Note: I know The city of man in the AOT universe is built against an ocean but for story sake I'm going to make it so that its more of a harbor city.


Eren stood at the top of the wall looking out to the world beyond with a deadly focus on the horizon. That day where he lost Armin was going through his head. The last memory he had of his friend was them fleeing in terror as Titans joyfully chased them down. The rage of having to give those Titans the satisfaction of victory and loosing his friend over it while returning to the only place on Earth that humankind has any claim over was more than bothering to the young soldier. A voice then calls out to Eren breaking his focus. "Eren? Eren!"

"Huh? What?" Eren turned to see it was Jean speaking. "You alright? You've been up here first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Have you even eaten anything?" Jean asks. "Eat? No. No I haven't. I've spent the nights up here since I got back." Eren answered. "You're not waiting for a Titan to pop up and take it on, are you?" Jean asks look out to the field himself. "That all depends if any of these Titans have the guts to show up at our doorstep while I'm on guard. But so far nothing YOU BUNCH OF COWARDS!" Eren shouts out to the world beyond the wall followed by an echo.

Jean looks at Eren and gestures with his hands for him to calm down. "Easy Eren, let's not test the Titans determination." Eren gets up and kicks the box he was using as a seat back and starts to anxiously pace up and down. "First they push us behind these walls, then eat my mom, violate our home, then take Armin from me under my watch and on top of all that they don't even have the balls to f***ing come at us when we're ready for them and you want me to calm down!?" Eren continues pacing as Jean keeps a calm attitude. "Easy man. I'm not telling you to not kill them I'm just saying let's keep our fight with them out there and away from here. Alright?" Eren clenched his fists and bit his teeth together and let the anger fueling him build up until his body was shaking. He then turned and slammed both of his fists down on to the top of the wall followed by a cracking sound.

"Feel better?" Jean asked. "Not really... pretty sure I just broke both of my hands. Ouch." Eren said fighting back the pain in his voice. "Let's get you to the doctor." Jean said turning around but stopping half way as something outside of the wall catches his attention. "The hell is that?" Jean and Eren look outwards to see a figure walking over the horizon. It was hunched over with four rows of spikes down its back and a tail. "It's heading straight here." Eren said. "Looks like one of them took your challenge, Eren." Jean said as he went to alert the others.


The men and women of the wall stood atop of it and looked outwards to the approaching figure. "What are we facing here Zoe?" Levi asks the female scientist as she peers through a telescope. She starts to drool slightly and strokes the telescope in a sexual manner as she gets a clear sight of the figure on the horizon. "Wow, it's a big one. Bout sixteen to seventeen meters tall, more lizard than human like and is holding something against its chest but I can't tell what." Zoe finished speaking and went back to having a fangasm over the new subject. "Lizard-like? So it's not a Titan?" Krista asks. "Big enough to be one though." Sasha answers. "Probably more deadly too." Mikasa adds catching the other two girls attention. "What?" Sasha asks as she gets nervous. "What makes you say that?" Krista asks making no attempt to hide her fear. "The Titans disappeared last night after that one call and never come back and now this thing is walking up to the wall? Either the Titans are waiting for it let them in or they just don't want to mess with it." Mikasa answers them.

Levi raised his arm up. Several of the cadets manned the cannons and readied them for fire. Levi kept them waiting for his signal. Zilla continued to walk towards the city. His eyes then scrolled up and he noticed a line of small figures at the top of the wall. He stopped in his tracks. Zilla sniffed the air a bit. "Amazing, he checking his surroundings after noticing us." Zoe said still looking threw and stroking the telescope. Levi kept his hand up and the others awaited for his signal. Zilla ceased his sniffing and looked back to the wall letting out a low growl. He then begins to walk a head once again. Once he was close enough Levi through down his hand and gave the order "Fire!". Zilla stopped in his tracks and stood up as tall as he could, it was then Eren noticed what he was holding so closely to his chest, Armin. "Wait!" Eren yelled but too lately as each cannon fired off.

Zilla turned and huddled against the ground. Each cannon fire hit directly on his spot. Clouds of smoke took the air as the sound of a hurt Zilla roaring its final breath could be heard. Everyone cheered except for Eren who just gripped the wall as tightly as he could and began praying to himself in his own head that Armin wasn't hit. The crowd stopped as Levi raised his hand up once more and gave a new order. "Reload the cannons and secondary squad ready your blades!" Everyone took a moment to look at each other and then followed through on the order. The smoke began to settle until only the ground was left unseen. As it became visible a massive whole was then seen dug into the ground.

"WOW! IT CAN BURROW!" Zoe yelled stroking the telescope even faster while still looking through it. Everyone, even Levi and Mikasa, were taken by surprise. They then hear some rumbling and screaming from the citizens on the other side of the wall. Everyone runs over to see Zilla bursting out from the ground on the other side of the gate. Some citizens screamed "It's a Titan!" And others yelled "No! It's the devil!" At this point Eren was having mixed feelings, he wanted the beast to have survived the cannon fire but feared what it wanted with the city so badly that it would burrow its way in after being attacked. He then was taken completely by shock as he realized it was no longer holding Armin in its hands. Zilla jumped out of the hole he dug and ran off into the city. "Team of ten with me, The rest man the cannons or help Zoe fill that hole before any Titans get in!" Levi said as he, Eren, Mikasa and several others leapt off the wall with their blades drawn and cables readied to fire. The rest went back to the cannons or to fill the hole.


Eren and the others tried their best to keep up with Zilla as he went through the city with ease surprisingly enough. Other then what ever was under his foot Zilla didn't really destroy anything. No buildings, didn't kill anyone. He just maintained a course. Mikasa was the first to catch up with Zilla and to catch his attention. She shot a cable into his side and swung down to cut the front of his left leg. She then grappled back onto a nearby building as Zilla was tripped up from his injury. He crashed into the ground. Eren then saw that Zilla did still have Armin, within his mouth at least. Zilla opened his eyes back up and picked Armin back up into his mouth and resumed his running. "The monster holds Armin in his mouth? I will cut the jaw off and pull him out myself then!" Eren thought to himself.

The team continued to chase Zilla through the city. Mikasa and another came up behind Zilla once again. The other cadet hooked her cable into Zillas side first and by doing so was the first to fall into his trap. Zilla stopped the second he felt the cable hook into him and pulled back. The cadet attached to the other end of the cable however was still flying across the city and once she reached the maximum length of her cable she folded in half until her toes were touching her eyes. Two other cadets crashed into Zilla the second he stood up and impaled themselves on his spikes. Mikasa, Eren, Levi and the four others landed on the buildings surrounding Zilla. Zilla then ducked and went to the side alleyway to resume his running. "He's escaping!" Eren yelled before the team went back to chasing him.


Further down the city, where it meets the ocean, the team had lost sight of Zilla but still continued pursuit by following the trail of debris he left behind. "How do you lose a seventeen meter tall lizard? The Titans aren't this hard to find!" One of the cadets yelled. The clouds began to roll in and started raining. Eren and the other put their hoods up as they continued to search from roof top to roof top with the rain coming down even harder. The sun was completely blotched out and the sound of rain hitting the ground in a rapid manor was all that could be heard in the dead silence. Eren sees the final track of Zilla, a foot print in the mud, get washed away by the rain in a matter of seconds. "Damn it, no!"

Eren lands on the ground and walks through the mud trying to find the next clue as to where Zilla is but spots nothing. He then looks up and sees a figure placed at the fountain in the center of the small village. "Armin? Armin!" Eren joyfully ran over to his friend who was out cloud. "Damn Armin, you look like hell." Armin comes to for a split second. "I'd like to see you do any better." And slips back out of it. "Hang in there buddy, stay with me. Someone get over here and help! I found Armin! He needs medical attention!" Mikasa was the first to answer Erens call. "Armin is still alive?" She asks. "Of course, help me now damn it." Eren said slinging one of Armins hands over his shoulder. Another cadet joins them to help carry Armin. A fourth member swung by their cables from building to building to the small group at the fountain but is then snatched out of the air by Zilla who was hiding in below. He gripped her cables and tore them out of the walls, her screams alerted the others.

Zilla then tore her cables in half and set her down on a rooftop unharmed but no longer capable of following him. He then went back to running. Levi landed on a rooftop above the others. "Leave him, pursue the beast." He ordered. "I'm not leaving him again." Eren said. Zilla jumped up onto the buildings and began running across the rooftops himself. He reached the end of land and leapt off the buildings into the ocean. He resurfaced now and then but always further out to sea.


Armin woke up in a hospital bed to see Eren at his bedside. "Bought time you woke up. You realize how hard it is to find a new sidekick? Well one that isn't better than you in combat?" Eren asked him jokingly trying to lighten the mood. "I fell down a swamp like whole, was half-frozen for two nights and walked eight miles while hiding from Titans. I think at this point I'm the main hero and you're the sidekick." Armin answered back just as light-heartedly. "Wasn't just Titans you went up against. What was that lizard?" Mikasa asked as she walked into the room. "Lizard? Oh you mean Junior?" Armin answered to the others confusion. "I picked up his sent and now he thinks I'm his father. That guy killed every Titan and even Annie who-" Amrin then was cut off before he could finish his sentence. "Who went out with the 57th search party and never came back along with her entire brigade." Levi said walking in. "You two, out. I need to extract every little detail our friend has about his solo expedition out there and why he brought a monster that killed Titans and is capable of thought back to our city."

Eren clenched his fist and was ready to yell at the captain but Armin stopped him. He gestured his head the two to leave. As they walked out Levi stops Eren in his tracks and whispers to him. "You and I are going to have a very long talk about priorities while hunting after I finish with him." Eren clenched his fist and walked out. Levi then walked up to the foot of Armins bed and said "Now, let's start at the begging. Exactly when did you have Junior?"

To Be Continued...