A different point of view

by Archangel401

What if it's all true? What if this all happened? What if the only one who knew was just...deleted? What if you saw it from a different point of view?

3. Chapter 3 Freedom of movement

Chapter 3 Freedom of movement

"Alright listen up maggots! Today we're going for a walk into the forest. There we will test your titan killing skills. And dare to fail it because today you will be graded!" "Yes sir!" The soldiers readied their gear and went into the forest. Dzahlus was walking with ease, as he is agile and strong, using a special breathing technique he could concentrate solely on the run that he used all his energy to run, making him the front line. At the end was Armin, struggling to keep up when suddenly Reiner encouraged him to step it up.

Finally they arrived at the destination. "Ok, we are here. From now on you will move in teams hunting down wood titans. Theres a thick pile of leather and left over meat on the neck of the wooden titans, they are all resembling 10 meter classes. Chop deep enough, it must be atleast 30 cm! Your blades are razorsharp so take care about what you are doing!" He started building teams. "Mikasa you will go with Dzahlus, as your the most skilled and he is for the first time using the prototype." "Yes sir!" "Now is our birdy ready to test the prototype?" "Yes sir!" "Alright then, teams get going!" The teams started grappling away into the forest. Dzahlus was admiring his gear.

*Flashback* "So for you to use the prototype we need a larger amount of gas, a much larger amount. And theres only one solution where we put this gas into, that is your body. Specifically your bones. Of course not all of them, but your arms and legs will be fused with metal. Additionally your spine will be reinforced." "So technically, I'm not really human anymore?" The doctor paused. "Well...yes. But it has it's benefit. You are able to double jump, accelerate extreme speeds, wallrun, negate all kinds of fall damage, you are able to outrun a titan and you have the strenght of a titan well that is kinda overestimated but you get the point. You will be so resistant that you can even withstand a titan's punch!" "...Sometimes if you want to defeat a monster...you gotta throw away your human side..." He looked up in a serious manner -Atleast what's left of it-. "And become one yourself." "So you accept the fact that you may not be really human anymore." "Yes." "Alright while I'll put you into sleep. I'll just say something. To recharge the gas you must breath. It's essential. When you are taking nice and steady breaths, you will never be exhausted. Unless you like run for a day or so, then your brain just gets tired, but nonetheless if you are out of gas you can also recharge it manually by the gas supplies. Or just sleep for six hours. Now this is just about the gas in your body, the external gas that you will have on your gear also counts to recharge these too you will need two hours more. When you look at these numbers, the amount of gas storaged within you is enormous, By the way the metal we use is newly discovered, it seems to be lighter than Aluminium and stronger than steel, so we called it Titanium! Now go to sleep." *End*

He clenched his fist. "Let's get going Mikasa." "Lead the way." Dzahlus started running, his acceleration was incredible, he jumped into the air and fired his grappling hooks. "How am I supposed to keep up?!" "I don't know, but first I'll get to test it's full potential anyway." He swung through the forest, so agile, so elegant, doing acrobatics all the time he released the hook. Mikasa was wondering why he only uses one hook at a time. -This feels so wonderfull...- His passion of speed and freedom, were all being satisfied. He then remembered he had a job to do. "Two titans spotted! On your left!" Mikasa yelled. "Acknowledged, stand by for titanfall." "Titanfall?" "Don't you get it? Fall...of a titan?" She shook her head. "What? I like this word!" They started engaging. Mikasa went first, swinging from the right she started spinning and arranged her swords like a sawblade. -That's an interesting technique.- He thought to himself. She could've gone for the second one too, but she left it to Dzahlus as she was curious. -Hmm I got so much potential with this advanced gear...I got it.- He started something weird. He was swinging close to ground level, accelerating in the direction of the titan. Then in the last swing he pulled himself upwards, so he was flung directly to the front of the titan, he started spinning too, but he arranged himself of a drill, rather than a sawblade. A distinct sound of clinging metal came from him, as he drilled right through it's throat into the neck and out again. Leaving a gaping hole there where the titans neck and throat was. Making a backflip after the action he grappled onto a tree and landed on he bark. "Hmm, impressive, not?" "Kinda." "Impressive!" It sounded from the drill instructor. "You two sure a treasure to mankind! Now I want to see what this birdy can do, raise more titans!" Suddenly multiple wooden titans emerged. 2 on the left of him and 1 on the right. "You have 2 seconds to decide what you do and another 5 to kill them, from NOW!" Everything went in slow motion now. -Ultimative cocentration..- He thought to himself as he analysed the situation. In rapid succession he made up a small plan on taking them out. He jumped off the bark and started accelerating to the 2 titans on the left. Doing the same as before he started drilling through the titan. -Pole drill machine...I like this name- Right after he exited the wood he made a half of a frontflip to bounce of the tree behind the titan with his feet. The exoskeletal gear negated all the energy from the impact and strenghtened his jump massively. Now flying at high speed he pole drilled right through the second one. He deccalerated in mid air to start falling down, while doing that he changed his blades. As he started falling down he shot one hook to the titans throat and accelerated so that he was swinging above him and right on that moment he fired a hook on the opposite direction. The result was that the spin momentum from the fall and acceleration was now directed downwards direct into the titan's neck because of the second rope. A normal human would've sustained major fractions and ruptures, but since he's different now, it was a piece of cake, and with a slash he cut right through the titans neck, causing the head to fall down. Dzahlus arrived at the floor way before the head and landed on his feet, negating all fall damage. Just a loud crash, lots of dust and a crater was caused by him. He stood up from his crouching position and said. "Anotherone bites the dust." "Excellent results Birdy!"

After titan killing training, hand-to-hand combat followed. "Now this will get interesting, been waiting for my live to finally test my made up technique haha." Dzahlus exclaimed "Eh? Made up?" Armin asked. "Yup made up" Dzahlus respondend. "And I also have a particular target..." He looked over to Annie who has just beat up Eren. -Ultimative concenctration.- He thought once again and analysed Annie's fighting stance and technique. -Holy shit she's furious, what did Reiner do today?- Annie's dead serious face creeped him out. "Here I come!" Eren charged at Annie, and Dzahlus concentrated to see every move in slow motion. Eren stabbed with his dagger in the right hand and Annie dodged to the left, just to kick him in his leg, hard. -Ouuh that hurt...- Eren was grunting in pain. "Hold up, you need to disarm him first." Annie let out a sigh and turned to Eren again. "Stand up." "Wait Annie! We're supposed to do it the right wa-" Annie's left arm reached infront of Eren's head pulling him backwards while her right arm was grabbing the dagger hand. She sticked out her hip and kicked his already unbalanced leg off, causing him to fall over Annie's hip, but she was of course overdoing it causing him to make a half backflip. -Aikido, mix with Judo. Atleast that's what it seems to me.- "Now it's your turn." She throwed the dagger to Reiner. "Eh.." "Yes Reiner, it's your turn to show her how a soldier should behave." Eren said now with a dead serious face like Annie had before. "Well...OH NO!" Reiner made a half backflip like Eren. "Damn she defeated me." Annie let out a sigh and walked her direction. "Armin is it ok for you when I go and try to beat up Annie for short?" "Beat up Annie?! Are you insane? She'll completely obliterate you!" "There is where the fun begins!" Armin shook his head, while having 'what the fuck' written in his face. Dzahlus approached Annie. "Hey you! You better go back to training, or else I have to punish you myself!" He yelled to Annie with an ego voice and a smirk on his face. Annie stopped and looked backwards. -I always thought she had a scary expression, but this is just creepy.- She turned around and made her fighting stance. -Alright, Defensive-Aggressive stance, oppose with Passive-Aggressive.- Dzahlus now made his fighting stance, that was unique. Instead of raising his fist in any way he just kept his right hand turned to the top and on chest level. His other hand was infront of him at hip level, also half opened. -Alright, now to get her attack first. I need to push a button.- "Your nose...It looks broken, I might have some nasal strips?" Annie's expression changed into a dead serious murder face. "So you wanna fight me? When you lose, I'll get to do what I want!" -Holy shit.- He thought to himself as adrenaline rushed up his brain and muscles. -Ultimative conenctration.- Now with extreme reaction time, everything went is slow motion for him once again. Annie swung her right fist. Dzahlus arched backwards and grabbed and folded it over her chest, making it impossible to swing with that arm directly again. Annie used the oppertunity to swing her left fist, but Dzahlus had it all planned. Now with her second arm crossed, she was in a perfect stance for a kick. As her leg flew, Dzahlus raised his leg to literally step on the kick, forcing it downwards to the ground, now he was standing on her feet. Annie was now completely defenseless for those fractions of a second. As she first needs to redirect her arms. In this time Dzahlus made his strikes, With the momentum of stepping on her feet, he punched his left fist directly into the solarplexus. All the air left Annie in an instant, right after that he grabbed her kin with the right arm and pushed it upwards, causing her to loose balance. Now all he needed was a final strike.He redirected his arm and made a massive bodyslam which rammed Annie right into the ground. As the dust cleared, Annie was longing for air, and writhing in pain. -Damn, I think I've gone too far.- But Annie recovered incredibly fast. She rolled and know was on her knees. Annie was devasted about her loss. -How can this asshole react so fast?!- Everyone was staring at them. Everyone couldn't believe what just happened. "Sorry Annie, seems like you owe me a favor." Annie was growling with an angry face, which then faded to her usual cold expression. "Hmph." She said as she stood up, and continued her way. He walked up to Eren. "What did she tell you?" "..It's obvious.." "What is obvious." "They are all improving their titan killing skills to be further away. And I can understand them, who would like to be a soldier in this god forsaken world."

They were in the cafetaria when suddenly Eren and Jean started fighting. Mikasa intervened. Suddenly Jean became even angrier than before. "FUCK YOU I BACKED OFF!" "WHO CARES I'M SO FUCKING JEALOUS!" Suddenly Eren made a few swift movements and Jean was laying on the floor. -The fuck, isn't that Annie's technique?- He looked over to Annie who had a surprised face. -Now I'm getting jealous.- Eren continued making a lecture about purpose. When the door opened everybody froze, it was the drill instructor. "I thought I heard some loud noise...Would anybody be so kind to tell me what's going on?" He said with a dead serious face and tone.
-Why does everyone keep making that expression for fuck sake.- "Sasha broke a fart." Mikasa answered. Everyone tried to surpress their laugh.

Thus the graduation day of the recruits came near. And so also the graduation party. -Graduation party...the last time we will be able to have fun...- He went outside, it was close to night, he saw Annie moving along. He approached her which she noticed. "Annie." "What do you want?" "That favour." She looked around. They were behind the dormitories, nobody came here, only these two. Annie was expecting the worst, so she readied herself. "What. Favour." "Teach you to dance for the graduation party." Annie froze. -This is even worse than asking me for bed.- "Are you insane? I will never do that. I'd rather kill myself. Respectively, you." "Whoa whoa, hold up. Define dance for me. What is it?" "Moving with harmony to the music." "Yeah, and now define combat?" She first hesitated and got his point. "Moving in harmony with your enemy." "Exactly! Now just take this as training and you will only hate it the half that you hate it now." "And why exactly should I learn to dance? I will surely not dance at the party." "You know, this party will be the last time in our lives where we can have fun. After that, we'll need to fight titans, see our comrades fall, and so on...Well if you dance is another question but the favour I want is to teach you dance." She left out a sigh. "Don't even think about any antics." "Whatever, for the first thing, we need to define dancing a bit different. Dancing is like...a mating ritual." "A...mating...ritual?" "Yeah, it's kinda something like that. Now you will understand in time what I mean." -...Or maybe my worst expectations will come true..- She thought to herself. He grabbed her hands and pulled her closer. She gasped at the sudden movement. She looked at Dzahlus with her usual face. "What now." "I'll take the lead, just move with the flow." As they started dancing, Annie was thinking about what Dzahlus said. -The last time to have fun...Annie don't let him get close! It's dangerous. Treat your world like an enemy, and nothing will ever happen to you...But it's the last time...- She snapped out of it. Dzahlus noticed that she was thinking about something, so he wanted to get her attention back. "As for the combat just like dancing you can be aggressive. Example like this." He made her trip but catched her fall, leaning over her face with his ego smirk. Annie gazed back with her usuall cold expression. He pulled her back up and continued. "Why don't you smile for once. It's very beautifull." Dzahlus pressed a button, he knew it. Annie raised an eyebrow and looked at Dzahlus. "Why that. I never smile." "But when you do, the whole world stops and stares for a while." "Amusing." She said. They were dancing around until Annie took the lead, which worked out well. So for Annie's sake they stopped. "Alright, now you know how to dance." "I'm not sure if I need to thank you for something this ridicolous." "Come on, you must've enjoyed it atleast a bit." Annie was already walking away when she stopped. -Alright, feed him.- She thought as she raised her left arm and touched her neck as she looked backwards. Dzahlus froze with eyes wide open. "Thank you." She said and continued her path.

At the graduation the best 10 needed to line up. He called out the names. And then he called an extra name. "Dzahlus Eberle. Since you have the prototype, you will be assigned to Levi's squad from the recon corps directly." "Yes sir!" -Working with the elites. That is fun. But the survey corps...finally I can bring a change.- He had a flashback to the moment where the survey corp returned with distressed and bloodied soldiers.

Graduation party was going on. Eren was debating with the recruits about their chances of defeating the titans. Eren left the room. And after an awkward silence, Krista decided to play an instrument. Everyone was first looking at eachother, then Hans and Hannah made the first move, they started dancing. And soon after, more pairs started dancing. Annie saw that and started sneaking to the exit before she ended up dancing with Dzahlus, fruitlessly. "Hi there." He was standing besides the exit with arms crossed. "May I ask for a dance with you? "No." She said and tried to walk out, just to be blocked by Dzahlus' arm. She looked at Dzahlus with an angry face. "Out of the way, or else I'll murder you infront of everyone." "Annie. Think about my words. This will be the last time to have fun. The last time before all you can think about is your comrades death, and how you are going to die. Come on, just to let out some steam, like sparring, no?" -Annie don't! It's dangerous! Those feelings are just in the way! I'm sorry dad, but he's right. I just want to give in, for once.- "...Alright, let's dance." She grabbed Dzahlus and started dancing with him. Dzahlus was leading first, but not for long. Their dance started to get aggressive. Everyone was looking at them, because it was so awkward to see Annie dance. And even dance good. "You dance better than you fight." Dzahlus said with a smirk. "Oh? Is that so." She replied. She made the same move like Dzahlus did to her when they were training. Dzahlus tripped and was caught by Annie, who was now leaning over him. "Combat and dancing are the same, no? Means I'm better than you it seems." "Heh, do you think so?" Now Dzahlus came back up and pushed Annie away, causing her to make a spin and hold on to Dzahlus hand frimly to not fall away. But instead of spinning back to him, she pulled him to her, now Dzahlus was spinning towards her. During that motion Annie fixated him against a wall. Looking at him with a smirk on her face. "You seem to enjoy this." "Of course I do, and we already got the whole attention." Annie looked backwards and saw everyone staring at them. "Then let's go somewhere more private then." Dzahlus eyes widened. As he was dragged out Reiner was just staring in awe. "Impossible." "Maybe if you wouldn't be so perverted, somebody might actually dance with you." Christa responded. They went to a place where they were sure nobody would pass by. Annie turned to Dzahlus. This time she didn't have a smirk or her cold face on, it was shyness. Blushing heavily she said. "Dzahlus, you out of all know that I should not do this. But your words...I hate it that you're right but...I just want to feel alive, for once, for one night and please,...make it special...don't make me regret this." Dzahlus smiled at her and said. "I will, promised." Dzahlus was craving her, and finally their lips connected, and so the night went on.

The next day the Recon corps made it back. So he and and a few others went to see them. His eyes met with captain Levi's. He noticed his special gear and looked back forward. "So this will be our new guy." "Yup." "Can't those people just shut up." "Hehe, if they just knew what a clean freak you are."

After a while he made his way to the Wall, when he saw somebody moving past him. -Is that meat I smell?!- He thought and started chasing the person. They ended up ontop of the wall with Eren's squad. "Hey look what I got!" They all stared at the meat. "GIMME SOME OF THAT MEAT!" Dzahlus yelled from behind. "Huh? what are you doing here?" "Meat. I smelled it. Now please give me some, pleeaaase!" He pleaded. "Give me some too!" Now everybody wanted a piece of that meat. It was peacefull, though that illusion soon faded. A bright flash of light and a thunder struck. The gigantic Titan from 5 years ago appeared. "What in the name of fucks..." Dzahlus exclaimed. "Oh god NO NONONO!" Dzahlus jumped and backflipped of the wall and grappled to it. For the others it was too late to react. His feet already penetrated the wall and a gigantic shockwave threw everyone off it. "THE HELL?!" Eren shouted as he fell down and grapple besides Dzahlus. -Kill, every single one of them..- It sounded in Eren's head. "THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO STRIKE! MAN THE CANNONS AND LET'S GO!" Eren moved up the wall and faced the titan. "I will kill you all!"