Of Titans and Ghouls

Written by: PsychoHuntress

_DISCLAIMER_
I don't Tokyo Ghoul and Shigeki no Kyojin/ Attack on Titan or any of its characters, date accidents, trees, eyebrows, horses, etc; nor do I own the missing half of Marco :D However, I do own the plot of this story and my original characters. If you see anything that looks as if it's been copyrighted, it i intended, so don't sue me, okay?

_RATING_
For now, it'll be a T-rated fic. If you're tough, read on! If not… stop reading, k?

_CHARACTERS_

A lot.
Now all of this shit has been cleared, let us continue with the story, shall we?

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Thump… Thump… Thump

The soft sound of a steady heartbeat was slowly pulling Zoe away from unconsciousness. She groggily woke from slumber, her gray eyes fluttering open. She woke up to the sight of Mother Nature's glory. The bright sunlight came through the lush green leaves of the forest. The sound of birds merrily chirping and the branches were swaying with the breeze.

She slowly sat up, her body aching from last night's battle. She looked around to find herself in the forest with trees so high up that would no doubt fracture a ghoul's bone when they fall from that kind of height. Her mind was filled with questions on how she got there in the first place. How on earth did she get from a loud city such as Tokyo to the middle of a quiet forest?

"The fuck…?" Zoe's brows furrowed in confusion. She slowly stood up and paused when she suddenly felt the ground vibrates. It was as if a giant was running to where she was. Then, from a far, a naked giant emerged from the trees. How a creature can look so sinister and retarded at the same time, Zoe did not know the answer. It was so huge that she felt like a mortal looking up towards the Greek Gods, maybe even the Titans!

Then, time seemed to be in slow motion. The creature's retarded yet sinister face had smacked on the ground as it fell. Zoe wasn't sure if she should laugh or just cringe as to what the creature felt. The whole scene was hilarious, though. Imagine someone who looks really, really retarded and they fell face first to the ground… Have you? Good for you.

She knows that it's mean but it's just so funny yet she couldn't laugh because she knows how much that actually hurts. A familiar figure was hunched over by the nape of the creature as it started to emit smoke. She walked over towards the person in order to examine them.

They had long, thick red hair that stopped below their knees and a familiar-looking Koukaku seen. It looked like the kagune of Hinami's mother, Ryouko, only it had more details and whatnot in it. As she got closer, the sound of someone munching on flesh can be heard.

"Alecto?"

Alecto looked at her with a startled look; her mouth was filled with food. Imagine you caught someone eating cookies late at night, but replace the cookies with human flesh and blood smeared messily on their mouth and on your hands.

"Wangt shom?" Alecto offered her a handful of meat with blood dripping from it. Zoe shook her head in a dismissive manner. She had eaten earlier and she was already full.

Which reminds her… when was earlier?

"Hey, look my bars are full and my phone is still working!" Alecto says as she shows Zoe her phone, "Oh, just look at that! My phone is a hundred percent full! Amazing! I mean, I was drowning earlier and when I got out of the water I thought my phone was a dead fuck, but no! It's alive! What a miracle, praise the Lord!"

"Drowning?"

Alecto nods. "Yeah, I don't even know how I ended up underwater, but I'm drowning. At first, I felt like I was floating in nothingness and I caould barely breathe and it was also cold, but when I opened my eyes I was drowning. If you saw me, you'd laugh your ass off since I was panicking and I actually forgot how to swim for a few seconds."

"Oh my god, the same thing happened to me too!" Zoe exclaimed.

"You were drowning too?"

"No, no, I wasn't drowning," Zoe says, "I woke up in the forest and I didn't even know how I got there!"

"Woah! That's awesome!" Alecto utters with enthusiasm. Her lavender eyes gleamed with excitement. Zoe shook her head in horror. "No, it's not. It's creepy…" She didn't even understand how her friend can find this awesome.

"Why creepy?" Alecto raised a brow.

"Dude, you try waking up in the middle of a forest with no idea of where you are!" Zoe puts both of her hands on her hips, making her look sassy.

"Well, would you have preferred waking up only to find out that you're drowning?" Alecto crossed her arms.

"No, but –"

"That's what I thought. Unless you wake up inside the Suicide Forest, then I think it's not creepy"

"Don't even start me on that one," Zoe grumbles as she glares slightly at the red haired ghoul, "You're lucky I saved your ass." And with that Zoe walked away, knowing that Alecto would follow her, she didn't bother to glance at her friend.

"But did you really save me, though?" Alecto tilts her head in confusion.

Caitlynn stood there, debating whether to kill the snoring ghoul or not. She knows that she should while they were in their most vulnerable state, yet they looked so eerily human. The blue haired ghoul was snoring and sleeping in an awkward position while the dark haired ghoul was curled in a ball and was sleeping silently unlike her companion.

They were her friends, they were ghouls, and her job was to kill them. After every ghoul she has killed, why does she hesitate now? They were just ghouls, but why can't she just kill them?

Her grip tightened around her quinque –a Bikaku- as she raised her weapon, defying the feeling that's trying to hold her back. This was what the CCG do. They exist to terminate all ghouls from this world. Whether they're your friend or lover, a ghoul is a ghoul.

To her surprise, the dark haired girl suddenly back flipped and her Ukaku kagune sent crystal-like shards towards her. Caitlynn managed to avoid them, one barely scratched her cheek. She looked back at the ghoul whom looked back with a death glare.

Caitlynn's eye narrowed at the ghoul.

Their attention was withdrawn from each other and towards the sound a weird inhuman sound. You know the sound you make when you wake up and the weird angle your body manages to make when you wake up in the morning? Yeah. Juriko woke up like that.

When Juriko wakes up, she was surprised to see Touka. "Oh. Hi, Touka," The blue haired ghoul greets her friend, "Why are we here?" She turns her head and sees the auburn haired investigator. Her look hardening. "What are you doing here?"

"I'd ask you the same thing, kiddo." Caitlynn says. Juriko was immediately beside Touka with her kagune out. The two Ukaku users were ready to strike and so was she. Caitlynn held her ground as she anticipated which of the two would strike first.

"How the hell did Touka and Juriko…?" Zoe trailed off, looking confused as ever. Alecto and she were perched on top of a branch from a huge tree. They both decided to find a path that can lead them out of the forest. Instead, they found their friends and an opponent.

How strange.

"Do we drop in?" Alecto glances at Zoe from the corner of her eyes. She stood up on the branch, balancing herself as she did so. She had a little fear of heights, but what's making her stand up at the moment was the simple thought of standing on a branch is awesome. She was worried for her two friends as well.

They were facing a Special Class Investigator, after all.

Suddenly, Touka fired crystal-like shards, distracting the investigator. Before the human can regain her composure, the dark haired ghoul had tackled the auburn haired one to the ground and pinned her down.

"It's seems we've overestimated this one," Zoe sneers as she watches the fight that was about to unravel, "Bet Arima always saves her ass when shit goes down. How did she become a Special Class again? I don't really see anything why CCG promoted her, though."

"Determination, maybe, other than that… I see nothing," Alecto shrugs, "Guess I have to save her ass, then. Oh god, does that means she has to tag along in our group too? I'll have to look after her too… Damn you…" Zoe turned to Alecto, wondering what the last part of her sentence was. She didn't quite hear that.

Before she can ask her friend, Alecto had already jumped off and left her on the branch. "Really, dude, you're just gonna leave me like that?"

As Alecto fell, she released her kagune and used it to make her fall less bumpy. She managed to land on her feet, stumbled forward for a bit, and fell on her butt. Beside her, Zoe had landed gracefully on her feet, her kagune looking like four majestic tails behind her.

She huffed. Cursing her lack in grace. She was never one to be graceful try as she might.

Zoe offered her a hand and she took it with a smile. "Thanks, dude." She smiled and dusted off her clothing. "You know what? I just realized something," Zoe points curiously on Alecto's feet, "Why aren't you wearing any shoes?"

"You just noticed that now?" Alecto gives her a 'what the actual fuck?' look before their attention was caught by a blood curdling scream. Zoe immediately looked towards the source, only to find Touka still pinning Caitlynn down as Juriko took a bite from the investigator's arm. Cue another blood curdling scream.

"Alright, alright, that's enough." Zoe walked over to the two and pulled them away from the poor auburn haired girl. She wasn't actually mad at them, she can hardly give a crap, yet she scolds them for being so careless. "You guys could've at least covered her mouth," Zoe crosses her arms, "What if there was a human nearby, hmm?"

Alecto walked over to the lying and bleeding human. When the girl saw her, those emerald green eyes were filled with terror, hatred, and disgust. She must've recognized her kagune because it wasn't long before Caitlynn glared at her.

"You…" Caitlynn snarled, "…Bitch…"

"Honey, I'm a ghoul," Alecto corrects as she rips her friend's overcoat, "not a female dog. And here I thought you were an honor student." She wraps the ripped cloth around the wound to prevent it from bleeding any further. "This should do for now. I'm sorry, I don't have any bandages with me, but then again, even if I did have I wouldn't waste it on some pesky human like you."

"Then why the hell would you help me?!" Caitlynn grumbles.

"Why are you such an ungrateful brat?" Her voice was bored and annoyed at the same time, "I swear, if we ever go back to Tokyo, I'll ask that shit to give me ten acceptable fucking reasons why I kept you alive."

"Who–"

"You'll find out soon…" Alecto reassures with an eerie smile, "I hope it's soon enough because I'm looking forward to beat his ass." She grumbles as she blows a stray red lock out of her face. Deciding to stick with her promise, she sat cross legged beside the injured human.

"How did we get here?" Touka asks as she walks around.

"This must be a dream or somethin'" Alecto replies as she looks around, "I'm probably tripping balls or something and having a weird-ass dream." She tried to convince herself, then, she felt tired.

Juriko yawned. "I'm kind of sleepy."

"Me too." Zoe nods her head.

"So, does any of you know how you guys got here?" Touka asked, finally turning to them, "We can't just end up here for no reason, right?"

"Whatever was the reason..." Zoe answers, dwelling deeper in her thoughts, "I somehow couldn't remember."

"I can't remember how I got here too," Juriko chimed in, "All I remember was Zoe helping me while I limped. If I remember clearly-"

"-which you don't." Alecto shrugs as a shit eating grin grows on her face. Caitlynn rolls her eyes.

"-You told us to get to safety since Arima was already there." Juriko finishes with a thoughtful look.

The red haired ghoul shrugs. "I remember nothing. What about you Touka?"

Touka looks away, her sudden melancholy went unnoticed. "Kaneki..."

At this, Zoe was immediately pulled out of her train of thoughts. Was Kaneki okay? She sure hopes he's okay or most of her actions would've been in vain. She and Alecto joined Kaneki's group. While Alecto spent most of her time with her brother Tsukiyama, she spent her time beside Kaneki and gave it her all to be with him.

In the end, they had to leave because Kaneki asked them too. Though, Zoe refused at first but then she felt as if that she'd do the right thing if she followed his request. It was as if the universe had already planned out every detail in their life, every movement, every word that probably left their mouths, and all she had to do was play her part to complete this beautiful story… Wait, what?

They all stopped what they were all doing when they heard a sound in the distance.

They heard the unmistakable sound of horses in the distance and the sound was getting closer with each passing minute

I can't believe I forgot that I had this acc. UGHHHH! SORRY GUYS!