, lightning flashed in the background. Her eyes followed the twisting bolt of energy as it stretched across the stormy sky, carrying her back to her friend's words a short time ago. 'Eren, he's dead.' Something wet rolled down her cheek as another bolt streaked across the sky, thunder pounding like a drum.
The distant pounding of thunder became rhythmic, earth-shaking, as a Titan approached. Mikasa's sword, only her fingertips touching the weapon as it rounded a corner and spotted her.
Armin and Connie had split from the group to search for Mikasa, the rest heading to the supply depot without them, while they scoured the streets. Finding a single person in a deserted city should be easy with their Maneuver Gear, but that hadn't been taking into account the fact that Trost was not a small city.
The roar of a Titan drew the blond boy's eyes and saw a street, partially annihilated by a rampaging Titan, and Mikasa on her knees in the middle of it.
Armin shot along the ground and snatched her away like a bird of prey as he took to the rooftops. They crashed down heavily and rolled with it to lessen the blow. Connie landed next to them, "This is bad, there are two 15 meter-class Titans right there!"
Mikasa denied this and tried to explain, but Armin saw the steaming corpse of a fallen Titan and was baffled. One Titan charged and was decapitated with a single swing of the huge being's fist. The three were shocked, though Mikasa least of all, as the victor pulverized what was left of the Titan, releasing a beserker's roar as it began moving once more.
"The Titan just took out one of its own kind," Connie said in shock.
"Exactly," Mikasa said, turning to the two of them and back to her old self, "And I have a plan where we can take advantage of that."
She dodged and slashed through theTitans as little more than a blur, swooping down on the unsuspecting beasts like some bird of prey as it spotted its next meal. Metal lashed out and stabbed and bore through flesh like steel serpents, carving them to pieces and letting them fall. Armin and Connie hot on her heels as they etched out a path straight to their trapped Comrades, the Abnormal Titan crushing any of its kind that dared appear before it. Guiding it towards the Trost supply depot to save their comrades.
Everything around her nothing but a blur, she still recognized the sight of two Titans moved in on a civilian, a tall man holding two knives in his hands. Defying the creatures closing in on him with what weapons he had.
The Abnormal paid no mind to the two Titans, eyes now locked on a nest of its own kind that swarmed the depot, walking right by without a single glance. Mikasa made to cut down at least one of the Titans before proceeding to the depot, she had to give the man a chance!
Armin saw this and stopped her, "Mikasa, wait! We don't have enough gas to save him and get to the depot. Even if we did kill the Titans we'd just be stuck on the ground, helpless!"
Connie agreed with Armin, "Our tanks were only half-full when we started this, and now we each barely have half of that. Come on, we need to save the others!"
Mikasa paused and headed toward the depot, she and her friends just behind the Abnormal now. She looked over and the man looked up and saw her and she saw him. He wasn't afraid. Mikasa raced away, the last thing she saw was the Titans reaching down for him, his knives biting into anything they could reach.
She crashed through a window and landed with her friends in front of a shocked Jean, the Abnormal having clobbered two other Titans with one fist as it felled them with ease.
The man saw the three soldiers, mere children, race by while these two pests went in for the kill. The girl actually looked like she wanted to stop and swoop down on the Titans, but continued on eventually without any fuss.
'Good.' The Titan in front of him reached an enormous hand, like that of a god descending from the heavens, ready to crush. Twin blacks blades, like the fangs of some demonic beast that even hell could not hold, lashed out in a bloodthirsty frenzy and carved into the huge animal's limb until it was just a pile of gore.
He leapt high into the air as the Titan behind brought its own hand crashing down where he would have been. He tore across the side of a building like a lightning bolt as it slithered through space, tearing apart anything it touched in its raw fury.
The serpent rose high into the heavens, looking skyward as if it dared to breach the clouds before gravity held it in it's grasp once more. Eyes, both so empty of emotion and so full of strength, set its sights on its victim and roared.
"Fire!"
Bullets tore through the air, ripping through flesh and leaving the human-like creatures deprived of their most vital sense. They stumbled about wildly, lost in the absoluteness of the dark that encompassed them. A gray-haired soldier holding a rifle seized this opportunity and raised his head to the rafters high above them, "Now!" And like a flock of birds taking flight, more of their comrades descended from above and sliced into the one weak spot in this predator's body, the vital nerve cluster at the back of the neck, and sent them to their graves.
Connie and Sasha, however, had failed to completely slaughter the annoyences that they had sought to put down. The young man was winded and on the ground, like a bird that had been knocked from the sky, while the young woman next to was actually crying as a Titan reached out to pluck them both up. A loud snap echoed around in her skull as, still crying, her face became one of rage she swung both of her blades and split the Titan's hand open as their comrades dealt the killing blow.
They all regrouped and decided to split up, Sasha and Connie going with the others to link up with the rest of the human forces nearby while Jean lead the rest up to the roof of the supply depot. He had been a little hesitant about letting the two out of his sight, but thought that the Titans were the more likely ones to die when he overheard the emotionally shot girl muttering about flaying the Titans alive and skinning them for something to eat. Even Mikasa, normally one with perfect poise, thought it a bad idea to be around the girl right now.
They climbed to the roof to get a better view of the battle and saw the Abnormal pinned to a wall by at least five Titans, slowly having the flesh torn off of it as they consumed him alive. "It's wounds aren't closing, the Titan can't heal?" Armin said in shock.
They stood divided, their leader against his troops to decide if the Abnormal was worth the effort to save its wretched life. Before they could act another Abnormal appeared below, the one that had plucked a friend right out of the air and devoured him. 'That's the Abnormal that ate Thomas!' Thoughts racing through Jean's mind.
The other Abnormal, still pinned against the wall as it was eaten alive, suddenly snapped open its eyes and focused on the newcomer. A beserker's roar tore out of its throat and ripped through the air, stirring a frenzy of wind as it screamed with him. It stood and began to move, first one arm then the other being torn loose away from its body. It didn't care. It was a monster on a mission.
Jaws opened wide and bit into the other Abnormal's neck, shocking those who watched the awesome display. The Titan lifted its prey, as big as itself, into the air with only its teeth, its bones creaking under the weight. It suddenly became aware of its former torturers, only mere meters away, and used the now dead corpse to continue its rampage and slay all others of its own kind. First those on the ground were crushed under his attack and were pulverized to death, then it swung again with it's own body and neck, sending yet another into a building with a vicious blow, bludgeoning it until there was nothing left before finally letting the corpse drop from it's mouth.
"Hey," Jean rolled out, listening to the creature's fierce cry of victory, "What was that you said about helping it?" The Abnormal, succumbing to wounds it had gained on the path of glory, finally fell among the bodies of its own kind and lay still. Jean ignored the surprise of his subordinates and teammates, "Just as well, a Titan is still a Titan, after all." He began moving away, but Mikasa saw something and immediately shot down towards the fallen Abnormal.
Mikasa was so happy. Eren was alive! Alive and safe. He looked like he was ony asleep now as she clung to him fiercely, Armin right beside her. Jean, Annie, Bertholdt, and Reiner were all right there with them, watching.
She carried him carefully as they navigated the streets with their gear, heading towards where their comrades were regrouping. She noticed something and stopped for a moment on the roof of a building, partially crushed by the body of a fallen Titan.
The rest of her group stopped and looked at her, confused. Armin walked up to her, slowly reaching out to touch her shoulder gently. "Mikasa? What is it?"
She freed herself from her thoughts and shook her head to drive them back into the corners of her mind. "It's nothing, nothing."
She and and Armin were first to continue going. Jean and Connie followed. Bertholdt and Reiner looked down for a few minutes, eyes focused and minds stirring, before they took off too.
Annie was the last one who stayed there. Once her companions had moved on ahead, she descended to the ground slowly with her Maneuver Gear, gracefully setting down among the carnage that she examined closely.
Around her were the rapidly decaying corpses of two Titans, each one at least 15m tall, and a street-wide battlefield of demolished houses and collapsed building. There were the obvious signs of a battle, massive holes and collapsed sections where one of the Titans had swung wildly at something. Someone who was reasonably good at fighting with 3D Maneuver Gear would have killed these beasts before they could make a single move, otherwise a mountain of corpses from lesser men would lay about. It was as if someone like Eren had fought these two creatures, but she would've noticed the signs of a third Titan. So what killed these huge creatures?
She turned to the skeleton of one of the Titans, evaporating into the air, and examined the remains. Deep cuts lined what little flesh was left, going deep into the bones and left huge fissures behind. These cuts also lined the other Titan and the entire street, like some bloodthirsty monster had appeared to prey on these two poor unfortunates.
Annie turned her eyes to it's neck to examine the death blow and saw the culprit still stuck in the spinal cord. She climbed atop it and reached to pull it out, but it was stuck. She held tight and pulled with all her might and nearly fell right off the corpse as it gave in and released its hold on the dead body. She examined the weapon closely.
It wasn't very big, only as long as her forearm, and jet black. The blade was triangular and double-sided, sturdy-looking too. The hilt was nothing more than a thin cylindrical piece, ended with a solid metal ring. A good weapon in a fight, but not for killing a Titan.
Annie checked the other body too, and now she had a matching set. She stuffed them down each boot for now and caught up with the rest of the group, already seperated from Mikasa and Armin and heading somewhere else.
Mikasa and Annie were both thinking about the two dead Titans, thought it only went that far.
Annie thought of who could possibly have been able to kill two Titans with only a pair of knives instead of the swords that came with the Maneuver Gear. Nobody came to mind.
Mikasa recalled the man she saw trapped by the Titans, stuck on the ground holding those very knives. Who was he that could kill two Titans at once without any Maneuver Gear? She had no clue.
The man walked along a rooftop, far behind the group he followed, cloak blowing in the wind and hood up hiding his features. Two new black knives were in his hands, appearing in a swirling mass from who knows where. He stopped for a moment to observe a burning house, watching the flames dance through the tiny little building. 'These Titans...' the man thought. He stood there for several more minutes, discontinuing that line of thought.
He walked away after about an hour, heading in the direction the soldiers went.
This is my third real story, but only the second one I seriously plan to turn into a longer one.
Some who have read my other works may notice that my style is always changing, I want to see how this one is performing. Any review on how I'm doing as a writer would be appreciated.
I hope that you enjoyed and continue to enjoy the stories I write.
Have a nice day and visit again soon! XD
